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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-04-08
INSTRUCTION IS GIVEN
TN CARE OF BATTERIES

with tho Increasing number OF women
who drive cars. comes the necessity for ah-
solutely dependable electrical equipment.
Starter and lights must not fair II milady
is TO be saved the embarrassment and in
convenience OF cHanlSing or asking mascu-
line assistance.
In this connection tho storage battery
plays a leading role. and the Willard Stor-
age Battery company emphasizes the i'm
portance Of good battery service. Their
plan includes a free inspection each month
when the battery is examined and filled
with water. n necessary It also affords
ample instructions for personal battery care
that a woman can make sure that she
win experience no difficulties that can be
traced 10 the battery
Car manufacturers and dealers recognize
the value Of this service and much praise
is heard for the kind OF corporation that
backs up the sale with help that is worth
something.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-04-08
WAR PROVES WORTH OF
THE LIGHT AUTOMOBILES

in the European war has been seen tho
need for a new wave in motoring. II had
been urged before but there had been no
definite reason advanced for the need Of
light car. Now Il has been pounded home
by a thousand and one instances. The
heavy cars in the war zone have been
found wanting They have gone to pieces
over the heavy roads and over those battle
fields where roads have been second con-
sideration.
The light. well balanced cars have skipped
easily over the rumpled map OF Europe
performing their duties with such brilliant
effect that there is now no room for doubt
that the day % the heavy car Is past tt
has been for this reason that the new Mar
mon Is urged as car OF size. speed and
durability-based on the constructive super-
iority OF Ignite aluminium which holds sway
in both motor and body OF the new Marmon.
BAG FOR INNER TUBES
A bag made Of soft flannel rs best TO
keep inner tubes IN. Tie the mouth Of the
bag around the protecting stem.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-04-08

A harmless face lotion which viii aid
IN the removal Of grease and dirt from
the face and hands Of the mechanic can
be made by mixing seven ounces Of
pure alcohol, one ounce Of glycerine
and few drops Of camphor This prep
aration also reduces the size of the skin
pores and makes for a better appear
ance OF the complexion. It also pre-
vents cracking of the skin.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-04-08
WOMEN ASSIST IN
BUILDING HIGHWAY

A group Of women OF Bibb county O.,
have ORGANIZED a wOmen's auxiliary OF tne
Dixie Highway association and nave al
ranged to donate trees which viii be piaiist,-
nIone the Highway by the county In ORDER
10 nay the expenses OF their council, we
women have secured permission from ln9
riris Highway association to retain 81 from
each IS dues paid by members OF the eouh-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-04-08
rrrp sPRINGs LURRICATEp.

At times springs develop tendency ~
sss0ueak." owing TO want Of fabrication Pc
tween the leaves. This can BE remedlea o!
fhe weight Of the axle hangs from me
springs This will cause the leaves OF we
sprinqs TO separate a little. and then y y
an easy matter TO inject the Eraphit9 iuoi
cant
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-04-08

Lubricating oil that IS sold at a very low
price cannot have the quality that great
care ana labortous attention afford. Cheap
on mas not the resistance to chemical
changes which produce sulphuric acid that
more carefully made oil possesses. Free
sulphurlc acid In the oil reservoir Of an
engine Is highly destructive 20 bearings and
finished surfaces with which It comes in
contact
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-04-08

Phone your dealer today for suIz-
Dergers Majestic Hams and Bacon
"Deliciousiy Different."-Adv.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-04-08

PiekWiek CaEe--Best Coffee in town
ADV.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-04-08
HONE MADE POLIsH.

implanted metal parts OF the car may he
made by mixing soap and emery powder
into paste. This viii remove any rust that
may have formed and will leave the surface
smooth without scratching.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-26
BY BRIGGS

