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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-10
EFFICIENT CITY GOVERNMENT

HARRISBURG is just beginning to
Il get awake to the Importance of
the work of the New York Bu-
reau of Municipal Research now going
forward in this city under the direction
of the Chamber of Commerce. Since
Mr.. Driscoll's address at the MONDAY
luncheon of the Chamber of Com
merce this week there has been lively
interest in what he is likely to recon-
mend regarding our own police de-
partment. He has made clear to the
people that unless and until we have
civil service in the department and
absence of political pull there is
nothing to hope for in the way of i'm
provement.
Through these surveys our citizens
will have an opportunity of a more
intimate view of conditions as they
exist and it were folly for the Cham
Der of Commerce and the public
spirited men who have subscribed to
the cost to expend the effort and the
cash without definite results. These
can be obtained only through the
Harrisburg. AS was suggested by Mr..
Driscoll, the government of q city rises
no higher than its source-the people
themselves. They can have either
good government or Indifferent ad-
ministration-the whole matter. de-
pends upon what attitude they take in
the choosing of their officials and the
interest they manifest in what is 60
ing on from day to day.
Harrisburg is ready for another fong
step forward and this step does not
involve additional expense; it simply
means that the people must take a.
hand in directing their own public
business. Many people are rapidly
coming to the conclusion that the
elimination of salaries for the COM
missioners and the election to these
positions of public-spirited men who
are willing to give of their time and
effort for the welfare of the COM
munity and who will use the funds
now necessary to pay salaries in the
employment of a city manager or ex-
perienced subordinates is the only way
to achieve efficiency in administration.
There can be no doubt that the city
manager plan appeals to many as the
most reasonable solution of present
municipal difficulties, not only in Har-
risburg, but throughout the country.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-10
Breaking Down Roads
LFrom the Kansas City Times.

tFrom the Kansas City Times.l
Nobody can watch a heavy truck pass
over a city street or a country road
without being impressed by the strain
that the load imposes on the paving.
often the buckiing is apparent to even
casual observation.
What the heavy truck does in such
evident fashion is done by the traffic of
heavy. vehicles everywhere. A. W.
Sewall, president of the Barber Asphalt
Company. in letter to this newspaper
calls attention to the damage that is
done TO every sort of pavement under
modern traffic conditions by a base of
insufficient thickness.
Kansas City and Jackson county have
abundant reason to know the truth of
this statement. In the past much OF the
trouble with streets and roads has
arisen from the use of an unsubstan-
tial foundation. This fact is recogniz-
ed by the Board of Public Works in the
new paving it is laying down. In view
of the experience with skimping by dis
honest contractors on county road
work. the question is one that ought to
receive special attention in the new
road building planned for this year in
jackson county.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-10
India's War on Rats

In India the unions have committees
to look after the grounds of church,
to beautify the graveyards where their
comrades and elders sleep, to care for
the famine sufferers out of their own
scanty supplies. In the time of the
great plague. so-called "rat-tail" COM
mittees were formed. composed largely
OF the boys of the societies. whose duty
1t was to kill as many rats as possible
lest they carry the infection from house
to house, and to produce. as proofs OF
their faithfulness to their task. the
tails of the rats that they had killed.
The Christian Herald.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-10
HARRISBURG \ STRATEGIC POINT

