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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-08
THE SPRING STYLE SHOW
HARRIsBURG merchants, with
i i characteristic optimism, are

HARRIsBURG merchants, with
i i characteristic optimism, are
planning for the opening of
their spring style show on March Il
regardless of the snowdrifts that give
the city all the appearance of mid
winter. The opening will be an oc-
casion of popular interest. Thousands
of people will throng the streets of
the several business districts to see
the lights turned on simultaneously in
the gaily decorated windows, but the
spectacular is really very small,
though attractive, part of the event.
The big thing is that Harrisburg
merchants have laid in such large and
varied and attractive stocks for the
spring trade that they are eager to
place their wares before their patrons
for inspection. They are so proud of
their choice of goods that they are
seeking this opportunity to let the
people know what they have. This is
good sign. If a man is an enthusiastic
believer in what he has to sell, it is
ten to one he has something very we'll
worth buying. So it will pay the
shoppers of the city to give attention
to the spring opening from the stand
point of dollars and cents.
1t is worthy of note, too, that the
opening is a cooperative effort. The
old idea of every fellow for himself
and the devil take the hindmost" no
longer prevails in Harrisburg retail
trade. Every merchant is willing to
take ideas from every other mer-
chant. The principle of "live and let
live" prevails to very large extent
The merchants have found as a gen.
eral thing that what is good for one
is good for all. Sauce for the goose is
sauce for the gander Working to-
gether for great spring style show is
much better for all of them and much
more desirable from the standpoint of
the shopping public than the old-time
hit-or-miss method of Spring OPEN
ings" one at time and each store
striving to out-do the one that had
gone before in the way of music and
other attractions.
Also, the uniform spring opening is
big buy-at-home lesson for the pub
lie. Harrisburg people owe it to their
merchants to see what they have to
offer before purchasing elsewhere. Do
your shopping in Harrisburg and keep
the money circulating here, is the
motto of those who are arranging the
big show.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-08

the battle fleet steams out of our har-
bors we may conclude that operations
on American soil can begin after
about four weeks, and it cannot he
doubted that the United States will
not be able to oppose to us within
own.
Held Our Army Cheaply
At present the regular army of the
United States amounts to $4,000 men,
of whom about 10000 could be dis
posed of. OF these at least 10000 are
required for watching the Indian ter
ritories and for guarding the fortifica-
tions on the sea coast. Therefore,
only about 10000 men of the regular
army are ready for war. Besides,
about 100000 militia are in existence,
of whom the larger part did not come
up when they were called out during
the last war. Lastly, the militia is, not
efficient; it is partly armed with muz-,
zle leaders and it's training is worse
than it's armament.
''The Americans will not feel in
clined to conclude peace because one
or two provinces are occupied by an
army of invasion, but because of the
enormous material losses which the
whole country will suffer if the Allan
tic harbor towns, in which the
threads of the whole prosperity of the
torn away from them one after the
other.
Would Levy Tribute
Therefore, the task of the fleet
would be to undertake a series of
large landing operations, through
which we are able to take several of
these important and wealthy towns
within a brief space of time. BY in
terrupting their communications by
DESTROYING all buildings serving the
state, commerce and the defense, by
taking away all material for war and
transport, and, lastly, by levying
heavy contributions, we should be
able to infiict damage on the United
States.
with the coast cities and the capi-
tai occupied the republic would
crumble. We should have no need to
occupy the country as a whole; that
would be too large a task and would
give us no advantage. Our purpose
would be accomplished when we had
secured a dominating control over the
policy of the United States"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-08
Armour Makes Men Love Him

