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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-16

In Stuarts Calcium Waters, the won
derful calcium sulphide at meals serves
to supply the blood with one of the
most remarkable actions known to
science This is its activity in keep
ing firm the tiny fbres that compose
even such minute muscles as those
which control the slightest change of
expression, such as the eyelids, lips
and so on 1t is this substance which
pervades the entire skin, keeps it
healthy and drives away impurities.
Get a so cent box of Stuarts Calcium
Waters at any drug store and learn the
great secret of facial beauty.
A free trial package will be mailed
If you send the coupon.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-16
ALUMNI To MEET

Lemoyne, Pa, March 16. = A meet
ing of the Lemoyne High School
Alumni Association will be held this
evening to complete plans for n con
cert by the Albright College Glee Club
to be held during the Easter season.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-16
British Destroyer Sinks
After Striking "a Mine
By associated Press

Dy .1SSUtIUItu 7 FtSS
London. March 16.-A British tor
pedo boat destroyer of an old type
struck a mine in the English channel
yesterday and was sunk, says an off,
cial announcement made this after
noon. All the officers We're saved. One
man was killed and IS sailors are
missing. 1t is presumed these men
were drowned.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-16
Once This Beauty
Had PimpIes
Stuart's Calcium Waters Proved
That Beauty Comes from the
Blood and from No
where Else.
Prove This with Free Trial
Packape

Plaster your skin all over and you'll
stop breathing in an hour. There is
only one way to remove pimples, black
heads, eruptions and eczema with its
rash and itch, and that is by the blood
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-16
BUREAU OF MARKETS BILL
GREAT MOVE IN THIS STATE

Through the Bureau of Markets
which is proposed as a division of the
Department of Agriculture in a bill
introduced by Senator william c.
Sproul a movement bigger than any
ever before undertaken in this State
will be inaugurated, says the bulletin
of the State Department of Agricul-
ture.
The Sproul bill calls for the estab-
lishment of a bureau which will be
of material aid to every resident of
Pennsylvania and which contem-
plates the landing of nearly half a
billion dollars worth of farm prod
ucts each year. The expense of con-
Quoting this bureau has been esti-
mated at anywhere from $4,000 to
$4,000 a year but it is expected to
make it more than self-sustaining
when it is well organized.
1t will be the duty of the Bureau
of Markets to advise as to shipments
of farm products in accordance with
the demands of the consumers in
various sections of the State and 1t
will act as a clearing house for the
crops produced on the farms of this
Comm 1t will prevent COM
mercializing in the sale and distribu-
ton as well as the gluttoning of the
market and gambling in food prod
ucts. 1t will also be the purpose of
the bureau to organize farmers CO.
operative marketing associations in
every section of the State and arrange
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-16
Rhymes From the Nursery
THE CULPRIT

SOlJE
was bad this morning, so I was,
1 picked some paper off the WALL
jest think.
And then I got at Daddy's desk,
And fore l knowed it, 1 had spilled
the ink!
And night time Daddy did come
home, he did,
And l jest shivered in my shoes!
And afterwhile he coined in orful
cross,
En- l pretended like to snooze.
1t didn't do no good, it didn't.
Daddy says, Whose ruined all my
papers up?"
En- just cried, and told lie,
N then he knowed! He grabbed me
like o pup,
N shocked me, and he looked me off
to bed,
En- l jest cried and cried and cried,
And Daddy said, "Tain't cause you
spilled the ink,
I'm punishin', but cause you lied"'
En- men he kissed me sort er sad,
And said, Goodnight, my boy!"
know he loves me,
Cause his eyes said so. I'm sorry
Cause l made my Daddy feel so
bad, you see,
It's all dark up here in my room;
hear
The children singing round the
house. They laugh
And run and shout! l think
They ought to sit real quiet and lei
me go to sleep.
It's orful when you lie about the ink
BY Edna Croft Delhi, PaXtang, Pa
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-16
By BRIGGS

