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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-01-28
January Sale Of " hite
continues this week

Hundreds of with foresight for the future need tool,
advantage of this great money saving event last week and many
more will take the same advantage this week There hun
drd of exceptional bargains left be among the first
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-01-28
DIR NNIRS

Circular and straicht styles. In
OpCu or closed drawers. Iaces.
scaiiops and embroidery form tho
trimmiuCS.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-01-28
A Glimpse Of the Pretty 1917 Models
NolVDroSSeS
and Goats
ShO9ving three Spring
.SiiHOuoffoS

The barrel silhouette. sponsored
hy Ca''ot. Jenny Lauyiu. Paquin
Wrth Peggy.
The straight silhouette, ,pou-
Sorcd by Ca.,oL Chcwct, Jenny
and others.
The drapcd silhouette sponsored
10y Paquiu and BuiloL
Dresses.
Exquisite iu design. prcttily fem
iuiuc as to fabric. Grorgcttc,
Clarmcu>c. Tafi,m and Gcorg
cites combined with other ma-
tarIaI>. colors expressing tmijitv.
dreams. ambitions. hopes. opti-
mi>m These are the new dresses
which have com, 90 Us and are
now on display Priced from
$3.50 70 ...............S $3.50
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-01-28
NOVELTY STRIPE TAFFETAS
$500 $3.50, $500 and $3.50

The most complete selection of what in novelty silks
shown here handsome exclusive patterns rich color
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-01-28
Household
Necessities
From Our Economy
Basement Store

Crystal White Laundry Soap. Z
for. .......................25c 25c
SanifluSh, can ..............1 .19c
25c Dover Egg Beaters. 80. .19c
Large size Triple Beater, nickel
finish, 25c value ........... .19c
Wire Soap Dishes for bathtub and
sink. ............... .1Oc
Dust Pans ............... .1Oc
75-foot Clothes Line. ....... .29o
(TwiSte1 wire !
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-21
The Times

There's no doubt, whoever says it,
That we're living in q cycle
Which may have its faults and follies,
Which to some may be unpleasing,
But which not its dearest critics
Can deny has it's sensations.
Not one can point the finger
OF scorn at 1t, while remarking
"Naught about you is exciting,
You are dull, and drab and weary,
Monotonous almost past bearing,
Same old things in same old manner
Filling up your daily measure
oh, no! none can fling this taunting
At this day in which we're living,
For 'tis reeking of sensations.
War and crime and love and intrigue
Mystery and farce and romance,
Politics and deeds of wonder
In the air and earth and water,
Putting widest, w1erdest fiction
Unto shame by their comparing
All these come in quick succession,
AS we read the daily paper.
No! the times we may denounce them
But we truly can't accuse them
OF a lacking in sensation.
The Baltimore American
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-21
A THING WE ALL CAN DO

MYTH the coming of the Lenten
, wv season all people might well
follow the advice of Bishop
Philip r. McDevitt, that they give a
bit of their time each day to praying
for the cessation of hostilitles in Eu-
rope and in asking mercy for the suf-
fering thousands in wide part of the
world.
Here in the hustling, bustling at
mosphere of work-a-day America we
are all too prone to forget the misery
of the countless numbers of women
and children in the lands across the
seas. True, America has come nobly
to the relief of the bleeding peoples
of Belgium, Armenia, Serbia and
other warswept nations. Millions in
money have been contributed to aid
the hungry and the dying. Undoubt-
edly, the prayers of the devout have
been raised to high Heaven for the
amelioration of the widespread mis-
cry.
But what have we ms individuals
done? Many of us have been kept
busy meeting our debts with the pre-
vailing high prices for the necessities
of life, Many of us have had our
whole interest eentered in the chase
for the dollar But poor and rich
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-21
Compulsory Service at Once

