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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-09
THE CANDY INDUSTRY

@ OMEBODY has asked why, with
sugar scarce and high in price
the government doesn't close the
candy factories of the country in
stead of merely curtailing their ont
put. The question is eaeily answered.
From recently compiled accurat 70
statistics it is shown the candy in
dustry of the United States has ex-
panded with great rapidity. Sixty-fve
years ago less than 400 establish
ments were needed to supply the
American demand for factory-made
sweets. Their aggregate capital was
a little more than S1,0OO,OOO, the
value of the products not much over
S3,OOO,00O. On the basis of a popu-
lation of 100000 this meant an
annual per capita expenditure of
only thirteen cents, there being
practically no foreign trade in con-
fectionery then. To-day, assuming
that the industry has maintained
during the last two years the same
rate of growth as in the five-year
period, 1909-1914. the industry en-
braces over 2,50O establishments, rep-
resents the investment of $4,000
500 capital and turns out confections
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-09
Over tie 1oEo
;~ Penna.

Pennsylvania golfers, with the
first break of fine weather, cast a
hungry eye on the beloved links.
Even distant Fulton county is seized
with the golfers fever, says q country
correspondent from that region.
Josh Orner, our local humorist,"
he reports, says that one O. these
line days he's goin' to tn city an
wear fountain pen and play that
corniieid pool at one O. them country
clubs"
We always fancied Bellefonte as
an aristocratic, ancient town famed
for its wealth, social caliber and gov
ernors. Now it appears you have to
look sharp up there to escape the
bears. Jack Dickens nearby Belle
fonte the other morning was awak-
ened by crash of his kitchen Win
dow. A large black bear had walk
ed in and was leisurely masticating
the days rations of mush and milk.
Things certainly happen out in
Greensburg. The janitor of the
public school building was sweeping
out the primary room the other
evening when he spied bit of news
paper which informed him that he
was heir to half of 5000, 900 fortune
from an ancient uncle whom he had
not heard from in 40 years. Thus
we learn not to spurn the job of
janitor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-09
THE PEOPLES FORUM

with each other and formulate plans
TO do something worth while along
this line. We may think much, write
much and talk much, but the writer
thinks it is time to do much.
To do this work there must neces-
sarily be some expense, even though
the musicians in charge donate their
services. There must be the pur-
chase of community song pamphlets,
which may be secured at small cost,
and small amount to cover neces-
sary printing. So far as the writer
can think, this is about all of the
expense attendant to starting this big
movement for good in this city.
OF course these choruses might
meet in the open air, in the summer,
but with the present zero weather,
one must realize that either the use
of churches or school auditoriums
must be donated for this purpose.
Such an enterprise must have a
backing. as such work is usually
started by a university or some or
ganization. Having had experience
aIong this line of work, and know
ing just what it means to the pub
lie and community at large, it is
without hesitation that the writer
asks that either the Chamber of
Commerce, the Civic Club or some
public-spirited person or persons,
send a check to the Harrisburg Tele-
graph to start and maintain this very
important branch of civic and social
work in this city.
So much has been written on the
wonderful influence of community
singing that it is rather unnecessary
to say more. However, there is one
thing we should keep we'll in mind,
namely. that if the government of
the United States thinks such work so
important to those in the service of
our country, as to appoint chorus di-
rectors for the camps, then 1t is just
as important to teach people to sing
in the masses, in their homes and
in their own city.
In this day and age every thriv-
ing city has it's small choruses and
its big, get-together community
chorus. 1t is a matter of much in
terest to know the splendid work of
Dean Nevin, of Kansas University,
who has made a state sing: Prof.
Peter w. Dykema, of the University
of Wisconsin has made the entire
state of Wisconsin sing; Harry Barn
hart has made New York City sing,
and our nations capital is doing
wonderful work in community sing
ing.
People of Harrisburg, let Harris
burg sing.
SALOME w. SANDERS,
232 Maclay st.
February s, 1918.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-09
AS TO BANKRUPTCIES
Eait0I Of The TcIegrabh:

10 ihc E0iiO, of the Telegraph:
We have failed to see any article
IN your valued paper of the bank
ruptcy of the Charles f. Bard Player
Piano Co. some three or four weeks
ago at Elizabethville, Pa, where he
hnally located. The company was
organized in this city and was To-
Gated here for some time. Previous
70 this Charles e. Bard was superin-
tendent of the C. NJ. Sigler Player
Action Co.
We have also failed to see any
article concerning the bankruptcy of
the {. NJ. Sigler Player Action Co.,
January 80, 1918. Both of the above
firms are now bankrupt and the bus
mess public is certainly entitled to
some information concerning them.
The heads of these action COM
panfes certainly were not backward
about taking up your valuable. space
when the companies were organized.
1t would make very interesting read
ing to all those people who were
promised a gilt-edged investment,
II they would come across.
The writer does not consider a
lawyers notice of bankruptcy, in
very fine type, an item of news to
the business public.
A CITIZEN.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-09
THE DIFFERENCE

