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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-11
DRAFT FAKES

TT is hard enough to buck against
the insidious pro-German propa-
ganda when aided by.rumor and
sts thousand tongues, and when it
comes down to discussing such
subject as the draft every person
ought to be in a position to state
the facts. Unfortunately, there was
more or less difficulty in getting ex-
act information about the operation
of the selective service law for a
while, but of late things have been
ironed out and there is small excuse
for the crazy stories which have
been going the rounds. A little time.
call on a telephone and a sensible
inquiry will speedily bring facts.
The draft affects many homes and
naturally disturbs the affairs of MANY
young men. People can obtain in
formation as to requirements and
movements of men to camps from
the headquarters here or from local
boards. There should be no guess
ing and no spreading around of un-
verified reports. Only a few days
ago II was declared men in this sec
ton would start for camp on a GER
tain day and scores of them ar
ranged to give UP their jobs. No date
had been fixed at all. Such reports
are as reprehensible as those that
men are not well taken care of at
Camp Meade.
In this time it is everyone's busi-
ness to get the facts and to face
them.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-11
THE PRICE SHE PAYS

Il want to see the housewife
pleased and happy when she pays an
increased price for what she buys
is the astonishing statement made by
DR.. Harvey w. Wiley, in his article.
Paying for the War;" in the current
Good Housekeeping. He goes on TO
explain for what staples 1t is neces-
sary to pay more, and why. speak
ing of milk, he writes:
Fortunately for the housewife,
but unfortunately for the farmer,
the consumption of milk and butter
have suffered the least increase. be-
fore the war the price of milk was
nine and ten cents a quart to the
consumer to-day it is not much
above twelve cents a quart. pald
last week sixty dollars a ton for
cottonseed meal TO feed my dairy
cattle. Three years ago / bought Q
carload for twenty-one dollars n ton.
Cottonseed meal affords more pro-
tein per pound for the milch COW
than any other common concentrat-
ed food. In proportion to the pro
tcin. il is therefore the cheapest
concentrate which the dairyman can
use. When he pays three tunes as
much for his concentrates ana gets
only thirty per cent. more lor ms
product, the women should feallze
that in this particular lnuu9ttN tiS
producer is at a decided disadVan-
tage. In order to preserve the pro-
portions, the dairyman should get
not less than eight cents a quart Tor
his milk and not less than nifty
five cents a pound for his butter.
Thus in buying milk and butter at
the present rates, the housewife Is
getting the cheapest food in so far
as an Increase in price is concerned,
that she can buy. Milk, cream and
butter are not luXuries. They are
indispensable foods in every family
with children.
"The tendency at the present time
to slaughter dairy cows on account
of the high price of feed is perfectly
iustifiable from an economic point
of view. unless the price OF milk is
Increased. The number of persons
who are abandoning the dairy in
dustry at the present time is so
large as TO be threatening. IT would
be a dietetic disaster so to diminish
the dairy supplies in this country as
to interfere with the proper feeding
of our children. To ward off this
possibility we must be willing to pay
war prices"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-11
Over he Ico
;n Pe~~a.

I'm very sorry, madam, but will
you kindly remove your fist from
that sugar bowl?" This in a Phila-
delphia restaurant, where the fair
guest has ordered Is cents worth Of
food and concealed a pound of loaf
sugar in her muff. Sugar swiping
has become common.
From the standpoint of actual
cash. Norristown will have the best
Christmas in its history, according
to the announcement OF the Penn
Trust Company that $142,5O0 will be
distributed to the members of the
1917 Christmas Clubs, conducted
by that progressive financial institu-
ton, on December 10th,
Berks county reduced the area of
forest fires from $1,000 acres to fifty
acres in three years, cutting down
fire losses from $4,000 to $50. To
the Boy Scouts and their leader,
Solon Parks, most of the credit be-
longs
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-11
OTR ROWS

