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The Dickinson press., 1917-04-28
LOCAL NEWS

Mayor ALI. White returned the first
of the week from a trip to Mandan,
Fargo and other points east.
States Attorney j. K. Murray of
Mott spent the week end in Dickinson
on legal business.
E. A.. Lillibridge autoed out to Kill
deer and on to his ranch the middle
of the week, expecting to be gone for
about a week.
Attorney w. F. Burnett, Guy Dick
inson, L. M. Grub and w. E. Nc
Grath made a business trip to Mar
marth the first Of the week.
The campaign last year was a c
cess, many thousands of cocoons hav-
ing been destroyed and the number of
green worms ~noticeably diminished
during the summer.
The Odd Fellows building is another
of the buildings in the business Sec
ton of the city that displays a flag
flying from a new flag pole, put up
the middle of the week.
MI. and Mrs. B. j.; Steffans and
4|oo4l oh1oOo VI oOOCl4 11OdIC duIOcu
to Dickinson on Thursday afternoon,
returning that evening. They report
ed the road in pretty fair condition.
Engineer and Mrs. w. T, Nickel re-
turned on Sunday from st. Paul,
where they spent several weeks, Mr..
Nickel being called to that point on
railroad committee work.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. C.. Williams and
children of Taylor were guests for
the day on Wednesday Of the Roy
Henderson family, Mesdames Will
Jams and Henderson being sisters.
M. E. Hall, manager of the Dickin-
son district for the North Dakota In
dependent Telephone Company, plans
on spending Saturday in Hebron on
telephone business.
Mrs. H. F. Rase had as her guests
from Tuesday until Thursday Of the
past week, her sister, Mrs. G. Wise
man, and Mrs. Elliott, both of Regent.
They drove the distance and coming
in were caught in heavy showers.
The Dickinson press., 1917-04-28

Lee Schwan is another Dickinson
boy who has left to join the United
States navy. Mr.. Schwan departed
last Friday.
The Dickinson press., 1917-04-28

Mrs. Ed. Bremen spent the dayat
New Salem, Monday.
The Dickinson press., 1917-04-28

Mayor ALT. White returned the first
of the week from a trip to Mandan,
Fargo and other points east.
The Dickinson press., 1917-04-28

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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-02
PUBLIC Is wATCHFUL

DUBLIC discussion of the school
il board controversy over the Sc
lection of a high school architect
has lulled for the moment. But direc-
tors should not imagine that taxpay-
ers have lost interest in the subject.
The people are just as alive to the i'm
portance of this question as ever they
were and just as keenly watchful.
The best is none too good for Har-
risburg. There must be no guessing
no miscarrying in working out the
solution of the high school problem.
We made one gross blunder when the
Forster street building was erected.
We cannot afford to repeat that error
There is much talk in some circles
of the folly of expert advice but the
fact remains that Harrisburg of to-
day is built upon a foundation of ex-
pert opinion. Some of our experts
may have erred. Granted they did
Nevertheless the city has been the
gamer by many thousands of dollars
as result of having had expert serv-
ices. 1t is so in relation to the high
school. The most competent architect
obtainable must be employed. The
selection of any other will come back
to haunt the school board and to
plague the city.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-02

TONGRESS should not hesitate to
give the President full powers
to meet any situation that may
arise. Permission to arm ships is all
very well, but the President should
have the other instrumentalities" for
which he asks. In moment we may
need an army, and that moment does
not appear far in the future. Why
wait? Why not prepare while there
is time? Give the President every
thing he needs, to the last man and
the last farthing. If we are to be
pushed overheard into the sea of
world-strife let US at least provide
ourselves with a Hfe-preserver. We
shall need every device of armament
that the world knows, and in immense
quantities Everybody knows this.
Why delay?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-02
Production Not a Remedy
[Christian Science Monitor.


