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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-30
1t Paws to Advertise

Too frequently the public fails to
realize, says q writer in Leslie's, that
nearly all public service corporations,
in addition to the usual expense of
wages, maintenance and operation, are
called upon to meet many other
charges not directly related to their
operation, but rather enforced con-
tributions for the public benefit.
Very wisely the Chicago surface
lines, for example, are reminding the
public to the extent to which they
serve In their good wilf' advertis-
ing campaign they bring out the fact
that paving maintaining and cleaning
of their right of way have cost them
more than $14,0O0,0 in the last nine
years. The citys 90 per cent. of net
receipts has amounted to more than
$17, 900, 900 more. Without counting
the S9,761 900 spent for taxes say
The companies, during this period the
companies have been required to ex-
pend-not for transportation purposes,
but to meet public burdens-the enor-
nous sum of more than $31, zoo. 900"
Putting the facts frankly before the
thinking public is a wise move for
every large corporation, public or pri-
vate. From prejudiced and ignorant
criticism all corporations have suffered
tremendously in the past; such unan-
swered criticism has made the recent
extremes of prosecution and even per-
secution possible. Conversely, putting
the corporations side of it squarely
before the public will do more than
anything else to insure the corpo-
ration's receiving the same kind of
square dear it is giving the public.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-30
CIVIC CLUB ACTIVITIES

a S was to have been expected of a
N building so admirably adapted for
the purpose, the headquarters of
the Civic Club of Harrisburg has be-
come the meeting place of hundreds of
those interested in the welfare of the
city. There are frequent committee
meetings of the association and with
this fine building as the attractive
home of the organization there will
be opportunity for still further en-
largement of it's useful activities.
Much has already been accom-
plished by the Civic Club and there
is still much more to be achieved in
the months and years to come. Def
mite and constructive policies have
been outlined by the officers of the
association and these will be worked
out through the various committees
during the year upon which we are
about to enter.
Hundreds more of the good women
sDf Harrisburg should be identified
with the club, as in multitude of
icounselors there is wisdom. The use
.fulness of the organization should eX-
tend into every quarter of the city
and the successful conduct of the club
in the past is a sufficient promise of
ats future development.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-30

ment of class feeling in this country.
Mr.. Gompers. who was the spokes-
man for the visiting delegates. says
that nothing in his remarks could
have stimulated the President to say
what he did. Therefore, the only
explanation which anyone can find
is that Mr. Wilson was trying to make
amends for some of his Shadow Lawn
speeches wherein he told of the alleg-
ed attempts to coerce workmen to vote
for Hughes and said other things cal
culated to align employees against en-
ployers upon basis of political sep
aration.
In playing fast and loose with the
labor element as he has, the Presi-
dent has doubtless made a signal con-
tribution to whatever the country
has of class feeling; and If he now
shows contrition, so much the better.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-30
MIR. RANfBo,s RETIREMENT

THERE will be general regret that
the eXigencies of political warfare
have forced out of the public SER
vice Samuel B. Rambo, Superintendent
of Public Grounds and Buildings since
the administration of Governor Stuart.
AS superintendent in charge of the
construction of the Capitol building,
Mr.. Rambo had an intimate knowl-
edge of every detail of that great
structure so that his appointment tc
the position from which he will re-
tire on the first of January was gen.
orally approved as one most fit to
be made. There have been rumors
from time to time that he would be
removed, but it was the hope of his
friends here and elsewhere that no
change would be made.
Having resided in Harrisburg for
several years, Mr.. Rambo had come
to be regarded as a permanent resi-
dent and his retirement will be widely
regretted.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-30
Along the Color Line
IFrom the Crisis.

