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The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-11-23

The above cablegram was received last night and is the formal announce ment of the military grand ball to be given by the officers and crew of the |. s. s. Saturn, Lieut.. Frank Luckel, U. S. Navy, commanding. This mili- tary ball will be given next Monday night at the Arctic Brotherhood hall and the public of Seward will be cor dially invited to attend.
 Recently, when the U. s. s. Saturn was in port, many courtesies were shown to the officers and crew of the boat and the military ball is given as their expression of thanks.
 H. T. Dawley, Chief Yoeman, U. S, Navy, during the stay of the Saturn in Seward. made all plans for the ball, he being chairman of the com.
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-11-23
OFFICERS
 AND GREW TO GIVE
 BALL NEXT MONDAY

mittce on arrangements. The copy of the program of dances was sent here two weeks ago to be printed. The dance program has am elaborate o1- engagement, there being 22 dances, one special and three extras.
 The officers and members ct The crew will have several surprises prH- pared for those fortunate enough to enjoy their hospitality and a big time is anticipated
 The executive committee consists of Fl. T. Dawley, chairman; C. B. Sr,. den; F. C. Gchres and c. V. Carter
 The arrangements on the floor will be in charge of l.. C. Suaughan, p. Steel, w. F.. Reilly and A. C. Hostet- ter
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-11-23

 ID UNIONIZE
 HIS HOLDINGS

WASHINGTON. Nov. 23.-John D. Rockefeller, ~Jr., is negotiating today with officials of the United Mine Workers, looking to unionizatjon of the mines of the Colorado Fuel & Iron company, and signing of an agree mcnt to end the bloody wars that have been wagcd in southern Cobra do.
 No one knows whether RockefeIIer's change of position, from the forefront of organized labor's foes to agree mcnt with the United Mine Workers, is due to change of heart, or simply to labor shortage created by the war.
 First overtures came to the union officials from Rockefeller, in fho form of am invitation to confer and discuss possibilities of stable agrccmors. Rockefeller flung to the winds hs publicly announced willingness to sa- clifcc every dollar invested in Colo- rado rather than agree to mioniz- ation.
 Labor leaders regard this as am ia- dication of the great opportunity war is opening for organized labor RockcfcIle, they say, is typical Of many employers who before the War swore they would rather die than sign a union contract.
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-11-23

Another pleasant evening is assur- ed by the announcement that the A. B.s will give dance Saturday even ing, November 24th. A cordial in vitation is hereby extended to all who may desire to attend. N24
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-11-23

aan H a n B E @ # CORDOVA, Nov. 22. - Editor Friend, Gateway, Seward-Satmn expects to give dance Monday November 26th.
 (Signed) Luckcl. a 8 FrT
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-11-23

Ask your groCerS for Seward Bakery Bread.
 Proof of labor blanks for sale at Gateway.
 Pearl oil SI.75 a can at Graers. If Oyster cocEcails at The Branch. NIEN-Rcad Cotter's Ad today.
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-11-23

Pearl oil SI.75 a can at Graers. tt
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-16
Hamilton w. Mabie

DR.. Hamilton w. Mabie had as large
a circle of admirers among educated
people in this country as any other
American of this generation. He had
written much, lectured a great deal
and was looked upon as an authority
on many subjects, yet it would be diff
cult to select a single book with which
his name is so we'll associated that
would call him instantly to mind.
DR.. Mabie was by some considered
q dilettante. He was not He had
a fine perspective of life and loved the
good, the true and the beautiful. He
was sane critic without severity and
his effort was ever to increase among
his readers or hearers a higher an
probation of the better things of life.
Because so much of his work was
done in weekly journalism he is likely
to be forgotten soon. That seems in
evitable. To achieve literary immor-
tality one must do something that IS
striking. DIR. Mabie was content to
do that which was useful. So with Ali
the good he has accomplished in the
world he goes to q grave which will
be forgotten, although he deserves
remembrance far more than those
who sought and found the limelight.
Inquirer.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-16

