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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-22
HOUSEWIVES PART

The following poem, written
twelve years ago by Susie M. Best,
and recently republished by the
Pittsburgh Gazette Times. while
composed in answer to frequent al
lusions to 'woman's easy lot" is es-
pecially applicable in these war days
of economy, for 1t is the women Of
the Nation who are asked to do the
saving, and the great burden of con-
serving the resources of America de-
wolves upon the housewife. The poem
reads:
oh, men, and oh, brothers, and all
of you others,
beg of you pause and listen a bit,
And I'll tell you without altering any
of 1t.
The tale of the housewives part.
Mixing and fixing,
Brewing and stewing,
Basting and tasting,
Lifting and sitting,
Stoning and boning,
Toasting and roasting,
Kneading and seeding,
Straining and draining,
Poking and soaking,
Choosing and using,
Reasoning and seasoning,
PAIRING and sharing
This is the housewives part.
Filling and spilling,
Pounding and sounding,
Creaming and steaming,
Swimming and trimming,
Mopping and chopp.ng,
Corning and poring,
Shelling and smelling,
Grinding and minding,
Firing and tiring,
Carving and serving
This is the housewives part.
Oiling and boiling and broiling,
Buying and trying and frying,
Burning and turning and churnins,
Pricing and icing and spicing,
flashing and mashing and splashinB,
Scanning and planning and canning,
Greasing and squeezing and freez-
This is the housewives part.
Aching and baking and making and
shaking,
Beating and heating and seating and
treating,
oh, men. and oh. brothers, and all
Of you others
Do you envy the housewives part?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-22
CONGRESS is NECESSARY

"HERE is certainly lack of sense
of humor in the editor who
says that the country would be
glad if Congress would adjourn and
give the administration free hand
in the prosecution of the war. Sup.
pose Congress had passed the bills
the administration wanted and had
adjourned two months ago.
What, then, would have become OF
all these new estimates and add.
tional requests for appropriations and
revenues the administration has beer
making? The presence of CONGRESS
in Washington ready to do business
has been necessary from the day the
special session convened. And il
Congress takes any considerable va.
cation the country will be sorry.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-22
y CONGRESSIONAL WAR DEBT

THE New York World voices a
demand for a war budget which
shall present a clear and classi-
fled statement of department esti-
mates; and 1t criticises the process
whereby Mr.. McAdoo has been go
ing up to the Capitol at intervals
and each time with a marked in
crease in the estimates which he
lad previously offered as covering
the needs Of the government.
Yet a departmental budget in it.
self will not be sufficient. Just be-
cause the head of a bureau can con-
vince Mr.. McAdoo that he needs
such and such sum Of money is
no valid proof that such a sum is
really required-and the only way
TO secure an efficient and under
standable system of estimating and
appropriating for government neces-
sities-and, what is of equal inn
portance, seeing to it that the money
Is properly eXpended-is by means
of the joint Congressional commit.
tee on war expenditures, which the
Senate voted for. which Mr.. Wilson
summarily rejected, and which we
do not remember the New Yorl
World to have advocated with en-.
phasis.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-22
LABOR NOTES
Briggs

The automobile industry dates
back to 1885.
California requires labels on pris-
on-made goods
Labor unions in Virginia demand
more factory inspectors.
Forty-four per cent. of Moscow's
industrial workers are females.
Russian radicals demand the rigid
prohibition of overtime labor.
Germany Is employing 100000
war prisoners as farm laborers.
Women workers making uniforms
for the Mexican soldiers receive 81
per day.
Only union carpenters will be EN-,
ployed on government workin Great.
er New York.
Toronto (Canada) musicians have
secured an increase of four dollars
a man a week.
High school girls of Loyalton
Cal, have donned overalls and gone
to work in the harvest fields.
Before the war there were three
British factories working for the
land service; to-day there are 95.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-22
VOICES WITH TRrrE R1Nc

