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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-14
MAKING law PLAIN

n HORE power to the States Legis-
.Wl latlve Reference Bureau in its
work of codifying the statutes
of Pennsylvania so that an ordinary
man can understand where he may go
and what he may expect others to do.
1t is good news that the Bureau is
about completing its codification of
the laws relative to the powers and
duties of township officers and that it
is progressing in its study of the acts
relative to juvenile courts, public
charges and other subjects which are
much before the people.
The Legislature made a good start
in the Tener administration by enact
ing the monumental school code and
by codifying the laws relative to
bituminous mining and the control OF
public service companies, while the
adoption of the borough code in the
first year of the Brumbaugh admins
tration was an immense service to
hundreds of thousands of people who
dwell in the smaller municipalities.
Now let other codes come along and
the law be simplified, made plain so
that all may understand it and it will
not be necessary to hire a lawyer
when one wants to build a house or
go fishing.
For years and years the general as
sembly of Pennsylvania has been pill
ing statutes on statutes until the sys-
tenn of laws in this Commonwealth
has become wonderful thing. Similar
and even contradictory laws have been
enacted, while others nullifed by new
acts or the courts remain on the
books to confuse.
The codifcation of laws is good
business. The plain people of Penn
sylvania, and there are many of them,
want the conflicting and dead statutes
wiped off the books and plainly word
ed laws, conceived in equity, to be
their guide.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-14
MANAGING THE CITY
The Home of the New Idea
By Frederic J. Haskin

city of Dayton. Under the commits
sion manager a municipal garage has
been established. All cars are num-
bered and labeled and kept in the
garage. When an employe needs an
automobile he signs a statement,
showing how long he had it and what
he used it for. All repairs and ad-
justments of the citys motor vehicles
are made at the garage, at saving OF
several thousand dollars a year.
Perhaps the crowning success of
Dayton's new government is the great
ly reduced death rate among its
babies. This is attributed to the fact
that now the city has. for the first
time, a health officer who gives all
of his time to the service. He has
repeatedly discovered threatened cpl
denies and stopped them. Under the
supervision of the health department
three baby clinics and four certified
milk stations have been established.
Mothers have made good use of these.
Free clinics for the treatment of dis
orders of eye, ear, throat and nose,
and a free tuberculosis clinic have
also been established.
| Observing that a large number OF
| people in Dayton could not afford to
buy fresh vegetables and that much
vacant property in the city was not
working, the government undertook
| to establish community truck gardens
In cooperation with the Dayton Play
ground and Gardens Associations, six
community gardens were created, on
which seventy-five families are now
raising vegetables. 1t also plowed and
prepared twenty-five gardens for the
cultivation of vegetables by hundreds
| of children, under the direction of an
expert gardener, and turned 339 more
vacant lots into gardens from which
as many families are now providing
| themselves with vegetables
The division of parks, which has
charge of this garden work, also
cleaned up, graded and prepared for
the use of children a dozen additional
Fairgrounds, so that Dayton, town
| of 10000 people, now has twenty
eight Fairgrounds, whereas the city
of Washington, with a population OF
$4,000, has only thirteen.
When Dayton children start out for
frolic on Sunday afternoon the
chances are that they will go to
Island Park, in the Miami river, which
flows through the town. For years
and years the principal item of news
in the Monday newspapers was a
chronicle of the drownings at Island
Park. The division of recreation of
the new city government has made
Island Park as safe as river front
can be. A life-saving station has been
established, with fast gasoline
launch, thoroughly equipped for saw
ing life, and manned by a trained life
saver. Live-saving stations and life
saving equipment have also been pro-
vided along the river bank and life
saving crew has been organized in the
fire department.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-14
OUR SMOKE NUISANCE

