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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-17
GIN STORAGE TRUSTS GRIP"--
HOUSEWIVES LEAGUE HEAD
pounds are stored in the Chicago dis

pounds are stored in the Chicago dis
trict.
Oldest Food Dumped on Market
This is not an abuse of day." said
Mrs Harrison, but has grown in pro-
portions ever since the first refrigera-
tion plant was built. 1t has become an
established rule with food spectators
that no fresh, imperishable foods shall
be allowed to reach the market until
the cold storage supplies have been
drawn upon. Then the usual course is
for the oldest and most unfit embalm-
ed foods to be dumped onto the mar
ket and the fresh stuff to be put in it's
place in storage.
THE law requiring that no food be
stored more than ten months before 1t
Is sent to the market Is ignored, ac-
cording to cold storage engineers. They
say that no serious attempt has ever
been made to enforce II. Commission
ers of health everywhere neglect this
plain requirement of their duty. There
never has been an inspection of the
Chicago district warehouses and some
of the poultry and fish in them have
been there since the plants were built
Some of the abuses are most brazen
and amazing. For such acts against
public interest I believe Germany would
send men to prison for life."-Chicago
Post.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-17

Representative Baldwin. in the Mayor S
anteroom.
"'Oh.' replied the South Philadel-
phian, smilingly. I see you have
trotted him out for an airing, but |
guess you will be trotting him back
Not at all! not at all!' quickly re-
sponded the Delaware county senator.
Dick" is in the race, he will be in it
at the finish and he's going to win
The confidence with which Senator
Sproul made this declaration convinced
those who heard him that he meant
what he said.
Owing to the fact that the Mayor
was held up with the sinking fund
commi ssioners, Senator Sproul had to
leave before the Mayor could see him
and MIR. Baldwin together. Mr.. Bald
win returned later in the day and had
chat with the Mayor, which he said
was entirely satisfactory.
1T was stated later that the Mayor
does not feel that he should commit
himself to any candidate for Speaker,
for the present at least"
Senator Charles A. Snyder while
here yesterday predicted that while
local option would come some time, it
would not come next session. He said
that he expected his bills to be enacted
and characterized some talk about the
assistance clause as bull" Further
more he said that as he had voted for
commission government for second
and third class cities. why not first
Mr.. Snyder intimated that some men
who think they stand might fall when
he got to be Auditor General.
This interesting item comes from
Dubois: with the official vote nearly
completed. all of the ballots of the
soldiers along the Mexican border, not
being included. the reelection of Con-
RresSman Charles Fl. Rowland seems
assured by about 200 votes. w. e.
Tobias. his Democratic and Prohibition
opponent, is defeated by one of the
smallest margins in the history of the
Twenty-frst district. Clearfield county
has been giving majorities to Repub-
l'can candidates for Congress for more
than twenty years. In 1910 Patton, of
Clearheld, having n majority of 1852
over the Democratic candidate. Tobias
carried Cleerfield county this year by
1,030.'
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-17
President by Direct Vote

1t is now a week since the people
of the United States elected a Presi.
dent. The popular vote was recorded
for Mr.. Wilson by plurality of about
100000. Yet no one knows beyond a
doubt that he has been reelected
thanks to the survival of an antiquated
mechanism known as the system oi
Presidential electors.
This system, completely perverted
from the uses to which the founders
OF the republic intended it to be put,
has broken down three times In the
1877 years of its existence. In 1900
and 1924 the election of the President
was thrown into the House of Repre-
sentatives. In 1876 an electoral COM
mission had to be resorted to.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-17
TIL ICE IS ON THE RIVER

