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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-06

1919 automobile license tags have
gone ahead of the shipments IN the
first week of the shipping period of
last year according to figures 1t the
State Highway Department. At the
close of business on December last
year 1880 pneumatic tired machine.
tags had been sent out ana on the
same day this year 14,549. Almost
100 more solid tired tags have also
been issued. The receipts from ap-
plications for new year tags have
thus far amounted to $4,000 or $s7.-
500 more than for the same date last
wear
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-06

idea of having the history of the draft
in each district made up by the men
in charge OF the operation OF the .se-l
lective service law.
To show Vegetables - Vegetable
growers of the state have named n
committee to arrange for n state
wide vegetable show at the time the
state farm products exhibition is held
here in January under state auspices.
The committee in charge consists of
S. Herbert StarlSey. Bustleton; j. r.
BechteL State College, and l.. II.
Hartman, Etters.
Tags Away Ahead - Shipments of
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-06

susazz% tena5ce ana ianIm snnw
removal, Is completeds Several
miles oil these fences have been fin-
ished and plans have been made for
others. Some OF the stretches along
the Lincoln Highway which gave
/ trouble last winter have been lined
ith the fences and the others are
being located in sections along other
I roads where the snowstorms have
blocked traffic. The bulk of the
fences viii be erected where it has
been found that the outlay for con-
stfucnon is cheaper than the cost
OF laoor and horses in moving snow
IN winter to keep roads open.
Tractors VIII be tried out for
snow removal for the first time
Last winter the Lincoln Highway
as kept open by trucks which drag
| Sed the big plows. The State Coun-
ell OF National Defense Will turn
over several of the states biggest
| tractors for the use of the State
| Highway Department.
To Discuss Plans - Governor
Brumbaugh will preside ut the
| meeting of the State Armory Board
when 1t meets here Tuesday to dis
/ cuss plans and specifications for the
iour new armory buildings. A
/ -N'6 HANS AMI LOT lne next two
years will be discussed and recon-
mendations made for the Legislature
early IN the new year.
PARDON Board Several first
/ degree murder cases will probably
be listed for the December meeting
/ Of the State Board of Pardons TO he
/ hetd Just a week before Christmas.
A large list is being prepared for
the meeting which will be the final
session of the board as at present
constituted.
Big Confcrcnccs-A series of i'm
portant conferences in regard TO
street railway and other cases pend
ing before the Public Service Cor,
mlasion will begin in Pittsburgh to-
/ day No hearings are being held
to-day except at Pittsburgh and the
conferences on procedure will prob-
AMY last until tomorrow night
INC Coal Problcms-Chjef Sow
ara Button, of the Department Of
Mines, and Deputy Frank Hail are
IN Flttsburgh this week meotino o
with the bituminous inspectors and
] attending the sessions of the Amer
! lean Mining Institute. Mr.. Ruttop
made an address at the simmer
gwen by the institute, Wednesday
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-06
Brother Feels Sick! He xs..
Wants Candy Cascaret"

To Mothers! You will avoid worry and trouble
by giving your children Cascarets instead of nasty
Castor OIL Calomel and Pills. Children look upon
Cascarets Candy and never refuse them even when
SICK bilious feversh. contipated Besides Cascarets
cost only 10 cents p box
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-06
Your Best Way to Follow the Work of the Peace

The eyes and hopes of the entire world are to-day
centered upon Paris, whittier the delegates of the var
nations ourneying to the Peace Conference
which is to remold Europe and decide, perhaps for
centuries to come, the destnies of planet. The
that comes forth to the waiting millions from
the historic halls of Versailles will be in many ways
the most important ever published in its far-reaching
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-06
TWENTY MILES OF
SNOW FENCES
Highway Department Plans
Call For an Elaborate
Amout OF Work

The state of
Pennsylvania will
have about 30
miles of snow
fences along its
main highways
when the pro-
gram outlined by
George II. Biles,
the deputy COM
m ! S sio II or in
charge OF main
tenaOCp and SNOW
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-06

effect upon humanity at large. This news will be re-
ported fully and impartially from week to week by
THE LITERARY DIGEST, with the views of noted
authorities of all shades of opinion that the readers
of the worlds greatest newsweeky may have the best
possible opportunity of forming judgments as
to the decisions handed down. If you wish to keep in
intimate touch with these great events read "The
Digest"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-06

Where is the man who cannot ap-
preciate an attractive holiday box OF
socks - Isle - silk OF woolen-
IIOLEPROOF and other famous
makes, including NJ OMIT o
35c to S1.5O per pair.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-06

Why Mr.. McAdoo Resigns
The End of the German Navy
Breakers Ahead For the League of Nations
How Canada Handles Her Disabled Soldiers
A Bridge That Works Like Kite
Natures Primal War
Germany's Aerial Prophet
The Greeks in America
prepared by U. S. Bureau of Education)
Seeing the "MOte" and Forgetting the "Beam"
The Wars Cost in Human Lives
Many Fine Illustrations, Including Hu
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-07-29
We Must Conserve.

