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wtfc THEATRICAL REVIEW nrnswt SOCIAL and FASHION NEWS SECOND SECTION HARRISBURG, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1935 SECOND SECTION if AIR QUEEN SUFFERS FATE OF SISTER SHIP SAFE mUR FIRM USES ICE-BREAKER EARLE'S TAX PLAN HIT BYAUTO CLUB Keystone Manager Sees Cost to Motorists as $60.43 Annually You will pay 60.43 tax this year for the privilege of running your autc- New Craft Launched on Susquehanna at Big Power Dam fY O.K. S. i TITLE government agencies are cheerfully piling statistic upon w1 The Safe Harbor Power Company's recently built steam ice-breaker will be put to work on the Susquehanna above the big dam today, smashing statistic to show the speed with which the country is traveling along the road to recovery, facts and figures on the rail the ice into pieces small enough vo road business are far from encouraging. The best the Interstate Commerce Commission can say is that last years traffic was ''above mobile if the Earle plan of raising the gas levy goes through, according to figures compiled by the Keystone Automobile Club. The two cents per gallon increase proposed would make, it impossible for people in moderate circumstances I pass off without damage to the struc the lowest level of the depression.

Thev tell us that there has been to remain motorists, according to a cidents caused by drivers' falling asleep at the wheel. Figures are given showing that this type of accident is twice as likely to result fatally as is the ordinary crash. State laws a recession in freight traffic since June, and that the trend in rev enues makes an even less favorable ture. The ice-breaker, resembling those shown occasionally in the movies ploughing their way through icy seas to make way for shipping, was constructed at Safe Harbor, and has been christened the Susquehannock, in honor of the Indians of that name who used to live in that vicinity. The power company sent one of its engineers on a tour of the North to ascertain just how an ice-breaker should be operated and he will be in charge of the work of smashing up the ice north of the dam.

showing than does traffic- It makes pretty dreary reading. statement of the club's general man-nager, J. Maxwell Smith, made public by Charles R. Dyer, manager of the Harrisburg division. A 50 Per Cent Tax "Under present taxation State and Federal the average tax per vehicle is 48.39," Mr.

Smith said. "If the gas tax is increased two cents, it will mean that motorists will pay a 50 per cent tax on a commodity essential to if 11 There are many of us who feel that a prosperity in which the railroads do not share will be short-lived. To continue with the I. C. C.

report there is little optimism for 1935. Com pared with the levels of 1926, often pointed out as a good normal year, the figures for the present twelvemonth do not seem very propitious. regulating truck drivers' working hours are cited, followed by more statistics showing that most of these laws are either ignored entirely or are given only the most sketchy enforcement. Recommendations for clearing up the condition are given, and the difficulties in carrying them out discussed. In the entire forty-eight pages of the booklet not a word is said about railroads.

Not a suggestion is breathed that all these gruesome wrecks would never have occurred if the shippers had sent their goods by rail, and if the car drivers had taken their naps in the seat of a railroad car instead of behind the wheel. But it takes very little peering between the lines to see why the com MEMORIAL SERVICES HELD FOR VETERANS Freight and passenger rates are lower, erery-day life of every community in the State, and we submit there is no justification for it. At the prevailing prices of gasoline, the motorist now pays a 33 1-3 per cent tax on every gallon he buys." Increased. registration evidences a operating expenses are rising, and the roads also fact the prospect of restoring and other seven and one-half per cent of the 10 per cent wage cut which "Taps." It sounded hail and farewell to five very encouraging trend toward recovery, according to the Club's statement, but a 6-cent State tax on top of the 1-cent Federal gasoline levy would i was made in 1932. The railroads have made great steps within the past year in modernizing.

The question seems to be, can they make such improvements as will bring Civil War veterans of Post 58, Grand Army of the Republic at the memorial services Friday afternoon. Last year there remained only a dozen men of the brave army of 1500 that once marched away from Harris mittee on public relations spent the money to send that' booklet broad cast over the country. When you have a very opposite effect. "So long as funds accumulated thru this tax are used for highways and related purposes, motorists are satisfied to pay it, but they have every right, legal and moral, to object to taxation for objects that are the responsibility of the State as a whole," Mr. Smith's statement- concluded.

burg to do battle for the Union. This year there are only seven. During 19,14 there passed away J. Q. A.

