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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-01

H ONT believe the German lie that
the United States government
is going to confscate your pre-
serves and canned goods.
If there is one thing Mr. Hoover
wants you to do it is to preserve and
can your own foodstuffs.
He is so much interested that he
is sending canning experts all over
the country to teach the people how
to put up their own vegetables
and fruits.
But that is just what the Kaiser
doesn't want you to do. The Kaiser
wants you to be caught with an
empty preserve closet next winter.
He wants you to be hungry, for then
he knows America can't send food to
the allies. Therefore, he lies and
tries to discourage you from canning
by telling you the government means
to confiscate the home supply.
Don't believe word of it.
Can, preserve, dry, salt, pickle
put up all the fruit you can and all
the vegetables you can in every way
you can. Uncle Sam won't take
them from you. He'll be mighty
glad you have learned to produce
at least a part of your own winter
provisions.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-01

tendent and attempts to handle the
duties himself. Since this form of
operation has been in effect the
water rates have been reduced twice,
it is said for political effect, and
maintenance and improvement of
the plant have suffered.
THE water department has felt
safe for years. because there was an
auxiliary pump of a capacity of
about the normal water consump-
ton, and as long as there was no
need to use it. this unit seemed u
reliable resource in case of need.
But when the time came to use it
the consumption increased beyond
normal and the capacity of this re-
serve unit was too small, while the
storage in the distributing reservoir,
only 21a days supply, was also in
adequate to tide over a long-con-
tinued period of excessive demand.
"A Observation-Disclosures plant was
installed in 1905 and has a capacity
nearly 100 per cent in excess of
present normal consumption. The
low-lift pumping equipment. which
| lifts the Susquehanna River water
to the filters, consists of two pump
ing units, each of twice the daily
normal consumption. Thus, al
though it was possible to filter water
in excess of maximum requirements,
the high-lift pumps, which lift the
filtered water to the distributing
reservoir, could not take the filtered
water away from the filters as fast
! as required.
Under the old regime, politics
! interfered considerably less in the
operation of the water department
than under the new order of things,
where the man at the head of the
| department is a member of the
| board of five city commissioners and
is elected by the people. To the
mind of the average city commits
sioner nothing could apparently do
more to insure his reelection than
u reduction in the water rates. This
could not be accomplished if new
pumps had to be installed out of
revenues or if the reservoir was en-
larged.
Now that the need has been
shown for large expenditures for
improvements, the city commission
proposes an immediate raise in
rates. This was to be done in a hap
hazard, arbitrary way. without ref
erence to the value of property, or
to the cost of operation or mainten-
ance, but the city officials have been
convinced of the necessity for set
ting the rates in a scientific manner.
The Harrisburg water department
is run as are many other municipal
plants, by paying for many improve
ments and all extensions out of rev.
enue. Water is furnished to other
city departments free and to many
churches and hospitals.
The crisis in the water-supply of
Harrisburg, which had affected near
ly every citizen, city official and in
dustry, has brought home the neces-
Eity of having a trained man in
charge of the water-works who is
not affected by political considera-
tions and who can foresee the needs
of the plant and prepare for them
before the urgency arises"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-01
Soedicr SoMqA

THE MARSEILLAISE
Ye sons of France, awake to glory,
Hark, bark! what myriads bid you
rise!
Your children, wives and grandsires
heary:
Behold their tears, and hear their
cries,
Behold their tears, and hear their
cries!
Shall hateful tyrants, mischief
breeding,
With hireling hosts, a ruffian
band,
Alright and desolate the land,
While peace and liberty lie bleed
ing?
CHORUS.
To arms, to arms. We brave!
TIL avenging sword unsheathe!
March on, march on, all hearts re-
solved
On victory or death!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-01

has the endorsement of the Presi-
dent. The first of April is fast ap-
preaching and the measure should
be adopted without further delay.
AS war economy daylight saw
ing" has worked out successfully in
Europe. The countries that have
tried it are not thinking of rejecting
it. 1t saves coal otherwise used in
the making of electric light and gas.
1t saves oil and candles. Also, 1t
lengthens the day so that those who
want outdoor recreation or time for
gardening without interfering with
their ordinary daily occupations may
have sufficient daylight for the pur-
pose. And these advantages we may
have by the simple eXpedient of
turning the clock ahead an hour
during the Spring, summer and early
Fall. Let the House act.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-01
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