for community shipping centers.
The bureau will establish rules and
regulations for the standardizing,
grading and labelling of farm prod
ucts and Pennsylvania grown fruits,
grains and vegetables will be adver-
tised throughout the country by this
label which will insure inspected
goods meeting with the State stand
ard.
The bureau will adopt a method of
advising as to the supply of food
products and will have records that
will show at all times where all kinds
of produce can be secured. This will
bring forth from the isolated dis
tricts much of the farm products that
have gone to waste for years and
will insure the farmers a market fol
all the crops of their farms. Through
this marketing work the production
of the State is expected to be ma
terially increased, as with the assur.
ance of q market for all the crops
they can raise, the incentive will be
offered the farmers in every section
whether near a large city or not, tc
raise more and better products.
For the marketing, labelling and
inspection service there will be g
small fractional fee charged. The
entire cost to the farmer however
will be very small, and his profits
through the cooperative work anC
the ability to market quickly will bC
large enough to more than care fol
the outlay.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-16
APPROPRIATE THE MONEY

NENERAL THOMAS ]. STEW
NJ ART, in active command of the
National Guard of Pennsylva-
mia, is one of the most conservative
army men in the country. Newspa-
permen know him to be close of mouth
and that he has always frowned dark
ly upon anything that smacked of SEN
sationalism with respect to the Guard.
His speech before the appropriations
committee of the Legislature Monday
night is all the more remarkable with
that knowledge of the man as a view
point.
General Stewart told the commit
tee, with remarkable force and elo-
quence, of the tremendous effort under
| almost unbelievable handicaps of the
National Guardsmen of the State to
make of themselves a body worthy
to represent Pennsylvania under any
and all circumstances. He told the
legislators of the proud record of the
Pennsylvania division at the border,
where Regular Army officers
marveled at its effciencv.
and he outlined the needs of the
Guard IL it is to be maintained on the
high grade of efficiency it has attained
In service, and enlarged and improved
according to the provisions of the fed
eral army statute.
The General pointed out the peril
to which Pennsylvania lies exposed as
the home of the great steel manufac-
turing and munition plants of the
United States and of the need of a
large and thoroughly equipped and
trained force to be thrown hurriedly
into the field for our protection
against any such armed demonstra-
ton as may occur any day. He asked
for adequate armories and again yes
terday for the reappropriation of an
unused item OF s16s.OOO which was
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-16
Labor Notes

What is practically a trade union OF
soldiers and sailors and their depend
ents entitled to pension or separate al
lowance has just been organized in
England. 1t is called the Naval and
Military War Pensions and Welfare
League. Its objects are to prevent
corruption in the administration OF
pensions and to see that justice is done
to pensioners in this and other wars
More than 250,000 women have Of
fered themselves for work in the fields
to help feed the population of Great
Britain and combat any food shortage
the German submarines might create
st. Louis (Mo.) Typographical
Union has signed a contract with
newspaper publishers which increases
wages per cent. About 400 workers
will be benefited $2.4O a week.
The Pan-American Federation of
Labor Conference Committee has is
sued a call to the workers of Latin
America to join in the proposed move
ment to unite all wage workers of
the Western Hemisphere.
Nineteen strikes. involving 4,002 en-
ployes in IA counties of Pennsylvania.
were adjusted in January with the
assistance of representatives of the
Bureau of Mediation and Arbitration
of the State Department of Labor and
Industry!
As the result of a referendum vote
the National Federation of Post Of
fee Clerks and the Brotherhood of
Railway Postal Clerks will amalga-
mate. The new organization will be
known as the National Federation of
Postal Employees.
Taunton (Mass.) Stationary Fire
mems Union has raised wages $3.50
a week. Before this local was organ
lied two years ago, stationary firemen
were working IL and 13 hours q day
for $11 and $13 a week. To-day the
lowest rate is 1880 a week of six
days, eight hours day.
Minimum wages for time workers
and minimum averages per day for
piece workers, with obligatory arbitra-
ton of differences between workmen.
workwomen and army contractors, are
the means adopted by the French Gov
ernment to put an end to strikes in
factories working for the national de-
fense.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-16
FRIDAY EVENING. MARCH 16
RUSSIA