]. o. Armour, the well-known pack
er of Chicago, takes a great personal
interest in his men, and they reflect
that interest. In an article written by
Merle Crowell for the February Amer
lean Magazine, this is said:
"'J. o. takes an intimate interest
in the daily life of his men away from
the office. Subordinates in other cities
do not escape him. He knows just
how many children most of his branch
managers have, where they are being
educated and how they are getting
along.
His memory is prodigious. He
asks questions continuously and seems
to retain everything he hears.
when his men go on the pension
roll on account of illness or old age, it
often happens that their pensions are
not large enough to pay medical bills
or other extra expenses and support
their families in comfort. In such
cases j. o. makes up plentiful bal
ance from his personal account-and
there is only the instinct of the men
to tell them whence comes the sur
plus. Usually when Mr.. Armour hears
of a new baby arriving in the family
of one of his employees he replenishes
the fathers pocketbook with a suit
able sized check. Incidentally, he has
had more youngsters named after him
than fall often to the lot of a Presi-
Dental candidate"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-08
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

w. E. Wolfram. long head of the
projectile department of the Bethle-
hem works, has resigned. His EN-
ployes gave him wath.
The Rev. w. H. Lindemuth,
prominent Wilkes-Ba pastor, has
refused to accept a call to a larger
charge in Philadelphia.
Charles l.. Huston, the Coates
Vile manufacturer, led the fight to
make that city dry.
p. Judge M. B. Stephens, of the Cam
bria courts, says lawyers must be in
court on time or take the chances of
having cases go over.
George S. Webster, Philadelphia's
director of wharves, docks and ferries,
has returned from a visit to New Or
leans where he inspected docks and
belt lines.
Francis B. Reeves, Philadelphia
banker, has written a book on Rus
sia, where he travelled several years
ago.
Judge II. C. Quigley. of the Cen
ter County courts, used to be an en-
thusiastic National Guardsman.
General A. ]. Logan, of Pitts
burgh, who went south for his health,
after returning from the border, has
rapidly and will be here
next week.
&C. II. Forster, formerly of thiA
city and Lebanon, has been madS
treasurer of the Superior Steel Corpo-
ration.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-08
FEEDING BELGIUM

LIVERY ship that goes to the bottom
II accentuates the difficulty of feed
ing the helpless people of Bel
GUM. This despite the fact that the
problem of provisioning the vast and
hungry population grows apace.
Hoover of Belgium" the American
who has managed the relief work in
the invaded kingdom. is in the United
States to solve the shipping question,
but before he can use the ships he
must have money with which to buy
the supplies. A penny a day from
~very person in the United States is
needed, he says, unless countless men,
women and little children are to die
for lack of food. A million and a
quarter is not much to raise in a rich,
prosperous country like this. Are we
going to let little children starve for
the sake of a miserable, miserly penny
a day? Are We?
What's the difference between send
ing little ones to the bottom with a
torpedo or letting them die linger-
ing death of starvation?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-08
OUR LAW SUPERIOR

eagerness of labor unions to
= have railroad men working on
interstate lines brought with
in the scope of the Pennsylvania
compensation law serves to illustrate
the superiority of the Pennsylvania
statute as compared with the federal
compensation law.
There was great rejoicing when the
United States Supreme Court on
Tuesday ruled that residents of other
States injured in New York are en-
titled to benefits under the New York
law, because it was believed that as
a result railroad men of other States
injured in Pennsylvania would then
come in for compensation under the
law of this State and that all inter-
state commerce workers, whether
residents of this Commonwealth or
not, would be entitled to benefits in
Pennsylvania if injured or killed
within the borders of this Common
wealth.
From the working mans stand
point the Pennsylvania law is much
better than the federal statute. Tn
der our compensation act the injured
workman receives just compensation
without the necessity of court trial.
There is no doubt about it. The
money is forthcoming as soon as the
referee can act.
1t is just as we'll to remember that
this law was passed by Republican
Legislature and fathered and signed
by a Republican Governor, whose
name is Brumbaugh.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-08
fectives in the community. Learn how
the evil may be cured-and then do
your part toward curing 1t.
FARM BUREAU APPROPRIATIONS

