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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-03-09

1t would seem that, while all this prepared-
ness talk was going on, about the Army and
Navy, the Postal Department had better get
in on it, too theft of 100000 worth of
registered mail has just occurred in New
Jersey.
Wonder if Mexico will ever have chance
to settle down and raise something besides
revolutions? Diaz has gone there with a mil-
lion dollars and some more plans for aonther
change OF government.
Oh we'll, here's another rift of hope: suf-
fragette-lawyer, suing her husband for di-
vorce, will not accept alimony. But then, at
that, it may be she makes more than Friend
Husband, anyway.
Another young clerk, getting beer wages
and developing champagne tastes has just
been rounded up, and he had been keeping
three establishments up, with the aid of the
money belonging to his firm.
The uncovering of the graft by which some
women employees of the city are made to con-
tribute to "slush fund.- came in good time
for use during the political fight now on in
Chicago.
1t that fad Of not wearing hats at all, as
preservation of the hair, ever makes any great
Roadway, what will the milliners and the
funny writers do for the Easter crop of hats
and jokes?
stand-pat government would be fine
thing, if there weren't two branches of it
that absolutely refuse to stand pat on the same
thing, at the same time.
Tennessee, with an office-holder named
Nave, and another named Rye, should be glad
that neither show any disposition to live up
to their names
Chicago evidently forgot her motto, when
the recent failure of Grand Opera there was
permitted. And Chicago's motto is II WILL"
More and more the newspapers seem to be
drawing the comparisons between Mr.. Will
sons speeches before election, and his policy,
since.
Many an old horse turned out to Craze has
been called back to service by the rise in
gasoline.
Germany denies that armed ships have any
right on the excepting Germanys.
''The 4tIa Degree Oath of the
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-03-09
The Good Bad, Otherwise Few Laconcs L.

for them, first, with the women handling
theirs as they are told to.
There isn't report from a civic league,
nor public school, nor a single institution,
that doesn't call for the cooperation of the
woman with brains, and the power to use
them. We have had conditions shown us in
New York, Chicago, Denver, and many other
large cities, that have improved steadily and
permanently, under the guidance Of women;
and the expressed opinion of the women who
have accomplished this work are not the
women who have asked for the ballot; they
are in too close relationship to the evils that
have existed through political manipulations,
and they see too clearly that what reform is
to be done, is to begin away from the ballot
box, and to be largely along the line of
education.
There are flaws, plenty of them, in this
argument, and in the way it is presented, but
this does not blind us to the concrete fact
that the ballot given to women not only
doubles but trebles the evils that will result
from it.
Women have long way to 90 yet, in the
matter of ethics before they will be able to
separate the personal side of any question
from the larger side of "the greater good to
the greater number"
1t would seem, from the repetition of the
"another American murdered in Mexico"
that there were a lot of the hard headed gen
try in that country, who took neither warning
nor advice and who seem to remain there
solely to give Mr.. Wilson good excuse to
declare war on Mexico.
A newspaper editorial declares that war,
with Germany and the United States, is i'm
possible. Maybe with that part Of Germany
across the seas, it is, but if the hyphenates
keep up their incendiarism, it looks as though
it won't be hard matter to have very good
imitation of war, right here 'in our midst"
Mr.. Lansing seems about to be measured on
the "wei ghed-in-the- balance and found-Want-
ing" scale. He has not measured up to what
was hoped Of him, when Mr.. Bryans port
folio was given him. Rather, he seems to
have fallen into the Bryan attitude.
WE'LL those hyphenates who are blowing up
the plants that are making munitions for the
Allies are at least becoming more humane:
they post warnings as to the proposed blow
ings-up, and the latest to 60 up, at Boston,
had little loss of life.
A theatrical man makes list Of once
famous actresses who have become failures be-
cause OF SaldclOuS plays JneY. reproduced
What pity some authors could not reap the
same fate, when one calls to mind some of the
books rated as 'best sellers
The Shoe Trust has passed resolutions of
gratitude for the present war in Europe, and
this makes the Undertakes Trust feel blue;
there isn't any time for regular funerals, with
all the trimmin's, but the soldiers must have
shoes.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-03-09

A sculptor has said that Mr.. Bryan's mouth
is beautiful, in repose. And maybe someone
will pass this tip to the Perpetual, and he
will keep it that way.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-19
Why Not a Businessman?

