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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-21
UNIONS AGAINST
W0RKHOUSEPLAN
Iri-City Federation OF Labor Passes
Resolutions at Meeting to Fight
County Project to Finish.
COMMITTEE TO TALK TO BOARD
aacGowan Urges Amalgamation of All
Branches in Socialist and Pro-
gressiEe Labor Parties.

Resolutions opposing the erection Of
the proposed workhouse in Rock Island
county were passed last night at the
seni-monthly meeting of the Tri-City
Federation Of Labor. The committee
named to look after the interests OF
the federation in the matter was in
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-21

The funeral of Flick Ramseyer. col
ored. who died in shack along the
river at the foot of Twenty-eighth
street was held this afternoon at 2:30
at Wheelan's undertaking parlors.
Burial was in Chippiannock cemetery.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-21

Oyer-plald Chinchilla Coats just in
time for Easter Special sale at sll.So
at the NJ. & K.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-21

Thousands OF Silk Waists and lovely
{roerie Waists in a wonderful Easter
Sale at CSC at the NJ. X.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-21

Popular White Chinchlla Goats
the latest beited flare styles at $3.50
ct the NJ. & X.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-21
Ask Socialist Aid.

A resolution offered by President
Charles A. MacGowen, to get political
action, was also passed. Mr.. Mac
Gowan urged that all branches of the
socialist and progressive labor parties
be united, to further their interests,
which are in common. Mr.. MACEDONIAN
believes that if these forces be united
greater results will be obtained.
The session held last night at Indus
trial hall was one of the best attended
this year and much routine business
was transacted.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-21

structed to oppose the plan actively.
The committee, which consists of j.
c. Kinsley, ]. T. Culley, Charles A.
Reagan, P. J. Carlson and John E.
Shank, will go before the board of SUI
pervisors at it's session and present the
objections. The nature of the objec-
lions was not made public by the COM
mittee, but it is understood that the
federation holds the view that labor
should be given a hand in operating
the workhouse instead Of the business
men.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-11
PURSUITS FOR CONSUMPTIVES
By Frederic J. Haskin

THERE is a woman in Ohio who is
earning a living raising dish
- cloths. No long ago she invested
10c in seed and started growing luffa
plant which fiourished easily and re-
quired but little attention. The eX-
pertinent was such financial success
that she bought more seed, and now
she has a small farm of luffa, which
is a thick, spongy gourd in great de-
mand for dishcloths and bath sponges.
Last year, she sold over a thousand
to one garage company alone, to be
used in washing muddy automobiles.
The dish cloths is not the only use
which can be made Of the luffa gourd.
Cut into strips, it makes a sort of
lace straw used in the millinery busi-
ness and is admirably adapted to the
making of flower baskets for which
there is a large market, especially
around Easter. Yet, in spite of its
utilitarian value and the fact that it
will grow in almost any part of the
United States few persons are en-
gagged in raising it, and this woman
probably never would have thought
of il had she not been in need OF out
door employment because she had
tuberculosis.
There are many outdoor occupa
tions practicable for the tuberculosis
patient. If 1t is only driving ma
chine, running a street car, policing
traffic or acting as bait" in a sight
seeing car, the tubercular is better off
in his own native surroundings than
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-11
MADAME sCHUMANN-HEINk

TNHE large audience that greeted
! Madame Schumann-Heink on
the occasion of her concert here
on Tuesday evening is proof positive
that Harrisburg will pstronize the best
musical offerings when the opportunity
is offered. In this conjunction il NAV
not be amiss to add that Harrisburg
has seldom heard such a remarkably
pleasing program as that presented
by this wonderful woman. 1t was
quite like her to open the concert with
a religious composition and to range
all the way from that through the
depths of soul sorrow and over the
heights Of spiritual exaltation TO the
delightfully."- childish selections with
which the program closed.
Not the least commendab BILE feature
OF the evening was the plea made by
the management for the Harrisburg
Choral Society, which brings the Phila-
delphia Orchestra here tomorrow
afternoon and which gives its annual
recital in the evening. The Choral
Society has done much for the musical
education of Harrisburg and deserves
the patronage which the management
of the Schumann- -Heink concert rec
commended.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-11
Wartime Heroines
TOmaha Bee1

