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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-14

including the restoration OF ten
miles of paved street, which were In
deplorable condition. as we'll as MAX
ing unnecessary the $4,000 bond
issue previously mentioned for tho
new sewer. Apparently, therefore,
the new government In Manistee Is
twenty per cent. better.
In Taylor. Tex, the annual In
come was $4,000 and in the first
year under the new plan, with the
aid of less than $4,000 new tax rev.
enue, the city manager wiped out q
floating debt of $500, fifteen
per cent. better showing.
Cadillac cut 6.000-thirteen per
cent.-out of the $4,000 OF annual
running expenses while improving
the municipal service.
Little Hickory, N. c.. with running
expenses of $4,000, cut out $4,000
fourteen per cent.-in the first
year of the new plan. squeezed in
several thousand dollars worth of
extra service and kept up the pace in
the second year.
Another little one, Morris, Mimi.
spent $28,300 in the first year of the
new plan, which was $4,000 more
than the year before. but the man.
ager shows an increase of $4,000 in
permanent improvements and s2,500
more cash on hand-a fifteen per
cent. advance.
Montrose, Col. reports that the
old accounts were so meaningless
as to make comparison impossible,
but the manager, starting with
smaller appropriations, saved in the
first year enough to reduce the tax
levy eighteen per cent.
In Montrose the appropriation for
1913 was $43,S10 and for 1914 $40,-
$50. But the city did considerably
more work with the latter sum and
had $4,000 more cash on hand at
the end of the year than at the be-
ginning.
All the cities seem to have such
stories to tell of increasing service
without correspondingly increased
expense, of floating debts being
wiped out, of disbursements kept
within appropriations, of municipal
accounts that tell the true story, of
thrift in little matters. All the man
ayers seem to be keen to produce an
nual reports that will be creditable
to the new way of doing things. Mr..
Childs finds.
There is much in these figures for
conservative, business
like minds in Harrisburg to think
about. The next councilmanic cam
paign is little more than a year in
the future.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-14
Why Josh Got Mad"

mostly I'm man of peace,
I had little fight to-day,
Nor did I call for the police
To aid me any in the fray.
L met a man who called me chump,
But most forgivingly 1 smiled,
He called me mongrel, called me
gump,
Yet I though not of getting wild.
He called me villain. coward, crook,
And other things / cannot write
And all his insults vile / took
Without the least desire to fight.
But then he flung at me a taunt
/ could not stand, but blazed
away
He said: You're mean enough to
want
Our teachers not to get more
pay!"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-14
NEW YORK STATE VOTE
TTTHILE a referendum vote on
I wv prohibition may be all right

UTHILE a referendum vote on
wv prohibition may be all right
for New York state. there is
no call for such a proposal in Penn
sylvania. The conditions in the
two states differ widely. The New
York State Legislature was not elect
on a wet" or dry" issue. The legis-
lators were elected before the ma
tiopal prohibition resolution was
passed by Congress. The members
were therefore entirely correct in
holding that they were unacquainted
with the sentiments of their constit-
uents en- the subject and could not
pass intelligently upon the question
from that standpoint. They unwit-
tingly or Intentionally have played
into the hands of the liquor interests
in taking such course, for delay
is the only chance the "wets" now
have, but they have passed the
buck" directly to the people, agree
ing to abide by the decision of the
public in considering the amendment
when it comes before them follow
ing the referendum.
But no such condition exists in
! Pennsylvania and none can exist.
The prohibition question is going to
enter into the election of legislators
in every district of the state next
fall and in their nomination at the
primaries in May. The election re-
suits will register the will of the
people on this question. To attempt
9 referendum on the question itself
would be but to delay the final ac-
counting the Legislature must make
and would not be in accord with
constitutional provision.
The Federal Constitution presumes
that the public shall be fully in
formed on any amendment that may
be proposed and will elect Repre-
sentatives and Senators in accord
with the popular opinion thereon.
1t distinctly provides that all such
amendments shall be approved or
disapproved by the Legislature and
any effort to defeat that intent in
Pennsylvania this year would be
mere subterfuge that would not fool
anybody but would arose intense
public indignation. 1t is not likely
that any serious effort will be made
to duplicate New York's action in
this state.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-14
COMMISSION-MANAGERS

