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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-21
MIR. POWELL LEARNS SOME LAW

[From the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.l
In the Supreme Court of Pennsylva-
MIA yesterday, through an opinion by
Justice Potter, a little lesson in law
was read to Auditor General Powell.
The act of July Z, 1913, required that
all moneys derived from motor vehicle
registrations and license fees be placed
in separate fund in the State Treas
ury, to be available for the state High
way Department upon requfsition, and
specifically appropriated" such moneys
for the construction, maintenance, inn
provement and repair of state and
State-aid highways. The act of May
II, 909. made II "a misdemeanor for
any officer of this Commonwealth to
authorize to be paid, or for the State
Treasurer to pay, any money out of the
state Treasury except in accordance
with an act of Assembly specifying the
amount and purpose of the expendi-
ture," and provided penalties for viola
tion of this inhibition.
1t will he noted that the act of 1913
specifically appropriated" to particu-
lar purpose all moneys derived from
a certain source without specifying the
amount Auditor General Powell was
hostile to the then State administra-
ton. He had helped to carry Pennsyl-
vania for Roosevelt in 1912 A cam
paign for the Governorship and for
other State offices was due in 1914. In
the degree that the Highway Depart
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-21
DON'T MOST OF YOUR MEALS
COSE LESS THAN .lA GENTS

In the May Womans Home Com
panion Ida M. Tarbell, writing an ar
ticle entieled The Twenty-Cent Din
ner," tells the story of q young work.
ing girl in Chicago who attempted to
take her own life. When asked by
the doctor for an explanation of her
act she said Doctor did you ever
eat twenty-cent dinners?" This story,
was widely quoted as an argument for
various schemes looking to higher
wages, better working conditions, and
so on. Miss Tarbell goes on in part as
follows:
"A little figuring on wages and in
comes will show that half, and more
of its people never had and never
Will have dinners that cost even twen-
ty cents.
Take your man on n thousand dol
lars year--and thousand dollars is
a handsome wage as things are in the
world-what can he pay for the dinner
OF himself end his wife and his three
children? Studies of budgets of wage
earners show that in this country from
40 to 40 per cent. of incomes averag-
ing 1000 to $1,000 q year must go
for food. Put-it all at As per cent, or
s45O-$90 year per person, or 25
cents day. Evidently there will be
few twenty-cent dinners eaten in that
household, yet there will be thousands
of such homes where there is health,
gayety and Thanksgiving.
Moreover. IL you study the condi-
tons under which much of the most
brilliant work of the world has been
carried on you will find that the twen-
ty-cent dinner was often the feast for
holidays"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-21
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

C. L. Peck, vice-president of the
Pennsylvania lines. west, personally
attends to the buying of the big lot of
equipment Just ordered.
Hyatt M. Cribbs. the successor of
Robert j. Cunningham, as county
controller of Allegheny, is a banker
and insurance company director.
%. ID. Bleakley, prominent Frank
lin man, won suit involving millions
in Washington.
Director Porter of Philadelphia,
says the Sunday campaign had moth
ing to do with the crime wave.
Robert S. Bright, late a candidate
for Congress, heads the Philadelphia
Democratic club.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-21
CAMP CURTIN MEMORIAL

TT HE State and National Govern
ments not having seen fit to
- properly mark the site of his
toric old Camp Curtin, it is by
no means uniting that the congrega-
ton Of the Curtin Heights Methodist
Church should rename its organiza-
tion and erect new church building
to be known as the Camp Curtin Me-
mortal Methodist Church.
The site of this edilice will be all
most the very center of the great
camp from which so many thousand
boys in blue went out to lay down
their lives for the Union. 1t will mark
for all time the noted encampment.
the location of which has been well
nigh lost in the rapid growth of the
town that has swept out over the open
fields above Maclay street, where for
merly was the tented military city,
and has transformed them into popu-
lous, closely-built residence districts.
Perhaps some day a proper monu-
ment in the form of a memorial arch
or a statue of Andrew Curtin. for
whom the camp was named, will be
erected at Sixth and Maclay streets,
the entrance to the camp, but there is
no movement of that kind afoot. so
that the Camp Curtin church will. in
all likelihood, stand for years as prac-
tically the only memorial of its kind.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-21
PARK CONCERTS