Inc business Mems Presidential
League is New York organization
which has just issued an appeal from
which we make these extracts:
why can't we have a business man
in the presidential chair next time?
Government is a business, and a
big business.
"Seagoing and overland commerce,
taxation, tariffs. rate regulation. mo-
nopoly regulation, the mails and par
cells posts, conservation of resources,
development and maintenance of
waterways, the huge payrolls of gov
ernment employees, the courts of JUS
uce, the national revenue collectors
ana police, the army and naVy-what
are all these but pure business prob
lens. demanding the same trained and
capable business executive direction
that any great business concern de-
mandS?
What board of directors would
think of hiring a professor OF Sanskrit
to be president of a great railroad?
What huge shipbuilding or engi-
neering concern would select q peri
patetic stump orator or a lyceum lee
turer to direct its activities?
big business concerns seek big busi-
ness men with big business brains to
be executive chiefs.
big business concerns look about
for men who do things, not men who
talk things.
Now, here is this big business cor
portion in which every one of us, big
and little, is a stockholder-the United
States of America. 1t does more busi-
ness, owns more wealth, collects more
revenues, produces more goods and
eXpends more money than all the rail-
roads on earth. or all the corporations.
public and private, in any country on
earth.
''Gt is the BIGGEST BUSINESS
CONCERN the world ever saw.
And what do we do every four
years by way of selecting a head for
this wonderful, gigantic business con-
cern?
why, we always select a man who
has never shown enough business
ability TO run a one-horse draying con-
Germ.
rs it any wonder that our national
business is one long serial story of
stupid hindrance of prosperity, stupid
depression of commerce and trade,
stupid opposition to the forward i'm
pulses of business cooperation and
consolidation and of wasteful and
criminally eXtraVagant expenditure of
the peoples money to the tune of
thousands of millions?
Suppose that just once, by way of
experiment, we gently, but firmly and
positively. set the whole lot of profess
sional politicians, horn blowing orators,
briefiess lawyers, pretty phrase-mak-
ers, theoretical schoolmasters and all
that sort on a shelf in a back wood
shed and put a big, brainy, capable,
experienced business man, who has
done big things well all his life, in the
chair of the President of the United
States
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-19
JITNEY REGULATIONS

TITY COUNCIL had another round
~ on the jitney question yesterday
and 1T would seem from the dis
cCssion that the recent regulation or
dinance is mere scrap of paper"
Among other features of the debate
was proposition to permit jitney
stands on Market street. This is q
matter in which the merchants of the
central business district have a vital
interest and doubtless all concerned
will be given fair hearing.
However. when. the whole thing is
sifted, the trouble is a weakness in
handling the new transportation diff
culties. If there is any abuse of the
jitney development, it is the business
of the Police Department to get on
the job without any seesawing or tenn
porizing.
Those jitney operators who have
complied with the ordinance have a
right to the protection which their
license contemplates and Mayor Meals
and the Police Department will cer-
tainly see to it that those who are
trifiing with tile regulations are made
to understand that ordinances are en-
acted for purpose and not as joke
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-19
HOME RUG-NLAKING
IF the war and the resulting

