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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-05
Duty of Legislature

The Legislature has been in session,
nominally. q month. Actually it has
met just five times and it has done
nothing at all in the advancement of
the public business for the transaction
of which 1t was organized. 1t has not
laid the groundwork for any construct
i've legislation. So far as indications
so there is no intention of getting
down to business until the question of
an Investigation of the Brumbaugh ad-
ministration has been disposed of. This
will not do. 1t is quite evident that
the conduct of some of the executive
departments has not been what it
should be and the administration of
Governor Brumbaugh has been char
acterized by SO much that is question
able that complete inquiry and clean-
up should be made, but that work
ought not be permitted to interfere
with the ordinary dispatch of business
as 1T is now doing. The present course
is damaging and costly to the State;
1t is also doing great injury to the Re-
publican party to whose hands the
people have committed the conduct of
their public affairs. By no means
but get down to legislative work in
the public interest.
There is much to be done yet not
so much that it cannot be disposed of
within reasonable time and without
piling up bill of costs out of all pro-
portion to the necessities. The whole
staff of legislative employees is draw
ing pay for doing nothing. Good man.
agement would not countenance such
state of affairs. With the meeting
on Monday night a program of work
should be entered upon. Revenue
measures, appropriation bills, the To-
cal o.,tion question, the repeal of the
nonpartisan law, as it affects the Leg
islatiop of judges at least, should be
taken up promptly, given careful con-
sideration and disposed of. These are
some of the more important matters
that cannot be ignored and which
should not be postponed pending dis
position of the investigation resolution.
1t should not be possible for the people
to say any longer that Republican
Legislature Is wasting time and money.
Get down to work and stick to it.
Pittsburgh Gazette Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-05
More Daylight

The report of the Chamber of Com
merce of the United States made by
its committee appointed to investigate
the plan to save daylight by beginning
the day an hour earlier, presents argu-
ments favoring the change that seem
to defy controversy. Indeed, there can
hardly be said to be opposition except
that of inertia.
The committee finds that the plan
would substitute a cool morning work
ing hour in summer for warm one
in the afternoon, and certainly most
normal persons would vote for the
substitution on grounds of personal
comfort even if it did not as the COM
mittee reports, make for more health
full conditions in all occupations in
volving indoor application. AS every
body knows the afternoon hours are
the hours of fatigue, and fatigue
weakens the body's defenses against
tuberculosis and overstrains OF numer-
Gus kinds. It is during these hours
of overwrought nerves and muscles
that most industrial accidents occur.
These reasons the committee calls the
physiological and economic ones, and
for social reasons, which are quite as
obvious, IL advances the enlarged OPP
portunities that would he afforded for
recreation.
A more far-reaching and beneficial
reform and one that would upset
things less could hardly be imagined.
Most reforms snatch something away
from us that we at least imagine that
we want-eVen the reformed calendar
of Pope Gregory took eleven days
away and made Il lot of persons
frantic. The more daylight plan leaves
| us exactly the same number of hours
that we now have, but 1t gives us the
chance to make more of them.-The
Kansas City Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-05
But a Short Time to Live"

tFrom the London Poetry Review.I
Our little hour-how swift it flies
When poppies flare and lilies smile;
How soon the fieetlng minute dies,
Leaving us but little while
To dream our dream, to sing our sone,
To pick the fruit, to pluck the flower,
The gods--they do not give us long
One little hour.
Our little hour--how short a time
To wages our wars, to fan our hates,
To take our ill of armored crime,
To troop our banners, storm the
gates.
Blood on the sword, our eyes blood-red.
Blind In our puny reign OF power.
Do we forget how soon Is sped
Our little hour?
Our little hour-hew soon IL dies:
How short a timA to tell our beads,
To chant our feeble Litanies,
To think sweet thoughts, q do good
deeds
The altar iiohts grew pale and dim,
The bells hang silent in the tower
So passes with the dying hymn
Our little hour.
LESLIE CoULsoN.
tSerReant Coulso. of the City of
London Regiment (Royal Fusiiiers),
met his death leading a charge against
the Germans in October last He Joined
tho army in September, 1914, and served
in Egypt, Malta, Gallipoli and France.l
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-05
J.. ROCKEFELLER hs

