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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-07-11
THE SIMPLEST FROCKs ARE THE sMARTEsT FOR
 THE TINY FOLK

The Pattern for this De2ig1, Be- sides Allowing for All Seams, Gives the True Blasting Line and Shows Diagrams for Cutting and Making.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-07-11

i,S2~ngs, where she is -w-5e1h her
 olother-in-law, A. J. Stewart, vno ;s convalescing there from Q recent ar-
 tack.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-07-11

Little Miss Mary Elizabeth Hunt is the guest of relatives at Waldron, and her brother, Sid Hunt, Jr., is visiting relatives at Woodson.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-07-11

Mrs. B. w. Benton left yesterday for visit with relatives and friends at Cincinnati, for the summer.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-07-11

Judge and Mrs. s. J. Hunt will leave today for Hot Springs, where they will spend month or so.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-07-11

Mrs. Toss Fowler of Kansas City is here for visit with relatives and friends.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-07-11

Mrs. s. J. Howe returned yester- day to her home at Black Rock, after visit here with her son and daugh- ter, MT. and Mrs. w. s. Howe.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-07-11

Mrs. w. E. Mullikn and daughter, Willie May, have returned to their home at Helena, after a visit hel e with Mrs. Mack Cook and Mrs. J. A, McEntire
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-07-11

Mrs. Abe Altman and son of New Orleans and Mrs. Jean Pretorius of Vicksburg, Miss, who have been guests of their sister, Mrs Jos. Meyer have gone to Hot Springs for a visit with relatives and friends.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-07-11

Mrs. R. l.. Arnett of Springfield, Mo-, was here yesterday from Hot
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-07-11

Miss Emma Langdon returned yes terday to her home at Denver, Colo:, after a visit here with her sister, Miss Annie Parker.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-07-11

Miss Esther Higgins of St. Louis is the guest for few days of Miss Letha McCarra.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-07-11
s 0 GETTY

Misses Leah and Leota Martin of Haynesville, La., are the guests of Mrs. Berry Haley in West Eleventh,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-07-11

The Business Women's club will give another delightful excursion and moonlight basket picnic Friday even ing, on the steamer J. Frank Hicks.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-07-11

Miss Virlin Millee has returned from Philadelphia, where she attended the B. Y. P. U. assembly.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-07-11

Mrs. o. E. Perry. who has been seriously ill at her home at 1006 Ooak street, is slowly improving.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-07-11

The regular dance of the Doris 'park club will be given Friday even- ing, at Doris park. The list is at the Progress.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-07-11

Mrs. J. M. Howard underwent an operation yesterday at the Davis hos pltal and was reported last night as resting easily.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-06
THE NORTH SEA FIGHT

WTHIcH side won the decision in
wv the North Sea fight will re-
main in doubt so long as Ger
many declines to give correct list
of her losses in ships and men. But
there is a way of deciding who is mis-
tress of the seas. If that title has
been transferred as a result of the Jut-
land battle from England to Germany,
then we may expect to see the German
high seas fleet venture forth to sweep
the English from the waves. If Eng
land still retains the title, then the
navy of Great Britain will continue to
sail back and forth near the hiding
places of the Germans, a standing
challenge to the enemy to come forth
and try issues to a conclusion.
If Germany has inflicted the blow
that she contends she has, then it is
time for her naval leaders to assert
themselves. They must come forth to
relieve their nation from the threat
of starvation and from that isolation
into which it has been forced by the
power and aggression of the English
sea force since the very beginning of
the war. II Germany is confident of
her power the time is at hand for her
TO turn the fortunes of war in her
favor by clearing England from the
seas and restoring German shipping to
the prominent place it held previous
to the war. Germany's merchant ma
rine is rusting and rotting along the
wharves of a thousand harbors the
world around. Will Germany make
good her claim and attempt to release
these much-needed ships, sr will her
navy continue to lie back of the land
forts, justifying the English as
sertion that Germany fears to meet in
decisive contest the main fleet of Great
Britain?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-06
SCIENTIFIC DETECTIVES
By Frederic ]. Haskin

