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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-17
Food Situate 4 Serious.

"Our food situation is by no means
as desperate as the Germans want 10
believe 1t is but. on the other hand,
it is more serious than many OF our
own people realize. Our own shipping
suffered very little more in March than
during the first month of unrestricted
submarine warfare, and other tonnage
sunk during that period was in much
the same position. and there is no very
marked method of combating the evil.
What has been accomplished is the re-
suit of inventions and processes, which
take time to develop, and the govern
ment is well aware of the fact that
immediate results could not be ex-
pected.
The Increasing armament of our
mercantile marine has made subma-
rines far more cautious and more sub
merged attacks are taking place. OF
course. this has one advantage, mas
much as the raiders must depend upon
their torpedoes for such attacks, and.
being able to carry only a limited num-
Der. must return to port sooner than
when they made their attacks from the
surface. Your Navy Department knows
Just how many submarines we have
sunk, but the exact number of U-boats
that have actually never returned to
port is known only to the German
admiralty, which, naturally. does not
give US this information.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-17
Confidence in Americans.

'T have no desire to minimize to the
American people" said the admiral
"the serious situation prevailing as
result of the illegal use of submarines
by the Germans Neither is it easy for
US to take them into our confidence
and tell them what we are doing 10
cope with the evil without pfoNolns
the Germans with useful information.
No methods existed in the past lor
lighting the submerged submarine anu anu
the new inventions and processes LoI
that purpose take time to develop. o
are giving your navy all the lnioffna
tion in our possession. and, kno"lhg ~
record we have great confidence tnat
American inventive genius viii supple-
ment il with valuable contributions.
'As far as the feeding OF the atlieu
nominations is concerned, our eIorts
must be concentrated on saving ton-
mage, while bringing in the necessary
supplies in order to minimize the e.
fect of the submarine warfare. As You
probably know, we have bought large
quantities of wheat in Australia, but,
as the round voyage takes four tunes
as long as that to America, the BRING
ing of this wheat takes four times as
much tonnage as the carrying OF Amer
tcan wheat to the allied powers. We,
therefore, require all the wheat we can
obtain from America and Canada.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-17
We're Giving
$22 Value

Two very prominent manufacturing
tailors make our lines Of clothing. They
give US the services of two OF the highest
salared designers in the Notwithstanding
wonderful models. We dictate the mater
ials and the value that shall be embodied in
the garments.
Our standard price has been, $3.50, and
TODAY it cost us 81 so more per suit than
last season to give you the same value.
That's why we say were giving you S22
value for ST.. so"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-09
Old Die First, T. r. Saws

Franklin, Pa.-Colonel Roosevelt
believes, with a Franklin editor, that
the old men should be first to answer
the call to arms. Recently w. P. r.
Ferguson wrote an editorial in the
Venango Daily Herald under the cap
ton Let the Old Die First" He sent
a copy of the editorial to Colonel
Roosevelt and received the following
reply:
My Dear Ferguson: Good for you.
I entirely agree with you, the old
should die where possible, and it is
for the old to die, where that can be
brought about in war so as to save
the young. OF course, If man has a
wife and children dependent upon him
he ought not to go to war until there
is such a demand as there was in the
Civil War. but he should go If his
wife and children are not dependent
upon him for their bread. If we now
go to war with Germany I should a
good deal rather be killed myself than
to have my two eldest boys, who are
married and have children, killed.
And bitter though the choice would
be, I would rather expose them to
battle than their two younger, unmar-
ried brothers. From the Pittsburgh
Dispatch.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-09
Up TO PRESIDENT

