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The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-05-22
FOOD DICTATORSHIP
ISN'T HOOVER'S AN

Washington May 19.-Herbert c.
Hoover tonight accepted the appoint
ment as head of the new food admin
istration, rendered him oy President
Wilson But his acceptance was ''en-
tirely upon the assumption that con-
gress will grant broad powers to the
president on which a competent ad-
nlinistration can be !: 1t up
These broad powers" Hoover sad,
would be necessary only in minority
cases.
"The esesnce Of al: war admins
tration," said Mr.I Hoover, "falls into
two shapes. First, Capitalization Of
responsibility.
Second, the delegation Of this re-
sponsibility to decentralized admin
istrative orgars.'
I'VE do not ask the American peo-
nle to starve themselves, he ex-
blained. "but that they should eat
plenty, wisely and without waste"
Would Mobilize Women.
Mr.. Hoover announced a plan to
mobilize the American women under
a pledge system to carry out instruc-
tons of the food administration. His
plan includes complete cooperation
With the allies.
"I have no intention OF becomino 3
food dictator" he said. ''My ambition
is to see my own people solve their
own problems. I recognize the diff
iculties and possibility of failure and
appeal to the patriotism OF my
countrymen for their support"
Mr.. Hoover issued the following
statement:
"In acceptance of President VIII
sons request that should become
head of the new food administration,
il Is entirely upon the assumption
that congress will grant broad powers
to the president on which compe-
tent administration can be set up.
Il hold strongly to the view that
while large powers are necessary for
minority cases, they will probably
need but little application, for the
vast majority of the producing and
distributing elements lin the country
are only too willing and anxious to
serve our national necessities. 1 have
represented to the president.
"First, that the food problem g
one of wise administration and not
expressed by the words dictator" or
controller but food administrator
Second, that this administration
ean be largely carried out through
the coordination and regulation OF the
existing legitims te distribuNve agen-
cies supplemented by certain emer-
gency bodies composed OF represen-
tatives of the producers, distributors
and consumers.
Third. the organization of the COM
munity for voluntary conservation OF
fondstuffs.
Fourth, that all important posi-
tons, so far as may be, shall be filled
with volunteers.
Fifth, the independent response
bility of the food administration d.
recently under the president with the
cooperation of the great and admira-
able organization of the department
of agriculture the department OF
commerce, the federal trade commls-
sion and the railway executive.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-05-22

Mrs. Helen Ray has pretty class
learning stenograrhy aud typewritlng
at her business school. 1t will pay
Young ladies to learn these branches
a. Mrs. Rays school, as the govern
r,ent is calling for stenograpners ana
typeHriters. The salary is $500 or
81 900 to begin with. Rapid advance
ment is made on merit. CapaDie
workers are paid from $4,000 to $4,000
year. One stenographer who start
ed at 5000 under Uncle Sam advanced
10 an $4,000 position. Uncle Sam
-~nats his employees right. He gives
them Saturday afternoons off from
June Is to September Is, and 30 days
vacation each year with full pay. See
Mrs. Ray for good jobs in the patriotic
service of your country.
Uncle Sam Is going to spend two
billion or more to kill and be killed
How much better would 1t have been
If Uncle Sam could take that two Dill
lion and buy land and in turn sell THIS
land on easy terms and at low rate
of interest? In this way Uncle Sam
would be helping Gods creatures to
live and enjoy life instead OF mlr-
aering and being murdered.-Gaffney
Ledger. We understand you to say
"kill and be killed" numbering and
being murdered" Be careful, Ledger,
you may get In trouble by your u
terances, but 1t is just as this reporter
has said, Uncle Sam is going to send
men over to Europe to be butchered
IN the awful slaughter, and when the
beast ginds them up there Will De
more to follow, selected by conscrlp-
':~n Nav as we'll understand the
terrible truth. No getting out of it.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-05-22

