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Honolulu star-bulletin., 1917-03-13

crossings in this sRtion. Since the
patrol OF the border and the Rio
Grande river, no one is allowed to
cross at other points without being
questioned. searched and infinitely
examined by the patrols
The messenger OF Ambassador Won
Bernstorff is said to have left Wash
ington about four weeks ago with: his
papers and instructions to deliver to
Gen. Carranza. through the German
Ambassador at Mexico City, He in
tended to cross the Rio Grande at q
designated point and meet q body Of
rurales. The rurales were to guide
him to a safe route to a particular
point. where they were to turn him
over to a representative OF the Ger
man Ambassador and Gen. Carranza
who, In turn. would accompany him
10 the City of Mexico. but the messen
ger never did connect with the rr
raies
Honolulu star-bulletin., 1917-03-13
JAPAN SENDS GUTHRIE,S BODY
TO u. {. ON ERIJISER AZUlNA
High Marx of Honor for Distinguished American Diplomat
Vessel May Call at Honolulu on Way to San Francisco
Especial Cable to Ni.pu Jijil

of
Guthrie which held today at the sanch church here
American residents
the latter Prince and Princess Nashioo special
hs flowers sent from the friends Of the late American d
sudden
detailed
Honolulu star-bulletin., 1917-03-13
tAssoeiated Press BY tjonmsreial PaciAe cAblel

WASHINGTON, d. c.. March 13.--The government IS
urryng preparations largely secret to meet the Gernan
submarine menace
Complete and definite instructions for the tarme't
guards be placed aboard merchant vessels Of the United
States bound through the barred submarne zone have
by Secretary Of State lansing They will be forwarded to the
officers and tie who stationed aboard mer
chant vessel whenever the ship which armed ready to san!
The exact nature Of tile instructions are made public
bv the The documents carefully prepared
and submitted to Secretary Lansing who amended them
planned not to send them broadcast through the navy
in orders but to furnish them only the officer commanding
the armed guard each ship.
Honolulu star-bulletin., 1917-03-13
WASHINGTON RUShES PLANS TO
PROTECT AMERICAN SEAMEN By
ARMING VESSELS FOR EUROPE
Steps, Largely Secret Being Taken to Meet German Menace
Diplomatic Situation

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands March 13-Serious disturb
ances among German troops in the vicinity of Namur,
Belgium reported today by the Amsterdam Teegraaf
The Teegaaf says that soldiers have been put into
prison for nsubodnaton and that the disorders were 50
great that the prisons crowded with rebeous The
Teegraaf says that have been food at Baan
in which the police chief was seriously wounded.
Honolulu star-bulletin., 1917-03-13

fAssoeiated Press BY Federal Wireless)
PEKING. China, Mar. 13.-Both
houses OF the Chinese parliament yes
terday approved the stand Of Premier
Honolulu star-bulletin., 1917-03-13

U.s. Navy Ready Put Officer Armed Guard Merchant Ships Bound Through WarzD
How German Plot Was
Learned By Uncle Sam

COPENHAGEN, March son the Ambassador
tive to the German dealings with Mexico 70 be forwarded to Berlin
understood the ststsme deals with the IN which the
Honolulu star-bulletin., 1917-03-13
Conference Called in Berlin to
Discuss German Submarine Blockade

Europe Of German Anpt'
Berlin caused discussion
berlin Of developments
POLITICAL and diplomatic repe9nt.
that German naval attaches stationed
called Berlin for conference y
Of submarine blockade pn
nj raising
Honolulu star-bulletin., 1917-03-13
Plot Messenger Seized on Border
By U. S. MiEtiamen, Say Officers

Mexico
Honolulu star-bulletin., 1917-03-13
Market Weak;
Little Trading
NEW YORK STOCK
MARKET TODAY

Following are the closing prices Of stocks
on the New York market today, sent by the
Associated Press over the Federal wireless:
Yester-
Honolulu star-bulletin., 1917-03-13
Raids on Russian Lines Get Prisoners

BERLIN Germany raids made
Gallo line against the Russian posi-
the raids. official announcement
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-09
BACKING UP A LIBRARY

