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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-06
MONDAY EVENING, DEC. G
\ DISTINGUISHED GUEST

TONTINUING it's policy of bring
ing TO Harrisburg men distin-
guished in statecraft, the arts
and sciences, and practical business
methods, the Chamber of Commerce
announces another MONDAY luncheon
meeting for next Thursday, at which
the speaker will be Arnold w. Brun-
ner a famous architect, who has had
much TO do with comprehensive plan
ming, the designing of civic centers
and kindred matters. 1t is the aim of
the Chamber to afford the business
community and incidentally our entire
citizenry, first-hand information upon
the things which vitality affect Harris
burg.
Mr.. Drummer made the notable plans
for the Improvement of the city of
Albany which are now being carried
out and will make that city as noted as
Harrisburg. His other commissions
have been for the Cleveland group
commission, civic centers in Rochester,
Baltimore and Denver. the Federal
building at Cleveland and other work
of the same high standard. He is an
accomplished speaker and a man of
the highest attainments in the line of
work in which Harrisburg is especially
interested at this time.
Secretary McColgin is authority for
the statement that the luncheon of
next Thursday will be one of the larg-
est and most significant in the series.
This city is particularly interested in
the working out of the Capitol Park
extension problem and Governor Brum-
haugh with his associates of the Board
of Public Grounds and Buildings are
pleased that Harrisburg is standing
shoulder to shoulder with the State in
harmonizlhg the matters affecting this
problem that are of vital concern to
both the Commonwealth and the mu-
nicipality.
1t is significant that in his study of
the Albany situation Mr.. Brunner pur-
sued about the same line of treatment
which has produced such admirable
results here in Harrisburg. While the
Albany water front has been given up
TO commerce, this city is to-day in
posseSSloh VI It's llneSJ asset IN the
splendid treatment of the eastern en-
bankment of the susquehanna river.
Time was when cities could be built
in hit-and-miss fashion without pub
lie protest; but no longer will the
people permit of this sort of thing.
They insist now upon beauty as well
as utility when both can be combined
for the welfare of the people.
There is special interest in Mr.. Brun-
ner's visit and inspection of Harris
burg in view of his experience in the
designing of cities, and what he may
have to say regarding our improve
ments will be helpful and inspiring.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-06
THE MEXICAN MUDDLE
BY BRIGGS
X.-Finding the Answer
By Frederic ]. Haskin

:. There, are still three leaders in the
neid, hghting for supremacy in Mexican
1Tiairs; Wiiid Emiliano zapata, Francisco
known in the United States than either
OF the others. Zapata is easily the most
picturesque figure in the world to-day.
Bloody Bandit
lie is described as a bandit whose
rruthleSsness throws into insignifcance
the bloodiest deeds of any northern
leader His. army is said to leave a
Manst, Make OF ruin and desolation. Yet
olan village in the State of Morelos
Where three thousand men were quar-
Iereu 10 hunt him down-slept sound
Eo y 700, Tor he knew that neither fear
nor nor the hope of reward could induce
the people Of the village to betray him,
10 70 the Indians of Morelos he is an
IDOL and a savior, man to be adored
>, The strongholds of the zapatistas
lie south of Mexico City, a Thousand
miles from the American border. where
the character of both people and conn
Wy, IIy Is quite dlTerent from that of the
northern states. Morelos is one of the
smallest Mexican states, and also one
OF the richest. The valleys are n riot
OF tropical vegetation, where suear
rice Ilns and nst coffee thrive; The old Mexican
wealthy ,proprietors and its thousands
or starving poems, flourished here a.
It's worst. Here Zapata was horn him
sell OF peon family. here he chafed
under the Injustice and oppression of
to-day. 80 Supfeile
As the head of new Mexico. "a the
e peaee TO opg guide the Wartorn republic into
In zapata. His illfteracy. his lack ps
framing and insight forbid. He bo :
promised the poems land and Justice
IContinued on Page 1O.1
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-06
THE BACCHANTEs AT HARRISBURG
philadelphia Public Ledgerl


