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Semi-weekly herald., 1916-05-01

ar, Pheney, Dean, Stilwell, and the
Misses Hahn, McCloud, Biggs, Skoog
and Jackson.
Among those included in yester-
days invitation list were the Mes
danes Robbins, Clements, Rucker,
Lane, Tuirell, Barber, Clark, Dixon,
Hubbard, Mollette, Henderson, Tiff
fany, Weightman, Searcy, Lyon, Wall
Goodman, Bryant, McDevitt, Birk-
himer, Griffith, Balcom, Sloan, Ber-
ri, Graham, Austin, Coulson5- Bur
dick, Pingrey, Robin, Gogarty, Barns /,
and Miss Mac Lean.
Home economics has become one of
the feature days in the Reading club
The important event occurred Thurs
day and was held at the home of Mrs.
C. C. Perkins. Home economics WIS
demonstrated by luncheon, served
by committees appointed by Mrs. A.
w. Ayres, who was designated on the
club program as the leader for the
day. The elaborate menu contained
| tilC 1lOl1tob l'iphu'liOilo vi lilN Nui-
mary art, prepared at the least pos
sible expense. The economy plan ex-
tended even to the table decorations
which We're paper carnations. There
were five courses, the appetizer, soup,
main course, salad ana desert, each
served by a special committee. After
one course, Mrs. Kaufman respond
ed to a toast, after another Mrs.
Clark sang song which was an
amusing take off on food values.
Mrs. FcFaddn, an honary member
of the club offered a prize to the
lady guessing the ingredients of the
salad course. This was won by Mrs.
Camp. The finale was music by
German band, the nationality as well
as the music being hyphenated. In
the program that followed, Mrs. Rit-
ter gave talk on pure foods and
adulteratiou; Mrs. Robbins on, Kitch-
] en- Efficiency and Mrs. Kaufman
on the home budget. Election OF
officers was the concluding feature
of the afternoon. Beside the TWO
dozen club members the guests were
the honorary members of the club, and
Mrs. Muzzy, who is visiting her sis
ter, Mrs. McCloskey, and Mrs. Dyer,
who is visiting her daughters, the
Mesdames Eldredge, Clark and Ruek-
er.
The Reading club has elected the
following officers for the ensuing
year: Mrs. b. w. Ritter, president;
Mrs. f. II. Burdick, vice president;
Mrs. Earl Barber, recording secre-
Semi-weekly herald., 1916-05-01

Promptly at that hour they recon
vened with many delegates from all
over the county present.
The committee on permanent or
ganization and order of business, Mel
Springer, Ed. Bluck, f. l.. Lyman,
Mrs. Ella White and Henry G. Berri
brought in their report which was
that the temporary organization be
made permanent, and that commit
tee OF five be appointed to select
delegates to the state and congress
sional conventions. This report was
unanimously adopted by the conven-
ton.
The committee on resolutions, f.
c. Perkins, j. w. Wingate, Geo. w.
Moody, j. NJ. Nelson and r. S. Glenn
ents, reported to the convention the
following resolutions which were
unanimously adopted by the conven-
ton:
BE IT RESOLVED by the Republi-
cans of La Plata county, Colorado,
in convention assembled on this Goth
day of April 1916:
That we renew our unswerving al
legiance to the great party that has
made the history of this nation dur
ing more than half century of its
existence, and pledge our loyal sup
port to its policies:
That we congratulate the people of
the state of Colorado on the record
of the present Republican state adj
ministration, which is in such sharp
contrast with its Democratic prede-
cessor, which left the affairs of the
state bordering on hopeless anarchy
and financial bankruptcy; with fed
eral troops called to the rescue; with
the treasury empty and the states
credit as the lowest possible ebb; with
the chief executive helpless to pro-
tect life and property from ruthless
attacks. With these conditions con-
fronting it at the start, the Repub-
lican administration has restored or
der, dismissed the federal troops, re-
established the credit of the state and
brought about industrial peace and
prosperity, and enacted the wisest and
most beneficial series of laws ever
placed upon the statute books by
Semi-weekly herald., 1916-05-01


