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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-10
Training 10000 Officers

Uncle Sans first 10000" to off,
Ger the new armies to be raised un-
der the universal service law will
cost him at least SIS. 1000 during
their three months training course
at the fourteen camps to be opened
May IA in all sections OF the conn
try.
Salaries alone for the $500 candi-
dates, reserve corps officers and mil
ltary instructors at Plattsburg will
amount to 1855. 900. according to fig
ures furnished yesterday by military
authorities, who estimated that each
candidate would be paid 500 a
month while training. About 500 re-
| serve officers and seventy-five in
structors Will be at each camp, all
drawing regular army pay of from
S142 to 1915 n month.
Blankets. shirts. shoes, breeches,
hats. leggings and waist belts for the
$500 cadet officers at Plattsburg will
cost about $22 per man, or $55, 700.
Mess kits. canteens, cups, haver-
sacks, ponchos, shelter halves,
knives, forks, spoons, cartridge belts,
bayonets, scabbards and rifles will
total more than S42 per man, or
S102,50o.
The construction of temporary
wooden barracks will cost $4,000 at
each camp; firewood will be $4,000
more. lighting will cost 81, 900, kitch-
ems another $1,000, and paper, ink,
soap, lime, etc, $500
Food will cost from 40 to so cents
per man per day, or at least $780,
600 for the three months. bringing
the total cost of the Plattsburg camp
alone to more than $1.127,0OO for
the three months. The fourteen
camps in the country will be oper-
ated on the same basis and will to-
gether cost more than $15,77S,000
New York Tribune.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-10
Labor Notes

Baltimore (Md.) union bakers will
enforce nine-hour day.
Women are employed as iron
workers in France.
Aurora (Ill.) iron molders now
get 90 cents an hour.
Frisco street car employees have
asked for an eight-hour day.
Toledo (Ohio) painters have a
minimum wage of so cents an hour.
Duluth (Minn.) local unions have
formed Trade Union Dry League.
City employees of Oakland, CAL,
demand an increase in pay.
Vera Cruz. Mexico. has a night
school for working women.
Union butcher workmen at Deni-
son.. Texas, have secured Sunday
closing.
Female nurses in the United
States Navy receive $50 per month.
Eighty per cent. of the munition
workers in Great Britain are wo-
men.
Cabinet makers at st. Louis, Mo-.
will get 40 cents an hour after June
12.
Toronto (Canada) retail clerks de-
mand early closing. Sheet metal
workers at Hamilton, Canada, will
organize.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-10
BY BRIGGS

thing for me to cut out meat on
my family table on Mondays and
Fridays, but it would not be trihing
If 100000 families should join u.s."
Meat bones can be put to good use
in the family kitchen these days. An
English scientist says:
"One-third of the weight of dry
bone consists of nitrogenous matter.
which when extracted could be used
as food. There is a much larger
proportion than is found in bread or
meat. 1t is desirable to grind the
bone before boiling it. The marrow
is very valuable both as a fat and
for it's agreeable flavor, and may be
roughly reckoned as equal in nutri-
ment to half it's weight in butter"
Many kinds of soup can be made
by the use of bone and vegetables,
and the same bone can be used three
times with good results.
If any one believes household
economies and the food situation in
America are not worthy the clos
est attention of every citizen, he
should bear in mind that the gen.
eral food production of the United
States has only increased 1 per cent
in ten years. while the population
has increased 81 per cent. The an
nual wheat production has decreased
Is per cent. corn is III less than
ten years ago and last year was 5.8
per cent less than the average for
the ten years.
Do not feel that because you are
not a, soldier you have no patriotic
duties to perform at home.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-10
Charles M. Schwab says =