HARRISBURG owes a debt of
- gratitude to the newly organ
4 = lied Band Concert Association
for the arrangement of fifteen
band concerts at Reservoir park dur
ing the coming summer.
There is no more delightful way of
spending summer evening than lis
tening to a good band on the cool
slopes of Reservoir park, but the city
has had all too few of such entertain
ments during the past several years.
The fault has been chiefly that the
duty of raising the necessary money
did not lie properly with the park au-
thorities and there was nobody else
authorized to take up the work The
Concert Association was formed dur
ing the winter as a result, and its
members have pledged themselves to
procure sufficient subscriptions to
make the concert season possible.
They deserve all the support they will
need. No doubt they will find little
difficulty in obtaining the necessary
funds
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-21
WILL YOU HELP

TATE FIRE MARSHAL JO-
SEPH l.. BALDWIN, in a re-
~ cent bulletin, asks the coop
Grafton of the public in the work
of fire prevention to which his de-
partment is devoted. In view of the
fact that Harrisburg within the past
few days has suffered severely from
have the attention of everybody. He
says:
The season for Spring houseclean-
ing will sooE arrive. During the
winter much useless material may
have accumulated and been stored
away in closets, cellars, attics or
other out of the way places Just to
get it out of sight until the Spring
cleanup. This should not be: it is
a dangerous practice. There should
be no packing away of useless ar
ticles or other material of infam-
mable nature. All such should be
Immediately removed and destroyed.
If this is done il will make house,
cleaning much easier and lessen the
cause of many fires. Use care in
getting rid of rubbish. If burned,
do not do so on a windy day; nor
should 1t be piled near building.
,ssBe sure not to leave smoulderlngs,
fire. few. sparks from rubbish
fire may fall on a roof and cause
n destructive fire Won't you adopt
the plan of having a Clean-Up Day
every day and help reduce the fire
waste, which is of such enormous
cost, not only to you, but to all your
neighbors. Help in the good work.
Mr.. Baldwin is right. The Board
of Health, which has taken hold of
the cleanup work in Harrisburg,
ought to be heartily supported. Much
can be done by the private citizen in
this direction. All the forces of Har-
risburg ought to be organized for CO.
operation in freeing the city from the
refuse of winter that not only invites
fire, but harbor germs that warm days
will breed by the million.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-21
FIRST BALL GAME
Of LEGISLATORS.
Hackett and Roney Teams Cross
Bats at the Island and Future
Game Is Necessary
ARGUMENTS PRINCIPAL PART
Legislators to Have the Biennial
Dance This Evening; Many
Legislative Visitors

The legislative baseball season was
opened yesterday afternoon at Island
Park, when two teams. captained by
Philadelphia members, battled for sew
eral hours. 1t is expected that a series
of games will be played next week to
settle points of law, procedure and
technique which arose yesterday.
One team was headed by Messrs.
Hackett and Graham, who were in
the points, and the other by Messrs.
Roney and Forster, who acted as the
battery between arguments. The
Hackett team won by o to 8.
Several umpires were used to keep
the game going.
Ex-senator w. A. Martin. of Gettys-
burg, was at the Capitol last evening.
EX-Representative John S. Lowers,
of Allegheny, now deputy register OF
wills. was at the Capitol.
e. Nj. Abbott, former Philadelphia
member. was at the House session last
night.
"A petition for local option signed
by 5S7 Philadelphia lawyers was pre-
sented to the House last night by
Mr.. Graham, Philadelphia
Speaker Amber yesterday put his
foot down on the practice of members
calling up bills out of order and there
by obtaining advantageous positions
on the calendars after making amend
ments and advancing them one stage.
Yesterday there was considerable call
ing up going on and the Speaker said
that joclleying must cease because ii
gave unfair advantages and also, re-
suited in the work of the clerks in
preparation of the big calendars be-
ing considerably interfered with.
Representative William Haggerty,
of Lackawanna, who has been i'll most
of the session. has been sticking to
his desk and attending the meetings
of the House. He plans to remain
permits.
j. Horace Mcfarland, former city
park commissioners, attended a hear
ing at the Capitol yesterday.
Richard L. Cochran. former
Deputy Secretary of the Common
wealth, and James e. Glessner, of
York. were among visitors yesterday.
r. G. Miller, former member from
the Norristown district, was at the
Capitol.
Hyatt NJ. Cribbs, the new county
controller of Allegheny, was a mem
ber of the House for several sessions
and is we'll known here. He was
selected by the board of judges to sue
coed Robert j. Cunningham, the new
Highway Commissioner.
-EX-R representative Brooks, the
sponsor for the high license law, was
an interested spectator of the legis-
latiVe doings. He was a colleague of
City Clerk Charles A. Miller in the
House many years ago.
Representative c. n. Berntheizel,
of Lancaster county, has been an act
i've member of the Fourth Regiment
for several years.
John S. Gillespie, superintendent
of roads of Allegheny county, was at
the Capitol.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-21
MAJOR BENT's DEATH

