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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-01
LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM

"THEN the momentous question
Wv of who's who in the Legisla-
ture shall have been deter
mined this week, the Republican lead
ers who have been rapping each other
and incidentally giving much hope
and comfort to the political enemy
might engage in the more profitable
business of outlining a legislative pro-
gram that will appeal to the people.
Their ears to the ground, they should
'be able to ascertain without great ef-
fort that there is no demand any
where for more legislation. Two years
ago Governor Brumbaugh and Lieu
tenant Governor McClain clearly inter-
preted public opinion in their formal
addresses when they declared that
Pennsylvania was surfeited with laws
and that instead of increasing the
number the statutory indigestion
should be cured by Wholesale repeal of
many acts now cumbering the legal
volumes. Codiication of some laws
has improved the situation, but there
is still room for improvement and real
reform in this direction.
Those familiar with the processes of
legislation would be doing the State a
distinct service by placing the lid firmly
upon the half-baked proposals thrown
into the hopper at the beginning
of every session and which should not
even have consideration in commit
AT0nV hi1tc inf G
mere fads without any popular de-
mand and with no justification what
ever. Such measures ought never to
find their way to the calendars. and
negative committee recommendations
should be the rule. In this way only
can the deluge of legislative nostrums
and panaceas be held back at the
source.
Also of primary importance is the
short session. Unless and until the
lawmakers realize that the real busi-
ness of the biennial meeting can be
more efficiently transacted in a few
weeks, instead of months, there will be
the usual waste of time without rea-
son or excuse. Already the people
have grown weary of the factional
controversy and they will not be pa
tient with a prolonged washing of
dirty party linen.
The Telegraph believes much will be
forgiven should it be settled once and
for all this week that the session shall
be short, business-like and devoted en-
tirely to the peoples business. Repub-
lican leaders in the Legislature owe a
duty to the party. VIII they measure
up to their sponsibility?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-01
Fox's Reply to Burke

(Kansas City Starr
In 1896 Edmund Burke protested
against peace between England and
France on the ground that the French
government had murdered a king.
What" he exclaimed in his Let
ters on Regicide Peace" you
would treat with regicides and
assassins!"
To which Fox replied: "Assuredly
I'VE should treat with them. IL we
treat with France only when she has
"a government of which we approve,
'good God! we shall fight eternally."
That is inspired common sense as
again futile idealism. The prin-
ciple involved often comes up in in
ternational affairs, where nations
every now and then are called on to
deal with governments of which they
heartily disapproya
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-01
Dominion
To the Invaders.

To the Invaders.
Josephine Preston Peabody, in Harvest
MoonO
Lords of disaster, waiting still to reap
New glory for the dooms that you have
SoWn,
New glory for the ruin, stone on stone.
And bleeding tribute wrung from them
that weep;
Great is your faith. above the watch
you keep,
Till there shall spring some Vlstage Oh
your own
out OF the tilth of blood and tcLrs
And trodden breath still crying from
the deep!
Yet, lords of famine, one gift late dis
ccrned.
But still a triumph and a dwelling
place
One master work OF might is surely
done.
Only your chosen way could so have
The men and brothers of the Belgian
race
Their everlasting stronghold in the sun.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-01
Making Better Americans
(Kansas City Stnr)


Tho assignment of a United States
army officer to institute a plan of mill
tary training in the high schools of
Kansas City ought to be welcomed by
every parent. Wherever the plan
has been tried it has been a success
full aid to teachers and has overcome
all opposition. In Washington, where
there was opposition at first, it has
soon shown that the cumulative spirit
among the boys in striving for drill
honors made better students of them,
for only the boys who stand high in
their studies get the coveted places
in the drill corps. Besides, parents
were convinced of it's all around help
fulness in training their sons.
4 Cooperation between the board of
education and the parents in giving the
plan trial will quickly demonstrate
it's value in every boy who takes the
instruction. Its value to the country
and to the spirit of nationalism and
democracy cannot be questioned.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-01
THE NEW YEAR
VXTHEN the poet wrote of the
w New Year:
Ring out the old,
Ring in the new;


