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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-24
MAN IS LIKE MOTOR CAR
SAYS HEALTH EVANG ELLST
By BRIGGS

pared for this period, it stands little
chance of staying together.
The time to prepare for this period
is the thirteen years before it begins.
Then the child will reach manhood or
womanhood with a fair chance to get
over the long road ahead of it in good
shape"
The third danger period, Mr.. Flynn
said, is between so and so.
This is the most difficult of all to
handle" he said. This is where we
meet the machines that have managed
to survive the road. They aren't all
in the best of shape, though. They
are beginning to puff and steam and
rattle. The next few years will tell
whether they can make the long hill
ahead or go to the junk heap.
The thing for every man and wo-
man to do at this time is to stop and
cut down the horse power. It's time
to reduce the fuel. and to see that no
carbon gets on the cylinders.
But there's no excuse for the ma
chine going to pieces. It's all a ques-
tion of intelligent driving and care"
Kansas City Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-24
Great Opportunity
New York Herald I

Speaking in Philadelphia Myron T.
Herrick expressed the wish that
President Wilson might see fit to APP
point committee of leading Amer
leans to raise fund of a billion dol
lars for relief work in the belligerent
countries.
1T is often said" declared the erst-
while ambassador to France, that
the United States will have no friends
when this war ends, but were we to
create this gigantic charity for the
relief of the wounded and des-
titute its benehcent work would over
shadow all the animosities which now
Vex us. We should have all these ma
tions as our friends"
Coming so closely after the Presi-
dents Thanksgiving Day proclama-
ton calling upon all Americans TO
share their bounty with the afflicted
peoples of Europe, this suggestion of
MT Herrick merits the deepest con-
sideration. In the midst of this world
cataclysm America can achieve no
nobler nor more durable distinction
than by being the Great Samaritan
to the wars innocent victims.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-24

wreck of body and soul on the rock
of intemperance has never been paint
ed in such vivid colors as London de-
picted it from his own lurid expe-
riences. And in the end he summed
up all the damning evidence be him
self had given as witness against
old John Barleycorn-and then de-
cided that for him drink was supreme.
that he preferred the short life and
the merry" with whisky to cheer the
way, to the drab side of existence with
out the stimulus of drink.
The result is in full accord with his
own prognostications, but it is most
pitiful, for all that.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-24
AN ABLE RULER
ME- declaration of Emperor
Charles, successor to Francis

THE declaration of Emperor
Charles, successor to Francis
Joseph on the throne of Aus
tria Hungary, that he intends to con-
duct the war to a successful conclu-
| sion, is based on more than the heroics
of an archduke called suddenly to
| imperial duties. Charles has conduct
ed himself with distinguished honor
and marked ability in the field since
the very beginning of the great war
in which he now finds himself so con-
spicuous figure, and he speaks from
deeds rather than from the mere de-
sire to do.
The new Emperor has had a bril-
liant military career and is now the
only member of the Austrian imperial
family known to be holding a high
command in the field. The world
learned with surprise last May that the
Austrian heir-apparent was in COM
mand of the Austrian army which
| penetrated farthest into northern
Italy in the dramatic drive which was
brought to an abrupt close by the
Russian counter offensive in Volhynia
and Galicia.
From that time he was hailed as the
rising military genius of the house of
Austria and while Archduke Frederick,
| titular commander-in-ch chief of the
Austro- Hungarian forces, went into
mysterious seclusion along with his
brothers when Won Hindenburg was
made generalissimo in the east,
Charles Francis was soon called to
divide honors with Hindenburg him
self. The official German bulletins in
recent months have referred only to
the front of Won Hindenburg and his
successor, Prince Leopold of Bavaria,
and of Archduke Charles.
Recently his command was extend
ed to include not only the region from
the Dniester to Bukowina, but, nomin-
ally at least, the entire Rumanian
reveal, even General Won Falkenhayn,
| former German Chief of Staff, was
outranked by Charles Francis.
1t is not conceivable that Austria
will permit her ruler longer to remain
in the field at the head of an army
corps, much as his services there may
be desirable, but what the Central
Powers will lose by his call to higher
duties will be amply repaid by the in
telligent service he will be able to
render as head of the nation when
military genius is its sorest need.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-24
The Law Falls Short
Pittsburgh Dispatchl

