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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-30
ON TO PLATTSBURG!

TIME lure of Plattsburg is growing
stronger as the time for holding
the camps draws nearer and the
number of citizen recruits grows
steadily. At the present rate of in
crease it may be figured that within
a week or ten days the total number
of enrolments will be over ten thou
sand for the four camps, including the
students camp in July.
A number of the cities that will
send representative business and pro-
fessional men to uphold the honor of
the town for thirty days or more, are
arranging plans to organize in ad-
vance for the purpose of getting a
little preliminary training with a view
to appearing somewhat less green"
on their arrival at camp. Wilkes
Barre and Johnstown are active in
this respect, but it is doubtful if the
plan is feasible for the reason that
so little time can be profitably given
by a busy man without devoting him
self almost exclusively to the task.
Harrisburg will send a fair-sized
delegation of students and business
men to the July and August camps,
but no effort has been made 10
actively recruit in this city, The
truth is that men in large numbers
would swarm to the camp if they felt
they could give up month in the
middle of the summer. The hard
ships are nothing compared to the
benefits that accrue and the con-
stantly increasing enrolment of
volunteers bears adequate testimony
to that fact. At the present rate of
increase in numbers, it will soon be
case of the supply surprising the ac-
com mmodations with consequent de-
crease in desire for recruits on the
part of those in charge. Better get on
before the train starts, Mr.. Business
Man, you who want to go but can't
quite make up your mind.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-30
Gone. Not Forgotten"

[Wilfred Grenfell in The outlook. /
Beyond a tiny tot of rum no dope
has ever been given, or needed, by the
English or French. IN the general
headquarters in France l saw on the
wall a notice with deep black bor-
der all around it, 1t was dated June,
1915, and it read: Sacred to the mem
ory of the rum ration; gone, but not
forgotten
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-30
Yale Shirt

A great university is not altogether
without honor even from the small bow
in her own country. A New Haven
Sunday school youth was being taught
to repeat some verses from the Psalms
gave this wholly, though unconscious
ly, original rendering of familiar
phrase: yale, though I walk through
the valley Of the shadow of death, [
will fear no evil.'-Harper's Magazine
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-30

Jimmy" Lentz. the popular County
Recorder. is not only a skilful politi-
clan, but good citizen as well. To-
day he headed a party of G. A. r. vet
erans, who were enabled by automo-
biles provided by him, to conduct Me-
mortal Day exercises in all of.the Upper
End cemeteries. many of which other
wise would have been neglected.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-30
TELEGRAPH PERTSCOPE

An impossibility-a Memorial Day
without a threat of rain.
Some folks think Memorial Day
was designed especially to permit them
to 60 off and hold jollification.
The growing conviction is that the
nomination won't have to be rendered
Justice Hughes on a silver platter
most any old kind of platter may be
acceptable.A
The popular opinion seems to be
that quarantine laws were created for
the restraint of everybody but oneself.
DO you remember the days when
national delegates used to strut up ana
down the Union Station platform be-
tween trains proudly displaying their
badges and railroad passes?
William Penn was not referring to
political peace when he proposed a
Peace Parliament with headquarters
in Philadelphia.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-30
WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB
LEARNED OF THE CITY

[Questions submitted to members of
the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their
answers as presented at the organiza-
tion's annual Municipal Quiz."1
How are repairs to paved streets
made?
BY the city under the supervision
Of the Superintendent of Streets
and Public improvements. An as
phalt repair plant has been con-
structed for that purpose.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-30
WHAT WOULD THEY Dor
BY Wing Dinger

All honor to the soldier dead
The Gray as well as Blue
For in the breasts of those who fought
Beat loyal hearts and true
And though some fifty years ago
Those men divided were,
Could they come back to life again
What think you would occur?
Think you that in these threatening
days,
When those abroad who ule.
Would lightly treat with this fair
land
It's people ridicule-
That those men who, in sixty-five
Their lives did sacrifice,
Would fight and die again, or urge
A peace at any price?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-30

