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The Washington times., 1917-11-19
Treat Washington Better
By EARL GOODWIN.
The War Machine L CIOgEed VITA Petty Obstacle
Biggest War Shop.

Washington ought to be given preferential treatment
by the Government because it is the biggest and most i'm
poant war shop The greatest exercised to that
cantonments built and equipped because they part
of the big machine the Government would exercise
the care for Washington the brains it has here would
not have to worry and fret irritating details and
would be at liberty to work all day for the Government
By series Of circumstances all Of them connected with
our entry into the war; Washington suffers by emhargoes
freight ieups real and false famnes Of various kinds
lack of labor boosted prices and general amming and
providing Building to be at standstT and yet
homes must be- provided for the influx of wartime work
ers Coal must be provided food prices mnst be right the
general situation must be with plenty Of elbow
and no irfitations
This Government viii not long allow the existence Of
some OF the outrageous circumstances which amount
to an injustice for Washington and its people Just
those in charge Of the realize that the efficiency Of
the machine is cramped because of petty anoyances
heaped upon the men and women in this shop there
will be change This change however, viii not be local
matter It win be part Of the big step which is surely
coming when the United States really itself and
unges forward
Men in the war game cannot give their entire attention
to the war business they have to scout all town
for coal; clerks get to work time the street
companies cannot viii not operate enough cars That
is but petty illustration. Net only the clerk feels the
JAM but the merchant feels it. the householder the
the street Government employees from the Navy Yard to
the waterwofks all talking and their talk amounts to
generally dissatisfied undercurrent.
Someone with brains and viii power win some day
overurn the penderous obstacles left In the way OF
fort and efficiency These obstacles have right to
be there than have packing boxes the right to be left
street sidewaks When the obstacles removed, the
be eased and there win be advertised food faines re-
sulting in large purchases by terrified householders
The Washington times., 1917-11-19
Rich Gentlemen Must Have Their
Pleasures
Pleasures
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and to promote dishonesty and thsvng among many poor
men,
Also not to be overlooked is the fact that for each
of these race horses there AT LEAST ONE PRIVATE
SERVANT.
Each race horse must have healty strong young man
to rub it down. give it massage, clean it.
the race horse happens be tempsramental servant
must sleep close at hand.
Thousands of men that might be usefully employed
kept exercise and for these animals LONE teacher
for forty children, one man for ONE race horse"
Do you like the sound Of that?
Watch crowd Of men and women yelling and scream
ing in the excitement Of vicious gambling horse
in covered with sweat.
Watch half dozen men that might be serving the
country rush up to that horse take him in charge rub
bing and caring for him. while others prepare his
mash of good bran and another carefully sits the oats
How does strike you in republic that breaches economy
to mothers Of children?
And how long is it going to last?
Even England has stopped and England is not in the
habit Of interfering with the happiness of its upper
classes"
The Washington times., 1917-11-19

tiles through their offspring-that
is selection.
Of these four vital principles
which are concerned, by their in
teraction, in the process of evolu-
ton, the one that is the most es-
sentially mysteriouI, or rather the
most persistently difficult Of ex-
PLANTATION, is variation. An alto
gether satisfying Interpretation OF
variation, of its cause and origin,
has not yet been found. But we
know that it exists, just as we
know that heredity exists.
One Of the chief reasons why
many people are puzzled by evolu-
ton is that they do not, or cannot,
look at 1t from a sufficient mental
distance to take it all in at one
view. To ask why evolution is not
plainly visible all around US at the
present day Is as unreasonable as
it would be to expect to see the
planet Saturn moving in its orbit
as you see an automobile passing
on the road. Saturn travels, on
the average, six miles per second,
or more than 100000 miles in a
day, but it is so farsoff that those
100000 miles, stretched against
the background Of the sky. make 9
line 80 short that the naked eye
cannot perceive it.
Evolution demands a. much
room and proceeds on a. vast =
The Washington times., 1917-11-19
By Garrett P. Serviss.

