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The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-17
Housekeepers Can Save
5000, 900. 900 on Food

In these days when the nigh cost OF Nv
ing pinches nearly every home, no waste
should be overlooked. One of the most
fragrant and the most easily prevented. la
the destruction of food by rats, One ran
will often do hundred dollars damage OF
food and property in single night and g.,
careful estimate gives over $500, 600 az.
the value of foodstuffs destroyed annually
by these pests. Exterminate them withs
Stearns' Paste and save this enormous
loss of food. A small box of Stearns'
Paste costs only So cents and Is usual
" enough to completely rid the, house or
rats and mice; also effective against COCK
reaches and waterbugs. Adv. ,
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-17
Al Breakfast.

"Georgie, George, you mustn't aer
80 when you are eating" said mamma
at the breakfast table. "If yeu DO
you will surely get something In youE
windpipe."
"Windpipe? HIM. WHAT'S my wind
piper"
"Don't you know what your wind
nine isY" broke In the six-year-old
brother. "Why, that's where your
smoke comes from on cold days" !
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-17
Tokyo Stock Exchange.

On the Tokyo stock exchange all
margin money is held by the exchange
itself and not by the broker, and tbs
exchange may demand more margiE
whenever fall in prices makes thfs
necessary.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-17

fConvright 1917 by the Mcclure Newspaper Syndcateo

"This pillows
so hot" COM
planned Carri e
fretfully, ri s | ng
on her elbow.
"There, is that
more comforta-
Bile 2" FL e | e n
turned the rum
pied pillow.
"What time Is
it2" ENORMOUSLY.
"You haven't for
gotten my broth? r
"No, it's not
rr;+o Avn TRY to
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-17
she WIN Learn.

Excuse me, num- but ]
forgot to give you the bill for that
there duck" Mrs. Newlywed-.Oh,
no. you didn't. 1t was on the duck. ]
saw it when you wrapped up the er Per
cel."--Judga
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-17

Canada
hn
rceyg
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-17

sent and got DR.. PierCe's Golden Med"
ical Discovery for her, and when she had
taken the first bottle she was much inn
proved. We kept up its use until she
had taken nine bottles, when she vas
well, healthy and strong. Golden Med"
ical Discovery also cured me Of a chronic
cough which had bothered me for years.
/ do highly recommend the Discovery
to all who are in need Of medicine OF this
d.n-MRs. ALLIE OBERsTARs lSA@
Norwood Boulevard.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-17

CLEVELAND, ONO. --uSome years ago
DR.. Pierce's medicine saved my mothers
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-17
AT War With Yourself /!
HELP MATURE TO DEFEAT THE
DISEASE IN YOUR BODY.

Keep up the fight; do not give up.
Nature is irving to serve you in conquer
ing the wrongs that may exist.
Red blood, vim, courage, vitality, an
seem lacking. No wonder you are nerv'
Gus and discouraged.
Why not call to your aid q strong,
dependable ally? DIR. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery has for over forty
years proven its merits as a most power"
fnl tonic and blood builder to the many
thousands who have been returned 10
good health by its use.
Clear the coated tongue, get rid OF
unsightly skin trouble. Let this remark
able remedy rid your body Of the inlss
purities of the blood, let it tone and
strengthen you. 1t often cures the linger"
ing chronic cough.
DR. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
lie absolutely a herbal tonic, Tree from
alcohol or dangerous habit forming
drugs. All druggists. Tablets, 60 cents
CLEVELAND, ONO. -0Some years, age
| rr. Pieree's medicine saved my mothers
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-17

life. She haQ Deem
sick for some time
with woman's weak
ness and along with
this she contracted o
very bad cough. She
doctored but seemed
to get worse instead
of better, when at LASS
she became belfast.
She gradually grew
weaker until the doc
tors gave her up. We
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-17

When q man is sure Of his job, ha
likes to sass the boss.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-20
TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH .
DECISIVE ACTION

