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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-30

publishers didn't know of a by
product.
With the development of business
enterprises came the use of newspa-
per space for merchandising public
ity.
The demand for advertising space
developed rapidly-so rapidly that
men engaged in printing newspapers
lost their heads in competitive effort
to beat the other fellow in landing
the lions share of this new revenue
producer, advertising, the newspa-
per's by-product.
In the frantic effort to land advcr-
tising. large circulations were de.
manded.
sales increases on the merits of the
paper We're too slow, and the sub.
scription Price cutting followed rap.
IDLY, until to-day, as stated above,
there are literally hundreds If moi
thousands of daily newspapers sell.
ing their main product at price pei
copy less than the cost of the white
paper contained therein.
This unhealthy condition could
have gone on for some time had The
price of white paper remained STA.
Bile. When, however, white paper
advanced so much in price, there was
CONSERVATION in the camp of almos
all the daily newspapers in this
country
They had nothing to fall bach
upon.
The publishers themselves hat
taught the public that newspap per.
did not depend on the sale price ot
the papers for profit--the advertisina
took care of that.
Consequently, the public was not In
the mood to accept. placidly any ad.
vance in subscription price.
Such condition could never have
arisen had 1t been the custom to sell
the main product at profit.
In fact, the sale Of the main prod
uct of the daily newspaper of to-day
must be maintained at price suffi,
cient to cover cost of production plus
a reasonable profit or the newspaper
will lose its individuality and integ-
rity and by force of necessity become
dominated by and a mouthpiece fol-
special interests.
The alternative is bankruptcv
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-30
Days GriSt of Questions

Here are specimen questions asked
at the American Library Assocla-
tion's library at Camp Beauregsrd
in one day:
who is the Sultan of Turkey?"
What is the population of Phila-
delphia?"
How many months in the year is
the Baltic navigable?"
rs there such a place as hell
and is there a princess of 'hell?"
"Is Alan Seeger American or
English?"
How much space in line of
march is required by a mortor-
cycle?"
What DAY of the week was July
4. 1852"
What people of ancient times
were destroyed because they had
six senses instead of f1ve?"
Where was Atlantis. the Island
described by Plato. where people
were perfectly happy and con-
tented?"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-30
/. Sea- and Patriotism

Is there any sex in patriotism?
Eleanor *. Mcdonnell went to work
in munitions factory to find out and
she tells her thrilling story in the
September Good Housekeeping. She
writes:
81 We had arrived at the office and
the business of registering was gone
through with systematically. One
gave ones antecedents; one asserted
that one wasn't German. Austrian
or Turk. One told whom epe wish
ed to have notified in case of acci-
dent-all this to young clerk who
interrogated with the fierceness of
a prosecuting attorney.
He MEANS" facetious guard
interjected, where do you want the
body sent if there's anything left
to be picked up" Which wasn't
exactly the sanest or most steady
ing method of introducing a batch
of nervous novices to the dangers
likely to he encountered.
The guards words were typical OF
the bravado which prevades the mu-
nitions factory Danger stalks
everywhere and yet, seemingly, there
is no fear-at least no admission OF
1t.
Sure, it's dangerous" one girl
said with conviction, but SOS await
ing. SOS being in the trenches. but
you amt seeing the boys holding
back any,"
That settled it. To be as brave
as the boys-that was the upper
most thought.
The foremen also soft-pedal the
dangers, because they can't have an
efficient working force If 1t is scared
to death before it starts, and ye,
there is no attempt on the part OIL
the company to enlist the girls IN
the work under false pretense of its
safety. A little pamphlet explain
| ing the hazards is put into the hands
of every person employed. What
| lot of hazards there are! A fulmin-
ate of mercury cap, dropped, may
send the whole works sky-high. Ar
| oil rag may cause spontaneous COM
bustion. A piece of machinery re-
| paired by an ineXpert person may
throw off spark, and up you al
go. One shrinks from thinking wha'
a match would do!
From many of the windows in the
barracks hang service flags. AS
looked at them, the proud display
of women whose men are at the
front, I could not help wonderinS
why Uncle Sam does not devise
similar insignia for the munitions
girls. What mother could fail tt
be as proud of daughter in th'
| tracer bullet, the French fuse, th'
| INT shack, as of son in the trench
the airplane, the submarine.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-30
Profit Basis For Newspapers
Should They Depend Upon Sale of advertising to Keep
AboUe Water?
ditor nd Publ
From the Editor and Publisher.