CONTINUED ON PAGE 2.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-14

plete and successful opera o il
throughout the Bell system for four
years. The Bell system was ono of
the leaders in understanding and
adequately providing for the needs Of
workers in the exigencies of life for
which not all are able to provide. In
the four years 1s13-1916 inclusive,
the expenditures from the benefit
funds of the Bell companies have
aggregated $5,611,O16. At December
81, 1916. the reserves for these benefit
funds aggregated s9,151,000. At the
end of the year 2s4 former employees
were on the pension roll, a net in
crease of 27 during the year. The
average pension paid was $45 per
month. This in addition to sick and
death benefits paid.
What, one is prompted to ask, would
become of this pension-insurance plan,
which costs the employees nothing, in
the event of government ownership?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-14
How to Run a Home

I'VE need a thorough business sys-
tenn for conducting our households -
Miss Agnes Donham of the Garland
School of Homemaking told large
audience in a lecture at the Boston
Public Library.
A budget and a card index of ali
household expenses were urged. "A
careful study of food and clothing
values should be made" she said.
Rent and carfare should come tc
80 per cent of the income food to 25
per cent. and due value must be given
to play and to saving. A clothing bud
get conducted on a business basis will
save many dollars and will eliminate
buying unnecessary articles.
Menus should be made out week
in advance and all foods that are not
perishable should be bought in whole-
sale quantities. The housekeeper
should balance her accounts every
three months and keep inventories of
every article In the home, including
every book and trinket. A copy of this
should be kept in a safety deposit
lt."-From the Boston Globe.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-14
MnLLERsBURG BRIDGE BILL

TIME Legislature would confer a
favor upon a vast number of
people and provide an outlet
for the products of rich agricultural
community by passing Senator Beidle-
mans bill for bridge across the Sus-
quehanna at Millersburg.
1t is not a tribute to the progress
siveness of the State government that
there should be no means of crossing
this broad stream between Clarks
Ferry and Sunbury, and that in both
places where bridges do exist toll is
charged for passage. The Susque-
hanna lies as bar to the free inter
course of the people of Pennsylvania.
There is little or no opportunity to
get from shore to shore, and exorbi-
tant fees are charged those who do
manage to use one or another of the
rackety old structures that masque-
rade as bridges.
Senator Beidleman's bill is intro
duced at the request of the Millers-
burg Automobile Club, but it has the
backing of all the people of Dauphin,
Perry, Schuylkill and Juniata coun-
ties, and such bridge as proposed
would benefit many more than even
that extensive and populous terri
tory.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-14
BOY-ED

IF Captain Boy-Ed is in the United
i States, as press reports indicate,
he is here on mischief bent. Boy
Ed ought never to have been permit
ted to leave this country. He ought to
be right now in a hard-labor squad
of a Federal prison. He was guilty
of criminal plotting against the United
States government and he ought to
have been severely punished. He
proved himself a worthy agent of
the DEVILS whelp he represents and If
caught he should be summarily dis
posed of for what he is-a snake in
the path of a peaceful people. There
is just one kind of treatment the
,Boy-Eds of Germany can appreciate.
1t is administered through the medium
of a noosed rope, tall pole and a
strong pull.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-14
Garden Plots at Wildwood

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
In travelling over different sections
of the county find especially the
district lying on top of the ridge, al
most from the extreme lower end of
Wildwood Park to the breast of Wild
wood Lake, plots varying from 100 to
zoo feet wide, running the full length
of this ridge, which could be most
profitably utilized by many persons
with the consent of the Park Commits
sioners. While not only compensating
the persons farming it they and their
families would enjoy many hours of
oudoor life, along the beautiful
woods and lake, which otherwise they
do not get. Family cares would be for
gotten and many wholesome hours
be spent in the open, studying nature
and imparting vigor and healthfulness
in the body, for which there is no
tonic like the woods and pure air. in
the open. AS this ground is not utilized
in any way by the Park Commission
ers, it could very readily be put into
the proper condition for the purpose
just mentioned. Respectfully yours,
]. B. LIGHTNER,
619 PETER Street,
Harrisburg, Pa
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-14