Certainly every patriotic person will be
perfectly willing to cut their sugar al
lowance down to SO pounds per year or
IL ounces per week. In France to-day
they are only allowed 10 pounds per per-
son per year. Do everything you can to
help State Food Administrator Frank H,
Brooks Do it with a smile.-Waterbury
Record.
The announcements OF bumper wheat
crop and sugar enough to provide against
possible famine this winter are apt to
give a feeling of false security to some
people, who at the best have always been
unwilling subscribers to food conserva-
ton plans, and who are eagerly looking
for a pretext to go on their usual wide
open basis and eat all the wheat and
sugar they want.
The answer to them is this: The food
administration has already discounted
the bumper wheat crop and the increased
output of sugar and has promised our al
lies all the food we can spare and save.
If there is material let-down in the
observation of food laws, we shall not be
able to deliver the goods and we shall
at once be compelled to go on strict ra-
tions again.
Mr.. Brooks is authority for the state
ment that ii three days promised supply
of wheat and other foods should fail, our
allies would be faced with virtual starya-
ton. just as close as that, neighbors, are
we running to the edge Of overwhelming
disaster
What if suddenly there should be Sc
ries of sinking of American food ships
What if there should be an unexpected
reverse to our arms in France and such
quantities of stores should fall into the
enemy's hands as those which rewarded
the German drive through Armentieres3
Remember, we have 100000 and bet
ter of our own men in France, in add.
tion to the huge armies of our allies Can
we afford for even one day or one week
to trife with the chances which Stacker
ism in food saving would entail? Should
we place our personal convenience, our
likes and dslikes, first, or should we
take pattern by France and England and
give until the last necessary dollar and
save until the last needed pound is pro-
vided, so that the success of our arms
may be assured?
People who grumble at wheat substi-
tutes, sugar rations and meatless days
ought to turn their eyes to Europe and
compare the trifling and insignificant
sacrifices they are asked to make with
the tragic history of Belgium, France
and England, who have not only given
food and treasure, but the very flower
and pick Of their best manhood.
Shame on the food slackers, say we,
who are looking for chance to "fll up
on wheat and sugar" once the eyes of the
food administration are directed else
where.-Rutland Herald.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-07-29
Comfortable Clothes for Motor Trip.

A writer in the August Woman's Home
Companion describes this sensible ward
robe:
con a motor trip which lasted from
July to November, my husband and l
found the following wardrobe perfect
My husband wore lightweight, many
pocketed Norfolk suit of dust -colored
tweed, which did not show dirt or wrin-
kles; a cap of the same tone, madras
shirt, an uncrushable crepe tie, cotton
underwear, tan boots, and for chill days
carried brown waistcoat-sweater
81 was comfortable and decorative, in
khaki riding suit of knee.length coat
and short divided skirt tprice Sl5) ;
blouses of crepe de chine or boys shirts
of madras with tie Of brilliant hue
a softly wired sports hat of colored tan
taffeta, lined with chocolate -colored
straw, and with a satin band under my
chin to disregard the wind This head
gear cost only SIS, but was worn every
day for over three months without losing
its shape, without showing rain or dust
spots, and when it faded it did so evenly
and unnoticeably. High tan boots, tar
stockings, black sateen riding brooches
flor cool days. and simple, inexpensive
china silk underwear (which could BIZ
easily washedl completed my outfit"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-07-29
Directions for Knitting Helmets.

