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Washington Olficials Perplexed Over Fai

HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH

Jk LXXXIV— No. 266 I

EDUCATION, NOT \

HEREDITY, MAKES

FOR CHARACTER

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Institute Speaker Pooh-Poohs v

Idea That Environment

Is Big Factor

AWARD CORN PRIZES

Teachers Urged to Organize

Parent Associations; Favor

School Centralization

Declaring that hereditary influences

and environment have nothing to do

with moxtlding children's characters,

but that education alone controls

them. Dr. Arthur Holmes, dean of the

general faculty, Pennsylvania State

College, In his addres: this morning

in the House of Representatives, spoke

at length on "the force of suggestion."

The address was given at the clos

ing session of the 63d annual Insti

tute of Dauphin County Teachers, who

have been meeting ail of this week In

the State Capitol.

Dr. Holmes said that the teachers

alone were responsible for the charac

ters which the children formed, and

pooh-poohed the Idea that anything

of the past could control the boys and

girls. 1

"What you think is what you will

do, and what you will become, and

what you make the children think will

bring the same result," he declared.

"First be a man or a woman, then a

teacher."

He also asserted that the teacher re- ]

gardless of physical size or strength, j

can exert the power of suggestion and j

character-forming over the pupils. |

He told them that if they only weigh-j

ed 97 pounds, they should have 95 (

pounds of backbone.

Dr. Holmes said that "stubborn peo

ple are the ones with few ideas," and

that it is more difficult to cause stub

born persons to change one idea than

it is to put a new Idea Into their

minds.

Dr. O. L. Warren, of Elmtra. N. Y..

jm then spoke on "The Safe Chauffeur."

lie said that the 500,000 teachers in

this country were the greatest chauf

feurs in the work representing all

kinds of interests. He also claimed

that many teachers were responsible

for the pedogogical wrecks that were

made of some men and women, and j

said that teachers should always look'

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Dr. Hamilton Tells of

Historical Harrisburg

Quaint reminiscences of his boy-!

hood days were given by Dr Hugh

Hamilton in his second of a series of

interesting notes on Dauphin county

before the Historical Society of Dau

phin county at Its regular meeting last

night.

He told of how the city got its sup

ply of milk and water back in those

days and said that disease was not

nearly so prevalent as now. Follow

ing Dr. Hamilton's address several

relics of historical value were given

the society. Among these were a deed

made out by David Harris, great

grandson of John Harris, the trader,

presented by Mrs. I.aube. 420 Berry

hill street. Nine old books were given

by Jefferson Scheffer and Thomas >l.

Jones gave It an old magazine printed

here in" 1809 by Gustavus S. Peters.

Two Stock Cars Telescope

When Air Is Applied

Two empty stock cars were wrecked

this morning in the Enola yards as a

result of a sudden application of air

brakes on a westbound freight train.

The cars were near the center of the

train and buckled when the air was

applied. One car telescoped the other.

The' wreck occurred betwen Enola

roundhouse and West Fairview, tying

up yard traffic for a short time.

No one was hurt. The members of

the crew who were in the cabin were

knocked down by the sudden stop of

the train.

BR VIS'S ARE NOT ALWAYS

REALTY'S COUNTERPART

Cambridge, Mass.. Nov. 12.—Brains

don't always go with beauty and

science can prove It, Dr. W. E. Fer

nald told Radcliffe College girls. His

remark met with scattering applause.

THE WEATHER

For Harrlf»hiirj( tori vicinity* Fair

fo-nfftht and !<ntiir«lay; colder

Saturday.

For lOantcrn IVnn*y|vanla : Hnln

to-nlch t; Saturday fair and

••older; moderate ne»t to north

**e%t wlurin.

River

The Sanquehanna river and all it*

tributaries villi probably fall

nlowly or remain nearly atatlon-

L arv. 4 stage of about IS feet la

v Indicated for Harrlaburft Satur

day- morning;.

General Condltloua

The energetic atorm that nan cen

tral over the I'pper Mlaalaalppl

\ alley, Thuraday morning;, caua-

InK strong winds anil galea over

the western portion of the I.ake

Hegion and In the Middle \\ eat,

Ims moved northward and the

Minds have decreased greatly In

force.

