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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-12
In the 'GOOd Old Days"

ence established, a tangible sub
stance in our midst. A wonderful
influx came into the family CONVEX
sation, enough to last a week, ut
least
OF course, there were some side
issues. People had dinners and
parties occasionally and equally, of
course, young folks gallivanted. They
always did and they always will.
They had a dance once or twice a
year They went buggy riding and
horseback riding. There were also
scandals. Occasionally couple in
high life got tangled up in the
meshes of sex attraction and the
devil was to pay.
But for the most part the men
of the community ruled their house
holds pretty well. They saw to It
that their eve lambs did not stray
out of the fold. Herein lies the
secret of domestic felicity. The
man must be big enough for his
job.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-12
LIKE A FAIRY STORY

-HE annual report of the Bell
Telephone Company is anything
- but a dry corporate document.
Indeed, it reads more like a chapter
from Jules Verne than the care
fully phrased statistical records of
a conservative business organization.
There is, for example. the record of
the growth of the phone as a means
of long distance communication. Ten
years ago, telephone transmission
was limited to about 1900 miles of
pen wires. This area has been so
realty extended, that it is now
Practicable to give telephone service
etween the extreme limits of con-
mental United States, over distances
Df 1000 miles or more. Important
results have been obtained through
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-12

the development of underground
and aerial toll cables. Recent i'm
provements show that telephone
cables of 1000 miles are now prac-
tical. The company has successfully
transmitted messages by radio COM
munication across the Atlantic ocean
from Washington to Paris and from
Washington across the North Amer
lean continent and over the Pacific
ocean as far as Hawaii. 1t has es-
tablished telephone communication
with a battleship at sea, when the
land lines of the Bell system were
used in combination with the radio
telephone service which bridged the
space between seaboard and steam
ship.
The company's engineers have
been confronted by difficult prob
lens, growing out of disturbance
produced iby the electrification of
the trunk line railroads and power
and lighting circuits in various parts
of the country. The toll line plants
of the Bell system now represent an
investment exceeding 100000, 900.
The engineers have plans under way
for an increased development fifteen
years hence of about 100000 sta
tions, representing an additional
plant investment of about $780,
000, 900.
OF all our marvels of modern ac-
complishment none surpasses that
of the telephone, developed from
nothing to an instrument essential
to everyday life and contributing
greatly to the well-being and prog
ress of the world, all within less than
is just in its infancy.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-12
TAKE THEM OVER

~ HE Senate having tacitly ac-
cepted the amendment to the
general deficiency bill providing
for requirement by the government
of the German-owned docks and
@Nharves in New York, it is to be
hoped that there will be no further
objection to the measure. - Presi-
dent Wilson is right in deciding to
take over these vast and important
holdings; both because the nation
needs them in the war crisis and
because their German owners should
be punished for their dastardly con-
duct previous to and following
the beginning of hostilities with
Germany.
While they were enjoying hos
pitality of a land that was pro-
tecting their ships and other hold
ings here from watchful and de-
termined foe, whose cruisers hung
constantly in the offing, and while
the members of the crews and the
officials of the shipping companies
themselves were being treated most
courteously, one and all connected
with steamers, offices and docks
were burning our property, bombing
our steamers and in general treat
ing us like sworn enemies, instead
of the friends we were trying to be
be.
But the shoe is on the other foot
now. We have the wharves and the
steamers and they should never be
-returned to German ownership.
More than that there is opportun-
ity to eliminate German control of
many industries now in the hands of
Mitchell Palmer, administrator of
alien-owned property in the United
States. Wherever possible German
Investments here should be sold to
American interests. We had quite
enough of German intrigue before
the war; we want nothing further
to do with these same Shiny handed
scoundrels after the war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-12

into the German positions. for as
much as twenty miles back of the
front line positions. unlimited guam
titles of the most poisonous gas
known to man.
So he wants to quit while the
quitting is good. But he will hnd
the Americans determined to end
international frightfulness by the
only methods Germans understand.
He must be taught that what Is
sauce for the goose is sauce for
the gander.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-12
Declaration of Magndninlity