What is really required, in order to
meet the danger the country now
faces, is universal, compulsory service,
under the sole direction and undis-
puted authority of the national gov
eminent.
Congress should enact at once a law
of this character, which would pro-
vide for the immediate registration of
every man of military age in this
country. 1t should provide for the
training of these men, starting with
those between the ages of 19 and
21. 1t should make no exemptions be-
yond those incorporated in existing
statutes.
The people of this country are
drawn from many stocks, having their
origin in many lands. Great multi
tudes of them have not reached the
full stature of American citizenship,
but are moved by old loves, old pas
sions, old prejudices and hatreds,
which had their inspiration beyond
the seas. On them the melting pot
has not yet done its work.
Our first and exigent duty is self
protection. We must see to it that
the venom of disloyalty has no chance
to spread. Actively to distrust those
OF our people not native to our soil
would be unfair and unwise, but they
must have their opportunity to de-
clare where they stand and where
their sympathies and affections reside.
Even the threat of war is a serious
matter. We should be prepared, in
the best and highest sense, for every
emergency which may arise.-From
the Richmond, Va, Times Dispatch.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-21
By BRIGGS

this class is the girl who works be-
cause remaining at home is too mono
tonous, or because she expects to find
husband in the Office. She exploits her
sex in the Office, consciously or un-
consciously. She works cheaper be-
cause she is a woman. She wants the
window continually up or down; she
kinds for candy and flowers and theater
tickets; she embroils the entire office
In petty politics, and she clouds the
record for the business woman who
tackles her work like any other en-
ploye in the Office and who fails to see
why there should be any question of
personal privilege in the office routine.
This 10 per cent. always reminds me
of the tufts that annoy the housekeeper
so. / suppose we have to have the hu-
man tufts in the office, too. Any house.
keeper who lives on hardwood floors
knows what floor fluff is. No one can
explain them, but we all have to con-
tend with them. The worst thing about
fluff is that 1t hides around in dark
corners when you are industriously at
work with mop and broom, and only
blows airily out into the middle of the
floor for public inspection when there
is company and you want to put your
)est foot forward.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-21
NEIGHBORHooD CENTERs

TIME Community Center Associa-
ton is given a fine opportunity
by the School Boards action in
turning the Shimmell school building
over to it, to demonstrate what can be
accomplished along social center lines
in Harrisburg. The School Board, fol-
lowing the repeated recommendations
of DR.. +. e. Downes, city superinten-
dent of schools, has acted generously
and wisely. DR.. Downes is convinced
that while the boards decision Is a
radical departure in Harrisburg school
activities, and for that reason some
what experimental, there is not the
least fear the neighborhood work
about to be started will be other than
successful.
The saloon for years has boasted
that 1t Is "the poor mans club" and
with some reason, but the social CEN
ter is more than that-it is O neigh
borhood family club, an organization
for men and boys, women and girls,
old and young, rich and poor. It's in
fiuences are uplifting and make for
better citizenship.
The neighborhood center will not
jump into instant popularity in Har-
risburg, because people do not know
enough about It, but it will grow
steadily, II slowly, into popular favor.
Once firmly established the school
house centers will take care OF them
selves,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-21
THE BUSINESS WOMAN
AND THE HUMAN FLUFF

TNHERE are parasites in business
as well as in the home, says Eliza
beth Sears in Harper's Weekly.
Personally, L have always felt that it
would be more of a disgrace to remain
at home and coax living from my FAM
lily than 1t would be to get out and earn
it in the open market. But all of us
who are in business are not business
women. The latter works because she
has ability and likes her work. The
woman in business works because she
has to, and she cherishes a sullen re-
sentiment against the world in general
and her job in particular because of it.
The only solace she finds in her job is
that it affords her better chance to
find husband than If she remained at
home. She becomes man hunter, and
stalks her prey where he most abounds.
And often she marries well. Many an in
trepid manhunter has turned out to be
a very happy homemaker. You never
can tell
Fully S5 per cent. of business women
work because they must not only earn
their own living, but must support,
either fully or in part, some other
member of the family. The human
fiuffs of the business world make up
the other 10 per cent. Belonging to1
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-21
THE STORY TELLING LEAGUE