"HE death of Major Luther Sted-
man Bent removes from life's
4 activities one of the most pic
turesque figures of what are
now looked upon as the early days
of the iron industry in this country
for it was not until he and others like
him Eloomed large on the horizon or
the steel world that the wonderful
development of the industry as we
now know it began. He was at once
type of the old-time manager, whose
personality was a factor entering into
the lives of the entire working force
under him, but he was as well one of
these far-seeing pioneers who blazed
the way for the great growth that has
attended the corporation with which
his name will be identified always.
Major Bent, like Carnegie, Rookie
feller, the elder Armour and many
others of that type. came up from the
ranks and he lived in a day when it
was the part of the general manager
to know personally the men under
him, to mingle with them and to occa-
take a hand in the actual OPP
Grafton of the plant. His powerful
and wonderful magnetism
were at their best in that kind of work,
but he was no mere outside" manager
for all that. and few there are who in
their day enjoyed a broader, more
comprehensive knowledge of the steel
business than he.
Although long out of active manage
ment of affairs at Steelton, he is never
theless remembered there as one of
the most influential and powerful fig
ures ever associated locally with the
conduct of the Pennsylvania Steel
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-21

ate a special fund for a particular use
and that. when this is done, and thf
funds safekeeping and availability ARD
provided for, the act is effective. Thd
Auditor Generals original contention
that an act of the Legislature of 1901
coulS be binding on the Legislature of
1919 fell by the wayside long ago Hd
has failed completely in his interprel
tation of the Constitution and his tInl
derstanding of the rights of his ofiice
The only thing he succeeded in doind
was to obstruct important State world
to foment political discomfort. and I'd
subject an administration which underl
took to make large forward step I'D
unjust criticism. That he has also afl
forded the Supreme Court an opportunitJ
to indicate ampllfied powers in the Grnl
eral Assembly, is more than he bari
gained for. The credit for that belongs
to the Tener administration.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-21
My! But "Putnam's"
Eases Corn Agony

Not only ease for corns, not only
quick relief from the agonlzing pain,
Putnam's does more; 1t roots the corn
out for all time. Lets you wear a
shapely boot again, takes that ugly
eye sore out of your toes.
No pain, no burnt flesh, no fussing
with acid salves or troublesome plas-
ters. No more monkey business. Just
use Putnam's and out comes the corn
and stays out too. Nearly so years in
use, costs a quarter, sold everywhere,
and by c. NJ. Forney.-Advertise
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-21

ment could be halteq in it's program of
Improvement the Republican party
would be d.scredited. Mr.. Powell there
fore took his stand on the act of May,
1909. and on the Constitution, which
latter says:
No money shall be paid out of the
treasury, except upon appropriations
the proper officers in pursuance there
OF.
At the direction of Governor Tener,
Attorney General Bell went into the
Dauphin County Court and was award
ed q writ of mandamus on the Auditor
General commanding the latter to draw
pay. Mr.. Powell appealed. This ap-
peal he has lost Justice Potter de-
cidea that the Legislature. in the alb
to the contrary, has the power to ere
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-21
MINERS AND CoMPENsATIoN

