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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-27
Military Training
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Australia, at war for two and half
years. rejected conscription. It was
only after nearly two years of war on
an unparalleled scale that England
most udgingly-accepted conscrip-
ton, with various notifications and
disguises. Conscription in the United
States is unthinkabe by any mind of
normal temperature.
But there are elements of military
training that are valuable to any
people in any situation. A discipline,
both of body and mind, can be founded
upon the manual of arms to much
wider advantage than upon the rules
of football or baseball. because it can
be given much wider application. Ath-
letics in schools and colleges persist
emily selects those candidates who need
athletic training least, because they
are already so well developd bodily as
to give promise of exceptional perform
ance. The hollow-chested boy and
girl are usually slighted. AS now
mainly organized. athletics in school
and college elects the underdeveloped
to sit i'm the grandstand and shout.
Many parents choose q military school
for boys solely for the bodily and men,
tai discipline involved.
There is no rational pacifist objec-
ton to training on the military model
in public schools. The model has been
pretty carefully devised to get chest
expansion, erect carriage, precision of
motions. alertness; order and unity are
implicit in 1t.
If our militaristic agitation of the
dierlv drill in athletics as a standing
feature of public school instruction, its
untoward intentions might we'll be
forgiven.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-27
Curious Condensations
[Taken From Exchangesl

[Taken From Exchanged
One out of four Australians has a
substantial bank account.
Many ostriches in South Africa are
hatched in incubators.
A six-mile bore under James Peak,
in the Rockies will cut 73 miles off
the rans-continental trip.
Bessie Arnell, q Chicago nurse, re-
Gently received a 100000 bequest in
the Will of an aged woman she once
nursed.
The gasoline consumed in the United
States this year has been estimated as
equivalent to a stream six feet wide
and foot deep flowing at q speed of
mile an hour.
French chemists have discovered
that coating the interior of containers
with aluminium paint will prevent the
accumulation of deposits that often
come from hard water.
Swedish scientists are producing a
new fertilizer by treating feldspar or
another mineral base of potassium
with q suitable amount of carbon and
iron in an electric furnace.
To obtain q powerful searcklight
with comparatively weak current n
Frenchman has mounted a number of
incandescent lamps on revolving
circle, each in turn being illuminated
briefly and their combined rays be-
ing collected by reflector.
Secretary of Labor Wilson began
his career as coal digger.
China yearly imports $4,000, 900
worth of various kinds of leather.
The Venezuelan Government has
decided to build highway across the
Republic that will be 6S3 miles long.
The worlds best cork comes from
Spanish and Portuguese trees that are
allowed to become 40 years old before
the bark is cut, and tLen it is removed
only every eight or ten years.
ireland has S4,S69 land holders
having plots not exceeding an acre,
61,730 who hold more than one acre
and not more than five acres, 153,299
under 8 and 1856, 05S not exceeding 80.
To permit the miners to work longer
shifts, the owners of a German coal
mine compress air at the surface of
the ground and pipe it to the deepest
workings to cool and dry the atmo-
sphere the men breathe.
Mrs John McDonlugh of Gorham,
Me-. reused by the shouting of the
telephone operator in an opposite
block, who first saw a big fire there
recently at once shot her automatic re-
volver out of the window and ran
down the street, pulling doorbels and
shouting fire, until she reached the
church, where. with aid. the bell was
rung.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-27