TINE national government has
finally arrived at the conclusion
that IAN emergency exists" and
is, therefore, ready to hasten its naval
preparations. Sixty submarine chas-
ers have been ordered-a ridiculously
inadequate number-work on the
naval construction program has been
ordered rushed and the two higher
classes of the Naval Academy are to
be graduated in order to increase the
number of officers Immediately avail
able for naval purposes. There is much
talk of business and industrial mo-
bilization for national defense.
That is about as far as the Presi-
dents preparations for war have gone,
so far as he has taken the public into
his confidence. 1t is not enough and
it ought to have been done weeks ago.
Sixty to eighty days must elapse be-
fore the submarine chasers can be de-
hvered. They should be in the water
at this moment. Everybody has real
ICED that they would be needed, but at
procrastinating government has been
ing until the inevitable and easily
foreseen crisis finds the country unit
ed and ready, but with few weapons
of defense or offense.
This with respect to the navy. How
long, it is to be wondered, will the
President require to get awake to the
needs of the army? 1t is true that
hn 1f
try are now well trained and disci-
plined, seasoned and ready for the
field at a moments notice-first line
troops, if we ever had such-but their
number is insufficient. The longer we
wait the longer will be the period re-
quired to put large and powerful
army in the field. Possibly now is not
the time to call for troops, but plans
to that end should be made. The coun-
try is ready to do its part, but it de-
mands leadership of the most efficient
type. We shall go numbering along,
very likely, until war has been de-
clared officially, as it has been actu-
ally, before attempting anything of
a very concrete character. Then we
shall try to do in day what wisely
administered government would have
begun many months ago.
- It~is putting the cart before the
horse to say that the people are back
of the President They are in front
of him. They are leading the way
He has done no more than follow
public sentiment. He it is who must
speak the word that sets the machin-
cry of national defense in motion, and
he will find a responsive public quick
to do his bidding. Only, they hope
he will not be too long about it,
Even the most ardent volunteer can
do nothing unless directed and the
soldier is helpless without an organ
lied nation at his back.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-20

the worst possible conditions 1t is au-
thoritatively stated that from 100, 900
to 100000 have died from disease
starvation and exile in the province of
the Lebanon alone. In Syria proper as
many more may be added to the death
toll. An eye witness tells of passing
through village after village where the
only sound he heard was that of his
own footballs, and where the only live
things remaining were the sparrows
building their nests in the depopulated
houses,
The coast towns appear to have
suffered greatly, Beirut, Trablus
Junieh and others might be mentioned
where the estimate is made that half
the population has died. But then the
capital, Damascus, which is far inland,
has lost, 10000 according to the
Mayor, who said also that fifty wagons
We're insufficient to carry away the
dead from the streets.
A letter to an American missionary
who had a prosperous business when
the war broke out and who was a land
owner living in his own new tlled-roof
house, told of the starving conditions
in his town and begged for money to
save his family of six children. 1--WE
| have only you and God left. We are
| starving. / implore you to send funds
| to keep my children alive" The letter
was seven months in reaching it's des-
tination. and it is probable that he and
his were all dead before the relief
| reached him.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-20
STARVING IN SYRIA
By
MARY CAROLINE HOLMES

Is it nothing to you, all ye that
pass by, that we in far off Syria
are starving? Are you cold these
winter days? You have warm cloth
ing, warm houses; heated cars to ride
in. Are you hungry? Were you ever
hungry because you had only a small
piece of black bread once every few
days-if some one remembered to give
1t to you? Have you children? Did
you ever watch their little lives go out
in unspeakable torture and agony
from starvation. cholera and cruelty?
I'VE SyrianS know what all these
things mean, and we stretch out our
hands to you, oh! rich America, beg
ging for bread--for at least one warm
garment to keep out the bite of win
ter from our emaciated bodies. We
beseech you to help us put roofs on
our broken homes. and tools into our
hands that we may work and care for
our families. Give us a chance to live
we implore YOU"
This is what those starving thou
sands would say to us if they had the
opportunity. Their very silence and
impotence do say it and more, for it
is extremely difficult to get news from
Syria. The censorship of the mails is
rigid, the missionaries and even the
consuls cannot say what they might,
and communication with the outside
world is almost cut off.
But from time to time news filters
through from Egypt, Russia and the
neighboring island of Arvad. which is
now French possession, that reveal
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-20
The Submarine Failure