CENATORS BEIDLEMAN AND
MNICHOL were justified in maxi
- ing their fight yesterday to have
the anthracite mine workers in
cluded in the benefits to follow the
enactment of workmen's compensation
laws The amendments they caused
to be inserted in the anthracite
code ought to be extended to the men
of the bituminous fields and no doubt
will be at the proper time.
1t would be wrong to pass a com
pensation law that would require the
small manufacturer and the employer
of limited number of men in occu-
nations not generally considered
hazardous to come beneath Its pro-
visions. and at the same time would
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-21
SIGNS OF SUMMER
by Wing DInEer


You may sing of the plants and trees
budding,
And birds with their chirpings so
sweet,
But. brother. the sure sign OF summer
Appears in a window down street.
1 saw them quite early this morning,
When there was a chill in the air.
And, oh, but they looked so detected
All huddled together in there.
There's one to suit your taste and my
taste,
The taste of the lean and the fat
Some shapes you will find high and
slender.
While others are quite broad and
fiat
And ali that it takes is hot weather.
One bold chap to set us the pace,
And we1l be out buying our straw
Which look, at this time out of place.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-21
TOO EARLY TO HOPE

7 TOPE expressed in some quarters
RI that the defeat of Villa in
= y Mexico may witness a cessation
of hostilities there is premature.
II is too early to forecast the results of
the campaign that at present appears
to be going against the heretofore in
vincible Villa. The brigand chieftain
has survived so many hardships and
has eXtricatcd himself from so many
difficult positions that it is not safe to
predict the ultimate outcome of the
present fighting.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-21
The Demand
Definite

Few goods are indispensable.
There is generally something
that can be sold in their place.
Demand for your goods must
be definite. 1t must specify
them by name.
1t should be of character
that makes substitution unde-
sirable.
Newspaper advertising creates
that definite demand for the man
ufacturer.
1t brings people directly to the
dealers store who ask for the
goods by name.
Dealers cooperate with this
kind of advertising.
Manufacturers Interested i'm
increasing the demand for their
product are invited to address the
Bureau OF Advertising. American
Newspaper Publishers Associ-
alton. World Building, New York.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-21
AN EVENING THoUGHr

Cleave then to the SUMMER side of
doubt,
And cling to Faith beyond the
forms of Faith:
She reels not in the storm of war
ing words,
She brightens at the clash of
Yes" and No"
She sees the Best that glimmers
through the Worst.
She feels the sun is hid but for
night,
She spies the summer through the
winter bud,
She tastes the fruit before the
blossom falls,
She hears the lark within the
songless egg,
She finds the fountain where they
walled mirage"
-Tennyson.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-21

permit the employers of thousands of
men engaged in the perils of mine
work to go scot free. Such law
would be unfair both to the miners
and to employers thus Disseminated
against.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-21

authorities are to be commended
= for the cooperation that is tc
result in a great Arbor Day dem
onstration in Wildwood Park next
Thursday afternoon, when 5000 school
children are expected to participate in
the setting out of as many trees.
Every school boy and girl who at
tends the ceremonies will be permitted
to plant tree-that is, place it in the
hole prepared for it while workmen
fill in the earth. 1t will be a pleasant
thing for these youngsters in future
years to point out their trees" in the
park.
The park officials have displayed eX-
cellent judgment in their choice of
trees. The pines and spruces are al
most extinct in the park and the plant
ing of 5000 of these will give them a
fresh foothold and add greatly to the
beauty of the resort in years to come.
Another effect of the Arbor Day
celebration will be to introduce to
wildwood hundreds of little folks who
once they know it will love it, but who
have never had opportunity or in
clination to become acquainted with
its broad reaches of field and forest,
its fine woodland and water views and
tho beauty and the charm that make
Il the delight of all frequent it.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-21
NtWGSf s. FRAl FRA4IlpseTTSSIHEES seTSIEE Var

