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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-24
THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT

VTTORK is plenty, business is good
wv and money is abundant. Har-
risburg proposes to dine well
tomorrow. But prosperous Harris
burg is not alone to have bounteous
holiday celebration. The Rotary Club,
the Sunday Schools, the Elk, the
Moose and other organizations, not to
mention many such private benefac-
tions as that of Jacob Tausig's Sons,
who to-day through the Telegraph
and Associated Charities give away
200 Christmas baskets, have Joined
forces in an effort to make the day
merry for everybody in the city.
It is a good sign when men look be-
yond their own needs and desires TO
those of others. 1t is natural to find
evidences of this spirit at Christmas
time, and Harrisburg has never been
lacking in that respect, but it is safe
to say that never in the history of. the
city has there been such a spontaneous
or generous manifestation of 1t as to-
day. After all there is no happiness
quite like that which unstinted, unre-
stricted giving yields, and if the
beneficiaries get half the enjoyment
from receiving that the donors do
from giving, then the effort has been
worth while, indeed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-24
A CERTAIN Roy

When breakfast is brought to me he
delights to pour my coffee while we sit
| race to face, each at tho head of tho
small table; and he has long regarded
MS good offices as a substitute for the
sugar l once declined So now pre-
liminarily he will often ask me with
bewitching smile, well. do you want
fweet coffee this morning?" And he
knows IN advance that l shall surely
get 1t without offending his odd con-
ceit or my palate. To his little oet's
soul the wet wood in the fire sings to
MN, the rumbling flame over the dry
wood there is his drum; the snow is
getting its drink in the melting: the
| SKY with its loud, laundering noises is
angry and wicked, and happy and
good again with smiling sunshine the
blueberries he hunts for but does not
md are hiding from him, and he has
not needed Shelley to tell him that IL
is for the thirsting flowers the Cloud
brings fresh showers. Rarely is there
talk between us without some addi-
ton to the long roll of these quaint
accomplishments.
And then his questions-No, I for
bear. for the answers which follow on
the heels of his interrogation points
are altogether too meager for my
vanity. What an unfailing source of
interest also it is TO hear him give a
medley of his many dreams-now
through jungle land and waste places,
but oftener through inviting surround
ings, at one time with us ALL and at
another with strangers to him and to
all human kind-compounded about
equally of fact and fancy, and for the
hidden meanings of which neither
nor any dream book can ever have a
solution. How the pendulum of his
alternate work and play-for he is an
expert at each-swings to the ex-
tremes, only to come to state of we'll
earned rest and solemn quiet! But
even then at times while wide awake
and looking off distracted into space,
he will ask us not to interrupt him for
a moment, becauseN"I am thinking" +"
We never fail to humor him in this,
for long ago he persuaded us of his
inability to collect his big thoughts
while we chatter. - North American
Review.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-24

herself that the merchants scale is in
eSnn1G oSSdan1Ge, yet. yet this is a Precaution that
not, so reliance can be placed in the
indicated weight When buying liGlIids,
care should be taken that the proper
dsnEe peeisiy imparts rs tiied to the brim and es
the contents is poured out
another bad practice to be frowned
is the habit Of asking for for ten cents
that. One should always first inquire
the price by the pound, and then see
proper fraction "
There is n recently enacted amend
n,l,., ilient 10 me famous pure food law.
me net-weight amendment was intend
eu 10 protect the purchaser of package
stooos stsnSo OF OF al sorts. but the, Bureau of
ness OF the housewife robs it of much
erect. According to this law, the net
weight of the contents of each pack
sge OF food must be printed on the sur
lace. The apparent size of a package
Is often deceiving, but by this means
tne purchaser can tell exactly what she
Not enough attention is paid to the
inGonspicuous line of fine print that
tells net weight of contents" A glass
look liberal. ard really ne largely glass
Jar and not contents. The printed net
weight tells this, story. You should al
calculate the net cost of the commo-
dity per pound, to be compared with the
current price of the same article sold
in bulk.
Package goods have, of course. GER
tain advantages of their own The
purchaser knows that they come to Ler
untouched by. hand. for they are often
even packed by machinery. She knows
that the package article, especially of
standard brand, is usually of high
quality. Under such circumstances, she
may be willing to pay a dime for a
en-ounce box Of crackers. when crack
ers are selling in bulk for ten cents a
pound. That is a matter for individual
decision; but the evil in the present
practice lies - the fact that few wo-
men realize that they are making a
choice between quality and quantity.
They never stop to figure out what their
purchases really cost
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-24
LEST WE FORGET

