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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-12-17
.Brevities from Milton

give the entAftainnsna Of the next
number u the course. undsr The aus.
piess Of the Juniors Of the high school
at the Boosters han. SATURDAY even
ing. Dec. 10. Everybody 70 invited u
patronise. :. Mr.. And Mn. George
Wagner and Miss LaellA LAAt8 torn.
"a "a aute party to RtoA11Ad WED
nesday.. Did you ever seo . Cen
muhity ChffotmAe Tr0oe II A0e come
ana eee one ct Ailson, Chr1oeAAo pay,
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-12-17
Masonic Calendar

Friday--King solomon's Chapter.
No. 4. r. A. N. Special convocation;
work in Mark Masters degree.
Saturday-Loyal Chapter, No. -,
Order of the Eastern Star. Stated
meeting.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-12-17
Secretary Lane and the Teachers.

In his annual report Secretary Of the Interior
Lane calls attention to the need Of paying teach
ers adequate salaries. He says teachers are
underpaid. Secretary Lane believes that be-
cause teachers receive such small salaries, the
profession is made up largely Of persons who
turn to this field as makeshift in order to pro-
vide themselves with living. As soon as bet
ter opportunity presents itself, the teachers
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-12-17
Lux WINS SECOND PRIZE.
COLUMBUS. Ind, Dec. 17.-Pete,

COLUMBUS. Ind. Dec. 17.-Peter J.
Lux Of Shelby, today holds another
world championship grand prise fof
ton ears Of corn, he having been even
the highest award in the professional
class. open to the world, 1t the Bar.
tholomew County Corn show here.
Lux won the championship corn prize
at the international show held at Co.
lumbia, Mo. ~..
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-12-17
GERMAN NATIVITY PLAY
PRESENTS EARLY FORM
OF RELIGIOUS DRAMA

the German club Of Earlhann college.
German Christmas songs. classics Ia
the musical world, will be sung by
members Of the musical department.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-21
FLIGHT TO SUBURBAN HOMES
kansas Ctitv Tinoes


The state officials of New York have
Just finished careful census of the
city of New York and have made the
discovery which has startled the peo-
pie there, that the old city, within the
borough of Manhattan, has had a
shrlnkage of 187.4S1, or per cent,
In population in the last five years. n
Thus. If New York city had not
reached out and taken in Brooklyn.
Staten Island. Queens county and the
Bronx, 1t would actually be going
backward in population.
But even Greater New York, while
II increased in population 1861, or
per cent, in five years, fell far be-
hind its normal rate of growth. The
United States Census Bureau made its
last census of New York in 1910. Last
year the Census Bureau issued an esti-
mate, based upon the normal rate of
increase in past years, that the popu-
lation of New York city in 1914 was
5,39S,5S9: But the census Just taken
SHOWS 0ss the population to be only
5,06t, ,222. This is 267,317 below the
estimate of the Census Bureau.
What is the reason of it? The news
papers of New York city say II is
caused by motor cars, trolley lines and
suburban trans, which have greatly
increased their facilities in recent
years. enabling more and more people
10 move out from the congested dis
trlcts for fresh air and more room
While the population within the oitv
ooundaries has fallen far below the
normal rate of increase, yet thew are
dolng business there and living in the
suburbs beyond. ZIG
That has been the history of MANY
cues. not only in this country, but in
Europe. The population of old Lon
don has been going down steadily mil
now 1t is only one-fifth of what il was
one hundred years ago, but ali of the
country around London, which was
fields then, has been built up,
New Orleans has been losing popu-
latlon IN It's old city limits. but all the
and made habitable and trolley cars
ana motor cars take the people ont
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-21
THAT "wAR REVENUE" TAX