mystery, and the owners of the factory
went to prison paying the government
a million dollars in taxes. After all.
it was quite simple: The factory had
received the oil by means of relay
shipments. An agent secured the oil
at an eastern coast city, shipped it to
man in nearby town, who kept it a
couple of weeks and then shipped it to
another address; here it was moved
from one railroad station to another
and shipped to some one else, and so
on until it reached an agent in the
middle western town who delivered it
secretly to the factory.
Another difficulty encountered by
the government is the plotting done by
the seller of distilled liquors to escape
the taxes. When whisky is 100 per
cent of the laboratory standard of
strength and quality, It pays a tax of
Sl.1O a gallon; when 10 per cent it
pays $1.21 a gallon, and so on. In
spectors are kept in the field, provided
with instruments for testing various
grades of whistles, and report the
slightest inaccuracy between the quail
ity and the amount OF taxes. A close
check is kept on each distillery 1t
must give full account of all the
grain it uses. the amount used in each
fermenter; the time the grain goes in
that fermenter, and the time 1t comes
out' anu IhS amount OF Spirits made
from 1t. The product of the grain
lying in the fermenting tubs is called
distilled beer. and it is the strength of
this which must be kept track of by
the government inspector. In spite
or these precautions, four distilleries in
southern city a couple of years ago
succeeded in cheating the government
OF the tax on a hundred gallons of
whisky out of every two hundred gall
Ions distilled daily. The fraud was
discovered, however, and the taxes
paid.
A frequent trick of the unscrupulous
saloonkeeper is to pour inferior whis
Ky into bottle in bond and sell il to
his customers for the original. This
practice has been greatly interfered
with recently by the federal inspectors,
VINO are apt to enter a saloon at any
minute and carry away sample bot
ties of counter whisky. These are
sent to the National Narcotics Labora
tory, where they are tested with sam
pies known to have come from the dis
tillery named on the label. If thev
suffer by comparison, the saloonkeeper
Is conNlcted OF fraud and fined from
$25 to $50.
Butter is also a subject of experi-
mentation in the detective work of the
laboratory 1t is tested first to see If
II really is butter, and then to deter
mine the amount of water contained
IN 1t. If it contains 16 per cent or
over OF water, it is called adulterated
and pays tax of ten cents a pound
Thirteen per cent is the usual wafer
content but as one manufacturer told
Dr' ADAMS, his prouuct was 1897
Just three-hundredths outside of the
penltentlary. If in every hundred
pounds OF butter a manufacturer can
sell TWO pounds of water, IL NAV he
seen that he is making considera hIe
profit on the production.
Perhaps the most interesting work
| or the laboratory is the testing OF Ger.
tam medicines and beverages to do
iermine If they contain narcotics. This
reagents. eiiii'ai
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-06
G. A. R. Encampment

uARRIsBURG is always glad to
IL be the scene of Grand Army
convention.
The people of this city have not for
gotten how glad they were to welcome
these same men some fifty years ago,
when the rebel hordes were almost at
our doors and when Camp Curtin was
the rallying ground for the thousands
of fearless Northern men who shoul-
dered their muskets and marched away
to meet and throw back the columns
in gray, whose watchword was: "On to
Harrisburg"
What the men who went out from
old Camp Curtin did at Gettysburg
and on a hundred battlefields of the
South saved the Capital of Pennsyl-
vania from the torch of the invader
and his ravaging hordes, and we who
call this city home have never for
gotten.
So the latchstring is out to-day and
we offer our best to the boys" of the
Grand Army, gathered here for their
State encampment. Accept our greet
ings and our glad hand" of good fell
lowship. Stay as long as you want and
come back as soon as you can.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-06
STORM SIGNALS ZIP

TT is apparent that President Wilson
himself is getting somewhat appre-
hensive of the outlook from a
Democratic standpoint and for the
first time has been brought to a reali-
cation that his own election is in
doubt. 1t is said that the chief exec
utive has been slow to see the weak
ness of his administration, but that
even he is beginning to realize that
all is not plain sailing.
His speech recently delivered at the
Press Club in Washington, is being
analyzed as the first symptoms of fear
that have been displayed by the Presi-
dent, and a careful perusal of that eff
fort shows that he has run up the
storm signals. The leaders of the
party have for weeks realized that the
political outlook was not altogether
encouraging and a number Of promi-
nent Democrats of the House have
privately admitted that the party was
evidently riding to a fall.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-06
General Petain

