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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-25
Colored Troops on Guard

Camp Dix, at Wrightstown, N. j.,
will place about 5000 troops within
the next ten days or two weeks.
Great preparations are being made
for their arrival.
Food is the first consideration, but
uniforms for the men will begin to
arrive within a few days and there
will be little delay for the drafted
troops from New Jersey, Delaware
and New York in getting into khaki
after their arrival.
The arrival of 1000 negro regulars
to do police duty at the cantonment
has made a perceptible difference in
order around and on the camp site.
National Guardsmen of the Second
Regiment, many of them rockies"
of few days military experience.
have been guarding the camp and
supplies and have been doing it sat-
isfactorily, but there is a precision
and decfsiveness about the work of
the regulars that breeds a sudden
respect of military authority, es-
pecially among the cosmopolitan
hordes of laborers employed about
the camp.
one or the rules or the cantonment
is against smoking, because of the
danger from fire among the lumber
piles and the frame barracks. The
guards have been more or less willing
to wink at infractions of this rule
and when negro troopers to-day
threatened to arrest employees of sub
contractors who were smoking while
at work, they nearly precipitated a
riot. The protests never phased the
troopers. They referred bosses and
workmen alike to the white officers
in charge OF the troops. They said
the orders from headquarters were
that the rule against smoking is to
be enforced rigidly hereafter, and
that any persons found violating the
order, be they contractors, employees
or visitors. could expect to be placed
under arrest and taken to the guard
house
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-25
Baneful Heredity

If may not be out of place, during
the present agitation in behalf Of
eugenic marriages, to refer to DR..
Henry H. Goddards investigations of
the history of notorious New York
family, whose real name, while
known, he suppresses. The first
member of the family came from
good English ancestry, but he be-
came the father of son who, like
his mother. was feeble-minded. This
son, though he married mentally
normal woman. had five children,
totally irresponsible and vicious. Fol-
lowing the record of the family to
the present, the tendency to imbe-
cility and moral decay is clearly dis
cernible. Practically all descendants
-4S0 in all-proved to be defective
in some particular. and became
charges of various charitable or
penal institutions at great expense to
the states in question. 1t would
seem that too much care cannot be
exercised in the all-important mat
ter of fitness for MARRIAGE true
union, productive of the best results
Altoona Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-25
TO HELP YOU "HOOVERIZE"

THE average woman who had
depended on servants for over
thirty years would not consider
life worth living without them. But
Mrs. Homer Reed, of Seventy-sixth
and Main streets, declares that she
never enjoyed a summer as much as
she has this, when she has kept no
help whatever.
Il wanted q vacation without man
or maid" she said, "and this summer
l did what always longed to do;
I did all my own cooking, and
really have had the best time in the
world. What 1 know about econo-
miZing would make a war cook book,
and Mr.. Hoover has nothing on me
when it comes to this subject.
Economy is all in management
For instance. If l am going to put
the oven on the oil stove / plan ev-
erything for breakfast that can be
cooked in that oven. / heat my
shredded wheat, moisten stale rolls
or bread, and reheat in the oven, and
then have either shirred eggs or eggs
sur reclat. or some dish that re-
quires oven cooking.
Zone thing 1 have discovered: we
need only half the variety at a meal
that we think we do. We find thai
fewer things, we'll cooked, are rel
ished much more.
"I started housekeeping, when my
first child was six months old, with
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-25

two maids. That was more than
thirty years ago, and since that time
I never have been without servants
until this summer, when my fam
lily became small enough for me 70
take the kind of vacation I had al
ways wanted, taking care of my own
house and doing my own cooking.
For the first time in my married life
] felt 1 was really the lady of my
house.
Mrs. Reed comes of good old
Quaker stock, and the receipts she
has given are ones used by the Penn
sylvania Quakers. The first is sim
pie and, economical. 1t is frizzled
dried beef, and If made the way
Mrs. Reed serves it, is quite good
enough for company. Have small
amount of dried beef shaved very
fine; have a skillet piping hot and
put into it little dripping. Tear the
beef in shrcds and let 1t cook In
the grease until it begins to sizzle.
Then dredge lightly with -four aud
pour in all the cream you can spare.
Stir till it thickens slightly.
Mrs. Reeds fried tomatoes are a
little out of the usual. Cut in half
unpeeled tomatoes and dredge with
-four and salt and pepper. Cook in
drippings with the skin side down
until the tomato is cooked nearly
through; then brown lightly on the
cut side. Add as much sweet cream
as you can spare, and serve.-Kan-
sas City Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-25