TINE total value of imports at the
thirteen principal customs dis
tricts of the United States for
the nine weeks from July to August
2S was $263,376.746, on which duties
amounting to s3O,515,654 were col
lected, or an average ad valorem for
the period of IL per cent.
The average ad valorem rate of
duty under the Republican tariff law
during the last year of it's existence
was 17.6 per cent. The low average
ad valorem of the Underwood law,
and the large importations, show why
the Democrats had recourse to their
so-called war revenue" measure,
which they now propose to re-enact as
soon as Congress convenes in Decem-
Der and the rates of which are to be
increased.
The large free list in the Democratic
tariff law is far more blameable than
any reduction in imports due to the
war. The law was a failure as an
adequate revenue producer long be-
fore the war broke out.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-21
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
y STORY ABOUT THAD. STEVENS
To the Editor of the Telegraph:

a STORY ABOUT THAD. STEVENS
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
was quite interested in the article
in the Telegraph of September 16,
written by H. N. Barton. of Trenton,
n. j.. to the editor of the New York
Sun, calling the attention of Thomas
Dixon to the epitaph which Thaddeus
Stevens wrote for himself. 1t re-
minded me of little instance in con-
nection with the refusal of Mr.. Stevens
to buy a cemetery lot nearly fifty
years ago. l lived in Lancaster, was
a young man in my early twenties,
and employed by the firm of Martin &
Lantz, who were extensive dealers in
dry goods and carpets. Mr.. Martin
was the secretary of the Woodward
Hill Cemetery Association. Mr.. Stew
ems had selected a lot in the cemetery
and requested Mr.. Martin to write a
deed for the lot and send it to him.
There was clause in the deed which
read, as near as I can remember as
follows; This lot shall be for the
burial of white persons only" Mr..
Martin wrote the deed and sent me
with it to Mr.. Stevens office on South
Queen street l found the old gentle
him what 1t was and who sent it. He
told me to take seat while he looked
over it. In a very few minutes he
folded it and said to me: You take
this back to Mr. Martin and tell him
If he can erase that clause I will take
the lot; otherwise / will not" OF
course Mr.. Martin had no authority to
erase the clause. for 1t was inserted
in. the charter. Mr.. Stevens did not
Indignantly sell his lot in the ceme-
terry, as Mr.. Barton says, Cor he did
not own one, but he did certainly in
dignantly refuse to purchase one. The
consequence was. Mr.. Stevens was
buried in what is known as Shriner's
Graveyard. on Orange street, not three
blocks from Center Square, and not
more than four blocks from his resi-
dence and office, which he occupied
for many years, except when in Wash
ington. w. N. KILGORE,
POLL North Sixth street.
Harrisburg. Pa. Sent. 20. 1915.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-21

for pay equal to that given men.
tba tIbh4usalnds Of them resent the fact
,a rhat the average monthly, salary for
while for women it is S64.31. They ex-
pect to have these figures equaIized
soon. The school marms as a whole
their tendencies are strongly in that
direction. If the one-day strike for
women workers proposed by the suf-
fragists takes place in New York CITY
next month over $4,000 school marms
VIII participate - a condition which
VIII turn nearly a quarter of a million
children into the streets for a day.
The school marin has long been re-
garded as an unmarried woman who
used the school room as stepping
stone to the marriage state, Just as
men used 1t as a means to some more
law, or the United States Congress
VOW women are beginning to regard
teaching as life work. and still claim
marriage with the men of their choice
Domestic and social conditions have 50
changed that it is now possible for a
woman to marry without giving up her
Until comparatively a, few years ago.
a woman teacher forfeited her posi,
ton ton by marriage. She does so still in
case long. Court after court renders
the decision that the woman who
wishes to marry need not relinQufsh the
learn. si ~
HerOism Established
The heroism of the woman teacher
is wen established. In times of danger
she does not lose her head If fire
breaks out she will either save the
children or remain with them until
death, A North Dakota school marm
sheltered her scholars and kept them
safe and warm during a three-day biz
zard to the joyful surprise OF their
parents who had mourned them as
lost. In the Hawaiian leper COLONY
an American school marm is giving
her life to the instruction of the chill
dren or incurable lepers. Even IL thev
inherit the dread malady their lives
viii be frightened by the ability to
The American school marin is not all
ways white woman. The uplift Of
the colored people in this countrv
owes much to the devotion of a few
women, who obtained their own edu-
cation by tremendous effort. and de-
voted their lives to educating their
race. When the United States took
charge of the Philippine Islands hun
dreds OF American women teachers
from the leading colleges in this conn
tr went to establish the public schooI
system there. Now their services are
less needed because the dark skinned
natlVe girls who have taken teacher's S
training are doing as loyal work upon
their native island as many of the hest
teaches in Continental United States.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-21
WHO is THE CAPITALIST

