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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-31

appreciation of them if we call back
In memory the men who gave them life
and strength, and on this one day set
apart from the others of the year do
tion. rendering due honor to its army
to the great majority gone and the
remnant present-gainS inspiration for
a better and more devoted patriotism
vidual, kin of some soldier patriot or
not, can find profit as well in making
this annual occasion his personal Day
of Memories and resummoning those
who have passed away:
Partial transformation of the day
from its original purpose is Inevitable
the fate of all the holidays in some
degree, regrettable as Ii is. But the
Perpetuation of the day and its duties
is a charge upon the people of the
united states that must never be neg
lected. When the last of the soIlieTs
of the Civil War shall have gone. there
VIII be sons and daughters and grand
sons and granddaughters to take up
the service of decorating the soldiers
graves. and there will be those who
Will continue the formal exercises of
the occasion. But the thought Of the
day is for all, and If Its appeal is to he
permanent IL must be in some manner
that VII a4,,r reach H1, every person.
incorporated in Memorial Day procla-
nations by the Governors of manv
Commonwealths, is a conception of such
an ,Sar o6jeetiys, tFtitting appealing
L is proper and desirable that on each
Memorial Day-next Monday and in
each succeeding year-as the stroIxe ~
the Angelus summons the faithful To
prayer, the MONDAY bell shall be recoE1
Memory to ive minutes commmnion
with those who. though dead, shall i've
again.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-31
PRACTICAL OWL SERVICE

TT is common report on Capitol Hill
that George II. Biles, of Philadei-
phia, now in charge of the main
tenance work of the State Highway
Department, will be advanced to sue
ceed E. A. Jones, of Scranton, who
resigned a few days ago as Second
Deputy Highway Commissioner. This
will be a recognition of faithful SER
vice in line with the well-known views
of the Governor and Commissioner
Cunningham and a practical demon
stration of the administrators civil
service policy.
Since the outset of the States good
roads movement Mr.. Biles has been
one of the officials whose engineering
skill and general fitness for the work
have been appreciated by those famil-
lar with his devotion to duty and his
realization of the great undertaking
upon which the State has entered.
All the friends of a faithful official Will
hope that the rumor concerning the
preference of Commissioner Cunning
ham is correct.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-31

BY Wing DinEer


I've read the note from Germany,
And as l read it through
noted all the greetings and
The friendly phrases, too.
That diplomats most always use
In such a document
Before they get down to the point
And make known their intent.
Each word 1 read most carefully,
And patiently did wait
Until I'd come to that part of
The note. where it would state
Just what the Germans have in mind
What they intend TO do
But gee, before that part 1 found
I'd read the whole note through.
Now 1t is very clear to me
Why three weeks 1t did take
The Germans to write the reply
Which to us it would make.
One can't sit down and write in haste
thousand words or so
That really don't say anything
That takes some time, you know.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-31
TO GENERAL GEORGE G..
MEADE

John ". Frazier. in the course of a
says that Comrade
John b. Patrick, of Post 5S. Harrisburg
and himself succeeded in securing from
the Legislature an appropriation of
to General George G. Meade in the city
of Washington, making a total Of
$50. 1000 for that purpose. and that credit
is particularly due to the patriotic and
persistent help of Governor Brum-
baugh, Attorney General Brown and
James A. Dale. of York. With this
money there ought to be such me-
mortal of Meade in the National Capital
as will be distinctly worthy of his fame
and of the signal part which he played
in the preservation of the Union. The
character of the statue and Its embell-
ishments have yet to be finally deter
mined, and Mr.. Frazier writes that 1t
should be entirely free of alleEory that
no one understands and of the archaeol-
ogy OF prehistoric periods, but that
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-31
EDITORIAL cOrN1ENT

