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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-20

tradiction of the prophecy that a suf-
fcient number of efficient men to man
the Post Office Department could not
be found in the democratic party"
In proof of the fact Mr.. Roper asked
all present whose appointments ante
dated March 4, 1913. to rise to their
feet, and in response to this request
inst eleven men and women could be
counted.
1.-THE efficiency and loyalty of the
postmasters of the United States pass
almost beyond my comprehension"
concluded Mr.. Roper. Never before
were such problems before them a. 1t
present. and never before was the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-20
Rural Credits Commission Meets.

The first meeting of the United
States commission on rural credits
since the summer recess was held to-
day in the office OF Senator Duncan U.
Fletcher OF Florida, its chairman.
Those of the commission who were in
attendance were Senator Fletcher.
Senator Gore Of Oklahoma. Representa-
tive MOSS of Indiana. DR.. Kenyon But
terfield of Amherst. Mass. and DR..
Iohn Lee Coulter Of Nashville. Tenn.
DR.. Haryfe Jordan of Atlanta Is ex-
pected to arrive in Washington to-
night. The meeting today was devoted
mostly to getting things in readiness
for other meetings which are to follow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-20
IN STUDENT TRAINING CLASS.
Twelve Young Women Selected for
Instruction at Public Library.

The student training class of the
Public Library began work this morn
ing and is to continue until June 81,
when members who have successfully
completed the course are to be placed
on the eligible list for appointments
in the library service. OF about thirty
young woman applicants for member
ship in the class twelve were selected.
The eight months training which
they are to receive Is to be divided
between classroom instruction, cover
practical training in the various de-
partments.
For the first few days the class will
devote its time to classroom work.
Heads of the various departments Of
the library are to lecture to them in
order that they may get a general
idea of the activities of the library.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-20
Weather Causes Postponement.

The meeting OF the District branch
OF the woman's rivers and harbors
congress. which was to have been held
this afternoon at Ingleside. Va. haH
been postponed indefinitely on account
Of the inclemency of the weather. ac
cording to announcement made at noon
today by the president, Mrs. l.. II
Wilder. at whose home the gathering
was to have been held.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-20
Arredondo Formally Notified.

Mr.. Arredondo was the proud posses
sor today of letter from Secretary of
State Lansing. formally notifying him
of Carranza's recognition. and express
ing an intention to accredit an ambas-
sador to Mexico soon. 1t virtually had
been decided to name Henry P. Fletch-
er, now ambassador to Chile, for the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-20
Bryan Selection APPOINTED

Samuel G. Hudson was today appoint
ed postmaster of Lincoln. Neb His So
lection was urged by William ]. BRYAN
President Wilson also appointed
J. KiIlmer postmaster at Mason Ci,v
Iowa. and James T.. Hanley at Cripple
Creek, Col.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-20
President Receives Masons.

President Wilson today received a
largo number of Scottish Rite Masons
who have been attending the cere-
monies Of the new temple here. He
shook hands with and congratulated
his callers upon the beautiful building
they have erected in this city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-20
To Represent U. S. Navy at Toxic.

Admiral Winterhalter, commandinp
the Asiatic fleet. will represent the
United States Navy at the coronation OF
the Emperor OF Japan November 10. He
has been ordered to make the trip to
Japan from his present station in
China in his flagship. the cruiser Sara
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-20
MEMBERS Of CABINET
BOMBARDED IN HOUSE
Give Questioners in British Com.
mons Little Information About
War Policies.