THERE are evidences here and
there of disposition on the
part of the railroad corporations
to take advantage of a favorable
change in the attitude on the part oil
the public toward these corporations
to ask unreasonable things In the way
of increased freight rates. one OF
the things which brought about the
wholesale censure of railroad inter-
ests was the proneness of the man.
ayers to impose upon the public In
the same manner that the express
companies had done and which fool
ish course precipitated an avalanche
of wrath and resentment.
Some very flimsy pretexts are given
for large increases in transportation
charges and the newspapers OF the
country are gradually changing from
a friendly attitude to one of open
criticism as a result of the resumption
of old tactics by the railroad COM
panies.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-24
DIRECT TAX ON IRON AND steel
[From the Iron Age.l


Manufacturers of pig iron and of
fabricated" iron and steel may well
wonder why their products are Sc
lected by the President for the i'm
position of direct taxes ealculatedt
according to his message to Congress,
to yield a $20,000,000 stop-gap in
these times of deficits. Having strip
ped the pig-iron and steel industries
of protection against the dumping of
the Canadian and European product,
and having actually started foreign
pig iron and steel this way last year,
1t was certainly not to be expected
that the administration would give
it's ''unshackling" program this par
ticular turn. A good many pig-iron
producers and some steel companies
were writing their balances in red
before the war broke out. Seeing
that they produce that from which
shells are made, they promptly come
to mind now when Washington needs
to capitalize politically some section
of the country's war prosperity.
Two and a half years ago special
session of Congress was working
overtime to relieve the people of high
living costs, falsely said to be due to
customs house tolls. Now the sugar
tax is to so back, income taxes are
to be increased and in imposing new
burdens iron is picked on, a commo-
dity in commonest use, apart from
food and clothing. When demand is
greater than supply, as at present, and
prices are above the average, the iron
and steel taxes would be passed along
to the consumer. In time of close
competition, as in 1913 and 1914,
these taxes would only make the home
producers situation worse and aid
the foreign producer in placing his
surplus here.
Iron and steel manufacturers should
bear their share of the taxation levied
for national defense. But to impose
direct tax of $2O,00O,000 on an in
dustry which was especially the tar
get for attack in the tariff of 1918
is an injustice which it win not be
easy to carry through.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-24
WHISKY A CURSE
[NIanufacturers Record. ]

The National Bulletin, which seems
to be published wholly in the interest
of the whisky industry of the country,
quotes q recent editorial from the
Manufacturers Record headed TOO
Many Reformers," apparently with It
view to creating the impression that
the Manufacturers Record and Bishop
Warren A. Chandler, upon whose state
ment the editorial was based, might
be in favor of the whisky industry, or
at least that these statements might
be used to that effect because of the
suggestion that there are too many
reformers in these days.
If this was the intention of the Ma
tional Bulletin. the Manufacturers
Record wants to disabuse the mind of
the editor of that publication and to
state that we are absolutely, teetotally
and in every way possible opposed to
the whisky industry. not only from its
immoral influence, but from the eco
nomic standpoint. 1t is curse to the
country of such gigantic proportions
that the sooner il is blotted out the
better IL will be for mankind. The bill
lions of dollars that are annually spent
i'm this country for alcoholic drinks
constitute one of the most fearful
curses ever brought upon the land, and
every dollar thus expended is an eco
nomic waste and drain upon the
physical. mental, moral and financial
stamina of the country.
Moreover, the alliance of the saloon
interests with the politics of the coun-
try is another curse, and to this in
fluence is due much of the rottenness
in American politics.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-24
SCIENCE BEGINS AT HOME
Getting Your Moneys Worth
BY Frederic ]. Haskin

