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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-12-08
Eager feet hurry inc children to Toyland Lei them en- joy each day as much as pOSsbe The holiday season is all too short at most Shall we not give our little folks all the pleasure we are able to!
Umbrellas to brighten
 a rainy day:

Cheerful protection is the umbrellas part.
 Not just to shed rain but to make a glow of color against the gray of the rain. g
 And here are silken um- brellas that do it; gladly and eagerly and very very satisfactorily.
 Their covers are of rich hue:-blue and red and purple. Not a dull inch on their entire surface.
 Their handles are grace full; some straight and plain, some with touch of white, some with hand some loop of silken cord in same color as cover. is
 And how firm of texture they are, how lustrous, how fine! .a ,e
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-12-08

Forecast:-Ldght rain tonight and Saturday, warmer tonight.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-12-08
RICE GRIDDLDCAKEs.

Two cups hot boiled rice into which
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-12-08
$50 still buys women's good gloves !!

WaShabIe tan cape at YI.oO. A plump soft fine skin, cut on model that irisures smooth fit, nicely finished with black embroidery.
 Handsomely tanned by 8 process which makes them easily washed without injury to appearance.
 Don't know what such gloves will cost soon-BUT NOW $1.5O
 Center aisle, rear.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-12-08
Mems shoe value at
 either $4 or $7.

gets what he pays for, whether he pays $4 or $7.
 For $4, shoes with strength and service built into every part of them.
 For $7, shoes with fineness marking them clearly, with good emaking with ''hgh' style
 One sort for the hard round of daily york; the other sort for dress
 At $4-Black calfszin tan calfskin smart English last, leather Neoln soe good looking, very fortable.
 At $7-Rich dark tan calfskin with broad heel and shank English last, blind eyelets. te*2 At $-Black cafskn, straight laced style, broad toe and heel smooth and graceful.
 At t$7-Black dark tan with cord tip and blind eye lets, clever English last. %
 NearF door. E
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-12-08

Purple is the mostsought of all colors-and it $ here in silk umbrellas for girls at $3 Other hand some hues too. sh Women's black umbrellas silk and gloria-from $3 to $2 and even less
 FOR MEN-fne silk umbrellas with handles that grasp in confidence $5 to $1O gloria at $2 and more.
 aisle rear B
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-12-08
Home gifts that have beauty and utility.

Tc the home body, the woman who enjoys everything the house and has special pride in diningroom-equp ment some such gift as- twirh hornha Gu glass sorange bowl Celery gass$2 Olive ed, ,-$3
 
 Fourthfoo E
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-12-08

Put the accent the good, please! The price will be very clear matter what it may be- But be sure of the goodness, of the quality. There's one way to be sure Come here. Pick Rowland overcoat. Most-likely it'll have been made for us by Hart Schaffner 6 Marx or by the House of Kuppenheimer. If it hasn't, we stand back of it just the same. Good fabric good tailoring good style, good service You see we put the accent the good features tool Just now, Men, there is great big
 excellent money's-worth for $ZZ 50
 who pay
 For example:-a stormcoat with big storm collar and donble breast with box built of woolen fabric that send the very King of Cold trimming away for all he's worth!
 Main floor,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-12-08
Mackinaws for manly boys

For boys who skate-or ride-or enjoy keen outdoor air; a mackinaw.
 For mackinaw is the Live Boys coat. It leaves him free to. get around-and keeps him warm.
 Built with plain or smart pinched back, of good warm staunch cloth, in excellent plaids,- $5 to $9
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-12-08
These Slippers will save doctors bills !!