The reading world is so well nigh
surfeited with stories OF battles and
ombardments that it gives precious
little attention to the saving side of
the human slaughter. Heroes mo-
nopolize the limelight just now, but
the deeds of heroines are equally val
orous and infinitely more merciful.
The humanizing touch given to war
by Florence Nightingale is systema-
tized and moderniZed by the women
nurses in the present war, and they
perform their duties with the energy,
endurance, kindliness and patience
characteristic of the sex. Where in
former wars hundreds sufficed, now
thousands are required to cooperate
with doctors at the front and in the
countless hospitals sheltering wound
ed soldiers. Few people at a distance
realize the magnitude and horrors of
the task The intensity of the fight
ing and the variety of means en-
ployed give an in5ling of the manned
and mutilated humanity constantly
requiring attention. Thus the trying
and agonizing work goes on almost
day after day. and it is not surpris-
ing that scores of heroines sacrifice
themselves in the service. These are
the unsung heroines of the war,
whose deeds glorify womankind.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-11
No Cause For Staggering
[From Philadelphia Bulletin.l ]

rom PnllaQelDnla BOlletlnl
First impressions of the General Ma
val Boards report that it will require
three quarters of a billion dollars to
put the United States navy in second
place among the fighting fleets of the
world may be staggering, but a mo-
ment's contemplation should serve to
convince any citizen that there is no
cause for halting, shaking, or even
hesitating, IL the estimates are COM
petent.
A quarter of billion dollars a year
is not an impossible undertaking for a
nation with the income and resources
of the United States. If that is the
price of national safety and of security
against attack from other powers. il
can be paid and should be paid. II il
is deemed undesirable to provide for
the entire expenditure by current taxa
tion. the creation of a competent navy
for the defense of the country is in the
nature of a semipermanent invest
ment. and, by all principles of sound
public finance, is a fit object for bond
issue.
The only question before Congress
and before the public in the problem
of naval construction should be-what
is necessary, what is adequate for
safety? When that shall be answered,
the program should be planned for
completion in the shortest possible
time. And the question of finance may
well come last.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-11
Trailing Arbutus

Trailing arbutus or Mayfiower was
the first flower that greeted the Pill
grims when they landed at Plymouth.
1t is also called ground laurel. Epigea
repens is the botanical name 1t is
abundant along the eastern coast of
Massachusetts and Maine and is oc-
casionally found throughout the Mid
die States as far south as Virginia
1t is an evergreen shrub, creeping on
the ground, hiding itself under what
ever may be upon the surface. It's
rose tinted flowers grow in clusters.
The beauty of the flowers and their
rich odor, together with the tendency
of the plant to hide itself, has caused
it to be celebrated as an emblem OF
modest worth.
Trailing arbutus can be grown in a
shaded garden border or in a bed
removing the plant from the woods in
the autumn, being careful not to dis
turb or injure the roots
The soil should be removed for a
depth of a foot or eighteen inches
from the place where the plants are to
set, and the hole in which 1T is to
grow should be filled up with soil
from the woods or leaf mould. This
plant, like the blueberry. can be grown
in sour SOIL but will not live in soil
that is not at least slightly acid. The
application of lime or lime soil is fatal
to both these plants.
After transplanting protect the. plant
from the sun and wind by light COW
ering of leaves. Clumps carefully
taken up in the autumn and placed in
a cool greenhouse in February will
flower in March.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-11