~ :. J. W. ELLENBERGER, lieu
tenant in the medical arm of
the United States military SER
vice, brings words of cheer to anx-
ious parents concerning the condi-
ton of their sons in the training
camps. He finds them healthy, hap
py and mostly better men physically
than when they enlisted. This con-
cerning Camp Upton is in full accord
with what Telegraph correspondents
have written about the other great
training camps. Generally speaking,
it is the folks back home who are
worrying; not the soldiers in camps
Here and there is to be found a
grumbler. Here and there is one
who was a reprobate in private life
and here and there shirker. The
mere donning of a soldiers uniform
does not change the character of a
man. That the fault-finders, the
rascals, the weaklings and the dod-
gers are so few speaks we'll for the
young manhood of America. 1t is
this high-spirited, vigorously consti-
tuted, clean-minded, intelligent citi-
zenship that is to throw its force
against the Hun on the plains oi
France, and who can doubt the re.
suit? The end is written before
a gun has been fired by the National
Army.
Never fear: dark days may be
ahead, but it will be an American
column that will ''go through" tn,
famous Hindenburg line and it will
be our boys" who will stack fhei
arms, after the grand review, befor,
the Kaiser's palace. May be tina
sort of talk has bit of the spread
eagle in it, but it's gospel truth
nevertheless.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-11
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

The Rev. Lynn Bowman, who
formerly resided here, has been at
tracing much attention by a serfe;
of war sermons being preached IN
Philadelphia.
w. G. Whildin, new general su
perintendent of the Lehigh Coal and
Navigation company's mines. is vel
known to many people here. He hal
long been connected with minini
operations in the Lehigh basin.
"A. o. Fretz, head of the DoylesI
town Electric Light Company. who Il
we'll known here, has issued a mo-
tice that because of several letter.
from the Government shout conseI
yation, he will be unable to furnisI
current for a community tree.
Warren NJ. Beidler, who hal
stirred up the contest over the elec|
tion of a school superintendent II
Berks county, is head of the school
of Bethel township and active
county school affairs.
Major Baird Halberstadt Ion
connected wiIh the National Guar
is at the head of the movement
Schuylkill county to list names I
ali soldiers and sailors from tha
county in the war.
Charles X. Melville, of Cheste
president of the State Magfstrate
Association, is to be given a dinnd
by 1000 friends at Philadelphia ne
week.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-11

ment engendered by the successes In
Italy and the Russian peace propes-
ais.
If, as has been suggested, the plan
of the Germans is to smash the
American sector, as an object lesson
to the United States, whatever may
happen there will be only stimulus
to war preparations in this country,
II our armies hold the Hun, we shall
be nightly pleased and doubly anx-
ious to return the blow, II our men
fall by the hundreds. such a wave
of wrath will sweep the country as
will make us more determined to
pat an end to Kaiserlsm forever.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-11

T HERE is some abominable Ger
man propaganda" said Ser
geant Empey, Ito the effect
that when the American soldier gets
TO France he is thrown into evil as
sociations. Nothing" he declared
with the utmost emphasis, could be
further from the truth. In no place
is there drawn a stricter line for good
conduct than in France. Soldiers in
French villages are not allowed to
roam about at will. The question
able civilian population, what is
more, is segregated in strictly pa
trolled quarters. And any man, no
matter what his rank, who is found
in the vicinity of these districts with
out a written permit detailing him to
some specific duty there is arrested
and severely dealt with.
I'D like to tell every mother in
America" he added, that. no mat
ter what her boy is when he goes
into the war, he'll be a manlier man
when he comes out of 1t. He will
be more self-reliant, more coura-
geous; great quantity of justice and
fair play will have been instilled
into him. And the army is u great
leveler; the highbrow, the roughneck,
the wise and the otherwise are all
on the same plane, fighting for the
same cause, and all fighting for you.
The coal heavens son and the mil
lionaires son, marching side by side.
sharing the same life, are in just
the same danger together; a German
bullet is no respecter of social po-
sition.
"Then," he went on with a change
of tone, and with admiration in his
voice that showed how he felt before
he had got to the end of his SEN
tence, there is the Y. NJ. G. A. You
people in America ought to do every
thing you can to help the Y. NJ. c.
\. 1t is the real home of the
American soldier in France. 1t
can't give him his loved ones. but it
gives him the comforts and interests
and pleasures of home. 1t brings
home to him there in the mud of the
trenches. And those Y. NJ. G.. A.
men aren't drawing any wonderful
salaries, either; they are volunteers,
and they are in the midst of the
mud and the firing. as the soldiers
are, to make the soldier comfortable
and help him maintain the religion
and the manliness that he had when
he went into the war. The Y. NJ
C. A. doesn't make any distinction in
any way-Protestant, Catholic, Jew
atheist, everyone is welcome.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-11
LOVING A CHILD