HARRISBURG \ STRATEGIC POINT
TINE development of TRANSFORM
sylvania thoroughfares during
the next year or two will place
Harrisburg in very enviable position,
inasmuch as automobile travel toward
this city will be increased in an ex-
traordinary degree.
The William Penn Highway passes
through Harrisburg. Travel over this
road last year was so per cent. great
er than in 1915. The Lincoln High
way passes through Lancaster, thirty
eight miles away; and this city and
Lancaster are connected by an all
seasons road which Governor Brum-
baugh believes should be called the
"Penn-Lin Pike" Then there is the
Susquehanna Trail, a recently pro-
NOTED north-south thoroughfare
which has its southern terminal in
Harrisburg and, passing through Will
Transport, connects this city with
Elmira, y. Y. The Pixies Peak Ocean
to-Ocean highway, of which the Will
liam Penn is Pennsylvania division,
sends it's Baltimore e-Washington ex-
tension south from Harrisburg; and
it crosses the Lincoln Highway at
Gettysburg, thirty-eig miles south.
Both the Lincoln and William Penn
Highways will receive added travel
when the proposed Perry Highway is
completed from Erie to Pittsburgh.
There will be a continual procession of
cars through this city on their way to
and from New York, because the Will
liam Penn New York Extension, from
Reading northeast through Easton to
Newark, is a crossover of great merit
THE Pixies Peak Highway now pro-
poses a Boston road, starting at Eas-
ton and passing through Stroudsburg
to Goshen, n. Y; thence north to
Hartford, Conn.,, and Boston.
1t will be seen that Harrisburg oc-
cupies strategic position. All roads
lead in this direction. The city should
aid highway development in every
way possible. 1t should aid particu-
larly the highways on whose routes it
is located.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-10
A Sailors Song

My ships in the harbor.
I'm home from the sea;
I'm glad to be home
But the winds that blow free
From over the ocean
Are bidding me roam;
My ships in the harbor.
I'm glad to be home.
And yet the dry land
Is cramped sort of place
To one who can roam
Ger a limitless space:
The sunshine seems brighter
Out there on the foam
My ships in the harbor,
I'm glad to be home.
My ships in the harbor.
I'm home from the sea:
And yet-am 1 home,
When the winds that blow free
Keep calling me. calling me.
Bidding me roam?
All, God of the ocean,
Your waves are my home!
Margaret L. Sangster. Jr., in The
Christian Herald.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-10
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

State Librarian Montgomery has
been asked to make a series of ad-
dresses before state historical societies.
Senator A. +. Daix is head of more
business mems associations than any
man in Philadelphia.
Postmaster A. S. Guffey, of Pitts
burgh, is trying to find places to es-
tablish new parcel post stations.
Wayne Fry, Washington county
banker, is home from trip to the war
zone in the interest of foreigners en-
ployed by companies in his district.
The Rev. H. s. During. of Phila-
delphia, well known here, is seriously
i'll.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-10

believe that we were the only wo-
men to get on the firing line along the
Somme," Miss Holt said. S"It was a
thrilling sensation. With special
passes we motored to the Somme
sector under the safeguard of the gem
eral commanding, and with a staff
officer went to the great headquarters
of that district. Just as we arrived
the news came of the recapture of
Vaux at Verdun, and the general told
us That we were the emissaries of
good fortune.
I'VE went out into the trenches
under fire. I saw one huge shell
burst short distance in front of us.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-10
SATURDAY EVENING, FEB. 10.

An hour of solitude, passed in sincere
and earnest prayer or conflict lrfth, and
conquest over, a single passion or Hbtle
bosom sin, atiH teach us more of thought,
sciH more cfectndlly a5uaken the faculty
and form the habit of reflection than q
years study iH the schools 5Vithout them.
-CoLERIDcE.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-10
Armv Truck Like Tank

half brother to tie British tank
is being used by the United States
Army on the border to provision the
troops in isolated districts. Two
caterpillar engines of the type used
in trench warfare on the west front
in Europe have taken place of the
mule train in the bad lands of the Big
Bend district of Texas. One of the
engines, which has a capacity of 120-
horsepower, pulls five trailers, eack of
which carries ten tons of supplies,
over 66-mile route of the worst road
in the Southwest from Maria to
Presidio. Tex. A smaller tractor OF
75-horsepower is used on the same
route. Together they do the work of
thirty-two transport wagons and
cover 40 miles.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-10
Sidelights on History

A girl was required to write a brief
sketch of Queen Elizabeth. Her paper
contained this sentence:
Elizabeth was so dishonest that she
stole her soldiers food"
The teacher was puzzled and called
the girl.
where did you get that notion?"
why, that's what 1t says in the his
tory"
The book was sent for and the pas
sage was found. 1t read:
Elizabeth was so parsimonious that
she even pinched her soldiers rations."
New York Tribune.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-10
BY Your Good Works