Wv New Year:
Ring out the old.
Ring in the new;
Ring out the false,
Ring in the true"
he did not have 1917 in mind.
The New Year promises little re-
lief from the abnormal conditions in
which we lived during 1916. Interna-
tional peace is not only nowhere in
sight, but we as a nation, are closer
to participation in the great European
conflict than we were year ago. The
efforts of President Wilson toward a
cessation of hostilities has been mis-
understood at every turn-perhaps in
tentlonally so in some quarters-,and
If Germany launches the underseas
campaign of which there have been
threats we shall most certainly be
drawn into the war. On the other
hand, if Germany or the Allies should
suddenly yield sufficiently to offer
peace terms upon which an agreement
could be reached we in America
would be plunged into industrial chaos
at once, confusing and disastrous TO
labor and capital. Which ever way
the cat jumps the United States, in all
probability, will be the sufferer in a
financial way, at least.
But not alone with relation to the
European situation does the govern
ment find itself beset by doubt and
uncertainty unpleasant to contem-
plate. The Mexican situation is bor
dering ON an open break with Car
rama. Villa is becoming stronger
every day. The maintenance of order
along the border is a more serious
problem now than it was when the
troops We're summoned to the Rio
Grande last summer, and the details
there are being reduced gradually.
While these things are transpiring
with respect to our policies as they re-
late to foreign nations, domestic con-
ditions are not improving to say the
least While wages are going up by
leaps and bounds the high cost of liv-
ing keeps constantly lap or two in
advance, and it is question if the
average wage Garner is not in worse
condition now than he was when
prices and wages were both lower.
Work, it is true, is plentiful, but the
industries OF the country are feeding
ON a very perlshable food supplv.
They are eating of the plentitude now
ct hand, but what they will do when
the war mamma is exhausted none can
tell. The national administration is
like an ostrich with its head in the
sand. safe enough for the present, but
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-01

If all who hate would love us,
And all our loves were true,
The stars that swing above us
Would brighten in the blue;
If cruel words were kisses,
And every scowl smile,
A better world than this is
Would hardly be worth while;
If purses would not tighten
To meet a brothers need,
The load we bear would tighten
Above the grave Of greed.
If those who whine would whistle.
And those who languish laugh,
The rose would rout the thistle,
The grain outrun the chair;
If hearts were only jolly,
IL grieving were forgot,
And tears of melancholy
Were things that now are not,
Then love would kneel to duty,
Then all the world would seem
A bridal bower of beauty,
A dream within a dream.
II men would cease to worry,
And women cease to sigh.
And all be glad to bury
Whatever has to die;
If neighbor spake to neighbor,
AS love demands of all.
The rust would eat the saber.
The spear stay on the wall:
Then every day would glisten
And every eve would shine,
And God would pause and listen,
And life would be divine.
Washington Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-01
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Mayor Smith says his new year
slogan is Greater Philadelphia.
H. o. Wilbur, Philadelphia manu-
facturer, celebrated his S2nd birthday
by working at his office.
Burgess j. Nj. Yeakle, of Bethle-
hem, has taken charge of arrange
ments to receive the local company
when it returns from the border.
DIR. David Grimm, elected presi-
dent of the Reading Medical Society,
is well-known here.
William Decker, the Lycoming
furniture manufacturer has estab-
lished a profit-skaring plan.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-01
HEALTH DEPARTMENTS JOB