LONDON, October 20, 3:se pm
Cabinet ministers again were bonn
barded with war questions in the house
Of commons today. but for the most
part they managed to escape an in
tended frontal attack
The replies developed that the oficer
who commanded the landing Of British
troops at Suvla Bay on the Gallipolj
peninsula has been shelved and that
he holds no command in the army at
present, but Harold J. Tenant, parlia-
mentary under secretary for war, de-
clined to give further information on
the ground that it would be against
public interest.
Opposed to Reprisals.
The suggestion made by William
Joynson- Hicks, unionist member for
the Brentford division of ,Middlesex. OF
policy OF reprisals as a deterrent to
Zeppelin raids was frowned upon by
that such a policy always had been
the subject OF considerable con-
troversy.
The Royal Flying Corps" he said.
lis military organization in England
for military operations. The dastardly
raids by the enemy on undefended
towns and defenseless people should
not be allowed to divert the energies
of this fighting force from it's primary
military purpose"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-20
PRESIDENT ORDERS
EMBARGO ON ARMS
Continued from First Page.)

by Mr.. Arredondo, at the Mexican en-
bassy, over the extension of recogni-
ton. number of diplomats called in
person, while many congratulatory
kilograms were received.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-20
Thinks Germany in Balkans
Has Advantage in Position
Over Combination of Foes

BERLIN, October 20, by wireless to
Tuckerton, n. J.-Reviewing the military
situation in the Berliner Tagebatt, Mai
Moraht, the military critic, notes that
while Germany is now really on the de-
attacking in Serbia. where she will
shake hands with all her friends and
probably be opposed by the armies Of
all her enemies"
Reviewing the article, the Overseas
News Agency says:
THE Serbian attack serves the CEN
trail powers politically and is advance
ing them toward final victory, Maj.
Moraht says. while the French and
British offensive was undertaken with
enormous forces in mere fury and OBJ
stinacy, while the efforts of Russia
are only designed to regain for her
territory which she has lost.
Allies Still Discuss Policy.
The discussion between the entente
nations regarding their respective par
ticipation in the Balkan campaign is
still uncompIeted, Mai. Moraht points
out. and. regarding such participation
he says that France is unable to spare
troops from her home front, while her
colonial troops are not suitable for
service in a Serbian winter campaign
Great Britain's shaken forces from
the Dardanelles would not be able to
cope in battle with the victorious Ger
man and Austro-H Hungarian forces and
fhe enthusiastic Bulga rian troops, he
adds. while Italy wishes to make her
own war. saving her soldiers and her
gold"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-20

buildings he had selected, but that no
answer was forthcoming,
Charges Valuation Boosting.
L also claim that without legal re-
quirement or authority the assessor
has made certain reports of the value
of government property and has boost
ed the value of that property so as to
sustain the half-and-half plan"
The question of assessments, and
how they are made, may become a
very valuable factor in determining
these problems" said Senator Works.
The committee then adjourned until
Monday at 10 o'clock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-20
Opposed to Reprisa1s.

Rev. Father Charles NJ Charroppin,
s. j., widely known as an astronomer,
has died at St. Louis of appendicitis.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-20
GERMAN OFFENSIVE
ON WESTER!NF FRONT
Reports From Entente Allies
Indicate Enemy Has Been
Reinforced.
PARIS TELLS OF LOSING
AND REGAINING TRENCHES
Field Marshal French Reports Com
plete Repulse of German At
tack by British.

LONDON, October eo.-Re-
ports from the entente allies on
the western front indicate that the
Germans have been reinforced
heavily and are showing a dis
position to assume the offensive.
Field Marshal French an
nounces the complete repulse
north OF Loos OF Germans, who
made an attack after heavy artil-
lery preparation. Paris reported
last night that east OF Rheims the
Germans made fierce attack on
a large scale, but were thrown
back, occupying several french
trenches.
German Guns Silenced.
There was no important action in
the course of the night says the OIL
cial statement issued in Paris this aft
ernOOn. In the SeClOI VI Jul
artillery directed against the German
trenches a represSve bombardment.
which siIenced the machine guns in
those trenches, which had been attack
ing our lines.
in Champagne. in the vicinity of the
Butte of Tahure and between the Meuse
and the Moselle. to the north OF Flirey,
the enemy bombarded our positions
several times. Our batteries respond
ed with great energy
German Success Claimed.
The German official statement issued
in Berlin today says that on the Franco
Belgian front German accommodating
party, advancing northeast of Prunay,
captured four French officers, 1854 men,
three machine guns and three mine
throwers.
Near Middelkerke, Belgium, British
aeroplane was shot down and the oc-
cupantS were captured.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-20

Wheat, -four and oats may not be ex-
ported from Great Britain during the
war.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-20
MAKE NO Comment
ON JERSEY ELECTION
Neither President Wilson Nor Secre.
tary Tumulty Discuss Defeat
Of Suffrage. .