Inasmuch as helmets were included in
the July quota assigned to the Barre
branch, the latest directions therefor are
herewith printed.
Helmet.
For top, use 5 Red Cross needles No, l.
For capes, pair Red Cross needles No.
Q.
Top-Cast on 20 stitches. Knit plain
2s ridges always slipping the LIST
stitch. On the last row throw in extra
stitches. with the ID needle pick up rs
stitches on side Of crown, With Sd nee
die pick up 20 stitches at end of crown
With 4th needle pick up 2s stitches on
other side Of crown. There are now
100 stitches--24 ON lst needle, rs on I'd
needle, 20 on Sd needle, rs on 4th needle
Knit ., purl 2, for AZ inches. On the
last round, bind off the last 2 stitches Of
the Cd needle, the 20 stitches of the Sd
needle and the first stitches of the
fourth needle for the face opening. Knit
2, purl 2, back and forth for 2 inches,
always knitting or purling the LIST stitch.
Cast on "a stitches, and divide stitches
on the four needles as before.
Knit 2, purl 2, for inches.
Front eape-On the last round, knit
lido not purl the capesl the last Is
stitches on the 4th needle, the "a stitches
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-07-29
The Mantle of Charity.

In yesterdays issue of The Herald APP
peared a quotation from the Bellows
Falls Times, reprinted from mabel
Syrup's Column" in the Barre Times
The caption of the latter was Wherein
the Reporter Casts Off His Mantle of
Charity and Points Moral" The refer
ence was made to the following comment
of the Bellows Falls contemporary on the
commission of pauper to the Brattle-
boro Retreat:
Poor old Tom, picked in booze, rot
ing with disease, town pauper and now
state pauper,t has gone to his last board
ing place Two or three years ago his
condition created much local sympathy.
He was visited by we'll meaning ladies',
who attempted to clean him up, but it
was a hopeless case. For years his mind
has been going down into darkness. His
approaching end illustrates the truth of
the biblical statement that the wages of
ain is death
The Herald merely rises to enquire
whether its virtuous contemporary in the
Sulphite City would have gone so far in
righteous comment on horrible ex-
ample" II the subject had been otherwise
than friendless, hopeless and without the
ability to hit back.
Surprising some man of good connee
tions, brother or near kin of good adj
yertiser, the black sheep in prominent
family, had gone wrong to a point where
madhouse became the retreat of his
latter years, would The Times have
pointed him out as a moral parable and
tagged the item with scriptural text :
We trow not.
No doubt what the contemporary says
about poor old Tom" is true, but there
is SNUG, pharisaical smack about the
quoted paragraph which recalls the par
able in Luke, 18th chapter. Note the
18th verse;
''The Pharisee stood and prayed thus
with himself: God | thank Thee that
am not as other men are, extortioners,
unjust, adulterers, or even as this publ
can"
There is also another biblical iniunc-
ton in Matthew, chapter Z, verse /,
which says: Judge not, that We be not
judged; for with what Judgment we Judge
ye shall be judged" 1t is good thing
to remember when we are tempted to
look down on some poor wretch who
visibly pays the price Of his sins and use
him to point moral.
No doubt there was a time when old
Tom was an innocent, prattling baby
when some mother looked on him with
her heart full of JOY and pride. BY what
steps he came to his present situation we
know not, but we will venture the belief
that if some petted scion of the sheltered
life had had Toms environments and
temptations to encounter, he might not
have survived with any greater credit.
There are plenty of wrecks along life's
beaches, but sll are not of ships ill-found,
with rotting timbers and quaking gear.
There are some that 90 down in the deeps
without sound, some that go ashore in
the murk Of fog and some that are cast
away by their own masters.
We don't hear so much moralizing
about them, and yet it is not the Old
Toms Of life that truly point the moral;
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-07-29
Community Chautauqua.

The opening event Of the community
Chautauqua is a big, free community
rally on Friday evening of this week.
This rally is free for adults as we'll as
children. All the children in the city are
invited to meet in the square at the
Catholic and Presbyterian churches at
$3.50 p. m. Friday to join in the junior
patriotic parade to the Goddard campus,
where the play festival and ticket hunt
viii take place at Z o'clock. Do not for
get the day and hour-Friday evening at
$3.50 o'clock.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-07-29
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

on the LIST needle and 10 stitches on the
second needle onto No needle. You
now have 90 stitches on this needle Knit
80 ridges. Bind off
Back cape-Slip the remaining 80
stitches onto the No, needle. Knit SO
ridges. Bind off.
Do not sew edges Of capes together
Knitting directions previously have
been printed as follows: Sweater, July
22 socks, July 23j reversible wristlets,
july 25.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-07-29
% get rid Of itl And aren't we trying

to get rid of it? And aren't we trying
TOT
"When heard about this man ! felt
like sending him the following telegram:
Say, mister, come back and do your
share. This is your world just as much
as ours You can't run away and leave
the job of trying to save it to the rest of
us. If you think it can be saved without
the use of guns and swords, come back
and show us how. But don't stand there
and look superior You can't get away
with that Cut out your airs and tell
us what to do. If you still think you
must go-go for what you area WEIGH
er and a gutter"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-07-29
You can,t Run Away from the Var.