NOUNC1L has cut out big job for
" the City Health Department in
voting to have it inaugurate it's
own system of ash collections. but it
has done about the only thing left to
do under the conditions. The con-
tracing firm has failed lamentably.
The city was on the point OF open
rebellion against a system that COM
PEELED householders to permit none
but the authorized collectors to take
away ashes and then found no way to
compel these collectors to perform
their duties.
The task imposed upon the Health
Department is not one that can be
accomplished ina day DR.. Raunick.
under whose direction the work is TO
be done, must outline a system of
routes, must hire teams sufficient to
clear up the accumulations now piled
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-01

high in hundreds of back yards and
must devote his first attention to bring
ing the collections up to date before
he can undertake to keep. them SO.
The likelihood is that the differ
ences between Council and the con-
tractor will end in lawsuit. The ex-
pense of collecting the ashes by the
city will be charged up to the con-
tractor and it is extremely likely that
legal dispute will be raised on this
score. However, whatever the out
come, Council was not only justified
in the radical step it took on Saturday.
but compelled to act as it did in the
interest of taxpayers. The only Won
der is that it waited so long.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-01
The Purpose of Reading
Emerson.

Books are for the scholars idle
times. When he can read God direct
ly. the hour is too precious to be vast
ell in other mems transcripts of their
readings. But when the intervals of
darkness come, as come they must
when the sun is hid. and the stars
withdraw their shining-we repair to
the lamps which were kindled by their
ray. to guide our steps to the east
again, where the dawn is. We hear,
that we may speak. The Arabian pro-
verb says: "A fig tree, looking on q
hg tree. becometh fruitful
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-01
HISTORY REPEATS

NNE may suspect that King
George, Emperor William and
various other of the warning
rulers, whose discordant views occupy
so much space in the newspapers
these days, might be induced to agree
at least on the old year sentiment of
Robert Burns written away back in
1888, but quite applicable from the
standpoint of all of them to the year
which came to such n noisy conclusion
last night. Burns wrote at the years
end:
o Eighty-eight. in thy sma' space,
What dire events have taken place!
OF what enjoyments thou has reft
us!
In what a pickle thou has left us.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-01
HAPPY NEW YEAR
BY Wing Dinger

Who eer you be, where e'er you are
stretch my hand to you
Across the space that lies between
For handshake warm and true
L wish for you and all yours, friend,
A year of joy serene,
And health and wealth that knows n,
bounds,
Through nineteen seventeen.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-01
HISTORIC HARRISBURG

New Years Day used to be cele-
brated in Harrisburg by bonfires and
punch bowls.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-01

Skating at Wildwood is doubtless all
right, but do you remember the de-
lights of skating to Clarlx's Ferry on
the old canal?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-01
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg distributed
more automobiles last year than
ever in its history?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-01

The Allies seem bent in serving up
the dove of peace as a New Years
roast.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-01
OUR DAILY LAUGH

ONE GOOD
TURN.
1t is Dan Cupid's
prank
For a woman
to find
If she marries q
crank
That her life
is a grind.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-01
EDITORIAL. COMMENT

In our role of peacemaker we might
induce Mexico to sign a treaty with
herself.-Wall Street Journal.
The Greeks appear to enjoy all the
rigors of war without any of its moral
benefits-New York sun.
Roumania probably could be arrested
for what it thinks oil the statesman
who got 1t into war.--Kansas City Star.
Texas is making sausage from jack
rabbit meat and we expect to hear any
time that food has taken another jump.
Boston Transcript.
The Central Powers have subdued
Roumania, Belgium, Servia and Monte
negro, but San Marino still holds out
New York Morning Telegraph.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-01

Keeping open house on New Years
Day is a mighty dry custom in the pro-
hibition States.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-01

Working on a holiday is one of the
joys of newspaper publishing.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-01
IGTz..
A THANKsGIv-
ING EXPERT
ENCE.

