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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-07
WARM CLOTHING NEEDED,
ME installation of the Christina
spirit into the hearts opd wind

TNHE installation of the Christmas
spirit into the hearts and minds
of the people is a subtly un-
traceable thing which comes with the
season and - with a few - stays
throughout the year. When we re-
mind ourselves that a greater gift
than lies in the power OF man was
bestowed on humanity nineteen hun
dred and sixteen years ago, our gifts
to charity are not surrounded with so
powerful an atmosphere of self-con-
graduation.
Many and worthy are the objects of
our giving at this time of the year.
The war has provided us with un-
limited opportunities. but none de-
serves our consideration more than
the inmates of the institution for
tuberculosis patients at Mt. Alto. In
that rarefied atmosphere on the sum-
NIT of the mountain warm clothing
and plenty of it is essential to the
welfare of the patients. Each wear
Harrisburg. through Mrs. William
Elder Bailey, sends quantities of
warm clothing and blankets, shoes
capes, scarfs, mittens and other
articles. VIII the Christmas spirit in
you not prompt you to spread the
circle of its influence to include this
worthy cause?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-07
WRITES OF CONCERT

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
1t is with much pleasure and interest
that note the coming of the Madame
Leginska, the worlds greatest lady
pianist, TO Harrisburg, December IA,
1916, and 1 want to take this opportun-
ity to invite all students. teachers and
lovers of the pianoforte in this section
to hear this remarkable keyboard
manipulation and artist of the highest
type.
Madame Leginska is entertaining. to
be sure, but to observe her perform
ances from a technical and educational
standpoint, will prove to be most help
full and instructive to all American
students and teachers.
I wish to congratulate Mr.. Hand, the
manager of these artists courses for
the magnificent part he Is playing in
the development of the musical art
and appreciation of this section by
making 1t possible to hear the worlds
greatest artists in our own beloved
city. May bespeak for him the heart
lest cooperation of all who are truly
interested in that which develops the
sublime and beautiful in all who in
habit the musical realm.
III. s. DUNMIRE,
Director of the Dunmire School of
Music
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-07
I Have Rendezvous With Death

have a rendezvous with Death
At some disputed barricade,
When Spring comes round with rustling
shade
And apple blossoms fill the air.
have a rendezvous with Death
When Spring brings back blue days
and fair.
1t may be he shall take my hand
And lead me into this dark land
And close my eyes and quench my
breath;
1t may be shall pass him. still,
have a rendezvous with Death
On some SCARED slope of battered hill,
When Spring comes round again this
year
And the first meadow flowers appear.
God knows 'twere better to be deep
Pillowed in silk and scented down,
Where love throbs out in blissful sleep,
Pulse nigh to pulse. and breath to
breath,
Where hushed awakenings are dear.
But, I've a rendezvous with Death
At midnight in some flaming town.
When Spring trips north again this
year.
And 1 to my pledged word am true.
I shall not fail that rendezvous
by Alan seeger. killed in France.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-07
TAKING THE BACK TRACK

nESPITE failure of President Will
L. son to mention the subject in
his message to Congress this
week, there are growing indications
that the Democrats at Washington
are not running true to form on the
tariff. Indeed, it would not be surpris-
ing to see them back-track on the
Underwood law at any time.
Near the close of the recent political
campaign, the chief of the Bureau Of
Foreign and Domestic Commerce. of
the Department of Commerce, prac-
tically admitted what the Republicans
had been asserting for more than a
year-that the United States cannot
hope under the present tariff law to
maintain the trade with South Amer
lea we have won since the war began.
Republicans have consistently con-
tended that South America had begun
buying from us merely because she
could not obtain the goods she needed
from Europe, and that her sales to us
were largely continuance of the in
creased sales which began when our
tariff wall was torn down in 1913. For
political effect, the Department of
Commerce had been parading our
growing trade with South America
and giving the impression that this
trade had been acquired as a
result of the efficiency of the
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Com
merce. AS matter of fact, increased
purchases from us were due entirely
to inability to buy in Europe, and in
creased sales to us were made possi-
Bile by reduction of tariff duties. We
purchased from South America some
raw materials that we needed I'm
manufacturing war orders.
The admission made by the Bureau
of Foreign and Domestic Commerce is
contained in the assertion that what
we need is "a bargaining tariff" "a
bargaining tariff is nothing more
nor less than a protective tariff which
may be somewhat reduced on some
commodities in exchange for similar
concessions from other countries on
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-07
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
AS TO STREET SIGNS
tie Editor Of The TelegrdPh:

