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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-19
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
The Staff of Life
tLe Editor Of the Telegrabh:

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Why do you all remain so still? ?
Why do you not in unity raise your
voices? Why so insignificant on such
a vital question? Yes your daily
bread for you and for your children,
raised in price to six cents loaf with
its weight reduced to only eleven
ounces, truly 1t is roll for it is not
worthy of the name we know as a
loaf of bread. This vice is Tightening
upon the workers, yes, the masses,
the millions who are working hard
to keep a shelter over their families.
1t does not affect the men of plenty.
say 1t is your duty to use indefatig-
able energy and endeavor to repel this
terrible imposition on the working
masses, particularly those with fami-
lies.
Does it seem comprehensive that
America, the greatest of nations, has
not created laws to guard and protect
its children's staff of life and put an
end to the gambling and corners in
this cereal, upon which the millions
are so dependent.
| say, let us all help to urge our
president by an appeal to help us. In
Europe the bakers are governed by
laws. Take the British Isles as an eN-
ample, they have the half quartern
loaf, II must weigh twenty-eight
ounces, If a loaf is short ofthiS weight
another piece of bread must be added
to 1t.
They have also the quartern loaf
which weighs exactly double. The
laws there stipulate that broad must
be made of pure and wholesome wheat
and any baker committing a breach
of these laws is held under a heavy
penalty of a fine. Before the Euro
| pean war the half quartern loaf sold
| for FIVE cents and the quartern loaf
for ten cents.
Let me on behalf of the working
masses pray that we may be similar
| ly protected and have a wholesome
and substantial loaf, not mere bub-
BILE and something entitled to the name
of "The staff of life"
This matter in importance to the
nation is second to none.
If these -four combinations have
such powerful and almost impregnable
fortresses for attack then let our gov
ernment predominant and remove
them.
If the bakeries will not comply with
laws that will compel them to supply
a real staff of life of a given weight
purity and price, then our government
should open up everywhere bakeries
that will,
Yours sincerely,
BRUCE GREEN.
1914 Green ST., Harrisburg, Pa.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-19
End of the Strain
New York SUM-

tNeW j Ofk sun.
The man started home from his
office
As he departed the stenographer
told him that shorthand pads had ad-
vanced l5 per cent
An evening paper informed him
that the city budget was $211,I15,016.
In the subway an Interborough of
hcial advised him to help out the crush
by riding on a local
On the train n man told him that
the national expenses had reached
S1.26S.715.S3
At Fourteenth street he heard q
rumoP that dodo cages, which he
manufactured exclusively, would be on
the embargo list.
At the head of the subway stairs.
coming out. he was asked to contribute
to the distressed of four more Euro
pean peoples than he knew existed.
At the bootblack stand he met
McBillowitz. who assured him that
prohibition was II matter of months.
At his own door his wife told him
that the cook had gone to Connecticut
to make munitions at SO day.
His face drawn with anxiety, the
man went directly to his bureau and
from the corner of a drawer drew a
long, narrow box. He lifted the cover
and looked in. Then he began to
whistle.
He was going out to dinner and he
had freshly laundered tie!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-19
THERE is a great story for poor

THERE is a great story for poor
boys in. the announcement that
at the close of it's most success
full year ]. p. Morgan & Co., the
house of eleven partners" will add a
twelfth member in Thomas Cochran,
who will resign the presidency of the
Liberty National Bank and join the
Morgan firm on January l.
Mr. Cochran is one of the men in
whom Henry P. Dawson foresaw great
financial possibilities and in whom he
has seen his judgment verified.
Mr. Cochran was born in st. Paul
on March 20, 1871, prepared for Yale
at Phillips Andover Academy, entered
the university in the early pineties,
played on the football team and was
admitted to Skull and Bones. When he
was q junior his father met business
reverses and it became necessary for
the son to work his way through.
After his graduation he taught for u
year at New Haven, subsequently had
u railroad position in Albany and
went to New York in 1900 without a
penny but n surplus of energy.
He was treasurer of a real estate
company when he met II. p. Dawson,
then president Of the First National
Bank. New York. who selected him
and Seward Prosser to carry out a
plan for organizing the Astor Trust
Company. The trust company was
founded in 1907, with MIR. Dawson as
chairman of the executive committee
and Mr.. Cochran as vice-president. In
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-19