General Petain has been prominent
ly in the eye of the public since
February 25. At that date he was in
trusted with the defense of Verdun,
and was 'able to deal satisfactorily
with delicate situation" His serv-
ices were thus described In the decree
which bestowed upon him the dignity
OF a grand officer of the Legion of
Honor. He has now become COM
mander-in-chief of the central group
OF armies; that is to say that he is in
supreme charge of the front extending
from Scissors to Verdun, inclusive. At
the beginning of the war Petain, who
had then risen to the rank of colonel,
was known as one of the most strenu-
GUS officers in the French army. AS
an infantry officer he brought out a
manual of tactics, and was always a
prominent figure on the maneuver
ground. General Joffre had marked
him, and his opinion of Petain was
shown when he intrusted him with
the defense of Verdun. His magnif-
cent response to this supreme trust
is matter of current history.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-06
THE AUTOMOBILE MERGER

NEWS of s20O,OOO,OOO automo-
IN bile and automobile accessory
manufacturing combine is not
surprising. Conditions in the motor
world have been so chaotic that some
change was bound to occur. The
trade has grown rapidly and extrava-
gences have grown with it. Combina-
tion is in the air. This first merger
Of big companies will be followed by
others, beyond doubt. In the end this
may be good for the consumer as well
as for the stockholder, although at
the go-off a trend upward in prices
may be expected. There have been
signs for some time of a desire on the
part of manufacturers to quit slashing
prices and carefully worded adver-
tisements have been published pre-
pairing the public mind for some more
of the kind. 1t will be interesting to
note the effect on the market of such
an announcement.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-06
Dreadnaughts Needed
baltimore Americana


The naval appropriations bill as it
passed the House last week provides
for five battleship cruisers of a
mammoth type not represented in
any navy at present, but does not
contemplate the adding Of a single
battleship to the nava1 strength,
There is a reasonable expectation
that the Senate committee will add
at least two battleships to the con-
structive program and will insist
upon these battleships being retained
in the final readiustment of the naval
bill! in joint conference.
A good many inferences have been
drawn from the naval tactics of the
European war and naval committees
have, quite apparently, been in
fluenced in their thinking by the
successes or failures of various types
of warships. At the outset of the war
there seemed to be a strong bias
against the submarine; the belief
was that the destroyer fleets could
deal with the submarines effectively.
The doings of the German U-boats
have changed opinion in this country
as to the capabilities of this type
of warship. More recently the activ-
ity and swiftness of the great bat
tie cruisers has impressed the House
Naval Committee so greatly that it
has cut out battleships entirely in
favor of the big, swift cruisers.
If, as the first accounts seem to
indicate, it was the German battle
ships pitted against British cruisers
that won the Skagerack battle for
the Germans, another change is due
in the framing of the naval construc-
tion plan of the present session be-
fore the bill is in its final shape. The
proposed naval cruisers are needed,
but there should be no Iapse in the
plan of adding at least two first
class battleships annually to the ma
val equipment The Senate will prob
ably see to 1t that the battleship
omission. of the House bill is cor
rected.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-06
Labor in Peace and War
Omaha BeeI

Samuel Gompers addressing the
convention of the League to Enforce
Peace, outlines the position of or
ganized labor of America on the
question of war. 1t is almost wholly
contained in the proposition that the
war must be defensive, and that the
people must have a voice in its decla-
ration. This is quite in consonance
with the general attitude of the
American people. War is not made
by hereditary rulers or privileged
classes in the United States. War
can only be declared by Con-
gress Even treaty obligations. such
as that which binds us to preserve the
independence of Panama, must be
taken to Congress before commencing
conflict.
Mr.. Gompers' other propositions are
quite in line with the thought of the
day. Regardless of the outcome of
the war now raging, it is difficult to
conceive of an alliance of nations for
reactionary purposes. The Holy AL
lance" of the early nineteenth CEN
tury will not be revived at this day.
Democracy is making long strides.
and in the new era now dawning the
people will more than ever have the
ordering of their affairs.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-06
Who Perkins Ts

