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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-29
Letter List

LIST OF LETTERS REMAINING IN
the Post Office. at Harrisburg, Pa, for
the week ending December 25, 1915:
Ladies' List-Miss Carrie and Sara
Arnold. Mrs. II. A. Brooks. Miss Mil
dred Clark. Miss Henrietta Cooper Miss
ner. Miss Bertha Dockely, Miss Bernice
(nurse) Elder, Miss Myrtle b. Evans
Mrs. Jean Kane Foulke, Mrs. John
Gilbert. Mrs. Maggie Goodall, Miss Mary
crime Nipple. Mrs. Lucinda Hubbard,
Miss Lillian Hummel. Mrs. Clara Keller,
Miss Beatrice Kerr, Miss Bertha Mar
berger Mrs. Harry Mason, Mrs. Edna
Matchett. Mrs. E. d. Matteson. Mrs
Bess Moul. Mrs. John McMurray, Miss
Hazel Mersing, Mrs. Mineal. Miss Kat
katherine. Nye. Mrs. Electa Orr Miss
Katherine Osborn, Miss Paske. Miss
Mirabell Perry, Mrs. James Peters. Miss
Gene Robinson, Mrs. Abe Shapairo Mrs.
Taylor. p' Mrs. Jennie Jennie F Foohey' MIS- MIS-
Susie r. Willis
Gentleman's List Clarence Bach.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry and Miss Baldwin,
Lawrence harrington, II. j. Bartolet,
John Bender. David Bloser. Harold Bon
awitz, j: w. Borhman. Cecil A. Brown.
7. Bucci. w. S: Bulett. James Burns,
Joe Ben Chandler, Harry X. Clark, w.
Il. Clearwater. Gilman Clee. D. c.
Collier. Frank Connor. George +. Davis,
Laurence Deynan. G. j. Denel. r. e.
iItNbeI' d. ~. beCeTsOns >. =. DOffnan, IL.
Ferguson, w. S. Flick (2), Mallie Fur
man, Courtney Gaskill. Harry II. Gil
bert Arthur Gogel, George Goldsmith,
John Griffith. ]. A: Harris. Ross Leslie
Harris. Clarence NJ. Henry. Sheridan
Hersh. Jacob L. Hertzler. LAlex Hess.
Harry Hess, Frank Hasler, A. Hoye
Janus Jackson. Charles Keims, Il. o.
kepner; c. v. Kimes. Harry Laurie.
7. II. Logan. J. A. Lukens, Russell
Mackelnae. Marashleian. Ed Martin
Jay Martin. Levi Martin, J. b. Mason.
Wallace b. McAlllster, Luther Nose.
ley; George Nye, NJ. P. Pasguarreil,
Philip Paul. Sleeve Radanonovich. w
Arnold Raffensperger. Parker Reside,
Chas. r. Rider George Rittenhouse'
a: G. Rodenbough. Robert c. Schultz
W. L. Seller. Waiter Shanfner, II. A.
Sharon, j. a. Shoriin, Frank Simmon.
w. b. Smith. Chas. f. Walter, j
Ward, Bradley p. Wheelen, Walter w
Wyman, Paul Yost, John r. Young.
Foreign Vincenzo delle Donne.
Ffrms-Harrisburg Building & Loan
Asso.. Harrisburg OR. & El. Co., Meyers
Bros. Quality Piano Co.
Persons should have their mail matter
addressed to their street and number
thereby insuring prompt delivery by
the carriers. ~
F. G SITES.
Postma ster I
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pointed out that it consists almost en-
urely of wood and water, but further
investigation triumphantly vindicated
It's place on the dinner table Not
only vegetables, but many fruits,
notably oranges, contain much cal
cum. In other words, they are build
ers of bone. Milk, too, is rich in this
mineral. and that is one of the prin-
cipal reasons why it is so we'll fitted
for growing body. There is more
calcium dissolved in any glass of milk
than 1T would be possible to dissolve in
a glass of water.
Another virtue of roots and vege-
tables which is just coming TO be
valued at its proper weight is that a
large part of their solid skeleton is
indigestible. At first glance this seems
to be fault rather than an advantage,
but the truth of the matter is that our
civilized diet tends to be too concen-
trated. BY our precooked and pre-
digested foods we are cheating our
legitimate internal digestions out of
their natural occupation. Fruits and
vegetables give them something to
work on, condition of things essen
tial to their good temper and we'll
being. The digestion is an industrious
mechanism which does not thrive in
idleness.
Moreover, there is a certain sea-
sonable value in green foods which is
even yet imperfectly understood, but
probably rests on the age-old custom
of the human race of eating particular
plants at the particular season of their
ripening. until the body has come to
expect 1t. This principle is generally
acted upon on the farm, where the
mess of greens in springtime is an
institution as firmly rooted as the
green's themselves. City dwellers, how
ever. are prone to overlook it.
The point to be taken from all these
virtues of the vegetable is largely that
it is dangerous to judge foods on the
basis of their fuel value. The term
food value" is often applied solely in
this sense, and, rightly understood,
the fuel. or nourishing, value of a
substance is a valuable indicator in
buying and cooking. But because
beans have fifteen times as high fuel
value to the body as has spinach, it
does not follow that they are fifteen
times as valuable food.
The fruit and vegetable at most,
however, is only an essential side dish.
The prime need of the body is for
something to repair its waste and for
something to furnish the energy that
carries it through a days work. This
energy is supplied for the most part
by the various sorts of grains the few
really nourishing vegetables. milk, eggs
and meats. The problem of the day is
how to arrange a menu with the right
proportion of each.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-29

