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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-23
BATHHoUsEs AND BATHING
ATHHOUSES are a luxury!"

are a luxury"
Id Thus, from the depths of his
wisdom, speaks Commissioner
William II. Lynch"
1--WE have given them (the people)
a dam; Harrisburg has the best river
front in the country; what more do
they want?" questions Mr.. Lynch.
Laying aside the thought that Coun-
Gil has given the people nothing that
the people have not either first de-
manded or for which they voted q
loan, it may not be amiss to ask the
commissioner, in turn, of what good
is dam and fine river front if they
are not put to use?
A bathhouse a luxury! Perhaps
among the Eskimos, but certainly not
in Harrisburg of a hot day in mid
summer.
The city provides golf links for
golfers, and courts for tennis lovers,
and all manner of athletic fields for
all manner of athletic sports, and
camps for campers, and concerts for
music-lovers, and Fairgrounds for
little children, and public bathing
places for boys and girls on an inade-
quate scale. This is all very proper,
and Council will make the customary
appropriations for these purposes this
year. With these facts staring them
in the face one wonders how council
men can fail to recognize the claims
of recreation in which people of all
conditions and ages can, and do, in
dulge. For that is what Mr.. Lynch's
interview means-opposition to the
Gross item in the budget of $4,000 for
bathing houses and beaches. Council
"a part of it, at least-doesn't want
to give money for the purposes de-
sired. That much is very apparent
The Harrisburg Navy should realize
the situation; unless it gets busy at
once, the bathing item may fail of
passage. The people in general want
lighthouses, and if they don't get them
lighthouses and bathing beaches will
become an issue of no mean impor-
tance of the next municipal campaign
in Harrisburg. The river basin is
going to be made the great play place
of the residents of this city, even
though it may be necessary to make
that the biggest factor in the election
of City Council.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-23
YOUR LAST SHOPPING ITEM

AIOW that the last bit of shopping
IN has been done, the last gifts
selected. the turkey chosen, the
candies purchased, wouldn't it be wise
to tuck little small change in your
purse to invest in the best kind of
Christmas cheer-the Red Cross Christ
mas seals?
Figures on the results of Harris
burgs 1916 sales campaign will not be
available for several days. but 1t is
generally expected that the number
disposed of this year will be close to
the half-million mark which had been
fixed by the committee headed by
DR.. c. r. Phillips. OF course, the
school children of the city and the
county took a very, very large part in
the crusade and their efforts already
have run the seal sales up to the
quarter-million mark.
Generally speaking, to-day should
be the last day upon which one can
purchase Christmas stamps, but be-
cause arrangements have been COM
pleted for a big benefit concert and
drill by Zembo band and patrol of
the Mystic Shrine next Friday evening
in Chestnut Street Auditorium the
committee has decided to keep the
Yuletide "stickers" on sale until New
Years Day.
But one will have a final fling as a
Red Cross Christmas seal spendthrift
this evening down town; a big COM
pany of theatrical folks kindly loaned"
for the purpose by Manager c. Floyd
Hopkins will entertain at a street
cabaret and between acts will sell Red
Cross stamps. Now. then, keep abreast
o. the times!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-23
By BRIGGS