urday at which it was decided that
the Democratic senators and members
should have their own party rows are
sending word OF their adherence to
the party program laid down here on
saturday. The Democratic legislators
say that the rank and file of the
Democrats approve the course of
their State leaders and that any man
who proceeds to stray from party lines
on the speakership will get into trou-
ble The men mentioned as inclined
to vote for Cox after having seen Gov
ernor Brumbaugh are said to have de-
ter0ined to stand with their party in
everything.
Considerable curiosity is being
manifested here as to what support
the Anti-Saloon league is going TO
give Representative George W. Will
liams, the sponsor for its bill last ses-
sion and an out and out local option
ist Mr.. Williams is the leader for
local option in the Legislature and his
friends naturally expect that the Anti
Saloon league should give him its
support. The attitude of the league on
the speakership has generally been
widely proclaimed long before this
stage of the proceedings in other
years. This year even the individual
members have been singing low.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-19
MARS
DROF. HENRY n. RUSSELL, of
Princeton, has added a new and

DROF. HENRY n. RUSSELL, of
Princeton, has added a new and
interesting chapter to the his
tory of Mars. He has discovered. he
says, that the temperature of the
planet always is below zero and that
unless some cause not yet understood
operates to make it warmer, the exis-
tence of life on the planet is improb-
able.
Other astronomers have written
that Mars is inhabited, that civiliza-
ton there is much farther advanced
than on the earth and that, doubtless.
some day we earth-mortals may get
into long distance communication
with our celestial neighbors-a sort
of Messenger From Mars" arrange
ment, so to speak.
There is no more interesting sub
ject for speculation than that having
to do with conditions on this mys-
terious planet, which is so near, and
yet so far. The man whose sole con-
ception of a telescope is that of the
clothes receptacle variety is just as
competent to opinionate as the as
tronomer whose nights since childhood
have been spent peering at the stars
through the small end of a sky-scour-
ing lens of gigantic diameter. When
one star shark" writes solemnly of
the great, vegetation conserving,
man-made canals of Mars" and an
other tells us, with all the enthusiasm
of a discoVerer that the temperature
is always below zero" and that life
on Mars would be far rougher prop
osition than DIR. Cook found in the
Arctics Immediately adjacent to the
North Pole. the amateur may be ex-
cused for rejecting the opinions of
both and he may be permitted to do a
bit of romancing on his own account.
For some time to come, probably,
Mars will be for each one of us just
what we think it is-that is, if we
happen to do any thinking about it,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-19

