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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-24

IF you would be really up-to-date,
save money. This is a year of
thrift in America. 1t is positive
ly fashionable to have a bank account
even if you work on a salary.
This year is the centennial of the
founding of the first savings bank in
the United States. There are now
2,100 of them and they have ten mil
lion depositoTs. The National Edu-
cational Association has offered a prize
of $3.50 for the essay outlining a
method of teaching thrift in the pub
lie schools. In Springfield, Mass, a
Thrift Week was observed by prac-
tically the entire population not long
ago. Sermons on thrift were preach
ed in all the churches and lectures
were given in schools and factories on
how to save money. The movement
was decidedly a hit with the people.
A number OF other cities, including
Des Moines, Iowa; Dayton, Ohio; and
to have thrift weeks
Women's clubs, which constitute an
excellent barometer of public inter
est in any subject, are taking up thrift
with all the enthusiasm for which they
are famous. Some of them have or
ganized thrift departments, and all of
them are having papers on thrift.
There could not possibly be anything
better for the cause of thrift. If the
women decide they like it, it is here
to stay. Furthermore, when Mrs. A.
Clubmember prepares paper on
thrift, you may be sure that Mr.. Club
member and the Clubmember chill
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-24
OUR DIVERSIFIED DIET
! n CALIFORNIA university pr
IA fessor, who shall be namele

n CALIFORNIA university pro-
IA fessor, who shall be nameless.
for chances are he will never
loom across the newspaper horizon
again, announces the discovery that
the kind of food a man eats is respon-
sible for his character. For instance.
If one eats chicken exclusively. he says.
1T brings out the finest traits in our
character; beef makes us savage. and
the lighter foods, including vegetables
and fruits. make us esthetic." In
short, strong foods make us vigorous
and aggressive; light foods, mild and
meek.
What, then, shalt we say OF a people
VINO in the springtime load their
tables with chicken and lettuce. and
dandelion, and fresh eggs, and straw
berries and shad; who in the summer
have green corn, and raspberries, and
cherries. and eggplant, and cante-
loupe, and watermelon, ETC.; who in
the fall and winter indulge in apples
and pork. and sauerkraut, and beef
and mush and scrapple, and sausage
and mix this diet up with all manner
of other good things in and out OF
season? What of such a people as
this? we ask. Ought not they, if The
California theory be true. be possessed
of all the admirable traits OF character
the human race is heir to? Ought no
such a people be a delightful com
hinatlon of ruggedness and gentleness
of meekness and courage, of solemnit!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-24
TELECRAPH'S PERISCOPE

Come back agin, President Grace,
and make a few more announce
ments.
All the world loves n lover but
by the endeavors of lovers to find
seclusion, the affection one may judge
is not returned.
Perhaps it's natural; at any rate
about the time girl begins TO sit on
a young mans knee is after he has
promised to support her for life.
1t begins to look now as though
the Car knew what he was doing
when he transferred Grand Duke
Nicholas to the South.
Our opinion OF the Owen Wister
poem is that most of it is true but he
shouldn't have said it.
Why make such fuss about at
tacking armed vessels, o, Kaiser,
when the North Sea is chocll full OF
'em just waiting to be attacked?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-24
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
REQUIEsCAT IN PACE