family and former colleagues from
Philadelphia and the speeches were
heard by large audience. Mr.. Flynn,
the Democratic leader, presided, and
Mr.. Cox offered resolutions. The
speakers included Lieutenant-G Cover
nor McClain, Speaker Baldwin, Rep
resentatives Boyer, McNichol. Palmer
and others, Senator Ware and ex-Rep-
resentative M. B. Kits.
Mayor r. B. Jermyn, of Scranton,
was among the many visitors here yes
terday.
More former members were here
yesterday for various meetings than
known for long time. There were
over twenty meetings and hearings
held and they attracted much atten-
ton throughout the State.
The stringent jury bill introduced
in the House yesterday by Represen-
county, is the work of Civilian Aid
Archibald Mackrell, of the Pittsburgh
Department of Public Safety. 1t places
strong safeguards about the paneling
of jurors and holds the sheriff, jury
commissioners, county commissioners
and others who have had access to
the jury lists responsible If the names
get out. The bill also keeps the jury
lists from the attorneys in a case until
the case is called in court. A stiff fine
and a years Imprisonment is the pen
atty. Mr.. Mackrell saw the necessity
for safeguarding trial by jury because
of his experience in public affairs. He
is well known in Harrisburg. He was
a member of the sessions of 1898 and
1895 and later was here for months in
the thick of the Quay fights. He has
been Republican leader for years
and has always an advanced stand in
public matters. Mr.. Mackrell also
has strong ideas on the dope. or drug,
proposition, and will likely be heard
in Harrisburg on this question before
the session adjourns. 1t will be a
straightforward story of the havoc
wrought by habit-forming drugs and
as he says, is not a recital for women
and boys to hear.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-14
Tolstoy Barred

Columbia University authorities
have forbidden Count Illya Tolstoy,
son of the great Russian author and
mystic, the right to speak in one of
the university's buildings. No expla-
nation of the refusal was made by
President Nicholas Murray Butler or
others of the Columbia authorities.
Russia will be greatly surprised
when it hears the news" Count Toll
stoy said. ''I thought this the coun-
try of liberty and free speech. Why
/ delivered the same lecture that was
forbidden here in the largest audi
torium in Moscow. 1t was passed by
the police censors of Moscow 1t seems
to me that this is proof of the
charges that there is much of hypoc-
risy in American life."
Count Tolstoy delivered his lecture
before Princeton students. attracting
favorable comment. He has spoken
also in Brooklyn and Boston.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-14
THE "BRANCH CAPITOL JOKE


THAT old joke, the branch capi-
i tor' project, has bobbed up
again, this time in the report of
commission intelligent enough to
have known better than to take it
seriously. 1t is absurd to dream for
pressed for necessary revenues as that
of 1917 would consider the appropria-
tion of a half million dollars for a
f1ag-station capitol in Philadelphia at
a time when the main capitol in Har-
risburg is crowded far past the over
flow point.
The branch capitol notion has its
origin in the "pipe-dream" of a Phil
adelphia newspaper correspondent
bent upon an exclusive news story. He
manufactured the scheme out of the
whole cloth and was then under the
necessity of inducing somebody to put
in such a bill as he had described.
This was done, all in spirit of horse
play, and-Philadelphia took it seri-
ously.
There is no more excuse for a
branch capitol in Philadelphia than
there is for one in Pittsburgh. Erie,
Scranton or any of the other cities
where the ver-widening scope of
State government has made it neces-
sary to open offices. The claim is
made that the higher courts of the
state have to maintain quarters in
Philadelphia. but in reply it may be
said that they also have elaborate
offices and chambers on Capitol Hill,
already built and furnished. that are
at their disposal the year around.
It has never been the experience of
the State that it is able to conduct
ONCE buildings at anything like so low
a cost as private owners. The COM
mission in its report uses as one of its
arguments that the State is now pay
ing $50, 1000 office rentals in Philadel-
phia. The building asked for would
cost at lease s5oO,OOO. exclusive of
furnishings, and the interest on this
amount, plus the expense of operation,
insurance, repairs and depreciation.
would run the yearly outlay UP close
to the $56, 5000 it now costs for offices in
philadelphia, in addition to the $780,
900 expended for the structure itself.
There is neither rhyme nor reason
in the branch capitol proposal. Pitts
burgh and the country members may
be relied upon to put the plan to
sleep for at least two years more.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-14
SENATOR WARES ANT1DRUG BILL