Dernburg wants safe conduct on the
high seas for Dernburg New
York Evening Sun.
The President believes also that ma
tions can be too proud not to fight
Philadelphia North American.
Whatever comes in the shape of
trouble, IL will certainly not bear the
MADE in America label.-Chlcago
Herald.
Mexicos useful role was to give the
United States the drill and exercise in
forbearance that 1t needed.-Chicago
Daily News.
Now is the time for American citi-
zens, one and ALL to see America first,
last and all the time.-Chicago Herald.
II that's a note. the Kaiser sincerely
hopes Mr.. Wilson will never write him
a ietter.-Boston Transcript
Possibly Germany's. idea was to take
advantage of us while T. r. was tied
up in court-Philadelphi North
American.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-31
PROSECUTE THE "DOPEsTERs"

PROSECUTE The 'DOGESIE EhS
TT is to be hoped that the Poor
Boards investigation of the sale OF
habit forming drugs in Harrisburg
will prove that the charges are ground
less. But If there is evidence to show
that anybody in any walk of life has
been breaking the federal law in this
respect, he or she should be prosecuted
to the full extent of the statute.
There is no more dastardly, in
human trade in the world than that
which fattens the pockets of those who
engage in it at the expense of the
happiness. the honor and the life of
those upon whose patronage 1t de-
pends. Whisky drinking is bad enough,
in all conscience. but drug-taking is a
hundredfold worse. 1t is possible for
some few men to drink moderately"
so that to all appearances they are not
seriously injured thereby. but there is
only one end for the man who uses
drugs, and that is dishonor and death.
THE federal government was a long
time in arriving at a conclusion with
respect to the outrageous traffic in
opium and drugs of its kind, but, hav-
ing enacted a law designed to abolish
the trade, IT'S agents have been char
acteristically active in it's suppression.
There are no more tireless nor more
conscientious officers in the world
than those employed to enforce the
federal statutes of the United States.
They have a big task on their hands
in the present crusade, but they have
public opinion with them. and all good
citizens should give their assistance
wherever possible. Dealing in habit
forming drugs must be made as rare
in the United States as the manu-
facture of "moonshine" whisky or the
making of counterfeit money-and just
as serious an offense.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-31
THE VOICE OF MEMORIAL DAY
BY ]. Howard Vert.
A beauteous land by Heaven blessed,
~ OF every charm and good possessed,

A beauteous land by Heaven blessed,
~ OF every charm and good possessed,
Was in moment called to war,
Whilst darkness draped each shining star.
When walled bleeding country's call
Through mountain cot and stately hall,
By patriotic impulse grand,
Brave men arose DER all Our land.
A very few remain to-day
Their step is Slow their heads are gray.
Of millions, some are with the slain
Of every bloody battle plain.
In each Gods acre of our land,
From eastern coast to western strand
To-day, from scores of hallowed graves,
The tiny flag of honor waves.
Yes, strew their tombs with fairest flowers
Look what goodly land is ours;
Honor the men from sea to sea-
Who made our States, home of the free.
And make the solemn vow to-day,
Over these mounds of heros' clay,
THE Flag for which they fought and fell
Shall ever to the breezes swell.
"Unmarred by stain; symbol Of right,
Amid the bloody, gruesome night
OF slaughter wild in other land,
Earths messenger of Hope it stands"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-31
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

A. ]. DreXel Biddle will give up
his house in Philadelphia.
Mayor Armstrong. of Pittsburgh,
plans Canadian vacation trip.
IS. NJ. Knox, the shipbuilder, was
given a reception by friends on his re-
turn to Philadelphia. He was saved
from the Lusitania.
Attorney General Brown Is PLAN
ming to go to Lake Placid in August.
William B. Hackenburg, well
known here, is president of the Phila-
delphia Jewish Hospital, which is cele-
brating its semicentennial.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-31

rather it should present latter-dav
ideas-something of the American his,
tory With which the name of Meade
was SO closely Identified from GettysS
burg to Appomatox, and what has
grown out of Gettysburg as the de-
cisive battle that has assured the peace
and prosperity that have come to fbe
American people."-"Penn, in Phila
delphia Bulletin.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-31
Our Daily Laugh
NEEDS sYNPA-

NEEDS SYBPA-
THY.
Mrs. Wis she
a member of
m a n y afternoon
clubs?
Mrs. T. - No,
poor thing, she
isn't. She's mar
ried to one OF
{ h o g Q husbands
who insists on
coming home to
all their meals
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-31