been letting down of public interest
and official initiative by reason of the
fact that the people do not keep in
touch with public affairs.
Political leaders all over the State
are finding that the present commits
sion scheme is likely to give any
political organization more trouble
than benefit. AS a result these leaders
are quite willing that there shall be
some change which would relieve them
of any responsibility of providing the
municipal management. They realize
full well that any popular dissatisfac-
tion with the administration of local
affairs is bound to react upon the
party in control, Notwithstanding the
presumption of nonpartisanship in the
working out of the commission
scheme.
Governor Brumbaugh has called at
tention to the need of a larger meas
ure of home rule and it is the hope of
all who are interested in the civics of
Pennsylvania that the Legislature will
take some definite steps in this direc-
tion and so amend existing statutes as
to provide the local jurisdiction that
is necessary to the growth and de-
velopment of our smaller cities.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-16
RESTORE PARTY HARMONY

TT is inconceivable that potential
leaders of the Republican party in
this State will continue indefinitely
a factional struggle that must even
tually break down the party organ
ization. No differences. however seri-
Gus, can justify a continuance of the
unfortunate controversy and there will
be general approval of any honorable
plan which shall bring about
restoration of harmonious conditions.
Already the Democratic bosses are
showing signs of dismay over the
slight indications of peace in the Re-
publican ranks. They have been hop
ing that the Republican situation
would become so intolerable that the
election of q Democratic Governor in
1918 might be accomplished. These
bosses are doing their utmost to foment
dissension in the camp of their po-
litical enemy and every breakdown of
Republican harmony is a matter of
rejoicing at Democratic headquarters.
1t is amusing to read Democratic
statements about 1.-The meeting of the
Legislature of Pennsylvania at Atlantic
City and the distribution of patronage
through a group of leaders at the sea-
shore, especially in view of the fact
that the present Democratic organ
ization has been controlled absolutely
by a small group of men who meet at
the White House at Washington or in
some cloistered nook elsewhere and
distribute the party favors wherever
their political interests may dictate.
Under these circumstances it ought
to be clear to Republican leaders that
the time has come to stop silly bick-
ering within the party and do what is
obviously the thing to do in restoring
harmony and cooperation all over
the State.
This is what the body of the Repub-
licans expect and what most of them
demand. They are growing weary of
the constant Philadelphia row which
involves the party outside the me-
tropolis.
There are some signs of party sanity
here and there and a burial of all
differences will. be hailed with salts
faction throughout Pennsylvania.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-16
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

A. r. Hamilton, prominent in
newspaper work and coal affairs in
Pittsburgh, he's been elected vice.
president of the Barnes Coal Company
which has large operations in Cambria
county.
Bishop McDevitt took part in the
jubilee services in the Conshohocken
church on Sunday.
Harrisburg friends wired con-
gratulations to ex-senator Bayard
Henry, of Philadelphia yesterday in
honor of his birthday.
Robert d. Dripps, who is making
stir in regard to State charitable ap-
preparations, was for years connected
with studies of such work in Philadel-
phia and director of safety for a time
under the Blankenburg administra-
ton.
r. Francis Wood, who is taking
an active part in urging increase of
sheep raising in the State, is q wealthy
Philadelphian and active in promotion
of agriculture.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-16

in the Third Schuylkill district John
Breslin will be the Democratic candi-
date.
Councilman 3. Frank Ruth is
starting something in Reading again
and is now fighting the sale of the
Glenside Water Company to the city
The session of the Franklin coun-
ty auditors is being awaited with in
terest because of the manner in
which the county commissioners have
been figuring in the limelight. There
may be some reactions because of the
effort to cut down the salary of the
county treasurer.
The license courts are being held
now in various counties of the State
and the attacks are being made with
the usual vigor.
Representative James H. Maurer,
the Socialist member of the Legisla-
ture, opposed the compulsory training
bill in Washington yesterday.
-Philadelphians are disappointed
because of the decision of the Supreme
Court against the convention hall
plans. 1t will mean cutting them in
half.
-Mayor Smith will meet with the
committee framing plans for the
changes of the city government when
he returns from the South.
1t is said that Representative Ed
win r. Cox has declined the offer of
the chairmanship of the House manu-
factuners' committee again.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-16
WHAT THE CITY GIVES BACK

