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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-07
THE STAR sPANGLED BANNER

.T\HERE was a time, previous to
the outburst of patriotism fol-
lowing the beginning of the
European war, when in some parts
of the country it required a wave of
the leaders baton to bring lethargic
audiences to their feet when the band
struck UP THE Star Spangled Ban
ner," and heaven knows that was bad
enough. But what must one think of
a Secretary of War, who is the rep
resentative of the President of the
United States in things military, when
he stands with hands in pockets as
the band at the Plattsburg Training
Camp plays the air that thrills every
red-blooded American with pride?
The incident mentioned attracted
more than passing attention at the
camp site of the Plattsburg regiments
ION hike" near Clintonville, n. Y, last
Wednesday. In fact, it was the chief
topic of conversation at mess follow
ing retreat during the same afternoon.
Perhaps the military training of one
month has rendered the citizen soldiers
hypercritical, but Wilson STOCK was
we'll below par for more than breath
ing spell after the incident.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-07
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES

I'm Dunkirk, we witnessed, and with
in our powers tried to cope with, what
yet remains, 1 believe, the most SEN
sational exploit in history. 1t is re-
membered that the little cars of the
Americans often ran those empty
streets, and pursued those deafening
detonation alone. Here at our base,
we shared the life OF town under
sporadic, but devastating, lombard
ment; forward, in Elverdinghe, we
shared the life of town under perpe-
tual and also devastating lombard
ment: still further forward, in Ypres,
we beheld a town bombardment from
the face of the earth in a single night.
We shared no life here, nor yet in
Nieuport, for there was none to share,
In the salient around Ypres, we played
for many days our small part in that
vast and various activity forever going
on at the back of the front. Here we
be forgotten; the diverse noises of
shells going and coming the arrives
and departs; the stupendous uproar of
the duel before the charge, which
makes the deepening quiet Of a run
back come like a balm and blessing
the strange informality of roadside
battere, booming away in the sight OF
peasant families and every passeri the
silence and the stiffness, and the tense
ness and the business, of night along
the linesi the extreme difnculty OF hid
ing from shrapnel successfully without
dugoutI the equal difficulty OF driv-
ing successfully down a shell-bitten
road in darkness like inkI the glow
against the sky of turning town, and
the bright steady dots of starlights
around half the horizonl the constant
straggle of the evieted by the field
ambulance's front door, and the fast
growing cemetery at the back door; the
whine and patter of bullets by the
postes dc secours and the business like
ripple of the machine guns the whir
OF Taubes, the practical impossibility
OF hitting them from the grounds and
! Ifha funny ltttla hoHRhr AeWatipasE aFpp-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-07
MONDAY EVENING. AUGUST z
PARK IMPROVEMENTS

THIs is the time Of the year when
the big licks of the Department
OF Parks must be put in. There
Is more than usual to do and probably
considerably less than the necessary
amount of money to do II with; but
in view OF all the circumstances, a
great deal may yet be accomplished
before the end OF the summer season.
Commissioner Gross and his assistant,
Mr.. Forrer. realize that no other Sec
ton Of the park area will Justify more
attention than the river slope from
Iron alley to Maclay street. Much
grading and planting is yet to be done
and after that the heavy planting that
will protect the embankment,
Public approval of the River Front
treatment is general. Men, women
and children are glad that it has been
saved to the community as its chief
place OF rest
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-07
INDUSTRIAL PROSPERITY

