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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-17
PRISONERS RESOLUTIONS

Charles Albert Seifert. of Harrisburg,
sends to the Philadelphia Record the
following New Years resolutions from
the pen of a prisoner, and printed in
display type in a recent issue of the
Leavenworth United States Penitenti-
airy paper, New Era:
First, l resolve not to break my New
Y ear resolutions.
Second. to be more temperate in ex-
pressing my opinions when they are
Third, to start year book of myself.
and make 1t as acceptable to myself as
l can.
Fourth. to go to the bank every even
ing and deposit there something that
will indicate that / am making charac-
ter. not money.
Fifth, to spare much time this year
finding out how l can help men who
are in prison with me.
fort what all this talk about the Bible
means.
Seventh. to hold my temper right
down to where it should be, and keen
it there until ii is entirely unuer my
control, for mans temper is a sense
less thing.
Eighth. to cheer up my family in
ter home complain of my lot, nor ask
a favor of them that is hard for them
to grant.
Ninth to be man.
Tenth, to stop going over my troubles
like one harnessed to a wine press,
trudging round and round in circle
Eleventh, to abandon vain and foolish
values as between the worth while and
the things that are not worth while.
Twelfth, to practice deep breathing
and pay more attention to health.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-17

the heavier, blacker, GIRO stratus will
begin to pile up in the west so that
the sun goes down behind q smoky
vel. Sometimes there is q marked
halo about the sun, and then you may
be almost sure that rain will fall
within twenty-four or thirty-siX
hours; for long observation has shown
that this sign is right about SO times
out of hundred. If there is a moon
on the night before the storm, it will
be very likely to have n halo, which
is an almost equally good indication
that rain Is coming within thirty-siX
hours. If you bet on the halo about
the moon regularly you will win about
81 times out of hundred.
As the storm draws closer and
closer, you must be more and more
watchful If you would prophesy its
movements and regulate your own ac-
cordingly.
The great black clouds that pile up
in the summer sky are not dangerous
in themselves. A gray patch, known
as the nimbus, always forms before
1t begins to rain. Don't let the big
black clouds bluff you out, but when
the gray nimbus overspreads the sky,
| 1t is time to seek shelter.
In winter, If it is going to snow
the sky will be an absolutely uniform
| gray without a seam or a crack From
snow. But if there is any raw in its
perfect woof, the storm will take the
| form of rain no matter how cold
| it is.
From this it will be seen that the
cirrus clouds are the most reliable
/ indication of when the storm will ar
rive, after the east wind has an
| nounced it's approach. A few scat
tering cirri are not very significant
I but If the procession grows rather
than diminishes the changes are
about eight to one that storm is
approaching. Sometimes the cirri are
forerunners of a storm which is pass
ing north or south of you, in which
| case you can usually see that the cen
ter of cloudiness is far away and that
you are not threatened
If the cirrus have foretold Alright
they will gather to form a GIRO
stratus. This is the fine. feathery
sort of cloud that covers the sky as
| though with cotton batting combed
out thin, Sometimes the cirrus will
develop into what the sailors call a
| "mackerel sky" in whicn the lights
, and shades of the clouds resemble the
scales of a fish. Either of these skys
generally indicates an increasing
moisture and rapid approach of the
storm. Occasionally, however, a
'mackerel sky is an indication that
tilS luOlSluTe Is uTSlIlB up. IN In1S
case the little clouds will quickly be-
gin to shrink. After GIRO stratus, or
''mackerel sky" the clouds rapidly
thicken and turn gray until the first
fiakes OF snow or drops of rain begin
to fall.
These, then, are the storm signals
that you can read for yourself and
rely upon. First, an east wind; then
cirrus clouds speeding westward
then warmer weather and perhaps
the sun with a halo about it, or the
moon, il there is one, may wear a
similar decoration. If all or most of
these signs concur, you may safely
count on stormy weather.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-17
THE SEARCHLIGHT
OILING THE OCEAN