The selection of Frank A. Smith to be
assistant chief secretary of the Chicago
convention does honor to Dauphin
county and is proper recognition of per-
sonality and ability. Mr.. Smith is a man
of charming manners and his ability
as an organizer is demonstrated not
alone in his own very successful busl-
ness, but by the Taft campaign when
he, as county chairman, was largely in
strumental in carrying to victory the
local Republican ticket at a time when
the Progressives swept the county for
Roosevelt.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-30

1t is strange that the Democrats are
paying so much attention to the nomi-
nation of a Republican candidate for
President, and trying to ignore the
numerous important administrative
mistakes which their own party has
made. If they really wish to help in the
promotion of good government, they
can best serve that purpose by giving
some attention to their own party af-
fairs
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-30
ONE BOROUGH ADVISABLE

| WASHINGTON HEIGHTS people
" in town meeting last evening
appointed a committee to take
up with Camp Hill borough council a
proposal to unite with that borough.
Ten years ago there was no such place
as Washington Heights. To-day it is
thriving, enterprising community,
destined to be the connecting link be-
tween Camp Hill and the river and
clamoring for better government than
the legal limitations of the township
permit. The rapid development of
this section is an illustration of the
growth of the whole West Shore resi-
Dental district. In the course of a
very few years it is certain to become
one of the big centers of population in
thislsection of the State.
Its people are on the right track To
go into Camp Hill is the logical and
natural step. The West Shore has
too many boroughs as it is. To create
another would add only confusion and
expense.
To create a new borough at Wash
ington Heights would necessitate the
expense of a separate school system,
the erection of a town hall, the ex-
pense of an additional board of health,
fire department, highway commits
sioner, engineer, solicitor and what
not
On the other hand, with Washing
ton Heights as part of Camp Hill,
one council would govern the whole
and instead of having two borough
governments to maintain the tax
payers would have but one, which
would, of course cut down the tax
rate.
Washington Heights and Camp Hill
adjoin each other. To have two sets
of officials to operate them would be
like having two factories side by side,
owned by the same people, making the
same goods, and each operated by a
different set of officials. OF course, it
requires more to run two shops under
two arrangements than to run two
shops with one management, and the
same applies to expenses of govern
ment. If Washington Heights wants
to be separate borough, 1t will have
to pay the piper" AS a part of
Camp Hill the economies of adminis-
tration are too numerous to mention.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-30

The Rotary Club set other organiza-
tions a good example yesterday by con-
tributng to the Grand Army Decora-
ton Day flower fund.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-30

Governor Brumbaugh is credited
with being a very versatile man. One
day he seizes a golf stick, another a
shovel, and now he is reputed to be
employing the ak rather strenuously.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-30

If Harrisburg doesn't look out. the
West Shore will have a new High School
before we have one here.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-30

Save yourselves labor by keeping
your boys and their muddy shoes off
your hardwood fioors." says a news
paper "woman's page writer" but we
have noticed that it is the happiest
homes that occasionally get all
mussed up" as the result of raids by
muddy feet
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-30

William Howard Taft, than whom
no one possesses a more expansive
smile and congenial personality, will
be one of the speakers at the nine
teenth annual Spring exercises at the
National Farm School, Doylestown, on
Sunday next.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-30
THE STATE FROM DAY TO DAY

Noting that York is fostering a
porchbox and backyard contest, we
cordially invite those who are the
strongest advocates of the plan to
come to Harrisburg and see what real
ly can be done to improve the floral
of things.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-30

An Allentown italian, unversed in
the art of padding a canoe, took his
bride on the river and upset, after
which he swan to her rescue and
saved her from drowning. Which we
opine to be very friendly act.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-30
DO YOU KNOW
That Harrisburg steel is used
for making bolts for battIeships?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG

The dedication of the first canal
lock here in the thirties was an occas-
ion attended by the governor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-30

The Philadelphia Record has a
head-writer of poetic tendencies. And
the meter isn't bad at that. Here it
is: Not Note From Artist Throat as
Audience Vainly Waited; "Caruso's
Peer" Missed All the Cheer and Plung-
ed Plump Into Lawsuit"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-30

"Blessed is the peacemaker" but not
always is his lot most enviable. A
would-be peacemaker in Paramount
yesterday received serious injuries
from razor welded by one of the
contestants whom he would have sep
arated, so that he will probably die.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-30
EVIDENCE.

