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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-12
The Food Problem

Listen to the words of man who
for forty-three years has been han
ding food for countless people. I pre-
sent you the opinion of George H. Me-
Kay, superintendent of the Reading
Terminal Market
Just as sure as the sun shines the
next great trouble in this country will
be on account of the scarcity of food,
whether the war continues or stops"
What is the matter with our coun-
try? Mr.. Mckay knows very weA
Our farmers do not increase their
crops as fast as our population grows
to eat the crops.
What answer does he give? We
need to educate more farmers and
fewer loafers.
OF the twenty eastern, middle and
southern States. Pennsylvania stands
first with its agricultural output, but
Pennsylvania yields less than $40 for
every tillable acre in the State.
Put as much science on the farms as
you put in a hat factory and then
what? What heard the president OF
Stetson's say about their product-no
advance in price in a decade.
Whence comes such science? From
the schools and colleges which know
how to teach it.-Girard, in TIE Phila-
delphia Public Ledger.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-12
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

DIR. Sheldon w. Funk, the State
lecturer who says that boys should
have shorter hours on the farm, owns
some of the finest orchards in the
State
Ellis S. Lewis, chosen to succeed
the late Iohn w. Steacy as president
of the York Trust Company, is well
known here.
Mrs. Abigail Geisinger. who has
made so many benefactions to Dan
vile, is ninety years of age.
William II. Miller, prominent
Media banker, declined to serve as a
member of the Delaware County
prison board any longer.
Eugene V. Debs has been deliv-
ering a series of lectures in the east
ern part of the State.
&C. H. laval State chemist for
years, takes a whack at the Jones
cold storage bill as one which should
not be enacted for the benefit of the
people.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-12
Magpies in Picardy

The magpies in Picardy
Are more than / can tell.
They flicker down the dusty roads
And cast a magic spell
on the men who march through Pi.
cardy,
Through Picardy to hell.
A magpie in Picardy
Told me secret things
Of the music in white feathers,
And the sunlight that sings
And dances in deep shadows
He told me with his wings.
He told me that in Picardy,
An age ago or more,
While all his fathers still were eggs,
These dusty highways bore
Brown, singing soldiers marching out
Through Picardy to war.
He said that still through chaos
Works on the ancient plan,
And two things have altered not
Since first the world began
The beauty OF the wild green earth
And the bavery of man.
-"Tipcuca" in the Westminster Ga.
xette.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-12
MONDAY EVENING.

times a day and again before retiring
ing that thereby he has reduced the
necessity of the usual two bottles of
spring tonic to one. 1t is at once
mealtime drink and springtime med
icine.
1t is popularity accepted aief
that ''an apple a day keeps the doctor
away" and it is a happy solution of
the rapidly diminishing apple supply
that sassafras, that implacable foe of
the spring fever germ, comes looming
cheerily across the landscape just in
time to engage the rapidly gathering
hosts of baccilli in deadly combat,
But nobody gets the fullest pleas
ure out of sassafras by simply buying
one of the little bundles that lie neatly
tied with n cotton string on the mar
ketstalls these days and taking it for
medicinal reasons alone. Sassafras TO
be perfectly enjoyed must, like all
other things worth having, be worked
for. The way to do it is to shoulder
a pick, pickaxe or grubbinghoe and so
out in the woods where the bright
green bark of the sassafras betrays
the full flood of spring-sweet sap
within, dis out a few big roots, waslf
off the mud in nearby stream, shave
off the soft, yielding bark and bear
the treasure home. We judge our
poet friend must know his sassafras
in that intimate fashion, so lovingly
does he sing of 1t.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-12
What a Child's Cry Did

