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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-02-10

OF ireland. viii be the headline at
traction at the Pantages for tho
week beginning Monday matinee.
Also on this bill Ia found an
aquatic sensation In the SIX Berlo
Girls
Tho Canary Caraso is another
novel attraction. This little bird
astounds one with It's almost human
intelligence. aud initiates the
sounds Of his masters violin In the
most amazing manner. Grace Ed.
,nund. the song.story girl; Nell
Mack and Vera velmar. just enter
tanners. and DIX and Dixie In YER
saith. novelty. complete the pro
gram.
Tho final episode Of the Lass OF
the I.nmberlands" will be shown.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-02-10

OAK
Now that the American army Is
safely out OF Mexico and villa can
revolt TO his hearts content. Monte
Carter and HIS company have de-
cided 30 invade the cactus belt.
Icy In Mexico" 10 the name OF the
bill that will be given at the Oak
theatre. Second ave. at Seneca St.
all next week. Walter Spencer will
be his chief lieutenant. the Dancing
Chicks will be- oliye.skinned maid.
ems from the desert cline. and the
rest OF tho company will be grin.
goes and "Ereasers."
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-02-10

PALACE HIP
Tho Mabel Cameron 4 Alan Dev.
lti Co. In a sketch. The Groom
Forgot" will head tho nov Hippo
dromc Road show which opens Sun.
dny a, the Palace Hip. IL IL a story
OF a man who married and forgot
all about his wife.
The Mllano Four IL a quartet OF
opern,lc singers. Art Adair. as
Hank sponge" the boob musician.
is an eccentric comedian.
The Norris Balloons will give imi.
tations OF human beings.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-02-10

Priees Paid Wboiesai. Dealers f.s
Vegetable. and Fruit
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-02-10

Frank Fogarty. dispenser OF oh
folk lore and the humor
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-16
\ SORRY LESSON

TERTAIN Democratic candidates
I who lost out at the recent cleo
tions in Harrisburg are sore over
the manner in which they were de-
serted by those who are responsible
for the party leadership locally. Ap-
parently they have very good reason
for their indignation, for a careful
study of the returns makes it appear
that with anything like proper news
paper support and intelligent direc-
ton the returns might not have been
so Overwhelmingly Republican. But
the lesson these candidates have
learned was coming to them. Year
after year they have stood by and
seen others go down to defeat
through the same tactics. and have
not taken pains to see to it that
methods Of which they are complain
ing were changed. They are now get
ting a dose of this same bitter med
icine and naturally they are making
wry faces.
The day has gone in Harrisburg
and Dauphin county when scandal
mongering wins votes. The people
do not want to know how bad this or
that candidate is, but how good the
other fellow is. Constructive criti-
cism makes for efficiency in office:
destructive criticism merely breaks
down efficiency and offers no substi-
tute. Personal abuse often makes
martyrs of the men attacked. Worse
than that. it discourages good men
from running for office. IF any "un-
desirables" have crept into office in
recent years it was largely because
many good men declined to run. for
the reason that they did not care to
offer themselves as targets for the
volleys of mud that are always pre-
pared for candidates who do not
happen to be willing to bow the l.nee
to certain political bosses.
There is hope for better days in
Dauphin county politics when the
rank and file of the opposing party
awake to the error OF a course that
not only often discourages Repub-
licans of high standing from taking
part in local municipal campaigns,
but which quite as often reacts to the
defeat of candidates who are a real
credit to the Democratic party and
who, IL elected. would give good ac-
count of themselves in office.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-16
BRITISH FUR COATS

The laughable truth is out con-
cerning the fur coats which were
supplied to the British soldiers two
winters ago in France. Ian Hay in
his new book, "All In It." the con-
tinuation of The First Hundred
Thousand" Just published by Hough-
ton Miifiin Company. describes these
coats and the way in which they
We're received by the men,
There has been an issue of So
called fur jackets, in which the Prac-
tical Joke Department (oflicially the
Army Ordnance Department. has
plainly taken a hand. Most of the
garments appear to have been con-
tributed by animals unknown to
zoology, or q syndicate thereof. Cor
poral Mucklemawe's costume gives
him the appearance of st. Bernard
dog with Astrakhan fore legs. Ser
seant Carfrae is attired in what looks
like the skin of Mana. the dog nurse
in Peter Pan Private Nigg, the
undersized youth of bashful disposi-
ton, creeps forlornly about his du-
ties disguised as an imitation leop-
ard. AS he passes by, facetious per-
sons pull what is left of his tail. Pri-
vate Tosh, on being confronted with
his winter trousseau, observed Bit
terly-
L jined the Army for tae be
soJer, but | doot they must have pit
me doom as a mountain goat!"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-16
White Bread VS.. Whole Wheat

