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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-08
Spring Y ear
for several
Seasons!

Besides these Spring-
weight OvercOats, we have in
cluded a number of
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-29

situation. would aggravate it, for there
would be an additional hill to climb
SO, l plead with you-dont mock us
with your subway relief project: rather
give us nothing but what we now
have.
If the State, in connection with its
capitol Park extension plan, wants a
subway at State street let 1t construct
one; but don't ask the Hill people to
The Hill people may get stubborn. IL
driven to it.
When Rehoboam, Solomon's son, sue
ceeded his father as king, the people
asked that their burdens be lightened
But he answered them roughly say
ing: MY little finger shall be thicker
than my fathers 1oins my
father has chastised you with whips,
but l shall chastise you with scorpi-
onS.
$50. When all Israel saw that the
king hardened not unto them, the peo-
pie answered the king, saying: What
portion have we in David? neither have
we inheritance in the son OF Jesse. To
your tents, o Israel! Now see to thine
house, David"
There is no threat implied in this
statement. but people. as a rule, don't
take kindly to being Knocked or in
Thanking you for your fairness. in
permitting this feeble protest against
palpable unfairness to find space in
your paper | remain,
Respectfully,
HILL-DWE ELLER
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-29
THE "OPEN MIND" AGAIN

WE are told that the President
w has not accepted Secretary
Redfeld's views as to the best
means of preventing the dumping"
of European goods upon the American
market, and that the President has an
open mind" on the subject.
Is it not time that this phrase be
relegated to 'innocuous desuetude," +"
TO use another phrase manufactured
by another Democratic President?
Mr.. Wilson's mind may be open, "
but it is open" only from within.
The sole method of approach to the
presidential mind from the outside is
with a charge of political dynamite.
He has shown such constant disre-
gard for the opinions of others. un-
less those others manifest themselves
in nationwide protest-as in the case
of the demand for military prepared
ness-that the constant reiteration of
the Presidents "open mind" has long
since ceased to be even humorous.
The repetition of the phrase has be-
come almost insulting to the country's
intelligence.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-29
FORGET IT

II you see a good fellow ahead of the
Icrowd.
A leader among men, marching fear
less and proud,
And you know of tale whose mere
telling aloud
Would cause his proud head in an
guish to be bowed,
It's pretty good plan to-forget it..
If you know of a skeleton hidden
In a closet, and guarded and kept from
the day,
In the dark, and whose showing,
whose sudden display,
Would cause grief and sorrow and
lifelong dismay.
It's q pretty good plan to-forget it.
If you know of spot in the life of a
friend,
owe all have such spots concealed
world without end.)
Whose touching his heartstrings would
play on and rend,
Till the shame of its showing nc
grieving could mend,
It's pretty good plan to-forget it.
II you know of thing, just the least
little sim.
Whose telling would cork up a laugh
or a grin.
OF a man you DON like, for the
Lords sake keep IL in,
Don't, don't be knocker; right here
stick a pin
It's pretty good plan to-forget IT,.
-Williamsport Sun.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-29
SITE FOR THE FOUNTAIN

THERE has been considerable dis
cussion as to where the Hershey
fountain, so generously given the
city by the chocolate manufacturer,
should be placed. This is very proper.
1t shows that the people in general
have an interest in such matters and
that there is a healthy rivalry in var
ious parts of the city for anything re-
lated to improvement or beautiflCa-
tion.
But the big thing is not that this or
that section of town shall be pleased,
but that this very valuable work OF
art be so placed as to harmonic with
the development of the city from the
park standpoint. The whole scheme
of the city beautiful has been
worked out by Warren S. Manning.
the Boston landscape architect, and it
would be altogether in keeping with
the past policy of council if he were
given a voice in the matter.
The fountain must be made to fit
properly into the whole scheme if it
is to harmonize as it should. Possibly
Mr.. Mannings advice on this score
would bring out some thought that
has not been considered. At all events
it would not be we'll to take any defi-
mite steps toward location until this
expert, whom the city employs for
Just such services, has been consulted.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-29
MONDAY EVENING,