was not only a public demand but a
, public clamor."
Senator Penrose joined in the at
tacks on the Attorney General last
night and charged that he was not a
Republican and that he never took
part in Republican councils except as
lawyer. The senator says there will
be investigation by the next Legis-
lature of the Brown fees. Said Sem
ator PenroSe: "These fees are not
easily ascertained from an examination
OIL the reports of the Auditor Gem
eral because they are covered up un-
der the designation of attorney fees,
but at an early opportunity, doubtless,
the vouchers will be required and will
snow that several hundred thousands
OF dollars have been paid to Mr.. Brown
and his associates. often for nominal
work. In the case of the revenue COM
mission, to which reference has been
made, his charge for professional serv-
ices was some $4,000. more or less,
which the commission grudgingly was
| induced to pay him"
Newspapers of the state appear to
be generally demanding q clearing up
OF the charges that this or that is
wrong and the chances are that legis-
lators coming here will be imbued with
the idea that there should be some
investigations. If this policy is adopted
II VIII mean protracted session with
little more than appropriation bills
and most of those more or less
mussed up.
Mayor Fischer. of Williamsport,
whose citizenship has been attacked,
will resign next week.
Congressman Coleman saws that
he is confident that he can show that
he was legally elected his in district.
Mayor Smiths home legislators
appear to have Joined the Cox forces.
William A. Fisher. prominent in
Butler county affairs and long con-
nected with the county committee, is
dead.
appointment of treasurers for
Franklin and other counties is ex-
pected to come soon from the Gov
ernor's office.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-27
THE WEATHER

CMILING skies make smiling faces
n 1t is easy to be pleasant when
the sun shines brightly, even
though a wintry breeze be swapping
uncomfortably at the ears and nose,
but the test of good nature comes on
day like this when, as Dickens said
of one like it, 'the ice it isn't water,
and the water isn't free, and you
cannot say that anything is what it
ought to be-"
The man who can sit down suddenly
on slippery pavement coated with
about an eighth of an inch of what
he discovers to be the wettest kind of
water, and can get up smiling without
saying anything that he would be
ashamed to have repeated in Sunday
school, is man to tie to in any emer-
gency.
Anybody can get mad when the
weather behaves as though it has been
especially designed to produce maxi
mum of profanity in a given period
of time, but it is the man who can
grin when everything is going at skies
and sevens, including his feet, who is
q genuine ray of light in a gloomy
world, and he gets his reward.
This applies also to the subscriber
who greets the Telegraph carrier with
q word of sympathy and appreciation
for his faithful service. instead of
scolding him when he comes slipping
and sliding UP the front walk ten
minutes or so behind schedule on O
night like this.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-27
Slowing Down

AT this time of year business usually
slows down in many directions. The
developments of the last two weeks
inaugurated by Germany's note for
peace, have added somewhat to the
slowing down. This is especially no.
ticeable where speculative commodi-
ties, including farm products, have en-
tered into consideration. No doubt all
buying from now on until the present
situation has crystallized will be more
cautious, where possible to cut it down
especially on commitments which eX-
tend too far into the future. Dun's
Review says that this will be well
coined by producers with contracts for
months ahead and pushed to their
utmost capacity to meet requirements.
The Bache Review
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-27
COMMUNITY CENTERS AND
THE GROWTH OF 4 CITY
GREAT many people are apt to

n GREAT many people are apt to
~ think that the recent widespread
movement in the cities of this
country toward the establishment of
social centers, Fairgrounds and insti-
tutions of like nature is representative
of an innovation in human affairs. In
reality, however, there is nothing new
in the impulse, nor, when the full
fruition of all these efforts is realized,
will there then exist any condition
which has not been experienced by the
people of this country before.
There was a time. before the rapid
growth of cities, with their limiting
and confining tendencies. had set in,
when the community center-although
not called by that name-was as per-
vasive an institution as it is now a
rare one. The original social centers
were the corner grocery, the church
bazar, the town square, the public
market and the schoolhouse. These
performed completely all the functions
which we now demand a social center
shall perform. But their service in
this respect was a gratuitous one; in
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-27
IMPoRTATIoNs INCREASE