According to information furnished
to the Associated Press, Germany's
submarine warfare between Feb. 1
and March ID destroyed 7S British
vessels of a tonnage of 1900 tons or
more. The vessels of this class in the
British mercantile marine at the be-
ginning of the campaign numbered
3,731. The subtraction was per
cent. of the whole. This is at the rate
of approximately per cent. year.
1t would take ten years to wipe out
the British mercantile fleet.
This computation allows nothing for
new construction, nothing for the fact
that it is easier to intercept old, slow
going tramps than the faster new ves-
sells, and nothing for the development
of a better defense. Taking these fac
tors into consideration and the recent
decrease in the number of submarine
Victims 1t seems almost possible to
say that the much vaunted submarine
campaign of Germany is a demon
strated failure-that Great Britain
will not be blockaded.-The New York
GlobeA
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-20
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

u. M. Dresibach, Mauch Chunk
banker, celebrated fifty years as an
officer of q bank In his home town.
Charles O'Neil, the mine workers.
official accused of being a coal oper-
ator. is vice president of No. 2 dis
trict which embraces Cambria and
other counties. He denies that he is
an operator.
DIR. r. II. Harte, prominent Phil
adelphia surgeon, is urging people in
his home city to organize base hos
pitals for the Red Cross.
Congressman John r. K. Scott,
of Philadelphia, has been spending
some time at the seashore.
William A. Law, Philadelphia
banker, is prominent in the Belgian
relief committee.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-20
PHILADELPHIA Ledger.l


It's a long way from Peking to Ber-
lin, but the officials of the Wilhelm
strasse will doubtless not be blind to
the significance of the severance of
diplomatic relations announced by
the Chinese government. Germany
has long cherished designs of con-
quest in the Far East as in the Near
East. Twenty years ago she seized
Kiao-chau, using the murder of two
German missionaries as preteXt,
and thereby acquired one of the best
harbors on the coast, which has since
been a lively center of commercial ac-
tivity. Its capture by Japan earlier
in the war does not necessarily mean
that China will never regain it. In
deed, the action China has now taken
will give the Allies so many advan-
tages that her claims will have to be
considered when peace is made. 1t
may have been this consideration
which mainly dictated the action, for
Germany has given no such direct
provocation to China by the U-boat
warfare as she has given to other
neutrals. 1t would be we'll worth Ja-
pans while to respect the integrity
of her great neighbor. She already
has a treaty with Russia. If China
were admitted to the alliance on
terms that preserved her national
pride, the three powers would control
the destiny of Asia so completely that
the policies of the Western nations,
including our own of the ''open
door," would rest entirely upon their
consent.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-20
Whiskers and Weddings
[Omaha Bee.1

Approaching the altar of Hymen,
Chicago girl gave her prospective
lord and master an ultimatum; he
must shave or give up the wedding.
So there was no wedding. Several
morals might be drawn from this bit
of real life. First is the fact that
each has escaped an unhappy expe-
rience. A girl who can think of her
husbands whiskers on her wedding
day is not sufficiently centered on the
ceremony to promise we'll as a wife.
A man who prefers his beard to his
bride may not be expected to make
many of the sacrifices constantly es-
sential to pleasing the woman he has
taken for better or worse. Eugenists
might get some consolation out of the
young woman's stand. Insisting that
the groom shall come clean in other
regards, why not include the modern
rite performed so expeditiously by
any skilled barber, or possible OF
achievement by even n tyro equipped
with a safety" razor? In the final
analysis, mans whiskers continue
to be his own fault, while q bride is
something of personal selection
sometimes,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-20
Peanuts Replacing Cotton