DR.. j. p. Kerr, Pittsburgh coun-
Gilman, is in Washington arranging
to enter government service.
DR.. Newell Dwight Hills, who
spoke here some time ago. is to be
speaker at patriotic meetings in
Western Pennsylvania.
General A. ]. Logan, who re-
turned recently from Camp Han.
cock, was the speaker at the West
ern Historical Society meeting in
Pittsburgh on the soldiers in camp.
Edwin II. Slime, Allentown
banker, has resigned to devote his
time to his legal business.
DIR. w. L. Estes, South Bethle-
hem hospital man, has been COM
missioned in the United States Army.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-01

w @N on the @''ors woria Cnel@'g@ her foreign &al
trade in dyes and gas tar
products made in Germany labora-
tories amounted annually to s4S7,-
100000, and she had in addition al
most an entire monopoly on certain
explosive gases, Photographic sup
plies, drugs and sources of power
derived from splitting up petroleum
com binations.
For a time the outside world tried
to get along without these supplies
and failing began to search for sub
stitutes, until to-day America is not
only making all the dyes she needs
but is shipping large quantities of
them abroad, and they are just
about as good as anything that ever
came out of Germany. Another
year and we shall have mastered all
the fine points of the trade and. with
tariff protection. after the war should
be able to get along without the old
time imports from Germany.
And now comes London with the
announcement that two English dye
merchants have purchased from a
Swiss chemist, Germany's secret
recipes for making dyes and have
turned them over to the government
for the use of all English manufac-
turers.
When the war ends the German
dyemakers will find their business
well nigh ruined.
Four hundred and eight-seven
million dollars a year will be one of
the penalties they will have to pay
for having indulged in the madness
of contending against the rest of the
earth for the dominion of the world.
\ frightful price for "frightfulness."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-01
MY KNITTING BAG
Tune: My Maryland.

Tune: My Maryland.
The Nations veal is in thy store,
Knitting Bag, my Knitting Bag!
We hear the tale sound Ger and DER,
Knitting Bag, my Knitting Bag!
Pour fourth they contents on the
floor,
That have been bought from store
to store,
And play the real true reservoir.
Knitting Bag, my Knitting Bag!
Here are the things for a full meal,
Knitting Bag, my Knitting Bag!
My faithful friend, to thee L kneel,
Knitting Bag. my Knitting Bag!
Three pounds of cheese and two of
veal,
Four loaves of bread of wartime
steel,
Six pounds OF rye and six of meal,
Knitting Bag. my Knitting Bag!
The autos load it is thy trust,
Knitting Bag, my Knitting Bag!
From spool of thread to marble bust,
Knitting Bag, my Knitting Bag!
Each pack you take, at Bills
thrust,
Well fill you up until you burst.
To win the war you really must.
Knitting Bag. my Knitting Bag!
BY James Gordon.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-01
OUR WATER SUPPLY

TINE editor of the well-known
Engineering News de-
voted to engineering interests
and problems, does not think much
of the method of operating the Har-
risburg Water Department in effect
the past few years, and even less of
the Commission form of government
that has well nigh wrecked its eff
cheney. In an editorial in recent
issue he says:
The recent industrial shut
down at Harrisburg, Pa, due to
a water famine caused by the
breakdown of an antiquated
pump, described on p. 3l6 of this
issue, forcibly illustrates great
weakness of the commission plan
of city government. Under that
plan, with it's combination OF leg
islative and executive functions
in commission of five members,
the chief administrative heads of
the city are elected by popular
vote. BY virtue of office thus
obtained the commissioners soon
qualify in their own and the
popular mind as experts, and
either force experienced subor-
dinates into the background or
entirely. The latter seems to
have occurred at Harrisburg.
Such happenings are besetting
danger even if not a probable
concomitant of commission gov
ernment. They are avoided in
the commissioner manager plan, the
logical development of the com
mission plan. which has been
adopted by hundred of the com
mission-plan cities and might
by the four hundred others
which now choose their five
managers by popular vote.
The criticism to which the writer
refers is publised in full elsewhere
on this page. The conclusions of
the News-Record are precisely
those of the Telegraph, set forth in
these columns on many occasions,
both as to the limitations of the
present form of government under
which Harrisburg operates and as to
the folly of trying to run a branch
of the government as highly special
lied as the water department with
out a trained and experienced mar
at the helm.
Fortunately, we are now on the
way toward expert direction under
the guiding hand of DR.. Samuel F.
Hassler. the new commissioner, who
realizes that the best service he can
render the city during his admins
tration is the employment of well
qualified engineer to have charge of
the operations of the whole depart
ment.
But we are not so fortunate with
respect to city managership. There
is as yet no indication that the
thought of the people is turning SER
iously in that direction. There is
only one way in which it can be
brought about, unless the legislature
amends the poor old Clark act next
session. and that is to put up at the
polls four candidates for commits
sioner who will pool their salaries
for the employment of a city man.
ager, content themselves to take
merely nominal pay for several
hours of supervisory work each
week.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-01
SLlrDiDd[

Life is a struggle, but not war;
fare; it is a days labor, but labor
on Gods earth. under the sun and
stars with other laborers, where we
may think and sing and rejoice as
we work.-John Burroughs.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-01
Turkish "ConSerUatiue"