Ruth come down to the end of it, there remains the unspoken but unmistakable conclusion that long distance hauling had better be left to the railroads. revenue to offset their cost? Can they compete in speed with the airlines and in cost with the buses and trucks? If the answer lay solely with the railroads, it might be an unqualified affirmative. But there is ever the Damo-clean sword of government meddling hanging over their heads. And the question remains unanswerable. 11 i i nni me 1- HuuvB.

piungea UUo me I'afific olf I'oint Sur, no miles south of San Fran erford, Joseph J. Davis, George W. Knoll, D. Campbell and the Rev. J.

C. Forncrook. The seven who remained to mourn cisc-o sne Kunerea a me s.muar to or l.er s.stc ship, the Akron. In April, 1933, the Akron crashed into the Atlantic off the New Jersey coast carrying 73 men to their deaths and leaving afloat, as a memento of the tragedy, the tangled wreckage shown below. All but two the Macon's crew were saved, including Com- PENN STATE CLUB ELECTS TOMORROW their passing are Charles Fisher, 1323 North Front street; X).

F. Fishel, Mid ui mo uiire men wno survivea tne Akron catastrophe DEFECTIVE EYESIGHT i REPORTED INCREASING MAYOR M'NAIR WILL dletown; William Hertz, 1619 North Front street; D. F. Fisher, Middletown; William Hertz. 1619 North Second J.

J. Pilkay, 516 Emerald street; W. F. Starry, 226 South Seventeenth street: TALK ON TAXATION Pennsylvania Politics By G. M.

S. C. H. Rhoads, 2346 Derry street; and John Urish, 1926 North street. It is somewhat startling to note that about pne fourth of all of the people have defective eyesight.

Attention to this fact has come with the announcement of the setting aside of the week Of February 10-16 as 'Save Your Vis- Mayor William McNair, of Pitts The services were held in the post WHILE the train service Brotherhoods, are strong in their advocacy of bills now before the Legislature for shorter trains and larger crews, the strange fact develops that some of the other classes of employes are not at all enthusiastic about them. A number of Senators during the past week have received letters and telegrams from shopmen, freight handlers and others protesting against the adoption of this legislation. They seem to feel that if more hen are put on train crews and more crews are made necessary by shorter trains, the economies of operation thus made necessary will be reflected by decreases Penn State alumni will hold a smoker tomorrow night at the Harrisburger Hotel at 7.30 o'clock. Officers for the year are to be elected, and two representatives from the college will speak. Dr.

Frederick P. Weaver will discuss the "gold standard" question, and John T. Harris, member of the board of trustees of Penn State, will 'speak on "A Program of Action." A nominating committee appointed by R. H. Bell, president of the club, will make its recommendations at that time.

Members of the committee are William S. Hagar, ohairman; R. Slamp, F. C. Auch, F.

B. Huston, and room at City Hall, and were attended by a number of Uie relatives and A Ion Week." This week is sponsored TAX burden of approximately $50 for each man, woman and child in the State. burgh, native of Middletown, and well known hereabouts, will lecture Tuesday evening at 8.15 in Chestnut street auditorium. Mayor McNair, having refused to do the bidding of oartheDem ctcib friends of the deceased. The Rev.

II. E. Schaeffer, pastor of the Grace Unit by the optometrists through their na But his budget shows small regard for that promise, because it is plain to see that the average carowner who is to be most heavily assessed is a poor man Who lias a. Imrrt tional association. ed Brethren Church of Penbrook, gave Other statistics of the association the memorial address and offered the Or, to put it another way, $200 for the average Pennsylvania family.

That's what Governor Earle pro show that twenty per cent of the boys prayer. Mrs. Roy Miklq sounded as operating his car without additional''10 tho bid(lin of the Democratic ina-burdens. w.hiin fw I chine in Pittsburgh, is now being aiid girls under the age of twenty suf sembly, and "Taps." poses in his record-breaking, breath -aii ",.1 I of working forces in other branches of fer from defective vision. Of men and women past the age of fifty, seventy nosal.

running washing macWne su-nnrc I sponsored by Democrats in the Legis railroad service. At any rate many ture, will speak on "Taxes and Ik. 1 ha IiVa i I. i "1 I. Yf.

A. tUi five per cent, have defective eyesight. These statistics also show that the Donald M. Cresswell. R.

H. Bell, president, Robert R. Burtner, vice-president and William E. Miller, secretary, are the retiring officers. of them are writing to legislators setting forth their opposition.