Dearly beloved, I beseech you as
strangers and pilgrims, abstain from
fieshly lusts, which war against the
soul; having your conversation honest
among the Gentiles; that whereas
they speak against you as evil doers
they may by your good works, which
they shall behold. glorify God in the
day of yisitation.-I Peter 2: HIP.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-10
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
AsHMAN AGAIN FALLS ASLEEP
To the Editor of the Telegraph :

Dear Sir-Space in your paper is
quite valuable nowadays, hut in view
of the fact the Telegraph has done q
great deal to make Harrisburg a pro-
gresive city. l believe it might be well
10 again give the city officials n tip
that the ashman has again fallen
asleep and some of the back yards on
the Hill are again in position to take
prizes. 1t is only question of a few
months till the City Health Depart
ment will bring to our attention the
Importance of having our back yards
cleaned up. Now is as good a time as
any to prepare for this cleanup, and
without question, il they will see the
ashes are taken from the back yards
now, it will be an easy matter to COM
ply with their request in the spring.
Let us hope this important matter will
soon be adjusted. TAXPAYER.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-10
Ewes Skirts

Perhaps the language OF oriental
symbolism was never better initiated
in the Anglo-Saxon tongue than when
one of our prominent Bible students
referred the other day to old Adam as
State journal. Man alivel It could
not be done even in these modern
times.--Toledo Blade
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-10

opment of a great central business Sec
ton opposite Harrisburg. Always
there will be the kind OF stores and
other business places that now exist
and thrive there. and these should be
encouraged as meeting urgent COM
munity needs, but If Harrisburg de-
sires to remain the dominating busi-
ness center it is to-day it must do just
what is proposed-make some ar
rangement whereby cross river people
can get into Harrisburg and out of II
as easily and as cheaply as they car
from any point within the city limits
Steelton or any of the other towns ad-
jacent.
1t is happy condition when cor
porations, civic bodies and city off,
cials all work together for the better
ment of the municipality and 1t is
hoped that nothing will arise to mar
the present very pleasant relations in
working out the problems at issue.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-10


How Miss Esther Cleveland,
daughter of the late President, has
Jared on the Somme front, where
she saw the war at first hand in
|; company with Miss Winifred Holt,
is told for the first time by Miss
Holt, who has just returned to
New York City after spending a,
year and a half in relief work in
France. The following interview
with her appears in the New York
Journal:
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-10

Monday evening an interesting cere-
mony will take place in the Senate
Chamber. when Governor Brumbaugh.
for the Commonwealth. will accept the
mural paintings of Violet Oakley. These
paintings have been veiled since placed
in position. a few days ago. and there
has been great interest in the showing
OF these unusual works of art.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-10

There has been a good deal Of decep-
tion in the campaign for elimination of
fraudulent food products, and it will
will soon become a question whether we
shall be able to tell the true from the
false.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-10
BROKE.

Come on Bill.
Join us in a little
game OF poker.
Sorry, boy, but
I can't.
Why not? Your
wife Is in the
country.
Yes, 30 Is my
salary.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-10
WORK VS.. PLAY.
1t didn't work.
What didn't?
My scheme for
playing the stock
market.
wTIYf

Mike: My lungs
are very bad.
Every tim Q ]
breathe 1t hurts
me somethin' aw-
iul.
Dennis: w h y
dye do 1t, then7
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-10
UTSTORTC HARRTSBURC

French traders were SO indignant
that Harris should take the ferry here
200 years ago that they stirred UP In
dians to pick fights with Harris men.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-10

Admiral J. William Bowman, of the
Harrisburg Navy, has been receiving
a lot of sadvice from his friends in
Harrisburg regarding a probable sub
marine campaign in the Susquehanna
basin. Mr.. Bowman is somewhat OF
a practical joker himself and has ac-
cepted with resignation the sugges-
tions which have reached him in one
form or another.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-10
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg sells tons of hay
for export purposes every year?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-10

refuse to believe that il is the
intention of the German authori-
ties to do in fact what they have
warned US they will feel at liberty
to do. cannot bring myself to be-
lieve that they will, indeed, pay no
regard to the ancient friendship be-
tween their people and our own or
to the solemn obligations which
have been between them and de-
stroy American ships and take the
lives of American citizens in the
willful prosecution of the ruthless
naval program they have announced
their intention to adopt
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-10
MISS CLEVELAND AT THE FRONT
JUST Smell THAT
FINE HlAAlA AADtNE