Fortunately, the Church of the Ma
tivity, at Bethlehem, which covers the
manger-cave and is the oldest church
edifice in the world, has escaped this
fate. and is still in the hands of Chris
tians.
Usually, at Christmas, there are
great pilgrimages to this central
Christmas shrine, but it is only in
sentiment that the world is now saw
ing, with the shepherds, Come, let us
go now unto Bethlehem" The Christ
mas spirit has not for centuries been
SO far away from its birthplace as it
is to-day
Among the unmentioned sufferers
from the war are the "religeuse' of
Palestine, even though they be from
Austria or Germany. These are the
monks and priests and teachers who
have charge of the sacred sites to
which Christians have been wont to
make pilgrimage. In many cases, the
cessation of the stream of pilgrims
has meant a stoppage of the usual
livelihood of these custodians of holy
places.
In The Wise Mems Land
1T is not alone to Bethlehem and
Nazareth and Jerusalem and Palestine
proper that the war has brought
gloom and suffering. Even away off
to the East, whence the Three Wise
Men came to bear gifts to the new
King who was born on Christmas,
there is unwonted distress and de-
privation.
Popular fancy has made many
curious errors in its description of
these Wise Men, or Magi Although
the Scripture explicitly states that
they come from the East" legend mas
made them of many nationalities.
General Lew Wallace, in Ben Hur,"
depicts one of them as an Egyptian,
though Egypt is West and South of
Bethlehem. There can be little doubt
that the .Magi came from Persia or
Mesopotamia.
Tradition locates the Wise Men at
the ancient town of Amarra, on the
Tigris River, not far from Kutel
Amarra. where the British were be-
sieged and defeated by the Turks.
There is situated a community of Sa-
beans, or star r-worshippers, who to
this day observe some of the rites of
the ancient Magi. They are also
tinged with the teachings of John the
Baptist, and are popularity said to be
followers of John. They live strictly
apart from other peoples, and pre-
serve in secret their own rites and
usages. They make q peculiar kind
of enameled silverware, the process of
which is jealousy guarded, and hand
ed down from generation to genera
ton.
Now these mysterious Sabeans, who,
though far to the East of Bethlehem
are linked uniquely with the Christ
mas story, are caught between the
contending forces of the great war,
and are suffering in their business, in
their property and in their lives. The
Christmas peace which their forebears
read in the stars is not yet for them.
In uncounted ways this years keep
ing of Christmas the world around
is seriously affected by the great war;
but no people feel it more DISTRESS
| ingly tEan those who dwell in the
Land which the Star, the Manger and
the Child have made the Holy Land.
They are the ones who find it hardest
| to believe that the God of battles is
also the Prince of Peace
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-23
A Christmas Carol

Everywhere. everywhere, Christmas
tonight!
Christmas in lands of the fir tree and
pine,
Christmas in lands of the palm tree
and vine;
Christmas where snow-peaks stand
solemn and wkite,
Christmas where cornfields lie sunny
and bright;
Everywhere, everywhere, Christmas
tonight!
Christmas where children are hopeful
and gay,
Christmas where old men are patient
and gray;
Christmas where peace, like a dove in
it's flight,
Broods Ger brave men in the thick of
the fight;
Everywhere, everywhere. Christmas
tonight!
For the Christ-child who comes is the
Master of all,
No palace too great and no cottage
too small;
The Angels. who welcome Him sing
from the height,
In the city of David a King in His
might"
Everywhere, everywhere, Christmas
tonight!
Then let every heart keep it's Christ
mas within,
Christ's pity for sorrow, Christ's hatred
of sin.
Christ's care for the weakest, Christ's
courage for fight,
Christ's dread of the darkness, Christ's
love of the light;
Everywhere, everywhere, Christmas
tonight
So the stars of the midnight which
compass us round
Shall see a strange glory, and hear o
sweet sound,
And cry, Look! the earth is aflame
with delight
sons of the morning, rejoice at the
sight,
Everywhere, everywhere, Christmas
Tonight
-PhilliDS Brooks
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-23
TRULY PATRIOTIC