many prosecutions, but to see that the
laws are obeyed and to relieve the
often needlessly long hours of EN-
ployes.
To be sure. the burden OF additional
sales will make the salesgirrs work
harder than usual. and II the SYM
pathetic shopper who weeps over the
story of the little girl who faints be-
hind the ribbon counter and is car
ried away to a hospital and loses her
job and is forced out on the streets,
seriously desires to make life as easy
as possible for the nearly always COM
petent, buxom and self-suff1cient little
ladies who preside over the Christmas
sales, she will take the advice of Com
missioner of Labor John Price Jack
son and do her Christmas buying not
only early in the season, but early in
the day.
Merchants keep their stores open
late for no other reason than because
they believe the public wants them 20
do so. If they are convinced by empty
aisles and few sales that this is not so.
there will be no more trouble about
long hours. The buying public has the
remedy in it's own hands and IL there
are tired clerks and lights burning at
in the evening that should be out at
6. let the shoppers blame themselves
as well as proprietors.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-29
THE WOMAN JOYRIDER
kansas city Times. ]


young woman was sentenced in
Chicago this week to eight years in
the penitentiary. She had taken part
in stealing a motor car, in taking a
joyride and In shooting up a saloon.
After her arrest, the dispatch says,
she said she went on the raid because
she got so tired of framing notices
in picture factory where she worked.
so tired of framing notices"
Very likely. With no particular in
formation on this case the guess may
be haZarded that the opportunities for
wholesome amusement in this young
woman's life had been deficient. So
the repressed emotions finally broke
over in the great adventure of the
theft of q motor car. and joyride and
the rest. People have got to have a
chance to play grownups as well as
children. Four things men live by,
says the wise Doctor Cabot of Boston,
are work, play, love and worship.
Amusement is recognized by modern
economists as an essential part of
human efficiency. If the chance 10
play is taken away by too long hours
of work or by the failure to develop
opportunities, then there is apt to be
an explosion.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-29
THE SHOPPER TO BLAME

MYTH the Christmas season again
" fast approaching sob sisters
on some newspapers and SYM
pathetic souls who write at space
rates for the magazines are bringing
forth their annual crop of "tired-to-
death" shop girl stories. and a good
many women and not a few men will
shed tears over them and rail at the
heartless proprietors of stores who
keep their doors open evenings and
require longer hours than usual for
their help.
There will be no excuse for this in
Pennsylvania this year. The female
employment law, which is strictly en-
forced, protects the girl or woman
clerk from the strain of long hours.
Girls under twenty-one years of age
may not be employed in stores or fac
tories after 0 O'Clock at night or be-
fore 6 o'clock in the morning. No
female may be employed more than
six days week, more than fifty-four
hours week, or more than ten hours
a day. When an establishment Is
closed for a legal holiday, females NAV
be employed, during such week, two
hours day overtime for three days.
but the working hours for the week
must not exceed fifty-four.
Inspectors of the Department of
Labor and Industry in all sections of
the State have been instructed to paw
special attention to the working hours
of employees during the holiday season,
mot for the purpose of instituting
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-29
| LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THAT WALNUT STREET BRIDGE

