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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-04

fire are in circulation. Morris term
as chairman will end in May and he
will be the main target of the Old
Guard.
CONGRESSMAN Edmunds in a
speech at Philadelphia opposed indie
pendence for the Philippines.
The Philadelphia municipal court
is again under fire in the courts in a
test proceeding.
Senator Penrose is back in Phila-
delphia and meeting upstate lead
ers to-day.
-Ex-Senator FoXs declaration for
harmony within the Republican par
ty has attracted much attention from
men active in politics in Central
Pennsylvania. The Dauphin situation
had been closely watched.
Charles A. Oliver, a Lebanon
registrar, has been accused of some
false registration.
--Ulrich j. Miller, of Kutztown, has
announced himself for prothonotary
of Berks county, election to be held
in 1917.
Philadelphia Progressives are
much torn these days. Some are for
return 10 the party and some for
Roosevelt.
The declaration of the Chamber
of Commerce convention for home
rule for Pennsylvania cities sounds
very lluCH llhS At SllONCI VI blllS III
the next Legislature to bring about
changes in the third class city law.
--Seberal Blankenburg. Office hold
ers, who were dismissed, are starting
contests in court in Philadelphia.
Philadelphia city's board of re-
vision of taxes has been reappointed
by the courts.
-Ex- Congressman A. M. Walters is
said 10 he considering running for
Congress against Warren Worth
Bailey on either the Republican or
Progressive ticket.
.-Berks county controller has re-
fused to approve bills for rum for
mince pies at the almshouse.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-04
THE STATE FROM DAY TODN

City Councils of Lancaster have
passed an ordinance which in the
well-known parlance has practically
put the bug" on iitneying down there
just as it did in Harrisburg some odd
weeks or months ago. A bond of
$4,000 for every car driver and n
graded license for. every car are the
requirements.
The plucky postmistress at Port
Trevorton, five miles south of Selins-
grove, with the material assistance
of her daughter, who opened the win
dow, scared away two robbers whose
goal was the inside of the post office
safe. Mrs. Michael, the postmistress,
is a very capable woman and little
brandishing of her revolver was sufIi-
Client warning for the marauders.
During the month of February the
New Castle News statisticians figure
that in the twenty-five issues of the
daily approximately 555 miles of pa
per were used which if rolled out in
one length, would reach from New
Castle to st. Paul, MINI. That is, if it
didn't have to cross any rivers.
Mrs. Hiram z. Yeager, of Reading,
claimed that she has a right to have
a front porch extending five feet out
along her house frontage. Her claim
was sustained in a superior court de-
cision, which decision saves from de-
struction 1000 or more similar
porches.
A bit of news CLEANED from the pro-
life columns of a daily contemporary
in another section Of the
State features Daredevil
Dick" Murphy, of IIaverhill,
Mass, aged 10. who is said to have
made a worlds record at high diving.
With the aid of a sweater. football
headguard and a pair of red trunks
(color significant of nothing in par
ticular) he dived from the top of a
coal tower 16S feet into the harbor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-04
HAM AND "MARSH"

TINE exigencies of the DemocratJc
situation in Indiana have caused
the President to do another
flop, and he is now in favor of Mar
shall as his running mate for Sec
ond term. Senator Jim Ham Lewis,
of Illinois, was looking forward to
that honor, and it is reported that
since he heard of Mr.. Wilson's latest
change of heart he has been, dumb,
mute, not saying word We can
imagine Mr.. Wilson's explanation to
Senator Lewis, para phrasing Colonel
Lovelace's verse
Yet this inconsistency is such
AS you too shall adore;
| could not love thee, Ham, so much,
Loved l not Marshall more.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-04
THE SEARCHLIGHT

new set of wireless apparatus has
been designed for the United States
Signal corps with a number of advan-
tages over any now in use. 1t can be
knocked down and shipped in pack
carried on backs of mules or by men
if necessary. If Shipped by railroad
1t can be packed in a box car or on
ffat car. If needed for emergency
use. it could either be set up and op-
Grated on fiat car or in the box of
large wagon. 1t is, therefore, we'll
adapted to maneuver in mountainous
countries 1t is of exceptionally high
power being capable of tranmitting
and receiving messages within a ra-
dius of at least 250 miles.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-04
THE BABY SHOW