; n LII the patriots are not serving in
IA the army. All capitalists are not
money-grubbers. Profits are not
all there is to business. Industrial
leaders thoughts are not necessarily
confined to the mere accumulation of
wealth and the earning of dividends
Charles M. Schwab in his New York
speech Thursday night said that the
Bethlehem plants are now greater
than Krupps, in Germany, and that
they have capacity to manufacture a
million rounds of heavy ammunition a
month, and added:
This. I feel to be a great national
asset Tor the Government. In the
event the time comes that it is
posal of the Government to be used
as the Government sees fit and the
Government itself shall name the
price to be paid for the material
produced.
How many of us, we wonder, I'D
be ready to volunteer in such fashion =?
How many at the sound of the war
alarm would be willing to say to Uncle
Sam, Here is my business Take 1t.
DO with 1t what you like. Pay me lust
what YOU see fit" It's q big sacrifice.
this giving away of the creation of q
lifetime. 1t is large order Mr.. Schwab
has given himself, but no doubt he
would deliver the goods" He has a
reputation for living up to his words
and of not speaking lightly.
The offer is all the more remarkable
because the Wilson administration
slandered Bethlehem shamefully and
is even now bent on taking millions
of dollars year away from 1t by the
erection of federal armor plate mill.
Mr.. Schwab might have been excused
did he feel a trifle bitter toward the
federal authorities. Perhaps he does,
but If SO. he is able to discern between
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-23
MERRY CHRISTMAS /!

JERRY CHRISTMAS! Merry
4V1 Christmas! What a wonderful
feeling of good cheer the words
engender! Past animosities vanish,
present worries cease, business trou-
bles automatically disengage them
selves from weighted shoulders, and
the spirit of unadulterated happiness
that mother and the children have re-
veled in for weeks past settles upon
the breadwinner, too, and so becomes
universal.
Even in the trenches Christs birth
day is not forgotten. The soldiers of
each camp mutually agree not to dis
agree for the time being, and they
who but few minutes before were
hurting death at one another will for
get for a time their hostilities. We
in America this year can thank God
that the flower of our manhood can
gather about the hearth in the sacred
family circle, except for the COMPARE
tive few who are serving their coun-
try on the Border. And Santa Claus,
unsinged by the flame of war, is free
to stir to ecstacies the innocent heart
of childhood. Surely, Christmas in
America, with the opportunities for
giving to the poor and those less for
tunate than ourselves, will truly rep
resent and exemplify the spirit of
Christ on earth.
A friendly handshake. CHEEKY nod,
smile Suppose you don't know
him and will never see him again.
Perhaps he has a wife and youngster
at home and wishes, oh so yearningly,
that he were with them on Christmas.
Or, possibly, his little one is in an
other country, where sorrow is un-
known! In any case, the expenditure
of little of your own supply of hap
piness will pay richly in dividends of
reflected happiness Conventional bar
riers are down at Christmas time. All
the world rejoices together. Merry
Christmas" resounds in the air and
Merry Christmas!" comes floating
back. "Foehliche Weinachten!" Joy
euse Noel! ella Delig JUL" "Buona
Natale!" The spirit is the same.
Merry Christmas to aEi
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-23
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Mayor Armstrong expects to well
come the 18th infantry to Pittsburgh
on Christmas day.
IT. ]. Dowler. has been elected Sec
tary of the Braddock lodge of Masons
for the 43rd consecutive time.
Thomas Boswell. prominent Bal
timore coal operator, is planning to
open u coal tract near Johnstown.
Captain r. L. Russell, commands
ant of the League Island Navy yard,
says the building of the new battle
cruiser, will take 1000 more men.
Mark K. Edgar. Scranton Board
of Trade secretary, we'll known here,
has been reelected and given an ad-
vance in salary.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-23
Without

The carriage waits without my
lord"
Without what, gentle sir?"
without the left-hand running
board;
Without the French chauffeur,
Without drop of gasoline,
Ten nuts, tie can of oil,
The outer coat of Brewster green,
Two spark plugs and the coil;
Without the brake, the horn, the
clutch
Without the running gear,
One cylinder-it beats the Dutch
How much there isn't here!
The car has been repaired, in fact,
And you should be right glad
To find that this much is intact
OF what your lordship had.
The garage sent it back, my lord,
In perfect shape throughout;
SO you will understand, my lord,
Your carriage waits without"
&C. Fl. D. in Northwestern Candle.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-23

the mistaken policies of few political
1ugglers and the needs of the nation
itself, and to govern himself accord
ingly, which statesmanship-li quality
one might wish some others in promi-
| nent places possessed in like degree.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-23
SATURDAY EVENING, DEC. %