Next Tuesday there will be held in
New York city the annual meeting of
the National Association for the Ad-
vancement. of Colored People. The
Harrisburg branch will be represented.
According to the New York World,
negroes have left the South for the
North as follows since the recent inn
migration: From Alabama, $4,000;
Tennessee, $4,000; Florida, $4,000;
Georgia, $1,000; Virginia, 5000; North
Carolina, 1000; Kentucky, 5000; South
Carolina, 1000; Arkansas, 1000; Mis-
sissippi, 1900.
Plans are under consideration for
the erection of a 100000 high school
for coolred pupils in Richmond, Va.
Major william Stewart Robertson,
coolred man, has been awarded a
medal for gallantry. He is q member
of the British army and the Royal
Highlanders. lie is now on duty near
or around Flanders.
The machine gun troop of the Ninth
(negro) Cavalry. United States Army,
has set new record for gun practice.
They went into action from a gallop
in 70 2-5 seconds. Not only did they
do astonishingly rapid work, but they
literally shot the line of targets down
after scoring 73 hitsAon IS per cent. of
the targets. firing 240 rounds in
l minute 10 seconds, the range being
battle sight.
The city of Rochester, n. Y, is plan
ming to celebrate the one hundredth
anniversary of the birth of Frederick
Douglass, February Is, 1917.
Raymond j. Knox, u colored rail-
way postal clerk running between
Kansas City, Mo-. and Omaha. Neb.,
has made his third consecutive 100
per cent. examination of states by
routes.
Miss Adela L. Ruffin is the secretary
of the Young Women's Christian As
sociation in Richmond. She took
special training for this work at the
national Y. w. c. A. in New York city.
Doubleday, Page e. Co. have isued
the long-awaited Booker T. Wash
ington, Builder of a Civilization" by
Emmett J. Scott and Lyman Beecher
Stowe.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-30
BACK TO THE COFFEE HOUSES

alcoholic eXcesses have been materially
reduced.
1t has long since been noticed that
countries using literally such infusions
as tea, coffee or cocoa have been able
to combat more successfully the eX-
cessive use of alcoholic liquors. 1t is,
therefore, significant that at the recent
meeting of the National Coffee Roast
ers' Association announcement was
made that the consumption of coffee
had largely increased in those States
which have in recent years gone into
the prohibition column. The associa-
tion considered the advisabilfty of es-
tablishing coffee houses in the more
thickly populated cities of the coun-
try in competition with the saloons.
The development of tea, coffee and
cocoa houses. in connection with which
might be found other accessories of So
cial intercourse, would satisfy reason
ably we'll some OF these human cravings
which operate powerfully in society and
are not met by the moving picture
shows, the recreational centers. the
open forum, etc.-New York Indepen-
dent.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-30
Undemocratic Long Ballot

Every voter, remembering the DIM
culties in making up his ticket at the
last election must agree with Henry
Allen that the long ballot has proved
to be undemocratic. When people are
called on to vote for twenty or thirty
candidates they can't do it intelligently.
They haven't time.
We let the President choose his Sec
retary of State and Attorney General
and Secretary of the Treasury. Why
shouldn't we let the governor choose
his cabinet in the same way? Why ex-
pect to elect a county surveyor? Mo-
body would think of electing city
engineer. The democratic way is to
elect the few men who decide on poll
cies and then permit them to pick the
best executives they can fnd.-Kansas
city Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-30
EIGHTY-FIVE YEARS

WlTH to-d'y' issue the Telegraph
w concludes the eighty-fifth year
of its history. 1t is long span
from 1881 to 1916 and a glance over
the pages of this newspaper is reve-
lation of the progress and nddevelopment,
not only of the particular community,
but of the American people. Entering
upon another year with the coming
week, the Telegraph will strive to
more and still more efficiently dis
charge its obligations to the people
of Harrisburg and Central Pennsyl-
vania-its special field.
This city is now regarded every
where as one of the most attractive
and prosperous of American munich
palities. It's fame as a progressive
city has spread far and wide and it
is the common remark of the stranger
within our gates that no city any,
where presents so many interesting,
attractive and wholesome features as
the capital of Pennsylvania.
During the last fifteen years we
have seen tie city expand from an
overgrown borough to a modern and
up-to-date municipality. Millions of
dollars have been expended in public
improvements covering a wide range
of practical and substantial under
takings. But there is much yet to be
done and we trust the City Council
will continue to keep step with the
public spirit of the people, recogniz-
ing the obligations resting upon Off
cials as the commissioned representa-
tives of the community.
Our future growth and prosperity
depend largely upon the breadth of
vision and the proper response of
those vested with authority. So far
as this newspaper is concerned it will
continue to devote its best energies
to developing lively cooperation
among our people in all good things,
so that there may be an increasing
interest in the betterment of the COM
munity in every home and among all
classes of our citizenry.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-30