Felt slippers keep feet warm when first folks slip out of bed in the morning. They keep feet warm as one rests after tea. They keep feet warm as one gets ready for sleep.
 "Warm feet and cool head avoid doctors bills' has been proved true, time and again.
 women's felt comfy slippers trim med with ribbon, lavender fawn taupe and light blue.-$1.75.
 Handsome ribbon trimmed comfy slippers in red pink lavender green and old rose or light blue-$1.50.
 Felt slippers of dark blue or oxford gray, plain and of excellent quality $1.25.
 Moccasins of Indian type, soft and flexible and staunch,-$1.50 and $1.7b
 High-cut felt slippers trimmed with fur and with leather sole, many col ors and baack,-$1.25 $1.50 and $2. .
 Felt slippers finished with bright hued pompons.-59c 69c and $1.
 Girls and cflildren's blue comfy shppers,-$1; red felt high-cut slippers with fur trimming-85c and $1; moc- casins-$1 and $1.25.
 Main floor. rear
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-29
Two Billion For Beer

1.-THE United States spends over two bill
lion dollars a year for alcoholic
amount upon the evils resulting from
their use.l
We need a navy That must go.
1t cost too much to meet the foe.
Water, land and air machines,
Torpedoes too and submarines.
This preparation is too dear,
TWO billion must be spent for beer.
A larger army. brave and bold.
But 1t Will need a heap of gold.
Men well equipped from head to heel,
And guns to pierce the solid steel.
And millions must be spent, we fear.
Two billions must be spent for beer.
We need great roads from sea to sea,
But we must pay heavy fee.
Highways and railways should be
built;
Our hills cut down. our valleys filed.
Can we from such debt keep clear?
Two billion must be spent for beer.
We need to eat our daily bread,
For live we must, we must be fed.
The higher cost of living strains;
The cost of higher living drains.
But we must pay the debt severe.
Two billion must be spent for beer.
a ceaseless waste on welfare calls,
Asylums, prisons, wards and walls.
For drunkard's woe, for tipplers
guilt
Much greater buildings must be built.
And who can count the cost so drear?
Two billion must be spent for beer.
Our country calls for sober men.
And Scripture pleads and pleads
Look not upon the wine. nor taste.
And business cries. "oh stop this
How vast the price-year after year!
Two billion must be spent for beer
r. NJ. RAMSEY. for the Telegraph.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-29
SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 90
Hope IS the only good ichich is COM
mon to all men.-THALEs.
MORE MONEY; PROSPERITY

NOR the first time in years the
plants of the Pennsylvania Steel
Company at Steelton are operating
this Spring at 100 per cent. capacity
and the announcement of what
amounts to an increase of 10 per cent
in the wages of all employees is an
indication that the Bethlehem Steel
Company believes its business is on a
sufficiently permanent basis to war
rant an advance in operating expenses.
officials at the Steelton plant have
not been able to give exact figures as
to just how much additional the raise
will add to the weekly payroll, but 10
per cent. increase in the earnings of
1000 men working every day in the
week cannot be inconsiderable, and the
bulk of the money will be expended in
the Harrisburg district.
The Central Iron and Steel Company
is also working full time with a big
force and it has followed the lead of
the Bethlehem company in the matter
OF wages.
All told, Harrisburg is facing a very
prosperous summer. Our people are
all employed at good wages and that
makes for happiness and good busi-
ness.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-29
4 DISTRIBUTING CENTER

a ENCOURAGEMENT that a large
n chemical manufacturing concern
has chosen Harrisburg as ware
house point is another indication that
the Chamber of Commerce knew
whereof it spoke when it dubbed ITar-
risburg THE Heart of Distribution"
We have many advantages as
manufacturing center, but it is as a
distributing point that we excel. Ian
caster, Lebanon. Reading, York. a
dozen other communities, may claim
everything that we have in the way
of manufacturing facilities, but when
it comes to quick delivery in any direc-
ton and for through shipments to
central warehouse from the manufac-
turing point, then Harrisburg is far
and away in the lead. No city in the
State is so favorably situated for in
land distribution. North. cast, south
and west our railroads run, and fast
freight service is one of the hobbies of
both railroad men and shippers here.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-29