TINE people of Harrisburg should
do more to support the Public
Library. The fact that during
the month of December the Library.
with less than 10000 books, circu-
lated over 1O,500, without cost of one
cent to those who read them, is an
evidence of service hardly equalled
by any library in the State, if in
the country. The circulation of books
in the year just closed was thousands
ahead of 1915 and if the circulation
of last Saturday, January 6, which
was almost 1000, is any indication the
new year will put a great strain upon
the resources OF the Library.
Contrary to the popular opinion,
the Harrisburg Public Library is not
gold lined institution. It's total an
nual income is less than $1,000 and
that includes the $4,000 given by the
Harrisburg School Board to aid the
notable educational work which the
Library has been doing among the
school children, not only at the build
Ing at Front and Walnut streets, but
In the schools. There are libraries
in six of the school buildings, re-
quests for four more libraries from
schools, an offer from one building on
the Hill to furnish a person to handle
the books free of charge and a de-
mand for books for the outdoor school.
which ought to be given if anything
is done at all. All of these enterprises
can be taken care of, the work among
the children expanded. the variety of
books increased for the hundreds of
daily readers at the building. stu-
dents, mechanics, old and young, who
go to the Library for wholesome
reading. and the desire for good lit
erature aided in many ways by some
measure of popular assistance.
The Library has never made an an.
peal to the people of Harrisburg. IT
has been making a record. And If
the figures of what has been accom-
plished are read it can be seen that
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-09
Tolstoy's Moral Struggles

Count Tolstoy's diary, the forthcom-
ing publication of which his literary
executor has just announced. records
his early moral struggles. In MY
Confession" at the age of nineteen, he
speaks of his youth in these terms:
l fought duels to slay others, I
lost at cards, wasted my substance
wrung from the sweat of peasants,
punished the latter cruelty, rioted
with loose women, and deceived
men. Lying, robbery. adultery of
murder There was not
one crime which did not commit.
The first entry in his diary was
made by Tolstoy in the summer of
1S47. He was less than 19 years old,
but already concerned with the moral
aspects of life. The immoral ways in
which young Russian aristocrat of
those days was trained by his gov
ernors and parents early reacted on
young Tolstoy's mind. The gulf be-
tween the religious principles pro-
fessed by the people surrounding him
and the foul deeds practiced by them
every day stimulated his thought.
Tolstoy early became acquainted
with Franklin's autobiography and en-
deavored to emulate the Americans 3
mode of living. He also tried to abolish
the vices from which he was suffering,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-09
DEMOCRATS AND "REFoRNr,
.HE Philadelphia Public Ledger of

T<HE Philadelphia Public Ledger OF
to-day contains an extremely in
teresting account of the com
plete harmony that has been restored
between the Old Guard and the Re-
organizers of the Democratic party in
Pennsylvania"
CAS- a result of a conference recently
between A. Mitchell Palmer and Vance
c. Mccormick, the administration s
spokesman in Pennsylvania, and
Charles P. Donnelly, of this city, the
Old Guard chieftain, plans have been
formed for a rejuvenation of the party
in the State, with the capture of the
gubernatorial battle two years hence
as the big objective" says the Ledger,
and adds: 80 complete have the two
factions harmonized that it is already
assumed that Donnelly will control the
patronage not only in Philadelphia but
also in this section. and that Palmer
will keep his hands off entirely in the
eastern part of the State"
Donnelly, of the political firm of
Ryan and Donnelly, only a couple of
years ago was being called by both
Palmer and Mccormick "a traitor to
his party" "double-dealer," the
Header of an infamous bipartisan COM
bination designed only for profit" "the
enemy of free government" he was
charged with being tool of the
liquor forces" and the friend of cor
rupt politics in Pennsylvania"
And now he is to be entrusted by
the McCormick-P Palmer combine with
the guardianship of President Wilson's
federal appointments in Philadelphia
and the entire eastern part of the
State. The reform element" and the
corrupt, bipartisan" faction have en-
braced each other like long lost broth
ers. President Wilson has caused the
fatted calf to be killed for the prodf-
gal highwayman returned to party
headquarters. The erstwhile apostles
of political purity and the liquor
controlled, loot-hunting "gangsters"
are sitting about the we'll laden table,
napkins to neck, knives and forks
poised, with visions already before
them of second course consisting of
the well-roasted corpse of the Repub-
lican party in Pennsylvania. And in
the background the forlorn and neg
lected figure of Reform. weeping.
A pretty picture, is it not?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-09
By BRIGGS

