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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-24
POTATOES

A ND just think of it! Less than
n two years ago we used to go
home in the evening and ex-
claim disgustedly:
What! Fried potatoes again?"
Just like that, we'd say it, and she
who presides over the destinies of our
household would actually apologize.
Yes, indeed, apologize. She'd say:
We'll, you see, L had to be out
this afternoon and fried potatoes are
easy to prepare, and 1 thought you
wouldn't mind just this time"
And now what?
Why, we go, home and looking
gloomily across the spotless linen,
observing the vacant spot wherein
the potato dish was erstwhile wont to
repose in solitary grandeur, we growl:
what? No potatoes this evening? ?
How do you expect a hungry man to
get along without potatoes?"
And she who presides, etc, responds
with tears in her voice:
"Oh, my, l thought you used to say
you didn't care for potatoes"
Twas ever thus
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-24
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Housing Below Par
.iior Of The Tclegrabh:

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
I have been subscriber to the Tele-
graph for many years and / am prompt
ed to make a reply to such prominent
news on page one of last nights ISSUE
as there is such a great chasm or con-
trast between the two photographs, j. e.
page six. Yes. certainly am sure, and
know from personal experience, that
the housing conditions are below par
in this, the capital city of Pennsylva-
MIA. 1 am a laboring man, and yet
am forced from circumstances to min
lister to those that want lovely homes
of beauty, comfort, joy and pleasure.
and it is sure joy in this old life OF
mine If 1 can see but few little Kids
enjoying perfect health, perfect love
and a sanitary home. But for me and
many like me, we are on the alter or
sacrifice, and must, in patience await
Gods own time, when all men snail
truly be on one common leVel-and IN
one word it is Love.
Labor is the foundation of all wealth,
LABORER.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-24
Tanning Rubber

Ten years ago the world depended
for crude rubber upon the great Tor
ests of the Amazon valley, the valley
of the Congo and other places in the
tropics where trees yielding ruDper
were found growing uncared for, as
nature planted them. In 1907 Brazil
furnished $4,000 tons of rubber and
29,50O tons came from other coun-
tries, chiefly in equatorial Africa,
where rubber was gathered by natives
who searched the jImgles for rubber
producing trees. Only about 500 tons
were obtained from plantations on the
Malay peninsula and the islands of
the East Indes.
Last year Brazil supplied $4,000
tons of crude rubber, a slight falling
off from the mark set ten years ago,
and the other regions in which rubber
is gathered as a natural growth OF
the forests sent $4,000 tons to the
markets of the world. But the losses
in wild" rubber were far more than
offset by the great increase in the
yield of rubber plantations, chiefly on
the Malay Peninsula and nearby
islands. The tame" rubber amounted
to about 10000 tons, a gain of nearly
As, 900 tons over the preceding year,
itself a record breaker, and more than
ten times the quantity produced as re-
Gently as 1911.
So great natural staple has
been tanned in ten years, and that
triumph of constructive enterprise has
made possible the enormous growth
land wonderful success of the automo-
bile industry of the United States and
the world. 1t is an achievement
which conveys a striking intimation
of the possibilities which still exist
of creating new industries of i'm
mense value, by wiser use of the re-
sources of the soil-the earth which
man has lived on and used for thou
sands of years without ever under
standing fully what he could do with
| it and what it is ready to do for him.
From the Cleveland Leader.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-24
Register James b. Sheehan. They
calm 100000.

POU,VVu'
The remarks of Democratic Ma
tional Committeeman A. Mitch
ell Palmer seem to have made consid-
cradle impression on people on Capitol
Hill and they are commencing to re-
alize Just what is the Democratic at
titude in regard to State affairs. Pal
mer has several times declared that
he had enough material to create rev.
olutions in Pennsylvania politics, but
the people have seldom believed him,
especially when he "besieged" Penrose
in 1914. Palmer and his pals like
some newspapers printed in this State
have to be out to make themselves
heard. Their stock in trade would
be gone if they once got in"
Pennsylvania suffragists announce
that they are particularly elated by
the granting of suffrage in Ohio be-
cause in the past it has been the rule
that black States, that is States not
having granted any suffrage to wo-
men, follow rapidly the example of
adjoining States. Miss Clark, whose
secretarial Office is in Harrisburg, said:
1.-THE granting of presidential suffrage
in Ohio and Indiana means that it is
inevitable that the present Legislature
will pass our bill, and that eventually
the women of Pennsylvania will be en-
franchised. This seems certain to us
because at least now that this ques-
ton is brought to the doors of the
homeS of our legislators they cannot
justly and fairly rule that the women
of Pennsylvania are not as much en-
titled to and as worthy of suffrage as
the women, of Ohio, Indiana and Illi-
nois."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-24
For Government Trust
louisville Courier Journal.


