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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-10-21
The Daughters OF the Revolution
mneRyInr. the official organ Of lint

e0"fDfN, WI 0pUTHT fhis W0nfn N
now cover ~ colonial bur and
|'.a ru which Ia emblaZoned a
colonial design and the insignia Of
tho organization Every member
rs q subscriber
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-10-21
The Audubon society has planned
aeAernl nmIInEs for the scnsnn. the

hrst being sunday. oct %. when
~ c-r r~e;r---'r-'t- '---4------.-s4t-
Palmer Park waiting room a. 30
2. m. the AFFAIR being uuder he
direction ~ Mrs Jefferson Butler.
SATURDAY., oct 26 another trip VIII
be taken. members starting from
RelIc Isle bridge waiting room
Mrs = ". Robinson viii be IN
charge These outings viii con-
'tuuo thru November and Deem
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-10-21
WILL ORGANIZE
PEACE SOCIETY

A branch Of the International
League to Enforce Peace will be
formed in Michigan and preliminary
steps will BE- taken by Walter r.
Dorland. Of Chicago. representa-
tive OF the League. who has come ~
Detroit for that purpose.
This leagues object Is to com
bIne tho military powers ~ tho
world. which viii make q force 20
enormous that no nation viii wish
10 entor war and all difficulties will
be settled by arbitration brought
about hv a representative body com
posed of persons from zach nation.
There IS no thought ~ attempting
10 end tho present war, the entire
policy being directed toward 70
world peace for tho future Mr Dor
land viii work with q Detroit com
mittec which VII later. affiliate with
y state committee.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-10-21
The MIchigsn Association of small
Money Lenders have appointed q

committee 30 engage ''"hH' Do
whose duty n viii b' 60 co-operat"
with the prosecutor ofncc In IN"
ruwuatuu the organ zat'on intends
40 ware against loan sharks ~
tls city.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-10-21
City. News in Brief

vernon o. Rice. Of Kansas thy, hss''
"a congressman. and Eibert o.. New
bert state treasurer or Maine,
spoke against prohibition In PARK
hull No G6 Adams-aVc, east. FRI
day uiEht.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-10-21

sunday at 30 O'Clock. MIR Chand %
Ter was retired on a pension in
February, 1914.
Tho REV. ,. schubert, OF New York
ely, viii speak sunday morning Mt
10 30 o'clock in ST Johns Evan
gelical church. ltusseli-st and Ora
tiot-RNr. 100 the interests of the
East Prus'iar r"lief fund The
fund is being collected bN ma
uonM organization. ~ which Carl
y -oMmLnL l. Tho nclrnLL dLLo-iO-
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-10-21

To-day. which is tho thirtysevonth
anniversary Of tho invention Of tho
electric light 10y Thomas 4 Edison,
VIII usher In tho annual @lcbU- ion
OF Edison Week under eth.---nspiceS
OF tho electric light Corporations
turnout the country.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-10-21

HAMMOND. Ind.--John Sebastian
was watching the villain choking
the heroine in a movie show -.
he piled out a tNyolver and pune
iurod the screen. he explained he
couldn't let the mag choke such a
good girl.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-10-21
Odds and Ends

NEW YORK Hang crepe ON the
cheese when YOU serve II today The
macaroni workers are on strike
The factories hate plenty OF holos
10 wrap the macaroni around but
no one TO do a.
WASHINGTON - One ~ the
easiest ways 10 gct arrested IN
Washington rs 10 leave your auto
mobile in the street. without lock
ING n It's a new police law
CT EVELAND - Frank Kru5ka.
chief claim agent for the New York
Central, left pig In his auto In
front Of a downtown hotel Some
ono stole u. Kruslla will ask the
police 10 reclaim II
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-10-21

PrintinE-the pInIn neat kind--tha,
- riEht-Tim~- job Dcpt.-Nain 452O.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-09
Our Scenic Splendor