When in the course of martial
events, 1t becomes necessary for the
administration to issue another Lib
erty Loan, and to solicit from Ameri-
cans that quantum of financial aid
which the love of country and 11u-
manity may prompt them to offer,
a decent appreciation of the greater
sacrifices that others are making re-
quires that everybody respond with
out hesitation, stint, complaint or
exaggerated idea of his or her no.
bility in so doing.-From Life.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-12
THOSE FLOUR CARDS

RS. HOUSEHOLDER, this is
M for you.
You must report to the To-
cal food administrator the amount
of -four you have on hand-and
your report must be mailed not later
than tomorrow evening.
There is a heavy fine for failure
to comply.
This is not a request. 1t is a gov
ernment demand, backed up by law.
II you don't obey you will get
into trouble and will have to file your
report at all events.
Don't be a flour Stacker. Fill out
the flour card published elsewhere
in the Telegraph to-day and send it
TO Donald Mccormick, Federal food
administrator for Dauphin county,
Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce,
Harrisburg-andd do it at once.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-12
Soldier Sonq4
A PERFECT DAY
BY BRIGGS

A PERFECT DAY
When you come to the end of a per-
feet day,
And you sit alone with your
thoughts,
While the chimes ring out with a
carol gay,
For the joy that the day has
brought,
Do you think what the end of a
perfect day
Can mean to a tired heart,
When the sun goes down with 9
flaming ray
And the dear friends have to part ?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-12
Wdshington'S Able Men

Senator Walsworth says that never
before were there so many able
men in Washington" as to-day He
might have added that more of them
are working for dollar year than.
for $7,500.-Syracus Post
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-12

The American woman who wrote
Keep the Home Fires Burning" was
killed by German bomb, but the
Potsdam Gang can't kill her song,
(which one of these days the English
=and Americans will sing in the streets
of Berlin.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-12
TUESDAY, MARCH IL. 1918

A Christians usefulness depends
solely upon his relationship to
Christ and the accuracy toith 1ohich
he reflects the divine likeness
HENRY DRUMMoND.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-12
THE INCOME TAX
THE DOCTORS HOUSE

When physician. other professional business
rents portion of for professional
poses he a portion of the
provided maintains other office
which chargeable
be claimed deduction.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-12
HTSTORTO HARRIsRURC

In Civil War days young men
practised rifle shooting along the
river near the mountains and there
were numerous rifle clubs.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-12
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg's record for
enlistments is one of the best
in the land this year as well as
last year.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-12

Germany is going to find her free
route" to India will cost a lot before
the gates are closed again.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-12
LABOR NOTES

Pittsburgh (Pa.) Upholsterers'
Union is conducting an organizing
campaign among upholsters. carpet
layers, sewers and women employed
in shops and stores.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-12
GETTING OFF EASY.

Bill (eloquently)-This war makes
me sick!
Jim-Don't forget 1t has even
killed lot Of people
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-12

Save wheat; no matter what the
other fellow does, you do your part.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-12

Union is conducting an organizing
campaign among upholsters. carpet
layers, sewers and women employed
in shops and stores.
Complete control of the fishing
and fish canning industries on the
Pacific coast has been invested by
the Federal Food Administrator in
the State administrators of Wash
ington, Oregon, California and
Alaska.
Danbury (Conn.) hat manufac-
turers have refused the request of
citizens to save the town from fin
ancial ruin by opening their factories
under old conditions. The employ
ers locked out their workers last
May, when the latter asked that
contract be renewed.
A nationwide weighing and mea-
suring Of babies and children of pre-
school age will begin April 6 to be
followed by an educational campaign
which it is hoped will diminish at
least one third the annual total of
100000 preventable deaths of chill
dren under years.
Andrew McAndrews, president of
the Tobacco Workers International
Union, says several union factories
are packing soldiers kits of union
tobacco which will be forwarded by
the Tobacco Workers Union to any
cantonment camp or individual at
the request of local union or other
donor. Address queries to the offices
of the Tobacco Workers Interna-
tional Union, Iroquois Life Building,
Louisville XIV.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-12