TIME American kitchen is sadly be-
hind the times. Almost all our
Il institutions are being run on a
basis of scientific efficiency, but many
household ways have apparently come
down to US unchanged from the days
of Moses. Wherefore, the United States
cd study to determine how scientific
methods may be applied at home.
In her varied activities and expendl-
lures, the average housewife proceeds
too much on faith and guesswork. 1t
may be Well enough, in cooking, to
measure salt by the pinch and rice by
produced without scientific measure
than a science. But it is obviously a
When you do To- not Know h low WI much f"G a
bushel of potatoes should weigh. For
instance fftv-siX pounds is the bushel-
Just over y the line Or in IN Ii the cifv 81 Of
Washington, it is sixty pounds. Caro-
lima or Washington women who buy
the the Virginia ,tubers without due
pensive potatoes. This is the sort of lit
tie fact on which every housewife
should be posted, yet relatively few of
The experts of the Bureau of Stan
dards recommend that every kitchen
have complete. set of ,weights and
pensable as the kitchen stove. A recent
investigation of 10000 scales in all
sorts of retail shops showed that 45
per cent of them were inaccurate, some
by as much as II per cent, or almost
two ounces to the pound. 1t is not
enough to purchase food of good quail
ity at the right price per pound. You
must see that you are really getting
the pounds.
Groceries should be weighed occa-
sionally, when delivered, and liquids
measured often enough to keep a check
on the grocer and the deicatessen
stand. Such practice would be hailed
enthusiastically by all careful and
lous rivals can undersell them by max
ing little extra profit on weight and
mea sures.
In her daily marketing. the average
woman displays a touching confidence
in the honesty of human nature that is
continual temptation to sharp prac-
tice. She rarely or never convlnces
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-24

modern structure in any city of the
; country. There must be no make
shift in any feature of the appoint
ments. Harrisburg has a high stand
ing among the municipalities OF the
United States and our school ana edu-
cational work must comport in every
way with the dignity Of the city as
a fine expression of civic betterment
and improvement.
Since the conference between the
State and the city authorities on the
question of treatment of the Capitol
Park zone it has come to be generally
accepted that the civic center OF
Harrisburg will be embraced in the
district bounded by Walnut, Third
and North streets. Already con-
siderable start has been made in the
creation of such a center and with
the completion of the State program
with reference to this district plans
of the city will have been matured
! sufficiently to indicate the further
development from the Harrisburg
standpoint.
It hardly admits of argument that
this city should proceed with the
working out of the civic center idea.
Other cities in this country and
abroad are expending millions of dol
lars in the creation of their civic CEN
ters while here in Harrisburg the CO.
operation of the State has made pos
sible an ideal arrangement without
cost to the city that will be at once
credit to the Commonwealth and
its capital city. 1t would seem that
there is but one location for the new
high school under the circumstances
and that in the area contiguous to the
Capitol.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-24

Our municipal managers-otherwise
the City Council-are to be commended
for exercising care and economy in the
making up of the city budget for 1916
In this matter. however, 1t would be
wise not to pare so closely as to undo
in any way what has been so well done
in many particulars. No well-managed
private business is permitted to de-
teriorate through failure to provide
proper maintenance and upkeep. This
same principle applies to our municipal
corporation. We have made a large IN
vestment as a city. and it is the duty
of the agents of the people to see to IT
that there is no impairment anywhere
through such false economy as might
involve waste or loss.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-24
INVOCATION, CHRISTMAS