* HOULD newspapers depend sole
ly upon the sale of their by
product, advertising space, in
order to show balance on the right
side of the ledger?
To this question nothing but a
negative answer can be returned.
Publishing q newspaper is not al
art, a science, a profession, nor is
it philanthropy; it is business
enterprise, and. as such, it should
be conducted along rational business
lines.
In the face of the fact that news
papers should not solely depend on
the sale Of advertising for profit,
which fact is almost, if not entirely
automatic, there are hundreds OF
daily newspapers in this country to-
day engaged in strenuous effort to
upset and disprove this truism.
These efforts, which remind one
of mad bull butting his head
against a stone wall, are the results
of the individual publishers egotisnl
his belief in his individual great
ness and ability to put something
over" which would be real folly fol-
his fellow publisher, and particular
ly his competitor to even attempt.
John D. Rockefeller, in the be.
ginning of his business career, sold
his main product, kerosene, at A
profit, and he has since constantly
maintained that practice.
His byproducts have developed
into vast producers of revenue, but
not for moment has the main prod
uct zeen on a producing
sale basis.
Armour & Co., Swift's. and all
other packers are not selling their
main product for less than cost and
depending on the sale of the hide
hair and squeak for profit. .
No-a profit is predicated on the
sale of their main product and the
sale of their byproduct adds to the
profits.
Daily newspapers in the beginning
were published and placed on sale
at price per copy which at least
enabled the publisher to make a liv-
ing.
When dailies were first started the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-30
PEACE OR VICTORY?

OF all the productive proposals
destructive
Arranged by the Kaiser and branded
low-down,
There's none so external, false and
Internal
AS an Immature peace" for the
sake of his crown.
The lands devastated, Gods homes
desecrated
So mutely appeal to the wisdom of
right
That if we debated, discussed or
just hated,
We'd break our own faith, or we'd
-. r. darken our light.
Unspoken, committed such crimes
as befitted
Some ghouls who exist in irrational
brains.
Can logic be pitted 'gainst dues un-
remitted?
'Twould be like the loosing of
Dragon-pit chains.
For public opinion has found its
dominion
And Justice approacheth the throne
seat to judge.
No, no intercession for Hellish
transgreSSion.
Extending no mercy, revealing no
grudge.
So procrastination now marks isola-
ton.
The free of the world are banded
with might.
No consideration should bring hesi-
tation
In driving for peace by forcing the
fight.
No wedge-like invention, though taut
is the tension,
Can vary our aims-allied-not a
seaml
We claim no exemption, with full
comprehension
Go forward to victory, real and su-
preme.
j. A. Bell, 40 S. Harrisburg
Street Steelton Pa.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-30

~ NE Liberty Bond will send 1000
three-inch trench mortar shells
on their way to batter down
the German lines; or it will buy
110 hand grenades, or two rifles
One 500 bond will provide 5000
machine gun cartridges, which, for
one reason or another, sounds like
a pretty good buy" under the cir
cumstances.
One $500 bond will purchase two
machine guns or 800 helmets, so if
your judgment halts between a desire
to kill Huns or protect Americans
you'll have to buy two of EN-.
One $1,000 bond will provide one
siXteen-inch shell-the kind they are
now using against the walls of Metz.
Surely it would be worth a oaltry
thousand to feel you had tossed one
of the big fellows" into this Hun
blockade on the road to Berlin.
Ten $1,000 bonds will provide
10000 rifle grenades-enough to dis
courage whole German division.
War costs lot of money. Our
soldiers are facing the Hun. They
can't fight unless you provide the
means.
What are you going to buy?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-30
Armenian ProDerbS