TIME Harrisburg Health Depart
mcnt is preparing an exhibit
for the annual baby week, to
be observed in this and other cities,
and physicians and nurses will con-
tribute their services to make it the
success it should be.
The popular methods of the baby
week, which are those of all astute
advertisers, form an invaluable
method of reporting to the parents of
this nation those standards of infant
welfare which experts are endeavor-
ing to make clear.
The baby week emphasizes the con-
structive side of infant care. 1t ad-
dresses not only individual parents
but communities.
The best test of its value will be the
work that follows it.
Undoubtedly every State Board of
Health should secure what only six
States have at present. special divi-
sion of child hygiene. No city or town
should fail to provide instructive nurs-
ing service and to pay constant heed
to the problems OF hygiene and sani-
tation, or proper housing and of
recreation spaces, since all these i'm
mcdiatcly affect the welfare of in
fants.
There are 5000 counties in the
United States. In every county seat
there should be a center for the
health work of that county-a station
for examining babies, and other chill
dren, and for furnishing expert ad-
vice for keeping them wcll-in short,
a health teaching center.
We must have complete birth regis
tration.
All these will be institutions for the
common usc--no more revolutionary,
no more cleemosynary than public
schools and weather bureaus and agri-
cultural experiment stations.
The New Zealand infant mortality
rate is less than one-half of ours and
is being further reduced.
Why take less pains for American
babies than New Zealand takes?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-04
BUSY DAYS AHEAD

T<HERE are busy days ahead for
Harrisburg, with the Cumberland
Valley Railroad Company build
ing a new river bridge and extending
its tracks. the Pennsylvania construct
ing new yards and a new freight sta
tion and The Philadelphia and Read
ing putting on two new passenger
trains and letting contracts for big ex-
tensions between Harrisburg and
Rutherford and in the Rutherford
yards. Harrisburg is becoming more
and more the great eastern Heart of
Distribution"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-04

TINE United States has an emigra-
tion problem. All our national
life we have been worried over
the immigrant, whether to admit him.
everybody wanted to get in and no
body wanted to get out. Now the op-
posite issue arises.
In the last ten years almost a mil
lion Americans have emigrated to the
Dominion OF Canada. Their space
cannot be filled by any million of the
immigrants that Europe sends us so
literally. They are no problem for
Canada. Practically all of them are
young native-born farmers and their
families, the best kind of Americans.
The present Congress is considering
a number of different bills calculated
TO keep the American at home. They
are all land bills, for the question is
a land question. Canada has millions
of acres of land open to entry, and
she has the most liberal kind Of land
laws.
Contrary to the current impression.
the United States also has an immense
amount of public land unpre-empted.
In the eleven farthest western States
you can pick a homestead out of $50
million acres of land. Four-fifths OF
Nevada is still subject to settlement
and entry. So is two-thirds of Utah,
half of Arizona and Wyoming, and
one-nfth to one-third OF Oregon,
Idaho. Montana, Colorado, California
and New Mexico. Uncle Sam is still
in the land office business, but his
trade is falling off.
Now it is desirable that as much of
cur public lands as possible should be
settled by Americans. Out of the
260 million acres open to entry it is
doubtful whether more than half can
ever be put>under cultivation, but 130
million acres of land is still a good
sized block of real estate. 1t can sup
port millions of people. Yet those
who might take it up" as the home
steader's phrase goes, are moving
across the border, largely, according
to the statesmen of the border States,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-04
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

F. TT. Meyer, who was former|
at Pittsburgh, has been elected chi
engineer of the Cambria Steel plant
The condition of Edward
Bigelow, former State Highway CoII
missioner, is improving. He wi
taken ill at the road congress med
ing.
THE Rev. DIR. John T. MurplI
for years head of Duquesne Univd
sity has been given the degree of do
tor of sacred theology by the Popd
James Fl. Maurer, head of Il
State Federation of labor, Is advoca'
ing old age pensions.
Justice Martin n. Brubaker,
Mt. Joy, has passed his eighty-tii 4
wear and has seen seven generation
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-04
NAVY NEEDS

