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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-22
Islam and the Arab
philadelphia Ledger.1

The Arab has appointed himself the
custodian of the true faith of Islam.
The grand sheriff of Mecca, with the
tribes of Araby to support him, has
issued a fiery denunciation of the
Young Turks of the Committee of
Union and Progress. whose pro-Ger-
manism has been faithless to the pre-
cepts and to the intensive cultivation
of the Mohammedan religion. What
stronger proof of their faithlessness Is
needed" the sheriff asks Indignantly,
than the bombardment of holy places,
such as Abraham's tomb. and the kill
ing of persons praying within q
moscue?" BY such acts the Young
Turks have added fuel to the flames of
insurrection in the peninsula The
Arab is of a nomadic habit in his poll
tics as in his domiciliation, and as long
as he was let alone in his hour of
prayer he did not much care who i'm
personated authority at Constantinople
and pretended to tell him what to do.
But the Arabs are now cordially en-
ragged against Enver Pasha and his
agents and they would be overjoyed If
tho grand sheriff were to raise his
standard with q rallying cry and pro-
claim himself the caliph of the Moslem
world.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-22

ance from the Taft administration.
Mr.. Taft shows conclusively that this
is not true. He left the hands of the
incoming President free and the diff
cultes In which the President shortly
found himself were of his own MAX
ing.
Mr.. Taft says it is not fair to ask
Mr.. Hughes what he would have done
under this or that circumstance in
Mexico, since If Hughes had been
President circumstances due to med
ling and interference would not have
occurred. The whole Mexican mud
die was the result of the Presidents
very first act in that direction and all
that followed were consequences of his
insistance that Huerta be deposed.
Now comes Mr.. Hughes with abso-
Lutte proof that President Wilson was
so insistent that Huerta get out that
he was willing to promise United
States interference If the Mexican
revolutionists could accomplish that
end in no other way. Perhaps our
Democratic friends will have the nerve
to ask Mr.. Hughes what he would
have done under those conditions.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-22
War Profits

During the twelve months ending
with June, 1914. the last full year of
peace, England bought $4,000, 900
worth of goods in the United States;
in the next twelve months she pur-
chased $911, 100000. and in the twelve
months ending with last June, no less
than $1.51S, S,000,000. But in the mean
time her sales of merchandise to us,
which had been s293, 100000 in the
fiscal year 1914, were only $30S, ,000,-
900 two years later.
The final question, whether Europe
---supposing continuance of govern
mental control over industry and pro-
ductionv-will for that reason be a
more formidable or less formidable
competitor of our own industrial mar
kets, is another unsettled question.
Much of it will depend on the obscure
problem: What in the aftermath of
war, will be workmen's wages, labor
costs, and the price of competitive
materials on Europe's markets and
our own. But, in the meantime, the
United States has entered the third
year of the European war with the
largest internal trade of it's history
the greatest production or steel and
iron. the highest monthly surplus of
exports over imports, and the largest
gold importations ever known.-Alex-
ander Dana Noyes in The Financial
World of the October Scribner.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-22
PROTECTING OUR MILK SUPPLY
NOME good may come out of the

COME good may come out of the
y evil of the past summers
typhoid fever epidemic in Har-
risburg if the Health Department, the
ice cream manufacturers and the milk
dealers get together on a code of
workable rules protecting the city's
milk supply from contamination, as
they now propose to do. 1t appears to
be certain that whatever of typhoid
was in the ice cream to which the
recent outbreak was traced was in
the supply when it reached the city.
Two important points, therefore.
should be emphasized in the proposed
new regulations In the first place,
the farms and dairies and creameries
from which the milk is shipped to
Harrisburg should be kept constantly
clean. on penalty of having their sales
cut off in this city, and, in the second
place, more care should be exercised
In the pasteurization of milk in the
local ice cream plants. Even though
the milk contained germs when 1t ar
rived, proper pasteurization would
have removed them. On that ground
1t would appear that both the pro-
ducer and the manufacturer in the
present instance might have been
lax.
The handling of milk is an exceed
ingly delicate process. From the
housing of the cattle until the
moment of its consumption the pro-
duct must be carefully safeguarded
If it is to be pure and wholesome.
Milk protection and distribution in the
city have been greatly improved un-
der the regulation of the Health Board
during the past few years. But the
whole burden of responsibility should
not be placed upon the city dealer.
often bidding for his supply under
competitive conditions that make the
producer careless and Independent.
The remedy lies in making. the farmer
and the dairyman and the creamery
man clean up and keep clean. 1t costs
little more to produce good milk than
poor and the prices are always higher
for the rich, pure product.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-22
THE Y. NJ. @. A. PLEDGE