Til the ice is on the river
don't know anywhere
I'd sooner put in idle time
Than loafin' right out there!
When the SHOWS melt in the Spring.
time
An the Susquehannas mad,
To paddle out and buck 'er-
That's livin' fer yuh lad!
Afghtin' 'gainst the current
TIL yuh think yer arms'll snap,
Yuh get home late fer supper
An yuh never care a rap!
First warm day in April
Yuh peel off all yer clothes
An jump in all ashiver
Jes' to see how swimmin' goes,
Freshet waters clear a bit
Yuh cut a fishin' pole
An sneak away some likely day
To yer ole black bass hole;
Get whopper of strike
An then jes' sit and wait
Mebbe land n couple
Mebbe cuss yer bait!
w dttl tllc iSldHuS BTOWlI green
While rocks nose out like sharks
AS slow she keeps afallin'
Down toward low water mark.
When the days get hot and sticky
An yer shirt clings fast to yer skin
Then off to a pool that is deep an cool
That rocks and the sands wall in!
All, then the joy of summer days
And more-of summer nightsi
When the moon looks down with half
frown
Cetchin' yuh dead to rights.
Ah. the sunlights CLEAN on the water
An the glisten OF waves that roll
AS yuh paddle along through the
splashing song
From the silvery Suskie's soul!
October gayly paints the shore
November sunsets paint the sky
Then the ice is on the river!
DO you wonder why / sigh?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-17
INDIAN NAMES

TIME City Planning Committee of
Des Moines, Iowa, has gone be-
yond the mere detail of laying
out streets and plotting landscapes,
and proposes to name the thorough
fares, squares and boulevards charted
out on the blueprints to guide the
building and developing operations of
future property holders. f. r. Har-
Ian, State curator, has been asked to
suggest 4 series of names for new
streets from the Indian lore of the
tribes that once found Des Moines as
delightful q sojourning place as do
the present residents of that thriving
city. Here are some Of his selections:
Keeosauqua, Mahaska, Inkpaduta,
Minnewaukon, Wayaconda, Wapello,
Appanoose. Keokuk, Poweshiek, Tai
ma, oskaloosa, Pashepaho. Neseaslkuk,
Quasqueton, Kishkekosh. Nishnabot-
ma, Nodawa, Rantchewaime, Ottum-
wanoc. Peosta, Inyanshasha, Che
uuaque.
Mr.. Harlan adds that the names
are picturesque and "mean some
enough, to be sure, and doubtless they
mean something-but what?
Truth is, although we violate ira
6ition and sentiment in saying it, we
have quite a plentiful suffciency of
Indian names as 1t is. About all the
Indian has handed down to us Is the
Eshape of his bark canoe and the names
he applied to certain localities or
bstreams--or what the early settler and
his descendant think were his names
pfor them. Heaven only knows how
Chief Logan or any of his distinguish
I'd compatiots would translate XII
pona, for instance. but it sounds well
and we have no quarrel with 1t.
The average man cares not a hoot
whether name be Indian or Dutch.
1ust so it is short and euphonious. Life
In these strenuous and hurried times
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-17
CHRISTMAS CANDLES
NNE year ago the Telegraph led a

HNE year ago the Telegraph led a
movement for the observance
of the old custom of burning
candles In the windows on Christmas
Eve. The readiness with which the
people of Harrisburg and all Central
Pennsylvania accepted the suggestion
was a pleasant surprise even to the
most hopeful of those who wished
thereby to revive this charming old
manner of welcoming the advent of
the great holiday.
There is nothing more charming or
more appealing than tho candle burn
ing in the window on Christmas Eve.
It is symbolic of the festival and it is
suggestive of the welcome of the
household within to its homecoming
member or the chance guest calling to
pay the compliments of the season.
Harrisburg has adopted the Christ
mas candle as a permanent feature of
the holiday celebration. 1t has come
to mean quite as much to the people
of the city as the Municipal Christmas
Tree. Which brings up the thought
that it's high time we began looking
around for the tree that is to grace
Market street this year. The cutting
Of that tree has come to be an i'm
portant ceremony. Bringing in the yule
log in the ancient days OF Merrie Eng
land was a mild and insipid perform
ance as compared with the annual ex-
pedition OF Harrisburg's Christmas tree
wit 90 IA \ -
the city in search of the giant fir fit for
the central place in our community
festivities.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-17
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