o rue EoUoT OF Ifs It'esFuPH.
In letter published Monday even
ing in the Telegraph j. Horace Nc
Farland is responsible for so laugh
able construction of law passed in
1903 that it must stamp him as rank
ing we'll up among humorists.
The law in question was passed
with the avowed purpose of prevent
ing the DETACHMENT of rural and sub
urban landscapes by the glaring and,
in many cases. incongruous signs
which adorn barns, trees, poles and
other wayside objects, and which fill
many of the most prominent places
in the scenery. Mr.. Mcfarland con-
strues it as prohibiting the erection
or exhibition of any and all signs, no
matter where placed or for what pur-
pose. No other inference can be taken
from his quotation from the act, as
follows:
No person shall post, paint, brand
or stamp, or in any manner whatso-
ever place upon or attach to any
building, fence, bridge, gate, outbuild-
ing or other object or upon
any property belonging to the State
of Pennsylvania, or to any county,
township, borough or city therein, any
written, printed, painted or other ad-
vertisement, bill, notice. sign or pos
ter
Under the construction of this act
made by Mr.. Mcfarland it would be
illegal for him or any other business
man to place upon his establishment
the sin Dlest announcement of his own
business; every sign of every descrip-
ton upon every business house in this
and other cities and towns would have
to come down; no city could even
mark the names of its streets upon
the corners; it would be illegal for the
street cars to bear signs announcing
where they were going; the policeman
could not wear upon their caps the
designation of their office; election
houses could not be adorned with the
usual announcements of the results
of an election as is required also by
law to be done, and even the tomb
stones in the cemeteries of the State
could not be inscribed with the names
of our departed friends.
AS a matter of fact this act does not
apply to signs upon business houses,
nor in the language quoted is there
any reference to "overhanging" signs.
1T is to laugh"
Yours truly.
ONE OF THE LATCH Frs
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-07
\ DENIORALIZED GUARD

WOE, eI,,o comes .s from the Mexican
wv border that there is general
dissatisfaction among the Ma
nonal Guard troops over the policy of
inactivity and the apparent absence of
purpose in keeping the soldiers on the
Rio Grande. There is a suspicion
among the volunteers that the regular
army officers and those holding impor-
tant commands in the volunteer
branch are quite satisfied to maintain
the present status as long as possible
for personal and financial reasons
Whether this be the case or not 1t is
manifestly a discontented BODY of
troops which is now facing the holi-
day season along the southern fringe
of Uncle Sans preserves.
This discomfort is certain to take
form and expression in opposition to
the Hay act that has demoralized the
National Guard and failed to give the
government an effective standing
army. 1t all goes back to the wfshy-
washy attitude Of the present admins
tration when the reorganization meas
ure was before Congress q year ago.
Secretary of War Garrison then real
lied the conditions and it is generally
understood that his failure to convince
the President of the practical charac-
ter of the army measure was respon-
sible for his retirement from the cab
met with the assistant secretary, Mr..
Breckenridge.
1t has been an expensive lesson, but
IL the experience of the men now on
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-07

1t is the purpose of City Commits
sioner Bowman, head of the Department
or Public Safety, to eliminate a num-
Der or ugly poles and a network of
wires in the congested business section
early next Spring, and with this end in
view provision is being made in the
annual budget. 1t is the hope, also. of
those interested in the improvement of
the River Front that Commissioner
Gross Will see to 1t that the present
ornamental lighting in the park strip
north OF "Hardscrabble," which now
ends at Harris street, shall be continued
to Maclay.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-07
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

III. Laussat Geyelin, we'll known
here. is behind the proposition for
construction of a great stadium in
Philadelphia.
John C. Winston, the foreman of
the Philadelphia grand jury, is
noted publisher and has been in the
forefront of reform movements in
his city for years.
w. j. Stevenson, Pittsburgh
manufacturer, is interested in the
company which bought the federal
radium plant in Colorado.
p. Stewart Heintzleman, the con-
sui general at Mukden, just promoted,
comes from Fayetteville.
Il. w. Morgan, of California,
Washington county. has just cele-
brated the 65th anniversary of his
in his Masonic lodge.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-07
ONE OF THE LAUGHE
LOOKS FOR INDIAN WAR WIDOWS
Washington, d. c.,

December 4, 1915.
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
AS n-chief of the United
Indian War Veterans, 1 am again in
Washington to plead with the President
and Congress to pass the pending bill
that will give the soldiers of the Indian
wars the pension they so justly deserve
for protecting the early settlers on the
western frontier.
No soldier ever rendered more gall
liant and braver service and endured
more hardships than did they. Fight
ing savages in the desert can never be
compared with civil warfare. When
taken prisoner by these savages, one
was doomed to be tortured in every
way possible as long as life lasted. in
in many cases fingers and toes were cut
off and captives scalped while yet alive.
The United States Indian War Vet
Grams are in need of the names of the
soldiers Cor their widows) who will be
benfited by this act now pending and
they will be glad to give any informa-
ton desired If interested parties will
write to
HENRY HEGWER,
Box 1,160,
Washington, d. c.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-07
False Witness

1t a false witness rise up against
any man to testify against him that
which is wrong; then shall We do unto
him, as he had thought to have done
unto his brother: so shalt thou put the
evil away from among you. And thine
eye shall not pity; but life shall go for
life, eye for eye. tooth for tooth,
hand for hand. foot for foot. - Deu-
teronomy xix, 16 to 81.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-07
THURSDAY EVENING, DEC. Z.

