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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-21
THE AUTOMOBILE SHOW

"TlIETHER or not you own a car
w or expect to buy one this year,
by all means see the Harrisburg
Automobile Show. In no other line
of business has there been such great
development or growth as in the
manufacture OF motor-drive ap-
paratus. The efficiency sof the loco
motive was not increased in a century
to the degree that has marked the i'm
provement of the automobile in the
past ten years, and the very latest in
all lines OF automobile making is on
display at the big show in Market
street
1t would be to repeat self-evident
truth to say that the automobile is
fast becoming a universal conveyance.
Prices in the past few years have
been advancing in almost every line
of trade except this one. On gem
orally rising market the cost of auto
mobiles has been steadily dropping,
until now the time is approaching
when even the man or woman in very
moderate circumstances will be able
TO afford the luxury of a car. Not
only that, but the moderate-priced
cars of to-day are much better and
more convenient machines than were
the $4,000 cars of few years back.
Engine trouble" is no longer the
bugbear o! the motorist and even the
always possible puncture or blowout
have been robbed of much of their
terrors by the demountable rim and
the great improvement in tire con-
struction.
The automobile show of to-day is
vastly different from that of a. few
years back and the universal appeal
of the motor-driven vehicle will doubt
less crowd the big hall from the be-
ginning to the end of the show, the
central location making it very easy
of access for those with only a short
time to spare for the exhibition.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-21
"HARDsCRABBLE" AGAIN
tor of the Telegraph:


Harrisburg, Feb 10, 1916.
And now comes the Most unlIind-
est cut of ALL" The city threatens to
drive us out of our "old homesteads"
inside of few months, regardless of
all hardships entailed, (killing our
business, etc.) and without even Civ
ing the court an opportunity to pass
dog, though he had bitten me, yet
would I not turn him out''-in such
unseemly haste. Upon what meat
hath. this, our Caesar fed that he hath
grown so great?' While Greater
Harrisburg was in its swaddling
clothes, down in "Shitepoke," under
the euphOnious name of Harris Ferry.
our ancestors resided in the beautiful
village of Maclaysburg, on the great
thoroughfare" to the west, which
made Harrisburg "quite prominent"
as early as 1894. We know that some
of the laws of Pennsylvania are fear
fully and wonderfully made" and in
terpreted even worse, yet we do not
believe that they can hold out
land-the Constitution of the United
States, which says, Nor shall private
property be taken for public use,
without just compensation" During
the proceedings, date, we stood
about as good q chance for our white
alley as a 'cellulold dog would or
catching an asbestos cat in a race
through the orthodox Internal re-
gions.' They told us that our side
will be heard in court. If we render
an award that suits you-the city will
appeal, eff it suits the clty-you will
appeal" They evidently did not con-
slider their work final but merely
preliminary. Hoping for, and expect
ing A Square Deal, by Jury of my
peers" l am.
Yours, in F. l.. & c..
JOTIN VTNCS'T
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-21
KITCHENS ARGUMENT
LErom the Kansas City Star.l

Representative Kitchin is reported
to have a diagram hanging in his office
showing that the United States spends
a larger proportion of it's revenue on its
army and navy than Germany spends
i'm time of peace. This diagram is point
ed to as an argument against prepared
ness.
1t may be that the United States
doesn't get as much for its money as
fact that the nation isn't adequately
for defense, and that it ought
to be prepared.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-21
Keep At 1t When
You Start

Refore YOU begin advertising
Law ont your definite program.
When once you start, keep at
Don't be stopping. vaoiIlating
and swapping horses in mid
stream.
Continuity is one OF the great
factors in advertising success.
The more you push the easier
1t becomes.
Let this newspaper help you in
laying out your plans and get
ting on the track that leads to
Profit Land.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-21
AN INSINUATION

ItTom ENefybouy s MaBazlne.
The jury had been out for two DAYS
and still one persistent fellow held out
against the other eleven. well, gentle
men," asked the court officer looking
in at tho DOORS shall L order twelve
dinners?"
mo" replied the foreman. Make IL
eleven dinners and a bale of hay"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-21