scale, In time measure, as the
revolution Of distant planet does
in space measure. We may even
enlarge the basis of the compari-
son and liken the process of evo-
luton to the journey of the solar
system among the stars. That
journey is performed at the rate
Of probably 40O,Ooo,0OO miles a
year, but the only landmarks
around rs by which we can be-
come sensible Of this tremendous
motion are the stars, and their re-
moteness is so immense that an
advance Of 40O.00O,O00 miles
causes an apparent change in
their positions so slight that deli
cate instrumental observations
alone can make 1t visible.
II every second Of our lives
were the equivalent of day, then,
by means Of such time magnifica-
ton, we might see evolution mov-
ing. Another way would be to
have = motion picture film con-
tanning a record Of evolutionary
development for a hundred thou
sand years, and run 1t through the
exhibiting machine at an acceler-
ated speed sufficient to compress
all that space Of time into few
hours.
Il is this immensity Of the field
Of science, in time as in space,
which best exhibits its uplifting
and broadening effects upon the
mind. The delight OF the mind 10
IN speculation (speculor, Ito be-
hold"), but there must be some
The Washington times., 1917-11-19

thing substantial for It to see, else
It's speculation is mere moonshine.
The o.d-school men, who once
monopolized what was called edu-
cation, had nothing substantial to
show or to look at. and a view from
their high points was simply
staring into mental fogs.
But from the outlook stations
OF science ones gaze extends
across interniinable spaces which
are filled with realities that be-
come clearer and better defined
as the means of observation are
improved. No branch OF science
leads YOU to a loftier viewpoint
than that offered BY the study OF
the principles of evolution. There
you learn to cast aside little stand
ards of measurement and to use
great ones.
But. while in its broader aspects
evolution can only be apprehendec
by acquiring the ability to take
vastly extended views, and yirtu-
ally to make the mind, which can
use its physical instrument for
only three or four score years,
comprehend the results Of mil
lions of years. both past and ~;
ture, vet there are exceptional
cases in which the evolutionary
process seems to be so hastend
that it covers in q leap space thai
in ordinary circumstances could
only be traversed by age-long steps
Examples of this are seen IN the
limitations" Of De Vrees, when a
species may be transformed al
most in a moment. But this is a
branch. or form, Of evolution into
which we cannot here enter.
The Washington times., 1917-11-19

Cars from BrooklGnd marked
Treasury" going west on @ street
between the hours OF $50 and $50 In
the morning. could very easily be sent
down Fourteenth street to the Bureau
OF Engraving and Printing. Depart
ment Of Agriculture and the AuditorS'
offices Tin the old Bureau Of Engrav-
ing buiidins), instead Of being 6hunt-
ed up into the block back Of the
RiEEs building. where they ~rest"
several minutes and carry back three
or four persona
II you don't believe ne. take your
The Washington times., 1917-11-19
A Brookland Car Suggestion

stand at Fourteenth and G or Four
tesnth and + and watch the employees
struggle with the inadequate ear
service to the buildings above men
toned
Don't you think such an arrange
ment for MORE cars could be mAa-
aged without inconYenisncing the
eastbound G street traffic during
those early morning hours3
Think It over. dear Mr.. Civic Bet
terment Editor. What would we poor
suffering citizens do without The
Times to help? Yours for more Bu-
reau cara ANDREW C. BARTON.
The Washington times., 1917-11-19

REPRESENTATIVE THOMAS L.
BI1ANToN Of Texas wants to save
wood for fuel purposes. He says
that thousands Of cords OF good fuel
are Wastefully burned By the rail-
roads. Mr.. Blanton II the member
Of Congress who advocated all day
sessions beginning at q. m, and
who charged CHAMP CLARK with
goIng 10 an excessive number Of
Hpink teas"
The Washington times., 1917-11-19

and to promote dishonesty and thisving among M
men.
The Washington times., 1917-11-19

NoU have q man in your town.
to wit, Luther Burbank,
L whose astonishing success
The Washington times., 1917-11-19

JAMES BURNS, Of the tslephons
company, came to see me today. He
told me that Tor some unaccountable
reason the telephones In the NORTH"
The Washington times., 1917-11-19

J. p. YoDER, the FEDERAL Trade
Commission publicity man. II mem
ber Of the Mister Johnny Ferris
Alumni Association Also DR. led"
HE MSEN.
The Washington times., 1917-11-19
HEARD AND S EN-

p. J. DEMPSEY. chief CLARK Of ths
office Of chief Of engineers. o. 8. A.
has besn IN the Government ssrvies
for more than half Q century.
The Washington times., 1917-11-19