THAT the war brought big prices
and an active market for farm
products was shown by Senator
Curtis, of Kansas, in a speech in the
Senate few days ago. The figures
demonstrating those facts have already
been widely published. That prosperity
has also been brought to the farmers
by the indirect influence of the war in
restoring activity to the manufacturing
industries was another fact brought
out by Senator Curtis. Here are some
of the facts regarding the effect Of the
European war upon American fac
tories:
In the year of peace before the
war we sold to Europe wooden goods
to the value of S4,753,0O0. In the
year of war we sold to Europe woolen
goods to the value of $32,O57,00O. a
gain of 574 per cent. Is any further
demonstration needed as to the cause
of the present condition of the woolen
mills?
The leather industry, they inform
us. is no longer depressed as it was
before the war. Let statistics give
the answer.
In the year of peace we sold to
Europe mems shoes to the value OF
S9,603,000. In the year of war we
sold TO Europe mems shoes to the
value of $22,669, 900, gain of 267
per cent.
In the year of peace we sold to
Europe goods manufactured from
leather to the value of S43,390, 900
In the year of war we sold to Europe
goods manufactured from leather to
the value of s9o,So4.000, a gain OF
100 per cent.
In the year of peace we sold to
Europe harness and saddlery to the
value OF S793,oo0. In the year OF
war we sold to Europe harness anc
Saddlery to the value OF S1s,434, 900
IA. gain OF 2.223 per cent,
Is there anything mysterious about
the increased activity in the leather
Industry
IN the steel industry there has beer
great activity also, Steel Is the one
thing that enters more directly intc
the manufacture of munitions of wal
than perhaps any other. Look at the
figures in regard to this industry,
In tho year of peace we sold ts
| Europe steel bars and bilIets to thu
Taiuo%oSe ~, ,6eo, ,0oos- In the year o.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-07

A MONG American songbirds, the
n house wren has always been a
popular cavorite. Every year
boxes have been erected for his COM
ing, and food provided him during the
occasional late sleet storms. And al
ways we have marveled greatly at the
pluck with which so small bird pro-
tected its nest and scolded and fought
its enemies. Now, he stands convicted
of high treason, and bird lovers all over
the country are trying their best to
get rid of him. For it has been dis
covered recently by the biological sur
vey that our beloved wren delights in
poking holes in the newly y-laid eggs OF
the other songbirds, decreasing the
annual bird population by many broods
Thus. according to the survey, he bird
which we have always regarded as a
plucky little angel has turned out to be
a regular little devil.
In view of the fact that we have
always had birds with u.s. surprisingly
little is known concerning their habits
and requirements. Here, after many
years, we are just finding out the du-
plicity of the wren. In talking to ar
ornithologist sometime ago, a young
woman confessed hat she could tell a
flicker from a thrush and a robin from
a blackbird but aside from that knew
nothing about birds. The ornithologist
SMILED and told her that compared tc
the knowledge of the masses, hers was
a very monument of learning. How
ever ignorant the layman may be con-
cerning birds, he is usually very FOND
of them and will go to any amount ot
trouble to have them about his place
nesting under his roof and in his trees
and rose bushes.
The principal inducement to be off.
cred in attracting birds about the
home is protection, from natural ene-
mics such as cats, snakes and squir-
rels. This may be done by circline
the trunks or trees with bands of tir
or metal as obstacles to climbing; anc
by getting rid of as many cats as pos
sible. Next to sportsmen and storms
cats kill more birds annually than al
other enemies put together, and a com.
munity possessing numerous cats is
carefully avoided by the birds.
Besides protection, birds appreciate
any assistance in the way of nesting ia,
cilities, drinking and bathing places anc
food. a shallow pool, or merely a metal
pan embedded in a secluded place In
the ground, will attract hundreds o1
birds, who take several baths a day
during the summer weather. In erect.
ing birdhouses, the boxes should be
covered with branches and foliage II
possible, and certainly not placed in q
conspicuous location exposed to the
curiosity of humans and the appetite OF
cats. Neither should the boxes be plac.
ed too close together, for while birds
are sociable creatures they resent be.
ing crowded. During the migratory
season only do they lead a community
life. flying and roosting in great fiocks
During the summer birds are usually
indifferent to extra supplies of food
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-07
Wanted-a Man