With Harrisburg accepting from the
legal owner and generous donor. Mr..
Hershey, Donato's celebrated fountain,
THE Awakening of Spring'-which,
by the way, the same Mr.. Hershey
cannot get out of his system or out of
Hershey, Pa, fast enough--those who
saw full defeat for Mr.. Hershey in the
loss of the damage suit brought by the
talented sculptor had better think
again. for Mr.. Hershey seems to be
very much of a wag, and he who
laughs best laughs last. And it is to
laugh, since nothing funnier has hap
pened for long time in art than to
see the city that strained over the gnat
of Barnard's symbolic nudes swallow
the camel of the art in the all-together
as 1t is revealed in the Donate group.
Boston, most people will remember,
rejected one bacchante with grapes by
no less q sculptor than the great Mac
monnies, for ability to sculpt nymphs
of the September Morn" variety
seems to go along with great digital
deXterity in the round; but what will
Harrisburg say when 1t discovers,
through the humor of Hershey and
| the exceeding artistic generosity of
Donate, that it possesses not only one
bacchante, but three? Exactly! three
of her. and, II would seem. somewhat
|. inebriated with the fresh air of the
dear Printemps." as they would say
in the Latin Quarter. SO that one is
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-06
SALE OPENS TO-DAY

COON the Christmas savings banks
- will be opened and depleted of
their boards of months; soon the
Christmas budgets will be figured out
and added to or decreased; soon hun
dreds of Harrisburg folk and their
neighbors in the towns round about
will be demonstrating how thoroughly
they are looking forward to the glad
dest season of all the year. So, in the
fullness of their hearts, they will re-
member those whose happiness is ever
clouded by the Shadow of the white
plague"
OF all the ways to demonstrate that
the ear, the eye and the heart are at
tuned to heed the angels hymn of the
ages, none is so ready, none so easy
to hand as the purchasing of the little
Red Cross Christmas seals. Elsewhere
DR.. c. r. Phillips, the general COM
mittee chairman, explains some of the
important uses to which the proceeds
are put. A glance will show why it is
important to buy Red Cross seals.
So, If you still hear and would heed
the heavenly chorus of that faraway
Christmas morning, you can easily
answer the message of peace on
earth, good will to men," by pastiRg a
Red Cross Christmas seal on every
Christmas letter, every Christmas
package, every Christmas box. To-day
the sale was formally opened and the
tiny Yule-tide 'stickers" may be pur-
chased at a very great variety of
places. If you've really got the spirit
of Christmas in your heart it's going
to be pretty hard to go a-shopping
these days and not buy Red Cross
Christmas seals.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-06
TRAFTUC PROBLEMS

THROUGH the good offices of Ex-
Mayor Vance C. Mccormick and
the Municipal League, two ex-
perts in traffic regulation came on
from New York last Saturday and
made a careful study of the traffic
conditions in Harrisburg, which will
be the subject of report and recon-
mendations hereafter.
This is an opportune time to investi-
gate the situation with a view to the
adoption of such changes as may be
deemed wise at the opening of the new
municipal year. Mayor-elect Meals,
in public statements, has declared his
purpose to remedy some obvious short
comings in the handling of the traffic
in Market street and elsewhere and
the findings of the New York investi-
gators ought to be very helpful in re-
vising the regulations.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-06

Mayor-elect Meals manifestly has
some ideas of his own regarding the
conduct of the police department. Many
of his suggestions are interesting and
are worthy of serious consideration by
City Council. Others may be academic
and without serious thought, but too
much care cannot be given the plans
for an efficient force, and under the
Clark act the responsibility will rest
upon the entire city commission.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-06

uncertain whether the awakening is
after Mardi Gras ball or after an
Easter at Atlantic City. Indeed, the
Macmonnies nymph and the Donate
ladies' are like Judy O'Grady and the
Colonefs Lady" sisters in the skin and
as like peas in a pod. Consequently,
when they are placed in Harrisburg in
the open then Mr.. Hershey's waggery
will begin to work.
a wit as well as q wag, apparently,
of art when he said in wishing" the
group on Harrisburg: Take it away!
I'd get mad every time looked at it,"
Quite right! One should always be
joyous in the presence of an art work,
one you are to live with, so
If it does not arouse the "Oh, Be JOY
full" feeling, out with it |! But will all
rejoice in it's three bac-
chantes? Well. We shall see what We
shall see!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-06
HHE Mexican problem to-day is