The experiences of several seamen
would seem to show that It is possible
Ing oil on the water beneath it. The
question has not been closely enough
investigated to make 1t possible to say
whether this method OF clearing the
atmosphere would be effective in all
kinds of fogs, as fogs are due to diff
ferent causes. but it has been known
to work in some cases The Hydro
graphic bureau is collecting all the in
forma tion available on the matter. since
something of the sort would be inn
mensely useful in crowded waterways.
The seamen who have seen the trick
done say that when vessels of oil were
accidentally broken in foggy weather,
the oil ran out through the ships Soup
pers. and over that part of the water
which was coverel by an il-film the
fog quickly cleared away. A pun of
which was covered by an oil-film the
banks on either side: but by oiling the
whole surface of the water i'm some
land-locked and populous inlet, such
as New York harbor, 1t may prove pos-
sibie to keep clear weather no matter
what nature tries to do.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-17
TELEORAPH'S PERIScOPE

Thirty liquor licenses are held up
in Schuylkill county. But at that no.
body's likely to go thirsty in that dis
trict.
Its a slow week when the Rotary
Club doesn't have something on the go.
To-morrow's educational night, for in
stance
Our notion of adding insult to in
jury is to print pictures in the news
paper this weather of bathing scenes
in Southern California.
Cheer up, we have no mosquitoes
in Pennsylvania in January, and they
do have in Florida.
Talk about the ups and downs of
lffe-the Thermometer has 'em.
THE Kaiser is seriously sick" says
a report. Under the circumstances we
don't blame him for feeling bad.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-17

swer the cries of hungry babies and
weeping mothers on the far flung bat
tie fronts of Russian Poland, German
foregone conclusion. But the answer
was more than ordinarily characters
tic-not only of the Jews OF Harris
burg but of Jews the world over. The
appeal of less fortunate brothers and
sisters has always been heard and
needed by this widely scattered but
always distinctive race.
The mass meeting at Technical high
school was unique in more ways than
one. The stripping of ones sleeve
links and shirt studs. the discarding of
ones diamond rings for the contribu-
ton basket under ordinary circum-
stances might be considered a wee bit
spectacular. Not so. however, when
tears stream from the donors eyes.
Not so when the donor remembers the
stories of suffering relatives whom he
may never see again.
To David Kaufman and his commit
tee of patriotic fellow Jews much
credit should be given. These represen-
tative Jewish citizens earnestly and
loyalty needed the request OF the
American Jewish War Relief Commit
tee and the biggest mass meeting of
its kind ever held here was the result.
However, yesterdays meeting was
but a start. Plans have been laid for
continuing the good work on'a larger
more permanent scale. Harrisburg
Jews are arranging to form perma-
nent war relief committee.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-17
HARMONY IN THE AIR

livery day makes it clearer that
t. Republican leaders in all parts
of the State are looking more
and more with disfavor upon any
attempt to stir up a factiona1 row
over the selection of delegates to the
coming national convention.
The hearty endorsement of Phil
later as a presidential possibility by
Republicans of all shades of feeling
were the unmistakable indications of
this. The announcement of Con-
gresham Ware, of Philadelphia, that
he will not be a candidate for dele
but surely the field is narrowing to-
ward a point where any sort of fac
tional contest will be impossible, and
the rank and file of the party must
rejoice that this is so.
Governor Brumbaugh made a wise
move when he got behind Mr.. Knox
for the United States Senate. This at
once brought not only all Republicans.
but the Progressives as WE'LL together
on common ground and eliminated
the possibility of serious contest
for the most important office to be filed
in Pennsylvania at the November
elections. The Knox candidacy has
also made it possible for the Re-
publicans and Progressives to Join
forces at Chicago in urging him on
the national conventions of the two
parties as the unanimous choice of
Pennsylvania for the presidency.
which is happy state of affairs from
many points of view.
Every day finds the prospects
brighter for Republican harmony at
the primaries in May and for Re-
publican success at the elections in
November.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-17
ANIERICANIZATIoN MEETING
TINE National Conference on I'M
migration to be held in Phila-