TT would seem that instead of con-
stantly demanding rsore ships and
more men, our naval heads might
take little time off and do some re-
cruiting. With Secretary Daniels boast
ing of the unprecedented efficiency of
our fleets, it IS announced that six of
our battleships are tied up in dock
largely because there are no seamen or
officers Cor them, and that many of the
vessels now at sea are undermanned.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-04
BRINGING HOME THE SCRAP


VTYHEN the European war broke
w out it was Charles NJ. schwab
who first saw the vast demand
for American-made munitions, and his
foresight and salesmanship are now
taking shipload after shipload of mu-
nitions in a continuous procession
across the Atlantic TO the armies of
the Allies in the field. When the war
comes to an end the battlefelds of
Europe will be one vast junk heap,
with millions of tons of steel to be
picked up about Nerdun, in France.
and in Flanders, not to mention Rus
sia. Austria and a hundred other
scenes of conflict. Is ii too much to
expect that the thrifty Mr.. Schwab will
be again to the front. buying unlim-
tied quantities of scrap after the
scrap" and bringing home the shat
tered shells to be forged into plough
sbares and other useful articles of
peaceful trade?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-04
Note the Success Signs

Newspaper advertising shows
which way the trade is going.
Note the pages of advertis-
ing in to-day's Telegraph and
YOU will see at n glance that the
list OF merchants, manufactur-
crs. and other advertisers COM
mise the most progressive and
the most successful business
and professional men In our
community.
Advertising and success go
hand in hand. You don't see
n concern constantly advertising
in the newspapers unless 1t Is
successful.
Also. the houses that make the
biggest successes nowadays do so
bv satisfying and pleasing the
public on whom their success is
based. And in order to reach the
public the most successful busi-
ness and professional men use
newspaper advertising.
Each depends upon the other.
Good businessmen and good
newspapers, working together,
spell success.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-04
NOT THE FLASH

''Valor strikes only when it is right
to strike says President Wilson. But
valor must also be ready and able TO
strike. Paralysis of the army and
locomator ataXia OF the navy will not
make the Sword fash as If it carried
the light of heaven upon its blade"
1t is the cut and thrust of the sword
that counts, not the flash.--John
Leader.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-04
SAVE IN HIS Own BNCKNARn

II EP Il IIS e n TATIVE BLACK,
IN Democrat. of Texas. made n
ing and commenting the present man.
agement of the Rural Mail Service.
He is from the same State as Postmas-
ter General Burleson, so perhaps he
is safe in uttering his words of praise
If he were seeking recollection from a
northern State he would find lot
OF angry farmers taking issue with
him.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-04

visited the White House, where he said
to the President. I'VE are with you
in your program of preparedness. We
are not committed to any plan" More
exact language for describing the
Presidents position could not be found.
lie is not committed to any plan. but
ne is for preparedness.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-04
HOUSECLEANING

"Ah see yo' is housecleanin., said
Mrs. Snow White. Yes" replied Mrs.
Marsh Green, "dey is nothin LAX
novin' things round once in awhile.
Why / des come ercross a pair of slip
)ers under de bed dat All hadn't seen
oh five yeahs. dallas News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-04

compatible with the public interest" !"
This is censorship at its worst, for it
confounds the interest of the Presi-
dent with that of the public and re-
fuses to the representatives of the
people the facts which they are en-
titled to receive and which an ad-
ministration which was acting in good
faith would be prompt TO produce.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-04

"Arrant nonsense" says Champ Clark
of the talk that Claude Kitchin is to be
ousted from his place as Democratic
leader in the House of Representatives
OF course. AS a matter of fact, the job
isn't worth lighting over.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-04

They tell us that there is no use
in preparing as We will never be at
tackled; which is Just what they were
saying in England before the war
broke out.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-04
EDITORIAL COMMENT
FORWARD. MEN.