The editor of the American Magazine
says in the May number;
"The other day | heard about per-
fectly healthy man mot of military age)
who said he was going to Honolulu to
get away from the war He doesn't
believe in the war thinks the war a
mistake and all that sort Of thing.
"Well, / wonder if he thinks the rest
of us are infatuated with the war? Are
your Is Francei Wouldn't we all like
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-07-29

it is the Willies and Mickeys and keys
that really show where the reefs and
shoals of life may lie.
Meanwhile, that mantle of charity is
not such bad thing to use in all such
cases.--Rutland Herald
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-07-29
Notice.

On and after August |, we, the under
signed, shall be obliged to charge seventy
cents (70c) per hour for all labor.
Alex McHafie,
C. w. Ayerill g. Co.,
Barre Gas Co.,
N. D. Phelps Co.,
John H. Johnson,
w. J. Loughheed & Co.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-07-29
Painters. Attention.

Local 1856, painters and decorators, will
hold its next regular meeting Tuesday,
July go, at 1880 p. m. in carpenters
hall All members are requested to at
tend a. NJ Stoddard R. S.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-27
PLANS READY TO
TEST NEW LINE
Will Turn on Power For
Chestnut Hill Electric.
Branch

One big electrification improve
ment on the Pennsy has been NOV
ing slowly in spite of the war and
severe winter conditions. The first
move in the opening of the PhiIa-
delphia-Chestnut Hill branch of the
Pennsylvania railroad will take
place Sunday.
Plans have been completed to
trun on the current as test for
leaks. From then on until April /,
the tentative date set for the formal
opening, work will be completed on
the final details. 1t is understood
that some of the equipment used on
the Paoli branch will be put into
service during the test. A number of
the trains were eliminated recently
and there is plenty of equipment on
hand until normal conditions are
resumed after the war is over.
Fourteen Miles Long
The Chestnut Hill line is fourteen
miles long and has been under con-
struction since September, 1913.
Originally the cost was placed at
Sl,25O,0OO. The war acted both to
postpone the work and to cause a
jump in the cost to about $1,50O,OOO.
Until the traffic between Allen
Lane and Fort Hill on the Fort
Washington branch warrants its
electrification, steam service will be
continued on this line.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-27
Final Wage Hearings;
Decision Within a Month

Washington, d. c., Feb. 81
Hearings before the Railroad Wage
Commission. in its work of making
recommendation for the most ex-
tensive wage adjustment ever I'M
dertaken, were concluded yesterday.
1t was said officially that the COM
missions decision as to what classes
of the 1,250,000 railroad workers
should receive increases, and the
amount of the increases would be
communicated to the director gem
eral in less than month, possibly
by March 10.
Alfred d. Finn, appearing for the
United Engineering Society, asked
that the commission consider pro-
fessional engineers in any increases
recommended.
Negro employees on railroads in
the south were said by j. w. Will
liams, Alonzo Jones and H. G..
alley, of the Railway Helpers and
Laborers' Union, to be underpaid
and migrating to the north, where
wages were higher, An increase from
2315 cents TO 80 cents an hour was
asked for blacksmith helpers and
similar laborers on the Central of
Georgia, Atlantic Coast Line and
Seaboard Air Line, and from 2S.6
cents to so cents for oil box packers
on the Chesapeake & Ohio.
H. NJ. Comerford, representing
powerhouse engineers, telegraphed
that an impending strike on the Bos-
ton Elevated Railroad would pre-
vent his appearance. His message
asked increased wages and an eight
hour day for stationary engineers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-27
PENNSY BRANCH
IMPROVEMENTS
Expenditures Made at Enola,
MarysviIle and Other Points;
Cost of Equipment