There are already indications of a
rush to the soil. with the view of pre-
venting such a scarcity as that which,
it is claimed in some quarters, has so
greatly increased the cost of living
during the present winter. The culti-
vation of increased acreage in the
rural districts, and of vacant lots in
urban districts, is widely advocated.
If we are to have cheaper living, it
is warmly contended by some students
of the situation, we must, of course,
have a greater supply of foodstuffs
Therefore, everybody should raise
things to eat. That is the way to
cope with the difficulty, and they insist
that it is the only way. AS a matter
of fact, it is the way not to solve the
problem.
There is and there has been no
scarcity of foodstuffs in the United
States. In many parts of the coun-
try. last spring and summer, products
of the garden were so abundant and
cheap that it did not pay to gather
and ship them to market. If every
body is going to raise vegetables this
year, those who follow farming or
gardening as a regular occupation will
reap less profit from their labor next
season than last. They will perhaps
be discouraged, as thousands upon
thousands have been in the past, and
seek other occupations. Overproduc-
ton is not remedy for high prices,
because overproduction leads to waste,
and waste is a blight upon industry.
What is needed is normal produc-
tion and better distribution. Existing
markets should be made accessible to
those who look to the soil for a liveli-
hood. Prices should not be depressed
in one season, that they may be bal
looned in another. The cultivator of
the soil should not be left to the ten
der mercies of the food speculator
and manipulation. The railroads should
be obliged to furnish cars and to carry
products to places where they are
most needed, expeditiously and at rea-
sonable rates.
An unimpeded flow in the transpor-
tation of foodstuffs, close connection
between the producer and the con-
sumner. inhibition of speculation in or
manipulation of farm and garden
products, and cold storage plants con-
trolled by the public, offer a solution
for the problem of the high cost of
season amateurs into gardening will
only result in further complication of
the situation There is in the country
now food enough to go around at a
reasonable price; the task demand
ing intelligent thought and direction
is its adequate and equitable distribu-
fioD
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-02
Those 200 Pajamas
kansas City Times.l


The fact that member of the Ger
man embassy staff was carrying home
two hundred suits of pajamas invites
attention to a serious aspect of the
blockade from Germans viewpoint.
Before the war Germany was import
ing annually 2h million bales of raw
cotton from the United States. The
imports continued for a few months
before England shut them off. Since
that time Germany has had virtually
no cotton.
How. has she got on without It?
Substitutes for cotton used in ex-
plosives have been made. But what
about clothing-pajamas and other
things? How can a nation that uses
underwear and skirts and shirts and
handkerchiefs and sheets and such, be
comfortable after being shut off for
two years from fresh supply of cot
ton? Where will material for new
uniforms for millions of soldiers come
from
The difficulty of supplying clothing
under such circumstances must be a
serious problem.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-02
ACTIONS AND WORDS

OSCAR UNDERWOOD is believing
" for federal food probe. The
Southern Senator is championing
the dear peepul' with a passion and
eloquence that would make anybody
not familiar with his record believe
MIN sincere advocate of low prices
and friend of working people.
1t was Underwood. you will recall.
whose tariff bill ruined the sugar in
dustry of the South and forced up
prices on that commodity by putting
the trust in control of the market. Be-
fore the Underwood law went into ef-
feet sugar sold for five cents a pound.
and sometimes for less. Oscar should
remember that actions speak louder
than words - even the fog horn roat-
ingS of political blatherskites.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-02
A THOUGHT ON SPRING

H<aE advance of the Lenten season
brings with it the faint and far
away scent of Easter lilies and
visions of chocolate eggs. Prepara-
tions for gorgeous Easter parades
likewise move rapidly. The thought of
spring, with the sweetness of it's in
spiration presents itself and the days
rush by bearing winter swiftly toward
its close. The break in the long sleep
ing Susquehanna and the appearance
of the scarlet cardinals and bluebirds
in Wildwood augur the approaching
change of season.
Life is pretty much worth living,
take it all in all. OF course, there are
business worries and household
troubles, and the "best laid plans o.
mice and men" can't always be carried
out, but things are pretty mucn as
they used to be in the matter of human
nature; parents live for their children
and the children grow up and the
springtime of life comes along for
them; there are tears and laughter,
and there are wars and rumors of
wars, but it's all in the game.
America has been very fortunate of
late; perhaps luck may turn for a
time. Why worry? The red blood
of Yankeeism is not diluted with a
yellow tinge, and the strength of the
nation is in its virile manhood and
brave womanhood. The spirit of Am
erica is that of perennial spring. And
gr snriOryffna fha occasiouaI rainy dav
but makes the landscape fairer and
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-02
NEW ENGLISH FASHIONS SIMPLE
Evidence of Feminine Tendency Toward Thrift Seen
in Spring Styles
By BRIGGS