T HE Seven Arts, critical peri
odical. discovers an unconvinc-
ing quality in the writings of
American novelists who, after a
term at ambulance driving in France.
have come home to interpret "the
real meaning" of the war to the
American mind.
The reason, according to the Seven
Arts, Is that these men possessed an
unstirred moral sense prior to their
going abroad, where they secured
only superficial stimulus because
they had never before cared very
particularly about great creative
American ideas"
The lesson is not to be confined to
this group of writer's. 1t pertains to
official interpreters of the real
meaning" of the war. Men whose
chief care, up to q short time ago.
was to keep us out of war cannot at
once become convincing as to the
reasons which impelled them TO
lead us into war. The American
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-22
HEART OF A MAN

Our Padre, e says I'm a sinner.
And John Bull says I'm a saint,
And they's both of 'em bound to be
liars,
For I'm neither of them, L amt.
I'm a man, and a mans a mixture,
Right down from lis very birth,
For part ov i'm comes from 'eaven.
For part ov i'm comes from earth.
There's nothing in man that's per-
feet,
And nothing that's all complete;
HIS nobbut a big beginning,
From is 'ead to the soles of lis
feet,
There's summat as draws i'm up
pards,
And summat as drags i'm down,
And the conscience is e wobbles,
'TwiXt muck and a golden crown
Ye remember old Billy Buggins,
That sargint what lorst lis stripes ?
Well, o were a bloomin' 'ero,
A daisy to scrap, but cripes!
That bloke were a blinkin' mixture
OF all that were good and bad,
For e fairly broke is mothers cart
The best friend e 'ad.
But e died at Loos to save a pal,
And that were the other side;
'E killed is mother and saved is
pal.
That's 'ow e lived and died.
And that's 'ow it is. it's 'uman,
It's 'eaven and ELL in one.
There's the ELL of a scrap in the
cart of a man,
And that scraps never done.
The Good and the Bad's at war; We
see,
Just same as us boys and the
Boche,
And when both gets goin' with all
their guns,
There's the Saturday night of a
squash.
And it's just the same wi the ma
tions,
AS 1t is wi a single man,
There's 'eaven and ell in their vitals,
A scrappin' as ard as they can.
&c. A. Studdert Kennedy, c. F.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-22
GOVERNMENT oWNERsHIp

HE ILLTONS of dollars have been
WI voted for the establishment OF
the extension of the govern.
ment's own factories for the pro-
duction of war materials.
The chief result thus far has been
the shipment to our men in France
of defective cartridges for theil
rifles, which would have left them al
the mercy of the Hun whenever he
chose to come over the top" in the
sector of the line held by Ameri.
can troops.
Government ownership is gener.
ally faulty and extravagant. 1t is
now evident also that it. is some
times almost criminal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-22
"HONEYED FABRIC"

He plucks from the cerulean blue
the shining stars of rhetoric, and,
while thousands exclaim and admire.
arranges them in spangled,
splendid galaxy of shining MARSHALL
ed words. To him old Noah Web
ster's great collection is a fascinating
storeroom from which, like a bee in
search for sweets, he fits from word
to word, selecting an adjective here,
culling there a verb or noun or ad-
verb, and then combining them into
a honeyed fabric which startles even
while IT charms.-From the Bing-
hamton Republican-Heral
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-22
WORLD GROWS BETTER

Last weeks Log Cabin told of a
chicken thief taking fifty-two hens
and spring chickens from the poul-
try yard of Mr., E. M. Kennedy OF
near Sunrise. Either the thief's con-
science got the better of his cupidity
or he was afraid to dispose of the
stolen property, for on Wednesday
night he took thirty-two of the
stolen chickens and turned them
loose near the Kennedy home.
This is another proof that the
world is getting better, for nobody
ever before heard of a chicken thief
returning stolen poultry.-From the
Cynthiana Log Cabin.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-22
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

General ]. E. Kuhn. command
of Camp Meade, is a Phlladelphi
X General Richard Coulter,
has gone back to a western ca
after visiting his home In Gree
burg.
Ambassador Elkus. who is ]
home from Europe, will speak
pittsburgh next week.
j, Louis Breitinger, for1
chief of the moving picture cens(
ia taking an active part in the n
independent movement in Philad
Roscoe C. Custer. nominee
sheriff of Cambria. is county det
five now and we'll known here.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-22
EDITORIAL COMMENT