A complete inventory made at the
request of the house committee on
agriculture shows total of 1924
buildings constructed by the forest
service on the national forests at a
cost of S1,103,5S8, including 954 three
or more room cabins at an average
cost of $3.50, 973 one and two room
cabins at $19S, 1,133 barns at $194,
l10 fire lookout houses at 1928, and
$500 miscellaneous buildings at $50.
1t is estimated that last year auto
mobiles carried to the Grand Canon
national monument 10000 persons,
while the number of persons reach
ing the canon by trail was $4,000, or
five times as many as in 1914.
Semi-weekly herald., 1916-05-01

FOR SALE-White Peard seed po-
tatoes SO per cwt. Small White
Peard and Early Six Weeks, sorted,
S1.0o per cwt. Customer to furnish
sacks.
JOHN LYONS.
Semi-weekly herald., 1916-05-01

EGGS FOR -Thorobred
Rhode Island Reds. Is for 81 w.
H. Bryant. Phone d. 16 ]. 8. 3-24-tf.
Semi-weekly herald., 1916-05-01
REPUBLICAN,
COUNTY
C0NVEN T|0N

The delegates from the various
county precincts met in convention at
the court house at 10 u. M, with Geo.
w. Moody in the chair and X. Nj.
Murray as secretary.
Before proceeding to business j
H. McDevitt, Jr., following very ap-
propriate tribute to the memory of
the late VIM. p. Vale, suggested that
the convention stand in silence for a
moment in memory of one who had
always been faithful to Republican
principles and always active for the
good of the party but whose chair in
the convention is now vacant
The convention selected S. M. Biggs
as temporary chairman and X. M.
Murray, as temporary secretary.
After the selection of the COM
mittees on permanent organization
and on resolutions the convention ad-
journed to meet at 1880 p. m.
Semi-weekly herald., 1916-05-01

The Reading club has elected the
following officers for the ensuing
year: Mrs. b. w. Ritter, president;
Mrs. +. II. Burdick, vice president;
Mrs. Earl Barber, recording secre-
tary; Mrs. Edgar Buchanan, cores
ponding secretary; Mrs. C. C. Perkins
treasurer; Mrs. Reese McCloskey,
poet; Mrs. d. C. Coulson, historian.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-14

old shot gun quarantine used to be in
days when smallpox was rampant in
the land and the requirements were
accepted by the public with mini
mum Of difficulty.
Now along comes your Uncle Sam
uel and establishes a partial quaran-
tine, effective in spots. 1t is not
worked in cooperation with the
quarantine for which Pennsylvania is
giving her brains. her energy and her
money, but is in effect a duplication
for interstate business purposes of
the quarantine in and about Phila-
delphia county.
And when it is considered that it
was established without completion of
negotiations for joint issuance of cer-
tificates by nation and State it does
seem that Commissioner Samuel G.
Dixon has right to ask what the
federal authorities are trying to do.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-14
DOUBLE TAXATION

TINE tax which the Democrats of
the Senate propose to lay upon
the capital and surplus Of cor
porations is another case of double
taxation in many instances.
Under the corporation tax provided
by the last Republican Congress, the
levy was made only upon earnings
and all profits of less than $4,000 a
year were exempt. The new Demo-
cratic tax, however, will be taken re-
gardless of profits; and all corpora
tions which have capital stock and
surplus in excess of 500, 900 must pay
fifty cents year upon each one thou
sand dollars as an excise" to help
care for the deficiencies caused in the
treasury by Democratic tariff legisla-
ton and to help pay for the extrava-
gances of Democratic legislators.
All this in addition to the income
tax already levied upon these corpora
tions and in addition to the local tax
es upon real estate and stock in trade
and other property which the COM
panies hold subject to taxation at
home.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-14
WALNUT STREET BRIDGE

@ITY SOLICITOR SEITz will now
put the Walnut street bridge
proposition up to the Public
Utilities Commission. The City Plan
ming Commission having unanimously
disapproved this structure will prob.
ably submit its views to the State
commission so that the whole subject
may be thoroughly considered. 1t is
understood that Governor Brumbaugh
is strongly opposed to the bridge al
the Walnut street location on the
ground that it would seriously impair
the general treatment of the Capitol
Park extension plans. He is said tc
favor either a subway or some other
treatment at State street.
While the promoters of the Walnut
street bridge are still busy there is nc
concealment of the fact that the ap-
proval of the loan was by a. com.
paratively small vote. 1t is declared
by those who oppose the structure al
Walnut street that were the question
again submitted to the people the
proposition would be overwhe helmingly
defeated.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-14
AUTOMOBILE SPEEDING

