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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-13
A Song of Aviation

With O humming and drumming to
announce that I am coming,
Up the long blue silent speedways OF
the universe / soar,
Saying "Howdy!" to Canopus, as ]
meet his rays of topaz.
Sweeping into virgin spaces where
no man has been before.
Far below me flies the eagle, now q
bird no longer regal.
Since his flight is short and puny as
wren's compared to mine;
For the spheres unfold before me, and
] see the. mystic glory.
OF the infinite extending to the rim,
of things divine
oh, the wonder and the thunder of
the wings that rend nsunder
The eternal wells of silence that are
wrapped around the starsl
Oh, the monstrous echoes falling
through the distances appalling,
Where host of nameless planets
race their bright celestial carsl
Sing, ye wires and struts and bracesi
Let 1t ring across the spaces
Jupiter alone no longer rules the
stellar empire vast,
Riding on my daring pinions. earth
can share the air-dominions,
And the star-trust has been broken
smashed to smithereens at
last.
Irving. in New York Times,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-13
Farmers Institutes
Pennsylvania Farmer1

The farmers institutes will begin
in Pennsylvania next week. AS usual,
the State is divided into five sections.
One speaker in each section will at
tend all the meetings in that section,
while the others will attend for a
longer or shorter time, according to
the needs of the different localities
of the section. We would urge farm
ers to take advantage of the oppor-
tunities which farmers institute af-
fords to get together for .m utual dis
cussion of their common problems.
We sometimes hear it said that the
institutes have served their purpose
and should be discontinued. This as
sertion is usually based upon the as
sumption that the same thing is said
and done year after year at Institutes.
If this were true there would be good
reason for the claim, but the subject
of agriculture is so broad and the
need for intelligent discussion so
great that the last word will never be
said. and institute speakers who are
really capable endeavor to keep up
with the times. Communities in
which these institutes are to be held
should make every effort to have the
session well attended, and to bring
out the fullest discussion of the
topics.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-13
SHORT SHOPPING SEASON

no you realize, Mr.. and Mrs.
~ Christmas Shopper, that there
will be very little early shop
ping" this year?
Between now and Christmas Day
there are but six weeks-to be exact,
just thirty-five shopping days.
Election falling nearly n week later
than usual and Thanksgiving falling
on the last day of November, instead
of nearly week earlier, have had the
effect of shortening the season usually
given over to preparation for the
Great Holiday.
There is more money in Harrisburg
for shopping purposes now than for
many years back. Everybody who
wants work is at work and good
wages prevail. Prices are high, 1t is
true, but business men keen to at
tract the shopping trade to their
stores have bought their Christmas
supplies with that fact in view and
have laid in great quantities of all
manner of attractive wares at prices
suitable for even the most humble
rurse. Knowing that money would
be plentiful, Harrisburg merchants
have bought as never before. They
have on hand the greatest quantity
and the widest variety of Christmas
goods and staples in the history of
the city.
The season is shorter than ever be-
fore, the demand will be greater and
the crowds that throng the stores at
Christmastime this year will be big
ger.
The moral of this is that if you are
going to Do Your Shopping Early,
you must begin at once.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-13
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

The Rev. DR.. VIC. Wallace, the
new president of Westminster college,
was formerly stationed at Braddock.
j. Horace Mcfarland was the
speaker at the monthly luncheon of
the Allegheny County Civic club in
Pittsburgh.
director of Safety C. S. Hubbard
or Pittsburgh, was given a surprise
by associates on his sixtieth birthday.
w. w. Roper, who resigned as
appraiser of the port of Philadelphia
was noted football player.
Prof Emory r. Johnson, form
erly pubic service commissioner, has
peen summoned to give expert testi-
mony on public utilities before the
special congressional committee at
washington. He is one of the few
invited from this State to do so.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-13

merely the instrument by which par
ties record their wishes 1t has no
useful purpose and in the cases Of
Washington and West Virginia it will
serve this year merely to subvert to
a small degree the wishes of a ma
jority of the electors.
The election of a President should
be by the people of the United States,
not by the people of any number of
States. The time has come-if it has
not been here long since-that Presi-
dents should be elected by the popu-
lar vote of all the States combined.
Such a change in the manner of cleo
tions not only would more fairly
register the will of the people, but
it would do much toward breaking
down sectional differences and pre-
JUDGES that make for anything but
good government.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-13
/ Mss MARGARET ROSTER. of
Woodbine street, was awarded