NATURALLY.
Where Is the
Sat of war loca-
ted. pat
In the front
rev, I presume
% son.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-31
.Nl. G." AND LINCOLN HIGHWAY

WITH the tremendous impetus
wv given the nationwide propa-
ganda for better highways by
Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh, the
bodybuilding movement in Pennsyl-
vania and elsewhere is bound to go
forward with increasing momentum.
That Good Roads Day" proclamation
and its practical effect have placed
IN. c., as the Governor is known up
the -uniata Valley, among the great
leaders in this constructive work.
And it is almost certain that he will
throw the weight of his influence on
the side of the proposition to divert
the Lincoln highway, which will ex-
tend from coast to coast, from ten
tative line southwark so as to touch
Harrisburg and the several towns on
the old Pittsburgh and Philadelphia
nike through the Juniata Valley
famed in song and story and easily the
most picturesque and historic region in
the State. It is inconceivable that such
a highway could be established with
out touching the capital and his great
interest in his native Commonwealth
will make the Governor a potential
figure in the adoption of the national
highway.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-31
rHERE's SOME BALM IN GILEAD

LCleveland Plain Dealer.l
War and weather and wardrobe may
combine to encourage pessimism, but
the true baseball fan perks up bit
when he remembers that the days OF
double headers are fast approaching
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-31

Isn't it enough that the business of
the country has been hectored almost
to the vanishing point in many lines
through the meddling of Democratic
Congress that we should now be threat
ened with an extra session of that re-
markable body of misft statesmen. II
the President really wants to restore
the business equilibrium, he will frown
down the extra session talk of alleged
leaders OF his party, who are never so
happy as when they are strutting about
Washington giving a rank imitation
of the real thing in statesmanship.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-31

The fellow who said the Washington
administration had imposed an income
tax when there was no income and
war tax when there was no war. Will
probably have something to say about
the new national law that has COM
pelIed the railroad companies on and
after tomorrow to require all travel
ers to pay ten cents for each additional
500 of valuation on the contents of
their trunks Where in the name of
all that's sensible is the paternalism
of the present Democratic dynasty to
endi
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-31
HEADLEss HUSBANDS

[From the Philadelphia inquirer
THE ideal husband is never bald
headed" says a woman. The ideal hiis-
band has no head at all.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-31
INSPIRATION TO BETTER LIFE
kansas City star.l

An Atchison theologian advances
the awful theory that there are prob
ably a great many flies and dande-
lions in hades.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-31
MONDAY EVENING, MAY 81

TINE destroys the eyonniiess coneeitS of
meH; it confirms decisions founded on reality.
Cicero.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-31

1t is characteristic of the National
Guard authorities of Pennsylvania that
preparedness should mark every step
IN the development of the States mill
tia This week the first of a series of
camps will begin at Mt. Gretna, where
the officers of the Guard will assemble
for instruction. Next month will fol-
low the brigade encampments, and it
is certain that after week of instruc-
ton the officers will be in better shape
TO train the men under them.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-31
DO YOU KNOW

That Dauphln county is exporting
-four to European war depots?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-31

Thousands of people have already ad-
mired the Capitol of Pennsylvania and
it's treasures of art and decoration ana
thousands more will visit Harrisburg
when Governor Brumbaugh's plans for
the improvement of our highways have
been worked out Superintendent
Rambo's order to keep the building
open holidays will be generally ap-
rrOuad
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-31
Make the World Walk
Your Way