nMPORTATIONS of manufactures
for further use in manufacturing
and manufactures ready for con-
sumption totaled 1894, 100000 during
the first ten months of the current
year. This is $12, 900, 900 greater than
the total for the first ten months of
1913 (nine of which was under the
Republican protective tariff law
despite the fact that imports from
gium have practically ceased, and
France, England, Russia and Italy
are using a large portion of their
productive energy in the manufacture
of war supplies.
This increase in imports of foreign
commodities which compete with do
mestic manufactures, the product of
our highly paid mill operators, is due
priEcipally to two causes: First, the
tariff-for- r-less-than-revenue rates in
the Wilson-Underwood law, and, sec
ond, the tremendous industrial eff
ficiency of Europe growing out of the
war. If these countries can increase
their hold on the American market
at the same time that they are carry
ing on the bloodiest and the costliest
war in the history OF mankind, what
is the prospect after the war has ceas-
ed and hundreds of thousands of the
impoverished swell the ranks of the
mill operatives, whilst benign govern
ments lend their financial support to
industries which may need assistance
to extend their markets, give employ
ment to taX-crushed populace and
rehabilitate their respective nations?
Under the Democratic tariff policy
foreign goods will pour into the
United States as long as we have the
money to buy.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-27

States is no more prepared for peace
to-day than it was for war when
Europe took fire more than two years
ago.
One need look no farther than Steel
ton for proof of this. E. G.. Grace,
president of the Bethlehem Steel Com
pany and one of the greatest steel
authorities in the world. said in New
York last week:
AS soon as the war ends this
country has got to have tariff pro-
dustry will be ruined. This means
out in wages now to Americans will
be paid out to workers living
abroad.
Under the tariff now existing in ,
this country no man in the iron or
steel industry could live. He could
not pay his workmen. to say moth
Before the war It was bad enough
with Germany, the only important
competitor, in the iron and steel
was enough-if the war had not
come-to ruin the iron business in
this country with the tariff that we
have.
But since the war began France
and England have devoted all their
energies to iron and steel produc-
And they know how to compete
as well as Germany.
We have no such protection. Nor
are we likely to have soon. 1t is not
within probabilities that the slow
moving, free-trade believers in Wash
ington will repudiate their Underwood
tariff schedules before they must. The
country will be on the verge of ruin
before they will wake up. fully to the
falsity of their tariff beliefs, although
here and there signs indicate that some
Democrats are beginning to understand
the peril confronting the nation.
So it behooves every business man
to so trim his ship as to be ready for
any gale that may beset. Nothing
could be more disastrous than that a
period of sudden contraction of trade
should find us with an incompleted
program of expansion upon our hands.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-27
INQUIRER.

This is the third letter of the kind
Death" was published.
Seeger's collected poems have lust
been issued by Scribner's. His
Rendezvous with Death" is included.
lie was young American writer of
great promise and he fulfilled his
trenches in the face of a whitening
machine gun fire as he charged in the
ranks of the French Foreign Legion.
From early youth Seeger had writ
ten poetry, and it was his passionate
quest of beauty, so faithfully mirrored
in his verse. which was primarily re-
sponsible for his presence in France
at the outbreak of the war. and thus.
indirectly, for his enlistment in the
Foreign Legion. The reason for his
voluntary service is set forth by the
poet himself in letter written from
the Aisne trenches to ''The New Re-
public" during the Spring of last
year.
He said he had chosen Paris as his
abiding place from all the cities of
the world-he and his comrades. Paris
was in danger. his friends went to her
rescue; he went with them. How much
literature lost thereby nobody can
tell, but 1t has been enriched by one
of the most remarkable pieces of
prophetic verse ever penned. Seeger
foresaw his doom, rallied against 1t,
wrote his protest in lasting llnes-and
then went forth TO his fate
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-27
Prohibition Prohibits

