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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-05-13
DEMANDS ACTION NOT


CLUBBING
Washington, May 10: = Germany
must act, not bubble nor promise In.
a sentence this is the United States
attitude in the negotiations growing
out of the torpedoing of the Lusi-3
tania. r. ~ =: - : =
Secy. Bryan today announced that
the note to Germany was being for
warded. 1t will be made public Fri
day morning. SCI "a Tsp
1t is said that the language in the
note sets forth in plain languages that
cannot be misunderstood that the
United States considerable killingof
more than 100 Americans a anon
strous crime against civilization -iu3
No threats are made, ,but this coun-'
try expects that Germany shall dis
avow acts againststhe Eusitania, Fa-,
laba,, Gushing and Fulfight,t grant
reparation and promise that there
shall be no repetition. 49,. T.. ~.
No war preparations will be ORDER
ed now. The administration feels this
woul dbe a Wanton' breach of dip1aI
lomacy. If 1T should result that
action must-beeome necessary, the
administration believes there will be
ample time then@to make military
preparations. - "@e g yl'> n94l
-Oz---ifE = .Ecarf ssfitI
EIENTER ED MUI CAM IkCIHT
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-05-13

tits reportedsI Germany objected to
Chile's acceptance of England's apol-
ogy forlsinking the German warship
Dresden in Chilean waters. 1t is said
the language in the German note
was such that Chile has asked for an
apologywithin days: "o>s .-:
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-05-13
ELECTED FOR WILSON INSULT

Berlin, May 13.-American Ambas-
sador Gerard forcibly- had eiected
from the American embassy Maurice
Somborn, European director of the
National Sweeper Co. Of. Torrington,
Conn, and Marion, Ind, for abuse
against Pres. Wilson, and Sec'y of
State Bryan. He has appealed to the
German government, askingethem to
expeI the offender. ,is- -=.'-s'
Somborn, who is naturalized Ger
man-American, called at the embassy
to see Gerard and told the American
envoy that Sec'y Bryan had accepted
British brides. -f .sf.=n; --i 4
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-08-24
EMPIRE is READY
FOR new SEASON
Vaudeville House. With Interior Re-
modelled and Beauti6ed, to
Open Next Sunday.

Plans were practically completed to-
day by Charles BerkeIL new manager
of the Empire theatre. Rock island. for
the opening Of the fourth season Of
the popular variety theatre next sun
day under an entirely new policy which
viii give to the three cities a brand
OF high-class vaudeville which Mr..
Berkeu has named "eiEht-cylind
out Of consideration of its speed.
Old patrons of the Empire viii hard
" recognize the place. There viii be
s. modern, safe playhouse with less
seating capacity, it is true. but more
comfort for patron and player. In
the first place six rows Of chairs have
been removed from the rear. a wall
built in and elegant foyer provided
with all the comforts to which pat
rons are entitled. There Will be in
addition a free check room.
Mr.. Berkell has secured the services
or Charles Morgan as musical direc-
tor. Mr. Morgan viii be remembered
IS the efficient leader at the American
when that theatre ran vaudeville un-
der the management Of Mr.. BarkeII. at
Davenport He is regarded as rot
only one of the best popular pianists
of the three cities but has the faculty
Of getting the real snap and vim out
Of a vaudeville show
Ushers have been provided with
handsome brown uniforms. There is
also d pretenuous move in redec-
grafton Of the house which has been
entirely repainted and recarpeted. New
lighting effects have been installed.
There viii be two shows every day
but Sunday when there VIII be three.
Performances VIII start at 2:45 and
SIS with two performances on sun
day night az 1880 and g. Mr.. Ber-
keJ announces that seats will be re-
served for all shows
The opening bill win probably be an
nounced Saturday Under the man
agement Of Mr. Berkeu he Empire
is certain to take on q new lease OF
life and become one Of the amusement
centers Of this whole section.
Seat sale for Sundays three per
lormances and all next week will open
Thursday morning at 9,80.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-08-24
PARCEL POST TO BE
INSURED UP TO 500