Expenditures for improvements
at Enola, Marysville ana other points
are part of the annual report of the
Northern Central Railway Company,
made public yesterday. This subsid-
iary of the Pennsy is now in its
sixty-fourth year. The mileage in
cludes:
Baltimore to. Marysville, 9O.44
miles; Dauphin to Sunbury, $3.50
miles, and Green Spring Branch,
Hollins. Md, to Green Spring, Md.
S.62; total, 144.45 miles. The road
and equipment expenditures during
1917 amounted to $2,1s1,Sss.15, as
follows:
Improvement Costs
Road. Baltimore, new pier and
grain elevator, additional trucks in
yard, No. 1, extension of yard No. 3,
and two 15-ton locomotive cranes,
ETC., at Canton; track changes and
paving, and enclosing wharf on end
of pier, at Bond street; freight shed
and tracks at Jackson's wharf; 100
foot turntable at Union yard; 52-foot
track scale at Bolton yard, etc, ST.
625,757s05; Enola, 100-foot turntable
for enginehouse. standpipe, etc, So
329.S6; Speeceviile to Clark's Ferry,
relocating public road, S1s,760.4S;
Clark's Ferry to Inglenook, relocat-
ing public road, $7,255.94; North
cumberland yard. extension of yard,
additional tracks, ETC., SIS, 1905; !;
Selinsgrove Junction to Sunbury, new
automatic signals, $11. .630.SS; Marys-
vile yard, right of way for enlrage-
ment, SS,755.75; Halifax, siding ex-
tension. SIG, 6,7S0.17; Mahantongo
siding extension, s3,271.46; improve
ments of roadway and structures,
cites, rails, bridges, trestles and cul-
neous improvements, SS,645.S2; total,
S1,29s,O24.11.
Equipment, freight train cars,
S427. 1854 As: passenger train cars,
SS,935.SS; work cars and miscalla-
neous equipment, S65,799.05; steam
locomotives, s55S,S6O.52; total, ST.
055,970.40
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-27
Reading Is Showing Big
Increase in Coal Traffic

Nearly 900 cars of anthracite were
handled by the Reading on Monday
This is still below the general aver
age. When all of the mines were in
operation and fully manned the daily
average was / 1,400 cars. Fifteen
thousand cars of freight were trans
ported on the Reading and Harris
burg divisions on Monday.
More than 1000 cars were han
died on the Lebanon Valley and
about 500 on the East Penn. The
traffic on the Valley and East Penn
is practically normal and since all
of the trains out of Rutherford are
now double-headed the company is
able to take care of all the trade
offered it at that point.
At present the Reading Railway
Company is hauling an immense
amount of foodstuffs and material
for the United States government.
Now and then these shipments are
broken UP through sidetracking of
cars due to hot journals, broken
ffanges, etc. When this happens the
head officials are promptly notified
and the defects remedied as prompt
ly as possible.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-27
Guard Hurls Bomb Out
of Danger and Avoids
Explosion at Ship Plant

Newburgh, n. Y, Feb. 27.-An at
tempt to blow up machinery in the
plant of the Newburgh Shipyards
Comrany here to-day was frustrated,
but only after guard had picked
up a bomb and hurled it out of dan
ger. 1t exploded and did some dam
age, but not enough to delay work
at the plant.
The bomb was placed under a
compressor machine in one of the
buildings by a stranger who escaped
after clubbing the guard. William
Hogan. who discovered him near the
machine and demanded his work
mans badge. Hogan was dazed, but
on recovering from the blow started
a search which resulted in his dis
covering the bomb.
The attempt to damage the ma
ehinery was evidently intended to
delay construction work on ships for
the Emergency Fleet Corporation,
which is about to begin. Z.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-27

EHIiAueIpnAH DHNASfOn - Tne 100
crew first to go after 4 o'clock: 116,
1SO. 10s, 131. 100.
Fireman for 1870. .N
Conductor for lie.
Brakeman for 100.
Engineers up: Dolby, Stauffer,
Small, Martin. steffy. Andrews Ryan,
Schwarz, Baston, S. X. Steffy, Yeater.
Firemen up: Carbaugh, Watson,
Quigley, Hoffman, Lutz, Kochenouer,
Walker.
Conductor up: Gallagher.
Brakemen up; Smith. Walters,
Wilson. Miller.
Middle Division-The 23s crew first
to go after o'clock: 2T, %, IS. 43.
&c, IS. "a, SO.
Engineer for 26.
Conductors for 43, IS. "a.
Fiagmen for rs, SIS. 43.
Engineers up: Smith. o. W. Sny-
der, Blizzard. Fink, Titler, Mortz,
wittle. Kaufman, Parthmore, Corder,
Letter.
Baird, Martin, Book, Brocious.
Conductors up: Leonard. Glace.
Brakemen up: Fegley. Beers. H.
Z. Rhoades. Furlow. Wolfe, Harsh
barger Wright.
Yard Bonrd-Engineers for &c,
4-7C, sec.
Firemen for 4-7C, SIC.
Engineers up: Smell. Bartolet. Get
", Bair. Eyde, Nye, Bostdorf, Macy
er, Sholter, Barkey, Sheets.
Firemeu up; McKeever. Stapt,
Parker. Crook