Do not blame yourself cruelty, nor
think Of escaping from yourself; but
pardon your failures, and quietly Keep
trying till yoW succeed in gaining
that full self-posseSsion in equilibrium
,0hich is at once happiness and reli-
gion.-WILLIAM RoUNsEvILLE ALGER.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-23
Newspapers Suspend

Newspapers in Oklahoma have
been especially hard hit by the high
prices and shortage in news print
paper. Twenty eight of them have
been compelled to suspend during
the past year and many former g.
page papers have had TO reduce to
as low as four and sometimes even
to two pages
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-23
Lies Little Jolts

I watched a lady buy a hat
A tiresome occupation, that;
said: "I guess I'll have to wait
TIL all these hats are out of date
She'll take a week to pick out one"
When suddenly l heard a shout!
/ saw the lady pay the girl.
And then my head began to whirl-
While others swooned upon the floor
SHE'D ONLY TRIED ON TWENTY
FOUR!l!
SPOKANE Chronicle.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-23

of Williamsport opened in order to dis
cover the illegal votes for member of
Assembly alleged by w. Clyde Harer
to have been counted for his opponent
John Luppert. This leaves Mr.. Lup-
pert, the Democratic candidate, IA
votes in the lead. Mr.. Luppert con-
tested Mr.Harer's election and on o re-
count of the Thirteenth ward vote gave
him the lead. The contest will be
carried into the House of Representa-
tiVes
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-23
impossible

Husband (after the theater): Well,
how did you like the play?
His Wife: Very well, indeed. There
was only one impossible thing in it.
The second act takes place two years
after the first. and the family still
have the same servant. - New York
Sun.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-23
CHRISTMAS-1o16

Blow, buE1es of battle, the marches OF
peace;
East, West, North and South, let the
long quarrel cease;
Sing the song of great joy, that the
angels began,
Sing of glory to God and of good will
to man.
WUJTTIER
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-23

AS Briggs would say-when you have
gone clear down your Christmas list
and back again and discover that all
the gifts have been bought and wrapped
FAINT it the gr-r-rand. gl-l-lorious
feeling?"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-23

In getting the Christmas tree ready
to be trimmed it is sometimes best to
send the children to the roof, your wife
to the cellar and then make the room
soundproof by stuffng rags in the
cracks.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-23
BY Wing Dinger

Friend. it's been some weeks, know
Since I've penned a rhyme
That's because my work has robbed
Me of my play time.
But there's one time in the year
When, aside l lay,
Work and troubles and all else,
To a friend to say:
Merry Christmas. lots of them,
Gods rich blessings, too.
Be your lot from year to year
That's my wish to you.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-23

Take an hour off and read the OPEN
ing chapters of George Randolph Chess
ter's great novel-'"rhe Enemy" Open
ing chapters in the Telegraph of this
issue,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-23
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg rolls plates
which have been used for stand
pipes for big western operations?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-23

The man who gets drunk at Christ
mas time may be a helpless inebriate,
but the probabilities are it's simply the
hog blood in him showing up
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-23
Congratulating a Kansan

~. IFFom the IOpeka CaplthI
Lucky" Collins, who was married
last summer, has a new overcoat. God
moves in a mysterious way his won.
ders to perform
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-23

Bless the man who arranged the cal
endar so that Christmas occasionally
falls on Monday.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-23

Something tells us that we and the
calendar hanging over our desk are
soon to part company.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-23
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
MERRY CHRISTMAS

John Harris ferry was last used in
the War of 1912.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-23

Uncle Sam aspires to be peace
maker" says news dispatch. Also,
pacemaker.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-23

The Telegraph wishes you very
Merry Christmas.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-23

Judge Whitehead has refused to
order the ballot box of the<Third ward
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-23