1OHN d. ROCkEFELLER mas
written an article for the Janu-
airy issue of Farm and Fireside in
which he says:
THE only thing that is Of lasting
benefit to a man is that which he does
for himself. Money that comes to him
without effort on his part is seldom a
benefit, and often a curse. That is
the principal objection to specula-
tion--it is not because more lose than
gain. though that is true, but it is be-
cause those who gain are likely to re-
ceive more injury from their success
than they would have received from
failure. And so with regard to money
or other things that are given by one
person to another. 1t is only in the
exceptional case that the receiver is
really benefited. But il we can help
people to help themselves, there is q
permanent blessing conferred.
Men who are studying the prob
lem of disease tell us that IL is be-
coming more and more evident that
the forces that conquer sickness are
within the body itself, and that 1t is
only'when these are reduced below the
normal that disease can get a foot
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-05
German-American Loyalty

TIME Communication response to
u the action of the President in
severing diplomatic relations with
Germany has been quick and, certain.
With admirable self-restraint in re-
framing from discussing the causes
leading up to the break and their un-
questionable divergence of views on
the necessity of that action, they have
whole-heartedly professed their al
legiance to Uncle Sam and their will
ingness to fight and die for the country
of their adoption against the aggres-
sions of any other nation, Germany
included.
That is precisely the attitude those
acquainted with German-American
character and German American ex-
ploits in the history of the United
States expected of them. The loyalty
of the German to his government is
the marvel of Europe. Germans are
dying by the thousand because their
government has commanded them to
fight, and however harshly we may
judge the German cause in this war,
we must admire the courage, the re-
sourcefulness and the devotion of the
German as an individual and the Ger
mans as a people.
German-Americans have had a
proud place in the making of America.
They have given in times past the
same extreme measure of service to
the United States that their erstwhile
countrymen across the water are rem
dering to the homeland to-day. Their
graves mark every battle-ground of the
Revolution, the Mexican War, the Civil
War and the War with Spain; their
headstones are scattered along the
fighting lines of the American forces
at San Juan and the rice dykes of the
Philippines. Wherever the flag has
gone there have gone also those who
have been pleased to term themselves
German Americans. Their loyalty as
body never has been in doubt. They
are giving a splendid reckoning of
their citizenship at this moment and
are setting an example OF patriotism
that might we'll be followed by a GER
tain few who pretend to be leaders of
American thought and who in this
crisis are showing themselves for the
yellow-streaked. self-centered blather-
sixties they are.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-05
Fellowship

found little baby
Playing in the grass,
Flowers are his playmates
And all the things that pass
Harebell and heatherbeli,
Singing lark and silver swallow,
Happy baby loves them we'll
And his blue eyes follow
Down the road to the corner
Where the white geese are.
And up the sky where the long
days die
To the first pale star.
Irene Rutherford Mcleod in
Swords For Life" (Huebsch)
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-05
Air Spies
[wadsworth Camp In Co

tWadsworth Camp In Collier's.l
The aeroplane has revolutionized spy
ing as completely as it has scouting.
It's risky business. It's even un-
popular among the air corps-as coura-
geous body OF youngsters as war
has ever produced. l have seen them
sail through bursting shrapnel, photo:
graphing and observing with impudent
Indifference. In an air battle they will
take suicidal chances, but they don't
like these quiet rides by black night
to lonely places.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-05

the measure is now noticeable among
the Democrats in the House, who
number thirty-seven and will be in a
position to accomplish something il
the State administration starts to
fight the resolution. Several Demo.
cratic bills are to be drawn up inn
mediately and hearings will be asked
on the Erdman voters assistance bill.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-05
ESTIMATING the Breakage

You won't have to take the pledge
any more, when prohibition prevails"
That's right. And have no doubt
it is rather more difficult to break a
law than 1t is to break a pledge. -
Washington star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-05
No Denial

"You spend money like water!"
"My friend" replied Mr.. Dustin
Stax, 'if you look over the records of
my big corporations, you will find
that most of it really is water. -
Washington Star
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-05

Just to show him that we have none
on us, we decline the suggestion of the
Kaiser that we paint our ships with
yellow streaks.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-05
That's the Trouble

When the war ends it will be capi.
tai moving day for divers small ma
American.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-05
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg can mobilize
hundreds of locomotives i'm twen-
ty-four hours?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-05
MONDAY EVENING. FEB. 5.
Measure your minds height By the
shade it cdSts-BroWning
THAT LUNAR HALO

