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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-26
LABOR NOTES

A letter carrier in Altoona, Pa,
has completed thirty-five years serv-
ice, during which he walked 1884,
400 miles.
Through the cooperation of
state labor agents and the Federal
Department of agriculture, the
problem of farm labor is we'll on
its way to solution.
Laborers employed at the Cough
Ian & Sons shipyard at Vancouver,
b. c., are joining the union of this
calling, following an all-union
agreement with this concern.
A million women to act as home
guards and take the places of men
who are in the Army is the aim OF
the Womens National Home Guard
of Am merica, organized in st. Louis
The Brotherhood of Railway Car
men reports that A new lodges
we're established during the month
of October. being more than in any
preceding month in its history.
The $500 members of the Gran,
lite Cutters Union in the Barre, VT,
uibbIlCI Will De duNdHCGu twenty per
cent. in wages beginning April 1.
Aberdeen, Wash, Typographical
Union has raised wages fifty cents
day for it's members employed on
newspapers. The new rates are 81
| for day work and $3.50 for night
work.
Wages for women engaged in the
fish canning industry in California
have been fixed by the State Indus.
trial Welfare Commission at n min.
imum of $40 week for forty Eight
hours.
Protection for labor after the
war. by u policy of preparedness
against foreign competition, was de.
manded by the American Federation
in convention in Buffalo.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-26

! but if the money is wasted and the
war delayed, if the powers are inef-
fective, we should be traitors indeed
if we sat silent and allowed the coun-
| try to drift to disaster because we
were afraid that somebody would
| call us treasonable."-Fro the Kan
sas City Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-26
Times Haze Chnnned

We miss that usual winter story
about the Kansans burning corn in
their pRrlor stoves.-F'rum the Ro-
chester IN. II Herald.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-26

The ingratitude of Republics! We
have already forgotten Funston, who
died of broken heart on the Mexican
frontier. Shall we forget Gardner as
quickly?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-26

task being so enormous Is an argu-
ment in favor of the most liberal
action by those charged with these
unparalleled tasks.
All political considerations must
be cast aside. Men of pre-eminent
fitness without regard to party or
political preference must be sum-
moned to the places of authority
and power. Little men bobbing
about in big places must be dis
missed for the good of the Nation.
President Wilson must begin to
see that the unlimited backing OF
inefficient men is not the best evil
dence of executive ability. The de-
mands of the hour are so great that
individuals do not count. Personal
loyalty has nothing whatever to do
with the case.
Theodore II. Price. in recent ar
ucle on Optimism and ECONOMY
the Duties of the New Year. re-
ferred to the suggested removal of in
competents in the Government war
machine and observed that the num-
ber is SO small is really remarkable
when we consider how rapidly the
barnacles gather upon ship that
is not in motion and that our snip
of state has been lying IN the an
chorage of peace for half century
or more.
Mr.. Price also observes that ever
since the Pilgrims landed from the
Mayhower our housecleanins mas
been conducted in sensatlonal
manner. "The carpets" he adds,
"are pulled up and beaten with
much noise. A great deal OF dust
is unnecessarily raised. The rurnl-
ture is put in the yard. The pic
lures are taken down and the house
generally looks like lightning had
struck it. In the end, however, 1t
is well cleaned and we are all bet
ter of for the agony to which we
have been subjected. In politics
and governmental matters gener-
ally we pursue much the same
course and it is to be hoped that
our idiosyncrasy in this respect will
be understood and not misunder-
stood abroad, especially in Ger
many"
There is undoubtedly much of
truth in what Mr.. Price says and
the flareup over the Garfield decree
and the Chamberlain charges
may in the end prove a blessing If
it stirs our people to o full appre-
citation of the responsibilities of
the United States in this war.
Regarding the fuel situation the
same .writer says:
As to coal. we are now produc-
ing more of 1t than ever before
in our history, but we are trylnS
10 run our factories and our rail-
roads upon the theory that they
can produce and transport the
twenty-five billion dollars worth
of goods that we consumed IN
peace times ard the additional
fifteen billions worth of war equip
ment that we suddenly find our
selves in need of. We simply
can't do 1t. That is all.
Manifestly, 1t is going to be neces-
sary for the American people to
quit theorizing about the war and
place themselves squarely on a war
basis, doing their utmost to achieve
the victory which is inevitable, but
which may be long deferred unless
our own people prepare back of the
line to do the things which their
bows at the front are ready to do.
There is no use getting either too
optimistic or too pessimistic. We
must simply grit our teeth and go
into this war with a full determin-
alton to win just and righteous
peace.
Aue+ria has grown weary of the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-26

