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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-21
If Your Boy Is
Looking For a lob

The Woman's Home Companion re-
celVeS thousands of letters annually
from people asking what they should
do with their children in looking for
work. The November issue answers
some of the questions. The writer of
the article says:
In the first place, when q prospec-
tive employer asks your boy, What
can you do?' don't, under any circum-
stances, let him answer, ANYTHING.
NO employer wants a boy to do any-
thlng; he wants an organization each
member of which does something
definitely and well. Let me illustrate:
Two young men applied to me for
positions on the same day. Both of
them were well dressed, we'll educated
and intelligent. The first one said. I
am willing to do anything. / want to
JOIN your organization. Start me any.
where, and I'll find a place for my
SELF. l liked his spirit; but / couldn't
see how L would be justified in adding
penny to the payroll at the moment,
and so l told HMM the old form
ula-that l would take his name and
address and let him know if anything
turned up.
The second young man came in n
wholly different fashion Laying some
papers on my desk. he pointed out to
me a certain trivial weakness in my
organization, a certain spot where
work was being done badly, which he
had discovered from studying my
business in his technical school. Il can
do that particular job for YOU better
than 1t is being done now,' he said.
ana L can save you money on it,
That young man got a job"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-21
UNRULY NEGRO ELEMENT

TINE police authorities should be
! heartily supported by City Council
in their effort to put down the
unruly negro element that scarcity of
foreign labor and busy industries have
brought to this locality from the South.
Bad characters by the score, the worst
element of the colored race, men who
could not get employment in their
home communities because of their
regulations or who were anxious to get
out because they had offended against
the law, have been brought to Dauphin
county in recent months. These are
the colored men who have been re-
sponsible for all the trouble.
Safety of the people is first consid-
Grafton, of course, but a spirit of fair
play to the hundreds of law-abiding
colored people of this city and Steelton
also demands that these Southern
negroes be kept in check. 1t is not
right that the whole race should be
Eiven black eye because one element
of it is bad. The Colored Law and
Order Society has offered it's services
TO the local police in locating or run
ming down negroes who break the law.
This shows clearly where the men who
are the sinew and blood of the colored
race in Harrisburg and vicinity stand.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-21

The ballots will be certified to the
commissioners of each county for
printing on that day.
Just now there Is a lot of talk
about Investigations that are likely
to be made when the next Legislature
meets but the general opinion about
the Capitol is that they will go the
way of such rumors in years gone by.
The State printers will be glad
when the ballots are all printed and
the lists and other supplies are made
out. Chief Clerk George d. Thorn,
of the State Department, who has
been bearing the brunt of situation
which changes every four hours, has
made up half a dozen ballots and as
many lists, all of which have had
to be changed because of eleventh
hour matters turning up. Mr.. Thorn's
work, however, will be just commenc-
ing because he will have to boss the
compilation of the returns.
w. Harry Baker, secretary of the
republican State committee, was
nome to-day from the Republican
State headquarters for the weekend.
Mr.. Baker has the headquarters run
ming smoothly and is in touch with
the organization in every county. He
is very confident of the results.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-21
MARRIAGE OF A PRINCESS

n CABLEGRAM gives account of
N the latest royal marriage in
Europe, very unusual event.
The Princess Marie Therese of Hoh-
enlohe, it says, has given up all her
family ties and a brilliant future at
court to marry Otto Kohlais, of Inns
bruck, an apothecary's assistant and
a descendant of an humble Austrian
family. The Princess nursed Kohlais
while he was in hospital suffering
from illness contracted on the battle
field.
The Princess is twenty-one years
old. The house of Hohenlohe is one
of the oldest and most powerful in the
Central Empires.
When the couple plighted their
troth, her family forbade the mar
riage and ordered the girl to quit
the hospital, but last week they eloped
and were married in Vienna. The
semiroyal bride is wholly dependent
upon Kohlais' income, which is $40
a week.
The war has turned European So
ciety upside down. The great have
been humb1ed and the humble have
become great. Life in the trenches
has had democratizing effect on
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-21
Newspapers Go Up