The sneer of the liquor interests.
that prohibition does not prohibit"
has already been answered by several
of the prohibition States in the enact
ment of laws which will make it next
to impossible for the liquor interests
to invade those States, on any pretext,
without the risk of involving them
selves in serious difficulty. States that
have been dry" that is are now be-
coming bone dry" The latest ac-
cessions to the bone dry" ranks are
Arizona, Idaho. and Oregon. Kansas,
of course. led the movement. The
liquor interests said that Kansas could
not keep them wholly out. Kansas
accepted the challenge, and does keen
them out, as nearly as it is, at this
stage. possible to exclude any kind
of Observation-Disclosures Science
Monitor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-27
Pompous Mediocrity
philadelphia Ledger.1

lGnliauelpnla Ledger.
We talk lot about the tired busi-
ness man. He has no monopoly OF
weariness. In various callings men
grow tired. and for various reasons
One of the most fatiguing experiences
of thislmortal existence is to meet the
man whose head is much too large for
his brains. whose vanity exudes al
every pore, whose sensitiveness is ever
the chip on the shoulder ready to be
knocked off, the tail of the coat drag
ging on the ground ready to be trodden
upon,
1t argues a limited experience OF
the world If man feels himself large
and consequential. What on earth has
he done that other men did not do be-
fore him, and do a great deal better ?
All the boasting of what one can do
and what one will be is nothing. If all
the hot air that eddies and stratifies
where people are supposed to be at
work could be converted into calories,
there would be no need of mining coal.
And good deal of the talk consists
of overrating ones self and under
rating the other fellow.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-27
Foundations of God

Nevertheless the foundations of God
standeth sure, having this seal, The
Lord knoweth them that are his And,
Let every one that nameth the name
of Christ depart from inlquity-II
Timothy II, 10.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-27

There are indications that the Kaiser
mas a better opinion of President Will
son than formerly, but he is not averse
for all that to putting one over on
iEour Uncle Sam.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-27
OUR DAILY LAUGH

Where are you
going, my
p + g t t y
maid?
I'm going o
hunting sir,
she said;
What are you
hunting, my
p r g t t y
maid?
The chump
who wrote
this rhvme,
she said.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-27
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg plants are MAX
ing many constituent parts of
munitions?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-27
Approval of a Modest Man

LFrom La Follette's Magazine
Senator La Follette's reelection has
been hailed with joy by true Progress
sives everywhere in the nation,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-27

Don't be mum when you're asked for
a subscription to the Mummers' parade.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-27

Washington Post-Those Valley
Forge patriots may have been expert
enced looters, but the cold storage out
put suggests they overlooked quite a
number of fresh eggs in their day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-27
ALAN SEEGER
ME Telegraph takes pleasure in
replying to the following letter:

i replying to the following letter
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Who is. or was. Alan Seeger?
There appeared in the columns of
your paper, a few days since, @
really remarkable bit of verse by
him, called II Have a Rendezvous
With Death"-and after his name
the words "killed in France" Was
he poet of some note, or was this
little poem one of those single. in
spired utterances that war and
daily association with death so
often wiring from the heart of
man never before suspected of lit
erary abilities? / confess my ig-
norance. l never saw Seegers
name before.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-27

Those who arrived late at work this
morning had perfectly lovely ex-
cuse.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-27

HISTORIC HARRISBURG
In old days the bells used to all ring
in Harrisburg on Christmas Day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-27
EDITORIAL. COMMENT

Washington Herald-There is no
evidence yet that the threatened egg
boycott will cause the hens to go on
strike or even ask for an eight-hour
daN.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-27

Congressman J. r. X. Scott. OF
Philadelphia. who is the guiding spirit
at the Cox headquarters, is a former
legislator and was a candidate himself
in 1913. Mr.. Scott is vigorous and re-
sourceful and his handling of the cam
paign is being watched with interest
here.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-27

Captain r. S. Leisenring, who will
be in charge of the muster out of the
Eighteenth Infantry at Pittsburgh, is
a regular army officer who started his
career as n soldier in the Chambers
burg company of the Eighth Infantry.
He went through the Spanish War
and won commission in the regulars
afterward. At Camp Brumbaugh he
was in charge of muster-in work and
is well known to many residents OF
this city and the Cumberland Valley
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-27

Major ]. c. Kirk, of New Cumber-
land, who is at the soldiers home at
washington, where the soldiers occupy
the old summer home of President
Lincoln, seems to have enjoyed a fine
Christmas dinner. judging from the
menu cards sent home. There was a
band concert by the band of the home
and the veterans enjoyed roast Rhode
Island turkey with all the trimmings
from oyster cocktails to cigars. There
were doubtless some tall stories told.
The major is getting ready for his an
nual march down Pennsylvania avenue.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-27
TOO WON
DERFUL.