If that fine thoroughfare projected
across Pennsylvania from Easton to
Pittsburgh, part of which was
dedicated or Thursday. had no other
merit. its name alone should insure its
swift completion.
The William Penn Highway! Not,
you will please note. the Western
boulevard or Eastern avenue. but
highway. end named for the builder
of the Commonwealth.
Pennsylvania nearly always forgets
that the two greatest individuals who
personally planted American colonies
were Roger williams and William
Penn. They were much the biggest
characters, and they were big enough
to shine in any age and in any sphere.
But. bless your soul. we see hotels
named for Swiss caterers and English
royal palaces and French personages.
but William Penn was Stunned as IL
he had brought the plague to America
instead of an empire. / beg Pitts
burgh's pardon. because that town has
had the fine sense of fitness of things
to call hotel after the founder.
Governor Brumbaugh, who knows
Pennsylvania as he does a schoolbook,
says this new highway will open up
"many matchless miles of scenic
splendor.''
Yes. more miles of scenic splendor.
coupled with the thriving works of
man. than can he measured off in any
equal space on the globe. For beside
heing a great man. William Penn was
the best real estate buyer the world
has ever known.-"Girard." in PhiIa-
delphia Ledger.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-09
S. S. ELLIS FATHER OF YELLOW
BACK DIME NOVEL is DEAD
By BRIGGS

/ 900, 900 copies were sold.
A queer thing about it, says the
Kansas City Star, was that Ellis was
brought up to be a preacher, and that
he was teacher of a Sunday school
class when he wrote the first dime
novel. He used to clothe Bible stories
in imagery of his own, vivid and excit-
ing, and always closed the lesson with
the tale unfinished and the remark,
Boys, we will continue the story next
Sunday" All the boys in the village
were in his Sunday school class.
He wrote so many stories for boys
and girls that he lost count of them.
He was the author of the boy Pho
neer," Log Cabin" "Deerfoot," "Wyo-
ming" and Forest and Prairie" series,
and he wrote many serious-m minded
books, such as a history of this country
in eight volumes. of which 100000
sets were sold.
1t is said of him that he was a
good man, of kindly nature; that chill
dren loved him, and that, in spite of
the preaching that had been done
against cheap novels, there was not an
immoral situation nor anything that
would tend to influence for wrong in
the hundreds of novels he wrote. His
heroes were manly and clean minded.
his morals good and he exalted the
nobler qualities of honor, loyalty and
courage. He said just before he died
that he did not regret anything he had
written, and he felt he had contri-
buted to the joy of living for millions
of boys and girls.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-09
Publicity"

Through the efforts of the Sun,
World, and Tribune a man named
Rains. alleged to have represented
himself as collector for society of
newspaper reporters in New York, has
been placed under arrest and held for
trial in special sessions.
1t is charged that Rains has secured
contributions from kindly disposed
people under the pretext that such
contributions would not only be worth
lily bestowed upon this fictitious society
of reporters, but that through them
the contributors would be able to Sc
cure publicity" presumably on call,
and for any sort of purpose or enter
prise. 1t is claimed that he has Sc
cured contributions amounting to
more than hundred dollars in single
instances, and that he has carried on
the work for some time. The charge
upon which the arrest was made in
volved a matter of but five dollars Sc
cured from q DIR. Payne as a contribu-
tion to benefit fund for the boys"
What makes such enterprises pos
sible is the vague notion, still preva-
lent, that publicity" may be secured
by devious routes-by paths leading
to the editorial rooms but avoiding
the business offices of newspapers.
And this notion Is fostered by the
fact that press agents" are still en-
ployed, and presumably earn their
salaries = obtaining for amusement
and other enterprises newspaper space
which should be a source of advertis-
ing revenue to the papers.
If q man should propose to a manu-
facturer that, for a fee, or for a salary,
he could secure for him valuable COM
modities, such as raw materials, free
of charge. that manufacturer would
hardly waste his time discussing the
matter. He would know that com
modfties have to be paid for. at pre-
vailing prices, and that If secured in
any, other way some sort of lacenous
method would have to be utilized. Yet
businessmen, not fully convinced that
advertising space is a commodity, of
definite value, often consider proffered
plans for securing II, under the guise
of publicity" for nothing
The press agents of the depart
ment stores are their advertising man.
ayers, who pay for the publicity" ac-
corded to their stores, and call 1t by
its right name-advertising. Should
not the newspapers insist that all
press agent" matter be deprived OF
its mask, and published, IL at all, as
advertising Editor and Publisher.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-09
MIR. MANNING'S TASK