st. Louis. Mo-, Oct. II. = During
the past week three metropolitan
newspapers of the Middle West have
announced an increase in price from
one to two cents. The papers are the
st. Louis Globe-Democrat and Re-
public and the Milwaukee Free Press.
The increased cost of newsprint and
other materials of product is the rea-
son assigned for the advance in every
instance.
The announcement of the change in
the Globe-Democrat read as follows:
The relentless law vr supply and
demand controls the cost of newspa-
per-ma king-just as IL controls the
cost of shoe making, needle-making
or bridge making. For several years
past the cost of newsprint paper and
other essentials of making
has been steadily increasing. And
during the past eighteen months. be-
cause of the European war and other
reasons, these costs have finally soar
ed beyond the horizon of precedents.
For these inexorable business reasons.
the price of the Globe-Democrat will
be two cents per copy daily.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-21

has led to the indefensible typhoid
epidemic now prevailing, there is more
than money involved. 1t is probable
that each typhoid fever case which
has occurred in Harrisburg during
the present epidemic has caused in
loss of time and in medical and other
attention at least 500, in addition to
the agony, danger and possible death
involved. When official neglect and
lax enforcement of law mean possible
death in consequence, one is forced
to the conclusion that either designed
ly or carelessly the officials regard
municipal murder as permissible.
There will at once be the wall on
the part of those guilty and partly
guilty that to have proper sanitary
protection and to cause the enforce
ment of law will cost money. That
is true. Disease also costs money. If
| am correct in estimating the average
cost of a typhoid case at 500, then
this disgraceful epidemic has cost
our people more than $4,000. 1t
is probable that protection through
adequate provision and organization
and enforcement could have been car
ried through for not more than ten
per cent. of this sum.
1T would be hard to find a person
In the city who would believe that it
was Saving" money not to spend five
tation and law enforcement rather
than to force the people to spend
more than $4,000 in doctors bills and
funeral expenses by reason of the
neglect to make the lower eSpendi-
ture.
Either the laws, ordinances and
regulations relating to quarantine,
milk and food inspection, garbage
collection and other health matters
ought to be entirely repealed or prop
erly enforced. AS it stands now, the
citizens of Harrisburg are practically
undefended against the onset of an
epidemic of any disease which may
creep in through official inadequacy,
parsimony or neglect.
Let us have a man-size health de-
partment. properly supported. Let us
have full-paid. full-time health off,
Ger with knowledge, capability and
courage. Then we can begin to be-
lieve that we have freed ourselves
from the present dreadful implica-
ton of knowingly or carelessly per-
mitting municipal murder"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-21
KREIDER AND LABOR

.DEMOCRATS discussing the candi-
IL dacy of Congressman Kreider
for reelection have neglected q
very important item in reviewing the
Congressman's labor record, an item
by the way, that illustrates very clear
ly Mr.. Kreider's attitude toward labor
Long before the passage of the work
mems compensation law by the State
Mr.. Kreider had worked out a COM
pensation law for his own factories,
whereby any employe who became
sick or was injured was reimbursed
by the company. The terms of this
arrangement were more generous to
the working man or woman than are
those required by the recently enact
ed statute. Mr.. Kreider has always
paid generous wages and has not been
slow to reward good work, as may be
illustrated by the fact that several men
who started in with him as laborers at
laborer's wages are now partners in
the firm of which he is the head and
others have been advanced to posi-
tions of trust. This is the kind of a
labor record that counts for some
thing.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-21
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
PROGRESSIVE wALLoPs WILSON