Parcel post mail may be insured
for values M TO s1o0 after Sept ].
Effective on that date the fees charge
able for parcel post matter viii be as
follows: For parcels valued up 10 So.
8 cents; over $ and not exceeding
S25, 5 cents; over S25 and not exceed
ing $50, 10 cents over $50 and not
exceed S1Go. - cents.
Heretofore the lowest charge has
been > cents. thar amount being cbarg-
ed for parcels valued up TO s25. and
10 cents fer parcels valued at more
than S25 and up TO S50
All tae news ali the ume-The
Argus
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-08-24

One IL between ninth and Tenth
streets and Twelfth and Thirteenth
avenues. and the other between Seq
enteenth and Eighteenth avenues and
Tweuty-sixth and Twenty-seven.h
streets
Commissioner L1edtke offered an
ordinance, which vas considered, pro
rldEug that the building at 5fl-5I8-5l5
Thirteenth street be declared insani-
tary and 3 nuisance and that the chief
Of police serve notice oH the owners
that it will have 70 be torn down. The
matter vas unanimously considered.
but q week wil3 be allowed for the
owners TO state their side Of the case
n--.ra L. a--L-- :. -aEeu
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-08-24

All the news all the ume-The
reIIS
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-10
life Insurance.

CPEAKING before gathering of
~ manufacturers the other day. 81
Philadelphian expressed the
opinion that the operations Of the new
workmen's compensation law will have
n tendency to make employees careless
about life insurance, and thereby may
have an effect quite as bad as though
no compensation were provided by
the State.
Such an assumption is foolish. In
the first place, the compensation law
does not apply to death except as
caused by accident or otherwise di-
rectly in connection with employ
ment. In the second place, the State
has emphasized the need of lie in
surance by providing for it within the
limited provisions of the compensc-
ton law. thereby drawing the attcn
ton of the wage Garner. and the man
of business or professional life, as
well. to his own individual duties in
the matter.
Not large percentage of men leave
estates when they die. but most men
leave somebody more or less depend
ent upon them. Life insurance is the
one form of absolute guarantee against
the uncertainties of a future none can
foresee. Banks may fail, gilt edge
securities may depreciate. dividends
may be passed and bonds may be de-
faulted. but any one of the big, es-
tabHshed insurance companies offers 4
guarantee as good as gold. The State
has provided one form of insurance
whereby the employe and his depend
ents are safeguarded; it remains for
the individual TO do the rest and it
will he surprising, indeed, if the new
compensation law, instead of retard-
ing. does not stimulate life insurance
business in Pennsylvania entirely
apart from the operations of the act
itself.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-10
PIT Up THE BARS

"HERE is still. however, one seri-
Gus obstacle in the way of the
confident and determined de-
velopment of the coal tar dyestuff in
dustry on American soil, and that
difficulty is the possibility, no, rather
the certainty, that upon the resump-
ton of normal international condi-
tions European manufacturers will en-
deavor by boycott, underselling and
other methods of competition to win
back this profitable market and put
out of business a new and struggling
dyestuff industry"
That statement was made by DIR.
Edward Ewing Pratt, of the Bureau
of Foreign and Domestic Commerce,
i'm an address made before the Society
of Chemical Industry recently. And
yet it was. but a short time ago that
the Democrats were decrying protec-
tion to American infant industries as
class legislation of the most vicious
sort. Has Mr.. Pratt turned Repub-
Iican. or does the approach of cam
paign year account for his present atti-
tude? Put the tariff bars up high
enough and the dyestuff industry will
get along all right, and that is good
Republican doctrine.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-10
WHERE JUGURTHA. KING
NUMIDIA. AND ST. PAUL
WE'RE IMPRISONED
TFrom the Christian Herald. !