TINE recent accident on the River
Drive will be followed by others
unless automobilists and motor
cyclists exercise more care than at
present. The thoroughfare is used by
hundreds of automobile parties nightly
and many of them pay absolutely no
attention to traffic regulations.
Safety First" on their calendar of
Inottoes has been supplanted by Safety
Last" Take chance" is their watch
word, and they are not averse to COM
polling the other fellow on the road to
share their perilous game.
Many careful drivers now shun the
River Drive after nightfall and it will
be avoided by a constantly increasing
number of automobilists If this reck-
less operation of cars and motorcycles
is permitted to be continued. The
glare of unprotected lights and the
unregulated speed of the machines
that use them are fast making the
most beautiful thoroughfare in Cen
trail Pennsylvania impossible for those
who have regard for life and limb.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-14
RETURN OF THE TROOPS

A CCORDING to a statement pre-
n pared at the War Department
about $4,000 National Guards
men had been discharged from the
service of the government up to Sep
tember 2. These discharges were for
various causes, including nearly 5000
on the score of dependency, almost
10000 for physical disability and the
remainder for various other causes.
Secretary of War Baker admits that
the pressure from all parts of the
country for the return of the American
troops from the Mexican border is
increasing, especially in view of the
fact that the Arbitration Commission
has apparently reached a point where
there is no further justification for
keeping the volunteers in the field.
There is an impression at Washing
ton and elsewhere that the admins
tration is more concerned about it's
political welfare than with any real
protection of the border. 1t is now
believed that the troops will not be
sent home until the administration is
convinced that the return of the
volunteers will be of political benefit.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-14
MUST IMPROVE ROADS

CTATE HIGHWAY COMMISSIONER
BLACK is on the agricultural
tour with the Governor and he is
testing the sentiment of the farming
communities regarding the good roads
proposition. Inasmuch as a loan
cannot be secured for at least two
years, the slogan of the department
at the next session Of the Legisla-
ture will be 1--WE million dollars for
highways and all the auto license
fund" This will mean at least seven
million dollars year for the next two
years to put the highways Of Penn
sylvania in proper condition.
More and more the people of the
State realize the importance of Great
ing a firstclass road system and the
improvement which has been made
during the last few years has only
whetted the appetite of all who believe
in good roads as a means to further
prosperity and development.
Perhaps the most important mat
ter to be given consideration at the
next session will be some amendment
of the law which will provide for the
improvement of highways through
boroughs. 1t is in the borough sec
tions Of every State highway that the
worst conditions are found. Penbrook
and Camp Hill in our own immediate
vicinity are examples.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-14
ENGLAND PAYS FRIGHTFUL
PRICE FOR DRINK PRIVILEGE
oNDON, England.--In his third

T ONDON, England.--In his third
4 article on the drink traffic in the
Daily Chronicle. Arthur Nee has
some striking arguments with which
TO rebut the contention that the drink
business must not be prohibited be-
cause Of the blow to revenue. 1T Is
said" he remarked. that we cannot
afford to throw all our strength against
our enemies, because, forsooth, we must
sell part Of it to the liquor trade for
ESQ. 100000 year. We have
had an economy week, but we looked
opportunity of stopping waste un-
paralleled in the history of any people.
We are to give up wearing wells and
costly laces; the tired man who works
hard all the week is not to take a rest
In q motor car on Saturday; we must
not each overmuch, and must be proud
Of the weeds in our garden
Our government must feel that they
are all the time as If walking about on
the seashore, picking up a copper here
and there, while the ocean of gold
runs to waste all around them. Let
them save their coppers; but let the
nation be wise and save hundreds Of
millions of pounds year which now
II throws away or spends in helping
Germany.
DRINK costs this country a million
pounds a day. Our people spend on it
$500, 900 a day, and the controlling and
mana ging Of drink and its results costs
100000 more. A judge has written
to me this week that, much as he ap-
proves Of prohibition, the courts exist
so much on the use and abuse Of drink
that it is proper for judges to keep
aloof from drink outside their courts:
ana the man who would know how
much drink costs us to control has
only to think that out.
THE drink bill since the war began
must have reached f350,000, 1000. It
should stagger a man and make him
blush with shame. We must have
spent more money on drink than we
have spent on shells. and we have gone
on spending while Mr.. Asquith's words
ring out that we need every penny
worth Of strength to win the war. Men
talk of 100000 aeroplanes to end the
war, but we shall soon have spent
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-14