To the Editor Of the Telegraph:
Presumably the ammunition in the
Anti-Walnut Street Bridge Campaign
has been discharged
The Honorable Governor of the State,
seconded by others of his official fam
lily: the Mayor Elect of the city, the
noted city Planning Specialist, Mr..
Manning; the City Planning Commits
rible broadsides against this project,
and no doubt, all are congratulating
themselves and each other on the suc-
cess attending their efforts.
Now, that the smoke has cleared
away. will you, Mr.. Editor, play fair
and permit a brief statement from the
other side?
The people of the Hill feel that they
are entitled to the relief such bridge
would afford them. They took the
proper legal steps to to have The voters
project. So far, so good.
But now. instead of carrying out the
expressed will of the people, there is
Storm Storm against It on t the ' plea that 4 (
would spoil the plans of THE City
The Honorable Governor, being a
preacher. will see the application in
the following quotation from the Mas
nts teTs tps fpsyings And Fe S5e Jesgss gsa, SAID
bread of any of you that is a father,
will he give him a stone? or II he ask
for fish, will he for fish give him a
serpent? or If he shall ask for an egg.
will he offer him Scorpion|
The implied answer is plain No! No
father would thus mock or insult his
son.
But that is just what those who have
undertaken to squelch the bridge pro-
ject are doing. They, patronizingly,
say, YES the Hill people should have
some relief. and we will supply it by
way of subways.
an egg: we are offered a stone-a ser
pent-a scorpion.
If we are to be cheated out of what
| is our right. let 1t be so. but don't mock
or insult us by Offering the relief need
| ed through subways.
I plead not in behalf of the rich. who
can go anywhere in their carriages and
automobiles without fatigue; but
plead in behalf of the army of women
| in the city and when weary and tired
In the evening must drag themselves
up either Market or State street hill
or up the steps leading to the Twelfth
| street crest.
| l plead in behalf of the many moth
| ers who. with their little ones. I'm the
| baby carriage, or otherwise, find the
coming home journey up the long hill
| so fatiguing.
horses that have to haul the heavy
| loads up these hills. Who has not seer
the sickening spectacle of horses fall
I ing. in harness, while dragging their
| loads (something that the Society for
| the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
| should look into).
| subways. instead Of relieving the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-29
THE MEXICAN MIDDLE
III.-The Bandit War
By Frederic ]. Haskin

CINCE the first of August Browns
y willie is a war center. Scarcely
a day passes without it's alarm
of raid, skirmish or robbery. The
troops at Fort Brown are always
ready to start at a moments notice,
and when civilians go from town 20
town they go armed and ready for
trouble.
This is the bandit war - the
mysterious outbreak of lawlessness
that has terrorized a district as large
as the State of Maine. Terrorized il,
because no man knows where the
bandits will strike next. No man
knows their numbers. or even who
they are. Your Mexican neighbor
or your Mexican man-of-allwork,
may be the one who shot your friend
last night.
It began as far back as July, with
an epidemic of petty thefts. Rifles and
horses began to disappear from out
lying ranches. There was no stealing
of other valuables, and no destruction
of property. 1t was put down to the
unusual number of shiftless characters
driven across the line from Mexico by
the fighting around Matamoros.
On the second of August came the
report that Mexican bandits had in
vaded the south end of Cameron
county, which borders along both the
Rio Grande and the Gulf, southern
most county in the United States.
These bandits raided ranches as close
as three miles to Brownsville, an AM
erican city of ten thousand with an
army post. They stole horses, saddles
and rifles. On the same day V. Con-
rad. a civil engineer, with a party of
surveyors in an automobile was fired
on thirty times from the brush lining
country road. Conrad opened the
throttle and went through a closed
gate at forty miles an hour. He took
the gate along with him, but he and
his party escaped untouched. War
was on.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-29

Next day troopers and county Off
GERS, searching for the trouble makers,
engaged a party of MeXicans in the
brush neal the Scrivener ranch eight
miles north of Brownsville. Two
troopers were killed and a river guard,
who was one of the party, had the
saddle literally shot from his horse.
captured. The remainder of the
band, estimated at about twenty dis
appeared in the brush.
That Is sentence that occurs again
and again in the annals of the bandit
war, the report of irregular fighting
that ranges from the pursuit of q
single bandit to pitched battle from
trenches. 'The Mexicans disappeared
In the brush To a great extent the
brush. the tangled thickets of mesquite
and chaparral, is the cruX, the heart
OF the whole situation. The brush is
the bandits strongest ally The iron
tough mesquite fiourishes in the ricn
soil all the way from a little bush to
tree two feet in diameter. 1t is
dense and impenetrable from the
ground to a height of thirty feet.
Scattered through it are great piles of
the broad-leaved cactus, and hundreds
of the sword-like yuccas perched on
their prickly pedestals like little
palms. Where the ground is moist
this confusion is worse confounded by
a luXuriant growth of cane and will
low. The whole is worse than an
African jungle.
To the Mexican native of the section
the brush is a haven OF, refuge, an
ideal rendezvous, a home if needs be.
and a perfect ambush from which to
attack. He can live safe and unsus-
pected within a mile of regiment of
troops One Mexican prisoner told
of camp of dozen bandits where
the brush was so dense that it was I'M
possible to carry a water-keg from
the nearby spring. Two men had to
push the little kegs along the ground
through the tangle of vegetation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-29
PARTLY RIGHT