German Shells Burst Around the Late Presidents
Daughter; Managing Institute For Blinded Soldiers
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-10
This is the President,s attitude

The next move is therefore for Ger
many to make, either through what
amounts by word or act retraction oi
her new U-boat policy or by sinking
an American ship without excuse un-
der international law. In case of the
latter armed force will be employed
at once to protect American rights
but there will be no war unless Ger.
many makes that the only course pos
sible. 1t Is clearly ''up to the Kaiser. -
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-10

published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.,
Telegraph Building. Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-10

In his delightful lecture at the Y.
w. C. A. building the other evening
Mr.. Ellsworth, president of the Gem
tury company referring in compli-
mentary terms to the place which
Mrs. Helen r. Martin had carved for
herself in the temple OF contemporary
authors. His tribute was the occasion
of a lively salvo of applause from Mrs.
Martins friends in the audience.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-10
OUR DAILY LAUGH
SWIMMING.
TIME.

Mr.. Waterbury
Come on in, fel.
lers. the cofeet
fine.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-10

Il. j. J.STACKPOLE. Pres't and Editor-iH.C c hief
+. r. OYSTER. Business Marager.
GUS NJ. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-10
up TO THE KAISER"
TIME Telegraph has received the
following letter from one who
signs himself "Pro-German:"

Dear Sir: I don't like the unfair
attitude of the Telegraph toward
Germany. You say-"the next
move is up to the Kaiser" Why?
Isn't 1t really up to the President
you used to think so little of until
he got you into this trouble, to tell
the Kaiser what he is going to do
next. Please tell us why 1T is up
to the Kaiser. OF course, you can't
tell us that, for it isn't true.
The President very distinctly put
it up to the Kaiser when in his ad-
dress to Congress he said:
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-15
CHICAGO TAKES
DECIDING GAME
CONTINUED From Page -

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out Weaver, Gandil moving to sec
ond. Zimmerman threw out Schalk,
making a nice play on the Chicago
catchers grounder. No runs. One hit.
No errors.
Second inning, second half
Fletcher up. Schalk ran down the line
and took Fletchers roller and threw
him out. Eddie Collins took Robert
sons smash and got his man at
first. Holke got double against the
left field fence. A little higher and it
would have gone into the stands for
a home run. Eddie Collins threw
out Rariden, who hit the first ball
pitched. No runs. One hit. No errors.
Third inning, first half - Faber
struck out. John Collins popped to
Herzog. Benton was employing a
quick drop ball which he kept around
the batter's knees. McMullen famed.
1t was Benton's third strikeout and
the crowd cheered him. No runs, no
hits, no errors.
Third inning, second haIf-Benton
up. Faber burned an outcurve over
for a third strike and Benton sat
down. Burns sent a hot liner to
Felsch. Herzog sent a high fly out
to Felsch. No runs, no hits, no
errors.
Fourth inning, first half-Eddie
Collins up. Zimmerman took Collins
grounder and threw wildly to the
stands, Collins going to second.
Jackson sent up high fly to Rob-
ertson, who dropped the ball. Eddie
Collins dashed to third, Jackson
holding first when Robertson threw
to third. The New York infield came
in on the grass. Benton took Felsch's
grounder and ran over to tag Col
Inns. Benton tossed to Zimmerman
who ran after Collins and chased
the Sox second baseman across the
plate for a run. Jackson and Felsch
scored on Gandil's single to right
Gandil was thrown out stretching his
hit, Robertson to Herzog. Weaver
sent long fly to Burns. Schalk shot
a hot single into left. Red Faber
walked. Fletcher threw out John
Collins. Three runs. Two hits. Two
errors.
Fourth inning, second half-Eddie
Collins took Kauf"s roller and threw
him out. Zimmerman sent a high fly
to John Collins. Fletcher bounced a.
hot one off McMullin's glove. The
ball bounced to Weaver, who nearly
threw the New York shortstop out
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-15
STOLTZE Will
DIRECT RED CROSS
WORK INDISTRICT
Appointed Successor To A.
r. Rogers For North
ern Division
MAKE CAMPAIGN TO
PROSECUTE ENEMIES
Disparaging Stories Rela-
tive to Work Are Being
Traced to Origin