Owing TO the war there is a great
shortage of canary birds. Now if we
can manage an embargo on rubber
plants, men, we shall have something
worth fighting for.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-04

The "lonely President in the White
House" has disappeared from the news
dispatches from Washington. Instead
we now have word pictures of the
President-with his bride-seeking Sc
clusion on the Presidential yacht
"Mayflower'' to wrestle with grave
questions of State.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-04
FRUITS OF WILDERNESS

Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field;
for the pastures of the wilderness do
spring for the tree beareth her fruit
the fig tree and the vine do yield their
strength.-Joel 2.20.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-04
TELEORAPH'S PERISCOPE

A lawyer calling witness on the
other side a paid hireling" reminds
us that the pot once called the kettle
black.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-04

Nowadays when man boards
ship to cross the Atlantic its often all
over for him.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-04
FREE GIFTS

Now we have received, not the spirit
of the world, but the spirit which is
of God; that we might know the
things that are freely given TO us of
God.-I Corinthians 2:12.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-04

-Altoona's mayor in his first mes
sage urges a new city hall. Aw, come
on down to Harrisburg and write an
other.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-04

The correspondence between the
President and late Secretary of War is
described by Oswald G. Willard as a
fresh revelation of the Presidents in
stability of purpose" And to think that
the man who wrote that phrase used
10 be one of the most eminent of the
Wilson kitchen cabinet!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-04
PoeItcA tM
Pe~'.O4eOoio
BY the Ex-CommItteeman

Decision that the Democrats of
pennsylvania must elect their nation
al committeeman at the Statewide
primary in May when they will elect
all delegates and State committeeman
and make nominations for State of
hces, Congress and the Legislature,
announced yesterday in an opinion by
Deputy Attorney General w. NJ Har-
SeSt. VIII force eN-CongrcSSman A.
Mitchell Palmer to go to the voters of
the Democracy of Pennsylvania for
endorsement if he wants it.
In other words Palmer, who was
nominated for United States Senator
at Statewide primary in 1914 and
thoroughly beaten at the general cleo
tion. must go before the party again
If he desires to hold the national
committeemanship to which he was
elected by the delegates at Baltimore
in 1912. The Old Guard wants to take
the place from him.
1t is believed that Palmer is a can
didate to succeed himself and if he
runs 1t will afford a splendid chance
for the Old Guard and other elements
opposed to the domination of the
Pennsylvania Democracy by Palmer
and his pals to fight it out Not only
the national committeemanship
and control of the State committee,
but also of the national delegates will
chance for the Democrats to row
again and from all accounts they are
going to take it.
Senator John Sharp Williams is
to address the Berks Democrats at
Reading on April 13.
Harry A. Mackey. chairman of
the State Compensation Board,
aroused some attention in Philadel-
phia Yesterday by. attacks on the city
police, but William III. Wilson, the
director of public safety, ignored
them. The next move is up to Mack
ey, who was real vociferous about it
in court
Elliot =. Jones, a West Chester
law student. is a candidate for United
State Senator against p G. Knox.
Mayor Smith, of Philadelphia, is
going to spend a week or so at Aiken
S. c. He will avoid discussion OF
municipal matters and State politics.
"A. l.. Barbour, of Erie, was here
yesterday to see Governor Brum baugh
about being candidate for the Senate
in Eric county. Barbour was active
as Bull Mooser a few years ago. II
is believed in Erie county that G. p,
Rogers, Jr, looks more like the Re-
publican nominee than anyone else
at this writing. Mr.. Rogers, however
has not made any announcement.
The reorganization Democrats
are making faces over the candidacy
of w. n. McNair, of Pittsburgh, for
national delegate-at-large. McNaiI
was a candidate for secretary of inter-
nal affairs last year against the wishes
of the bosses and he is candidating
again without permission from Pal
mer and his pals.
-Rumors that State Chairman Ro-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-04

The man who shrinks from mar
riage is usually a pretty cheap pat
tern.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-04

Mr.. Wilson once described his mind
as single track affair But he cannot
say it is a single-term mind.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-04
SMALL POTATOES
TAKE NOTE
milwaukee Journal. ]