Among the bills with which states
men at Washington are bombarding
the press is one that provides that
except as may be authorized by the
Postmaster General no part of any
edition of any second-class periodical
shall be transported over lines of
railway or other transportation lines
upon which mail service is maintained
by the PostofIice Department, except
in the mails of the United States,
and if such transportation, outside
the mails, shall be permitted or au-
thorized by the publisher, the entry
of such periodical as second class
matter shall be Cancelled"
In short, this remarkable bill would
make it illegal for publishers to ship
their periodicals except by mail over
any line which carries mails.
That would be establishing a mail
trust with q vengeance by a govern
ment which has directed much of its
energies in recent years toward
breaking up and preventing trusts.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-24

"LEARN TO SAVE"---SECRET''"' Ss%sGi39 ssf af
OF ALL GREAT FORT3fMESSSso91
----
ByS w. STRAUS b1la IT. eGi If Of S'&n qn
.Rf odg min
By BRIGGS
Rv 6 w Straits

consists of laying somethipG ,A49e. 7
James j. Hill conveyed Pie s9lS9 fdeal
wnef iefher ne yoa s%id are p goi0g S0g T
test is easy. Are yoYtsable "t8I save
money? If not, dropg4W tod 9ibwIlI
surely sur, yvi, lTse; 1osa You may p9f
These men knew wha5 3lieN MeIS talk
ing about. They snolSS rfFon eXbie69gi 69gi
ence. Each began b9oaayas Ia wlse5RsiJR
was earning merefBtta nfe.rH Hghei
did not make the mistifkd G WAitjga
until they earned "nlRBeT .bM2r6Ralp
Field, for instance.. BhT5sde 0pt lafa
clerk in dry good6RtQE8oM An 9dAttlf
village at $3.50 wesfr9nf9M heAff
that person could snato hNey qJA fSSfi,5
a week even in a SINAI llbtAwhjB1 t4Rsf
early days, to say n,0th{pe of SAVING
money. He did, and-he-saN money
until he had enough to pay his fare to
Chicago and to live on unrrr ne EC1
another job in a dry goods store
which he afterwards. fVns3 4d which
became the largest ittthe &6tld,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-24
Caring For Own Interests

Two dulists were preparing to fight
In a farmers field. The farmer ap-
peared, and. as he hurried toward
them with wild gestures, the duelists,
though not afraid of each other at all,
felt touched and pleased to think that
the farmer took an interest in their
welfare.
Hold on!" the farmer cried. rs
this q duel?"
Yes" said n second.
Are they going to use pistols or
swords?" asked the farmer.
Swords" said the second.
"Oh. all right then" said the farm
err, with smile of relief. IF they
were going to use pistols just wanted
you to hold on till got my livestock
out of the field. d."-Philadelphia Bull
letin.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-24
EDISON,S EXAMPLE

LIVERY time you say to yourself:
T. I'm too tired now, I'll do that
tomorrow" think of Thomas a.
Edison. On his SEVENTEEN birthday
this week he worked twenty hours at
stretch. He didn't have to do it.
He might have been golfing or yacht
ing or automobiling. He might have
been doing any one of the thousand
things that a man may do for pleas
ure. He had money enough. But he
did none of them. He labored away
steadily on an invention he hopes to
make of use IN protecting the United
States If we get into the war.
Edison finds pleasure in work as
well as play. That's why he has sue
ceeded. He has learned the secret of
the delight of congenial occupation at
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-24
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 81, 1917.