lNt Woodbine street, was awarded
Ava the second prize, q five-dollar
gold piece, in the recent d. A. r.
essay contest for Senior Central high
school girls on Children of the Am
erican Revolution" Miss Rosters
paper was so original and interesting
that the Telegraph has been asked
to publish it.
Boston, January 3, 1745.
Dear Patience:
Have you heard the good news?
We are twenty now, for we have a
little baby brother at our home. He
was christened last Sunday, and it
was so cold that Pastor Howell had
to break the ice in the christening
bowl. Little Expected has been very
Ill since his christening, but our
mother has given him a compound
made from boiled snsils. Madame
Austin recommended it and she says
1t is very fine.
o, my friend Patience, we had a
happy country dance at friend Hopes
last Friday eve. There were ten
maidens there, and we had q good
treat of nuts, raisins, cakes, wine,
and punch. I was dressed in my
yellow petticoat, black bib and apron,
my pompedore shoes, the cap my aunt
Storer sometime since presented me
with. with the blue ribbons on 1t, q
very handsome loket in the shape of
a hart the paste pin my Hon'd Papa
presented me with in my cap, my
new cloak and bonnet, and my POM
pedore gloves, and would tell you
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-13

therefor the best kind of money.
Large shippers have. therefore, de-
sired gold instead of securities; but
every time gold was shipped to this
country it furnished a basis for a
larger quantity of credit business and
brought on an imitation of values and
an advance in prices.
Democratic politicians call this
prosperity. To the substantial busi-
ness man who realizes that there must
some day be a contraction, it has be-
come menace of such proportions as
to bring together in Chicago the lead
Ing bankers of the United States.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-13
BY POPULAR VOTE

TIME possibility of the loss of one
l. electoral vote by President Will
-rf son in Washington and another
by MIR. Hughes in West Virginia, one
by death and the other by resignation.
both occurring so late that the va
cancies could not be filled before
November Z, demonstrates what o.
weak staff the electoral college is. AS
1t happens the electoral vote will not
be changed in favor of one or another
because the losses were equally di-
vided, but in a close election it might
easily have happened that the verdict
of the people would have been over
turned and President chosen by an
electoral college that would have been
a reversal of the popular vote in the
State which happened to be the de-
Gliding factor;
At all events, the electoral college
has long since outlived the intent for
which 1T was created To-day 1t is
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-13
THE TEACHERS IN TOWN

nESP1TE the ravages of infantile
- paralysis and rumors that be-
cause so much time was lost in
the early Fall by reason of the
quarantine for that disease there
would be no institute" this year, the
school teachers of Dauphin county are
in town to-day for their annual ses-
sions. Institute" might we'll be called
institution in Pennsylvania, for that
is what it has become.
Take away the annual week of
institute" and you would rob the
teaching profession Of one of its dear
est perquisities, for the week in town
with pay is one of the bright spots of
the year for the rural teacher. There
he or she-mostly she - finds both
intellectual stimulus and social en-
5oyment. The girl with her first
months pay in her purse does her
Fall and winter shopping during
moments between lectures and even
the giddiness of an evening at the
theater is far from unknown among
the more frivolous minded. And what
an opportunity is offered to renew old
acquaintances and to indulge in a
little sparkling" on the side! Nobody
but Cupid himself knows how many
weddings have had their inception
during 'institute" weeks.
Harrisburg is always happy to
entertain the men and women who
constitute the teaching corps of the
county public schools They are a
fine body. They have high ideals and
they are performing one of the most
important services on the long roll
of human occupations.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-13
RE7GARDFNG TRADE BALANCES
view politicians may

VX THATEVER view politicians may
Wv have taken regarding the
effect of the European war
upon the revival of American industry
and the restoration of our export
trade, large business men of the coun-
try are not permitting themselves to
be deceived. Their future financial
safety depends upon their correctly
analyzing the business situation. While
they had their preferences during the
recent campaign as to candidates for
the Presidency, yet those preferences
did not cause them to blind themselves
to actual economic conditions.
President Wilson and the members
of his Cabinet and his political cam
paign managers repeatedly made the
assertion that our revival of industry
was not based upon trade growing out
of the war, They maintained an alb
solute silence regarding the fact that
we had q favorable trade balance at
the time the Underwood tariff law was
passed., that the balance steadily di-
minished under the Democratic tariff
law until it was actually against us,
and that 1t did not again turn in our
favor until month after the outbreak
of the war. President Wilson was
willing, for political advantages, to let
the people of the country believe that
we are now enjoying a trade balance
of 1851 100000 in a month not due to
war orders.
But, as remarked before, the large
business men of the country labor un-
der no delusion of that kind. On
November 3, in Chicago, the leading
bankers of the country held a meeting
to devise a means of checking the
flood of gold that has been flowing
into this country until it has become a
menace to our financial structure.
They recognize the well-known fact
that one dollar of gold furnishes the
basis for many dollars of credit and
that the inflow of gold has been due
entirely to our abnormal exports of
commodities needed by the nations at
war.
Naturally, each man who has goods
in considerable quantities to sell for
export desires to receive in payment
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-13
Had Little Fun