TIME Y. NJ. c. A. workers who are
doing so much for the comfort
and welfare of the American SOL
diers at the border are procuring hun
dreds Of signatures to the following
pledge:
I take this step pledging my al
legiance to my highest manhood,
my home and to society. to lead
clean life and to help others do so.
It's worth any young mans trip to
the border to have signed and kept a
pledge like that. 1t sends a shiver Of
pride along ones backbone to learn
that hundreds of American soldiers are
volunteering for a life of that type.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-22
THE STATE FROM DAY TO DAY

Eight residents of Carlisle have
been commissioned by the Cumber-
land county court to act as fair police.
The fairer the better, of course, but
in this case it happens to be the Car
Isle fair.
"Why is a Tollgate?" asks the chief
pilot of the United American tour,
in the Sharon Herald. "In trying to
make time between Annapolis, Md,
and Harrisburg, the first stage of a
tour that includes every capital city,
the car was halted by no less than
nine OF these Instructions" No news
in that for us, unfortunately.
Pottsville merchants are already
laying plans for their Hallowe'e en-
celebration in the latter part OF Oc-
tober. Harrisburg, on the other hand,
Is celebrating twice. once now and
again at Halloween time.
Woman suffrage in Pennsylvania
can point to at least one woman
voter in the State. 1t seems Miss
Reba Sarvetnick of Coatesville claims
that honor, having marked the ballot
several times for her father, Rus
sian. who has never mastered the
English tongue.
Dickinson college opens with q
Freshman class of $50, the largest in
the history of that institution. Com
pares favorably with many of the
larger universities of the country.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-22
HAS SOUL OF NORDICA BEEN
TRANSMITTED TO CHILD

quoted Mr. Belasco in a letter to Mr..
Hyslop as saying:
II consider Lillian Patison, the
little girl about whom you inquire, as
the most wonderful phenomenon 1
have ever seen, especially as she Is
self taught. She has given me several
private exhibitions, and her dancing
astounded me. 1t seemed positively
uncanny and was most fascinating.
1t almost seemed as though she were
the reincarnation of some famous
dancer of the past. She lived every
hlled with charm. When she was
through she was exhausted from the
concentration and the spirit she had
put into her work"
Spirit Message From Nordica
Immediately after the death of
Nine. Nordica, Lillian Patison is said
to have developed unusual vocal pow
tributed those powers to Nine.
Nordica's influence" At one of the
"sittings" Nine. Nordica's spirit was
asserted to have communicated"
this:
II have tried to do this writing
here, but there was so much confusion
and so / decided to wait. But the
time passes and l fear 1 shall lose my
impetus. The little one has been the
center of a group of people who have
a purpose to make real the expression
of artistic expression and there has
been much to demonstrate that the
power was in the hands as we'll as
feet, and tone and gesture and move
ments have been full of the person.
ality of one we'll known to the world"
What spirit influences" are being
directed to make the child a dancer
the psychicists say they do not know
They quote. one from the spirit world
as guiding her.
HE claimed to be many, many
years older than a thousand years."
says the Journal of the American So
ciety for Psychical Research. HE
stated that he had been teacher and
then became somewhat confused, enc
ing in an affirmation, apparently. of
York Herald.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-22
EIGHT MORE