from the restraint of tyranny,
the forces of revolution have burst all
pounds and turned one of the richest
lands on earth into a lawless chaos.
The hour must bring forth a leader
llberator with the grip of a Diaz the
the honesty of Washington. Which
of the many Mexican chiefs and gem
erals is equal to the task?
- The tragic revolutionary career of
francisco Madero proved for all time
that only a strong man need hope for
is rarely questioned His followers
called him the Apostle. But he dream
ed or peaceful conquest, he was slow
to suspicion, and overly reluctant to
use extreme measures, even against
first revolt against Diaz were bought
without his knowledge by clearer
sighted men, while he still hoped for
a victory through the ballot. When he
nad won the presidency and his friends
warned him of the web of intrigue
spinning about him, he refused to be-
against him.. He paid for his trustful-
ness with his life.
Vtctoriano Huerta pinned his faith
TO the army. Where Madero trusted
TOO little to his rifles, Huerta trusted
force. and by force he PrtgtsGgaeg attemntegg by 3y
the United States undoubtedlv hasten
ed his fall. but his ultimate defeat
was inevitable. The Constitutionalist
forces to the north and south of him
ment in the end because the people
were not with him. To-day he is a
prisoner at Fort Bliss, a negligible fac
tor, weeping because the United States
government Will not accept his parole.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-06
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Mayor Blankenburg wants more
money for the Philadelphia parkway
than is proposed.
Patrick LavelIe will become su-
perlntendent of finance in Johnstown.
Jonas Fischer, mayor-elect of
Williamsport, is out with a scheme for
a scholarship for every State in the
Union.
superintendent II. II. Hash, of
Altoona, will preside at the State Edu-
cational Association meetings in Scran-
ton this month.
Col. r. A. Phillips, the Scranton
mining engineer, has returned after
having been with the Lackawanna and
other companies since he was IL years
old.
President Gleason, of Philadel-
phia's common counsel, comes from
family whose head landed in Massa-
chusetts in 1850.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-06
The Mans
Christmas Gift

IT ia not such a hard matter
fo1- a woman to choose a suit
able gift for a man as some im-
agine.
in grooves mems goods are
we'll standardized.
Certain brands carry their
hallmark of character and quail
ity to the masculine Nina, pc
cause made familiar by adver-
The advertising in the Tele-
graph will be particularly help
full in guiding your steps in the
right direction.
And good time to reach a
settlement OF this little holiday
problem Is NOW.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-06
DEMOCRATS AGAINST WILSON

EAILURE TO adopt the owen
/ cloture resolution in the United
States Senate and the growing
opposition of Democratic leaders in
the House and elsewhere to President
Wilson's national defense program and
shipping bill presage a stormy winter
for the present occupant of the White
House. He forced obedience in the
early days of his administration, but
a change has come over the dreams
of his partisans and the administra-
ton newspaper organs are going to
lave their hands so full explaining
The lack of patriotism" of scores of
Democratic leaders that they will not
have time to denounce and deplore the
''prcjudiced utterances" of the anti
administration press.
The President will need the patriotic
support Of Republican statesmen in
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-06
REVISED VERSION

Revised version of an old rhyme,
adapted to present conditions, on re-
ceipt of cablegrams from the oscar
ii at sea for two days:
They are leaning o'er the rail,
And are looking deathly pale,
Are they looking for whale?
Not at all:
They are Henry Ford's disciples,
Casting bread upon the water,
In a way they hadn't oughter,
That is all.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-06
TEEORAPH'S PERISCOPE

Opportunity, they tell us, is great
"knocker," the difference between OPP
portunity and other Knockers" be-
ing that opportunity knocks only once.
German efficiency has proven its
merit everywhere but in the diploma
tic service.
Another Wilson administration
hope blasted--Bryan didn't go with
the Fordites.
What has become of the erstwhile
popular magazine writer who used to
prove by family relationships and fin
ancial statistics that the Rothchilds
would never permit Europe to go to
war?
The English are having almost as
many difficulties in getting to Bagdad
as Sinbad the Sailor used to have.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-06
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
PLACING THE roUNTAIN