A rich man in Boston, passing
shabby house in a lowly quarter of
the town, heard a child moaning. He
went in. The child had the toothache.
The poor family could not afford to
suffered and cried.
In that way James Forsyth, the kind
hearted rich man, discovered that
there was no provision for free dent
istry for poor children. He set aside
Il million dollars to found a dental
infirmary for children, but died before
it was begun. His brothers, John and
Thomas, added l y million dollars to
this and thus established a founda-
ton fund of million dollars for an
infirmary. Before it was finished John
died and Thomas Forsyth added mil
lion dollars more, making a total en-
dowment of million dollars for the
Forsyth Dental Infirmary.
The leading men of Boston gathered
at great banquet recently to honor
Thomas Forsyth and TO give him a
loving cup. The Governor of the
State. the Mayor of Boston. the presi-
dent of Harvard and others made
speeches, to which Mr. Forsyth replied
that the future of tie country depends
upon its children; they cannot give
the best service when they grow up,
unless they have good health; and they
cannot have good health without good
teeth.
This is true. More and more the
public is learning the value of mouth
hygiene. Free dental infirmaries, free
dental clinics and mouth inspections
in the schools are growing in favor.
But the first free dental infirmary
in the world was founded by the For
syths in Boston and it was all the re-
suit Of the agonized cry of little
child touching the heart of a good Sa-
maritan.=Kansas City Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-12
THE FALL OF BAGDAD


= paign as brilliant and as pic
turesque as any in the history
of the British army, is more than a
mere military achievement. 1t is the
beginning of the end of Turkish over
rule in the East and the collapse OF
the Germanio dream of Berlin TO
Bagdad railway, with all that would
have meant for the ambitions OF the
Hohenzollerns.
Few cities in the world have such
la hold upon the popular imagination
as Bagdad, scene of the exploits of so
many of the immortal characters of
the Arabian Nights Entertainments"
dear to the heart Of every boy who
has read these remarkable tales and
of fond memory for those OF maturcr
years who, in carefree days. have been
transported on their magic carpet
from the prosaie life of the present
back to those times when Sinbad the
Sailor recounted his remarkable ad-
ventures. TO the amazement of his stay
at-home fellows on the banks of the
Tigris. Here It was that Haroun ell
Raschid played the beggar to learn the
truth about himself and his subjects
from the people themselves. and it
was from his throne in the city which
he did so much TO build that he sent
out his armies to conquer the country
for hundreds of miles about. Its streets
have echoed to the clanking tread of
the warriors of Alexander. at its gates
the Mongols knocked with mailed fists
that would not be denied and through
its narrow and tortuous highways the
Tartan hordes swept on to ravage and
to victory.
For centuries-ever since the days
of fNebuchadnezzar and probably before
the walls of Babylon were raised, if
historical discoveries and references
are to be believed-Bagdad has been
at intervals center of oriental learn
ing and trade. To its markets the
riches of all the East were brought for
exchange and from its halls of learn
ing the scholars of ancient times hand
ed down their secrets and their lore.
AS the hub of trade it became also
the center of royal plottings and
coverings and for centuries, until the
supremacy of the Turk in 1888, it was
the very heart of the maelstrom of
carnage and looting that deluged all
that part of the East in blood. The
entry of the English yesterday was
unlike anything Bagdad has known in
it's long history of military occupa-
tions. For the first time the rights of
the inhabitants were respected, sack
! ing and massacre were unthought of
and the populace could place itself
under the protection of the conqueror
with no misgivings as to the safety
either of people or property.
The effect of the citys fall will be
-fold-first to hearten the English
people at a time when a triumph for
their arms will do much to inspire
afresh their will TO sacrifice, and sec
ond. the rehabilitation of the prestige
of the fame of Great Britain through
out the entire East.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-12
GOOD WORK

CINCE the elevation of Chief
y Wetzel and the reorganization
of the department the city po-
lice force has been doing effective
work. The raids of Saturday illustrate
the point. Breaking up dope" dens
easily might be lodged by lax police
department, and few people would I've
the wiser. Neglect of that kind would
not be likely to attract public atten-
ton. This fact. however. has not de-
TERED Chief Wetzel and his detec-
tives from going after the offenders
Everybody concerned in the raids is
to be commended for the thorough
ness with which they were conducted.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-12
DENMARK MAY FIGHT GERMANS

