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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-12
PROTECT OUR BREAD SUPPLY

THE government at Washington
will be warranted in taking any
Il steps that may be necessary to
protect the bread supply of the
American people. Charity begins at
home. The size of the scent loaf Is
small enough now. 1t is hard as it is
to keep the bread box full. Before
catering to the needs of the war lords
who are responsible for plunging all
Europe into war we should see to IL
that we keep at home sufficient to feed
our own people at prices no greater
than they are paying at present. The
American workman is in no position to
nav cents loaf for his bread for the
sake of putting millions into the
nockets of the spectators who would
sell at unheard of figures abroad and
let our own millions content them
selves as best they could with what
remained.
If a government embargo on wheat
Is necessary to this end, then let the
embargo be declared, with the possible
exception of freewill offerings con-
signed to the starving people of Bel
GUM. Such a step would do no injury
to the farmer. His wheat is for the
most part already sold and in the
hands of professional traders. who are
merely interested in getting as much
"rake-off" as the people will stand.
To be sure, Europe needs our wheat.
But we also need 1t. and we grew 1t
and we should have It, If there be any
left after the American consumers
have been supplied at prices APPROACH
ing normal all very we'll, let II 60
abroad. But not single grain should
be shipped out of the United States
until it is absolutely certain that the
scent loaf has been safeguarded and
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-12
GREAT EXPLORER To
SPEAK IN THIS CITY
Plans For Lecture of Sir Douglas
MawsOn Have Been
Completed

Plans for a lecture in the Majestic,
February 10, by Sir Douglas Mawson,
Australian scientist and an Arctic ex-
plorer have been completed by cable
by the Natural History Society of this
city, whose guest he will be.
The traveller is expected to arrive
from England about January Is. Be
fore coming to Harrisburg he will ad-
dress the National Geographic Society
and several other gatherings
Sir Douglas Mawsons appearance
VIII offer the home folks an oppor-
tunlty to see a real knight of old Eng
land. He will reach Harrisburg prob
ably late in the evening of the 9TH
Sor Douglas will give Harrisburg a
glimpse of the dreadful blackness of
the silent, icy waters of the Antarctic
region, the binding snowstorms and
of the yawning crevasses. The story
Will be illustrated with what Sir Ernest
Shackleton, the royal naval Antarctic
explorer. has termed THE greatest col
lection of pictures of the south polar
world that were ever taken"
The Australian went out to the black
wastes of the land beyond the sun to
collect what data he could that would
be of value to Australia from n
weather. meteorological and otherwise
scientific viewpoint.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-12

ployed in private enterprises all the
time. But there is not city or town
in the whole land that is not in dire
need of improvements and betterments
of various kinds. Eventually this work
will be done. Why not now, when
not only the working people, but the
business people of every community,
would feel the impetus of more money
put into circulation?
For instance. take Pennsylvania, or
Dauphin county, or, to come right
down home. the city of Harrisburg.
All of them have need of improve
ments that would provide work for
hundreds, and none of them find their
credit exhausted. Indeed, all three
would have little trouble in negotiating
a loan. Yet there is not single move
in that direction. Some day we will
learn to cope with conditions like these
and anything that will bring the So
luton and the means nearer is worthy
of consideration.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-12
UNFAIR DISCRIMINATION

INVESTIGATION and decade of
practice have proved that the
/ graduates of the Harrisburg
Teachers Training School are in
every way equal and in many lines
the superior of the normal school
product.
Under the school code. the city
training school is not recognized as
being on as high a plane as the State
Normal schools, despite the higher
qualifications of the local schools
graduates. That the Harrisburg
training school girls are more efficient
is not strange, for they have six full
years. work, whereas many students
enter the Normal schools directly
from the grammar schools or follow
ing a short country high school train
ing. The Normal students are given
permanent certificates upon gradu-
alton without further examination, but
the girls of the Harrisburg school are
subjected to endless tests and try outs,
and they can obtain permanent certi-
ficates only after long series of tenn
porary certificates have been granted.
Any fair-minded person will agree
that sucn injustice and such discrimi-
nation in favor of the normal school
should be remedied as soon as it Is
possible to enact the necessary legis-
lation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-12