Temperatures have rtnen 2 to 20

degrees generally throughout the

Atlantic and Kast CJulf States,

East Tennessee, Arlsonn and In

Nevada and Northern Utah. Over

practically all the rest of the

country there has been a fall of

4 to 32 degrees In temperature.

Temperature: R a. m.. 46.

Sunt Rises, «1:47 a. m.; sets, 4(51

p. m.

Moon i First quarter, to-morrow,

fliOR p. m.

River Stages 3.5 feet above low

water mark.

Teaterday*a Weather

Illgheat temperature, 54.

I.oweat temperature. 30.

. >lean temperature, 45.

Normal temperature, 43.

DETECTIVE IBACH

LOST AN HOUR

Red Lights Flash Incessantly

For Sleuth Who Disappeared

From Motorcycle

DROPPED IN TRAFFIC MAZE

Decided His Life Was Worth

More Than Nickel and

Took Trolley

( Joseph Ibach, city detective, this

morning was lost for one hour and

the loss caused sixty minutes of

\4orry at the police station and the

| lushing of red lights all over the city.

jT!\e last man to converse with Detec

'tixip Ibach was George Fetrow, motor

[ cyc'le officer.

The sleuth, with Patrolman Fet

row, started on a motorcycle for the

upper end of the city. The Bertillon

expert was on the rear seat. A mixup

of automobiles and other vehicles in

Market street, near the police station,

made a zigzag course necessary for

the motorcycle.

Front street was reached In safety

and the motorcycle had crossed Wal

nut street when Fetrow missed Ibach.

The police department was notified,

and the search started for the miss

ing officer. One hour passed and then

came a call from uptown.

"Why are the red lights on?" asked

Ibach himself.

"For you, where have you been?"

came the answer from Charles Fleck,

desk officer. "Patrolmen are hunting

you in nooks and corners all over

town."

"I did not want to take chances

diving through traffic congestion on a

motorcycle. My life's worth more

than a nickel carfare so I took the

trolley uptown."

The red lights were extinguished.

Sleuth White Thinks He

Lost 10 Pounds Getting

Assessment Reduced

With the perspiration running in

small streams over his double chin hat

in hand and coat open. Harry White,

city detective, walked into the police

station to-day and sighed. "Whew I

Jimminy crickets, but I'm glad that's

over." He said lie had had a two

hour fight with the city assessors on

an appeal to have his triennial as

sessment reduced SSOO.

Detective White owns his home at

121u North Second street. According

to his tale of woe liis assessment

notice read SSOO more than any other

property owner in his locality. He

wailed:

"Just think of It, SSOO more than

anyone else. Why they must think

I own a brownstone mansion. I had

an awful fight on my hands to have

my assessmen reduced, but I proved to

them I was not a millionaire. I'll bet

I lost ten pounds."

Redfield Hunting Men

Who Had Medals Awarded

Them For Heroic Deeds

By Associated Press

Washington, D. C.. Nov. 12. l

nformation is wanted by Secretary Red

field as to the wnereabouts of sixteen

members of the former crew of the

American steamer Kroonland, of the

Bed Star Bine, to whom medals award

ed by Congress for tlieir heroism in

rescuing eighty-nine persons from the

burning steamer Volturno, in the North

Atlantic ocean in October, 1913, remain

to be presented.

Congress by resolution adopted

March 14 1914. expressed Its thanks to

the Kroonland's officers and crew for

their gallant work and appropriated

SIO,OOO for the purchase of a gold watch

and chain for Captain Paul H. Krei

bohm and gold, silver and bronze

medals for the others Secretary Red

field was authorized to make the pur

chases and present them.

All of the Kroonland's officers and

crew, numbering forty, have received

their gifts except the sixteen whom

Secretary Redfield Is having consider

able difficulty in finding. This is Il

lustrated by tiie fact that of the men

who have already received medals, one

was found In London and the others

in the Bolgian army.