than 100000. 1t is from Holstein
that the cattle of that name come.
Denmark even if it could, would not
reclaim both Schleswig and Holstein
but it would like to regain Schleswig,
or the northern part of the country.
Schleswig is largely Danish in popula-
ton and temperament, while Holstein
is German in it's sympathies. The
Danish people naturally have been Bit
ter against Germany and nothing prob
ably will ever placate them.
with a population of close to s.
000, 900 Denmark has a standing army
of $4,000 soldiers and the total
strength of the army has been mobil-
lied ever since the beginning of the
war. We have not lost nearly so
much shipping in the North Sea as has
either Norway or Sweden, but Den
mark is inalienably tied up with her
neighboring nations"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-12
Governors salary and to wipe out the
discretionary expenditure fund.

Governors salary and to wipe out the
discretionary expenditure fund.
Senator Ware is quoted in Phila-
delphia as saying that there is moth
ing of Importance before the Legis-
lature outside of local option and one
or two other subjects that cannot be
passed" The local optionists expect
to make their fight here next week,
but will not get as much attention
from the south end of the building as
before.
PENNSYLVANIA postmasters are still
listening carefully for news of reap
pointments now that Acting State
Chairman Guffey has said that there
will be no changes unless serious OBJ
lection" is made. The latter term mas
an ominous ring and being used by a
Democratic politician is capable OF
various meanings. Many are watching
to see the outcome of the row over
the Reading post office.
The Philadelphia Inquirer of yes
terday contained an interesting arti-
Gle from Media regarding the Sproul
boom, which it says the Delaware men
are determined to launch.
Men prominent in politics for the
last ten years are expected to come
here next week to attend the biennial
dinner of the Legislative Sons or ST.
Patrick. There have been so many
demands for tickets that the commit
tee has fixed March 16 as the limit
for acceptances. The dinner will be
held the night of March 20.
Mayor Harvey. of Hazleton, will
not be acandidate for denomination
but the rest of the Hazleton officials
will.
Mayor Smith, of Philadelphia, is
opposed to the wiping out of ward
lines in councilmanic legislation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-12
A Pacihst

1 am a pacifist with all the accent on
the fist
1 want to grab the tail of some dern
thing and give twist
to it that will make that there
thing flop right up into the air
And come to earth all spraddled out,
and go away from there!
The way a dog goes down the street
with a can on its tail;
1 want to make some nation tear its
whiskers out an wall,
And get down onto both it's knees and
promise to be good,
And stay in it's own yard and mind
it's business, like it should.
have always been a pacifist, not
quite the Bryan kind,
I've always kept the Bibles good
Commandments in my mind,
I've always turned the other cheek,
the way I have been told
From front 70 back the Bibles right,
and like refined gold
But after a guy has come down upon
that other cheek,
Believe me, that is where I rise and
bust him on the beaki
And use his ears for hand holds whilst
l shake his. head about
Until his teeth are shaken loose and
both his eyes pop out.
And now, that Uncle Sam has turned
his other cheek and got
Not only what he thought he would, a
swift jaw breaking swat,
But a kick meath the coattails that
has lifted him bit,
I've got brick in either fist, and 1
am feeling fiti
may be old. I may be fat, but know
this, by cripesl
am standin' in the shadow of the
good old Stars and Stripesl
And there are others with me and
before the game is played
We will pat some foolish nation in its
fat face with spade.
Judd Mortimer Lewis in the
Houston Post.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-12