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO,
telegraph Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-12

The British have occupied Hit,
which the English general staff pro-
nounces a good stroke.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-12

Member of the Associated Press-The
Associated Press is exclusively en-
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: 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, 1918-03-12

Even Berks county has taken to
liquor licenses.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-12

Q. ]. .STACKPoLE,P Prsst s. Editor-in- Chief
+. r. OYSTER, Business MdndEsr.
GUS NJ. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-12

The meetings of the Superior
Court here are always occasions for
great gathering of attorneys from the
central counties, probably more than
in the case of the sittings of the
Supreme Court. One reason is that
the Superior Court has larger calen-
dars. The sitting this week brought
fifty lawyers together, among them
attorneys active in the courts of nine
counties. The court will not sit here
again until next March. The Supreme
Court will have its sitting in May.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-12

The Scranton Republican says
that both Sproul and O'Nei1 are
strong in Lackawanna and just how
the county will line UP "is a much
discussed question"
Congressman Thomas S. Butler,
of the Delaware Chester district,
says the sentiment of the country
is for the dry" amendment
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-19
OTHER CoNoUEsTs

The armies from "over there have begun returning and in
time the millions OF young men who won the war will find on
their return other conquests awaiting them, Their labors are
by no means ended. They will take up homcsteads and omen
up farms, and in this way continue to assist mankind. Thev
rebuilding the ruined towns and hamlets of Belgium and France,
The new farms will surpass in productveness any farms in the
world. The extent of the Mississippi is dazzling. Egypt has a
gilt from the Nile, a worn out desert irrigated by the famous
river, but this valley that feeds so many people is only 1000
square miles in extent, while the Mississippi river Delta, between
Cairo and the gulf, is 29,S0 square miles in extent, and no irri-
CATION is necessary--no extensive dams for impounding the
waters need be built, there being an annual rainfall of from SO
to 81 inches, a free gift of nature that costs nothing. The work
OF these strong and robust soldiers added to the plantation
production will require many elevators and other buildings to
house the wheat, the corn, the cotton and other products. These
buildings will store the food and clothing for millions of people
at home and beyond the seas, and in cubic contents will out
measure in volume Egypts pyramids and all the antiquities of
the Nile. Millions of happy homes, where peace and plenty
reign, will mean thousands of miles Of good roads, over which
automobiles will skim. The river freights and the railroad
freights. will present new problems in transportation on a larger
scale than ever before, and these products will demand a mer-
chant marine on all the seven seas to carry cargoeS Of food and
clothing to the WORKOUT areas OF the Old World in Europe and
Asia, where every ounce that we can spare them is needed from
one harvest to another.
The magnificent force which we sent overseas to fight for
liberty ~ ~ drift into idleness on its return. It has other
been ST. badly wounded and wartorn of late years. The pros
spect is really romantic, but the coming years win realize it
The work is to be done and our gallant soldiers will do it,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-19
NEW FIELDS

