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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-26
Who's Hodrding Potatoes?

The produce journals, which by
the way are usually apologists for
middlemen and profiteers, are
strongly blaming farmers for hold
ing back their potatoes. Their argu-
ment is based upon the figures pub
lished by the Bureau of Crop Esti-
mates comparing the holdings of
dealers and farmers on January l
with the holdings of a year ago.
These figures show that dealers
holdings are so per cent greater this
year than last, while the number of
bushels in farmers hands is 175 per
cent. greater than on January 1,
1917. For this reason these journals
claim that the Governments appeal
to the consuming people to be pa
triotic and use lots of potatoes
should also extend to the farmer and
urge or compel him to sell his po-
tatoes.
There are several perfectly good
reasons why this condition exists, If
it does exist to this extent. In the
FIRST place, we have very good reason
much over estimated. Secondly, the
slump in price early in the season
reduced it to a point below the act
ual cost of production in many in
stances. and farmers took the per-
fectly legitimate chance of storing
them for higher prices. Thirdly,
uot only have prices failed to re-
cover as expected. but the abnormal
ly cold weather of the past ten
weeks and the congested traffic con-
ditions have made it impossible to
ship anything so perishable as po-
tatoes safely. Added to these rea-
sons is the fact that thousands of
bushels have frozen in cellars, and
other tens of thousands are still in
the ground under the snow. 1t must
be remembered that the crop of 1916
was largely a failure.-Pennsylvania
Farmer.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-26
Soedier SeMq4

IF YOUR HEART KEEPS RIGHT
If the dark shadows gather. as Won
go along,
Do not grieve for their coming. sing
a CHEEKY song,
There is joy for the taking, it will
soon be light,
Every cloud wears rainbow If vour
heart keeps right.
CHORUS.
If your heart keeps right, If your
heart keeps right,
There's song of gladness in the
darkest night.
II your heart keeps right, IL your
heart keeps right,
Ev'ry cloud will wear a rainbow. If
your heart keeps right.
Is your life just tangle, full of toll
and care,
Smile a bit as you journey, others
burdens share.
Do not take trouble harder than YOU
really might
Skies will grow blue and sunny, IL
your heart keeps right.
Chorus: If your heart keeps right,
etc
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-26
AMERICAS BUSINESS

The righteous sword we can't con-
sign
To dark medieval days,
While Pluto throned in Neptune's
brine
With submarine essays.
To shark-like pierce each Nations
side
And shed her chosen blood.
His Paean creed to be supplied
By bomb and fire and flood.
The Right Divine" is yours and
mine
To keep the freedmen free.
AS David slew in olden time
The boastful enemy.
So we must kill. or suf er death
Through him, the Momus saint.
Who sphinx-like sees the children's
breath
Expire in hunger's faint.
Oh! grant us haste. nor brook de-
lay!
AntdBOHlbn cease.
Our only course is kill to-day,
There's just one path to peace.
That path must lead where sacri-
flee
Ennobles, purifies-
OF men and men-a fleet relief,
Where Mars is lord indeed.
No hymn of hate transcendent here,
But truth that sleepeth not.
When Clotho spurred demands
seer,
Don't be wife of Lot.
Let men the wheel. the food con-
serve
And brace our fighters we'll.
Each knell and dirge a place reserve
For Hun in ''Kultured" He'll.
JOSEPH A. BELL
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-26
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Frank McGrann, the Lancaster
county rural magnate. who is also
a justice of the peace, has set up a
courthouse on his estate for the
transaction of legal bunsiness.
James M. Beck, the former
Philadelphia lawyer, has been hon
ored by election to learned societies
in Lebanon, in honor of his recent
activities.
&C. H. Dewitt, chairman of the
farmers institute for Tioga county
is urging farmers to buy seed wheat
and says that the southeastern coun-
ties have the best.
Charles T. Davies, the Reading
food administrators, says that he
will prosecute farmers who sell their
hens.
-Ex-Congressmen Donahoe and
Logue, of Philadelphia. called up
Congressman Edmunds at Washing
ton on Washington's birthday. 1t
was the birthday of all three.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-26
WE MUST DO IT