The new ship-purchase bill provides
some Offices. of course. 1t would set
up new commission OF five members,
two of them ex-offcio. the secretaries
of the Treasury and of Commerce, and
the others to be men of large practical
experience who would receive $4,000
a year. We can foresee exactly the
kind of men for lnese jobs. The Federal
Trade Commission has shown that. They
will all three be Democrats and they
Will not be big men by any means
The Federal Trade Commission was
touted in advance to be men big enough
to sit on the Supreme Court, vet only
one OF them ever had any extended
business eXperience--the others being
lawyers and politicians.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-21

The Houston Post predicts that the
Presidents campaign to seek support
for his preparedness program will sue
ceed. Then it's success will not come
from any wildly enthusiastic co-opera-
tion in Texas. on the first days of Mr..
Wilson'S speechmalling out West lot
of Democratic congressman held mass
meeting in a Washington theater and
spoke in condemnation Of what Wilson
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-21

The way of the world was well il
lustrated in Washington during brief
period recently. Within three days
Louis Brandeis was nominated a justice
of the Supreme Court and the Supreme
Court decided that the wolf of Wall
Street" should serve a term in jail
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-21
TELEORAPH'S PERIScOPE

If they wait long enough the liquor
probers will be able to find Jim Null
vihill in Harrisburg. He's always on
hand during the legislative sessions.
Mayor Smith appears to be one of
those rare executives who believe the
people elected them to govern rather
than to play politics.
Marriage is contract, but it must
be remembered that contractors have a
habit of not observing all the specifica-
tions.
Doubtless the cherry tree story
isn't true. but what would we have
done for Washington Birthday decora-
ttons If it had not been invented?
Perhaps the reason for contribut-
ing that American eagle to the New
York Zoo was because the President
had no place for it at Washington.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-21
OUR DAILY LAUGH
HANDS OFF.

w h @ n W q T
breaks out in the
women's after
noon card club
there's only one
thing for the men
to do.
What's that7
Remain abso-
lutely neutral.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-21

A man in Georgia who aspires to
come to Congress confesses to weigh
ing 400 pounds. We hope he will be
elected. Georgia has been sending
altogether too many lightweights to
Congress.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-21

LOST.
Mary had a little
lamb
Twas gentle as
a pup,
When Mary took
1t out ona
day
The Beef Trust
grabbed it
up.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-21

Ye also, as Hiring stones, arc built up
spiritual house, TO be holy priest
hood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, dc-
ceptdbTe to God through Jesus Christ.
Il PET. 2:5.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-21
POUR OUT THINE HEARs

ginning of the watches pour out thin6
heart like water before the face of the
Lord: lift up thy hands toward Hin
Lamentations ii, 10.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-21
GOODBYE, LITTLE CAR, GOODBYE

BY Wing Dingcr
had a little auto
A 1913 brand
1t served me nobly, brother,
I thought it very grand
Until took the family
Out to the Auto Show
They saw the '16 models
The old car now must go.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-21
DO YOU KNOW
That Harrisburg-made beds are in
many hospitals in this State?
IUsTORIC HARRISBURG

JlSlOhIC IishhINASDCANSi
General Lafayette visited Harrisburg
in 1926 and was given reception at
the Capitol.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-21

A number of teachers in this part OF
the State and some State officials are
planning to attend the banquet of the
alumni of the West Chester State Nor
NAL School State Superintendent n.
C. Schaeffer and President f. T..
Sparks. of State College, will be guests
of honor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-21

The executive boards of the United
Mine Workers of the three anthracite
districts are off for New York to-day
for the purposes of negotiating new
agreement with the coal operators.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-10-16
NEWS OF THE DAY CONCERNING CHICAGO


