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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-19
INTERVENTION?
INeW York Snn.l

1t is one month and seven days
since President Wilson said to Con-
gress, referring to the Mexican stu
ation 1--WE will aid and befriend
Mexico, but we will not coerce her"
The smoothly turned phrase came
from the same rhetorical pigeonhole
as TOO proud to fight" 1t is the
Presidents fondness for the official
utterance of these unofficially con-
ceived sentiments that has brought
the country to its present state of in
tense evaporation. He speaks too
readily and too glibly.
The people of the United States do
not want to fight, but they are not
too proud to fight. On proper occa-
sion they would go forth to fight inn
mensely and righteously proud of their
action. The people of the United
States desire to aid and befriend
Mexico, but they will intervene with
armed force to coerce her If that step
becomes necessary to stop the muir
der of American citizens, in the alb
sence of disposition or power on the
part of recognized government in Mex
leo to perform it's duty to civilization
and our flag.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-19
EDITORIAL COMMENT

United we stand for whole lot
Columbia State.
Women who prefer dogs to children
are a greater help to the race than they
realize.-Salina Journal.
Looks as if England realizes that IL
she avoids a draft she will lose her
grip.-Philadelphia North American.
California may supply the raw ma
terials for baked beans. but Boston
gets all the glory.-Wall Street Jour-
nal.
Kings will be fortunate in becoming
sick of war before the common people
become sick of kings. - Washington
Post.
It's not the headaches, we take IL.
the prohibitionist brethren want to
abolish so much as the heartaches. -
Columbia State.
At any rate. Henry Ford managed to
get some peace by quitting that scrappy
party he was with.-Des Moines Reg
lister and Leader.
Besides the things which make him
persona non grata, what are the duties
bassy?-Kansas City Star.
The United States is to make a new
protest over the sinking of the Japan
ese liner. Well, as long as the supply
of ships holds out we ought to be able
to furnish notes.-Philadelphia North
American.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-19
FRANKLIN AN oPTINnST

TN his most interesting column in the
i Bulletin of Philadelphia, William
Perrine-otherwise "Penn''-tells OF
Benjamin Franzlin's experiences with
the pullbacks of that city. In the
famous philosophers recollections ref
erence is made to one Samuel Mickles
whom he describes as person of some
note. with a wise look and a grave
manner of speaking:
This gentleman, a stranger to me,
stopped one day at my door. and
asked me IL / was the young man
who had lately opened a new print
ing house. Being answered in the
for me. because it was an expensive
undertaking, and the expense would
be lost; for philadelphia was
sinking place, the. people already
bankrupt. or nearly being so; all
appearances to the contrary. such
as new buildings and the rise OF
edge fallacious: for they were. in
fact, among the things that would
soon ruin US. And he gave me
such detail of misfortunes now
existing or that were soon to eX-
list, that he left me half melan-
choly. Had L known him before
! engaged in this business, prob
ably l never would have done 1t.
This man continues to live in this
decaying place. and to declaim in
the same strain, refusing for many
years to buy house here, because
all was going to destruction; and
at last I had the pleasure of seeing
him give five times as much for one
as he might have bought IL for
when he first began his croaking.
Penn" who is philosopher of the
modern school, comments on the fore
going extracts from Franklin's memoirs
with the suggestion that there are
many Samuel Mickles among us and
intimates that there are influences now
at work to put them to the rear. This
is true also of Harrisburg as we'll as
of Philadelphia and the Mickles of this
community have long since felt the
impress of the optimist's boot
Franklin" says Penn" had no
use for the Philadelphians-and there
was a full share of them he had to
contend with-who were always grum-
bling. or fault finding or whining or
predicting dolefui things"
Good old Franklin!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-19
RESTOCKING STREAMS