TNIE National Conference on I'M
migration to be held in Phila-
delphia this week deserves more
attention over the State than it has
received. At the sessions on wednes-
day and Thursday an anti-hyphenated
crusade will be organized and pro-
cesses of assimilating the immigrant
will be discussed. AS Governor Brum-
baugh said in a recent interview, the
movement is of great Importance to
Pennsylvania, in view of the very
large foreign element in our popula-
tion, and it should receive the hearty
support and cooperation of all those
working for true American ideals and
the fusing of all the various ma
tionalities brought together within
our borders.
The essence of a stable democracy
is the possession of common knowl-
edge, common ideals. common SYM
pathies, common language by all the
members of the democracy" Governor
Brumbaugh said. For this reason the
right forms of civic education are
paramount concerns in this State,
where we have, since the days of
Penn, given home and haven and well
come to all the peoples of the world.
We want them to be, above all else,
loyal, law-loving and law-obeying
citizens. Our whole effort should go
effectively to that end. Its attain
ment insures the stability of our
institutions and advances the we'll
being of all of us"
AS the Governor intimates. we have
no warrant to bring these people TO
our shores and then turn them loose
10 work out their own salvation, while
we sit quietly by and expect them to
become in year or two good Amer
lean citizens, conversant with our
ideals of government and measuring
up TO our standards of free citizen
ship. We owe them more than q
mere living wage. We must offer
them, too, the right hand of fellow
ship. difficult as that may be in some
cases, and we must help them to at
tain the views of life that we hold.
This we must do, not only for their
sakes, but for our own, for unless we
make good Americans of them we let
live within our borders a spirit so
alien to all we hold dear that it may
some day endanger the very life of
our republic.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-17
TO-DAY'S EDITORIALS

The Philadelphia Press. - There
was not-at least there should not
have been-anythinS aboard the E-2
that could explode" was the comment
of Rear Admiral r. Usher, command
ant of the New York Navy Yard, on
the disaster that occurred there. His
words sum up the mystery of the affair
which court of inquiry will doubtless
be asked to probe. Until a thorough
investigation has been made 1t seems
idle to speculate as to the cause or the
blame for the explosion that killed
four men and injured ten.
The matter is further complicated
by the fact that the E-2 was equipped
with improved batteries that are sup
posed not to give off chlorine gas. Her
motive power was generated by an
oil-burning engine, hence she carried
no gasoline. There was no powder
In her magazine and her torpedoes
were not supplied with the explosive
heads they would carry in time of
war Moreover, she had been in dry
dock since the end of December and
was dry both inside and out
The Philadelphia Inquirer. - When
Huerta, dead after incarceration on a
himsy charge in an American Jail, was
in control no American within the
sphere of his influence was subject to
Presidents friends, Villa and Carran-
"a, were numbering and pillaging that
American interests suffered. But the
administration turned upon Huerta
and took up with the plundering and
assassinating bandits. Unwilling to
force protection, afraid to back up its
idle threats with deeds, the best
thought that it had was to order
Americans out.
1t was the policy of weakness, of
chiidishness. of cowardice.
1t was on a par with that wonderful
discovery made by the State Depart
ment that an American citizen may
have a dual nationality.
The department actually conceded
that il could not protect citizen of
the United States who, having been
naturalized or born in this country of
immigrant parents, should be seized il
found in the old country and forced
into the army.
I'VE have incurred the contempt of
the world" says Theodore Roosevelt.
And Roosevelt is right.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-17
EDITORIAL COMMENT

Two North Carolinans We're shot and
slashed fatally in endeavoring to de-
eide which was to teach a Sunday
school class. 1t would be interesting to
know what they proposed to teach the
cIass-Pittsburgh Gazette Times.
The voyage OF tho Peace-Ship may go
down IN history as the greatest sea-
hSht or the ward.-Brooklyn Eagle.
In building up our merchant marine
one craft that would help some is
craftsmanship. - Pittsburgh Gazette
Times
1t is beginning to look as though It
would take more than the support of
Herr Munsterberg to kill off the Roose-
Welt boom.-Boston Transcript.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-17
DON'T LET REDFIELD DO 1T

