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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-25
The Unfinished City

Whenever a big public improvement
is proposed for Kansas City there are
always men to get up and shout:
Whats the use? The town is good
enough as 1t list"
Kansas City has been built through
constant struggle of the men of vision
and the men who saw no further than
the immediate present.
And Is Kansas City finished now2
For the man who still goes to bed with
when he pronounced that electric lights
were an experiment and would soon
eher Hu down. that tbo o9Rsrete 9bs buildings
would contiscate private property and
that the motorcar wouldn't start, or, if
| 1t started, wouldn't stop
But for the rest of the population
Kansas City Is not finished. 1t never
will be finished while changing world
continues to see greater things ahead.
range thing complete in itself. but in
the great scheme of progress by which
men and cities move on 1t is butfa step.
When Kansas City is finished to this
extent civic good looks will be rated
among municipal assets. Public build
ings, statues. fountains, the embellish-
ment Of open spaces. will furnish the
symbols of the city's ideals and aspira-
tions. Early Kansas City did not go in
go in for sidewalks. The future Kansas
City will consider 1t as important to
please the eye as the present Kansas
City does to keep dry feet.
| When this conception of what the
city means is at last understood Kansas
City's growth will be right growth.
Let material wonders 'come--subways,
free streets. traffic and motor ways.
| central heating stations, woman 8
work in the home done by as good ma
poverty mitigated, bad living conditions
nbolished-let these wonders come and
there will come with them an approach
to rounded out and full proportional
Kansas City. Not a one-sided city. And
yet not finished city, for In the whole
universe there Is no law of rest
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-25
A STATE G. OF G.

UOWARD b. FRENCH, president
i of the Chamber of Commerce OF
Philadelphia, has sent out let
ter to a large number of prominent
men throughout the State, with view
to having an important conference in
this city December sixth to form a
State association.
1t is the thought of those who are
back of the movement and who have
given much consideration to 1t that
the organization should be modelled
after the Chamber of Commerce of
the United States and composed of
representatives of commercial and in
dustrial associations, associations of
labor, agricultural and other agencies
whose interests would thereby be af-
fected"
1t has been suggested that the
headquarters of t h @ organization
should be at Harrisburg. with a COM
pact body for carrying on the work of
the various committees. This PROPOSE
ton is in exact harmony with a recent
suggestion of this newspaper that the
businessmen of Pennsylvania were
growing weary of the constant and
ever-increasing hectoring of legisla-
tive bodies and were determined to do
something through cooperation to
overcome this condition. Too long the
business of the Commonwealth has
been hampered by ill-digested and
nagging laws and every session of the
Legislature is characterized by further
attempts to regulate by those who
know nothing whatever about busi-
ness.
Many able men are engaged in in
dustrial and commercial pursuits who
have not found time to give attention
to those legislative matters which
have in the long run SO seriously af-
fected their interests. They now
realize that they must take a hand in
the game and to do this there must be
found some instrumentality through
which they can work for the good of
all.
These important interests have been
adversely affected by ill-considered
laws, but they have not been able
heretofore to give their best thought
and effort to the preparation of proper
measures made necessary by the de-
velopment of a great Commonwealth.
1t is the hope of those who are back
of the proposed organization of State
Chamber of Commerce that this will
provide a proper agency through
which to obtain results.
1t was with the thought of pre-
venting still further disturbance of
business conditions in this State that
a movement has been started to make
the forthcoming session of the Legis-
lature short and effective. 1t is high
time that the industrial and COM
mercial leaders of the Commonwealth
take hand in the making of laws.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-25
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Public Service Commissioner w.
ID. b. Ainey, who has been ill, Is im-
proving.
Judge j. Willis Martin of the
Philadelphia courts, has warned reck-
less automobilists that they may ex-
pect stiff sentences from him.
DR.. A. ]. Barchfield. who seems
to have lost for Congress in one of the
Pittsburgh districts, has been a men,
ber for almost decade.
Frank Ellis, prominent Phila-
delphian, will go to the war zone on
ambulance work.
Edward S. Swift has become
identified with the automobile in
dustry at Toledo.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-25
EDITORIAL. COMMENT

Won Mackensen seems determined to
get those Roumanian boys out of their
trenches before Christmas.-Broolslyn
Eagle
Now heave a deep sigh and prepare
for the next big public duty: Do your
Christmas shopping early-New York
Evening Sun.
Austria makes more fuss over the
loss of one Premier at home than the
loss of an entire regiment at the front
-Des Moines Register.
Let not your angry passions rise be-
cause the cost of all supplies, from coal
to coffee, beans to bread, is soaring far
above your head.-Brooklyn Times
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-25
WELCOME, CARLISLE!