w. ]. Richards, who appeared in
the anthracite coal price probe few
days ago has been connected with the
Reading coal interests for many years.
j. n. Haines, new clerk in the re-
vision of taxes Office in Philadelphia,
has been in that line of work q quar-
ter of century.
Col. Richard Coulter, commander
of the Tenth infantry, gave talk at
Pittsburgh on life on the Border.
Bishop Franklin Hamilton of
Pittsburgh, who Is coming here to the
Methodist meeting next week, is O.
former Pennsylvania pastor.
"A dinner will be given General W,
G. Price, who commanded the First
Brigade at Ell Paso, by Philadelphia
friends.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-17
THE ADAMSON LAW

TTTHEN President Wilson showed
wv the Adamson law down the
throat of Congress it was free
ly predicted that he had not prevente ed
trouble between the railroad heads
and the employees, but had simply
postponed the evil day. This is prov
ing fair forecast. Apparently, we are
just as badly off now as we were when
the Brotherhood leaders sat with
their stop watches in tho galleries OF
Congress pressing for an early deci-
sion.
Industrial problems never were
solved by resort to mere political ex-
pendiency and never will be.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-17
UTHILE the people pay famine
wv prices for food, fruit rots un-

N
wv prices for food, fruit rots un-
gathered on farms and the walls
of cold storage warehouses fairly bulge
with stored supplies.
"If the surplus of food held in refrig-
GRAFTON in Chicago were released to-
day prices would drop so per cent. The
cold storage of foodstuffs which prom
ised at first to prove such a boon to
mankind has been perverted into one
of the most evil agents of exploitation.
Facing EurOpe's Condition
Unless the government takes over at
once active and absolute control of all
cold storage this nation may expect to
be reduced to the condition of the starv-
ing nations of Europe. with prices so
high that none but the rich may eat
meat any more than once or twice a
week"
This statement was issued by Mrs. Fl.
II. Harrison, 720 Bittersweet Place. or
ganiZer of the Housewives League af-
ter receiving the report of cold stor-
age engineer on the amount of food
stuffs held in cold storage plants for
speculative purposes.
OF the total supply of the country.
which runs into nearly 200 million
pounds of food of all kinds, at least
from fifteen million to twenty million
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-17
STILL VERY MUCH AN ISSUE

ME New York Evening Post sees
L in the reelection of President
Wilson the passing of the tariff
as an issue in the United States. "The
old assured Republican majorities are
gone" it ponderously continues, and
adds:
As clearly as Monroe marked the
ending of the Virginia line of Presi-
dents, or John Quincy Adams that
ot 9th the New England line. the cleo
tion OF 1916 will be regarded by the
historian as having written firfs to
a chapter of American political de-
Velopment
Republicanism is gone and with il
the tariff, is the verdict of the all too
willing to be convinced Post.
This, however, scarcely squares with
the latest expressed views of that erst-
while ardent advocate of tariff for
revenue only, President Woodrow VIII
son. who scarcely was assured of re-
election before he glibly announced
that he stood ready to take whatever
tariff measures are necessary to pro-
tect American industry and American
labor at the close of the war. PRO
tect." mind you. This means nothinp
more or less than that the President is
ready to concede that a protective
tariff at least of mild character. very
likely will be necessary. and the more
deeply he goes into the subject the
more clearly will he be convinced that
he is on the right track.
Neither do the conclusions of the
Post have anything in common with
the views of William Allen White
progressive of Progressives and a very
astute and clear-thinking commentator
on conditions in the Central and Far
West. Mr.. Whites observations on the
results of the recent campaign are in
deed diametrically opposite to the
Posts conclusions. He says:
This is Republican countrv--in
spite of the fact that the President.
and the Congress, are strongly and
partisanly Democratic. and soon we
in the Supreme Court and the lower
Federal courts. The Republican,.
ism of this, country is Indicated by
States outside of the Solid sonfb
elected Republican Governors and
Republican Legislatures and an
CfNA " fseDuDli-
can local officers.
In 1884 the mugwumps elected
Cleveland. In 1916 the Independent
vote. largely Bull Moose, elected
They buried the Bull Moose with
q bullet in his heart last June. but
his ghost got into the ballot box.
and President Wilson may thank
his stars that the Moosers gave him
a second term. Yet he and thew
have mutually low opinion OF one
another.
OF the two. Mr.. White strikes nearer
to the heart of the truth, as many
voters see it. The split of 1912 was
not entirely closed in 1916. The ANAL
gamation of the Republicans and Pro-
Gressives on national issues had not
proceeded to a degree sufficient to elect
a Republican President. But the Re-
publican party of to-day is infinitely in
better position for the next campaign
than the Republican party of four
years back. The tariff as an issue will
be amply demonstrated at the con-
clusion of the war in Europe, as the
President already shows signs of fore
seeing. and the strength and virility of
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-17
The End of War

And he shall judge among many
people, and rebuke strong nations after
off, and they shall beat their swords
into plowshares and their spears into
pruning hooks; nation shall not lift
up a sword against nation, neither
shall they learn war any more. But
they shall sit every man under his
vine and under his fig tree; and mono
shall make them afraid.-Micah iv, 3
and A.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-17

is all too full to be rushing to the local
geography every time he wants to spell
tho name of neighboring street nor
does he like to display his ignorance
by pronouncing names like Powes-
hiek or Rantchewaime the way they
are spelled.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-17

1t IS good and safe rule to Sojo,rn
IN eUery place as if you meant to spend
fife there, neUer omitting an oppor-
tunity of doing q Kindness, speaking q
true toord, or making friend.-RUs.
KIN.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-17
New Field For Experts

Naming the baby is an important
matter. and Judging from the names
some parents select, our personal opin-
ion is that they would have done bet
ter to have left 1t to an expert.-Dstrcit
Free Press.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-17

SAD EXPERT
ENCE.
Pater Now,
my son, you are
married. B q
what q man
ought to be.
Frater How
do I know just
what a man
ought to be?
Pater Your
wife will furnish
full plans and
specifications.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-17

The trouble with some Of the new
milk producing associations is that they
are not so much interested in producing
more milk as in raising prices
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-17

The Colonel condemns the "Cubist
school of patriotism" Tut, tut, why
call the administration names so soon
after election.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-17

Even the price of the humble buck
wheat cake is advancing: but we care
not. we'll have our share il it takes the
t3ast penny.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-17

Life is just one thing after another;
the mosquitoes no sooner stop biting
our ankles until Jack Frost begins on
our ears.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-17

Plans are afoot for Pennsylvania
Chamber of Commerce-and the central
office ought to be in Harrisburg.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-17

DISAGREED
OVER BRIDGE
oh, hs discards
from weak
ness
, And she dis
cards from
strength.
And that Is why
their mar
ried life.
Displayed but
little length.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-17
OUR DAILY LAUGH
NOTHING
DOING.

Put your car
up for the win
ter yet?
No. I'd like
to, but none of
the pawnbrok-
ers are willing
to lend me any
money on 1t.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-17

If history repeats itself. Heaven help
the Polanders, the Belgians and the
Lithuanians.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-17
EDITORIAL. COMMENT

Prohibition seems to be running
several laps ahead of woman suffrage
in this country. - New York Sun.
Cutting off advertising may reduce
expenses; so does cutting your wind
pipe reduce the cost of living.-News-
paperdom.
"The lady from Montana" who will
sit in the next Congress has red hair
Yes, she probably will get the floor
when she wants it.-Kansas City Star
Nemesis seems to be getting busy
with great many things that were
postponed until after election.-New
York Sun
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-17
STARTLING
RESEM-
RI.ANCE

Do you wear
your new hand
painted hat
when you waltz?
No.
Good thing.
All those ami
mails spinning
to music would
make you look
like a merry go
round.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-17
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg photographic
work is noted all over the coun-
try?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
The first Baptist congregation was
formed in Harrisburg in 1890.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-17

the Republican party is. as Mr.. White
says, quite plainly shown in the elec-
ton returns.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-17

The first snowstorm of the season
came early Wednesday morning, but
while it was merely n squall in this
section it was blizzard in other parts
of the State, notably at Erie. Local
weather prophets believe that we are
due for long and hard winter.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-17
THE CAUSE.

THE CAUSE.
Customer II
think this meat
is spoiled.
Butcher-Per-
haps so marni,
for 1t came from
q prize lamb
that was petted
q great deal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-17

This comes from Local History
Wonder how many people know that
the late Edward the Seventh of Eng
land, then Prince of Wales, visited
Harrisburg in 1860. He was given q
warm reception and was shown much
consideration by the people of this
city.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-17

Auditor General-elect Charles A.
Snyder, who was also reelected a
member of the State Senate. appeared
yesterday before the State Board of
Pardons as attorney in a murder case
from his county. The new Auditor
General will hold his seat in the Sem
ate until the first Tuesday of May
when he will become the controller.
BY singular coincidence his two
predecessors did the same thing.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-17

q. .J.STACKPOLE,P J. Prss't and Editor-in.C hisf
+. r. OYSTER. Business Manager.
GUS NJ. STEINMETZ, Mcnaginz Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-17

published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.,
Telegraph Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-17

TNHE New York Evening Post sees
i in the reelection of President
Wilson the passing of the tariff
as an issue in the United States. "The
old assured Republican majorities are
gone,' it ponderously continues, and
adds:
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-17

this interesting account of the way
Senator W. C. Sproul is backing Rich
ard J. Baldwin for Speaker:
:" | want YOU to meet fhe next
Speaker of the House. was the salu-
tation with which Senator Sproul
greeted Senator Ware as he pointed to
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1916-09-22
SAVE s2,5oo,oOo EGG LOSS
Should Be Given az Good and Careful
Marketing as 5utter-Remedy 10
Low Temperature.

(By II, L. KEMPSTER, Missouri College
of Agriculture)
From a quarter to half Of the eggs
laid In the middle West during the
summer time are total loss amount
ing to $2,5000O0 for the state of Mis-
souri, alone. This may easily be saved
under ordinary farm conditions, ac-
cording to the test recently made at
the Missouri agricultural experiment
station. Eggs should be given practi-
cally as good care and careful market
ing as butter, although they do not
show the effects of poor handling
quite as plainly. Any temperature Of
more than 20 degrees is almost sure TO
cause the development of germs, molds
or young chicks inside the shell.
The principal remedy, then, is a
reasonably low temperature and mar
ketlng the eggs at least once week.
They should be gathered every day
and put In a cool, clean, sweet cellar,
or some similar cool place, as quickly
as possible. They must be kept away
from flies and out of musty easements
and, IL no other cool place is avail
able, they should be placed In spring
or springh0use, or lowered In bucket
into a well, just as butter often is.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1916-09-22
MAKING CEMENT PIERS
Cheap Supports for Granaries
and Other Buildings.
Galvanized Iron Cone Is Made Use Of
to Mold Form-ExeaVation Is Same
as for Building Ordinary
Stone Foundation.

Cement piers for granaries and
other buildings that should set above
the ground can be cheaply and evenly
made.
A galvanized iron cone is made of
sheet iron, the size and length of the
pier to be built, which is supported
by an iron band at either end (as
shown in the illustratiOn).
Two handles are riveted to opposite
sides, and the mold is ready for bust
ness. The cone should be at least two
inches larger at the lower end than 1t
is at the top. The excavation is made
for the piers the same as for building
stone piers. The iron form or mold Is
placed in the excavation and filled
with the cement mixture.
The piers may be made in two diff
ferent ways. First, the cement may
be rather thin and allowed TO set in
the form until sufficiently hardened
to remove same, or the cement may be
what Is called a dry mixture, that is,
mixed with as little water as possible,
so that when the form is filled 1t may
be removed with a twisting motion
and the cement will hold its shape.
Bolts may be embedded In the top