The white flour advocate as
sumes that extreme lightness is the
primary essential of good bread.
Yet such extreme lghtness of bread
has very little hygienic significance
and none whatever for the man who
properly masticates his, food. 1t is
trick that pleases the eye and
pleases also the baker for thereby
he is enabled to make a pound of
bread fluff up and look like big
ger loaf.
So much for the first half of his
seemingly scientific white flour ar
gument, for it is merely an argument
for selling air and could he as well
used to sell beer that would ra,sc a
high collar" if the foam were a lit
more enduring. But the WILDLY pro-
claimed facts upon which tho white
flour interests have rested their case
for the last fifteen years is upon the
digestive tests that prove white -four
to be six per cent more digestible
than bread made from the genuine
whole ground wheat. These tests
were originally made by Professor
Snyder at the University of Mime
sofa and were endorsed and pub
lished by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture. The advocates
of whole wheat bread do not dispute
the facts as presented. What they
do dispute is the conclusions from
these facts. The facts are as fol-
lows: If one hundred pounds of
whole wheat be ground and made
into bread and fed 10 men with
milk to round out the diet), about
eighty-seven per cent. of the energy
yielding substance of the bread is
digested. If now this same one nun
dred pounds of whole wheat be
milled by patent process, seventy
pounds will be made into white flour
and thirty pounds be rejected as
bran, shorts and germs and sold aS
cattle feed. Bread made from the
white flour will. be ninety three per
cent. digestible or six per cent. more
digestible than the whole wheat
bread-this six per cent. of increased
digestibility being the cornerstone
of the white flour argument.
But of our one hundred pounds of
wheat only seventy pounds were
made into white flour bread. OF
this seventy pounds, ninety-three per
cent, or siXty-five pounds, is diges-
tible. Hence with the rope of his
own argument the white -four chem
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-16
FREEING WOMEN

Feminine costumes are largely the
product of prudery. Those who Gre
ated this apparel were impressed
with the idea that we were so much
above the lower animals that our
physical bodies were of 10 impor-
tance. That to move about grace
fully and easily was not necessary.
That a woman could encase her legs
in n skirt that hampered her every
movement without serious harm.
For generations feminity has
struggled against this terrible handi-
cap. The hour-glass waist has dis
appeared. The woman of to-day real
ICES that her vital organs need
room for their activities, and tight
lacing mas been abandoned except
by those who are still in the bonds
of the ignorance of the past. But
the skirt, the badge of servitude, the
token of physical slavery, the Jail
that curbs the physical instincts still
remains.
But now even the dressmakers are
being converted. To be sure, the
excuse is that economy In cloth is
necessary, but nevertheless the edict
Moguls who tell the women what to
wear, that the skirt must be short
ened.
And that women can wear trous-
ers!
Right out before the peoplel
The skirt is no longer a necessary
badge of femininity. A great light
has dawned for womankind. The
light is coming in the form of the
knowledge that strength is neces-
sary to womankind. just as neces-
sary as 1t is to manhood; that weak,
won1anhood is disgrace; that
strong womanhood is ideal. That
n strong woman makes a fine, splen-
did mother. That a weak woman is
defective, that her progeny can be
nothing more than weaklings. That
her weakness Is a disgrace to her
self and handicap to all with whom
she associates.
The woman who fails to realize this
and who neglects the very founda-
ton of her existence-the physical
body-is to be pitied. She has
missed the joy that comes to women
as we'll as to men from a superbly
developed physique.
--Bernarr Macfadden in November
Physical Culture.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-16

ist hangs himself, when he sets out
to prove the economy of white flour
bread as a war bread. BY the facts
which he himself presents us we find
that by the white flour route but
siXty-five pounds of the one hundred
pounds of wheat is utilized to pro-
duce human energy; whereas if the
wheat be ground as Graham flour
and made into bread, eighty-seven
pounds of the wheat substance is
turned into human energy.
White bread is six per cent, more
digestible. but the use of white
bread means loss to the Nation of
twenty-five per cent. of the Nations
wheat crop. But saving the Ma
tons wheat crop is only one aspect
of the problem. The mere state
ment that white bread is six per
cent. more digestible than the whole
wheat bread seems very effective
argument in its favor, and one. in
deed, which would be a very real ar
gument If the ideal human food was
one that would be completely diges-
tible. Unfortunately for the white
bread interests the human digestive
tract is not built with a view to
utilizing completely digestible foods.
There are certain physiological
waste products that must be eXcreted
by way of the intestines or self
poisoning and death would speedily
ensue. With the natural primitive
diet of man there was added to these
poisonous physiological wastes n GER
tain residue of indigestible fiber and
the combination OF both substances
gave sufficient bulk to permit of the
mechanical functioning of excretion.
If now with our denatured and su-
per-civilized food products. of which
white flour is the chief offender, the
total bulk of this intestinal residue
be reduced until the bowels function
improperly the result is constipation,
which is very properly described as
the mother of diseases.
White flour bread is six per cent
more digestible than the whole
wheat variety and by mixing it most
plentifully with other foods, and by
overeating of all foods and with the
more or less habitual use of salts
and pills, man manages to live upon
1t. But its six per cent. of increased
digestibility is not n virtue and often
proves a most serious fault.
From white Bread the Best War
Bread? by Milo Hastings, in No
vember Physical Culture.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-16
THE TELEGRAPH POLES

Chained n miraculous way,
Rounding the world in their
flight
Prophets of death in the day,
Warming of life in the night
Naked, fettered trees,
Miles over field, over fen,
Swift beside rails to the seas,
They motionless move among men.
Sometimes the file on it's march
Waits with n beggared look
For the touch of leafy arch,
For the breath of the turn of a
brook.
The rain with freshening sound
Falls on the marshes-but now
Moistens no root underground,
Misses the glistening bough.
And birds to renew their wings
Come as of old-but the wires
Have none of the joy of the strings
Trembling in leafy-hung Tyres.
Stripped of their verdure by men,
As men have been stripped of their
souls,
Prophets are wandering again
See them?-the telegraph poles!
- Wttte Bynner, "Greenstone
POEMS (Stokes.)
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-16
Over tie TOP
tN Pew~a.

II never saw an intoxicated man
until l was 10 years old and have
seen more drunkenness during two
weeks in Pennsylvania than in all
my life before" declared DR.. G. A.
Miles, of Southern Kansas, to an
audience in the First NJ. T.. Church,
of Juniata. The Kansan scored the
Keystone state heavily for permitting
liquor traffic to exist. ITO find a man
in possession of whisky in my state
means fine of 500 and thirty days
in Jail. A second offense opens the
way to the penitentiary."
Take an apple and a piece of
steak" said the eminent vegetarian
expert, DR.. c. Decker, at a meeting
recently over in the Lehigh Valley,
land set them aside for a week in
a fairly warm temperature and note
what happens. The steak will smell
to heaven; the apple not so. Place
the steak under a microscope and
you will find it swarming with hor-
rors.' Can't scare us, Doc! Give
us that old hunk of porterhouse and
you can keep your York Imperial.
No, on second thought, give us both.
q
Automobile thieves have been
reapng a harvest in and about Lew
istown, so that veterinarian, DR..
Harry Ulsh, from the nearby town
of Alfarata. took no chances the
other day. His trusty Ford was seen
outside the drugstore fastened with
big chain and paddock.
Private Claude Foltz, of I.ancas-
ter. now with Ambulance Company
No. 3 at Camp Hancock. Ga, will
have a letter shortly that will enter
tain him for a week. 1t is a folding
teer, twelve feet, three inches long,
written by his friends in +he draft
ing room of the Armstrong Cork
Company, in Lancaster.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-16