Captain Koenig says that while the
Deutschland was bobbing up and down
in the southwest storm it made only
about mile an hour, and we imagine
the boys didn't have much more fun
than King George had on the horse that
time.-Grand Rapids Press.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-13
A Model in Defeat

tFrom the Washington Post.]
The distinguished citizen who ran
second as a result of Tuesdays poll
will do well If he even succeeds in be-
coming an acceptable understudy to
former President Taft. If ever man
has carried gracefully and hearted
ly the burden of defeat it has been Mt.
Taft.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-13
Warning to Europe

Notwithstanding Professor Lowell's
theories as ITO life on Mars. there is q
belief that the people of that planet
got into a world war and killed each
other off.-Marion Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-13
All the FiXin's

1t has been suggested that the name
tia. Wouldn't that be nice? And now
we must get a yell and an engraved
letterhead.- Plain Dealer.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-13
Running No Risks

Now we are to have motion-picture
shows for ladies only, though 1t seems
as If the men had been sufficiently
hardened by the fashion ads in the
magazines to stand almost anything.
Grand Rapids Press
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-13
How It Seems in Texas

They say that Villa is in hiding on
the Hearst ranch. We fancy he won't
be welcome there unless he raises a
devil of a disturbance and gives out a
signed statement praising Hearst. -
Houston Post.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-13
Seems Curious

1t Is curious that the Allies should
be held up by such persistent bad
weather in Macedonia. while Macken-
sen manages to get ahead in the Do
brudja swamps.-Springfeld Repub-
lican.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-13
Synthetic Brains

We read that they are making syn
thetic milk from peanuts, and we sup
pose 1t would be permissible to refer
to the gigantic intellects of our states
men Ra synthetic brains.-Milwaukee
Journal,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-13
Works That Wav

1t is a queer fact that even u bach
elor at the head of a business prefers
married men for employees. But this
practice probably Is no part OF move
ment to promote matrimouy.--Milwau
kee News
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-13
WANT RELIEF. NOT REPORTS
TIME Telegraph is in receipt of the

WANT RELIEF. NOT REPORTS
TIME Telegraph is in receipt of the
following letter:
] notice in your paper of Thurs
day demand that the Govern
ment do something toward reliev-
ing the people of the high price evil
that is now destroying our pros
perity. Do you not know that the
Government is at this moment in
Vesti@ating the prices of coal and
some other commodities? Can't
you be fair?
To be sure, the Telegraph knows of
this. The so-called coal probe has
been going right along for the past
two months-and coal is higher in
price than ever. What the people
want is not a voluminous report to
Congress, submitted next summer, but
relief right now, at the season when
the furnace begins to work overtime
and the fuel problem is most serious.
Action, not words. is the demand; re-
lief, not reports. Everybody knows
coal is too high in price. No investi-
cation of that is necessary. The same
applies to foodstuffs.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-13
The Chaplain's PRAYER

Among the inspiring things that take
place in big political convention may
be mentioned the earnestness, humility
and faith of the chaplains prayer
Toledo Blade.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-13
Our Daily Laugh

SUSPICIOUS.
That new cook
arrived Satur-
day and quit
Monday.
That's the way
they'll do. It's
a new scheme
for week = end
holidays.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-13
A Certainty

There is moth ng certain in the
world. except THAI when you start in
saving money for one thing you are
going to spend 1t for something else.-
Fort Worth Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-13
so LONG. READER
By Wing Dinger

My things are packed, dear reader,
I'm going far away
Upon a sad, sad journey
I'm sailing, by the way.
And with me many others
VIII leave the port to-day
There'lt be no fun or laughter
To cheer us on our way.
But sobs will mark the Journey
: OF this down hearted horde
Hark, now hear the boat called:
salt River. ALI AboardT
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-13
Smell of Stars

Miss Amy Lowell writes: IT smell
the stars!" And one naturally thinks
of the constellation of Capricornus, tho
Goat.-Boston Advertiser.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-13

If the price of turkey Keeps on going
up it will be not long before it will be
as cheap as tenderloin steak.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-13

Mr.. Mann and Mr.. Clark are wonder
ing which is going to be minority leader
of the House. with the result in doubt
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-13

What excuse, we wonder will Penn
sylvania Democrats find to ask for Fed
eral pap?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-13
MONDAY EVENING. NOV. IS

There are many kinds of loVe, as many
kinds OF light,
And every kind of loue makes a glory
in the night.
There is love that StirS the heart, and
1oUe that giUes it rest;
But the love that leads life up1Udrd is
the nobleSt and the best.
HENRY VAN DYKE.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-13

=, opening of the school libraries by
the Harrisburg Public Library the last
lew lew DAYS has resulted in requests for
the establishment of more such
branches. The library now has six
branches, which are in charge of the
principals of the schools and some
splendid work has been done. Re-
quests for an equal number are on
nand. but in the present state of the
finances 1t will be impossible to do
more this winter. N'
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-13