What are your
fowls, good
Dealer tell?
But told, he
said, with
glaring eye,
1t m u s t b g
eagles that
you sell.
No turkey ever
scared 9 o
high.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-01

Published evenings except Sunday by
| THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.,
i Telegraph Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-01

Happy New Year!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-01

70. ]. STACKPoLE.P Prss't ana Editor-in-Chie
?. r. OYSTER, Business Manager
GUS M. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-01

Following Saturday nights eX-
change of vitriolic statements between
Senator Penrose and Attorney Cen
eral Brown and Governor Brum-
baugh's sudden dismissal of Banking
Commissioner Smith there was calm
for few hours, but Harrisburg woke
up to find walls, fences, billboards,
poles and even surfaces of streets
plastered with placards assailing Bald
win in terms that recalled the days
when men considered verbal brickbats
the proper Weapons in politics. In
the evening the Baldwin people did
some posting of placards on their own
hook
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-01

Senator Pcnrose took dinner with
the Allegheny countians last night
and 1t created something Of a panic
among Cox men, who hurriedly count
ed up their strength. Allegheny is in
a strategetic position.
William Dawson, of Scranton,
former chief clerk to the banking
commissioner. is here meeting his
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1917-01-26
INDUSTRY IN IDAHO
Future Development of Idaho's
Industries Depend. Largely on
Action of Legislature Should
Not Be Radical.

16 sugar beet factories of the "a
operating in the U. S. This is a
wonderful showing for this in
dustry in these sparsely settled
states and adds greatly to their
commercial Importance.
Grangeville-Grangeville Light
& Power Co. contemplates i'm
provements and dam costing
100000.
Idaho Falls-Local man wins
frs; honors in both state and ma
tional poultry shows.
! Boise-Shipment of furs from
here to eastean jobbers is grow
ing businessshere.
American Falls Growing peas
bring Power county farmers $1OO
per acre.
Nezperce-G Government sells
IL, 900, 900 feet of logs in Nez
Perez Reserve.
Dividends of Occur d'Alene
district pass $40, 900, 900 mark for
1916 and new year starts off at
record breaking pace.
Salmon-Real estate transfers
of Lemhi county pass $500, 900
mark past year and demand for
farm and ranch property best
ever known.
Weston is working to induce
Utah-Idaho Sugar Co. to build a
factory there.
Fenn-Thos. F. Wren sells 55,-
900 bushels of wheat, grown on
his $500 acre ranch here. Price
about SIS, 900.
Every industry in this state
needs and should have the sup
port of the public and of the Of
ficialdom that represents it, but
mining is especially in need of it,
notably as to initial development.
It's future, the success of which
means so much to a state like
Idaho, is less because of the in
tangibility of what may be
termed its assets. Boise Capital
News.
Cottonwood have
been let for $4,000 cold storage
plant as addition to new cream
cry.
Kellogg-Paving plans being
considered here.
Stites-Orogrande Gold Mining
Co. places big order for machin-
cry. Freight from here to mines
will be $4,000.
Emmett-In order to meet the
needs of the employees of the
e-Payette Lumber company,
100 new houses are to be con-
structed at once.
Idaho City-Largest oil engine
in state bought for Lucky Boy
mine.
Anaconda company of Butte
has purchased smelter site on
Spokane river, where electrolytic
zinc plant will be built for treat
ment of zinc ore from Douglas
and other mines in. Occur d'A-
lenes. Power will be furnished
by Washington Waterpower Co.
Idaho's mineral outputfor 1916
was $4,000, 900, an increase of
Al per cent over 1915.
Pocatello-More than $4,000
600 is to be expended in improve
ments by the Oregon Short Zine
during this year. The funds will
be used for improving operating
facilities and lettering roadped.
Part of the road is to be relaid
with heavier steel, and heavier
bridges to be built on branch
lines.
It now looks as if instead of
fighting the Idaho public utility
law its powers will be extended,
giving it control over securities
offered the public.
New Plymouth-152 carloads
of freight left this station in 1916
over Payette Valley branch of
Oregon Short Line, breaking all
previous records.
The Union Pacific Ry. Co. has
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1917-01-26