TN an interview given at Lincoln,
Senator Hitchcock. of Nebraska.
said that the main issue of next
years campaign will be Woodrow
Wilson. The Senator is MT enthu-
siastic over Democratic achievement
in Congress and he looks for a man
and not measures to be the Demo-
cratic rallying point in 1916. Mr..
Hitchcock admits that a few of the
legislative enactments by the Demo-
cratic Congress look good to him, but
he thinks they are not likely to appeal
to the voter who can see a Demo-
cratic deficit in the treasury, a Dem
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-29
"AII Except the Fish"

Jules B. Schloss in Newspaper
dom tells the story of the darkey
who was getting all the please
ure of fishing except the fish,
Some advertisers enjoy all the
expense of advertising without
the profits.
They do not fsh whore the
fish are.
The shrewd advertiser finds out
where the best markets are To-
Gated and uses newspaper adver-
tising to land the game.
He advertises for definite GUS
toners in the most efficient way
and his bookkeepers do not have
to use red ink for balances.
Manufacturers interested In In
creasing the efficiency of their
advertising are invited to ad-
dress the Bureau of Advertising.
American Newspaper Publishers
Association. World Building, New
York.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-29
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Lieutenant Governor McClain
spoke on Saturday at the dedication Of
the Moose Home in Lancaster.
j. L. Replogle, who created n
furore in Cambria Steel, is not yet
forty years of age.
Charles M. Schwab has been
elected to the Cornell board OF trus-
tees. He is already a member of the
State College board.
e. f. Beale has been elected head
of the Radnor hunt at Philadelphia.
DR.. d. T. Davidson, prominent in
Philadelphia hospitals, will go to the
Far East as a medical missionary.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-29

ocratic war tax when we have no
war, and many items of Democratic
incompetency and extravaganza.
Therefore, the Senator predicts his
party's war cry to be, Woodrow
Wilson or Bust"
Senator Hitchcock is only parity
right The Democratic slogan will
be translated by the voters into this:
Woodrow Wilson and Busted"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-29
PRACTICAL INVENTIONS

A device to end sea collisions in fog
is all very well, but equally welcome
in certain places in the District of Co
lumbia would. be device to end colli-
sion in political fogs, one term planks
and such.-New York Sun.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-29

Politics in Pennsylvania is warming
up" says a New York exchange. Poll
tics in Pennsylvania may be getting
hotter. but it is always warm.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-29
LIES LOGIC

The logic of life is so simple
IT leaves all the theories behind;
It's just to be honest and kind, lad,
Just to be honest and kind.
Walt Mason.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-29
MONDAY EVENING. NOV. 20

Upi6drds He leads us, though Our steps
are SIOC,
Though oft zee faint and fdIter on the
tCGy,
Though storms and darkness oft OBJ
Scure the day:
Yet tUHeR the clouds are gone,
We EnOW He leads us On.-AnOn.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-29

1t will not be long before the
Senate Democrats will discover that
the proposed cloture rule will work
two ways.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-29

II you want good imitation of At
lantie City take walk along the city's
Front Steps any Sunday afternoon.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-29
EDITORIAL CONTENT

They are waging war in Europe
with gas, but nobody will ever make
peace with it.-New York Sun.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-29

THAT do Your Christmas shop
ping early" ought to be accompanied
by advice as to how to get your Christ
mas money early.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-29

After being we'll nigh ruined,
Louisiana sugar planters no doubt will
be glad to learn that the Wilson ad-
ministration didn't mean it, after all.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-29
TELEORAPH'S PERIScOPE

What is International Law"
asks Waldo D. Morse. The man
means. what WAS International Law?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-29

That rollicking old sea dog, Henry
Ford, appears to have some trouble
shipping a crew this voyage.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-29

Who says November weather isn't as
fine as that of May?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-29