Last year Comanche county, Texas.
which until few years ago had
grown hardly any commercial crop
except cotton, made more than 500,-
900 bushels OF peanuts. This year
there are a dozen counties west and
southwest of Fort Worth that will
produce from 250,000 to 100000
bushels of peanuts. That section hasn't
any special monopoly on the peanut
industry, for they are being grown
all over Texas and Oklahoma, but not
on quite an extensive scale as in the
locality mentioned.
The peanut is drouth resister, and
there is hardly q summer so hot and
dry that It will not make fairly good
crop. When the dry, hot days come It
will wilt and look as If it was going to
shrivel up. but whenever q rain comes
1t starts to growing and putting on
nuts again. 1t may be planted from
April until June, and is usually har-s
vested in October or Novembers-r
lFEom Farm ana EizssidA
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-20

stay in California he was able to save
three thousand dollars. With this he
returned to South Bend in 1858, pur-
chased the interest of one OF his
brothers in a wagon shop and founded
the firm of C. & ]. Studebaker. AS
the years went on Mr.. Studebaker ex-
tended greatly the scope of his. busi-
ness in automobile building and also
became interested in banking.
In his eighty-second year he still
was chairman of the Studebaker Cor
poration and said he expected to ire
main in harness until he died. He
was down at the South Bend plant
virtually every work day of the year
arriving there at seven in the morn
ing, two hours ahead of his clerks.
1T isn't what you do during work
ing hours that hurts" he used to say
when told he worked too hard. "but
what you do after work is done, and
1 behave myself"
That was very largely the key to
the Studebaker success. What the
brothers did they did well. They
worked hard and lived simply and
wholesomely in their leisure. They
left name moro enduring than their
millions. Wherever the term is known
Studebaker stands for sturdiness and
sterling worth.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-20
Canada's Title to Fame
(From the Detroit Journal }


Canada's part in the war is one of
the most brilliant chapters in the
worlds history.
In two years and half a nation OF
5000, 600, trained in the arts of peace
Indifferent to the maneuvering of war
has become big factor on the battle
field and in the financial operations on
which military success is based.
This peaceful, energetic neighbor OF
ours decided to raise an army of $4,000
increased it to 100000 and is now
aiming at 100000, with certainty OF
success.
A year before the war Canada's
trade balance was $3.50, 900, 900 on the
wrong side; its exports for the present
year exceed its imports by S345, ,00O,-
600.
Though not fully developed indus
trially, the Dominion has been able tc
provide fully for its armies, to manu-
facture munitions for its allies and
finance the payments, to raise millions
for war relief and to participate in
British loans.
Starting out with a loan from the
mother country, Canada soon found
as the result of interior reforms forced
by the war, that she could pay heI
own way, and this she is doing un-
grudgingly,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-20
THE sTUDEBAKER ROMANCE

TINE death of John NJ. Studebaker,
at his home in South Bend, Ind,
removes from life the last of five
brothers who arose from poverty
to great wealth and to international
fame as manufacturers and business
men. The Studebakers are examples of
the possibilities for poor boys in
America, and their career is especially
interesting to readers OF the Tele-
graph, from the ract that they were
born within a few miles of Harris
burg, their father having been a
blacksmith near Gettysburg.
John studebaker's life story reads
like a romance of fiction. He was one
of thirteen children. In his youth he
moved with the family to Ashland
county, o., and later to South Bend,
which became the seat of the Stude-
baker corporation.
AS part pay for the privilege of ac-
companying an expedition across the
plains to California in 1853 Studebaker
gave the first wagon he ever made.
This party set out westward from
South Bend with young Studebaker
driving the wagon.
When the wagon train landed him
at Hangtown, now Placerville, Cal,
the young mans capital consisted of
fifty cents. He set about making
wheelbarrows for man named Hines.
He made them so we'll that he came
to be called "Wheelbarrow" Stude-
baker. Whatever he did he did well.
That was one of the notices of his
life and is we'll worth remembering
and practicing. in these days of short
cuts and make-shifts.
Mr.. studebaker became so pronci-
psnt In his work that In his FIVE years
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-20

be properly brought into the limelight
and bolstered into some semblance of
an independent leader" he will be
banqueted 'by his friends" at Scot
tish Rite Hall on April IL. William
Wunder, Germantown florist, iS
chairman of the arrangement commit
tee, and Frederick S. Drake, another
of the Penrose reform contingent. is
one of the boosters, who are eXerting
themselves to pull off n dinner that
will have some EFFECT" and get
creditable notice in the newspapers"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-20