TIME was when the great transpor-
tation systems and the public
utilities generally didn't care a
rap what the public thought about
this, that or the other thing affecting
their business. Now things are diff
ferent. These important instrument
talities find it necessary to take the
people into their confidence and mani
fest little more of the human ele-
ment in the transaction of their af-
fairs.
And this changed attitude is having
a good effect upon the public, which is
now showing a disposition to sympa-
thize to some extent with the prob
lens and difficulties of the railroads
and other public utilities.
For instance, the publicity depart
ment of the Pennsylvania Railroad
system has just issued an interesting
pamphlet on the smoke nuisance and
the alleged responsibility of the rail-
roads therefor. This pamphlet is is
sued in the interest of the truth about
the smoke nuisance. 1t starts out
with the statement that the strongest
argument advanced in favor of the
electrifcation of all railway terminals
in Chicago was that it would do much
to abolish the smoke difficulty. A
commission of experts, composed
largely of representatives of the city
of Chicago, has made four-year study
OF the whole subject of identification
and its report has just been made
public.
Commenting upon this report a
scientific magazine declares that two
things are distinctly proven. First
that the locomotives entering the city
of Chicago, remaining there and re-
turning from thence on their destined
Journeys have little to do with the
problem; that If these were en-
tirely eliminated the air would be nc
clearer. or, at least, the difference
would not be visible to the naked eve
In the second place, it is pointed out
that the idea of electrifying the rail-
way terminals in Chicago is little short
OF an absurdity, on the score of cost
which is declared to be prohibitive
IT is held that the elimination of the
locomotives and the smoke from them
will result in scarcely perceptiblC
diminution of the evil while the bur.
den of debt would be insupportable.
Resting upon these conclusions tho
point is emphasized that If the peopl,
of Chicago are determined to abolish
smoke they must look elsewhere foI
the remedy. Then follows an assem-
bling of the real culprits-hieh-p pres
sure steam and stationary plant
whence comes almost IS per cent. O
The smoke; low pressure steam an,
other heating plants. with nearly q
per cent. OF the trouble; furnaces fo
metallurgical manufacturing an,
other processes with nearly Is pc
cent of the smoke. This leaves abou
10 RsE cent. Of all the trouble t,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-14
TELEORAPH'S PERlSCOPE

Toledo limits skirts to three
inches above the ankle" Atlantic
City papers please copy.
Are you married? Then don't
forget that your wife still looks upon
herself as your sweetheart, and this
is Valentine Day.
$50 long as it is feminine gen.
der who minds hugging a delusion?"
asks Dan Carr in the Macon Times
Democrat.
The Paris theaters are sending
their actors to the trenches, perhaps
on the assumption that they are more
expert than others in lodging things.
What does the Colonel mean, go
ing away at a critical time like this?
Measles close Lyl5ens Schools, ''
is the sad news from the upper end
that any pupil will tell you has its
bright side.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-14

[From the New York Journal OF Conn
merce.l
The annual production of coal in
Pennsylvania increased from 175.000,-
600 net tons in 1903 to 260,000,000 in
1918, of which latter total 90.000,000
bituminous. The value of that tonnage
was about $350.000.000 at the mines
and about $7O0.00O,000 at points of dis
tribution, sum greater than the value
duced annually in the United States.
The number of mines in operation was
2.200, with an army of employees of fully
100000. directly supporting. million
and a half of the population of the
State. The total production in 1914 de-
creased by 26,000,000 tons. almost
wholly in bituminous, and the figures
are not yet available for 1915.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-14
GIVE US A DEFINITE PLAN

