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The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-09-29

The Lafayette board OF exemption
in recognition of the heroism of Mrs.
Henry NJ. Herbert, who has surrend-
cred three of her sons to the service
of the nation as soldiers Of the army
and has three more registered and
drafted without claiming exemption
has ordered two flags to be presented
her; one flag bearing three stars. de.
noting her three sons in service, and
the other bearing six stars represent
ing her six sons who registered June
5 and made no claim for exemption.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-09-29

1osaiusa Is to have four new indus
mes this year. three of which will
IN operation and giving employ
en' 70 more than 500 men before
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-09-29

me poles for the electric light line
Z run to the aviation camp at Lake
ssaries are arriving and will be plac-
~ without delay. There will be $50
POLES put in. 10"
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-09-29

vocational training will be one q,
ihe features of the junior high schoo,
department Of the Shreveport scbmIs
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-09-29

Inc people of De Ridder and Bean
esaro parish met and perfected a
nome defense organization
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-09-29

me tennessee Lumber Company q,
hammond, having cut up all its tim.
oer' mas closed its mill after severe,
years Of successful operation tn
o'aner will be kept in operation for
come time. hui
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-09-29

Work on building the new conc,e,,
bridge which joins North and Son,s
sogalusa viii be started soon.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-05
What Advertising Means

advertising. said an advertising
authority, lis the simplest thing in the
world. You have something to sell.
Somebody else wants to buy it. There
fore, you tell them about it. 1t is the
straight line of commerce-the short
est distance between supply and de-
mand. When you advertise you are
simply telling them in a way that will
create in their minds a desire to buy.
1t is group salesmanship by the print
ed word.
MANY make the mistake of consid-
ering advertising ar expense. 1t is
not. Rent is. So is light and trans
portation. Advertising is not, because
1t pays its way as it goes along, and
is all the time adding to the cumula-
tive value of good will.
There is expended in this country
each year in advertising of all sorts
between $3.50, 100000 and $700,000,-
0O0 At least half of the total is ex-
pended in newspaper advertising. John
Wanamaker recently pointed out that
every man who pays one or two cents
for a newspaper saves eight or nine
cents, because of the fact that. that
newspaper carries advertising. In
other words, If it were not for adver-
tising, 1t would be impossible to pro-
duce the newspaper for less than ten
cents a copy. Last year the volume
of national advertising in the news
papers increased from $55,000,000 to
$4,000, ,000-something like 80 per
cent 1t costs one-fifth as much to
talk to 1 900 people through the news
papers as it does through general
media, and you can pick the 1000
people you wish to reach. This is
economy"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-05
A SERIOUS SITUATION

HARRISBURG is confronted with
a serious situation which must
have the immediate attention of
the people through our civic bodies or
some voluntary movement. There are
not enough houses in the city at the
present time to accommodate all who
desire to reside here. In the TELE-
GRAPH yesterday was published u
statement of the conditions that ought
TO arouse widespread interest among
all who have any concern for the fu-
ture of Harrisburg.
Owing to the high cost of materials
and labor, builders have not been as
active as in former years and houses
for rent are in great demand. In some
cases those who occupy rented dwell
ings find it impossible to locate else
where at the expiration of their lease
and it has been necessary to institute
election proceedings in a number of
cases. This is an impossible situation
and relief must be provided without
an hours unnecessary delay.
Millions of dollars are now awaiting
investment and it should not be
difficult to interest sufficient capital to
erect some hundreds of small houses
for those who are practically without
a roof to cover their heads. AS a re-
suit of the conditions two and some
times three families occupy a single
house and this is simply an invitation
to unsanitary and unwholesome de-
NeI0nf11 Sh fiD1a
The man or men who will provide
the homes which are needed at rental
figures that are within the reach of
the workers Of the city will be doing
a good thing for the city and the pros
perity of the entire community. With
out homes we shall certainly have an
increasing shortage of labor, and those
who want to come here to live will
find it impossible to do so.
There is no cause for procrastina-
ton. The need is pressing upon Har-
risburg as never before and the Real
Estate Board of the city should make
the facts so plain that immediate steps
shall be taken to remedy a most un-
usual situation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-05
TIME TO ENLIST

MOT all of us can enlist in the army
IN age or other disqualifications
may stand in the way-but all
of us can enlist in the Red Cross, which,
with the Preparedness Societies that
have been merged with it, will stand
back of the armed forces of the United
States supporting the men in the field
in thousand different ways.
Every one of us owes some service
to the nation. The Red Cross offers a
universal opportunity. It's activities
are so numerous and it's work of such
a widely divergent character that
there is room in its ranks for every
person in the whole United States, no
matter how humble.
Former Mayor E. 2. Gross, as head
of the local chapter, has called for en-.
listments. Soon the needs of the
Red Cross here will require the sup
port of thousands of our people.
Don't wait to be drafted - volun-
teer, and do it now.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-05
Reorganize The Cabinet
kansas City Star.1

