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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-25
HOW TO LIVE LONGER

HABITS-RuIe 13-There are many
diseases which are catching" because
the people who are sick with them have
what are called germs" These germs
gave them the disease.
Germs are almost everywhere, but
they will rarely hurt you If you are well
and strong. II you are tired, or are not
well. these germs may make you sick.
When many people in town have colds
or grip. do not stay in crowds If you
are tired or do not feel well.
An easy way to catch tuberculosis is
from some sick person who has been
splitting on the floor or pavement. The
spit dries like powder and goes into the
air as dust. You then breathe 1t into
your lungs, and you are apt to catch
the disease il you are tired or weak.
Many other diseases are caused by
splitting where people. can breathe in
the germs, II is not wise or nice to spit
The mosquito often carries malaria
and yellow fever. The. common house
fly may, carry typhoid fever germs. TO
flies out of the house and away from
your food.
The best way to avoid diseases which
are caused by flies or mosquitoes is to
destroy their breeding places. Mos
quitoes breed in stagnant water Flies
breed in decaying matter, especially
You should boil water before drink
ing If you are not certain that 1t is
pure. Water may have typhoid germs
and germs OF other diseases in it.
II your teeth are decayed they make
poisons in your body. Be sure to clean
your teeth, tongue and gums thorough
ly each night and morning by brushing
with a tooth brush. Move the brush
up and down with circular motion, as
we'll as across the teeth If you can
do so, clean them after each meal. Fruit,
especially apples, after meal are good
mouth and tooth cleaners.
Battle often to keep awav sickness.
Always wash your hands before eat
ing. IF you scratch or iniure any part
clean.
Some of the poisons of the body are
ing. you should bathe to take these
poisons from the skin.
DO not use drinking cups or towels
which have been used by other people.
Many diseases are carried in this way.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-25
VENUS DE MILO
TOhio State Journal

A swarthmore College junior has
physical measurements almost identi-
cal with those of Venus de Milo, and
is therefore regarded as a perfect
woman, so far as form and feature
are concerned. That fact made her
famous, so that she is getting offers
of marriage from over the country,
while the film people are anxious to
get her to pose for the movies.
One thing that accounts for her
grace and beauty is the fact that she
is a good. all-around athlete; plays
tennis. basketball and swims like a
fish. But another attraction she
possesses that would make her physi-
cal exercises futile If she did not
have. and that is brains. These shine
out in conduct and increase every at
traction. Mere physical beauty lacks
its finest quality if it does not re-
veal the graces of the mind and heart
A girl may have all the measurements
of Venus de Milo, but If the soul does
not radiate from them, she possesses
only animal beauty. which no true
girl would be satisfied with.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-25
THE DAY OF OLD MEN
By Frederic ]. Haskin

A what age does a man lose his
~ grip? This question is being
= investigated again as the re-
suit of the European war, with its
long list of septuagenarian generals.
If you are what the world calls an
old man, you stand a better chance
of being appreciated in the future.
Late researches puts the age of great
est efficiency much higher than it was
formerly reckoned.
In the United States especially, the
demand for young men has been, and
still is, a conspicuous feature of the
economic situation. Some years ago,
a large wholesaler advertised for a
man to take charge of branch ware
house. He got in touch with an ap-
plicant by correspondence, liked the
mans letters and his recommends
tions, and ended by hiring him. But
when he saw his new employe, he
called the bargain off. The would-be
manager was forty-two years old, and
Eray-haired. The wholesaler told
him he was too old to learn a new
business.
The applicant went back to his job
at routine office work and held, it for
nine years. Then he got an opening
in a hardware house. He knew moth
ing about the hardware business, but
he learned it, and to-day he is past
sixty, Well-to-do, and a success in his
new line. But the wholesalers atti-
tude is typical of our business world.
Youth is still regarded as primary
qualification in a man looking for a
lob The studies recently made seem
to Indicate that in many cases such a
course not only puts an unnecessary
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-25
FRIDAY EVENING, FEB. 25.
The secret Of success is conStdncy of
pRrpoSe.-DIsRAELI.
PENROSE AND RYAN

