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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-29

with such a clear Interpretation
of the fundamentals of Christian de-
mocracy and with such strong eX-
pressions of faith in it's ultimate
triumph as President Wilson is CIV
ing to the world, we believe, that
the war is going to be successfully
waged by America and her allies,
and we can approach the future
with renewed hope that right and
justice will inevitably prevail. This
triumph of democracy cannot but
mean for the negro an equal share
with other citizens in the blessings
and privileges that it offers, but the
negro will only share in proportion
to the measure of his merit. The
thing then about which we should
be most concerned, is that we shall
be prepared to use in its best and
most useful sense, the privileges
which democracy will offer. This
will mean for you and for me, more
conscience, more regularity, more
system, more reliability, more in
telligence in the work which we
have to perform. 1t will mean
greater economy; it will mean buy
ing of more land and more intelli-
gent cultivation of that land; more
diversification of crops; more atten-
ton to the soil and to the raising
OF better SfaQe OF livestock anu
more attention to the care of live
stock. 1t will mean better homes
with more attractive surroundings,
greater inducement for our boys to
remain on the farms, better schools,
better churches, better teachers,
and more earnest religious leader
ship. In other words, it means that
If the negro hopes to share. as un-
doubtedly he must in the blessings
of democracy, he must measure up
in these simple everyday activities.
The negro must exhibit the very
highest citizenship, including intelli-
gent, self-respecting, clean moral
manhood and womanhood."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-29
GERMAN SHOE OUTPUT

The Berlin Lokal-Anzeiger, Octo-
Der Is, writes:
The supervisory committee of the
shoe trade has made representations
to the authorities regarding the Sc
rious scarcity of leather and all kinds
of materials for the manufacture OF
shoes for civilians.
"The result of the proceedings is
that largeR quantities of substitute
materials, such as old ships sails,
tent awnings, and cuttings of cloth,
are to be used for shoe uppers. The
supply of thread is to be increased as
much as possible, but no greater
supply of upper and sole leather can
be applied to civilian needs.
"The supervisory committee has
been assured that no more workmen
shall be withdrawn from the fac
tories, and men of military age al
ready occupied in the factories, shall
be released from army service as long
as they are fit only for labor or gar
rison duty.
"As regards food, it is probable
that men doing heavy, work may be
allowed the same privileges as NUM-
ton workers. With respect to coal,
the committee has arranged that the
supply to factories doing extra work
shall not be curtailed."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-29
FOR HOUSEKEEPERS

OCAL Food Administrator Dom
aid Mccormick says that the
latest food regulations are addressed
primarily to housekeepers. for the
reason that restaurants and other
dealers in foods have been trying
to follow the recommendations of
the Federal authorities from the
beginning, while in many families
little or no attention has been paid
to food saving.
Housekeepers should understand
that they must conserve now vol
UNFAIRLY or later under compulsion.
We are going to send wheat to
France and England and Belgium in
sufficient quantities to prevent star
vation there, no matter what hap
pens at home, for here we have
other foods that can be pressed in
to service, but which cannot be
shipped abroad. So it behooves u:
to save wheat wherever possible.
The democracy of the United
States was never put to greater test
We are trying out now the spirit Of
the people. Will they volunteer tC
do what they know should be done
or must they be drafted? Will they
follow the wise regulations OF Mr.
Hoover or will Congress be com
PEELED to pass laws making them dc
so? On the answer hinges the ex
tent of our patriotism and our fit
ness for self-government.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-29
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Col. L. A. Watres has been re-
elected president of two banks and
trrst companies at Scranton.
e. e. Ludlow and other officers
of the Lehigh coal interests, are de-
voting evenings to making addresses
at patriotic meetings in the authra-
cite region.
III. M. Carson, fenera1 superin-
tendent of the Pennsylvania at Will
Transport and Dietrich Lamade, the
publisher, have been named on the
board to manage the Williamsport
Foundation.
"A. T. Dice, president of the
Reading, has been spending days in
the coal region in an effort to un-
tangle the coal traffic situation. He
first won his spurs in that section.
james c. Chaplain, Pittsburgh
banker, is chairman of the bankeaS
committee in charge of the boosting
of the Thrift Stamps in that city.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-29
OUR GOOD FORTUNE
INVOLVEMENT that the w