ME saloon as a social and eco
nomic institution seems to be
doomed. Its condemnation rests
not only upon moral grounds. but upon
increasing evidence of it's tendency to
destroy the most beneficial social in
stitutions and to check industrial and
economic progress. If it is to disappear,
however, some adequate adjustments
and arrangements must be made to
supply it's place. For there is no doubt
tnat -he saloon has ministered to GER
tain characteristic human wants.
The need of some stimulus has so far
been persistent force in the develop
ment of society, and the instinct for as
sociation in common place of meeting
under eXhilarating conditions is part
of mans nature. Alcoholic drinks and
the public house have proved to be cas-
lily accessible means to meet these ends
Where these social requirements have
been overlooked or neglected the en-
forcement OF prohibitory laws against
the saloon has been extremely difficult
Where they have been met or substan-
TALLY ministered to by other agencies
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-30

Lackawanna, Westmoreland, Cam
bria, Clearfield, jefferson, Lawrence,
Snyder and York.
Congressman John r. X. Scott,
field marshal of the Cox forces, come
back with statement scornfully re-
ferring to the Baldwin claims and as
serting that Baldwin was beaten and
knew it. lie said Baldwin would have
only 60 votes and that the claims from
Allegheny were ridiculous. Scott said
later that tonight would see the col
lapse of the Baldwin boom.
Representative Il. w. Sites, of
Montgomery, Joined in the issuance of
statements in favor of Cox and to-day
the railroad brotherhood representa-
tives in the Cox camp blew the whistle
for railroad men to boost for Cox and
see that their legislators voted for
him.
In Philadelphia Senator Penrose
and the Wares exchanged volleys at
short range.
This morning Representative Cox
issued the following cheerful state
ment: This fight is won. l will have
a comfortable majority and my cleo
ton as Speaker of the House is as
sured. The developments of the past
week have all been favorable to my
candidacy. The friends of decent
things in Pennsylvania have rallied
to the standard which our side of
this fight has raised and a victory for
the rehabilitation of the Republican
party as an agency for the people is
ours. AS Speaker of the House my
course shall be in strict compliance
with the position / have maintained
throughout the preliminary cam
paign.'
Mr.. Baldwin said that he stood
upon his statement of last night.
The general spirit of fighting
which prevails in politics affected the
Central Democratic Club last night
and there was a long and strenuous
contest over the presidency, which
was cassed by the morning organ OF
the Dc mocracy as "a friendly contest"
However, 1t was more like the fuss
over the Republican speakershir
nomination than anything else. When
the row ended Mcclellan Rooms was
elected president over John A. Mar
shall and Robert n. Bernheisel was
elected vice-president over John p
Snyder. Other officers elected were:
Secretary, II. d. Reel; membership
committee, e. NJ. Winemiller, ID. K
Young and George L. Marshal;
house committee, Oscar ]. Bogen
James b. Maui, JOSEPH. II. Lescure
Roy M. Hatfield, Charles Duttonhof-
fer, John d. Jennings and Charles
Moeslein.
Death of Representative Jefferson
Yost of Tamaqua, will shorten the Re-
publican list by one. He was counted
as a Baldwin man.
Representative Conrad Miller, oi
Hazleton, has issued statement deny
ing that he is pledged to Cox and DR.
]. X. Urich, of Annville, has told
friends he is for Baldwin, although
claimed by the other side.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-30