TN the further important work which
/ is ahead of it the City Planning
Commission will more than ever re-
quire the services of Warren II. Man.
ming, the distinguished Boston land
scape designer who has already served
Harrisburg SO admirably in it's various
Important projects. 1t is good thing
that Mr.. Manning has collaborated
with Arnold w. Drummer, the famous
national planner. who will represent
the interests of the State in the Capitol
Park development. in other large
projects.
1t has been said by one who is
familiar with the planning of cities
that the enthusiasm and acts of self
sacrifice of a community must be stim-
ulated II those who are concerned are
to leave the monument of an orderly
city plan established. Too many citi-
zens have an idea that a plan can be
made and that that is the end of it.
They have not yet come to realize that
the only way to establish a plan is to
hold persistently to the one general
plan which best takes advantage of
the natural conditions and best pro-
notes industrial conditions. and then
retain the man who is responsible for
that plan, whoever he may be, for
enough years to permit 1t to be accom-
plished. They do not yet realize that
the man who is responsible for the
plan should have the ability and be
put in a position to induce owners to
recognize the desirability of giving the
portion of their land that is called for
by the plan. first because 1t is in the
interest of their own city and next be-
cause 1t is in their own interest. Much
has been accomplished in this direc-
ton in Harrisburg.
Mr.. Manning has been so closely
identified with the fine work of this
city that the Importance of his CO.
operation with Mr.. Brunner in work
ing out a plan that would be mutually
satisfactory to the Commonwealth and
the city is obvious.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-09
Trade Briefs

Exports of onions from Valencia,
Spain, have been large to date. Ship
ments to the United States are now
made direct instead of through other
countries, as was formerly done.
There is a market in Spain for
lubricants and greases.
American freight cars are being
used extensively op Russian railways.
In a recent test American locomotives
proved their superiority over those of
domestic construction.
Work has been completed on the
largest dam in Europe, which is
situated on the Noguera Pallaresa
river near Talarn, Spain. The dam
has two purposes: the production of
ton. 1t was built. by American en-
gineers.
The Colombian Government will
erect two wireless plants in the near
future, one at Arauca on the Arauca
river and the other at Orocue on the
Meta river.
There is a market for enameled
ware in British East Africa.
Norwegian merchants have made
inquiries about boots and shoes manu-
factured in this country.
At the recent sale of furs in st.
Louis the Government sold 1900 seal
skins for $74.530 Four hundred and
twenty blue fox skins and twenty white
fox skins brought $20,527.
1t is planned to irrigate the Adana
Plain in Turkey. The project will re-
claim 494.200 acres and will cost s17,-
100000.
Leather betting is needed in Spain.
An English company has expert
mented during the past year with cot
ton seed shipped from the United
States and planted in Greece. 1t is
!,
better stand the frost tn1n the Grecian
cotton.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-09
MORE WORDS

TUST about the time the paper
makers tell us that the shortage
will be worse next year than this,
along comes scientist with the state
ment that he has discovered 10000
more words to put into the dictionary.
At the same time we hear from the
border that our boys down there are
likely to bring back from Mexico al
most as many additions to the popular
ported with their luggage when they
came home from the PHILIPPINES.
England is also finding something new
in the way of pronunciation, at least,
as a result of the service of her army
in France, where it is said Tommy's
attempts to 'parler" the Francaise
are constant source of amusement
to the natives, although Monsieur At
kins is now showing great improve
ment, and before he returns to his
tight little isle he is likely to be an
accomplished French conversationist
"a regular parleur, in fact.
Tommy has now learned that
Somme is pronounced sum" - al
though even that is not so easy as it
seems for the French u sound has no
English equivalent. The French U
sound is pronounced by pursing the
lips as If to say o but to say Il in
stead, the combination producing the
French version of U. Aisne is pro-
nounced "ayne," Loire is "loo-ar,"
Meaux is moo" Meuse is "merze.' -
but the ''r" is silent; Disc is was"
Seine is ''sen," and Ourcu is "ourk.'
Peronne is ''pearron," valenciennes is
''val-on-see-en." Thiacourt is "toe-o-
koor," Chantiily is ''shan-tee-yee," !"
Mauberge is "mo-burzh," with the
''r" silent; Mezieres is 'may-ze-air:'
Mons is "mawngs,' with "a nasal
sound: Toui is tool; Scissor is "swas-
sohn;" Rheims is rance" and Man.
teuil is ''nawng tehyee." Argonnes is
''ar-gon," Compeigne is ''compe-eyne, f"
and so on.
Doubtless, Pershings column is do
ing about as well with Spanish as the
Mexicans speak 1t and our bluejackets
in Haiti and Nicaragua are beyond
question enriching the vocabularies
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-09