TN the last decade the National
Guard of Pennsylvania, admittedly
in the very front rank of American
militia, has undergone two "reorgan-
izations" to make it conform to the
DEGREES of the War Department. It's
officers and men have worked hard
to fit themselves for the service and
have received the untiring attention
of regular army officers detailed to
inspect and instruct; the national
treasury has furnished many thou
sands of dollars for equipment and
the Legislature of the Keystone State
has voted millions for maintenance of
the Guard and the construction of
armories The people OF the Com
monwealth have given substantial en-
couragement to the Guardsmen and
local pride in organizations runs high
in every community in which there
is company, a troop or a battery.
When the Spanish War ended and
the Pennsylvania soldiers came home,
many of them went into the militia
again and the Guard stood forth sea-
equipped. Then the War Depart
ment promulgated new decree and
changes were made in organizations
to make the Guard conform. These
were no sooner completed than an
other scheme was evolved and it is
now in progress of being worked out.
Two old infantry regiments, with fine
records and a devoted personnel, have
been torn to shreds and there may
be more. There is a demand for ma
chine gun companies, for auxiliary
| troops, for more artillery, but the
equipment is not even in sight.
1t is to be hoped that when the
congressional doctors and the War De.
partment experts, with the assistance
of a certain eminent college professor
in his odd moments, get a plan worked
out this year that it will be con,
structed to endure so that the Ma
tional Guard of Pennsylvania may bt
expanded and encouraged, its mel
trained to uphold the traditions o
their organization and made to fee
that they are as permanent a par
of the national defense as the regular
army or navy and not the practic,
material OF highly placed men VIII,
are not happy unless they are turn
ing something upside down.
Give ,us a definite plan for tn,
militiamen. They have the peopl,
behind them.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-14
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Judge Thomas ]. Baldridge, of
Blair. is keenly interested in the Boy
Scout movement.
Congressman julius Kahn. of San
Francisco, is to deliver several lectures
in this State.
Alba B. johnson, Philadelphia
manufacturer, will address the Engi-
neers' Society at Pittsburgh tonight.
The Rev. DR.. Charles e. Shelton,
prominent Scranton clergyman, has
accepted a call to Pittsburgh.
Harry Kisinger Fayette's first
county controller, has been able to re-
port that the county is free of debt.
H. Il. Mitchell, Johnstown sealer
of weights and measures, made SAT-
inspections in a year.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-14

DAYTON, Ohio, might be called
the most original city in Amer
- lea without starting an argu-
ment, Bright ideas in city admins
tration seem to sprout and grow IN
Dayton like crocuses in April. IL was
Dayton, for example, that originated
the using of vacant lots for vegetable
gardens; organized the housekeepers
of the city into an inspection force to
see that the city is kept clean; estab-
lished a free legal advice bureau, free
medical service for babies, and mu-
nicipal employment bureau to take
care of vagrants.
These are only a few of the inno-
vations that are making Dayton Ia
nous. The force back of its original
and vigorous policy is a city-manager
plan of government. The commission
holds occasional meetings to decide
upon the general policies of the city
administration, and the manager car
ries them out. The commissioners get
only $1,000 a year, and the mayor
So, 900, but the city manager, Henry
n. Waite, gets $12,500. He was
railroad builder before he became a
city manager, and he conducts the
business of Dayton with the same dis
patch and efficiency that made him
successful in his former profession.
Though Dayton is always ready to
spend money upon municipal improve
ments, there is probably not city IN
the United States where funds are
used with more care. Expenditures
for each year are outlined in accord
ance with estimated revenues, and
the town pays cash as it goes so
that it cannot run into debt. Pay
rolls are not honored unless accom-
panied by a certificate showing the
number of hours that each employe
worked.
Zach department and the newspa-
pers are given a monthly statement
showing expenditures and balance for
each appropriation in the budget. All
of this has more than doubled the
work of the accounting department;
vet it has three fewer employees than
formerly. They are not overworked
either. Office hours have been re-
duced from ten to eight without any
reduction in pay. This careful ana
systematic handling of funds is the
principal reason why the taxpayer or
Dayton gets so much service lot MS
money. ,,,
to any person who cannot af1ord TO
hire a lawyer. This bureau has ham
died hundreds of cases, most OF which
were claims for wages against un-
scrupulous employers and d1fflcultles
resulting from "loan shark eXtor-
tion. II also settled cases that might
otherwise wind up in the police court
mostly fights about the payment OF
rent. and family quarrels. The total
expense of this bureau to the city is
only S625.
There is no joy-riding after work
hours in automobiles owned py the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-14
WILSON'S VIEW OF WEBSTER
w decline of Daniel Webster.
President Wilson said:

w decline of Daniel Webster,
President Wilson said:
Mr.. Webster had lost his hold
upon his own people. They had
deemed his advocacy of the COM
promise base and cowardly re-
treat from the high place Of doc
trine and of statesmanship he had
held so gallantly, etc.
Doesn't it occur to Mr.. Wilson that
there are some millions of American
citizens who in 1912 were his own
people" but upon whom he has now
lost his hold because of retreat from
the high place of doctrine and states
manship enunciated in the Baltimore
platform? Has he no recollection of
his pledge TO preserve the merit sys-
tenn in the civil service, his promise of
security to American citizens wherever
they have a right to be, his pledge of
economy, his free canal pledge, his
presidential primary pledge, and,
above all. his single-term pledge?
How can he draw the picture of dis
appointed Webster without reading
between the lines the story of his own
downfall
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-14
THE STATE FROM DAY TO DAY