[From the Kansas City Star.l
We want a man." says a big cor
poration, advertising in this newspaper.
Well, let's see; what sort of man does
A drinking man? No. The advertise
ment says he must be clear headed"
energetic hustler" No fellow who is
looking for an easy job for a soft snap,
A man who has become fat-chested,
stoop- shouldered and sickly from dissi-
patton? No. The very first require
is that he must possess vigor."
man who is content to drift with
the tide? No. 1t says he must have
enthusiasm and AMBITION" and the
word ambition is in capital letters.
Also he must have earnest purpose and
common sense"
man? No. The advertisement states
that he must have a good personality
which means that he must be a likable
man, man whom other manly men will
A college man.. Not necessarily. "A
fair education" is all that is required,
man Of loose character? No chance.
A diffldent, bashful, timid man? No,
sir. This job is not for him. No good
job is. or ever was for the shrinking,
That kind never arrives. This job is for
a man with full confidence in his own
ability" and that accomplishment is
left for the last punch in the adver-
tisement.
What's the pay? There's no limit.
Go as far as you like. The man who
can fill this bill is the kind that goes
to the top, and they're scarce as hens
teeth. Big business is hunting for this
kind and rewards them. A firm in
New York advertised recently for a
man to fill hundred dthousand-dollar a
year job, and did not find him.
There are plenty of the other kind,
though. Plenty of the ten-dollar-a a :
week kind; so many thousands of them
that they gang around the bottom
rungs of the ladder.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-07
THEN AND NOW

DRICEs of household commodities
vary with the times, Some times
they are up; some times down.
Occasionally some are up while others
are down, but the trend of wages in
recent years at least has been almost
constantly up, scales standing un-
touched even when work has been
slack.
There is food for thought and inter
esting comparisons to be made in the
items dug recently out Of an old ledger
by Chester knipe, OF North Wales, Pa.
the figures being one hundred years
old.
Some of the prices follow: In 1913
sugar was 20 cents a pound. and in
1915 the price advanced to 81 cents
q pound; coffee was 25 cents a pound
and molasses S1.25 a gallon; calico, 25
cents a yard; cotton flannel, 22 cents,
and one handkerchief 55 cents; shoes
for adults, s1.20 a pair, and for chill
dren, so cents; trousers sold at 33
cents, and suspenders were 43 cents;
stockings sold at 81 cents; writing
paper, cents a sheet; candles, 22
cents a pound; tobacco, 1874 cents a
pound. In 1915 oats sold at so cents
powder, 75 cents a pound. Eggs
brought from to IL cents a dozen; /;
butter from 10 to IL cents a pound /;
pork, cents a pound; veal 5 cents a
pound; beef, 6 cents a pound; -four, 4
cents a pound.
Farmers paid their hands so cents
a day, excepting in harvesting season,
when go cents was paid. One of the
entries shows that he made a new
frock for Polly Rinawalt that cost 81
cents. The records also show that he
was a milliner, for he charged 40 cents
paid David Meschter $3.50 for making
coffin for his father.
Thus it will be noted that while
some items of household expenses
were higher then than .ow, others
were vastly lower. But If the average
was slightly lower then, wages were
greatly so. The laborer of those days
could not have lived as we'll as does
the workingman of to-day. Likewise,
it is to be noted-milliner bills ran
as low as forty cents and thirty-one
cents was enough to pay for the MAX
ing of a dress. To-day IL costs more
than forty cents to look at a bonnet
and thirty-one cents wouldn't buy the
trimmings for a one-piece bathing
suit.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-07

war we sold to Europe of the same
products to the value of sal, ,743,oo0.
a gain of 1s2 per cent
In the year of peace we sold to
Europe barbed and other wire to the
value of s7.472,e0o. In the year OF
war we sold to Europe barbed and
other wire to the value Of s1s,Ss2,eoo,
a gain of 153 per cent.
In the year OF peace we sold to
Europe firearms TO the value of s3,-
III, 900. In the year of war we sold
to Europe firearms to the value OF
si1,591 900. a gain of 2s5 per cent
In the year of peace we sold to
Europe explosives to the value of s6,-
244,00e. In the year of war we sold
to Europe explosives to the value OF
S71, $685. 900, a gain of 1850 per cent.
In the year Of peace we sold to
Europe medical appliances to the
value of s1,571,000, In the year OF
war we sold to Europe medical appli-
ances to the value OF s5.21s,000, q
gain of 2S1 per cent.
In the year of peace we sold to
Europe machine tools to the value
of s12,536,o00. In the year of war
we sold to Europe machine tools to
the value of $4,000. 900,
During the year of war we sold to
Europe automobiles and automobile
tires to the value of S92.ooo,00O, q
gain of 10 per cent.
Here are a few thoughts for those
who tell us our prosperity of the
present is not due to the war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-07
TELEGRAPH PERIScOPE