Wilson Will See Army-Navy

Game; Wife's Death Halted

Attendance Last Year

By Associated Press

■ Washington, D. C.. Nov. 12. Presi

dent Wilson has practicallv decided to

attend . e Army-Navy football game,

at New York. November 27. He attend

ed the game two years ago. but was

unable to be present last year because

j of Mrs. Wilson's death.

Fire Traps Must Go

Says State Marshal

' State Fire Marshal J. L. Baldwin

has just received word of the success

ful result of the first trial of a charge

I brought against a property owner for

failing to remove a fire hazard. The

case was brought by Marshal Baldwin

through the Attorney General's de

| partment against John W. Keast, of

New Castle. Keast having failed to re

move a dilapidated building at Ell

wood City wtilch had been declared a

danger to the community by Deputy

Marshal Frank McKim. The building

was declared by witnesses to be a

menace to other buildings and because

of Keast's refusal to act he was fined

SSO and costs.

Marshal Bali win says that there will

be many more cases just like the El

wood City matier, as he will Insist on

a clean-up, although not desiring to

•>e hard on property owners who try

to abate fire traps.

Cambria Steel Records

Broken in September

By Associated Press

Johnstown, Pa., Nov. 12. An

nouncement was made yesterday that

the production la«t month of the Cam

bria Steel Company exceeded all rec

ords of the company, the output being

122,069 tons of finished product. The

previous best record was 107.708 tons.

The average for each of the furnaces

was about 486 tons each 24 hours.

HARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, NOV EMBER 12, 1915.

I THIRD BIG WAR MUNITIONS PLANT ABLAZE IN ONE DAY

pr~- -~- r y

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K.OZOLJMG PLANT F/A£. ffiwMWWMi &Z&/K£.

FIRE AT THP: ROEBLING PLANT AT TRENTON, N. J.

The tire in the immense plant of the John A. Roebllng's Sons Company, which is lilllng war orders for the

Allies, threatened all of Trenton. N. J., where the plant is located and was the third lire in American munitions

plants within 2 4 hours. The Eddystone plant of the Baldwin Locomotive Works and the machine shop of the

Bethlehem Steel Company at South Bethlehem, Pa., were also victims of tires.

The Blackthorn plant of the Roebllng Works, a few blocks from the plant burned, was the scene of a fire

on January 18, last. At that time it was believed the fire was of incendiary origin and the latest fire lias

strengthened belief that anti-ally fanatics have been setting the tires. The loss is estimated at more than a mil

lion dollars.

DELAYS PERPLEX

U. S. OFFICIALS

Information on Sinking of

A neon a Awaited in •

Washington

By Associated Press

Washington, D. C„ Nov. 12. —State

Department officials were perplexed

to-day over the unexplained delays In

getting definite official information on

the sinking of the Italian liner An

cona with probable loss of American

passengers. No dispatches had reached

the State Department early to-day al

though Secretary Lansing had ex

pected to get word from Rome, Mar

seilles and other points near the scene

of the disaster. All information so far

has been fragmentary.

A consular official has been or

dered to Tunis from a nearby post on

the assumption that Consul James B.

Young is not there, and on the offi

cial's arrival he is expected to get dis

patches through as quickly as pos

sible. Meanwhile Ambassador Page

at Home is expected to send some defi

nite official details. His official dis

patches so far make no reference to

the circumstances of the firing upon

the liner, the question of warning,

the nationality of the submarine and

other details which are to be cleared

up as promptly as possible by thv tak

ing of testimony of survivors.

NO INFORMATION RKCKIVED

By Associated Press

New York, Nov. 12.—N0 informa

tion has yet been rer-eived in regard

to the sinking of the steamer Aneona

; by the agent here of the Italian line,

despite their urgent cables to Italy

for details.

City Getting Cleaner

Thinks Dr. Raunick

j More than 850 wagonioaos of

! refuse and rubbish have been removed

from the city during the first five days

of the annual Fall clean-up week.

Seventeen dead animals and 96 wagon

loads of garbage are included in the

totals for the week.

Last year during the first Ave days

of the week, more than 1,000 loads of

refuse and rubbish were removed.