w so much about? Chances are
you would give as examples the
men who own the railroads Car
toonists love to picture these person
ages as individuals all stomach and
jowl, with dollar-marked clothing and
money-bag pockets. In reality, if we
are to believe current statistics, many
of these owners of railroads are far
from the bloated bondholder class.
They are made up of the rank and
file of thrifty citizenship.
Take the Pennsylvania railroad, for
instance. A compilation just COM
pleted shows that this company on
September l had an even $4,000 stock
holders. This is an increase of 1881
in year and is the largest number
of stockholders ever recorded for this
or any other railroad company in the
world. If the same rate of increase
is maintained. the Pennsylvania rail-
road will have 100000 stockholders in
less than two years. ...
On the first day Of this month 45.42S
10 IIldn a year ago
held stock in this company and be-
tween them represent nearly one
third interest in the property, OF the
entire $4,000 stockholders, .33,053
were Pennsylvanians 1924 lived in
New York state. 1866 in New Eng
land, 1851 elsewhere in the United
States and 1885 in foreign countries.
There were sixty-two more foreign
stockholders on September l, 1915,
than on the same date in 1914, and
sixty-four more than in July, 1914,
prior to the opening of the conflict.
Perhaps the most significant deduc-
tions that may be drawn from these
statistics is that the American people
were saving money for investment
purposes even during the dullest per-
iod of the countrys history and that
despite the attacks of press and gov
ernment the railroads still continue to
look good" to the man in search of
a safe place in which to put his
money.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-21
A DEMOCRATIC PRoErr

CILVER bullion now being cheap
y at between forty-seven and
forty-eight cents per fine ounce
Secretary McAdoo is buying 2,0O0,-
900 ounces which he will mint into
dimes, quarters and half f-dollars. He
will make tidy sum on the transac-
ton, and Heaven knows the Treasury
needs it. But the transaction is char
acteristically Democratic and it will
cheer Mr.. Bryan greatly with it's
reminiscent flavor of 1896.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-21
WHY WE CAN'T HAVE IT
Decorate

IT<HE Medical Society of the State
| L of PENNSYLVANIA, which begins
its annual convention in Phila-
delphia to-day, is the largest organi-
cation of the kind in the United States
and the most influential factor in the
American Medical Association, which
is noted throughout the world. The
State society has a membership of
over 1000, the leading medical men
of the Keystone State being among
those enrolled. It's deliberations at
tract International attention and it is
a wonderful force in the affairs of
this Commonwealth.
Harrisburg has been peculiarly
honored by this great organization. A
number of its physicians have been it's
chiefs and the president who will be
installed to-day is our felIow-towns-
man, DR.. j. B. McAlister. Other
Harrisburgers have been vice-presi-
dents, secretaries and heads of sec
tions. It has held a number of its
annual meetings in this city
If it could be arranged this society,
whose meetings are attended by from
700 to 900 medical men and their
families would meet in Harrisburg
every third year. Harrisburg, un-
rivaled in its railroad facilities, pos
sessing the State Capitol, and a pro-
gressive, attractive city, could have
this convention triennially maybe oft
ener, but for one thing.
1t does not have the hotel facili-
ties demanded by the people who at
tend such gatherings
And there are probably other or
ganizations which would choose Har-
risburg if it could match up with
some of the capacious hostelries of
Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Reading,
Lancaster or Erie.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-21
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

William A. Law, the Philadelphia
banker, Is on his way home from the
Pacific coast.
Senator w w. Smith was one Of
the speakers at the Kensington patrio-
tic celebration Saturday.
Norman Macleod who has been
in New England, has gone to Virginia
for September.
&C. H. Bleim has taken control Of
the Weatherly Iron and Steel works.
DIR. John NJ. Toggey, formerly Of
Pittsburgh, is the new head of the
Bethlehem Preparatory school.
DIR. S. E. Weber, of Scranton,
spoke at the dedication of the Ma
hanoy City High school.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-21
Pot;tic4 i~
Pe~~OqeSa~i@
BY the Ex-Committeeman