Twain said that a machine that ran as
poorly as the human body wouldn't
sell. He might have added that
machine as poorly adjusted to its work
as the average human wouldn't run at
all.
Vocational guidance" and the life
career motive" are the names which
the educators give to this new method
of making education effective. These
terms occur frequently in expert re-
ports, and in most of our large cities
some system of vocational guidance
has been put into practice; but in the
great majority of American schools
the innumerable country and village
schools-it is still unknown Yet the
principles are simple, and much easier
to apply in a small school than a
large one. Interest in the pupils
Gld intimate knowledge of them on the
part of the teacher, together with
genuine cooperation from the par
ents are the essentials. For example,
here is one of the methods used in
Cincinnati:
When the pupil has reached the
eighth grade, a card is filled out up
on which his characteristics are fully
set forth in accordance with a fixed
form. His health, height, weight
and the quality of his senses are set
down by the physician. The teacher,
from observation, then records his
powers of observation, memory, atten-
tion intellectual ability, manual abil-
Continued on Page 81
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-26
CHOOSING 4 JOB
By Frederic J. Haskin

IN the public schools of Cincin-
natl child is not only taught !;
- he is also studied. His physical
and mental qualities are tabulated,
and by the time he is ready to enter
high school, he and his teacher are
often able to agree as to what line of
work he shall pursue. He is not re-
quired to make a final choice at this
time. He may change in the course
of his high school education. But
every effort is made to help him find
himself, by finding the kind of work
that he wants and iN able to do.
This business of finding the right
work for the child, and then training
him for it, is at present engrossing
progressive educators everywhere. 1t
has gone beyond the schools, and
leading commercial organizations are
hiring expert Investigators to study
their employees and find out just what
each one of them can do best. There
are even correspondence schools which
teach this new science of man-study,
urging you in their advertisements, to
analyze your own character and those
of your children and business associ-
ates.
This new movement may lead to
absurdities, but nevertheless it is a
big thing. The principles of scien-
titic efficiency have been carefully ap-
Dlied by modern industrialism to al
most every element therein except the
man. He has commonly chosen his
work by haphazard, and learned to do
1t by slow process or imitation. Mark
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-26
PEACE TALK

ME hint from Berlin in yester-
! days news that Germany would
look favorably upon peace over
lures by the United States is only one
of many signs that the Kaiser is will
ing to listen to talk of peace-peace
on conditions laid down by himself,
but not resembling in any degree the
presumptious demands he would
have made even as late as one year
ago. Nobody knows better than the
German war staff that Germany is
beaten-beaten because to be vic
torious Germany must win decisivelv.
must break up the opposition of
France, England and Russia and
bring them to their knees. This even
the brave and efficient German armies
cannot do. They are farther from
that now than they were when they
made their remarkable drive through
Belgium into France, and every day
sees them farther from that goal.
On the other hand, the allies are
growing stronger in men and mu-
nitions. They have not vet drawn
seriously upon the reserves of Great
Britain or Russia and the English
line in France is being heightened
daily. The French and English have
shown themselves the equal of the
Germans on the field of battle and
Russia has just begun to fight. Mean
while Germany is living on her
nerve" both as to men and food. Her
situation becomes steadily worse.
Now is her time to make peace, If she
can. Therefore the hint from Berlin
to Washington.
1t is significant, also. that the allies
have ceased such foolish talk as the
impossible march to Berlin" and
the crushing of Germany" All they
now demand is an end of militarism
in Germany, the permanent removal
of the menace of German invasion
and reparation.
Some little time ago the Rev.
Charles S. MacFarland, who visited
the warning countries and talked with
all the higher officials, wrote of con-
ditions in terms that probably hold
to-day. France, he said, is invaded
territory; the high spirit of her people
is thoroughly aroused. 1t has for the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-26
SPEEDING MUST STOP