TIME present Democratic majority
- in the United States Senate is
sixteen. To give President
Hughes a Republican Senate to help
him make America First and America
Efficient means that nine Democratic
Senators must be replaced by Repub-
licans.
Maine has already given us one of
them. Eight more are to be elected;
and Names example will be a great
tonic to the Republican campaigners
In other States where Senators are to
be chosen.
This is especially true of Indiana,
where the parallel with Maine con-
ditions is particularly close. Both
and Democratic Governors. In both
States the national administration has
gone the limit with patronage and
other assistance designed to strength
en- the sitting Senators. In both States
there have been ample contributions
of money from Democrats who would
like to be classified as deserving" In
both States there have been massed
a battery of the biggest oratorical
guns at Democracy's command.
Maine resisted all this. Maine
threw out her Democratic Governor
and her Democratic Senator. Indiana
can hardly fail to do likewise; and
when this is done the other six Senators
necessary to Republican control will
be found in New York, New Jersey
West Virginia, Ohio; Nevada and
Montana. To these will doubtless be
added three more-from Arizona, Mis-.
souri, and Maryland.
Eight more, did we say7 We mean
ten more.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-22
EDITORIAL. COMMENT

Royalfamily ties are to be worn
loose this Fall. with frayed edges. Red
will be the prevailing color.-New York
Sun.
One must approve the strategy of the
Bulgarians. Before occupying Drama
they grabbed lot of passes.-Bostoh
Herald.
At last we arc warranted in dropping
the metaphorical and speaking literal
ly of railroading measure through
Congress.-New York Morning Tele-
graph.
Those railroad Brotherhoods modi-
fed the old saying. Strike while the
iron is hot" to "Strike while the politi-
cal campaign Is hot."-Chicago Daily
News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-22
4 IAS the soul of Nine. Lillian Nor
l dica been transmitted to little

HAS the soul of Nine. Lillian Nor
i / dica been transmitted to little
Lillian Patison? Has, too, the
soul of some forgotten dancing mas
ter whose pupils, perhaps, danced for
Cleopatra by the green waters of the
Nile, transfused with the soul of the
great American diva and found lodg-
ment in an almost unknown little girl?
These are questions which students
or pSychical research in Kew York
CITY are asking themselves.
David Belasco, who saw this infant
prodigy" has been quoted as saying
that she was positively uncanny and
was most fascinating"
1T seemed to me that she were the
reincarnation of some famous dancer
of the past" he said.
Mr.. Belasco saw her dance. He
did not hear her sing. She was born
dancing" so to speak. Song came TO
her almost coincident with the death
of Nine. Nordica, May 10, 1914.
The Journal of the American So
ciety for Psychical Research, in it's
issue for September, discusses ''the
Patison case" at length, and the in
ference is drawn that the souls of
Nine. Nordica and of some famous
dancer who died thousands of years
ago" are in the child.
She's u Normal Child
She is described as being normal"
unless her remarkable power to in
terpret rhythm and music in calls
thenic actions be regarded as abnor-
NAL" She is nearly s years old, and
from the time she was old enough
to walk she was noticed to respond
to music in an unusual way, and from
her fourth year she began spontane-
ously to dance when she would hear
music or sounds that were. rhythmic" :"
The child has had no instruction in
dancing, but when years old she
would interpret the most classic music
in terms of dancing and calisthenic
movements in q manner wholly un-
mechanical and without the formal
and trained mechanics of the ballet.
James II. Hyslop took her before Mr..
Belasco. The Journal of the Amer
ican Society for Psychical Research
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-22
OUR RESOURCES

TTOW little we know of our re-
H sources is shown by the an
nouncement that the tank
tractors used by the British against
the Germans in France are the prod
uct of a Peoria factory. Our indus
tries are turning out thousand varie-
ties of munitions and instruments of
war of which the public at large
knows nothing and of which the gov
ernment itself is ignorant. 1t is i'm
portant that the preparedness census
of the country now being made be
thorough and complete and that the
facts be placed in classified form be-
fore the experts of the War Depart
ment at Washington for quick use in
case of emergency.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-22
WELL. KNOWN PEOPLE

George Burnham, Jr., prominent
in reform circles in Philadelphia for
years, is the new president of the City
Club. of Philadelphia.
w. ]. Serril. long active in elec-
trical matters in Philadelphia, has
been chosen as president of the Ameri-
can Society of Illuminating Engineers
to succeed C. P. SteinmetZ.
w. ]. Patterson. the new COM
mander-in- chief of the G.. A. r.. was
given a notable reception upon his re-
turn to Pittsburgh by the veterans Of
that city.
A. A. Hammerschlag, the director
of the Carnegie Museums, has been
speaking in the western cities on what
the institution is doing.
President T. d. Kennedy, of the
United Mine Workers in the Hazleton
district, is urging the appointment of a
committee to look after legislation
here next winter.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-22
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
NOT CUT OFF