ENCOURAGEMENT that the War
n Department has planned
- great supply depot for the vi
4 cinity of Middletown, to be continued
aih active operation with some 5000
workmen even after the war, means
d very great deal for Harrisburg. 1t
a stroke of rare good fortune for
his city and vicinity, however much
We regret the tragedy OF war that
has brought it about.
A permanent addition of 5000
workmen to the population Of this
Immediate district means an actual
addition of some 10, 900 or $4,000, at
east, for a large number Of the
workmen who will be brought here
will bring with them their families,
no doubt. Local business will feel the
stimulus of additional cash in the
begin to assume proportions, and this
added prosperity will help out ma
Aterially at a time when businessmen
are looking for signs of brightness
on the horizon of the year.
BUT If the new enterprise brings
Nth 1t good fortune it also adds to
our responsibilities. The sudden COM
ing of thousands of people will add
tremendously to the already serious
housing problem of the community.
Greatest care should be taken to see
that it is properly solved. The time is
past when mushroom" growth is to
pc permitted. The hasty erection of
shacks for the accommodation Of
contract workers may be all right,
put permanent construction of a sub
Btantial and attractive character for
he permanent working forces and
their families must follow. Doubtless
many of these people will want to
reside in Harrisburg and no doubt
he need of houses will be keenly
lelt before the year is over.
The whole project, as outlined
from Washington, Is OF such vast
proportions that It is not easily
grasped and It's importance to the
eity will not be fully apparent until
he building program has developed
I'D the material effects begin TO
bake themselves felt. The city owes
omething to Hord 6 Co., whose rep
'essntatives first drew attention of
the United States government to the
State Fair site. Likewise, the choice
of this point for the big plant, after
a survey of the entire eastern part
of the country by army experts, is a
tribute to the desirability of Harris
burg as q shipping center and its
superiority in this respect.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-29
EFFECT OF WAR FEEDING

In the Soziale PraXis, DR.. Thiele,
municipal school physician in Chem
nitz, publishes some results of in
vestigations as to the health of Ger
man school children during the war.
A general increase in cases of illness
has not taken place; the well-known
infectious ailments do not appear
more frequently than before. Certain
skin diseases have increased. The in
fluence of war food is clearly to be
recognized. In grownup people a
curious new variety of disease has
appeared, the so-called oedema dis
ease, characterized by dropiscal
swellings of the skin in different
parts of the body without apparent
LESSONS in the heart or kidneys. These
swellings are directly attributable to
the present watery diet. There are,
moreover, complaints as to the in
crease of heart and kidney diseases,
of strangulated hernia and prolapsus,
these two last are connected with the
general decrease of fatty tissue. The
chief complaints made, however, re-
fer to the increased number of pull
monary tuberculosis cases and the
high mortality from this disease. The
general power of bodily resistance in
old people has greatly diminished; /;
in the case of children, tuberculosis,
the most serious children's disease,
has increased. Children under sus-
picion of tuberculosis are counted as
tuberculosis for statistical purposes.
In the opinion of experienced school
physicians the majority of the eX-
tremely pale, anaemic children be-
come the subjects of tuberculosis in
later life. The increase in the num-
Der of tuberculous children coin
cides with the beginning of the diff
cuIties, as to food. The extent to
which children's bodies are weak
ened in resisting power by made
ouate nourishment is well known.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-29
UP TO HARRISBURG

IN HE mid-winter display of Penn
sylvania farm products held
last week in the Emerson
Brantingham building as a feature
of the annual meeting of the State
Board of Agriculture and allied
bodies was a success. 1t assembled
THE largest number of specimens of
produce Of the farms of this State
ever known within Pennsylvania in
January and when the number and
variety is considered and the severe
weather taken into account it was
Furthermore, it brought
thousands of people to Harrisburg,
no less than 5000 being farmers
who were also interested in one or
another of the various meetings held
here during the week. In spite of
the fact that there were three-foot
snowbanks outside OF the exhibition
building there were, 500 apple ex-
hibits and 250 of corn, for the judg-
ing OF which 1872 boys and girls were
brought here from forty counties.
This gathering turned the States
attention to Harrisburg in an un-
usual manner. The people in every
Accunty's rural districts were looking
Ahis way to see how the corn prizes
Yent; whether their potatoes took
award and whether their apples
BIT ribbons. And the people who
anne here went home and told about
he significance of the show and
~ and their neighbors will be
illing to come again. One firm
lid over $4,000 worth of business,
Ind it was not n Harrisburg firm or
One with an agency here. either.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-29

According TO newspaper reports, a
sergeant and patrolman OF the Har-
risburg police force do not speak as
they pass by and the sergeant has ac-
eused the patrolman Of insubordina-
tion in refusing to salute. Mayor
Keister is right in demanding show
down. Discipline is absolutely neces-
sary IL we are to have a force worthy
the name. but we confess to little
curiosity as to how the best results
are possible when the sergeant and
the officer on his beat do not speak
to each other.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-29
PROGRESS OF THE
AMERICAN NEGRO
By DIR. ROBERT R. NOTION
President of Tuskegee Institute