Austria has grown weary of the
tvrannical domination of the dual
monarchy by the Prussian autocracy.
Austrians in this country are likewise
tired Of the Way their country has
been exploited by the Pottsdam gang.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-26
SATURDAY, JANUARY 2s, 1918

III CON e0so orc life the achin0,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fG!nting robin
Unto his nest again,
shall not Iive in Vdin.
EMILY DICKINSON.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-26
DO YOU KNOW

THAT South Harrisburg is
making steel for many lines of
governmental activity?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-26
Reused
A Young Lady's Rise

A Young Lddy'S Rise
She was standing at
The counter,
The young lady was,
And her purse.
She had left
. On the chair.
She sat down,
Sitting, OF course,
On the purse.
But she rose suddenly
with on exclamation.
Her purse. you see,
Contained her
Pin money.
Detroit Free Prxz
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-26
uTSToRIC uARRTeRTrRC

HISJOhIO HARRISBURG
South Second street used to be
the center for printing and leather
q century ago.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-26

The Democratic party whip shows
signs of fraylng at the ends.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-26

Protection for labor after the
war, by policy of preparedness
against foreign competition, was de-
manded by the American Federation
in convention in Buffalo.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-26
OUR DAILY LAUGH
NO TIME TO
RRFORM.

Mr.. Crouch
/ tell you, you
will have to cut
down on your
extravaganza -
this pace will
ruin us!
Mrs. Crouch
(pouting)
m | 6 hit h a V e
waited till after
Xmas to men,
ton 1t.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-26

A letter carrier in Altoona, Pa,
has completed thirty-fve years serv-
ice, during which he walked 1884,
400 miles.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-26

The state authorities have decided
that the preparation OF the Capitol
mark extension for the landscape
work will not intefere with any war
work and flling at the rate of 200
cubic yards a day is to be ordered
shortly, the filling to be cinder from
mills. Meanwhile the detailed plans
will be pushed along and filling made
the big object this summer. The
appropriations are available and as
soon as weather improves any men
made idle in industries can be taken
care of.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-26

Through the cooperation of
state labor agents and the Federal
Department of agriculture, the
problem of farm labor is we'll on
its way to solution.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-26

Laborers employed at the Cough
Ian &S Sons shipyard at Vancouver,
b. c., are joining the union of this
calling. following an all-union
agreement with this concern.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-26

There are fewer revivals being
held in this county now than at any
time in twenty years." said a man
who follows religious movements.
"For years January has been 1ls, lhe
time for the revivals In TINS city
and in the smaller towns, while pro-
tracted meetings have been usual in
country churches. Now they are
lucky to have enough coal for ordl-
nary services"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-26

OF-IO-DAlAs u
Bug Hey Bi11
II you want
some jan1- you'll
have to 60 "over
the topt7
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-26

Commenting upon Sergeant Hus-
tn1's weather observations on Sun
days. q friend goes the Rockville
man some better. He says that the
mercury, by a singular coincidence
has gone below zero on the last -four
consecutive Sundays. This friend
saws that, beginning with the record
cold day in February, 1912, when
Temperature went to twelve below
zero, all of the really cold days since,
M least the zero days, have been
Sundays. with one or two eXcep-
fiOnR
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1918-03-22