Dr. J. M. J. Kaunick. city health offi

cer. said to-day thai lie believes that

the city is becoming cleaner. To

morrow the district from Mueneh

street to the city limits will be pone

over, and next wet-k the entire city

will be visited again.

Nobel Prize Awarded

to Harvard Professor

By .-Issoctatrd Press

London, Nov. 12. The Nobel prize

for psychics for 1914 says a Reuter

dispatch from Stockholm has been

awarded to Professor Max Von Laue,

Frankfort-on-Main. for the discovery

of the diffraction of rays in crystals.

The chemistry prize for the same year

has been awarded to Professor Theo

dore William Rithards of Harvard

University for fixing the atom weights

of chemical elements. The prizes

for 1915 will be p.warded to-day.

Cambridge, Mass.. Nov. 12. Pro

fessor Theodore William Richards, of

Harvary University, to whom the No

bel prize for chemistry for 1914 has

been awarded for fixing the atomic

weights of chemical elements, Is direc

tor of the Otbbs Memorial Laboratory

at Harvard. He is an investigator in

physical and inorganic chemistry and

the author of papers concerning the

significance of changing atomic val

ume. With assistants he has revised

the atomic weights of oxygen, copper,

iron, nlokel calcium, sodium and

many ether elements. ,

LIGHT STANDARDS

FOR N. THIRD AND

FEDERAL SQUARE

Ornamental System to Be Ex

tended Uptown to Reily St.,

" Savs Bowman

North Third street from North to

Reily streets, and Federal Square will

be included in the extension of the or

namental standard lighting scheme for

1916, according to City Commissioner

Harry F. Bowman, to-day.

The substitution or the new stand

ards for the old-fashioned overhead

arcs, has been urged by the recently

organized Business Men's Association

of North Third street.

Forty-eight ornamental standard

lamps will be provided according to

Mr. Bowman to-day and he already

has plans for the extension as pre

pared by the Harrisburg Light and

Power company.

The lighting of Federal Square will

also be part of the item for additional

lighting which Commissioner Bowman

wiir include in his departmental esti

mates for next year.

"The businessmen up town ' have

been well pleased, l understand, with

the style of lights placed on North

Third street," said the commissioner

to-day, "and they have been urging

the placing of this type of lights on

Third street. That section of town

is growing to be a mighty busy one

and Third street, particularly is one of

the busiest streets in town. We ex

pect to put about forty-eight lights

there."

"What about Federal Square?" Mr.

Bowman was askcil.

"That, too, will be included in the

item we will ask for lighting extension

in 1916," said he. "We nope to light

the whole Square hut we will light at

I least the upper aide of it."

The new uptown businessmen's as

sociation has planned a number of

other improvements for the west end,

but further plans will probably not be

taken up until after the holidays.

Permanent organization will be effect

ed early in t{ie new year. The tem

porary organization consists of E. L.

Rinkcnbaeh, president; W. H. Crown,

secretary, whom with H. A. Koblnson,

Dr. Charles F. Kramer, C. W. Bogar

and E. C. McKee. comprise the execu

tive committee.

"I Love You" May Irwin

Tells President Wilson

Washington. D. C., Nov. 12.—May

Irwin, the actress, to-day told Presi

dent Wilson that she loved him. Not

only Miss Irwin, but her husband and

her two sons share her affection for

Mr. Wilson. Miss Irwin held the

President's hand while she told him

these things in the executive offices.

But the course of Miss Irwin's love

is not running smoothly, for, as she

told the President, she is grieved be

cause the defeat of suffrage in New

York State will prevent her from

carrying out an ambition to vote for

hiin. According to Miss Irwin, this

is what she said to the President:

"I love you, and It is not because

you are President. I have loved you

throughout your career. So have

my two sons and my husband. You

don't know how I have grieved over

the defeat of suffrage in New York

State, for had it passed I would have

been able to vote for you next year."

The President expressed his ap

preciation of Miss Irwin's senti*

ments.