mounts, and the double brim cloche
hat are being worn, the latter having
a crown trimmed with tulle, and some
times wreathed with springlike look
ing flowers. Then there is the Ser
bian hat of pointed tam-o'-shanter
persuasion in much embroidered dark
blue cloth, the embroiderings being, of
course, in the national red and yellow
while O novel trimming scene on n
Napoleon shape in silk cotele in q
soft shade of green was a quaint mo-
tiff of appliqued suede leather. Ex-
pensive flower trimmings, usually so
much in evidence at this season of the
year, are conspicuous by their alb
sence. The new high crowned hats
which every woman will affect this
spring, are marvels of plainness in
black, beige or gray in satin suede or
moire ribbon. One may choose them
without hesitation this season, for
their popularity with the we'll dressed
of life is assured.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-02

of naming any State official on any
cost of living. If he names men they
will not be connected with the State
government in any way.
According to gossip going the
rounds of the Capitol no one will be
named to the Public Service Com
mission until after the Senate ad-
journs. The six commissioners are
meanwhile rapidly clearing up pend
ing cases.
The certificate issued yesterday by
the State Department to the election
of Guy f. Campbell, as Democratic
congressman from Pittsburgh, is taken
to mean that there will be no further
steps in the way of a contest. In the
next Congress there will be two Allie
gheny Democrats and it is openly
charged that some men connected
with the State administration were
not favorable to the election of the
Republican candidates, while intima-
tions are given that the Democrats
got aid so that the Republican State
organization could be attacked for
losing two seats
Congressman Arthur G.. Dewalt,
of the Berks-Lehigh district, is back
in Washington after a weeks absence
due to a sprained ankle. The Con-
gresham has two years to serve and
there are bets in Reading that he will
land the appointment of John F. An
coma as postmaster of that city in
spite of the efforts of Postmaster
Seitzinger to get reappointed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-02
Labor Notes


Workmen in the California oil in
dustry ask an eight-hour day.
Samuel Gompers has been promi-
nent in labor circles for fifty years.
Frisco necktie cutters ask an in
crease in pay to $40 a week.
An adequate compensation bill for
Idaho is being drafted.
OF the 100000 inhabitants of Ha-
wall, $4,000 are Japanese.
A member of the machinists' union
is chief of police at Minneapolis.
st. Louis machinists have reduced
working hours to 48 a week.
Building trades at Champaign, Ill,
will ask for increased pay.
Frisco butchers workmen plan an
aggressive campaign of organization.
Twelve local unions have been char
tered in st. Louis within year.
Medford, Mass, city employees have
been voted Saturday half holiday.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-02
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

j. Leonard Replogle, the steel
magnate, is one of the big men in the
new shipyard enterprise at Chester.
David Wallerstein, Philadelph1-
lawyer well known here, is the special
master appointed by the Philadelphia
courts to close up the Pennsylvania
canal bond matters.
-R. w. Anderson, formerly con-
nected with steel companies In this
section, is one of the men interested
in the new Pittsburgh Rivet Company
City Controller +. s. Morrow, of
Pittsburgh, well known here, is ill aud
unable to look after business for the
first time in months.
Scott Nearing, the Philadelphia
professor, is now out as a paciflst.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-02