The Waldorf hotel in New York is a very comfortable estab-
lshnent. AT least that is the impression it gives one from the
outside. Service is the watchword with those large institu-
tions, and they seem to care nothing for the expense, and some
OF the smaller ones are s~trikingly like them, since the expense
is borne by the patrons,
A few months ago the hotel walters in New York struck.
They wanted more pay and bigger tips, and, in fact, about
double the attention from the management that the patron was
expected to receive from the walters.
The hotel people remained firm, with the result that the men
waters were replaced with women. The innovation has proved
a huge success, The manager of the Waldorf said a few days
ago that two nights before he tried the women walters out at
the first big dinner after they supplanted the men he was not
able to sleep because of anxiety over the outcome.
But the women went through fine, They not only proved
their capacity as mattresses, but they seemed to enjoy the pro-
gram, and took a lively interest in everything that took place
during the dinner.
mo matter what may be the condition of the labor mar.
ket in the future" he said, women will serve the banouets in
the Waldorf, and will be a part Of the dining room service.
Within sixty days there will not be a big banquet in the city
served by other than women. Within a year women will be
serving the big banquets of the entire country"
Thus we have another demonstration of a case wherein the
men o~verreached themselves. AT a time when war work was
pressing and labor was scarce the walters undertook to raise
their pay out Of proportion to the value Of the work they did,
with the result that they lost their Jobs, and the women who
succeeded them are doing the job better than it was ever done
before.
This incident is not typical, for the reason that there are a
limited number OF Jobs that women are prepared to take over
and execute with the skill Of the men, but from it we may learn
that women are finding their way into fields of activity
undreamed Of, and that the mere and hereafter inconsequential
fact of being a man is no guarantee that he can do the Job
better than a woman.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-19
Mrs. Wilson WOOdrOW'S Article
BY MRS. WILSON WOODROW,
The world famous writer on vital subjects.

with you, and that you have only to
cultivate q glad, Pollyanna spirit to
see all your seeming ills disappear,
Far from it.. would never call weak
nerves and the dragging depression
which accompanies them IN imaginary
ailment. It Is every bit as uncomforta-
Bile and real to the sufferer as tooth
ache or appendicitis. Indeed, the doc
tors are now assuring US that ITEM
permanent itself Is a definite disease,
Now, If you "a see the slightest bene-
ut or advantage from you physical cul-
ture course, would l advise you to stop
It, | merely say, these things you
ought to do and not leave the others
unuone,
Most cripples are optimlsts. Why2
Because they instinctively try to show
the world that the loss Of q hand or q
foot or an arm does not make them
different from other people, They
refuse TO pity themselves or allow 9TH
ers to pity them. And they become so
occupied In this game of camouflage
that they forget about their disabilities,
Busy people are always cheerful peo-
pie,
Contrariwise, the victims OF item.
permanent" constantly strive to APP
pear different" They are always
looking within to detect new shades Of
variance, and become self-centered,
mopish, discouraged.
SNh ~ AAhNA " SAhRANS "a p0A VI
my dear. You Jay you have not much
Of a home, Then make It one. Brighten
up you own corner. The tasks OF the
housewife energetically followed form as
good a system OF physical culture exer-
clses as was ever invented, Perfect
yourself In them. AS your ambition be-
comes aroused and you begin to see
results you will begin TO take q Joy In
this work. Moreover you will be train
ing yourself for the day when you are
Mt the head Of a home of your own.
Don't give up your exercises either,
Fifteen minutes a day put In regularly
at that will help both your physical and
mentRl morale, Eat carefully, but don't
think too much about II. Take plenty
OF time to sleep. 1t Is physical "cul.
ture" you are after, not physical tor
ture."
The best rule perhaps is to follow
the lines OF the Y. NJ. c. A, triangle,
Work always to your best advantage on
the three sides of your nature-physi-
cal, mental and s~piritual-each to an
equal degree,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-19