County Commis-
~ sioners have followed the eS-
ample of the commissioners of
Dauphin county by appropriating
$1,000 for the expenses of the new
farm bureau of that county. The
commissioners of both counties acted
with commendable promptness in set
ting aside money for these farm
agencies. The outlay is justified. The
cash will be put to good use. Better
farming conditions, which in the end
will result in higher valuations. will
return to the county far more than the
annual expense involved. The farm
bureau is no experiment. 1t has been
tried out with success in many places.
Cumberland and Dauphin are FORUM
ate in having commissioners who un-
derstand the situation and who are
willing to set aside money to bring
this instrumentality for good into their
own communities.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-08
Rhymes From the Nursery

love to paint with colors bright,
The pictures in old books,
1 love to put some blue on sky,
And then see how it looks.
love to stick my brush in green,
And paint a bit of grass;
Or with some yellow smear a dish,
And make it look like brass.
love to get lot of red,
And paint up some boys head;
Red hair is sort of classic,
At least, so sister said.
1 love to stick my brush in black,
And paint a passing cloud;
1t looks so natural when I'm done,
You hear the thunder loud!
Now I have just old magazines,
And paints that cost a dime;
But when I'm growed I'll have oil
paints
N on canvas paint sublime!
EDNA CROFT DEIHL.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-08
Labor Notes


Holland mines about 100000 tons
of coal a year, about one-fifth of its
requirements.
Twice as many women as men are
employed in the cigar factories of
New York.
A grant of s25 year has been made
to female teachers by the Moffatt
(Scotland) School Board.
Included in the mobilization of
working women in Germany is also a
plan for mobilizing educated women.
City hackney drivers have applied
to the Derry Oreland) Corporation
for leave to increase their fares.
Shipowners of Newcastle, England,
have voted 1000 pounds toward the
equipment of a school for wireless
telegraphy.
Armenia has a copper mine that
has been operated without Interrupt
ton since prehistoric times.
1t is claimed that 10000 policemen
can be modified in New York in IL
hours to meet any emergency.
Lady Londonderry urges the enroll
ing of suitable women as British
Army cooks and mattresses, and thus
do their bit.
1t is proposed in Toronto, Canada
to establish a pensions scheme fund for
civic employees.
Medical regulation and licensing OF
BARRIERS are proposed in a bill intro
duced in the Pennsylvania Legisla-
ture.
The Journeymen Tailors' Union has
determined to abolish the contract
system from the tailoring industry in
San Francisco.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-08
THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH s

beg you tohateUer be your suffer
ing, to learn first of all that God does
not mean to take your Sorroio of, but
to put strength into you, that you may
be able to carry it. Be sure your sor-
rolo is not yielding you its best, un-
less it makes you a more thoughtful
person than you hare euer been before.
-PHILLIPs BROOKS.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-08
Bow to Glory of Iesus

Wherefore God also hath highly ex-
allied Him. and given Him a name which
is above every name: that at the name
of Jesus every knee should bow. of
sningS ad IN ndnr de the earts ana tba
every tongue should confess that Jesus
Christ is Lord. the glory of God the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-08

Gomez ought to have taken a lesson
from the course of ex-Presidents of the
United States. who manage to get lot
of fun, money and honor despite their
retirement to private life.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-08
WELCOME
Relief.

WELCOME
RELIEF.
I see your
boat was chased
by a submarine
Were the pas
sengers fright
ened7
oh, no, On the
contrary t h g y
were hoping q
torpedo would
hit the ship. 1t
was very rough
and everybody
was seasick-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-08
The Zebra of Peace

[From the New York world.1
If they paint up an American ship
that way to win the privilege of creep
ing into and out of Falmouth once a
week the dove of peace will have re-
signed in favor of the zebra
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-08

to-day to the plans of Mayor Smith for
q convention hall that will not be
large. The Ledger demands a real
one. The rest of the State is inclined
to the Ledger view as convention at
Philadelphia interests the whole State.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-08

the contamination of streams the Sem
ate might dispose of LaFolette and
Stone by dumping them into the Po-
tomac.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-08
A Puzzling Question