CENATOR PENROSE and Public
Service Commissioner Ryan cross
ed swords at the North Kensington
Businessmen dinner, at Philadelphia,
the other night. Mr.. Ryan is an ora
tor of pleasing delivery. Mr.. Penrose
is a public speaker with few of the
arts of oratory to embellish his speech.
Probably Mr.. Ryan painted his
phrases in rosy colors and his elo-
quence may have reused his audience
to applause. But side by side in cold
print there is no comparison between
the two addresses.
Senator Penrose's address abounds
in sound logic and his arguments are
supported by facts known to every
man, and to North Kensington men es-
pecially. Mr.. Ryan's talk was a de-
fense of the Underwood tariff law.
NIr. Penrose's speech was a condemna-
tion of 1t.
Now it happens that the North Ken
sington district is largely given over
to the manufacture of hosiery. With
the Republican protective policies in
force North Kensington never knew
such busy days. Everybody was en-
ployed, and at good wages. No sooner
did the Underwood law supercede the
Payne law. following the election of
President Wilson and a Democratic
Congress, than the mills at North Ken
sington began to slow down and
prosperity flew out of the working
mans window. Hard times and lit
tie work followed, and it was not until
the rush of war orders from Europe
gave new stimulus to the hosiery in
dustry that anything like good times
returned to make happy the people of
the Kensington district.
Had Senator Penrose done moth
ing more than point out to his hearers
these facts-which apply not to Ken
sington alone, but to the nation at
large, and TO all branches of business
and industry-he would have over
thrown completely all of the finely
turned phrases of the orator who at
tempted to support the indefensible
policies of the Democratic administra-
ton.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-25

hardship on the old man hunting a
new position, but also results in an
economic loss-the loss of much
valuable ability.
A mans age, according to this the
ory, cannot be reckoned in simple
number of years, but is a comparative
quantity dependent not only on in
dividual temperament but more es-
pecially on the general line of work
for which he is fitted. Moreover, the
investigators point out that the ten
dency of the time is toward older
men for leadership in all lines. The
change in this respect is strikingly
illustrated by the generals in various
great wars.
In the past, most of the great con-
querors gained their victories in youth
or early middle age. Alexander COM
manded an army and won battles at
eighteen. Charles XII, of Sweden,
was the same age when he defeated
an army of $4,000 Russians. Such
cases were the rule in the days when
war was a comparatively simple
science. AS the implements of de-
struction were developed and strategy
became more and more complex, gem
erals grew correspondingly older. The
average age of the ten principal
northern generals in the Civil war
was forty years. Ten leading Con-
federates averaged a few months
younger.
The so-Japanese war was the
first conflict in which old men were
conspicuous, though two of the Prus-
sian leaders in the Franco Prussian
Continued OH Page 22l
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-25
SCHOOL DRILL

A S a result of aroused interest
n throughout the United States
upon the question of possibil-
ties of military training in the public
schools as an effective method of in
culcating into the youth at least the
fundamentals whereby the country
wide demand for national prepared
ness may be materially assisted. Rep
resentative John r. X. Scott, of Phil
adelphia, has introduced in the House
a joint resolution providing for
committee of three senator's and three
representatives to conduct an investi-
cation and report to Congress as to
the feasibility and means to encourage
instruction.
Under the Scott resolution the mill
tary affairs committees of both the
Senate and the House would be di-
rected to each designate three of
their members to serve on this joint
subcommittee for the purpose of in
vestigating the advisability of and
determining the best methods for the
announcement of such training in
the pubic schools. Authority is con-
ferred for the subcommittee 10 sit
during the recess of Congress, with
power to summon witnesses, to ap-
point, experts and clerical assistance
necessary to a full and comprehen-
sive study of the subject.
Representative Scott, in speaking of
his resolution, said that he has been
impressed with the possibilities offer
ed by military training as part of
the curriculum in the high school
grades of the public schools. He be-
heves that a congressional committee,
by careful inquiry into the subject.
could readily determine a plan where
by encouragement and assistance
could be offered by the government to
school authorities in the various
cities, towns and country school dis
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-25
TILE RARY SHOW