My lord Cardinal, there is one fact
tOhich you seem entirely to haze for
gotten: God is a sure pGymaster; He
mag not pay at the end Of every aCeek,
or month or gear; but charge you,
remember that He pays in the end.
Anne of Austria.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-24
Preparese4 tRe Hllto'

The KaiseEs g6V6RrhnYent KadssY Yif}RS7teennd
ed all alonebtT deaf atfthftha aoUMted
States upop theoMpeisstet at p&hdtions
fhe G6 war Very to mgg tas S9 pt
take up this cnhr&hW With thb6pewRer
tr2n train iaid la Ra44 ara 9353d 3 yE "
by the Gerrhan Ih9haieelb oilh16this
speech to the RsictUtHgttl1ot Jdepn0R1y
has never relinquished in fact Its sub
marine warfare the United States has
but one duty and that is to mobilize
up to the hiltPH4 Ffon1 ehe sB6iftnlDfe
American, 9Ht llBd-9Ho ylTB9N
IAlaxiuII uanuIoD gdt nj /
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-24
Ouakers Talk Against War
TFrom the PHILADELPHIA Ledger.

IFrom the PhfIadeIphla LEDGER.
The duty of Friends in the present
crisis was emphasized at the quarterly
meeting in the Arch street meeting
house. Lydia Morris, who discussed
this subject, earnestly urged that few
plain facts be uttered at every oppor-
tunity. showing how at variance is war
with Christian teachings. This, she
declared, was no time for fitful, half
hearted work, but for all tte energy
and passion that can be instilled,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-24
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bt%sye lass a5hr eagasts bavsTRasH Some
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bBfeN BsnqE9tGleE5s va o. Sla Nsi Eb efsJs fWe1l
trained to act as tlifUoGiaE dBe asatSDal
l9k tbs l6tteSaIib a Sau &e c4aRe didbe JIeed
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guard against SsT TfjtSi IS HlhseBHEassl
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-24
The Toboggan Route

Switzerland has an advantage over
some other neutral powers. in that
when she gets tired of her German
ambassador all she has to do is TO put
him on a sled and give him one shove.
The indianapolis News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-24
WE'LL Known PE@hL Enc,

Ifls7r IRlsap apysssentativAo R1L Ggasffrt this
hs% fIoSals SSIih$ l51 9Ss $4aR& @eff gSSSP SP-
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7 hfBhs tidte iii event 'of War is sahp in-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-24
Rhymes From The eedNtuaFsyry
FROM THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

The sky is dark, rSne UoIouddb4Ume
down J16nsd e lsi19t
And almost toHhb5ARsgfffr h9ESepoy
crawl up to b4f'w55nnfffP Y'ro eoe15
And am quie1ifS jo2 E 2p9gases 81 e,s1aitsd
For then I knobiitfigp5n9do aRiwt
keep real aWstihnsnisSshbnsd
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And uIe, es,uade8K tRR9gqGsd'k s,2fes1uoo 10
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A host of ieBYa44 sptihy tsbq ohT
All An hndd3Ems %EeSa a %8 fSaetIieSSgfs hfSSigs ovis
Just like wBfuelShSsp aiIlodiaom
And from m11GJo Blaa GsgXfwNIaa wNIaffa fSia taadat t,aadattm
fall, o sis 9I5dT .53fi-bIido
And thenI igek9syoehPi smsos
Oh To snHw6Iba4a sit dS8$ ii aoaf $$ s9Hpf !9o1f
b&SsI3anHiGr9ffs sbeNyp
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-24

constructive tasks. He knows also
that the man who does not work
overtime seldom amounts to any
thing.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-24
HOME RULE