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Sir-It is to be hoped that the kind
hearted one who wrote that short let
ter to the Telegraph a few evenings
ago, commencing to human sympathy
the stray pup who dispensed hopeful
friendly waggings and trustful doggy
smiles TO the general Market street
public, was spared the sight of his
miserable end.
Perhaps the great dark other world
is a happier one for pups than this
present one when it is but vale of
bitter cold and unprotected nights and
of endless winter days of empty belly
and gnawinG hunger; and even if it
should be taken into consideration that
the dog mayhap doesn't endorse this
view it is perhaps a necessity of public
veal that he should leave us for an
other sphere. Yet there arc human
ways and british ways of accomplish
ing a poor brute's end. To have sent
the homeless pup on the long journey
with q kind word, a pat of the hand,
and then sudden blast of oblivion,
would have been perhaps both neces-
Sity and a kindness.
But to see him dragged whirling and
spinning up the alley on the end of a
moose that choked him tighter at every
struggle to a death preceded by the
MOISG agony Oh DaHlC anu pain anu
fear. and horrid loss of faith in the
race where he Clike all his lovable an
.cestry) had placed his trust, this was
not a beautiful sight TO q public which
was not altogether needless of his eX-
ample of absolute grouChlessness and
courageous ability to grin when the
world was handing him his bumps.
Those of us who have owned a dog
or two and have gotten down some
small way into their bottomleSs
deapths of courage and big-hearted-
ness and gameness and patience in
suffering and sweetness and miracu-
lous faithfulness, so that we foster the
hope, and even feel conviction in us
some times, that these true friends will
be lined up along the shore with the
other ones we love (fairly squirming
out of his hide for unspeakable dog
joy), when we step off of Charon's
ferryboat-we who have owned dog
or two are led to wonder If the cop
who might Just as easily have cajoled
the friendly pup to his end instead of
choking him on his whining, crying,
frantically struggling drag up the alley
to death. has half the heart in his
body to face the stern jobs ahead of
him in life as had the dog he might
have killed as a man would have killed
him.
As we think of the two of them
going up the alley together the often
quoted words of true lover of dogs
and. humans comes TO us again, say
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-24
GOOD NEWS FOR sTEEIyToN

TIME announcement of President
Grace that the plant of the
Pennsylvania Steel Company at
steelton is to be modernized and en-
larged is good news indeed, not only
for that town itself, but for Harris
burg as well. The community had
been stirred and depressed by the
rumor that the Importance of Steelton
as a steel manufacturing center was
TO be minimized by the new owners
OF the property. That they intend TO
continue the policy of enlargement
which has marked the management
Of the Pennsylvania Steel Company
with respect TO its local mills for the
past few years means much to this
locality.
The expenditure of $4,0OO.0OO at
Steelton in the past few years has
given the plant a variety of products
that should meet with ready market.
even in times less prosperous than the
present, through the effective selling
agencies of the Bethlehem Steel Com
pdny, which are admitted TO be among
the most aggressive and successful in
The world The wisdom of these ex-
tensions is now seen as never before,
ard that an extensive increase of pro-
drctioh in eeltpn il, expected is indi-
Gated by the announcement that an
additional blast furnace will be the
first Improvement made by the new
owners.
President Grace has asked for the
cooperation of the people of Harris
burg as well as of Steelton. lie will
have it. Harrisburg never fails to
extend the hand of welcome to the
enterprising stranger at her gates
Mr.. Grace has been unusually frank
in his statements. lie inspired con-
fidence in all those who met him yes
terday. lie will find both Steelton
and Harrisburg ready and waiting to
assist him in whatever way possible
for the upbuilding of the great in.
dustry, the control of which he and
his fellow partners OF the Bethlehem
Steel Company have recently acquired
for whatever is of real and lasting
bNiiShh W NiiN SNSGl COMPANY must oil
necessity be beneficial TO bott
borough and city. Harrisburg anc
Steelton need the steel company. and
the steel company needs HARRISBURG
and Steelton. Their interests are tc
very large extent identical
1t is happy augury for pleasant
and profitable relations in the future
operation of the plant that it's presi
dent should almost in his first word,
of greeting to newspapermen ask fol
the cooperation of the press and the
people. II shows that he is fully awak,
to conditions and that he realizes tht
importance of taking the public
with whom he must deal so largely
as far into his confidence as presen
rather chaotic conditions will per
init.
All indications point to a bright fu
ture for Steelton, which, of course
includes Harrisburg
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-24
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Joseph CaufTield, former mayor
of Johnstown, has started a savings
bank in Johnstown.
DIR r.. II. Yunker, the new presi-
dent Of the State Veterinary Medical
Association, is a prominent vet
erinarian.
Mayor G. TT. Baily, of Union
town. has created a stir by saying
some councilmen ought to resign.
Burgess J. s. Grubbs, OF Wash
ington, Pa, made the address at the
annual celebration of Washington s
birthday. This celebration takes. the
form of a carnival and has been held
for ninety years.
DIR. Nathan c. Schaeffer is to ad-
dress the Cambria county school
teachers at their institute next week.
DIR. William Patterson, former
pbiIadelphia Clergyman, now in
Toronto, is visiting old friends in
this State.
DIR. .E. r. Eshelman, former Car
bon county treasurer, is said to have
legislative ambitions.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-24
THE BLuEBIRD.s COMING