HAITI PAYORS PROTECTOHATK

Washington, 1). C„ Nov. 12. The

State L.epartment received official word

to-da.v that the Senate of Haiti had

supported the treaty with the United

States providing for a virtual Ameri

can protectorate over the country. The

vote as convened to the State De

partment wan 26 to 7. Secretary Lan

sing immediately notified President

Wilson of the vote. The treaty will go

before the United States Senate at the

coming session of Congress.

"RACE SUICIDE"

MENACES RACE

Princeton Professor Says City's

Old Families Are

Dying Out

Philadelphia, Nov. 12. Deploring

race suicide among the "old families

in Boston, Philadelphia and elsewhere

from voluntary causes," Professor E.

G. Conklin. of Princeton University,

yesterday advised that "every means

be taken to bring about the marriage

of the best with the best, for If we

prevent the reproduction of the best

I aril allow the reproduction of the

I worst, the race Is doomed."

Professor t'onklin spoke in the

| Bel levue-St rat ford, before the conven

tion of the American Association for

the Study and Prevention of Infant

Mortality. He defined "eugenics" as

"good heredity." and urged that every

normal man and woman be taught

that their most important duty "is to

leavo to the race good, wholesome,

happy children."

He said the idea of a race of "super

men" was an iridescent dream, as

everyone is born with a faulty heri

tage. and mankind cannot solve the

problem of eliminating all its unfit as

the breeder or plant-grower does, by

selecting and breeding only the best.

Mankind Is Monsrro!

"The only possible chance for lm

! proving the race," he said, "lies in

eliminating from reproduction those

who have faulty characteristics. We

cannot do it as the breeder or plant

grower does it. Mankind Will not con

sent to be reproduced in breeding pens.

.We can only eliminate the worst. Man-

I kind is a mongrel race. It is hopeless

I to expect to get pure stock.

"There is absolutely no one who

■ does not receive a faulty heritage.

! There are some that are so faulty that

• they are a menace to society. It is in

the power of society to eliminate from

j reproduction the dependent class of

defectives, who would have died in

primitive society, but who survive in

modern society because better care is

taken of them."

Professor Conklln said the two

methods suggested were segregation

and sterilization, and that he favored

segregation because it was less offen

sive to public opinion. He added It

was ii blot on any civilized state to

permit, the intermarriage of idiots.

DONATIONS FOR MONT ALTO

Special to The Telegraph

Meehanicsburg, Pa., Nov. 12. • Do

nations of clothing will be received

by the Woman's Club, of Mechanics

burg for the Mont Alto sanatorium.

I.ast year a generous response was

given by the citizens of this place, and

as much is hoped for this time. The

donations will be sent to the hospital

by Thanksgiving Day.

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SERBIANS DRIVEN

FROM POSITIONS

Pursuit in Mountain Districts

Is Being Pressed Vigor

ously

203 MISSING ON ANCONA |

i

Ambassador Page in Rome in j

Consultation With Italian

Foreign Office

Field Marshal Von Mackensen is'

pressing the pursuit of the Serbians

in the mountain districts of Central

Serbia.

Already the Serbians have been '

driven from the first of the ridges

south of Krallevo, according to to

day's official report from Berlin, while

south of Krusevac and elsewhere

along the winding line General Put

nlk's troops, stubbornly lighting,

have been pushed further back into |

their hilly defensive positions.

The fall of Veles, In Southern

Serbia, is imminent after a severe

I defeat inflicted upon the Bulgarians

by the French, according to a Saloniki

dispatch. A report received on Wed

nesday that Veles had fallen into

French hands was the next day shown

to be unfounded.

On the French front, Paris reports

spirited exchanges by the artillery

arm in the vicinity of Loos while near

Bus in the Artols district German bat

teries were silenced by the French

guns.

What the loss of life was in the

sinking of the Italian liner Ancona

by a submarine in the Mediterranean

has not been definitely determined.

According to a dispatch late last

night from Tunis to a Borne news

paper only 225 persons, pasengers and

crew, out of a total of 128 on board

the Ancona, were saved, which would

make 203 to be accounted for. Con

sular advices to Washington have in

dicated that 347 were saved out of

496 said to be on board, leaving 149

unaccounted for.