The fine afternoons of last week
especially Saturday, made the vicinity
OF the river dam very popular for sal
mon fishermen. There were half a.
dozen boats moored near the dam i'm
the afternoon and further down the
stream several more. The dam has
been running very close to the RocitN
vile falls" and the Dauphin "rapids'
place. -e
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-13

Politician -
Your constitu-
ents are critics.
ing you for not
expressing a n
opinion.
Congressm q n
Yes, but not
as much as they
would criticise
the opinions If I
expressed any.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-13
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg ships bread
every morning before daybreak
to q dozen counties?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-13

The Steeiton football team appears to
nave imbibed some of the Schwab
ginger.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-13
HISTORIC HARRJSRTTR

Jesuit fathers conducted missions
on the site of Sylvan Heights orphah>
age as early as 1870
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-13
YOUNG IDEA.

YOUNG IDEA.
Sunday School
Teacher Why
W a s d a n / e |
forced to enter
the lions den?
Bright Pupil
Why, he'd spoilt
a whole film IL
he didn't.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-13
REPEATED
EXPLOSIONS.

w h a t did
Bron say when
his wife blew
h ! m up I h Q
fourth time?
He began to
suspect 1t was
more than q CO.
incidence.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-13

published evenings except Sunday by
the TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.,
Telegraph Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-13

3. j. STACKP Ole. Pres't aud Editor-i,t-C Chief
+. r. OYSTER, Business Manager.
GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-13

Vance c. Mccormick, the Democ-
cratic national chairman, who arrived
homo Saturday, resumed his private
business to-day. He declared there
was nothing to reports that he was
likely to go into the Cabinet as sue
cessor to Secretary of War Baker.
Mr.. Mccormick has been invited to go
to Atlanta to attend the big Democra-
tic celebration.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-13

no you realize, Mr.. and Mrs.
~ Christmas Shopper, that there
will be very little "earlY shon-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-13

The moral of this is that if you are
going to Do Your Shopping Early,
you must begin at once.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-07-04
Machine Guns PLAY Part

PRESS HEADQUARTERS on THE
,, FRENCH FRONT, July >. via London.
July 3, $40 p. m.-Machine guns
played an important part in tho Ger
man defense against tho British al
tack, and also in the British repulse
Of counter attacks when opposing po-
Sitions taken. Both German and Brit
ish have them in amazing numbers.
During the bombardmcnt before an
infantry attack the Germans remain
in dugouts so deep that they can be
crushed in only by direct hit with
Ii inch she'll Instantly tho bon:-
bardment ceases. they rush ont and
maly remaining machine guns. or
even bring up machine guns from
the dugoutS. The British carry mobile
machine guns forward, and the mo-
ment position is organized they i'm
mediately replace them. Those on
gagged in tho fighting agree that barbed
wire entanglements however strong.
have been invariably we'll cut and
there is universal praise for the new
mortar, the invention of a government
civil engineer in Egypt which the
British have manufactured in large
numbers
But frequently tho deep German dug
outs. instead Of being rallying points,
became traps with the occupants eth
or surrenderinc or being blown up by
bombs thrown~intO the entrance when
they refuse 10 surrender.
The EunnnrS after their weeks bon,'
hardmcnt. know no cessation in their
roil Where British advance they must
move their guns forward 10 new posi-
tons for the next stage in the attack.
When they have recess in the firing.
they fall asleep amid tho thunder or
the nCighhOring batteries. unless they
have to work on now dnGOuts.
AViators Play, Part.
The aviatorS part has never been so
daring. so thrilling as during this bat.
tie. One of them. in a small. fast.
single, man machine. thought the usual
attitude kept over the enemy lines
these days is from len 10 twelve thous-
and feet. descended as low as five
hundred feet during the battle. and
was able 10 identify the khaki Of the
British and the green of the Germans.
as they struggled for the possession OF
a trench. He sent a wireless mes
sage back to army headquarters of IN"
exact situation. the promptness OF
such information being invaluable. lie
returned with forty bullet holes in
nlancs. bur he himself and his engine
were uninjured.
The percentage Of dead TO wounded
is smaller than usual in trench fight
ing. Many light wounds have been
received from shrapnel and rifle and
machine gun fire bur the good weather
and excellent physical condition Of
The men mean quick recovery
There are plenty Of examples or the
English phlecmaIic temperament. One
gunner. lifted into the air ny the con-
cussion of a shell said after he came
down 81 wish they had provided cush-
ions"
A corps commander. after all plans
were complete for the attack at 100
o'clock in the morning. said before
lying down 10 sleep:
Wake me- al :t5; the first reports
will 6e in by then"