A LII who attended last evenings
"A great patriotic rally in Chest
nut street hall were impressed
with the necessity of saving food
especially wheat, beef, bacon and
fats. None of those who heard
George Wharton Pepper, or Lieu
tenant Sutton or Howard Heinz tell
of the needs of our allies will need
any further urging. They will
buckle down to the conservation of
provisions as never before. They
know that victory or defeat hangs in
the balance in which is weighed
our will to save wheat and meat. No
further argument is required for
them.
Unfortunately, the hall was not
large enough to accommodate all
who desired to attend. To those
who could not find seats. as we'll as
to those who made no effort to be
present, the men and women who
attended must carry the message of
sacrifice. Each one who heard the
addresses last night must consti-
tute himself or herself mission
ary to preach the gospel of food
saving. Each must pass the word
to his neighbor. Only, by whole
hearted, earnest, sincere and united
effort to carry out every request of
the food administrators can we meet
the demands made upon us. That
done, we may safely leave the rest to
the boys in the trenches.
But WE MUST do OUR part just
as courageously and just as thor
oughly as WE expect THEM to do
THEIRS.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-26
ALFRED DE ROTHSCHILD WAS
WORLDS RICHEST BACHELOR

minor official whom he encountered
in his journey to and from town. He
was especially in favor with royalty
and societys grand DANES, and his
popularity was not lessened by his
readiness to subscribe generously to
the multifarious charities with which
the world in time of peace amuses
itself. In war times he gave also.
Many of his acts of benevolence, it
is said, were done under the rose"
Mr.. Alfred" did the startling
things aS an entertainer, and society
will miss his week-ends at Halton
Manor. This house is a stately build
ing, on the style of French chateau,
and the rooms are crammed with
valuable bric-a-brac and priceless
curiosities and many Dutch, French
and English paintings which COM
prise one of the extraordinary art
museums in England. When the late
Shah of Persia visited Mr. Roth
schild a few years ago the small boy
who accompanied him everywhere
wrought immense havoc among the
many beautiful things in the various
suites of rooms, and the house had
to undergo a thorough renovation
after the Oriental visitors departed.
Had Private Circus
"Mr. Alfred" had the only private
circus in England installed at Hal
ton. 1t is about one hundred yards
in diameter, palinged off and sur
rounded by beech and other trees. In
the winter it is covered with an i'm
mense tent. At one side, embowered
among the trees, stands the royal
box, rustic building. Inside the tent
are seats and settees which are the
finest product of modern upholstery.
The dressing room is built like a
rustic cottage, with it's thatched
roof, but inside are all the modern
accessories of the ring. In the green
room is a marvellous clock, made like
a tree, which plays tunes, sets silver
birds flying through the branches and
a rivulet of water flowing. He enter
tanned his guests with performing
monkeys, ponies, dogs, gazelles and
trained tumblers and acrobatS.
Often he had a famous musician,
or a prima donna, to entertain his
guests.
At one end of the big house is the
winter garden, surmounted by a
huge crystal dome that sparkles in
the sunlight. In the midst of the
palms and marble statues is the ring
where his private band played.
His beautiful town residence also
contains one of the finest private art
collections in the world. He publish
ed for private circulation two vol
umes containing descriptions and i'll
lustrations of his art treasures.
Thus lived the richest bachelor
and Beau Brummel of the present
day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-26

force is more than three times as
much as the total ordinary life in
surance In force with any life in
surance company in the world.
The splendid result which gives to
more than a million of the soldiers
and sailors of our country the bene-
fits of this insurance, which Secre-
tary McAdoo has justly described as
the most just and humane provision
ever made by any Government for
its fighting men, is due to the quick
appreciation by the beneficiaries of
the value of the insurance and the
invaluable aid patriotically given to
the War-Risk Insurance Bureau OF
the Treasury by the officers of the
Army and Navy. and many of the
individual soldiers and sailors, to
which must be added the earnest and
efficient work of officers and agents
of the insurance companies, frater-
nal beneficiary associations and
many patriotic organizations, not to
mention a very effective newspaper
publicity campaign.
The campaign, which has for its
purpose the insurance of each and
every person entitled to insurance
under the law, will be continued.
The time within which insurance
may be applied for has been extend
ed by a general resolution of Con-
gress, approved by the President,
until April IL, 1918. If you have a
going into the service, see
that he is protected.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-26
LFRED CHARLES DE ROTH

