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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-26

make any particular appointment, OF
even admitted a name, with the eXcep-
\ ton of a single instance in which one
man presented me with several petit
tions he had received in Endorsement
of a certain candidate for a director
ship. AS / said before, my success or
failure will depend upon me and my
judgment, and l do not intend to di-
| vide my party into factions or to en-
courage factionalism, if any now ex-
lists, intend, rather, to use the power
| of my office and all my influence to
Iperpetuate harmony within the Repub-
lican party, not only in this city, but in
the State as we'll In view of the fact
/ that the Mayor elect had but a few
moments before he arrived at his home
after trip to Harrisburg and a con-
! ference with Governor Brumbaugh, his
statement was regarded as of possi-
BILE deep significance, but when ques-
toned upon the subject he declined to
say what he and the Chief Executive
of the State had discussed during their
ltwo-anda-half hours conference.
| L feel confident that State and city
harmony will prevail within the Re-
publican party was all Mayor elect
Smith cared to say on the subject"
Speaking at Philadelphia Senator
Penrose highly praised the State Po-
| lice and intimated that If a man who
developed the police could be named
as director of public safety in Phila-
delphia it would be good. This is
taken to mean that Major John C.
Groome, a personal friend of the
Senator, will be named. 1t is said that
Senator S. w. Salus will not become
a member of the Smith cabinet.
Altoona city fathers are discussing
the reorganization of their affairs and
some interesting developments are ex-
pected.
-Allentown's new council held a
caucus yesterday ana picked these to
be the heads of departments after
January Il Superintendent Depart
ment of Public Affairs, Mayor A. L..
Reichenbach; Accounts and Finance,
John T. Scheirer; Public Safety. j.
Herbert Kohler; Highways, william
B. Bartholomew; Parks and Public
Property, Thomas j. Roth. The Mayor
will receive a salary of $4,000 a year
and the Councilmen s2,500 each.
Samuel A. Knauss, prominent union
man, was elected City Treasurer, to
succeed Mayor elect Reichenbach, and
a woman, Miss G. e. Hopkins, was
chosen Assistant Treasurer. Former
City Solicitor Francis G. Lewis was
elected City Assessor, at $4,000, and
City Solicitor Malcolm w. Gross and
City Engineer Charles d. Weirbaoh
were reelected.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-26
CONGRESSMAN GRIEST WANTS
LOWER LETTER MAIL POSTAGE

Congress will be justified in enact
ing legislation reducing the first-class
postage rate on local delivery. or
drop letters from two to one cent per
ounce or fraction thereof, because the
Post Office Department to-day makes a
profit of several hundred per cent. on
the handling of local letters" This Is
the answer Representative w. w.
Griest, a former newspaper proprietor
of Lancaster. an important member of
the postal committee in the House.
made when asked what he thought of
the fight being made to have the rate
Of postage on local delivery letters re-
duced
Further than this Mr.. Griest said:
"It is impossible to justify the Govern
ment in collecting an excessive postage
rate on local letters. decrease of
the drop letter rate from two cents to
one cent per ounce or fraction thereof
would hardly affect more than one per
cent. of the postal revenues, as the
reduced rate would result IN a great
increase In mail matter and the normal
annual increase in the postal revenues
would offset a reduction in receipts"
Mr.. Griests statement is considered
Significant because he is regarded as
one of the authorities of the House on
the subject of local delivery letters.
During his term of office he has made
an exhaustive study OF postal condi-
tions. He has bill pending in the
house to reduce the rate ON drop"
letters and has made important
speeches on the subject.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-26
THE MEXICAN MIDDLE
I.-War in the United States
By Frederic ]. Haskin