On the eve of war the President
owes 1t to the nation to reorganize the
Cabinet. In a crisis like this every de-
partment of the government ought to
be directed by the country's best
brains.
1t ought not to be merely coalition
Cabinet" A coalition implies pla-
eating. the opposition by including
some of it's wheel horses in the gov
ernment. If the most capable men for
directing the departments happen to
be both. Democrats and Republicans,
let men of both parties be named. But
let them head departments not because
they are Democrats or Republicans.
but because they are the best men in
the country for the job!
The present Cabinet was selected on
the usual partisan basis. In naming
its members the President was looking
to the political effect rather than to
getting efficient executives.
The most conspicuous instance is in
the nations first line of defense, the
Navy Department
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-05
MUNICIPAL LEGISLATION

TTTHEN will the Legislature learn
wv that the only satisfactory legis-
lation for the municipalities of
Pennsylvania is a home rule amend
ment to the State Constitution per-
mitting the cities and towns of the
Commonwealth to frame their own
charters to meet their own particular
needs and the desires of their people?
Instead of passing promptly Senator
Beidleman's resolution for the submis-
sion of an amendment of that nature
TO popular vote, the law-giving bodies
are indulging in their regular biennial
debate over third-class city law amend
ments, changes and revisions that give
little promise of doing more than MAX
ing of the Clark act even more of a
hodgepodge patchwork than it ala
ready Is.
Whether or not the proposal of Sem
ator Beidleman that in the interim be-
tween the adoption of his home rule
resolution by the Legislature and its
approval by the voters. the third-class
cities of the State return to the old
ward representation method of CITY
government solves the problem of
roofing out the evils of the Clark com
mission form law, is a question for
discussion in the Legislature. Certain
it is, however. that the measure
framed by the Dauphin county SEN
ator and all other third-class city legis-
lation introduced this session have
been the result of the utter failure of
the Clark act to meet the needs and
demands of cities like Harrisburg
throughout the State.
Opponents of the Beidleman meas
ure have complained that it would
make the Councils of municipalities af-
fected subject to partisan elections
that lit would reinject party politics
into muicipal government" This crti-
cism would be all very well If party
politics had ever been removed from
municipal government in Pennsylva-
mia, but the fact is that under the So
called 'non-partisan' clause of the
Clark act partisan politics has had 8
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-05
lust The Ashes
leicester Times.1

Ashes we will have with us. even
after we have discarded the sack cloth
of the Lenten season. We refer, of
course, to the ashes that have been
removed from the heater and the cook
stove in the kitchen. Ashes, ashes,
ashes! They are strewn on some side
walks, they litter other streets, they
are dumped here and there upon va
cant lots, and are even, in the dead
of sheltering night, tossed across our
back fence.
The problem of the ashes is ever
with us. Some persons, dutifully and
decorously, solve tho question by hiring
someone with cart to haul away the
refuse of the winter fire. There are
others who face the problem meanly
and sneakingly. And it can be done
easily. All that is needed is q vacant
lot-a wide and hospitable vacant lot
that the neighborhood can use If the
neighhorhood is so minded.
The ashes of yesteryear are still
strewn plentifully about, such sedi-
ment as the four winds of heaven have
not whirled around and whisked away
to be deposited upon your piano and
our center table, to he mingled with
the baby's food, to become part of
grandfather's diet. 1t is simply ter
rible.
1t is at this particular time that the
ash problem is obstreperously. with us.
1t is now at the end of the winter fire
season that the problem of ash distri-
button appeals to us with especial
force. Everybody is cleaning out his
cellar now, and there are ashes to
burn. If there was but q way of burn
ing them, or if they would but take
the wings of dove and fly away and
leave us at restl If there was peace to
ashes, instead of incessant motion and
eternal dust!
In the meantime we wish they would
hurry and improve the method of COL
lection.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-05

If ever Harrisburg needed a great
exposition hall, it needs one now. Most
of the population would like to get
into the Chestnut Street Auditorium
tonight for the great patriotic rally,
but there is only sufficient room for
a comparatively few hundred, more's
the pity. Perhaps the time will come
when great exposition building can
be erected at Island Park. high above
the average flood line, and with ample
accommodations for any great public
assembly. concert or exposition. Such
a building could be reached quite as
easily on the island as in any other
section of the CITY,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-05
Labor Notes