A LFRED CHARLES DE ROTH
~ SCHILD of the banking family
of that name, who died in Lon
don the night of January 81, was
one of those men who apparently
solved the problem of how to be
happy although unmarried. He was
one of the. richest bachelors in the
world.
He was born in 1912, the second
son of the late Baron Lionel de
Rothschild of London. He was a
partner in the family's London
banking house, and was at one time
a director in the Bank of England.
He was educated at Trinity College,
Cambridge.
Few persons seem to get more en-
jcyment out of life than did Alfred
Charles de Rothschild. Possessed of
an enormous fortune, his entertain
ments were among the star features
of the social season in London. He
had magnificent town house in
Seamore Place, and there was no
more popular host in Mayfair. When
not detained in London, he travelled
every evening in his own private
railway car to Halton Manor, his
beautiful country seat near Tring. He
was accompanied by his private
band, which was composed of first
class musicians, and by one of his
secretaries and two Wallets. The band
performed every night after dinner,
mfr. Alfred" as he was universally
called, invariably conducting. Pieces
of his own composition often were
played.
Dilettante in Dress, Music, Art
'Mr. Alfred" was a dapper little
man, of medium height and slim
build, and because he was constitu-
tionally delicate he always had a
medical attendant at close call, and
his amusements We're of a sedentary
nature. He was the most eXquisitely
attired member of the RothSchild
clan, and his most remarkable ply
sical chara cteristic was his conspicu-
ously small feet, which were always
beautifully shod. He was a dilettante
in many things-dress music, drama
and art. In fact, he was a connois-
seur in art, and was a trustee of the
National Gallery. But he kept his
finger on the pulse of business, and
spent the whole time from 10 o'clock
in the morning until late in the aft
ernoon at the banking house, and
thus earned his right to an income
of more than SIS minute.
He was a little autocratic in his
ways, and often evinced his disap-
proval of anything that offended his
artistic eye, having several times
created a sensation by suddenly de-
manding the removal of a gaudy
bunch of flowers from the buttonhole
of some astounded railway porter or
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-26
PUBLIC BACKS COUNCIL

NITY councilmen will find no.
I J body to disagree with them in
their decision that some means
of uniform and systematized collec-
tion of ashes must be found, even
though the bids submitted are in
excess of the sum of money avail
liable. The ashes must be collected
Rnd the present unsightly condition
of the streets is proof positive that
the private property owner cannot
meet the disposal problem as an
individual. 1t was difficult enough
ten years ago to find men to re-
move ashes regularly at anything
like a reasonable figure It is next
TO impossible now. The house
holder is helpless unless council can
devise a uniform method of collec-
ton.
A monthly cleanup, such as has
been suggested, will not do. Few
houses have storage room for a
months accumulation of ashes and
at all events such a practice would
be costly and troublesome.
& Councilmen are facing a difficult
situation. The big problem appears
ito be to find sufficient money with
which to pay contractor the price
he estimates he must have to do
the work. Just how this is to be
solved is not plain. But council will
lind the taxpayers insistent that
some way be found, and ready to
support the city legislators in any
Reasonable plan that may be de-
vised. They know that private COL
Iections would be both unsatisfac-
tory and immensely more expensive
to the individual than disposal by
the city. They agree with council
men in favoring municipal or con-
tract disposal of any cost.
Cut out the meat and buy War
So WING Starnns
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-26
KEEP UP THE BARS

