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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-12
Just a Toy Army
philadelphia Inquirerl

lHnllaOelpnla inquirer
Quotation from a Washington tele-
gram:
Senator Borah tonight urged that
additional troops be ordered to the
border and said that any man or party
in Mexico which sought to embarrass
the task of protecting American in
terests be treated as enemies of the
country"
All, yes. But where are the troops?
Quotation from a telegram from Ell
Paso:
Asked to-day if he intended send
ing troops into the Big Bend district
in addition to those already on their
way. General Funston said this eve
ming:
"I haven't any to send.'"
No, he hasn't any to send Why
not? Because our army, which is COM
posed of excellent material, is TOY
ARMY.
on Monday President Wilson listen
ed to some misguided milk sops con-
nected with an organization which
calls itself the American Union
Against Militarism. Now no one wants
militarism. IT is the curse of Ger
many and in the hands of Germany
has sown much of Europe with tens
of thousands of graves Militarism
is the building up of a gigantic mill
tary institution which is at the COM
mand of an ambitious cabal and de-
signed to browbeat and control any
nation upon which greed fixes its
bloodshot eyes. Against such men
there must be proper defense. And
that is all that preparedness means in
the United States "a an army large
enough to defend our rights and keep
out the invader. The invader has
actually appeared and he comes from
Mexico. President Wilson said to the
milk sops:
There are not men enough in the
existing American army to patrol the
Mexican border. That is the mere
physical men. And yet it is obviously
the right thing to do to keep the dis
orders of one country from flowing
over to disturb the peace of another
country. That is not militarism. That
is necessity"
And yet in the face of these facts,
the House of Representatives has
dared to throw it's unpatriotic body,
diseased with the germ of GERMAN
americanism, in front of the onward
march of preparedness and has de-
clared its intention of refusing to de-
velop the TOY ARMY into one of re-
spectacle size.
The House of Representatives, un-
der it's present direction, is disgrace
to the United States of America and
dangerous menace to its free insti-
tutions.
1t richly deserves to be repudiated
at the November polls, and it will be
If there is anything like a genuine
patriotic sentiment pervading this
Nation
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-12
GREATER THAN WILSON

TT is one of the pleasing pastimes of
Democratic orators to describe Will
son as the greatest President since
Washington, thus placing him above
such eminent Democrats as Jefferson
and Jackson. Judge Samuel White,
who delivered the principal address
at the Jefferson Club Banquet in Port
land, Oregon, recently, set up new
idol for Democracy by saying that
history does not record the name of
any man in all time who has rem
dered as great service to mankind
and the cause of the plain people as
has Mr.. Bryan.
Since we have Wilson placed above
Jefferson and Jackson, and Bryan
placed above Wilson, we now know
who's who in Democracy.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-12
EDITORIAL COMMENT

Villa may derive some consolation
from the thought that the whipping
he's getting hurts us more than it does
him.-WashlngtOn Post
The Italian campaign has at least
shown that the Italians are among the
greatest mountain climbers the world
has ever known.-Chicago Herald.
1t is an unfortunate and perhaps
peculiar coincidence that our little
crises with Germany and Mexico have
twice come at about the same time
Chicago Herald.
Alderman Klaus, of Chicago, wants
to- change Shakespeare Avenue and
the police station thereon to Bacon
Avenue and station. More appropriate
for stockyard city.-New York
World.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-12
THE ROOSEVELT CANDIDACY