They tell me
young Dobbs is =
young man OF
much promise.
Yes. l have
about three hun
d + e d dollars
W orth of his
promises myself.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-30

Gymnastic ability, coupled with pow
erful wrists, saved the lives of two Ma
tional Guardsmen caught on high
trestle bridge over the Schuylkill river
near Reading the other day. One of
the three was knocked off, but the
others clung to the trestle and were
saved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-30

Isaac r. Pennypacker, who was
here yesterday to attend the meeting
of the Meade Memorial commission, is
a noted author of books on Pennsvl-
vania and Pennsylvanians. His book
on General Meade is noted and he is
an authority on the historic events in
eastern Pennsylvania.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-30

AT Pottsville Judge Brumm hand
ed down an opinion finding 81 infrac-
tions of the law in the Lost Creek poll
of West Mahanoy district last Novem-
ber. He said: Brute force, black
guardism, fraud and corruption were
rampant, and an imported bully in the
shape of a trained prize-fghter from
Philadelphia, ran the election, while
free beer was served to voters" The
costs of the investigation we're placed
on the school district, as court was
prevented by law from putting the
costs on the school directors, defend
ants
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-30

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO..
Telegraph Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-30
OUR DAILY LAUGH

FOR HIM.
I cawn't quite
make out what
Ruth means.
Why not?
She keeps on
referring TO my
man, d o n C h Q r
know, as a keep
er.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-30

z. ]. STACKPOLE. Prcs't and Editor-in.C Chief
F. r. OYSTER, BHsitsss MGndser.
GUS M. SDEINMETZ, Mdnaging Editor.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-05-19

Excelsior Buffing, Properly Used,
the Case Makes an Even, Soft Cush-
ion Which Prevents Eggs From
Shifting.
time he has hauled them to the coun-
try store or to the shipper investiga-
tors find that approximately 4 per
cent are cracked and one-tenth of one
per cent mashed or leaking.
If the country storekeeper rehandles
the eggs and hauls them to the egg
shipper, the number of cracked eggs
is increased to about per cent. In
addition, three-tenths of per cent are
mashed eggs or leakers that must be
thrown out. If, however, the country
storekeeper sends the cases of eggs to
nearby shipper by local freight, the
total of cracked eggs has risen at the
end of the journey to approximately Z
per cent, and l per cent more are
mashed or leaking. The damage when
eggs reach the big cities after haul
of 1000 miles or more will depend
upon the quality of the egg packing,
the way the lot is placed in the car,
and the way the railroad hauls the
car, especially when switching. When
the eggs arr shipped in car lots and
both shippers and carriers do their
work we'll, transit damage is kept
down to as little as l per cent, includ-
ing cracked, mashed, and leaking
eggs.
Approximately one egg in two cases
gets mashed or becomes leaker on
the railroad trip. But when eggs are
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-05-19
COLLECTED ITEMS

An electrically lighted cross revolves
on top of a San Francisco steeple.
The 554 people out of every thou
sand in Switzerland who save money
must be compared with meager 1OS
in this country, the difference account
ing, according to Chicago banker,
for the fact that in our large cities
potter's field.
Pellagra may be prevented or cured
by proper diet.
A large eastern railroad is instruct
ing it's signal erectors and testing its
engineers knowledge of signals by
means of modern pictures shown in a
car which travels over its lines.
THE flowers of Hawaii declare the
glories of God, and the fish showeth
his handiwork," declares realistic
writer in the Christian Herald, assert
ing, by the way, that nowhere else in
the world can fish be found in so many
and such variegated hues as in the
waters of these Pacific possessions OF
ours.
Open air is the best spring tonic.
Typhoid fever is a disease peculiar
to man.
Mutual benefit insurance societies
have been established in the public
schools of Rome and other Italian
cities The underlying idea is that
pupils shall pay small weekly sums to
general fund, from which certain
amounts are paid out in case of sick
ness, accident or death. The system
is said to be growing rapidly.
There is an unQuestionable record
of hearing the firing at Ypres at dis
lance of lao miles and somewhat
doubtful one Of $50 miles
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-05-19
WAY OF SPREADING DISEASE
Water Pans in Henhouses Should Be
Cleaned Every Day-FIat Wash
Basin Easily Cleaned.