TIME Harrisburg Chamber OF
i Commerce did a very graceful
thing when it invited the Car
Isle Chamber of Commerce to
Wednesdays luncheon. The Carlisle
body is new and it's members may
learn something from the older or
ganization. Beside, being neighboriy
is both good manners and good busi-
ness. Trade is based largely on
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-25
THE COST OF LIVING

| u De the most serious proplem IN
household economies.
Work was never so plentiful. Any
body, boy or man. girl or woman. who
wants employment can find it There
is labor for everybody. Wages are
high and going higher. Generally
speaking, labor was never so well paid
as to-day. Almost every newspaper
contains notices of advancing pay.
The salary envelope was never so
regular or so heavy. The country is
literally rolling in riches, and pros
perity," as we have come to define the
word. is everywhere.
Nevertheless, people generally are
not living so we'll to-day as they Gid a
few years back with less work and
fewer dollars. The dollar has lost
some of its purchasing power. Prices
of all kinds of foods and household
necessities have advanced far more
rapidly than wages, and even oppor-
tunity for work every day In the week
has not been sufficient to overcome
the increase in household expenses.
So great has the need for relief be-
come that even the slow-movlng Fed
eral government has begun to consider
very seriously the possibility of an
embargo on American foodstuffs. But
that such step will be taken is by no
means certain. Neither have we any
assurance that the President will push
for the passage of price-regulating
law. AT all events. little can be hoped
from either of these directions for
long time.
Price reduction being, therefore,
possibility of the far distant future,
the housewives only hope lies in learn
ing how to buy more economically,
how to make the inferior cut of meat
answer the purposes of the better
grade; how to substitute the cheap for
the expensive, without sacrificing either
nutrition or the toothsomeness of the
dish; the economy of buying in guam
tity, and a thousand and one other
little ways of saving in a way that will
cut down the frightful inroads of high
prices on the family purse.
To that end the Telegraph has en-
gagged Mrs. Anna Hamilton Wood to
make a careful study of the situation
in Harrisburg and to report her find
ings through tho columns of this news
paper. Mrs. Wood is writer of ability
and housewife of experience. She
knows what housewives want to know
and she is preparing to tell them. She
will be pleased to receive questions or
suggestions addressed to her at this
office
The Telegraph's only purpose in this
is. to be of some service to its sorely
perplexed women readers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-25
MEET DIR. WILEY. PONCE

DoNCE DE LEON, old chap, per-
i NIT us to present DR.. Harvey w.
Wiley, latest discoverer of the
fountain of perpetual youth. Now,
Ponce, old boy. keep your shirt on,
DIR. Wiley's fount is not that kind.
Instead of putting yourself into the
fountain it is intended that you should
put the fount into you.
Restrain your impatience a moment
and marvel. DR.. Wiley has found
that since old age is simply a matter
of chemical decomposition, chemistry
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-25
Dyin' Enbers

Ever choke up queer-like--
Yuh cannot tell jest why
AS lingerin' round a camp fire
Yuh watch the embers die?
An get to lookin' backward
On friends yuh used to know
Or mebbe start to dreamin'
OF some love of long ago!
The face o. that old sweetheart,
From out the fadin' flame,
Smiles back at you through all thu
years
Though clean fergot's her name!
Rememberin' how her kisses
Famed high yer hopes-an' then
Yuh quarreled-an' somehow
Yuh never met again.
An wonderin' if she's happy
Hey! Ed, wake up, Old Scout!
Here, help me chop a bit o. wood,
Our fires a-goin' out!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-25