WE like the idea Of the Baby
wv Welfare exhibition to be held
in this city. Mere prettiness
is not to count. Some of the finest
little chaps that ever chewed a rubber
rattle were anything but pretty
Health is the thing. Snub noses, bald
heads. yea, and even double chins,
count for naught but charm when
baby is well and radiating with nap
piness. The pretty baby is all very
well, but give us the healthy baby
every time, and this is not an OBJ
servation based on painful personal
acquaintance with collie and teething
periods.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-25
THE STATE FROM DAY TO DAY

Shall the bathtub still hold coal,
shall families be permitted to live in
abandoned stables and chicken houses
and shall toilets still be used for rag
bags are several of the enlightening
questions that were taken up and dis
cussed by the Johnstown Chamber of
Commerce yesterday, all of them with
a view to improving health conditions
about the city.
The benedicts of Pittsburgh sub
urb, who are of club life tendencies,
have organized themselves into THE
Husbands Welfare Association" the
aim being to promote the happiness
OF husbands whose wives take jour-
neys and leave them to the merciless
hands of cook and maid. The club
seems to have had marvellous growth
since it's inception.
Baby Week. will be observed in
cities in all parts of the State from
March to IL, in connection with the
national movement which originated
will have hers a week later, and it is
planned to make the exhibit one of
strong popular appeal.
A drop of perspiration Cor perhaps
1t was sweat-we refuse to draw any
distinction) from the brow of
WOTklnSInan at GOLlSNllle the other
day caused more trouble than such q
drop ordinarily does cause. This par
ticular wandering globule, being of an
adventurous turn of mind, determined
to stray afield and so found it's way
into a tank of cotton saturated with
nitric acid. Immense clouds of
smoke passed through the building
following the explosion, but no one
was hurt The remaining drops, II
is said, were Immediately frozen with
terror lest they suffer the same fate.
Evangelist Biederwolf has been
tearing things up with a vengeance in
Norristown. A recent beer party said
to have been held in the city hall and
the use of the select council chamber
as a dressing room for the actresses
who helped to make up the party
were characterized by the evangelist
as being "damnable hellishness." The
clergymen who listened to his Lam
guage were speechless after his re-
marks. but whether from surprise or
from lack of anything to say, none
knew.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-25
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THANKS THE TELEGRAPH
Tic Editor Of The Telcrrahh:

To the Editor of the Telegraph;
Miss Shanahan, sister of the late
Bishop Shanahan. desires to thank the
many friends of her brother who pub
licly expressed their affection and re-
spect for him on the day of the flu
neral and also especially to thank
those who so kindly sent to the
Cathedral the beautiful floral tributes.
Miss Shanahan likewise desires to
thank the Harrisburg Telegraph for
the manner i'm which it spoke of her
brothers work and character and for
its accounts of the funeral ceremonies.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-25
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

e. X. Connerly, the new assistant
to Vice-President Schoonmaker of
the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie, used
to be purchasing agent of the COM
pany.
Judge ]. n. Langham, of Indiana
made the address at the anniversary
exercises of the Indiana odd Fell
lows.
-R. L. Munce, OF Canonsburg, is
the president of the Pennsylvania
Wool Growers. He is a prominent
Washington county farmer.
DIR. Carl W. Gay, of the State Live
Stock Board, is making a series of
speeches, urging more attention to
State horses.
Hiram Smith, former Wilkes
Barre street commissioner, has en-
tered the insurance field in his town.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-25
by wing DIhgcr

Every member of the family
Has been striking me of late
For some cash in Jumps that vary
From the little to the great.
Explanations are not given
As to why demands increase.
But the wheels just keep on squeaking
And have to pile on grease.
But last night l got to thinking
In the hope that maybe I
In a little while could dope out
In my mind. the reason why.
And quite suddenly light dawned-
My birthday comes round next
week
II ] don't get heaps of presents
Some of us will cease to speak.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-25