The Armenians are very fond of
proverbs, and possess a great ma
tional store of epigrammatic SEN
tences, many of them dealing with
hospitality. Among the frequently
used ones are the following:
"A guest comes from God"
Speak little and you will hear
much"
IF you lose half and then leave
off something is gained"
'He who speaks the truth must
have one loot in the stirrup."
ITO rise early is not everything;
happy are they who have the help
of God."-From the Detroit News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-30
LITTLE DEMOCRATS

NATIONAL CHAIRMAN VANCE
N C. MCCORMICK and other me-
too Democrats are still yawp-
ing about a vote for Re-
publican being a vote for the
Kaiser. That Maine election ought
to have taught these little men
something, but evidently did not.
Before that overwhelming Republi-
can victory the Democratic COM
nittee issued an appeal which sought
statement that Republican triumph
would be interpreted in German as
a reputation of the American dd-
ministration, as a rebuke, and that
"a Republican victory in the election
this Fall would probably mean
months longer of war, bloodshed,
and terrible sacrifice and agony"
Then the voters went to the. polls in
Maine and thumped the everlasting
daylights out of the foolish Demo-
Gratis, licking them so numerically
that Col. George Harvey is moved
to observe: I'm the main it seems
clear that the citizens rejected the
notion that one cannot stand in
telligently by the country without
standing hlindly by the President,
and endorsed the judgment that no
harm can ersue from relieving Mr..
Claude Kitchin and his Southern
Democratic colleagues of authority
over ways and means of raising and
expending huge sums of money, ex-
tracted chiefly and in grossly un-
fair proportion from sections other
than their own. In this particular,
at any rate, we are convinced that
as feels-if not goes-Maine. SO
feels the Union'".
Sure they are feeling-feeling for
the political scalps of lot of two
by-nine Democrats who assume that
paternalism is a high type of patriot
ism and that the American people
are not awake while they are fight
ing at home and abroad.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-30
DESTROYERS
Through the dark night

Through the dark night
And the fury of battle
Pass the destroyers in showers of
spray.
AS the wolf pack to the flank of the
cattle.
We shall close in on them
shadows of gray.
In from ahead,
Through shell flashes red,
We shall come down to them, after
the Day
Whistle and crash
OF salvo and volley
Round us and into us as we
attack.
Light. on our target they'll flash in
their folly,
Splitting our ears with shrapnel
crack.
Fire as they will,
Well come to them still,
Roar as they may at us-back-
go back!
While though the sea
To the shell splashes foaming,
We shall be there at the death of
the Hun.
Only we pray for a star in the gloam-
ing
(Light for torpedoes and none for
a gun).
Lord-of. Thy Grace
Make it race,
+. Over the sea with the night to run.
in Blackwood's Maza-
zine.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-30
Unity of Nations

If anyone wonders why Canada is
having it's motorless Sundays simul-
taneously with the United States, the
reason is not far to seek. Ninety
per cent. and more of the gasoline
used in Canada is said to reach that
country from across the border. The
United States might thus, be saving
it's fuel in order that Canada might
squander il. But that fact does not
impress one so strongly as the conf
plete unity which binds the sister
nations in making common cause
against the worlds disturbers.-
Christian Science Monitor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-30

So the Government won't fix price
on cotton. Why? Because the South-
ern planters protest. Meanwhile. the
Presidents special cotton committee
having taken to the woods, Will pur-
sue the Investigations and "all pur-
chases. both for foreign and for do
mestic consumption, will continue 10
be made at market prices through
marketing and distributing agencies
But we are advised from Washington
that prices of other necessary and es-
sential things will be fixed. Cotton is
still KING.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-30
HEROES, ALL