How often do you clean up the wa
ter pans in your henhouses? You
ought to clean them every day. For
dirty water pan is the surest way
of spreading disease throughout your
flock.
The best way of handling water in
the poultry house is to keep it in a
cheap, fiat wash basin that can be
easily cleaned and refilled. It doesn't
pay to bother with patent water tanks.
You will have to fill them just as
often as the basins, and they are hard
er to clean up.
Place the open basin on a box some
eight or ten inches high and perhaps
eighteen inches square, and make a
runway for this. This keeps it from
filling up with dirt and straw from the
floor, and the hens do not climb into
it in drinking.
Then put the box and basin in a
sunny corner of the house away from
the roosts and nests, so that no dirt
can fall into it from above.
Clean it and refill with clean, fresh
water every day and you will have
put the disease germs to flight indei-
nitely-Wisconsin Station.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-05-19
CRACKED-EGG Loss
Pack in Spring so as to Prevent
All Shell Damage.
Specialists of United States Depart
ment of Agriculture Recommend
Use of New Standard Cases
With Strong Filters.

From the United States Department OF
Agriculture)
About so per cent of the egg crop OF
the whole year is produced during the
months of March, April, May and June.
1t is during March, April and May also
that the eggs are Of the best quality
and most desirable for cold storage.
Nearly Sc per cent of all the eggs 50
stored go into storage during March,
April and May
1t is especially necessary, therefore,
the department egg-handling special
lists say, to see that the early spring
pack is well put UP in new standard
cases with new strong filters and flats
and that cracked eggs, even the very
"lightest checks" be rigidly excluded.
Cracked eggs, the practical studies
of these investigators have estab-
lished, are the cause of great trouble
and loss to the egg industry from pro-
Queer to consumer. Every time an
egg is handled on the farm or else
where it is likely to get shell dam
age. Occasionally the hen cracks an
egg, but that is seldom. The farmer
cracks some on the farm, and by the
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-05-19

Excelsior Buffing, Improperly Used,
Increases Rather Than Prevents
Egg Breakage In the Case and Dis
tributes Pressure Unevenly on the
Top Layer.
shipped in less than car lots, the tran
sit damage is generally multiplied
many times. The total damage from
all landings of eggs between the hen
and the consumer, investigations show,
is certainly not less than 10 per cent,
and may be even greater. The 10
eggs out of 100 that are damaged con-
sist Of about eight eggs which are
lowered in value by cracking and
about two eggs which are total loss.
Cracked Eggs Lower Prices.
Because there are so many lightly
cracked eggs and because they will
bring a lower price If put in cases by
themselves. most shippers have got
into the habit Of including about 5
per cent of cracked eggs in the cases
of supposedly sound eggs. This prac-
tice has continued so long that the re-
ceivers in cities have adjusted prices
accordingly. On the average the ship
per is really paid for just what he
ships.
Very often the receiver blames the
railroad for all the light as well as the
heavy damage in the case; and since
the inclusion of the per cent of light
ly damaged eggs has become generally
known, it commonly is supposed that
it is these eggs which, being weak
are further damaged in transit. The
Investigators OF the department, how
ever, find that these light cracks, OF
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-05-19
PROPER HOUSING FOR TOOLS
All Implements Should Be Protected
From Weather When Not in Use
to Save Depreciation.