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Glad to see in your paper last evening
that the sentiment of n great many
persons is to place the Hershey foun-
tain in the central part of the city,
where 1t would be an attraction to
visitors both summer and winter. Keep
Il close to the Capitol Park or River
Park.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-06

GUS and heroic the efforts, 1t looks es
ttnough a settlement were a dim fu-
germantown manufactures Sat-
urday gave a gold watch To eact of
the -FOUR patrolmen who accompanies
Ine Liberty Bell to the coast and hack.
Jonn Wanamaker made the presen-
tation address and praised the giants
TO whom was entrusted the safety of
given.' Sii"i4 NC
Just as the boat Oscar II, alias the
bord Peace Ship, left the dock at Ho-
poken saturday, little winged fellow.
scantily, Yea almost negligiblv clad
hopped aboard. 1t was Cupid, and he
was there because the poet Betron
Braley and Miss Marian Rubicam.
Doth or Philadelphia, took passage on
moon.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-06

1t is manifestly the purpose OF City
Council and all concerned to treat the
iitney owners with fairness This is
absolutely the correct attitude. All that
anybody can reasonably require is
proper regulation. to the end that the
rights of all may be conserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-06
Our Daily Laugh
ENOUGH.

Wifey: l like
t hi 8 apartment,
only there are not
enough closets.
Hubby: I don't
know what you
need OF more.
There's enough
to hide in when
collectors call.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-06

Forty years have elapsed since our
esteemed twilight contemporary, the
Star-lndependent, first made it's bow TO
this community. 1t has seen Harris
burg emerge from the chrysalis of an
overgrown village to the dignified posi-
ton of the most progressive city of its
class in Pennsylvania. In this progress
and development the Star-Independent
has had its honorable part, and we
tender our contemporary most sincere
congratulations upon its own progress
and the Fluctuations of an anniversary
occasion. May it continue to grow and
prosper with the city.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-06

City Commissioner Lynch is wisely
taking advantage of the present favor
able weather conditions to put the
paved streets in good repair for the
winter. Manifestly, the municipal
asphalt plant is proving a good invest
ment and it will be interesting to note
to what extent it's use will work econ
omy in the maintenance of the high
wayE
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-06

Cheers by the House of Commons
when Churchill Informed them he was
going to the front can be taken any
way you please.-Washington Post.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-06

Is any further proof needed that the
Germans are in desperate straits? Ber-
lin is manufacturing a substitute for
beer.-New York Telegraph.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-06

Willxes-Barre seems to see no light
in it's trolley tie-up. Ex-cops of
philadelphia have been sent to po-.
lice the railroad station and the main
streets, but no matter how strenu-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-06

II the war keeps up the allies hope
ltaly ana germany may eVehtuaIly get
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-06

Enlargement of the Enola yards. cX-
ponsion of railroad facilities on this
side of the river and a general i'm
provement of business on the gree:
transportation lines indicates a pros
perity which must spread to all classes
of trade and industry.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-06
EDITORIAL cOfTENT

With Greece it's another case of\"off
again, on again, gone again. Constan-
Inquirer.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-06

James Rudaker, of New Bethlehem,
lost an car while hunting the other
day. His own gun turned on him
and nipped him in the bud, synonym
for car in this instance.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-06

William Howard Taft is in this Sec
tion and Harrisburg will soon have an
opportunity of hearing again the man
who even now is in the public eye as
much as the President of the United
States.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-06

HISTORIC HARRISBURG
This city used to be the point where
Lebanon county sent iron to be ship
ped overland to Pittsburgh.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-06

Anyway, those trenches should give
Europe a wonderful subway system
after the war.-Columbia State
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-06

Tom DAILY, in the Ledger, invites
the public to mention their favorite
pests, to which there have been many
replies. We offer ours shyly. 1t is
the man who forces an awful punk
joke upon you and laughs uproar-
iously, and you are too good hearted
not to laugh with him, no matter how
much 1t costs you.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-06
AMBIGUOUS.