What a Won
derful C O m =
pleXion she hns.
Yes. Doesn't
seem natural,
does It?
It isn't.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-27

Strange as it may seem there were
numerous sales of boats last week
and one man who handles such things
declared that he had sold an unusual
number of canoes. AS a matter of fac+
interest in river sports has been grow
ing rapidly and the presentation OF n
canoe or some paddles or some boat.
seats or cushions is as common az
baseball bats and gloves or a tennis
racket. But it does seem strange to
think OF canoes for Christmas when
the wide branching Susquehanna is
frozen solid.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-03-27

COUNTY TREASURER - Deputy
County Treasurer Myrtle w.
Blakeley announces her candidacy
for the office of County Treasurer.
/ hereby announce my candidacy
on the Republican ticket for the
office of County Treasurer, to be
voted on at the coming primaries.
I have held the position as deputy
in this office for the past year and
am confident that | can fulfill the
duties connected Herewith.
l served two years as Deputy
County Recorder before taking the
position as Deputy County Treasur-
er; l have also had experience as
accountant for several corpora
tions, such as tie Medford Con-
crete Construction Company and
Medford Ice and Storage Company,
before taking up county work, and
will say that my past record is
open for inspection to the voters of
Jackson county.
If nominated and elected I will
run the office without the expense
of a deputy and continue to serve
the public just as efficiently in the
future as | have in the past.
MYRTLE w. BLAKELEY.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-03-27

DISTRICT ATTORNEY The first Of
the year a number Of Republicans,
including many who approved Of
my efforts in the interest Of the
taxpayers as State Representative
four years ago, requested me to be-
come a candidate for the office Of
District Attorney, inasmuch as
there would be, in addition to the
regular duties of the criminal and
juvenile courts, new duties and
conditions confronting the office.
Among these were mentioned the
enforcement of the Prohibition
Act, and the likelihood of having
to foreclose many tax liens, partic-
u,arly those against the Southern
Pacific land grant of nearly half
million acres in Jackson county,
amounting to about 100000.
My reply was that l would be-
come a candidate If it were gener-
ally desired and the race could be
made without assuming special OBJ
legation to any particular individ-
ual, faction, locality or interest.
Therefore, after consulting per-
sonally or by letter with several
hundred men and women of all oc-
cupations in all parts Of the coun-
ty, believing there is a real desire
for my candidacy, l will be can
didate for the nomination Of Dis
trict Attorney on the Republican
ticket. JOHN H. CARKIN.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-03-27

FOR COUNTY SCHOOL SUPERIN-
TENDENT-I am a candidate for
the Republican nomination for
County School Superintendent. |
stand for: A continuance of pro-
gressive policies in education, econ
omy consistent with efficiency,
equal educational advantages for
the boys and girls on the farms
with those in the cities and towns.
If nominated and elected | will
In the future, as in the past, give
nv full time and best efforts to
the supervision of the schools and
administration of the duties of the
office. During my incumbency l
have not confined myself strictly
to the routine duties of the office,
but have taken a broader view of
the mission of the County School
Superintendent. In addition to
nv efforts to raise the standard OF
teaching and improve the physical
conditions at school, / have la
bored to promote the welfare Of
the boys and girls through indus
trial clubs, school fairs, school
credits for home work, parent
teacher circles, spelling and arith-
metic contests, and other activities.
I feel that my work has been re-
garded with favor, and in order to
continue it / am asking for re-elec-
tion. ]. PERCY WELLS.