DAVID E. TRACY, addressing a
- body of life underwriters the
other evening, expressed the
opinion that every young man ought
to be the possessor of a life insurance
policy. Nothing so makes for systematic
saving as life insurance, he said. With
the possible exception of building as
sociation shares, this is probably true.
Even If you are not married and
have no dependents, you ought to be
insured. The modern life policy is
insurance against old age as we'll as
death and in any one of dozen or
more companies is as good as a gov
ernment bond, notwithstanding the
furry among certain small organiza-
tions, whose Wallingford methods in
Pennsylvania have been checked by
receivership proceedings.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-25
Jesus in the Temple

And when he was IL years old, they
went up to Jerusalem after the custom
of the feast. And when they had full
filled the days, as they returned. the
child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusa-
lem; and Joseph and his mother knew
not of it. And 1t came to pass that
after three days they found him in
the temple. sitting in the midst of
the doctors, 10th hearing them and
asking them Questions.-Luke, 2: Az,
46.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-25
THE UNCERTAIN VILLA
Z TILLA DEAD!" villa in hiding

DD' fAia III nluing,
v villa wounded" villa de-
feated!" villa victorious.''
"yilla insane!" Villa anything! Villa
everything! He is the most uncertain
parsonage in the world. Only one
thing is certain about him. He is the
most resourceful and most dominating
of any of the Mexican chieftains and
until he is killed, conquered or
placated there will be no permanent
peace south of the Rio Grande.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-25

will find q composition to stop the
decomposition. And. presto! Pull
the cork and eternal youth is at your
command!
DR.. Wiley has the retorts and the
bottles and the idea. All that re-
mains is to find the elixir.
Simple. isn't 1t. friend Ponce. How
foolish Of you to have wandered all
over Florida.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-25

Whenever women's conversation
rises above dress. perhaps men will
concede their fitness for the ballot
Baltimore American. II skirts keep
getting shorter it's going to be hard to
rise above them.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-25
When Daughter Marries

1t doesn't take people long to forget.
In few weeks after the oldest daugh-
ter marries, she says: "I never acted
the way sister is acting, did I, mann
ma?"-Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-25
Pointless Advice

President Wilson's advice to the
farmers to raise crops so big that a
shortage would be impossible is point
less IL there are no cars to haul them
and no boats allowed. Pittsburgh
Dispatch.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-25
IN THESE DAYS.

What's b Q =
come of the SOL
itary horseman
who used to ap-
pear in the first
chapter of the
novel. outlined
against the hori-
zon on the top
of a hill?
He is prob
ably at the bot
tom of the hill
In an automo-
bile with his en-
gine stalled.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-25

good will and good will is crgendered
and Increased by, personal contact.
Such a gathering as that proposed
will be beneficial for both towns.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-25

I'm HIM zoe Hue, and moUe, and
haze our betng";: and the joyful peo-
pie In the Church of Christ are those
sDho see God In the commonplace
IN the breaking of bread, the gtvfng
Of food, and health and clothing; In
the fresh air and bright sunlight
A c. DIXON.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-25

A New Jersey man is suing for di-
vorce because his wife charged him
$40 every time he kissed her. Either
she must have been a peach or he was
mighty homely
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-25

Colonel Roosevelt is to head league
of neutrality. 1t may be neutral at the
start.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-25

Pennsylvania suffragists qualified for
the ballot when they raised a big cam
paign fund in q few minutes.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-25

We suggest that banks add a cold
storage chamber to their vaults and
take eggs as collateral.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-25
OUR DAILY LAUGH

ACCORDING
TO PROMISE.
Congratulate
m @. Freddy.
Last night your
sister promised
to marry me.
oh. she PROM
I s q d mother
she'd marry you
long ago.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-25
LIFE INSURANCE.

Well. anyway. we can be thankful we
don't have to buy a turkey every week.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-25
DO YOU KNOW
That Harrisburg prN.uccs spe-
cial stecls for automobiles?