Judging from reports which have
come to this city by telegraph and
telephone. a big primary vote is being
polled in Pennsylvania to-day and
issues which seem local but which are
really State wide in their influences
are being fought out. 1t appears to
be the general consensus of opinion
that no matter what happens, Repub-
lican victories are assured in most of
the counties and municipalities of the
State. The return to the party" move
ment has assumed big proportions and
means Pennsylvania strongly Repub-
hcan next year.
AS shown in the Telegraph, there
are lively judicial contests in which
lnen who are of Statewide impor-
tance are candidates. More judicial
nominees will be made to-day than
known for years. The liquor issue is
entering into contests in a score of
Judicial districts.
John B. Head. of Greensburg, and
George 3. Orlady, of Huntingdon,
whose terms as judges of the Superior
Court will expire, were supported by
the leaders of the principal political
parties for reelection. The third
vacancy in the court was caused by
the expiration of the term of Chief
Justice Rice. who declined to be a
candidate for reelection. The other
candidates are Stephen H. Hulseton,
Of Pittsburgh; Charles Palmer, of
Chester; William D. Wallace, of Law
renee county, and ]. Henry williams,
of Philadelphia.
The Republican organization lead
ers have agreed upon the nomination
OF Thomas B. Smith as. the candidate
of that party for mayor of Philadel-
phia, while a contest for the Washing
ton party nomination was waged be-
tween George D. Porter, director of
public safety in Mayor Blankenburg's
cabinet, and Sheldon Potter, who
acted in that capacity under Mayor
Weaver. They will also be voted for
on the Republican and Democratic
tickets. Another candidate for the
is James E. German, Judge
backed by leaders of the Keystone
party and is also on the ballots of the
Democratic and Washington parties
The Cumberland, Franklin and
Adams-Fulton judicial contests at
tracted wide attention to-day in this
city because of the prominence of the
candidates and there was much inter
est in the way Judge Woods was
faring up the Juniata valley. The
Perry county associate judgeship was
also attracting attention. In York
and Lancaster Judge Wanner and
I1assler did not appear to have any
opposition.
-Lackawanna county commission
ers refused the demand of the courts
that the ballot boxes be impounded.
The contests in that county are red hot
as usual.
Reports received here from Pitts
burgh indicate that there will be a
very heavy vote recorded in that
county Friends of J. Denny O'Neil
claim that he will be nominated with
ease.
City Treasurer Reichenbach has
told friends here that he will be the
next mayor of Allentown. He seems
to have a clear track,
Western reports are that there is
a big fight on for the Republican con
Gressional nomination in the Twenty
fourth district. Ex-Congressman Tenn
pie, now a Republican, is being
supported in some districts.
Altoona and Reading are engaged
in two of the hottest mayoralty cam
paigns in the State.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-21
THE HORSE MARKET

IMPORTS of horses from the
Z United States during ten months
of the European war, from Sep
tember /, 1914, to June 80, 1915,
brought into this country s6S,s1e, 900,
as compared with less than $4,000, 600
for the same period in 1913-14. This
was on increase of 1000 per cent.
The increase represents part of the
prosperity of which the Democratic
administration boasts. But there isn't
a farmer in the United States who
sold horses for shipment to Europe
who is fooling himself as to the rea-
son for the unusual market for horses.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-21
DECORATE!

HARRISBURG is putting on its
! L holiday dress. Numerous build
ings have been decorated in
honor of the municipal improvement
celebration which will be opened to-
morrow. Every householder should
take pride in making his place of resi-
dence as good to look upon as possible.
Flags and bunting are household pos
sessions. 1t remains only to take the
time and trouble to display them.
Thousands upon thousands of vis-
itors will be in the city for the re-
rainder of the week. Let them go
away with a good idea of our indi-
vidual municipal patriotism. The
house without flag or a streamer
should be the exception and not the
rule.
Decorate!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-21
LESSON FROM THE PAST