n ICHARD S. CHILDS, chairman
X, of the National Municipal
Leagues committee on the
commission form of government, has
just completed an extensive study
of the commission-manager plan SO
far as 1t has been tried out in Amer
ican cities. "It is getting along rath-
er nicely, thank you," says Mr..
Childs, at the same time observing,
"of course, it is very young thing,
dating only from January, 1913,
when Sumter, S. c., first put it into
effect"
Mr.. Childs' findings are of interest
in Harrisburg in view of the atten-
tion the commission-manager plan
has had recently at the hands of
Harrisburg people bent upon find
ing something with which to bolster
up the poor old Clark act.
With the success OF the idea at
Dayton everybody is familiar. In
Springfield the operating expenses
were cut $4,000 and a floating debt
of $780, 900 wiped out the first year.
In La Grande. the city manager
found the city bankrupt its war
rants so greatly deprecated in value
that the banks were refusing to take
them at any price. Outstanding
warrants had reached $4,000,
slightly more than a whole years
budget. In the first year, $4,000
was cleared off and another $S5, 900
disappeared during the first four
months of 1915.
In Manistee, the first budget was
100000. The new regime saved
$4,000 Of this and at the same time
greatly increased the city's service,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-14

what lot of war sufferers on this
side the water are doing.
Seriously, however, there doubtless
are hundreds upon hundreds of gar
ments slowed away in garrets.
chests and closets that ought to be
put to use. Look your supply over
and give all you can to the Red
Cross to keep our suffering brothers
and sisters. big and little, clothed
and warm.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-14
LABOR NOTES

Forty-one states have public en-
ployment officers.
Chicago businessmen urge in
creased pay for municipal employees
receiving small wages.
An average of 1000 new mem
bers a month joined the Order of
Railway Telegraphers last year. =
Oakland (Cal.) municipal firemen
have formed a union and affiliated
with the A. f. of l..
A regiment of stevedores is being
recruited in this country to help re-
lieve congestion at Atlantic ports.
London (Ontario) Ministerial AS
sociation deplores the low wages
paid to girls in factories there.
Massachusetts State Board of La
Dor and Industries has ruled that
girls cannot deliver kilograms.
Laundry girls of Kansas City, Mo-,
have won a shorter workday. The
next fight will be for a living wage.
Two mllllOn women are working
on farms in the United States, of
whom 10000 are under the age of
I20.
Casualty figures for switchmen
showthe percentage is greater than
for the armies in Europe.
New Westminster (Can.) School
Board this year increased teachers
salaries to the amount of $205, 900
over last year.
over 100000 laborers are to be
imported into the United States from
Porto Rico and the Virgin Isles.
Alien laborers will be charged a
fee of $40 per year for working in
London, Can, in addition to the poll
tax.
President Gompers is seeking an
eight-hour day and fixed wage scale
for ship-builders in Government
plants.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-14
EDITORIAL COMMENT

Make a garden! pleads the Gov
ernment, and straightway starts a
campaign urging people to keep
chickens.-Pittsburgh Gazette Times.
Austria may split with the Ger
mans, but it is certain that Germany
will not split fifty-fifty with the Aus
trians when it comes to the spoils
of war.-Louisville Post.
Alaska is celebrating the fiftieth
anniversary of it's annexation to the
United States; also it should be cele-
brating that it doesn't belong to Rus
sia.-St Louis Globe-Democrat
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-14
Soldier So~4a
MARCH! MARCH!

March, march, march, march,
March, comrades, march along,
March, march, march, march,
March, hundred million
strong.
On-through dark and battles
roar,
On-where none has dared be-
fore,
Onto pay the ages score:
March, march, march!
Forward, comrades, march, march
for ever,
Up with the break of day, Out on the
trackless way,
Ours the will-that must and can,
Ours to crown creations plan,
Ours to win the world for man:
March, comrades, march.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-14
THE INCOME TAX
THAT BANK STOCK OF YOURS

I a which, stat is required
is
to handled income-aX purposes?
proportionate of
by which it the
held by should
as a under o
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-14
OUR DAILY LAUGH
FOR DURA-
TION.

You say you
and your wife
quarrel a great
deal, and yet
you don't want
a divorce.
No. I'm sat-
isfed. You see
I enlisted in the
IN a t ri m o NAL
ranks for the
duration of the
war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-14
"OLD CLOTHES WEEK"