Chestnut street hall last evening
tell the story of city managership at
Importance of home rule for the cities
of Pennsylvania.
THE greatest good that can come
from a city charter framed and adopted
by the people it is designed to serve as
an instrument of government is the
spirit of community cooperation 1t
engenders." asserted Mr.. switzer.
Lack of community cooperation is
at this moment the besetting sin OF
Harrisburg as a city. Waning interest
of the individual in the affairs of the
municipality has been one of the alarm
ing signs of recent months. Unques-
hazard, nondescript character of the
legislation under which we as a city OPP
crate.
The Clark act may fit some of the
third-class cities of Pennsylvania, but
it's pattern never was suited to the
needs of this city. If homemade gov
ernment arouses the people to intelli-
gent interest in public affairs. the re-
verse is also true. Harrisburg people
can no more be expected to be salts
fled with a charter or constitution
framed by the State Legislature than
the people of Pennsylvania, as a whole,
would, or could, rest content to live
under a constitution framed by the
federal Congress and forced on them,
willy nillX after the manner that mu-
nicipal legislation and regulation are
forced upon the cities of the Common
wealth by the State government.
Neither commission form of govern
ment nor city managership will be
successful in Harrisburg until the peo-
pie themselves have the right of home
rule. The voters of the city must decide
what they need and desire.
Politics has no place in municipal
government, but politics does have a
very conspicuous part and will con-
tinue to have it so long as the city
laws are framed by politicians largely
for their own benefit. There is no great
er travesty of law than the nonpar-
tisan feature of the Clark act. DAYTON.
Mr. Switzer says. is operated on a strict
ly business basis, after the manner of
)an industrial corporation. 1t wouldn't
be except for the home rule feature
which has enabled it to eliminate poll
tics and the constant catering for
favor that is a consequence of the ma
tural effort of salaried councilmen to
be reelected.
We may shout the virtues of city
managership from the housetops and
sing its advantages increasingly, but it
would not be an unqualified success in
Harrisburg until put into operation
through the medium OF a homemade
home adopted city charter. Doubtless
city managership would be made to work
pany reforms and the experiment even
under present laws would be a step
in the right direction. but even the
most efficient system would fail of full
frultion unless it had back of it the
Community cooperation home rule en-
genders"
And to think we used to call 'em
spuds
HEADING FOR A FALL
n WAY back in 1860 Abraham
IA Cowley, whose father, by the way,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-24
LOOK AFTER YOUR BOY

TTAVE you a boy? Then read this
from the address OF a welfare
worker delivered at gather
ing OF parents to celebrate the dedica-
tion of a school building in New York;
Be sure to see that your boy at
tends school, but do not neglect
that other essential to a useful life '
,-early, training in! industry and
the value of the dollar earned by
honest toll. Let your boy work,
so long as it does not Interfere
him take any Job" that offers
itself, merely for the money. See
to it that his surroundings are
good and be chary of letting him
work for anybody who would per-
NIT him to do a shady" thing.
forming character though work is,
than work under a man who is
guilty of some of the sharp prac-
tices have noted in this city.
This is good advice. Let your boy
work. Work of the kind outlined is
productive of nothing but good, Only
few years back there were social
workers who believed that no child
should be permitted to work for gain.
This was beyond doubt the reflex of
the child labor evils which modern
laws have stopped to very large de-
gree. The pendulum since then has
mad time to swing back a trifle and
good Judgment has come forward to
urge that the boy or girl be permit
ted to earn money outside of school
so long as the employment is not so
heavy as to undermine health, so
lengthy as to rob the child entirely
of playtime and is honest.
Let your boy get job''-but in
quire carefully into how he is expected
TO earn his money. Many men are not
above those sharp practices" against
which the welfare worker quoted
herewith warned New York parents.
They operate right here in Harris
burg. Don't let your boy do anything
for money that smacks of the shady
trick by means of which unscrupu-
lous businessmen take advantage of
their patrons or of other business
men. The offense may not be great.
Indeed, most likely, it will be made to
appear trifling or even smart" But
rest assured that the honor of the lit
tie lad you love to call "son" is al
stake and honor stained in early youth
is apt to carry the mark for life.
When your boy comes home with a
new job" inquire carefully into how
he is expected to earn the money
especially if he has been offered more
than boys are ordinarily able to earn
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-24

Electrical workers at Salt Lake
City have secured increased pay and
an eight-hour day. -
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-24

Union printers at Youngstown,
Ohio, have secured an increase of so
cents a day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-24

appear to be in very great danger
of breaking their necks downward, but
in no possibility" of going muck
higher.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-24