| VITHEN the tariff board, provided
Wv for in the Republican tariff
law of 1909, was in existence,
it reported. among other subjects, on
wool and manufactures of wool. This
board kept strictly within its pro-
vince as a scientific, a-collecting
and statistics-preparing bureau. The
board consisted of three Republicans
and two Democrats, selected by Presl-
dent Taft on the advice of CONNER
cial interests all over the country.
One member of the board was editor
of a wool trade magazine, another
was a textile expert, two were uni
versity professors of economics and
one was a Democratic eX-member of
Congress. The wool report was signed
by all five members of the board and
submitted to a Democratic House of
Representatives, without recommen-
dations. Three wool schedules were
framed, based on the report, the
Underwood schedule. Democratic, the
Payne schedule, Republican, and the
La Toilette schedule, Progressive.
The champions of each schedule de-
clared that the rates in their parti-
cular bill were absolutely justified by
the findings of the board, and the
tariff was in politics again.
When the Federal Trade Commits
sion was organized President Wilson
declared that he had put one over
on Congress, and that the functions
of a tariff commission were placed in
the hands of that commission. In a
report on muslin underwear, recently
made public, Secretary Redfield call
ed attention to the fact that this was
in the form of a report such as may
be expected from a tariff commission,
and while not directly calling atten-
ton to the fact, it was intimated that
Congress should provide the bureau
with more funds so that it could full
fill the position of a tariff commits
sion. A report on the cost of manu-
facture of beet sugar. made by the
Federal Trade Commission at Mr..
Redfeld's instigation, is said to have
been filed with the Secretary of
Commerce last July. Evidently these
cost figures are of nature embarrass-
ins to the Administration, for the re-
port has been pigeon-holed, which
shows the danger of giving the super
vision of such work to a man of such
decided opinions as Mr.. Redfeld.
The tariff board organized under
the Republican Administration came
as near to filling the bill as anything
ever will in a country possessing two
radically opposed views on the tariff
question such as exist in the United
States. But a Democratic Congress
stified that board by refusing to ap-
propriate for its maintenance. A
tariff commission organized for the
scientific collection and preparation
of tariff data, to be submitted to Con-
gress without recommendation, would
fill long-felt want, but cave
dwelling Democracy, which fears the
searchlight of investigation on the
tariff questions, is now trying to beg
the question and lodge the power of
such a commission in the hands of
an administrative department, where
any light embarrassing to the party
in power may promptly be doused.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-17
GETTING TOGETHER

tFrom the Philadelphia Public Ledger ]
The call of the national Republican
committee for the convention of next
June indicates that the leaders realize
that the getting together ground swell
IS the most significant thing confront
ing the party to-day. Consequently the
gates without regard to past political
affiliations, who believe in the prin-
eiples Of the Republican party and en-
dorSe Its nolicieS.'
Quite right in principle and Just as
1t should be. There never was an oc-
caston in the history of the United
states when the country more needed a
strong. united statesmanlilSe and en-
thusiastic party in opposition to that in
power Not only have national affairs
become internationalized with a ven
geance through the war in Europe and
the necessities of our own hemisphere,
but the great future of the United
states demands that its policies shall
be defined along lines that will insure
its prosperity and hold its supreme po-
sitlon free from doctrinaire absurditiess
winch tend In our own time to repeat
the old blunders of the days of Jeffer-
SON and Madison and jeopardize all we
have gained.
To. see the one great opposition party
hopelessly divided would be a calamity.
And whatever the past differences of
poltty between the regular Republicans
and the ProGressives may have been
ground of action for both. in view of
the extreme necessities of the country,
TO be round in those principles. begin
ming with Washington and Hamilton
and continuing with Lincoln and Nc
kinley,. which are the very heart of
Republtcanism and which never were
more vital to the country than now.
But while on all sides signs multiply
that the getting-together movement is
we'll under way. this does not mean
that, like Pharoah, the standpatters
should harden their hearts against the
Progressives or their policies any more
than that 1t means that the Progress
siNes should take an eXigent advantage
of the regulars and refuse the proffer
of recognition. with the past wiped out,
on the ground of some possible future
difference over unimportant planks in
a platform still to be made
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-17
QreBs, ana
home early"
4 SAD PLIGHT
BY Wing DInger