The Farmers Union Warehouse
company shipped three cars of
hogs and the Cottonwood Milling
& Elevator company one car to
Seattle Tuesday.
The girls basket ball team of
the Ferdinand high school wi
play the local girls team at the
Odd Fellow hall this evening and
warm contest is anticipated.
Howard Mckinley, one of our
most progressive young farmers,
has given his home east of town
the name of the Bide-a-wee Hog
Farm and this week ordered a
nice lot of stationery printed for
his privite use. Howard is rails
ing purebred Poland China hogs
and has some of the best stock
in the state.
A valuable bull belonging to
Billy Brockman met a sudden
death in the local railway yards
last Friday evening when it took
a notion to butt the passenger
train off the track. The animal
was being driven into town with
a bunch of cattle and had been
started for the stock yard. 1t
broke away and had been round
ed up again just as the train
pulled into the station. Seeing
the headlight the excited animal
decided here was something to
wreak its anger on and launched
itself down the track at the, ap-
preaching train. The engine was
equipped with a snow pillow
which threw the animal clear off
the track and it soon died from
it's injuries. The bull suffered a
broken jaw, three broken legs
and several broken ribs. The
animal was valued at about $125.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1917-01-26
In Memoriam

Whereas, The hand of death
has entered our circle and brok-
en- a link in our fraternal chains
by taking from our midst our be-
loved brother, Joseph L. Kincaid,
P. N. G.,
Wheaeas, In the death of our
brother we feel that Cottonwood
Lodge No. A, l. O. o. F., has
suffered a loss irreparable,
Be 1t Resolved, That we, the
entire membership, extend to the
bereaved family our deepest
sympathy in this their hour of
sorrow, and while they mourn
the loss of a devoted husband and
father, we mourn the loss of a
faithful friend and brother. Be
it further
Resolved, That a copy of these
resolutions be sent to the be
reaved family, a copy of same
be spread on our minutes and be
sent to the local paper for publ
cation.
GEO. S. DoWNER,
j. E. SMITH,
ARTHUR RICE,
Committee.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1917-01-26
Found a Sure Thing.

I. B. Wixon, Farmers Mills, N. Y,
has used Chamberlain Tablets for years
for disorders of the stomach and liver
and says, chamberlain Tablets are the
best I have ever used" Obtainable
everywhere.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-25

ed by themselves. 1t is proposed to
be enlarged and will cover an entire
block They have to assembly halls,
a grist mill, a moss factory, moving
picture building, a cotton ginning es-
Establishment, a velvet bean huller, a
large real estate agency, several con-
tracing firms, market stalls, shoe
shops and other enterprises.
They have their own physicians and
dentists and a two-story brick hos
pital. They have an excellent public
school, and seven miles away is Fes-
sender Academy, conducted after the
style of Tuskeegee. They have num-
Der of churches, one large brick, and
they are all nicely furnished Many
of them live in pretentious homes, and
enjoy the luxury of every modern
convenience electric lights, gas,
baths, etc. They ride in automobiles
and have their own society and social
functions.
And in this ambition for improve
ment they have the cordial good will
of their white fellow citizens.
After being clothed with the rights
they now possess Horace Greeley's
advice was: Now, root hog, or die"
They are not dying.
l shall close by saying that not a
great while ago was invited to make
an address before our satte press as
|sociation and in closing said:
81 can never forget the loyalty OF
the old slave and his fidelity to the
trust committed to his keeping during
our civil war period In all civic
transactions in our courts of justice
/ would plead for his race square
deal His attempts at right living
should engage our solicitude and re-
ceive our encouragement
FRANK HARRIS.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-25
ANSWERS ITSELF

Speaking of ending the war without
a victory, the Ocala Star assures US
"the United States has quit using
that particular brand of foolishness. .
But when may we prove that we are
not too proud to fight? Times
Union.
The best answer to your question
is found in the following extract
from your own columns:
"For America has already struck
the solar plexus and is following up
the attack on the most sensitive or
gans, as the German press knows, be-
cause it feels. The appearance of our
expeditionary force has already
heartened the French all down the
line and has inspired Russia to turn
Brussiloff loose; she has assured her
friends they need not fear the future,
and her three billion dollars in sup
plies have already driven the German
mark pretty good work
five months, and the worst is yet to
come"