Commander Locker-Lampson, NJ.
P, who had charge of the British
armed car squadron in Russia, says
that in the fighting on the Mush
plain his orderly found a Turkish
/ risoner wearing a swallowtail coat,
on the buttons of which were the
words Conservative ub."-From
The London Times
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-01
DAYLIGHT-SAVING

EHE time for discussing the
merits of the daylight saw
ing" plan now before Congress
is past. The whole country is ac-
1quainted with its objects and nearly
everybody is in favor of the
DILL that already has passed the
Senate, is now before the House and
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-01
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
CONSISTENCY
Editor of the TELEGRAPH

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Every woman will read with pleas
ure the editorial, How Long" Only
a few days ago a friend said to me,
Conserve! Yes, when the beerwagons
cease passing my house daily, piled
mountain high, then will l con-
serve" Consistency thou art a
jewel" c. S. NJ.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-01

The pacifists fear we'll learn to
'hate the Germans" They may cheer
up. We don't hate mad dog, but we
know perfectly well what means to
take with one to render him harm
less.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-01
LABOR NOTES

In Great Britain a new provision
Of the national insurance act re-
quires that every man who joins
the army or navy be insured and his
premiums deducted from his pay.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-01
Lead Me, O Lord

Lead me, o Lord, in thy right
eousness because of mine enemies;
make thy way straight before my
face.-Psalms V, s.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-01

Hamilton, Canada, Trades and
Labor Council has proposed that the
government should nationalize the
railways and coal mines.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-01

Every time you buy Thrift Stamp
you fire five shots at the Germans.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-01
NERO A "PIKER"

NERO fiddled while Rome burned.
~ Trotsky and Lenine fritter
away their time in futile chat
ter while the Kaiser overruns Rus
sia.
Nero was a "piker" compared
with this pair of empire wreckers.
And yet, even with this example
before us. there are those in America
who believe we might make peace
with Germany before Germany is
conquered.
When Russia laid down her arms,
Germany marched in. Should
America and her Allies lay down
their arms now, what do you sup
pose would follow?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-01

Suggestion for street sign in Har-
to ashes; dust to
dust"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-01

From few confidential bits of in
formation in our possession, we ven
ture a guess that the Hun is going to
live to wonder why on earth he ever
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-01
DO YOU KNOW
That Harrisburg is manufac-
turing Ieggins for soldiers?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG

This places first three churches
were located within four blocks of
each other.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-01

One million workers have register
ed with the United States Public
Service Reserve. They are willing to
undertake any work that may be
required of them.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-01
OUR DAILY LAUGH
LEFT HER IN
DARK AS TO
WHERE.

L dropped in
on the young
bride last night
and found her
in tears.
Oh, dear. And
/ thought she
had such a good
match.
The trouble
was the match
went out.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-01

1t begins to look as though there
may be a bit of pork at Hog Island.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-01

Ell. J.STACKPOLE,P Press s. EditoT-iH-Chisf
+. r. OYSTER, Business Manager.
GUS NJ. STEINMETZ, ManGgirg Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-01

AS the temperature goes up our in
terest in the coal shortage goes down.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-01

One way of wasting food is by eat
ing more than you need.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-01

THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.,
telegraph Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-01

Parsley is commencing to be
found under the snow and ice. The
other day in a sheltered spot a wo-
man who has a kitchen garden that
is productive of many odds and ends
discovered some parsley in good
condition under snow. One of the
early SHOWS had covered it and the
leaves were tender and green and
when washed was good as ever for
kitchen use.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-01

The late Archbishop Prendergast
was one of the men keenly interested
in the building of the Cathedral i'm
this city, work which was under
taken soon after his friend, the late
Bishop Shanahan, came here from
Philadelphia. The archbishop was a
great administrator and builder and
very desirous of having Harrisburg,
the seat of a diocese, adorned with
a handsome church. He visited the
cathedral and greatly admired it.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-01

In view of the urgency of the
housing problem at the close Of. the
war, the British government con-
suspending the city by
laws so that heap houses may be
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-01

An early abolition of the remain
ing private labor contracts at the
New Jersey state prison and the in
of such state use industries
as have been recommended to take
their place, is advocated in the an
nual report of the prison labor COM
mission.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-01

brought hundreds to the parks of
the city. River park has many
visitors, and in Capitol park there
are scores of citizens, enjoying the
springtime atmosphere. The rain
several days ago helped materially
to remove the snowbanks and the
city presents a springtime aspect to
the tourist and sightseer, as well
as to the tired Harrisburger, who
seeks refuge among the trees. Squir-
rels and pigeons in Capitol park are
running about gaily, evidently con-
fident that spring is here, or on the
way, at least.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-01