-Size doesn't always count-thinlx
how many more stomach-aches one
cucumber contains than do a dozen
watermelons.
After a while they'll be giving an
automobile with each set of tires,
Most of these announcements of
gasoline substitutes should be spelled
substi-toots,
Won Hindenburg should remem-
Der that even Napoleon had his
Waterloo.
We'll, we'll. at last New York has
managed to get into Harrisburg's
class; they have q street car strike
over there.
Tho man who takes things as they
come seldom sees many OF them COM
ing.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-07

ped by the same; the noises made by
men gone mad with pain; the glorious
quiet of men under the acetylene lamps
OF the operating table; crowd psv-
chology,' and why a regiment becomes
lighting machine and how tender
hearts are indurated with a toughen-
ing OF the skin; the high prevalence of
courage among the sons of men; draw
backs of sleeping on a stretcher In an
ambulance the unkemptness of Boche
prisoners; life. death, and war, and the
values and meanings thereof. Such
things, as I know, passed into the ex-
perience OF Section I. in Flanders. And
these things, and more, have sinailarIv
passed into the experience of scores of
young Americans since, in their life
and service behind the lines of France ;,
Henry Sydnor Harrison, in Friends ~
France" to be published in August bv
Houghton Miffiin Company.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-07
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

DIR. Samuel c. Dixon, State COM
missioner of health, who is directing
the campaign against infantile paraly-
SIS, has not taken a vacation for sev-
eral years.
Senator Edwin H. Ware has been
awarded one of the parkway grading
contracts.
General w. G. Price, commander
Of the Philadelphia troops, raps
grumolers in letters received in his
section of the State.
Congressman S. G. Porter, of
pittsburgh, is nursing a gubernatoriaI
boom.
Lieutenant Governor McClain is
spending considerable time on inspec-
ton OF highways and will make some
speeches about them.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-07
The Penny Paper

If the readers of penny newspapers,
published in cities of less than metro
politan size, were allowed to vote
upon the question of whether the price
of the paper should be raised to two
cents. or the expense of production be
curtailed to point permitting profit
able publication on the penny-a-copy
basis, the two-cent price would win,
overwhelmingly, For, anomalous as it
may seem, nobody wants to read a
penny paper unless they feel that 1t
Estate. = ~
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-07
WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB
LEARNED OF THE CITY

tQuestions submitted to members of
the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their
answers as presented at the organiza-
tion's annual Municipal Quiz."l
inspection of weights and measures?
The inspection of weights and
measures insures the purchaser and
Wetghts and peaeuyesS
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-07
Why Pat Came Back

Pat was hard at work in the Bald
win Locomotive Works when the fore
man on his rounds stopped and eyed
him sternly.
did yez not receive a lether from
me, Stain yez was foired?"
"Oi received the lether," answered
Pat calmlyI 9TH insoide says OF was
foircd. but tn outside says Return in
FIVE days to Baldwin's,' so Dim back"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-07

1t is the opinion of steel experts that
there is an accommodating world demand
for steel apart from war uses which
this country must satisfy IL the war
goes on another year or more, And the
fact that enormous war orders have
been placed during the last week would
indicate that there is no possibility of
concluding hostilities for another
twelve-month. at least, Added to the
requirements OF the munition makers
will be the demand for steel for gen-
ereal uses and the big plant at Steelton
and all other plants are certain to be
busy places for months to come.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-07
THE HERRICK INCIDENT
A NENT Mr.. Hughes criticism OF

n President Wilson for the re-
moval of Myron IT. Herrick am
bassador to France, in the midst of
the European war after he had made
a wonderful record for efficiency, the
Democratic Philadelphia Record says:
"Mr. Hughes has done what he could
to make Mr., Herrick a campaign is
sue"
Mr., Hughes has done nothing of
the sort. Nr. Hsrrick WAS a campaign
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-07

Nothing serves to throw such a
shadow over prosperity of any country
as impending labor disturbances, and
there ought to be found some method
for settlement of these controversies
without involving capital and labor in
endless disputes.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-07