I love to appeal to the American
spirit of conquest in my men. the
spirit OF doing things better than any
one has ever done them before. There
is nothing to which men respond more
quickly.
Once when 1 was with Mr. Carnegie
I had mill manager who was finely
educated. thoroughly capable and
master of every detail of the busI-
ness. But he seemed unable to in
spire his men to do their best
How is it that a man as able as
you," 1 asked him one day, "cannot
make this mill turn out what il
should?"
Il don't know" he replied: "I have
coaxed the men; have pushed them;
1 have sworn at them. 1 have done
everything in my power. Yet they
will not produce"
1t was near the end of the day; in
few minutes the night force woulJ
come on duty. l turned to a work
man who was standing beside one OF
the red-mouthed furnaces and ask
ed him for piece of chalk.
How many heats has your shift
made to-day?" I queried.
six" he replied.
/ chalked a big &c" on the floor. and
then passed along without another
word. When the night shift came ir
they saw the "6" and asked abou
il.
THE big boss was in here to-day, >
said the day men. He asked us how
many heats we had made, and W,
told him six. He chalked it down"
The next morning I passed through
the same mill. l saw that the So
had been rubbed out and a big "7'
written instead. The night SHIFT hac
announced itself. That night 1 wen
back. The ~" had been erased an,
10" staggered in it's place. Th'
day force recognized no superiors
Thus a fine competition was started
and it went on until this mill, for
merly the poorest producer, was turn
ing out more than any other mill il
the plant
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-10
On Such a Day

It's always this here sort of day
l want to rise and go away
And find shady place and cool
Across the way from that there
school
Where little children romp and run
Through recess, and when school is
done
Where fancy wanders, glad and free.
l want to just keep still and go
With them, and sort of get to know
What they think of the world and
all, ........'
And hear them mock the wild birds
call,
And watch them wade a shallow
stream,
And splash drops in the sun to
CLEAN
Like diamonds, every one a gem
And make them feel I'm one OF
them.
I'm sort of getting wearied for
Some talk that doesn't deal with
war;
Some talk of birds and blooms and
trees,
And butterflies and honeybees,
And grapevine swings, and berriers
red,
And white clouds sailing overhead;
And what they like to eat and wear;
That's how feel when days are fair
That's how 1 feel when it is spring
And wayside shrubs are blossoming
And birds are nesting. Such a day
want to rise and go away
And leave the word to busy men
And be a little tad again
AID gather up a crowd and go
AS vagrant as the winds that blow
j. M. Lewis. in Houston Post.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-10
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

j. II. Torrey, Scranton lawyer,
who was here yesterday, is one of
the leaders of the Lackawanna bar.
He came here to discuss bill before
a legislative committee.
IT. p. Sloan, former Washing
ton county official and member of
the Ship Canal Board, was here to-
day.
&C. d. Dyer, prominent Pittsburgh
iron man, has been made chairman
of one of the iron ano steel commit
tees of the Council of National De-
fense.
w. L. Saunders, who has been
prominent in the discussion of the
means to combat the U-boats. Is a
graduate of the University of Penn
sylvania and formerly lived in this
State.
&C. II. Deakyne, engineer officer
formerly in charge of work at Phila-
delphia, will command one of the
engineer regiments to go to France.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-10
SELECTING A MAYOR

TNHE importance of selecting for
i Mayor of Harrisburg one who
has vision of the citys fu-
ture and the energy and ability to
discharge the important duties with
credit to a progressive municipality
is manifestly impressing the mem
bers of City Council who must fill
the vacancy.
Harrisburg has reached a point in
Its development when the greatest
care should be exercised in choosing
its officials. This city can go for
ward or backward, just as the people
determine. and it is the duty of
every citizen to manifest a lively in
terest in the selection of those who
are to administer our municipal af-
fairs.
1t is the saving grace Of this
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-10
TOO MUCH TALK

NITY COMMISSIONER LYNCH
~ may be somewhat persistent
in his endeavor to find out
what is to be done about the ash
nuisance in Harrisburg, but there
can be no doubt whatever that he
is expressing public opinion when
he says that there is too much talk
and not much done" Mr.. Lynch is
rather practical in his efforts and
direct in speech, but this ash busi-
ness is getting on his nerves as it
Is upon the nerves of the average
haiisAhaldAr. Nar dnas Mr.. Lynch
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-10
Skirting the Edges