those afflicted. who without sufficient
funds, rush to Colorado, and the
southwest where many of them be-
come dependent on charity.
There is no doubt but that the west
ern climate has tremendous health
giving qualities, but it cannot do bat
tie against the disease when accom-
panied by homesickness, lack of en-
ployment and consequent lack of
employment and consequent lack of
proper food. Some enterprising per-
sons in tine incipient stage, it is true,
have found congenial occupation dur
ing their sojourn IN the tubercular
colonies. A number of women, for
example, have opened outdoor board
ing houses. One woman who went to
Arizona four years ago to be cured
or tuberculosis, lived in a tent, pre-
pairing her own food as best she could.
AS she grew stronger she took a cou-
pie of boarders, serving the meals in
her own small habitat. Gradually
the fame of her cooking spread until
now she has a large tent accommo-
dating 40 boarders, with a small ad-
joining tent containing the kitchen.
Here she has two oil stoves. one of
which is equipped with an oven, and
employs n Mexican girl to help her
with the cooking.
Work for the tubercular patient
must of necessity be light and of an
intermittent nature, so that he may
CONTINUED OH Page 131
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-11

TINE advance of the school tax rate
in Harrisburg from S12 to 10
mills will be received with a wry
face by the average taxpayer.
But there is no use in complaining.
As President Stamm says, the present
School Board finds the increase abso-
lutely necessary. For the past five
years the board has been living beyond
its means; spending more than its in
come and hoping that increases of
assessed valuations would in the end
make up the constantly growing de-
ficiencies. This was, to say the least,
very poor business. If the tax rate
had been advanced to meet the grow
ing expenses as they fell due. only a
fraction of the rate that must now be
levied would have been necessary and
the burden would have been divided
over a period of five years
In his statement 10 the Telegraph
yesterday President Stamm calls at
tention to some places where money
can be saved in the operations of he
school districts affairs. Beyond doubt
the new board will see TO it that these
savings are made. President Stamm
has shown a disposition to go TO the
very bottom of School Board activities
and he and those associated with him
will no doubt scan very closely ex-
penditures for the coming year.
There is just one note of comfort in
the announcement accompanyina Tho
advance of tax rate. and that is Mr..
Stamm's opinion that the 1O-miu rate
will cover all of the expenses of the
proposed high school loan. People
generally have come to the under
standing that the erection of a high
school building can be no longer de-
layed Harrisburg boys and girls
especially those who cannot hone 10 90
10 college-are being robbed of edu-
cational advantages every day that
conditions are allowed to remain as
they are now. and with the large in
crease Of pupils expected next year il
will be almost impossible to conduct
the high school with anything like
efficiency. The already frightfullv
overcrowded conditions will be made
Infinitely worse. The time is at hand
when we must build a high school
either by excessive direct taxation or
by loan. and it is very likely that
under the conditions that prevail the
proposed loan will be passed by big
majority.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-11
HIRAM JoHNsoN's HOPES

%OVERNOR HIRAM JOHNSON OF
IT California, has written an open
letter in which he declares that
he will remain a Progressive as long
as that party lasts-or at any rate
until the Republican and Progressive
conventions at Chicago take Joint ac-
ton upon common ground" The Gov
ernor adds that the voters who stood
with the Progressives in 1912 are as
willing and eager this year as they
were four years ago to support "a for
looking Republican"
Such a candidate will be the prod
uct of the Republican convention. No
body expects any other result-unless
it be the small group of irreconcil-
ables to whom words mean more than
men or deeds and who cling to re
ctionary''-without defining it-as an
Indian clings to his fetch.
The issues upon which the great
division arose in Republican ranks
four years ago are not in evidence
now. One paramount duty this year
confronts all the men who voted
against Wilson in 1912; the restora-
tion of a real American administra-
ton to power. In this may be found
"joint action upon common ground"
such as Governor Johnson hopes for.
These hopes he shares with all Re-
publicans and with almost all Pro-
gressives. Republicans will do moth
ing to dash those hopes to the
ground. Let us hope that Governor
johnson and the other remaining
Progressives will likewise conduct
! themselves.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-11
HELP 'EM ALONG
ny Wing Dinger