lTlttSDurSn DlSpatch1
The complexities of our social life
will furnish the reason for slow
movements towards the elimination
OF child labor under the age of I6. So
much must be done before that can
be accomplished, and whatever is
done must be SO slowly worked out,
that hope for the abolition of child
labor cannot grow strong.
owen r., Loveioy, secretary of the
National Child Labor Committee,
gave his approval to the recently en-
acted federal law, in an address in
Phlladelphia a couple of days ago.
But he qualities his appreciation by
saying 1t is good only so far as it
goes and 1t doesn't go far enough by
almost 100000 child workers in the
industries. In spite of all that has
been done to soften, to eliminate, the
evils of child labor, he regrets that
there are 100000 children at work
whose welfare is not touched by any
law, federal or State. His own So
luton is the outlawing of child la
Dor. He says nothing but to make
all child labor unlawful will ever
reach the heart of the problem.
Long before society is ready to
abolish child labor it must be willing
to make sweeping changes here and
there to lead up to the final outlaWry.
To prohibit all child labor now would
be to throw upon society the respon-
sibility for the millions of little work
ers which would be as great a prob
lem, perhaps, more serious than the
original one. Obviously If child labor
is an evil the only cure is it's aboli-
tion. but recognizing an evil is vast
ly easier than working out means for
its removal
By the time society is prepared to
abolish child labor by outlawing 1t. SO
many other conditions will have been
made over that it will appear in the
general shifting without attracting
much, if any, attention.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-24
Business Briefs

October figures show s2,50O. 900, 900
gain in the United States foreign trade
for the year.
Representatives of the Russian gov
ernment yesterday placed orders with
Baldwin's for 40 largest type locomo-
tives making a total of 109 in the past
two weeks, aggregating a contract
price of $1,250,000.
Wheat crop estimates indicate a de-
crease below normal of nearly 28 per
cent. for the whole world.
A big rush is reported for knit
goods, with the result that prices are
up and stocks are depleted.
High cost of cotton caused another
advance in bleached cottons of all
kinds yesterday.
An extra dividend of per cent has
been declared by the Lackawanna Steel
Company.
More than 100000 worth of auto
mobiles ready for shipment are held at
Detroit because of car shortage.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-24
A Writer'S Ups and Downs

A writer does his very best to make
his work excel.
To charm the critics one and all he
strains his brain like-everything.
He reads a script dozen times before
he vets a seal;
Than have the thing rejected, he would
rather miss a meal.
" 'Tis done!" he swears by all the gods,
but still his face grows pale
When from his hand the finished
product drops into the mail.
And from Hopes highest mountain
peak he takes an awful dip
Into the Valley of Despair just like a
storm-tossed ship
When where his thrilling masterpiece
should have appeared in print,
OF anything from his free pen there's
not the slightest hint.
He sees the busy Editor glance quickly
DER his script.
And down into the waste box, then, 1t
takes its final trip.
"A schoolboy. now." he says. could
see the whole blamed thing was
punk,
I don't know what ever meant by
sending in that junk.
That Editor will surely think that I'm
q silly boob
An amateur, perhaps, or some un-
educated Reub.
I'D just as well stop trying, for 1 do
not have the gift
Then, down the stream of Pessimism,
ten to one, he'll drift.
Until someday, while looking through
the paper with a sneer.
He finds his thrilling masterpiece; 1t
make him feel so queer.
And then to him. just as to an afflicted
Israelite.
The very thing that poisoned once be-
comes healing slight.
Ashamed because he didn't have the
confidence to wait,
Quite modestly, he mutters when his
friends congratulate:
"Of course I knew he'd print the thing.
for dash 1t, don't you know,
That, after ALL it's mighty good ex-
cept a line or So"
JAS. c. BOWERMASTER
For the Telegraph.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-24
troll of the next House to the Demo

troll of the next House to the Demo-
Gratis.
The political complexion, according
to Mr. Doremus. will be:
Democrats, 217: Republicans, 213;
Progressive. l; Socialist, l. Protec-
zionist, l +; Prohibition, 1 independent, l.
Republican leaders have been count
ing upon three members of these
minor partfes-Schall, Progressive, OF
Minnesota; Martin. Protectionist, OF
Louisiana, and Fuller, independent, OF
Massachusetts. This would give the
minority party only PIG, while the
Democrats would have 219. Final
election counts may change the esti-
mates of Mr.. Doremus.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-24
Gold Coins Disappear

Bankers and pay officers of the
army are puzzled over the rapid dis
appearance of new gold coins and
their replacement ty old and worn
gold coins. That someone is collect
ing and retaining all new gold coins
being paid out by the army to soldiers
replacing them with old, worn gold
coins, was asserted by quartermaster
department officers. AS much as
s175,000 in gold has been paid out al
Brownsville, Texas, in one month. II
is believed that the higher weight OF
the new coins Is the cause for their
dlsappearance.-San Antonio Express
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-24
Courtesy Saved Life