~
~ GUM from starvation" says
4 = Ethelbert Watts, American
consul general at Brussels
reporting on conditions in that coun-
try which he has left temporarily for
a brief rest
That the plea for aid which reused
the people of America as perhaps
they were never reused before, was
not exaggerated is shown by Mr.
Watts statement that when the first
American relief ship arrived there was
less than three days supply of food
in all Belgium.
The consul generals report is in
teresting, and it is gratifying to note
the ready response Of Americans to
the call of a stricken people, but he
might have gone farther. He might
have said that we are just beginning
to save Belgium, for the need is as
great now as ever, and it will be SO
until the activities of the hostile
armies are transferred to other scenes.
Even then Belgium will be scarcely
able to support herself for many
months.
All of which is preliminary to plea
for the support of the Harrisburg War
and Emergency Relief Committee,
which is doing a work of two-fold
charity. Last week, with money rails
ed by various MEANS this committee
provided sewing for 1873 women of
Harrisburg Thus our own people
who needed work were given oppor-
tunity to earn money, and the gar
ments they made were shipped to New
York to be forwarded to Belgium and
elsewhere in Europe-where the
heavy hand of war has left women and
children destitute to face the chill
winds of winter.
This is a thoroughly practical
method of dealing with a situation
that, on account of our own lack of
employment at home, for a time
threatened many complications. The
money given to the relief committee
is, first of all, expended for materials
manufactured in the United States.
Second, the clothing to be sent abroad
is made by Harrisburg women who
need work, and third, the plea for
assistance abroad is amply met.
But this must be remembered-THE
LOCAL COMMITTEE CANNOT DO
MUCH WITHOUT FUNDS.
How much have YOU given?
How much are YOU going to give?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-12
a. BOOKS and aA
T# n MAGAZINES MMM
~ 4aME5D NssSA0-uNHAASsaa
REVIEW OF "THE FRANK CASE,

c. p. Connolly, of Golfers Weekly,
has written little book on the Frank
case at Atlanta, Ga, which has aroused
nation wide interest Mr.. Connolly,
who was himself a prosecuting attorney
for four years at Butte, Mont, during
the stormy days of the great copper min
ing town, represented Golfers Weekly
at the trial of Meyer, Haywood and
Pettbone at Boise, Idaho, and also at
the trial of the McNamaras at Los An
geles.
The story is as fascinating as any
fiction. A little girl Is found dead at
daybreak in the cellar of a pencil fac
tory in Atlanta. Beside her are found
two notes, a pencil, and a pencil pad,
on which one of the notes had been
written by the murdered girl to her
mother, telling who murdered her They
described as the murderer a negro who
was the exact opposite in physical type
of the negro who wrote the notes. This
negro, Jim Conley, after denying for a
month that he could write and that
he was at the pencil factory on the
day of the murder, finally swore that
the superintendent of the factory, Leo
NJ. Frank, procured him to write the
notes, and that Frank, not he, placed
the notes by the body. 1t is in unravel-
ing the mystery of these notes that the
author has brought to bear his expert
ence as a lawyer and investigator.
The book Is now on sale at all news
stands.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-12
VISION
By Charles Hanson Townc

BY Charles Hanson TOwnc
Sometimes, in a crowded street | see
The faces of those that love, and those
that are loved;
And in the rush of the traffic,
The laundering sounds of the city,
pause,
Wondering about their loves-which
are their lives.
know them by their eyes, and by
their glances;
I know them in a way I may not
name,
And I know those that have won and
those that have lost
In the eternal battle of the world
But they that have lost have not al
ways a sad countenance;
Sometimes their lips smile,
AS if with an old comprehension,
And one might be deceived, save for
the tragic eyes
The smiling, yet unsmiling eyes above
the mouth.
Those eyes have read In the great
Book of Love,
And they are changed, they are chang
ed forever.
And those lips have kissed the pages
of the book,
And they, too, are changed forever.
only lips can lie-but eyes can never
deceive.
And those that have won-not always
do they smile.
Often they seem to be secretly weep
ing,
AS if with joy too terrible to bear. &. .
Strange, strange are the countenances
of those that love.
I know them all-brothers and sisters
of Love;
know them, and they know me too.
| can tell by their eyes
Their eyes that follow me with knowl-
edge,
With pity, with solemn understanding.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-12
KUNKEL RAPS WAY
BIBLE IS TAUGHT
Says Commandments Get Less At
tention Than Geography, His
Sry and Philosophy