TIME Senate, the House, the press
and the people of the country
have placed the stamp of their
approval on the Presidents armed
neutrality" plan. Noted authorities on
national and international law have
told him that he is legally within his
rights in arming merchant vessels
against piratical submarines. If Con-
gress has not formally ratified the
executive proposals, it has in effect by
the adoption of the cloture rule in
the Senate. Therefore it is now up 10
the President. If he does not proceed
forthwith to permit American ships to
protect themselves the fault is purely
his own. The country expects prompt
and decisive action. Will it get it. or
are we to have another period of
"watchful waiting?"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-09
THE OLD SCEPTIC"

am weary of disbelieving: why should
l wound my love
To pleasure a sophist's pride in a
craven image of truth?
l will go back to my home, with the
clouds and the stars above.
And the heaven l used to know. and
the God of my buried youth.
l will go back to the home where Of
old in my boyish pride
l pierced my fathers heart with a
murmur of unbelief;
He only looked in my face as l spoke
Night after night in my dreams; and
he died in grief, in grief.
Oh. yes; 1 have read the books, the
books that we write ourselves,
EXtolling our love of an abstract
truth and our pride of debate:
1 will go back to the, love of the cotter
who sings as he delves.
To that childish infinite love and the
God above fact and date.
To that ignorant infinite God who col
ors the meaningless flowers,
To that lawless infinite Poet who
matches the law with the crime (;
To the weaver who covers the world
And holds in His hands like threads
the tales and the truths of time.
Is the faith of the cotter so simple and
narrow as this? All. well,
1t is hardly so narrow as yours who
daub and plaster with dyes
The shining mirrors of heaven, the
shadowy mirrors of hell,
And blot out the dark deep vision, If
it seemed to be framed with lies.
No faith I hurl against you, no fact to
freeze your sneers;
ns,1x. he
weld in the fires, of youth
Leaps to my hand like the flaming
sword of nineteen hundred years,
The sword of the high Gods answer,
o PLATE, what is truth?
Your laughter has killed more hearts
than ever were pierced with
swords.
Ever You daub new mirrors and turn
the old to the wall;
And more than blood is lost in the
weary battle of words;
For creeds are many; but God is
One, and contains them all.
All, why should we. strive or cry?
Surely the end is close!
Hold by your little truths: deem
your triumph complete!
But nothing is true or false in the in
finite heart of the rose;
And the earth is little dust that
clngs to our travelling feet.
I will go back to my home and look at
the wayside flowers.
And hear from the wayside cabins
the sweet old hymns again,
Where Christ holds out His arms in
the quiet evening hours,
And the light of the chapel porches
broods on the peaceful lane.
And there 1 shall hear men praying
the deep old foolish prayers,
And there | shall see, once more, the
fond old faith confessed,
And the strange old light on their
faces who hear as blind man
hears
Come unto Me. We weary, and 1 will
give you rest.
I will go back and believe in the deep
old foolish tales,
And pray the sweet old prayers that
I learned at my mothers knee,
Where the Sabbath tolls its peace thro'
the breathless mountain-vales,
And the sunsets evening hymn hal
lows the listening sea.
BY Alfred Moves, who lectured in Har-
risburg to-day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-09

ocrats. to whom every postmaster 1t
an ally. They realised that their post
masters and other federal officehold-
ers were the chief contributors to the
last campaign. and only recently these
postmasters contributed in the "office
to office" campaign of r. w. Wooley
and W. r. Hollister.
civil service" of the kind planned
is travesty on the term. Such an
order as the Democratic political
bosses are about to compel the Presi-
dent to issue is worse than none. il
means simply that a lot of Democratic
gang favorites are to be kept in office
for life. That may be good for the
Democratic bosses, but If the present
inefficiency of the postal system is
anything to judge by it will not be
good for the country.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-09
THE PEOPLES FORUM
By BRIGGS

a Third street and a Second street car
were approaching Market.
The traffic officer at Third and Mar
ket streets, not knowing that Third
street was practically closed because
of the long string of parked automo-
biles, gave the signal and sent several
more vehicles into the already jammed
street.
The result-it took just six minutes
to straighten out the tangle, open the
street, get the cars out of the way
and open the tracks for the trolleys
This is probably one of the worst
streets in the city for congestion
First, because practically every car on
the railways lines passes Third and
Market streets. and second. because
autoists continually are blocking traffic
permits this, the railways company is
almost powerless to make the first
move in a real effort to maintain sched-
ules. The incident / saw is not an
exception, according to traffic officers,
who can only enforce traffic rules that
are made by Council.
True. an ordinance which will stop
parking, may cause slight inconveni-
ence for some of the businessmen, but
on the other hand, shall favored few
cause delays and traffic Z congestion
which is daily nuisance in the down
town section. Autoists have frequently
complained about conditions in Third
street, but no attempt has been made.
from what l have learned, to better
conditions.
TOWN OBSERVER.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-09
Call to Progress

OF no use are the men who study to
do exactly as was done before, who
can never understand that to-day is a
new day. There never was such a
combination as this of ours, and the
rules to meet it are not set down in
any history. We want men of original
perception and original action. men
of elastic, men of moral mind, who
can live in the moment and take a
step forward. Columbus was no back
ward creeping crab, nor was Martin
Luther, nor John Adams, nor Patrick
Henry, nor Thomas Jefferson, and the
Genius or Destiny of America is no
log or sluggard, but a man incessantly
advancing. as the shadow on the dial's
face, or the heavenly body by whose
light it is marked.-Emerson.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-09
Mrs. Aldrich Humbly Born

plain two and one-half-story
wooden house with tailor shop on
the ground floor and a lawyers office
above, in Norwich. Conn, was the
birthplace of Mrs. Nelson w. Aldrich
the mother-in-law of John d. Rookie
feller, Jr., who died in her house on
Fifth Avenue, New York City, re-
Gently.
She was Miss Chapman, and when
her parents died she was taken by her
aunt, Mrs. Duty Greene, wife of a
druggist, of Christian Hill, r. l. She
was brought up as the Greenes' own
child, and in time was known as Miss
Abby p. Greene. although she never
was adopted by the Greene family.
Her uncle was her guardian, how
ever.
October 9, 1866, she married Nell
son Wilmarth Aldrich, who had been
q bookkeeper in the country store of
James Bullock, in East Killingly,
Conn, before going TO Providence, r.
l., TO seek his fortune. The newspaper
marriage notices gave her name as
Abby Greene, probably because her
identity would not have been easily
recognized by the majority of her
friends as Abby Chapman.
Mrs. Aldrich inherited the Greene
property upon her aunt's death and it
was then considered a snug fortune
by the man who later became United
States Senator from Rhode Island and
a power in the world of finance. Mrs.
Aldrich's brother, William, died here a
few years ago, an dthen the family
home was sold for business purposes.
New York World.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-09
THE INNER WOMAN

Short skirts and silk stockings
make a girl eat. The less a girl wears
the more she must eat to keep warm.
News story.
Miladi's taking on much weight;
1t really is distressing
The way she's added pounds of late
From this new mode of dressing.
Just yesterday she sauntered out.
To do a bit of shopping.
In skirt so short it caused a rout
With half the street cars stopping.
Her silken hose was good to see,
They cost her half twenty;
But, scanning them, you would agree
That too much Is a-plenty.
And when miladi home returned
She called for chops and broilers;
Her soul for steaks and mutton
yearned,
While cook fired up the boilers.
She asked for eggs and bacon, too,
For chicken, squads. tomatoes,
For fish croquettes and oyster stew,
For pancakes and potatoes.
For olives, radishes and soup,
Enough to feed q party;
From hunger she was all a-droop,
Her appetite was hearty.
The victuals bill last month 1t came,
Nine hundred bucks extensive.
This dressing of the modern dame
Is getting quite expensive.
New York Call.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-09