say in behalf of the Secretary of
Labor that neither that department
hor the Department of Justice would
construe the food-control bill as for
bidding strikes and peaceful picket
:ne."
The plain language of the bill and
all its implications arc quite the
other way, however. Yet the execu-
tive departments, in advance of any
attempt to apply this feature of the
law, take pains to announce authori-
;atively that they will not act under
its language.e
1t may be found that such a course
Is not within their control. Mr..
Hoover may not be willing to have
his powers so perfunctorily disposed
of. A strike may occur in which he
or some party even more in interest
may undertake to invoke the provi-
sions of the food-control bill. Is an
act of Congress to be nullifled merely
because two secretaries in the Presi-
dents Cabinet have agreed in ad-
vance that they will not try to en-
fore it? If it was not good law, as
many contend then it should not
have been enacted.
Hero Is involved a grave question,
which may affect other and more
important laws. If q Secretary of
Labor or an Attorney General may
thus play fast and loose with fed
eral law, even before it is put upon
the statute books, what may they
not doT Are statutes to be construed
by prosecuting officers and minister
ial functionaries or by the courts?
Are laws made TO be executed or
are they written to remain in irno-
cuous desuetude? in short have we
a government of laws or OF men?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-25
When War Comes

Probably every man in the United
States has thought more about his
family in the last three months than
ever before in his life-more seri-
ously, 1 mean. 1t has been a great
time for the quiet revaluation Of
family ties. To me it has been rather
n revelation. have always sup
posed that 1 was unusually loyal to
my parents and my brothers and
sisters.
L write to my mother regularly,
and have always cnipped in when
any one of the folks has been in a
tight place. But 1 woke up with a
start yesterday to the realization that
in all these weeks when my decision
has been forming Il haven't thought
of any of them once. All my
thought has been of her and of Peter.
1t brought home to me how much
more she nfeans in my life than any
of the other members of my family
yes, more than all of them to-
gether. 1 don't suppose anything in
the world could have made 1t quite
so terribly clear to me-anything ex-
cept her death. The war will not
be all loss to me, no matter how
much it costs. IL only I can come
back and have some years in which
to make her as happy as know at
this minute she deserves to be-
American Magazine.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-25
COLONEL KENIPER

TTUNDREDS of fIieutenant Colonel
II James b. Kemper's friends in
Harrisburg and countless others
throughout Pennsylvania will rejoice
over his promotion within six months
from captain to his present rank in
the United States regular army.
Colonel Kemper has won for him
self an enviable place in the military
history of Pennsylvania. Coming
here with a fine record for active
service as the youngest captain in
the army, he displayed remarkable
ability in assisting the National
Guard officers of Pennsylvania to
weld the infantry branch of the State
service into what was pronounced at
the Mexican border last fall as the
most perfect fighting machine de-
veloped in America since the Civil
War" At Mount Gretna he mus
tered the Pennsylvania Division into
the national service more quickly and
efficiently than it was thought pos
sible, daring the displeasure of Ger
tain Guard officers to do so, thereby
making new record for work of the
kind and winning for himself lieu
tenant colonelcy in our own Eighth
Regiment, a rank he dropped when
the Guard returned to the State
service.
As major in charge of one of the
battalions at Madison Barracks he
repeated his Mount Gretna record
and opens his headquarters at the
new national army camp to-day with
a task of organization before him
that none who realize the difficulties
of forming an efficient army from
raw recruits will envy. But he takes
with him the best wishes of thou
sands of Pennsylvanians for the sue
cess they know will be his.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-25
Sanrnies