TIME great Russian bear appears
to have awakened from his rest
less sleep of the centuries. In a
moment the people have overthrown
the reactionary government, deposed
the ruling power and have taken the
reins of control into their own hands.
While i6is yet too early to say that
their remarkable successes up to this
time will be continued with equal
promptitude and effectiveness in all
parts of the great country, news dis
patches of to-day indicate that the
revolution has been so easily attained
and has been carried out with such
good sense and so little bloodshed that
the momentum gained in the first few
days will carry all opposition before
it. 1t may we'll happen that the pres
ent upheaval will come to mean as
much to Russia as the French Revo-
luton to France or the American
Revolution to the United States, and
to mark just such another great step
in world democracy.
All news dispatches tend to show
that Germany and German influence in
Russia are responsible for the over
throw of the Car and his government
Pro-German sympathizers close td
the throne have interfered with the
army and its operations and have plot
ted against its efficiency. More than
once the Car was approached with
proposals of a separate peace. The
fear that he would take some such
step and the antipathy of the great
masses of Russian people for every
thing German unquestionably gave the
weight that was necessary to carry the
revolutionary movement to success.
The removal of the Car is a small
matter. He had his opportunity to
become a popular idol and he passed
it by. He has been little more than
figurehead, swayed now by this fac
tion and now by that, unwilling to do
anything detrimental to his country
but urged against his own convictions
by the wife who should have been his
closest ally and supporter.
The big thing for the immediate
success of the revolution is that the
dynasty has not been overthrown but
that Grand Duke Nicholas, the great
military genius of the empire, the
idol of the people and of the troops
in the field, the strong arm of the
anti-German element OF the govern
ment, and well acquainted with both
the civil and military branches
and the possibilities of the coun-
try, is to come into supreme con-
troll of war operations. That prom
ises much for the success of the new
movement and bodies i'll for German
hopes in the East. Nicholas, removed
because of his. successes against the
Germans, back in the field at the
head of the armies that love and trust
him, and supported by friendly Off
cials at home, may be depended upon
to carry the war into Africa" with
a vengeance.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-16

not used for Guard encampments last
summer due to the absence of the
troops at the border. in order that the
money may be expended in making
a permanent camp site of Mt. Gretna.
It is to be hoped his words will have
weight with the Legislature. The last
penny that can be spared for National
Guard purposes should be put at Cen
eral Stewards disposal. One of these
days, and the time may not be so far
distant, when the National Guard of
Pennsylvania will be about all that
is standing between the people of this
State and threatened invasion, then
we would be ready to pay any price
for protection, but it might be and
probably would be too late.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-16
Mare Liberun


You dare to say with perjured lips,
I'VE fight to make the ocean free?''
Yo1, whose black trail of butchered
Bestrews the bed of every sea
Where German submarines have
wrought
Their horrors! Have you never
What you call freedom, men call
Unnumbered ghosts that haunt the
wave
Where you have murdered, cry you
down;
And seamen whom you would not
save,
Weave now in weed-grown depths
OF shame for your imperious head
A dark memorial of the dead
Women and children whom you
left to drown.
Nay, not till. thieves are set to guard
The gold, and corsairs called to
keep
Ger peaceful commerce watch and
And wolves to herd the helpless
sheep,
Shall men and women look to thee
Thou ruthless Old Man of the Sea-
To safeguard law and freedom on
the deep!
In nobler breeds we put our trust;
The nations in whose sacred lore
The Ought" stands out above the
Must"
And Honor rules in peace and war.
With these we hold in soul and heart.
With these we choose our lot and
part,
Till Liberty is safe on sea and
shore.
Henry Van Dyke, United States
Minister to The Hague, 1913-1916, in
the London Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-16
HARRISBURG WRITER'S