TINE bringing of Miss Lucille Cor
l bett to Harrisburg by the Story
Telling League was the crowning
event of the winter for that organiza-
ton. Story telling is the basis of all
literature. Long before the written
word was conceived the early history
and the traditions of the race were
handed down by word of mouth. The
pleasantest hours of childhood are
those spent In listening to the stories
of those elder days which grandfather
and grandmother never tire of telling.
Story telling is an art no less than
story writing and almost as difficult to
master, for what the writer does at
leisure and with ample opportunity for
revision and correction the story teller
must do eXtemporaneously. The league
has won for itself a place among the
institutions of the city. 1t should be
encouraged.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-21
Horse Meat as a Diet

Conversation in New Yorks most
select clearinghouse circles these
days runs to horses with speed that
threatens to overwhelm the best
equipped sausage stables on the East
Side. Although the East Side has
been eating horse meat for some time
none of the landladies in the prune
belt have dared as yet to put such
dishes as sellingplater soup, also-ran
salad, trotter kidney en- sulkey, steeple-
chase stew or puree of pony on their
menu cards, but they threaten to do
so unless the present prices of meat
are soon reduced. Horse dealers,
however, have eased the minds of the
veteran and dyspeptic boarders. They
declare that as long as the war in
Europe permits such a demand as now
exists for American horses, there is
little danger of horse meat playing an
important part in the reduction of the
living cost. At least S1.35 can be OBJ
tanned now for almost any sort of
horse carrying enough flesh to make
him profitable investment. Cattle
for dressing, butchers declared, can
be bought now from $11O to $I2O.
They estimated that horse equipped
with enough flesh to make him avail
able for. food purposes in first-class
eating places could not be purchased
for less than $3.50 or $160.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-21
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Harry S. Knapp, one of the new
rear admirals, is well known in this
State.
DIR. J. NJ. Baldy, Chief of the Bureau
of Medical E1ucation. says that a new
era is coming in state subsidies for
hospitals
John r. Bowers, sponsor for tyro
original hunters license law, was hora
yesterday observing the legislator.
General w. G. Price, who will corp-
mand the Pennsylvania guardsmen ~
tie Inauguration, Is the senior brigHN
der of the guard. He lives at Chester
where he is engaged in extensive deg
velopment projects.
Congressman A. G. Dewalt. of AL
lentown, well known to many resident;
of this city, is laid up with sprainC@
ankle.
Judge Vessels. one of the new
Philadelphia judges, is not very keen
for vice squads according to some re-
marks he has made.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-21

Visitor: A ny
real information
on the problems
of the day?
Farmer: N o t
yet; but my boy
Josh is at work
on a commence
ment o ra I'll o n
that'li tell 'en a
few things.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-21
BATIIHOUSES
TIME Park Department will ask for
bids to-day for one pitiful little

TIME Park Department will ask for
bids to-day for one pitiful little
bathhouse. To be sure, it is
proper that the old bathhouse at Sem
eca street be replaced by one adequate
to the growing needs of the boys and
girls of that vicinity. But it is to be
regretted that City Council did not
set aside money with which to meet
the insistent demand of the people for
bathing places large enough to ac-
commodate the thousands who make
the Susquehanna bsin at this point re-
semble a midsummer scene in Allan
tic City every weekly half-hollday
during the warm season. Just now
people are thinking very little of
swimming, but next summer council
men will be called upon to explain
their neglect and the public will not
be in very good humor when it calls
for information.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-21
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
INDEPENDENT" DEMOCRATS

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
A few years ago when efforts were
being made to elect independent Re-
publicans to the school board the DEM
ocratic boss in Harrisburg persisted
through his newspaper mouthpiece, in
telling us that the only sure way to
independence in school board affairs
was to vote for Democrats. He made
enough people believe him to elect a
number of members. Now two of these
very Democrats are among the direc-
tors who are holding up the report of
this Citizen Committee which this
same Democratic boss pretends to
want adopted. Why does he not come
out and tell us the facts? Why does
he not tell us why his own henchmen
do not support his own policies?
INDEPENDENT REPUBLICANS.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-21
HELP THE PRISONERS

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
l would like to talk to some busi-
nessmen through your paper L know
there are many who never have given
prisoners very much consideration in
the way of giving them employment
lead good lives if they had a position
to step right into. 1 am sure there
are men, Christian men, who would
love to do this for our brothers who
have partly wrecked their lives. l am
corresponding with two young men in
prison. Both will be paroled in three
months. One has position to step
right into, but the other one asked me
if L knew any one who would give
him work and take an interest in him.
So this is why / ask you to give this
noble work your consideration. He
tells me he had been a salesman for
cigar firm; also worked in public Ii
brary before his incarceration five
years ago. He is very anxious to lead
an honest, upright life in the future.
1 hope some Christian man will give
this young man employment, as he is
very anxious to show his friends that
he, too, can make success in this
world. My address can be had from
the editor. Now let me plead for
more correspondents for prisoners.
This we all can do. Write a letter to
one or two poor lonely souls behind
those gray walls. How eagerly they
read and reread our letters from the
outside world. Many man will lead
a good life if he gets little encourage
ment from some one who seems to
care for him. Write to DIR. II. n.
Stokes, 1907 Q street, n. W., Washing
ton, d. c., and obtain information and
addresses. God help you to see what
a good work this is. There are almost
5000 correspondents now.
a SUBSCRIBER.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-21
FOOD PRICES

CoMETaING is radically wrong
~ when food riots occur in the
most prosperous city of the
United States during a period of un-
precedented prosperity, with wages
higher than ever before.
Short crops and the war in Europe.
we are told, are responsible. The first
we cannot help. The second is within
our power to correct. Every nation
now at war is fighting in its own be-
half. 1t is from that angle America
must view it's food problem. We
must look out for Number One first.
We have been fond of calling Amer
lea the "breadbox of the world" and
have boasted of our ability to feed
not only ourselves but half of Europe"
Yet with pocketbooks weightier than
ever before people are fighting in
the streets for food. If we cannot feed
Europe and ourselves, too, then
Europe must go hungry.
But not all the difficulty is due to
extraordinarily large exports. Fifty
per cent. of the increased cost of pro-
visions, perhaps, is due to the war. The
remainder is the toll we pay to those
who collect 1t from us because they
know we must eat and because they
think we are helpless.
Greed has overreached itself, or
soon will. People are not only hungry,
but thoroughly angry when they de-
stroy provisions they cannot afford to
buy, as they did in New York yester-
day. The same spirit exists in Harris
burg. Only a spark is required to set
it off. There is danger of serious dis
order unless relief comes forthwith.
Prices have touched uncomfortable
heights. The constant advance has
reached limit past which it cannot go
with safety. People are indignant and
bewildered, which is bad com bina-
ton.
There is where the Federal trade
commission, with it's untried but al
most unlimited powers, has oppor-
tunity of rendering its first great SER
vice to the people. 1t should in one
order restrict exports of foodstuffs and
place limitations on prices. There is
a question, of course, as to the scope
of the commissions powers in this
direction. but to act now and test the
law afterward would be entirely in
accord with public interest and opin-
ion. Something must be done and
done quickly.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-21

Annually about this season for years
the Telegraph has been urging upon
it's readers the importance OF the
home garden" 1t is happy that the
seed has fallen on some fertile soil
1t publishes the foregoing in the hope
that, as our correspondent says, 9TH
ers may be encouraged by the ex-
ample.
Time was when no home in Harris
burg was without it's garden patch.
Limitation of backyards by ever
crowding buildings has made that i'm
possible in many instances. But there
are few yards so small and badly sit
uated that they cannot be made to
yield something of value to the table.
in these days of excessive costs. Beans.
onions, radishes and tomatoes, for in
stance, will grow under almost any
conditions and with a little care may
be made bountiful bearers. BY rota-
tion of crops the ground may be fore
ed to give double or even triple re-
turns.
II every backyard in Harrisburg
were cultivated the price of living in
this city would be materially reduced
and everybody would be healthier and
happier Play game of golf or base
ball and the contest is over at the end
of the day and only the fruitless score
remains. Play game with your gar
den and the contest continues until the
last weed has been killed and the vere-
tables garnered. 1t is the only exer.
else we know that yields dollars al
the same time it builds muscle. Try
1t for yourself.
The name and further information
concerning the writer of the foregoing
letter may be had upon application tc
the editor of this newspaper.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-21
TRACTION COMPANY SURVEY

To the Editor of tie Telegraph:
Thank you for your interest in the
street car survey. Certainly the situa-
tion demands looking into. If the COM
pany and the men had got together be-
fore the strike last summer there
would have been no cause for an eX-
pensive survey. The troubles of the
company date back to that strike.
Many of the men who did not get back
on the lines or who refused to go are
making more money now than ever
and are better off, / am told, but that
does not alter the fact that the strike
never should have been permitted to
come to a head. 1 am glad some
body is able to induce the company
to come to terms.
TROLLEY RIDER.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-21
A Sense of Vindication
[Washington Star.1

What do you think of the idea of
a concert of power?"
ITS a good thing" replied Mr..
Dustin Stax. ''It supports my old
contention that If you want to do
business these days you've got to have
some sort of merger"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-21

alike can most certainly lift their
voices in petition to the God of us
all, asking His mercy and loving
kindness upon those who are suffer-
ing the scourges of war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-21

However, he votes with the Ware
members.
Senator G. J. Buckman, of the Sem
ate appropriations committee, is on
the reserve list. He is a Plattsburger
and will enter the service If he is
called.
The chances of action on any of the
important bills relative to the Phila-
delphia city government are not very
good just now. They will await the
recess,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-21
Labor Notes
France has a 6 O'clock closing la

France has o'clock closing law.
Factories yearly pay $14O,943, 900
in wages in California.
A bonus of per cent. will be paid
to the women teachers in Hamilton.
Plymouth, (EnglanO, cooperative
employees strike, which lasted more
than ten weeks, has not been settled.
A bonus of Is per cent. of their
yearly earnings will be paid to about
10000 Porto Rican sugar workers
next July, provided they do not strike.
Glasgow. (Scotland), school board
has passed resolution calling for in
creased allowances and pensions to
the dependents of soldiers and sail
ors.
A well-defined movement is under
way to induce Congress to change the
national holiday of labor to Saturday
instead of Monday. The reason for this
move is to prevent the loss of the
day.
IL the masses of the people could
realize the potency of organization on
wields in the industrial field. the
strength it imparts in the aspirations
of the workers for better conditions,
the opportunities it offers for educa :
ton on economic and social problems.
the prospects for the future would be
most promising and the road to the
goal shortened by many years.-Ex.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-21
Control of Themselves

Holland and Denmark may get ter
ribly mad at Germany, but 1t is be-
lieved that, remembering Rumania,
they will be able to restrain them
City Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-21
OUR DAILY LAUGH
b o NJ Il W Fl A T
AMBIGUOUS.

So 20 u have
taken to carrying
around n mon
key? This is 60
ing too far.
Well, you never
go a anywhere with
me.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-21
Poor as It Is

The final passage of the Immlgra-
ton Law is conclusive evidence that
the Senate and House each possesses
q mind OF its own.-Toledo Blade.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-21
A Better Word

Conscription is word Americans
don't like. Universal service is far
better and 1t does not carry implica-
tions with it.-New York World,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-21
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg ships many tons OF
hay every week? 1t is raised exten-
siyelY near this city.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-21
HISTORIC HARRISBURG

Harrisburg citizens banqueted La
fayette at popular subscription dim
ner when he visited here in 1926, and
the general led the singing.