luton Of things earthly 10 still In
pFogrsAsf II 80. why do we see no
visible signs OF II in the present.
day offspring OF the bird or mon
key. or other living creatures."-
L z. H. Santa Rosa. Cal.
NOU have q man in your town,
to wit, Luther Burbank,
i whose astonishing success
in the manipulation Of plant life
should suffice to convince anybody
that at least two Of the fundamer-
tai operations Of evolution, viz,
variation and selection, give very
plain visible signs Of their activity
in the present day.
The other two basal elements Of
evolution, heredity and multiplied
ton, continually produce their et-
feets before our eyes. Children
resemble their parents, that Is
heredity; living creatures as a
rule, produce q more numerous Off
spring than, can be maintained on
a limited supply Of nourishmsnt-
that Is multiplication.
All living things Of the same spe-
eies exhibit Individual differences
that In, variation; individuals
which differ from the type Of their
own species in such a way as to
be better suited to the circum-
stanses Of life in their time, have
an increased chance Of surviving
and Of perpetuating their peculiar
The Washington times., 1917-11-19

exchanges were an 90 busy last night
that an extra force Of operators had
TO be rushed there.
The Guv'nor" says that Con-
science Club composed Of boys who
used to hook apples from LEM
LuSBY's store would certainly COM
prise some slick members Any boz
who could put II over on UNCLE
LEM must have been . wonder.
Coal Administrator JOHN L
WEAVER says that enbargoes on
the Baltimore ana Ohio aad the
PennsylTaniA lines have caused
much trouble and are responsible
In great measure for the lack Of coal
here. He Is optimistic about the
future. however, for the embargo
problem has been settled for the
moment, ut least
JOHN L. WEAVER, hUwefer.
should be given more aid By the
national fuel administrator.
Isn't ROBERT N. HARPER's new
red automobile q beauty?
The Washington times., 1917-11-19
Rich Gentlemen MUST Have
Their Little Pleasures
But Is Necessary to Waste Food Race Horses for
Gambling? We Ask Mr.. Hoover and Others.

This is a time Of "high morality and rstrsuchment.
The mother with half dozen children In urged to give
them cornmeal instead Of wheat.
The wOrngm is told to 90 without beef ct least onee
week and oftener. He takes the advice. He would DO
Il anyhow-hs can't afford beef.
Sugar Is doled out in small Jumps
Coal must be economical because railroads Gfe over
crowded
WHAT ABOUT THOUSANDS or RACE HORSES
EACH EATING TWELVE QUARTS or OATS AND
TWENTY POUNDS OF HAY DAILY
The Washington times., 1917-11-19

Isn't ROBERT N. HARPER's new
red automobile q beauty4
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-25
Another Plan to
Relieve Congested
Housing Conditions

A plan for relieving the con-
gested housing conditions in the bor-
ough was discussed by the Municipal
League in session last night. This
matter has been in the hands of the
League for months and up to this
time all the plans have not been
successful. President T. T. McEntee
announced that responsive real es-
tate firm has offered to build homes
in the borough providing that the
land could be furnished until the
homes are sold.
1t is suggested that some of the
businessmen of the town purchase
land and give contractors permis-
sion to build homes on this land.
After the homes are sold the owners
of the land will be given their
money. The housing committee of
which E. c. Henderson is chairman
was instructed to take up this work.
The organization of company OF
Home Reserves was discussed by the
league last night. A commmittee
was appointed to look up data on
the matter and report at the next
meeting. On the committee are: C.
w. Mccoy, Claude Brinser and w.
f. Maginnis.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-25
PLAN TO FORM
INSTITUTE OF
BANKING HERE
Several Hundred Bankers to
Meet In Board of Trade
Building Friday

Attaches of banks In Dauphin,
Cumberland and Perry counties will
meet In the Board of Trade building
Friday evening at o'clock to or
ganize a local chapter of the Ameri-
can Institute of Banking. Several
hundred bank officials and employees
rare expected to attend.
The purpose of the organization Is
10 develop bank employees along edu-
cauonal lines and to enable financial
men TO get closer acquainted with
the work in the various sections. The
organization will also be for the pur-
pose OF encouraging social activities
among bankers.
The plan is to have bank employees
attend school one night each week
for two years so that they will be-
come better equipped for the bank
ing business and at the same time
become more valuable to the en-
ployer.
A banker securing the services of
an inexperienced man in Harrisburg
is compelled to teach him the funda-
metals of the business because there
Is no school which he can attend to
secure this knowledge, local bankers
say. Schools similar to the one Har-
l'risburgers are planning to organize
have proved successful in Pittsburgh.
Wilkes Barre, Scranton, Lancaster.
Reading and larger cities.
The committee in charge of send
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-25
STEELTON
EARLY MORNING
FIRE IN GARAGE
Automobiles and Motorcycles
Damaged in South Third
Street Blaze