"JHAT has become of that plan for
w a street car survey in Harris
burg?
A few weeks ago the Telegraph was
assured that the directors of the Har-
risburg Railways Company would take
up the matter at their next meeting.
President Frank B. Musser is known
to be heartily in favor of such a sur
vey as is proposed and the Harrisburg
Chamber of Commerce head has given
it his endorsement. The directors of
the company have the final decision to
make, it is true, but it cannot be i'm
agined that they will stand in it's way.
They would be making a very serious
mistake If they did.
The public is not pleased with
street car service in Harrisburg and
its suburbs east of the river. The
Telegraph knows this by direct evil
dence. The newspaper office is a
clearing house for complaints. Indig-
nant people are prone to write to
their paper" The Telegraph has re-
ceived numerous such communica-
tions during the past month and the
bulk of them have had to do with the
intolerable ash and garbage situation
that itself is shortly to be the subject
of an investigation. But unsatisfac-
tory street car service has been a very
close second as a favorite subject of
letters to the editor" Some of these,
which have been signed, have been
published. Others were either of a
character scarcely suitable for news
paper use or bore no signature, and
so were consigned to the wastebasket.
The point of this is that many people
are of such a state of mind concern
ing trolley conditions in Harrisburg
that scores of them take the trouble
to write out their views and pay post
age on them with the hope of getting
them before the public. A very strong
current of popular opinion is thus in
dicated which the management of the
company ought not to be slow to heed.
People as individuals are apt to be
at times unreasonable, but collectively
they are not. The community as a
whole is not satisfied that the trolley
company is giving the best service pos
sibIe. The belief prevails that at no
great expense to the company street
car facilities in this city might be
greatly improved. The people as a
whole ask for nothing more than
prompt and efficient service. To this
the company agrees they are entitled.
The proposed survey opens the way
for a disinterested third party, who
shall be an expert in municipal trans
portation, to step in and say what
shall be done. The patrons of the
railways company ask for no more
than this. Certainly, the company
ought not to object.
The whole city is waiting eagerly for
further news concerning plans for the
proposed survey. Let's have the details
now. Summer, with its complications
OF park travel and special excursions,
is almost at hand. Now is the time to
decide on such changes and improve
'ments as may be necessary.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-02
THE sHINfMELL SOCIAL CENTER

COLLECTION of Eli n. Hershey as
y head of the Shimmell school So
cial center guarantees a fair trial
of the movement in that district Mr.
Hershey, now a prominent business
man of the city, began life as a school
teacher and he has never lost interest
in school work. He is widely travelled,
energetic and enterprising. The eyes
of the whole city are on the Shimmell
experiment. Its success means much
for the future of social centers in dis
tricts where there is apparent need of
them.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-02
THE PRESIDENTS SUPPORT

NTASHINGTON yesterday wit
w messed the unique spectacle of
Republican Senators fighting
vigorously in support of President
Wilson against the assaults of Dem
ocratic Senator who should have been
the executives chief lieutenant in
Congress Senator Stone on frequent
occasions has displayed his disquali-
ications for Senatorship. but never SO
fagrant1y as yesterday. Stone is worse
than mere misfit- He is intelligent1y
malignant He has been entirely too
close TO certain powers not just now
on speaking terms with Uncle Sam.
He should be relieved OF the chair
manship Of the committee on foreign
Affairs
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-02
Observation-Disclosures

A CORRESPONDENT signing him
"A self Old-Line Republican COM
plains of recent editorial ad-
vice in these columns urging Ameri-
cans to stand by the President. He
says, among other things:
Last fall you told US not to vote
Tor Wilson because of his mistaken
european war policy, or rather lack
or a policy Now you say-"Stand
back of the President" Are You
WaVering in your politics?
When it comes to Simon Pure, yard
wide. never-say-day, fght-to-the-last-
ditch Republcanism, the telegraph
yields to none 1t is proud to be class
ed among the strong. influential. pro-
gressive. constructive Republican
newspapers of the country. Never
doubt that
But Republicanism is also Amer
icanism-
The Telegraph follows the flag.
Just now President Wilson is carry
ing the flag
That is all
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-02

lust at present extremists are rail-
ing against the projected new fash
- ions; as a matter of fact the ton
neau'' or barrel skirt is by no means
so revolutionary in style as the change
from the hobble skirt to the wide one,
says the London Globe. Women who
have been wearing the wider skirts
can have them transformed very easily
into the new fashion. The new outline
is simply widened out below the hips
and narrowed at the hem. Some of
the spring tailors have short loose
Jackets; here, too the art of adapta-
ton is given full swing. Indeed. it
would be difficult to imagine less revo-
lutionary changes in the new mode
or a change more easily achieved.
Women are economiZing in every
way, and the mere fact of the advent
of a new fashion will not interfere
with their thrift schemes.
This same simplicity is seen in mil
linery. The Russian vogue in small,
high hats, without feathers or feather
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-02
Humble Sprat Elevated
[London G1obe1