DROTEsT after protest has been
j filed in official quarters against
the reckless speeding of auto
mobiles and motorcycles along the
River Drive. Several lives have been
lost during the last year or two as a
result of the reckless use of the city's
popular driveway and it is now prob
able that definite action will be taken
either by the Motor Club of Harris
burg or the officials of the county and
city cooperating. Under present
conditions life is hardly safe along
the thoroughfare, but the objections
which have been urged in official
quarters seem to have brought no
relief.
For a while the State police got
busy, petition was sent to the Dis
trict Attorneys Office, township con-
stables were invoked in order to re-
duce the nuisance, but all these eff
fort, including the activities of the
motorcycle officers of the city, have
failed to stop the trouble.
1t is common thing for as many
as eight or ten motorcyclists to start
in the busy section of the city and at
frightful speed, with cutouts open,
like deYfls let loose, tear along the
River Road. This is a nuisance
which cannot longer be overlooked.
Surely it ought to be easily pos
sble. with the proper exercise of the
police power both inside the city and
beyond the city limits, to stop this
sort of thing 1t is said the in
fnvariable reply to a complaint is
Shat the offender must be reported
hnd full information given before the
authorities can proceed. If this is
Ehe Interpretation of the law, then it
would seem to be about time for the
Tong suffering public to take the law
snto their own hands for awhile and
give these speed fiends a dose of
frontier justice.
We believe the Motor Club of Har-
Fisburg, which has done so much ex-
pellent work, has a field here for its
activities and there is abundant
courage and good horse sense in this
organization to lead the way. There
will be plenty of backing among
citizens who have reached the limit
of patience with respect to the river
road speeding.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-26
COST OF HIGH SHOES

TINE manufacturers announce an
! other increase in the price of
shoes. They give no reason, ex-
cept the higher cost of materials, but
Congressman Kreider, himself a maker
of women's shoes, predicted this ad-
vance in an address delivered in Bos-
ton early last winter, and he did not
lay it so much to the war as to the
freak styles now so popular. He said
the fancy designs and the frequent
changes of lasts have become such a
great burden to the shoemaker that he
must of necessity pass the expense
along to the wearer. In other words,
like all other luXuries, the new very
high and very elaborate shoes are go
ing to cost a lot more than the old
plain, conservative kind. 1t appears
to be not so much a case of high price
of shoes as the price Of high shoes.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-26

rose elected two delegates in the
Beaver Washington-L Lawrence district.
"A Scranton dispatch says: Mayor
E. b. Jermyn and ex-Lieutenant-Gov-
ernor l.. A. Watres, of Scranton, dis
trict delegates to the Republican na-
tional convention, to-day issued their
answers to kilograms from Senator
Botes Penrose and Governor Martin q.
Brumbaugh, who seek their support
for chairman of the Pennsylvania
delegation. Both delegates were elected
pledged to support the popular choice
of the people of the State for Presi-
dent. Mr.. Watres in a telegram to
both Penrose and Brumbaugh said:
I shall not commit myself to any can
didate for chairman of the Pennsylva-
mia delegation at Chicago unless there
is a meeting of the delegates. To my
mind, this is the only orderly course
TO pursue at this time. Mayor Jernyn
wired Senator Penrose he would vote
for him. He said he would keep his
pledge to vote for the Governor at
Chicago
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-26
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

M. NJ. Hollingsworth, one of the
Chester legislators, is one of the eX-
perts on cattle raising in that county,
S. E. Meyer, the new president of
the Bucks County School Teachers
association. Is a minister and is one
of the well-known teachers of the
county.
DIR. G.. A. Dillinger Pittsburgh
councilman, who was attacked some
time ago because of his antivice ac-
tivity, goes armed. A pistol fell out
of his pocket at a meeting of council
the other day.
Col. L. j. Kolb is doing extensive
tree planting on his estate near Phila-
delphia.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-26
america FIRST" FOR BANKS

4 MONG the America First" bulle-
n tins which have been sent out
recently is one advising banks
and trust companies to keep the peo-
pies money out of the war A card
is being displayed in some banking
institutions with this inscription:
This institution does not own any
foreign war bonds. The directors
feel that American banks should
use their resources in financing
peacetul domestic enterprises
rather than destructive and need
less foreign wars.
1t is argued that it is good financing
as well as sound patriotism to keep
the funds held in trust for depositors
absolutely clear of the foreign war
which is sending the nations involved
into hopeless bankruptcy Special
attention is called to the recent Anglo
French loan which is said to have
failed miserably to make good in a
market glutted with investment funds
Now would seem to be the time
for conservative handling of funds
by banking institutions so that the
money of the people may be invested
in the local and other enterprises
which mean so much to the prosperity
of the people of the United States.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-26
THE WEST SHORE SCHOOL

