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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-11
SUPPORT THE MINISTER'S

THIS is the season when churches
begin to hold special week
night evangelistic services. Next
Spring congregational officials will be
called upon to report upon the growth
in membership for the year. If the in
crease is not in proportion to expecta-
tions, the temptation will be strong
to place the blame on the minister,
1t is SO easy for the congregation
management and lack of congrega-
tional growth to the helpless preacher.
In many cases he doesn't deserve it.
If church members are as enthusiasts
tically evangelistic now as they will be
when it is time to read the annual re-
ports next year, they will stand be-
hind their pastors now. Last autumn,
attracted by much publicity and the
fame of noted evangelist, thousands
of church members entered upon a
noteworthy soul-giving campaign in
This Fall the pastors are
laboring alone in their several
churches. The campaigns will not be
SO long nor will they call upon those
who engage in them for so much time
and energy. All the more, then, is it
important that the ministers be sup
ported in their efforts. Even the most
magnetic, the most gifted, the most
eloquent preacher is seriously handi-
capped without the whole hearted sup
port of his congregation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-11
TARIFF FACTS SUPPRESSED

N letter to Ex-Governor Cox, of
Ohio, some time ago, President
Wilson stated it as his belief that
the authority lodged in the Federal
Trade Commission enabled it at any
time to take up the investigation of
the coast of production at home and
abroad, and to collect other data bear
ing on the question of tariff rates. In
other words, it was his opinion that
the functions of a tariff commission
might properly be exercised by the
Federal Trade Commission and that
the creation of a tariff commission
was unnecessary.
The Federal Trade Commission was
appointed by the President, by and
with the consent of the Senate It
consists of five members-three DEM
ocrats. one Progressive, and one poll
tical free-lance. Joseph Davies is
chairman. Whether or not this COM
mission has the power to exercise
the functions of tariff COM
mission is a moot point, but regard
less of that, on the request of the Sec
retary of Commerce, certain investiga-
tions pertinent to tariff matters have
been undertaken, notably the one on
the cost of production of beet sugar.
In its role of tariff commission. what
is the result of this investigation on
the part of Chairman Davies commits
sion?
The beet sugar investigation was
started in the Spring of this year. The
public was promised a report by the
first of July last. Various statements
had been made in Congress, and out,
relative to the production cost of beet
sugar, ranging from $1s8 (according
to the assertion of a Democratic SEN
ator from Colorado( to $s.47 per 100
pounds. Experts. under civil service
rules, We're assigned to the work.
Their Investigations were carefully fol-
lowed up by men interested in the
sugar Industry, who were satisfied
that the figures presented to the in
vestigators gave a correct statement
of the case, If correctly understood.
This report was placed before the
commission about the first of last
July. From that time to the present
every effort of those interested in the
sugar industry to get this report, or
any of the agures 1t contains, has been
unavailing. The report has been
pigeon-holed. 1t will not be printed
and made public because it shows how
unwarranted was the action of the
Democrats in reducing the duty on
sugar and booking it for the free list
in 1915. 1t is understood that the
chameleon mentality Of President Will
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-11
wINERooMs FOR WOMEN

TT has been charged that there are
winerooms in Harrisburg frequent
ed by men and women for no good
purposes. If there be such let there
be no time lost in stamping them out.
There is no more pernicious influence
in the community than such congre-
eating places. They are a menace to
the morals of any city where they
exist. Several such have been abolish
ed here in recent years and their
licenses taken away. The duty of those
who assert they have this evidence is
apparent. They should lay it before
the courts, and at an early date.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-11
THE BIG ExPosTTToN,s PROFITS