CENATOR WARES antelope"
\ bill is a worthy measure. 1t
provides drastic punishment for
any person-dealer or individual
having in his or her possession any
habit forming drug. This bill, enact
ed into law, would supplement the
federal act directed at the Illicit use
of opium, cocaine and the like, which
is an imperfect statute requiring State
reinforcement.
The Ware bill would give the au-
thorities power to send to prison the
dope" users themselves. in this way
opening the way for enforced treat
ment of drug victims and discouraging
the beginner from the temptation of
trying the effects.
The bill is in the interest of good
government and the public welfare. It
ought to be passed
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-14
THE LAST OF THAW?

rs it too much to hope we have
heard the last of Harry Thaw?
1t is a compliment to the courts
of Pennsylvania that no lengthy pro-
ceeding was necessary to prove the
insanity of this notorious young man.
The defendant was brought before the
court like any ordinary citizen SINH
1arly situated and no exceptions what
soever were made in his case. The
verdict is to be heartily commended.
Certainly Thaw is demented. If there
ever was doubt his latest escapades
have dispelled it. And he is going
where he should have gone long ago
to a Pennsylvania asylum for the in
sane. And may we hear no more of
him.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-14
The Iitney

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
I am a friend of the jitneys. / be-
lieve they have a perfect right on the
streets. 1 ride in them when the
weather is fit and enjoy the little
breath of fresh air 1 get that way
But there is reason in all things.
see letters in your paper frequently
putting all the blame for accidents on
the traction company, which no doubt
is some to blame. But / saw an Incl
dent at Market and the Square Mon
day night that should have landed the
jitneyman in Jail. With a carload of
passengers he ran out to the left past
standing street car and tried to cut
across in front of 1t just as 1t started
He did not blow his horn or warn the
trolleyman. If it had not been for a
big policeman who at the risk of his
own neck rushed in and waved them
both to stop somebody would have
been hurt. Then the jitneyman back
ed around behind the street car and
waited until it moved, as he should
have done in the first place. 1t is such
careless actions that make even the
friends of the jitney afraid to ride.
j. B. DICE.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-14
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

--Dr. Edgar Fahs Smith, provost of
the University of Pennsylvania, comes
from York county and loves local his.
tory.
DIR. G. A. Dillinger, Pittsburgh
councilman, is seriously Ill.
Speaker r. ]. Baldwin. is an au-
thority on Pennsylvania's Revolution
airy history.
-R. r. Rakestraw, of Franklin,
who was in the Rumanian oil fields,
is home after some exciting adven-
lures.
President E.E.Sparks. of State Col
lege, spoke at Philadelphia business
mems banquet on collegiate prepared
ness
Clifford Pinchot, who was here for
a meeting yesterday, is as much In
terested in forestry as ever.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-14
The Majority

the wise men of Greece; but he was q
pagan. Much to the same effect, how
ever, Is the famous sentence of the
New Testament: Many are called.
few are chosen" This appears a hard
saying; frequent are the endeavors to
elude it, to attenuate its severity. But
turn it how you will, manipulate 1t as
you Will, the few, as Cardinal New
man well says, can never nsean the
many. Perhaps you will saySthat the
m majority Is, sometimes, good: that its
impulses are good generally, and its
action is good occasionally. Yes, hut
it lacks principle, 1t lacks persistence; I;
II to-day its good impulses prevail.
they succumb tomorrow, but 1t is very
ant to go wrong.-Matthew Arnold.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-14
Henry Houck