German currency is approaching
a scrap-of-paper basis.-Wall Street
Journal.
The eX-Czar of Russia and his
family are now living in a fourteen
room fiat in Tobolsk, Siberia. 1t is
understood that after one or two en-
counters with the janitor he sadly
admitted that he never did know
anything about caring anyway
New York Morning Telegraph.
Venizelos does not think the time
is opportune for Greece to become a
republic, but the fact that the men,
bers of the Chamber of Deputies
have taken to fist fighting to settle
parliamentary questions would seem
to indicate that that body at least
has the true republican spirit.-Dal-
las News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-22

voices which ring the truest in this
juncture are those which rang true
before election day, last November.
Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root,
Leonard Wood and others readily
to be named are speaking now, as
they have always spoken, when the
war was the theme, in terms of hon.
esty and clear vision and of national
duty. And the people hear them
gladly.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-22
:. VIM. BOWMAN, MAYOR

]. VIM. BOWMAN, MAYOR
A PPolNTME;IT of ]. William
"A Bowman to be Mayor of Har-
risburg reflects credit not only
upon tne judgment of Judges Kunkel
and McCarrell, but upon the city as
we'll. The only regret is the brevity
of the term. The great value to the
city in Mr.. Bowman's selection is not
what he will be able to do in the six
weeks that intervene between now
and the time his successor will take
office. but in the lesson that lies in
his appointment as to the type of
man who should be at the head of
public affairs in Harrisburg.
Mr.. Bowman is a successful busi-
ness man of long experience. But he
is more than that. He is an honest.
puhlic-spirited, patriotic citizen, who
has been identified with every for
ward movement the city has taken in
the past fifteen years and whose
greatest personal interest is the i'm
provement and development of Har-
risburg along lines that will make
the city better place in which to
live. AS member. and chairman of
the Board of Public Works he served,
without pay, during part of the
strenuous period when the great pub
lie improvements of the past decade
and half were in process of con-
struction and when service on that
board required as much time, on
many days, as the private business of
its members. He was one of those
who directed the expenditure of hun
dreds of thousands of dollars in such
manner as to win the confidence and
applause of all familiar with the cir
Under his adminis-
tration scores of economies were
effected and the savings to the peo-
pie amounted to many thousands of
dollars. while the work was of the
highest character.
Mr.. Bowman was one of the or
ganizers and a former president of
the Chamber of Commerce. He is a
heavy subscriber to the new hotel
fund. He has taken part and done
his share in a financial way in the
Liberty Loan, the Red Cross. the Boy
Scout and every other campaign of
the kind that has been conducted in
Harrisburg in recent years. His
pure has always been open. He is
q progressive merchant and was one
of the pioneers for shorter hours and
better working conditions in the
stores of Harrisburg. He is a quiet.
home-loving man of simple habits, a
good citizen in every sense the word
implies and he is a Mayor of whom
Harrisburg may be proud.
The Telegraph extends its con-
gratulations to the city upon his ap-
pointment, to the court upon its Sc
lection and to Mr.. Bowman upon the
honor conferred upon him, with the
wish that the term were for as many
years as it is for weeks.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-22
CLOTURE IN PRACTICE

TN VICE have preparations been
made to apply the Senate's new
rule for cloture, but each time
it has been rendered unnecessary by
a unanimous-consent agreement. 1t
would seem that the cloture rule was
efflcacious in the same way as start
ing for the dentists is with the small
boy with an aching tooth.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-22
A POOR COUNTER.

He's an expert accountant"
II don't believe 1t. I played golf
with him the other day and the
score he handed in convinced me
that he had never studied arith-
metic.-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-22
OUR DAILY LAUGH

1T suppose King Solomon wasn'
much of traveller"
"Why not?"
"How could e man get anywher,
when he had to kiss a thousanC
wives goodbye"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-22
SATURDAY EVENING, SEPT. %

Charge once more then and be dumb,
Let the Uictors, uhen they come,
When the forts of folly fall,
Find thy body By the t1dH!
MATTHEW ARNOLD.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-22
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg people hav,
become noted for the warmtl
of their demonstrations in homo
of young soldiers and drafte,
men?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-22

Representative Charles Walter.
Cham bersburg, who was here yestl
day, looked after matters in comm
ton with the freeing of some tul
pixies in the Cumberland Valley. l
want to see the day when the val
won't have a tollgate and l th|
It is coming pretty soon," said he
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-22

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO..
Telegraph Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-22

E.J. STACKPoLE,P Pres't s. Editorin. c hief
+. r. OYSTER. Business Manoger.
GUS NJ. STEINMETZ, MondgiHg Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-22

historic HARRISBURG
One hundred years ago the n,
troubled place when 1t rained :
Market Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-22
IMPORTANT POINT.

