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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-09
Outlook Is Optimistic

The American Contractor in it's is
sue of July z, in describing the
Building Outlook" says:
There are two factors which prac-
tically control the building situation
and prospects. First, the degree of
activity in general manufacturing
and trading. Second, those influences
which tend especially to stimulate
construction. In forming his outlook,
therefore, the reader should first in
quire regarding the volume of busi-
ness as a whole. On this point, GER
tainly, all indications are most favor
able. Except in the actual regions of
combat, war invariably results in an
enormous amount of business. The
present war has an unusually strong
tendency in this direction. because 1t
is essentially an industrial war, to a
degree never before equaled in his
tory.
Not one businessman in ten here
in the United States has yet realized
the prodigious demands which will
be made upon war facilities of pro-
duction and distribution. The only
limiting factors are workmen and
materials
Some idea of the rush of industry
in coming months is given by the fact
that within the space of thirty days
over half a billion of dollars of cap
ital was involved in the chartering of
new concerns in the United States.
This surpasses even the record
breaking boom of 1916. 1t is simply
inconceivable that this immense pro-
duction now in view will not be ac-
companied by proportionate degree
of activity in the building trades.
This second point to consider is
whether there are specific causes
operating to give a particular inn
petus to building lines as distin-
guished from industrial and CONNER
cial activity in general.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-09
Give Until It Hurts

The motto of the patriotic women
of Canada, who are doing all they
can to help win the war, is: Give
until it hurts"
That would be good motto for
every citizen of the United States to
adopt. 1t is the only true measure
of patriotism in time like the pres
ent.
Giving what is only Convenient"
or giving merely what one can "af-
ford" without entailing a single
hardship is not the kind of patriot
ism that wins wars like this one.
The young men who go to France;
the mothers who part with their
sons; the wives who part with their
husbands are all giving until it hurts,
The war will not be won without
many being hurt, but the number
hurt at the front will be far less II
those who stay at home adopt the
motto of the women of Canada:
Give until it. hurts.-Kansas City
Star,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-09
The mole 11ould ltue beneath the
ground and NGture closed its eyes.-
HENBY DBUMMoND.
Our Great Opportunity
lH-o the Editor of the telegraph:

no the Eduor of the Telegraph:
There never was more auspicious
moment in our history for the trans
formation of breweries, distilleries,
bottlins houses, etc. into industrial
plants of unquestionable economic
value than the present moment
World needs must be supplied for
years from American markets, and
II the liquor advocates and inter-
ests OF the country are awake to the
opportunity the more speedily they
change the less will be their
economic loss, with great possibilities
of large gain.
We have the advice of Mr.. Hoover
that two cents per meal saved will
amount to an annual national saw
ing of 50 600, 100000. By saving our
drink bill we shall annually save
from $4,000, 100000 to $2,50O,00O,-
600. One saving is no less impera-
tive than another, especially so when
the poor families can less afford a
curtailment of two cents per meal
per person than they can afford a
corresponding value of drink con-
lsumed by the heads of the house
hold, for two cents per meal less for
each of a poor family of five to
'eight would frequently mean no
meal.
While we are learning other les
sons from nations that have expert
enced war for the last three years,
we should not fail to learn that pro-
hibition makes for industrial effici-
ency / have the testimony of the
superintendent of textile mill that
his plant lost 165 working days last
month, fully 10 per cent of which
was directly due to the excessive
drinking of employees.
1t is one of the saddest of Amer
lean anachronisms that our govern
ment should license for a pittance
the very industry which by its out
put denaturizes and vitiates the spir-
it and efficiency of all other indus
tries.
The weight of evidence is all on
the side of prohibition, and why
should liquor interests and advo-
Gates not be admonished to lie down
end be quiet, instead of the pro-
hibitionists? Public sentiment on
this question has always been divid-
ed, but why must prohibitionists be
called upon to remain silent when
history experience, facts and fore
casts all brand the liquor industry
as the offender? The time for the
prohibitionists to "see it through" is
now, and the time for the liquor ad-
vocates and interests to YIELD and
thus avoid delaying the necessary
legislation. is now.
Too long already we have endured
an irreparable economic loss and
moral shame.
MELVIN B. WRIGHT.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-09
Among the Benefits