Well, IL nothing else happens, the
seizure of the Appam by American
customs officers has at last aroused Gu
riosity as to why the Navy Department
ever named a revenue cutter Yama-
,craw.-Indianapolis News
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-08

If there are any regrets after death,
we imagine Napoleon has 'em when he
hears of himself as being compared
with the Kaiser.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-08

Don't miss visiting the Predetermined
exhibit in Walnut street. You are pay
ing your share of maintaining the
menace of a growing number of de-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-08
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg sells big quan-
titles of knit goods to the West?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-08

HISTORIC HARRISBURG
One hundred years ago Harrisburg
had dozen taverns and was leather
trade center.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-08

Won't somebody please wake up the
Groundhog?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-08

All of which is doubtless true and
very comforting, but offers no relief
for present hardships. Starving to
death because of an actual food short
age might be excusable and its suffer
ing mitigated by the thought that all
were doomed to the same fate by un-
controllable circumstances. but starv-
ing to death in a land of plenty, in or
der that our provisions may be ex-
ported or that INSCRIPTIONS brokers
may exact their pound of flesh. that is
quite another matter. What boots II
how much food there be if its price is
out of the reach of the common pock-
etbook?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-08

E.J. E.J.STACKPOLE.P Prss't and Editor-in.C Chief
+. r. OYSTER, Business Manager
GUS M. STEINMETZ. MGndging Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-08
EASY TO CONQUER
AMERICA
BY BRIGGS

German General Staff Schemed to Subjugate United
States Kaiser's Advisers Looked to an
Easy Conquest
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-08

All of this stress by the public
press directed toward the future
danger of food shortage is at pres
ent false alarm. The city con-
sumer realizes only the food in
sight. If a number of food staples
continue in scant supply for a sea-
son, he jumps to the conclusion that
the producer has reached the limit
of his producing power.
If the land seeded to wheat
beans, potatoes and corn last year
in this country and Canada had
produced maximum instead of mini
mum crops, even the unusual for
eign demand would have been taxed
to find an outlet for these staple
food crops. The farmer has ad-
vanced beyond the point where he
is now unwilling to sow and reap
Is beyond the needs of market re-
quirements merely for the sake of
overfiowing his barns and ware
houses. Like other manufacturers,
the farmer now prefers to limit his
crop acreage to meet the probable
requirements of consumption in his
selling zone.
When there is a staple demand
for two blades where one now
grows" double production will be
hcoming-whenever there is
profit in it for the producer. 1t IS
much. too soon to get excited over
transient food shortage even
though a combination of circum-
stances has put several food staples
in the class of luxuries.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-08

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.,
telegraph Building. Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-08

Holland mines about 100000 tons
of coal a year, about one-fifth. of its
requirements.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-08

A NUISANCE.
Giraffe: Con-
found t h o S e
aeroplanes, al
ways knocking
peoples hats off.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-08
A LINGERING DEATH

TN the opinion of the editor OF
Farm and Fireside, an authori-
tive farming journal, starving
Uncle Sam would be a very lingering
death. About a thousand years is the
Farm and Fireside estimate. The
writer disposes of the food famine
scare in this wise:
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-08

A grant of s25 year has been made
to female teachers by the Moffatt
(Scotland) School Board.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-08

Twice as many women as men are
employed in the cigar factories of
New York.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-08

Included in the mobilization of
working women in Germany is also a
plan for mobiliZing educated women.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-08

City hackney drivers have applied
to the Derry (Ireland) Corporation
for leave to increase their fares.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-08

DIR. d. K. Santee has been elected
to fill vacancy in the South Bethle-
hem town council.
ZEX-County Chairman PETER. of
Cumberland county, is the subject of
an interesting story of how he was
barred from the Capitol at Washing
ton because some did not like his
looks. That is nothing An eminent
Harrisburger did not get by the White
House gates without some explaining.
The Philadelphia Ledger objects
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-08

TINE eagerness of labor unions to
= have railroad men working on
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-11-05
THE HELPLESS ONES.