n OBERT A. BOIL. we'll known
X young Harrisburg businessman,
died Friday evening of pneu-
monia in the Government Hospital
at Quantico, on the eve of the day
he hoped to sail for France as u
member of the United States Marine
Corps.
Scores of other gallant American
soldiers, like him, are falling VIC
tins of the epidemic now raging in
the training camps of the nation,
dying before they have had oppor-
tunity of facing the foe on the blood
stained fields of France. 1t is sad.
indeed, TO think that they have
passed to join their soldier comrades
on the other side, with sword un-
drawn and shield unscarred.
But they have given their lives
for their country and for the frce-
dom of the world just as truly as
though they had fallen in gallant
charge or in defense of a line of
trenches in a far-off land. These
lads who die in the homeland will
sleep their last sleep in the uniform
they loved. They offered them
selves as part of the living wall that
stands between women and children
of France and the frightfulness of
the Hun, and they have paid for
their devotion with their lives.
Greater love hath no man than
this, that he giveth his life for a
friend" But these young men die
for those it was destined they never
should so much as see. They sleep
with the nations heroic dead.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-30
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Senator p. C. Knox has been in
vited to make the induction day ad-
dress at the University of Pittsburgh.
j. ID. Cummings, Greensburg
High school principal, is arranging
to have pupils from his military class
go into Company 1 of the Reserve
Militia at that place when the new
draft becomes operative.
w. B. Dunn, new head of the
state sealers, has long been in charge
of inspection in Altoona and active in
furthering honest sales.
DIR. Samuel Hamilton, superin-
tendent Of Allegheny schools, isN
hunting thirty teachers for rural dis
tricts.
Congressman ]. Hampton Moore
has been elected president of the At
lantic Deeper Waterways Associa-
ton. an organization to which he has
devoted much time.
Judge A. S. Swartz, one of the
oldest judges in the state, is making
Liberty Loan speeches in Montgom.
cry county.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-30
Backward, Turn Backward

The somewhat prevalent belief
that the clock is to be set back in
the United States on the first sun
day in October is misleading. I'm
der the Daylight-Saving Law the old
time will be resumed at 2 a. m, on
the last Sunday in October, that day
being the 9th of the month, so that
not until Saturday night, October
26, will it be quite in order to hum
after retiring, by way of a lullaby,
the air of the once familiar song
beginning
Backward, turn backward, Q Time,
in your fiight!-Christian Science
Monitor
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-30
A Soldiers Appreciation

Recently a woman well known IN
America, who has devoted all her
time to relief work since the war
began, was visiting a hospital. The
commanding officer had sent mill
tary car for her. She entered the
car Just as an ambulance filed with
wounded passed by. AS she noticed
the thin, pale faces, tears came INTO
her eyes The soldier chauffeur
asked If she was ill.
mo" she said, these are tears
of gratitude and pride"
Madame" replied the boy
simply, IF thought that my being
a soldier was worthy of but one of
your tears, should feel that l had
not lived in vain. From the Red
Cross Magazine for October.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-30
REPUBLICANS IN THE WAR

~ oLoNEL GEORGE HARVEY
I has taken down his little old
horoscope, as is his wont when
the frost is on the pumpkin and
the corn in the shock, and finds the
Republicans are likely to carry both
the Senate and House in the forth
coming election. He gives reasons
for the faith that is in. him and
concludes an illuminating two-page
discussion of the situation thusly:
-Heanwhile. let us frankly concede
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-30

both the :isht and the obligation
of each party to do it's best to win
and patiently consign to the spa
cious limbo of political humbugs all
,pretense to the contrary on the part
of either with respect to the other"
The Colonel believes with most
keen political observers that the
Republicans are now in the van.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-30
A Warm Combination
philadelphia Public Ledger. J.

philadelphia Public Ledger
On a cold winter day DIR. Horatio
C. Wood, Sr, noted specialist and
medical writer, was chatting with his
friend, rhe late DR.. Horace Howard
Furness, @he eminent Shakespearean
scholar.
A third man approached, where
upon with a laugh. Doctor Wood said,
Doctor Furness, let me present Mr..
Cole. Surely the three of us can now
forget the. cold"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-30
AFTER THE WAR

ARRISBURG and Dauphin
II county alone have sent $3.50
men into the armed service of
the country, and the number will be
doubled by the new drafts.
Who do you think will dictate the
affairs of this community when the
boys come homer"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-30
OUR DAILY LAUGH
FATHER KNEW.