as has never been known and unless
We are prepared to meet the whole
sale dumping of the cheap products of
Europe and elsewhere upon our
| shores at the cost of American labor,
| there can be little doubt concerning
the situation which will then confront
this country.
Preparedness not only contemplates
national defense, but likewise compre-
hends and embraces such regulation
of the customs duties as will protect
American industry from the invasion
of the European nations. Democratic
exponents of free-trade' policy may
be able to throw dust for a little
while and the workingmen who are
employed at present at high wages
may for time be deceived as to the
real conditions. but unless and until
the Underwood tariff law is trans
formed into a protective law there can
be no assurance of permanent pros
perity in this country.
Fortunately for the people, the
statesmen of the country-the great
Republican leaders-are giving their
attention to the important remedial
legislation which will have serious
consideration as soon as the party of
protection resumes its proper place at
Washington. A persistent increase of
business and undiminished activity In
many lines will not close the eyes of
any intelligent person to the impor-
tance of the protective policy as ap-
piled to the continuing welfare of the
American people.
This week clear observer of the
trend of events. discussing the situa-
tion, says the present tariff has not
been tried: that the European war
erected a protective tariff of very
much greater proportions than any
thing we have ever known, as it stop
ped practically all exports from Eu-
rope. Confirming the statement which
we have just made. he points out that
just previous to the war many lines
of business In this country were slow
ing up and their business was being
gradually undermined. allowing ex-
treme competition of European goods,
the war removed this competition.
In short, our present prosperity de-
pends almost wholly upon the buying
power of the warning nations abroad
the ending of the war would undoubt-
edly cause a sharp reaction and the
curtailment of production in every d.
rection. 1t is this fear which has
created the widespread feeling among
conservative men of all parties and
workingmen everywhere
that there must be a change of our
attitude at Washington, and going
back to the safe and sane policies of
the Republican party.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-29
EXPERIENCE WILL COUNT

TINDER the provisions of the act
creating the Industrial Board of
Pennsylvania that body is given
wide powers in both administration
and Interpretation of the laws gov
erning employment of men and wo-
men and minors as we'll as those re-
latinC to conditions under which they
labor. In the last two years the
Board has devised some valuable
standards for wage-earners in sew
eral important industries and has
made rulings of wide effect. But its
work is just beginning.
The new child labor act will become
operative this week and there will
also be effective other laws having to
do with the welfare of the many who
are making a greater industrial COM
monwealth. all of which will tend to
give to the Industrial Board the i'm
portance contemplated by the trainers
of the legislation which brought the
Department of Labor and Industry
and its various agencies into being.
The questions which will arise will
call for fairness, experience and in
telligence in the rendering of de-
cisions.
The members of the Board selected
by Governors Tener and Brumbaugh
are people who have high qualifca-
tions for the tasks that confront them
and whose training and study make
them we'll adapted to rule in the di-
verse propositions that will arise.
The selection Of William Lauder to
be the secretary of the Board COM
pletes that body and will give to its
membership the benefit of years of
experience in handling men, knowI-
edge of conditions in two basic in
.dustries and a fund of good hard
common sense, which is needed in
State affairs, as in all others. Mr..
Lauder was a worker and an en-
ployer, businessman and a student
of educational and welfare matters
His ideas are advanced and not ex-
treme. AS executive officer of the
Board he will give plenty of vigor to
its work and that regard for all that
experience teaches is best in govern
ment
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-29
THE STATE FROM DAY TO DAY

