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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-31
In the Labor World

Fifteen hundred miners in the vicin-
ity of Athens, Ohio, struck because
powder was raised 20 cents a keg in
violation of the agreement. The op-
orators blame the European war.
A conference of cigarmakers of all
the unions in Southwestern Pennsyl-
Vania was held in Reading recently at
which plans for an increase in wages
and more thorough organization of
the craft was considered. Another con-
ference will be held in September,
when more definite action will be
taken.
President Scott, of the International
Typographical Union. in his report to
the annual convention in Baltimore,
reported the last year banner one in
gross earnings of the membership,
which increased $780, 900 over the
past year. He also called attention to
the condition of the paper market,
claiming that the paper trust is squeez-
ing the life out of the smaller publi-
convention urge Congress to do more
tn an the customary investigation.
The report of the Pennsylvania State
Insurance Fund covering the period
from January l to April 80 looks very
promising for the future. Only So per
cent. of its premiums has been paid in
losses. The State has written more
compensation business than all of the
mutual companies com bined, accord
ing to the report.
New York city is facing a milk pro-
ducers' strike similar to what occurred
in Chicago in April. Distributors have
increased the price of milk without
giving the farmers an increase.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-31
MAINE WRITER TELLS OF VISIT
TO GOV. BRUMBAUGHS HOME

to revolutionize the auto and gasoline
business of the world, but as yet he
has received no decorations or been
received by the crowned heads of Eu-
rope. If the writer can place one
laurel on his brow he will feel that
this visit has not been in vain.
1t was one of the beautiful days of
last week that the visit was made, and
the writer was met at the station by
Governor Brumbaugh with his big 60
horsepower Packard automobile in
which there was ample room for one
more. The other occupants were
Frank Weyleman of Philadelphia; c.
E. Wing, Mayor" of Wayne, and the
genial Sam. The chauffeur and body
guard of the Governor made up the
balance of the party, and the run was
then taken up for Wayne, six miles
away.
1t was jolly crowd and the writer
soon learned that the Governor of
Pennsylvania was a keen-witted hu-
morist as well as thinker and states
man. A running conversation was
kept up and matters pertaining to the
great war was the principal theme of
discussion. "I am Pennsylvania
Dutchman but have no sympathy with
the German kaiser and his military
and mad ambitions" remarked the
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-31
Taxing Longest Purse
IFrom the Philadelphia Ledger.

[From the Philadelphia Ledger.1
1t is a wrong theory to tax a COM
modify simply because it is sold to a
European belligerent. 1t is a right
theory to tax for temporary purposes
excessive profits which result from the
war. A number of American industries
are reaping immense financial har-
vests from the war. In England there
is a very heavy tax imposed upon all
such profits, the theory being that since
these profits are made out of the war,
they should be especially taxed to
carry on the war. Every sound econo-
mist must agree to the principle that
that form of taxation is fairest which
levies upon each individual and each
industry exactly in proportion to abil-
ity to pay. Hence where an industry
finds it's treasury suddenly and enor-
mously enriched that treasury ear bet
ter afford than any other to bear a
little heavier burden of taxation.
Thanks to the follies and extravagance
OF a reckless administration at Wash
ington the nation finds its treasury
empty. New and greater taxes must
be put upon the people to pay for
these extravagances. That being the
situation the industrial institutions
which profit most should pay the most.
There will soon come an election day,
however, when the voters can decide
whether or not they wish to continue
this regime of wastefulness or return
to period of legislative and admins
tratiVe sanity.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-31
Ontario's Retreat Sought