10 the Editor of the Telegraph:
Will you kindly allow me space in
your paper to express my opinion on
papers, as to Progressives supporting
the Democratic candidates, especially
Wilson. 1t is undoubtedly true that in
certain sections, mostly Eastern, some
few Progressives have endorsed Will
son, but the real Progressive leaders,
such men as Roosevelt, Johnston, Had
ley. Clifford Pinchot, etc, have unquali-
fiedly. endorsed Hughes and the entire
Republican ticket. Administration
newspapers seem to lay great stress on
ed Wilson. This is not startling news to
Progressives. When Clifford Pinchot
took up the Progressive cause, Amos
did likewise. Amos seems to like to
catch some of the rays of publicity
cast on his illustrious brother. Clifford.
and, disagreeing with Clifford. brings
mainly because he is Gifford's
brother There is every reason why
Progressives should support Hughes, as
against Wilson. Real Progressives do
tons" "fayorite son, jobholding," "sec.,
tional legislation" 'dishrag diplomacy"
policy that amounts practically to war,
yet which Wilson assures us is not
war, because the Mexicans are at war
with us, but we are not at war with
war. then one cannot but wonder what
war is. Perhaps it is because it is not
of the, magnitude of the European
struggle.
/ have an idea it would be rather
hard to convince the dead and wound
ed sailors and soldiers, both United
States and Mexican. that it isn't war.
The men that were forced to hide be-
hind buildings and doorsteps in hail
Of Mexican bullets at Vera Cruz. surely
did not think they were attending q
pink tea" The soldiers of the Tenth
Cavalry, when ambushed and their COM
rades slain and captured in the interior
of Mexico hardly thought 1t was just
a playful act on the part of the Mexican
army. The lonely sentry. walking his
beat at night along the Rio Grande.
peering into the darkness for a lurking
foe. expecting at any minute to have a
bullet crash into his body from one of
Villas followers. does not feel as safe
as though he was walking the streets
of his native town or city. Emphatic
ally the Progressive party, is not in
favor of this brand of Wilson peace.
1t may be that Wilson's distinction of
the word war varies with the size of
the enemy with small country like
Mexico or Hayti. he brandishes n big
stick. and with a mans sized nation he
brandishes a pen. We are only too
proud to fight" when the fellow that
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-21
THE ALLIES AND GREECE

TINE allies are doing in Greece
precisely what they criticised
Germany for doing in Belgium
except that there are no reports of
them smashing her churches and kill
ing her citizens. Nevertheless, the
crime now being perpetrated in the
name of military necessity is of first
magnitude. They have seized her
fleets and have transgressed her laws
and trespassed upon her territory.
Americans who grew hot over the
crime of Belgium cannot witness this
rape of Greece without anger and re-
sentiment. If the allies believe they
will gain anything, either by way of
material advantage or popular
sympathy, they are mistaken. Two
wrongs never made one right. The
tactics of Germany in Belgium were
those of the ruthless conqueror. Those
of the allies in Greece have robbed
the people of that country of their
liberties and made a travesty of their
citizenship.
Americans who have sympathized
with the allies Will pause for q mo-
ment TO wonder which is the worst
the despoiler of Belgium or the in
vader of Greece. 1t becomes more
and more evident that neither side
in the present struggle has any re-
gard for the rights of neutrals. Both
sides have been playing for the favor
of America because it so happened
that they placed a market value on
that favor. Whenever it has trans
pired that either the allies or Ger
many felt that they had more to gain
by slappfng US in the face than by
smiling upon us, we have been slap
ped We must expect that this will
continue to be the policy of both, and
we ought to govern ourselves accord
ingly.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-21
MT. UNION

n TT. UNION. that hustling, pros
Nl porous little community some
hundred miles to the west of
us along the main line of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad, has been heralded
abroad as q war bride" town, be-
cause it so happened that there was
located there at the outset of Euro
pean hostilities the plant of one OF
the big powder manufacturers. But
Mt. Unions prosperity is based on a
firmer foundation than that of trade
in munitions. 1t Is laid. literally and
figuratively, on rock, for it depends
for its basic supply to feed the great
brick industry that is now making it
famous, on the stone that lies scat
tered in inexhaustible quantities all
over the hills roundabout.
Mt. Union is growing fast, but its
expansion is not of the mushroom va
riety. 1t is building to take care of
the permanent population that has
come with the founding of the i'm
mense refractory works there. And
listen, Mr.. Harrisburger, it is erecting
fine new high school, and the school
board didn't have to make a special
campaign to get the money.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-21