The only way to overcome deprecia-
ton is to provide proper housing for
all tools and implements. This will
protect them from the weather when
they are not in use. While the ques-
ton of housing is important. it is
equally important that the defective
and broken parts be repaired.
A workshop is required to make
these repairs. 1t need not be large,
but sufficiently roomy to allow for a
work bench, a stove, and a certain
amount of floor space where the ma
chinery or tools may be repaired, or
taken apart and reassembled.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-05-19

even dents, if well packed, loaded,
and transported, are only one-third
more liable to damage than are the
sound eggs similarly handled. If the
cases are we'll packed and shipped in
well-loaded car lots, the additional
liability TO damage is only about one
fifth of an egg per case. From the
viewpoint of transportation alone the
per cent of lightly cracked eggs
appears to be comparatively unimpor-
tant.
Cracked Eggs Cause Serious Loss II
Stored.
From the viewpoint of cold storage,
however, even lightly cracked eggs
are of great Importance. The inves-
tigators find that about 50 per cent of
the cracked eggs are rotten by Noyem-
Der, generally because of 4 growth of
mold. Sometimes the Jnoldy crack
resting against the filler infects it
and the egg in the next cell becomes
moldy. Each leaking egg causes about
two eggs besides itself to rot. On the
other hand, good early spring eggs
with sound, clean shells show less
than per cent loss from decay by
November. In other words, six eggs
in every dozen cracked eggs will rot,
while only one sound egg in II dozen
equal. The cracked eggs are heavy
economic loss.
Loss $s+ Per Carload.
Eggs at the eastern seaboard DUR
ing the early spring are commonly
worth about 20 cents a dozen. Car
rying charges, including insurance,
are usually about cents dozen.
Therefore, the nine cracked eggs
which are spoiled by November show
a total loss, not only of their value
when they were stored. which was
about Is cents, but also the carrying
charges, or a total of 1914 cents,
About ten cracked eggs out of the
| 10, on the average, will not spoil, but
are much lower in grade when coming
out of storage than the sound eggs.
| They will be sold for about 33 per cent
less than the sound, good eggs, max
Of cents, or total loss due to
cracked eggs alone of 231a cents a
case, or about $94 on carload of 40(
cases.
This loss of 231a cents a case, which
is believed to be a conservative esti
mate, quickly mounts up to imposing
figures when the vast number of cases
of eggs that are stored is taken into
consideration. In As cold-storagt
houses alone, according to the repor
of the American Warehousemen's as
ISOLATION, about 3,750,O00 cases of egg
were in storage on July 1, 1915. /
these cases suffered the average dam
age, in these warehouses alone Their
would be a loss to the country o
1881 200 that might have been save,
to the egg industry from producer t
the consumer if shippers had beel
more careful in packing their earl
spring eggs.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-05-19
Luxury Of Woe.

Mandy had "dished up my onesome
lunch, but still she fingered near.
We'll, Mandy, what is it," l asked,
recognizing the symptoms.
She giggled consciously. please,
Miss Ethel, couldn yo' lend me par
red stockin's?'
Red stockings, Mandy? Are you
going to a party?"
She became impressively solemn at
once. "Oh, no, miss. Abs gwine to
a fun'al.'
But Mandy red stockings at flu
neral! Everybody always wears black
at funerals.
"Yes'm All knows, miss" she hes
itated-"but yo' see, All expects to
PROSTATE mahself on de grave. New
York Evening Post
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-05-19

After a series of careful experiments
and tests at the Invalids' Hotel and Sur
gical Institute, Buffalo, n. Y, covering
many years-Dr. Pierce, the medical di-
rector of that hospital, made announcement
that he could prove that medicine which
he called "ANURIC' was the best uric
acid solvent now to be had. As rem
edy for those easily recognized symptoms
of nfammation-as scalding urine, back
ache and frequent urination, as well as
sediment in the urine, or if uric acid in
the blood has caused rheumatism, lum-
bago, sciatica, govt, it is simply wonder
full how quickly "Anuric" acts; causing
the pains and stiffness rapidly to disap-
pear
a dropsical condition, often caused by
disordered kidneys Naturally when the