A combination of previous steady
education of the electors and wisdom
born of the war led the province OF
Ontario to put a prohibitory law on
and financial forces which a province
so large, so well-to-do and so domi-
mated by city as Ontario is can bring
against law of this kind, when pro-
posed even as measure of patriotism,
are not to be underrated. Hence the
greater significance of the victory at
the polls by which the most progress
sive of the eastern Canadian provinces
took its place by the side of the west
ern provinces, and with which the
cause of prohibition, as a Dominion
measure, took long step forward.
These same hostile forces have
never ceased opposition to the law
They do not take the answer to be
final, and, if they can, they will pre-
vent the law being executed honestly
and squarely, so as to bring it and the
prohibition cause into disrepute. Signs
now multiply showing That If they have
their way the law will never become
operative. They would repeal it be-
fore it becomes binding and they are
tempting the ministry in power to side
with them in this attempt. Partisan
attractive to some political leaders of
the province, hence the rumors of re-
treat, and the rising up of the temp
erance forces in defense of the law
With them stand voters who, though
not prohibitionists, nevertheless believe
in fair play and a square deal and
will not see the statute banded about
by politicians to suit their convenience
or personal interests.
Ontario's prohibitionists fortunately
seem to be aroused to the need of de-
fensive and offensive action, and are
letting 1t be known that any tamper-
ing with a law that has vet to be test
ed will bring down punishment upon
politicians doing 1t.
The controversy will, 1t Is to be
hoped, end In q way to show Just who
really are friends Of prohibitory law
and enemies of the open saloon, and
who are not. The contest will be
watched in the west, where there is no
hint of any return to a license system
since the prohibitory laws became eff
fective. A refusal by Ontario to test
the law before repeating 1t would i'm
pair the western provinces respect
and Difference for the province that
has had a major share in Dominion
expansion and political evolution, -
| Christian Science Monitor,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-31
Tariff Commission
Washington Post)

Congress is about to fix the status
of the new tariff commission. In
some quarters there is an effort to
cheaper the commission by making
the salary of commissioners small
The people of the country are not
asking for a cheap and temporary
tariff commission. They would
rather have none at all. If a tariff
commission is to be useful it must be
composed of strong, able men, the
equals of the experts who are guild
ing the commercial policies of for
eign nations. A world readjustment
of trade will follow the war. Tariffs
and tariff treaties must be dealt
with. This government must be kept
advised of what other nations are do
ing in order to chart it's own policies.
This work cannot be done by small
men whose sole ambition is to obtain
a government job. 1t is a task for
the best men in the country, who
can only be obtained for this ma
tional service by paying them sal
ary somewhat in accordance with
their worth.
The new tariff commission will be
gauged by the character of the COM
missioners. If they are to be paid
small salaries, they will be small
men and the commission will die an
early death. If adequate salaries are
provided, the President will be able
to draw upon the business world for
men OF the highest grade, who can
really accomplish some good.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-31
Neatness Going Un I

Too bad it's costing so much to be
we'll groomed these days. The fell
lows who dote on statistics tell us you
pay about 80 per cent. of its cost to
have a 1O-cent handkerchief laun-
dered. OF course it's easy to reduce
this toll by carrying a more expensive
one, say at about so cents each, but
few men can afford to invest that
much in one single square of linen.
And then barbering! Hair cutting has
gone up 40 per cent. in the last two
years, that is in most city shops. The
old quarter hair cut still fingers, we are
told, in the small towns and in shops
on the outskirts. but usually it's 80
with Is cents for the old 10-cent
shave. The days fresh collar now
costs IS cents instead of ~ doesn't
sound like much but it represents an
increase of 161a per cent and when it
is buttoned to a shirt that makes only
a few round trips to the laundry until
it has spent more than the original
cost, Beau Brummel begins to wonder
how long he will be able to keep it up.
These are serious matters to the man
on small salary and it is to be hoped
that the end OF the war will see neces-
saries to neatness coming down again.
But the average self-respecting man is
of the opinion that neatness is worth
whatever it costs and the feeling of
well DelnS tnaJ careful grooming
brings makes the weekly outlay seem
small. The single man who is board
ing in the city is hit hardest by these
higher costs, especially laundry prices.
and one good effect of the situation is
no doubt reflected in the marriage IL
cense lists His married friends tell
the bachelor that he can get more
comfort for himself by keeping house,
that hiring a family laundress is more
satisfactory than putting his effects
through the power laundry every
week. So if the cost OF being clean is
making the young fellows pop the
question, it is worth enduring until
the war is over. at least.-Pittsburgh
Gazette e-Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-31
THE INSTITUTE SPEAKER