Senator Oscar Underwood favors
munitions plant to be erected at Birm-
ingham, Ala, Mr. Underwood's home
town. Representative Ike Sherwood
recently declared for similar plant to
be located in his home town, Toledo,
Ohio. The preparedness program
among the Democrats rapidly takes on
the characteristic ascribed by General
Logan to the tariff-a local issue.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-25
DO YOU KNOW
Cheapening a Shoe

Most OF the vital parts OF
shoe arc hidden and quality does
not show until the footgear Is
nut TO the test of wear.
Paper or composition can be
substitutcd for leather and the
shoe will look as we'll from the
outside.
It behooves. the purchaser.
then. to study brands which
carry a guarantee of quality-to
choose stores that guard their in
terests.
There are many such, and from
time to time they make known
their willingness to serve you
through the advertising in the
Telegraph.
Read II.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-25
TELEORAPH'S PERlSCOPE

Tine Serbian ambassador is be-
ing escorted about this country by
Mrs. Pankhurst. German bomb
throwers beware.
Somehow or other the name of
Hiram Johnson always is suggestive
of the headliner in a minstrel show.
That is gallant picture the cor
respondent painted yesterday of the
Kaiser, back of his lines urging his
men forward, but why didn't the
Kaiser go forward at their head?
"A man shot through the East
River yesterday'-Phi Philadelphia Eve
ming Ledger. Wonder if he bled
much.
Man is made of dust, and every
wife knows that he sheds a powerful
lot of it around the house.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-25
Too Much Trouble For Most
MILWAUKEE, Jounal.1


Mr.. Sothern will have plenty of pub
licity for his new venture in the
movies. which suggests that one good
way to get it is to become a really
good actor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-25
WHERE IS BRYAN?

Colonel Roosevelt may stand at
Armageddon, but a great many
Democrats would like exceedingly
stands.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-25
EDITORIAL COMMENT
They Wouldn't Hesitate to Ask
LSt. Louis Globe-Democrat. I

ISI. LOulS 1IODt-DCIuOCrat.I
Can't see how any of the Europeans
are to get any indemnity for anything
unless they ask this country to lend It,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-25

Three million pairs of shoes for Ital-
ian soldiers are now being made up in
Brockton, Mass. Prosperity of the
Democratic brand.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-25
THE REASON.

Farmer - See
that there pig. 1
call him "inK."
Visitor - Why
40? He isn't
black.
Farmer - NO,
but he keeps run
ming from the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-25

After considerable analysis of Presi-
dent Wilson's literary style. illustrated
in q profusion of correspondence. the
New York Sun finds him guilty of "ad-
verbal overintensities." and "adjectival
protestations" to an extent subversive
of clear rhetoric. There is nothing left
on which to pin our faith.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-25
OUR DAILY LAUGH
CAUSE FOR RE-

CAUSE FOR RE-
JOICING.
I wonder why
We always feel
more cheerful as
s p I n & draws
near.
I don't know.
unless it's because
by that time our
holiday cigars are
all smoked and
our Christmas
neckties are worn
out.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-25

1t is with these ideals in mind
that the plans of the Department
of War for more adequate national
defense were conceived which will
be laid before you, and which I
urge you TO sanction and put into
effect as soon as they can be prop
erly scrutiniZed and discussed.
They seem to me the essential first
step. and they seem to me for the
DpesppT sufficient
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-25

1t was after Mr.. Wilson discovered
the attitude of certain sections of the
country toward the Garrison plan,
which received his executive sanction,
that he performed the classic Wilson
flop, and from the entire plan, which,
for political purposes he had espoused,
he later for political purposes sought
q divorce. As prominent Democra-
tic member of Congress pertinently
remarked, when news of the Garrison
resignation reached his ears: 1T is
not so much a question of what plan
is most meritorious; it is the necessity
for making a decision. If we are to
dodge all over the map trying to square
ourselves with every section of the
country it will end with the entire
country losing confidence in u.s."
And for that matter the entire coun-
try has lost confidence in the Presi-
dent and his followers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-25
HERE is THE PROOF