WYE who knew him in the days
wv before the city swallowed him
w up Chat was forty years ago)
had forgotten all about him until the
other day when the morning train
rolled in and we stood ready to help
unload the coffin and then to follow
it to the place on the hill prepared for
him. Every now and then someone
like him comes home to stay, and it
is the same story so far as we who re-
main are concerned. Not until the
train comes to q standstill and the
baggage car door thrown open do we
remember-and sometimes 1T is poign-
ant. When the city took him he was
young, and, though bearing a grievous
burden, he went hopefully. When the
city gave him back to us he was an
old man broken by many griefs, and
desolation looked up from the dead
face, whereon the majesty of the final
peace more often sits enthroned.
What the city takes and what it
gives back are always different. Some
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-16
He Worried About It

The suns heat will give out in ten
million years more
And he worried about it.
1t will sure give out then, if it doesn't
before
And he worried about it.
1t will surely give out, so the scien-
lists said
In all scientific books he had read,
And the whole boundless universe
then will be dead
And he worried about 1t.
And some day the earth will fall into
the sun
And he worried about it
Just as sure and as straight as if shot
from gun
And he worried about it.
When strong gravitation unbuckles
her straps.
Just picture" he said, what fear
full collapsed
1t will come in a few million ages
perhaps
And he worried about it.
And the Gulf Stream will curve and
New England grow torrider
And he worried about it
Than was ever the climate of south
ernmost Florida
And he worried about it.
Our ice crop will be knocked into
small smithereens,
And crocodiles block up our now
ing machines,
And We'll lose our fine crops of po-
tatoes and beans
And he worried about it.
And in less than ten thousand years.
there's no doubt
And he worried about it
Our supply of lumber and coal will
give out
And he worried about it.
Just then the ice age will return cold
and raw,
Frozen men will stand stiff with
arms outstretched in awe,
AS If vainly beseeching general
thaw-
And he worried about it.
His wife took in washing-half a dol
lar day
He didn't worry about it
His daughter sewed shirts. the rude
grocer to pay
He didn't worry about it.
While his wife beat her tireless rub
a-dub-dub
On the waShboard drum of her old
wooden tub
He sat by the stove and he just let
her rub
He didn't worry about it.
Sam Walter Foss.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-16
A BUSINESS MEETING

THE fifth annual meeting of the
United States Chamber of Com
merce will be held in Washing
ton, January 81, February and 2.
The bulletin of the Chamber an
nouncing the meeting remarks signifi-
cantly, "The war having opened a new
era in world commerce, businessmen
are now facing conditions without
precedent which will have to be met
at its close" 1t is reported that the
tariff will occupy a most prominent
place in the deliberations of the
Chamber. and a general recommends
ton is expected for speedy return
to the protective policy in order that
we may be commercially prepared to
meet postwar trade competition.
AS the Chamber is made UP of COM
mercial organizations all over the
country it's recommendations will
doubtless carry great weight with Mr..
Wilson, who is already threatening to
make one of his famous double-back-
airsprings on the tariff.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-16
By BRIGGS

times it sleeps them in folly and re-
turns dead wrecks, whereon we look
and read an ancient regret for things
that might have been better-and per-
haps in the end, happier. Again it
swallows them up in the vortex of the
great unceasing, pitiless economic
struggle, and having sapped brain,
body and soul. returns to us the empty
shell that once housed our friend.
That is what it did to him.
Are not some fated to be bound to
the wheel and others to walk in the
glad places, and at the end of the
Dolorosa Way is not there heavenly
compensation? Perhaps, but some-
how down deep in our hearts will con-
tinue the bitterness of an ancient re-
volt because of empty and joyless
lives, the deep resentment because of
that blind fatality, which even through
love, wrecks human aspirations and
makes of life an unending tragedy
Tom Bodine, in the Paris (Mo.) Mer-
curry.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-16
CITY GOVERNMENT