Spare my bushes"
So spake the society belle.
Have no fear, madam" respond
ed the girl who was giving her a
facial massage. II assure you won't
rub any of your complexion Off,
Louisville Courier journal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-10

no possession is Rratlfylng With
out mparison.-Sen
The soul moralizes the past in or
der not to be demoralized by it. Like
the alchemists she finds in the cru
chile of experience only the gold
that she herself has poured into it.
-Amiel.
Who shall be the nearest, noblest
and dearest,
Named with all honor and pride
evermore?
He, the undaunted, whose banner is
planted
On Valor's high ramparts and bat
Elements hoar.
Fearless of danger. to falsehood
stranger;
Looking not back when there's
danger before.
He shall be nearest, he shall be dear
est;
He shall be first in our hearts
evermore!
-Ragner Redbeard, IL. d.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-10

Can it be that some folks in Wash
ington don't want to think what might
happen after the people revised the old
song to read-"When Teddy Came
Marching Home?"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-10

Your Uncle Samuel is slow to get
started, but he is not backward when
he gets under way-as witness that
$75,OO0,000 fund for the relief of Bel
gium,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-10

II they send Pershing to France
with the same orders as he received
when he went after Villa, the Kaiser
will be perfectly safe.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-10
Maiden Must Be Kept Busv

Bryan said that a million men
would spring to arms over night. A
lot of them have certainly sprung
into a maiden's arms, via. the mar
.riage route.-Detroit Free Press.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-10
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg is most adj
vantagcously located for food
preserving plants?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
Harrisburg experimental with
street car lines right after the Mex
lean war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-10

Miss Bus-There's that disgusting
old bug, hanging around this fiat
iron corner again.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-10

believe it is necessary to refer every
question to the City Solicitor for an
opinion. That is one way of passing
what is popularity known as "the
bunk"
What the people of Harrisburg
want and what they are bound to
nave is solution of this internal
ash nuisance. which is causing not
only annoyance but expense. without
reason or excuse. 1t is pretty bad
when taxpayers are asked to pay
twice for the removal of the ashes
first through the regular contract
appropriation and then by direct
payment to the employees of the con-
tractor as is said to be the common
practice.
Lunch barkeepers are observing the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-10

Don't worry about that tax on soft
drinks" folks; the fellow who in
dulges in Something hard" is going
to get his. too.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-10
BE A GOOD SCOUT

TORE than 100 men of Harris
4SA burg have given up a large
part of to-day, tomorrow and Satur-
day to the collection of funds to be
used for the financing of the Boy
Scout movement in Harrisburg dur
ing the next three years.
These men are not approaching
you in the name of charity, nor are
they begging. They come to give
you the privilege of investing in the
boyhood of Harrisburg. They come
TO extend to you the opportunity of
helping to make the boys of to-day
better men of tomorrow. Before
you refuse them or turn them away
with a trifiing contribution, think a
moment of your own poyhood, aud
then of your own boy, IL you have
one. Consider what the Boy Scout
movement would have meant to you,
and what it is doing and will do for
the boys of this city-your boy in
cluded.
No worthy organization has been
more misunderstood than the Boy
Scouts. On account of their uni
form they have been misrepresented
as a military organization. No mat
ter what anybody may tell you along
that line, there is not a word of
truth in it. The Boy Scouts are not
military in any sense of the word.
Boy Scouts are not permitted to
carry weapons of any kind. Boy
Scouts do not have military drills.
Boy Scouts are not at the fighting
front in Europe and none will be in
America. Boy Scouts are trained in
the ways of peace. They are taught
to be kind, to be useful and to live
clean lives.
This is the oath they take:
on my honor I will do my best
To do my duty to God and my
country and to obey the Scout
law.
To keep myself physically
strong, mentally awake and NOR
ally straight.
The Scout Law" is simply the
rules and regulations laid down by
the boys themselves for their own
guidance.
Would you like your boy to take
! pledge like that? wouldn't you
have been a better boy, and perhaps
better man, If you in your youth
| had taken 1t.
Don't deny the opportunity to the
boys of Harrisburg by Withholding
your mite from this worthy cause.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-10