Neither President Wilson nor Secre-
tary Tumulty, who yesterday voted for
woman suffrage in New Jersey, had
any comment to make on the defeat of
the amendment in that state. In no
way does the White House consider the
vote defeat for the President, who
declined to do more than cast his vote
and made no appeal to New Jersey
voters to support the cause
New Jersey people today said that
the voting on the subject was not ac-
cording to regular election laws, in
which each ballot is numbered, and
that unquestionably there were many
chances for repeating and fraud gen,
orally II election officers wished to do
anything of that kind. Whether thew
did so is not known, although it is said
there was much joking among Thought
less male voters as to how to cheat
the women of the privileges they
sought.
Mrs. Norman Calf. the flancee of Prem
ident Wilson, is said to be opposed to
suffrage for women. although she has
taken no active part in the Campaign
In New Jersey or elsewhere, and will
proba bly, never do so
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-20
To Seek Presidents influence.

President Wilson is again to be re-
quested. in spite of many declinations
to support at the coming session of
Congress an amendment to the national
Constitution comforting woman suf-
frage throughout the nation. A delesa-
ton from the recent convention at San
Francisco Of the Women's Voters,
League is on it's way to Washington
to lay before the President RESOLUTIONS
adopted there, and a representative of
the gathering is prepa ring a request upon
the White House to receive the DELE.
cation.
The President has repeatedly stated
that he considered this question one
for the separate states and voiced his
sentiments by his vote in New Jersey.
Although his position is thorouehiv
known. suffragists propose to persist
in their efforts to align him for a con-
stitutional amendment
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-20
D.C.F|SCAL INQUIRY
FORMALLY STARTS

CONTINUED from First Page.)
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Italy Welcomes New Foe.
Bulgarian Coasts Mined.

The Bulgarian coasts on the Aegean
and Black seas have been mined, ac-
cording to a dipatch today from Amer
lean Minister Nopicka, at Bucharest.
He also stated that the port of Dedea-
Rhatch had been closed to navigation
since October 1. Bulgarian lighthouses
have ceased to operate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-20

handling OF them so important The
Post Once Department not only well
comes you. but assures you that IL Is
studying the same problems that are
worrying you and Is endeavoring, to
the best of its ability. to cooperate
with you in their solution" Mr.. Roper's
remarks were received with applause
and he was tho recipient OF a rising
vote of thanks.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-10
FARRELL OPTIMISTIC

JAMES =. FARRELL, president of
the United States Steel Corpora
ton, is not one of those who be-
~ lives that the country is to be held
back long from that prosperity of
which for some months now we have
seemed to be almost upon the thres-
hold. Indeed, Mr.. Farrell is distinctly
optimistic as to the outlook for the
coming year. Before a banquet of
the Engineers Society of Western
Pennsylvania the other night he said
that the tide has turned and each day
records marked improvement in the
general situation.
Mr.. Farrell hit the nail right on the
head when he said that future pros
perity depends largely upon the CO.
operation of businessmen, who have
it in. their power to bring about con-
djtions which will result in a larger
employment of labor. He is no theo-
rist, and, instead Of reading little
essay on experimental economics. as
! is now the popular practice, he told
his hearers that. to his mind, the best
way to solve the industrial unrest
about which we have been hearing so
much recently is by creating work
by oiling and spinning. and bringing
about a normal circulation in the ar
teries of commerce. This is true. The
problems OF capital and labor are not
so widely separated but that they
depend for mutual profit upon the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-10
THE BINNER INCIDENT