VTTHO will take the place of
wv John Yates, head of the As
sociated Aid Societies, who
resigned to-day to become executive
secretary of the Associated Aid Socie-
ties of Pittsburgh?
The question is an important one to
all Harrisburg, and especially to the
unfortunates who come into contact
with the organization which he has
so ably directed.
John Yates is a man of extraordi-
nary ability. but more than that, he
has a sympathetic heart. He knows
his work and he loves it. He is fond
of outdoor life and is fully aware of
its value to the growing boy or girl.
His boys. camp last year brought
many little invalids back to health
and happiness. He knows the seamy
side of life in the city from expert
ence, and it has mellowed him and
has given him an insight into the pos
sibilities of organized charity from
its human standpoint. He has given
10 the Associated Charities in Harris
burg such an administration as it
never had before.
There was a time when this very
worthy organization did not bear any
too good a name in the community,
and the fault did not lie so much with
those back of it as with the manage
ment in charge. 1t will be difficult to
fill the place made vacant by Mr..
Yates resignation with a man as well
fitted for the work as he, but every
effort should be made to keep the As
sociated Aids up to the standard he
has set.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-09
PoeIic4 i~
Pe'.~oqGSo~io
BY the Ex-Coznmitteeman

One of the surprises of the day in
State affairs was the announcement
from the State Suffrage headquarters
to-day that Senator E. II. Ware would
have charge of the suffrage amend
ment in the Senate. 1t begins to look
as though suffrage and factional poll
tics have been getting mixed up.
The announcement on the subject
says:
Senator Ware has been a constant
friend of the suffragists since their
amendment was first introduced in
the 1913 Legislature. 1t will be re-
called that the sponsor for the suf-
frage amendment in the House is
Representative Samuel A. Whitaker,
of Chester county. a Penrose lieuten-
ant. This, the suffragists point out,
gives them leaders in both factions in
the Legislature, and in addition, they
announce that Governor Martin G..
Brumb mbaugh has made a strong pledge
to do all in his power to have his en-
tire strength in both House and Sem
ate thrown in favor of the suffrage
amendment. Upon the other hand,
the suffragists declare that in addi-
tion to his promise last fall, they have
secured from Senator Boise Penrose
reiteration that he will support the
measure to his full strength through
his friends in the Legislature"
Expressions of regret at the death
of George w. Guthrie, former Demo-
cratic state chairman and Mayor of
Pittsburgh, who died yesterday. in
Toxic, were general all over the State
last night. Prominent Democrats made
statements and men in all parties told
of their sorrow at his death.
Philadelphia charter revisionists
are planning to come here in force
to get some action by the Legislature
on pending bills.
Col. Harry C. Trexler, of Allen
town, will give a dinner to the sur
vivors of the First Defenders and
prominent residents of his city this
week.
The movement for Impeachment
! of Mayor Armstrong has broken out
again in Pittsburgh. Charges are
made that politics is behind the whole
| proposition. 1t is now claimed that
, use of names of prominent men in
the manifesto were unauthorized.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-09
Boss-RULED "CIvIL SERVICE"

TXTHAT a miserable failure the
wv President has made of his ef-
fort to take the post offices
OF the country out of politics. How
subservient the White House is to the
Democratic politicians OF the country
is shown by the news dispatches of the
past few days from Washington. Such
a mighty wall went up from Demo-
cratic representatives and senator's
over the announced intention to place
postmasters of all classes under the
civil service that it is virtually certain
that the executive order, to become ef-
fective April 1, will be modified to care
for the present Democratic appointees.
Although it was the original inten-
ton of the President to provide that
all future post Office appointments
should be made through competitive
civil service examinations, the pres
sure brought to bear by the little
politicians is such that it is planned
to modify the order, and instead of
being a disadvantage the civil service
plan will benefit the Democrats in
Congress who desire to have their
present postmasters reappointed.
The new plan, which 1t is said in
administration circles will be adopted,
will provide that all future vacancies
caused by death, removal or resigna-
ton shall be filled through competitive
examinations, but the present holders
of commissions will be reappointed
il their efficiency and good behavior"
are not questioned. This is another
form of expressing ''if they are salts
factory to the members of Congress"
Should the President accept such
policy the present members of Con-
gress would be greatly benefited, as
the Jobs could not be promised by
their opponents.
If the original plan were carried
into effect it would strike at the very
heart of the organizations of the DEM
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-09
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