FISH COMMISSIONER BULLER' s
i suggestion that the lakes and
streams where bass abound be
restocked with minnows and frogs
in order to increase the number and
size of the bass, instead of restocking
with bass, is practical and If followed
no doubt will do much toward restor-
ing fishing grounds now we'll nigh
worthless in this State ANY fisher
man knows that it is almost as diff
cult to obtain bait fish as it is to catch
bass. Many bass leave local waters
for the reason that they cannot find
food in quantities to satisfy them and
1t is we'll known that where minnows
are most plentiful, there bass are to
be found also.
Mr.. Buffers recommendation that
lakes and streams be planted with
new stocks of yellow perch, blue-gill
sunfish, wall-eyed pike, pike perch
and catfish is also worthy of con-
sideration. Perch and sunfsh in
particular provide good sport for the
angler who likes to take home a big
string and they are good eating
when fresh caught and properly pre-
pared.
Time was when these fish abounded
in the inland waters of Pennsylvania.
but they are few indeed now. Too
many fishermen take it for granted
that these smaller fish will take care
OF themselves and think only of bass
when they apply for fish with which
to stock the streams and lakes. re-
gardless of the fact that the bass
must have something on which TO live
and that if the smaller FISH, which
multiply in great numbers, are re-
moved they will eat each other. for
bass are infamous as cannibals when
faced by starvation. 1t would be in
deed a fine thing IL the commissioner
and the fishermen, joining hands
could make the streams abound with
sunfish, perch, catfish and other
common varieties of the finny tribe
Rs they did not so many years ago.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-19
THE STATE FROM DAY TO DAY

Fireman Evans, of the Johnstown
Engine Company, No. 1. whose aliases
include such names as Tidy,
Goat" etc. has discovered a new
method of shaving which he respect
fully submits to his suffering breth-
rem who are troubled with particular
ly heavy boards. First you lather your
face nicely, then you wait until there
is fire alarm on a freezing cold night,
which fire you of course attend. On
your return all you have to do is to
break the whiskers off with your fin
gers, like icicles.
From Johnstown likewise comes
this story, of the "boy bandit" who
braved the icy waters of the Cone
maugh River in an effort to escape
the police who were on his trail. At
tempt was being made to return him
to the Huntington Reformatory. His
brief plunge into the river was not
to his liking, so he took the officers
advice and gave himself up.
Poor old Butch" McDevitt - the
Wilkes Barre man who made himsei1
famous as the millionaire for day,
has been having great deal OF trou-
Bile finding his ideal. He has Deen
searching for a wife down in Allan
GlIy, Out SOiltAlOW VI
seem to suit him. Perhaps Atlantic
City in the winter time is not the most
prolific place in the world when 1t
comes to matter of finding ones
soul mate.
"Kick the saloon back into hell
where it belongs'-the evangelist
spoke in thunder tones as the artillery
OF his oratory moved down the ram
part of the liquor traffic with one
broadside of invectives after another"
And so on. No, not the sequel to
Ten Nights in Barroom"-merely a
reportorial Installation of the atmos-
pheric conditions which existed at the
time of Evangelist Biederwolfs sermon
on "The Whisky Jug" in Allentown
a few days ago.
'"T amt fair. well quit thought
the two man-power police force OF
Portland, Pa, when Council decided
that the high cost of running the town
must he decreased. The police forces s
salary seemed the most logical place
to begin, and now Portland Is with
out police protection.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-19
"sHINNY ON YOUR OWN SIDE.

CHINNY on your own side" Phila-
y delphia Record. Why all this
racket about lack of harmony in
the Republican party? Isn't it a case
of the pot calling the kettle black, with
a good deal more SCOT on the pot than
on the kettle?
We have it upon fairly reliable au-
thority that there is now brewing the
finest little scrimmage between the
'Old Guard" and the down-and-o out
Palmerites that has taken place since
last these two forces wrecked all
chance of Democratic success in Penn
sylvania some two years ago. The an
nouncement that the aforesaid "Old
Guard" has picked William ]. Bren-
nen, of Pittsburgh, to give Mitch
Palmer the count as national commit
teeman and that Palmer has no notion
OF being knocked out would appear TO
indicate there is good ground for the
assumption that harmony within the
Democratic ranks is little more than a
mangled corpse, with the coroner an
interested spectator hard by.
The "Old Guard" is still nursing sore
spots administered by the "Reorgan-
izers' few years back, when Palmer
was getting into training for his disas-
trous run for the United States Senate
last year. They have been hardening
their muscles and getting back their
wind and their punch for another go
at the "Reorganizers," and this time
they think they can do it, for if they
are able to knock Palmer over the
ropes they will have put the acknowI-
edged leader of the opposition in the
ex-ehampionship class.
The betting is about even with both
sides going in for blood" and if the
Record is looking for real scrap
We suggested that it divert itself from
the little sparring matches now being
indulged in by Republicans here and
there and concentrate its attention on
the real attraction.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-19
PetEc4 IN
Pe~~OqeOo~io
By the Ex-Comnitteeman