is not relished by his stock. How
ever, instead of wasting it, as is the
case with so many American farm
ers, the European chops it up and
mikes it with beets, mangoes, or
other foods, and makes them thus so
palatable that the stock relish 1t.
"A recent United States government
report states that 15 per cent of the
straw produced in the United States
is burned. In many districts there
are no cattle, and remoteness from a
suitable market makes the sale of the
straw Improbable. 1t is suggested
that in such districts the introduction
of few cattle would be good
stroke of business.
This shows also how thriftlessness
tends to keep up the present high
price of staple products. We never
can get away from the law of supply
and demand. We cannot waste our
food and have it. Therefore, the
more we waste the higher prices we
will have to pay.
Various persons strive at times to
make political capital out of food
prices, but we should not be so much
alarmed over these prices as the fun
damental conditions that make these
prices possible-that is, thriftlessness
both at home and abroad. The Euro
pean war is tie most monumental
example of thriftlessness in the
world, and because of this fact it is
all the more necessary that Ameri-
cans learn to be thrifty. Resolve
that during the year 1917 you will
lay aside a certain sum of money
each week or each month.
If every wage Garner in America
laid aside but a dime a week the
total would reach over 5000, 900, 900
this year.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-09
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Senator w C. Sproui, who is an
alumnus of Swarthmore, has been one
of it's largest benefactors.
o. LaBar, well known to many
here, has been chosen president of
the Northampton county prison in
spectors.
&C. r. Laughlin. prominent Phila-
delphian. is planning a visit to the
West Indies.
IS. j. Hughs, the Hazleton city
clerk, is acting as pastor of church
in that city.
&C. f. Gramlich. for years active
in the State organization of the G..
A. r., was given a loving cup when he
retired after 3S years service in the
office of the recorder of deeds in Phil
adelphia.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-09
THRIFT AND HAPPINESS
GO OFTEN HAND IN HAND
BY W. Strauss President Society For Thrift

WTH1LE the saving of money is
total of thrift, it plays an
important part even in the develop
ment of a thrifty character. AS
matter of fact, the reflex influence
on ones character caused by saving
money Is probably of more real value
than is the amount of money saved
Some people have a misunderstand-
ing of the meaning of thrift. Many
believe apparently that to be thrifty a
man must be miserly, lose-fisted
parsimonious. The thrifty man is
the happy medium between the
spendthrift and the miser. He saves
~. The miser saves unwise-
ly and spends not at all.
1t is just as essential that one spend
wisely as that one save wisely In
times gone by we have witnessed the
ill effects of boarding money-mil-
lions of dollars have been withdrawn
from circulation and financial
stringency has been precipitated, be-
cause the people boarded their funds
in periods of public fear. Therefore,
there is just as much to be gained
in studying the question of spending
as in studying the question of saving.
Under no circumstances, however,
is man ever justified in not saving
something. Do not be a miser, but
be sure to save something every week
or every month of this year.
The thriftless spirit is observable
on every hand in America. In the
matter of straw for exampIe-the
thriftlessness of the American farm
er is in uncomplimentary contrast
with the farmer abroad. The Euro
pean agriculturist knows that straw
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-09
FOR CITY BATHHoUsEs

n NY study of the municipal budget
~ must impress the average Har-
risburger with the growth of this
city and the modern character of its
administration. While many things
have been done which should not
have been done and other things have
not been done which should have been
done, distinct progress has been made
during recent years.
There is growing dissatisfaction, of
course, over the log-rolling of the
commission government idea, as it has
worked itself out here, but so long as
the people themselves have an interest
in the conduct of the city no very
serious breakdown can occur. What
is absolutely necessary here is to con-
tinue the constructive efforts which
Lave placed Harrisburg so far in ad-
vance of the average American mu-
nicipaiity. Always we shall hear the
croak of the croaker and the lamenta-
tion of the pull-back, but these are
sounds to which the ears of our citi-
zens have become accustomed during
long period of years and they are
no longer alarming. These noises al
ways suggest the farmer who was
going to sell million frogs from a
pond and who shamefacedly admitted
to the prospective buyer that there
was but one frog in the puddle.
So it is with the croaker; his noise
is frequently mistaken for numerical
protest when it is in fact matter of
lung power instead of brain power.
1t is not reasonable to expect at all
times that our people will agree upon
every item of public improvement sug-
gested, but there is certain to be at
all times widespread community senti-
ment in favor of a continuance of
those things which make for the pros
perity and happiness of those who
call Harrisburg home.
1t is regrettable, for instance, that
in the making up of the budget the
present year no attention was given
to the public demand for boating and
bathing facilities in the Susquehanna
basin. This demand was insistent and
there is no good reason why provi-
sion should not have been made for
a start in this direction. However, it
is not a hopeless proposition and with
the coming of spring we have no doubt
City Council will do something to meet
public expectation in this regard.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-09
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Never Too Late to Mend
Harrisburg. Pa, Jan. s, 1911