INVOCATION, CHRISTMAS
Ten thousand homes are STEPPED in
tears,
A million men lined up to slay;
Our hearts grow cold with rage and
The worlds at war this Christmas
Day.
Sweet carols that we sing make mock
OF all the words that in them lay.
For, list! we hear the battle shock
The worlds at war this Christmas
Day.
Bright berries of the holly tree
Seem drops of blood, to our dismay;
Mistletoe pearls rosary
The worlds at war this Christmas
Day.
Sweet manger child, lead us again,
For we have wandered far astray;
Send peace and happiness to men
The worlds at war this Christmas
Day.
Kneel we together at Thy door,
And offer hearts that plead and pray
For love and brotherhood once more
The worlds at war this Christmas
Day.
d. Z. WHEELER
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-24

schools and colleges Good as the
IDEA may have been. and effectively as
thls Lancaster paper may have sup
ported 1T, the last paragraph sounded
its death knell when it spoke of sub
stituting Spanish for the petty" Latin
course. Years of experience and the
testimony of some of the worlds
greatest thinkers may be quoted to
argue that no Latin course, however
poor, could ever be petty"
Wilkes Barre. resting from the ex-
citement that has been prevalent there
over its never-ending street car strike,
is now incensed. in some political cir
cles, with reference to the postmaster
situation. They say President Wilson
has instructed the Postmaster G eneraI
to favor a boyhood friend as post
master of Wilkes-Barre in preference
to the choice of CONGRESSMAN Casey's
brother Lawrence.
The engagement of Carleton Schwab
Wagner, nephew to the steel magnate,
9. M. Schwab, to Miss Margaret Will
liams, of Easton, has been announced.
The young man is vice president of
the Danville Tubing Company, having
graduated from Lehigh University last
June.
William B. Wilson. Secretary of La
Dor, and Congressman j. Thomas Hef-
lin, of Alabama, will be the speakers
at the annual banquet of the Lycom-
ing Young Mems Democratic Club in.
January.
Fifteen hundred employees of the
Dupla Silk Company, of Hazleton, will
receive free attendance from a trained
nurse after January 1.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-24
THE STATE FROM DAY TO DAY

Although a mere infant, being only
three days old, according to the we'll
established belief that winter begins
on the 21st of December, the shortest
day of the year, nevertheless it has
managed to accomplish q great deal in
that time. The death rate in Phila-
delphia has doubled this week and all
your friends are laid UP with grip or
sore throat.
An Allentown man was arrested the
other day for throwing hot soup over
his wife and baby, but was eXonerated
because no one appeared against him.
It has always been our belief that soup
is an extremely annoying vegetable,
taken externally.
An editorial in a Lancaster contem-
porary tells of an "unhyphenated
friend of Uncle Sam" who wrote a SEN
sible letter to the New York Sun urg-
ing the use of Spanish in all our public
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-24
DOTS!
by Wing Dinger

Yes. the gifts have all been purchased
All the names upon your list
Have by you been taken care of,
Not a single one you've missed.
But don't get the false idea
That your duty you have done
'Cording to the Christmas spirit
Brother. you have just begun.
Christmas Day you'll meet with many
Whom. no gifts from you, will cheer,
But whose path will be made brighter
It from your lips they but hear
Merry Christmas"-not said coldly-
But as though you mean it-and
Don't forget twill seem much warmer
With a friendly clasp of hand.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-24
MORE RAILROADS GOING "DRY''
LITERARY Digest