set aside the week of March IS
to % as "Old Clothes Week."
Throughout the United States dis
carded clothing will be collected for
shipment to Belgium.
1t hopes to take in at least 5000
tons of used garments to garb
scantily clothed Belgians. Twelve
thousand five hundred tons will be
accepted. The move was made on
urgent appeal of the Belgian Relief
Commission through Herbert Hoov-
er, its chairman. The commissions
organization in this country having
been abolished, the Red Cross, with
its elaborate collection organization,
was appealed to.
In a letter to the Red Cross,
Mr.. Hoover said:
The practical entire exhaustion
of clothes, clothing, shoes and
leather in occupied Belgium and
Northern France. and the short
age of these necessities in the
worlds. markets. are making it
increasingly difficult for the
Commission for Relief in Bel
gium to keep clothed and shod
the unfortunate people of these
occupied territories. In addition
to new material we need gifts of
used and surplus clothing and
shoes, flannel cloth, etc, in large
quantities from the people of the
United States.
All this sounds like a very proper
measure, worthy of popular support,
and we hope it brings results. But
it has its failings. We know of one
household. at least, where the Spring
discard of old clothing bids fair to
be like the core of the small boys
apple-"there amt goin' to be
none"
Patch beside patch is neighborly.
but patch upon patch is beggarly"
some wag has written, and we have
personal and intimate knowledge
first hand testimony, as it we're
concerning trousers that could quail
fy under both definitions.
We speak with authority and rep
resenting a vast number of deeply
interested clients, when we arise to
inquire of the learned court of pub
lie opinion. what man shall do who
is patriotically desirous of giving
his old clothes to the Red Cross, but
who if he does, must remain in bed
until some charitably inclined per-
son comes along with the price Of a
new suit. We violate no confidence
in saying that the number of last
years trousers in active operation,
so to speak, Is almost equal at this
time, to the total number sold dur
ing the period named. Many of our
most highly bred clothes-hounds
now have no more than two pairs of
trousers each. Many an erstwhile
swell dresser" now creases 'em in
front and pulls his coat far down in
the back to hide the worn spot or
the patch. Thus it is we save to
buy our Liberty Bonds.
The government advises wear out
your old Clothes" the Red Cross
urges send them to the Belgians,
and friend wife says well, for good
ness sake, you're not going to wear
that outfit another season, are your"
which is equivalent to limiting that
no matter what your intentions may
be, she does not mean to be cheated
out of her own new Easter costume.
Feminine finery aplenty may. find
it's way to Belgians. Gut our care
fully considered advice to male Bel
gians is that they brush and press
last winters pants, turn up the worn
ends Of the coat-sleeves and call the
result a new Spring suit. That's
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-14

The Minnesota Socialist, under trial
for pro-Germanism, who blew his head
off with a stick of dynamite, displayed
unusually good judgment.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-14

New York having postponed action
on the prohibition amendment. it is
all the more important that Pennsyl-
vania beat the Empire State to it,"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-14
LUCK.

ONE GOOD POINT.
"I am pharmacist on cruiser"
How do you like It? Isn't the
ocean rough"
Sometimes. But nobody wakes
me up to buy a two-cent stamp"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-14
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg mechanics
patch up many a disabled loco
motive every day?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-14

HISTORIC HARRISBURG
During the twenties as high as
1900 RATS a year passed down the
Susquehanna-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-14
THURSDAY, MARCH II, 1918

'Tto1S thief said the last kind 10ord
to Christ;
Christ took the kindness and torgGUe
the theft. BROWNING.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-14

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING co,
telegraph Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-14

Oakland (Cal.) municipal firemen
have formed union and affiliated
with the A. T. of l..
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-14

Member of the Associated Press-The
Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled to the use for republi :ation OF
all news dispatches credited to 1t or
not otherwise credited in this paper
and also the local news published
herein.
All rights of republication of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-14

e. ]. STACKPOLE,Pr PrsSt s. EditoriH-Ch Chisf
+. r. OYSTER, BHsinsss Manager.
GUS NJ. STEINNETZ. Managing Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-14

An average of 1000 new mem
bers a month joined the Order of
Railway Telegraphers last year.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-14
COULD FILL
THE BILL.

Fly: Hey Will
lie Firehy, they
want a bright
hoy down where
l live. Why
don't you go
after the Job.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-14

Forty-one states have public en-
ployment officers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-14

A regiment of stevedores is being
recruited in this country to help re-
lieve congestion at Atlantic ports.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-14

London (Ontario) Ministerial AS
sociation deplores the low wages
paid to girls in factories there.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-14

Chicago businessmen urge in
creased pay for municipal employees
receiving small wages.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-14

Massachusetts, State Board of La
Dor and Industries has ruled that
girls cannot deliver kilograms.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-14

According to reports to-day. there
has been an improvement in the
condition of Archy d. Glenn, deputy
superintendent of Public Instruc-
ton and one of the best liked men
on Capitol Hill. Mr.. Glenn has been
connected with the educational de-
partment for more than a quarter
of a century. and for years was "facts
and figures" He has wide ac-
quaintance in the State, and knows
the school system from A to u.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-14

Laundry girls of Kansas City, Mo-,
have won a shorter workday. The
next fight will be for living wage.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-24