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Yes, the drys are winning and the
vets as they are styled will in due
course have to throw mp the sponge.
1 say who is responsible for this
change? In one instance the saloons
for permitting men to drink beyond the
limit, regardless of consideration that
in most cases wives and children are
the real sufferers.
Another instance, the man who cam
not govern himself devoid of thought
or consideration if he is single for his
own life and his surroundings, If mar
ried with no consideration for his wife
and children. Yes, the daddy in whom
their all in life depends. the guardian
that should lead them good examples.
What, in the beginning. is causing
this fascination in many cases?
BY study, as a commercial man,
travelling over the country for years.
my personal acquaintance and knowl-
edge of nearly all the cities OF Europe
has helped me to come to a more def
mite conclusion. Let all municipal au-
thorities in every city and town pro-
vide public comfort conveniences where
people mostly congregate in different
parts of the cities; they can be built
underground out of the way of the
traffic by having subway entrances. A
SeCllOn IOT men ana one Tor women,
they would pay well from the <small
charges which would be willingly paid
for clean towels. hot water. boot clean
ing, etc. and reserve special toilets
where a charge of a nickel could be
made.
1 emphatically assert that thousands
upon thousands of men daily are re-
luctantly compelled to enter saloons
and out of feeling of courtesy buy a
drink; by this medium the taste is
created. Millions of glasses of beer
and other intoxicants are disposed of
daily to the people who are reluctantly
compelled by force of nature to seek
such places for there is not always a
railway station or a hotel near.
/ say thousands of men have created
through this one instrumentality that
burning desire for intoxicants.
let us create a law compelling every
restaurant and lunch room to provide
such convenlences free and properly
kept Make 1t imperative under a heavy
penalty.
Many people are to-day suffering
serious ailments through this deficiency.
Take this city. what boon to the peo-
pie to have one in the center of the
square and paying proposition in ad-
dition.
Yours sincerely,
BRUCE GREEN
1914 Green Street.
Harrisburg, Pa.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-09
NOT IN THE SQUARE

HARRISBURG is sorely in need of
public comfort stations, but the
middle of Market Square is no
place for them. The Square is not big
enough to accommodate buildings in
the center and to place comfort
station there would result in much ad-
ditiona1 and unnecessary travel over
that already crowded highway.
The growth of automobile traffic has
made Market Square all too small for
the vehicles it is now called upon to
accommodate, even without taking
away more of it's very limited space
for building purposes, and the crowd
ing is bound to increase as the city
grows and wagons and autos increase
in number. There is ample space for
public comfort stations in more Sc
cluded sections, even more centrally
located than Market Square from the
point of pedestrian travel
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-09
To the City Unbeautiful

They are gone! o! implacable City,
'Twixt night and a night,
With no pang of regret or of pity,
You have slain them outright.
Tho their beauty besought you to
spare it.
To keep it forever and wear it
For your own and your children's
delight,
You have fattened your greed and you
merit
The squalor your streets shall inherit.
In their innocent glory and grace,
They, the primevaI lords of the place,
Ere your earliest highway was trod,
Had grown old in the service of God;
And with arms lifted up, ais in prayer.
Gave him thanks for the sunlight and
air,
For the nourishing moss at their feet;
And the thrushes that made their re-
treat
In the heart of this Eden SO long,
For their lodging gave tribute of song.
Fen the violets. dotting the sward,
Breathing perfume of prayer to the
Lord,
Paid in full for their leasehold; but
YOU
In the service of Mammon, you grew
To Il huddle of houses and mills,
Spreading squalor through hollows
and hills,
Till your grimy arms reached through
your smoke
To this grove of the Poplar and Oak.
They are gone! o! implacable City,
'Twixt night and a night,
With no pang of regret or of pity,
You have slain them outright.
Tho their beauty besought you to
spare 1t.
To keep it forever and wear it
For your own and your children's 8
delight,
You have fattened your greed and
you merit
The squalor your streets shall inherit.
IT. A. Daily.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-09
EDITORIAL COMMENT