TINE, Texas rangers are fighting
again. AS in the days of their
organization, they are bringing
peace and order at the muzzle of a
siX-shooter.
The war against the bandits in
Southern Texas has lasted four
months Bands of armed and lawless
MeXicans from both sides of the in
ternational boundary have wrecked
trains, murdered civilians, fought
pitched battles with posses of citizens
and rangers, and with troops of the
United States army. They are acting
under the Plan of San Diego, an in
sane project to conquer half the
Western United States and set up a
republic for MeXicans, Japanese and
negroes.
When the bandit army threw the
lower Rio Grande valley into terror
and confusion, the Texans thought
was of their rangers. In years OF
quiet the force had been allowed to
run down far below the maximum in
point of numbers. One of the first
moves in the campaign was to in
crease it by twenty men. A few weeks
later another twenty were added. AS
the situation grew more serious, a
committee of prominent citizens con-
ferring with the governor recon-
mended that five hundred special
rangers be appointed.
The force is now recruited up 70
eighty veteran officers, the maximum
permissible under the constitution of
Texas. The national government has
five thousand regular troops in the
valley. A third branch of the forces
of law and order consists of the Off
GERS of the various counties, with their
posses of civilians. Composed of ex-
perienced frontiersmen, the latter are
no, less efficient than the troops and
the rangers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-26
FoRD's FOLLY

|NF all the idiotic performances of
~ multi-millionaires who have mis-
taken ability to make money for
universal genius, the folly of Henry
Ford in dispatching a steamer to
Europe to induce the warning govern
ments to make peace at his behest is
the worst.
Somebody. commenting the pro-
posal, has attributed to Ford the OBJ
ject of publicity back of the enter
prise. and another writer the hope of
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-26
THE STATE FROM DAY TO DAY

A special election will be held in
Stewartstown December Is, to decide
whether or not the indebtedness of the
town can be increased 5000. The debt
was incurred by the building of the
State road through the borough.
ers will be in camps along the South
Mountain, Cumberland county, with
the opening of the deer season week
from to-day, Now the deer are very
of your gasoline tank, but not for long,
an they be wise.
A man out in Indiana, Pa, hanged
his two beloved dogs simply to escape
payment of the dog tax. The assessor
believed Tony, who is great Jester.
satisfied. Then Tony slyly took down
two sacks which were hanging to the
ceiling of his coalhouse, and out rolled
tWo Two very ilVe cannes mes Inc Joke was
fun was worth the cost of revealing it,
With only four more days to serve.
Harry Gangewer, an auto thief, who
was regarded as a trusty, escaped from
the Allentown jail, and If caught will
have to serve the nine months that had
been taken off for good behavior.
A Columbia College student, says the
New Castle News. was compelled while
being hazed sa to SI roll pebble down down the
might have been interesting to note
whether the stone slid smoothly or was
lifted at each successive bump, and
then perhaps the jokee might have
been spotted and his ancestry discov-
cred.
Bernard Shaw is the my hero of
Bryn Mawr, according to the librarian
of the Denbigh Fiction library, from
which the. college girls extract books
and then forget to return them. Next
in popularity is Thomas Hardy, with
Galsworthy a poor third.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-26
ouR PREsInENTs

The uncertainty quality of some of
our Presidents (present company ex-
cepted) would lead to the belief that
a school of Presidents would not be a
bad thing. Here are some of the OBJ
vious requirements:
talk.
for four years.
He should have been Mayor of New
York, Governor Of Ohio. or the head
of some large department store.
After he has ceased to be President
he should be bound over to keep the
peace.-Current issue of Life.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-26
WHEN NONE APPEARS
BY Wing DInger

Every day when clock hands point to
Forty minutes after ten
To produce that d. brief poem
I take up my fountain pen.
have twenty minutes, brother.
To iot down my verses, for
At. eleven comes the dead line,
'Gainst my work they bar the door.
Gentle reader. this VIII tell you
Why some days my written bunc
May seem worse than poor--approach
ing
condition known as punk"
And on days when none are printed
Please don't disappointed be-
III have spared you-what I'd written
Seemed too poor TO even me.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-26
EDITORIAL COMMENT

At this safe distance we now can see
Just how the railroads, back in the
nineties. We're playing cats cradle with
New England.-Brooklyn Eagle
Lord Northcliffe observes that "the
war-situation' is particularly interest
ing. Even the English are beginning
to take notice.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The one big outstanding objection to
woman suffrage seems to be that IL
women are given the ballot they will
vote the men into a state of decency.-
Toledo Blade.
Berlin editor says that the allies
are defeated. but not aware of It,"
dangerous people, these fellows who
don't know when they're licked
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Now the Turks protest against viola
tion of the rules OF war by their enc
mics. The difference between war and
massacre is that the latter has no rules.
New York Evening Post.
Mrs. Pankhurst says it is the German
strain in Englishmen that makes them
so obstinate. We don't know which
this will make the madder-the Eng
lishmen or the Germans.-Mancheste
Union.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-26
HER LIMIT