This did not happen in other years when full nut du mug agu, iiiR uuuiiLiy nuiiii tn vjovui nor over "a billion dollar" Congress, as I isn't putting a burden on Friend IIus-the height of extravagance. he is levying an assessment- on ENDS THIS AFTERNOON percentages are incrasing. The heed for organized scientific and State Finances," and it is said his remarks will in nowise coincide with the recent speech by Governor Earle before the Legislature. The Madrid ballroom having been entrazeri for ftio ncraKinn nnrl Irkpta Now comes a Democratic Governor; nend Wife not ta Johnny. Mary and their smaller brothers and social action to preserve human eyesight Is as great as the need for such humeri welfare movements as provid ing pre-natal care, reducing infant to propose half that sum for Pennsylvania alone.

Not only. Republicans, but Democrats are astounded by the drastic moneyraising recommendations of the new Governor. Some of them already have been hearing from home. It is a mortality, eradicating smallpox, typh crew bills were before the lawmakers. A HALF-CENTURY of service 'to the Pennsylvania Railroad received recognition the other day when William Hamilton Windsor, 3609 Brisbane street, Paxtang, received a fifty-year button from the company.

It was presented by Edward L. Bachmaii. Windsor, who is 67 years old. started work old And tuberculosis. Science has To Hold Memorial Mass The annual memorial mass for the late Bishop John W.

Shanahan will be celebrated Tuesday morning St. Patrick's Cathedral. Bishop Shanahan died in 1916. Requiem high mass is to be celebrated in the presence of tho Most Rev. Philip R.

McDevitt, bishop of the Harrisburg Diocese. The Very Rev. Patrick F. McGee will be the celebrant. Concluding sessions of the conferences held by the Eastern Area of tho Industrial Department of the Y.

W. C. in this city will be held this afternoon. Dinner for the delegates will be served at the building at one o'clock, at which Miss Edith L. Gro-ner, secretary of the local organiza found ways and means to aid these Nor is there in the budget message free, it is to be anticipated a a single hope of immediate real estate crowd will be on hand for the festivi-tax reduction.

This Mr. Earle The Mayor is a recognized auth-peatedly promised during his taxation, which subject just paign. But just as he has failed is something most Democrats raise the price of milk to the farmer i don't 'ike to hear mentioned. and reduce it to the consumer, so the' poor old home-owner is left with an i FR ATFRM1TV Pf AfTC Just as human beings ev question if the Guffey-Lawrence Demo cratic machine can drive a majority of the House members into line for on the railroad as an engine wiper in what the Governor demands. Al i iwiiuilllll I I lilWSU tion, will give an address on "And 1885.

He became successively inspec- indefinite promise of a faint hope fori ready there are signs of revolt on the So We March on Toward Tomorrow." 'the dim and distant future, instead of! tor, machinist, and gang foreman, and Twice An Editor SMOKER WEDNESDAY Democratic side. ithe immediate benefit to -which the If the Governor has his way, car- Tl owners in Pennsylvania will contribute five cents to the State every time they buy a gallon of gas. On the basis of an average consumption erywhere have had to be aroused to the danger that besets human eyes. Care of the eyesight of the children is too often neglected by the parents. A child with a cough or a cold is quickly nursed back to health.

The same child, on' the other hand, will be permitted to study school lessons night after night, constantly straining eyes because of faulty lighting of the room. Proper lighting of the home can be attained with very little effort. The benefits to be derived are incalculable. It Beems a crime that so many children are sentenced to wear glasses for life because of the; thoughtlessness of their parents. Democratic Administration stands Pledged.

I Alumni of Beta Theta Pi in the Cen- The Governor makes much of his tral Pennsylvania' district will hold a personal tax proposal, which is that smoker at the Harrisburg Hotel Wed-tho tax be increased from four mills nesday night at 8.30 o'clock. Among to five mills, to be collected by the; the honor cuoFts at the affair will be of five gallons of gas per week for each family a low estimate this State and half of the money returned jj. Franklin Teegardin, of Philadel- to the counties. 1 his, it is felt, would hia, who is in charge of this district would mean $13 a year gas tax for each car-owner. Re'iy it will be much more than that.

result in tne counties getting less titan, of the fraternity. they do now irom this source and in The Dickinson College chapter will i the end would place an added burden provide musical entertainment, and now is locomotive inspector. ANOTHER entry" on the wrong side of the ledger is the mileage of branch lines abandoned in 1934. That total reached 1,995 miles last year, the greatest of any year in more than a century of railroading. It eclipsed the 1933 record of 1,876 miles, as well as the previous high of 1,626 miles abandoned in 1921.