VETEST SHORE school directors
wv are doing what is best and
most economical at the same
time when they propose the erection
of a central high school to accommo-
date the bows and girls of Lemoyne,
Camp Hill, Wormleysburg, White Hill,
Enola, West Fairview and the town
ship adjoining.
Anything that will draw these COM
munities more closely together in the
bonds of common interest is benefi-
cial, but when with this result is also
coupled a vast Improvement in the ed
ucational system there can be no rea-
sonable objection to the early accom-
plishment of the high school project,
especially since it is accompanied by
no very burdensome increase in the
tax rate. Eventually this territory will
be all one city and anything that tends
toward the Capitalization of the gov
ernment is in the direction of what
is unquestionably the ultimate destiny
of this rapidly gt~ wing suburban dis
trict.
A central high school, with properly
graded lower schools, which only a
part of the West Shore now has, would
draw many to that side of the river
who have held back on account of the
superior school facilities in Harris
burg. Harrisburg does not begrudge
this suburban trend for the reason
that whatever is of benefit to the
West Shore is at least indirectly bene-
fetal to this city as we'll. The central
high school movement should be
pushed to early decision.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-26
Price of Bad Government


The new administration is taking
hold of the paving situation with vigor,
as it ought to. and the city engineer
promises that if the work continues to
be pushed the streets will be put in
shape within three months. This SIM
ply means. of course, that the whole
burden of the neglect of the streets
for the last four years is falling on
the present city government
Repairs ought TO have been made lit
tie by little as The holes developed. The
cost would then have been reduced to
a minimum. and would have been dis
tributed over a period of years. But
the last administration let the streets
go to pieces and now the property
owners are going to have to pay for
the policy of neglect and inefficiency.
This is always the price of bad gov
ernment. In the end the people have
to pay for it and it comes high.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-26
EDITORIAL COMMENT
CONTINUED on Page 81

Mr.. Taft has carried California-four
years too late.-Boston Transcript.
Ihere will be no steam-roller at Chi
cago' but many Jitneys.-Boston Tran
script.
German navy is too proud to fight the
BRUSH therefore let the United States
do it.-Wall Street Journal.
win prolonged external cor+rol
ahead, the Filipino can Tetnrn ttontrol t re,
nated p paths of peace.-Wasbipg pgtnn
About the only hope for Carranzo ,,,r
ttency is the discovery of a wav 70 eY-
to tracI gasoline from cactus.-Wasbine
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-26

people have Joined the Telegraph's
campaign for more beautiful city,
and encouraged by the success which
the movement has met here scores of
people in nearby places have taken up
the idea and the whole of Central
Pennsylvania has felt the stimulus.
The latest reports from Milelrsburg, for
instance, are that it bids fair to outdo
even Harrisburg in the way of porch
and window decorations. "A little
leaven leaveneth the whole lump"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-26
Health Hints

Do you know that life is a constant
struggle against death?
Dirty refrigerators may make sick
ness?
The U. S. public health service issues
free bulletins on rural sanitation?
The defective citizen of to-day is Oft
times the unhealthy child of yesterday? Z?
Every man is the architect of his own
health?
It's the baby that lives that counts :?
tuberculosis is contagious, prevent
able, durable?
The full dinner pail-the open win
dow-the clean well-make for health :?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-26
Cleanliness! !!