The Johns Hopkins University Hos
pital at Baltimore for years took care
of woman leper who had come there
for treatment. In the beginning her
case was reported to the state author
tiles, but the state of Maryland had
never had any lepers and didn't care
TO nave. So the young woman contin-
ued to live in the hospital where she
was very useful for clinical purposes
to the student doctors
The case of the leper, John Early,
is well known. Early who claimed
to have contracted the disease while
a United States soldier in the Philip
pines, was first apprehended in 1908 in
the Salvation Army headquarters in
Washington. The District of Column
bia also was prejudiced against lepers
and had never considered the pos
sibllity of housing one. The health
officer had not the slightest idea as to
how he was going to dispose of Ear
ly, but it was obviously his duty to
see that he was confined.
AS it turned out, the first night Ear
ly spent on a cot in an ambulance,
and the next few days in a tent. Then
he was removed to a brick building
owned by the government, where he
was well cared for. Sometime later,
he was released in order that he might
go to the Skin and Cancer hospital
in New York, but only on condition
that he promised not to return. New
ertheless, the next year he was back
again, living in the same brick build
ing. Once more he was taken to New
York, and for long time nothing was
heard of him except an occasional news
item once in California and once in
the State of Washington. which show
ed that he was travelling about the
country with apparent freedom.
Then one day the District Health
and told that John Early was at one
of Washington's large hotels waiting
to be arrested. On arriving at the
specified room, the health officer found
him the center of a large and in
terested assembly of newspaper re-
porters, to whom he was describing
his journey east on q Pullman car
and holding forth on the relative ad-
vantages and disadvantages of the
best hotels. He is now back in the
brick building at an annual expense
to the District of $4,000.
Leprosy is prevalent in all foreign
countries where strenuous measures
have not been taken to suppress it.
At times it has been thought that cli-
mate might have something to do with
it, since so many lepers are seen in
the tropics, but this, like many other
facts concerning leprosy, is only a
theory. There are also lepers in Ice
land, Scandinavia and Russia. The
disease reaches its widest growth
among the native tribes of South Af-
rica, where no efforts at all have
been made to check its spread. Brit
ish India comes next. Here a few
charity institutions have been estab-
lished for persons afflicted with lep-
rosy, but entrance to these is entirely
voluntary. The same is true of Tur-
key. The Turkish government has
provided a national leprosarium but
the roads around Jerusalem are lined
with the camps of lepers who prefer
to earn their bread by begging.
Japan has practically succeeded in
eliminating the disease from that
country by means of its very excel
lent leprosariums, as have also Eng
land and Germany, and in Germany
there is none.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-29
MUNICIPAL LEAGUE SUPPORT

N1TY COMMISSIONER GROSS haV-
~ ing summoned the former mem
bers of the Park Commission to
his aid as an advisory body, by this
step suggests the importance of proper
through such an organization as the
Municipal League.
We can think Of no association of
citizens better fitted for cooperation
with the several municipal depart
ments than this flexible body which
has done so much in the public better
nent work Of the city during the last
fifteen years.
At the present time the Chamber of
Commerce. the Rotary Club, the Civic
Club of Harrisburg and other inf1uen-
tial bodies are working along proper
civic lines and accomplishing much
for the good of Harrisburg, but there is
need frequently for the special activi-
ties of the Municipal League, which is
so constituted as to bring together the
citizens generally for concrete action
upon any proposition requiring imme-
diate consideration.
That there may be no reactionery
influence in our municipal life 1t is,
perhaps, necessary that the progressive
element of our population, which is
largely in the majority, shall be kept
fully awake so as to prevent any lapse
of the public spirit and energy and
city-wide cooperation that have been
responsible during these recent years
for the remarkable transformation of
the city.
This newspaper has the utmost faith
in the citizenry OF Harrisburg and we
have no doubt whatever of the good
Intentions of most of our people. But
under the present form of our. mu-
nicipal government the duties devolve
upon a small group of officials and
unless these heads of departments and
their subordinates realize through con-
stant and active. cooperation that the
people are with them in every proper
way they are likely to feel that the
public which they serve is more or less
Indifferent.
Our reputation as a progressive city
is nation wide, and whether the Mu-
nicipal League or some other body
undertakes the important duty of
maintaining the public interest in all
matters affecting the welfare of the
community it is manifestly the busi-
ness of our citizens individually and
collectively to back up every good
thing and to Just as energetically dis
courage any tendency toward reaction.
Harrisburg occupies an enviable DO
sition among the municipalities of the
United States. Every one of our
officials is proud of this fact. With
them and with each other our people
must stand shoulder to shoulder and
press forward toward still better things
I'm the future
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-29