FATHER KNEW.
Son: The strain is so great at the
front, that felt my nerve was giving
away, SO asked for a few days
leave.
Father: Your nerves, perhaps,
were giving away, but never your
nerve my son.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-30

Member of the Associated Press-The
Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled to the use for republication of
all news dispatches credited to it or
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, 1918-09-30

German diplomats rejoice that they
now have peace with Russia and
Rumania," which reminds one of the
hunter who crawled into a wild cats
den to escape a snowstorm.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-30
OUT TO WIN"

AIOTHING stronger or more
~ forceful as an expression of the
attitude of the fighting men
of the allied armies regarding an
inconclusive peace with the hordes of
Germany has been written than the
latest book of Lieut. Coningsby Daw-
son-"Out To Win" In his preface
to this remarkable book and speak
ing as a fighting man Lieut.. Dawson
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-30

At that, Ferdinand displays more
common sense than the Kaiser, who
doesn't know enough to quit while
the quitting is good.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-30
After reading this straightforward

Come forward, you statisticians, and
tell us, if the Allies have captured
325, 900 Germans in seventy-four days.
how long it will take to capture the
whole Hun Army.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-30
Tomorrow and Yesterday

tFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Don't rest on your laurels. An
ounce of tomorrow is worth a pound
of yesterday.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-30

The inventors of poison gas and
flame throwers complain because the
Americans use shot-guns. 1t is to
laugh.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-30
On Turning Aside

When n righteous man doth turn
from his righteousness. and commit
iniquity. he shall die.-Ezekiel III,
20.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-30
DO YOU KNOW

THAT some people in Harris
burg would rather shoot pool
than engage in war work?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-30

British governments investigators
plainly indicate that If industrial
peace is 20 prevail in England trade
unionism must be recognized in the
full sense of the word and works
committees should not be used to
discourage trade unionism.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-30

Secretary of Labor Wilson has an
nounced that the United States De-
partment of Labor, through its em-
ployment service, gradually will take
charge of the mobilizing and placing
of all labor for war industries en-
ploying 100 or more workers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-30

The Yanks are engaged in knock
ing the neck off the Kaiser's Cham
payne bottle.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-30

A new scale which calls for 65
cents an hour, price and a half for
overtime and double-time for Satur-
days and holidays has been put in
force by the Chattanooga (Tenn.)
Sheet Metal Workers Union.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-30
HISTORIC HARRIsRURc

In the War of 1912 people who did
not engage in war work, sell bonds
help on wagon trains or drill in the
numerous militia companies were
sent cards asking them to hunt some
other place to live than Harrisburx'
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-30
LABOR NOTES

officials of the West Virginia min
ers' district report report that over
$4,000 members have been added IN
the Fairmo ont field during the last few
weeks, as n result of an organizing
now being carried on.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-30

Only one doubt. as to ultimate
victory ever assails the Western
Front; that it may be attacked
in the aIta rear by tf1r the pfSmaeiHfigl tSn civil
populations it defends. Should 1,
that ever happen, the Western
Front would cease to be a mix
ture of French, Americans; Can,
Belgians; it would become ma
ton by itself, pledged to fight
on till the ideals for which 1t set
out to fight are definitely estab-
We get rather tired of read
ing speeches in which civilians
presume that the, making of
peace is in their hands. The
making may be- but the o accept, 'lan
that we love war for wars sake.
we love it rather less than the
civilian does. When an honol-
able peace has been, confirmed,
there will be no stauncher paci-
fist than the soldier; but we re-
serve our pacif1sm till the war is
won. We shall be the last peo-
pie in Europe to get war.weary,
achieving of justice; we shall not
grow weary till that vision has
become a reality.
After reading this straightforward
statement of one who has gone
through the hell of war for several
years it is time for the paciflst al
home to grid himself for the fray
and not weaken the morale of the
home folks by his palaver about
peace when there can be no peace
until the Hun is beaten to his knees
and begs for mercy.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-30

All teamsters and truck drivers
coming under the jurisdiction of the
Butte (Mont.) Teamsters' Union
were granted eight hours, double
time for overtime and 10 per cent.
increase in wages.