The man who can submit to injus-
tice and remain silent, who can make
good use of leisure, who can find sat-
isfaction in keeping secret, is sin
feet tall froms the. chin zup.-ThehSilI
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-07
DO YOU KNOW
HISTORIC HARRIsBURC

That Steeiton is making steel. for
rails for the Far East?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-07
From the Chin Up

John Harris Ferry antedated al
other ferries on the Susquehanna.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-07

Upper Dauphin county is a seaIed
oook TO many Harrisburgers as far
and yet the Lykens and Williams Val
ieys have some exceedingly attractive
sections. The Wiconisco creek is orc
or the curiosities of the county he
cause no matter what the season oF
the year 1t runs black from the drain
age or the coal mines and has soma
freaks OF conduct which are utterly
Snlike the oehaviour of it's staid
orother on the northern border of the
county, the beautiful Mahantonqo 'i'e
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-15

when the procession left Old Forge,
but this was quickly stopped by the
State police, who feared that the
songs might start a rescue, which
could only be handled by shedding
blood.
Reaching this city all were hustled
into the county Jail, although such an
influx taxed the capacity of the struc-
ture, 1t being necessary to place five
men in a cell
In the hall where the meeting was
held I. w. w. buttons and working
cards were found strewn on the floor,
where the men had thrown them when
placed under arrest A quantity of
bullets and number of knives were
also found although no revolvers were
discovered either in the hail or on any
OF the men under arrest.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-15
CARTI. W. W. MEN
9 MILES TO JAIL
All Kinds of Vehicles Used to
Haul 317 to Prison
After Raid

Scranton, Pa, Sept. 15.-Determined
to break up the menace of the In
dustrial Workers of the World, which
has been hanging over the borough of
Old Forge, in the southern end of the
county, for several weeks, and which
threatened to spread to other COM
munities, Sheriff Phillips late yester-
day engineered a wholesale raid and
aided by fifteen State police, arrested
317 members of the organization on a
charge of melting to riot. Old Forge
is nine miles from this city.
The men were arrested in Schwartz S
Hall, after they had been forbidden
to hold meeting and after the owner
of the hall had been warned not to
allow them to meet there. The raid,
which the State police say is the
greatest ever conducted in the State,
was not without its spectacular fea-
lures.
Ride Into Hall
Following orders to the I. W. w.
men, who have kent Old Forge in a
state of turmoil ever since they call
ed their strike, that they were to hold
no meetings, Sheriff Phillips learned
that a gathering was scheduled for
noon. He posted the State police in
an unfrequented portion of the
borough and waited developments.
When the strikers gathered the troop
ers surrounded the building, two rid
ing their horses directly into the
meeting.
one of the men as the front doors
burst open. There was rush for
doors and windows, puc the huge
doors in the rear of the hall opened
and there stood five troopers. while at
every window where liberty was
sought stood trooper. Resistance
was useless and the crowd soon
ouieted, particularly when the police
made it plain that trouble was to l.
found In great quantities should any
SO desire.
For nearly half an hour the men
were held in the hall until the Sheriff
could find conveyances to transport
them to the county Jail here. Private
automobiles of some of Scranton's
best citizens were followed by jitney
buses, and they in turn by band
wagons, coal wagons and even an ice
wagon carried its quota. All the We
hicles were loaded to capacity with
prisoners. each being under the escort
of State policeman. When the pro-
cession reached the southern city line
all of the mounted policemen of this
city Joined and helped to guard the
prisoners.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-15
BATES TO ASK COURTS
MERCY IN AUTO CASE

In addition to Clarence Leroy Bates
Lebanon, who will plead guilty tc
charges of involuntary manslaughter
and illegal operation of a motorcar
half a dozen other defendants will
county courts mercy next Monday
morning.
Bates drove the car which ran down
and crushed George Donahue on the
Hummelstown pike. Other defendants
clearinghouse keeper; Edward How
ard, larceny, and Charles Stiney, fell
onious assault. and w. E. Knisely,
Howard w. Shoemaker, Ed. Shrauden-
bach and Joseph Snyder, nonsupport.