IF the war and the resulting high
prices of raw materials have had
their distressing effects they have
brought about at least one thing for
which we may be thankful. High prices
of rugs and carpets have driven house
wives to the economy of rag rugs, knit
by their own hands as their grand
mothers used to do.
Before the days of the department
store cheap reproduction of oriental
weaves, the rag carpet and the home
knit rag rug We're standard floor COW
erings of the households of the coun-
try, rich and poor. Who of us, past
the middle milestone of life, does not
remember the old rag bag and grand
mother busy on cold or stormy days
tearing the contents into strips to be
sewed into pound balls" by the un-
willing hands of little folks who longed
for more pleasurable pastlmes and less
exacting supervision. For grand
mother "bossed the job" with a gentle
but firm hand and she tested the
strength and the smoothness of the
sewing at embarrassingly frequent
intervals. No shirlSing there! She
knew exactly the size of ball that
would weigh a pound. She knew,
also, just how long 1t ought to require
to produce a pound ball" and you
never could fool her by wrapping the
rags loosely. Oh, no! The way she
could stick her thumb halfway
through a mushy carpet rag ball gave
you a sickening feeling that extended
all the way down to your toes. Sewing
carpet rags used to be the most dread
full form of punishment the family
could inflict on disobedient sons. 1t
was simply awful. The Spanish
inquisltion was a mild form of holiday
diversion by comparison. Burning at
the stake was pleasant beside it. The
Prisoner of Chilon knew something of
the miseries attendant upon carpet
rag sewing, but not all
However. the result was well worth
while. With what pride we beheld
that new bedroom rug when grand
mother had completed 1t to suit her
exacting tastes. How cheerful il
looked between the walnut bed and
mahogany bureau with the, summer
sunlight on it and how grateful to
youthful barefeet when winter winds
blew and the night was wild without
and cold within.
Looking back over the years we
know of no prettier picture than an
old~fashioned room with its quaint
furniture and its rag rugs upon the
floor. All unconsciously our ancestors
made necessity fit in with true art
They took the contents of the humble
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-19
Prosperity's Other Side
New York Sun.l

On another page of The Sun to-day
will be found n comprehensive survey
OF the notable increase in commodity
prices that has occurred since the
midsummer of 1914. The great rise
in wholesale prices has been reflected
in the retail markets: no housekeeper
needs to be told that articles of daily
use and consumption have gone up;
no business man has been fortunate
enough to remain in ignorance of the
higher cost of everything that he uses
in his calling. This is the other side of
the prosperity that has solved the
problem of unemployment and put
to work every man with the desire and
capacity to labor.
The heavy demand for our products,
the transportation difficulties on sea
and land, the dislocation and suppress
sion of numerous European Industries.
have brought about the situation that
now exists. and until normal conditions
are restored the cost schedules that
prevailed two years ago cannot be eX-
pected to return. But when the
extraordinary factors now i'm operation
cease to affect the markets, will the
readjustment of wages and prices be
brought about without serious de-
rangement of the industrial COM
munity2 The difficulties that must be
overcome are obvious, and it is not
too early to give serious study to their
solution.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-19
Nelson and the Star

What he did for Kansas City is
known to all men-his fight for city
Identification, for parks, boulevards,
attractive houses in settings of shrub
berry, for wholesome living conditions,
for good government. for the restraint
of grasping interests, for social and
industrial justice, for the fellow, as he
was fond of putting it, who had less
than his share. All this is history.
The amazing resources of his rest
less intelligence were constantly busy
over the problems of the city and it's
people. The questions of traffic ways
of clean streets, of public health, of a
decent building code, of rapid and
cheap transit, of efficient administra-
ton, of a better chance for boys and
girls, always concerned him.-Kansas
City Star
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-19
Cobb Describes Kentucky

In the May American Magazine Ir-
vim S. Cobb writes about his native
State as follows:
"Of late, Kentucky has gone in less
for pistol toting and more for better
schools; for fewer homicides and
greater number of good roads. Yet in
her essentials she is what she always
has been. She leads the planet and
the subdivisions thereof in the produc-
tion of chewing tobacco and Bourbon
Installations, which age in the wood,
or would do so were it not for the de-
mands of the New York clubs, Like
wise, she leads in fine, fast horses; in
hemp although not so much hemp
since the electric chair came into
common use and the lynchings began
to fall off; in corn bread, without any
sugar in it; in hog jowl and turnip
greens; in ancestors; in colonies who
Inherited the title or had it wished on
them; in poets-not all of our poets
write poetry, but all of them think it;
in silver-tongued orators; in the pro-
portionate number of latchstrings
hanging on the outside; in the use of
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-19
WEDNESDAY, EVENING, APRIL 10.
One thing Is certain, the ship t0tth
Christ on board must at last reach
the happy Shore.-PRINCEss BEATRICE.
ARE YOU HELPING?