NUR old friend, the institute lee
~ turer, is with us again, To speak
before teachers institute and
not get into the headlines of the local
newspaper is for him to have failed
ANONYMOUSLY, and to get top-of-
column position one must say some
thing unusual, Hence the remarkable
assertions of some of the afore-
mentioned speakers. And so it is,
probably, that DR.. NJ. V. O'Shea, of the
University of Wisconsin, talking to
Allegheny county school teachers. fools
the Pittsburgh Dispatch into giving
him big black head which reads:
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-31

Men Soon to Be Without Teeth. Says
Educator"
The time will come when men will
have no teeth" he is quoted as saying.
Mature sees that we do not need them.
She has decreed that they must CO."
and adds that we will shortly find food
that needs no mastication.
Now we know DR.. O'Shea was joking.
Think of passing UP broiled steak for
hamburger, or eating cornmeal instead
of roasting ears. or taking our ham
deviled instead of fried with eggs. The
funny papers are making a great mis-
take in not hiring some of these lee
turers. The institute speaker disguises
his humor behind a solemn and learned
looking visage, but 1t is Of a rare
quality for all that.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-31
C. BATEMAN, special writer for
the Lewiston Journal, of Lewis

c. BATEMAN, special writer 1or
the Lewiston Journal, of Lewis
- ton, Me-, gives the following in
teresting account of his visit to the
summer home of Governor Martin G..
Brumbaugh:
1t was a delightful day and de-
lightful occasion.
We refer to a visit recently made
to the summer home of Governor Mar
tin G. Brumbaugh, and that of Samuel
Maxim, in Wayne.
The one is the chief executive of
the great State of Pennsylvania,
while the other is the brother of Sir
Hiram and Hudson Maxim, two of
the greatest inventors Of the age.
Both of these gentlemen are geni-
uses in their own way. Gov. Brum-
baugh is one of the most finished
scholars in the country and one of its
greatest statesmen. To have such a
man and his wife as summer guests is
delightful to the people of Wayne and
they regard them as one of their great
est assets.
Samuel Maxim is a finished chem
list, and in his own way as great an
inventor as his more distinguished
brothers. While their genius runs for
warlike inventions those of Sam,
as he is affectionately called, run along
the paths of peace. Only recently he
has made a discovery that bids fair
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-31
PoGEcA iM
Pe~~o4eOo~io
By the Ex-Committeeman

Chairman Vance Mccormick, Of the
Democratic National committee, re-
turning to New York from a confer
ence with the President. denied there
was any possibility, he would resign or
that there was strife within the
Democratic national organization.
"Lies-a pack of lies" he said Of
reports that have been prevalent since
he left town. He added:
II am astounded that such reports
could gain circulation. One story is
to the effect that I saw Mitchell Pal
mer on Sunday. I haven't seen Mr.,
Palmer for two weeks. On Sunday
went to see my mother at Spring Lake.
I went to Washington Monday to see
the President to fulfill my standing
engagement to see him once a week."
The name of Secretary McAdoo was
mentioned.
"Of course, others are making sug-
gestions,'' said Mr.. Mccormick. "Ev-
cry one who is interested is making
suggestions. We are all working to-
gether."
Had you heard that it had been
suggested to William T. McConlbs
that he withdraw from the contest
for the Democratic nomination for the
Senator"
No, have not heard that" said
Mr.. Mccormick. "Mr. McCombs ask
ed me to visit him at Saratoga on
Sunday, and 1 deeply regret that I was
unable to do so. I expect to see him
when he comes to the city"
rs there any dissatisfaction over
the men who have-been designated for
the other places on the State ticket?"
mo. The National and the State
organizations will work together for
the election of Mr.. McCombs and for
every one else on the State ticket.
That is true in this end in every other
State"
Are there going to be any changes
in your staff here?"
NO" said Mr.. Mccormick emphati-
cally.
How about Mr.. Lynch?" he was
asked. There has been a report that
National Committeeman Frederick
Lynch was dissatisfied with the role
assigned to him at the headquarters. ="
II am sure that Mr.. Lynch is salts
fed" said Mr. Mccormick.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-31
EDITORIAL COMMENT