and unsalaried council, but who acts
upon his own initiative and directs all
the business of the municipality
through various department heads
who owe their appointment to him.
1t has been said that city manager
selected by an independent council
would doubtless be blessing, but a
manager chosen by group of selfish
politicians would have the city at his
mercy; and the answer is that such q
city manager would not last long. In
considering third-class city legislation
at this session it might be well for the
Legislature to go carefully into the
city manager plan as in operation at
Dayton, Springfield and elsewhere.
The Republican party isn't going to
be judged by the next Speaker of the
House, but by it's record in the Legis-
iature.
Those Yale girls" were even prettier
than the Yale boys were handsome.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-30
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
OLD AND NEW

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Will you kindly publish on Saturday,
December 80, the following verses:
The Old Year stands at the open door,
Grim and gaunt and gray.
He seems to pause and gaze afar
On a long and lonely way.
And some would speed the parting guest
For he brought the bitter days.
Others are loathe to see him go
Who walked in pleasant ways.
He is gone, but It's no empty door.
See the bright young New Year there!
A rosy lad with heart OF cheer,
And never a thought OF care.
pray let me in" he gaily cries,
81 am yours to make or mar"
So we bid him enter and start new
For the Old Years gone afar.
Marie c. Higgins,
Harrisburg, Pa.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-30
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

e. p. Albrecht, of the Philadel-
phia Bourse, is active in the move for
adoption of the metric system.
&C. Il. Middleton, of the Carbon
Steel company, has resigned to take
charge of work for one of the Della
ware river steel casting companies.
Henry c. Frick is reported TO
have added to his already fine col
lection of paintings
Senator p. c. Knox will spend
part of January on southern golf
links.
-Charlemagne Tower is making
lis home at present at Atlantic City.
When the Rev. j. Rauch Stein,
we'll known here. resigned his charge
at Bethlehem, his parishoners gave
him 5000 in gold.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-30
EARLY SPRING

NXTHAT dark. dreary period win
INV ter would be were it not for the
Christmas holidays! We hurry
halong with our preparations for the
anniversary only casually observant of
tthe weather, and New Years Day is
scarcely past before we turn our
thoughts toward spring. The holiday
break is timed for the contentment of
man with his wintry lot AS Scott
wrote:
England was merry England.
Old Christmas brought his sports
Twas Christmas broached the
miShtieSt ale;
Twas Christmas told the merriest
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer
The poor mans heart through half
the year"
And so it is to this day. When the
holiday season ends we settle down to
test of endurance of body and mind
with Old Man Winter as antagonist,
cheered only by the memories of tie
joys we have had and buoyed up by
the hope of IN early spring. Every
prognosticatiol is given earnest at
tention. Even the goosebone prophet
and the grounding find their way to
the first pages of the newspapers and
we are willing at least to regard their
forecasts hopefully, if they call for a
short winter, or we brand them the
falsifiers we know in our hearts they
are if perchance they pretend to have
foreknowledge of a prolongation of
the period of snow and ice.
With these things in mind we
bring forward as cheerful reading for
weather-bound folks the following
reasons a understanding Illinois
editor gives for risking his reputation
that warm weather will come earlier
than usual this year:
Migratory birds were a month
later in starting on their south
The bark on the trees is thin and
light. and the outside bark of the
soft maple is curling up and scaling
off. When hard, cold winter is in
prospect the outside bark lies close
and clings to the trees.
Crickets and grasshoppers re-
matned active this fall later than
The covering on the buds of trees
and bushes is unusually light.
Moles, up to a short time ago
were moving around under the sod,
while earth worms showed that
they had not yet sought winter
quarters by coming to the surface
after rains.
Tho shucks on the corn are un-
usually light and close this fall.
1t all sounds very reasonable. We
hope for the best, but we prefer to
await two infallible local signs - the
coming of the seed catalogs and the
finding of the first hypatica in Wild
wood Park by DIR. Eager. For our
selves we are almost at the point of
believing that spring wouldn't show
up in Harrisburg at all if DR.. Eager
failed to go hunting hypaticas while
other folks are still polishing their
snow shovels.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-30