"HE suicide of Alvin Binner,
cashier of the Schaefferstown
= First National Bank, points
again the old, old lesson of the
folly of faithlessness to trust.
Indications are that Binner, without
a thought of dishonesty in his mind
placed himself in a position where
friends were permitted to use the
funds placed in his care for their own
purposes. OF course, at the outstart
the understanding was that the money
all should he returned and that no
body would be the wiser. That is the
way nine out of every ten of our bank
discrepancies occur. 1t is so easy to
take money from the cash drawer and
so difficult to put it back. Possibly
there are those who have done so and
escaped the penalties that so often
follow acts of this kind but the pro-
portion is so small as TO be negligible.
BE sure your sin will find you out"
is just as true to-day as when first it
was written, and the man who trifles
with the trust placed upon him, or
who borrows from the money Of
others in his care, is face TO face with
disgrace, prison cell or a suicides
grave.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-10
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

The Rev. DR.. Ethelbert Warfield,
former president of Lafayette, has re-
moved to Atlantic City.
E. P. IIibros has been elected
president of the Wayne County Society
of Pennsylvanians in New York.
r. NJ. X. Lewis, elected to one of
the grand offices in the Knights of the
Golden Eagle, lives at North Wales.
Archbishop Prendergast, of Phila-
delphia, sent gift of s21 900 to pope
Benedict from Philadelphia people.
Sumner T.. Ely was toastmaster
ar the banquet of the Western Penn
sylvania Engineers Society.
William Shaffer, prominent Frank
lin resident. is in Florida
William Connor, register of wills
of Allegheny county, admires a good
horse.
The Rev. Henry d. White. a mis-
sionary to Siam. has been visiting his
home in Beaver
DR.. II. NJ. Goehring went from
Pittsburgh to Philadelphia to examine
Billy Sundays throat.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-10

employment of the workingman.
Mr.. Farrell sees in the business
world of to-day possibilities for Amer
lea of a wider scope than ever he or
any other enthusiastic believer in
the future of this country ever dared
hope. He points out that not only
has America become the banker of
the world, but that it is now the
worlds granary as we'll. and that when
the great war in Europe shall have
been ended, America, of all the ma
tions of the earth, will stand with
mills and working forces unimpaired
to take up the great work of recon
struction that must follow this tenn
porary period of international mad
ness.
The president of the Steel Corpora
ton is in a position to read the future
as few men in the world are to-day.
Especially is he conversant with the
present state OF business. He is not
given to idle forecasts, so that when
he pronounces judgment his utter
ances are to be given more than or
dinary consideration.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-10
WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEB. 10
THE BOWMAN ORDINANCE

n RR. BOWMAN'S ordinance, hav-
M ing for its object the removal
lFx of coal wharves from the River
Front to largest Island, is a
measure of very commendable char
scter. II passed by Councils. as IT
no doubt will be, the River Front will
he freed from much of the clutter
and dirt that would otherwise mar
the new promenade along the river
wall in the very heart of the city.
The Harrisburg Light and Power
Company, the biggest river coal oper-
ator in the city, also has been sener-
Gus and considerate in the matter, It
having agreed, for certain reasonable
considerations, not only TO remove its
wharves from the river wall but to
pay to the city in coal every year the
equivalent of about $1,140 for the
privilege of using the island landing
places.
Thus Mr. Bowman has devised a
plan which at one and the same time
will remove what threatened to be-
come a nuisance along Front street
and will contribute materially toward
the payment of the citys fuel bill at
the filter plant. 1t is seldom that
such an absolutely worthy piece of
legislation has come before City Coun-
ell and no time should be lost in put
ting it through.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-10