To the Editor OF the Teiegraph.
On the first page of your last even
lng's issue, you state that Brooklyn
dispatch says my late father George w.
Cotton, cut me off in his will with only
$50 worth of furniture. This must be
Intended as a joke, because so far as
| know I Inherited no furniture what
soever.
Regarding the remainder of the ar
one-third of the securities of the es.
tate, amounting to more than $3.50 600
all or which you can readily verify If
you viii communicate with Coombs and
Wilson, attorneys-at-law, $50 Broad
way, Brooklyn. N. Y, who are settlins
the estate.
Kindly give. this communication as
prominent a place in your paper as YOU
did the one that prompted it,
HOWARD /. COTTON.
1926 Whitehall street
Harrisburg. Pa, September q. 1916.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-22
TAFT ON MEXICO

IA LMOST at the same time Presi-
n dent Wilson puts out a defense
of his policy with respect to
Mexico, former President Taft makes
public the truth about conditions in
that war-stricken republic. With due
regard for the dignity of the office of
President and the respect a former
President should have for an incum-
bent of the office. Mr.. Taft omits per-
sonality to a very large extent and
deals with facts as they exist. His at
tack on the Wilson policy is all the
more effective for that reason.
From the outstart Mr.. Wilson has
lodged responsibility by claiming that
the Huerta situation was an inherit
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-22
Let LIS Assume

Just before you srart out tonight
to spend some of that hard-earned
money, spend some of your time
and you know this is money. Just
before you let lot of your energy
go for the fun of it, and wind up
knocking the varnish off from your
pretty good reputation, let me push
time ahead ten years, and have
talk with you. Let us assume that
it is now 1926-that you are ten years
older.
If you are spending more than you
are earning now, OF as much as you
are earning now! if you are not saw
ing your money now. what do you
think will happen in ten years from
now?--The Silent Partner.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-22
WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB
LEARNED OF THE CITY

[Questions submitted to members of
the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their
answers as presented at the organize
tion's annual Municipal Quiz."l
Does the instruction at the High
School admit pupils to the universi-
ties?
Yes. Certificate accepted IN all
colleges which accept certificates.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-22
$4,000 on Hughes, Q to /

[F'rom the New York Times.1
A bet of $1,000 on Hughes to $500
on Wilson was reported on the Curb
yesterday, and a similar bet on the
Curb broker, said that a proprietor of
an uptown hotel had $4,000 to bet on
Wilson at l to 2.
a Western visitor to the Curb mar
ket was quoted as saying that it was
difficult to get even money bets against
the President In the West.
Odds of 10 to s on Governor Whit
man for reelection, and of 10 to 8 OF,
Calder against McCombs for United
States Senator were offered without
takers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-22
HELP SWELL THE CROWD

TIME Chamber of Commerce and
the merchants of Harrisburg
will stage delightful show for
the people of the city this evening. In
addition to the illumination attending
the annual Fall opening, there will be
concerts, fantastic parade and dane
ing in Market Square. 1t will be one
of those neighborhood affairs in
which Harrisburg delights. The spec
taclc will be worth witnessing. Do
your part by helping to swell the
crowd.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-22
Her Kind of Letter

A young woman called at the Bos-
ton postoffice and bashfully inquired
If there was a letter for her. "Busi-
ness or love letter. jokingly inquir-
ed the clerk. Business" was the re-
ply, accompanied by blush of the
deepest crimson. AS there was no
such letter to be found the young
lady took her departure. She came
back. however, after a little while
and said, in faltering tones; please,
would you mind looking among the
love letters ?"-Boston Post.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-22
TELEGRAPH PERIsCOPE