enough on drink in war time to buy
100000 aeroplanes, and we must have
spent enough already to have fed with
cartridges every machine gun on the
British front since the war began
The greatest single item in the
expenditure Of this country at this mo.
ment does not a single thing to
strengthen England, but weakens il
from morning until night. There is nc
appeal that the government makes tc
us for saving which is not bitter con-
dernation Of this appalling waste. Mr.
AsqLith has stated that from 10 per
cent. to is per cent. Of the first men
through drink; and in an army OF
100000 men that means a toll OF
SOC. .000--an eloquent and tragic text
truly, for Downing street.
And here is a text for the people
They are paying more for everything
and they pay more for three reasons:
because produce, shipping and labor
things in which drink is not largely re.
sponsible. Bread is dearer because
drink has used up corn enough during
tho war to feed the nation for SOC
days, and sugar enough to feed the
nation 80 days. Shipping Is scarcer
because drink has used up shippine
space equal to a fleet OF 20 very large
ollipS WoEhlaS dll ING Illle. AS &c
labor. drink uses up the strength OF
100000 workers, and imposes a carry
ing and lifting burden of 500, 900 tons
week on our roads and railways. =
Russia, wanting strength and
money. too, found both in prohibition
which has increased her efficiency sc
per cent. and intrenched her finances
as in a rock; France, putting this thine
away from her, has covered herself
with immortal glory and astonished
the world. 1t was the Kitchener way
but 1t is. Russia and France. and not
the land of Kitchener. that follows 1t
We fight on with our broken strength
We pay f5.000.000 day to beat the
Kaiser and carry on Lord Kitchener's
work, and for f1,000.000 a week we
license power that plays the Kaiser's
game by weakening England and keeps
back the harvest of Lord Kitchener's
work"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-14
The Colonel Is Out
[San Antonio Light

If Colonel Roosevelt is alive at the
time of the next presidential nomina-
ton he is to be reckoned with He will
be out of the game only when he Is
out of breath.
Several months ago, Immediately af-
ter the Republican national conven-
tion had declined to nominate him the
Colonel said that he was out Of poll
tics. He was finished, and there was
nothing more for him to do except to
write his own obituary. Such were his
words.
Now the Colonel is out for Hughes.
He is up in Maine and he is making the
fur fly. In other words, he is going to
the same old game in the same old
way. He is preaching the doctrine of
the stronger Americanism in a manner
that is certain to keep him in the pub
lie eye, and being in the public eve.
the Colonel may confidently he expected
to run for President Of the United
States.
The Colonel whatever his other faults
may be. never goes to a matter in a
half-hearted way He has declared
himself for Hughes, and he is making a
strong fight for him. In fact he is
hghting as he would fight If tko nomi-
nee was Theodore Roosevelt himself
This is certain to give him standing
with the Republican party four wears
from now and where the Colonel has
standing he cannot be overlooked
incidentally, Vance Mccormick. the
chairman of the Democratic national
committee, has delivered himself of a
remarkably unsrateful speech regard
ing the Colonel. 1t seems that Nc
Cormick at one time ran for some
office or other, and the Colonel came
to give such help as he could. Nc
Cormick was defeated. He Is now be-
littling the performance Of the Colonel
on the stump, saying that he once did
all he could for Mccormick, and that
1T was not enough to put Mccormick
into office. Therefore 1t is certain that
the Colonel will not exert any no.
litical influence in the present cam
paign.
Ordinary gratitude should have pre-
vented Mccormick from making such
a speech as that. Moreover 1t is NOT
good political sense. The Colonel NAV
have all sorts Of defects, and he has
them in plenty. but he is a good and
capable fighter, and the man who un-
derrates him makes a great mistake
The Colonel has taken the center OF
the high road once more, and he will
be seen later coming right down the
middle regardless of what is in his
way, Nothing but death will head him
off or stop him.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-14