The reputed place of st. Paurs long
imprisonment, the Forum. is the cen
ter of the noblest ruin of Rome. Not
far from the center of the busy. noisy,
modern city rise the SCARED ruins of
her ancient glorv Here is the temple
of Saturn with its eight columns, the
often copied three columns of the
of Septimius Severus. the temples of
Vesta and Caesar. and many other
famous ruins; and beyond are the pal
aces of the Caesars. Not far away is
the magnificent Column of Trajan, lat
feet in height, around which run re-
liefs of the Emperor's wars, contain,
ing, it is said. over $500 sculptured
human figures.
Close to the entrance to the Forum.
this lost wonderful collection of the
ruined monuments of ancient times, Is
a small church called the Church of
Saint Giuseppi del Falegnami. Under
this church are two dungeons, an up
Prison. and from hole in the upper
chamber prisoners were lowered into
the noisome hole below, sometimes to
perish miserably of starvation, as did
Jugurtha, king of Numidia, with whom
schoolboys becorro so familiar in their
first year of Latin.
In this dungeon-uncounted thou
sands of Christians believe-St. Paul
and st. Peter were immured, and every
year on the night of the 4th of July
representatives of all the churches of
Rome assemble by torchlight and "'in
solemn silence kneel in front of the
traditional pillar" strange Fourth
of the swapping firecrackers, and boom
ing cannon, and changing bells, which,
in our own land, usher in the Fourth
of July.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-10
TELEORAPH'S PERISCOPE

Another bad boy has been operat-
cd upon with the hope of changing his
brain functions and making him good.
In our day the operations We're not
performed upon the skull.
The Tammany Tiger and the
Princeton Tiger threaten to have it
out with one another at Washington
the coming winter.
Boston barber goes on stage"
says a news item from the city men,
toned. Probably going to become a
monologist.
Some of the Wall Street war brides
are already showing symptoms of
alieniated affections.
Evidently Mr.. Bryan has not for
gotten that DIR. Wilson once advised
that his boom for the Presidency be
Kicked into a cooked hat"
Russian Attacks Fail."-News-
paper head line. Where have we heard
those words before?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-10

good deal of space it was regarded as
more of liability than an asset-until
the eye of a foreign purchasing agent
fell upon II. He saw n chance to get
a lot of usable cars at q low rate. He
offered three million dollars for the
junk pile, and Immediately became the
owner of it.
General Motors Rapid Use
General Motors is the Detroit war
stock whose amazing antics have
caused most of the thrills here and in
Wall street. This is one of the cor
porations that have converted a condi-
ton bordering on bankruptcy into
dizzy, opulent success. Five years ago
General Motors borrowed fifteen mil
lion dollars to put it on its feet, and
was placed in the hands of a voting
trust, representing the bankers who
advanced the money.
The list of General Motors compan-
les included several well-known
makes and a number that were not so
we'll known. In fact, it had a number
of dead plants on it's hands, and it's
stock was way down. At the time the
war broke out it was in the neighbor-
hood of S5. Then the rise began. To
the amazement of most of the stock
holders it reached $50, and many of
them began to unload. There was
brisk trading in General Motors both
on Wall street and the Detroit stock
exchange. But some of the wise ones
merely kept mum and held on They
have been richly rewarded. On the
day that this was written General
Continued on Page 7.l
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-10
LUGGLING ACCOUNTS

DY the magical method of chang
D ing it's system of bookkeeping the
Treasury Department on Octo-
ber 1 made the net balance in the
general fund jump from less than
s41, 100000 to SIPS. 100000.
This startling announcement came
at a time when the net balance has
been dropping at the rate of nearly
half million dollars a day for three
months.
The principal change made was the
transfer of 61.OS9.225.97, which
would ordinarily be carried on the
liability side of the ledger, to the
asset side. This amount has been car
ried under the item of "disbursing Off
GERS balances" Another change that
has been made transfers the national
bank note retirement fund from the
liability TO the asset side of the ledger.
This is the second time the Treasury
Department has made important
changes in methods of bookkeeping.
with the result that immensely larger
net balances are shown.
On September 30. 1915. the net bal
ance in the general fund was
A0.S9S.S94.97 as compared with
$123. 3.4f6.613 on the same date two
years ago. when Republican revenue
laws and appropriations were in effect.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-10
THE "HoUNDED STAG"