T<HAT poets may be also keen OBJ
servers of weather probabilities
is illustrated by the lines
Last night the moon had silvery
Tonight no moon we see; ..
The wind in. the shrouds has a
And Te'i the foam ia"H; IS flying free.
Brothers, a night of terror and
Waits in the clouds and the
gathering roar.
Harrisburg has had within the past
forty eight hours an illustration of the
accuracy of this observation as a gen.
erality. Saturday night the moon was
surrounded by one of the most bril-
liant halos noted by the United States
Weather Bureau and local astronomers
in many years. There followed the
severe storm of last night with its light
fall of snow, high winds and low tenn
peratures.
But the halo did more than prove
the weather wiseness of the poet 1t
showed how little removed we are
from the beliefs of the ancients in
signs and portents in the skies. Thou
sands OF Harrisburg people viewed the
phenomenon with eyes that saw in it
a good omen for the adventurous
career upon which the nation set out
Saturday when President Wilson sew
cred negotiations with Germany and
freely expressed themselves as so be-
lieving. Not only are we still a super
stitious people, but our superstition is
bred of Ignorance. Despite our much
vaunted popular education not more
than one in hundred knew the cause
of the beautiful display in the skies
Saturday night, but i.those who did
gave to it no Importance as sign of
Divine intervention on behalf of the
nation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-05

1t begins to look as though those Bel
gians interned in Holland will have to
take to boats
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-05
HTSTORTC HARRTsBTRC

Troops have been modified In Har%
risburg in every war since the ferrT
was started by John Harris two hum
dred years ago.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-05

1t Is suggested, that France would be
pleased to have an American army COM
manded by Colonel Roosevelt. Coed
bye. General Joffre.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-05
LONGER THE
BETTER.

s e n t 4 m entail
Miss: Do you be-
lieve In long en-
Hagements?
Man: Certain
lyi ! am an ac-
tor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-05
NONE LEFT.

NONE LEFT.
The last time /
saw you you were
talking of buying
q farm.
Yes, but 1 had
to give that idea
UP. All the farms
have been turned
into golf links.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-05
OUR DAILY LAUGH

NOT so DEEP.
His book is
said to be rather
deep.
Can't be very
deep. That little
bit OF q girl over
yonder told me
she managed to
wade through 1t.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-05

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.,
Telegraph Building. Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-05

i. E.J.STACKPoLE, Prest and Ediior-in.C Chief
+. r. OYSTER, Business Manager.
GUS NJ. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-12-24
PROHIBITS FIREWORKS
Petersburg Issues Proclamation for
Safe and Sane Christmas Celebra-
ticu-feed Cross Progressing.

Petersburg, Va, Dec. N.--Christ~
mas Dawis 70 be saltcly observed III
Petersburg. Mayor Gillia!n Satnr.
Gay issued ! proclamation prohibiting
the use OF fireworks, and announcing
that the laws prohibiting tho sale and
use Of explosive vii! be strictly en-
forced. "a time, says the Mayor"
"ul,en our nation is at war With the
greatest military power tho world
las avor known, end IS :;training
eYc,y netvc 70 meet the inevitable
demand, IS, above ali, iil-:uiod 70 the
y1laeo>ssary i;1i5eriling Of any OF oar
resources, whether Of mal-poHcr or
property. Ard the community vii!
cordially approve the determination
10 suppress all fireworks on Christ
mas day and night. ,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-12-24
GERMAN RACE STARVING.
Food Controller Says Masses Ar
Practically Without Food

