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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-12
Over he TOP
;~ Pen~o.
BY BRIGGS

Pennsylvania hat merchants just
returned from their convention in
Chicago say that the price of men S
straw hats next spring will be ad-
vanced so per cent, and they will
be of gaudy colors, red, yellow. green
and purple. No straws can be i'm
ported
The German soldier looks fine,
but everything else in Germany
looks like the Devil" declared DIR.
William Law, after returning from
Europe where he practiced dentistry
for 13 years in Berlin.
THE people of Germany are fear
fully tired of war;" he continued.
They are sick to death of it, but
they have no idea of giving it up.
The idea always is that they are
winning.
Germany is honeycombed with
gigantic graft. No graft that ever
existed here is to be compared with
it.
"AII oil is gone, even to castor
oil, which has been used for lu-
bricating purposes. Trains are bad.
Cars jump over the rails.
Il think the people can exist one
more year"
A dispatch from Wilkes Barre
tells briefly of a man there who
choked to death laughing at one of
his own jokes. There is tragedy
here, to be sure, but the rest of the
country would be obliged to Wilkes
Barre if she told us all what the
inlSR
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-12
STATE PRESS

The sending of an American
Army to France shows us what a
task it would be for any other ma
ton to send an invading army here.
There is little ground for fear that
Germany or Japan would ever be
able to do it.-Carlisle Sentinel.
Persons who could not understand
how 1t would be possible to estab-
lish city manager government under
the Clark act are finding out a few
things. 1t is perfectly feasible
proposition, as might be discovered
from a study of the legislation in
troduced at the initial sitting of
the new mmissioners-The next
two years are certainly full of prom
Use of progress for the Mountain
City.-Altoona Mirror.
The railways of the country did in
nine months almost as much as in
q former single year. The twelve
month will show a record which is
phenomenal, and in almost every in
stance this increased business has
meant decreased net earnings. That
railways should have choked their
lines out of spite is Gnthinkable.
They have been doing their best un-
der extraordinary conditions, and
finally were willing to give up a
thankless and unremunerative task.
The. Government confesses its error
by taking over the very policy which
railways have demanded for gen.
eration.-Chamber Repository.
The leading question at this time
is whether a candidate will be nom
mated who will command the sup
port of a united Republican party.
The situation is indeed critical and
1t will be dangerous to take chances.
To-day the party is not united. 1t
must be welded together in support
of q common candidate to inspire
hope for a successful result next
ber.-Wilkes-Barre Record.
It has long looked as If the only
religious sentiment among the Ger
man militarists, if any, is pagan and
is directed toward the old German
god-demons of Valhalla, whose
heavenly joys consisted in feasting
and fighting, the latter delight being
made eternal by their power to be-
come whole after they had cut each
other to pieces. Nobody in the world
but a German or German directed
Turk would have looted the church
of the Holy Sepulchre. If it had
been done by General Allenby, the
conqueror of Jerusalem, he would
have been mobbed by his own men
and execrated by all England.-Sun-
bury Daily.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-12
LOOKED LIKE DODGING

The conversation in the lobby of
q Washington hotel turned to the
trials and tribulations of beautiful
love, when the following incident
was related by Congressman j. Ed
ward Russell, of Ohio:
One evening some time since John
Henry called on the darling of his
heart. and while talking to the fair
one he casually referred to some of
the hardships of the present day.
"I see, Gladys" he remarked,
"that the price of coal has gone up
again, and that it is hard to get at
any price"
HAS it?" responded Gladys,
without showing any great concern.
"Yes.' answered John Henry,
land they say they are also advance
ing house rents. while sugar."
Look here, John Henry!" sud-
denly interjected the fair one with
a withering expression. "If you
want to break off our engagement,
say so. but don't try to beat around
the bush in such a cowardly way"
Philadelphia Telegraph.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-12
GETTING STATES SHARE