Loving a child is key
To Heavens mystery.
Loving a child, and giving
It knowledge. this Is living.
Loving a child brings pain,
And is life's greatest gain.
Loving q child is knowing
The fierce joy of a sowing
That shall cause mighty reap
ing.
Loving a child is weeping,
And fearing, too, and praying;
This, there is no gainsaying.
Loving n child is being
A part of God. and seeing
The world beneath ones hand
Enlarge, expand.
Re different. and grow
To ones thought. Even so.
Loving a child is key
To every mystery.
Loving a child is laughter
And heartache AFTER
Heartache and grief and pain,
But always joy again.
Mary Carolyn Davies, in Goo
housekeeping.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-11
EDITORIAL COMMENT

Apropos of the Liberty Loan, it
costs money to win a war, but it
costs a darn sight more to lose it
Chicago Herald.
Russia is said to need education
badly. New York has some Bolshe-
vik teachers it could spare.-New
York World.
p Darn 'em, ladies, as well as knit
'em.-Memphis Commercial Appeal.
The British have taken Jaffa, Joffa
or Joppa. The Germans would have
claimed the capture of all three
towns.-xChicago Post.
At this distance 1t looks as if it is
no trouble to get heads for the var
ious Russian movements, but impos-
sible to get brains.-Dallas News.
Patriotism was once defined as the
last refuge of scoundrel, but it is
the first camoufage of traitors and
neartraitors. Springfield Repub-
lican.
German autocracy remains as
brutally assertive as. ever, but the
German Army on a certain part OF
the West front is showing a more re-
firing osition.-Chicago Herald.
Our respects to General the Hon.
orable Sir Julian Byng, and the hope
that, If the war must go. that far
the final operations will find him
byngin' on the Rhine.-Newark
News.
How i'm the world could those New
York school authorities think of ma.
king charges of disloyalty against
teachers who are known by the good
old Anglo-Sanxon names of Sehneer
Mufson and Schmalhausen?- ?-Phila-
delphia Inquirer
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-11
OLD LAWS OF THE JEWS

Thou shalt not pillow with an OK
and an ass together. Thou shalt not
wear a garment of divers sort as of
wooden and linen together. Thou
shalt make thee fringes upon the
four quarters of thy vesture.-Deu-
teronomy xxi, 10 to IL.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-11
9cEsDAY, DECEMBER ii, 1917

II OILY ce strive to be pure and
true,
To each of us there toiH come an
hour
When the tree of life toiH burst
into tlotCer,
And rain at our feet glorious
doiCer
OF something grdHder than eUer zoe
kneU.
ANON.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-11


s25 to $50 per week and urge the
mayor not to prohibit their working.
Fort Smith (Ark.) Street Car Mems
Union has compromised it's wage de-
mand with the local traction COM
pany. Wages are increased cents
an hour for eighteen months. The
union refused to accept longer con-
tract.
The recent A. Il. of l.. convention
approved two resolutions relating to
increased pay for letter carriers and
post office clerks and asking for the
right to appeal from the judgment
of officials in disciplinary cases in
volving reduction in position or dis
missal.
Since January / more than 800 To-
cal unions-one-third of the member
ship of the Brotherhood of Painters,
Decorators and Paperhangers-have
gained an increase in wages or
shorter workday-some both.
The New Jersey state Agricultural
College announces a three-months'
course in practical agriculture with
out cost to residents OF this state. The
course includes fruit growing. mar
ket gardening. poultry raising and
home economics.
The railroad companies OF the. Ar
gentine Republic have openly accused
the government of playing politics
and permitting the widespread de-
struction of property which has char
acterized the railroad strike move
ment in order to obtain the votes of
the 10000 railroad employees.
There has been 100,5 accidents re-
ported since the Washington State
Industrial Insurance Commission law
went into effect in October, 1911. Out
of the above number of accidents.
1,S51 have been fatal In October
there were 2.07S accidents, twenty
eight OF which were fatal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-11
OUR DAlLYLA
LIMITED
GENEROSITY