Hubby: I don't
like women 20
wear colors.
w / ( ey: All
right, love. I'll
gladly wear black
Tor you
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-06
DO YOU KNOW

That SteeIton-made rails are
on most OF the trunk lines I'm the
Middle States?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-06
THE STATE FROM DAY TO DAY

Like the spots on the retina of the
eye which are produced by gazing di-
rectiy into the sun, the namo OF Ford
appears dotted over every newspaper
in ubiquitous fashion. We noted q
headline in a Philadelphia paper,
''Ford-Stern Peace Pourparler To-
night" At FIRST glance it entered our
head that perhaps he had gone into the
movie game with q Poor Pauline"
feature, but anon we realized that we
needed brushing up on our French
verbs.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-06

The frivolous Mr.. Hints and Dints,
of New Castle fame, tells most inter-
esting1y of a New York man called
Sklut, who wanted it changed to Davis.
Sklut does sound a great deal like
the noise made by COW in pulling
her leg out of mud-hole, added III
and D.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-06

H. F. Ferber, the veteran fire
chief of Scranton, has determined to
retire. There are many applicants for
the place.
Congressman Ware praised the
Smith appointments last night, but
Senator McNichol only praised some
of them.
Representative Fred W. Willard,
president of the State League of Re-
publican clubs, has asked National
Committeeman Wasson to secure the
national convention for Philadelphia
when the Republicans meet on De-
cember II.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-06

The list given out was as follows:
Director of Public Safety, William H.
Wilson; Assistant, Captain Harry c.
Davis; Director of Public Works,
George r. Datesman; Assistant. Joseph
l.. Baldwin; Director of Supplies,
Joseph S. mclaughlin; Assistant,
Peter ]. Hoban; Director of Health
and Charities, DIR. Wilmer Krusen; AS
sistant, Harry w. Mace; Director of
Wharves, Docks and Ferries, George
S. Webster and Assistant, Joseph +.
Hasskarl..
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-06

Entered at the Post Office in Harris
burg, Pa, as second class matter
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-01-01
SOLDIERS MIND BULLETS NO
MORE THAN They DO RAIN
By II. J. Phillips
Staff correspondence.

CALAIS. France, Dec Isl point
the firing line in Northern ordinary
and from village to village has brought phase
That fighting business The soldiers
job.
Nobody thinks layman they'd
heroos-Began, German, Brltsher Frenchman.
hall OF bullets s like rainstom
I'LL tho storm Is the field wet
the storm Is
joke about
by the
heel o ca peak
We sat and talked The village fighting me- almost
than trench
We have right street blowing up
house In turn to smoke out the snipers," he said.
Sometimes other
and sometimes each takes one
The German snipers hide
hunted out In the
cut almost the lot when they
fst houses firing hard they
An officer and Interpreter walked
them that they would to them
They replied by shooting talking
Wild and did the
down with charge OF
snipers were dug out curiously enough. unhurt
After being medically examined they
shot. -
We always lose lot work ia their own fault
1hey a cool cucumbers
when take village
always leave picked lot of
We have TO blow holes rthe
as driving tunnels underneath the
shot at ~ 80
But here use the underground and
while the bullets whizzng like man stro acro
tho street with kettle full such thing wanted
the other side" $3.50 ms ~
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-01-01
BELGIAN FOLK
OFFERED HOMES
IN THIS COUNTRY

LONDON. Jan. Farms In the
South-500 of them--is theAAasSun.
mas present America offersvso a
titute Belgian farmers.
Each farm will have a hous1
from two TO five rooms. also h
COW. couple OF pigs.
chickens on IL, and all the lie.
ments necessary TO ~ "a farm.
Each colony OF 30 sAf have its
church and school house.
This offer OF farm homes In the
Southern states-Maryland. North
and South Carolina. Georgia. Ten
nessee, Virginia. Kentucky and Ala.
bama, has been submitted TO Bel.
gtan exiles by w. H. Manns, vice
president OF Southern settlement
and development association.
Manns has arrived In Londonl
armed with credentials from Secre.
tary of State Bryan. Cardinal Far.
ley and Cardinal Gibbons.
He is reaching the Belvians
through Ambassador Page and the
London foreign office.
This offer we are making 10 the
Belgians is not charity" declares
Manns. we are giving these ex.
Hes an opportunity TO help them.
selves.
we will give them these farms
and homes. schools and churches,
without any immediate cost to
them.
For the first year no interest or
any part OF the principal will be
paid on the purchase Of the land
The payments may be made In from
five to twenty years time. and the
money required viii come from the
farms"