Clarksburg CIV va) building trades
will have strictly union shops after
April 2.
Five thousand fur workers in New
York city have had wages increased
10 per cent.
Flint Glass Workers international
contemptates the organization of lamp
workers.
The first strike of American workers
(sailors) occurred in 1902 in New York
city.
Painters of Dundee, Scotland, have
gone on strike for more pay and short
er hours.
China has only one physician trained
along modern lines for each 100000 in
habitants.
About 80 per cent. of journeymen
BARRIERS are victims of pulmonary tu-
berculosis.
Massachusetts, has a home-b building
plan. under which the State proposes
to erect workingmen's homes to be
sold to applicants on terms of easy
payment.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-05
A Pacifst of 1775
(From the Kansas city star)

perhaps the whole story of en-
pire does not furnish another instance
of a forcible opposition to government
with so much specious and so little
real cause The annals of
the world have not yet been deformed
with a single instance of so unnatural,
so causeless, SO wanton, SO wicked a
rebellion"
These are the words of an Amer
lean writer. a Harvard graduate, DAN
iel Leonard, who protested in 1775
against the movement for independ-
ence. Numerous other cultivated men
wrote in the same vein.
These men were the spiritual fore
bears of those Americans who to-day
insist that there is no such thing as
righteous war and that the nation
should not offer armed resistance to
maintain its rights.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-05
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

e. C. Nolan, prominent Reading
banker, was unanimously reelected to
the Reading city planning commission
but said he was tired of fighting and
refused to accept.
Mayor Hogentugler, of York, who
refused to permit anti-war meetings,
is a keen advocate of proper prepared
ness.
B. C. Atlee, of Lancaster's auto
mobile club, says his country's motor
car owners will place their vehicles at
service.
Director w. II. Wilson, of Phila-
delphia safety. says that citizens should
unite in home guard organizations
General Charles Miller, former
of the National Guard, is
taking an active part in spite of his
age in the preparations for war in his
section of the tate.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-05

City Commissioner Gross again as
sures a waiting public that he will
take steps to riprap the river front
about the middle of the year. Why he
postpones, this important improvement
until the latter part of June or July
only he can tell. However, the incom-
potency of the present park admins
tration is being realized by more and
more people every day and a continu-
ance of the persistent do-nothing policy
may in the end prove a blessing if it
arouses the people to the necessity of
a change of officials. In view of the
frequent promises of Commissioner
Gross to do this or that and his utter
failure to achieve results, little hope
can be held out for any improvement
during the rest of his term.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-05

larger part in the city elections of
Harrisburg than at any time within
the history of the city.
In this, as in every other feature
of government. this city has suffered
as a result of the commission law
under which it now operates. The sal
airy provision for councilmen has
drawn into every campaign dozens of
little men entirely untitled for the office
and who have had in mind only the
item of $4,000 a year that has dangled
as a Turing bait constantly before
them. The result has been the dis
missal of the broad minded, honest,
patriotic citizens of ability who used
to manage our parks. our public
works and our water department
through non-salaried boards of COM
missioners. who in turn employed
skilled men to do the work they out
lined, and the substitution of popularity
elected superintendent whose only
qualifications for the work to which
they have been assigned is the author
ity vested in them under the provisions
of the Clark law. Harrisburg has
suffered in consequence. Public inter-
est in municipal affairs has waned al
most to the vanishing point. Civic
spirit has declined. The whole city has
gone backward. Instead of admins
tering their offices with only the best
interests of the municipality as a
whole in view councilmen have been
playing politics morning, noon and
night.
We are nearing the end of another
councilmanic term. Indications are
that unless the Legislature makes
some radical changes in the Clark act
or repeals it altogether and gives us
something more suited to our needs,
conditions will continue to grow worse
instead of better, the scramble for of
fee will be repeated next Fall with
the salary as the lode star of the can
didates and the interests of the city
mere minor consideration.
Despite the objections of those who
oppose the Beidleman unsalaried ward
council bill, there is evidence that a
serious effort will be made to get it
through the Legislature in one form
or another. Possibly it's chances of
success might be materially bright
ened if an amendment were added CIV
ing council authority to elect a city
manager. City managership is in the
minds of many people in Harrisburg
who believe it would do much to in
crease governmental efficiency and en-
courage public interest in municipal
affairs. 1t has worked we'll elsewhere.
1t is worth a trial here
But that aside, almost any proposed
change from the present .well-nigh in
tolerable conditions ought to be con-
sidered. 1t is notable fact that all of
those who oppose the Beidleman bill
and other measures designed to sup
plant or supplement the Clark act
contine their criticisms to mere OBJ
jections to the measure under consid-
Grafton and offer nothing whatever of
a constructive character themselves.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-05

Penbrook is still enduring its dust
and mud, with no apparent hope of
relief. How much longer the condi-
tions in that town shall persist only a
prophet can foretell Every time a
street car or an automobile passes
through the main street the town is
hidden in cloud of dust. There must
be some way of improving the condi-
tions.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-05
A Caution