TINE bill to retain, absolutely, the
i existing duties on sugar was
passed by the House of Rep
resentatives with the understand
ing that 1t was in accordance
with the Presidents wishes. The
Senate, however, amended the bill
so as to make the retention of
the duties applicable only until 1920;
and the measure is now in the hands
of a conference committee of the two
houses. The conferees are in dead
lock. The House members are firm
for unconditional action, the Senate
members-who had been given to
understand that the action of their
body had the Presidents approval
refuse to yield. From the White
House comes the word that the Sena-
tors have the President with them,
and there is much harsh language
from the House in consequence.
With whom does the President
stand-with the House or with the
Senate? Did he promise support to
either, or neither. or both? With
whom will be finally line up?
The House passed an army bill pro-
viGing for a force of 142,000 men. 1t
was announced that the President
favored that number. The Senate has
amended the measure by increasing
the number to 100000. 1t has been
said that the President favored that
number also. This bill has gone to
conference and we may expect the
House and Senate conferees to adhere
to the figures which their respective
branches have written into the army
legislation. Where will the President
then align himself? Will he stand
with the House, or with the Senate,
or with neither?
The President, as we all know, is
subject to sudden and complete
changes of mind But he must stand
somewhere on the army bill. With
whom will it be?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-29
sTEELToN's "BoosTER" BANQUET

CTEELTON is to have a Booster"
y banquet, at which Charles NJ.
Schwab, E. G. Grace, Quincy NJ.
Bent and other officials of the Bethle-
hem Steel Company will break bread
with the members of the towns Mer-
chants Association and the Municipal
League, which have had a large part
in recent progressive developments in
the borough.
The first intimation that the
Bethlehem Company is interested in
the welfare of the town, as we'll as in
the growth of it's industries, came last
week when it was announced that the
company would give generously to-
ward the maintaining of the public
Fairgrounds there this season. Doubt
less 1t only remains for the new own
ers of the steel works to come 10 an
understanding of the needs of the
community to cooperate with its
people along other lines making for
better Steelton.
At all events the Booster" banquet
will afford opportunity for the steel
company officials to meet and get
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-29
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

C. p. Neill, who is working in the
railroad wage conference, has been
the man in charge of the anthracite
scale arbitration.
Joseph B. Mccall, head of the
Philadelphia Electric Company, has
returned from a fishing trip to Mary
land.
Congressman John M. NORM. of
Pittsburgh, used to be the champion
oarsman.
Judge John NJ. Garman, of I.u-
zerne county, was for years one of the
Democratic leaders of the State and a
State chairman.
r. NJ. SINNERS, State pure food
agent, says that the cherries in Phila-
delphia cocktails pass muster for pur-
ity. but he is silent on other ingredi-
ents
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-29
Shakespeare

Once more the Bard of Avon in his
tomb
Sweet Swan" as rare Ben Johnson
called him-hears
Under his tombstone, dead. his lips long
dumb,
The little men again sav tLose dear
tears
Which Shakespeare makes to well in
to our eyes,
AS we go back with him through all
the hearts
OF men and women and prove high how
rise
The riches that make priceless all
the arts,
Are tears that peerless Shakespeare
never shed;
That someone else. more favored of
the gods
On high OIympus-those who give the
dead
The fame that makes us careless of
all odds
Was he who searched our human hearts
as rome
Who ever knew our hearts has ever
done.
FREDERICK HoPPIN ROWLAND.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-29
by Wing DInGer

Get the spirit, join the movement,
Help to make the town
One big spot of floral beauty
Jot a memo down
To blow I'm on Monday morning
A few surplus, rocks
Buying for the porch or window
A nice flower box.
II you've never tried 1t let me
Tell you something, bo,
It's heap of downright pleasure
Watching flowers grow.
And to have 'em bloomin' round you
Helps to make ones life
Worth the living. to say naught of
Joy 1t brings the wife.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-29