NERMAN women are patriotic.
" They have given of their time,
their money and of their most
dearly beloved men folks to the service
of the Fatherland in its present crisis
but they have their limit of sacri-
fee, and that limit is plain dress.
In Berlin last week a we'll attended
meeting called by women reformers of
fashion was held under the patronage
of the crown princess. The purpose of
the meeting was to appeal to the
patriotic women of Germany to cast
off French and other foreign fashions
and to wear hereafter only a truly
German style of dress, which. it was
stated. should at the same time be
beautiful and digniied, but free from
fripperies.
The speakers at the meeting illus
trated the proposed fashions and con-
demned high-heeled shoes and pumps,
gauzy stockings, foreign fabrics and
cosmetics. Space had been reserved
in the program of the evening for an
opposition speaker, who produced q
number of the latest models of gowns,
which ran counter to most of the
patriotic theories the reformers had
eXpounded.
The dismayed reformers soon found
a majority of the audience had de-
serted them and We're applauding en-
Enthusiastically each new gown and
drowning out the disapproval of the
little minority who favored the truly
German modes.
Disguise our bondage as we will;
'Tis woman. woman, rules us STILL"
And apparently even the kaiser is
no exception
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-26

clearly bound to rid his party OF
the leadership of Penrose. they
say say they they are willing to give him all
Philadelphia Dispatch.
I\Hs is the sort of political CUFF
which is being put out by mis-
chief-makers in the Republican
party. They" in this case refers to
an alleged group of leaders in Phila-
delphia and elsewhere who want to
involve Governor Brumbaugh in a
factional miXup that will get him no.
where and simply embroil his admins
tration in endless political controversy
TO the detriment of things worth
while.
Governor Brumbaugh is not bound
to rid his party of the leadership or
Penrose," or anybody else. He was
elected to administer a great office
and there is nothing in the situation 10
justify political turmoil instead of
constructive and substantial achieve
ment.
As for Senator Penrose he was
elected in the same year and on the
same day as the Governor after an
appeal to the people through the
open primary. How, then. do these
malcontents who are urging Governor
Brumbaugh to endeavor to unhorse
Senator Penrose reach the conclusion
that it is any part of the Governors
duty to undo what the Republican
party and the people have done?
We have no patience with the sort
Of clap-trap political propaganda that
would injure and destroy the useful
ness of Governor Brumbaugh, whose
vision and heart and mind are bound
up with the betterment of Pennsyl-
vania and the development of really
great policies affecting all the people.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-26
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

j. Bernard Walker. who is MAX
ing speeches in behalf of a great
navy, is editor of the Scientific Amer
lean.
Charles S. Calwell, Philadelphia
banker, is urging developing of farms
near Philadelphia.
Secretary of Agriculture Patton
spent the day in Philadelphia.
Representative M. A. Milliron, of
Kittanning, went hunting for a wild
cat and was badly clawed.
-Lieutenant-G Governor NJ G a II
came home from California with the
Liberty Bell.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-26
Our Daily Laugh
EFFECTIVE.

Do you believe
surgery can ward
off old age?
oh. yes. Fre-
quently the pa
tient dies under
an operation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-26
"HelIo! Information"

What a great convenience It is
when you want to know some
thing to be able to take up the
telephone and call:-"Hello in
formation"
Within a minute or so you
get the facts you are seeking.
Every time you pick up this
newspaper you are in touch with
information"
You want to buy something!
You are not sure just what or
where to get it,
Turn right over to the adver-
tising columns and there you are.
Could anything be more effi-
,ient? (
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-26
TELEORAPH'S PERISCOPE