COME of the pessimistic financiers
y who are predicting bankruptcy
in Europe as a result of the pres
ent war might take a lesson from our
own past. 1t will be remembered that
at the conclusion of the Civil War the
United States - and not the opulent
United States of to-day either-owed
nearly three billion dollars. At that
time there were those in Europe who
were expressing much the same views
concerning our financial abilities as
we hear of the European belligerents
to-day. Even in this country there
were those who advocated the repudi-
alton of part of the debt and others
who wanted it paid in greenbacks.
The Republican party, at the very op-
en.ng of the first Grant administra-
tion, took the position that every out
standing debt of the United States
must be paid in gold and with interest.
There were many who then pre-
dicted that the country would become
bankrupt, but in the two score years
following the debt was reduced by
more than two billion dollars and by
reissues of bonds the interest on the
remainder was greatly reduced. The
Cleveland administration and the
Spanish-American war ran it up again
and once more under Republican rule
it was cut to one billion. The grow
ing deficit in the national treasury in
dicates that the bonded Indebtedness
will go up again very shortly.
This is the remarkable history of
the reduction of what was once looked
upon as a hopeless debt Perhaps
Europe may surprise us quite as much.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-21

1t is generally realized that unless
Uncle Sam arranges European credit
he must suffer the loss of an enormous
business. Europe cannot pay in gold.
James ]. Hill and other leaders in the
commercial and industrial world de-
clare 1t is essential to the prosperity
of our people that our wheat should
get to market and flnd purchaser. 1t
appears that the principal points re-
garding the foreign loan have been
arranged and the increased earnings of
the railroads would seem to indicate a
rising tide of prosperity notwithstand-
ing Democratic hindrances.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-21
TEACHING AGRICULTURE

T<HERE is reason in the contention
+ of Superintendent Shambaugh
and the principals of the county
schools that agriculture should be
taught only by trained teachers.
There can be no doubt of the value
of this study in the rural districts.
where large majority of the pupils
will be associated with agricultural
pursuits during their after life. Boys
and girls should be taught at least the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-21
TUESDAY EVENING,

rudiments of scientific farming. But.
as the very object of the study is to
instruct them in the latest and most
approved Methods 1t is only reason
able to assume that this work should
be done by those who know what they
are talking about.
The unskilled teacher in farming
may do far more harm than good.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-21
TUESDAY EVENING. SEPT. Fl

An aim in life is the only fortune
i0orth the finding; and it is not to
be found in foreign lands, but in
the heart itSef.-Robert Louis
SteUeHSon.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-21
EVERYTHING GOES BY COM
PARISON
New York World.1

New York World
Roosevelt wants war instantly with
Germany and Mexico. Hobson wants
war instantly with Japan and Mexico.
aearst wants war instantly with
Great Britain and Japan. There are
people in this country who are capable
OF making even William j. Bryan
seem like a statesman.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-21
EDITORIAL COMMENT

AS If the European governments did
not have troubles enough, they are
again asking Washington about Mex
ico.-Kansas City Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-21
TELEORAPH'S PERIScOPE

Mrs. Bryan says of her husband
that when he was young his enemies
were fond of saying that his mouth
was so big he coud whisper in his own
ear. And in recent years his ears have
grown so long the effect is the same.
1t has been discovered that France
once had Frank case" But that's
no excuse for Georgia.
If England does not behave bet
ter King Edward may lose the Beef
Packer vote at the next elections.
Some of the War Stocks are
reaching point where they are likely
TO explode prematurely
This week the Harrisburg school
boy has 1t all over" the lad in the
surrounding towns.
Mr.. Mack is now beginning to
know how it used to feel to be man
ager of the "Phillies."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-21
RIVAL STILL WITH us
tGrand Rapids Press.

Senator j.. Ham Lewis, who was
about to sail for the war zone has
prudently cancelled his passage. So We
shall not have to depend entirely upon
Charlie Chaplin for our fun this Win
ter. "iH-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-21
That Word "New"

Notice how it is appearing in
the advertising these days?
New styles. new colors, new
millinery, There is a message
in every line of the advertising.
It is the kind of message the
up-to-date woman wants to read.
1t answers her questions. 1t
helps her settle her problems.
1t makes for comfort and econ
omy.
That is why the wise woman
is a reader of newspaper adver-
tising.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-21

The Hope Fire company members are
completing arrangements for their trip
10 Philadelphia next month where they
VIII participate in the f1remens parade.