London, Dec, 2a.-Accordine TO o
Reuters dispatch from Amsterdam,
VcrYaerts, OF Berlin, IN o plain-spokea
attack on the system Of Herr ron
Haldow, the German Food Control
Ter, declares that great masses q
German people not only are hungry
but are literally starving. The paper
adds that agricultural producers ami
rich residents in towns are living
in plenty, as boarding is TO longer
prohibited.
Every var profitteer and m.llion-
;lire,r says ,tll.. paper, "ias his kfset'er
am; cellar fill Of ham and bacon; toe
middle class ckcs 3 precarioue exc
tence, spending ali it possesses on
food, but 40 900, 900 OF the anrasses a1e
starving and are UNLIKELY to sit 81
lent. We might have within month
an absolute catastrophe in Germany
and a collapse even worse than Rus.
sia resulting in a German defeat and
loss Of the war;
Amsterdam, Dec. q. The Berlin
socialist newspaper, Vorwaerts, has
beea obliged by the government to
Suspend publication for three days:
London, Dec. 24.-The suspension
Of the Berlin VorWaerts is considered
as j warning 10 the entire German
press that it must curb its tongue
in the discussion Of internal German
conditions. Although the |orTaerts
fcr \ long time has been N the hands
Of the soca!!ed "govern,nclf-coFtrod-
ict; socialists Il recently printed an
att2ct. oil Food Controller ron Wal
dow and also scnc very' outspoket:
editorials regarding Internal co''tl-
ions IL Germany.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-12-24
GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
War Measures to Have First Place
In Attention Of State Legislators.

In Attention Of State Legislators.
Richmond, Dec. 24.-War measures,
amendments TO tax and prohibi-
ton laws, coordination Of penal
and resornratory instituticsis
ard woman suffrage seem
likely to be the principal topics FOR
discussion and disposition at the ses-
sion Of the General Assembly Of Viz
einia which will begin on January 2.
No one can foretel what other Is
sues, now unforeseen, may be injected
into the deliberations Of the session,
for issues nave q way Of springins
into public notice without warning,
That the session will be an especial
~ busy one is to be doubted, when
viewed in comparison with the bur-
dcns Of the Legislatures Of 1872;
1914, 1915 and 1915, when the cnabl-
ing act, prohibition Legislation, tax;
segregation and improvements in the
tax system occupied such j large pro-
portion Of the time. With these main!
issues o;lt oil the way, and present at
this TING Only N details Of compatE-
lively little Importance, it Is belio-ec
that the General Assembly Sc this
time yill iavc more tine for de-
liberation, ard will not be required
to work at the break mock speed
Of 1914 AMI 1915.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-12-24
DANGEROUSLY BURNED.
Woman's Clothing Becomes lgnited
From Hot Store in Her Country
Home.

Home.
Lexington, Va, Dec. 24.-Mrs.
Nora McCurdy Whitmore, wde CT
Mr.. Kenneth G. Whitmore, vas fear
fully and very dangerously burre'.
Saturday morning AZ nor home or
North river. seven. niles above Lex
ineton. It was soon after breakfast,
about 1880 O'Clock is Ajr. Whtimore
vas about TO leave the house for his
work on the farm and all we're assem-
led in The family chamber. Mrs. Whit
mcrs y:as standing with her back 70
a hct stove when suddcnly fame:
we're observed climbing above rer
head, ilcr clothing was OF FIRE. Nj
Whitmore grabbed up clothing from
4 led and enclosing Ills wife IN It
sought 70 smother the flames. Not
succeeding he lifted her up in his
arm and running into the yard put
out the fire in the snow.
Mrs. Whitlnore was most distress
ingly burned and for some time
repo,ts from her bedside were that
i,er recovery was very doubtful. Her
condition lotri. improved.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-12-24
NEWS Of TIE old DOMINION
CHARGED WITH WIFE MURDER.

-. ssus1Ae
Young Dentist Arrested at Wilson
Following Her Sudden Death Here
Richmond, Dec. oo4.--Instructions
wero sealt from Police Headquarters
Saturday night to the chief Of po-
ice at Wilson. N. G., to. arrest pr.
Lcmuel j. Johnson as a fugitive from
i stice, and . warrant was immedi-
ately sworn out by Detective Serg.
cant Gordon Smith charging that l..
j. johnson "unlawfully, feloniously
saad OF his OWN malice did murder one
Alice Johnson. Tho holding Of the
young doctor follows by exactly one
week the death Of mis- wife, resulting
from the taking Of dose Of cyanide
cT potassium at the home OF q
friend, Mrs. r. r. Stutz, 522 Nol-tti,
cwenty-sevcnth street, when she beg
ced to be excused, stating that she
wished to take = qlinine capsrlc.
Mrs. johnson made her nome ~
1878 North Twcnty-second street.
Johnson, when the warrant was
served On him, would neither admit
Tor deny his guilt. He agreed TO
we've extlsa:tion fol1nality, and De-
scctive Sergeant Willy, Of Richmond,
will leave with him iol' Richmond
to-day. johnson is still at hospita!
in Wilson, but has practically recov-
cred from the effect Of poison which
he took Thursday in an attempt 10
end his life.
Miss Olive White is the name of
the young woman at MiddleseX to
whom ne was SAID to be engaged to
be married. Until announcement OF
The wedding here she wore a hand /
Hme engagement ring.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-12-24