of keeping money in this country.
from buying abroad and thus send
ing gold abroad, we maintained n
protective tariff. 1t is true that un-
der protective tariff we sent gold
out of the country, for we had to
pay the expenses of our tourists in
Europe, had to pay for transporta-
ton of our commodities in foreign
owned ships, and had to pay the
interest and dividends on American
securities held by European invest
ors. But we reduced to a minimum
shipments of gold to pay for fer
eign goods.
Democrats changed the practice
in 1919, without In any way cut
Europe, they opened our markets so
that Europe and Asia began selling
us more goods and thus took larger
quantities of. our gold, Industrial
depression was the result,
Recently the administration has
been alarmed over the exports of
gold, and the embargo was the re-
suit, But there are only two ef-
fective ways to stop exports of the
best kind of money-one Is to re-
duce excess purchases from other
countries and the other Is to ar
range for the accumulation of debt
If we can induce those other coun-
tries to buy our honds, they will take
the bonds instead of gold, but the
bonds will afford them the means
of demanding the gold any day they
choose to send the bonds back, If
we erect protective tariff VIC
shall discourage purchases abroad
and In that way keep our money
at home,
The arbitrary declaration that
gold shall not be exported Is in
violation OF the laws of trade and
we can make It effective only by
the adoption of some plan other
than the mere ipse diXit of govern
ment.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-16
GOLD EXPORTS
VXT HEN gold goes out-whether
wv it is going out of your pock-

VT HEN gold goes out-whether
wv it is going out of your pock-
cts, out of bank or out of the
country-it goes because someone
has a right to demand it. Except in
the case of charity, no one gives up
gold except in exchange for some
thing else that he prefers. When the
purchaser gets the other mans COM
modify, the seller has a right to de-
mand the gold. This is a very simple
statement which it is we'll to keep in
mind in connection with the gov
ernment's embargo recently placed
upon shipments OF gold out of the
United States.
No one can take gold out of the
country unless he has a right to
demand It, and if he has a righ' to
demand it, we cannot refuse with
out impairing our credit, though the
impairment may be to only an i'm
perceptible degree in the case of
small amounts When we began
selling Great Britain large quanti-
ties OF war supplies, in 1915, she
sent US gold. Her gold did not last
long, SO she dumped. American Sc
curities on our markets or used
them as a means of raising gold.
She issued bonds to get gold or its
equivalent and when she was near
the end of her resources we issued
bonds and loaned her the money
or credit-the equivalent of gold.
To the extent that she is now in.
debted to us. we have the right to
demand now or at some future
time a payment in gold.
We have been buying large guam
titles of goods in Japan, China and
South America. The sellers had a
right to demand gold and they have
exercised the right. An embargo may
temporarily check such movement
of gold, but it cannot check it long.
Whenever we buy in excess of our
sales. we must pay in gold or ac-
cumulate debt which the seller is
willing to carry as a credit. When
an embargo was placed on exports
of gold, some of the creditors with
drew gold from the banks and had
it "earmarked" for them-placed in
the security vaults in their names,
as trust funds which the banks
could not use. So far as that trans
action affected American finance,
1t was no different from shipping
the gold out of the country.
Republicans have always recog-
nized the desirability of maintain
INK a balance OF trade as a means
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-16

proffers, saying that unless those
making them see fit to reduce their
totals within three days he will re-
advertise for bidders.
The Town Meeting party scored
its first real victory in court at Phil
adelphia yesterday, in it's effort 10
substantiate charges of many lost
votes through frauds and irregu-
larities by Republican-contro
election boards, when the ballotboX
of the Nineteenth division of the
Eighteenth ward was opened by
Judges Martin and Finletter in the
election court. A recount of the bal
lots showed that the election officers
had failed to accept or reject twenty
bility to decide whether they were
valid or not, and disclosed other
Irregularities in connection with the
rest of the count.
Judge Isaac Johnson sitting at
Media has refused to open Chester
ballotboxes as asked by William
Ward, Jr.. defeated candidate for
council.
In spite of his defeat for Judge,
E. c. Bonniwell is out again making
speeches and it is suspected that the
genial Gene will be q Democratic
candidate for something next year.
An attack by, some defeated Iiti-
gants upon Judge Sando, of Lacka-
wanna county, in the form of'a news
=, is being very generally con-
demned throughout that section.
-EX-Congressma A. Mitchell
Palmer is continuing his efforts TO
get harmony in his old congressional
district, Notwithstanding he got a ter
rifle jolt when his lifelong enemy
was elevated to the bench of Monroe
county. The appointment has just
been announced of j. Davis
Broadhead, Palmer's rival for Con-
gress some years ago, as chief of the
banking division of the alien prop
erty bureau, of which Palmer is
chief. Mr. Broadhead is a former
judge of Northampton and succeeded
Vance c. Mccormick as a member
of the Federal Reserve Bank Board.
Palmer's new job is one of the big
gest in the country and Broadhead
will have much to do
George Bateman, of West Ches-
ter, has been appointed deputy con-
troller of Chester county and John
]. Morris is the new high constable
of PhoeniXville and West Chester
plans a new sewer tax. Things are
interesting in the old county.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-16
SERVING DOUBLY