In Germany there are at present
800, 900 women doing war work at
home.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-24

The secretary of the Governor of
Ohio is a member of the Typograph-
ical Union.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-24
BELIEVER in thrift who was a

n benefactor to his descendants
as far as money is concerned, at
least. was Commodore Vanderbilt.
When he was 16 years old he was tax
ing passengers from Staten Island 10
New York by way of the ferry boat.
The fare was not large, but he saved
enough in two years to buy two boats
of his own. In the meantime his wife
had gone into the hotel business and
in the next few years they accumu-
lated $4,000 between them, with
which Commodore Vanderbilt bought
the controlling interest in a steamboat.
He taught his son to be just as thrifty.
Though he himself was enormously
wealthy, he insisted that his son work,
and work he did on a farm. Thus was
founded one of the great American
fortunes.
NO hoy ever became great as a
man." said John Wanamaker, who
did not in his youth learn to save
money. Nine-tenths of getting ahead
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-24

A new local Of carpenters at Tren-
ton. Canada, has a membership of 200
ALREADY
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-24
Labor Notes

Muskogee, Okla, has appointed q
union man city auditor at $4,000 a
year.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-24

Turn out tonight and make the boys
feel you're glad to see 'em home again.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-24

There are a number of women mi
ners employed in Bohemia, Austria.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-24
I$$G$e$Ss# $8SSl#saSaSf #saEl4h /
number of foreigners who turn vi
o fIsseeeSleI gff&hsg4 n.

tatio1 on both Sides Of the a1lesti,,n
this session.
they eys arsSed 9aaSe get TheS ieSaS wiII ThTe de
termine q & tthinp is the ma matt eT,
and ha 6e VESaed With and shown.
and haW5 hi SEhat done to pacify
them % sESS of6sISAy a barber % WIS
reanin ANhe e6 ea q EkSfrom n man in orr.
town ISsSAn 4he man announced thbt
The razor Srse 10 GOOD The barhe,.
slammed L-6d carSx,sIlv stronned 1he
hack ~ fNe imrxeKent, When he
startfd agsat. shaap IN thEssair ex-
Ill TFS, ~
VII SdW IN
tt:iAbft generally tkNFM TINT FTar-
TO .hmAC. DeihinSer. AEutivA clerk
to tTN Gkyernor,I fb1 tl,taTestoration of
the rfNntinx of II Jb4f1fIakris abJut. to
he bbrA ~ SyeszE{,s.sffid fidians( which is in
fhe IaMW MuaeIim, FThAs painting.
whiR W EenerallN belIeEedSto be close
to KGlYfars old depicts the most
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-24
HEADING FOR a. FALL,
n WAY back in 1860 Abraham
IA Cowley, whose father, by the way
was a grocer. wrote:

- N"'SS' "hoSS idlHeT, Dy lne way,
was a grocer. wrote:
"As riches increase" saws Solo
mon 80 do the mouths that devour
them. The master meath has no
more than before. The owner. me-
thinks, is like Genus in the fable.
who is perpetually winding a rome
of hay, and an ass at the end per
petually eating 1t. Out of these in
conVeniences arises naturally one
more, which is, that no greatness
can be satisfied or content with
itself; still, If it could mount up a
little higher, 1t would be happy; if
it could gain but that point, it
would obtain all it's Desires; but
yet at last, when ii Is got up to the
very top of the Peak of Teneriffe,
it is in very great danger of break
ing It's neck downward, but in no
possibility of ascending upward in
to the seat of tranquility above the
moon.
Doubtless provision prices were
farthest from the poets thought.
when he thus dipped his pen into phil.
osophic prose, but his conclusions ap.
ply very aptly to the food barons oi
to-day, having gone along pushing
prices higher and ever higher. q lit
tie at time. few pennies here and
a few pennies there. they at last seem
to have reached the place where they
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Congress has taken the doesn't out
of the old charge that prohibition
doesn't prohibit"
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OUR DAILY d-,AgJGH
LONG ANDN MAR :
ROW.

Our friend with
an eye to { h Q
main chance has
a long head.
Yes, but isn't
having too long a
head likely { O
make a man mar
row-minded.