Courtesy to gray hair, which he
has always tried to respect. saved INV
boys life" said Mrs. Mary Fox of Wo-
burn. mother of William Fox, a pas
senger on the car that plunged into
the Fort Point Channel a few davs
ago. Pride cleaned in her eyes as she
told OF her boys escape.
Fox had left his seat in the car ana
smilingly gave IL to an elderly. gray
haired man. only a minute before the
street car arrived at the bridge. He
then took his place with several others
on the front platform. from which he
leaped to safety.-Boston Post.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-24
LONDON AND BARLEYCoRN

MO more pitiful picture has been
In presented in the news recently
than that of Jack London, the
brilliant young writer, lying cold in
death at an age when his once vigor-
ous body and mind should be at the
very zenith of their power; and the
more so because it was all so unneces-
sary. London met John Barleycorn.
and was vanquished.
The writer's story of that name,
published in a popular magazine re-
Gently, was admittedly his own ex-
perience with drink. He recited the
horrors of the habit with all the
graphic power of his virile pen. The
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-24
SHOOTING IN WILDWOOD

TINE following extract from a some
i what lengthy letter to the editor
of the Telegraph is only another
Illustration of the slipshod manner in
which the City Park Department has
been run by Commissioner Gross:
I would also like to draw your
attention to the, fact that my chill
Sdren dare no longer spend their
where they used to take their
lunches and fish or hunt for nuts.
Gunners are everywhere. Not an
believe there has been one there
since the hunting season opened.
Last Saturday, when l told one he
to "go to the devil" If I had not
been a woman I'm afraid I would
have had to face charge of break
ing a park rule for disorderly con-
duct. 1t is shame that we can
not use our only uptown park for
fear of being shot by men and boys
who kill our squirrels and rabbits
while the Park Commissioner looks
on and smiles.
This letter is from a well-known
West End woman, the mother of three
boys. Her name is withheld at her
own request.
1t is a shameful fact, as this CORE
spondent says. that Commissioners
Gross should have withdrawn all OF
his police officers at the very time
they were most needed in Wildwood
Always there will be some violations
of the cunning law in the park. But
in former years offenders have been
dealt with SO vigorously that few have
rod fn n ha iSIr II.
has been comparatively safe.
There is another regrettable side to
this reckless shooting up" of Wild
wood. Ever since its purchase park
authorities have been endeavoring to
make the tract, which is ideally suited
for the purpose, great game pre-
serve. Water fowl. quail. opossum
squirrels and rabbits have found refuge
there and have multiplied under the
protection of the park officers. All
this good work has been undone oy
the neglect of the present admins
tration.
Commissioner Gross only excuse fol-
Withdrawing the police is that he has
no money and that Council will not
give him any. This is in large part his
own fault. In order to attempt a
srandstand showing he deliberately
took less than Council would have
given him when the budget was made
up last year. Council is also to be
criticised in not coming to the rescue
of the Park Department at a time
when 1T is in sore need of assistance
The public is aware of these things
and 1t is not likely to forget, even
though for the moment it is to some
extent helpless.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-24
EDITORIAL COMMENT

Apparently the Mexican joint commits
sion can see no need of hurrying the
negotiations so long as the two Gov
ernments concerned are paying the
hotel bills.-Des Moines Register.
The hyphen turned out to be only a
minus sign.-Philadelphia North Ameri-
can.
The temperature of the DeutschIand'a
second welcome is about U-53 degrees.
-, The Nobel peace-prize is cumulative.
tne future competition will look like
war.-Wall Street Journal
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-24

Denmark is to issue iron money. II
the price of paper keeps going up may
be Uncle Sam will find it cheaper to
let Charlie Schwab make a few dollars
for him, the aforesaid Mr.. Schwab al
ready having quite little reputation
as a dollar maker.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-24
TIME three danger periods of hu-
man life formed the subject of {
- a talk by w. Earl Flynn. health


evangelist.
Infancy, Mr.. Flynn said, was the
first danger period.
You talk about preparedness" said
the lecturer. Can anyone tell me
anything people should prepare more
carefully for than the bringing of a
new life into the world?
I'VE ought to start avoiding the
dangers of infancy a year ahead.
Strong. healthy, intelligent parents are
the best defense a child can have
against illness and death. Talk about
infantile paralysis! Why, parental
ignorance kills more children every
year than infantile paralysis kills in a
hundred"
In discussing the next danger pc
riod-between 13 and 16-Mr. Flynn
compared the human body to a motor
car.
Between 13 and 16," he said, "the
change in child is equivalent to the
change from a 1-cylinder to a twin
six motor car. Unless it has been pre-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-24
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
MY KINGDOM FORA TURKEY
Harrisburg, Pa, y
To the Editor of the Telegraph: /:

To The Editor of the Telegraph:
I have a new 1917 model auto
mobile that I would like to exchange
for a turkey. Is there anybody you
can suggest who might be induced to
make the trade?
/ do not expect large turkey-just
moderate sized one. Anxiously
awaiting your reply, because we ex-
pect company for dinner, 1 am,
Yours truly.
PIANO MAN
P. S.-My machine is a 1917 model
Peerless,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-24
1NDIFFER ENCE.