1t begins to look as though moth
ing to arbitrate" really means I'VE
won't arbitrate."
The Democratic press agents are
boasting that the United States is
now the first money power" And
all the time we thought the Democrats
believed the money power" to be
some awful monster having its lair in
Wall Street just around the corner
from the Stock Exchange.
The government seems bent on
making it hot for the coal trust.
The Kaiser need not worry over
failure to discover the new tank" as
a weapon of war; it's absolutely use
less for sinking passenger ships or
tossing bombs down on sleeping wo-
men and children.
Peary advises that President Will
son keep our Greenland rights in
cold storage awhile" Along with
most of our other rights, we suppose.
After reading one instalment of
Peggy Shippen's Diary in the Public
Ledger we are ready to give it as our
opinion that Peggy must have known
when she wrote it that the Ledger in
tended to print it; it's so different
from the ordinary diary.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-22
A HINT FOR HIM

TINE following we quote from a
valued exchanged that devotes Its
energies to correct and interest
ing report of events in Missouri
town:
Grandma" Tomlinson, of Gentry
county. Is "a years old, yet lives by
herself on her little farm. She does
the milking, slops the pigs, raises
chickens and tends a garden plot,
as well as doing her own market
Ing. Just now she is visiting in
alone.
Aside from the interest that always
surrounds unusual activities of aged
persons you will note that Grandma"
Tomlinson does her own marketing.
Lady readers OF the Telegraph might
clip out this item and place it on the
plate at dinner this evening of that
certain member Of the household who
complains bitterly every Friday night
because he has to turn out at $50
Saturday mornings to tote the family
market basket. There is truth in the
old adage that Misery loves COM
pany, also in the observation of the
sage !" the effect that "a man may be
shamed into doing that which he
would not do for gain" Try it on
him, anyway.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-22
BAsTED UP.


Doctor Fixit--
There! I've sewed
up that cut in
your scalp but
you must come
around next week
and let me take
out the stitches.
Mr.. Ruffhouse
Say! If this
sewing was in
tended only for a
temporary repair
why didn't you use
safety pins7
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-22

Won HindenbYg on the west and Won
Mackensen on the east are learning
that there is more TO success in war
than the name of famous command
ing general.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-22

During the course of a trial in Chs
cago a witness by the name of Fran
els Dooley was asked concerning the
defendant:
"Are you related to Thomas Dool-
ey?"
Every distantly." said Francis. IT
was me mothers first child-Francis
was the tinth. THE Youths Com
panion.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-22

If this Chihuahua business keeps up
President Wilson may find it necessary
to order his commissioners to cease
negotiations with Carranza and re-
sumo conferences with Villa.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-22
Our Daily Laugh
AS THEY
PASSED.

- = = -
Tho Woman
My old beaul
Thank heaven,
I'm not as fat as
he is.
The Man--An
old sweetheart OF
mine! I'm glad l
don't look as old
as she does =
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-22
FRIDAY EVENING. SEPT. 90

Every man depends on the qadntity of
sense, ztft, or good manners he brings in-
to society for the reception he meets
sVithin tt.-HAzLITT.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-22

NTHY," asks a Democratic ex-
w change, do progressives in
Maine and New York vote in a
way that can be ascribed only as
favoring the candidacy of Hughes 2"
Ever since the Chicago conventions
Democrats have been expressing the
opinion that Prosressives would swing
their support to Wilson. Whether
they did so for effect or really be-
lieved it. the results in the only two
States where an expression of prefer
ence has been made since the presi-
dental nominations must be discon-
certing. But there is no mystery
about Progressive support of Hughes.
Colonel Roosevelt in his Maine speech
answered the question forcefully and
completely when he said:
Against Mr.. Wilson's combination
OF grace in elocution with futility
in action: against his record Of
trayed by o DEEDS we ey see efSrs Mr Hnghss Gr n
straightforwardness Of character
and speaks directly. and whose
words have always been made
good, against the man whose adroit
and facile elocution is used to con-
Gear his plans or his want of plans.
The next four years may we'll be
years of tremendous national
strain. Which of the two men 40
you,. the American people, wish at
the helm during these four years;
the man who has been actually
tried and found wanting or the
man whose whole career in public
office is a guarantee of his power
and good faith? But one answer is
possible and it must be given by
the American people through the
election of Charles Evans Hughes
as President of the United States.