belt. Allathings of oil countries they
want, and must have. if life is to go
smoothly along in the ways man has
made for it.
We in this country have become q
great producing people and we must
sell abroad if we are to prosper. The
war has given us markets that we
must fight to keep once peace comes,
and it is with this thought in mind
that James A. Farrell. chairman OF
the National Foreign Trade Council
and president of the United States
Steel Corporation, his issued to all
American business men the formal
call for the Fourth National Foreign
Trade Convention. to be held at Pitts
burgh, January %. &c. 81, 1917. The
call is based on the councils research
the last foreign trade convention was
held at New Orleans. The convention
will consider among others the follow
ing questions:
Conditions in foreign markets
after the war, and the measures
necessary to safeguard American
trade aspect of the American tariff
system.
Cooperation in foreign trade de-
The American merchant marine.
Foreign investment of American
capital as an aid to oversee COM
Problems of the smaller manu-
facturer and merchant.
AS Mr.. Farrell points out, foreign
trade is vital element in domestic
prosperity. whether such prosperity
be enhanced by war demands or di-
minished by lack of foreign orders in
peace. The constructive encourage
ment of sound national foreign trade
policy, which will be the purpose of
the convention, should have the CO.
operation of all elements engaged in,
or affected by. foreign trade, and that
embraces about everybody.
The council, which is a non-political
and non partisan board of fifty promi-
nent merchants, manufacturers, bank
ers, farmers and other producers of
natural commodities. railroad and
steamship men. constantly engaged in
investigation of foreign tradesproblems
and encouragement of sound national
foreign trade policy, will present to
the convention a report on World
Trade Conditions After the European
War" This will make public the
result of year of research into war
changes in European commercial and
industrial organization, the possible
effect of European economic alliances
upon the foreign trade of the United
States, the industrial reconstruction of
devastated areas of Europe and the
probable post -bellum competing power
of various nations. In this report the
council will offer certain recommended
tions for national commercial prepar-
edness, to meet changed conditions
after the war
The convention promises to be one
of the most interesting and impor-
tant gatherings of business men in
years.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-19
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Frank NJ. Ritter, former legislator
is stirring up the animals by charges
of infraction of civil service at Phila-
delphia.
Mayor John v. KoSsk, of Wilkes
Barre, is working on n plan to take
the police out of politics in his city.
General Nelson A. Miles will make
a series of speeches in this state.
-Ex-Attorney General John c. Bell
who has been i'll, has been spending
short time at the seashore.
Congressman t. s. Crago in an
interview in Washington, praises the
National Guard and says the War de-
partment failed to realize the emer-
gency.
Mayor e. S. Hugentogler. of York
is in favor of choirs singing in tx
public squares on Christmas nights.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-19
THE NEW HOTEL MANAGEMENT

NOTHING could better illustrate
IN the caliber of the corporation to
which the new Penn Harris
Hotel has been leased than the pic
lures published in this newspaper yes
terday, showing some of tie hotels
managed by the United Hotels Com
pany. The pictures shown were only
a few of many. Everywhere the
United Hotels Company's hostelries
are reckoned among the best in the
land. That Harrisburg is to be put
on the same level with respect to it's
new million-dollar hotel is matter
for public rejoicing.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-19
Fly Leaf Verse by Riley

was aided by the advice and encourage
ment of the Hoosier poet and she has
gathered into an attractive little book
some very entertaining "Reminiscences
of James Whitcomb Riley" (Revell. rs
cents net). II for no other reason 1t
will find q welcome among all admirers
of Riley because in IL is reproduced
the following lines he inscribed on the
fly leaf of the first book he sent to Miss
Laughlin:
o Wonderland of wayward Childhood.
What an easy. breezy realm of summer
calm
And dreamy CLEAN and gloom and
bloom and balm
Thou artl The Lotus Land the poet
sung,
II is the Child-world while the heart
beats young.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-19
LESSON FROM THE WAR

DERHAPS the most beneficial lesson
America is learning from the war
i'm Europe is the Importance of
foreign markets to the business of the
country. Time was when the Ameri-
ran's proud boast was that his country
was sufficient unto itself-that, If nee
sssary. it had but to close its ports, go
about its business and forget the rest
Of the world. But that period. if it ever
existed outside the imagination, is long
since past. Modern invention has
made nations inter-dependent. Civil
zed men want the fruit of the tropics
and the furs of the northern woods.
hey need the wheat of the temperate
lone and the rubber of the equatorial
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-19
Protecting Child Life
(Kansas City Starr

(Kansas City Starr
People in comfortable homes WITH
happy children growing up about
them often fail to realize that there
are other homes in the community
where the boys and girls are not pro-
teeted in this way. There are homes
from which the bread winner has been
removed, where th16mother has to
work hard to get a scanty supply of
food and clothing for the children.
where the children are sent out to
earn a living before they have had a
chance to get more than the begin
nings of an education, where for lack
of normal home life the boys and girls
are turned loose in the streets, COM
NIT some trifling offense, are dealt
with like hardened criminals and are
headed into a life of crime.
These are conditions that exist and
that must be dealt with If the chill
dren are to have anything like a fair
chance in the world.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-19