Is the world walking your
way?
Is the attraction of your
goods and your store such as to
be synonymous with a magnet?
Do people know you at all?
Good merchandise and good
merchandising are only two fac
tors.
You must let people know you
have reason for their patron
age.
You must advertise-snd the
best medium for manufacturer
or retailer is the daily news
paper.
Newspaper advertising makes
people walk your way.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-31

and Haesler, which adjoin each other
on the right bank of the Moselle ana
the left bank of the Seille. and Was-
ner on the right bank of the Seille. IL
is supposed to be the forts of Sonny
and Haesler that are now being at
tackled. The former is one of the
most recently constructed forts OF the
fortress.
Joffre is not one to rush his troops
headlong at Metz as the Germans were
hurled to destruction at Liege. lie Is
evidently, bent on reducing the Tort
ress by the less costly means by whlch
he has sapped and mined his way 10
it's gates. He is awaiting, very likely
the bringing up of the new English
mortars. It will be interesting to COM
pare the work of these newly-devlsed
weapons of siege with the results at
tanned by the great guns of the Ger
mans at Namur. In this war the Tort
ress has been less easy to defend than
the trench and it would not be sur
prising to find the allies as successfui
here as we're the Germans before the
Belgian strongholds.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-31
WILSON AND MEXICO

rs it the intention of President Will
son to do in Mexico as president
ex-officio of the Red Cross what he
refused to do some months ago as
President of the United States? In
China they refer to this sort OF thing
as saving ones face.
Having announced that it will raise
100000 in cash and supplies for
the starving MeXicans, the Red Cross
has been assured by the President that
the administration will take such steps
as may be necessary to make effective
the relief work. Friendly interven-
ton" is to take the place of the futile
"watchful waiting" policy that has re-
suited in nothing at all save demoral-
ization south of the Rio Grande. 1t is
given out at Washington that the
President intends to proceed sending
foodstuffs to the MeXicans and in the
event that any of the factions now
disturbing the country show an un-
willingness to allow the Red Cross to
proceed with the work, or should at
tempt to divert foodstuffs from the
dent will give the 80 per cent. of the
people any assistance they may ask to
rid themselves of the internal enc
mics.
1t is believed at Washington that the
time will not come when 1t will be
necessary for the President to put an
army across the border-that is, an
army of any great size-because he
expects that a stiffening of the peace
full Mexican backbone by the realiza-
ton that the United States will sup
port those people in restoring order
will result in a cessation of the pres
ent conflict.
But what is still paramount in the
minds of many people is the thought
that the President would have saved
himself and the country a lot of trou-
BILE by recognizing Huerta, the only
one in authority, more. than two years
ago, instead of encouraging Villa and
Carranza, who have since proved
themselves of the same stripe as the
other bandits who have despoiled ouI
unhappy neighbor.
The Mexican situation has hardly
been handled in a way to increase re-
spect for American diplomacy, and the
conditions are now infinitely more
difficult than they were at the outset
of the Wilson administration wher
the President insisted upon the retire.
ment of Huerta, the de facto head ot
the country, and the selection of g
successor agreeable to the Washington
government.
Truly, now is time calling for wis.
dom and frmness. that we may avoiC
the pitfalls upon every hand.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1915-07-31
Routing The Diamond Loop.

a. the automobile highway already ex-
tends from Brownsville to Raymondville
and from san Antonio to Riviera with only
the stretch Of sand in Willacy county To
bchoovcs the citizens Of Raymondville and
Lytord To get busy and see that this j. the
route 10 be selected. There j. some talk
Of 4 route from Faliurrias through Brooks
county. possibly to Edinburg and on down
10 the lIarlimgen-Lared highway. This
wouldn't do ut all. We people Of Raymond
willie and Lyford cannot afford 10 let any
thing NJ this kind come 10 pass. This high
will benefit every place il traverses.
Cur two towns must be on this highway.
4 hint TO the wise is sufficient. Are You
IL e!-Lytord Courant.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1915-07-31
THE MONEY COST OF
PREvENTABLE DISEASE