No one ever knows how many art
treasures a village possesses until it
has been effectively bombarded.-Was ash
ington Post.
Well, anyway, when Pershing does
come out of Mexico, he will leave a
pretty good auto road behind him.
Memphis News Scimitar.
Bread and milk may be going up. but
the price of at least one essential OF
life-the small motorcar-has been
again reduced.-Baltimore News.
Austrians felt so secure, they opened
beer gardens in some of their trenches.
This will probably stimulate. the allies
to greater efforts.-New York Evening
Telegram.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-31
THE STRIKE SITUATION


popular term, has passed the
buck" to Congress. The Presi-
dent, somewhat in the position Of the
man between two belligerents who are
hurting bricks at each other, had
reached the place where he had either
to admit his total failure as a peace
maker or saddle the responsibility of
avoiding strike upon Congress. Con-
gress is in no situation to do other
than accept the Qnwelcome task thrust
upon it. But the President cannot
hide behind the legislative branches
of the government. He has antag-
onized both the railroad presidents and
the brotherhood heads by his methods.
He has assumed to speak for the coun-
try at large without consulting the
country. There might have been a
strike had he not intervened in the
manner he did-meddled would be.
perhaps, a better word-but there will
he almost certainly strike as a result
OF his efforts to thrust his own ideas
upon two unwilling parties.
Without going into a discussion of
the merits or demerits of the train
mems demands. it must be evident to
those 100000 men who hold the bal
ance of power that they can create or
prevent a situation in this country, in
dustrial and commercial, that has
never been paralleled in our history.
A complete tie-up, granting that such
will be the case at least temporarily,
OF the railroad facilities of the country,
with the consequent blow to business,
would be nothing short of a national
calamity just at the time when every
element of commerce and industry
should be taking concerted and har-
monious action for industrial pre-
paredness for the trade war that will
come at the close of the fighting in
Europe. Now, if ever, do we need
preparedness in an industrial way.
Low costs are necessary if we are to
meet foreign competition. Prices will
soar In the event of a strike.
Whether Congress will succeed in
enacting legislation that will stave off
or prevent the threatened strike ap-
pears doubtful. Certain it is that the
national lawmaking bodies never
faced a graver responsibility. What
ever is done and whatever the out
come, the results will be far-reaching
and possibly of even greater import in
the distant future than they promise
to be even in the present grave crisis.
The time is past for extremes in any
quarter. The great. public. dependent
upon railroads and railroaders alike
for work, food and life itself. is watch
ing keenly the development of the sit
uation, and it will not be slow to place
blame where blame belongs; and once
public opinion shall have condemned
one side or the other. whatever Con-
gress may do, that side may as we'll
lay down its arms and give up the
fight, for public opinion is the domi-
mating force in America and nothing
can in the long run overcome it.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-31
WHAT THE. ROTARY CLUB
LEARNED OF THE CITY

[Questions submitted to members of
the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their
tion's annual Municipal Quiz."l
How are school taxes levied and as
sessed?
The assessment as made by the
City Assessor for City purposes is
the basis for School purposes.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-31

Mr.. Hughes insistence that but half
victory will be gained if the Republi-
cans fail to secure a substantial work.
ing majority in both the House and the
Senate is an indication of the political
unselhshness of the Republican candi-
date. 1t is in refreshing contrast to the
general attitude of Mr.. Wilson, which
is based on the assumption that he Is
the whole show. that his personal suS-
cess and the success of his ideas in leg
islation and administration are the
paramount features which the country
must pass upon.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-31
Making Bad Matter Worse

1t is a dangerous thing when you
have let slip an unfortunate remark.
to try to cover up the blunder.
Mrs. was talking with the wife of
Judge II about her sons choice of a.
profession. Il don't want him to be
a lawyer, she said.
Why not?" asked the judges wife.
"I think there is nothing much finer
than the legal profession for a bright
boy"
WELL" said Mrs. G, bluntly. ga
lawyer has to tell so many lies" Then
it dawned on her that she was talk
ing to the wife of lawyer; so she
hastily added THAT is -er-to be a
good awyer!"-Youths Companion.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-31
TELEGRAPH PERISCOPE