After Harry Lauder had entertain
ed a delightful Harrisburg audience
one day last week, he journeyed in
his private car to Allentown. lie is
an enthusiastic member OF the inter-
national Rotary Club, as has been fire.
nuentIy said. But it was the Rosary
club. according to a newspaper yes
terday. that entertained at luncheon
for the merry Scotchman. wonder IL
thew had a string of pearls for a CEN
terpiece?
The Berks Historical Society held
r. Lincoln anniversary banquet on
Saturday afternoon in recognition of
the fact that the famous emancipa-
tors ancestors lived in Berks. John
Lincoln, his direct ancestor, is SAID
to have left that district over 159
years ago for Virginia and from there
to Kentucky, where the President
was born.
State police are hunting for four
unidentified men who passed through
Kulpmont Saturday night in an auto
mobile and ran over George Elgavis,
a Mt. Carmel miner, who will probably
die. Discussion is rife as to whether
the four men might be the same who
escaped from the Lancaster county
prison the same morning by cutting
their way through the roof and drop
ping 25 feet to the ground
I,Iewellyn Jones, a millSman, OF
Ardmore, received a shock yesterday
when his wagon was overturned and
his arm sprained i'm the melee. To
add to the excitement, young woman
diving a racing car, smashed into the
back OF his wreck and then pro-
ceeded to "cuss' him in a manner that
left no room for doubt as to the ex-
cellence of her repertoire. The milk
lman tried to come back with some
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-14
CROWNING INSULT

"What on earth are you believing
so hard for, Freddie?"
Daddy whipped me-"
"Well, what If he did? You've been
whipped before, and the occasion
doesn't call for such heartrending
grief.
"But he w-w-w-whipped me with
a. s-s-switch cut from the Christmas
t-t-tree It'd Bits.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-14
HOW TO LIVE LONGER

AIH-HuIe O-breaIHe ueeply, SLOWLY,
regularly. through the nose. Do not
breathe through the mouth. If we do
not occasionally breathe deeply, part of
our lungs may become useless.
About one-ifth of the air is Oxygen"
This is needed by the blood to keep us
healthy When you breathe deeply, you
take in more air each time, and, there
fore, more oxygen"
Do not force yourself to breathe rap
idly This is harmful. Breathe slowly.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-14

They are so badly divided that it
does not matter who is named.
Elk Representatives Barner and
Burnett, of Cumberland are said to
have their eyes on denomination ii
they can get the Democrats to stop
fighting among themselves long
enough to agree upon any candidates
for anything.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-14
EDITORIAL COMMENT

Was ever a Quaker without good
lighting blood in him? There's young
Tom Butler. beginning his twentieth
year as representative from Pennsyl-
vania, battling as if he were a vet
eran on the floor for navy big
enough to lick all creation. He's a
Quaker; orthodox, too. So is his son,
affectionately known in the Marine
Corps as Battling Butler.-New York
Sun
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-14
A Talk to Retailers

Manufacturers from time to
time advertise their brands and
their products in this newspa-
per.
Each advertisement means
more business for the stores
that carry these goods.
1t means new customers, and
enlarged sales.
That business will go to the re-
tailers who cooperate with the
newspaper advertising by show
ing the goods.
the newspaper advertising will
see the goods in the windows and
will accept them as the mer-
chants invitation to come in.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-14
O Ycs. We,re stim Herc

[From the Chicago Herald.l
Every now and then, as in the case
of Great Britains action on the latest
blockade proposal, there comes a be-
lated recognition of the fact that the
neutral nations are still on the map.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-14
Enough Trouble
[Fron die Grand Ranids |