Here was the ideal Pennsylvania
Dutchman' an American, then
Pennsylvanian and finally a Dutch
man.
Henry Houck was week more than
eight-one years old when he died, but
he still talked broken English" :"
However. there was nothing broken or
half-hearted about his loyalty.
Few men anywhere had served as
public officer so long as he and few
deserved to. For fifty-eight years his
name was continuously on the pay
roll of his country or State and for
thirty-eight years he occupied one
State office.
But nobody ever accused Henry
Houck of merely holding an office-he
filled it. I doubt very much If any
other one man in any American State
made the indelible impress upon the
country schools that he did during his
generation as deputy State supernten-
dent.
Say! Did you ever list to Henry
somehow everybody seemed to know
Mr.. Houck by his first name-at a
school teachers institute? Wasn't he
rare? Who else could picture as he
did the trials of the overworked and
underpaid school teachers in a lonely
countryside?
"A
laughing, third 1t was crying and the
other third it was inwardly resolving
"by heck" to better the school condi-
tions. And that third thing was what
Henry was after all the time.
Here was crusader who carried
his eloquent message for school uplift
right to tens of thousands of parents
in rural places. He was essentially
and all together of the farm, and be-
fore an audience of farm people I'd
back him against Henry Ward
| Beecher.
Pennsylvania Germans have pro-
duced a vast number of useful and
loyal men and women, peculiarly de-
void of crankiness and isms, q credit
to German heritage and to American
citizenship. Henry Houck was lead
/ er among these distinguished Penn
sylvania Dutchmen.'
| Would that all German-Americans
dedicated themselves as he did to the
proposition of minding their own oI
of a foreign land.-Girard in the Pub
lie Ledger.
The Book of the People
Everything comes into the news
papers dragnet. 1t is the magic car
pet on which we can fly in an instan
over the world. 1t is the X-ray ma,
chine by which we can peer into tht
breast of our neighbors. 1t is tn,
Asmodeus which takes off the roofs q
houses for us. Near and far are one
to it; great and little jostle in 1T
pages. The gossip of million back
yards or front stoops comes to us; VIZ
hear the dog fight around the corner
Great crimes blaze like lightning
soaring the eye; the red beacons o.
war burn steadily before us. Epic,
of adventure, of Arctic or African ex.
ploration make fiction seem pale. Ant
fiction there is too. and infinite pic
torial representation, serious Oh
comic Wit and humor abound ant
the comment of knowledge. We ge
menus for our meals and dress de.
signs for our women folk. What ar
arc of experience the newspaper sub
tends! No wonder it has become tn,
book of the people, and tends Il
crowd all other books out of exist
ence.-Charles Leonard Moore. in Th,
Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-14

nASSING hurriedly over the statis-
tics submitted by President
Theodore N. Vail, in his annual
report of Bell Telephone business and
conditions-for who can grasp what
it means to be told that during the
year 9,7S9,700, 900 calls were made on
Bell phones or that there was in use
to carry these messages a total of
19,850.315 miles of wire?-we como
conclusions regarding the much talked
of public ownership of telephone
systems.
Naturally, Mr.. Vail does not ap-
prove of public ownership and he
makes a very convincing argument
against 1t. In this connection, he
says, promises are being made which
have again and again been proved
fallacious. There is no reason why
any individual or public official
should be misled in respect to the tele
phone business, he asserts, for there
is hardly district in the United States
in which there has not been an op-
position company promoted on SUBJ
stantially these same promises and
statements. The experience of the
Northwestern Canadian provinces in
government ownership and operation
shows that no single promise has beer
kept or carried out, that there has
been less extension than with the
private company, that rates have been
raised and rural service neglected, II
not ignored.
Another interesting feature OF the
report has to do with the Bells plan
Tor employees pensions. disability
benefits and death benefits, in CON-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-14
RIVERSIDE

TNHE Harrisburg Academy direc-
L tors want Riverside to be part
of Harrisburg. 1t was an error
of councilmanic judgment which
turned down the Riverside applica-
tion in the first place. BY the very
nature of things, unless we are to be
the hidebound, self-sufficient COM
munity that none of us care to see
Harrisburg become, the city must
reach out, as it has in the past, and
absorb one by one it's thriving su-
burbs.
Riverside eventually will come into
the city. That never can be accom-
plished more cheaply than now. 1t
Is to be hoped that council will re-
consider its action at an early date
and extend a welcoming hand to this
beautiful new residential section.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-14
THE PEOPLES FORUM
By BRIGGS

pledging its support to the government
in case of war. The other was the no
tice of the railroad brotherhoods that
they would not strike in case of a
declaration of war. This, as you said q
week ago, in strong and favorable
contrast. with the attitude of English
labor unions. Good for labor.
UNION MAN
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-14
Sinple Rule For Success

The way to get ahead is to edge
ahead inch by inch and hold on to that
inch until you can edge in another.
The man who is a dollar ahead of his
debts is an independent critter.-Tars
pom Springs Leader.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-14
Good For Labor

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
/ noticed in last nights issue of the
Telegraph two items that gave me
great pleasure-one was the attitude
of the American Federation of Labor