James Auter. who will hand out the
candy to the Harrisburg youngsters at
the Executive mansion in behalf of
Governor and Mrs. Brumbaugh, has
presided at that important function
for twenty-three years. He has given
away tons of candy and kept in line
thousands of youngsters.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-23

e. J. STACKPOLE.P Pres't ana Editoy-in- Chief
=. r. OYSTER. BHsineSs Manager.
GUS M. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-08-08
TOTA
TOTAL

! IBst Of orders filed Mt the June tern Of
chs County Court by Ross +, Stout SNer.
IL Of Harrison County, West virginia in
settlement Of the simpson nlrtF ~ ,d, IT" for
The taxes Of 1915. q. IN
vi, Albert ]. KEalk .".,",'..'. @1'V9
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-08-08

toned in the list hereto attached were
paid IN good filth to discharge the
Eagle District Permanent Road Debt Of
sad Harrison County and that said list
is correct and true to the best Of ny
knowledge and belief so help me God.
ROSS II. STOUT,
Sheriff Of Harrison County.
Subscribed aud sworn to before me, in
said county, this the 2Ith day Of July,
LEO p. CAULFlELD,
Notary Public in aud for Harrison County
Ms commission expires Sept. II, 1919.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-08-08
SERVICE FOR
ALL
THE FAMILY

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29 Sunday morning will contain
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of interest and value to every
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very latest news from every
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Associated Press, giving the
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in West Virginia editions of
news papers printed outside the
state,
The Sunday Telegram fea-
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interesting published by any
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comic section can't be equaLIed.
Such great comic artists, as
Sterritt,wh draws Polly" well
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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-08-08
slNr.oN nI.rNIcr "rLNvNNLNr NolD rrNn

Summary Of the S"r''rmgn, q, r. ,'3t'
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-04-10
Resources Of This Country Make Us
Safe From Foreign Attack


WYE are today better prepared to meet such an improbable emergency
w Is war than ever before in our history. On the other hand, ev-
cry other great nation is wasting its strength.
Who supposed that we were prepared to produce munitions of war
And yet this holocaust disclosed the fact that WE COULD PRODUCE
THEM FASTER AND IN GREATER QUANTITIES THAN ANY
OTHER NATION EXCEPT PERHAPS GERMANY.
But what constitutes preparedness for war anyhow?
First and foremost is a numerous ctIzenry, patriotic, vigorous, ener-
gehc, intelligent men and women who can speak and write a common
language and read a free, uncensored and unmuzzled press.
NO OTHER NATION ON EARTH CAN COMPARE WITH US IN THESE
ELEMENTS.
The second essential Of preparedness is the ability to produce the
sinews of war. We have already spoken of munitions of war. Of other
essentials we produce the following proportions of the worlds total sup
ply: Cotton, 70 per cent; corn, 60 per cent; wheat, 33 per cent; pig iron,
IS per cent; lead, IS per cent; copper, 40 per cent. Our production Of
iron ore, steel and zinc, clothing and fruit is limited only by the demand.
If a Chinese wall were built around this country all we would miss would
be tea, coffee and bananas.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-04-10

One more example of the success
full management of lines and adjust
ment by means of new departures in
the garment-cutters' art may be stud
led in the coat pictured above. In the
new spring models cutters appear to
have thrown tradition to the winds,
but the coats justify them in this in
dependence.
1t appears that the designers are
striving to achieve the required full
ness without making coats cumber-
some, and to give to the figure the cor
rect silhouette. In the model shown
here the back of the coat and top of
the sleeves appear to be cut in n
piece. The Introduction of a pc
culiarly shaped underarm piece leads
one to think that this eccentricity of
cut Is often made with an eye to its
decorative value as well as to the
hang" Of the garment. The fronts
are extended toward the back in a
lcurved line over the hips, and contrib
ute their share of the fullness about
the bottom Of the coat. 1t hangs
sstrimly straight down the middle of the
afrOnt, It will be noticed, which Is =