What is most to be feared is that
mental Iethdrgy ichich accepts error
rather than seek truth; the lack Of
rtsion tchich fails to recognise truth i:
the lack Of moral purpose to rolIotc
the truth tcheH it is seen: and the
fear tchich turns dSids or renders pote-
erlesS the nobIest purpose and the I'm
est coHception.-ANoN.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-07

City Commissioner Lynch is meeting
public expectation in his demand that
builders and contractors observe the
regulations respecting the misuse of
the sidewalks and streets through fail
ure to remove waste materials
promptly Harrisburg has too good a
reputation with respect to a cleanly
and attractive city to allow careless
builders and others to mess up the
streets as has been done in several in
stances during the past few months.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-07
OUR DAILY LAUGH
COLD
COMFORT.

Science says
that in q few
centuri1 tn 9
supply of coal
viii be exhaust
ed
What's tn Q
difference? By
that time no.
body can afford
to buy any.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-07
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg manufactures
steel which is used for buildings
of other steel works?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-07
THURSDAY EVENING,

military establishment that will mean
real army in case of trouble, the
lesson will not have been lost
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-07

Bucharest having fallen. Germany
may be excused for rejoicing that Ru-
mania came in instead of staying out.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-07

Welcome. Mr.. Schwab. Accept the
Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce's
badge as its most distinguished men,
ber
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-07

The Central Iron and Steel Company
breaks production records and raises
wages on the same day. Maybe there
is something in this of cause and ef-
feck
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-07

Congress is going to do some more
food price probing. but what the people
want is relief
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-07
HTsTORIC HARR1sBURG

John Harris planned to have his
city extend to the First mountain. 1t
may some day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-07

The new Pennsylvania Chamber of
Commerce starts with a representative
membership and vast possibilities for
good, if its activities are property di-
rected.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-07

Lloyd George is not lacking in cour-
age. at all events
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-07

A tariff commission should not only
take the tariff out of politics. but stay
out of politics itself.-Wall Street Jour
nal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-07

Bryan endorses prohibition" Next
Mr.. Wilson!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-07

England has been trying to avoid
what the United States badly needs-a
Cabinet crisis.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-07
EDITORIAL COMMENT

Poland and Ireland are both wonder
ing how much a promise is good for
st. Louis Republic.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-07

So far the Kaiser has escaped the
sinister charge that he is colonizine
Belgians for election day purposes. -
Boston Transcript.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-07

The new kingdom of Arabia takes it's
place among the nations. Another dry
Statel-Boston Transcript
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-07

waterbury, Conn, man wants legal
right to swear. Let him try running a
secondhand automobile.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-07

Edward e. Jones, Good ROADS"
Jones. former representative and now
Senator from Susquehanna county,
was among visitors to Harrisburg yes
terday. He came here on business at
the Capitol and met number of
friends who congratulated him upon
his election. Mr.. Jones expects to
take considerable part in the legisla-
ton affecting highways in the next
session.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-07
TALKING
SHOP.

OF course, you
are eager for
the triumph of
right.
Yes, but it's
hard sometimes.
to tell which the
right side of tho
market really is,
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-09-07

barge. On February 2, 1914, he
changed his mind and raised the en-
barge. A couple of hundred Ameri-
can soldiers, sailors and civilians were
killed or wounded during the next two
months" On April 20, Mr.. Wilson
changed his mind again and restored
the embargo, "but OH May Is, he
changed his mind again and the en-
barge was lifted so far as shipments
to Tampico and other Mexican ports
were concerned" On September 8,
the embargo was lifted everywhere.
"on October 30. 1915, when all of the
factions had been amply supplied"
Mr.. Wilson changed his mind again
and restored the embargo. Mr.. Roose-
welt continues; ION October 20, last.
therefore, Mr.. Wilson specifically per-
mitted arms to be sent to the same
Carranza who, in the month of Sep
TENDER. thirty days previous, on four
specific occasions, invaded American
territory and butchered American citi-
zens, mutilating them before or after
death. On the date when this embargo
was thus raised, the names of 27G
Americans who had been murdered
had been officially placed on file How
many others had been murdered can
not at the present be told"
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CFrom Our Regular Correspondent