And now they are talking of put
ting up the price of coal because OF
the Wilkes Barre trolley strike, evil
IDENTIFY on the ground that a poor eX-
cuse is better than none.
You may roast, slice it cold or
make hash, as you will, but the flavor
of turkey remains with it still.
Why can't the day after Thanks
giving be Sunday?
German scientists are studying
ways and means of increasing the
birth rate. We suggest that the sim
plest way would be to let the soldiers
go back home.
1t has been almost a week since
we have heard anything from William
Jennings Bryan. Can it be that some
thing has happened TO. his voice?
The Presidential candidate who
SHES his hat into the ring at this time
runs the risk of losing it under the
pile.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-26
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg is a big
shipper of steel to seaboard
plants?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
Salem Reformed Church stands
ON the oldest church property in
the city.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-26

In commenting upon the nations
Senator Penrose said:
My name has been mentioned in
connection with the Presidency.
1 appreciate the compliment. At
the same time I'm not a candidate
and | do not know of any persons
who is a candidate at this time for
the Republican nomination.
A number of prominent Repub-
licans have been mentioned in
this connection. and some of them
will be indorsed as favorite sons;
and theirNnames will doubtless be
presented at the Republican Con-
Vention, and other names will be
developed later, and will likewise
be presented.
The Republican party is har-
monious and the discussion over
candidates is entirely amicable. 1t
would not be desirable at this time,
and under existing circumstances
to have any final commitment on
any particular candidate, even If
such were possible.
"A number of prominent Repub-
licans have been mentioned and it
is not unlikely that others may
develop during the approaching
session of Congress. 1t must not be
forgotten that many of our ma
tional conventions have not deter
mined on a nomination until after
the convention met and until after
repeated balloting.
| am just completing a circuit of
the length and breadth of the
country and have met many per-
sons including political leaders of
many States and 1 am convinced
that Republican success is assured
next year.
Already signs are at hand of a
betterment of business conditions,
based on the general assumption
that President Wilson will be de-
feated next Fall and that protec-
ton and prosperity under Repub-
lican rule will be restored to the
country.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-26
FRIDAY EVENING, NOV. 20.
And Satan trembIeS iChen he sees
The ,CeGkest saint upon his knees.
~ -Wm. CotCper.
POLITICAL CLAPTRAP

They also state it as their belief
that Governor Brumbaugh is
clearly bound to rid his party OF
the leadership of Penrose. They
say they are willing to give him all
the help they can in this work.
PHILADELPHIA Dispatch.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-26

Neither Governor Brumbaugh nor
Mayor-elect Thomas B. Smith would
discuss the visit of the new Mayor to
the Governor on Wednesday afternoon
MIR. Smith declared in Philadelphia
Wednesday night that it was a per-
sonal matter and had nothing to dc
with national delegates, as generally
believed. However. the visit started
all sorts of speculation and. added to
the growing interest in affairs
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-26

Why can't the day after Thanks
giving be Sunday?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-26
WASN'T SHE
MEAN?

He: What d
you think of my
nustache?
v She: It's q good
deal like most
eclipses OF
visible.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-26

Concerning Mayor Smith the Phila-
delphia Inquirer in an authorized in
terview with him yesterday had this
to say: 1T was pointed oqIt to the
Mayor that certain influences, not en-
tirely favorable, or sympathetic with,
Republican success. had been predict
ing that a possible split between the
various leaders of the Republican
party hinged largely, If not entirely,
upon his Cabinet appointments, DEM
onstrating. as they might. a leaning
toward one side or another. The
Mayor-elects reply was frank, honest
and to the point. Such speculation
seems to me to be utter nonsense he
said. And l may add without qualifi-
lcation that no leader has asked me to
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-26

One would scarcely expect the round
red disks placed about Market street
and the Square to serve as reading
places for foreigners, but on Satur-
day afternoon they appeared to in
terest a couple of Slavs immensely
The men were here doing some Satur-
day buying and when they struck the
front of the courthouse, where park
ing is forbidden in white letters on u
very red background the two men
halted and painfully spelled out each
letter. Just what they made out of
the word parking Is uncertain.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-05-25
PETIT WON'T RUN FOR DONKEY

Judge S. Adelor Petit, Republican,
will not run for circuit court bench
on the Democratic ticket This deci-
sion came last night when after sew
eral hours of wrangling the Demo-
Gratis failed to nominate anyone.
Petit was suggested because he
was supported by Mayor Thompson
and had been left off the Republican
ballot. His name in a Democratic
column would draw Republican votes,
it was believed.
Twenty Republican and nineteen
Democratic candidates were certified
by County Clerk Sweitzer yesterday.
The Democrats viii try again today
to name the last candidate.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-05-25
BITS OF NEWS