a BLUBBIRD sang in the tree
n outside our window this morn
ing. A blueblrd singing out
side a window must have prompted
the author who coined the phrase "a
bluebird for happiness" for though
but a moment before the skies were
dark and forbidding and an east wind
was threatening snow, all at once
Spring flew across the landscape, and
IL was another world. Just the glad,
CHEEKY song of bird. and the winter
was gone. No matter what the
weatherman may visit upon us in the
next few weeks before Spring is off,
cially due, it will not be winter. A
bluebird singing outside the window
in the early morning means but one
thing - the early advent of warm
days. of soft Southern breezes, of
bursting blossoms and all the hap
piness of frozen world reawakening
to the throb of life.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-24
THE SEARCHLIGHT
AN INGANE VILLAGE

A whole village is now being built
in New York State for the care of the
feeble minded and insane. Already
1900 patients are installed in the four
dormitories erected, and buildings are
going up which Will accommodate
5000.
The distribution of patients among
the dormitories is made after a careful
medical examination, which classifles
tho exact extent to which they are alb
normal Boys under 16 are Kept sepa-
rated from the adult males. and young
girls are housed separately from the
older women
One building is devoted to men who
are only slightly deranged or subject
to periodic lapses. Here they are
studied and suitable work provided
them. often they are given continu-
Gus employmegnt on farms surroundlng
in maintaining the institution. Regu-
lar employment is also provided for the
women and girls. and in this way many
of the patients are able to become self
supporting.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-24
A NEWSPAPERS HEADLINES

TINE headlines of a daily news
paper are it's shop windows"
says The Philadelphia Public
Ledger in one of the well-written ad-
vertisements it is now causing to be
published in some of the leading
papers of the State, and adds:
II the meretricious, the false.
unsound, bizarre--or worse--are
played up" in these shop windows
YOU can readily Judge the contents
of the store" of the newspaper.
Scandal crime and degeneracy
are poor displays to attract those
whose patronage is worth while.
There is much that is uplifting in
the news of the day which may he
shown to attract those who hold
fast TO that which is true"
Sometimes. for the sake of a reform
to be accomplished. it is necessary for
the conscientious newspaper to report
in detail and give prominence to
stories of scandal and crime-but not
often. The white light of publicity
has as curative effects when applied to
crime as has the violet ray in the treat
ment of physical disease, but, like the
violet ray. it must be applied with
elimination. otherwise it aggravates
rather than alIeviates. The intelligent
reader will judge when the publication
of sensations" is yellow journalism
and when it Is designed for good effect
rather than to cater to morbidity.
In general, however, the Ledger 5
specifications may be safely adopted by
any newspaper. Long since they have
governed those who write the head
lines and handle the news in the offices
of the Telegraph. Just as the sensa.
tional play will draw large crowds tc
the theater advertising it, so will SEN
sational headlines draw readers to q
ncwspa per. But, as also it is tho
wholesome play that runs through the
years and makes fortunes for it's pro-
ducers long after the meretricious i:
| forgotten, so docs the conservative anc
wholesome newspaper in the long rur
profit by persisting in it's policy. II
short it pays TO be good in news.
paper making as in all other walks ot
| life.
! 1t is not for this reason solely, how.
ever, that the Telegraph prefers tC
emphasize the decent and constructive
forces in the community. 1t believe.
that it is the duty of every newspaper
to build rather than TO destroy, to bt
optimistic rather than pessimistic, tC
boost often and to knock" infre
quently, to say the kind word as Otter
as possible and the harsh word as in
frequently as may be--in short, I,
make for uplift and happiness in tn,
community it serves TO the extent o
it's ability, and to be upright, honest
fair minded and clean all the time.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-24
THE STATE FROM DAY TO DAY