With the ninth period of the Expo
sition more than half over. officials
are certain that it's completion Will see
net earnings of more than $4,000. 900.
r. S. Durkee, controller, has submitted
his monthly financial report to the dt-
rectors. it covers the eighth period
which closed on October 8, and shows
an earning of $742.725 The expendi-
lures for this period were 1891, ,625,
placing the net profits at 361,O99. so
and bringing the total profits up to ST.
265,704.95.
Though. the income and profits for the
eighth period were less than those of
the sixth and seventh, the directors ex-
pressed satisfaction at the showing. As
the August and September periods were
expected to bring the greatest re-
ceipts, the directors feel no appre-
hension because of the slight falling
off
Controller Durkee's statement says:
although the income for the eighth
water mark set in the seventh period,
the operating costs were further re-
duced and the net profits for the period
was 1851. .099, which is the best showing
Of any period, with the exception OF
the one Immediately preceding. in
which the effects of the tremendous
Eastern travel were clearly shown.
Il #"All of the debts OF the Exposition
were paid prior to the opening of this
-nrrtod. so that II has been possible to
place all of the profits In special sink
ing funds. drawing interest,
At the present rate of profit, there
win be nearly 81. .000.0 600 in cash on hand
at closing day"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-11
cur MARKErING cosTs

cheapIy as the California citrus crop.
Because of the businesslike organiza-
tion of 5000 growers in the California
t cents nnT naesd .aeg oH 10 only
and sell their crop to the Jobbers of
United States. Canada and foreign
countries, or 2-3 per cent. of the de-
livered value of. the fruit. Most fruit
growers pay 10, per cent. commission
for selling, besides freight and cart
age; This great dinerence, SAYS Edwin
Home. is made possible only through
cooperation rightly managed
The California fruit growers ex-
change is the largest and best organic
ed cooperative. shodys in America. II
provides marketing facilities for 81
per cent. OF the States total crop, worth
some $4,000. geo.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-11

Postmaster Sites; who is hopeful
that the remodeling of the Federal
Building will be completed before the
expiration of his term of office, is very
properly keeping his eye upon the
more modern equipment which is now
under consideration at Washington
headquarters of the Government postal
service. Doubtless he will see to 1t that
Harrisburg is not overlooked when the
motor cars are given out. these cars
being especially serviceable in a city
like ours with widely separated postal
stations and two railroad depots, not
to mention various trolley deliveries
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-11

son Is in favor of retaining the re-
ducsd duties at present, ON account
of needed revenue.
But this action OF the administration
in sitting the report of the investiga-
ton into the beet sugar industry be-
cause of its political significance un-
favorable to the party in power, shows
how wholly impractical it would be to
establish tariff commission subject
to presidential interference and con-
troll If this sugar report had been
favorable to the Administration, Sec
retary Redfeld would probably have
plastered the United States from Cape
Flattery to Key West with copies of
the report, sent out under Govern
ment frank, "for immediate use." 1t
was not, so it represents so much lost
labor and useless expense, as it will
never see the light of day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-11
CITIES FOR INCONsIsTENcYY

GF'rom the Kansas City Star.
When you strike a piano key cer-
tain note sounds. The note has no
choice. When the key is struck it
sounds. It can't help II. One school
of thinkers has insisted almost from
the beginning of philosophy that human
beings are mere automata like the
piano. Under a certain stimulus a man
is bound to act in a certain way, Just
as the piano wire is Free will Is a
delusion.
1t always has been rather puzzling
to plain citizens how the clever people
who profess to believe that they are
simply machines can show the excel
lent discrimination between right and
wrong that they usually display, and
can admit that there is such thing
as duty. Machines, of course cannot
do right or wrong.
An eminent English writer, Canon
Rashdall. in recently published little
book on Ethics" makes this wise
comment on this very problem: "The
capacities. for inconsistency in the
human mind are almost unlimited"
Apply that remark to most of your
acquaintances and see how true it is
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-11
KEEPING VEGETABLES IN WINTER