The maintenance of top-notch eff
cheney and the desire to keep abreast
of public sentiment which is grow
ing more and more averSe to the liquor
business are the chief reasons, ac-
cording to the Indianapolis News, why
American railroads are giving up the
practice of serving alcoholic liquors
on dining and buffet cars. After the
first of the year the Denver and Rio
Grande is to go dry" And several
important lines of the Middle West,
The News hears, have decided to do
likewise at an early date. Among
these are the Michigan Central, the
Missouri Pacific, and the Chicago,
Milwaukee and st. Paul. The rea-
sons given by several of the roads
running out of Chicago are quoted as
follows by the Indianapolis paper:
"It is too hard to keep track of
wet and dry counties through which
trains are running, and to conform to
the local laws.
"The increase in prohibition senti-
ment has made the sale of intoXi-
cants an economic loss.
"The sale of intoXicants on trains is
Inconsistent with the railroads orders
prohibiting employees drinking"
"Ohio, Pennsylvania, some of the
New England States, and all of the
prohibition States OF, the country have
passed laws prohibiting the sale of
| intoxicants on railroad trains. In
some States where local option laws
are in force, as in this State, the
presence in the statute books of law
permitting the sale of liquor on rail-
/ road trains really creates a class dis
| tmction. Those who have the money
may ride from one station to another
| for the sole purpose of procuring the
liquor which they can not legally pro-
cure in dry territory. In this re-
spect there is a conflict which is seri-
ously in need of elimination, if not by
the voluntary action of the railroads,
then by the Legislature"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-24
KILLS AMERICAN DYE INDUSTRY

The dye business is strategic because
II duplicates other businesses. 1t is
strategic because ii duplicates the eX-
plosives which are peculiarly essential
above all. because it furnishes, as Ger
many has found, a uniquely powerful
stimulus to chemical endeavor and in
vention and progress in general. The
soldiers of Germany are fighting Ger
many's battles in France and in Rus
sia and in Serbia, on alien soil, largely
because they carry with them prodigi-
Gus supplies of the nroducts of that
German industrial chemical activity
which has always had it's most inspir-
ing centers in the great coal-tar color
works on. the German Rhine and the
The master science of the future is
chemistry; the typical fortress of in
dustrial chemistry is the coal-tar
tar chemical industry is dyes.
Just as the German forte was chem
istry. so the American forte was me-
chinery one one Sees sees in ''e cotton Ito u mills. Ills
Further, we had protected our textile
industry for sixty years against the
dustry of England We had protected
1t so effectively that all importations of
the cheaper grades of textiles had vir-
tually ceased. The textile industry was
an adult.
What, then. did Congress do? 1t
lowered the duty on dyes. ruinously,
while at the same time 1t Increased the
which were still threatened by importa-
tions from abroad. Why? Because
dyes are raw materials" to textiles;
because the manufacturers of textiles
demanded their raw materials"
cheap" because the manufacturers of
textiles were numerous and strong; be-
cause the manufacturers of dyes were
few and feeble. In that hour We lost
the coal-tar chemical industry for
America.
The duty on dyes had been fifty cents
on eacn pound and an additional 80 per
cent. on value The 35 per cent. was
left. The fiftv cents on each pound was
swept away. Five of the nine dye plants
of America went Immediately out of
business. The rest continued to breathe
-faintly.-William Hard in the Janu-
ary Metropolitan
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-24
HIGH SCHOOL AND CIVIC CENTER
FORTUNATELY for Harrisburg

NORTUNATELY for Harrisburg
the disposition throughout the
city is to permit the school
directors to work out the best pos
sible solution of the high school prob
lem. Nowhere. is there any serious
opposition to the new building; It is
so manifestly a recognized need that
discussion of that phase of the mat
ter is useless. All that is now to be
considered is the site and the ways
and means.
When the new building shall have
been provided it ought to be the most
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-24
WE HAVE WITH US
TKapsas CitV Star1

A sensational reporter announces
that Christmas trees ore here. Ger
tainly, certainly. And little later,
when there is a foot of snow on the
ground, he will apprise us that winter
has arrived. Yes, and when he sees
the pretty blue violets peeping out of
the ground he is the sensationist who
will announce that Spring has come.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-24
| Forgot

This is the day when the men,
tai check up brings home the
fact that
While we may have tried to
do Christmas shopping early
we did not do 1t all.
Some are forgotten and must
be provided for RIGHT NOW.
That means some rush shop
ping.
And in an emergency like this
information as to men and things
such as you will find in the adj
vertising in the Telegraph will be
mighty helpful.