A friend to me unfolded,
A tale of his sad plight.
1t seems that e'er retiring
On downy couch last night
He peeped into his ice chest
That stands quite high and dry
Upon his porch. and therein
Some scrapple he did spy.
He pictured for this morning
A dish of hot. fried paste,
And with this zero weather
How good the stun would taste.
But when wife to the ice chest
Did early go this morn
She found it void of contents
And looking most forlorn.
o. think of all the heartaches
The thieves who walked away
With all the food. did bring to
That home on this cold day.
For what could disappoint one
More than TO set his mouth
For scrapple, and to have IL
With some thief wander south?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-17
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

James P. Greene is the new chair
man of Johnstown's playground and
parks commission.
IS. ]. Toole, who was ousted as
mercantile appraiser of Allegheny
county. served for years as county
commissioner.
Congressman D. F. Lafean, of
York, is quoted as saying the Penn
sylvania delegation to Chicago should
unite on Knox.
Judge Joseph Burlington is MAX
ing a loyalty speech to every class of
new naturalized citizens admitted be-
fore him at Pittsburgh.
e. L. Doheny. head of the new oil
merger, is we'll known to many Phila-
delphians.
DIR. S. p. Ross is the new presi-
dent of the State osteopathic ply
sicians.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-17
WHEN ISRAEL ANSWERS IsRAEL

Bread for the living! Shrouds for
the dead!
What is your answer going to be?
When Colonel Cutler yesterday made
that stirring appeal to the great gath
ering Of Jewish people in Technical
high school on behalf of the hundreds
of thousands of co-religionists in war
stricken Europe, naturally it was to
be expected that the response would
be generous.
But it is doubtful if anyone dreamed
that subscriptions would total any
thing like the actual sum in cash.
1ewelry and checks which poured into
tine collection baskets.
That the Jewish people of the city
and vicinity would upQuestionablY an
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-17
MONDAY EVENING, JAN. IL

1t came upon the midnight clear,
That glorious song Of old,
From angels bending near the earth
To touch their hGrpS Of gold;
"Pedce to the earth. good-tciH to men
From Hedren'S dH-grdcious King
The earth in solemn stiffness lay
To hear the angels sing.
-GIARDINI, 1860.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-17
OUR DAILY LAUGH

And here he Ia
at the Office using
the boss time
telling a n o t h er
fellow all about
what a fine wife
he's got. In four
minutes (if the
clocks right he
can, and will, quit
for the day.
II you look at
the C al e n d a r
you'll find it,
M o vim g Day
May 1st. Wifey
says 81 move we
move" and Hub
by seconds the
motion. AS Hub
by leaves for the
omce wifey says,
"Now don't for
get the new ad-
dress, and be
home early"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-17
First Notes of Spring

lust ms we seek the first vio-
let when the snow begins to
melt, we look for the first note
of Spring fashions. as soon as
Christmas is passed.
We are a restless people ana
fashion is ever plunging ahead.
The merchants vie with each
other to catch the first authentic
note.
There is keen rivalry to be
first to show the new.
Competition, they say, is the
life of trade, and certainly 1t is
the Inspiration of some mighty
good advertising these days.
Just look through the columns
of the Telegraph and note how
alert our merchants and manu-
facturers are.
Every line of the advertising
reflects the desire to gain your
trade by serving you better.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-17
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg stockings are in
demand in the South?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
The first United States senator elected
here was chosen in the courthouse In
1918.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-17

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING co..
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Ell. STACKPoLE. Prssf and ESiter.iH.Ckisf
+. r. OYSTER, Busissss Manager.
GUS NJ STEINMETz, hGndriEg Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-17

Says the Philadelphia Record:
There is talk among the Democrats
that Secretary of Labor William b.
wilson may be put up to oppose Mr..
knoX in the fight for the senatorship.
HIS candidacy, it is admitted, would be
1orlorn hope, without the slightest
chance for success, unless another
wide split should come in the Repub-
llcan ranks. 1t is not believed that,
under these circumstances, President
wilson would like member of his
Cabinet to rum