George w. Perkins, who is in Chi
ego acting as spokesman for the
FIoSresslVe party is a native of that
CITY. He had no academic education
peSond the public schools and when
10 years old entered the employ of a
large insurance company, rising in
tDe course of time to be superinten-
dent of the concerns western force.
Inen he was called East to the home
once, became chairman of the
Ilnance committee and vice-president
OF the company, a position he retained
ior Two years after having been
sought out by ]. Pierpont Morgan and
made one of the lieutenants of that
hnancler and a member of the Nor
sun hrm. Election to responsible
posts in the International Mercantile
Marine Company, the United States
Sleel Corporation and the Interna-
tlonal Harvester Company followed,
ara Tor several years the western
prec hnancfer basked in the smile of
MT. Morgan. Then came a changed
point of view on both sides of the
compact. Mr.. Perkins withdrew
from many of the important direc-
torates he had held and began pub
Ecly TO criticise much of the high
nnance" of which he had been a part.
Ihis brought him more in sympathy
with MIR. Roosevelt, the radical Re-
publican, than he previously had been
and when the Progressive party
movement came to a head and needed
the funds and executive ability which
Mi. Perkins had at his disposal he at
once became a party patron" and
Eas remained so to this day, many
State and local treasures of the Pro-
gressive party during the 1875
quadrennium having been handsomely
replenished by him.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-06

TRANSMISSION operation in order to s,,.o
the wife of d brother clubman Tbe
name ran, or the club should be changed to
Good Fellows Club" e'' u
Movie scenario writer's are advised
10 visit the western part of this Stata
Fmnere a young man of 19 years leaned
i rroni a speeding automobile into The
saved the life of the 1S-yeareoid aiiu ,,ni
VINO was huddled in fright against 7ha
seat. we hope he was a fine-looLine g
chap with piercing eyes and she ;
beautiful, gifted, extremely feminino
sort OF girl, else where is the ron,anno
SO prevalent in the short story? 'i'e
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-06
THE SENATE, TOO

THAT the Democrats are greatly
alarmed at the outlook of that
party controlling the next Con-
gress is most apparent. There are
many members of that faith who con-
fdently admit that all chances of car
rying the House are gone, and their
only salvation rests with saving the
Senate. A change Of nine seats in the
latter body will make even the upper
branch Republican. The Democrats
have believed until recently that this
was impossible, but events and condi-
tions have arisen that have caused
general apprehension in that party,
until to-day the Democrats are getting
fearful that even the upper branch of
Congress is to be swept from their
control.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-06
THE Two-CENT NEwsPAPER

TIME Scranton Republican has be-
come a two-cent newspaper, and
the announcement is worthy of
note.
The Republican is not Scranton's
only newspaper. 1t does not dominate
The field. 1t faces the keenest kind
of one-cent competition in its own
home town. Therefore 1t is plain to
see that the Republican did not ad-
vance its price arbitrarily, simply be-
cause it could. On the other hand
it will no doubt lose circulation as a
result, and circulation is the life
blood of the newspaper
The Republican has done no more
than every other newspaper worthy
the name in the country as a whole
must do unless there comes sudden
and unexpected relief in the paper
market. Newspapers are publishing
bigger issues and carrying more ad-
yertising than ever beforehand at less
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-06

profit. All the increased earnings are
eaten up by the high cost of news
print and the myriad of other mate
rails that enter into the making of a
modern daily journal. In addition,
there is the larger space allotment for
news, necessitated by the war and
the added expense of war news gath
ering and transmission, which must
be divided among the newspapers that
are members of the several big news
associations.
If some relief is not forthcoming
soon all newspapers will have to face
the alternative OF charging two cents
a copy-or of suspending publication.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-06
THE STATE FROM DAY TO-DAY