History records that American
troops were first called Sammies in
France, and History has put her
foot in it, not for the first time.
An eye-and-ear witness of the land
ing now reports that what the
French crowd shouted was not Sam
mee!" but mos amis!"-pronounce
nose ammee," and, by interpreta-
tion, our friends" Some bYstander
caught part of the outcry.s Hence
''Sammee." Hence in its turn
Sammy"
Our troops are not pleased with
the sobriquet. They protest. We
foresaw their indignation and print
ed on this page several weeks ago
some paragraphs entitled Nix on
Sammy" But the sobriquet sticks.
We doubt if Samson" proposed as
a substitute, will manage to sup
plant 1t, nor do we quite see why 1t
should. Already the nickname has
become glorious. 1t has the dignity
of an honorific title. At the same
time 1t has the endearing jollity of
slap on the back.
Bear up, Sammy! T. Atkins, once
hated being n Tommy. Look at him
now. There was a blunder at your
christening. Admitted. But we guess
that if Sammy" ever failed to re-
fleet credit on you, you are now re-
tiecting abundant credit on Sam
my. ."-Chicago Tribune.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-25
, Let Women Wear Trousers
By Briggs

Katherine Clemmons Gould. who
once spent $4,000 year for dresses
alone, is living the more simple
life. Her appearance now is that
of. an attractive business wom-
an, nattily but not strikingly
dressed, self-reliant in attitude, of
strong personality and a keen OBJ
server of human nature and more
or less of philosopher as to life, aft
er having seen more of its angles.
She talked about her trip, war and
fashions. and the woman of the fu-
ture.
The war and troublous times are
bringing women back to their
Senses" she said. 81 hope 1t smashes
square on the head the fashions of
high heels, face paint, brazenness
and brainlessness on the part of
women. 1t will open up business to
women and tends to make women
sensible and independent
women are wearing trousers
more, and it is a good thing to do
In sports, at work. in the home or
shop, or in motoring or hunting. I
don't want to see skirts banished, but
women should wear trousers when
they are more convenient. They are
more modest than these outlandish
dress creations of to-day. I noticed
in the West that most women mo-
toring wore trousers. s."-Exchange.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-25
Washington's Integrity Proved

In many ways George Washington
is shown, with the passing years, to
have been a man of undoubted hon.
esty, with a genius for doing his very
best. Recently his work as surveyor
in the Virginia wilderness for Lord
Fairfax, in 1881, was checked up
by the government surveyors, who
found it perfect. Washington, with
the most primitive surveying equip
ment, left landmarks and bounda-
ries. which the most expert mod
ern surveyors have found absolutely
correct. The government has been
retracing the old lines because it is
buying lands in that territory for
the new Appalachian forest reserve,
and after close investigation has seen
no reason for making even the
slightest alteration in the original
boundary lines. That Washington's
thoroughness should be vindicated
after the lapse of so many years. is
but a renewed illustration of the
scriptural precept: "Seest thou a
man diligent in his business? he
shall stand before kings, he shall
not stand before mean men,. Al
itoona Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-25

the administrative end of the work.
What they have done has been
largely experimental. Next season
they will stand'upon firm ground and
many improvements may be expected
as a result of the summers expert
ence and a winter of careful study.
One thing that must be broken up
this year and entirely prevented next
summer is the thefts that have dis
couraged those who brought their
gardens to perfection only to have
their efforts nullihed by the sneak
thieves who have looted many of the
plots. The city owes these garden
ers police protection just as surely
as it owes them protection OF their
home properties. If Chief wetzel
does his full duty he will see to it
that his officers give these gardens
more attention and several officers
should bo detailed for this work,
even If some of the residential dis
tr!cts have to be patrolled little
less systematically as q result. The
time is short. a month at least, and
the gardens must be protected. Next
spring City Council should provide
money for special watchmen and at
least $1,000 for war garden purposes,
in addition to whatever amount tho
Chamber Of Commerce may set aside
for the work.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-25
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

j. Henry Holcomb, long iden-
tilted with the States Grand Army
of the Republic organization, has
been reappointed custodian of the
records by the national commander.
General c. NJ. Clement will have
his three sons in his division when
1t is assembled at Augusta.
Ex-Governor John K. Tener was
here short time a day or so ago,
having attended the State convention
of the Elks at Shamokin.
james A. Carey. who is causing
somewhat of stir in Philadelphia
politics just now, is mercantile ap-
praiser.
Frederick B. Shipp, who was
general secretary of the Pittsburgh
Y. M. c. A, will direct work of the
association in France after this
month.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-25
CITY Ears More Acute