supposedly demented woman in
Erie has been held by the police lest
she do serious harm TO the popu-
lace. She entered the Nixon theater
in that city last evening and began to
throw candy kisses at the audience,
thinking she was a detective and had
been sent there as a special messen-
ger to put the quietus on the moving
picture shows.
While we are on the subject of kiss
ing, 1t behooves us to call attention
again to Health Commissioner DiXon's
advice against OSCILLATION during the
grip season. Cut it out, is the edict,
II you would not spread grip germs.
But kissing goes merrily on, just the
same and the number of cases of grip
hasn't materially diminished.
Kaiser Wilhelm lost fifteen men of
military age by naturalization in Read
ing yesterday. Out of the twenty-five
applications accepted, three-fifths
were Germans.
An aged couple of Norristown, both
of whom have been married before,
have taken out licenses to wed, each
being over 70 years of age. But the
truth of the old adage is here appar-
never"
More than $1,000 worth of floral
tributes surrounded the casket of the
late John NJ. Herbig. a prominent ma
chine-shop superintendent of the
Bethlehem Steel Company, whose
funeral was held yesterday. For ten
minutes the machines in the three
shops which had formerly been under
his supervision were stopped out of re-
spect to his memory
The congregation of the First Pres
byterian Church of New Castle played
Santa Claus for their pastor, the Rev.
Robert Little, to the extent of a fine
automobile on Christmas morning.
Needless to say the chimney was not
used
Governor Brumbaugh will be a
speaker at the exercises tomorrow at
Scranton of the Pennsylvania State
Educational Association which is in
convention in that city. Governor
Willis, of Ohio, will also make an ad-
dress.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-29
SCIENCE BEGINS AT HOME
Chemistry in the Kitchen
BY Frederic ]. Haskin

nEOPLE are just beginning to take
Jan interest in what they eat. A
- Awave of dietary curiosity is sweep
ing the country. Books by the hundred
are being published on the balanced ra-
ton, the ideal menu, the scientific bill
of fare. The latest development is a
correspondence course in scientific
eating"
The last place to be touched by this
new tendency was the kitchen itself.
The home is the most conservative of
institutions You can change the basic
law. ..of nation before you can change
its characteristic way of cooking pota-
toes. This conservatism is not a bad
thing. for great many of the early
conclusions of the food faddists and
investigators turned out to be based
on insufficient data. But now the
kitchen is beginning to ask questions.
The food question is obviously of
supreme importance. Half our ills
can be traced to improper feeding.
Nobody realizes this better than the
housewife, but when she turns to
science for information some spec
tacled savant assures her with a bland
smile that the whole question is per-
fectly simple and hands her a page
of chemical formulae that look like a
Chinese puzzle and convey about as
much meaning as a receipt in Greek.
Nevertheless. the question is simple
in its essentials. Food has three func-
tions in the human body-to repair
waste. to furnish fuel for the human
engine and to regulate the vital proc
esses. II was this last office that the
early food Investigators overlooked
and got themselves and their ideal
dietaries into confusion thereby. They
calculated the needs of the body in
grams and calories and concluded that
the average man was eating a great
deal more than was good for him.
They selected the foods which con-
tanned the most concentrated nourish-
ment and pointed out that, for the
economical, articles like califlower and
spinach were a needless extravaganza.
because they consisted 80 per cent. of
water. which could be purchased from
the city at % cents a thousand gallons.
This reasoning failed to take into
account the physiological effect of
many vegetables which are essential
to health because of the mineral mat
ter they contain. Spinach. caulifiower
and celery are among the best of
these. They are particularly rich in
iron, phosphorous and calcium. These
minerals go TO the building of bone,
and hence are of great importance in
the diet of children.
Besides, in the vegetable mentioned
above, such minerals are found abun-
dainty in turnips. carrots and parsnips.
The turnip was long a favorite target
for the criticism of diet cranks, who
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-29
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EC0NnMY N OIL