She-Would you marry a woman
who has sued another man for
breach of promise?
He-How much did the court
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-22

Member OF the Associated Press-The
Associated Press is exclusively en-
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All rights of republication of special
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-22
award her

BOTH CAN'T BE AHEAD.
'His wife dresses right up to the
minute"
Eyes, but she keeps him three
months behind on his bills"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-22

Our Padre, e says I'm a sinner.
And John Bull says I'm a saint,
And they's both of 'em bound to be
liars,
For I'm neither of them. L ain't.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-22

A PROMINENT of ]. William
"A Bowman to be Mayor of Har-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-29
BLACK BELTS
FOR KIDNAPPED CHILD

She was known as Nanny
Jackson's chile" Even among her
dark-hued playmates the color line
asserted itself and Marjorie was
always better dressed, more con-
siderately treated and respected.
At the white chillun's' school
where Nanny" sent her, she
maintained her standing, even
studying music under a private
teacher.
Backing the authorities in the
search for the girl and the fight
to take her from her alleged negro
abdustors is the Daughters of the
Confederacy, the Southern Wom-
ems club and Juvenile officials.
They claim that Marjorie is the
daughter of New Orleans actress,
who while on the stage was oblig-
ed to leave her infant in the care
of the old nanny. Following her
death, the negroes came to Chica-
go with the baby and has cared
for her since.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-29
FORUM DEBATE.
ENDS in DRAW

With much argument on both
sides, the Open Forum of the First
Congregational church Sunday
night ended with honors even.
Rep. Victor Zednick argued on the
affirmative side of the question Of
military training for high schools,
with F. E. Clerk, principal of the
Lincoln high school of Seattle, OPP
posing.
Mr.. Clerk argued that military
training for young boys is worth
less, and detrimental to the grow
ing youth. He urged physical
training for hte boys instead.
During the period of adolescence
it is harmful to the boy" said Mr..
Clerk.
Rep. Zednick's arguments were
based on the value of military
training to the state, and of the
discipline that is taught to the
boy. He denied that military train
ing would engender militarism.
Others spoke on both sides of
the question.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-29
SAYS SHE'S COUNTESS
Omitted Press Leased Wire. J

PORTLAND, JAN 29I the rghtful duchess Bucking
ham | also Princess Kovalask Russia"
This the firm declaration today Mtting
backed husband
lumber yard
The light their daughter
found sleeping barrel under Trinity church. having
from home
Summoned headquarters the alleged duchess"
she left England
married hitting when he
had three children
She Russian
the world kill john destroy
their claim to the Kovalaski estates
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-29
GERMANY
CHAN GEES
ATTITUDE.
United Press Leased wire.)

BERLIN, via wireless TO the
United Press, Jan. 29.-Where
one year ago DR.. Dryander, the
quiet, white-haired man." who is
court preacher, pleaded for an
hour for peace in the services
marking the kaiser's birthday, this
year his sermon was a fiery de-
Tense of Germany's cause and
militant plea for Germany to steel
herself for the decisive battle
which everyone believes is coming.
In this changed spirit he reflect
ed the sentiment of the German
people. His sermon of Saturday
has evoked the deepest approval
everywhere.
Near the front sat Ambassador
Gerard in full evening clothes,
while nearby were the other am
bassadors In court uniforms.
Close at hand were the min
listers of state--including Grand
Admiral Won Tirpitz. Many 9TH
er admirals and high officials sat
in the balcony, while in the court
box sat the Crown Princess &C.
ceilie with her young sons, and
German mobiles.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-29
METHODISTS
GET TOGETHER