Cleanliness is one of the best
life preservers known to science.
Cleanliness of the body. of the
teeth and of the attire all help
to ward Off disease and win the
battles of life. -
And cleanliness is not hard to
gain.
There are aids that assist and
most of them are inexpensive.
There are good soaps and
tooth preparations, brushes of
standard make and many valu-
able toilet requisites.
The best of these are sold un-
der certain branded names that
are a guarantee OF character.
These good brands are adver-
tised from time to time in the
columns of the Telegraph.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-26

Congressman Beakes, Democrat, of
Texas. has received from one of his
constituents vigorous protest against
the new rural route schemes of the
Post Office Department. Being a
farmer. this protestor remarks that it
is a mistake to give a carrier a route
that requires eight hours to cover in
fair weather, for In wet weather the
carrier will not be able TO cover the
route at all. He also says that what
the farmer wants first is mail service
not freight service. Under the new ar
rangement of routes. this farmer says
that 1t now takes four and q half days
to send a letter a distance formerly
covered in a day and a half Other
members of Congress have received
similar complaints.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-26

time reached, at least, dangerously
near the sentiment of revanche, which
she believes to be righteous justice
and its necessary retribution. Her
immediate mood would impose pre-
liminary conditions which preclude
even the idea of conference. The sug-
gestion of anything of the kind is
offensive, and she resents 1t.
This, however, would be entitled to
some discount were the issue clearly
Joined, and especially were she per-
suaded to place confidence in the
ethics of her foe. This want of con-
fidence is declared to be largely due
to the military excesses in Belgium
and Northern France. At the same
time it is alleged that the German
people have appeared to excuse or
palliate wrongs and the French have
not forgotten the severe utterances of
Germans at the beginning of the war.
The effect of all this is now very
strong in France. The French feel
that an admission of German guilt
and injustice must be made before
they can consider any thought of
reconciliation with Germany. At this
moment, therefore, she protests that
she must dispose of a foe likely at
any time, if left as at present, to
crush her.
England occupies a somewhat
mediating position and comes nearer
seeing the whole field. She would
ask guarantees of a very strong and
guarded kind from Germany. and
would be less exacting than France,
holding with her, however, that the
time is not yet ripe for peace except
on terms that German pride would
not tolerate except by force. So,
while peace is in the air, there is as
yet little likelihood of an early cessa-
ton of hostilities.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-26
WHAT THE ROTARY CLIIR
LEARNED OF THE CITY

+h Questions submitted to members Of
a ane ns,,,lsl ilarrlsourg Rotary Club and their
lions annual Municipal Quiz"l
+h w nat mas been the Approximate cost of
the paving to the property owners9 'A
Approximate total cost to pr5n-
erty owners, city and traction comS
pahy, S2.0S4,317.00 Total cost of
cufblng, $516,571.00. VI
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-26
THE STATE FROM DAY TODKY

An elderly child who was the first
born of white parents in the town of
Reynoldsville. is dead at the age of IS.
His father. after whom the town was
named, settled among the Indians early
in the eighteenth century.
The Greensburg Tribune proclaims
the arrival in that town of Sam
Holmes, the worlds greatest wanderer.
who is on his annual pilgrimage, hav-
ing spent the winter in Florida" At
Palm Beach?
Warren did its share on Good Roads
Day, which was yesterday, with every
body from the school children to the
city officials turning to the work with
will.
"The ColonePs Latest Drive" as a
number of State papers like to call the
recent speech of T. r. in Detroit, in
stinctively suggests Verdun. But, un-
like Verdun, so far as we can Judge,
way or the other as a result of the
former Presidents successive drives.
Deer and elk in Freedom township
are raising havoc with the farmers
truck patches in that vicinity. The
gentle animals" aren't as gentle as
they might be, in the estimation of the
sufferers.
A contemporary quotes an exchange
to this effect, "All we have to do is
to turn out our army of chorus girls
and send them to meet the enemy.
They'd fall; and comments to this eff
feet, Don't think we quite get you.
Who'd fall?" And the echo answers.
"'Nuff"
Gypsies have stirred the just wrath
of Doylestown by their exaggerated
methods of business. They evidently
do not believe in reciprocity and
equality, so long as they come out at
the big end of the horn. AS a result
the rowing band has been requested
to keep their "eyes in the boat"
Interested forces in Wilkes-Ba
have gone into every nook and Granny
and routed out over 800 for the baby
welfare fund. Baby may crow now
to its little hearts content.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-26
OUR GOOD EXAMPLE,

HARRISBURG is setting a good
II example for the towns and
communities around about in
the matter of porch and window box
decorations. Hundreds of Harrisburg