That the country youth is not able
to hear so well as his city brother.
and that only about one in five Of
the former possess the auricular
acuteness of the city-bred lad is the
opinion of officers at the head of
Marine Corps recruiting in Washing
ton. Their deductions are based on
the number of country boys rejected
for poor hearing.
Many persons believe that the con-
tinual jarring noises of the city have
a tendency to dull the sensitiveness
of the nerve centers. However, this
is not borne out by the figures OF the
Marine Corps officers. who believe
that the quiet life of the country.
free from noises, has tendency to
weaken. through disuse. the respon-
sive nerves in the ear.
Scientists point to innumerabls
parallels in nature where the disuse
of an organ gradually reduces tts
functioning power or eliminates it
altogether. The blind fishes in the
dark pools of Mammoth cave are =
notable example.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-25
FAST AND LOOSE WITH LAW

A MONG the few Senators who
II voted against the food-control
bill on its final test was Mr..
Hollis, Democrat, of New Hamp-
shire. who based his objection to the
conference report on the ground that
the conferees had eliminated his
amendment which would permit
strikes during the period of the laws
operation and had left the measure
in such shape that it forbids the
quitting of employment by men
whose occupations are essentially
connected with the production and
distribution of foods. feeds and fuel.
Senator Husting. of Wisconsin,
sought TO reassure his New Hamp-
shire friend. He had, he said, taken
counsel of the administration; and he
stated that he was authorized" to
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-25
He Was at the Front

The hobo knocked at the back
door and the lady of the house ap-
peared. Lady" he said. "I was at
the 'front.'"
You poor mani" she exclaimed.
zone of wars victims. Wait till I
set you some food, and you shall
tell me your story. You were in the
trenches, you say2''
mot in the trenches. was at the
'front.'"
Don't try to talk with your
mouth full. Take your time. What
deed of heroism did you do at the
front?'
why, I knocked; but I couldn't
make nobody hear. so 1 came around
to the back."-People's Home Jour-
nal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-25
SHORTER, SCANTIER

~ ONE of our editorial friends
profess to be amazed and
shocked by the announcement
Of Queen Fashion that skirts are to
be shorter and scantier than ever
this fall. We don't believe they feel
so badly about it as they profess.
We rather guess they are casting
their eyes about for a first glimpse
of the new models. Perhaps they
are married men and have to write
that way to convince their wives
of their ld-fashioned notions.
But as for'us, we decline absolute
ly and positively, now and once for
all, to get excited even though skirts
become as scant as those OF the lead
ing lady in the fieshling costume IN
the front row of the new musical
comedies. We have done all the
raving over women's dress we ever
intend to do.
When the slit skirt flashed into
fashion VIC depiored lack of modesty
IN modern women and when the
transparent costume came into be-
ing we expressed the opinion that
society and human nature were to-
gether bound hand-in-hand for the
eternal bow-wows.
But nothing of the kind has hap
pened, Every so often Queen Fash
ion does something shocking just to
demonstrate that whatever other
crowned rulers may fall, she at least
is still on the throne and powerful
as ever. And just to prove the point,
women for the moment forsake
modesty, good looks and proper re-
gard for the properties to grovel al
the feet of the imperial dame.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-25
And We Would Burn IT.!
IPhllodelphia Record.I

lFnlluuelpHld ttccOIu.l
It's a very good wind that blows
an i'll to nobody. The lean garbage
can has brought woe to the Amer
ican soapmakers much of whose raw
material has hitherto been obtained
from the fats and oils recovered out
of the waste of our cities. A depu-
tation of soapmakers has been in
Washington, asking permission to in
crease prices or to reduce the size
of their bars and cakes-preferably
both. Thus. the public would have
to pay for what 1t saves out of the
garbage can or go unwashed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-25
SATURDAY EVENING. AUG. 25