Gas ad infnitum has been dis
covered at Ellwood City, where an
immense well, n short distance from
the city, was struck on the ID. w.
Lesnott farm. Lesnott is the name
of tho farm, but not the attitude
which will characterize the working
of the well, the output, of which it is
estimated will be some 100000
cubic feet per day.
Erie believes it is harboring Jean
Crones, the poison chef who is
wanted in Chicago. The suspicious
action of stranger in a restaurant
in that city is authority for such a
belief. That he left the table with
out finishing his meal, is one of the
queer actions reported. However,
the evidence is not strong enough
he may not have liked the prunes.
Committees are being organized in
the towns and cities through which
for the purpose of furthering the
project. Il. M. c. Africa, of Hunt
mgdon, is heading the movement and
his town already has a committee of
over 100 members, each of whom is
paying So a year dues. Johnstown
has 200 and Altoona expects 800
members.
Tcehouse owners in Lock Haven
have been working overtime filing
their houses with the crop of frozen
water, which they fear may be the
last of the present season. We haven't
put our skates away yet, however,
and we are optimistic.
Two hundred Bryn Mawr flremen,
members of the millionaire" fire
company of that place, were en-
thusiastic in their applause for the
speakers on Preparedness" the other
evening, among them being Alba b.
Johnson, president of the Baldwin
Locomotive works, and incidentally
of the fire company. Fitting indeed
is such a slogan for firehghters, to
whom it is second nature.
The latest news from the suffrage
camps reveals the fact that the ex-
ponents of the votes for women party
will introduce an amendment to the
State Constitution at the next session
of the Legislature, an amendment
calculated to guard their rights and
privileges.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-24
I OUR DAILY LAUGH |
ON A PALM
BETWEEN SEASONS
by Wing DinHer

Yesterday was like May day.
And the merchant thus did shout
To his window decorator:
Take the winter garments out,
In the windows put some Spring wear,
For the weather is so hot
That the winter weights look stuffy
An the people want 'em not"
SO the window decorator
Yanlied the winter garments out,
Then some Spring and Summer gar
ments
In the windows strewed about
Now to-day it's more like winter.
And the merchants i'm a stew.
l'or not knowing how tomorrow
Will be, what is he to do?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-24
LEFT BEHIND
From Harper's Magazine.

children" said the Sunday school
superintendent, this picture illustrates
take his wife and daughters and fee
out Of Sodom Here is Lot and his
daughters. with his wife just behind
them; and there is Sodom in the back
ground. Now. has any girl or boy
question before we take up the study
of the lesson? Well. Susie?"
"Pleathe. thir," lisped the latest
graduate from the infant class. "where
it'll the flea?"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-24
"How She Shops"

Careful observation indicates
that the woman VINO chooses
coat or suit visits at least two
stores before she purchases.
She likes to compare styles
and prices - particularly styles.
And for this same reason the
woman is a reader of newspaper
advertising.
She reads the advertising first
and makes up her mind which
three stores she wants to visit.
Sometimes the advertising may
be so definite and convincing that
she needs TO visit only two stores
perhaps only one, to make her
purchase.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-24
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg iron is used
for horseshoe making In a NUM-
ber of plants?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-24
EDITORIAL COMMENT
One Located at Last
Houston Post.l

A North Carolina girl saved two
trains from being wrecked upon a
broken rail. You may say what YOU
please, the grand old red flannel petit
coat is Just rs noble as it was in the
good old days of yore.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-24
HISTORIC HARRISBURG

The first Harrisburg Academy was
located in Front street, accordlng TO
old records.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-24

Well, that's us. rigabhere in little old
Harrisburg.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-24
Hard To no So. Ti,o,IpI

Rochester. Union and Advertiser.
II is not difficult TO appear brilliant
If one can only resist the temptation TO
talk.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-24
Linguistic Note

baltimore Americana
Posted in Russia are signs that
speaking German is strictly forbidden.
And in Germany speaking Russian in
impOssible,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-24
THURSDAY EVENING, FEB. "a.