Celery, Keeps best stored out OK doors.
In q cellar 1t often dries and gets
three feet deep lift the celery into it
with the roots on and store the plants
closely together. Cover with earth up
to the top of the celery, and put
leaves on about a foot deep to keep out
the moisture. Place boards in conical
mound over the trench and cover with
leaves and earth. Leave the ends of
the boards so that the pit can be
opened to admit air on mild days, as
the danger lies in heating
Useful directions for storing other
vegetables are given by p. S. Murdoch
in Farm and Home. Cabbage and
brussels sprouts can also be stored I'm
the celery trench. Set the cabbage
heads upside down on some leaves
Leeks can be lifted and stored like root
crops or simply covered with hay or
leaves.
The entire French artichoke plant
must be protected from freezing, but
the common tuberous artichoke should
be dug and stored like potatoes. Place
boards conicallv over the plants and
cover with leaves or straw. Keep
water out at all times.
The cellar is the best place for
storing pumpkins, squashes and also
potatoes, IL you have a cool, dry com
partment not exposed to furnace heat
Pumpkins and squashes quickly decay
in a damp place. On this account
many people store them in a room over
the Kitchen where there is enough heat
to keep them from freezing
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-11

All over the State the Incompatible
ties of the commission form of govern
ment are manifesting themselves in
differences among the five rulers of the
third-class city and lack of confidence
among the people. Every change seems
to increase the tension and lessen the
efficiency so that a general revamping
of the Clark act appears to be in
evitable. Instead of fostering repre-
sentative government, the scheme of
commission administration is destroy
ing the personal touch of the people in
the handling of their own business.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-11
TELEORAPH'S PERISCOPE

-IHe submarine mas again Demon
strated what splendid tool ii is for
the assassination of women and chill
dren.
Note from Washington: Dear
Austria: Didn't you read our notes to
Germany on submarine warfare I?
Naughty! Naughty! Now don't do it
again, please"
The jitney driver don't care how
long the Wilkes-Barre strike con-
tinues.
Villas gold badge as a general in
the Mexican army was captured in a
lot of smuggled jewelry in Mexico re-
Gently. Hooked or shipped for safety? ?
Ever go for last years sweater
and find the ash man got it last
Spring? And yet they wonder why it
takes so long to save up the price of
an automobile.
There's one thing you've got to
give Bryan credit for-he's always able
to pick out the unpopular side of any
issue and make it more so.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-11
THE MYSTERY SOLVED
BY Wing Dinger

Not more than two short weeks ago.
Whene'er 1 walked about,
Most every block. 1t seemed to me.
Someone at me would shout.
Sometimes from tother side of street
A greeting loud I'd hear,
While other times. in gentle tones.
'Twould fall upon my ear.
But lately have noticed that
AS stroll round the town
Instead of cheerful greeting, bo,
get a gloomy frown.
why are not things l asked myself
"Just as they were before?"
And then the answer dawned on me-
Election Day Is o'ez
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-11
HARD wORK TINE PRIcE

"The price of success, Governor
dents. "is hard work applied daily II
is conscientious application to your
hard tasks which count in the final
analysis The finest contribution YOU
can make to State College and to the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which
nurtured this college,. is. to lend your
training State College has given you.7
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-11
GILMORE AND sOUsA
[From the New York World

IFTom the New York World
Bandmaster Sousa took up years aao
the trying task of being a successor In
popularity to Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore.
How. far he has succeeded was made
manifest on Saturday, when bands, or
chestras and great organs from coast
to coast poured out his march music in
recognition of his 6tst birthday. Schools
of music may come and may go, rag
time may rest, but all the world viii
continue to love a stirring number In
two-four time.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-11

One million month in wages at
Swab's big Bethlehem plant, where $S0,-
600, 900 is likewise being expended in
an extension of the plant, indicates the
abnormal character of the prosperity
in-spots that is being utilized by the
Wilson administration as an alleged
justification for it's free trade folly.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-11
"DA BEsTA FRAND,

No keeck my dog Hal don d dare
ror JUS so .queeck you do,
You Meester 'Merican, L swear.
1 brack your face for you'll
Eth? Wat? Well. den, dat's ALA ri II,
But let me Carlo be.
Escusa me for gat excite;
Com lookl 1 smila See?
1 want be frand weeth you, eef dat
You wanta be my frand,
But Carlo ees bes' frand | gat
Een all dees bigga land.
An he ees firsta 'Merican
For com wen / am blue
An max. me feela like man
tai eet all to you.
From "Da Besta Frand."
1T. A. DAILY.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-11

That French commission of bankers
and commercial leaders now here to
place more than hundred million of
dollars in orders for machinery for
peaceful industry at the close of the
war is a hopeful sign of future trade
relations with France.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-11
IN HARRISBURG FIFTY
YEARS AGO TO-DAY

[F'rom the Telegraph, Nov. IL, 1861
Funeral of George 10y
The funeral of George 10y, who
was killed yesterday in the yards
of the Pennsylvania railroad, will be
held tomorrow morning at 10
o'clock 1t will be attended by mem
bers of the Friendship Fire Company
and Company G, F'ifty-fifth Regiment,
Pennsylvania Volunteers.
Sixth Regiment Leaves
The Sixth Regiment of the Hancock
Corps received orders to leave here
this morning enroute for Washing
ton.
Governor Names Day of Thanks
Thursday, December was chosen
as the day for thanksgiving observ-
ance in this State, to correspond with
the date set by President Johnson.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-11
Our Daily Laugh
A BIG GUN.

He seems to be
a big gun in this
community?
Yep. He's about
the only AZ CEN
timeter the town
has.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-11
The State From Day to Day

Go to Heller" the tailor, is the
somewhat startling one-Iine reader
that stares the Williamsport public
in the face from the daily papers.
The advertiser evidently believes that
inasmuch as Providence had endow-
ed him with a name of such possi-
bilities, he would be foolish not to
make capital of it,
Henry S. Brubaker of Lancaster.
aged so, prominent as a botanist, who
had done much work for leading COL
leges and the State authorities, is
dead.
A pair of brass trimmed spectacles
that have been handed down through
four generations are the property of
Henry A. Meals, of York Springs.
They served his eat-grandfather
until his death at the age of ninety,
his grandfather until he was ninety
two, and his father until he was eigh-
ty. Time alone will tell for how
many more generations these faithful
spectacles will do yeoman service.
Rubber goods will probably be
manufactured in an old pottery plant
in New Castle, If the plans of sew
eral enterprising young men of that
vicinity materialize and their project
can be carried out.
Surrounded by seven daughters
one son, twenty-one grandchildren
and eleven great-grandchildren, DAN
lei Billing, of Lynnville. celebrated
his eightieth birthday recently. All
the neighbors were present, says the
local paper. and enjoyed two birth
day cakes on which were eighty light
ed candles.
A widow in Shamokin has survived
two husbands, both of whom met
death in precisely the same way. Her
second husband, John Lenker, was
killed yesterday by being caught un-
der a fall of rock at Buck Ridge Col
liery.
Lena Baroni, aged Is, of Somerset,
was electrocuted while climbing over
rail fence. her feet becoming en-
tangled in a broken telephone wire.
Her sister was knocked to the ground
but not seriously injured.
An aged Civil War veteran. who
has passed the eighty mile
stone, a shoemaker by trade, has just
completed a little home for himself
in Beaver Falls, the entire construc-
tion work of which he did with his
own hands. ST built it to have me a
home when get old was the way the
interesting old soldier explained his
actions.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-11
EDITORIAL COf11ENT

These gains and losses of so many
yards are apt to muddle the reader SO
he will not know whether he is read
ing the football news or the war re-
ports.-Pittsburgh Dispatch.
The war has become so general that
an ordinary battle doesn't cut much
figure. The press agents pick out the
best one in the lot each day and talk
about that.-Indianapolis Star.
At a Kansas City dinner the other
night a toast to President Wilson was
drunk in Missouri River water This
seems to be a new version of the con-
ventional mud-slinging. = Boston
Transcript.
Various theories are offered for the
recent advances in the cost of living
but our own pet theory is that it is due
to the closing of the Panama Canal.
You remember how the opening of the
Canal reduced the cost of living, don't
you? Neither do we.-Columbus Citizen.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-11

4OO1h AO1Ae
Mr.. Rabbit: I
hear Mr.. Katt ate
your mother-in-
law.
Mr., Wratt: Yes
The heard me
say she was .
"piece of cheese, -
and he lik . .
cheese.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-11
The Newspaper

Truman A. De. Weese. a we'll
known business builder, says:
Get a copy of the leading
paper of your town of twenty
years ago and compare 1t with
to-days edition of the same
paper.
You may not detect any re-
markable Improvement in the
handling of the editorial or news
matter.
THE thing that will impress
you most is the quantity and
quality of the advertising.
"The paper is vibrant with In
tense merchandising activity.
"There Is freshness, timelIness
and originality in the advertis-
ing.
"The copy has news interest.
"There is a striking departure
from the hackneyed, stereotyped
statements of other days.
There is an absence of ex-
travagant claims and invidious
comparisons.
"The advertising is a pleas
ing mixture of store news and
honest salesmanship."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-11

Fifty-seven majority for a viaduct
that will cost the people at least half
a million dollars is hardly to be ac-
cepted as an expression OF widespread
popular approval, This fact is having
its effect upon the State officials. who
are opposed to the proposition on the
ground that such a viaduct and the
necessary approaches in Walnut street
win destroy the imposing treatment
of the Capitol Park extension zone
which has been contemplated.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-11
THURSDAY EVENING, NOV. II

Wherefore, If meat n,dketh my
brother to stumble, I t0Hl eat no flesh
for eUermore, that make not mg
brother to stumbIe-I. Cor. S:13.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-11

Herrick for Burton indicates a get
ting together in Ohio and general har-
mony in the Republican ranks through
out the country.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-11

Now the Nizam. Of Hyderabad has
been fired by his anti-British subjects
in India. Surely it's a strenuous year
for John Bull.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-11
DO YOU KNOW
That Harrisburg engines are being
used i'm Canadian power plants?
HISTORIC HARRISRrR,

hIolOhlO HARRISBURG
Some noted taverns used to be
located along the wharves on Front
street.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-11
UPLIFTING FOREIGN WOMEN

n FRS. HARRY BREMER, secre-
VI tary for immigration work on
the national board of the Y. w.
C. A., speaking before a large confer
ence of association workers in this
city last evening, touched on an inn
portant matter when she said:
The Young Women's Christian
Association is the largest union of
women in this country and faces
problem that cannot be shirked. An
immigration secretary should be
placed in each city to take up this
important work. among all foreign
born women,
The Y. NJ. c. AS everywhere are
reaching out after the foreign work
man. but little is being done to bring
his foreign wife into the Influences of
American ways of living. The son and
the daughter are in the public schools
and are there taught our ways and
modes of living untouched by outside
agencies. Even the foreign laborer,
mixing as he does with Americans,
gets some sidelights on American
thought and standards. But the wom-
ans vision is confined largely to the
limits of an often none too attractive
home. and she learns little that helps
her to understand this new country in
which she finds herself or aids her in
t'becoming a better American.
The opportunity for the Y. w. C. A,
lies right there. Mrs. Bremen has
touched upon a very important point
and her suggestion for the appoint
ment of immigration secretaries should
bear fruit.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-11

Governor Brumbaugh is disposed
to take his time in regard to the
supreme court appointment, although
his mail contains many letters urging
appointments. The endorsement of
Judge Willis Martin of Philadelphia,
by the committee of lawyers in that
city has been received at the Capitol.
but the Governor declined to talk
about it. About the Capitol 1t is be-
lieved that Judge Martin will he
named in spite of activity of friends
of other candidates.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-11

Published every evening Except Sun.
day. at the Telegraph Building. ZIG
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-11

Member American Newspaper Publish
ers' Association. Audit Bureau OF
Circulation and Pennsylvania Assoei-
ated Datlies.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-11

Lena Baroni, aged 16, of Somerset,
was electrocuted while climbing over
a rail fence. her feet becoming en-
tangled in a broken telephone wire.
Her sister was knocked to the ground
but not seriously injured.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-11

Eastern Office, Fifth Avenue Building,
New York City. Hasbrook, Story &
Brooks.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-11

PUBLISHED BY
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING GO.