War Savings Stamp, you will be given War Savings Certificate. This has spaces for 20 stamps Thus, when full, the certificate will have a cash value of $1OOOO on January 1st, 1923.
 The interest paid you on War Savings Stamps is equivalent to 4% compounded quarterly, if you keep your stamps for years If you should need this ten days written notice with interest approximately 3. by presenting your War Savings Certificate with stamps attached, at Money Order Postoffice.
 The 25 cent Thrift Stamps, however, are not re- deemable except in exchangefor War Savings Stamps.
 It is the desire of the Treasury Department of the United States to have every man, and child participate in the War Savings Plan by buying Thrift Stamps and War Savings Stamps regularly. Parents are asked to encourage children to save and buy these stamps help win the war!
 You order War Savings Stamps and Thrift Stamps by mail from your nearest Postofce. Note the coupon below. Fill it out-stating the number and kind of stamps you want-and mail 1t to the nearest Postmaster Your letter carrier will deliver the stamps and collect the amount Place your order at once. WHo Saves, Seyzes|
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1918-03-22
Lend Uncle Sam $4.14 Today , Years From Now He'll Pay You $500

TN OFFERING Var Savings S1anzps ana 7H,1t9
 Stambsto the public, the United States Government
 presents to every man, woman and child an oppor- tunty for profitable simple and secure investment War Savings Stamps Baby Bonds" Back of them the entire of the Government and people of the United States. They enable you to invest your su,oAxs savings in Government Securities paying equivalent to 4% compounded quarterly.
 You need not begin with large amount. You can buy U. s. Government Thrift Stamps at 25c each When you buy your first Thrift Stamp you will be given Thrift Card. Each Thrift Card has spaces for 16 stamps. When you have filled Thrift Card it may be exchanged fora $500 War Savings Stamp at any Postoffice, Bank or other authorized agency, by adding IA cents in cash if exchanged prior to April 1st 1918, and 1c ad-. ditional each month thereafter. Thus $500 War Savings Stamp will have cost you $41 14 Gf purchased before April 1st,; 1918). On Janu- ary lst, 1923, the United States Government will pay you $5 for each War Savings Stamp you own. Under the law no person may hold such stamps in excess of $ ,OOO maturity value)
 If you prefer you may buy the $5 War Saw ings Stamps outright. When you buy your first
New-York tribune., 1918-01-14

earnings of almost any business
from year to year when these are
reduced to a percentage on the total
active capital employed. So, for ex-
ample, if the average earnings be-
fore the war Of the Steel Corpora
ton were around 7 per cent on it's
capitalization, as shown on its books,
and this year amounted to about 80
per cent, it would be very simple to
take series of graded shares of this
excess, say, 10 per cent on the first
fifth Of the excess, 20 per cent of the
next, and so on. Then there would
be no need to bother about increases
of capital or Of actual investment
through earnings returned. All this
would automatically take care of it.
self in the percentage.
But if a method so simple as this
be beyond the arithmetical capacity
of the members Of the Ways and
Means Committee, certainly Senator
Smoot's amendment should not be,
and the latter represents a vast i'm
provement over the present law.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-14
5,698,945 Tons of
Hard Coal Shipped
During December

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 13.-Thc ship
ments of anthracite in December, 1917,
as reported to the Anthracite Bureau
of Information, amounted to 5,69S,945
tons. This is a remarkable showing for
December, when the difficulties encoun-
tered as 4 result of the recent unusu-
ally severe cold weather are considered.
The weather affected seriously all Of
the varied working conditions in and
about all the mines, and some had to
suspend operations entirely. Despite
these handicaps the December ship.
ments were 1l6,19S tons more than in
December of the preceding year, and
they helped to round out a remarkable
record for this banner year in the his
tory Of the industry.
The total shipments for the calendar
year of 1917 amounted to 77,133,3O5
tons. an increase Of 3,756941 tons, or
more than IA per cent over the amount
sent to market in 1916. The 1917 fig
ures exceed those of the previous rec
ord year (191D by 7,179006 tons.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-14
Smoot Amendment Would Greatly
Improve Excess Profits ak Law.
But Rates Proposed Are TooHigh
Workable and Fair in Principle, but Tax Will be Unduly
Burdcnsomc to Many Corporations if the 80 Per
Cent mpost on Excess Above 90 Per Cent Is
Adoptcd-Simpler Way Would Be to Deal
With Percentages Instead Of Amounts