r JUDGING from the figures an
Il nounced by Secretary of the
Commonwealth Cyrus L.
Woods on the business done by his
department of the State govern
mont during 1917, the State of
Pennsylvania is certainly getting Its
share from new business enterprises
and the State Department has quiet
ly passed into the ranks of the big
revenue producers for the peoples
treasury. Some years ago there was
not much difficulty about getting a
charter for almost anything from a
sawmill to a railroad and as the
commonwealth was as careless about
its fees as it was generous with Its
privileges, corporations waXed nu-
merous and the State took a small
lee and let it go at that. Back in the
Pennypacker administration laws
were enacted and rules laid down
whereby the happy days of nominal
capitalization and obscure purposes
were made history and applications
fees, but we'll proportioned bonus
1t seems from Mr.. Woods report
that the provisions of the statutes
governing the. corporations have
peen pretty thoroughly followed. and
that the State Department has been
taking good care of the Common
wealth. Thanks to this policy, the
companies incorporated have been
giving figures of capitalization more
adequate for their charter purposes
in the papers presented for guberna-
torial approval and the bonus yield
ed more than a million dollars last
year. The business done in 1917,
even with fewer charters granted
than in 1916, realized more for the
State than in the whole of 1915 and
1916.
Father Penn may have been rath-
er prodigal in the past, but he is
becoming bit conservative now.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-12
NEGRO AND THE WAR

George Madden Martin, author of
Emmy LOU" gives a new point of
view in Loyalty" in the Red Cross
Magazine for February:
1t was the morning of June 8,
1917, the day of the draft. The
young men of the neighborhood,
white and black, were coming in to
the village on foot, on bicycle, in
wagon and motorcar, to register.
The day and the occasion alike were
solemn. The church bells had runs
the call over the fields and the
countryside. /, whose forbears had
given lives and fortunes to war, had
gone home profoundly moved.
There came a tap at my door, and
Malviney Burnley came in. An eld-
erly colored woman retired from
service and living in her own home
in it's acre of ground, the long years
of her active life had been passed in
my fathers household, in my broth
er's. and in my own. A refined and
gentle-mannered mulatto, still pref
ty though with a grizzle of gray
through her hair, she breathed a
quiet capability.
"I saw the boys comm in to put
their names down, an the young
men" she said, boys" meaning her
own race, young men" meaning
mine. ,.
you should be proud. Mallie
Burnley" I told her with smiling
severity, Scott has been in the army
since the war with Spain and Eph-
rain, after enlisting for Mexico, has
gone again"
She drew herself up, this Malviney
Eurnley. and her eyes and her mien
threw me their proud challenge.
"They tell me this here war were
in. this war Scott an Eph have gone
to- is to make women an chiPrun an
boys an men free everywhere. Who
more obligated for to go then thar
these here colored boys?"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-12
Farmers War PROGRAM

extension workers is pledged to rem
der all possible service to the trm-
ers of the state in developing the
livestock industry.
Cereal production and the grow
ing of potatoes should have the
closest attention. Scores of eXper-
iments at the college and many of
the extension projects have 4 vital
relation to the production of lorger
and better general farm crops.
Tractors must help to solve the
farm labor problem. The college is
equipped to give special instruction
to all residents of the state, relating
to the use of tractors, motors, trucks
and other labor-saving machinery.
THE increased production OF
fruits and vegetables, especially peas
and beans, and the more perfect
control of destructive insects and
diseases is also important"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-12
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Ex-senator William Hertzler
has been appointed chairman of the
war savings committee for Juniata.
Senator William c. Sproul earn
ed his first money as newspaper
reporter
Neil j. Ferry, prominent among
Carbon county miners, is on a visit
to Nova Scotia.
Alderman A. X. Spurrier. of
Lncaster, is once more secretary of
the. State Magistrates Association.
j. p. Quinlan, prominent Phila-
delphia manufacturer, is planning
to organize the knit goods people for
war service.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-12
OUR STOCK OF GOLD