nEOPLE who are advocating the
suspension of all game and fish
laws for the period of the war
as means of providing more food
must have queer ideas of conserva-
ton and still dizzier thoughts on
economy. The time when folks go
to hunt or fish are the periods when
food is least difficult to obtain and
hardly one person in a thousand is
in a position to have the flesh of
game or fish stored against the late
winter months and the early spring,
when the food conditions are
troublesome. Furthermore, how long
would the trout, bass, salmon or
other fish last If every man or wo-
man or youngster was allowed to
fish with net or throw dynamite
into streams to kill fish in the easier
and wholesale way? And where
would the deer, quail, pheasants,
rabbits and woodcock be in one year
If we could shoulder gun any day
and shoot them?
The State of Pennsylvania has
spent millions to replenish the
streams with fish and it's hatchery
establishments are embarking upon
a program of greatest usefulness.
The hunters of the State have been
contributing over a quarter of q
million dollars a year the last five
years for protection and propaga-
ton of game and the game code is
being commented upon as one of the
best in the land.
The war has been used as an ex-
cuse for much inefficiency and we
have been asked to put up with
some conditions, which in other
times would be inexcusable, and
about which we have doubts now,
all because of the war. If trains
fail to make schedules, trolley cars
are late or lights go out, mails
late or milk sour, apples dear or
oysters small we are told it is due
to the war. But in all the glittering
array of things for which the war
is given as a reason the worst
would be throwing away the work
and money of years on stream and
in forest. By all means keep up
the bars on the pot hunter and fish
pirate.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-26
COMMUNITY SONG

HARRISBURG tried community
singing for the first time last
Il 4 evening and liked the expert
ment immensely. After the great
patriotic rally at Chestnut street hall
no similar gathering ever will be
complete without it's half-hour of
preliminary community singing.
Nothing so heartens people as
song. Singing we unconsciously rise
TO new heights of feeling, to fresh
resolves of increased endeavor, to
closer fellowship and human SYM
=pathy. Rotary clubs are noted ev-
erywhere for their life, energy and
will to serve, but no Rotary meeting
would be complete without it's sing
Ing. A singing church is a vigorous,
active church. A singing army is a
hard-fighting, never-say-die win-at-
hny-price army. Men sing when
they are happy, and when they go
Into battle; they sing from a full
heart or in a spirit of high resolve.
Fhey sing in triumph or to hurl
back into the teeth Of adverse fate
kheir defiance of ill-fortune and of
aeath itself.
Last nights community singing
knit the neighborhood bonds a little
bloser. brought those who partici-
pated more nearly all to the same
evel of thought and purpose. We
bhould have more of it. To that
snd the Telegraph proposes to hire
band and to invite the choir-lead-
srs and people of Harrisburg to join
In an afternoon and evening of pa
Lriotic community song at Reservoir
Park some day next summer.
Chnar mi Rnrnnrnhnr H. aa-l---.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-26
MILLION MEN INSURED

THE United States has suddenly
lI developed into the greatest
life Insurance agency in the
|Torld. In a period of less than six
nonths it has gone into the busi-
ess and written insurance covering
Isks of more than $4,000, ,000,-
90 on the lives of more than 1,OOO,-
90 men about to engage in the ex-
remely hazardous occupation of
busting the Hun from France. The
amount of Government insurance in
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-26
EDITORIAL COr1r1ENT

The impression grows that when
Germany gets ready to withdraw
from Belgium she will try to take
most of Belgium with her.-Indian-
apolis News.
When Congress warns up on
questions of strategy we get a vivid
sense of what Is meant by the mill
tary inefficiency of democracy
Springfield Republican.
We see nothing inherently i'm
probable in the story that Won Hin
denburg told thirty German editors
that he would be in Paris on April
New York Evening Post.
The "four-minute men" have been
instructed to cut out the hate in
their addresses. Proper enough.
Nobody can crowd even a fair-sized
hate into four minutes.-Chicago
Herald.
It is curious how many critics
there are who have access to sources
of information which are denied to
Secretary Baker.-Springfield Re-
publican.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-26
DEMOCRACY VS.. THE HUN