We are informed py the always
reliable metropolitan press that be-
fore the war ends the men folks will
wear soft collars, because the starch
supply will be reserved entirely for
food purposes. We are hoping 1t is
true.
There may he a man here and
there who really likes to wear a
starched collar. Accurate statistics
(any old guess Is as accurate as some
statistics) show that 99.S per cent of
the men wear starched collars only
because such collars have come to
be sort of badge of gentility. Popu-
lar opinion has come to consider a
man something of an old slouch IL
he neglects to encase his neck in u
starched nuisance on public occas-
ions. The starched collar is really
not a badge of anything except that
the wearer put up with whatever Is
customary Republican.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-09

liver since the first, flag was
III made in Philadelphia, in 1877,
flags of renown have been
floated on the breeze. Some of
these have happily been preserved
to awaken feeling of patriotism and
devotion in the hearts of all who
view them.
Chief of all the distinguished his
toric flags of our country now in
existence, Is probably. that revered
and tattered flag which is treasured
by the state of Maryland. This flag S
record is authentic. 1t was carried
as the regimental flag of the Third
Maryland Regiment under Col. John
E. Howard at the Battle of Cow
pens, S. c., in January, 1873, by Will
liam Bachelor, color bearer, VINO,
when wounded, was sent to his home
in Baltimore, taking the flag with
him, which he had carried, it is
stated, at the battles on Long Island
and Harlem Heights, and the several
subsequent engagements in which
the Maryland regiments took part in
New York state.
The flag was treasured by the fam
lily after the death of Bachelor and
carried by his son, William, of the
Twenty Regiment, Maryland
militia, at the battle of North Point.
Later the younger Bachelor carried
the flag in parades and functions
of the Old Defenders Association, to
which society the flag was be-
queathed and which presented it Ia
the state of Maryland at Annapolis
on October 19, 1907.
Another venerable flag claims the
honor of being the oldest American
flag in existence. This flag, it is
stated, was carried by John Paul
Jones on the Bonhomme Richard in
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-09
The Pol -est Man

Vice-President Marshall declares
that the politest man lives in New
ark, o. Mr.. Marshall made a cam
paign speech there last fall. When
he was about half through, a man
made his way quietly from the rear
of the room up to the edge of the
platform, waited until Mr.. Marshall
paused to swallow. at the end of a
paragraph, and then offered to shake
hands with the President.
I'm sorry, but I'll have to bid you
good night" the man said. i've got
TO go home now."-F. c. Keller in
Golfers Weekly
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-09

its share, one motor supply truck
company was organized in twenty
four hours with full quota, the lists
are nearly closed for the ammuni-
ton truck company and Captain
Stine has completed, almost. his re-
cruiting for the new infantry COM
pany. When the history of this war
is written Harrisburg will have no
cause to be ashamed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-09
Unheroic But Needed

The business of those who stay at
home, who neither fight nor direct, is
in one word-give. Spend wisely,
save steadily, give what you save. 1t
is unheroic, compared with bayonet
lighting; comfortable compared with
trench living; and safe. But it is
necessary. Just because we are
muddling now this war will cost US
all the more. Well, give 1t; give 1T
freely. as it is asked; give 1t not as
you give to beggar, but as you givo
to your child. Give till it bites. Give
as they have given in Europe-in
France in England. in Germany
Chicago Herald.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-09
THE SPIRIT OF sEvENTY-sIx

THE Spirit of seventy-six is alive
to-day in the young men of
the country who are rushing by
thousands to volunteer for service
under the Stars and Stripes. Take
the example of Walter Cogswell
Forse, aged 1s. of Binghamton, N.
Y, for example.
Because the loss of the trigger
finger" had prevented his enlist
ment, Forse walked all the way from
his home city to Washington to make
personal application to the Major
General Commandant of the United
States Marine Corps. Forse carried
"a sign on his back which read
''From Binghamton, N. Y, to Wash
ington. D. c., to joint the U. S. Ma
rines. It's worth ito
Upon his arrival here young Forse
proved that the loss of the index
finger of his right hand was no
handicap in the performance of mil
itary duty, and special authority was
granted for his enlistment. So far as
is known, he is the first man, SIM
iilariy handicapped, to pass the mil
itary authorities.
But right here in Harrisburg the
courage and the patriotism that took
young men into the service in every
war the country has known, is mani
fest in the large number of recruits
for the Regular Army and the Ma
tional. Guard. The district has ex.
lceeded Its quota for the regular
service, and marvels have been ac-
Fcompiished by the Guard. After II
had been thought the town had done
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-09
Domestic Indignation