make cheap home-produced feeds that
make rapid growth on young animals
and cheap gains and good finish on
fattening animals.
.Hogs-The adaptability of this ter
ritory for hog raising is shown by one
100 voters, had In 1918 2,700 men
Of a pig club, and during the year
keted fat hogs that brought over
200. Last March in one of the
profitable cotton growing section
all the South, rs miles south of \
phls, in a cash sale at auction o.
pure.bred hogs, the average per h
was $42O. The shipment of hogs ou'
Mississippi in 1917 was 100 per c
more than In 1914.
Beef Cattle-One live stock comm
sion firm In 1917 sold for Mississt'
farmers 10000 beef cattle. The
crease in beef cattle shipped out Q,
Mississippi in 1917 was 40 per cent
A ~stockman, 10 miles from Memphis.
sold a car Of fat Hereford calves for
Sl5.25 per. hundred. They brought an
average of SILT per head. A stockman
45 miles from Memphis sold four cars
OF 10 to 26-months-old grade Aberdeen
Angus fat steers for an average OF
$i95.79 per head, Both these lots were
mississippi raised cattle, were fattened
S pfSNuSNu lGGOSp anu bOlu III
the spring of 1918.
Dairying-7A herd Of 20 dairy cows
kept rs miles from Memphis, averaged
a gross return of $104 a year per COW
for four years before the war, when
prices for dairy products were nor
mai. In Memphis 81 per cent w.
brought wholesale to the prodL
June, 1918, $3.50 per 100 pounds
N December, 1918, $4.56. One m g
1918 brought from Wisconsin and
Northern dairy states, 600 head ,
lected dairy cows into the te
east Of Memphis, and many 9th,
brought smaller shipments. The,
q specially good opportunity near nj
TO raise good dairy cows.
Poultry-A former woman schc
teacher, on a farm IA miles from Men,
PMS, Kept a flock Of 500 laying hen
ana Tor several years before the wal
When prices were low, cleared an ay
erage of $1,000 a year.
FRANK HAYDEN,
Chairman Committee on Farms foa
Tenn
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-19

She Is 10, and sometimes she gets so
discouraged and unhappy that she
would just like to run away and live
on q desert island all by herself,
"When | compare myself with other
girls she writes, Il seem to exist, not
to live. In what way7 In every way"
Then she goes on to sketch herself
In broad strokes Of drab. II am moth
erless, and my father, brother and my
self keep house together. 1t is not
much OF a homo, am not employed
at present, and when ] was did not
have a very good position, In fact,
spent most of my time knocking about
from one position to another.
The trouble was, that | was never
in good health, and | still am q sufferer
from weak nerves n n general run
down condition, although few people
am by no means OF the pale, emaciated
type, On the contrary, most persons
consider me attractive.
About y year ago, | decided to take
up a course In physical culture In the
hope that It would benefit me. was
30 desperate at that time that l was
ready to try almost anything: and ]
thought If / could only achieve good
health II would not be so difficult for
me to carr my own living and to beaT
my other troubles,
Tho course required a lot Of patience,
determination and effort. cannot
deny that II did me some good, but II,
as began TO feel better, | stopped fol-
lowing instructions, immediately
slipped back again. ! had hoped for
some definite and permanent improve
ment within a year; but the time has
almost elapsed now, and the benefit
| have obtained In not nearly so much
as l expected. And | get so tired Of II
mt times, having to give up so much
early TO bed, and continually having
to think what ] must eat and what
must do. Would you advise me to keep
on at 1t, or Ia It a mere waste OF
timer
Perhaps you will think this illness
Of mine all imaginary, | am inclined
to believe so myself sometimes, Yet
when ! relax In my dieting and regimen
people are very apt to notice it'and tel
me that | am not looking well.
Constant worry n not enough fur
causes part Of my III health, | am sure
Yet even as a child l was not very
healthy, II | wanted to, l could I'll
pages describing my peculiar tempera-
ment, but | think l have told you
enough.
II am discouraged, and I worry, be.
cause | want to BIO Of more use in the
world, and to enjoy life and be happy
This is the reason that | want TO be
healthy. HEARTSlCk.'
up, s,~~A doctor could not help me
a. would not know what to tel
My dear girl, ! am not sure that a
doctor would not help yous-if he wal
the right kind Of q doctor, And ] an
not sure that Il clergyman would not
help you-if he vas the right kind Of d
clergyman, Or a Christian Science OF
mental practitioner, Or a good shak'
ing Or IA swaathaart ALWAYS nre,