TN further consideration of a larger
measure of home rule for the cities
of Pennsylvania, especially those of
the third class, it might be we'll in
amending the Clark act to provide for
wider latitude in the selection of City
Commissioners by providing that these
officials shall receive nominal compen-
sation in the way of salary and be
vested with full power of admins
tration through the employment of
subordinate officials.
OF course, under the present ar
rangement, the Commissioners can
employ such department subordinates
as are necessary, but it seems to have
been the policy of all the cities to
make the Commissioners themselves
administrative heads of departments
This has developed all kinds of log
rolling not anticipated in the original
commission form of government.
1t is believed that even without an
amendment of the Clark act it would
he possible for Harrisburg, for in
stance, to change the salary ordinance
of the commission here so as to pro-
vide that each shall receive a nominal
salary of not more than 500 and the
amount now necessary for the salaries
of the five Commissioners could then
be appropriated for deputies or a
single city manager.
Manifestly, some change must be
made in the present form, else the
whole scheme will fall through public
disapproval. Dayton and other cities
are quite we'll satisfied with the city
manager plan, because it places re-
sponsibility in one person.
Through the selection of five Com
missioners under the Clark act, who
shall serve without compensation, men,
who are greatly interested in the de-
velopment of the municipality and de-
voted to civic interests would be will
ing to serve the people for the sake
of service and there would certainly
be an avoidance of the political con-
troversies which seem to have attended
the working out of the commission
scheme all over this State,
Harrisburg has done admirably
through long period of years in the
development of it's important projects,
but for the last two years there has
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-16

yeast in quantities demanded by the
consumer, labor, advertising, pay
union rate of wages, and then give
the employe his bread for the family
wrap each individual loaf, render de-
livery service-is a loaf of bread too
high to-day, in price, regardless of it's
weight and size and price?
On the other hand, it is a question
that should be decided and demon
strated by scientific analysis, and not
by two people. The food value of the
American loaf of bread is higher to-
day than will determine the right of
the baker to his just demands of to-
day, in the sale and marketing of his
products.
/ am sure your readers will be in
terested in reading these facts, and to
give this article publicity in your col
umns will possibly right an erroneous
opinion for the public good.
Yours very truly,
II. e. HENERY, (Baker),
Lykens, Pa.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-16
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Bread Prices


Lykens, Pa.
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
I read with absorbing interest, the
article tkat recently appeared in the
columns of your valuable paper, en-
titled "Sealer to Talk Bread Problem
With Civic, Club" and which had emil
nently been developed in the selfish
minds of both City Sealer of Weights
Harry d. Reel and the president of
the Civic Club.
Probably if both these persons were
within touch surrounding the inflated
market conditions of to-day, as per-
tains to flour, equipment, labor, and
the many extra demands that are
made by the public, such as wrapping
paper, and many other sanitary fea-
lures as are demanded by law, it
would not have been necessary to ever
have given their article publicity, for
any sane mind would and could con-
ceive that the manufacturer of baked
products is entitled to every fraction
of a cent that he may demand for his
products.
AS an illustration let me cite the
following reasons: Probably Mr.. Seel
is only basing his slogan, Insist upon
having your bread weighed-and then
buy the heaviest loaf" with the buyer
of flour in carload lots, but how about
the small dealer, who is compelled,
through lack of insufficient capital to
pay $40 per barrel. And these are in
the majority to-day.
Does Mr.. Seel know that 1000
bakers throughout the United States
have failed within the past two years,
not because they were not masters of
IT, cir profession, but simply because
hn Of httc no oh &c
advanced faster than the margin of
profits to be obtained therefrom.
Did Mr.. Seel observe a special in
your paper, issued about December 80
where for the first time in fifty years,
Middletown, Del, is without a bakery?
And that the local bakers were COM
PEELED to suspend business on account
of the high price of flour and labor.
Take the pretzel situation to-day,
the cheapest product that any baker
can bring out of an oven. Actual
wholesale cost to-day can't produce
them for less than 8 for cents. Now,
put that same pretZel into q bag, tie
it up with a string, and then if the
baker demands a cent apiece, he is
exorbitant in his charges.
How about the labor wages of to-
| day?
How much figure do they cut in re-
ducing the bakers margin of profit?
In America the people demand that
each loaf be wrapped separately, and
/ that, too, in expensive wax or parch-
ment paper, and where wrapping is
made compulsory, the former must be
used.
And with it all, bread is still the
cheapest commodity people can buy,
in face of a smaller loaf at q less
price, and as is shown in the little
"eye-opener" the writer had, while do
ing a little shopping for his family
the other day. Here is what he pur-
chased:
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-16