IT just can't get along with my
remarked the square jawed woman
IT understand you begged him
with tears in your eyes not to go into
the army il he could possibly avoid
it,"
IT did talk rather sentimentally
about the fear of losing him. And he
made my affection an excuse to put
up such an argument for exemption
that they II probably let him out. I've
got to look forward to having a
Stacker sitting around the house all
ington Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-09
Dissipation of George

"My dear, you mustn't let anybody
read that letter from cousin George
at the front. I'm surprised that he'd
write such things"
Whats the matter with his let
ter? It's mighty interesting"
Some parts of 1t are, but his con-
fessions of his disgraceful conduct
are dreadful. 1 wouldn't for the
world have anyone know of his do
ings."
'I don't get you at ALL"
You don't? Didn't you read that
part of his letter where he says he
was out with British tank last
night. and they rolled all over the
place ?"-Detroit Free Press.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-09
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Col NJ. D. Brown, the new com
mander of the First Infantry, is
son of Wilson H. Brown, promiusz,
Philadelphian.
Major j. Clyde Miller, formerf
in the National Guard, will return Z
the service in the Second Brigade
The Rev. DR.. Luther Freemaf
Pittsburgh clergyman. is homo froI
tour of the western states.
Richard Y. Cook, PHILADELPHIA
banker, has gone to New Hakapshir|
for the summer.
Johnstown, has sold his residence \
the Knights of Columbus of thd
city.
e. T. Stotesbury, Philadelphi|
financier, has made a speech ever
Sunday. for the last FIVE weeks a
fiagraisings.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-09
As In Much Greater Cases

Johnny, 1t was very wrong for
I'VE couldn't help it, father"
Gould you not have settled your
differences by a peaceful discussion
of the matter, calling in the assist
ance of unprejudiced opinion. IL
need be?"
mo, father. He was sure he could
whip me and l was sure l could whip
him, and there was only one way to
find out. Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-09
CROP PEST LETTER
BY Prof. j. G. Sanders. State
Economic Zoologist
State
HORSE BOT FLY

Untold suffering, reduced eff.
cheney and many deaths of horses
are caused by attacks of horse
bot flies. Few people realize how
many horses are affected by
these pests, which attach them
selves as larvae or maggots to
the inner wall of the stomach,
where they remain for the greater
part of a year. The stomach walls
are often so thickly studded with
the maggots, as large as a lead
pencil in diameter, that digestion
is seriously impaired.
The adult is a large tawny fly,
which lays yellow eggs on the
horses legs. These eggs are
licked off by the horses. and
quickly hatch, the tiny maggots
attaching themselves finally to the
stomach walls, and grow rapidly.
Control is easy. At least once
q day rub down the horses legs
with an oily cloth Kerosene
lightly applied is best. but too
much may injure the hair.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-09
The Trouble Song
By BRIGGS

ne lTOuDlc Bong
Trouble, trouble, trouble
Come on ever han!
Please God, de yethquake's
Swallerin' de Ian!
Dey better fall ter prayin' 5%;
Whilst it's time ter fall,
No groun' ter pray on
Wen de yethquake swaller all!
Dey better stop an lissen
Ter what de Good Book say:
War time an earthquakes,
An den come Jedgment Dayi
Dey better fall ter prayin'
Fo' de mountains gin ter fall!
No groun' ter pray on
Wen de yethquake swaller all!
Frank L. Stanton in the Allan
Constitution.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-09
LIMITING EXPORTS