Our sympathy these days goes
out to the man with small sal
airy, He is being squeezed be-
tween the millstones. On the one
hand. there are the greedy prof.
tccr> in the necessities Of life. and
on the other the forces Of organ
wed labor who are compelling The
large employers to increase their
wages at time when there IS
heavier shortage Of labor than
was ever before known. There Is
no remedy for the small salaricd
man. or the professional men. or
any class including these. that is
unorganizcd.
Probably the coal situation IL
illustrates our point better than
anything. The government fixed
a price for coal at the mines, but
in order 10 avert a strike was
Obliged to increase This price. the
consumer of course, to pay the
increase. This procedure Is not
calculated to increase the CONT
dcncc Of the people in the wis
dom Of the democratic admins
tration at Washington. Govern
ment control will not, be worth
much if these methods continue.
We are by no means certain that
The loud noise at Helena is to pro-
ducc worth while results.
We have been hopeful that the
cost Of living would be reduced
materially following the an
nounccment of the president last
summer that the public would not
be expected to pay higher prices
than the government paid for
commodities.
The coal situation indicates that
President Wilson is having great
difficulty in carrying out this
plan. The greed and cunning OF
the coal barons outweigh their
patriotism and the government IS
bctraying weakness Or lncompc-
tcncy in handling them. The re-
duction in price on few COM
modities is 50 small as To be Of lit
tie benefit 10 the public.
We can offer no prophecies
save one, and that is that the
president, to quote from his Lusl-
tania note to Germany, will "be
held to a strict accountability"
for his promises. He must work
out his own methods for killing
proiitecring on the public as well
as on the government.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-11-05
MONDAY. NOVEMBER 5, 1917.
AND NllssOu'LA SANG.

The first gathering Of the COM
munity chorus was a splendid
success. OF those who came
quite onc-third were too late for
seats. That was the ONLY r'grat.
reminding us again Of Missonla's
need of an auditorium for popular
meetings.
The response wa, big, cnthusi-
astic, inspiring. II revealed in
abundant measure The sound
heart Of the community. The
spirit, We know, is right and WE
rejoice that it found expression
that moved hearts.
The first meeting WAS. We pre-
dick. but the beginning of big
movement in. AIissoula to bring
our people together, to cultivate
Il community Of interests. to work
Tor the common purpose OF a
greater. happier and more pros
porous city, II is the spirit that
makes a Golden Rule town.
We knoWth a neeu Vas found
and filled. Now, let us move to-
gcthcr 10 the next stage and make
the community chorus a fixture
III ourtlife. II is easy. We only
need to meet and sing Us we did
Lost night to bring manifold bless
ings. II will keep our blood
coursing in these trying days of
war. We will come to know one
another better and III the end we
will have q much finer citizen
ship. Let us call it a duty.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-11-05
WHY GROW OLD?
By Helen Rowland


Is. &saaa
And the abovehe fluff,
wearing; it's bunch
p
burning cigarette
she rnonosammed.
the imported noasaes glamour a. 81
THAT Grandnanma--todayg-
jolly we'll succeeding
is fourn of youth cheeks
And dainty little French slippers size too small for her
nobod original hair
OUGHT black bombazne bone tied
And carrying lozenses pocket
srectacles her children spelling
80.
Grandmamna
wrinkles before US.
OF
:.
everything OUGHT be
own husbands!
bless the touch OF
nd sin Of soaking ourselves in snchet
And the shocking immodesy modern so"ns
pasimcs frivolties
10 little
II o meantme!
bantns dieting keeping her figure and her
cul,ains
elcphantnsis 5 Il . )
And filing her dancing and clubs
are in the low Of; the morning
her mental Srnh
Never ntaeaeb fade
arteries osif. Vs.ts y
Never NEVER to die at, ASEs
Heaven Grand,amma fotiJ BRICK and a thoroughbred
Growing es stupid ISN'T .sss done
Heaven bless tirandnmnma for refusing to be Granny!