II Young. in an address to the Ma
tional Association of Militar
Training the other day, said anon
other interesting things:
The physical condition of our
young men, as shown by the recent
examination of National Guards
military training and regular liv-
ing as a necessity on the basis of
health, the development of many
and independent qualities, .alertness
OF mind and body. promptness in
action, individual hygiene and dis
cipline, respect for authority. obedi-
ence to law, and the unifying infu-
ence created by the association of
the young men of all races and of
all classes.
There is no doubt in my nina
that a shoulder to shoulder asso-
citation will tend rapidly toward the
decline of our unmanly, un-Ameri-
can and senseless class distinc-
tions.
It is necessary that every young
man be impressed with the duty he
owes to his country and his obliga-
tiou to prepare to defend it, With
all our young men trained and Ii
able to be called for military SER
vice we shall be practically secure
against invasion, and every family
in the country will have a live, per-
sonal interest in avoiding war. il
The ages is to 21 are suggested,
because not all boys are equally
mature at IS. Generally speaking,
the average city boy is as mature
mentally at is as the average coun-
try boy at 20. Conversely, the
country boy is as fully developed
physically at IS as his city cousin
at 20.
The economic life of the nation
as well as the future of America
rests upon these two classes. Regu-
lar habits under constant medical
care will conserve our young man
hood and guarantee our traditions
to posterity in all their sacred po-
tentiality.
The argument for universal militar
training has never been better no
more concretely presented. We re
produce it for the consideration O
those who may be doubtful as to tn
wisdom of teaching all boys to car
for themselves under any and all con
ditions. Read it again.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-19
MRS. RIPPIN's APPOINTMENT

n n ANY Harrisburg boys have gone
lN out of their old home town to
make lasting names for them
selves in their adopted environments,
and now comes a Harrisburg girl who
has made good after a manner that
has attracted widespread attention:
OF the appointment of Jane Deeter
Rippin to a $4,000 position in Phila-
delphia, announced in these columns
yesterday. the Public Ledger says:
Jane Deeter Rippin. made chief
probation officer of the Municipal
Court, owes her nomination to her
self and to the good work she has
done, whereby her eminent quali-
fications have been demonstrated.
She brings knowledge and judg-
ment, tact and sympathy to bear on
the difficult and tangled problems
of domestic relations and readjust-
ments and the discrimination be-
tween the hardened misdemeanant
and the inexperienced offender. 1t
is hard, exhausting work, and ii
calls for every quality of woman
hood that is admirable, in the
patience, the insight, the common
sense, the inspired intuition 1t re-
quires. These are qualities beyond
the ken of a hireling to whom an
office is nothing more, than the
money there Is in ii and the labor
is but an evil incidental to the pay
envelope. Mrs. Rippin comes to
her post with the Endorsement of
those who are sure of her ability.
The service she will perform Is not
to be measured by the mere emolu-
ment. though the amount of the lat
ter strikes another blow at the
superstition that women who do
work that men might do should be
underpaid for IL.
Mrs. Rippin is we'll known here and
is as loved and respected by those who
know her best as by those whose ap-
probation has won for her a high
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-19

To be feared Of q thing aud yet to
do it, is just iohat makes the prettieSt
kind of mdn.-STEvENsoN.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-19

About the only feeling any true Re-
publican has for the squabbling now
going on is that of disgust
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-19

Villa has offered to forgive President
Wilson, but he hasn't yet got within
handshaking distance of General Persh-
ing
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-19

Francis Joseph left s22, 900 OOO but
we never heard that he got much fun
out of his money.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-19
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg sells large amounts
of plates to bridge builders and ship-'
yards?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-19

Harrisburg is going to have white
Christmas, but Europe is in for another
of the blue variety.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-19
OUR DAILY LAUGH
THE LUXURY.