The first of a series of "Connec-
tionalism' meetings of the differ
ent branches of the Methodist
churches of Tacoma will be held
Wednesday. The meeting will be
held at the Mason church, when
the officers of the Ladies Aid So
cieties will open the series.
A lunch will be served at noon,
with Mrs. w. p. Hopping in
charge. In the afternoon the dis
trict superintendent will talk, and
exchange and group meetings will
take place.
The District Epworth league
cabinet will meet Feb. 8 at the
First church. The Sunday school
superintendents and officers meet
Friday night, Feb. 16, at Trinity
church.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-29
Real Winter
Hits Tacoma,
More Is Due

With four and a half inches of
snow and a chilling wind Saturday
night and Sunday, a temperature
Of 81 degrees at 4 o'clock Monday
morning, and a prediction of "fair
and colder for Monday and Tues
day." Tacoma is at last enjoying
a taste of winter, after the pussy
willows have been out for three
weeks.
When the snow began Saturday
night the T. r. & P. Co. hustled
out its bags of salt and got ready
for trouble like that Of last year;
but though eastern Washington
seems likely to have a real cold
snap, according to the weather
bureau, nothing specially severe
has as yet appeared on the cards
for the western slope.
Trains on all lines from the east
were from four to seven hours late
Sunday, due to heavy SHOWS in the
mountains. Seattle got consider
ably more snow than Tacoma.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-29

far end of the street famed for
white lights, theaters, dance halls
and everything in the world ex-
cept a land flowing with milk and
honey, and early rising.
This particular farm COW
ers only four acres and is
valued at $27S,OOO, which
makes il the most valuable
farm per acre i'm the world.
1t is located at the heights of
Fort George and Fort Tryon,
Broadway and Nagel-av., and is
only stones throw from the
Dyckman-st. subway station.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-29

CHICAGO, Jan. 29.-Although
police and private detectives have
searched the black belts" Of Chi
cago, Gary, Evanston, Hammond
and adjoining suburbs, no trace of
Marjorie Delbridge, 14-year-old
southern girl. who was kidnapped
Friday night, has been found.
She is believed to be in the
hands of negro friends of Mrs
Camilla Jackson, her nanny"
and the authorities are redoubling
their efforts to find her today.
Since Marjorie was found by
welfare workers at the Little Dixie
cabin on the levee where the old
ex-shave lived, and made a ward Of
the Juvenile court by Judge
Bowles, muttered threats havv
been made against those white
folks" by mammy's "dusky follow
ing"
The golden-haired, vivacious
child virtually ruled Little Afri-
ca" and was the idol of the neg
roeS.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-29
GIRLS! WOMEN!
take CASCARETS
IF CONSTIPATED
They liven your liver and
bowels and clear your
complexion.
Don't stay headachy, bill
ious with breath bad and
stomach sour.
GET. a lucent hoy now

Get a 10-cent box now.
Tonight sure! Take Cascarets
and enjoy the incest, gentlest liver
and bowel cleansing you ever ex-
perienced. Cascarets will liven
your liver and clean your thirty
feet of bowels without gripping.
You will wake up feeling grand.
Your head will be clear, breath
right, tongue clean, stomach sweet,
eyes bright, step elastic and COM
plexion rosy-they're wonderful.
Get a 10-cent box now at any drug
store. Mothers can safely give
whole Cascaret to children any
time when cross, feverish, bilious,
tongue coated or constipated -
they are harmless.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-29
POWER GRADERS BUSY
BY Gibson Gardner

WASHINGTON, JAM 29.The Shields
come live issue in
conference committee then President
the conference committee
chance to final report Clifford
Pinchot bitterly frankly
grabbers, he says strong and confident
The probability that the president has solution
back OF his which thinks
he Is not ready just
time the jimmes
dark lantern and if the public
somebody calls a policeman.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-29
"CAVE BOY" HIDES GIRL
tNewspaper Epterprise Assoc,a

Newspaper
LOS ANGELES, Cal, JAN 29.-Wilam e.
the methods the Gladys
sweetheart
to his stepfather's ranch in the mountain wlds
concealed
Doors freakish built entirely
Mint miles city They preparations
the romantic life they to
three
girls frantic conducted statewide
Then the police
and in battle
officers making surrender his youthful com
panion