The Board of Agriculture, in its pa
ternal way, has been recommending
sprats as an article of food not only
savory but cheap and nutritious These
little fish when broi1ed are certainly
very good TO eat for those who do not
mind the richness inseparable from a
food containing so much oil. The
picked sprat does not possess this dis
advantage, and is both grateful and
comforting
Tt has long been a saying that It was
the extreme cheapness of sprats which
prevented their admission to the tables
of the wealthy
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-02
. I Will Go With MY Father

will go with my father a-ploughing
To the green field by the sea,
And the rocks and the crows and the
seagulls
Will come fiocking after me.
1 will sing to the patient horses
With the lark in the white of the air,
And my father Will sing the plough
song
That blesses the cleaving share
Joseph Campbell
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-02
\ Finding the Wav

Nor can I count him happiest, who
has never
Been forced by his own hand the
chain to sever
And for himself find N6ut the way
divine.
Lowell.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-02
Prophet of Evil

A fair imitation OF a ki1ljoy is being
given by the man WHO claims that he
has found prophecy in the Bible that
the United States will be invaded by q
foreign army during the present year.
Democrat and Chronicle.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-02
EDITORIAL COMMENT
ANY OLD GENTLENfAN HERE?

Speaking of ex-sports, who remem-
bers baseball before it got into the
hands of the money barons ?-Indian-
apolis News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-02
BoUCK FALTERS AT THE RACK

Bouck White doesn't want to be
tried now for burning the flag. because
he fears he will be severely dealt with.
But does a true martyr seek martyr
dom at bargain rates New York
World.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-02
BECOMING QUITE LITERARY

Mrs Jude Johnson, who recently
decided to become classical, entered
the city library to-day and asked for
a copy of "Gray's Energy.
Globe.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-02

Sing the national anthem, but don't
descend to any hymns of hate.-Wall
Street Journal
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-02
FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH ..

Be persuaded, timid soul, that He
has loued you too much to cease lov-
eng you.-FeneIon.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-02

brighter when the clouds have rolled
away. Spring is a pleasant, vigorous,
all-conquering season, and this is a
springtime land.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-02
Michigan's Way

Uader the Bone-Dry Law just pass
ed ~ Congress. persons who want to
will have to drink it frst.-Detroit
Free Press.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-02
WOULDN'T GET IT
RIGHT ANYWAY

If the naturalization bureaus only
had machine for reading the soul of
the applicant!-New York Sun.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-02
LIKE THE soUPBoNE,

1t has become so that about the only
things left which may be had at rea-
sonable prices are the luxuries.-
Marion Star
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-02
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg steel Is used
to make coal barges for Atlantic
trade?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
Members of the Harris family sat
in town council for years in this place.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-02
MODERN MAT
RIMONY.

R1MONY.
when I get
married I won't
think of leaving
my husband alone
in the city all
summer"
You'd better
not tell him that
b e I orc you're
married"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-02
uNKINp.

UNKIND.
Here is a no.
tice of Helen's
betrothajAIt must
be her foSth this
year.
She Is getting
to be quite a vet
eran Of the en-
gagement ring.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-02

w. Fl. Schwartz, the veteran editor
of the Altoona Tribune, was among
visitors to Harrisburg last night. Mr..
Schwartz came here on business con-
nected with the State government and
met number of his friends while in
the city. Mr.. Schwartz is keenly in
terested in the development of third
class city legislat ation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-02

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING co.,
Telegraph Building. Federal Square
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-02
LET'S HAVE 1T SOON

VXTHAT has become of that plan for
w a street car survey in Harris
burg?