TAYOR ROYAL told his fellow
VI councilmen yesterday afternoon
that for the past several months
he has felt like bounded stag
This is surprising news. Long
observance of the activities of council
had led us to suppose that when the
Mayor peered occasionally into his
mental mirror he saw himself as a
roaring lion, as a tiger couchant for
the spring. or at least as n watchdog
faithfully guarding the well-being OF
the city.
We have heard of those who felt
like a scared rabbit. or a freed
possum, or a holed squirrel, and any
one of these seemed bad enough,
goodness knows, but to feel like a
bounded stag, ah, that must be the
supreme agony.
What a heroic figure is here pre-
sented-the stag, that is to say, the
Mayor surrounded by the yapping
pack OF bloodthirsty hounds, as rep
resented by his fellow councilmen, we
presume, and the grewsome tragedy
about to ensue. Or, in the light OF re-
cent election returns, perhaps we
should have said, has ensued. Pic
ture it for yourself, and by all means
don't laugh.
The historic incident of Eliza on
the ice has nothing on this.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-10
VISITING THE WAR BRIDES
VI.-The Boom in Detroit
By Frederic ]. Haskin

nETROIT is hard hit by the war,
She has been knocked upward
into the position of third eX-
porting city in the United States.
This sudden boost has also made her
the fourth, greatest manufacturing
city in the country, being out ranked
by only three cities of several times
her population. Her manufactured
products this year will pass the half
billion mark. This has all come about
because Detroit has secured such n
goodly share of the golden food that
has poured into this country from Eu-
rope since the war began.
Detroit has never been subject to
slumps, but never have her streets
been so filed with chugging motors
and hurrying throngs, her hotels so
crowded, her factories and terminals so
busy as to-day. A whole new crop
of American millionaires has been
created during the past year. and a
number of them have made their for
tunes here.
No emissaries to European govern
ments were necessary to get foreign
orders for Detroit. The city was
known as the place where motors
come from, and here the buying agents
of the allies came seeking the wheels
of war-trucks to carry shells to the
front and ambulances to bring back
wounded men. Cars of all types they
had to have, and at once.
A certain motor company here had
an immense Junk pile" a few months
ago, composed of returned, damaged
and incomplete cars and odd parts.
Since the junk pile was occupying a
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-10
THEY WANT A CHANGE

NttlI glmmerlnS nope oil some
manufacturers that the Wilson
administration would consent TO
q revision upward of the Underwood
tariff in the interest of American
capital and labor is likely to be rudely
shattered. All thought of any tariff
changes save those which will be of
benefit to the South may as we'll he
abandoned.
If few millions of revenue can be
raised by protecting southern plant
ers and sugar growers, then the
President and his Southern advisors
will probably go along with revision
TO that extent, but any thought of a
general swinging back toward a pro-
tective tariff is visionary and absolute
y without the slightest encourage
nlent under present conditions at
Washington. ...-
Counting upon the patriotic attitude
OF the people toward the President to
save his bacon in 1916, the Southern
ers now in the saddle will never con-
sent to any modification of the free
trade heresies and the impractical
theories which have dominated all the
policies of the present national ad-
ministration. These men are obsessed
with the idea that the manufacturing
interests of the country are outside
the pale of Democratic consideration
Nor will they surrender one iota OF
their power or forego any opportunity
to administer blow TO the industrial
community when that community
happens TO be outside the South. It
is unfortunate that this condition
exists, but it is useless to close our
eyes to the facts or to pretend not to
see the things which are so plain that
he who runs may read.
Even the Democratic apologists of
tie free trade policy of the adminis-
tation must soon cease to claim that
the conditions in this country are the
result of the war in Europe so far as
the revenues are concerned. The
war in Europe did not start until the
first of August, 1914, yet the decrease
OF revenues for the month of July last,
compared with the July before the war,
was S4,S1S,1S9. Surely the war had
nothing to do with that falling on. In
January. 1914; more than six months
before the outbreak of the war, the
customs revenue showed a decrease of
s5,S06,044 as compared with the same
month the year before and IN
February of that year the loss in
revenue was s9,995,512 as compared
with the same month in 1913. Six
months before the war, and yet we are
told that the war in Europe has caused
all the economic troubles in the
United States
Not even the great war will save
the Wilson administration or prevent
the people of the United States pro-
tecting themselves against a con-
tinuance of the policies of one sort
and another which have caused wide
spread dissatisfaction.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-10
OUR ELEVATOR" METHOD OF
CULTURE