TN recent publication of a dream
of Heaven the writer, describing
the celestial city, says "one pleas
ant fact was that every home has its
large door yard full of trees and
flowers and pleasant walks" Har-
risburg would be something like that
should all our people take an active
part in the window and porch box
movement this year.
It isn't what your neighbor is going
10 do, but what you are going to do
in this matter. Now is the time to
arrange for your box and the planting
of the flowers.
Hundreads of our citizens have al
ready made preparations and the city
is going to be more beautiful this
summer than ever before in its his
tory. Business houses as we'll as
residences are going to be decorated
with blooming plants and flowers and
those who want to help in the move
ment should remember the several
institutions like the Y. w. C. A., the
Y. NJ. c. A., the hospitals and similar
buildings for which funds are not
available for this purpose.
Flowers not only give pleasure to
those who are Immediately concerned
in their planting, but also sp~ ID joy
to thousands who pass by.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-19
THE STATE FROM DAY TO DAY

"Wanted-Five hundred sets of old
false teeth" This advertisement re-
Gently appeared in valley newspapers
but it is q question If even the most
Jealous of antique-hunters could con-
vince himself of the beauty and value
of such an acquisition. Perhaps he
was a secondhand dealer.
AS soon as the students of Bryn
Mawr College find out what constitutes
high fortitude and courage" in q
girl, they will be able to decide upon
the winner of the Helena Richie prize.
one of the annual commencement
awards. 1t is said that a great many
of the girls fill the bill.
The light on a certain street corner
in Sheffield has insisted on being eX-
tinguished every evening to the an
noyance of pedestrians who fear what
the dark may bring forth. The au-
thorlties have issued an ultimatum to
spooning couples, upon whom they
have placed the blame.
A little head-work on the part of a
forger in Corning who had just been
sentenced to a long period of confine-
ment effected his release with the best
wishes of the judge. 1t was this way
In the same cell with him was con-
tortionist charged with drunkenness
and the forger was taken into court
by mistake for the contortionist. The
Judge asked for proof of his twisting
ability, and the forger. quick-witted as
he was, turned a handspring, ac-
knowledged the applause of the court,
and airily took his departure.
"Thomas O'Rourke, of Middlefork,
while out looking after his traps We'd
nesday, had an encounter with ZOO
pound bear. Round one-Tom put
few kicks to the bear and the bear
tore Toms overalls. Round two--Tom
was getting the worst of it. and shot
the bear."--Ridgway Record.
Mrs. Guida de Nuccio. of Butler,
goes the Philadelphia woman one bet
ter who had preserved an apple half
a century by sticking cloves in it. BY
a liberal use of cloves and a coat OF
paint. Mrs. de Nuccio has kept intact
a beautiful red-cheeked apple for more
than 63 years.
The return to popularity of the con-
venient bicycle has brought along with
it the apparently inevitable bicycle
thief. A 23-year-old has been caught
in Pottstown with long string of
two-wheeled thefts to his discredit.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-19
DIXIE GOES AHEAD
Making Sand Hills Bloom-Southern Pines
By Frederic ]. Haskin