III -
~ two years, John Rutherford,
president of the Oakland Ma
tional Bank, Oakland, ILL.,, writes the
editor of the Telegraph:
have read the Telegraph since a
small boy and am now ~. My father
was a subscriber for about sixty
years and l haye taken it the past
pretty good record for one family.
Subscribers like Mr.. Rutherford and
his venerable father have made the
Telegraph possible. Scores and scores
of readers of this newspaper have had
the paper delivered to them ever since
childhood. They have grown up with
it, and when they left the parental
roof for homes of their own the Tele-
graph has been the one tie that has
bound the old life with the new. It
has gone, and is still going, to Mexico,
to China, to Alaska, to England, to
the Philippines-wkereve Harrisburg
boys have gone the world over the
Telegraph has gone also. 1t has linked
the homeland with the faraway, pre-
served friendships and kept old ac-
quaintance green; it has been the
messenger of joy and of sorrow, the
bearer of good news and bad, but ever
and under all circumstances it has
tried to reflect truly and without bias
the everyday life of Harrisburg, es-
pecially and of Pennsylvania at large
and the world in general. 1t has
tried to do it's part in the upbuilding
of the city and the State. 1t has stood
constantly for what it has believed to
be for the best interests and the ad-
vancement of the community as a
whole. 1t has striven to be at once
informative, entertaining and whole
some. The great army of readers who
have followed it Loyalty through the
years, supporting and encouraging its
management by their patronage and
friendly interest, give proof that it has
not striven in vain.
More than ever before the Tele-
graph to-day, now entering upon its
eighty-sixth year, is endeavoring to be
the mouthpiece of the people it serves.
1t would have its readers understand
that the best interests of this city and
the country at large are ever the first
consideration of those who shape its
editorial policies, and that its constant
effort is to be a clean, wholesome
home newspaper in all that the term
implies.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-16
Japan and the United States

Toxic. - The Japanese battle cruiser
Tsukuba was destroyed by an explo-
sion in the harbor of Yokosuka. Fire
to blow up. 1t is estimated that more
than 100 men were killed or injured.
Eureka, Cal. = The stranded cruiser
safely Saturday night, was washed
further toward shore here Sunday AS
the hull continued to fill with water
hope of salvagtng the vessel faded.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-16
MISUSE OF CANAL BONDS

XXTHAT travesty for this admins
wv tration TO issue Panama Canal
bonds to cover up It's extraya-
Cancel A Republican administration
authorized the construction of the
canal chiefly out of current revenues.
Because Republican administrations
did not issue the bonds authorized,
there is still legal authority for their
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-16
Total ................ $1.7

And still they try to create an idea
in the minds of the consumers of
bread, that they are paying too much
for this commodity. Do you actually
believe they are?
Now, let's sum it all up. With the
high grade of flour the people de-
mand to be used these days, the
molding of bread in so many different
shapes, sugar, shortening, milk and
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-16

sale. The economy of Republican
administrations is to be used as a
cloak to shield the Democratic ad-
ministration from a full official rec
ord of it's mismanagement.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-16
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg is going to
have the largest midwinter show
of agricultural products ever held
In the State next week?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-16

With the new Supreme Court decision
in effect, the liquor men will begin to
discover shortly that prohibition really
does prohibit
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-16

The difficulty in locating the Cover
nor's Troop only illustrates how small
military company is when compared
with the size of the country.