Lore, hope, fear, tdith-these make
humanity:
These are its sign, and note, and
character. ROBERT BROWNING.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-24

The first Roosevelt boom in Phila-
deiphia was sprung last night by a
group of Independent Republicans in
The Forty-sixth ward. who organized
the Forty-sixth Ward Independent
Republican Club They expect to
perfect organizations in other wards
of the city with the idea of sending
delegates pledged to Roosevelt to the
Republican National Convention. The
new organization plans to support for
offices, from Congress on down, only
candidates pledged to local option.
Speakers at the meeting denounced
the Tenrose-McNichol combination,
the Ware -Brumbaugh alliance and the
rev Citizens Republican League and
everything else.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-24

published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO..
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-24

E.J STACKPoLE. Prss'f aud Ediior.iH- ChiFf
+. r. OYSTER, Business MGHager
GUS NJ. STEINMETz, MdHdgiEg Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-24

Asserting their case proved, coun-
sci for the Rev. T. w. Mckinney, the
contestant. declared at Coatesville that
quo warranto proceedings would be
ssued against w. l.. w. Jones in
Court next Monday, asking him to
show cause why he should have quail
fed aa Mayor, when the evidence in
the contest hearings proved that he
had paid State and county tax of men
in Coatesville who testified that they
had never authorized any one to pay
their tax.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-11
HIRE PLAY SUPERVISOR.
e. Il. MicI<lswrisht, Of Davenport, 70
Take Charge Of Children at Play
arounds---WiII Be At Y. NJ. G. a.
N During Rest u Year.

0N1n sS w., ...At E
u In order that the children who :ake
advantage of the newly opened play
grounds near the Fair grounds may
have the benefit of organized play,
Il. e. Micklewright, Of Davenport, has
been engaged as supervisor Of the play
grounds, and will take up his new work
Monday. Mr.. Micklewright has had ex-
perience in dealing with boys, as he IS
a ~. N. C. A. worker. He is employed
ais play supervisor Jointly by the Parks
and Fairgrounds Committee of the
Marshalltown Club and the Y. M. C. A.
Mr.. Micklewright will be employed on
full time by the Y. NJ c. A. after the
playground season closes, and will as
sist Paul II. Mckee, boys secretary.
In his work at the playground the
new supervisor will have charge Of the
games, and will direct the children so
that their play may be systematic and
organized. He will introduce several
new games, and see that the young
folks keep out of danger. and that the
older boys behave themselves. Recent
donors to the parks and playground
funds are E. r. Lay, F. L. Meeker, DR..
Nelson Merrill and DR.. r. r. Hansen.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-11

Thursday With friends here. They have
been at Clemens this summer where
Rev Mr.. Clark has been supplying O
the Christian church.
Miss Loretta Arnold Is visiting this
week at the home OF her aunt. Miss
Elizabeth Anderson, OF Marshalltown.
MI. and Mrs. Walter Reed were bust
ness callers at Marsha!ltown Wednes-
day afternoon.
Rev. T.. c. House and A. A. Shellen-
barger were in Marshalltown Thurs
day
Miss Lucille Wagner. of Alden, Wis
tied with friends here this week
Flora l. Pile. who was taken to a
Marshalltown hospital last week Is i'm
proving
Rev. and Mrs. Wright left Thursday
morning for Chicago, where they will
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-11

and the curb work make this street
very rough and II should be avoid
ed in preference for West Main street
so far as Is possible
The construction company has been
compelled to prepare Its SUBJ grades
faster than would have been necessary
had not. delays in securing paving ma
terial made it necessary to keep the
laborers at work ait something in order
to hold them. This will result in sew
eral inside streets being blocked foi
some time until the paving gangs gel
to them.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-11
AGENTS WANTED.

Wanted-Agents. Representatives in
every county to handle distributing de-
pot for Speedoline. Every owner of an
automobile. motor truck, farm tractor.
motorcycle or motorboat is con-
sumer Any live man can clear from
5000 to $500 per month. Speedoline
Is sold on guarantee to produce the
following results: Is to 40 per cent
increase in mileage, absolute elimina-
ton of carbon, greater power, easy
starting, longer life to machine. Our
advertising campaign creates the de-
mand Speedoline is Endorsed by lead
ing firms and business men Of Des
Moines and all parts of the country
where it has been introduced. Beware
of limitations. Make application for
territory at once. Speedolire Sales
Company, 100 West Locust street, Des
Moines, Iowa.