Fire early this morning did several
thousand dollars damage at the gar
age OF Michael Hostar, sac South
Third street, The local fire DEPART
ment did remarkable work in con-
hning the flames to the first floor of
the building,
The fire was discovered at 1890
o'clock and is believed to have been
started by short circuit on an au-
tomobile in the building. Three auto
mobiles and two motorcycles were
stored In the building, One of the
automobiles was damaged beyond re-
pair while the others can be placed
in running order, The motorcycles
We're slightly damaged,
Tho firemen arrived at the fire
about 1898 and at los the fire was
under control.
The damage to the building which
was a two-story frame, is estimated
at $500 while the damage to the cars
will be about $500. There was no in
suranoo on the buildings or the cars.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-25

ing out circular letters to bankers in
the three counties is composed of
1. w, Appler, Lemoyne Trust Com
pany, Lemoyne; A. s. Banmiller,
First National Bank, Harrisburg; d.
c. Becker, Peoples Bank, Steelton; H.
G. Deik, Steelton National Bank,
Steelton; r. 1. Dieh1, Hummelstown
National Bank; C. A. Fornwald, Com
monwealth Trust Company. Harris
burg; w. NJ. Groff. Commercial Trust
Company. Harrisburg A. r. Geyer,
r. f. Landis, Halifax National Bank,
Halifax, and II. s. Smeltzer, Key
stone Bank, Harrisburg.
The letter which was sent to more
than 900 bank officers and employees
is as follows:
Dear Sir; The undersigned have
volunteered to arrange for the or
ganization of a local chapter of the
American Institute of Banking and
you are cordially invited and earnestly
requested to attend the organization
meeting to be held Friday evening
September %. 1917. at the Board Of
Trade building. Market street near
Front, Harrisburg, at o'clock.
| THE American Institute of Bank
| ing Is a section of the American
Bankers Association and is composed
of about seventy-five chapters with
a total membership of over $4,000.
| These chapters are located in cities
| throughout the country, many of
them not having the population
which this vicinity has, and we be-
lieve that a chapter here can be of
wonderful assistance to all of us. It
| is proposed that all those associated
with banking institutions located
within committing distance of Har-
risburg shall be eligible for member
ship in the chapter and it Is desired
that full representation from all
the banking institutions in this vicin-
ity be present to aid in organizing.
Assurance has been given of the
interest and support of some of the
best known bankers in this locality
and several members of the Phila-
delphia chapter will be present to
explain chapter work.
I'VE trust you will come to this
meeting, when the objects and ad-
vantages of organizing the chapter
! will be more fully explained"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-25
JOSEPH l.. LEIDIG DIES
FROM LONG ILLNESS

Funeral services for Joseph L. Lei
dig, aged SO, who died in the Har-
risburg Hospital yesterday from
rheumatism will be held Thursday
afternoon at o'clock. The Rev. G.
n. Lauffer, pastor of st. Johns Lu-
theran Church, will officiate. Burial
will be made in the Baldwin Gene
terry. Mr.. Leidig is a former coun-
Gilman and a retired steelworker
He has lived in the borough for
about thirty-five years. Besides his
wife he is survived by two sons, Luz
ther j., of Cleveland, Ohio, and Jo-
seph Guy, who is attending school
at the University of West Virginia
Both came home this morning.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-25
Dermatologist Gives
Complexion Secret

1.-The great secret of keeping the
face young is to keep off the dead
cuticle," says DR.. ]. Mortimer Mitchell
1T is well known that the surface
skin is constantly dying, falling off in
imperceptible particles, except in some
diseased conditions when the same ap-
pear like dandruff. But the particles
do not all drop off Immediately they
die, being held, for while by the live
skin.
ITO have the dermatological sur
geon peel off the entire outer skin at
operation. The same result is Obtain.
ed by applying ordinary mercolized
wax as YOU would cold cream allow
ing this to remain on over night, then
taking 1t off with warm water. One
ounce usually suffices. The process
is both painless and inexpensive. The
wax, which is procurable at your drug
store, hastens the natural shedding
process. 1t gradually absorbs the dead
and half-dead skin, revealing the
new, healthy. youthful-looking skin
underneath"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-25
MIDDLETOWN
Rushing Work on
Erection of Buildings