Season opened yesterday,
Cockills bunch did roam
Down to York and won the day
Brought the bacon home.
Here's a hope they'll have a streak,
Winning day by day.
Till they get a lead that none
Fer can snatch away.
But they've got to have some help,
Many games to win,
Great, big crowds a-rootin', bo.
With a noisy din.
None can play to empty stands
So. come be a sport.
Blow two bits whene'er you can,
Give em your support.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-11
Applied PrOverb of
Modern Business

t.FaInt heart ne'er won fat dol
lars"
stated another phase of the equa-
tion:
Advertising is no business for
the quitter."
The man that sticks at 1T wins.
The article with merit that Is
advertised day I'm and day out is
the article that turns profits for
it's sponsors.
The effect of advertising is
cumulative. Returns grow big
ger with every repetition.
There are advertisers using
this newspaper that increase
their space year after year.
And each year their sales en-
large. They are men who find
that advertising pays.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-11
WELL. KNOWN PEOPLE

General E. deV Morrell. for years
connected with the Philadelphia
school board, has resigned.
-Ex-Judge Dinner Beeber, OF
Philadelphia, is making an inVestiga-
tion into military training in schools
-Ex- Representative j.. w. carson
is nresident of the Chamber of Com
merce of Beaver.
&C. L. S. Tongley. president of the
state Street Railway Association, has
been elected delegate to the. general
convention of the Episcopal church.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-11
THE CHAMBERS REFERENDuM
HHE Chamber of Commerce of the

ME Chamber OF Commerce of the
United States is playing an i'm
portant part IN the regulation Of
business conditions throughout the
country through the expression of
sentiment by the business men of the
country represented in the various
local organizations that are members
of the national chamber. The power
of the referendum vote in influencing
the passage of laws directly touching
the business interests of the country is
of an importance that merits the at
tention of every business man.
AZ this time the Harrisburg Cham
ber of Commerce is cooperating with
the National Chamber of Commerce.
OF which it is a member, in recording
the feeling of the business world on
the question of maintenance of resale
prices as embodied in the Stephens
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-11
Tragic and Amusing

One of the tragic and amusing
things of life is a love affair between
couple who go together a long time,
and finally the woman becomes afraid
to marry the man. and the man be-
comes afraid to marry the woman; so
they drift apart.-IIowe's Monthly
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-11
WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB
LEARNED OF THE CITY

tQuestions submitted to members of
the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their
answers as presented at the organiza-
tions annual Municipal Quiz."1
What is the cost of city government
for 1916?
S599,379S2.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-11
Much Better

1t would be eventually better to put
off until tomorrow what you should
Go to-day, if in doing to-day you are
compelled to undo it all tomorrow.
The Silent Partner.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-11
EDITORIAL COMMENT

One trouble with the pacihsts is they
do not realize that it takes two to
keep the peace.-New York Herald.
Mr.. Henry Ford now says he believes
in reasonable preparedness. Who is
corrupting this man?-New York Tri-
bune.
At least Villa and the Crown Prince
have proved that dying is not nearly
so fatal as it once was.-Chicago Daily
News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-11

Rumor hath it that the Sharon bar
bers intend to raise the price of hair
cuts, TO go into effect June first. We
prophesy that there will be many a
reversion to type as consequence.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-11
TELEORAPH'S PERISCOPE

The young man in the Columbus
hospital who has forgotten his past
has accomplished something that many
others have tried in vain to do.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-11