Kansas, City is doing something
FOR you every day in the year. Can't
You give ten minutes to-day TO
something for Kansas City?
To be sure, this was a special plea
for a special day. but the sentiment
applies quite as much TO Harrisburg
every day of the year as it does 10
Kansas City on one particular day.
There is not twenty-four hours in the
twelve months when the city of Har-
risburg is not doing something for
each one of us. Do we ever pause@n
our personal activities to do a small
service for the city? Do we?
When we think about the city at
all it is nearly always either in a
purely impersonal manner or in a
fault-finding way. Nevertheless. the
city of Harrisburg renders to its peo-
pie the cheapest service they receive.
1t is said of American cities that they
arc extravagant and wasteful. but
even so there is nothing cheaper in
American life than the things that
city taxes buy. Pause a moment and
=
Harrisburg man get so much for the
money he pays as from the municipal
government in filtered water, paved
streets, street lights, parks and play
grounds, sidewalks. health regulations
and in a hundred other ways. for the
taxes levied? Very plainly, nowhere.
But if the city is not giving You all
you think you ought to have, if YOU
believe it TO be wasteful of its reve-
nues and generally inefficient have
You ever done anything to remedy the
conditions of which you complain ?
Unless you are an exceptional citizen
YOU have not. Don't you think it is
about time you did something for
Harrisburg? Like Kansas City for its
citizens, Harrisburg is doing some.
thing for YOU every day of the year
What are YOU doing for Harrisburg
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-12

DENMARK is not likely to get
drawn into the European war
- unless her closest neighbors,
Norway and Sweden, are drawn into
the whirlpool" remarked II. Jantzen,
of Copenhagen to the Washington
Post. But if the progress of the
great tragedy should eventually engulf
US, then Denmark's fortunes will in
evitably be cast with the Entente
Allies. Denmark has not forgotten nor
forgiven the war of 1864, as result
of which Schleswig- -Holstein was hand
ed over to Prussia. In the earlier war
of Schleswig- -Holstein, the Germans
aided the S c h | e w g-Holsteiners
against the Danes, and eventually
Prussia became the possessor of the
country.
'Schleswig- Holstein is country
with an area of about 1900 square
miles and has a population of more
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-12
Ready to Mobilize Bakeries

That the War Department has been
for some months conducting a survey
of bakeries near and in the great
wheat producing states, with view to
mobilizing their resources for war use,
was revealed at a meeting of the ex-
ecutive council of the National Asso-
citation of Master Bakers. A number
of bakeries have been already approv-
ed for war service, 1t was said.-Chica-
go Tribune
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-12

~ SasSaITas OF tnee.
So writes a timid Harrisburg versi-
fer who sends his poetic efforts to
the Telegraph for print, but who be-
lieves in art for arts sake" so ar
IDENTIFY that he yearns not to see his
own name published so long as space
is given to his literary effort. When
spring gets into the blood it is apt TO
break out in several ways; one is
poetry and another is after the fashion
that our mothers used to try to pre-
vent when they fed us up about this
season on sulphur and molasses and
rinsed our 'innards" with steaming
cupfuls of that very sassafras of which
our lyric correspondent so feelingly
sings.
We confess we never before saw a
poem dedicated to sassafras, but we
know of no reason why there should
not be one among the English clas-
sizes. Sassafras is poetic drink. II
is a delight at one and the same time
to the eye, nose and palate. Pink,
aromatic and delicious, it has more
claims to distinction than many an
other beverage that has found favor
with convivial spirits of literary lean
ings. Look not upon the wine when
it is red" is a warning familiar to all
but one may look upon the sassatras
when 1t is pink as much as three
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-12
SOMEBODY LIED."

TwENTY- FIVE Princeton seniors
make the shameful confession
that they have never kissed a
girl. Mr.. Sullivan, the Telegraphs es-
teemed and talented cartoonist, has
missed a bet He ought to have used
this bit of news to illustrate a picture
of his new comic series-"Somebody
Lied"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-12
MONDAY EVENING, MARCH IL

1t is small thing to man tchether
or not his neiohbor be merciftI to him;
it is life or death to him iChether or not
he be merciful to his neighbor.-GEoReE
MACDONALD. ~
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-12

C o u n s e l.
Your honor. you
neglected to ask
the prisoner if
she had any
thing to say as
to why sentence
should not be
pronounced7
Judge In
asmuch as the
prisoner is a
woman we will
omit that for
mality in order
to dispose of the
case in some
reasonable time.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-12

In the old days when there was a
flood in the Susauehanna the small
streams which intersected the city
used to flood the streets generally
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-12

William V. Van Inghen, the Phila-
delphia artist who is being consid-
cred for decoration of the Capitol
corridor. was here few days ago. He
painted the lunettes in the south
wing.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-12