wants to get us into an argument is
bigger than we are. We can knock the
spots off of little country that cannot
offer us n real fight.
Progressives have at all times fought
misrule. either nationally, or locally. AS
a former officer of the Washington
party in Dauphin county. the writer is
in position to know the sentiment of
the rank and file of the Progressive
voters. l might imagine it would be
hard to convince Vance Mccormick
that the Dauphin county Progressives
will support Democratic candidatc,
The action of few of the self styled
leaders of the Washington party, in
placing Mccormick ON the Washington
Party ticket was the start of the de-
cline of the Washington party i'm the
State of Pennsylvania. Progressives
are nominally Republicans, and because
the Republican party more nearly
stands for their ideals than any other
party, will line up back of Hughes and
the entire Republican ticket. At least
this is the opinion the writer has form
ed by coming into contact with a
large number of former Washington
party men in Dauphin county.
(Signed)
EX-WASH PARTY COMMITTEEMAN
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-21
WE NEED REAL VANISHED
CITY HEALTH DEPARTMENT
HORACE M'FARLAND,

T HORACE MFARLAND, whose
wide acquaintance with municipal
problems makes his views worth
while on any subject relating to city
affairs, in an interview with a Tele-
graph representative to-day, made a
strong appeal for an adequately
equipped health department of HaIA
riSburg.
Harrisburg needs man-sized
health department he said.
Now that Council is beginning to
act" he continued, there is hope
that the further spread of typhoid
fever may be checked, and possibly
entirely prevented. This does not,
however, place us in possession of a
,well-organized, well-supported, vigi-
liant and capable working health de-
partment.
with the health of $4,000 people
Immediately resident in the city, added
to which may properly be considered
nearly $4,000 people within a radius
of ten miles, Harrisburg now needs a
man-siZe, fully equipped, working
health department. We deserve and
ought to have q full-paid, full-time
health officer. properly supported to
prevent disease, and provided with an
equipment of officials and workers
and materials to enable him to en-
force the law.
Surely we cannot expect to run
Harrisburg in these days on village
sanitary equipment, and that is about
all we have.
Surely, too, if we are to have any
faith in the laws that are passed, they
must be enforced. They are not now
enforced.
For instance, the garbage collec-
ton of the city is in charge of the
Health Department / believe IL is
proper to say that at no time since
the contract has been running has 1t
been enforced for one single day. OBJ
jections to outrageous and unsanitary
violations of the contract have been
met with a definite statement on the
part o. the health officers that the
contractor could not afford to obey
the law. If this is a proper defense,
then cannot see why l should pay
for paving or do many other things
that l am legally required to do, If
l feel that l cannot afford to.
But in this case and in the case
of the lax enforcement of law which
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-21
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

&C. Henderson Supplee, a member
OF the Governors commission to
probe the price of milk, says that the
action of some dairy farmers is GO
Ing to prove a boomerang.
&. t. Stotesbury, the Philadel-
phia banker, was given a dinner by at
taches of his offices in Philadelphia
last night at which prominent men
spoke.
pr John Marshall, noted Philadel-
phia physician and chemist, is home
from his annual trip to Rhode Island.
Charles M. Schwab is to be given
a dinner by the citizens of Baltimore
on November 21 and Mayor Preston
mas named some of the citys biggest
men to arrange it.
james Mathews elected presi-
dent of the Ninth district Mine Work.
ers again, lives in Shenandoah and
has long been active in the unioh.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-21
sCRANIBLING FOR VOTES