[From the Grand Rapids Press.l
AS to freeing the Philippines we al
ways feel like lessening the white
mans burden in the winter when there
Is so much to do in the way of cleaning
the walk and shaking the furnace.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-14
Do YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg's plan of financ-
ing of municipal improvements
has been adopted in twenty or
more States?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-14
Mr. shOnts' Kind Employer


Another idea of a pretty decent thing
| is to have a job like Theodore p
Shonts, president of the Interborough
| Rapid Transit Company, of New York,
bonuses of $150.000 and christmas
presents" of 100000.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-14
HISTORIC HARRIsBURG

The first church services held in
Harrisburg are, said to have been held
under trees near Third and Chestnut
streets
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-14
PENNSYLVANIA COAL

thing appropriate, but surprise held
him speechless.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-14
MONDAY EVENING, FEB. II.

Only OItTSst can influence the 10orld !;
hb4tt all that the aoorld sees of Christ is
EachGt IL sees of Him in the life of His
HolEouers.-HENRr DRUMMoND.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-14
OUR DAILY LAUGH

DIFFERENT.
Doctors who vi
visect t h e
dog
She with her
tongue bella
bcrs;
But she will gos-
sip all day
long
And vivissct the
RaiGhAN
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-14

p. ]. STACKPoLE. Pres't and Editor-in. Chief
y. r. OYSTER, Business Manager.
GUS NJ. STEINMETZ, MdnGging Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-14

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.,
Telegraph Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-14

Frank n. Moore. former legisla-
tor from Bradford, is candidate for
nomination for the House this year
on the Republican ticket.
DR.. ]. p. Kerr, member of Pitts
burgh city council. is being doomed
for Mayor of Pittsburgh. The nomin-
alton will be made in 1917.
Lebanon Democrats are not quite
sure whom to nominate for the House.
The Mena weekly star., 1916-12-21
HULL OF STRANDED
 U-DOAT IS INTACT
Sea Is Smoother and Hope Is Ex- pressed United states Submarine Can Be Dragged Back Into Deep
 Water-Piled Up Before.

Eureka. Calf, Dec. i5.-The sua- marine H-3, in which 9 enlisted men and two officers of the United States Navy were imprisoned for hours yesterday while she pounded, disabled in the heavy surf on the beach near Eureka, was still intact as lo the hull, early today as far as could be seen from the shore. The sea was smoother during the night and hope was expressed that with the aid of the coast guard Me- Cullough. which left San Francisco last night, and should arrive here today. the stranded diver would be pulled back into deep water.
 The crew of the H-3 spent the night on the q. $. S Cheyenne, the mother ship of the flollla in Eureka harbor. while the Hi and H-2, which were accompanying the H-3 10 San Diego from Puget sound, continued unconyoyed to San Fran cisco
 Coast GnarSman Is Hero.
 Werner Sweins, coast guardsman of the Eureka life saving station leomed up today as the hero of the rescue. While the navy men were still bottled up in the diver coast guard cutter with eight men pulled alongside with a lead line for a brooches buoy When the cutter was dashed away by giant wave, Sweins leaped aboard the diver and made fast the line. Washed over board, he clasped a struggling line and hauled himself to safety, only to be forced to repeat his life or death struggle a moment later. The coming tower hatch was opened to him when the men inside became aware of his presence thru his lusty kicks, and little later Sweins and members of the crew were able to haul the buoy tackle aboard.
 Piled Up Once Before.
 The H-3 once before piled up on the California coast and stuck on a mud bank for 2i hours on her trial trip, but never before, probably has a diver crew been subjected to the torpedo dangers that Lieutenant Il, R. Bogusch and his men experienced yesterday.
 Drowning thru the opening oi the divers seams under surf pound ing was their first death treat Chlorine gas from leaking batteries then promised to take death toll But as their craft rolled, bumped and tumbled under the surge oi giant rollers, they watched with su- preme fascination the big torpedoes weighing hundreds of pounds strain at fastenings that seemed momentarily in danger Of loosening and bringing sudden destruction or them.
 While there was no danger iron explosion, us the torpedues wer, without war heads. their weights would have crushed the men anC aided the waves in opening up tn, hull.