RESIDENT WILSON'S procla-
II nation limiting the export OF
food supplies to neutrals and
dividing our supplies of all kinds
equitably among our allies is a Sc
we're blow to Germany. It is wise
move and should have been made at
the very outset of the war. Doubt
less it will be of great benefit, also,
as the President hopes. in bringing
prices back to something like
normal in this country.
AS everybody has known for many
months, neutral countries bordering
on Germany have been selling their
food supplies at high prices to the
Central Powers and feeding them
selves from our granaries. and it
is strongly suspected that even some
American-grown wheat actually has
found it's way into Germany. to say
nothing of salt meats and fats.
Under the iron hand of Mr..
Hoover this practice will be stopped.
Neutral countries will have to prove
their needs before the United States
will give them bite. This is just.
In order to save themselves from
the sacrifice of war these nations are
standing aside and permitting us and
our allies to fight their battles. In
addition, secretly they have been
feeding cur enemies and thereby to
some. degree rendering futile the
blockade the allied fleets have es-
tablished against German ports
They must now pay the penalty. We
do not mean to permit their people
to so hungry while we have plenty,
If we can help it. but the smuggling
of American products into Germany
must be stopped at any cost.
President Wilson rightly gives
first consideration to the lowering of
high prices in this country. That
Americans are being robbed by food
barons and that government control
of prices is an absolute necessity of
the moment is we'll illustrated by
wheat prices In this country COM
pared with those abroad, as given
out by the allied food commission
and therefore beyond question.
The government price of wheat in
Great Britain is $3.50 bushel, The
government price in Australia is
s1.14 and in India s1.S6. The gov
ernment price in France is $3.50 for
homegrown wheat, including vari-
Gus bounties. The government max
imum in italy has been fixed at
s1.es a bushel for soft wheat and
s1.94 for hard wheat. The Belgian
fixed price is to be $3.50 and the
German price about $3.50 a bushel
July wheat closed at s2.o7 in Chi
cago Saturday and September al
s1s4.
Information furnished to the fooG
administration also shows that the
Allies are requiring the mixture OF
20 per cent. corn, rye or barely in the
-four. 1t has proved impossible tc
introduce straight corn bread, be-
cause Of the lack of corn mills in
Europe, and the lack of durability
in cornmeal does not permit its ex-
tensive shipment.
The consumption Of -four in Eng
land and France is being reduced to
between three and four pounds a
person a week, or about three-fifths
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-09
Didn't Hang All

The task of forming an acceptable
cabinet in Austria seems to be hope
less. NGermany hung 10000 Poles,
but that was not all of them
Savannah News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-09
EDITORIAL COMMENT

One hopes that the British Govern
ment will not go In for reprisals.
as urged by citizens meeting in
London. Let Teutonia bear alone
the banner with the device we sug-
gested a year or so ago: Women
and children first!" - Chicago
Tribune.
Those suffragists who kicked up
rumpus before the Russian Mission
IN washington must have made the
visitors homesick. - Philadelphia
North American.
your Wilhelm" proposing with
further aid from Almighty God" to
restore Humpty Dumpty Constan-
tine, invoked the only Power that
could make it possible.-Wall Street
Journal.
King George must have welcomed
General Pershing's arrival in Eng
land. It's not often the King can
get his name and photograph on the
newspapers front pages these days.
Nashville Southern Lumberman.
Labor Notes
Paris has women letter carriers.
Ohio had 114.567 Industrial acci-
dents last year.
Japan will make a government
monopoly of industrial insurance.
Textile workers in Mexico have
received the eight-hour day.
Russian coal miners demand a.
minimum of S125 a month.
New Hampshire has passed a 54-
hour week law for women.
will get 25c day more on Septem-
Der l.
An initiative and referendum law
has been passed in Utah.
Cleveland upholsterers have Sc
cured a minimum of S21 week.
New York city has nine evening
trade schools in operation.
One June S0.' 1915, Australia had a
total of 91,7S3 old-age pensioners.
Ontario, Canada, will employ at
least 5000 men after the war in build
ing roads.
A workmen's compensation law is
proposed in Brazil, S. A.
Bookbinders at Toronto, Canada,
have secured an increase of $3.50 a
week
Wichita (Kan.) plasterers have in
creased wages 12h cents an hour.
Paper-mill workers at Oregon City
Ore, have formed a union.
Carpenters International has 1850
local unions and a total of $4,000
members.
Paisley (Scotland) printers have
been granted an increase in pay OF
75 cents a week.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-09
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg's river dam 4
being copied In half q dozen
places in eastern states?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-09
HISTORIC HARRnsBURC