President Wilson is being urged to
call peace conference of neutral
nations. What seems rather more
necessary is a peace conference of the
nations at war.-Kansas City Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-29

Neither let mistakes nor wrong di-
rections discourage you. Let q man
try faithfully, manfully to be right
he will grow daily more and more
right.-Carlyle.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-29

Come again, Mr.. Hershey. and
bring along another fountain or two.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-29
THE STATE FROM DAY TO DAY

Abraham Lincoln made me prom
Use that I would never smoke or chew
tobacco, never touch liquor and never
tell an untruth, and l have kept that
promise ever since" said Federal
Judge Simeon Woodrow King, of
Chester who was appointed during
the war at the age of 21 by the mar
tyred president. The judge is now
eighty-four years old, but passes for
youth of seventy.
The fever has struck the telephone
girls of kittanning, Pa, and nine of
the hello" artists have been mar
ried recently. Either the lines have
or have not, been busy there, accord
ing to the way you look at it.
A Philadelphia paper appeared the
other day with the headline, "Old
Mans Intent to Wed Proof of Sound
Mind" In spite of the papers we'll
known reputation for veracity and
good judgment, the headline raised
a question in the mind of many a
Tilted lover.
NJ. S. Hershey's presentation of his
artistic group of nude figures to the
city of Harrisburg seems to be worry
ing some newspapers that think the
code of morals that covers nude sta
tuary in this city will put Harrisburg
in an embarrassing position. Per-
haps it will, but if the city can be
beautified with a $4,000 statue de-
signed by an admittedly excellent ar
tist. perhaps the embarrassment may
be in a good cause.
Jacob Adams Emery, of Philadel-
phia, a member Of the junior class.
has been elected as orator of the Phi
Beta Kappa Society of Harvard. EN-
cry was only recently admitted to
this society. Mr. Emery is a graduate
of the Central High school, of Phila-
delphia and is a member of the Har-
ward wrestling team.
Nniti,e1. Let rnista lraa nor. 1..rn,no. IL
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-29
Our Daily Laugh

He: 1 wish I
could tell you all
t h a t. 5 in m y
heart.
She: oh, let
your money talk,
that's sufficient.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-29

Much For Congress to Do" says a
headline. Yes, but much of 1t Con-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-29


nations. What seems rather more
necessary is a peace conference of the
nations at war.-Kansas City Times
Much For Congress to Do" says a
headline. Yes, but much of 1t Con-
gress don't do.-Kansas City Star.
Among the heavy losses suffered by
the enemy, Constantinople does not
specifically mention the Armenians.-
New York Evening Post.
Women never can learn to act like
men. Here's Mrs. Ella Flagg Young Civ
bronicie-TelesrSpR. graph '0O'-pi''S0ursh
The New Haven. trial is revealing
were saved through what they did not
know.-Boston Herald.
Mr.. Wheeler insists that women want
the vote as weapon to gain other
things. In that, of course. they differ
vastly from men.-New York Tribune
Football heroes find in these discon-
solate days that no man is considered
really a hero who has the regulation
number of arms and legs.-Chicago
We have suspicion that a lot of
lat recruiting that always follows a
to get away from the perils of life in
London.-Philadelph inquirer.
In praying that he may live to see a.
woman President of the United States,
Bishop Moore is no doubt sincere.
Every good bishop has longings for
mmortality.-Kansas City journal.
Herr Edward Meyer, of Berlin, who
IN his recent books says America is a
nation of degenerates, a nervous, sickly
race, is hereby turned over for atten-
ton to Colonel Roosevelt-New York
Telegram.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-29

Among the heavy losses suffered by
the enemy, Constantinople does not
specifically mention the Armenians.-
New York Evening Post.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-29
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg does printing
for many firms outside of the
State?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
As early as 1744 tax appeals
we're held at the house of John
Harris.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-29

Women never can learn to act like
men. Here's Mrs. Ella F1agg Young Civ
ing up a $4,000 job.-Pittsburgh
Chronicle-Tele
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-29

The New Haven trial is revealing
how much worry New Englend people
were saved through what they did not
know.-Boston Herald.