Work on the erection of barracks
at the aviation camp is being rushed
rapidly. There are three buildings
under course of construction and will
be completed in several weeks. They
will be large enough to house sew
eral hundred men.
Sixty-flve carloads of Packard
trucks have arrived and have been
stored in the building. Aside from
the trucks no material has arrived.
Officials at the camp said this morn
ing that they had not received word
of the sending of more troops.
Funeral services for Mrs. William
Stipe were held yesterday afternoon.
The Rev. James Cunningham Of
ficiated. Burial was made in the
Middletown Cemetery.
Miss Carrie Schiefer, who spent
the past ten days in town as the
guest of her sister, Mrs. N. c. Fuhr-
man, returned to her home at Phil
adelphia to-day.
Mrs. Roy Houser and daughter,
Fay, are spending the week at Ian
caster,
William Bausman has returned
from u six weeks trip to Youngs-
town, Ohio.
The Emergency Aid of the Red
Cross Society met at the home OF
Mrs. Ira Springer, Main and Spring
streets. yesterday afternoon.
Lloyd Kramer, Lewis Cohen and
Edward Stipe, who were sent to
Camp Meade. Md, were commission
ed as corporals since they were sent
| there.
Claude Fox, of Philadelphia, is
visiting here.
Mrs. Christ Etnoyer and Miss
Sarah Davis spent Sunday at Speece-
Vile.
A. G.Banks spent yesterday al
Ephrata, on business.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-25

with the Public Service Commission
against a proposed increase of rates
pany, charging that they are texces-
sive, hnwarranted, unjusthable and
needlessly burdensome to consumers"
Mir 9Ylden Comes Back. A. L.
Tilden, of Erie, who was Deputy Sec
retary of the Commonwealth under
Pattisop, was at the Capitol to-day
It was his first visit here since he left
office tweqty-three years ago. He is
SO years old.
Smallpox Abating, The Snyder
pouhty smallpox situation was to-day
reported at the state Department of
Health as satisfactory with no new
outbreaks.
Mr. largest Returns. - Deputy
Attorney General largest returned
to-day from the Supreme Court at
Pittsburgh, where he argued the
escheat law test case,
Johustown Case On, The hearing
of the Johnstown gas case was con-
tinued before the Public Service Com
mission to-day,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-25
Academy Opens With
Record Enrolment

The Junior school of the HARRISBURG.
Academy opened this morning with an
enrolment of thirty-eigh Recita-
tions were held during the day The
Senior school is being organized and
will open Tomorrow.
The enrolment of the Senior school
is expected to reach over $50. which
with that of the Junior school will
make the total thirty more than that
of 1916. The work on the new dormi-
tory which has been under construc-
tion for the last few months is pro-
crossing rapidly and will in all likeli-
hood be ready for occupancy in a short
time. The enrolment of the Acad-
emy will bring to Harrisburg for the
school term many out-of- town schol-
ars, and Headmaster Arthur E. Brown
said this morning he was certain the
term would be more successful than
previous ones.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-25
Hear Of Advantages
of Church Federation
at Big Meeting

More than fifty representatives of
the Protestant congregations of the
city attended the meeting held last
night in the Grace Methodist Church.
The session was held under the au-
spices of the Harrisburg Ministerial
Association at the request of the Fed
eral Council of Churches to bring be-
fore the people of Harrisburg the ad-
vantages of church federation.
The Rev. George f. Schaum, pastor
of the Harris Street United Evangeli-
cal Church, presided. The Rev. DIR.
Robert Bagnell, pastor of the Grace
Methodist Church, had charge of the
opening services. The address of the
evening was made by the Rev. DIR. w.
L. Nudge. pastor of the Failing
Springs Church, of Chambersburg,
and a brother of the Rev. Lewis S.
Nudge. of the Pine Street Presby-
terian Church.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-25
Simple Way To
End Dandruff

There is one sure way that has
never failed to remove dandruff at
once. and that is to dissolve 1t, then
you destroy it entirely. To do this,
just get about four ounces of plain,
common liquid arvon from any drug
store (this is all you will need), ap-
ply it at night when retiring; use
enough to moisten the scalp and rub
1t in gently with the finger tips.
BY morning, most. if not all, OF
your dandruff will be gone, and
three or four more applications will
completely dissolve and entirely de-
stroy every single sign and trace of
it, no matter how much dandruff
you may have.
You will find all itching and dig
ging of the scalp will stop instant
ly, and your hair will be fluffy, lus-
trous, glossy, silky and soft, and
look and feel hundred times bet
ter-AdV,