out in The Tribune Of December 2,
it left the determination of the
actual amounts to be paid by differ
cnt individuals, firms and corpora
tions to>thc discretion of Mr.. Roper,
the Commissioner Of Internal Reve-
nuc, and MIR. McAdoo and their as
sistants. And, as there are several
hundred thousand Of these firms and
companies to pay the taxes, it will be
seen what an immense amount of
labor and what an immense number
Of new oificeholders the law calls
for.
But, more than all this, by reason
of its vagucness, the law opened up
HAY, invited-thc most enormous
temptation to blackmail on corpora
tions and business that could be con-
ccived. pointed out, for example,
that, under different interpretation
of the law, the tax which the United
States Steel Corporation must pay
this year might be anywhere from,
say, 1926, 100000 to at least $685.
100000 more than that. Now, null
tiply this instance by several hun
dred thousand, and you will gain an
idea of what vicious clement the
law injects into our national politics.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-14
A Simple Way
To Impose the Tax

And it was all quite needless. 1t
is not at all difficult to find out what
the average firm or company has
been earning in pre-war years and
what it earned last year. Thou
sands of these companies make up
such statements and send these to
their shareholders. 1t would have
seemed simple matter to say that
we would take the pre-war earnings
as base and fix a graded tax upon
the excess earnings over this aver
age. Then any business man, or
even many politicians and office-hold-
ers, could tell in a very few minutes
exactly the tax which any given
company would have to pay. No
chance for blaclmail or laundering
or injustice. This is what England
has done, and, while it has made
many exceptions to this simple rule,
in the endeavor to distribute the
burden as evenly as possible, the law
works smoothly and without engen-
dering bitterness.
To achieve the same end, Senator
Reed Smoot has introduced an
amendment aiming to reform this
curious law. 1t says in effect that
if, for example, the United States
Steel Corporation had average net
earnings in certain pre-war years Of,
say, hundred and thirty million a
year, and this year it's earnings are
five hundred and thirty millions, then
of the first 10 per cent of these excess
war profits the government would
take 10 per cent, 1919 per cent on
the next ten, Is per cent on the next
ten, and so on up to 80 per cent on
the amount Of these excess profits in
New-York tribune., 1918-01-14
Pan-Gerrnans Oppose
The Channel Tunnel
See Menace in Proposed Link
ing of England and

English control and operation Of any
tunnel that may be constructed under
the English Channel. connecting Eng.
land with France, as has been pro-
posed, will be violently opposed by the
pan German element in Germany, ac-
cording to information obtained from
German newspapers that have been re-
ceived here. Vice-Admiral Krchoff. a
retired naval officer, recently launched
the subject in the pan-German weekly
crgan, "Das Grossere Deutschland"
After arguing that chanel under
British control would be a terrible
military menace to Germany, the ad-
miral talks Of the great Importance
which such channel would have in
time of peace. He says:
at woulG b. built with four lines Of
rails, and so would not only serve for
passenger traffic, but would carry a
great part of the goods traffic to the
Continent. For many special commodi-
ties, even if they ere brought from far
in the interior, double loading and un-
loading will no longer be necessary:
this viii apply especially to most os
the shipments from North Sea and
Channel ports. On the one hand, that
will save much time and money-har-
Dor dues, transport costs, labor, etc
On the other hand, it will release a
great deal of tonnage for other pur-
poses and other areas, and all over
strain of English ports will In future
be impossible. England will then be
more free in mary other respects con-
cerning trade and transport; she will
have more tonnage at disposal and for
eign sea trade will thereby be injured
All these things are OF very great i'm
portance for England in the future.
when she will have to face severe com
petition from America and japan.
'ln this way, not only army and
navy, but, above all, shipbulding. shin
ping, trade and industry would obtain
great advantages from q Channel TIM
rel, and it would press veyy hard on
the Continental StnteA
New-York tribune., 1918-01-14
China Sends First
Shipment of Beef Here