An investigation is being made by
the Federation of Swiss federal Of
fcials, employees and worllmen into
the appliation of the federal law re-
lating to the hours of labor in the
operation of railroads and other
Transportation establishments.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-01
PoeittcA ;~
Pe~~oqGo~io
By the Ex-Committceman

The Philadelphia North American
to-day says that Republican leaders
from upstate gathered in Phila-
delphia yesterday say the dry"
sentiment is growing rapidly and
spreading. Says that newspaper,
referring to conferences yesterday
with Senator Penrose: Assuming
that Senator Sproul, candidate for
the Republican nomination for gov
ernor, favors the amendment, the
leaders who gathered at the Belle
-Stratford to talk over the situa-
ton seemed to think that the or
ganization will come out for the
amendment irrespective of previous
alignments."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-01
ANOTHER GERMAN LIE

IN ONT believe the German lie that
the United States government
is going to confscate your pre-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-01
FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1918
There t1iH be sleeping enough in
the grdUe.-FRANKLIN.
A FRIGHTFUL PRICE

MAYHEM Germany declared war
Wv on the world her foreign
trade in dves and GAS far
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-12-23

way No were provided for their uansporta-
ton nourishment. The victims including the
most refined and respected men and women, had to
walk on foot, exposed to the attacks of bands OF
criminals specially organized for that purpose
Homes were literally uprooted; families were cap
tured; men killed. women and girls violated daily on
the way or taken to harems. Children were thrown
into the rivers or strangers by their mothers
to save them from starvation. The facts contained in
the reports received at the American embassy in
Constantinople absolutely trustworthy eye-wit
nesses surpass the most beasty and diaboIical
crueties ever before perpetrated imagined in the
history of the world"
The appeal of Ambassador Morganthau to his
friends in America resulted in the establishment Of
the first relief work among the Armenans by Ameri
that small group of personal friends has
developed the American committee for Armenian and
Syrian relief 1t has been assigned the entire
near east territory by the Red Cross under the name
committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief It will
conduct from Jan IL to 10 a nationwide campaign
to raise $4,000 900 the relief and rehabilitation Of
the starving and destitute people.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-12-23
l EgE Isl AZ ly,ElSTT EI TIL ks
BY WILLIAM BRADY nd.

purity for entrance into the air
cells of the lungs.
To one deluded by the popular
fancy that warm air or still air can
be fresh air, the spongy bodies are
likely to become a source of much
trouble. The ruinous habit of try
ing to keep good and warm by aru-
fetal means (overheating apart
ments, wearing excessive clothing)
is sure to impair the efficiency of
the apparatus in time, and a low
grade chronic inflammation devel-
ops Observation-Disclosures by such
tr1fiing symptoms as hawking and
splitting, stiffness of the nose off
and on, and undue sensitiveness to
sudden changes of temperature,
humidity, wetting of the clothing,
cold feet, and all that. In short,
the victim of chronic simple rhini-
It's is the ringleader in the conspir-
acy against hygiene; he is the viii
lain who perpetuates the supersti-
ton that exposure" to natural
conditions like bad weather or rain
or wind or draft causes colds" He
is sincere enough in his belief, be-
cause of course he stuffs up and
sneezes and imagines he has really
caught something whenever he hap
pens to be subjected to such condi-
tons. But he makes a great mis-
take when he assumes, just because
there is something the matter with
his particular gills, that the sea is
a dangerous place for all other fish
to live in.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-12-23
Through the Rnck Door

Doctors are always observing life
through the back door. They know
life, therefore, more intimately
than gentlemen Of the cloth do. For
when the pastor calls, the head of
the house grabs her cleanest apron
and pats her hair in place and
dusts the bible before she lets him
in, whereas when the doctor calls
no one feels like preparing the
house at all.
Probably more than half Of a gen
eral practitioners work leads him
TO the back door OF the nose. Alas,
too often he hesitates and turns
away from the door; he is not pre-
pared TO open it and see what IS
within. He takes It for granted;
that means guesswork.
Assume you have a we'll trained
family doctor. He puts on his head
mirror and reflects q light into the
nasal cavity from the front door
II he doesn't approve OF all he sees
there he slips around to the-back
door. and you begin to worry, of
course. He can't look directly In
has to content himself with q glance
around corner, a mere image OF
it in little throat mirror, In the
brief instant You permit him to
hold the mirror I'D t6>your nasal
back door he sees 2 fieshy bunch
projecting from either side, the rear
end Of the lower turbinate or
spongy bOdy-that IS, he sees it if
some aggressive rhinoiogist hasn't
seen it first.
This turbinate body is one of
three pairs constituting the COM
bination steam radiator, humidor
and screening equipment of the air
inlet, This equipment is a great
blessing TO any one not Obsessed
by the fresh air phobia. for il keeps
the inspired air precisely at the
right temperature, moisture and