Two big liners. the Finland and the
kroonland. are being changed from
coal-burners to oil-burners Each boat
is expected to save $4,000 annually in
change, besides a saving of sl3500 a
year in the wages of stokers Bv the
removal of the coal-bunkers enough adj
be gained to permit the carryIne oF
1900 tons additional freight, which
means an extra profit of s2O. 900 in
Irelght tolls on every trip when the
snow why the use of oil as a STEAMSHIPS
fuel Is becoming more and more gen.
eral. S'"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-29
WELL. KNOWN PEOPI :

William Thaw, the Pittsburgh
aviator. is spending the holidays in
Western Pennsylvania and will return
to the front shortly.
Col. Henry Hall, the Washington
correspondent, is writing a series of
articles on compensation in the various
States
Frank Hochreiter, we'll known
here. is to be retained as chief of police
of Wilkes Barre.
Joseph w. Foote, new superinten-
dent of the Erie railroad, started in
his railroad work as a rodman.
H. r. Baker, long secretary or
Lehigh Coal and Navigation, has been
elected Vice-president.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-29
DEMOCRATIC DUST THROWING

n ESPERATE efforts are being
- made by the administration news
papers to confuse the public
mind with regard to the tariff policies
of President Wilson and his Demo-
cratic associates. They pretend not to
see the handwriting on the wall, but
with fatuous indifference to the facts
continue to declare with vehement
persistence that the present tariff is
all right, pointing to the reviving pros
perity of the country as a confirmation
OF their contention.
Notwithstanding it has been demon
strated over and over again that only
the European war saved the United
States from the worst panic in its his
tory these apologists of the free-trade
propaganda continue to assert that
their alleged tariff reform is respons-
ible for the reviving business condi-
tions and the general employment Of
labor. Shutting their eyes to the facts
upon every side they grasp at every
evidence of business activity as an ar
gument in favor of the Underwood
tariff law.
The United States to-day is the
beneficiary of the tragedy of Europe;
there is no doubt upon this point. Nor
is there any question among intelli-
gent people that the enormous pur-
chases of war munitions. foodstuffs
and general supplies by the nations at
war and those neutral countries which
previously obtained their supplies from
these same nations has been directly
responsible for a revival of industry
throughout this country.
What would have happened under
normal conditions was indicated within
few months after the Democratic
tariff went into effect and what will
still happen to the United States
should the war cease before the exist
ing tariff law is repealed is not pleas
ant to contemplate, Manifestly the
end of the war will see such competl-
tion among the nations of the world
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-29
HER MOST VALUED POSSESSION

TRS. LAURA 8. ROCKEFELLER
lVl wife of John D. Rockefeller,
who died last March. left an
estate valued at $1,49O.371. which she
bequeathed in large part to charitable
and educational institutions. Her
family got little or none of it. But
she did leave a bequest to her son.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.-her we'd
ding ring. worth, according to the
States appraisers, about SO. This, the
will set forth. was her most valued
possession"
What a wealth of thought is involv-
ed in that trifing bequest and the
phrase used to describe it. In these
days of sudden riches and quick di-
vorces. of hasty marriages and trips
to Reno, it is a pleasure to note that
even where wealth has been supposed
to hold prime sway in the heart, the
marriage ceremony and it's symbol
have been held in even higher regard.
There have been those who have pic
tured John d. Rockefeller as a feudal
baron of the business world, as a rob
ber of the poor, and unquestionably he
was a ruthless money-getter, but it is
hard to believe all the nasty things
that have been said of him in the light
of this testimony of his wife. who held
as her most valued possession" the
SO wedding ring ne bought for her
when both were young and all the
riches they owned were locked up in
their affection one for the other.
There are few Jekyls and Hydes in
real life. The ideal husband must of
necessity be a pretty good sort of man
at heart. He who loves his family
dearly must reflect something he holds
in his heart for all men. II is a pref
ty good recommendation for any man
when after long life spent I'm his
companionship a wife comes down to
! her declining years with his wedding
ring as her most cherished possession.
valued even beyond a pillion-dollar
estate.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
4 BEAUTIFUL DECORATION
.itor OF the Telegraph ;