The gold monetary stock (coin
and bullion used as money! in the
United States on November 1, 1917,
is estimated in Secretary McAdoo's
annual report. at $3,041, $780, 900. The
increase in the past 10 months has
three years $1,236, 500, 900. In five
years the portion of the worlds
gold monetary stock held by the
United States has increased from
approximately one-fifth to more
than one-third.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-12
THE destiny of the war rests abso-
lutely with the American farm

err" r. L. Watts dean of the
school of agriculture at the Penn
sylvania State College, addressing
an audience of farmers in attend
ance at Farmers Week at the col
le@e, said this was the greatest chal-
lerge that has ever emanated from
q Washington official to the Ameri-
can farmers. If the farmers of
Pennsylvania are to do their part,
there must be a program which will
insure the maximum production of
the most important foodstuffs, he
declared.
The livestock industry should be
promoted and encouraged. There is
urgent need for all classes of live
stock. The school of agriculture
and experiment station through it's
staff of teachers, investigators and
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-12
Needs the MOneu

To Explain Income Tax. - Head
line. The only explanation seems to
be that the government needs the
money.-Kansas City Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-12

Frank A. vanderlip is constantly
urging the people to forego non
essentials during the war with view
to helping Uncle Sam win as quickly
as possible. The production of nom
essentials is to some extent inter-
fering with the equipping of our
armies and Mr.. Vanderlip urges that
it is the patriotic duty of the people
to cut out luXuries and devote their
money and efforts to the prosecution
of the war down to the last detail.
Summed up the great banker says:
1--WE have grown used to lots of
things we do not need and it should
be no trouble to pick them out"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-12
THE PRIVATE
HAS 1T ON
EN-.

M a d a m
Captain, you
look so thin, I
d o n believe
you fare very
well at the om-
GERS mess.
Captain (sad-
1yJ-N o, W Q
p o or officers
have to buy our
own food, in
stead of having
1t furnished us.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-12
OUR DAILY LAUGH
OBJECTIVE
AND SUBJEC.
TIVE

Has Ethel i'm.
proved in hei
piano playing.
1 don't know;
S o m e tim es ]
think she has
Improved an d
other times ]
suspect t h at
may be I am
getting used to
it.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-12
SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1918

None but God is tUerthy Of the
tChole Offering Of mdn.-PuuLps
BROOKS.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-12

The next German move will be one
OF two things-either a great blow
in the West or a great blow in Ber-
lin, with the Junkers working the
bellows
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-12
Cheerful Thouaht

1t is getting to the point where
Uncle San, will have to card index
his kllies.--Atlanta Journal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-12

Wouldn't it be too bad If some day
the printer made an error and made
Farmer Creasy's name appear Framer
Greasy.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-12

which could be grazed in the big
public parks, which cover thousands
of acres.
Manifestly, Harrisburg Is moving
in the right direction in providing
for a piggery for the start in the
disposal of the garbage. We are at
last realizing as people the neces-
sity for conserving all materials and
of producing to the limit in every
direction. Even now we should be
looking ahead to the expansion of
our activities for the coming year.
to the end that all waste shall be
eliminated and every form of pro-
duction accelerated.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-12
FREMONT
TION.

Hubby-Wen,
Julia I made ten
thousanddolla
In the market
today pretty
good for these
hard times. chr
Wife, knew
my luck would
have to change
been los
ing terribly at
whist this week
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-12

Fair wage scales, reasonable hours
and good working conditions are
suggested to arsenal commanders
and manufacturers executing orders
for the bureau of ordnance and
quartermaster department of the
Army. in general orders issued by
those departments.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-12
LABOR NOTES

The British Miners Federation
will accept an amended offer from
the coal controller for an increase
in wages of Is. Cd. q day for work
ers of 16 years and upward. and an
increase of Cd. for workers under
that age. This means an annual
increase in wages of about s2O,0O0,-
900.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-12
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg has had
about $1,0OO,OOO in Thrift
Stamps allotted to it and that
the time to start to buy is now7
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-12

HISTORIC HARRISBURG
This city was one of the first
towns in Pennsylvania to organize
TO buy Civil War bonds
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-12

THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.,
Telegraph building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-12

Ell. STACKPoLE, PrsS't s. Edi.orin- Chief
F. r. OYSTER. Business Manager.
GUS NJ. STEINMETz. Managing Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-12
ADAMANT.