Tightwad told
his wife to Sc
lect her own
Christmas pref
ent.
T h at was
very generous
of him.
And then, he
gave her half a
dollar to pay for
1t.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-11

Ell. .STACKPOI.Et,f fyrsv = EdfsoTfH-e hfef
4. r. OYSTER. BAshaess MaHaSsh
Gus M. STEINAdETD, MsHusiHs Editor
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-11

Member OF the Associated Press-The
q Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled to the use Tor republication of
all news dispatches credited to IL or
not otherwise credited In this paper
and also the local news published
herein,
All rights OF republication Of special
dispatches herein are also reserved,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-11
LABOR NOTES

Girl bootblacks in Boston earn from
s25 to $50 per week and urge the
mayor not to prohibit their working.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-11
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg is supplying
large quantities of meat for
Army and Navy stores?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-11

Published evenings except Sunday by
TEzza qssx.HGRAPH PRINTING CO..
TelesrApA Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-11
A NATURAL
MISTAKE.
LOTS OF US DO.

Turtle--My, there are q lot OF
terrible things in the world.
Rabbit-Pull In your head and
Jon won't ses them.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-11

HISTORIC HARRISBURG
This city raised almost a regime
to help repel Lees invasion of 1Sd
Il was the first Home Guard.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-11

(To Be Continued)
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-11

WAIT TILL IT
RAINS. 90
Bird Gin new
home): My, /
don't see how
all that water
got in there!
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-01-03

Thursday evening Maj. and MI
Edward Carpenter are giving dim
at the Country Club. - r
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-01-03
GOVERNOR LUcIUs E. PINKHA-
z RECEIVES


On New Years Day Governor ,Lu.
cius T. Pinkham was at home TO ev-
Sfyone In the island who wished TO
cSne. The reception started at 1880
G., until o'clock o steady stream
Of callers exchanged the New Years
greeting with the Governor and those
assisting him.
The reception was held At the gov
ernor'a residence. the home Of DR.. and
Mrs. G. b.. Cooper. and members OF
the governors official family" and
their wives assisted In the reception
and entertainment Of the guests.
JOURNALISTS REUNION DINNER
The following from the Pasadena
Star-News tells Of writers dinner
given in Pasadena Just before the de-
parture OF Mrs. Warren for her Ho-
Rolulu home:
"Mr. and MIRA. D. NJ. Linnard and
Mrs. Louise George, entertaining
With q dinner party last evening at
H1tel Maryland in honor Of Mrs. John
Trenholm Warren, formerly Miss
Grace Hortense Tower Of this city,
pnt q cap sheaf on q brilliant series OF
delightful functions given In honor OF
the all too brief visit Of Mrs. Warren
ahh her little daughters to this, her
former home. --..- ~
Most OF the guests were well known
writer's and artists with whom the
gasst OF honor had been associated in
her work. At q great round table, gay
with suggestions OF the faraway Ho-
Tioluiu home OF Mrs. Warren, the fol-
lowing besides the hosts and the guest
nf honor were gathered: Upton Sin
clair, the novelist, and Mrs. Sinclair,
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-01-03