o 'Hs EdhoT or Me IeiegTdfh:
Complying with the request of the
Telegraph that the old custom of put
ting candles in the windows should be
revived, many took kindly to the sug-
gestion and in many places in the city
the lights were burning
one of the most beautifully decorated
and lighted homes, and which we think
should receive especial mention, was
that of Mrs. Kathryn NJ. Berst, 1918
Market street. Every window i'm the
had two candles burning in them. The
effect was very pleasing. and we hope
in future years to see many follow Mrs.
Bersts example in so beautifully deco
rating their homes
Yours truly,
A
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No Even Selling Chart

Markets in different sections
OF this continent differ.
Some parts consume more
food products than others, while
sales elsewhere will show a
higher percentage for dry goods.
These things demonstrate the
peculiar strength of the news
paper as an advertising medium.
The selling force can be di-
rected where possibilities are
largest.
1t can be adapted to the sea-
son. No advertising need be
wasted.
There is little or no guess
work - and through its inten-
siveness in results 1t secures the
,co-operation of local dealers.
Manufacturers seeking light
on sectional markets are invited
to write TO the Bureau of Adver-
tising, American Newspaper Pub
fishers Association. World Build
ing. New York.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-29
STANDARDIZING DRESS

INHERES one thing about the peor
pie of Missouri beside their we'll
known insistence upon being
shown'-they are courageous. We can
prove this simply by quoting the ex-
pressed intention of the University of
Missouri to standardize woman's
dress. This also shows that Misso dri-
ans are not afraid of tackling a job
that, il accomplished. would make the
historic tasks of Hercules appear, by
comparison, like the puny efforts of
a rank amateur. The university has
already announced its standard gar
ment, and now all that remains is to
induce the women of the country to
adopt it. In order that no time may
be lost in getting the new standard
before the women of Harrisburg we
quote from the specifications:
The skirt is made in four pieces
with a seam at the back and opens
in the front. 1t is simple to make
because only one seam needs stay
ing. and in order that it be made
perfectly hygienic and comfortable
when worn without a corset it is
suspended from the shoulders by
means OF an underwaist made of
some thin material The waist is
a blouse falling down over the hips
and held in slightly at the waist by
loose belt.
1t must be simply grand to have
"a university like that, where world
old problems can be decided in a
half hour or so by professors armed
only with shears, some thin ma
terial" and a profound conviction of
their own infallibility. Our own
State College in its proudest moments
never did anything like this. Bring
on your standardized garments. con-
sign Partisan styles to outer darkness,
crown Missouri queen Of fashion and
then let's consider for a moment what
our own wives are likely to do about it.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-29
THE NEW YEAR COMES.

There are bells to ring.
There are songs to sing,
There is good cheer everywhere;
There are kin to meet,
There are friends to greet
And the world is bright and fair.
There are vows well meant,
There is good intent,
There are pledges brave and gay,
There are eyes alight.
There are faces bright
For it's New Years Day to-day.
There are oriefs put by,
There's a cloudless sky.
That smiles DER a waiting world,
There are rosy dreams
On a hundred themes.
And a flag of joy unfurled.
There's a courage new.
There's a purpose true,
There are shadows passed away,
There's a faith in prayers,
And soul that dares-
For it's New Years Day to-day.
l. NJ. Thornton in the Mothers Maya
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THE TRUTH OF THE SITUATION
KANSAS City Star.

Those politicians who have been
criticising President Wilson for his
patience with European nations in
dealing with the question of the rights
of American citizens and American
property might read again the report
of the naval board. which says:
"Our present navy is not sufficient to
give due weight to the Diplomatic re-
monstrances of the United States, nor
to enforce it's policies in war"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-29
Our Daily Laugh
APPRAISAL

He: Darling. I
lay my fortune
and myself at
your feet.
S h 9 a: T h q {
amounts to about
S14.90 altogether,
don't 1t?
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WEDNESDAY EVENING, DEC. 20

Friends. in this tCorId of hurry
And cork, and sudden end,
If thought comes quick Of doing
A Kindness to friend,
Do it that very moment!
Don't put it 0f-don't tCdtt!
What's the use Of doing q Kindness
If you do il q day too late?
Charles Kingsley.