\ VERY unusual fairy story by
n Edna Croft Delhi, of Paxtang,
appears in the current issue oi
st. Nicholas. 1t is tale with all the
essentials and trappings OF Fairyland
running through and twineG about it,
but in addition it points a moral for
the "grouchy" little girl or boy that
even. the dullest reader will not miss.
The name of the tale is "Gnome
Crouch and Fairy Dimple- -DimpIe." It
is one of a series of the kind that
have appeared recently under Mrs.
= Groff's name in The Mothers Maga-
zine and elsewhere. Another recent
publication by this author is a charm
ing Pennsylvania Dutch story in a re-
cent issue of Forward.
1t gives the Telegraph pleasure to
note the growing success of Mrs,
Delhi in the literary world, for it was
in the Telegraph that she first develop
ed her talent for children's stories,
Mr.. Delhi has a little family of her
own and her Rhymes From the Nurs-
cry, now running in this newspaper
one of which appears elsewhere on
this page, are written from her heart
and around her own observations.
Another writer who is obtaining
some prominence and who first found
her way into print through the me-
dunn of the Telegraph, is Mrs. Anna
Hamilton Wood. Mrs. Wood is equally
at home in verse or prose and her
household articles will be supplement-
ed Tomorrow by St. Patrick's Day
poem, entitled The Origin of the
Shamrock" that has the true Irish in
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-16

spiration and will delight the heart of
every lover of dear old Erin-which
means everybody.
The Telegraph is proud In having
had a part in the discovery and de-
velopment of these two talented and
promising writer's. They belong to the
Telegraph Family and have imbibed
Its spirit of optimism. homineness
and good cheer.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-16
Open English Canals

1t is proposed to make large use
of the canals and waterways of the
United Kingdom. The curtailment of
the railway service rendered neces-
sary by the demand of the army au-
thorities for increased rolling stock
has led to further pressure on the
railway companies, and it is hoped
to relieve this by utilizing the canals.
1t is understood that a joint board
will be set up to regulate the various
waterways. 1t will consist probably
of representatives of the railway
companies owning canals and of the
various privately y-owned canals. One
of the first duties of this board will
be to consider the traffic rates on the
canals. 1t is hoped by this means to
facilitate the distribution of food and
the transport of munitions and raw
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-16
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Dean Kirchway, of Columbia,
formerly New York prison official, il.
to be one of the speakers here next
Tuesday on the capital punishment
bill.
Frank S. Becker, elected presi.
dent of the Lebanon National Banh
to succeed the late H. c. Shirk, is
we'll known here.
Director Joseph S. McLaughlir
says that Philadelphias supply buy.
ing methods cost it a loss of S135, ,000
through red tape every year.
John j. Casey, the Wilkes Barre
ex-congressman who is figuring in
the news, used to be a member of the
Legislature.
Harrison S. Morris, prominent
Philadelphian, is spending the month
in California.
Barclay S. warburton is in
Florida where he is interested in mo-
tor boats.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-16
A WISE SELECTION

~ Chicago. to make the investiga-
ton and report on street car
conditions in Harrisburg, is entirely
commendable.
TIE Telegraph, when it suggested
this survey, had in mind some such
man. His endorsement by President
Tracy, of the Chamber of Commerce,
before his final choice by the railways
company, was an entirely proper
move. The high calibre of the man
himself and his approval by the head
of the Chamber are assurances that
the investigation will be conducted
with the interests of the public always
in mind. 1t reflects much credit upon
the trolley company and indicates en-
tire sincerity Of motive that Presi-
dent Musser should have picked upon
Mr.. Arnold. who is not only in the
forefront of his profession in the coun-
try, but is thoroughly acquainted with
local conditions, his knowledge having
been gained while employed by the
Municipal League some years ago to
make study of traffic problems in the
heart of the city.
In accepting the suggestion of this
newspaper, the railways company has
displayed a spirit OF cooperation and
enterprise that if followed out in all
its dealings with the public will do
much to put it and the people it
serves on an entirely friendly basis.
This is as it should be. The trolley
company holds its franchise from the
people and lives by popular patronage,
but it must be remembered also that
IL it were not for street car service the
modern city could not conduct its
business quickly and efficiently as it
does, shoppers would be seriously in
convenienced, big central business
districts could hardly exist and 1t
would be almost impossible for work
ing men, clerks and Office workers to
live in suburban or residential sections,
far from the dirt of the mills and the
dust of the downtown districts.
The interests of the trolley company
and of the people are mutual. Each is
dependent upon the other They ought
to be close together. The trolley COM
pany owes to it's patrons prompt and
adequate service. The people owe to
the trolley company reasonable regula-
tions under which to operate. There
has been entirely too much working
at odds in Harrisburg and it is en-
couraging to note that the traction
company has made the first move for
a change of conditions. Mr.. Arnold's
engagement should mean more than
improvement of service; it should
mean the first long step toward a bet
ter understanding between the COM
pany and the people.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-16
A "Keen OFF" Warning