Wilson and MexicO-Other friends
and admirers OF President Wilson de-
plore the fact that in his speech OF
acceptance he, apparently inadvert-
emily, abandons the pretense 80 long
maintained that he seized Vera Cruz
in order to compel Huerta to salute
the flag, and frankly says that II was
his purpose to force out Of Office the
unspeakable Huerta." Whatever peo-
pie may think of the wisdom OF an
effort to force Huerta out of Office,
the public is not likely to enjoy learn
ing that their President wilfully, de-
liberately deceived them when he
went into Vera Cruz, and for months
afterwards, and that, when he de-
clared in his indianapolis speech that
he would not butt in" to Mexico nor
permit anyone else to do SO, he was
laughing in his sleeve at the unintelli-
gence and credulity of the people
which had enabled him to fool them
into believing that he went into Mexico
to force a salute to the flag when he
actually went in, as he now tells
them, to force Huerta out
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-09-07
WILSON ON THE TARIFF

From the historical writings of Professor Woodrow Wilson the
newspapers the country drawing interesting statements
applicable present conditions the expressed
by Professor Woodrow Wilson, the student of constitutional history
appear be directly contrary the views of Woodrow Wilson
President.
The Washington Post calling attention the dangers this
country the close of the European published from
of Woodrow Wilson's historical writings showing what
the War of 1912 points country
saved from the flood of foreign goods be saved President
Wilson will follow the policy that Historian Wilson advocated
this point the Post says
There should be hesancy the of President Wilson
evolving policy for United There pride
of opinion when the whole world is changing AS historian
Wilson wrote mpartay of the conditions that followed the
of the War of 1872 IN of his books he said:
Peace changed the very face of trade English
poured their goods again into the American long
against them by embargOes and 1t manfesty
every young industry that flood of English imports
nue into the country at the ports The remedy
protective tariff such Mr. Hamilton had wished
and the young Republican leaders of Congress did
vocate and establish it.
Similar conditions face the country today The President
eliminate the biggest issues of the drawing
his knowledge of history and giving the country what
meet the situation which is fast approaching
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-09-07

Democrats desperate On other theory explain
their complaints Mr. Hughes destructive er
cism OF their laundering They make attempt
that they display discretion which human for he is un
answeabe The absolute truth of count his indictment
Wsonian buderng mpregnabe Denial would folly
justification is impossible But what the old lawyers
Abuse the opposing Attorney But to that rule is to
confess defeat
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-09-07

IT, Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas Now what has
the record of the Democratic party? When power
1885, 1896 and 1897 the of the Government
receipts that the Cleveland administration
bonds the of 1862 money which to pay
the ordinary expenses of the Government Need You the
perence under Mr. Wilson's administration? The ordinary
and the
that has been forced time of peace
Not only has this Democratic administration
but has also esorted income corpora
tons and yet the party looking
and industries and in thsm asking
OOOOO more of tax and threaten the
$32OO00OO of bonds For speaking Republican am op-
posed to war tax in time OF and also opposed the
issue of bonds raise money pay the
Government"
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-09-07

Wilson And The EmbargO-"A pol
Icy was at stake, peaceful means had
failed, so a President whose war cry is
that he has kept this country out OF
war used as his instrument the most
horrible and indefensible kind OF war
fare and all the forces OF murder. I'm
bridled passion and lust were armed
and encouraged to conduct a conflict
In which nothing was sacred. not even
the alters OF religion" This is sena-
tor Lippitt's summing up OF President
Wilson's lifting Of the embargo on
arms TO Mexico. which he described
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-09-07

Wilson keep the Northern Guardsmen Texas
the election and John Sharp Williams prevent from casting
their votes down there But nothing prevent
writing letters homeland their relatives from
the polls
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-09-07

- Daniels Denlal"-"A typical
Daniels denial is the term which ex-
Rep. Ralph Cole applies to Secretary
Daniels is the term which denial of
Mr.. Coles assertion that American
troops were sent into Vera Cruz with
orders not to fire unless they were
fired on and that, therefore, there was
needless loss of American lives as the
fleet should have been permitted to
shell the city until 1t surrendered be-
fore a landing was attempted. Secre-
tary Daniels replies with a quotation
from Admiral Badgers report which
would seem to indicate that no such
order was issued. But Mr. Cole points
out that, while Admiral Badger was in
command OF the fleet, il was Admiral
Fletcher who was In command at Vera
Cruz and he quotes Admiral Fetch
er's report the sentence. "Our men
are only firing when fired at" Mr..
Cole also quotes General Canada
whose report read, Our men simply
defending themselves" Mr.. Cole al.
80 quotes the New York Suns CORE
spondent who cabled, Admiral Fletch-
er''s order were that the landing party
should occupy these positions (custom
house. etc., and make no attack on
Mexican troops unless they were at
tackled" The statement. made in a
reputable paper at the time was never
denied by the administration.