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Having learned that monies are be-
ing paid to persons who are solicit
ing for ''the church on the hilI' under
the impression that it is for the new
M. E. church north of State street, l
wish to state that no one has been au-
thorized to solicit for this worthy en-
terprise and suggest that all persons
desiring to give us financial aid will
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-05
EDITORIAL COMMENT

since reading that reporter VINO
died in Chicago among other bequests,
left 100000 to a library, we cannot
find it in our heart to blame people
for not believing what they see in the
newspapers.-New Orleans States.
Probably Charles Evans Hughes
perfectly understands what the Presi-
dent means by peace without vic
New York Telegraph.
Count Zeppelin is dead and the oc-
cupant of every baby carriage in Eng
land is begging the nurse to put the
top down.-Brooklyn Eagle.
1t may be written in history that
Germany was Summarized by her own
U-boats.-New York World.
Besides, a literacy test would re-
quire a considerable reorganization
among immigration officials.-Newark
News.
Wonder if the Kaiser is planning
to eat his next Christmas dinner in
Boston or New York Boston Trans
cript.
The average Congressman displays
less interest in the freedom of the seas
than in free garden seeds,-Philadel
phia North American
DR.. Zimmerman, of Berlin, says he
is anxious to find out how the United
States came into possession of his
friendly suggestion for the dismem-
berment of this country. Yet he would
forego the knowledge if he could find
out how much more this government
knows about his plans.-New York
Sun.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-05
THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 5

There is nothing impossible, eUen
in the sphere of the cleansing of q
mans otOn life and the empowering Of
q mans otCn tCilI, to the creative potUer
of fdith.-Ro6ert E. Speer.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-05
The Day's Circulation

AT 2 cents a copy, the Day, the ma
tional Jewish daily published in New
York. has daily and Sunday circula-
tion of $4,000 copies going into the
homes of New York families. whose
earning capacity and purchasing pow
er has established them among the
best of the Jewish element in Amer
icn.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-05
Can't Do Without It

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Please send us the TELEGRAPH
again. We can't do without it.
GEORGE WHITCOMB,
No. 78 N, Fourteenth St.,
Harrisburg, Pa.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-05

For the first time since the beginning
of the great war this country is in
step with the sentiment of our people.
There is feeling everywhere of relief
that at last the United States is march
ing to the music of the Battle Hymn
of the Republic.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-05

Good for the railroad men in the
pennsylvania shops. which have been
decked with flags as visible sign of
the personal loyalty of every one of
the sturdy railroaders.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-05

John Sharp Williams saws LaFol-
lette's address in the Senate was pro
German, pro-Goth and pro-Vandal."
outside of that. we Judge. he thinks it
a perfectly good speech.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-05
THE PEOPLES FORUM
BY BRIGGS

do we'll to have positive assurance as
to where their money is to go before
payment is made.
r. II. COLBURN.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-05
OUR DAILY LAUGH
UNPROFIT-
ABLE.

One never loses
anything by keep
ing an engage
ment punctually.
Except half an
hours time wait
ing for the other
fellow.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-05

Has it occurred to Commissioner
Gross that the time to get free dirt for
filing out the river front where needed
is now?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-05

MORE TALK.
So Kate and
Alice are not on
speaking terms.
No; but they
more than make
up for 1t by what
they say about
each other.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-05
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg has scores Of
automobiles that will be put at
the disposal of the government?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-05

weIeons to HarrIabuEg. u. Gerard
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-05

HISTORIC HARRISBURG
This place was one of the centers of
cannon ball making in the war of 1912.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-05

Can you tell I'm
in love,
When you look
in my eyes?
III you can't,
you're a boob
For. there the
love lies
And lies, and lies,
and lies.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-05

The average Congressman displays
less interest in the freedom of the seas
than in free garden seeds.-Philadel
phia North American
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-05

Probably Charles Evans Hughes
perfectly understands what the Presi-
dent means by peace without vic
tory."-New York Telegraph.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-05

Wonder if the Kaiser is planning
to eat his next Christmas dinner in
Boston or New York Boston Trans
cript.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-05

Z. j. .STACKPoLE.P Pres't aHd Editorin-C Chief
+. r. OYSTER, Business MdHdger.
GUS NJ. STEINMETz. Managing Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-05

Besides, a literacy test would re-
quire considerable reorganization
among immigration officials.-Newark
News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-05

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.,
TeieEraPh building. Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-05

Count Zeppelin is dead and the oc-
cupant of every baby carriage in Eng
land is begging the nurse to put the
top down.-Brooklyn Eagle.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-05

1t may be written in history that
Germany was Summarized by her own
U-boats.-New York World.