Lunch barkeepers are observing the
Governments bread conservation order
as witness the size of the sand
wiches.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-10
Flashes of Genius

No possession is gratifying with
out a comparison.-Sen
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-10

Il. j. STACKPOLE,P Pres't s. Editor.in. c Chief
+. r. OYSTER, Business Mdndger.
GUS NJ. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-10

THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO..
telegraph Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-10

Harrisburg's Wharton school ex-
tension came in for some compli-
mentary notice yesterday at a hear
ing at the Capitol, as it was several
times referred to as an organization
which has been doing good work.
The Wharton school here has at
tracted attention because of the In
terest and vim shown by the stu
dents and the good results obtained.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-10
This is the oath thsr take:

on my honor I will do my best
To do my duty to God and my
country and to obey the Scout
law.
To help other people at all times.
To keep myself physically
strong, mentally awake and NOR
ally straight.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-07-06
OUTLOOK FOR CUBAN SUGAR,
INDUSTRY NEXT YEAR LOOMS
DARK, DECLARES AUTHORITY

Pessimistic prospects for the Cuban
sugar industry in 1918 are seen by u
prominent Boston operator of several
Cuban sugar estates who is quoted by
Facts About Sugar as follows: D.
Ii seems mOrtally sure that the 1918
Cuban crop cannot possibly exceed this
years and it may easily run down TO
2,500,000 tons. One trouble is that the
provinces of Oriente and Camaguey
have been so tcrrorizod and revolution
ridden that the planters have simply
not planted their cane for the 1918
crop. ] do not believe that these two
provinces will yield more than a so
per cent crop, when they ought to be
increasing their production all the
time TO make up for the natural static
conditions which obtain in the older
and longer cultivated western prov
inces.''
With big shortage of laborers, this
authority adds, the situation in this
respect is "deeidedly bad -. He points
out also that the cost of making sugar
is Increasing %. T.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-07-06
APPROPRIATION NOT -.
ENOUGH FOR WHARF
Harbor Board HAS insufficient
Funds For HiIo Project

The $4,000 appropriated for the
construction of "A new wharf at Hilo
will not build wharf that will meet
the requirements of local shipping com
panies, it was intimated pretty plainly
by shipping men and Superintendent of
Public Works Hobby at meeting of
the harbor board yesterday afternoon.
The Legislature in appropriatipg the
money for the wharf stipulated that
none Of the money should be spent for
the wharf unless, and until, the board
secures from shipping companies of the
Territory pledges that they will use the
wharf after it is constructed. This
clause was inserted in the measure in
order TO avoid the trouble that has
arisen Ia connection with Knhio Wharf,
William Mckay Of the Ihter.Islnhd
Steam Navigation Company, one Of the
shipping men present Yesterday, when
asked whether the three hundrc5 Saet
Of wharf without shed, which the
money in hand can build under existing
circumstances, would meet the require.
ments Of the company, declared that in
his opinion such wharf would fall
short of the demands that would be
made upon it.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-07-06
NEW LUTTE PROCESS j.
BEING TESTED HERE

. Experiments in the manufacture of
jute Irvine for sugar bags from banana
stalks were started here yesterday. A
new machine for this purpose was given
its first tryout in an old building on
South street near King Street. >.
The three mcr who are testing the
little plant are representatives of the
international Fiber Company. They
are &. p. Stewart, president; j. A. Sand
ers, treasurer, and Herbert Freuler, gen.
eral agent Of the company. Stewart is
the designer of the process
The machinery, which was brought
here from the mainland, was damaged
en- route and is being repaired at the
Honolulu Iron Works. Those interested
in the project state that they came to
Honolulu as the nearest place where
enough banana stalks can be secured to
give the machinery working test. Il,
The apparatus resembles "a cane mill
Rollers squeeze the juice from the
stalks, scrapers remove the pulp, and
another device separates the fiber into
strings as long as the original stalk.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-07-06
R|CAN CROP TO
Be HALF MILLION TONS

SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, June TO-
With the grinding season drawing rap
idly to close, there are ample indica-
tiOns that the total sugar output for
Porto Rico will closely approximate the
early estimates of a half million ton
crop or more for the 1851 season.
Several weeks ago estimates were re.
Vised and the output was placed at un-
der n half million tons; but it is now
certain that these predictions will be
exceeded, but to just what extent will
not be known for several weeks yet.
Shipments so far have been slightly
in excess of 375,0O0 tons and il is esti-
mated that there is now in the island
in the neighhOrhood of 100000 tons of
sugar, some Of which is awaiting ship
ment, but more of which is being held
for higher prices that the sugar men
feel certain will obtain. 80
There has been no shortage of ship
ping facilities during the past two
weeks and there has been, in fact, more
space offered than there was sugar to
fill. ~. - 80.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-07-06
LOUISIANA CANE ACREAGE
FOR NEW CROP Is TWELVE
PER CENT OVER LAST YEAR

The sugar cane acreage of Louisiana
this year is estimated at about twelve.
per cent above the 1916 acreage, nc
cording to reports made TO the bureau
of crop estimates Of the United States
department of agriculture by its
Louisiana field agent. His figure is
based on an average increase as shown
u reports from cane growers covering
.521lt acres, t.fF' .l,tI
The total area harvested for sugar
In Louisiana in 1916 was 22l, 900 acres,
so that If this predicted increase is ac-
tnally reached the cane acreage for
the state for 1917 win reach close to
100000 acres. E ..
Thousands Of acres that in former
years remained idle are now under cane.
Rice lands in 1916 have, in many in
stances, been planted to cane this year.
Fifty-fOur sugar planters report 3D.
us acres of corn on their plantations
this year as compared with 1896 acres
in 1916, decrease of about five per
cent in corn acreage. .H ...
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-07-06
SUGAR PLANTERS
AID GOVERNMENT
Mainland Committee REPRESENT
,la ing Them Cooperating In
Food Control

i
Active cooperation with the federal
food control authorities is being given
by the sugar planters Of the Hawaiian
Islands through a representative com.
mittee of three prominent men on the
mainland closely connected with the 10.
cal industry.
The committee consists Of Sidney
Ballou Of Washington, d. c., counsel
for the Hawaiian sugar Planters Asso.
citation; George NJ. Rolph Of San Fran
cisco, general manager of the CaIifor.
mia and Hawaiian Sugar Refining Com
pany, and William q. Cooke of New
York, manager Of the New York Office
Of Alexander & Baldwin, Ltd.
I. These men constitute a committee on
national affairs appointed by the Ha.
waiian Sugar Planters Association TO
represent the sugar producers Of the
Territory in cooperation with the gov.
ernment authorities in the present ma
tional food situation.
II was explained yesterday, when the
local announcement of the committee
was made, that inasmuch as the govern.
ihthb hod fdhCh up hut nhnuhHR VI inc
food problem, sugar, wheat, cotton and
other commodity producing interests Of
the nation had seen &c to appoint rep
resentative committees TO aid and to
cooperate with the federal food au.
thorities. Sugar interests throughout
the country were among the first to of
fer this active assistance to Uncle Sam,
and Hawaiian producers through the
Planters Association followed the lead
of the mainland sugar interests. ~
! The Hawaiian association decided to
appoint committee which would be
available for consultation with the gov
ernment food administration officials
and ready to supply any information on
Hawaii desired by these authorities.
The committee is authorized to CON
suit with food administration officials,
the Council for National Defense, the
Department of Agriculture or other
representatives of the federal govern
ment with view to cooperation be-
tween the national authorities and Ha.
waiian producers in dealing with the
problems relating to the sugar industry
that have been created by the war.
1t is understood that the committee
is acting in conjunction with similar
committees which have been appointed
or will be appointed to represent other
branches of American sugar produc
ton.