knowledge of the exact dis
tance from Jericho to Jerusalem
seems to be of greater importance
nowadays in the instruction of the
youth in the Sunday Schools than
the true appreciation of the basis
principles of the Ten Command
ments.
The geography, history, philos-
ophy and so on of the Bible ap-
parently receives more attention
than the Commandment, "Thou
shalt not Steal!'
President Judge George Kunkel,
trustee in the Reformed denomina-
tional college board of Franklin and
Marshall College and an official liz
the board of the Reformed Salem
Church of this city, delivered that
cryptic tip to Sunday School super
intendents and teachers from the Dau-
phin county bench yesterday after
noon when he sentenced four youth
full burglars to the Huntingdon Re-
formatory.
The quartet, it developed, had car
ried on n system of organized looting
of residences stores, automobile
garages, lighthouses. clubhouses, etc,
and their spoils were valued at from
$3.50 to 5000.
One of the youngsters who APP
peared to be guiding head of the
band had been reared under favorable
family surroundings and had been a
regular attendant at Sunday Schools.
1t was when the courts attention was
called to the youths previous good
conduct that Judge Kunlkel spoke OF
the questionable methods adopted foi
Biblical instruction in the Sunday
Schools to-day. Too much attention
he pointedly remarked, seems to be
paid to the isms and ologies of the
Bible and too little to the fundamen-
tai principles of the Books teachings
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-12
JOHN o. THE MOUNTAINS

The passing of John Muir, savior of
our national parks, moves Charles l..
Edison, colyumist of the New York
Evening Mail to sing:
John o. the mountains, wonderful
John,
Is past the summit and travelling on;
The turn of the trail on the mountain
A smile and HALL" where the glaciers
slide,
A streak of red where the condors
ride,
And John is over the Great Divide.
John O. the mountains camps to-day
On level spot by the milky way;
And God is telling him how He rolled
The smoking earth from the iron mold,
And hammered the mountains till they
were cold,
And planted the Redwood trees of old
And John O. the mountains says: 'T
knew,
And I wanted to grapple the hand O.
And now we're sure to be friends and
chums
And camp together till chaos comes"
OF course John Muir and God are
friends. Muir fraternized with the
birds of the field and forest and
chummed with the squirrel and the
bear. He rhapsodized over the beau
ty and sweetness of flowers and COM
muned with God through the Redwoods
and pines. His life was glorification
of Gods original andiwork.-Colliers.
Mrs. Flatte Wait, dear, until
think.
Mr.. Flatte-I can't wait as long as
| that; I've got an engagement day after
| lto-morrow.-Yon Statesman.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-12
THE JOYS OF THE ROAD

Now the joys of the road are chiefly
these,
A crimson touch on the hardwood trees;
A vagrant's morning wide and blue
In early Fall. when the winds walks,
too;
A shadowy highway cool and brown,
Alluring up and enticlng down,
From rippled water to dappled swamp,
From purple glory to scarlet pomp;
The outward eye, the quiet will,
And the striding heart from hill to hill.
An idle noon, a bubbling spring,
The sea in the pine-tops murmuring;
A scrap of gossip at the ferry:
A comrade neither glum nor merry,
Asking nothing, revealing naught.
But minting his words from a fund of
thought,
These are the joys of the open road,
For him who travels without a load
Bliss Carman.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-12
Newspapers and
Local Dealers

To-day the best selling prod
ucts. especially those of home
consumption, are those being ad-
vertised in the daily newspapers.
Many of these were practically
unknown until recently. Now
they can be found on the shelves
of nearly every dealer.
Enquiry will reveal that the
dealer recognizes the fact that
the advertising of these prod
ucts in newspapers published In
his home town and read by his
own, or possible customers is not
only helping to hold his trade by
giving them what they want, but
It is likewise developing trade
for him by bringing more GUS
toners to his store.
"He realizes that only small
per cent. of his trade are read
ers OF national publications. lie
does know that in practically
every home served by him a daily
newspaper is Tead ana that paper
is one or more of the daily news
papers published I'm his own
town."
Extract from a speech by w.
@. Johnson.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-12
81 BEAR A SINGING HEARTv

spoke a traveller on the road
Who smiled beneath his leaden load,
"How play you such blithesome part ?"
"Comrade, bear a singing hearth
I questioned one whose path with pain
In the grim shadows long had lain,
"How face you thus life's thorny
smart?"
"Comrade, I bear a singing hearth
hailed one whom adversity
Could not make bend the hardy knee,
How such brave seeming? Tell the
art"
"Comrade, I bear a singing hearth
Friend, blest be thou IL thou canst say
Upon the inevitable way
Whereon we fare, sans guide or chart
"Comrade, bear n singing heartl"
CLINTON SCOLI4ARD.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-12

OIL tt6dllIlt Iu6 III
= rection of DR.. Raunick and his
assistants are unquestionably re-
sponsible for the steadily lowering
death rate in Harrisburg. The annual
report of the board shows that while
the population was materially increas-
ed last year, the mortality rate was
lower than ever before for a like
period.
Filtered water, pure milk, food in
spection, sanitary housing, health in
structions, strict quarantine and the
prompt use of antitoXine in the treat
ment of diphtheria are unquestionably
large factors in this very gratifying
state of affairs, and to make these
measures effective, has required the
constant thought and unremitting at
tention of all of the employees of the
Health Department. There was a time
when this division of the city govern
ment was little more than form. 1t
had not the respect of the people at
large and was unable to perform sue
cessfully even those duties to which it
did pay some degree of attention.
DR.. Raunick has been the prime
mover in the campaign that has led up
to the changed conditions and he is
deserving of his full share of the
credit that goes with success.
Best of all, however, is the lower
death rate, which means that there
are boys and girls and men and women
alive and enioying the Measures of
life in Harrisburg to-day who, but for
the activities of the Health Board in
their behalf, would now be sleeping
the sleep that knows no walking.
Which is about as big and important
an accomplishment, by the way, as it
comes within the powers of any gov
ernmental bureau to perform.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-12
NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT BUREAU

~ RESIDENT WILSON'S plan for
the creation of a National EN-
= ployment Bureau, while not new
is a subject worthy of attention,
IL 1t does nothing moro than give us
another chapter of discussion and in
formation concerning the great prob
lem of keeping our people employed
all the time. Possibly, indeed very
likely. the National Employment Bu-
reau proposed would not measure I'M
to expectations. but 1t would be a stem
in the right direction.
1t is no longer true that in this conn
try "a man is a man if he is willing to
toll, and the humblest may gather the
fruits of the soil" But it ought to be.
There is really no excuse for unem-
ployment in a nation so little de-
veloped and so full of work crying out
to be done as the United States. That
thousands Of our people are In distress
and that local committees have had to
be formed to relieve the suffering aris-
ing therefrom is proof only of our
stupidity. Everybody realizes that
there is really no excuse for this con-
dition. We as a people have the
remedy at hand. but we fail to use It,
Public work is the answer. We are
not yet educated economically to the
point of keeping all our people en-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-12
JOHN WON'T.
THE EDITORS JOKE
BY Wing Dinger

sure did make a record new
Down at the shop to-day.
l spent most every minute at
My desk. pegging away.
did more work than 1 have done
For quite a long, long while.
I'm glad 1t rained, my works caught
up,
1 wear a big, broad smile.
planned my day, and after I'd
Worked hours at my plan,
The editor came on the scene
Gee. how L hate that mani.
He nosed about, and then remarked,
With quite a nasty sneer:
More rainy days are needed to
Keep desks around here clear"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-12
WHOLE THOUGHT NOT OF WAR

- NGLAND appears to be the only
nation now at war that is not
- devoting its full thought to the
conflict. This is evident from the
fact that number of her young men
are now in this country, in full under
standing with a trade-spreading plan
of the government, to do what they
can to keep factories running at home.
More striking than this, however, is
the instance of Sir Ernest Shackleton
going calmly forward with his work of
Antarctic exploration while his COM
rades of the royal navy stand and
sleep by their guns in constant readi-
ness for combat with the German foe.
Evidently the oft-repeated decla-
ration of confidence in the ultimate
success of the allied arms is more than
mere bragadocio on the part of Great
Britain. nation that proceeds with
its scientific investigations while its
soldiers are in the trenches and its
warships stripped for action is by no
means down to its last man or its last
dollar, especially since this work takes
some of its most skilled and courageous
naval officers out of the country for
several years at an expense that will
total near the million mark.
There may be those who think Sir
Ernest Shackleton and his fellow
voyagers lucky to be assigned to such
a mission during the fighting period,
but at that there is not much more
than a toss-up of preference between
fighting in the North Sea and daring
death amid the perils of the frigid
Antarctic region.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-12
IN HARRI SBURc FIFN
YEARS AGO TO-DAY

[From the Telegraph, Jan. IL, 1865.
Department Elections
Pennsylvania State Agricultural De-
partment will elect officers next Tues.
day in this city.
Flops on the Ice
Several persons have been injured
by falls on the icy pavements.
Accident
A runaway horse and sleigh in
jured two persons on Second street
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-12

that our people are not put to any
more hardships in the way of increased
household expenses than those by
which they are now handicapped.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-12
FACTS AND FUN

MY wife gets nothing but appre-
hension out of life"
How so?"
"She's afraid of COWS in the country
and automobiles in town. kansas
City Journal.
A windmill in England furnishes
electric light for church and rectory
and power to blow church organ.
Biggs-Our forefathers had wives
that were of some account. They
would do everything from the family
sewing to driving oxen.
Boggs - Yes; they hemmed and
hawed, as ii were.-Christian Register.
Egyptian cotton is being profitably
grown on irrigated farms in Arizona.
Ignorant Young Lady-That gawky
freak Why, you told me he was a
nobby young fellow!
Treacherous Friend - Yes: but /
spelled it with k.-Chicago Post.
The Chinese government is planning
to spend $10,000.000 for a number of
high-power wireless stations.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-12
JUST AS EASY.

Father: Marry
that young pau
per? Why L un-
derstand he owes
his landlady a
months b o q r d
now.
Daughter: Yes,
but he says he
can stall her for
two as easy as
one.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-12

Manners are of more importance
than laws Upon them, in a great
measure the laws depend. The law
touches but here and there, now and
then. Manners arc what vex or soothe
corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, bar
barize or refine us, by a constant,
steady, uniform, insensihle operation
like that of the air we breathe in.
They give their whole form and color
to our lives. According to their quail
ity. they aid morals. they supply them
or they totally destroy them.-Burke.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-12
GEMS OF THOUGHT

If you count the sunny and the
cloudy days of the whole year, you
will find that the sunshine predomi-
nates.-Ovid.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-12

When men are rightly occupied
their amusement grows out of their
work. as the color petals out of the
fruitful fiower.-Ruskin.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-12
NEWS s. THl RssTSHtSS tSSAR

[From the Telegraph. Jan. IL, 1865. ]
Savannah Orderly
Washington, Jan. 12.-Perfect order
prevails in Savannah. No one is al
lowed to leave or enter the city. A
scarcity of wood and food for the poor
families prevails.
Fire in Charlotte
Richmond, Va. Jan. IA $780,
900, 900 fire has been raging in Char
lotte, N. c., but is now under control
Government property was destroyed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-12
OUR DAILY LAUGH
PEACE AS
STIRRED.

PEACE AS
SURREp.
Wifey-And SO
you got your life
insurance for my
benefit? II o W
lovelyl
Hubby - Yes,
my dear; but just
remember If you
drive me to sui
eide you won't get
q cent.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-12

Egyptian cotton is being profitabl
grown on irrigated farms in Arizona.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-12
ONLY BEGUN

II 4 MERICAN charity saved Bel
~ GUM from starvation" says
= Ethelbert Watts, American
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-12
TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 12
GOOD WORK

.HE increased activities of the
Board Of Health, under the di-
rnctinn of Dr RnmniclE and his