Say
True German-Americans love the
Naterland as a man loves his
mother. but they love America, the
land of their adoption. as a man
loves his wife.
Americans of German birth or
descent holding such sentiments are
to be admired. That they love the
land whence came their parents is to
their credit. No one in America would
deny them that That they are rails
ingfunds for the relief of the millions
of war sufferers in Germany is a
worthy thing and should commend
general sympathy and hearty sup
port The people of Germany as q
whole are no more responsible for
the crimes of their rulers or the rape
of Belgium than are the people of the
United States. They wish for peace
even more heartily than do we in this
country. II their wishes prevailed the
men would be out of the trenches be-
fore the close of to-day. They have
suffered and are suffering. Amer
leans should not deny them succor as
individuals however little they may
sympathize with German military
policies and methods.
Americans of German descent who
are loyal to this country first, last and
all the time, and who stand for the
United States above any other nation,
may sympathize with Germany all
they please, and welcome. Nobody
objects and many will admire them
for it. But we want no hyphens.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-29
THE REWARD OF TREACHERY

n ENEDICT ARNOLD sacrificed all
ID he possessed for England. He
gave up friends, position, reputa-.
ton, fortune and honor in an effort
to serve King George. Yet, to-day,
searching for a term of utter ignominy
with which to describe their contempt
for Sir Roger Easement, who was ar
rested while aiding German force to
land arms in Ireland, British editors
can think of nothing lower than to
call him "the Benedict Arnold of
Great Britain" Such is always the
reward of treachery.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-29
Crocodile Tears

New York Herald.
Efforts to Smoke out" Mr.. Justice
Hughes having ended in a deserved
fasco, supporters of some other Re-
publieans regarded as presidential pos
sibilities are now joining in the Demo-
cratic shedding of tears over the as
sumed lack of knowledge of Mr..
Hughes position on political issues. 1t
is crocodile chorus of weeping. No
man in this broad land doubts Mr.
Hughes Republlcanism Are there any
who doubt his stalwart Americanism? +?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-29
Up to GERMANY

[From lne Louisville Courier-Journal
Petitions to Congress that 1t submit
to this murderous policy of Germany
can have no effect in inducing Ger
many. to abandon that policy. And the
abandonment of that policy by her is
all that can avert war between Ger
many and the United States.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-29
TELEORAPH'S PERISCOPE

The woman who evolved the theory
that Bacon wrote Shakespeare died in
sane, but other Baconites continue to
rave on.
Nick Longworth has found it
agreeable to agree with father-in law
in the matter of volunteering in case of
war, evidently feeling that the Colonel
has something on Emperor Bill as a
fighter.
Felix Diaz is willing TO be president
of Mexico; evidently Felix is in what
certain distinguished American calls
heroic mood"
Here's a possible campaign slo-
gan: Henry Ford and the full gaso-
line pail"
In March we had February weather
and in April we have had March
weather, but we trust that May will
not give US April weather.
When a newspaper makes a mis-
take over a doctors name he raises a
disturbance about it and when doc
tor makes a mistake they raise a monu-
ment over it.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-29
EDITORIAL COMMENT

Is it possible that Henry Ford's as
tonishing victory over Senator william
Alden Smith indicates that Michigan
is not in heroic mood?-Boston Tran
script.
The Municipal Council of Paris will
preserve the hole made in the subway
roof by a Zeppelin bomb, utilizing it
as an aperture for ventilation.-New
York World.
One can't take much stock in the
piratical prowess of this Schiller per-
son after learning that his front name
is Clarence Notwithstanding South
ern Lumberman.
In deciding what to do with Sir Roger
Easement England might find a hint
in Macaulay when he quotes William
III, in pardoninG a noble Jacoblte who
had repeatedly plotted his assassina-
ton, as saying: He is fully determined
to be a martyr. but [ am equally de-
termined that he shall not be."-New
York Sun.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-29

Perhaps some generous minded citi-
zen will make contribution of flower
boxes for the window lodges of the
Young women's Christian Association
building
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-29

Market Square is going to blossom
as the rose within the next few weeks.
and Federal Square will be close sec
ond. What's the matter with the wide
awake community at Broad and Third
streets keeping step in the CITY Beau
tifuR' campaign Also and likewise.
what's the matter with the other hust-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-29
WITH WHOM DOES HE STAND?

This is the season of the paint bucket
and the spade. Get busy.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-29

! ling sections at Sixth AMI Maclay
streets and Thirteenth and Market
streets?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-29

better acquainted with the towns
people and no doubt both sides will
be benefited thereby.