Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-12

81 am not greatly in sympathy with
this movement that so many well-mean.
ing, but misguided persons have taken
up, says r. G. Rueschaw, sales man
ager of the REQ Motor Company. al
movement"
with it is because / think it unneces-
sary and therefore foolish.
IT reminds me of an incident that
the country road feeling happy, hav-
ing perfect score in our pocket, as II
Were We're when we met horse and buggy.
The old horse was mooching- along
seeming not to have a worry in the
world. OF course. there was an auto
mobile occupying a part of the road in
Dother him either. He had met the
tarnatton things before and had always
managed to find rooms to pass them
alright so he was not concerned.
Everything would have gone well
and we would have passed him as we
hat haf pa passed many many others on the way
into his head that he ought to ZEN
courage the horse" He assumed that
the morse was going to get frightened.
SO he began nervously to draw in the
relns and to caution the horse to
Whoa, boy! Whoa, boy! Steady now
at that the horse pricked up his
ears, began to look nervously around
and wonder what was the matter
He had seen the automobile ahead
sooi ana did not suppose there was any
proach. He expected to pass ii alright.
But he had come to learn that when
the driver was nervous, there was
likely something to get nervous about,
so he isumed that there was some
thing different about that particular
automobile of ours.
AT that he went into the air stand
ing on his mind feet and paving with
his front ones-finally lost his balance,
went over sideways. broke the shaft
ana turned the wagon across the road.
the kind from the quiet demeanor of
the horse a moment previously, we did
not have time to stop and consequently
down into the ditch and up again.
NOW 1t seems to me there has been
much premature warning against nerv-
BUSINESS on the part of business. Bust
ness is not nervous. Ninety per cent.
or the businessmen I talk with see
nothing but good for America in the
terrible conflict that is taking place on
who are busy fighting. cannot till the
soil or manufacture the articles they
need need. They have got to, be fed and
agricultural and commercial nation not
at war. wills be called upon, OF course,
to fulfill this office.
Of business here in America. The dis
turbance on the other side of the At
lantic has already had a tremendous
erect efeet on the development of new in
For example. when the war broke
out we were told that in ninety days
1t would be impossible to have photo
graph made in this country. got
worried about that. and, not having
had one made for many years rushed
or to secure what felt sure would be
curiosity In the near future. Several
others must have done the same. be-
cause the photographers told me bust
ness had been excellent
Now the ground for that belief was
the fact that heretofore we had pro-
cured the glass for negatives from Bel
GUM and the chemicals from Germany
dustry would have to stop as soon as
the small supply on hand was exhaust
ed did not count on American inge-
nuity.
THE other day I was talking to n.
prominent photographer, and I asked
him about 1t. why said he. within
two weeks after the war broke out we
were making everything in this coun-