ADAMANT.
She certainly
has no use for
him.
That so.
She wouldn't.
even notice him
when he had
his uniform on.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-12

Dozens of people are using the
ice bridge on the Susquehanna river
every day, saving toll and pretend
ing that they do not mind the icy
breezes which blow down the fields
of ice which bind the wide branch
ing river from shore to shore. From
what these people says the ice in the
river will stand many warm days and
there are some places where it looks
to be from eighteen to twenty-four
inches thick. Men walk regularly
from West Fairview to the upper end
of the city and back and from Le-
moyne and even New Cumberland.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-12

Supreme Court Judge w. d.
Porter was given a fiattering en-
dorsement by the Luzerne county
bar at a largely attended meeting
last night. Ex-Judge Charles 70.
Rice made the address in behalf of
his former colleagues. The York bar
also endorsed Judge Porter.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-03-13
THE DIFFERENCE.

Does the farmer make so very much
more when cotton sells for thirty
cents than he did when it only brought
twelve cents a pound?
When cotton was laboring in teh
low ground of distress, prices of food,
clothing and farm necessities were
far more reasonable, by COMPARISON,
than they are today
The difference between the purchas-
ing price of pound of cotton now and
three years ago is well illustrated by
Mr.. Bradford Knapp, head of the
States Relations Service of the Ma
tional Department of Agriculture to
whom we are indebted for the follow
ing figures, comparing the purchasing
Lower of a 500-poun bale of cotton
now at 80 cents a pound and the pur-
chasing power of bale of the asme
weight when it sold for IL cents a
'pcund: $50 Bale $3.50 Bale
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-03-13
GERMAN POISON GAS.

The most insidious anti-war, pro-
German propaganda now conducted
in this country is found in the Hearst
newspapers, one OF which is the At
lanta Georgian, tie Hearst Southern
sheet.
1t is so subtle, conceived with such
deyilish cunning, that as the New
York Tribune says, "Just try to put
your finger on it anywhere-you
can't"
There was an editorial in last Sun.
days Atlanta Georgian relative to the
war status 1t first pictured the i'm
mense inroads made by Germany, its
great gains in Russia, the importance
If its recent treaties and acquisitions
the enormous amount of territory held
ny Cle HUNS, anu LHeu Sdlu.
In the history of Europe, one
great war lasted seven years, an
other thirty years, and another a
hundred years, and before any of
these wars the human race was at
war practically all of the time.
War was the natural condition,
men could not imagine anything.
How long will this war last. the
war of dynamite, poisonous gas,
fame throwing, flying machines
and submarines?
How long CAN it last?
No man can answer the ques-
ton. No man would have dream
ed that such war could last as
long as this war has lasted al
ready.
Apparently human beings can
endure whatever they MUST en-
dure. They may be forced to en-
dure this war for many a year.
For that reason the American,
while he considers earnestly prob
abilities and possibilities in Eu-
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-03-13

rope, should consider even more
earnestly immediate and future
work here on this continent.
What will come out of this stu
alton, undreamed of when the war
began. unthought of when posi-
bilities of peace were brushed
lightly away, on one side or the
other, little while after the war
began?
The Allies declare that Prussia
cannot break Through the line of
trenches and Notifications.
It appears to be true, also that
the Allies cannot break through
the German lines.
What is to happen in Europe
this country cannot control. We
can, by spending tens of millions
of money, and building thousands
of ships, help Europe, on the side
that We believe has justice with
it.
Over there, however, we cannot
DECIDE.
HERE WE CAN, and here we
ought to decide.
The effect of this is suggest tina
Of more Importance to the Unite;
States is the preparation agains
imaginary dangers at home-tha
planning to make North Americ;
distinctly North American" is of NOR
vital consequence that the winninl
OF the awful war in Europe.
AS though the war in Europe is no
the greatest menace that has eve
threatened the lives and liberties o
this Republic!
The effect OF this crafty argumen
is to create dissatisfaction among tn
ignorant as to the supreme duty o
the United States in this critical hour
1t is sly, willy, deceitful, dangerous
and dambable 1t is as pronouncedl
pro-German as anything can be.
is sufficient to put Hearst in stripe
and in Jail, and to bar his papers tn
use of the mails.
Bolo Pasha, who, says the New Yorl
Tribune, 'smelled of Hearst" 8 t
be shot for treason. The Tribune ais
adds: Lost is that day for the enem,
when the Hearst papers go to pres
without some shrinking of German gas
1t is not often"
And this is the Hearst that is tn
supporter of the disloyal junior sena
tor from Georgia!
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-03-13
THE OLD STAY YOUNG.