If should be asked to 0ive iohat
considered the most important
piece of ddrice I could 0ipe, it
toould be this: Say, Yes, toiH,
and No, I tcont."-J. G. ScHURMAN.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-25
Conserve Food

Each year Americans throw thou
sands of tons of rice at uncomfort-
able brides and bridegrooms, which
the hungrJ of France and other
European countries would be CRATE
full to have. The practice is little less
than sinful and should be abolished
Altoona Tribune.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-25
Good Material

"Then this" asked rejected James,
"is absolutely final?"
quite" was Dorothy's calm re-
ply. Shall 1 return your letters,
james,"
yes, please" Answered poor
James. There's some good material
in them that 1 can use again.
Awgwan.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-25
Moral Pacihsts

A man has been arrested in
Wichita for advising soldiers not to
go to Germany. He is the kind of a
patriot, no doubt, who feels that Sf
nobody else goes to war. he will not
have to go. To paraphrase an old
expression: Physical cowardice
makes moral pacifists of us ALL
Kansas City Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-25

cuous desuetude? In short have we
a government of laws or of r1en?
THIS YEAR AND NEXT
"HE agricultural committee of the
Harrisburg Chamber of Com
merce very wisely has urged
upon the Chamber the continuance
of war garden supervision next year.
Under the direction of Shirley B.
Watts, whose practical experience
along the line of vegetable growing
made his services invaluable in the
work of laying out, distributing and
keeping in condition the garden plots,
thousands of dollars worth of all
manner of truck have been raised
this year. Scores of families have
been supplied at the cost of few
dollars each and their own indi-
vidual efforts, and the supply of
vegetables has been greatly increased
and other foods conserved. Thou
sands of cans have been packed for
winter use and many bushels of po-
tatoes have been harvested and more
will be taken up shortly for storage.
But important as the war gardens
have been in the economic scheme of
things this year. their vital impor-
tance will not be realized until next
year, and the year following. and the
year after that. for even if peace
should come in the meantime the
shortage of food caused by the war
will not have been made up for three
or four years at the very least. Next
summer and the winter to follow will
witness the export of tremendous
quantities of all manner of food
stuffs to Europe and the war gar
dens must be depended upon in a
measure to make up this deficiency.
There are other reasons, also, why
the thousands of little gardens scat
tered over the land must be brought
into being next spring. Truckers who
found 1t difficult to get what they
regard as fair prices for certain lines
of vegetables, such as lettuce. rad
ishes. onions, tomatoes, beans, peas
and the like, on account of the large
increase of homegrown produce, will
not plant so generously next year.
Thus the home garden must be con-
tlnued If a serious early vegetable
famine is to be avoided. Otherwise
the war gardens of this year in the
end would cause more harm than
good.
Then, too, there is no means OF
telling what next years grain crops
are going to be. They may be very
large, but there is the possibility, also
that they may be utter failures, in
which case the man who has nc
home garden to fall back upon will
not only nnd his living costs fright.
fully advanced, but his supply and
variety Of provisions seriously cur.
tailed.
So it is highly important. vital, In
deed, that Chairman Donald McCor
mick, his committee of the ChambeI
and superintendent Watts begin a
once to plan for next years fooC
campaign in Harrisburg. Few peopl,
know how much energy and none,
Chairman Mccormick has put per
sonally into this seasons work no
how carefully and systematicall,
j sunArintendent Watts has conducted
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-25
Hunger a Peacenaker

They are clearing jails and p.isons
in Hungary on account of the diff
Guilty in adequately feeding prison.
ers. From all indications. hunger is
going to be the great peacemaller in
Europe.-Baltimore American.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-25

1t begins to look as though the
only thing that would bring 50
wheat and the five-cent loaf of bread
together is this elastic currency the
financiers are always talking about.
Boston Transcript.