also the home of Senator Sterling R.
Catlin. The Republican State COM
mittee backed Templeton in the face
of heavy ODDS at the start and kept
right behind him all the time.
is nip and tuck for Congressman Cole
man and Barchfeld in Allegheny and
Warren Worth Bailey has gone down
to pacific defeat in the Johnstown-
Altoona district. John NJ. Rose.
ex-mayor OF Johnstown. who defeated
him, is said to have gubernatorial
aspirations.
Carbon county went Republican
in national fight for the first time
in years.
Perks went for Wilson almost as
heavily as it did for Cleveland and the
total plurality will be over 7,100.
james Donnelly is the only Demo-
crat elected to the House in Schuylkill
after all Guffey's scheming and work
ing.
.-Lycoming's legislative vote is so
close that 1t may take the soldier vote
TO stem the tide.
Frank Herman, Wyoming's Demo-
cratic member. went down by 10 votes.
Representative S. J. Barnett, of
Delta. seems to have fallen off the
platform In spite of claims made here.
Among late results learned on
loans were South Bethlehem, $175, 200
for highway improvements, passed;
Topton, $4,000 for electric plant. de-
feated.
ID. H. Helt. elected to the House
in Northum berland, is a local op-
zionist.
Bedford, which has a long list of
Democratic Federal jobholders, went
for Hughes by 700.
In Carbon and Lehigh election
boards refused to serve because of the
pay and the work
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-09
The Penn Highway

Last week the first stretch of the
Penn Highway from Easton to Beth
lehem was opened with appropriate
ceremonies 1t is not much of the
distance to the western border of the
State, but 1t is good beginning The
highway is built of approved materials
and according to the best engineering
practice. While the figures are not
given. it is believed that the work can
be carried on for about $4,000 a mile,
The Penn Highway will go through
Allentown. Reading. Harrisburg, Hunt
fngdon and Pittsburgh and will be a
long link in the Pixies Peak Ocean-to-
Ocean Highway.
This highway is to run through the
center of the country. 1t is to cross
Southern Indiana, Illinois. Central Mis-
souri,. Nebraska. Kansas. Colorado and
thence to the Pacific coast. 1t is ex-
pected that the southern route from
Charleston to New Orleans and thence
along the Mexican border will come
next. The Lincoln Highway to the
North is already in operation. 1t lis
by no means completed in the sense
that 1t is all properly surfaced, but a
careful count taken at Downingtown
shows an average of 1000 autom obiles
using that portion of the route every
day and a large percentage of those
are foreign cars" showing that the
interoCean travellers are already nu-
merous.
The Penn Highway is laid out. but
construction must go slowly until more
money is secured. This State Is in no
position to complete it rapidly, but a
portion of the Federal funds will prob
ably be used for the purpose. AS we
have before remarked. it is a pity that
the $S0,0O0,000 given by the govern
ment was not appropriated solely for
trunk lines instead of being frittered
away among the counties.
But there is much encouragement
in looking back over the history of the
last ten years. If as much relative
progress is made in the next decade
the greater problems of our highways
will be well along toward solution
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-09
TIME TO CALL HALT

TIME Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany has placed an embargo on
carload lots of freight for Phila-
delphia. alleging that food spectators
are responsible for a congestion of
freight handling facilities in that dis
trict. If this is true. it is about time
that the government stepped in and
stopped this juggling of provision
prices at the expense of the consumer.
The country is more prosperous to-
day than at any time in it's history.
The war has taken thousands of work
men out of the country and the mu-
milton factories have given employ
ment at high wages to many. This has
created such a demand for labor that
other trades have been getting higher
pay than at any time in recent years.
The result is that while the people
have more dollars to spend than ever
before, they are not living as we'll as
they did a few years back on lower
wages.
The big munition maker is the only
winner. Stores are buster than ever and
pTOlIlS are ildN z
more advertising than ever and many
of them have had to go out of business
because of the high cost of paper. The
man who could afford two pair of
shoes a season can now buy but one.
Flour that used to cost $3.50 a barrel
now costs $10.50. Canned goods are
80 to 65 per cent. higher than normal.
Potatoes bring 50 a bushel. Coal has
touched a new height and may go
higher. Prosperity. is anything but
prosperity for most of US. For every
dollar increase in our pay envelopes
we are paying out $3.50.
To some degree this advance in the
cost of living is due to the European
war, but in large part we are paying
tribute to those who are speculating in
the necessities of life and taxing us
every penny that the tariff will bear.
Meanwhile the government sits su-
pinely by and watches these highway
men of the trade world drain our
purses of money that we will sorely
need during the readjustment period
that is bound to come with the close
of the war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-09
PHILANDER G. KNOX