II nearly died laughing" or Il
nearly died watching those screaming
movies" one hears frequently, but
there was more truth than fiction in
the case of the Erie girl who was
watching the movie7 from the gallery
of a theater and quietly, without an
outcry or single change in her po-
sition, died. Thus in strange forms is
revealed the mystery of death.
Sellersville is already preparing for
the Fourth of July, although 1t is still
a month away There will be much
fireworks and baseball and parading
and probably an grafton or two and
some lemonade.
Mary Brown, of Wilkes Barre. who
works behind counter in one of the
towns department stores, won the vot-
ing contest for most popular girl in
town by defeating the daughter of a
wealthy silk owner by one million
votes.
The Punxsutawney Spirit reaches
out long arm and pats itself on the
back for having printed "the first in
timation of the British German naval
battle of May 81 about twenty hours
before city newspapers"
The Eagles are Screaming" at
McKeesport, where several thousand
delegates assembled yesterday for the
opening session of the annual conven-
ton of the State Association, Frater-
nal Order of Eagles.
Twenty-Five members of the Fellows
Club, Pittsburgh, composed of pur-
chasing agents and salesmen for ma
chinery and supply houses. have vol
unteered to give o. their blood for
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-06
WHO I<NOWsg
BY Wing Dlnger

Out in Chicago they've gathered,
Out in Chicago they'll vote.
Out in Chicago they're going to
Get more than one candidates goat.
For out in Chicago just one man
For President, bo. can they choose.
Some say twill be Teddy, while others
Insist that it's going to be Hughes.
And then there's few, very few, bo.
Who seem to be downcast and bored,
Who'll tell you almost In a whisper
That probably 1t will be Ford.
But then there's lot who keep silent
No word can one get from this
source
Instead of Ford. Teddy or Hughes, bo.
1t may be a bloomin' dark horse.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-06
SHAW Is RIGHT

TON. LESLIE NJ. SHAW, formerly
Secretary of the Treasury, has
written to several Republican
leaders, urging the importance of pub
licity in the coming campaign, if vic
tory is to be secured. He states that
while organization is essential, pub
licity is paramount. He strikes truth
when he says:
Il confess fear for the payrolls as
soon as peace is established. The
American people are alike in their re-
ligion and politics. When on their
death beds physically they turn to
God; and when they are on their death
beds financially and industrially they
turn to the Republican party. Our
salvation lies in actual statesmanship,
plus an educated electorate. Conf
dence in the only party that stands for
stability of conditions must not be de-
stroyed."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-06
FORTY MILLION AN HOUR

TINE Democrats rushed the legis-
lative, executive and judicial ap-
preparation bill carrying s3S,-
1e6,762.25 through the Senate in about
an hours time. There was only a
brief and scattered discussion. The
Senate did, however, take sufficient
time to adopt a number of amend
ments increasing the sum total of the
bill as 1t passed the House. Forty
million an hour is going some" for
party committed TO the sacred
principle of economy.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-06
THE WAR AND GOLD

INDIRECTLY, the war in Europe has
very materially aided in the pro-
duction of gold While gold is not
a metal used in warfare, it is very
frequently produced in connection
with copper. and, therefore, the re-
vival of many of the copper mines has
resulted in a corresponding increase
in gold as a byproduct. In a thou
sand ways which the ordinary citizen
does not observe, the war is contribut-
ing to the prosperity of all lines of in
dustry.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-06
TELEGRAPH PERISCOPE

The motto of the German navy
seems to be: HE who fights and
runs away may live to fight another
day"
Slowly and painfully the British
lion is loosening the knot in his tail.
There's no use talking-the G. A.
X. veterans are the youngest old men
that ever visit Harrisburg.
All indications are that the
"dreadnaughts" are well named.
Some of the Atlantic City pic
lures look as though the girls were
all undressed and no place to GO"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-06
THE NEW ARMY BILL

TINE compromise military bill will
become a law. 1t provides a
ridiculously small and inferior
fighting force, and at time, in the
words of President Wilson, when
sparks are flying about" and most of
the world is under the maddening
spell of the torch and the sword.
Then 1T provides s2O,OOO.OOO for the
development of water-powers to be
used in the manufacture of nitrates.
Most, If not all, of this money will
doubtless go South with the $5O,00O,-