Compulsory military training is popu-
lar among those above the age of liza
bility.-Wall Street Journal.
The French army has adopted the
poncho. Now If they would only adopt
Pancho!-Pittsburgh Gazette Times.
If the King of Roumania had it to do
over again, probably he would choose
some other form of physical exercise
Dallas News.
The German navy officers would well
come peace. 1t would give them a
chance to engage in some war practice
North American.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-09

Philadelphia Press says: "In the other
Congressional districts Speaker Bald
win also has appointed as members of
the Slate Committee representatives
allied with the Penrose- McNichol fac
ton. He has asked all to confer with
him on Saturday afternoon by which
time it is believed the appointments
which the Slate Committee will make
will have been decided upon by Sena-
tor Penrose and the war board" of
which Speaker Baldwin and Senator
McNichol are members, and which will
hold conference at the Shelburne in
Atlantic City on Thursday afternoon"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-09
Business Situation Reviewed
[Christian Science Monitor

Looking out upon the year 1917,
various views are expressed as to what
it holds in store for the worlds bust
ness. Although peace is not yet in
sight, there is a strong tendency, in all
lines of trade and industry. to shape
things in preparation for peace. In
this connection. 1t is interesting to note,
the opinion is gaining ground that,
after the war, the financial and COM
mercial readjustment will not be so
disturbing as many have expected.
That there will be a readtustment, a
shrinkage in commodities prices, and
a capital and labor realignment
throughout the entire world. is in
evitable. No one knows how drastic
this will be, or exactly what effect it
will have upon conditions, SO that an
element of caution has entered the
situation to-day. and this element is
constantly becoming more pronounced.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-09
SLENDER FooTHoLD FOR HOPE

JAMES KELLEY, editor of the
Chicago Herald, recently re-
turn from a trip to Europe, in
the course of which he was en-
abled to meet many men of au-
thority and to get an idea of what Eu-
rope is planning for an after-the-war
program. He presents his conclusions
in language of startling vividness:
American business in competi-
tion for world trade-and home
trade-is going to have a battle
for existence when the hands that
to-day are fondling rifie-stocks and
tossing hand grenades and point
ing cannon muZzles once more
grasp the plow handle and the tool.
England may have slumbered in
the marts Of trade. 1t is new COM
mercial and manufacturing Eng
land. alive. alert. efficient and bent
an army of 5000, 900 war workers,
including soldiers, will be demobil-
lied. This mighty force, nearly
half of the wage-earning popula-
tion of the United Kingdom, and of
which nearly eighths are men.
will be the industrial army with
which England will fight her trade
battles.
Mr.. Keeley addresses his words ito
the President, the Congress and the
people of America" He sums his ar
gument up by counseling Mr.. Wilson
to appoint the tariff commission and
it at once" 1t must have on
it the best men Americas wealth of
business wisdom can produce; they
should be paid adequate salaries in or
der to command their services; they
should be "high-grade, competent and
confidence-inspiring."
If this is the only foothold we shall
have from which to fight our COM
battles after the war, we fear
it is too slender to afford much hope
1t has not hitherto been the Presi-
dents habit to appoint commissions
which are "high-grade, competent and
confidence-inspiring." 1t has not been
his habit in the White House; and it
was not his habit when he exercised
the power of appointment at Prince
ton, whether it was a proctor, a fac
ulty committeeman or any function-
ary that he was to name. AS presi-
dent of a university, as President of
the United States, his one thought has
been to appoint Wilson men. The
tariff commission will be no exception.
The picture of industrial combat to
follow the war has not been over
drawn by James Keeley. But he
loses his sense of perspective when he
attempts to portray Woodrow Wilson
as saving the situation.