As might be expected, the West and Middle-west were the greatest offenders. The Missouri Pacific alone contributed 91 miles to the total by giving up a line between Ft. Scojt, Kansas, and Lomax. The Chicago and Illinois Valley dropped completely out of sight, abandoning its whole right-of-way of 75 miles. Between Superior, Wisconsin, and Maringo Junction the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic dropped 74 If the Governor's program is adopt A summary of the accomplishments of the conference will be given by Miss Margaret Owen, of Pittsburgh, during, a tea to be served, with Miss Mary Jennings in charge.

Yesterday the delegates went on a sight-seeing trip around the capitol buildings before attending a tea at the and a business meeting later. This was followed in the evening by a dinner at which Charles Erwin, of Washington, D. spoke on "Builders of Tomorrow." Devotional services were held at 8.30 o'clock, followed by a number of special conferences. Mrs. John W.

German headed the committee which arranged for the meeting here. Miss Francis Acuff is local secretary in charge of the industrial department of the Y. W. C. A.

Miss Florence Wachowiak is president of the Harrisburg Federation Council. ed, every time you go to a movie, boxing match or church entertainment, you will cough up ten per cent. on real estate, which would then be Gordon S. Smyth, editor of the Beta required to make up deficiencies in Theta Pi magazine, will be the prin-revenues from personal property final enpakpr. William riann is above the ticket price as a contribu VALLEY FIREMEN PLAN TO MARK ANNIVERSARY taxes.

I i arranging the program, which includes tion to the State Treasury. a buffet supper at the close of the If you save a dollar, the Governor proposes to collect a half-cent of it from you, as a penalty for your thrift. This tax has been subject of controversy for years. Invariably when a county makes an earnest attempt to collect it over a period of it fails'. Cumberland county is the lat- meeting.

Jack Dienna is in charge of reservations, alumni from a number of nearby points being expected to join the Every time you light a cigar, cigar- et, or even the old corn-cob pipe, the Governor would levy a tax assess est example of this. For one year the fifty members of the local chapter in commissioners did a good job of miles. This condition is due, in large part, ment against you and collect it in advanr.ft. Yrtn fan't pscanp hv nh. You can't escape by sub-' bthMIls ann collecting, ana tne jn t.iarge of arrangements are stituting "eating" tobacco for smok-jyear 0WIlerf 01 tins kind of property Robert H.

Bagnell, Horace M. Byrnes. I to changing economic conditions in, various localities. However, the fig-; TO HOLD EXAMS FOR 3 CIVIL SERVICE JOBS ing. for all forms of the weed are to rtwuvetums il Thomas p.

Caldwell, Julian Millard be taxed for State purposes. collections tell on more than one-; George C. Morris, Wr. E. Strawinski, Each time you turn on a light, or haIf- County authorities, regardless and Robert W.

Crist. switch nn tho radio flic plerfrio wnah. uimi.iiiut.-u uii i aS oevcu electric gadget, you will pay for the NKW PI PhK IIKDHKr II PYTHIAN KNIGHTS PLAN ANNIVERSARY FROLIC upkeep of the State under Governor tires being so large for two years in 1 succession are an ominous warning that railroad earnings are falling too: low. In other words, the profitable lines are no longer bringing in enough to finance service on unprofitable We wonder whether Federal Coordin-i ator Eastman has thought of that, in his declared purpose of giving the best I service possible to the public. ONE OF THE most effective pieces Earle, for every consumer of current 'CnD WORM! FYKllKf, is nut under the tax-collertor's thnnih I UH UlUULLi 1 OUUHU Members of the Washington Fire Company of Mechanicsburg will cele-brale the seventy-seventh anniversary of Its founding with a dinner at the firehouse on East Main street, Friday night Washington is the oldest fire-fighting organization in the borough.

The annual memorial services are being held tonight at the Presbyterian Church. Members of the company will march to the church in a body and hear a sermon by the Rev. Fred E. Christian, pastor of the church and chaplain of the fire company, at 7.30 o'clock tonight. -A.