TIME Roosevelt candidacy becomes
complicated. There are mdica
tions that the Colonel is making
a serious bid for the Republican
nomination in such manner as to leave
his political and personal prestige un-
impaired should the Chicago conven-
tions decide upon some other candi-
date.
on the same day that Perkins is
sued a statement to the effect that the
Progressives are not tied TO Roose-
welt and are ready to accept any
progressive Republican, the Roosevelt
Nonpartisan League, with headquar-
ters in New York and Guy Emerson
as secretary, came out in the Satur-
day Evening Post with a four-page
advertisement telling the public why,
in it's estimation, Theodore Roosevelt
is the logical man for President at
this time. The prodigality of the
space purchased for the advertise
ment points suspiciously toward the
well-filled purse of this same Perkins,
who is not averse to spending his
money lavishly when he has an end
in view. and the skill with which the
advertisement was prepared shows
plainly that it is no hastily concocted
scheme of irresponsible enthusiasts.
Indeed, the student of Roosevelt
literature will find here and there ear
marks of what possibly may be the
revisions of the ex-President's own
pen.
To further complicate the situation,
the Colonel is out in an interview to-
Of in which he endorses this effort
at the EQnpartisan Roosevelt League,
is not a canine maintaining that he
while the League l.. In other words,
onel for President, on fming the Col
as chief executive he woii24nd thal
best guarantee of peace in the Dnt e
States. he denies that he is seeking
/ the nomination and endorses the
Leagues campaign, because it upholds
preparedness.
Out of the whole confusing muddle
two conclusions may be reasonably
deduced-that the Colonel wants the
nomination if he can get it and that
he is maneuvering for position that
will enable him to pose as the power
behind the throne If he cannot have
the presidential honor for himself.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-12
FORD IN PENNSYLVANIA

CUPPORTERS of Henry Ford, oil
y those who are using his name to
cover their own political designs
have sent millions of stickers into
PENNSYLVANIA with the hope of turning
the tide in his favor at the primaries
next Tuesday This method of cam
paigning does not appeal to the fair
minded man of any party. If Henry
Ford wanted to be a candidate for
popular choice in the presidential race
in this State. the way was open to him.
The law gave him ample opportunity
10 file nominating papers that auto
matically would have placed his name
on the primary tickets. Instead of
availing himself of this opportunity he
insisted that no papers be filed in his
behalf
As an avowed candidate he would
have had no more than passing no
tice. As a "stickeT' candidate his can
didacy is drawn to the attention of
method of campaigning may be smart,
but 1t is not honorable. Ford as presi-
dental material is utterly impossible.
In the White House he would be worse
than Wilson.
Friends of the automobile manufac-
turer assert that his name is being
used in PENNSYLVANIA without sanction
and in an effort to win votes away
from Governor Brumbaugh. If that be
true. then Ford is being made cats
paw and he owes it to the voters of
this State to tell them that unscrupu-
lous politicians are endeavoring to
have him pull their chestnuts out of
the fire. His continued silence will
convince most people that he is a
party to the sticker campaign for the
sake of the cheap advertising to be
derived.
In either case his candidacy is not
TO be taken seriously. This is no time
to consider for President man whose
avowed intention it is TO strip the
United States of even the meager mill
tary force it has for protection against
Mexico.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-12

tude of the public has given place to
more rational consideration of the
service corporations. 1t now remains
TO be seen whether this favorable
change will be checked by return
to old methods upon the part of rail-
road officials. It is squarely up to
them whether returning prosperity
shall cause a relapse to the old atti-
tude of the public be damned or a
more intelligent course involving fair
treatment of patrons and cooperation
with the public at large.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-12

a SMALL boy of eight early de-
~ veloped the ambition to boone
scientific farmer. His par
en- en-. who had only a very moderate
neon talked to him seriously about
rme ,rnntoa supI ct, explaining that if he ever
M"lteu l 70 a. to college he would have
ingIT in GSiH tbe ,ne aanpey himself Accord,
started deIlNering .eriodicals through
out the office buildii-rs of the CITY in
when W. zen. ne IaVeo' SEM th large list
month he opened a savings >oconnt in
local bank. and thereafte, made
regular deposits. Last Fall, % the
age of Is, he entered an agricultt-al
college. the expense of which Wa,
covered by his bank account. leaving
his periodical route to his small
brother
This boy was undoubtedly made of
good stuff and he was also precocious
beyond his years, or he never would
have been able to begin his college
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-12
LEEGRAPH'S PERlSCOPE