WE as farmers, teachers,
wv preachers, and leaders gener-
ally, should keep clearly and
definitely in mind the fact, that the
race problem in America is going
to be worked out South of the Ma
son and Dixon line, and firmly be-
lieve. that eventually, we are going
to have an amicable adjustment of
all of the fundamental phases of
race relationships in our country
North and South, and who knows,
but, that God is using America as
his great laboratory from which he
will teach the rest of the world. that
1t is possible for peoples of different
races, creeds, colorS and shades of
opinion, political and otherwise, to
adjust their economic, civic and So
cial relationships in such a way as
will make each respect and strive
to help the others rather than hate
and endeavor to hinder the others
progress. Armstrong, Cravath, Ware,
Frissell and others as we'll as our
Great Leader, the founder of this
institution have made notable con-
tributions towards the adjustment
OF these problems, and we as negro
farmers, must play a very import
ant part"
Notwithstanding the great diff
culties through which our country
is passing and which we as a peo-
pie share. the negroes in America
and especially, the negro farmers
have more to be thankful for just
now than ever before in our his
tory. Any negro anywhere within
the confines of our country, North
and South, can find work at good
wages, and while a great many have
for reasons which are obvious, left
the South, and some are still going
many for reasons are equally OBJ
vious, are returning.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-29

Farm tractors were sold for cash
az they were given demonstrations
in snow in Tenth street.
This mid-winter show is going TO
be held again next year. There VIII
be more people here. The boys ana
girls who came to Judge corn and
went home to tell of the fine time
they had in Harrisburg, our Harris
burg, travelled because funds were
raised in their home communities to
pay their fare. State offici: Is passed
the hat for the cash to pay for their
meals, while the Y. NJ. c. A. gener-
ously gave sleeping space for the
boys. The money for the premiums
was given by men from all over the
State. The city of Harrisburg did
not even hire q hall. The Chamber
of Commerce did little more than
bestow a blessing on the show
Other organizations let it go by.
1t looks as though something Is
up to Harrisburg. For the last
twenty years we have been trying
to revive the old State fair which
was such a great feature of our
town life in the sixties. Some OF
us lost lot of time and suffered
under the steam roller when an ef-
fort was made to put through q
bill for re-establishing a State fair
here few legislative sessions ago
And here is a real Statewide fair
growing right up under our noses
and the city and it's alert business
people are not paying any attention
to ii, while its commercial organiza-
tions are verymildly interested. Why,
the talk among the farmers who
were here last week and even among
some of the small fair men, who
now realize that a State show at
Harrisburg, where the prize winners
of their own exhibitions can be
gathered, was that they hoped these
mid-winter shows would lead to a
real State fair" Bethlehem appro-
priated the name of the State fair
that went around hunting for "a
home when the Harrisburg fair was
given up and kept It until Col.
Trexler and those other Allentown
business men made the Allentown
fair a colossal exhibit. The York
folks pegged along until their show
became the great event of October.
We say nothing of the way the
Changers picnic developed out of
very little but nerve.
A Pennsylvania fair, timed so that
it will get the best exhibits of the
other fairs for real Statewide COM
petition, located on ground which
could be bought by the State and
on which the city of Harrisburg could
erect the buildings, or vice versa. is
right in sight. But it can not be
gotten by looking out of a second
story window and wishing for 1t.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-29
JANUARY GARDENS

The days of catalogs have come
the best of all the year,
When every mail it's quota brings
of books from far and near,
With gorgeous blossoms on theiI
fronts and cabbage on their
backs,
Their insides filled with fruits and
flowers all tabled neat as wax.
We reckless grow, extravagant--no
cost too high we find
For this January garden we are
planting in our mind. .
But, mercy me! while we have
dreamed, there is no sign OF
doubt,
That miserable furnace has gone
completely outl
Mrs. w. E. Ewing in the Odessa
Ledger.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-29
Bread and Stones

JUST the other day
I saw big, fat.
OVERFED person talking
TO A slim, bony individual
AND LECTURING him about
FOOD conservation
THE little man listened
PATIENTLY until he was
FINISHED, then he said:
PEOPLE who have bay windows
SHOULDN'T throw stones!'
st Louis Star,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-29

In a clarion call as president of the
State Association. Judge Eugene C..
Bonniwell urges the 1900 volunteer
fremen of Pennsylvania to aid ma
tional, State and municipal authori-
ties to combat incendiaries, apparently
German sympathizers. who are de-
stroying munition plants and other
nrnnarty throughout the country. Who
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-29

Mayor Keister has a practical mind.
and he will doubtless lose no time in
directing the policemen to report at
once the indifferent owners of vacant
lots and other properties where side
walks are impossible. II you are a
good citizen, clean your sidewalk!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-29

Manifestly. the anti-liquor forces are
not going to be caught again as they
assert they were caught in the last
great campaign for members of the
Legislature. They propose to take a
hand in the primaries this year. hav-
ing grown wiser with the flight of
time.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-29