William II. Wilson. director of
safety in Philadelphia, has been TAX
ing a vacation in Virginia.
S. ]. Toole, long active in politics
in Pittsburgh, broke a knee cap by
fall near his home.
General Hunter Liggett. just ad-
vanced in the army, comes from
Berks county and when a boy used
to be fond of hunting in its noun
tains.
p. P. Shevlin, former Pittsburgh
newspaperman, has been made head
of Pittsburgh's efficiency bureau.
Highway Commissioners Black
says he is in favor of a mill tax for
roads.
John P. White, the national lead
er of the miners, is to visit the anthra-
cite region on April 1.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-09
THE TELEGRAPH WILL DO 1T

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
attended a meeting of Labor's Open
Forum more than u week ago, and
John Price Jackson, labor commission
er of Pennsylvania, made an address
on industrial insurance. which 1 think
every man ought to know about. You
had a very good article about it in
your paper, but did not go to any
great length. No, this speech was
worth reading. Won't you get him
to give you a copy and print it in the
Telegraph.
J. G. TREGO.
Editors Note: The Telegraph will be
pleased to comply with this request.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-09
Labor Notes

Ohio State Supreme Court has
unanimously ruled that under the
workmen's compensation law private
insurance companies cannot write poll
cies to safeguard employees from suits
arising out of the ''willful act" of the
employer and from failure to observe
lawful requirements.
At an investigation of prison condi-
uons in New Jersey it was brought
out that when the prison department
hires out a convict to its road depart
ment, it charges $1.45 a day for him,
and when the prison department hires
out convict to a private contractor
the rate is 80 cents a day.
The Swiss Central committee of
Labor Unions, during the Christmas
convention of the French labor unions,
suggested an international meeting of
labor unions. An agreement was
reached for the attendance of French,
Spanish, Italian, Belgian and possibly
also English delegates at a meeting
to be held in Switzerland.
The closing of the big department
stores in Paris for two days a week is
under consideration as q measure to
economize fuel. The store directors,
however, object to such a step on the
ground that great hardships would he
inflicted on sales people and other en-
ployes, who would be forced to lose
two days employment.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-09
- s.a
TROLLEY SERVICE

To the Editor of the TeicgrGph:
If some of those people who kick
about the poor service on Harrisburg
Railway lines would stand at Third
and Market streets at almost any hour
OF the day, I'm sure at least part of
the trouble would be more than appar-
ent. | am not a stockholder of the
trolley company, or any other corpora
tion, but when l see trouble l usually
know it.
parked on both sides of North Third
street, from Market to Walnut streets.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-09
The Citv Manager

Henry NJ. Waite, city manager of
Dayton, Ohio, who spoke to the Knife
and Fork Club last night, modest,
dignified, keen, evidently efficient, a
typical successful executive for a big
corporation, represents the new. idea
in city government. He is one of the
pioneers in a profession that is bound
to extend all over the United States
within the next few years, as the city
manager plan supplants the old
political system of city government
Kansas City Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-09
Rift in the Clouds

Since Turkey has promised to fight
till not a Turk is left, some people will
be inclined to see a streak of silver
even in the awful darkness of the pres
ent war.-Marion Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-09
FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH o

The more study the tCorld the more
am convinced of the inability Of force
to create anything durdbIe-NAPoLEoN
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-09
HISTORIC HARRISBURG

The opening of the first canal lock
was of sufficient Importance for the
Governor and prominent men to take
part in a formal ceremony.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-09
Can Rest Their Case

The advocates of universal service
can afford to rest their case. A news
paper named Mars has presented the
deciding argur ent t--Charieston News
and Courier.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-09
Then He'd Write a Book

One trouble about letting Colonel
Roosevelt get into the war is the diff
fculty of ever stopping him once he
gets started.-Anaconda Standard.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-09

BY the way. Mr.. Gross. just what do
we get in the way of equipment. as
we'll as apparatus, for that $50. 900?