Pctrograd, Wednesday,, Jan. 23.-
Russia must give up CourIand and
all the Baltic provinces or the Ger
mans will resume military operations
and occupy Revai within Il week, the
German delegation at the Brcst-
Litovsk negotiations informed the
Russian Representatives at the last
session of the cOnferecs. An adjourn
ment was taken until January 20, to
permit the Russians to consider the
German terms.
Reports of the session indicate that
the Germans took a definite stand
and most frankly outlined demands
upon which they are insistent The
secretary of the Ukrainian delegation
gave out an account of the meeting.
1t says the Russians put a question
to the delegates of the Central Pow
ers as to what were their final peace
terms. General Hoffman. one of the
German delegates replied by opening
map and pointing out the follow
ing line, which they Insisted should
constitute the future frontier of
Russia: From the shores of the Gulf
of Findland to the east of the Moon
Sound islands to Walk, to the west
of Minsk to Brest-Litovsk
Eliminate Baltic Possession
This completely eliminates Cour-
land and all the Baltic provinces.
The Russians asked the terms of
the Central Powers in regard to the
territory south of Brest-Litovsk.
General Hoffman replied that was a
question which they would discuss
only with Ukraine. NJ. Kameneff, a
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-24

member of the Russian delegation
asked:
'Supposing we do not agree to
such conditions. What are you going
to do?"
Will Occupy Revnl
General Hoffman's answer is re-
ported to have been: within u week.
then, we would occupy RevaI."
The Russians then asked for a re-
cess, which was granted reluctantly.
The Germans declared it was the
last postponement to which they
would consent. The request was made
by Leon Trotzky, head of the Rus
sian delega tion who said he desired
an opportunity to lay the German
peace terms before the Council of
Workmen's and Soldiers delegates.
The negotiations between the
Ukrainians and the Central Powers
are proceeding amicably. The Aus
trians offered to cede Cholmtchina
10 the Ukrainian republic, but only
on condition that the Ukrainians
send grain and other foodstuffs to
the Central Powers Immediately on
the conclusion of peace.
West Front Drive Near
On the western front in France and
Belgium, and in italian front, where
the cortendlng armies of the chief
bclIIgei ents in tn world war have
displayed little activity for some time.
offc'P' reports announce a resump-
tior OF hostilities of unusual activ-
ity fer winter months. While the
operations mentioned In the state-
ments from the various army head-
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-24
Germans Evacuate
Mountain Territory
in Northern Italy

Italian Army Headquarters in
Northern Italy, Wednesday, Jan. 20.
The enemy has evacuated territory
on the northern mountain front be-
hind Monte Tomba, extending from
the Plave river westward. Their de-
fense lines have now been moved
back to Monte Spinoncta.
italian patrols making reconnais-
sances in the past few days found
that the enemy patrols and sentinels
had been withdrawn, and later dis
covered that the enemy had aban-
doned the entire region.
The retirement of the enemy is
important as showing that he has
given up his effort to force a passage
to the Venetian plans by way of
Monte Tomba and the west bank of
the Piave, at least for the present.
He is now constructing defensive
works in the rear.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-24
Here's Real Farm Eggs
and Country Butter For
Sale at Great Auction

At 5 o'clock tonight at the En-
crson- -Brantingham building Market
street, where the state farm products
show has been on all week, Governor
Brumbaugh will raise a plate of
prize apples and ask what he is offer
ed for it. And after that he will auc-
ton off other valuable and prize-win-
ming foodstuffs-for the benefit of
the Harrisburg Red Cross. This list
of edibles will include:
Real, hope-to-die. fresh eggs.
Honest, really. truly. country but
ter.
Regular whoppers of potatoes.
Prize-winning apples.
There are quantities of these fresh
foodstuffs for sale and inasmuch as
1t is infrequently that Harrisburg
householders get a chance to buy
fresh country eggs and countrymade
butter, indications are that the
crowd at the Red Cross auction will
be a recordbreaker.
Governor Brumbaugh will start
the aucuoneering. He will be follow
ed by Secretary William II. Ball.
Red Cross workers from this city
will vie with the Governor as auc-
tioneers.
Il think it is a splendid scheme. "
said Mrs. Lyman d. Gilbert this aft
ernoon. 1T will not only enable Har-
risburg people to purchase real
country produce. but it will mean
something for the local Red Cross
Chapter"
Market day is Saturday. but
market night is tonight. An
nouncement of the auction on THE
Hill' district to-day caused the
housewives of that section to get
their baskets ready. Red Cross
workers will be out in force.
Fresh eggs.
Real butter!
Prize apples.
What do l hear for this dozen
eggs -