They are still laughing at Camp
Meade over the case of q youth
named Knight who led double life
at rollcall.
Somehow he was entered under
the cognomen of "MacKnight" also;
and he always answered for Doth
names.
But at drill and on the march his
squad was always one man shy, of
Jurse.
At last a mystified sergeant called,
Private Knight, step to the 'front.'
The rookie obeyed. Then came tfs9
command, Private MacKnight, step
to the 'front.'"
Then and there the original and
his alter ego parted company.
The amazing discovery was then
made that the muddled' private had
thought he was only faithful to his
oath of allegiance in answering to
both names at every rollcall.-Phila-
delphia Public Ledger.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-16
GOOD SCHEME IN GOOD HANDS

GOOD SCHEME IN GOOD HANDS
TT Is now said that Treasury Bills
or Savings Certificates or some
thing of that kind will play a
larger part in our program of war
finance. This is wise.
The certificates, issued, as they Will
be, in small sums, will enable hun
dreds of thousands of people to buy
them who could not see their way
clear to subscribing to Liberty Bonds,
even under the most advantageous
of banking terms. Many man or
woman can buy a treasury certiti-
cate for five dollars, or perhaps
more, knowing that the transaction
is then ended, who would hesitate
to pay that much as an initial install
ment on Liberty Bond, knowing
that a like payment would have. to
be made each month for long time
in a future none too clear.
The disposition of these securities
is to be the work of Mr.. Vanderlip,
who has been at Washington for
some time serving the government
without compensation; and his
trained perceptions of the absorbent
capacity of the American people in a
financial sense will enable him to
make a glowing success of the en-
deavor without hysterical advertising
or other three-ring- circus methods.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-16
FAyoRs RATE INCREASE

wy HEN shippers themselves join
wv in the petition that a higher
freight rate he established, the
rate question assumes a new aspect.
That such a situation has been
reached is indicated by the public
declaration of Walter S. Dickey, of
Kansas City, that immediate and
material increases are, in his
opinion, desirable.
Dickey manufactures clay products
in ten different states and ships some
so, 1000 carloads per year, so his at
titude is manifestly dictated by care
fully formed judgment that an in
creased rate is necessary in order to
enable the roads to handle the traf-
fic as the shippers want it handled.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-16
THE RESERVE MILITIA

TT ARRISBURG has Jared very
ri well in being designated as one
of the cities where unit of
the Pennsylvania Reserve Militia is
to be located and as soon as Cover
nor Brumbaugh appoints the officers
there should be no time lost in or
ganizing the company of sfxty-two
men wanted for the infantry. Under
the scheme outlined in the Mckee
law, providing for the establishment
of an armed State force of three
regiments of infantry and a squad
ron of cavalry, the units were to
be located where the State owned
armories. Harrisburg does not have
an armory which is the property of
the State, but its position is so I'M
portant that an exception has been
made. This is all the more reason
for the city taking a pride in the new
unit.
The Reserve Militia will replace
the National Guard and be ready to
respond to call from the Governor
to go to any part Of the State where
trouble may occur and get beyond
the control of local authorities and
State police. The equipment is in
sight and good men will be available
for training.
Under the plan of the Militia the
various home defense organizations
throughout the State can continue
their work of training young men for
war service and affording the older
men opportunity for drilling, and at
the same time being prepared for
any call should the Reserve Militia
be summoned elsewhere.