The first schools in Harrisbur
were held In taverns and warehous,
along the River Front. with volui
teer teachers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-09

One hopes that the British Govern
ment will not go In for reprisals,
as urged by citizens meeting in
London. Let Teutonia bear alone
the banner with the device we sug-
gested a year or so ago: Women
and children first!" - Chicago
Tribune.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-09

E.J. sTAcKPoLE,P Prsss s. Editor-in-C c Chisf
u. r. OYSTER. Business Manager.
GUS NJ. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-09

The approach of the time for mo
bilization of the National Guard d
causing a tremendous amount d
work to be done by the officers of thl
states military establishment. All
though yesterday was Sunday ther
was much activity about the Adju
tant Generals. office and at the arse
nal and other places connected witt
the military end there were ais
men on duty.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-09

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING Co.,
Telegraph Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-09

Those suffragists who kicked up a
rumpus before the Russian Mission
in Washington must have made the
visitors homesick. - Philadelphia
North American.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-09

Your Wilhelm" proposing with
further aid from Almighty God" to
restore Humpty Dumpty Constan-
tine, invoked the only Power that
could make it possible.-Wall Street
Journal
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-09

King George must have welcomed
General Pershing's arrival in Eng
land. It's not often the King can
get his name and photograph on the
newspapers front pages these days.
Nashville Southern Lumberman.
The Ordway new era., 1917-09-07
KING CENTER

S s SDilla~S and son Earl bought
thirteen head Of registered Holstein
cattle from CNas. Patterson and ten
bio last THURSDAY They will have
nothing but registered stock on the
farm from now on.
Mrs Rheinhart and son. Robert.
who have spent the summer at Oak
View. near La Veta. visited with Mrs
A D. Snodgrass from Tuesday until
Saturday when they returned to their
home in Denver.
Miss Mable Voorhees, left last Mon
day night for weeks visit with her
sister. Mrs. Allen Snodgrass. in Me
Cracken. Kans.
The Civilian boys shopped in Pue-
bio Friday.
MIR Mercer returned from Denver
County institute this week in Ordway.
The King Center schools will be op-
en Friday morningf today Septem-
Der !. for registration.
The theshing in the Spillars farm
showed that 2.200 bushels of barley
we're raised from forty-fve acres.
Ms Geo. Lanning is conyalesins
at the home Of her sister. Mrs. S. S
Spillars.
= Fred Haver. of the Pleasant Waller
Ranch. near Boon. visited Sunday af
tsrnoon at the Fred Henderson home
The Ordway new era., 1917-09-07
DAIRY FARMING AND BESEF1rs
tcontin..d from page one,

II earth alone Is used. from 80 to 20
mounds Der COW will be needed daily
=. big shovelfui. II straw alone,
provtde 3 or 10 pounds . day. and
less II cut short. A good combina-
tion II 5 or pounds OF straw ana ~
or 12 of earth or sawdust. An excess
OF bedding or litter - undesirable. IL
the floor on which the COW lies Is dry
and not cold. very little litter Is need
ed for true bedding. Its chief use is
as an absorbent. and II more than
necessar, for this object is used, the
manure becomes too dry and bulky.
and is Iessened in value per load.
Land plaster is very satisfactory
disinfectant or deodorizer about
COW house. II one takes good care OF
the manure and intends to add chem
ical fertilizer. the latter may be used
in the stable in some forms, instead or
plaster. A refuse of the double
phosphate" works is an article called
phoso-plaster. This can aften be got
hDbut lHtSdiu piitt Vi Noh'"''' f''.
ter. and as it contains about l per
cent of phosphoric acid. it is good
addition to the stable manure, while
also an efficient disinfectant. Kainit,
about the lowest grade of German
potash salt, is good substitute for
plaster in the stable. It costs half as
much again, sometimes twice as much
but less of it may be used. and the
potash it contains (11 to 13 per cent?
is very desirable addition to the
manure in several ways. From l to
. pounds of kainit or plaster per day
to each COW can profltably be used.
scattered in the litter and along the
cutters of the COW house thruout the
stabling season.