Seeing an old fairy tale come alive
on the screen sets one meditating
whether the world was as ever as
tired of fairy tales as it said it was.
Humanity gets too romantic some
times and demands to see every
thing swimming in rose-colored
mist Then it finds it has enough of
that sort of thing, and it goes on a
nerfect spree of realism clamoring
to be knocked down with hard facts
as fast as it can scramble up. After
a while, of course, it gets battered
and sore and wants to lie still and
watch that rose-colored mist creep
ing back over the world. You may
notice it always does creep back,
bringing the glamor of the wonder
tale to soothe our sensibilities.
We may laugh at the hackneyed
situations beautiful maidens res
cued by Prince Charmings and wick
cd queens getting what is coming to
them when they are convicted of
plotting against the heroine. But
when all this is actually made visible
to us we feel much the same emo
tions that were felt in the dawn of
literature as the bards chanted
strange tales in the market-place.
What if, after all, these hackneyed
situations contain the essentials of
literature and that is why mankind's
primitive instinct picked them out in
the first place as material for saga
and folk-tale?
AS for the realm of the pure magic,it
will always have strong allurement
for the imagination.
There was poetry in the idea OF
the wonderful ball that always came
floating home to its mistress when
its witching work was done. Now
that the screen can show us that
ball, coming like a luminous bird
out of the dark, we feel that the
charm of the idea is as strong as
ever. When we see the little prin-
cess cruising away in big umbrella,
n.ysteriously operated by nothing but
a crooked stick, and the seven swans
padding valiantly to the rescue OF
their prosecuted sister, and turning
into stalwart young men at the ply
Geological moment, we are as delight
eG as the children when the wonder
tale is first told to them. Or, if we
are not, it is a sign that we are get
ting too dull and grown-up and that
we need a bath of poetry and romance.
So probably the fact that we were
hoodwinking ourselves when we loftily
proclaimed that the world was tired
Of fairy tales and able to do without
them
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-03-13
$50 Bale $3.50 Bale

What has contributed more than
anything else to the Independence ana
prosperity of the farmer is not so
much thirty cents cotton as crop d.
versification and living-at-home He
now raises a great deal for his table
and his bins that he used to buy. He
purchases less meat, less fertilizer,
less feed, less supplies generally. In
consequence, he has more money to
spend on other things.
1t is intelligent, even more intelli-
gent than scientific, farming that has
brought about such splendid results.
Where the farmer used to farm by
phases of the moon and the supersti-
tions of the calendar, he now applies
common sense, and where once he was
slave to the one-crop idea he is now
respectful to, but not dominated by,
King Cotton.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-03-13

The seasons best joke is that Len
ire fired Trotsky because he was too
friendly with the Germans However
on that idea, there ought to be some
body to give Lenine his walking pap
ers, toe.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-03-13

The weather has been absolutely SO
perfect that the newspaper reporters
have been utterly unable to kill the
peach crop two or three times in the
headlines.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-03-13

1t is said that the war is making
whiskers more popular. However, We
have suspicion that the report was
started by the BARRIERS trust.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-03-13

"Once upon time" as they say in
the story books, a certain paragrapher
really enjoyed oatmeal for breakfast,
but that was before the ffty-ffty -four
sales regulation.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-03-13

The reason some men are not inter
.ested in the color of the ladies stock
iugs is they prefer the thin ones
so they're all flesh color