TIME idea back of the city manager
plan as it is being worked out in
Springfield, o., is well set forth
by Charles E. Ashburner, city man.
ager of that municipality, in a recent
report on conditions there:
may be putting it little strong.
perhaps, but l feel that a man who
will employ another because he
says he believes the same as some
man in Washington as to the cur
rency, the tariff or prohibition, in
stead of making the prerequisite
for a position in municipal affairs
ability to render to the people Just
returns for the money lie takes as
compensation. Is in reality, taking
from one man that which does not
belong to him and giving to an
other man that which he does not
earn in order that the giver may
receive the ultimate benefit
Springfield employees have a right
to what they are paid because every
man, regardless of political or other
beliefs, has earned his compensa-
tion. The right thinking people in
the community believe at heart in
this part of the administration, and
in my opinion the majority of every
community are clean and right
thinking IL they can only he in
dueed to wake up and take hold of
their own affairs
The small council or commission
form of government is moving steadily
in the direction of the city manager.
The trend is natural and consistent.
First the large council, then the small
council with each member in charge
of a department, then the city man
ager. who is responsible to small
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-30
What We Need
IBrooklyn EagIe.l

We don't want the sick. the paupers,
the criminals of other lands. Immi-
grafton laws shutting out Drawn and
muscle are anti American in spirit and
purpose. We wish the United States
Senate would take that view. but 1t
Will not.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-30
SATURDAY EVENING, DEC. 80.

In taking reveRge a man is but even
3Cith his enemy; but in passing it oDer
he is superior, for it is a princes part
to pdrdon.-BACoN.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-30
Among Those Not Present

IFrom Charleston News and Courier
The British seem to have an idea
that they can worry through this war
without the assistance of Winston
Churchill.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-30
uIcTORJC HARRISBURG

The first Harrisburg water works
was projected for the big island op-
posite the city but changed to the
nreSent location.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-30
PLAYING FAST AND LOOSE

MO adequate reason has yet been
IN assigned for MIR. Wilson's extra
ordinary declaration to the labor
delegates that he wished to avoid the
creation of classes and the develop
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-30

The headline, Newspapers Forced to
ERaise Prices" has become so common
<hat we have suggested TO the foreman
Hhat he let the type stand.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-30

Those coronation festivities at Buda-
pest must be almost as cheerful as q
funeral.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-30
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg cinder barrows
are used i'm steel works all over
the country?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-30

Bucharest populace showers flowers
on the victorious Germans. but wait till
the deportations start.-Wall Street
Journal
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-30

Notwithstanding the weapon Samson
used among the Philistines, he didn't
claim to be forcing his kultur upon
them.=Dallas News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-30

England May Take over Drink
Trade. News headline. Russia pusheo
it over, and then stepped on it,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-30

Holland would like to have peace. but
Is afraid to say so.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-30

The occupation of Saloniki appears
to satisfy the Balkan ambitions of the
allies.-Philadelphia Record.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-30
THE CITY MANAGER

allies uber allies" shows how col
tagious German ideas are.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-30
EDITORIAL COMMENT

All the oil of Roumania will not COM
pose Germany's troubled waters. -
Public Ledger.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-30

Villa is demonstrating that a man
may make a great deal of headway in
Mexico without any recognition to
speak of.-Washington Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-30

Russia announces that the allies have
agreed to let her have the Straits and
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES of course,
that she can get them.-Kansas City
Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-30

Those Yale girls" were even prettie
than the Yale boys were handsome.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-30

E. ]. J.STACKPOLE, Prest aHo Editor-in. Chief
i. r. OYSTER, Business Manager.
GUS NJ. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-30
OUR DAILY LAUGH

AAAkJ oS<A
TION.
I don't know
what to do with
that boy of
mine. He won't
go to school, he
won't work and
he's always ask
ing me for
money.
w h y don't
you get him a
job as collector
for an INSTALL
ment house? Z?