-Coionel Dodds ~'ra about good
Villista appears to o.,aspond nrettv
well to a certain other o,,.,a,,,o,,,s
notion about a good Indian.
Senator Stone says this is a go,
time for everybody to hold his head;
but the Senator should remember that
not all of us drink that kind.
Just now, with most housewives in
the midst of their Spring offensives
many husbands find it difficult even
to retire in good order
Some how or other a ten mill
school tax sounds worse than a one
cent rate.
If Henry Ford is really averse to
being a candidate for the Presidency in
Pennsylvania, somebody is spending a
great deal of money for the purpose
of dis-pleasing him.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-12
RAILROADS AND THE PEOPLE

GENERALLY speaking, there is a
N disposition among railroa
magnates throughout the coun-
try to avoid further alienation of
public good will by avoiding doing
the things which brought about the
reprisals of recent years There are
still, however, here and there officials
of the old type who should be rele-
gated to the back seats that they NAV
not interfere with the gradual restora-
tion of confidence and better relations
between the public and the railroad
interests.
Restrictive and coercive legislation
having to do with the regulation of
public utilities usually reacts upon the
patient public. This has been the
tendency for several years and the
public is at last realizing that any
drastic law which cripples a public
utility-railroad or any other service
corporation--is bound TO counter upon
the innocent bystander. Starting at
Washington. the game of regulation
has been played in every State and
municipality so that to-day the in
creased cost of operation and the
slowing down of development have
fallen upon the general public. OF
course, the people have in some meas
ure been responsible, but in the final
analysis it must be understood that
the arbitrary and unreasonable rail-
road official started the avalanche.
1t is interesting to observe. how
ever, that things are changing for the
better and that the antagonistic atti-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-12
A Kitchen UNDERGROUND

A large coal mining company has ar
ranged to provide warm, substantial
meals to the men working from 200 to
400 feet underground. An electric range
has been installed in one of the lowest
chambers of the mine In this are pre-
pared hot lunches which are served in
an underground restaurant at prices
barely covering the cost of the food. 1t
has been found that this not only adds
to the comfort of the men, who had
hitherto been compelled to eat cold
food, but it also adds to their produce
tive capacity. A marked increase in
the amount of coal taken out was noted
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-12
RESULTS OF PROHIBITION
NULLING a few interesting para
. graphs from recently gathered
statistics one learns that


NULLlNG few interesting para
" graphs from recently gathered
statistics one learns that
"Hydes," the finest saloon of Seat
tie, has been remodeled as a tea room,
with beautiful decorations, oriental
furnishings and comfort conveniences.
Hundreds of seattle's leading women
are its patrons.
The Raymann Brewery of Wheeling,
w. Va. is now the P. o. Raymann
Company, engaged in meat packing.
The Uneeda Brewery of West Vir-
ginia is now milk produce company.
The Benwood Brewery (West Vir-
ginia) is now a chemical and soap
plant.
The Fairmont Brewery (west Vir-
ginia) is now an ice and milk products
plant.
The Huntington Brewery is now a
meat packing plant.
The Cedar Rapids Brewery is now
yeast factory.
The Iowa City Brewery is now a
- 'AiitSiS anu PioNuNO NOiiP"hS'
The Star Brewing Company, of
Washington, Pa, is now a paint, oil
and varnish company.
The North Yakima Brewing Com
pany of Washington, is now fruit
by-products company.
Here are few choice morsels for
those to chew upon who have been
arguing that prohibition confiscates
property. 1t doesn't. Prohibition
merely turns it TO better uses.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-12

all the fine words with which German
propoeandists have been so lavish. A
government that permits its people to
starve in what few years ago were
rich and prosperous localities will have
some difficulty impressing its virtues
upon the people who are paying its
grocery bills.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-12
A Preventive For Sea-sickness

recent successful patent is for a
machine that will overcome the rolling
of ship and thereby Danish sea-sicll-
ness. The new instrument is sort of
gyriscope, which is set In motion by the
waves. and counteracts the rolling of
the ship. The apparatus has already
been tested upon several yachts and
partment has ordered one for big
i0,000-ton transport now being built In
Philadelphia.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-12
Applied PrOverb of
Modern Business +!