HISTORIC HARRISBURG
Harrisburg had fifteen taverns in
Front street in 1900.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-25

Horace w. Davis, deputy attorney
general underwent a terrible ex-
perience at his home in Sharon tho
other dGV and only his quickness OF
thought and action saved his daugh-
ter'S hte. In some way the little
girls dress caught fire and Mr.. Davis
hearing her scream ran into the hall
to meet the child dashing toward him
with her dress on fire. Mr.. Davis
seized the child and rolled her on the
floor. He was badly burned about
the arms but the little girl escaped
with few hurts.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-07
LOCAL THEATERs
Harry Lauder

Harry Lauder the great scottish
comedian. who will be seen here on
Wednesday evening at the Orpheum,
has been busy man since he returned
to England in December last.
The thing that has endeared him to
Tommy Atkins" as nothing else could
and has made him the most popular
man in England, was his little visits
to the various hospitals where sick and
wounded soldiers and sailors were being
nursed back to health. Mr.. Lauder, re-
fusing many engagements. made tour
OF these hospitals in every one of which
he gave an extended entertainment,
singing all his well known songs and
improvising numbers that he thought
would be of the greatest interest to the
sick men.
"It really would have warmed your
heart to see how the poor fellows ap-
preciated my efforts to tighten their
troubles, and it made me feel mighty
good to think that L was doing my part
to make them happy. Here's field for
many a travelling actor. If he knew
how good it would make him feel he
would use his spare time while playing
in these towns where hospitals for the
wounded are located, to make the poor
fellows a bit happier"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-07
.THE BIRTH OF 4 NATION

There would be more horses than the
spectacle, THE Birth of a Nation" If
the European war had not broken out
when this part of the big production
was being completed. The foreign drain
on American horsefesh is something
the average citizen has no comprehen-
sion of. Griffith had to beg. borrow and
buy the horses for his big scenes, and
they were corrallcd from all parts of
the country. He found agents of the
English, French, Italian and Russian
Governments competing with him for
these horses, and while he only rented
them by the day, the foreign demand
was so great that many shrewd horse
men forced him to buy at war prices in
order to complete his picture within a
given time. The spectacle will be seen
at the Orpheum Theater for one week
beginning Monday, February IA, with
matinee daily.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-07

to be seen at the Orpheum all of
week.
using it as field headquarters. From
its lofty eminence, he commanded the
whole range of mountain and valley.
Right at hand was a modern telephone
switchboard. From 1t field wires ran
to his various subgenerals. Mostly
these wires were in conduits under
ground; they had to be, or the camera
would have produced the anachronism
of field telephones in Civil War time.
Thus completely equipped as a mod
ern Joffre or Won Hindenburg, Griffith
saw everything and telephoned all his
instructions. In the artillery actions,
real cannon were used which discharg-
ed real shells. All were of the 1864
pattern. When the infantry got busy,
they used the antique Springfield mus
kets with the old-fashioned bayonets.
AS the men charge, ii is to be seen that
their uniforms are far from spick and
span. Many of them are coatless and
hatless; tho clothing of others is tat
tered; even the flags have the look of
battle-scarred ribbons. For the first
time the CRIME, dirt, sordidness, as
well as the glory of war, is accurately
presented.
Plainly war. as Griffith makes it, is
not days outing for a small and
struggling crew CT picture takers. 1t
Is hard grueli.ng continuous work.
Regiments. brigades, not companies,
are employed. There's everything
from the far-!!uug panorama of the
general battle TO inc haadgrips of per-
jsonal combat. Many hundreds of sep
arate and distinct scenes are taken.
The amount of labor and detsIl in the
Battle OF Petersburg along would more
than equal the combined labors of ac-
tors and stage directors i'm a dozen
indoor" productions.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-07