and other industries have been operat-
ing only about one-half capacity, and
Whereas, The army of unemployed
in our cities and towns has brought
continued distress through inability to
obtain proper food, raiment and shelter.
and
Whereas, We believe present condi-
tons Will become worse instead OF bet
ter at the close of the war. 1t is there
fore
Resolved. That the Legislature of
Pennsylvania, now in session, do petit
ton the Congress of the United states
To repeal the present tariff law and
replace It by a/law giving adequate
protection to our labor and Industries,
and under normal conditions, sufhci-
cnt revenue to warrant the repeal of
the present unjust and uncalled for
special methods of taxation now in OPP
Grafton.
We are not optimistic enough to
have confidence that Congress would
heed such a petition. but IL the me-
mortal were sent and II the great In
dustrial States of New York, Ohio, New
Jersey, Massachusetts. Illinois, Connec-
ticut and Rhode Island should follow
our example the moral effect would be
inestimable. The suggestion Is sub
mitted with the hope that favorable ac-
tion may follow.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-10
THE LAFoLLETTE REsoLUTIoN

IT is peculiar fact that while every
body in America has been praying
1 for peace and hoping for the early
cessation of hostilities in Europe.
nearly six months were allowed TO
pass following the declaration of hos
ulities before a single move was made
in this direction by anybody. 1t re-
mained for Senator LaFollette to pre-
sent to Congress a resolution that
embodies what is unquestionabIy the
sentiment of every right-minded man
in the nation.
Whatever may be the fate of this
measure, and its author promises to
test the feelings of his colleagues in
that respect at very early date, the
LaFollette resolution must go down in
history as the first concrete effort in
America toward peace in Europe and
perpetual peace on an international
basis through the good offices and in
strumentality of congress of neu-
trails"
Mr.. LaFollette's measure is so gen
eral in its application and so wide in
its scope that 1t cannot be accepted in
any but a friendly spirit by even the
most pugnaciously inclined of the
European powers. More and more il
becomes apparent that it is the duty
of the United States to step into the
breach as peacemaker. Whether or
not the warning governments are
ready as yet to accept our proffers i'm
this respect our own national in
terests demand that we shall lose no
time in letting them know exactly
where we stand, and that we are
ready and anxious to do what we NAV
in restoring Europe to a sane and
civilized condition. All of the neutral
nations are in precisely the same DO
sition as ourselves and they ought to
enter willingly into such an arrange
ment as Senator LaFollette proposes.
Such a gathering would have plenty
of work to do il it did no more than
deal with the rights of neutrals un-
der existing conditions" with the idea
of working out a policy for the pre-
servation of their own peace"
There can be no chance of any
harm resulting from such an assem-
blage and all of the powers that he
in Europe could not but feel the
pressure for peace that such a con-
ference of peace advocates represent
ing all the neutral nations would
bring to bear upon them.
Whether or not the time is ripe for
the consideration of International dis
armament, and whether or not The
warning nations are ready to quit
lighting, we in America ought to make
ourselves absolutely clear on this
point-that we stand ready to CO.
operate now, and at all times with any
nation or nations in any effort to make
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-10

The Mayors thought for the unem-
ployed is praiseworthy, but 1t would
have been much more practical IL he
had gone to Council with some definite
plan whereby work might be provided.
AS usual. he was chasing the spotlight
so furiously and trying so hard to get
somebody else into n false position
politically that he failed entirely to
make any recommendations upon which
action could be taken.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-10

The Natural History Society is TO be
heartily congratulated upon giving
Harrisburg people opportunity to hear
Sir Douglas Mawson, the noted ant
arctic explorer. tell of his thrilling eX-
perience in the land of the eternal
SHOWS and to see the even more Won
derful moving pictures he and his COM
rades brought with them from the re-
gions never before traversed by the foot
of man. 1t was like being transported
Tor an evening over the towering
Southern seas and across the great ice
barrier to the frozen continent of the
antarctic there to live the life of the
explorers, see what they saw and ex-
perience everything that they expert
enced save the terrible cold and the
privations of the long marches over the
vast stretches of ice and snow. We in
Harrisburg have never had a lecture
TO equal 1t in interest and we owe
debt of gratitude to the Natural His
tory Society for its part in affording
the opportunity, which,. it is gratifying
to note the public was not slow to
SrGsp.