! John Bretschneider, 21O4 N. Ham,
| lin, seriously hurt and 8 others bruis-
led. Auto collided with taxi of Ash
land Motor Livery Co.
Mrs. Ella Flagg Young in town on
visit.
Leopold C. ShracIt, 415s N. Central
PIX. aV., suicide. Gas.
Fritz Steur, IT'S BurIing, found
dead. Gas.
Leon P. Craig, Fulton county, KY,
ex-militia man, tried suicide by pois-
on. Out of work.
Fire escape burglar got $500 from
L. B. Coward and Everett S. White,
guests at Fort Dearborn hotel
Trinity Episcopal church, "OId
Trinity" 18th and Michigan, re-
opened.
Four negroes picked fight on South
Side Il" with Cornell Vermerien.
1908 Park aV., and Max Walker, 610
Bowen aV. Knives drawn. Three ar
rested.
Police probing three mysterious
WoOdlawn fires.
Andrew WestphaI, 2221 Belmont
av., shot and killed in saloon fight.
Michael Semro, 2118 N. Robey, ar
rested.
Burglars stole safe containing
5000 from A. ]. Olson dairy, 225 W.
Chicago.
Norman Prince, aviator and former
Chicago lawyer, killed while serving
in French aero CORPS.
Forty-six negroes and 3 white men
arrested on gambling charge in raid
on Blue Jay club, 10 E. 35tR
Chipley Brown, Youngstown, O.,
came to town for good time. Lost
$3.50 and oVercoat. Police seeking
Arthur Crawford.
Mrs. Howard TuIy, list and Con-
stance aV, and VIM. Starr, 1920
DOoIyrTon hurt
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-10-16

Louise Hoftley IL, 5Ul5 PIrney CT,
dead. Gas.
John J. German, 3755 S. Union av.,
killed. Street car.
Two bandits bound and tied Pae
Set, Chinese, 72O w. 18th. Got SIS.
Aug. LevendowsI<y, 21o1 ThrooP,
dead. Gas.
A. Asping, labor agent, y N. Hal
sted, coughed to death. ->
Rocco GiIIio, 2, 2132 Erie, played
with matches. Died of burns.
Herman DickoW, 2019 Lemoyne
aV., suicide. Gas.
Paul Simak, 1725 DiVersey aY.,
shot self. Dead. III health.
Mrs. Mary Eichenberger, "a, 1865
ClyboUrn aV., dead. Gas.
Ben JUndrick, paroIed from Pom
tiac, arrested. Believed thief
VIM. Dunn, 2222 Michigan av., ar
rested while fighting with Chas.
Darck, 5O48 Sheridan I'd.
Stanie SIoaka, 1892 Houston aV.,
hurt in Ryan Car Works, dead.
SITS stolen from home of John
Cunningham, Al W. Goth. Three sus-
poets taken.
Leopold KarnoWski, 1116 S. Robey,
arrested on serious charge. Sophie
Ignalowski, Is, 1902 SSPaUlina, COM
pIainant.
100000 fire attacked S. Karpen &
Co. drying kiln, 32d and Union av.
Street car extension on Lake Park
aY. between 47th and 55th opened.
bet. Serg't John J. Duffy, 30 years !
on force, dead.
Mrs. Nettie Linneman, II Glen |
View, hurt in auto crash. Five others
bruised.
Florence johnson, WiImette, found. |
unconscious on road, accused Peter
Zeutschel, Wilmette, of assauItfng
her. He's arrested.
Frank Lippstein, Bowman Dairy !
Co. driver, seriously hurt by auto of |
Neal 7. Kelly, 1870 N. Kedzie av.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-11-25