next
d. W. Griffith is the most talked
about, and probably the most sought
after man, in America. He learned
how to plan things. in the making of
the 5000 scenes of The Birth of a
Nation" or he would be lost. lie gall
lops through the myriad-and-one busi-
ness details of a theatrical success
without turning a hair or developing
the slightest case of nerve" When
the turmoil and the tumult dies, and
the hours wax small. his refreshment
Is the dance or a friendly chat with a.
round table of chums.
1t was said on the first night in
New York that only the son of a SOL
dler could have conceived and executed
The Birth of a Nation" AS a lad
the son of Brigadier-General ]. w
Griffith, he drank in the Civil War mar
ratives greedily. AS he grew up came
the poets vision of the entire strug-
gle and of Reconstruction days. In
the prime of manhood awoke the gen
ius to make it reality.
While planning the Battle of Peters,
burg, Griffith drilled the regiments as
faithfully as Kitchener in England or
Mcclellan on the Potomac. Like them,
he had national guardsmen to work
with. They knew tho manual of arms
but had to acquire the grand tactics
Of picture evolutions. After the drill
was completed, the director took his
thousands Of militiamen on a month 6
countryside campaign. Each squad
ron was commanded by q subdirector
Pioneers preceded the soldiers to
dig the long miles of trenches, to
throw up embankments, and repro
duce the physical landmarks of the
battle. Among the noted Petersburg
landmarks was q high tower Erif-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-07

guished cast are: Thomas Jefferson,
Constance Talmadge and Elmer Clifton
A drama of binding interest with it's
scenes laid in a small town, is "The
Missing Link" 1t deals with the mur-
der that occurred in bank and the
blame is laid to one of two brothers.
because of the finding of q cuff link
near the dead body. One of the broth
ers is Robert Harron, who. when the
story begins. has Just been wed to the
pretty heroine. The comedy feaure for
the early week serves to once more eX-
plot the well-known talents of Sam
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-07
|AWOS6W1G1CS'
THEATRICAL DIRECToRY

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES night. Febru-
AIRY 8, Harry Lauder; Thursday. Feb
ruary 10, THE Military Maids" (bur-
lesque); Friday and Saturday, with
daily matinees,. February IL and Il,
Lman III. Howe's Travel Festival; all
next week. with daily matinees, "The
Birth of a Nation"
MAJESTIC-Vaudeville and Moving
Pictures.
Moving Picture Houses
COLoNIAL-"Th Missing Link
GRAND-"The Family Stain"
REGENT-"The Unknown"
House of Tears"
TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL - To-mor-
row evening. "A Trip Through South
America" by DIR. Benjamin Miller.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-07
Howe's Travel Festival

THE Lyman II. Howe Special" is
scheduled for the Orpheum, Friday and
Saturday, with daily matinees. when the
world excursion will be made over n
new itinerary during which tourists"
will visit Italy. France. Medeira, Switz-
erland, Holland and Scotland, and get
somewhat better acquainted with the
scenic grandeur of America by jour
ney to Glacier National Park.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-07

At the Colonial Theater to-day Har-
risburS will have another opportunity
to see Robert Harron in
Colonial a splendid drama called
shows "The Missing Link" An
Griffith Film interesting coincidence
concerning this player
and the play Is the fact that d. w. Grif-
fifth, who produced 1.-The Birth OF a Ma
tion, also produced this play. and when
he gave the leading role to Mr. Harron
he also called on n player who figures
prominently in "The Birth of n Nation" /"
Co-starring with Mr.. Harron in the
Missing Link" is pretty Norma Tall
madge, who has as many followers in
the films as she had on the legitimate
stage. Among others of the distin-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-07

Emily Stevens, the gifted emotional
actress who scored so heavily in
Destiny: or The Soul
"The House OF Woman, and
of Tears" Cora two Rolfe-
at Victoria Metro screen master
pieces, will be seen here
to day in "The House of Tears" another
wonderful five-part photodrafna pro-
duced by Rolfe Photo Plays, Inc. for re-
lease in the Metro program. Miss Stew
ems is supported by an unusually strong
cast which includes Henri Bergman
the brilliant dramatic actor; Walter
Hitchcock, Madge Tyrone, George Bren-
nan. and other prominent stage and
screen artists.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-07
CAMPAIGN AT WICoNIsCo
Special 10 the Telegraph

Wiconisco. Pa, Feb. "A campaign
of world evangelism, under the aus
pices of the department of foreign mis-
sion evangelism and the Board of
Home Missions and Church Extension
of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
will be held at the Methodist Epis-
copal Church here on Wednesday aft
ernoon and evening.