DRESIDENT WILSON is more and
more creating the impression OF
a wild-eyed individual with coat
tails streaming, grabbing the rear
railing and scrambling to swing him
self aboard the band wagon where
the votes are stored.
In his speech before the Chicago
Press Club yesterday he predicted the
beginning of "a renaissance of the
sense of patriotic responsibility"
After having done all that mortal man
could do to deaden in the eyes OF
the world that very sense of patriot
ism on the part of America, he now
comes forth at the eleventh hour in
a clever attempt to work upon the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-21

those thus brought together from all
walks of life to share common rou-
tine and danger. The tenant farmers
of England. 1t is said. are going home
when the war ends, to be land owners.
The long rule of caste in Britain is
crumbling. France had already
learned the lesson and the humble
downtrodden Russian will lay aside
his uniform with a new conception of
his powers and the part he should
play in governmental affairs. Royalty
weds into the middle class, and the
middle class does not hesitate to as
pire to the hand of royalty.
The marriage of the princess and
her lover. the apothecary's assistant,
is interesting and unusual. 1t is a
striking illustration of the leveling
process of war, where the humble
drug clerk met, as soldier of the
empire, the princess royal, in the garb
of a hospital nurse. Soldier and
nurse, only, were they in cupid's eyes.
With the close of the conflict men
Will return to their old walks, and
life will again begin to follow it's
daily hum-drum much as before. But
the men who go back will not be the
men who went out, exactly. They
will carry with them a sense of equal
ity with their fellows. The drill
sergeant who ''right-foot, left-foot's"
a platoon of young men of the aristo-
cratic class will never look upon
aristocracy with the old awe again.
To what extent this democratic view
point will affect the life of the nation
that develops it remains to be seen,
but that it will be felt is certain.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-21
REPUBLICAN MEETINGS

mass meetings throughout the
county. They are well attended
and enthusiastic. but really they were
unnecessary this year. 1t is always
we'll to carry the message of the can
didates and of the party at large di-
rectly to the voters by word of mouth,
but Dauphin county is so evidently
Republican this year that a majority
might have been had If not a stroke
of work had been done. This is a
Hughes year in Harrisburg and the
county at large. The mass meetings
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-21
Largest Dry Citu

Petrograd, Russia, is of course. the
largest dry city in the world, and
;orohso, t;o Canada, with 100000 popula-
tlon, becomes by the Ontario prohi-
oition act the largest dry city in
America. BY this act the province
VIII be under absolute prohibition for
three years. then plebiscite will be
taken on the question of it's remain
ing dry permanently.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-21
WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB
LEARNED OF THE CITY

the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their
answers as presented at the organizes
tion's annual Municipal ouiz"I
What system is in force for insuring
a uniform voltage of electricity fur
nished by the Power Company?
Five recording volt-meters are
installed in different sections of the
city for this purpose. Records are
kept by the City electrician.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-21
Senator vardaman, Democrat, of Mis-

Senator Vardaman. Democrat. of Mis-
sissippi, says he was dazed by the result
of the election in Maine. "Dazed" is
probably an inadequate word to express
the feelings of man for a State as
solidly Democratic as Mississippi. but it
is no word to express the feelings of
a Democrat in a doubtful State. There
is no word or bunch of words in the
dictionary adequate to describe the dis
appointment, dismay and dumbfound-
edness of the man from New Jersey
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-21
EDITORIAL COMMENT

Iowa State College has instituted a
course in janitorship. Imagine the Al,
roSance of tanitor with a diploma
Detroit Free Press
Inough Greece gets a new premier al
most every other day she never seems
TO get one whose name we can pro-
nounce.-San Francisco Chronicle
France reports fairly good crops. bu,
tne drawback is that so large a part
or them is gathered by the Germans
Springfield Republican,
When Russia and Japan conclude the
task OF making an open door in China
IL VIII resemble the back entrance to
an Eskimo igloo.-Los Angeles Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-21
Mr. DUBBS he ALMOST GETS INOCUL LKTeD

psychology of the Hughes-strong vot-
ing populace.
Why does Americas sense of
patriotic responsibility need any re-
birth If it isn't that Wilson himself
killed that sense by his Weakened
policy toward Germany and Mexico?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-21

The idea in Illinois seems to be that
If the Democrats can put all the suf-
fragists in the hospital until after cleo
tion they may keep Hughes from get
ting their votes.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-21

President Wilson wants 1t understood
that he yielded to the four labor unions
after mature deliberation, that he
thinks that policy most expedient and
that he would do so again IL occasion
offered. 1t is we'll that we have a clear
understanding of his views of official
responsibility.