Which do you
prefer, summer
or winter?
I've no pref
erence; 1t Is
equally depress-
l n 6 t o m @
whether I put in
a large portion
of my time
reading about
the hottest day
ever, or the
coldest day ever.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-24

Emperor Charles announces that he
will push the war to a successful end.
The new Emperor isn't bashful about
taking on big contracts.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-24

A Southern bandit stole $4,000 the
other day from an express company.
Probably he wanted the money to ox-
press a few Christmas packages.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-24

London hotels are putting up prices
on account of a scarcity of food. Ameri-
can hotelkeepers have done the same
because of a plentitude of dollars.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-24

Chicago women are having a contest
to find who can dress most quickly. We
hope this fashion comes East.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-24

Football Fatal" Why not let the
type stand?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-24

published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.,
Telegraph building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-24

e. j. STACKPOLE,P Pres't and Editorin-C Chist
r. r. OYSTER, Business Managsr.
GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-24

TINE following extract from some
what lengthy letter to the editor
of the Telegraph is only another
Illustration of the slipshod manner in
which the City Park Department has
been run by Commissioner Gross:
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-24

WELL POSTED
Housewife
Will you please
tell me where I
can see the can
delabra d?
New Clerk
All C a n n e d
goods are on the
next floor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-24

Somehow or other people never get
tired looking at a fire and Saturday
good many people found much of
interest watching flames sweep along
the First Mountain above Enola. The
fire got started on Friday night and
in the afternoon spread rapidly. The
battle between the men engaged in
fighting it and the flames swept by a
high wind was extremely interesting
and as the fire was high up the ebb
and flow of the fire could be plainly
seen,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-24

What do you
think of the
p T e s | d e n t s
speeches?
l don't like
them.
II a v e yo u
read them?
No. when I
disagree with a
mans politics 1
don't have to
read his speech
es to know that
! don't lik G
them.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-24

Don't look for fdtos as you 90 through
life,
And eUen though you find them
Be tciSe and kind and sometohat blind,
And look for pfrtues behind them.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-24
OUR DAILY LAUGH
POOR PER-
FORMANCE.

Miss Sweet
She has a good
ear for music.
Maybe so, but
she doesn't sing
with her ear.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-24

Ex-Governor Samuel w. Penny
packer, contrary to the general
opinion, liked to talk for publication.
Only he did not always answer the
questions. Once he was asked by q
well-known reporter, now an upstate
editor, about his cabinet. In reply he
gave a fine discussion of the art of
printing spelling books in 1850.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-24

According to the notices being filed
at the State Capitol immense sums of
money are being made available for
manufacturing purposes. There have
been literally millions of dollars au-
thorized to be secured by companies
for sale of additional stock or bonds.
The increases have been filed at live
lier rate the last six months than ever
known before. incidentally the State
gets from $40 to $35 on each paper
according to character and size.
, 1916-01-19
Censored at Jamaica J

London, Jan. 14lh-It is authoritatively
announced to-day the reported offensive of
the Teutonic allies against Salonica did net
occur. The rumours hat the attack had
been begun against the forces of the Allies
apparently originated in the activity of the
French by blowing up of the bridges con-
pecting Salonica with the road over which
the attackers would normally travel.
London, Jan. 14th-Ihe German Govern
ment is sounding public opinion as to the
advisability of a General Election in January
1917 in case fine war has not ended by that
time, as the Reicbstag expires this year ac-
cordisg to an Amsterdam despatch. The
Government hopes by this means TO reduce
the number of Socialists in the Reichstag.
Paris, Jan. 13th-As reprisal for the in
ternment of French subjects in Turkey the
French authorities arrested Salim Bey, ar
chivist of the Turkish Embassy. His wife
and daughter also WIN be placed in c%onfine-
ment.
El Paso, Texas, Jan. 14th-Martial law
proclaimed just before midnight last night
by Brigadier-G General Pershing command
ing at Fort Bliss, restored order and
Comparative quiet in this border town
I for the hast three days in a turmoil of excite