the saucer thus formed The pulp itself is pure
and the water stored in it is likewise pure and re-
freshing.
Not all the waterbearing cacti are as gracious to
furnishing man, however, as the water barrel" for
most of them have protected themselves against
the maraudings of those who would drink and live
by impartng bitter taste to the water they con-
tain The "peyote" especially which abounds in
the plains and deserts of Arizona has a trick of
discouraging depredations upon it. for it's plump
and juicy pulp secretes bitter and poisonous
juice.
In The last Gozen years scientists have interested
themselves In the study of the cactus for its possi
bilties as food, fodder and economic by-products
DR.. Leon e. Landone foremost in the study of this
desert plant several years ago conducted extensive
experiments In Los Angeles to ascertain the value
of the thornless cactus an article of food for
human beings. In an effort to prove his conten.
tion that it contains food properties sufficient to
two secretaries for two weeks lived on a daily diet
of the leaves and fruit of the cactus the former
being served green fried and the latter either
raw cooked. While the cactus squad" sur.
vived the experience and professor to have en-
JOyed their novel diet, 1t is fact that the cactus
Eever has attained the popularity of a flet mignon
In the whole vegetable kingdom probably there
Is not another plant family having so many diff
ferentations of form as the cacti. For it is DOS
sible to find among them species that crawl and
creep like vines other than stand erect in a single
unbending stalk, like a green living monument of
the desert; still others that rooted to the spot
with their highest growth close to the ground and
bearing almost no resemblance to usual forms of
vegetation. and others, again, that branch out in
thick unblooning branches
The Colorado statesman., 1916-11-25

In the pursuit of Villa and his bandits through
the arid regions of northern Mexico the United
States troops traversed region whose only vege-
tation is the barbed and forbiddng cactus. To
any but cowboy or trained plainsman of the
Southwest, inhabitants themselves of the cactus
belt this plant seemingly has more value than
the veriest weed but 1t may well be that 1t may
prove of great value to the troops In the absence
of water, fodder food for human beings.
In the punitive expedition there many
punchers of the cactus belt" serving as scouts
and in the cowboy and the Indian of the South
west the lowly cactus has its greatest admrer, for
they know what a game struggle for life this plant
has to make against unlaved desert soil. Even
desert know of these of the cactus for water
and fodder, says the New York Herald.
There some thousand varieties of this mon
strous vegetable family not counting the 300 va
rieties of the agave, century plant-incorrectly
included by many-in northern Mexico The va
rieties of the yucca palm and all other forms of
vegetation known to the arid region have the same
faculty of sucking up from the soil every drop of
the all too little moisture in 1t and storing it up in
their tough and leathery leaves and roots
OF the many varieties perhaps the most remark
able is that member of the family known to those
schooled in desert craft the water barrel" This
plant is shaped somewhat like beer keg and is
about the same size. Through all the years of its
growth 1t has been sopping up what moisture the
famished earth contained and retaining it. 1t is the
sole reliance of desert dwellers in time of drought
and the troops, far from water holes and with a.
ter scarce, may yet be obliged to drink from it
The water barrel'' is tapped by slicng off the
top with a sword machete and pounding tho
pulp until the water contained in 1t wells up into
The Colorado statesman., 1916-11-25

deed seem to slumber in the soft bed of long
enjoyed peace and security. But let war come
against the land and no man need doubt that that
spirit will spring up instantly awake.
We can rightfully be grateful that 1t has fallen
to happy lot to live In this most wonderful
of all ages and to be citizens of this most Won
derful of all the nations
Let your hearts swell with Just pride as you
contemplate your country, august, so splendid,
so renowned in the earth.
Look upon your flag 1t streams its bright
folds yonder above your heads with proud and
happy eyes. Remember how honorable is its
story, and forget not how many thousands of
brave and good men died that it might wave yon-
der, the ensign of free people.
Tell to your children the story of their fore
bears, of those men and women who, amid the
wilderness and forests that stood where now
stand mighty cities and stretch cultivated farms,
erected, with hardshps and endurance and most
heroic faith and valor, the noble edifce of our
republican liberties
Speak to them of Bunker Hill and Valley Forge
and Saratoga and Yorktown, and of the great
Declaration-that most famous Charter of HUI
Freedom.
Tell them to thank God for their fathers and
mothers hardhood and courage, for the wars
they fought, for the victories they won
Tell them to salute their flag with high and
proud hearts.
Tell them to thank God this THANKSGIVING day
that they Americans.
And then do you soberly, gratefully proudly
thank God yourself that you are an American.
Oh dear and mighty motherland what better
gift more to be desired could God give than to
be born and to die, strong Daughter of Liberty,
between thy shining feet!-From the Chicago
American.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-11-25