Store open tonight and Monday night
USEFUL AND PRACTICAL GIFT TH1aAfe55S%Fees
=
MEN
Gloves, Ties Handkerehefs. Collars.
Itoslosy, Underwear suspeuasTs, Col
lar Boxes Bath Robes, PBanas,
Night Robes, Warm Gloves Muf
eTs, Shirts, RAIN Coats, Suit CaseS
Trunk and Travelling Bags.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-12-24
AUTO KILLS RICHMOND GIRL
Daughter of Fritz Sitterding Victim
OF Colliding Cars.


Richmond, Dec. 2l"--Aliss Mary
sitteding, eldest daughter Of Fritz
S!tteding, OF the Sitcrding, Cornell
Devils Company and vice president
Of the Virginia Railway ar! Power
Company, suffered . fractured skull
end die3 50 minutes later at Grace
Hospital, when she WAS struck b. al
automobile at Grace and Madison
streets late last night. ,liss Sitter
oi.g, with Capt. Grimm, Of The Gl2th
| infantry III Camp Lee, was Eoin"'
south OF Madison street when the ca.'
came into collision with one slriren
|! by John NJ. Larders.
Tho young woman died soon after
being carried 10 tAe hospital. C1rt.
Grimm was kuockel d9"7'. but -
c1red without injurT
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-12-24
TRAIN KILLS TWO AUT0ISTs
Grsde Crossing Claims sdoss Victims
at Milford, Caroline County.

Richmond, Dec. PA southbound
sea5oard Air Line passenger train
struck an automobile at Milford,
Caroline county, Saturday afternoon,
kiliiae the two occupants OF the ma
chine Instantly. The dead men were
General Gatewusd, tho son of j. Z
;Gate~ood, who lives about two miles
from Milford. age bvsasty-os,e years.
end colora man by the name OF
Bernarl Ball. It is supposed that
the men did not see the oncoming
train uatii boo late to get out Of ies
nav.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-12-24
WORK OF REVISION.
Commission Completes Code After
Three Years Labor.

,.,, - .. 49,. il,.o,
h'chHotia, Dec' AI'ef ''i..
ana o'le-tiall years " eo'to'a4i' WIZ
tne coac revision ''',''i'1e'pl' '"'0
ltSeo ny 'H' , 81, :,
tsia' '''s ''"'la'.l 10 WIN 90
po't'o 'o'1'''S' :. ~ p4'io'
co'e WEI. = r"
s''.' ''''
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-12-24
POKES HEAD IN AND DROWSf::'
Children Discover Odd Suicide .
Shallow Stream.

Shallow Stream.
Harrisburg, Dec, 2l.-Two cn'l.
dren playing along ii shallow ruE o.
thu end Of Long street. Cam? Hi,
v:crc the discoveries CT Clinton Black 5
!,ody. Black, who had partly disr"Esd
himself IN IN apparel fit Of l:spon-
Gcr.cy, buried his face in less than
4 foot OF water ard drowned.
Black had kccn i'll for weeks 2nA
walked TO the creek minus most oi
MS c!nnins. His heed w;.S ;Scdgc,i
Town into TIC broken 10.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-05

WANTED = Experienced bookkeeper
| with knowledge OF stenography. Ad-
dress Z. o. Box IT'S, Harrisburg, Pa
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-05

WANTED - Girls 16 years and over,
experienced and learners. Pay good
wages while learning. Apply to Steel
streets, Steelton, Pa.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-05
For Sale-Miscellaneou

FOR SALE, at Cables 111-117 South
Second street, Lawn Fence. Field Fence.
Gates, Poultry Netting, Building Hard
ware, Plaster Board, Upson Wall Board.
Compo- Board, Doors, Sash, Shutters,
Mouldings, Porch Posts, Pumps, etc.