From north and south of Dixon's
line
The sons of Uncle Sam,
Have answered to their Country's
call
TO do, or die, like mon.
Forgotten now the deadly feud of
1861,
No bitter fight twixt brothers
But man against the Hun.
Whose sabre rattling turbulence
And dream of conquest vast,
Have made of them a pariah
Detested, and outcast.
Nor shall the sword be laid at rest
Though half the world be bled,
Til restitution be enforced
And lust for gore have sped.
And justice done to gallant France.
The Hun be forced to see
Autocracy is doomed to die.
4 world Democracy.
Il. w. W., Harrisburg.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-26
The Local Option Elections
Pittsburgh Gazette-Times]

Complete returns of the local op-
ton elections in a number of AL
legheny county boroughs and town.
ships are instructive. In the 16
municipal divisions reporting the
1918 vote fell off almost 500 from
that cast in 1915. Three years ago
there was some fear on the part of
the "drys" that the "wets" might
put something over" An effort was
made to get out the vote, but it was
not much more successful than is
usually the case in special elections.
The vote in favor of license was ap-
proXimately 2S per cent of the total;
this year the wet" vote fell to ap-
proximately 81 per cent.
If this proves nothing of change
of sentiment it does establish one
fact desidedly encouraging to the
advocates of prohibition. That is
that, on the whole, communities
which are free from saloons have
little wish to introduce them. 1t is
not likely the mo license" vote cast
on Tuesday came altogether from
total abstainers, but it may be as
sumed that 1t represented sentiment
which will be largely influential in
determining results wherever the
people are privileged" to vote on the
liquor question. Men, not addicts
to alcohol, who drink intoXicants In
moderation, are always suspicious of
the self-control of others who do
the same. They are more nationally
conscious than extremists at either
end of the controversy of the effects
of the saloon. Their concern is the
protection of their home communi-
ties from the evils, especially protec-
ton of their own children from sa-
loon influences. Hence, where op-
portunity presents to express them
selves on the liquor question locally
applied, they are against licenEe. The
selflshness of this attitude is appar-
ent, but it need not discourage any
in anticipation of submission of the
question to the state at large, as will
be done in the Pennsylvania legisla-
ture primaries this spring. Mode
rate drinkers will decide the issue.
They win decide whether or no they
are willing to give up liquor for all
time, as they now go without 1t most
of the time. The consideration of a
Eyes" vote will be the same as that
which constrains their kind in the
local option districts to vote against
license-protection of their children.
It ought to be conclusive in favor
of the greatest human interest and
no doubt will be.
The Allegheny county local option
districts are guideposts for the ad-
yocates of ratification throughout
the State.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-26

The Russian situation reminds one
of the katy-did, katy-didn't chorus of
an early August day in the country.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-26

Mediation by the Federal Govern
ment of Labor has averted strikes
that would involve thousands of men
engaged in war work, according to
a report covering the last three
months.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-26

We quite agree with Kipling that
after the war there will be but two
races on the planet-the human race
and the Germans.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-26
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY %. 1918

1t costs much to be capable of real
friendship, but those a1ho are iCouId
De ashamed to be >othertoiSe and
sGther suffer than be t,rcdpGble.-
FENELoN.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-26

Some folks like to date their fami-
lies back to William the Conqueror.
but few will take any pride in as
sociation with William the Murderer.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-26

THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.,
telegraph Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-26
LABOR NOTES

The Mississippi Terminal
Company and the Texas and Pacific
Railroad have increased wages of
their railway clerks $3.50 a month.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-26

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
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, 1918-02-26
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg is sending
food to half a dozen camps and
some abroad as well as caring
for it's own fairly well? But 1t
needs to conserve more.
HISTORIC. HARRISBURG
Lindley Murray, the grammarian
was raised at FaESis Ferry.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-26

E.J. .STACKPoLE.P Prss't s. Editor-in- Chief
=. r. OYSTER. Business Manager.
GUS M. STEINMETZ, Mondging Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-26

The buying power of the dollar
has been reduced 40 per cent. in
the last 10 years and the average
prices for the same period have risen
SO per cent.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-26

Boilermakers employed by Los
Angeles, Cal, have secured wage in
creases of 6h cents an hour, with
another increase of 2h cents on
February /.