, daughter, Captain and Mrs. George
Marshall. The table was adorned with
q large basket filled with golden-col-
cred chrysanthemums- Francis
co Chronicle.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Clarence Breed
en- will be hosts Saturday evening at
a dinner at their home in Burlingame
in compliment TO Harry Macfarlane,
who arrived yesterday from Honolulu
10 Join Mrs. Macfarlane, who has been
here several weeks.-San Francisco
Examiner.
Miss Mildred Spengler Of San Fran
cisco and Miss Orythia Catch OF
Berkeley were the guests Of Miss
Dorothy Bennett last Wednesday
evening and attended the Charity Ball
which was held at the navy yards that
night.-San Francisco Examiner.
Pay Inspector and Mrs. J. ]. Cheat
ham entertained at their home on
Mare Island last Wednesday evening
at supper party from 6 to 9 o'clock
in honor of the birthday OF their
young daughter, Miss Katherine Cheat
ham.-San Francisco Examiner.
+ =
Mrs. George Batchelder and Miss
Margaret Batchelder, who arrived
early in the week from their home
in Chicago, sailed Friday on the Great
Northern for Honolulu. where they
will remain for an extended visit
San Francisco Examiner.
Information has been received here
that Lieut.. F. B. Freyer has been
ordered detached from the Ola :ier,
which he has commanded for some
time past, and will join the naval re.
serve ship Oregon as executive Off.
cer.-San Francisco Chronicle.
= = I.
Mrs. Al Munger, who, with her hus-
band, recently returned from Homo
lulu, has been here on a visit to her
mother, Mrs J. Weakley. who recently
Sanitarium.-Santa Cruz tCal1 Surf.
Mrs. Leo Sahm, wife of Lieut. Sahm
assfstant engineer officer at Mare
Island, will be hostess Monday after
noon at bridge party given for the
ladies of the naval station.-7San Fran.
cisco Examiner
= + = r
After delightful visit at Coronado
Mrs. Baldwin Wood returned Monday
to her home In BurfiMgahe. She was
in the south for several weeks.-San
Francisco Chronicle
%a%
Naval Constructor and Mrs. J. O.
Gawne are entertaining the formers
parents, who arrived from their East
ern homie a:few' days ago for a
months stay-7sah 4FrtHciseoy Chron.
icTe. '..i..A ~. =, F. .-
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-01-03

Mrs. Eleanor Hyde-Smith was met
by a delegation of friends when she
arrived on Tuesday morning. She
comes as usual to spend six months
in Honolulu and has taken the Bow.
Ter place at Waikiki.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-01-03
TEA.DASsANTs AT MoANA

Announcement Is male BY Manager
Moroni OF the Moana Hotel that tea
dansants are to be q regular feature
of entertainment at the hotel. The
dances are to be each Monday, We'd
nesday and Friday afternoon, from 4
to 6. and q cordial invitation Is ex.
tended by the management to towns
folk. service people and tourists. Man.
ager Moroni plans several delightful
innovations In entertainment at this
beach hotel. and special music, decor
atoms and exhibition dances are be.
Ing featured.
Mr.. AND MRS. E. j. Bolts ARRIVE
Mr.. and Mrs. Ebert ]. Bolts arrived
from San Francisco yesterday. Mrs.
Bolts was Miss Sybil Murray of San
Francisco and their wedding. occurred
during Christmas week! They will
take up their residence at the. pretty
bungalow which awaited them at 1886
Dominis street, where they VIII be
at home after the first Of February
Mr.. Bolts resumes the practise Of law
here.
2 ,
GEN. AND MRS. f. 8. STRONGS
RECEPTION
Honolulu society folk were seen in
large numbers at Gen. and Mrs. Fred
erick 8. Strong's New Years Day re-
ception at their Waikiki home. Guests
started coming at 4 and a steady
stream Of callers kept up until dark.
II was almost an official reception for
virtually every officer at the posts
was In attendance.
Q . .s H.
DINNER AT THE PLEASANTON
On Monday evening the Pleasanton
Hotel wore a very gay air. A splen.
did quintet club furnished music dur.
ing dinner, and the private and pub.
lie dining rooms were decorated with
flaming red Transvaal Sdaisies and
red-shaded candles. making 1t all very
effective. Many dinner parties were
held. -.
AN EVENING BRIDGE
On Friday Col. and Mrs. James Nc
Rae are giving an evening bridge
- a
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-01-03
DANCING

Learn the latest New York dances
from Madame Lester, Honolulu's lead.
lns teacher namely, The Maurice
Glide Waltz, Two-Two, One Steps and
Fox 1rots. Office hours 3 to 6, I. o.
y y, hall
pnanas lis2 or ss7s.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-01-03

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Templeton
Croker. who went East some weeks
ago and who anticipate returning to
San Francisco in time for the holt
days, were recently the guests of hon
or at a box party at the opera, fol-
lowed by a supper, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles B. Alexander having been the
hosts On that occasion.-San Francis
co Chronicle. ..-