House of Representatives-wh af-
fords another reason why that body
should be organized by the Repub-
licans, who believe in protection not
only to the dye industry but to every
other American enterprise.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-20
Temperance Preparedness

Temperance Preparedness
|THE temperance forces of Pennsyl-
L vania at last are going about
their campaign for the elimina-
ton of liquor in a thoroughly efficient
manner. Heretofore there has been
entirely too much effort toward i'm
mediate results and no careful pre-
paredness for continued and systema-
tic warfare over the period of months
between the biennial failure of the
local option bill in the Legislature and
the next State elections. At the meet
ing of those interested in the move
ment in Harrisburg to-day plans will
be laid that will place the issue
squarely before the voters and keep it
there.
The outlook is not bright for the
passage of local option measure at
this session. This is very largely due
to the fact that the proper kind of
campaign was not waged preceding
the primaries at which the legislative
nominees were selected last spring.
The voters of all parties were too
much interested in other matters at
the time to pay close attention to the
Legislature - all except the liquor
people. They have only one issue at
stake. Party means nothing to them.
Democrats, Republicans, Socialists -
all look alike to the liquor interests,
| just so they vote wet" So the anti
| JeInpeTdnCe AoECeS hoLnlIldteu anu
elected in many districts where there
is a distinctly dry sentiment, and
they will continue to do this until the
local optionists take some such step
as is now proposed.
The mobilization of the anti-saloon
forces of the State will bring together
under one banner in every voting dis
trict the friends of temperance legis-
lation. Every legislative candidate
will be called upon to declare himself.
Not only that, but each Congressional
candidate, regardless of party, will be
requested to go on record as to how
he will vote on the national prohibi-
ton amendment resolution when ii
comes before the law-making bodies
of the nation periodically until sufi-
cient votes are mustered to put it up
to the States for approval.
This is as it should be. The candi-
date who is convinced that liquor
ought to be made and sold for public
consumption should nor be afraid to
come out and say so. He should have
the courage of his convictions. He
should be ready to give his reasons
Likewise, there should be no shrinking
on the part of temperance advocates
The time has come when the two
forces must be lined up one against
the other in order that the people OF
the State may know for whom they
are voting and decide the local option
or prohibition question freely and
openly according to public opinion.
HFoy he tha rzar cau he snduoo5 g.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-20
Novelist Will Miss Them

Those famous men of action and
romance. the Northwest mounted po-
lice, are gradually passing. So are
the predatory redskins and the white
horse thieves. How the novelist will
miss them!-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-20
WHEN WAR PROTECTION ENDS

T<ROM January, 1915. to Febru.
airy, 1917, there were organ.
lied in this country new
corporations for the manufacture
of dyestuffs whose aggregate cap.
ital amounted to $172,28s,O00. The
amount of new capital invested in the
same time in war munition enterprises
was $13S,027, 900. When the war is
over and the present unreal protection
to American dye-makers disappears,
it will be necessary to provide statu-
tory protection for this industry. Such
legislation can originate only In the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-20

A Berlin editor says the American
people are war-mad. Well. hasn't Ger
many done enough to make us mad?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-20

"Can the Czar come back?" asks the
Pittsburgh Dispatch. May be so, but
our advice to him would be to keep on
going.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-20

A bill has been introduced in the
Michigan Senate to prohibit youths
under 16 from driving motorcars.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-20

May be the Gear can be induced to
nominate Emperor Bill for member
ship in the Down-and-Out Club.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-20

The average pay of Des Moines
Qowa) school janitors is $40 a month.
The average pay for $50 grade teach
ers is $71 a month.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-20

San Francisco Housesmiths and Ar
chitectural Iron Workers Unions have
won their fight for an eight-hour day.