THE LUXURY.
Mrs. $50
your daughter
has married o
surgeon?
Mrs. W.-Yes.
I'm so glad. At
last I can afford
to have append
icitis.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-19
MILITARY TRAINING ARGUNIENTs

II Young. in an address to the Ma
tional Association of Military
Training the other day, said among
other Interesting things:
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-19

HISTORIC HARRISBURG
In old days John Harris ferry land
ing was used as town wharf.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-19
NO WONDER.

NO WONDER.
Why is 1t that
experts claim
that department
store cl 9 r X s
make fine SOL
diers?
I don't know
unless It's be-
cause they are
not afraid to
charge a n y
thing.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-19

It's rather hard to imagine what
in the mind of person who climbs Il
the top of the Capitol dome on daI
when a snowstorm is raging. ThI
last few days there have been numeIj
Gus requests for permission to go Il
the top of the dome. Some of theT|
come from youngsters, some from
women and more from men. Th|
view is not very attractive in snoJ
storm,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-19

Among visitors to the city is Major
C. c. Mehard, of Pittsburgh, whose
criticisms of National Guard affairs lee
to his retirement. The major believe:
in military training and is strong fol
the camps. He is here on insurance
matters.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-19

"I think the Oakley paintings ard
going to be the finest in the land and
we are very fortunate in being abld
to secure them for the Capitol. I had
and was delighted with them" said
Governor Brumbaugh. The Governoi
is eagerly awaiting the placing of thd
pictures.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-19

Preparations to hang the Oakle|
paintings have attracted much atten|
ton at the Capitol and the numbe|
of visitors to the Senate chamber hal
been increasing. The descriptions o|
the paintings have aroused much in|
terest and there will be a repetition o|
the interest which marked the placing
of the Abbey paintings. Those work
drew people from all over the Stat|
and from New York and Baltimore
The Oakley paintings will be in plac|
before New Years day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-19

Democratic legislators who did
not attend the conference here on Sat
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-19

E. ]. STACKPoLE. Prest Gnd Editor-iH.Chis
\. r. OYSTER, Business Manager.
GUS NJ. STEINMETZ. MandgiHg Editor.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1916-08-18
SHERIFF'S SALE
State Of Minnesota,
County of Morrison. }
District Court.
Security Mercantile Agency of Duluth,
a corporation, -
..., Plaintiff,
vs.
Dwight Patch,
Defendant.

Notice is Hereby Given, That by vir--
delivered, and now in my hands, issued
out Of the District Court Seventh Judi
ctal District, State of Minnesota, in and
for he County of Morrison upon judy
ment rendered in said Court in favor of
Security Mercantile Agency of Duluth,
corporation, and against Dwight Patch,
l have levied upon the following describ-
ed real property Of said defendant, to-
wit:
The Northeast quarter of lot sixteen,
in section eighteen, township one hun
dred thirty-three, range thirty-one west
in Morrison county. Minnesota, except
ner of said lot sixteen, the whole con-
square rod.
And that shall, on Saturday, the
seventh day Of October, A. D. 1916 at
the hour of 10 o'clock a. M, of said day
at the north front door of the court
house in the City Of Little Falls in said
county and state, proceed to sell all the
right, title and interest Of the above
named Dwight Patch in and to the above
described property, to satisfy said Judg-
ment and costs, amounting to One Hun
dred Seven and 33-10O Dollars together
with all accruing costs of sale, and in.
terest on the same from the 4th day of
November, 1913 at the rate of six per
cent per annum, at Public Auction to the
highest bidder for cash.
Sheriff of Morrison County, MINI
Courtney & Courtney,
Plaintiffs Attorneys.
Dated at Little Falls, Minnesota. Z, Az !.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1916-08-18
State Of Minnesota, !
Department Of State.

I hereby certify that the within instru-
ment was filed for record in this office
at 2 O'Clock p. M, and was duly recorded
in Book CA of interpretations. on page
Julius A. Schmahl,
Secretary of State.