~tPrcparcd for The Herald hy DR.. 4.
II. Ellis. director Of extension depart
mcnt. University of TeXaS.l
Consumption alone formerly cost the
United States over II tot, 100000 per
year. Three times as man people m
PROPORTION To population have this dis
casc la America a. DO in England, Wales
Scotland, Sweden, Norway or Switzer-
land. Since the discovery of the germ
by Dr. Koch and of the improved meth
obs OF prevention and cure, IL has been
shown that where this knowledge il APP
piled. - per cent of the loss from tu-
bcrculOsIs can b. prevented. OF course,
the greatest saving comes from the pre-
yentIon of the spread of the disease,
through modern sanitation, but even IN
the treatment Of those already afflicted
the saving Is large. Of the patients treat
ed IN the great ~Bourgemont Sanitarium
in Belgium in 1861, 10 per cent had
rctuSned 10 their regular occupations and
were still continuing their improvement
four years after leaving the hospital.
Germany has reduced the death rate
from consumption over - per cent IN
the nation n l. per cent in the army
by applying modern science. Frederick
l.. Hoffman, tine insurance statistIclan,
states that the death rate from tnis
disease in American cities has been re
duced from 3lS per 100000 i'll the decade
1S12-S2 To Isl per 100000 in the decade
1902 II. Hoffman estimated that a0o.0 q
lives had been saved in the United tSates
during the decade ending 1910 by the
scientific methods applied i'll combating
tuberculosis. Placing the value of each
life al S1100, the conservative figures
usually Used, this represents a saving of
S3i0,000,O00 to the country.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1915-07-31
WHAT BORlC ACID is GOOD FOR.

Boric acid is cheap, non poisonous, a
mild, non Irritating or actually soothing
an%tiseptic. The powder il unctious.
bland and suitable To use in its pure
state as a busting powder on Tie skin,
or the surface CT an ulcer or burn or
irritation of any sort.
For an eye-wash, garele or antiseptic
wash for a wound. dissolve n much bo-
ric acid powder in boiling water as the
water will take up. This solution is also
useful To keep nipples in when artiiiclaily
feeding a baby. 1t is commonly employed
for bathing nipples and washing baby'S
mouth in nursing. A saturated solution
of boric acid is one ~ TIE best pouches.
being free from danger of poisonous or
irritating effects. For ~arrigating the
ear canal nothing is better than Il hot
saturated boric acid solution slowly and
gently run into the cana from /: rcser-
yOlr a foot or so above the ear, and per
mitted 10 run directly out again into =
basin. This will relieve earachc as well
or better than stuff dropped in the ear.
and nj the same time d. no harm.
PimpleS-acne-will be helped Ly ha-
thing the face in very hot solution of bo-
RE acid-three ~tabeSpoonfulS to 4 basin
ofwater-adding fresh hot water from
time to time as il coolS, for ten n fiji
teen minutes 1t softenS the cuticlc. fc-
moves greasy material from the skin
glands and probably kills off a few odd
billion Of the germs which produce the
pimplcs. 1t can he followed by Il sui
table antiseptic ointment.
BoilS, StyeS. OF almost anv localized in
flammation where a p%oultice might br
suggested. will do better if treated hv
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1915-07-31
OPINIONS OF OTHER PAPERS
So
Self Reliance the Farmers Best Hope.

The burden of Governor Ferguson's add
dress to the State Farmers Institute in
Austin was that, after all the aids to agri-
culture that might be extended by legisla-
ton or by other agencies had been render
cd, the farmers at last must depend upon
their own efforts for success.
1t was a plain truth courageously spoken
and one that the most successful farmers
Of Texas have long ago aScertained.
For forty years the farmers have been
wheedled and coddled by ~demagogues. Alb
surd legislative proposals have been made,
poverty cure-alls and political nostrums
have been presented in abundance, gor-
geous and futile promises have been made,
with the result that not one thing of value
has been accomplished for the farmer who
failed to help himself.
And it will always be that way.-llous-
ton Post.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1915-07-31
u. S. Interested Humanely, Only.

A. was To- be expected, since the United
States did not include u denunciation 81
England IN it, latest note, the German
rrc,- has found II wholly unsatisfactory.
From the tenor Of the editorials in the Ger
papers II appears that they desire n
"a enter the war on their side and compel
England 20 allow the passage of food and
supplies 10 Germany. They do not seem 10
realize that the United States i much less
concerned over the inability Of it, export
ing firms 10 traffic with Germany than i
IL with the destruction Ut American men,
w,men and children upon unarmed mer-
Ch1ujncu by German war vcsscls.-Gal-
weston Tribune.