"One of these days is none Il
these days"
The man who is always think
ing about advertising, who is 90
days" never gets there.
BY the time he gets around to
it his business has died OF d'y
rot.
Settle the advertising problem
now.
Settle 1t the right way aid
that way will lead you to the al
vertising columns of the modem
daily newspaper.
II you want advice or suggg-
tions write a note TO the Bureiu
of Advertising. American News
paper Publishers Association,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-12
OUR DAILY LAUGH
HIS ASPIRA-
TIONS.

Mr.. S n o b:
And what are
you going to
be when you
grow up?
] o h n n l e:
oh, 1 guess
I'll marry q
w e a l t h y
lady and be q
n o b o d y like
you.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-12
Song

The boat is chaflng at our long delay,
And we must leave too soon
The spicy sea-pinks and the inborne
spray,
The tawny sands. the moon.
Keep us, o Thets in our western
flight
Watch from thy pearly throne
Our vessel, plunging deeper into night
To reach land unknown.
John Davidson
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-12
Can't Satisfy Them
[ Atlanta Constitutionl ]

When Justice Hughes is silent they
don't know what to make of him,
and when he talks he doesn't please
'em. So. there they are, and where
are they?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-12
WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB
LEARNED OF THE CITY

GQuestons submitted to members OF
the Harrisburg Rotary Club and tlsiI
answers as presented at the organEa-
tion's annual Municipal Quiz. j
How is city revenue raised?
BY imposing a tax on real estat
and business and by such other re
celpts as are by law due the city.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-12
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg is a big dis
tributing center for harness anC
the like?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-12

HISTORIC HARRISBURG
Harrisburg used to have five fr'
naces located along the old Pennsl'
vania canal. a
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-12
AS SEASON

AO oGA0ON-
ING.
To live for
pleasure is
not all
+ or those
who true
s u C C e IS
W o u / d
win
But it's no
h a r m
to m TX a
small :
Amount of
quiet pleas
Urs iaa.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-12

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO..
Telegraph Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-12

Z. ]. STACKPOLE. PrsSt and Edisor-in-C hisf
F. r. OYSTER, BHSinsSs MoHogfr.
GUS NJ, STEINMETZ, MorGging Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-12
. FRIDAY EVENING, MAY IL

You ctE,
dream yourself into
character: you n.
yourself into OHe.-FRO,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-12

Vidocq. yea, Sherlock Holmes him
self has nothing on the Lancaster con-
stable who by clever work had an al
legged horse thief halted at Klein
feltersville few days ago. A detec-
tive who detects is Joy forever.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-12

The courts decision in the case Of
12-year-old Grace Trescott, whom her
parents in Wilkes-Ba wanted to
marry a 29-year-old man to prevent
her from being led into bad associa-
tion" deserves commendation A mis-
guided parental desire for a chiIds
welfare needs judicial restraint.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-12
THE STATE FROM DAY DAY

Therere of! The CAMPAIGN for
Henry Ford for president has been
launched in the "city of brotherly love"
by paciflsts whose sense of proportion
is about on a par with their probable
zeal for defense in case this country
should be dragged into a defensive war.
Patience screams with evaporation.
beautiful young Sharon matron,
Mrs. Elizabeth Tippitt, is being con-
sidered as a possibility in the beauty
moving picture magazine. The contest
calls for an equal amount of brains
and beauty, which is making the quail
ficatlons pretty restrictive, according to
the popular conception.
A 52-year- old would-be suicide was
prevented from carrying out his pur-
pose by the quick action of his wife,
who stuffed cobwebs and mud into the
self-inflicted wound of this Hunting
don farmer who desired death. He may
recover.
Russia to Camden via Japan is the
trip just completed by Mrs Rebecca
was formerly in Russia and who had
been visiting there when the war broke
out.
A labor organizer of Beaver Falls
is of the opinion that BILLY" Sunday
Injuries labor. but he goes not into
specific details. BILLY" takes a crack
at practically everything, If reports be
true, so there is no reason why this
particular gentleman should feel that
there has been partiality on the part
of the baseball evangelist
Several hundred girls and boys from
Philadelphia high schools tourneyed to
Washington, ID. c., yesterday for an
inspection of the Capitol and govern
ment buildings. Wilson had a pre-
vious engagement and could not re-
ceiVa
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-02-02
u. S. SOON
TO OPEN
UP COAL