pie in the Carolina hills who never
heard that Teddy went to Africa, and
are still ignorant of Bryan's fondness
for grapejuice, but there. are none who
do not remember and revere Seaman
A. Knapp. lie came to the sand hills
to study the cotton boil weevil. He
found a community of Highland
Scotchmen living in the valleys and
bottoms, where they raised enough
food for their own consumption. The
vast rolling areas of the sand hills
had never felt the bits of a plow. They
were regarded as fit for nothing, after
the timber had been out.
DR.. Knapp knew that Boston got all
it's truck from a sand fiat. and New
York from a sand bar - namely, Long
Island. The truck section back of
Norfolk is made of sand, and so is
Florida, which supplies a nation with
winter vegetables. He knew that the
sand hills had a future, not only in
truck but in corn and cotton, both of
which would grow in the sand if
properly fertilized. But these people
had never used fertilizer and further
more. they had no money with which
to buy it, for they sold almost moth
Continued on Page 81
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-19

T<HIS is country made of sand,
rolled into long ridges festooned
- with wiregrass which nothing
will eat, and decorated here and there
with a crooked pine tree not worth
cutting down. It looks like the poor
est farm land in the world, and for a
long time it was taken at it's face
value. According to a saying current
not many years ago, If a rabbit wanted
to cross this county he had to carry
his provisions with him.
IF Bre'r rabbit came this way now,
he could camp beside some of the
finest sweet potato and truck patches
in the country; he could find vineyards
of sweet grapes that covered hundreds
of acres; and his bobbing tail would
be multiplied a million times in the
bursting bolls of the cotton fields. For
the sand hills have been transformed.
In ten years q waste has been made
a productive farm country. There are
still thousands of acres to be re-
claimed; but their productivity has
heen proved, and this is the story of
the men that made the sand hills
blossom.
First of them was DR.. Seaman A.
Knapp, government expert, and rural
philosopher. There are probably peo-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-19
NEW USES FOR ALCOHOL

A WELL4-KNOWN European cor
"A respondent is authority for the
statement that Germany is MAX
ing g. substitute for gasoline out of
potatoes; France at the close of the
European war will use the absinthe
once slipped by carefree boulevardiers
to run her automobiles; and Russia,
not to be outdone by her enemy or
her ally, has discovered a scientific
process by which artificial rubber can
be made out of vodka, thus creating
a material of which motor car tires
can be made and disposing of the great
quantity of alcohol that q year and a
half ago came under the ban of the
Car.
This sounds like some of the scien-
tthc fiction Jules Verne used to spin,
but after all 1t is not strange that the
alcohol formerly consumed by the in
temperate before the odicts of pro-
hibition should find its way into other
uses. If all the money now spent by
Americans in drink were put into auto
mobiles, gas and tires, all of us would
be riding. But even so, energies de-
voted to the manufacture of alcoholic
beverages in this country are now be-
ing turned in other directions as the
temperance sentiment grows. Wise
brewers in many places are turning
their breweries into bakeries, cold
storage plants, ice and ice cream manu-
factories and candy factories. The old
idea that prohibition would be fol-
lowed by tremendous financial loss
and that prohibitory laws amounted to
confiseation in the liquor business does
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-19
Our Statesmen
New York Sun.1

Senator Jones, of Washington, arose
in his place in the Senate chamber on
Thursday, glanced compasslonately
upon his fellow-members and said:
'Mr. President. l desire to say to
Senators who are here that / shall
probably take the time of the Senate
for an hour and a half, and Senators
can govern themselves accordingly"
No serious casualties are reported in
the ensuing rush as Senators governed
themselves accordingly, but they do
say that some Senators started with
they reached the Chevy Chase Golf
Club house.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-19
The Searchlight
\ WATER LEAK INDICATOR

Heavy annual losses are incurred in
every city by undetected leaks in the
water mains. These will be overcome
in the future by the use OF a newly
invented instrument known as a leak
indicator. 1t resembles a standard
telephone receiver, made of hard rub
ber and aluminium. A metal post is
driven down into the ground near the
water main. The point of the instru-
ment is placed on the end of this post
IF there is a leak nearby, the sound
of the escaping water can be distinctly
heard through the receiver. The in
strument is light and easily operated.