One million pounds Of Chinese beef,
the first considerable meat importa-
tion from the Orient in the history of
the United States, was brought to San
Francisco few days ago on an army
transport. 1t hqs been stored by the
depot quartermaAer for future use of
soldiers in the Western Department in
Il cold storage plant.
The beef was purchased by the army
for men in the Philippines. 1t was
transshippcd from Manila when it was
found military needs on the islands
were oversuppliod.
Experts have pronounced the meat
equal in quality to American beef.
Army authorities inspected the cattle
before they were taken to the slaugh
ter house in China and supervised the
storage of the beef before it was
shipped to the United States. Federal
authorities inspected the meat again
sitter it was taken from the storage
plant on the transport
Small quantities of Chinese beef fre-
quently have been received in San
Francisco for the army. TRANSPORTS
leaving the islands are supplied bv
me Manila quartermaster, who has
LIS hecf from China 600 miles away.
When the vessels reach San Francisco
they turn over to quartermasters
about the city supplies not used on the
single voyage.
But the big shipment received the
other day Is the first sent across thc
ocean expressly for the use of Amer
iean soldiers in the United States II
Is believed to represent also the first
Importation since tho war was declared
Of any kind of food for troops in the
q states.
There is no reason why Chinese
beef should not be as good as Amer
ican beef an expert familiar with
conditions in the Orient said ycster-
day.
Before the war it was explained
soldiers in the Philippines were sup
piled largely by importations from
Australia. But when Britain placed
an embargo Oh beef shipments the
army turned to China.
Declaring that mcatlcss TUESDAYS
have forced them to feed herds that
might better be slaughtered, from an
economical standpoint, Pacific Coast
cattlemen have objected to the big
importation of Chinese beef. They
say the regulations of the food adj
minlstration have imposed on them
aardships that might be relieved
partly by government purchases in
this country instead Of IN tina ox4.As-
New-York tribune., 1918-01-14
About Walking Sticks

The United Kingdom has long taken
the lead in the manufacture Of walking
sticks, and large proportion Of the
output was made of raw material grown
in the British Isles, such as ash, chest
nut, oak and similar woods. The i'm
portation of finished sticks has always
been small, but before the war cor
siderable amount Of raw or partly
finished material was imported, such as
malacca canes, ebony, wanghees, rool
bamboo, nilgherri, ETC. Cherry sticks
and what is known as Congo" WOOD
were formerly imported from Germany
and Austria, where they are grovH
For time after the outbreak Of war
the stocks on hand met the demand, but
gradually the trade has become more
dependent upon home grown goods, anu
consequently a greatly increased de-
mand for domestic raw material has
arisen. The military vogue has also
had great effect on the style Of walking
sticks, and there has been large de-
mand during the last two or three
years for sticks ard canes for mllitar!
use. AS regards prices, il has been
found that both labor and materlai
have had q steady upward tendency
since the war began. Some canes anu
sticks which were largely used have IN
creased 100 per cent in cost, and Ger
tain OF the better kinds are now prae-
tically unobtainaDle. Generally SPEAK
ing, it may be said that an approx
mate advance of 25 per cent in price
has taken place on the lower grade
goods and probably 80 to 40 per cen.
on the higher qualities. Increasing
difficulty is also being experienced by
British manufacturers in obtaining SUI
ticient supplies of metal fittings, ma
terials for umbrella frames and textile
materials for urnhrella cn,ers