The hours spent in sweater art
Are as a string of purls; 1 sigh
To count them over every one
= apart,
Each hour q purl-each purl take
To drop no stitch, lest I be
stung.
I count. yes count unto the end
And there a sleeve Is hung.
o memories that bless and burn
OF ravellng out a bitter loss,
1 drop q purl yet strive at last
To learn to knit tcross-
Sweet art.-to knit across
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-29

That murder in a saloon at o'clock
in the morning is another argument
against booze. Every dollar of reve-
nue. from rum means ten dollars in
court costs and other expense which
the taxpayer must meet.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-29

The German government has is
sued an order that. girls under II
years of age who are being made
to do manual labor shall be liberat-
ed at once.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-29

The only difference we know be-
tween the Devil and the Kaiser Is that
the Devil was once an angel.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-29

can doubt that these brave nss ightsrs
will rally to their leaders call and
that every effort will be put forth to
crush an insidious foe.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-29
LABOR NOTES
YBRIGGS

st. Louis. Mo-, organized bakers
rejected their employers offer to
raise wages 50 a week, providing
the union abandons it's label.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-29

Women track workers are WELD
ing picks and shovels on the roadbed
of the Pennsylvania railroad be-
tween New York and Pittsburgh.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-29

Germany fears the loss OF her only
friend, Austria" Whatdeye mean
friend7
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-29

A farm for every soldier of the
United States who returns from the
war is a proposal made by Senator
Warren G. Harding, of Ohio.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-29

1t begins to look as though the Aus
trians prefer to trust their enemies at
Washington rather than their friends
in Berlin.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-29

Thank heaven. the day of boardin-
house breadpudding appears to be
passing.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-29

The Kaiser was SO years old Sunday,
but we didn't notice anything about
Berlin burning any fireworks by way
of celebration.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-29
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg steel is be-
ing used for the manufacture of
army trucks?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-29

Trust General Wood to be about
when there is something doing.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-29
HISTORIC HARRISBURG

The present courthouse is the
third to be erecte for this county.
The present site - the original do
nation of John Harris for the pur-
pose.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-29

Wages paid women workers in the
French munition factories are grad
ual. according to the character of
the work and to their Capacity.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-29

Tramp BIRD: = 5on't know what
kind person dropped this reo1lng
glass here, but 1t certainly is nice
and warm under 1t.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-29

Eat Victory Bread" and show the
Kaiser you mean it.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-29

Six thousand women are employed
in combing the battlefields in
France, where everything is being
saved, even old boots are being
picked up and made to do duty
again.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-29
TUESDAY JANUARY 80. 1918

It may be q little farther around
the corners of square deal, but the
road is better.-ANoN.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-29

Who cares for meatless day so
lcng as he has winesap apple to eat
Just before going to bed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-29

To-day the city gets the Hoover
"wheatless loaf" Yesterday it had the
Garfield heatless loaf.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-29

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.,
TELEGRAPH Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-29
AWFUL.

For a pessimtst, you are quite
cheerful"
I'm what is known as an opti
nistic pessimist-"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-29

n.J. .sTACKPoLE,Pr PrsSt s Edaorin-ChiSf
#. r. OYSTER. BHsiHsEs MGHdger.
GUS III. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-29
Is said to be developing Congression-
al ambitions. He was q Brumbaugh
presidential delegate.


presidential delegate.
The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times
gives considerable space to the eff
forts of friends of William Finn to
organize what is called the Uncle
Sam Association" which the news
paper says is the name of an organ
ization to send back the present four
congressman from Allegheny county,
two being Republican and two Dem
ocratic. The Democrats are heartily
in favor of it. The Gazette-Times
says: 1T is understood that Con-
gresham Campbell does not like the
Magee- Guffey- Finn plan of having
the four congressman in this county
speak in all districts during the cam
paign. He does not consider it ad-
visable for him to go into the Thir-
tieth District to talk for Mr.. Kelly,
as he and the representative took
opposite sides in the prohibition
amendment vote in Congress. Mr..
Campbell is wet and Mr.. Kelly
voted dry
Three Luzerne representatives
will not run again. David Thomas
and Richard Aston. Wilkes-Barre,
are tired of the game and "Dick
Powell is planning to run for sher-
iff. A battle is brewing against Rep
resentative John Mckay, but he in
tends to fight. G. B. Flute and
Bruce Good, both former members,
are said to have ambitions to re-
turn.
Jere Boner, of Higgins, is a legis-
lative candidate in Schuylkill. Rep
resentatives Sones and Graeff will be
candidates for reelection.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-29

Member Of the Associated Press-The
Associated Press IL 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, 1918-01-29

Unity between organized labor
and the farmers is urged by A. c..
Townley, president of the New York
Farmers Nonpartisan League.