William Owens, Post Falls, Idaho,
told police thief had taken his satchel
containing $4,000 worth of unset
gems in Northwestern station. Jew
eler viewed samples. Glass.
Mayor Thompson called mass meet
ing to be held in Auditorium theater
Thursday night. Boost Chicago"
Citizens in Argyle district have
formed vigilance committee to make
police get after crooks.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-05-25
TOO MUCH STRETCH

HaVerhiII, Mass.-FaiIing to squeeze
himself through door and window
bars at Jail, Harry Wildes, intoxicated,
tried suicide as means of escape. Too
much rubber in suspenders.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-05-25
CHILDREN WATCH FATHER
CRUSH MOTHERS SKULL

While his seven children gazed on
hoTor-stricken, Martin Banaczek, AZ,
64S N. Paulina St., crushed his wife's
skull with hammer and cut his own
throat this morning. ,
Neighbors, aroused by the screams,
called the police. Banacztk and his
wife were removed to the County
hospital. They are both in a serious
condition. The children are now at
the Harrison ST. annex.
Neighbors said Banaczek had been
sick recently and unable to hold job.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-05-25
TELEGRAPH BRIEFS

SpringfieId.-$1 200, 900 distributed
in 20 minutes by state of Illinois IN
warrants among 740 different individ-
uals and firms for losses of cattle in
foot and mouth disease epidemic.
Johnston, Pa.-ExpIosion in mine
of Valley Smokeless Coal Co. caused
nine deaths.
ST. Louis.-Count Leon J. Leschin-
sky filed suit for divorce, alleging his
wife saturated bed with wood alco-
hol and threatened to burn him to
death.
New York.-PositiVe cure of teta-
nus by injection of juice of cactus
leaf, claim of DR.. F. D. B. de Waltoff.
London. - cymric, with many
American passengers, arrived safely
from New York at Liverpool.
Washington. - Through state de-
partment and Ambassador Page at
Rome American Red Cross has Of
fered its services, including doctors
and supplies, to Italian government, 4.
Los AngeIes.-Gift of 100000 BY
John D. Rockefeller for Baptist Mis-
sionary society announced at General
Baptist convention.
WEATHER FORECAST
Partly cloudy Tuesday,. probably
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-05-25
G::AJosH
Mw Isl

LATE FIinghammer admits there's
money in raisin pigeons eff you kin
git enough ter feed 'en1. So far he
has been able ter secure enough
beans, peas and other seeds from his
Congressman"
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-03-10
DUMPING CHARGES
HELD To 1E LEGAL
COAL AND COKE COMPANY LOSES
CASE AGAINST NORFOLK &
WESTERN RAILWAY.

Especial to the Richmond Virginian.)
Washigton, March 9.--ln the case OF
the New England Coal ad Coke Com
pany against the Norfolk and Western
Railway Company. the Interstate Com
merce Commission today dismissed the
complaint, the defendant making a
charge for dumping coal into boats
from their piers in addition to the
regular transportation rate applying
to the port Of business destined be-
yond the Virginia capes In dismissing
the complaint, the commission held
that this practice was not unlawful
The complainant is a corporation
engaged in the buying and selling of
coal, and in such transportation by
water as is incidental threto, with
principal place of business at Boston
BY complaint. filed March Z, 1913,
it alleges that defendant charges Tor
dumping coal into compla1nants ves-
sells from cars on defendants piers
at IAbbert's Point and Sewall's Point,
both on Norfolk harbor and Hampton
Roads are unla wful. II being contend
ed that such dumping charges should
be included in the transportation rates
to the port. PREPARATION was asked.
In rendering the order of dismissal
the commission said. I'VE are or
opinion and find that the publication
by defendants, in addition to the trans
portation rate, OF separate charge
for dumping coal from the defendants
piers into the complainant's vessels at
the points named is not unlawful. II
follows that the complaint must be
dismissed, and 1t will be 80 ordered