NEW men have gone to the United
i States Senate so eminently fitted
to represent a great State as
by the Republicans of Pennsylvania
on Tuesday.
Senator Knox is a Pennsylvania,
born and bred. From the moment he
was admitted to the practice of law in
Pittsburgh his training has been to-
ward equipment for public service.
In 1875 he was made assistant United
States district attorney for Western
Pennsylvania, and in 1897 was elected
president of the Pennsylvania Bar AS
sociation. In the meantime he had
made great reputation for himself
as an attorney and was known from
one end of the country to the other.
President Mckinley chose him to sue
ceed John Williams Griggs, of New
Jersey, as attorney general of the
United States, which cabinet place also
was rendered him by President Roose-
Welt, who was looking for a skilled and
vigorous prosecutor at the head of the
department of justice.
Mr.. Knox resigned from the cabinet
to accept appointment as United States
senator upon the death of Senator
Quay, afterward being elected by the
Legislature for the unexpired term
and again for the full term of six
years, serving until 1911. His whole
record in public life has been one of
Etaunch Americanism and he went out
of office respected wherever his name
was known.
Since his retirement from public
life Mr.. Knox has lived quietly, play
ing golf and devoting much attention
to the study of State. national and in
ternational problems. He is states
man of the first rank and will do
honor to the State which has elected
him by such a splendid majority to
represent 1t in the greatest deiiberative
body In the world.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-09
I TOLD YOU so!

know that he was sure to win,
knew 1t weeks. aye. months ago.
And now I have a right to grin
told you SO!
knew just how each state would
vote,
Just where the loser had no show;
Small wonder that today I gloat-
/ told you SO!
knew the winner could not lose,
Each week 1 saw his converts
grow;
Last nights returns brought me no
news
1 told you so!
The women's choice to me was clear,
The attitude of high and low;
knew he had no cause for fear.
l told you SO!
This proof give that was right,
This proof that what I say ] know:
These lines were written Monday
night
I told you so! Asf
&C. e. ELLIS in New York Sun.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-09

City Commissioner Gross has tower
mer Park Commission, which consti-
tutes an advisory body ready and will
ing to give the head of the Park De-
partment all the assistance possible
While some mistakes have been made
1t is not too late to correct these errors
and bring about better attitude OF
the public toward the department. Pro-
crastination is perhaps one of the worst
features of the present administration,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-09
father of the dime novel died
the other day at the age OF
-

the other day at the age OF
- seventy-six.
Many of us are old enough to re-
member those Beadle 81 Adams Dime
Novels with the salmon-colored paper
covers, not too large to slip inside q
pocket and hide there until favor
able chance came to devour it's pages,
for our elders had strong prejudice
against the yellow backs" and be-
lieved that a boy who read them was
hiking straight down the center of the
road to perdition.
Edward S. Ellis, the man who died
recently, wrote the first of the dime
novels that made a hit, and he wrote
hundreds of them afterward, and
many other books besides. He was
10 years old when he wrote Seth
JONES'" in 1859, and sent it to Beadle
&. Adams, New York, who had just be-
gun to publish their dime novels, but
had not made a success with them.
They saw winner in Seth Jones'.
Before they sent it out they plas-
tered the country with posters, dodg
ers, painted inscriptions with the ques-
ton who is Seth Jones?" And when
the people had guessed and wonder
ed for weeks the whole country broke
out in another rush of posters bearing
the picture of frontiersman in coon
skin cap, with the inscriptions: L am
Seth Jones'" The book made the fame
of Ellis and the dime novel, and the
fortune of Beadle & Adams. 1t was
translated into eleven languages and