Anti-liquor advocates throughout the
State, represented by 1O1 members of
the board of trustees of the Pennsyl-
vania Anti-Saloon League, in Phila-
delphia yesterday renewed pledges of
hostility to the saloon at their annual
meeting. At the final session reso-
lutions We're adopted commencing
Governor Brumbaughs local option
light and the movement to carry the
national battle against liquor to the
floor of Congress. Instead of deplor-
ing defeats. as in the past, officers of
the meeting announced that great
progress was made in the campaigns
before the primaries, and optimistic
predictions we're made that the battle
against the saloon would be won in
Pennsylvania at least. The most i'm
portant business was the reading or
the annual report of the Rev. Z. ].
Moore, State superintendent of the
league. DR.. Moore said: I'm prac-
tically every campaign where candi-
dates for the Legislature, for Congress
or for judicial offices are before the
people the temperance forces will have
two or three candidates to divide their
strength, while the liquor people
usually succeed in uniting their forces
in support of one man. In no case.
however, did this division bring defeat
at the primaries last Spring. In every
county, save one, where there was a
struggle, the county organization aske d
for the help of the temperance forces.
The people thus came to know what a
local option fight would mean, and the
result was the greatest temperance
victory that has yet been won in Penn
sylvania."
At a dinner to be given in Philadel-
phia tonight by John A. Mckinley, Jr.,
the speakers will be Mayor Smith, the
Ware brothers. Director Wilson, Sheriff
Ransley, Coroner Knight, Congress-
man Costello. State Senator W. w.
Smith and others.
Clifford Pinchot has discovered that
he cant support Governor Brum-
baugh for President Clifford still
imagines he is political force in
Pennsylvania. He issued his inter
view from the wilds of Pike county.
The Capitol City Republican Club
will have Senator Beidleman, w. Harry
Baker and other well-known Repub-
licans as it's guests tonight at rally
in its rooms at 1906 North Third
street.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-19
THE SEARCHLIGHT
A NEW DIVING SUIT

An apparatus by which the diver be-
comes Independent of the air-cables,
shore or in a boat, has been patented
by a German inventor. He provides
bag of air which the diver carries on
ply. The sitting carbonic acid gas
which Is thrown off in process of
breathing is taken care of by certain
chemicals These chemicals absorb the
gas, probably transforming 1t into d
cargonate and so the limited air sup
ply is purified.
A simplified form of this apparatus is
the benefit of submarine crews in case
OF accident The simplified suit is built
without a diving helmet, and is so COM
pact that il can be carried I'm a pocket
Should IL become necessary for the men
to leave their craft and make for the
surface. the air reservoirs in the suits
are inflated and the crew can he drawn
up without hurry, safety in compare
tive comfort
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-19
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JAN. 1s

You must lore, in order to under,
stand IoUe:: one act of charity tcill
teach us more of the IoUe of God than
thousand sermons: one act Of unset
HshRess, Of real SeU-denidI. tciH tell as
more of the meaning of the EpiphanJ
than iohoIe volumes on HeoIogy-F
W. ROBERTSON.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-19
HEALTH AND HOUSING

MO better proof of the oft-repeated
IN assertion that health and hous-
ing go hand in hand has been
forthcoming in Harrisburg for months
than the report OF DIR. Raunick for
tie past year, showing that the death
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-19
OUR DAILY LAUGH

Look at the
boob walking to
the ONCE to save
car fare. Read
his thoughts. oh,
well! He's only
been married @
few months.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-19