Frisco Building Trades Council has
endorsed a proposed amendment to
the mothers pension law which will
permit a widow with minor children
to own her own home and still re-
ceive a pension from the State.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-12
DO YOU KNOW
HISTORIC HARRISBURG

That Harrisburg steel is employed
in new buildings in Philadelphia?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-12
Labor Notes

Bakers and Confectionery Workers
International Union is growing. The
membership is now 22,252, an in
crease of SAG in 80 days. Sick and
death benefits were paid out amount
ing to S4,443.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-12

Ninety thousand lives will be saved
yearly and a money loss of a billion
and half dollars prevented if plans
now completed for accidental preven-
tion by representatives of medical
colleges, industrial plants and the
PENNSYLVANIA Bureau of Labor and
Industry prove successful.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-12

The Argentine Government is dis
tributing seed grain to farmers in GER
tain districts, payment therefor be-
ing secured by charge against live
stock and agricultural implements of
those receiving the seed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-12
sASSAFRAS SEASON

- Sassafras,
. sassafras. %
Thou art the goods for me.
And in the spring
love to sing
y sassafras of thee!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-12

Texast unionists expect action on
the eight-hour law. minimum wage
and workmen's compensation, in ad-
dition to many other labor meas
ureS
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-12
KANSAS CITY AND Us

GAYS the Kansas City Times.
y advising its readers to vote for
the new charter for that city:
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-12

A couple of farmers who attended
the Verbeke street market on Satur-
day declared that they were not GO
ing to bring as much produce to mar
ket as they have been doing because
they have to cart it home again. One
man complained that he had been
bringing butter for years but that
people would not pay the prices asked
all over the market and were turning
to oleo more and more. Another
said that he had taken home four
dozen eggs because of the objections
of housewives to prices.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-12

Kansas City is doing something
for you every day in the year. Can't
YOU give ten minutes to-day TO
something for Kansas City?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-12

The condition of Senator Magee
was said to be serious to-day. He has
been suffering from pneumonia.
-Lorane borough has voted $4,000
for new schools.
-EIkins Park. Ogontz and adjoin-
ing places want to merge into one
post office.
The Philadelphia Press says that
q good plan would be to increase the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-12
OUR DAILY LAUGH
DIsPATcH1NG BUSINESS.

c o u n s e l -
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-02
CONNEXIONS WlE6
THE GIFT OF FORGIVENESS.

II is almost unbelievable little book quickly
human mind adjust itself to any But s
bowed itself to the inevitable the poor smpaheto
BE Of stout heart splendid slogan book.
rail against because
again and again to solve the problem
solve this riddle is all that makes life
worth living but because hearts are crying either Forgive me-
II cannot forgive YOU
or the cannot forgive suffers
something himself that will bring him great
possibly bestow the whom he for
something himself that will bring
satisfaction than he possibly besow on the one whom
he forgives.
this morning, when it came to
all that had really forgiven Dick for all his thought
had consciousness being unfogvng My brain had reasoned
thing had myself Poor Dick only human Ho
probably other enshrined
ter how many he
thought little book perfectly rational said this to
things always that might be comfort
able told that always the best of
human abliy for the desire of
all restless humanity change And thought taking
little book reckoned without the foolish little
old heart would be appeased with which kept
clamorng things back and be just they again
trouble with hearts, little book, they always
wanting things be just they always forgetting that they
would the tire of anything that is unchangeabe really
believe that could possibly have back the Dick fell desperate
ly in love with, my heart would not miss beat
thought, little what mistake
old writer's picture heaven place thru al ee
nifty No who has human aspiration human imagination could
stand it for month"; let alone eternity
little book if other could what
told would probably ploried embazoned with
heretc by those who do not think However, who
things loved we'll the things she hated longer
affect her in the
working
ions The heart only desire feel is mind that oves
and when wake forgiveness hearts
do stop the mind credit it. We bask in the
I have bitter feeling when think What
gone Is gone-what must come will come