Yes, every good and great man has
been attacked. but that doesn't make
every little two by four who reminds
you of it either good or great.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-04

A lot of deserving Democrats" got
prominently mentioned in connection
with the vacancy in the War Depart
ment This puts them in line to make
a substantial contribution TO Wilson's
second campaign fund.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-04

Pindell, of Peoria. arrived in Wash
iugton as per schedule. lie was not
appointed Secretary of War. but he
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-04
SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 4

The ShddOW of human life is traced
GpoR golden ground of immortal
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-04
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg is noted cess
ter for scrap iron?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
The first lines for State street W.
run through a pasture field wesi
Capitol Hill.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-04

-Rumors that State Chairman Ro-
land S. Morris is thinking about let
ting, some other Democrat take the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-04

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.,
Telegraph building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-04

i. J. STACKPOLE. Prcs't and Editov-iH.C Chief
f. r. OYSTER, Business Manager.
GUS NJ. STE1INMETz, MGndgiHg Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-04

This is the season of the townsh|
supervisors conventions througho|
the State and practically every of
cial of the State Highway Depar|
ment has been out addressing theI
meetings or road congresses this wee|
Chief Clerk Howard Fry is in charI
of the department and he has BED
busy receiving delegations.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-07-15
WILDWOOD PLANNING
GREAT ORCHESTRA AS
SUMMER ATTRACTION
Philadelphia Orchestra Violinist
Will Lead Concerts at Ca
sino Auditorium Until
September 15
STARS w I l. l. ASSIST

WILDWOOD, N. J., July 15.--Wildwood
has arranged to give visitors here the best
musical season ever attempted by any re-
sort of it's size and age in this country To
this end the Entertainment Committee OF
the Board of Trade has engaged the serv-
ices of Walter Pfeiffer, first violinist of the
Philadelphia Orchestra and conductor Of
the Franz Schubert Bund Symphony Or
chestra in Philadelphia, who will lead an
orchestra at the New Casino Auditorium,
giving two concerts daily from to and
from 8 to 10 o'clock until September 10.
The orchestra consists of rs first-class
musicians; 20 of them belong to the Phia-
delphia Orchestra, two belong to the New
York Symphony Orchestra, while the other
three are musicians from Philadelphia with
excellent regulations.
with Mr.. Pfeiffer are Concertmeister
Paul Meyer who is too well known TO need
an introduction; Bruno Enhorn, who has
been solo 'cellist in Leipzig and Berlin and
since Philip Schmitz left the Philadelphia
Orchestra, holds his chair in that organiza-
ton, and Louis Wisman, solo futist a
native of Philadelphia who was with the
Bluethner Orchestra in Berlin until the
European war broke out.
The wildwood Civic CLUB has begun It's
summer sessions The home and summer
sections have combined and are bent on
making wildwood bigger, brighter and bet
ter than ever Each Monday the club Will
give A. silver tea. On Thursday, July 13,
the club held it's annual luncheon at the
wildwood Manor. - = Lillian Stockton.
president of the Federated Women's Clubs
of New Jersey, was among the guests of
honor.
Senator John A. Ackley, of Vineland,
~ j., has taken up his boardwalk apart
ments with his family for the season. The
Senator said he saw no reason why this
should not be one of the best years that
wildwood has ever experienced In real
estate activity, basing his predictions on
some of his recent property sales.
Among the Philadelphians at the Edge
ton Inn are Miss Edith Casey, G. w. Brown,
Miss Edna Kent, Miss Agnes Haggarty, A.
L. Kusner, Commodore and Mrs. James
!. Bumer.
Philadelphans registered at the Derby
shire include Mr.. and Mrs. A. II. Troth,
Miss Ella Wainwright, Miss Elizabeth
Wainwright, Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth Hoff-
man. Mr.. and Mrs. William Prophet and
Mr.. and Mrs Charles i. Pick.
Stopping at the Arcadia are Mr. and Mrs.
T.. Willis Clark, of Youngstown, o.; Mr.
and Mrs. John w. De Long, of German
town: Mrs. w. 3. Cannon, Camden, and
Miss Mary L. Naylor, of Philadelphia.