Ambassador Page In Home has

been in consultation with the Italian

foreign office, presumably seeking

facts In connection with the sinking

•of the Anconn for transmission to

IWashington. There is particular de

sire to determine speedily whether

the liner was warned and whether the

passengers were given sufficient op

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nied at lyii I J

tA t(«e br «h» 4 euutj l.a-iva Rail |

road Company. It pas said the purchaser was probably J. I

Leonard Re}. New idicate. Mr. (

Replogle was form eneral manager |

of the Cai (

America The pur- I

chase pr be in the neighborhood of $15,000,000. ■

APPOI SERGEANT-AT-ARMS I

Workmen's Compensation Board I

this afternoo: amuel Powell r Nantico'. 1

geant-at-Arms. The salary is $1,500 a year.

WILLIAMS VALLEY RAILWAYS BOUGHT IN 1

trustee's sale this afternoon tl 1

Williams Valley Street Railways running from Lyke.v, to

Tower City v ught m by the Bondholders Protective '

Committee ft • - Tl e sale was held hv the Harris^urg

Trust Company. '

HAITIAN SENA FE RATIFIES TREATY

Port Au Prince Haiti. Nov 12.—After rejecting the re

port of a special mission which demanded postponement

of the rati cat" the new treaty between Haiti ind the

United States, the imiuan Senate has ratified the treaty.

The vote of ratification followed a long discussion in the '

upper chamber. The new treaty recently was ratified by the '

Chamber of Deputies.

WILL ATTEMPT TO fcND WAR

Washington, \ 12. David Starr Jordan, president

of LeL nd Etas ersity, and head of the International

Peace Congies-. Ie tlv held in San Francitco, told Presi

dent WiEon to i, th.it a quasi official meeting of neutral

nations piobaL ' / e held some time before Christmas

either at The II ue. Beine ot Copenhagen to attempt to

bring about in Europe. Dr. Jordan conveyed to the

| President & resolution f;om the Peace Congress, urging him

( to co operate with ther neutrals in calling such a confer

ence.

1

MARRIAGE U

Oliver Drllman Slnimoua and Kuth C. Bower*, city,

Hurry tt. Ml.lrr, cltj, nod Kiln M. Hrjnnifr, Month Milton. Cam- ft

brrlaml inunt). B

Joaeuli «ra> Uerknlth and Ellaabeth tirlffln, city. |L

20 PAGES POSTSCRIPT— FINAL

25,000 CHILDREN

AS ROCKEFELLER'S

GUESTS AT SHOW

Great Throngs Sec Flower

Show in Wigmore's Coli

seum, Cleveland

SPENDS $5,000 FOR TICKETS

Financier Pays Admissions of

All Students in Ohio

City

Special to The Telegraph

Cleveland, 0., Nov. 12. Twenty

five thousand public school children,

jthe first section of guests of John 13.

| Rockefeller, • swooped down on the

| Mower show in Wigmore's Coliseum

i yesterday, for a time completely

I battling efforts of show officials, nearly

| 10« police and a score of firemen to

I handle them.

| One little girl fainted and one hoy

| was trampled in the first wild rush.

} after the doors were opened. More

| than 18,000 saw the show in two and

I one-half hours.

j The children were guests of Mr.

(Continued on Page 17.)

Man Who Tried Suicide

Must Answer Charge of

Malicious Mischief

Special to The Telegraph

Lancaster, Pa.. Nov. 12. —Andreas

Christian Gronlund, the Dane who at

tempted suicide Wednesday evening

by leaping through the window of a

Pennsylvania Railroad train at Kin" -r

j and who was brought to the Lancaster

I General Hospital, was removed to the

| county prison yesterday. He was

| prosecuted by Pennsylvania Railroad

I officers for attempted suicide arid

j malicious mischief in smashing a car

window.

Alderman Charles F. Stauffer, who

has the case. will investigate the

man's antecedents, as he does not be

lieve his statement that he attempted

I his life because of trouble with com

! panions. Nothing has been heard of

the man he is supposed to have had

with him on the train. Gronlund's

effects reveal nothing, and he sticks

to his first story. His injuries are not

serious.