a siX-inch furrow at a speed exceeding
three miles an hour
ode to Baby Week, by McLand-
burgh Wilson-"Hushaby baby, / sang
as / tramped, notice your name on
the week has been stamped" Paus-
ing a moment to swallow a tear, Gee"
cried the infant, II want the whole
year. TO be continued ION Saturday.
Fails Creek had considerable of an
eXcitemnt yesterday when James Nc
Cullough, a well-known resident, evi-
IDENTIFY became mentally unbalanced,
took possession of the home of James
Mccormick, a neighbor, and after
arming himself with a butcher knife,
defied the officers and crowd that
gathered for several hours" The
Kane Daily Republican.
The recent payment of time-worn
warrant by Auditor General Powell in
favor of John Gilpin suggests the pos
sibility that 1t may have been partly to
compensate the poor man for his un-
comfortable horseback ride so inter-
estingly recounted by the poet Cow
per.
THE irony of freight" is that which
announces. the reception of orders at
the plant OF the Standard Steel Car
Company in New Castle for $500 ad-
ditional freight cars when the shop
has been closed owing to trouble with
employees over wages.
The Johnstown board of school di-
rectors has circumvented Dan Cupid
by stating that the marriage of a wo-
man teacher during the year for which
she is appointed shall be regarded as
equivalent TO her resignation and a
cancellation of her contract. Poor old
"Cupe" gets it right and left
The Punxsutawney Spirit safely re-
marks that 1t likes books because IL
goes to them for help and they always
give the best that is in them. For
which the Spirit is politely requested
to set them up in the other avenue"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-11

General Hang Hung is at the head
of the Chinese revolution and it may
not be very long until they will have
hung Hang.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-11

The Bethlehem soccer team claims
the national championship by defeat
ing the Fall River, Mass, team.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-11

The only gratifying thing about
this Mexican muddle is that Europe is
In no position to twit us about condi-
tions below the Rio Grande.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-11
MASS MEETING POSSIBLE

A COMMITTEE of the (Demo-
"A cratic House of Representa-
tives has decided that the
CDemocratic) District Attorney in
New York is guilty of contempt
of the House and that he must
be cited to appear to defend him
self. II everyone in the country who
is likewise in contempt of the House
should be cited to keep Mr.. Mar
shall company the gathering would
look like a gigantic mass meeting.
The coming of the Philadelphia Or
chestra to Harrisburg is not an ordi-
nary event. Encourage the Choral
Society and give yourself a treat by at
tending the concert.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-11

Under "Greenville Briefs" per-
sonal item refers to a Miss Morneweck.
Meaning no disrepect to the name, it
sticks in our mind and we just had to
print it.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-11
L o o K 8
G. o o d.

G. o o d.
w h a t do
you think of
the prospects?
Fine with
me. I'm en-
gagged to an
heiress and she
has only one
other fl a n C q
beside me.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-11
THE STATE FROM DAY TOD

Newspaper headlines of late contain
many references to "dimpled rook-
les" Evidently the stern board of
censors that has established itself to
keep all inquisitive newspaper report
ers outside the fold of the training
camp for women down Washington
way has slipped a cog or some of the
pretty soldier girls themselves have
granted interviews while on few min
utes' furlough.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-11

BY the way, in these days of ris-
ing coal prices. what has become of
that Altoona shoemaker who was go
ing to turn ashes into fuel equal to
anthracite?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-11

Mayor Meals how much he'll charge
for license to peddle young skunks
for pets and the Mayor doesn't now.
We suggest that about million dol
lars a minute might be about right.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-11
DO YOU KNOW

That SteeIton steel is to be used
I'm the new piers being built in
the North River at New York.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-11
OUR DAIYLAU
T A K p s
WORK.

T h e world
owes e V g V
man a living.
Maybe. But
you've got to
b e persistent
II you want to
collect.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-11

with four-horsepower engine" 4"
says the Butler Citizen, "a motor
driven plow of English invention cuts
a siX-inch furrow at a speed exceeding
three miles an hour"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-11

HISTORIC HARRISBURG
This city's first town hall is sup
posed to have been located on the
River Front near Mulberry street.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-11

Brick prices are going up" says
trade journal. For the information
of contractors we arise to remark that
we have fine little collection of bricks
collected during the painful processes
of the years. each painted lightly with
gilt, that Wen let go real cheap.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-11
THE TEN-MILL TAX RATE

TINE advance of the school tax rate
i in Harrisburg from S12 to 10
mills will be received with a wry
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-11
THURSDAY EVENING, MAY II

The wdy to FRd out truth is By
others NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-11

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO..
Telegraph Building, Federal Square.