L. Wagner is president of the company and is in charge of arrangements for the dinner. He is being assisted by a committee composed of: J. C. Koller, secretary; Lee Beistline, William Beitzel, P.

H. Strasbaugh, Robert MeCreary, Stanley Lucas, Harold Conrad, Charles Finkenbinder, Simon Hertzler, Royer Weise, Alfred MeCreary, Alfred Koser, Woodrow MeCreary, J. Gill, Samuel Whitman, Esn-ory Brown, A. W. Gill, P.

A. Koser, Carson Rider, Robert Miller, George Stine. R. Aughinbaugh and George Beistline. and if you don't pay the tax you won be allowed to use the electri city.

Slier win T. McDowell, of Ard-more, has the distinction fo being the only Dickinson College student to edit both the weekly newspaper and the college annual. McDowell, a graduate of Lower Merlon High School and a junior at Dickinson College, was elected editor-ia chief of "The Microcosm" last spring and was recently chosen editor of "The Dickinsonian," the college weekly. McDowell Is a member of the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity, Alpha Sigma Gamma, journalistic honor fraternity, and Omicron Delta Kappa, honorary leadership And this and much more. A great Open competitive examinations for three positions with the Food and Drug Administrations have been announced by the United States Civil Service Commission.

Pennsylvania is one of the states which has received less than its quota of Washington appointments, the announcement informs. The jobs open are Junior Bacteriologist (food products) $2,000 to $2,500 a year; Associate Bacteriologist, $3200 to $3700 a year; Assistant Bacteriologist, $2,600 to $3,100 a year. Optional subjects are general, food products, and soils. Information concerning the examinations may be had at Room 207. Postoffice building.

The Wormleysburg Fire Company will have the most modern and up-to-dato fire-fighting apparatus on the West Shore when its new -500-gallon Seagrave Suburbanite pumper is delivered in June. hullabaloo is being made about, proposals to "tax the corporations," but in the end the taxes all come out of The seventy-first anniversary of the order will be celebrated by Knights of Pythias in this district with a frolic Tuesday night at 7.30 o'clock In the Pythian Castle at 225 State street. They will listen to a nation-wide broadcast by Supreme Chancellor Reno S. Harp. Deputy Grand Chancellor George Steever heads the committee in charge of the affair, which will conclude With card game3 and indoor baseball.

Refreshments are to bo served. the pockets of the ultimate consumer! A thousand dollars of the $5500 ne- who is poor old John R. Public orineccary to pay for the new engine has of propoganda that has come to this desk is a booklet called "Too Long at the Wheel," published by the National Safety Council and distributed by the Committee on Public Relations of the Eastern Railroads. The pamphlet is well illustrated with rather ghastly pictures of motor trucks and automobiles in various states of destruction, all of them ac- his wife. 1 already been pledged by members of During his campaign the Governor the Auxiliary of the company, and the talked a lot about "making those who balance is expected to be raised thru are able to pay carry the taxload." I public subscription.

"THE MAIN THING ON MAIN STREET" By L. F. Van Zelm JOHN MASON BROWN SPEAKS TOMORROW 4 F0B SAlE kmovX TABBY A VI WHEN HEED .1 HAr qome i 0W l0Trs 1 'T BE ABLE To 0NEi A NEW KiTTEM! 11 1 CCAC UP BUILD- PUT UP NOMff-A- cAU'-Tr fTW ISsT INS A DAY'S IS MQ5TLY MAIN- "SfCEET'S Buu.T5ir-iG Journal A CAT AND -JOG LIFE The well known New York dramatic critic, John Mason Brown, will be in Harrisburg tomorrow afternoon to address the regular meeting of the Civic Club at 2.30 o'clock. Mr. Brown will speak on "Current Plays on Broadway," giving a comprehensive discussion of the latest theatrical successes along the Great White Way.

He is a graduate of Harvard, having studied under the famous George Pierce Barker, and has gained a large reputation as a lecturer in the American Laboratory Theatre in New York and also at Yale. Among the plays which are to be talked about are "Within the Gates," "Romeo and Juliet," "The Children's Hour," "Petrified "Point Val-aine," "Accent of Youth," "Personal Appearance." "Escape Me and "Anything Goes." The workmen On MAim STREET'S NEW HOUSE-WERE MUCH UPSET To- da-v when PAtnyr poodle AROUSED The OF TABBY CAT AND GOT CHASED FOR His life. ABOUND TmE BLOC U..