WASHINGTON, d. c., Feb. g.
Actual development of the
fabulously rich Matanska coal
fields in Alaska will begin this
year.
The small, independent miner
will have a chance, under the
lease system Secretary of the In
terror Lane is expected to an
nounce within the next few
weeks, to work this coal field
which Uncle Sam has so care
fully guarded from being gobbled
up by the coal barons.
An army of railroad builders
will begin about March / to COM
plete the line.
The immediate work this
spring and summer on the Alas
ka railroad, according to Lane
and Chairman Edes of the Alas
ka railroad commission, will be
to complete the road from the
deep water terminal at Seward
through to Matanuska.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-02-02
TACOMA CUT OFF BY
RAIL FROM THE EAST

Tacoma is completely cut off
from the east today.
In the worst storm the rail-
roads have had to buck up
against In years, trains to and
from the coast are completely
stalled.
A 6O-mile gale and blizzard in
the vicinity of the Cascade tun-
mel has piled the snow up in
drifts 60 feet deep in places.
Dynamite and a small army of
rotary plows have been unable to
keep the tracks clear long
enough for the trains to pass
through the snow-covered noun
tains. After the rotaries pass
through the tracks will be drift
ed as badly as ever.
Southwestern Washington is
threatened with some of the
worst floods in Its history. With
the deep snow turning into small
rivers the Puyallup valley is In
immediate danger.
Reports from the vicinity of
Kalama are that two miles of
telephone wires are down and
that severe floods are imminent.
Telegraph and telephone wires
are down throughout the state
and maens of communication are
threatened with being cut off.
AN. mail to the east is being
routed from Tacoma by way of
Portland over the southern lines.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-02-02

Sweden wonders whether the
Firms would revolt to aid a
Swedish invader. Russia is not
certain. But Berlin, which has
considered the problem since the
war broke out, has decided that
Finland would not revolt. That's
another reason why Germany
does not welcome the entrance of
Sweden as her ally.
Sweden has 10000 soldiers
i'm arms, and u war strength
(including Ieseryes) of
100000. But to attack Rus
STA they would have TO move
through a snow-covered, des-
Olate territory, without rail-
road. Sweden has not the
means to equip such an army
of invasion with the trans
pOrtation facilities necessary
to move itself, say nothing of
tho supplies.
Russia's new import line, the
Kola railroad, which reaches an
ice-free port warmed by the tip
of the gulf stream, Is ESQ miles
from the Swedish border--prac-
tically safe from any Swedish
army.
Sweden's navy consists OF
cruisers and gunboats--neglible
when compared with the dread
noughts of Germany, Britain and
Russia,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-02-02

Six rotary plows are working
constantly over the Northern Pa
cific and Great Northern line
through the Cascades. They have
cleared the way at least 20 times,
only to have the tracks drifted
as badly as ever.
Yesterdays North Coast Linz
tied was taken across the noun
tains in sections of two cars
each, each section being hauled
by four locomotives. The Chi
cago train which was to have left
for the east this morning has
been held up in Seattle. a.e
The Milwaukee's train, the
Olympian, due to arrive tonight,
is trying to make its way through
the mountains, with dynamite
and rotary plows joining In a
desperate effort to clear a path.
Interurban Stalled. - p
All cars on the Seattle inter-
urban have been stalled by the
storm, and officials this morning
we're unable to say when the
road again will be cleared for
traffic. All street cars in the
city are running.
A drop of four degrees in the
temperature at o'clock this
morning turned the drizzling
rain which fell throughout the
night into heavy snowfall.
Weatherman Cover says It may
quit some time in July, maybe.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-02-02

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