DEMOCRATIC leaders who wish
- to minimize the seriousness OF
the break between Secretary
Garrison and President Wilson, deny
that the President was ever in the
slightest degree committed to the Gar
rison plans for national defense. Lest
there be any doubt on that point it
will be well to call to mind the mes
sage delivered to Congress by the
President on December Z, last:
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-25

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.,
Telegraph Building. Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-25

z. ]. STACKPoLE. PreS't dnd Editor.in. Chief
F. r. OYSTER, Business Manager.
GUS NJ. STEINMETZ, ManaEiHg Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-25

Walter r. Linn who was formerly
connected with the editorial depart
ment of the Harrisburg Telegraph,
but who now resides in Bristol, has
been selected as one of the trustees
of the reorganized Public Library in
that thriving borough.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-25

Cheer up. Spring is truly here
One of our friends from the Wes
Shore came in yesterday and an,
nounced that he had eleven peeps.
He had Matched out all but one egs
which had not proven fertile. Thi!
is pretty early for announcement o
the arrival of chicks, but it is in lint
with the admonition of the State De
partment of Agriculture that the earl!
chickens are the money makers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-25
ANTICIPATION

pen.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-31
AUTOMOBILES IN
THE CITY COURT

Quite a number of auto and truck
drivers were served with warrants
during yesterday and the day before,
for alleged violations of the traffic
laws. Several who have unintention-
ally violated the city regulations have
come forward promptly and admitted
their guilt, paying fines as imposed
by the recorder. Following are
those who are said to have violated
the traffic laws:
A. C. Blount, ST., on wrong side of
street; fined 81.
DR.. c. E. Hutchinson, one light out;
fined 81.
w. B. Wright, Jr., operating auto,
no license; case continued.
H. F. NAMELY, showing number not
in compliance with law; continued.
Lieut.. Maxfield speeding; case fo1
trial today.
A. T. Mayo, no permit, and driving
recklessly; mol pressed.
D. K. Puliam, failing to stop at
street car; continued.
N. Miller, reckless driving; mo-
pressed.
Lee Williams, reckless driving; dis
charged.
Julian suggs, exceeding speed limit
trial today.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-31
AN Administrators In
fluence Working to
Prevent Walkout

Continued From Page one.)
Villar to be given to the employees
here.
Among other things, the men are
instructed that the order applies to
mail trains just the same as freights,
and that they have the same right,
under the law, to refuse to work on
a mail train that they have on a
freight.
The men are also instructed that
If they are on trains already en- route
at the time the strike order become
effective, they are to remain on them
until the destination is reached. This
means that probably the last passen-
ger train leaving Pensacola will be
the one for Flomaton at 10:40 Sun
day night, while the last ore arriving
will be No. 4. from Jacksonville, Mon
day morning at 9:45.
The order received last night by
local members of the various organi-
freight. The embargoes, it is said,
affect one-third Of the traffic on
western roads.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-31
CALOMEL WHEN BILIOUS? NO! STOP!
ACTS LIKE DYNAMITE ON LIVER
I GUARANTEE "DoDsoNs TONE" WILL GIVE THE
BEST LIVER BOWEL CLEANSING YOU EVER had

full tonight and If it doesn't straight
en- you right up and make you feel
fine and vigorous by morning I want
you to 20 back to the store and pet
your money. Dodson's Liver Tone
is destroying the sale Of calomel be-
cause it is real liver medicine; ens
tirely vegetable, therefore 1t can not
salivate or make you sick.
/ guarantee that one spoonful Of
Dodson's Liver Tone will put your
sluggish liver to work and clean your
bowels Of that sour bile and consti-
pated waste which Is clogging your
system and making you feel miser-
able. I guarantee that a bottle Of
Dodson's Liver Tone will keep your
entire family feeling fine for months.
Give it to your children. 1t Is harm
less; doesn't grippe and they Ike its
pleasant taste.-Adv.