[From the Telegraph, April 81, 1861
Rebels Express Sorrow
Richmond, April 21.-Many of the
rebels in the South expressed deep sor-
row when they learned of President
Lincolns death.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-21

Let them call us anarchists, If they
choose, but we want to declare openly
and in strong terms against the law
Of necessity that keeps us chained to
= desk when we want to go trout fish
ing.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-21
DeIeaations Greet Johnson

Washington, April 21.-Delegauons
from several of the States met the
President to-day, pledging him the
same support given Lincoln while he
was in office.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-21

President Wilson is daring man.
He had the nerve to talk peace before
a session of the national congress of
the ID. A. r.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-21
IN HARRI SBURC Fifty
YEARS AGO TO-DAY

GFrom the Telegraph, April 81, 1861
Business Suspended Tomorrow
All business in the city will be sus-
pended tomorrow while the body of
the President lies in state in the House
of Representatives.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-21
Rroncn Railroad

Williamsport, April 21.-The Phila-
delphia and Erie Railroad was open
ed to-day for the first time in months
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-21
AN EVENING THOUGHT

Our past lives build the pres
ent, which must mould the lives
to be.-Sir Edwin Arnold.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-21

What happy world this would be
If all the "kicliers' would turn their
energies thus employed to "swatting"
flies
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-21

There are those who would do away
with the public school vacation in
summer time. A man with a disposition
like that could drink vinegar and
sweoten his disposition.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-21
VIII Join Regiment

Sergeant f. Yunis left the city to-
day to join his regiment in Grant S
Army.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-21

II appears that some of Roosevelt's
remarks concerning Barnes were not
only Pickwickian but algebraic. The
Colonel was always original.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-21

prosperity is returning" is the way
a headline reads in a Democratic news
paper of to-day. Why, how's this? We
thought the Democratic papers had
been insisting all along that the coun-
try never has been anything but pros
porous.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-21
OUR DAILY LAUGHl
INSPECTED.

Customer: Are
you quite sure
your bakery is
perfectly san l.
taly7
p rie t or:
Dead sure ma'am.
I give It the up
an down ev'ry
mornin' an 1
aih't saw q germ
yet.
SOLACE.
Oh blow, ye blasts
of w | n t e r,
blow!
s. c a t I er the
frosts Wher-
ev er y u
can.
Tho you may
m a k Q m Q
shovel snow,
I don't have to
e m ty the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-21

Among visitors to the city yester-
day was Director A. Merritt Taylor,
the man who is IN charge of Philadel-
phia's transit development He came
here for a conference and took a walk
about the city to see how it was i'm
proving.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-21
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg furnishes large
amounts of building stone for
nearby towns?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-21
Council Meeting

Common Council Meeting
special meeting of the Common
Council has been called for this even
ing.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-21

One man who will oppose change
of administration is Louis Brandeis.
He's an aimost-President now who
might not carry so much weight nor
pull down such big fees If Wilson is
not reelected.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-21

The number and extent of the forest
fires now raging leads one to the be-
lief that after all Pennsylvania's wood
lands are far from being as nearly OBJ
liberated as some conservationists
would have us believe
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-21

People who have been here this
week for legislative matters include a
number who have been volunteer fire.
men and they spoke of the late w. W.
Wunder, for so many years secretary
of the State Association. Mr. Wun-
der was known TO thousands of fire
men, probably having the most eX-
tensive acquaintance among firemen
OF any one in Pennsylvania. lie also
had the reputation of knowing more
people by their first names than any
one else.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-21
WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL ..
ARBoR DAY AT WILDWooD

"HE school board and the park
authorities are to be commended
= for the cooperation that is to
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-21

X-Bishop II. p. Hartzler, edi-
tor of the Evangelical. has returned
from Elizabeth City, n. c., where he
and his wife went some time ago on
their golden wedding trip. Bishop
Hartzler will resume his literary work
but Mrs. Hartzler will remain in the
South as the guest of her sister, Mrs
Elizabeth Zimmerman.