There is a growing suspicion that
Venizelos must have at one time or
another been a member of Tammany
Hall.
We'll, we'll, we'll, and so the Demo-
Gratis are going to blame all their
shortcomings on Bryan. Even their
failure to endorse national prohibition,
we suppose.
William Allen White having as
sured Hughes that Kansas will be solid
for him, we arise to declare that so far
as we are concerned there is nothing
the matter with Kansas.
For once, at least. congressman
want to go home and can't.
Blondes, says a Chicago professor,
are more susceptible, and many would
agree with him had he not added
to infantile paralysis.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-31
The Fighting Men

Tho fighting men go charging past,
With the battle in their eyes,
The fighting men go reeling past,
Like gods in poor disguise;
The glorious men whom none will see
Nor wife or mother more.
Winged with the wings of Victory,
And helmeted by Thor
Above the cloud what lights are gleam-
ing?
Gods batteries are those.
Or souls of soldiers homeward stream
ing
To banquet with their foes?
Lieutenant Herbert Asquith.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-31

coming year which will undoubtedly
appeal to the old members and the
new ones who the new director hopes
will be attracted to the association.
Businessmen as a rule are so en-
crossed in affairs of the mind that they
neglect their physical wen-being and
oftentimes are awakened to a sense
of danger only when a break comes,
and then it is often too late. Physi-
clans are unanimous in their opinion
that regular exercise is one of the best
prevent-alls. The tired businessman"
does enot take exercise because "he
hasn't time" Let him realize that he
would be better off mentally, physi-
cally and perhaps financially If he but
gave the proper attention to keeping
himself in At condition. In past years
many have taken advantage of the op-
portunity offered by the Young Mems
Christian Association gymnasium and
convenient showers to break off from
work an hour or so earlier in the aft
ernoon in order to give their muscles
and wind a chance to grow. Under
the competent instructor who will
take charge next week, these facili-
ties will take on an added value, and
when Daddy" and son are once start
ed on the road to a better appetite.
better digestion, better color and
better disposition, it will take horse
power to tear them away from the
best habit that he can form.
6n al nh, III nh yGi
cal director hearty welcome to Har-
risburg. Acquaintanceship with Mr..
Miller, of Sharon, is the authority for
assurance to parents that their boys
will be placed in good hands If they
desire to enroll them in the gymnasium
classes which the new instructor has
mapped out. We trust that his stay in
may be long and pleas
ant one.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-31

At Washington the opinion prevails,
even among many Democrats, that the
Government armor plant for which
Congress has appropriated $1,000, 900,
will never be built and operated. 1t is
intimated that the authorization to do
so will be used by the administration
as club over the heads of private
manufacturers of armor plate to compel
them to furnish armor at cost or less.
In other words, the plan of Josephus
Daniels will be to equip the new navy
by bIacknaiI
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-31
A GOOD JOB
Are you seeking a position
BY Wing DInger

Are you seeking a position
That gives promise of good pay
One to which you'll have to give up
Little time out of each day
One of ever-changing scenery
And adventure by the ton?
Let me have a minute with you.
And I'll tip you off to one.
Buy jimmy and flashlight,
And mask to hide your face,
Then quite early in the morning
Say, at two, go rob some place
Home or store, it makes no matter,
Just be sure no noise to make
Lest somebody in the housch~AA
Or a nearby cop, lou wake.
There's no limit to your field, bo
Crhat you regulate YOURSELF.
II you have the time, Just go through
A whole row IN search of pelf.
Others at the job are working
And are doing very fair,
Undisturbed by the police force
Be burglar-Eet- your, share
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-31

The meddlesome Mr., McAdoo is cred
tied by Washington rumor with the re-
sponsibility for the dissensions which
are coming to the front in the ranks of
Mr., Wilson's campaign managers, AS
son-in-law to the President, McAdoo
has manifest advantages over all other
seekers of the Presidential ear-and re-
cent political and legislative history is
eloquent OF the manner in which this
privilege has been utilized,