James C. Thompson. the city assessor
elected yesterday, will receive a salary
of $4,000 year. He will have an as
sistant. of course. but until the COM
pensation is made to square with the
job Harrisburg can hardly expect to
have conspicuous improvement in the
matter of city-wide valuations. Mr..
Thompson is conservative and eompe-
tent official. but II is not reasonable to
demand of him or of his assistant the
results which are impossible with such
an expenditure.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-19

More than fifty couples will ask the
Court OF Dauphin county to sunder
their marital bonds at the forthcoming
divorce session. What's the matter
with the times. and what's the answer?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-19
StOp-LOOk- Ok-Think

This is an advertising para
phrase on that old railroad sign:
Stop-Look-Liste
The railroad sign stands for
safety first
So does the paraphrase -
safety first in spending your
hard earned money.
Stop when you pick up your
newspaper - today - for. ex-
ample and Look through the ad-
vertising pages.
Think. Do they offer some
thing better than you are ac-
customed to use?
Do they offer lower prices?
DO they tell you OF advan-
tages you are not enjoying?
Think Investigate! Reason it
out for yourself.
But use the advertising for
the preliminary guide.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-19

Those nHardscrabble" citizens who
are preparing to make a last stand
against the passing OF that section are
clearly within their legal rights, but
no step should be taken that will cause
regret hereafter. Every phase of the
proposition ought to be carefully con-
sidered.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-19

Mayor Meals will earn the everlast-
ing gratitude of many citizens-b COM
pelling the amputation of low-hanging
branches of trees over sidewalks
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-19

States with favor and the utmost
consideration.
We are undoubtedly passing through
the most crucial experience in the his
tory of American diplomacy, and il
remains to be seen whether we shall
be able to recover the lost prestige
and good will that under ordinary
circumstances would have been ours.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-19

DR.. Dixon suggests an occasional
day in bed, but the boss hasn't
changed his mind about getting
Iaround regularly and on time.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-19

In the midst of all our international
controversies the administration al
Washington is insisting on indepen-
dence for the Filipinos. Patience
brother, patience!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-19

Lykens and WilHamstown and the
other prosperous upper pauphin towns
will watch with peculiar interest the
Developments of the great convention
of miners at Indianapolis
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-19

Montenegro had to decide be-
tween surrendering or taking to boats
Let's see. isn't there an old saying
having something to do with choice
between the devil and the deep blue
sea?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-19

That william Penn Highway move
ment is increasing by leaps and bounds
Get on board,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-19

Judging from some views we have
heard recently some hyphens are si-
lent, as in Bryan.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-19
TELEORAPH'S PERISCOPE

Pittsburgh is now flirting with the
city manager plan. Pittsburgh has
sporting blood enough to try any
thing once.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-19

Newport is going after a place in the
sun. 1t wants on the William Penn
Highway. and is getting busy.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-19

OF course, you are going TO the
Charity Ball. But have you secured
your tickets?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-19

This is the kind of a day that
gets the grip germ down and punches
it until its cries of agony can be heard
for miles
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-19

If this dye shortage keeps up we
may not have even a Star Spangled
Banner left to wave in the face of an
enemy should we be attacked. This
is a phase of preparedness we have
not yet heard discussed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-19
COMING BACK
BY wing DInger

CONSERVATION reigned in squirreldom,
six or seven weeks ago.
And the squirrels all got together
To discuss things con and pro;
For with living costs terrific
Trouble stared them in the eye
With the Ford Peace Party sailing
Cutting down their food supply.
Squirrels. they say. by tens of thous-
ands
Starved to death for lack of food
And each day, it seemed. the question
OF the eats more trouble brewed
But it's different now. they're hopeful,
And in joy their lips they smack
With the news arriving daily
That the party's coming back.
Every time the baby looks into
my face he smiles said Mr.. Meek
ins.
well" answered his wife, "it may
not be exactly polite, but 1t shows III
has a sense of humor. Pacific Uni
tartan.
Can you get recommendation
from your former husbamd?"
Can I? He knows thai if | MARI,
again, the aIimony he is paying M
will stop. Life.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-19

The Capitol City Republican Club
will have Senator Beidleman, w. Harry
Baker and other well-known Repub-
licans as it's guests tonight at a rally
in its rooms at 1906 North Third
street
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-19

Clifford Pinchot has discoyered that
he cant support Governor Brum-
baugh for President Clifford still
imagines he is a political force in
Pennsylvania. He issued his inter
view" from the wilds of Pike county.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-19
POSSIBILITIES.