The appointment of F. II. Stoltze
Minneapolis, to the position OF
manager of the northern division OF
the Red Cross, succeeding A. r.
Rogers who went to the Liberty
Loan work, was announced late
Saturday afternoon.
To familiarize himself thoroughly
with the Red Cross work, and thus
place himself in position to handle
it's affairs in this district to the best
possible advantage. Mr.. Stoltze has
gone to Washington to confer with
officers at the national headquar-
tiers.
Mr.. Stoltze. successful business
man, head OF several lumber COM
panies, and thoroughly familiar with
conditions in the four states that
make up the northern division
Minnesota, North Dakota, South Da-
kota and Montana-is exceptionally
well fitted for the gigantic task of
-ordinating the Red Cross activi-
ties in the big territory under his
direction.
The work is growing rapidly. and
Mr.. Stoltzs comes to the managerial
/ position at a time when there is need
of a man Of just his type, according
! to North Dakota Red Cross officers,
who are well pleased with the ap-
pointment.
; Make Drive Against Propaganda.
The northern division has just re-
ceived information from Harvey d.
| Wilson, general manager of the Am
erican Red Cross. that all division
managers are to begin n nationwide
campaign to trace dowR and combat
what he declares to be efforts to dis
parage the work of the organization
as a part OF an organized anti patrio-
tic propaganda.
Mr.. Wilson declared that IL is evil
dent that Tumors and innuendoes,
calculated to embarrass the Red
Cross are being industriously circu-
lated, and suggests that all Red Cross
workers investigate and report any
rumors they may hear and report
them to the managers.
Can't Be Accidental.
Some OF the reports Mr.. Wilson has
received indicate rumors that the or
Eanization is selling articles donated
70 IL. that supplies are thrown away
and that knitted articles are not ac-
cepted by the army and navy. He
says the reports emanate simultana-
ously from too many parts Of the
country to be merely accidental.
This decision is reached reluctant
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-15


Beatrice Hughes OF the refreshments.
Miss Alvida Kraabel and Miss Gus
kelly presided at the frappe bowl.
The Senior class OF Fargo college
will entertain the freshmen at a
party in the gymnasium, Dill hall,
Tuesday evening Of this week.
%
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Schollander,
Fargo, are parents OF a daughter.
born Friday morning. Mrs. Schol-
lander is daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
z. M. Northrup, jamestown.
Miss Mildred Allen, who had been
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w.
III. Allen, since Wednesday, coming to
hear Schumann- Heink, returned
SATURDAY to Litchville. where she is
teaching music.
The Woman's union OF the First
Congregational church will meet
Tuesday In the church for an all-day
Red Cross sewing bee. The ladies
are asked to take lunch. There will
be NO program. At o'clock the
First division members will hold a
business meeting in the Boys room
OF the church, and all are urged to
attend.
DR.. Wallace N. Stearns, of the Far
go college faculty, will speak Sunday,
Oct 20. at the Harvest Home festival
In Armenia.
The Modern Samaritan lodge will
hold its October business meeting
Tuesday evening in the Sons Of Nor
way hall.
Mr.. and Mrs John Martin, 1915
Fourth street south. are parents of
son, born Sunday Mr.. Martin is
foreman at the filtration plant
Miss Lucille Murphy. who leaves
this week for Madison, Wis, and her
brother, DR.. G. A. Murphy, both of
Mapleton, were honor guests Satur-
day evening at dinner party given
by DR.. and Mrs. Samuel Mitchell at
their home in Mapleton. Miss Murphy
will be senior this year at the
Wisconsin cur.
Mrs. F. H. Welsh, 1908 Second ave-
nue. south, has returned home from
a six weeks visit with relatives in
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul.