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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-18
THE CITY,s OPPORTUNITY

NTAYoR MILLER has an inti-
lNl mate knowledge of all that
concerns the development of
Harrisburg and may be trusted to
use his best endeavors to still fur
ther provide for the introduction of
efficiency methods in the local ad-
ministration. 1t is highly important
that the reputation of Harrisburg as
a modern and up-to-date municipal
ity shall be upheld in the further
ance of every movement which will
tend to the betterment of residential
conditions and the Identification of
the city from every standpoint.
Housing conditions should have Sc
rious consideration and the work of
the City Planning Commission ought
to be supported with enthusiasm.
While we are entering upon a
great war and the public mind has
been in a measure distracted by the
preliminary stages of preparation,
1t is generally agreed by those who
appreciate the underlying conditions
that there is no fear of such a busi-
ness depression as marked the en-
trance of England and France into
the world conflict. For this reason
there is no necessity for any falling
down of municipal activities either
in the improvement of the streets,
the care of the parks or the develop
ment of any of the necessary plans
for the health of the entire COM
munity. The Commonwealth is 60
ing right along with it's share of the
making of the Capitol Park zone
and the city must cooperate in ev-
cry way possible.
Mayor Miller and his associates in
the City Council should brush aside
all other considerations save those
which affect the best interests of
the people. The trifies of politics and
faction should be set aside and given
no weight in the decisions which
must be reached regarding matters
of vital concern to the community
at large.
When the experts brought here
by the Chamber of Commerce to
study our traffic problems shall have
submitted their conclusions imme-
diate steps ought to be taken to put
into force and effect any important
recommendation serving to better
conditions which have been in gen.
eral respects most deplorable.
Mayor Miller himself has studied
many of these problems and will be
able to cooperate in making effec-
tive reasonable and practical regula-
tions. especially in the much dis
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-18
He Was Far-Sighted

An ambitious colored man had
quit his job and was being granted
new one with another concern,
when his employer asked him If he
could be ready to commence work
in two weeks. He replied: "I fear
dat would be difficult for me to be
ready in two weeks, but I could be
ready in one week shore"
'How's that?" asked his employer.
We'll, in one week / can finish
de garden work." was his answer,
but if i is home then one week more
de missus would be rushin' me into
the middle of house cleaning" The
Christian Herald.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-18
FRIDAY EVENING. MAY is
Be sIDIt to hear, sloW to
1:f9.
FOREST FIRE PREVENTION

T<HERE is nothing difficult about
forest fire prevention. The
method that has reduced the
woods fire loss in Massachusetts and
many other States of the union was
invented in Pennsylvania, but it is
not in use, so far as can be learned,
in a single county of the State. Sue
cessful firefighting depends upon
catching the flames in their in
cipiency and this can be done by
means of observation towers erected
every few miles throughout the
country to be protected, from which
forest rangers, equipped with glasses,
can scan the landscape for long dis
tances. This system of patrol and
supervision was devised by the State
Forestry Department and used first
at Mont Alto, but very little of that
nature is being done in Pennsylvania
now, although the tower system has
been put to good service by various
State governments elsewhere and by
the United States.
The State Forestry Commission is
scarcely to be blamed for this condi-
ton of affairs, for it cannot operate
without sufficient money. The tre-
mendous loss by timber fires will
continue in Pennsylvania just so long
as this penny wise pound foolish
policy of the Legislature is continued.
Every fire costs hundreds of dollars
more than intelligent and effective
protective measures, not to mention
loss of much needed lumber and the
wiping. out of new growth for years
TO come. Our law appears to be
framed on the assumption that small
fires do not count and are not to be
fought until they have swept hun
dreds of acres and have become
serious menace to improved prop
erty. We have the means and we
have the money, but until our law
makers give more thought to pre-
vention legislation the State will be
swept. as it is being now, by fires that
ought never to have gotten beyond
the acre where they started.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-18

turbed business district. Heads of
the several departments have much
to do and while many of the more
vigorous young men OF the city
will be serving their country at the
front or In camps there are still
hundreds of others who should be
available for service In these de-
partments.
1t is. in short, only necessary for
pulling together to achieve results
which will be satisfactory to the
community and creditable to those
who are in charge of the conduct Of
municipal affairs.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-18
Altoona's Celebration

Gee whiz!
Great Jehoshaphat!
What a parade!
Talk about the Harrisburg pa
rade-it wasn't in it with the Blair
county demonstration of Saturday.
and we didn't see the Harrisburg
affair, either.
Neither did we rec the War Gov
ernors' parade, but it is generally
conceded that Saturdays procession
was the greatest ever held in AL
toona.
Everybody has reason to feel
proud.
Chief Marshal Feltwell ought to
be the happiest msn In the county,
for 1t is no small honor to be the
directing head of such an assem-
blage of patriots as gathered last
Saturday.
Likewise the aIos and the cap
tains and the lieutenants and final
ly, the marchers for while there
must be head OF parade, there
must likewise be some folks to do
the parading.-Observer, in the AL
toona Tribune.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-18
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES
THE THRILLING STORY OF
BELGIUM'S HEROIC WOMEN

The only American woman men,
ber of the Commission for Relief in
Belgium has written book that
should be read everywhere in this
country. 1t is entitled Women of
Belgium Turning Tragedy to Tri-
umph,' and was written out of Mrs.
Charlotte Kellogg's own personal OBJ
servations and experience in that
smitten country. The introduction
is by Herbert Hoover that great
American through whose tireless ef-
forts as chairman OF the Relief Com
mission, the deplorable condition of
the Belgium people is being allie
Waited. Mrs. Kellogg's husband had
charge of Belgian Relief at the Brus-
sells headquarters of the commission,
and her opportunities for eight
months were such as no other wo-
man has known. She has given to
the world, therefore, most init
mate view of women'S work, and
courage, and sacrifice, made neces-
sary by the desolations of war.
This unique volume is not a war
book" in the sense that it details
horrors of battle, but rather it COW
ers a period, tragic history, a
marvellous philanthropy. never
known before. 1t recites the splen-
did courage and the noble service
of true human brotherhood and sis
terhood. To read it is an inspiration
and delight, even if many of it's
pages are brimming with pathos.
You can help the hungry and home
less Belgians by ordering a copy,
for not a cent of the profits from its
publication goes to author or pub
fishers or any one else except the
Commission for Relief in Belgium.
1t has 230 pages, is well printed and
illustrated, is bound in cloth and
will be sent to any address, post
paid on receipt of $1.10, by Funk G.
Wagnalls Company, 354-360 Fourth
Avenue, New York City. Buy one,
five, a dozen, copies, and distribute
them and you will befriend the des-
titude and starving while you bene-
fit and inform yourself.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-18
Sight-Proof Walls

A row of villas in Suburbia were
going up apace, and when they were
almost finished the builder and his
foreman made tour of inspection.
The former left his assistant in one
house and went into the house ad-
joining.
Can you hear me?' called the
builder, tapping on the dividing
wall.
"Yes."
Can you see me?"
No"
The builder rejoined the foreman,
beaming with satisfaction.
Now, them's what you can call
walls!" he said.-EXchange
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-18
STORIES OF IRELAND

The reader who is tired of the
work-a-day world, or who finds him
self longing for the little emerald isle
across the sea, can get there in ina
gination at least If he will follow
Daniel Corkery through "a Munster
Twilight" (Stokes). All that haunt
ing glammor and mystery which is
Ireland has been pressed into it's
pages. The people are true Celtic,
the stories are that curious blend
of tears and humor which poverty
breeds. Here one may read of the
daring servant who plowed "the bed
of the saints; of the cripple who
sold his body treasures to pay his
neighbor's rent; of the little Lady
of the CLASSY House, who was so
frail she passed away at the crash of
falling jug. They read like the
tales that world-worn peasants
might whisper about the fireplace.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-18
TyruS Is So Modest
By BRIGGS

Ty Cobb didn't want to seek any
notoriety by wiring the president,
offering his services in the war. So
he just sat down and gave an inter
view of a column and a half to the
newspapers covering his family his
tory since the sixteenth century and
justifying his recent fight with
Charley Herzog.-Kansas City Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-18
Strange Warriors Wrecked
[From the London Globe. ]

Melbourne-A telegram from Port
Darwin, Australia, says that the
Bathurst Island natives report the
wreck recently oc a large boat in
which were six men, the survivors
of a crew. These men were wear
ing helmets and swords. They are
of dark complexion, and cannot
speak English. They are living on
natives food. Bathurst Island is a
fairly large island on the extreme
north of the Australian continent.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-18

A 25 per cent. increase has been
granted the thousands of women en-
gagged in the Nottingham (Eng.) lace
industry.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-18
REAPING THE wHIRLwIND

TEyHY shouldn't American genius
wv devise the means to combat
the submarine? American
genius invented the blamed thing
TO begin with. What is that old say
ing about sowing the wind and reap
ing the whirlwind?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-18

Between the Yankees of the East
and the Yankees of the West. the Ger
man submarines are worse off than
the historic gentlemen who found
themselves between his Satanic
Majesty and the deep blue sea.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-18

Bavarian women are organizing
for work on the same plan as their
Prussian sisters.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-18

Portsmouth (England) has the
largest automatic telephone exchange
in the world.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-18
Labor Notes

In normal times the French eat
$50 pounds of bread a person an
nually.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-18
Pewl

A. writer says that nearly every
American family could keep a pig
on what goes into the garbage can.
Maybe. But did the writer ever try
keeping a pig within the city limits?
Cleveland Plain Dealen :.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-18
About Time

tFrom the Baltimore Americana
Whatever else happens, this war
threatens to make ducks and brakes
OF the divine right of kings.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-18

One machine has a capacity of
cutting a thousand celluloid combs
a day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-18

Women are working in the fields
of North Dakota because of an acute
labor shortage.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-18

An organizing campaign is to be
conducted among the sailors on the
Great Lakes,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-18

Harrisburgers should show a neigh
borly spirit and go to Steelton to-
morrow for the big celebration, 1t
will be well worth seeing,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-18

At present 10000 Canadians are
engaged in numbering operations in
the British Isles.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-18

Women farmers and laborers in
the United States number a million
and half.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-18

Employees on the electric line be-
tween Toronto and Guelph, Can,
have received an increase of So a
week.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-18
International

International Shingle Weavers'
Union of America will hold it's an
nual convention at Everett, Wash,
May 10.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-18

On May IA at Seattle, Wash, Or
der of Railroad 1eiegraphers will
meet in convention.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-18

Two unions of BARRIERS with a men,
bership of $50 have been organized
at Montreal, Canada.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-18

If this thing keeps up, the English
soldiers will have to go back a mile
or two every time they want to cross
the Hindenburg line.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-18
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg ranks high
as n food distributing center for
central PENNSYLVANIA?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-18

In the future child labor permits
in Arkansas will be amended to COM
form with Federal permits.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-18

THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO..
Telegraph Building. Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-18
HARRISBURG

f1AhhIbBUHO
John Adams paid visit to this
place when vice-president and was
given reception by the townspeople
at the Lee tavern.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-18

e. J. .STACKPOLE,P Pres't s. EditoriH.C Chief
+. r. OYSTER, Business MdHdgsr,
GUS NJ. STEINMETZ. Mdndgins Editor,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-18
SOMETHING
FOR
NOTHING?
THE MAN
HUNT.

HUNT.
My wife and
{ II g girls
planned t h e
summer cam
paign in April
this year.
Is that so?
Yes, t h ey
spent a month
at Palm Beach
for some pre-
liminary man
euvers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-18
CHILD WIS
DOM.

Mable: Auntie
do you expect
to go to Heaven
when you die?
Auntie: Yes.
dear, why?
Mable: 1t will
be an awfully
dead place if all
the people go
there who ex-
pect to.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-18

Taking automobile trips to see the
forest fires is among the favoritt
forms of diversion just now. The
fires are to be seen along the ridgeI
in Perry and Dauphin and to peopl,
who have not experienced their ter
rors they are a great attraction.
few days ago a party started out %
see fire and the warden in charse
made them work for six houIs.
Under the law he has a right 10
do so.
Evening star., 1917-11-21
An "Interesting Development"

As an interesting development Of The
Stars campaign for hospitality for SOL
diers comes a letter from IAN un-
forth how lonesome are some Of the
war workers who have come to Wash
ington to accept positions with the
government. He writes:
ut is very gratifying to every one to
see how readily the good people of
Washington are responding to the re-
Thanksgiving dinner And without a
doubt the service men appreciate 1t
"But have you ever taken into con-
sideration the fact that there are other
service men in Washington now far
| more lonely than the ones in uniform
ance of his many coworkers. As a
class they feel for one another.
"As a member of another class. I am
writing you. not for myself. but for
| the hundreds of others similarly placed
We were called. or requested. to come
try during the crisis in our specialized
capacities Engineers, bankers. buy
| ers. ETC.. mostly young men who held
nigh positions In civil life. were called
here. They have come. sacrificed much
and stand ready to go across Gas many
putting in ten to sixteen hours a day
getting the nations resources ready tc
| hack the service men in uniform. They
are lonely, they wear no uniform or in
sigma to identify them to a passerby
But aren't they too. service mem? AND
get far more lonely than man in the
| olive drab who sees fellow-workers al
| around him and knows he's not alone
and unrecognized?
Evening star., 1917-11-21
Many Will Be Lonesome.

ssThere will be many and many a
lonesome Thanksgiving spent in Wash
ington by these other men"
The Inspiration that The Stars cam
paign in Washington should be to the
people of other places where the Dis
trict boys are In training Is expressed
in a letter from Elizabeth King, which
is as follows:
II have a very young and very. very
Ion esome nephew at Admission, Ala,
and a letter received from him today
paper at Admission that could do for
the soldiers there what The Star has
done for him here. I refer. of course.
to The Stars idea of inviting the SOL
I wrote my boy I had invited two SOL
diers to dinner and only hoped some
one would do the same for him. In re-
ply he says: They don't think enough
Of the soldiers to do that for them
down here In another part of his let
ter he said the people would not even
answer when asked question. can
not believe all the people of Admission
are like those with whom he has come
in contact and trust The Star. with its
far-reaching power. will find some way
Of helping those poor lonesome boys
get in touch with the right kind
people"
form as guests THANKSGIVING day?" is
the plea In many letters that come to
the soldier guest editor. The list will
be kept open up to the last day, but
the committee Of women In charge of
distributing the Invitations asks that
all who intend to do themselves the
honor Of entertaining soldiers, sailors
and marines send in their names and
addresses as soon as possible.
Extracts From Letters.
Here are some extracts from letters
showing how your neighbors are ask
ing for service men as guests:
From Rear Admiral and Mrs. Zane,
the Octavia. 1859 Columbia road, apart
ment II:
I'VE would like to have three soldiers
take dinner with us at o'clock
Thanksgiving day and spend the after
noon, II convenient for them"
From Mr., and Mrs. Luther Smith,
Conduit road northwest:
I'VE. would like very much 70 enter.
Thanks9iving dinner. they cSi, come
- early - they like and stay for sup.
per and ~ lenG ~ they like. We vii
Evening star., 1917-11-21

In An announcement today tie Chssa-
peake and Potomac Telephone Com
pany declared that unless this step 10
taken tho company cannot render the
efficient service necessary to wartime
conditions
In Washington alone the company
estimates operators are asked clock
time $4,000 times a day.
After Monday individuals seeking to
ascertain the location of fires. the out
come of sporting events and the time
will not be able to obtain this informa-
Evening star., 1917-11-21

tertain two soldiers at Thanksgiving
dinner. If possible. we should like to
have men from Tennessee. but any of
our soldiers will be most welcome.
Others who have applied for guests
In uniform are:
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick c. Clark, s65
Park road northwest (four).
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. C. Beard, 931 Long
fellow street (two).
Mrs. L. Frye, Stanton road, Anacostia,
D. c. (one).
Mrs. Carter and Mrs. Danes. 2OS T
street northwest (two), colored.
Evening star., 1917-11-21
PRAYER FOR RECITAL
THANKSGIVING DAY
SuppIication for Use at Tables
Where Uniformed Men
Are Guests.
PLANS AT RESTAURANTS

| A Thanksgiving prayer to be said at
every dinner table. especially where
there are men in uniform. has been pre-
pared by Rev. DR.. Forrest ]. Pretty
man. chaplain Of the United States SEN
ate. at the suggestion OF the soldier
guest editor.
| This is a forcefui prayer for peace
when right has won, and for the safe
return Of the men in uniform who are
| fighting a world battle for right. 1t
has an official flavor, not only because
DR.. Prettyman Is chaplain of the Sem
ate, but because the prayer parallels
| closely the lines Of thought followed in
President wilson's Thanksgiving day
| proclamation
It is proposed that this prayer shall
be read in the churches, that it shall
| be clipped from The Star and read in
the homes, that it shall be a standard
prayer at all Thanksgiving dinners in
Washington.
All Pastors Cooperating.
Pastors of practically all Of the
churches in Washington have notified
The Star that they are cooperating in
the plan for home hospitality on
THANKSGIVING day. and they especially
| commend the prayerful observance of
| the day, not at the expense of a jolly
good time. but because they feel that
Thanksgiving day this year has a
deeper significance than ever before
since the first Thanksgiving day. The
people of Washington are to observe
1t with more sincerity and with a spirit
of service toward those who are going
forward to fight for the liberty of the
world.
| Under the leadership of Mrs. William
Hamilton Bayly. the official hostess, a
number of prominent Washington
women are hard at work on the big
task of properly distributing the in
| vitation to the men in service. As the
soldiers stationed about Washington
are being constantly moved, 1t has been
especially difficult to give out the invi-
| tations in such a way that the house
wives may not be inconvenienced
through a failure of their guests to put
in an appearance on account OF having
been ordered elsewhere by the military
authorities.
Evening star., 1917-11-21

tion from operators.
Telephone trafiic In wAshingten to-
day is flowing so per cent above nor
NAL. creating . telephone sltuAkien
most difficult to handle, according 30
the company.
Evening star., 1917-11-21

A visit to Japan by . sailor named
Hardy. who was q member Of Ccnmo-
dore Perry's expedition to that coun-
try in 1888. was recently made tbs oc-
casion of many manifestations OF
friendship toward thu United States
Evening star., 1917-11-21
"HE11o" CALLS RESTRICTED.
Wartime Embargo On Telephone
) Service in Eject Monday.

The first wartime embargp on tele-
phone msssages In the District will
become effective Monday. when re-
quests on operators for the time. for
base ball, foot bail and other sporting
results will have to be discontinued.
Evening star., 1917-11-21
PRAYER FOR THANKSGIVING DAY.
in Washington at dinner tabl
are soldiers sailors and marines guests
BY REV. DIR. FORREST J. PRET'TYMAN
Chaplain of the senate.

o
"Amghty before Thee the call of country
acknowledge with grateful hearts, the continuance Of Thy
and blessing through another
1--WE seek Thy guidance find ourselves in the midst of the
peril world shaken by and that
conditions enjoy blessings that better
thann n1erep of mind prosperity of enterprise
those allied
against the
of l-wll and greed and sefshness
Thy providence wrath Of
mani praise Thee.
Christs sake. Amen"
Evening star., 1917-11-21
Easy to Rid Home
of Rats and Mice

There is no need Of suffering from the
depredations of rats and mice now that
stearns' Paste is readily obtainable at
nearly every store. small box of this
and is usually sufficient to completely rid
the house, store barn of rats and mice.
The U. $. Government has bought thousands
where rats and mice are plentiful. The
Paste is also efficient in destroying cock
reaches and Observation-Disclosures