And so we firmly believe you do feel.
We all hear it repeated that patriotism is
thlng OF the past; that our people have become
coinmercalized; that the masses have no deep
rooted loyalty to the country that rich
put dollars above the obligations of their citizen
ship; that our poor folk little for the ideals
of free government; that Americans are de-
cadent in the virtues and valor which marked
fathers
That is not true.
If there be any power in the world which plots
war against us Americans and promises itself vic
tory over us on the assumption of decadence
in loyalty. that power will find how terrible was
its mistake when country calls her sons to
Battle in her defense.
We have, 1t is true, in capacity as n col
lective people, left undone things that should
have been done and done things which should
have been left undone; and there is more truth
than there should be in much that is jeeringly
said by those who hate u.s.
We acknowledge that much of our politics Of
fends common decency.
We see, here and there, painful evidence of cor
ruption among lawmakers and even among the
Judges who SHOULD know only justice and in
tegrity.
and foul their hands and soil their souls with
most Infamous dealings and most shameful
profits.
We see Americans who do put the dollar above
every consideration of right and duty, above the
claims of our common humanity.
But while these things true, 1t is true also
that the heart and conscience of the American
people, take them nation, are sound and
sane and wholesome.
The blood of fathers still runs in the veins
of their sons. The spirit of the nation may in
The Colorado statesman., 1916-11-25

A which American might sensibly
~ w offer up gratitude to God.
He reflected that across the Atlantic millions
of human beings were at that very moment en-
gagged In the dreadful task of killing other human
beings with every invention which ingenuity and
skill could bring forth from the laboratories Of
science and the workshops of industry.
In other lands at that very moment tens of
thousands upon tens of thousands of helpless
folk-feeble aged men and women, mothers with
babes clingng convulsivey to their breasts little
children sobbing in terror, vast army of the In
nocent and the angushed- enduring the ex-
tremities of exposure, of hunger, and of despair
as they fed from their wasted farmsteads and
burning villages escaping from the pitiess cruelty
of savage men only to lie down to suffer and die
under the ptlless skies of God in the winter and
the bitter storms.
At that very moment most dreadful war hid
half the world In the blaclxness of its darkness
and from that horrid cloud rained destruction
upon unhappy Europe-upon her ancient capitals,
upon her pleasant cities, upon her villages, her
helds her temples, her treasures of art, upon all
the accumulations of thousand years of genius,
of learning of industry, of skill and of patient
advancement of the happiness and the civilization
of the of man.
So he that considered all this wickedness that
was being done under the sun, this drunken dance
of death and hell above the fetid corpses and the
mutitudnous graves this awful nightmare of In
describable woe an1 wrath, said In the bitterness
OF his heart that no God ruled over such a maniac
world and there thanksgiving due to the
Giver of Gifts that not good, but everyone
altogether evil.
And when the man had made end of his
thinking he went and stood in window and
looked out upon the evening, because 1t was fair
to
He saw In vision Mt that instant the vastness
of the republic and the multitude of the good and
happy folk who live under the shelter of its
strength. He reflected how brief time had thus
magnifed the works of pioneer fathers and
our pioneer mothers those brave and simple men
and women whose names should never be men
toned with anything but profound gratitude.
And to this American, glad with great pride
in the deeds of his people and the story of his
country, and grateful to the Goodness which has
guided and sheltered his fathers and his folk,
lifted up his eyes to the night, to the quiet stars.
. to the brooding immensely above, and said In his
heart:
"Thank God that Americana
And, citizens that Is the outstanding,
splendid fact for which each one of us should
sobery and most gratefully thank God on Thanks
giving day this year
The finest thing you possess or ever can pos
sess is just your American citizenship. 1t Is
neither necessary becoming on this day or
on any other day, to cheaper this b'rthright of
ours by brag spreadeage defamation
But 1t is highly becoming on this Thanksgiving
day to feel deep gratitude and a manly pride
I'm this heritage.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-11-25

OD be merci bless
W u Seah That thy be known upon saving
health all nations Let the people The
people Thee Then yield Cod
. the Earth shall fearh him. EumAs6zmRdm