POSSIBILITIES.
All, how we long
for 6 e n t IL
spring
And yearn ts
go a-Mayingi
But Just as like
an anything
Well all of us
go sleighing.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-19

Rubiished evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO..
Telegraph Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-19

y, ]. STACKPoLE. Prssf and E6itsF-in. Chisi
=. Z. OYSTER. Basi1ess MonaEsr.
GUS NJ. STEINMETZ, Managing Editev.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-10-26
BOB WANTED TO TRADE
INFLUENCE WITH LYNN
Wisconsin Senator Offers tc
Stump North Dakota if Fra
zier Goes to Wisconsin

Bob La Toilette. he Of the great
pompadour, offered recently to do fol
North Dakota what he has refused t
do for his own state-take the stumI
for the Republican ticket-providint
the Hon. Lynn j. Frazier would swaI
courtesies by stamping the Badger
state for Bob.
The offer was made to William
Lemke, chairman Of the Republican
state central committee, so a promi
nent local Non-Partisan leader says,
but was rejected for the reason that
every moment Of the gubernatorial
candidates time was booked for his
home state up to election.
Receives Many Requests
Fraziers fame is travelling far, say
his friends. Already he has received
requests from number of states to
address farmers organizations after
election or following his Inauguration.
He is recognized everywhere as the
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-10-26
YOUNG PEOPLES NIGHT
| At GRAFTON CONVENTION

Saturday evening, October q, was
observed as Young Peoples Night at
the eth Annual State Convention Of
the Women's Christian Temperance
Union of North Dakota, which was
held at Grafton October 10 to %. Ten
members Of the Young Peoples
Branch of the University Of North Da'
kota attended that session of the Con-
vention. and stirred up great deal
Of enthusiasm for the cause OF temper.
ance. One of the speakers Of the ev-
ening, whose enthusiasm added much
to the splendid interest of the pro
gram, was Clarence Knudson Of Bis
marck, who attended the convention
as Q special representative Of the
University branch. He is witty and
forceful speaker and in his short
speech he effectively portrayed the in
fluence of the w. C. T. U. upon the
young people of the state and payed
tribute to the work of President Nc
Vey Of the University, to Mrs. Ella
A. Boole, Vice President Of the Ma
tional w. c. T. u, who was the guest
Of the Convention, and to Mrs Eliza
beth Preston Anderson, whom he
characterized as the woman who had
kept North Dakota dry" Mr.. Knud
son is member Of the Junior class
Of the University of North Dakota
and Is one Of the University's most
popular and wide.awake students.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-10-26

"The people are awakening to the
fact that the party now in power has
been using certain clever catch phras-
es to deceive the people into thinking
that the present Democratic admins
tration has accomplished wonders in
the interests of the people. Lately
the voters have commenced to scruti,
nize these phrases and to ascertain
the facts in the case, and the result is
that the tide of public sentiment is
setting strongly away from. Wilson
and toward Hughes, and Republican
administration. Among these unfair
ad deceiving phrases are the follow
ing: 'He kept us out of war;" Eve
are prosperous; why change?' and,
democratic administration has saved
the farmers millions of dollars" Each
one Of these claims the investigating
and thinking voter finds to be without
merit, and the truth shows the weak
ness of the recent Democratic admin
istration on each of these problems.
. "The voter finds that under the con-
stitution congress only has the power
to declare war; and that therefore it
is the only body that can really keep
us out of war. In our relationship
with Europe there has been no danger
Of war at any time during the past
three years. The European countries
have been busy and neither side has
felt at all disposed to antagonize the
United States to such an extent as to
cause them to enter into the war.