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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-16
TAXING AMERICANS

TIME future of the Democratic
tariff as a revenue producer is
shown by the Department of
Commerce, which reports that our i'm
ports for the IL months period No
MEMBER, 1915, to October, 1915, in
elusive, totaled $2,335, 100000. This
is an increase of S455, 100000 over
a corresponding period, 1884, nine
months of which was under peace con-
ditions and the following three months
of which trade currents were blown
from their channels by the first blast
of the European war. 1t is also great
er by s56S, 900 than the total for
the period November. 1912, to Octob-
er, 1913, eleven months of which was
under the Republican protective tariff
policy.
On the other hand, the customs
revenues for the 1856 period were
s26,00O,00O less than for the 1894
period. and $91, 900, 900 less than dur
Ing the 1928 period.
AS a source of revenue some
Democrats think they need no longer
rely so strongly on import duties,
and they are content to substitute
Internal taxation as a source from
which to derive the expenses neces-
sary to operate the Government, This
was proved during the last session Of
Congress when the taxes on incomes
were doubled and certain industries
were subjected to tax on war sup
plies.
This is decided change from the
attitude taken by the Democratic
party at the time the present tariff
law was being debated The Demo-
cratic argument in 1913 was that
lower tariff rates would encourage
Importation to such an extent that
The revenues would be increased even
under the lower rates. Certain basic
raw materials, such as sugar and
wool. were placed on the free list to
reduce the cost of living, and resort
Eas had to an income tax to make up
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-16
PLAY KEEPS MEN YOUNG AND
VIGOROUS, DESPITE THE YEARS

Il n advocate of play as a preven-
Welzmiller, physical director of
New York's West Side Young Mems
Christian Association.
"A man was in here just this
morning." he said in answer to my
question as to what he did to keep
men young, who is in the old man
class, and in years he is young. Let
me See," and he looked at a card COW
cred with data concerning the man in
question. HE was born in "a. That
makes him 80, but he is as old as most
men of so. With him 1t Is overwork,
resulting in nerves. He finds it al
he starts along certain line-when
he wants to run along a single track,
so to speak, he finds that his mind is
continually turning switches that put
him on to the sidetracks. / am going
to make him play. 1 am going to make
him play until he stays on the main
line. I'll give him a medicine ball
and teach him to become so interested
in that ball that everything else is
out of his head"
He stopped for a moment, and look
ed out on to the busy gymnasium
floor.
Then some other men," he con-
tinued, get into rut and can't get
out Instead of being switched on to
every sidetrack by their minds, they
are kept diligently at work on the
main line. You have seen business
men who could not forget their busi-
problems are uppermost in their
minds. When they come to me make
them play. I get them interested in
something else.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-16
BUTTER FOR PAUPERS
OUTER for the bread of aims
- house inmates is favored by the

OUTER for the bread of aims
- house inmates is favored by the
Grand Jury of Berks County,
which made its quarterly report this
week.
Butter for paupers-and why not?
The county admits the inability of the
inmates of the poorhouse to earn a
livelihood for themselves and under
takes to provide a living for them.
That being true, the county owes it's
paupers more than merely enough to
keep soul and body together. These
poor people have little enough in life
and nothing much to which they can
look forward this side of the grave.
They are entitled to butter on their
bread" both for the reason that they
are the wards of the people who would
not deny them a decent living if they
knew conditions, and because many
of the old people in the poorhouse
have worked sufficient to give them
n rest in their declining years amidst
pleasant surroundings, and the young
er inmates are there largely because
of the sins or shortcomings of society
Few are in the poorhouses solely eb-
cause of their own faults.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-16
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Attorney General Brown says
there is no hunting in Maine woods
for him this season.
Mayor Smith, of PhiIadephia
says the proposed Philadelphia chart
er plans give the mayor far more
power than he ever had.
John p. Connolly, Philadelphia
city solicitor, has been named as
solicitor for the State flremen.
John Swan, Pittsburgh's new di-
rector OF works, used to be a Legis-
lator.
President Isaac Sharpless, of
HaVerford, is being urged to recon-
slider his resignation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-16
Coffee For Beer

[From the Chicago Tribune.J
The women of the Morgan Park Bap-
tist Church didn't preach any sermons
against beer drinking. They didn't do
the Carrie Nation act and smash in the
heads of beer kegs. When 1t was pro-
posed the other day that the men who
were working on the New Baptist
church contemplated getting beer to
chase their MONDAY lunch the women
simply said they would furnish some
thing better.
AS result the men have been hav-
Ing coffee, and one day they had soup
furnished by the women of the church.
Mrs. ]. w. Greenman, who was one,
of the leaders in the plan of furnishing
substitutes for beer as a temperance
argument, said the men would not ac-
cept the coffee, bread and soup as a
free gift, although it was offered TO
them. They pay five cents for two Guns
of coffee and five cents for O bowl of
soup
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-16

for the loss of customs revenues from
these sources.
But the ten months operation of
this policy prior to the outbreak OF
the European war disllusioned the
Democrats. Imports increased, 1t is
true, to an extent which caused a
serious industrial depression here, but
the rates of duty had been cut so low
that the increase in imports failed
to produce the expected increase in
customs revenue. and the war gave
them an excuse for plastering a war
tax onto the country. In the mean
time the seaboard sugar trust was
pocketing a larger refiner's margin
and Australia and other wool-produc-
market for their wool, but keeping
up the price.
Since the beginning of the war,
profits have been large and many
plants have been working at capacity.
The number of incomes which have
come within the provisions of the
income tax law has been wonderfully
increased, and the super-tax has
found n larger number of subjects
The Democratic party has seized
every opportunity to tax incomes and
profits, and because the victims are
making good money they accept the
situation good-naturedly. But they
are not at all likely to take our pres
ent revenue laws so passively when
restoration of peace ends the war
order prosperity and when free for
eign competition once more puts Am
erican industry to the bad.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-16
CAN BRYAN COME BACK

M r. BF1AN's political su0mer-
4N1 gence in Nebraska seems COM
plete. For twenty years he has been
the controlling factor in most matters;
and his defeat, last Spring, as a can
didate for delegate to the st. Louis
convention appeared to point the way
to his present situation.
Twenty years, however, is about as
long as any one man can exercise con-
troll in politics. That length of time
covers four political generations as
our calendar is arranged and in it Mr..
Bryan has thrice led his party's ticket.
A fourth time he named the leader.
Yet Mr.. Bryan is not an old man by
any means, and it may be that he can
come back"
He denies that he will abandon his
voting residence in Nebraska, and it
may besthat the growth of prohibition
sentiment in that State is at the bot
tom of his determination to bring that
issue forward on q national scale for
1920.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-16
France goes near-dry.
THE TELEGRAPH BOYS

TIME little businessmen who sell to
you or who deliver to you each
evening the Telegraph bespeak
your consideration during sue h
weather as we are now having, and
the even more severe days and eve
nings that will come With advancing
winter.
There will be storms and drifts and
sleet and rain. There will be cold and
slush and numb feet and aching
fingers. But through it all the carriers
will make their rounds. These little
fellows take their jobs seriously. They
know that you want your paper and
they are bent upon giving it to you
regularly-and as early as possible.
If your paper arrives few minutes
after the accustomed time don't rush
to the conclusion that the boy is care
less. lie can't move as rapidly
over icy pavements as when the
streets are clear and the atmosphere
of comfortable temperature.
The Telegraph is proud of it's boys.
1t Is looking after their comfort as
we'll as the convenience of its SUBJ
scribers. 1t has divided some of the
larger routes so that the boys make
shorter trips and carry fewer papers.
1t wants its readers to think of the
carriers these cold days and to be
reasonable with them.
We'd think lot more of skating IL
it wasn't for the Ice 4<
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-16
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Complains of Bridge
o the Editor of The Telegraph:

10 the Editor or the Telegraph:
1 am an old subscriber to your
paper, hence take the liberty to draw
your attention to the bridge now being
built across the tracks of the Philadel-
phia and Reading Railroad at Twenty
ninth street, eastern city limits.
The old bridge was torn down the
first week in August, stopping travel
on Twenty-ninth street or Poorhouse
Road, from that date. and is at present
in an uncompleted condition. Foot pas
sengers can cross, but no vehicles of
any sort. The road has also raised the
grade of the new bridge about four feet,
and the filing of the approaches are to
be, when finished, u per cent. grade,
This latter matter could be lessened
very considerably by extending the NIL
on the north side to Derry street. and
on the south side by an extension OF,
say 200 feet. viii your paper take this
matter up, thereby doing a PUBLIC SER
vice, by advocating speed in completion
and insisting upon lesser grade for
approaches.
December A. 1916,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-16
NO MOURNING

TIME rumored resignation of AS
sistant Secretary of State Os-
borne occasions no surprise. A
deserving Democrat" who had made
money and held office in Wyoming, he
was one of the Bryan coterie in the
State Department, and he is about the
only one of the group who has re-
tanned his place on the payroll.
Trained as a physician and a phar-
macist, he was given charge of the
budget of the department, and he used
the apothecary's scale to a nicely in
doing outthe money. He made abso-
lutely no impression on the diplomatic
movements of his day in the service
and his office, once ranking next to
that of the secretary himself, sank to
minor importance during his tenure.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-16

Christmas is speaking in little eyes
Under this spell of the autumn skies.
Secrets are glowing in hearts that know
All that it means when our secrets
glow.
Hearts are eating in tune to the chime
OF the splendor and spirit of Christ
mas time
And so in the lane and so in the street,
Christmas is speaking in child eyes
sweet.
All of its mystery comes as of old,
All of its tinsel of silver and gold,
All of it's magic and marvel of light,
All of it's waiting the long coming
night
When over the housetops with jingles
of cheer
Old Santa will come with his sleigh
and his deer.
His jolly cheeks glowing, his merry
eyes set
In that laughter of love we can never
forget.
Christmas is speaking on cheeks that
are red
windows bloomed yesterday bright
with q sled,
A tool box. lantern. a train and n
Christmas is speaking in each childish
look,
Telling It's story all over again
For the cheer and the glory and COM
fort of men,
For the sweetening and lifting and
helping Of life
Down through the dust of its struggle
and strife.
.-Foiger McKinsey, in the Baltimore
SUM-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-16

which 1t is expected will be used in
the next Legislature as part of the
general attack on the Administration.
People familiar with recent legis-
lative sessions will recall a parallel to
the line of action outlined by the
the session of 1913. In that session
John, r. K. Scott, one of the present
administration leaders, heckled the
Tener administration throughout the
session and went into expenditures and
was applauded by the North Amer
ican, which had made q terrific attack
upon him when he aspired to be
speaker.
Democrats throughout the State
are following the conference here to-
day with interest. 1t is distinctly
stated that 1t is a conference, not a
caucus. 1t is the Democratic way of
can be rounded up, branded and held
for use when the legislative gavels
fall.
District Attorney Maxey, of Lack
awanna, and the chief of police of
Archibald, are now in a row. The dis
trict attorney attacked the chiefs way
of doing things.
Evan C. Curtis, of Nanticoke, has
been appointed mine inspector by
the Luzerne county courts.
Pennsylvania capital city is
commencing to get ready for the
convening of the general assembly
in it's 122nd session here on January
2. The legislative chambers and
committee rooms are in the hands
of the renovators and rooms have
been engaged for headquarters of
candidates for the speakership of the
House, which bids fair to be one of
the most interesting in years, more
so than even that of 1913, and a num-
ber of legislators have engaged their
rooms during the session. The bulk
of them, however, will remain at
hotels until the session gets under
way.
The party caucuses of the senators
and representatives will be held the
night of January 1 and the two houses
will organize the next day and after
the reading of the Governors message
and presentation of other business ad-
journment will likely be taken for
two weeks to permit the making up of
the committees.
AT the Capitol the plan is to place
the Oakley paintings in position next
week, and the senator's chamber will
be ready for them. The House is
undergoing the usual preparations
for the meetings.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-16
Is IL - enough for you?
SOUTHERN NEGRO woRK,,EN

4 LLEeHENX county is dealing
n intelligently with the Southern
negro problem. Hundreds of
colored men from the South were
brought to the mills of Pittsburgh
and vicinity when the European labor
supply failed, and most of these We're
single men. Some of them created
just such disturbances as have caused
the police and the Colored Law and
Order League to take action against
the ruffianly element of the newcomers
here. To meet this condition and to
avert further trouble, no unmarried
negroes are being brought from the
South to the Pittsburgh district. All
those now coming north are accom-
panied by their wives and children
where there are any. 1t has been
found that the family tie has a, strong
restraining influence upon such work
men, and that they are not so much
disposed to get into the way of trou-
BILE as the single men are. 1t might be
we'll to try some such plan here.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-16
VISITING NURSES, ASSOCIATION

NHE visiting Nurses Association
i reports for the year past indi-
cate that it has done much
good work. It's activities have been
many and its service has been as
wide as the city. But it has been
particularly useful in seeing to it that
babies have pure milk and healthful
surroundings, and its preventative
measures during the typhoid fever
outbreak last summer beyond doubt
did much to quell that epidemic.
Miss Mary f. Miller's records show
that during the year nurses of the
organization made 13,476 visits. In
other words, free expert nursing ad-
vice was carried into a vast number of
sick rooms where but for the minis
tering services of the trained nurse
there would have been additional suf-
fering-and perhaps death.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-16
Treatment Costly Now

tFrom the Muncie Und) Press.1
We know a lot of old fashioned peo-
pie who have cured themselves of rheu-
matism by carrying n potato concealed
on their person. But this treatment this
year is nearly as expensive as trip to
q sanatorium
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-16

The new Republican Governor of IL
iinois will confront n typical Demo-
cratic legacy when he takes office. The
State Treasurer reports that there will
be deficit of at least $500, 900 by the
end of the fiscal year.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-16
DO YOU KNOW

That people wonder why Har-
risburg has no memorial to its
founder?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-16
DISCRIMINA-
TION.

- - - Ava Il 4 u
TION.
1 believe in
peace at any
price.
So do I, but I
have a lingering
suspicion that
it's better to be
the one who
fixes the price
than the one
who pays it.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-16
Songs of Praise of Old

In the days of David and Asaph of
old there was a chief of the singers and
songs of praise and thanksgiving unto
God.-Nehemiah xii, 46. -.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-16
HISTORIC HARRTSRTTRC

Maclaysburg was laid out when
Harrisburg was projected but be-
came part of the city in a few years.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-16

Booze at Harrisburg the bane of
Pennsylvania" says temperance man.
Also, booze in Pennsylvania the bane of
Harrisburg.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-16

The school officials came home de-
termined Harrisburg shall have the
best schools possible. That is the kind
Harrisburg wants and it doesn't mind
spending money to get them.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-16
OUR DAILY LAUGH
MERRY
CHRISTMAS.


I wonder what
old Skinhint gets
out of Christi
mas?
oh, he has .
whale of a time
gloating over all
the money he
saves by not Of
fering any.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-16
SATURDAY EVENING. DEC. 16

Eor ace knotU, not every morrop
Can be sad;
So, forgetting all the SorroU
We hare had,
Let as fold d,ody our fears,
And put by our foolish tears,
And through all the coming gears
Just be glad. RILEY.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-16

Do your late Christmas shopping as
early as possible.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-16

Drilling well in the heart of Har-,
risburg is something rather unusual
and many folks have stopped to see
the well-driller at work beside the
Russ building. The drill is working
in Strawberry street and is going ar
ter new supply of water with q vigor
untouched by cold weather Last
year a well was drilled at the Metro
politan hotel and years ago one was
sunk at the Commonwealth.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-16

Major G. w. Davis, the newly ap-
pointed city treasurer of Pittsburgh,
is former newspaperman. He man
aged the Tri-State News Bureau for
years and was postmaster of Pitts
burgh. He is we'll known to a num-
ber of Harrisburgers
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-16

We'd think a lot more of skating If
It wasn't for the ice 4<
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-16

THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-16
Xmas in Little Eyes

December II. 1916.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-16

Z. ]. .STACKPOLE1, Prest and Editor-in-Chisf
+. r. OYSTER. Business Manager.
GUS Nj. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-02

The next concert of the Society OF
the Friends of Music will be given at
the Ritz-Carlton on Sunday afternoon,
January l6. A programme Of American
chamber music will be presented by the
Kneisel Quartet Those wishing 70 JON
the society in time for this concert
should apply TO the secretary, Miss +.
VI. Cottenet, 12S West Fifty-ninih
Street.
Anna Fitziu, soprano; Jean Vincent
Cooper. contralto; Charles Harrison,
tenor, and Hugh Allan, barytone, VIII
be the soloists at the concert Of Rus
sian folk-sonRs and Finnish student
songs to be given at Carnegie Hal! on
Wednesday evening, January II, by
the chorus Of the Schola Cantorum Of
New York.
Kitty Cheatham's last holiday recital
will be given az the Lyceum Theatre
tomorrow afternoon. Harvey Worth
ington Loomis's setting OF William
Blake's Little Lamb" opens the pro-
gramme, and is followed by various
episodes in the life of a child. Illus
trated by traditional songs and stories
from France: al etait une bcrgere,"
"D'ou wien tu, bergere"; French-Can-
adian, Anatole Frances ale Jour de
Catherine; Germany, Hans Hermann's
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-02
Bricks and Bouquets Flung
at American Skaters
by Charlotte

The imported skaters at the Hip
podrome, which means the greatest
skaters in the world, in Charles Dill
liugham's ice ballet Flirting at st.
Moritz." have been waiting Cor an OPP
nortunity to see American skating.
During the past week or so Charlotte
and the other ice nymphs had the OPP
portunity. Their impressions are a
medley. Bouquets and brickbats are
flung at US with indiscriminate accu-
racy. Charlotte says we make her smile,
delight her, surprise her into frank
outbursts of merriest laughter by our
outlandish antics on the steel runners
and then thrill her with the belief that
we shall be the greatest skating ma
ton in the world Naive truth is the
outstanding Characteristic OF this
charming little stage athlete; the
American skater will probably scowl