This is one year during which we
will have no visitors. We dislike to
be unkind to women and children, but
If need be we will defend our bag of
potatoes with our life.-Claud Gallan
m the Fort Worth Star r-Telegram.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-16
Use For Vacant Lots

Our idea is that of the fifty thou
sand vacant lots in Houston, forty
thousand ought to be cultivated and
the remainder reserved for the
youngsters ball clubs.--Houston Post.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-16
Whereby Thy Brother, Stumbleth

1t is good neither to eat fish, nor to
drink wine, nor anything whereby
thy brother stumbleth. or is offended,
or is made weak.-Romans xiv, 21.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-16
A DISAPPOINTMENT.

Hubby. steel helmets will be the
hing in spring hats
Get yours early, my dear. before
ne blacksmiths learn to charge mill
merry prices"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-16

Dauphin county people will be in
terested to know that the Rev. Linn
Bowman, pastor of the Spring Gar
den Street Methodist Church, Phila-
delphias has declined call to
Johnstown. 1t was expected that he
would be transferred at the meeting
of the Philadelphia Conference, in
Goodman Church, Philadelphia, next
week This conference. includes the
Dauphin county churches, except
those in this city, which are attached
to the Central Pennsylvania Confer
ence, which often honors this city by
its sittings.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-16
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg can supply many
tons of steel for munitions that ars
now being used for other purposes?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-16

Representative John S. Eby, OF
Newport, takes considerable pride in
telling the other legislative lovers OF
baseball about real baseball. n He
used to catch on the Philadelphia Ma.
tional League team twenty years ago.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-16

Tt was a we'll known fact that Dr.
Houck did not like to vote adversely
in any applications for Communication
of murder cases and he would re-
frain from voting when he could. u
wish we did not have to act on these
cases." said he upon more than one
occasion. But when it came to the
scratch and he had to enforce the
discretion he would vote. On a num-
ber of occasions DR.. Houck expressed
his objection to capital punishment
and said he would be glad to see the
law changed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-16
POOR FELLOW.

Say mister. help a poor fellow
what had to hook his winter feath'
ers."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-16
TOUGH.

Horse Fly ton top OF auto) This
is the toughest equine ever
lack1edi
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-16
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.,
Telegraph Building. Federal Square.

Il. .J.STACKPOLE.P ]. Prss't and Editor-n-C Chisf
+. r. OYSTER. BasiHeSs Mondger.
GUS NJ. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-16
HISTORIC HARR.

HISTORIC HARRISBURG
Before the Mexican war the mill
tary companies used to drill a couple
of times in Market Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-16

was bad this morning, so I was,
l picked some paper off the wall
Jest think!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-16

st. Louis (Mo) Typographical
Union has signed a contract with
newspaper publishers which increases
wages per cent. About 400 workers
will be benefited $2.4O a week.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-16

The Pan-American Federation of
Labor Conference Committee has is
sued a call to the workers of Latin
America to join in the proposed move
ment to unite all wage workers of
the Western Hemisphere.