park would open the eyes Of many
who do not yet realize what Harris
burg has in that splendid reservation
of upland and fen. Nor have many Of
our people traversed the new Park
way strip between Derry street and
the Reservoir park.
There are many beautiful places
about the city, attractive little hooks
and corners, which should draw oul
people into the open during these au.
tumn days.
Some years ago the Telegraph op
Grated sightseeing car and thou
sands then had the opportunity t.
see the river front from the city t.
Rockville, and many delightful sec
tions round about the city. 1t nigh
be a good thing for some Of the au
tomobile concerns to inaugurate SOM
fall tours for those who cannot 9th
erwise see these unusual spots, which
contribute so much to the general at
tractiveness of Harrisburg.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-14
Josephus on the Result
New York Sun1

Whenever Josephus puts his mind
upon a subject the world is made the
richer by at least one pearl of wisdom,
generally by several. He shines for
all and for everything. There is an
encyclopaedia character to his men
tality. That, added to his marvellous
knack at coming epigrams. makes
comment from him on any topic
worthy of attentive consideration.
His pronouncement on the result in
Maine, where he had been the most
picturesque oratorical exhibit pre-
sented by the Democratic campaign
managers, is startling in its original
ity. and remarkable not only for it's
pithy exhibition of political insight,
foresight, aftersight and second sight,
but for it's display of amazing mathe-
matical genius upon the part of the
versatile Josephus.
He says: "If the Democrats had
carried Maine by even one vote the
campaign would have been ended and
Wilson'S election would have been
certain" AS the Democrats were
about thirteen thousand votes shy of
the number needed to make Wilson'S
return of the Presidency certain. it is
only the splendid courage of a states
man and mathematician combined
that leads Josephus to indulge in this
post-election reflection.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-14
GET A TRANSFER

If you are on the Gloomy Line.
Get a transfer.
If you're inclined to fret and pine.
Get a transfer.
Get on the track OF Doubt and Gloom
Get on a Sunshine Train-there's room
Get a transfer.
If you are on the Worry Train,
Get a transfer.
You must not stay there and complain
Get a transfer.
The Cheerful Cars are passing through
And there is lots of room for you.
Get a transfer.
If you are on the Grouchy Track,
Get transfer
Just take a Happy Special back.
Get transfer.
Jump on the train and pull the rope
That lands you at the Station Hope.
Get a transfer.
The Booster.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-14
Keeping Out of War"
rDavid Jayne Hill. in North American
Review.1

tDavid jayne Hill, in North American
Review.1
Peace, without doubt. is one of our
most cherished ideals; but no one will
contend that peace that has not been
disturbed by threats is anything to
boast about. The fallacy now being
thrust upon the country is that there
is no middle ground between the
course pursued by the administration
and war. These, 1t is pretended, were
the only alternatives. and between
them choice was necessary. Had it
not been for the wisdom of the admin
istration, we are assured. we should
have had war; BY whom, we ask.
were these alternatives presented? By
whom. and when. and how, were we
forced to this happy choice?
But. unfortunately, the record"
shows that, upon two separate occa-
sions. neither OF whom demanded war
like action. the administration has pro-
voked a dangerous situation. and has
committed every act characteristic of
war. including the invasion of foreign
territory and the destruction OF inno-
cent lives, and has subjected our SOL
diers and sailors to every danger and
consequence that war involves. That
this unavowed belligerency has been
characterized by an extraordinary
com bination of intrusiveness and
timidity, of deferred decision and un-
timely action. and has been so hest
tating as to make 1t ineffectual and
SO fruitless as to render it inglorious
does not in the least degree redeem
these vacillations from being in reality
acts of war.
And If it be noble service to have
kept us out of war. what shall be said
Of the blunders that have needlsssly
involved us in it without benefit?