GFrom the Literary Digest.l
With all the music that is furnished
us in opera and concert, with, the ma
jority Of Europe's highest. priced. musi-
clans making us annual visits and
going over the length and breadth of
pears, justly claim to be a musical
people Music in America suffers, as
so many other things do. from the de-
sire to attain swiftly a superficial in
terest in many kinds of amusements,"
says Mr.. Josef Stransky, the conductor
of the New York Philharmonic Orches-
ira He sees our attitude to music
instead of staircases. We seem to him
to prefer to use elevators to reach all
spiritual and artistic enjoyment" He
would have us rather walk UP stairs
and pause on each step, which he typi-
fies further as "a separate phase Of
the development which is essential for
full education" In The Craftsman
THE way to love music, to increase
its production. is TO know 1t when you
are young, young individually and
young as a nation. 1t is much more
difficult to prepare people to enjoy
music after they are grown up and
their minds have become crowded with
various interests in life. The American
nation should not let its youth slip by
without filling the souls of the chill
1 dren with music There is no reason
why you should not have many great
1 composers here, many creators of won
derful sound, new kinds of music fresh
out of the heart of a new kind of civili-
emotion so that in world filed with
new emotion the music of the people
should be full of extraordinary new
| sounds and harmonies.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-10

provide the service and take the
loss for the general welfare of all
the people and for the protection
or our trade prosperity.
The proposition advanced by Re
publicans to appropriate money for
subsidies to encourage the growth of
our merchant marine has been cried
down. time and again, by the Demo-
Gratis with all the power of their lungs.
But this socialistic scheme of Presi-
dent Wilson and his son-in-law, in
volving the expenditure of from
S40.000,00O to s50,0OO.O0O. which re-
cent reports say Mr.. McAdoo is going
to attempt to sneak into the pre-
paredness" program If he fails other
wise to put it across, is received by
certain Democratic leaders much as
the pupils at Dotheboys Hall received
their matutinal dose of sulphur and
molasses, but swallowed. nevertheless.
Poor old Democratic party! which
created its Frankenstein when it nomi-
mated Woodrow Wilson at Baltimore.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-10
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Cyrus T.. Woods. Secretary of the
Commonwealth, plays golf every week,
rain or shine
j. l.. Thropp, Jr., son of the Bed
ford ironmaster, is furnace superin-
tendent for the Thomas Iron Company.
Robert A. Taft, son of the former
President. is conducting cases before
courts in Pittsburgh this week
Judd II. Bruff, former sheriff of
Allegheny, is to become a member of
the county tax revision board
Judge Aaron S. Swartz, of Norris
town. conducted services in church
when his pastor was taken ill.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-10
DEMoCRATTC PLEDGES

TT seems a matter of little conse-
| quence to remind the Democrats of
the declarations in their platform
of 1912. So far every plank has been
split to Bindling wood, except the
single-term plank, for which Presi-
dent Wilson is now sharpening his
axe. But here is a paragraph from
their plank on the merchant marine:
We believe in fostering. by con-
stitutional regulation of COM
merce. the growth of merchant
marine. which shall develop and
strengthen the commercial ties
which bind us to our sister Repub-
lies of the South but without i'm
posing additional burdens upon the
people and without bounties or
subsidies from the public treasury.
The Democratic party has always
been against ship subsidies. a method
of government encouragement which
has been adopted by every other mari
time nation in the world. At present
we have the disgusting spectacle of a
member of the Cabinet, the Secretary
of the Treasury. grasshopping over the
country at government expense in the
interest of the Wilson -McAdoo govern
ment-owned merchant marine. unlim-
tied. scheme-a proposition which, on
a referendum held by the National
Chamber of Commerce, was turned
down by 90 per cent. of the business
organizations of the country. At Sar
Francisco, October 2i. Mr.. McAdoo
said:
Suppose they cannot be main
tanned except at a loss. Must we
then do without these facilities? 1
say no.
II private capital cannot afford
to provide II because it involves n
loss. then the Government should
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-10

Hereafter it will be impossible to
compare the Treasury balance with
tho balance that existed two years pre-
Viously. While the change in book
keeping does not take a dollar out of
the Treasury, or add n dollar thereto,
it does make better looking balance,
and prevents comparisons with con-
ditions as they existed under Repub-
lican administration.