Since a great many parallels are
being drawn Just now between the
position of President Wilson and his
Cabinet and the position of Presi-
dent Lincoln and his Cabinet, it is
just as we'll that there should be no
mistake about the facts.
President Lincoln, who entered
office with the idea that war might
be averted, made up his Cabinet of
three former Wings and four former
Democrats. He himself had been n
Whig. Extreme Republicans re-
garded the Cabinet with distrust.
The Secretary of the Navy, Gideon
Welles, was still a Democrat on
everything but the slavery question.
The Secretary of the Interior Ca
leb b. Smith, was an amiable gentle-
man and a personal acquaintance of
the Presidents, who had served in
Congress with him. But he proved
to have no great executive capacity,
and his tenure of the office was soon
terminated for that reason. The Sec
retary of War, Simon Cameron, was
a man of great political influence
and had considerable abilities, but
they did not lie in the direction of
administration. He was patriotic
enough, but his vision was narrow,
and under him the War Department
was not we'll administered.
In less than a year after his ap-
pointment, Cameron was obliged to
leave the Cabinet. In appointing his
successor the President did not ap-
point a former Whig or a former
Democrat. He appointed man who
was still a Democrat and a violent
opponent and virulent personal critic
of himself. This man, Edwin NJ.
Stanton, had cut the President to
the heart with his bitter abuse; he
had described him as "the original
gorilla" and on one occasion he had
insulted the future President open
ly, refusing to be associated with him
in a lawcase. He had given his
reasons for this refusal in the most
cutting, blistering terms. AS DEM
ocrat he had been associated with
the Buchanan wing of the party, tho
one which Lincoln held in detesta-
tion.
He was appointed solely because
the President believed him to be
possessed of great executive capa-
city, and in spite OF fhe fact that
his personality was disagreeable and
offensive. Later on the President
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-09
TWO-CENT NEWSPAPERS

New York publishers held to the
penny price through a period of
great stress, in which costs of every
kind were steadily mounting. They
rejected the overtures ofPhiladelphia
publishers, who urged them, months
ago, to abandon the penny price.
They continued to play with that
sort of fire which leaves the most
cruel burns-economic fire. Day by
day they continued to sell their man.
ufactured product at a price which
did not meet the cost of the raw
materials" But says the Editor and
Publisher, they have accepted the
inevitable and all have gone to two
cents.
1t was understood that last year
the Federal Trade Commission sent
representatives to New York in an
effort to induce the publishers to go
to two cents as a means of conserv-
ing news print, and after Philadel-
phia papers raised they sent delega-
tions on several occasions to try to
bring about the increase, but to no
avail, although all the papers did
raise prices outside New York.
Advertisers, local and national,
have favored the higher price for
newspapers, and notably the Asso-
citation of National Advertisers has
gone on record as advocating it. talk
ing the ground that any loss accru-
ing to circulation as the result of in
creasing prices is to be considered
really beneficial rather than detri-
mental to their interests.
The advertising director of n great
New York Department Store says:-
"At two cents / firmly believe that
much duplicate circulation would be
eliminated, and the results remain
from every point of view unchanged.
Then circulation will mean some
thing. The paper at two cents will
be more highly priced. more thor
oughly perused, and If it has an in
fiuence and a following. more effect
i've in it's education of that following
And, above all, in these days of
strenuous endeavor to reduce waste
duplicate circulation is uneconomic.
Paper is high, forests are becoming
/ depleted, distribution costs are rising
and the endeavor to sell two papers
where one would suffice is not a
practice to be encouraged.
I'm many lines an increase of
| turnover or of production results in
a reduction of overhead. Not so
with the newspapers, every copy of
which means loss.
"The cure for this evil, believe,
lies in the raising of the price of the
newspapers to the reader, so that
cost shall be covered.
THE consumer pays the advertis-
ing bill, whether he realizes it or not
but we in this country have in the
past preferred indirect taxation to
| direct; like the ostrich, if we could
not see, we feared not.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-09
STOP SPOILING THE PARK

THE practice of dumping snow
indiscriminately in the River
Front Park should be stopped.
To be sure, the snow problem is
puzzling those whose duty it Is TO
keep the streets clear and there is
no reason why the snow should not
be shoveled over the concrete steps.
where it would melt and run into the
river, the residue of mud and street
fifth being left to be carried off bv
the first spring freshet. There are
approaches to the river at Verbelxe
Bcas and Market streets, where
wagons can get down to the river.
Commissioner Gross should see TO II
that this is done. To permit the
dumping of dirty snow anywhere in
the park is to encourage the DUNN
ing of garbage and ashes there also.
This has happened in previous wears
and there is no reason to believe thot
the present will be an execution
Ashes are needed on the river hank
above Maclay street, but there is
no place for them below that point
where the parking above the steps
has been completed and planted.
This park has cost the people of
Harrisburg a lot of money and they
do not propose to have it ruined by
careless or wreckless persons to
whom parks mean little or nothing.
1t may be necessary one of these
days to make an example of those
who flagrantly violate the best in
terests of the city.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-09

posed to usurp power. A $4,000 city
job, presumably for Franklin p.
Booth, former director of the sup
plies department, was voted for yes
terday by the councilmanic finance
committee and inserted into the
1913 budget. The new job is to be
in new division of investigation, to
be in sole control of Council, taking
the place of the Bureau of Efficiency
Standards and eliminating the place
OF chief of efficiency standards, now
held by Peter p. Shevlin.
John NJ. Carr, a Hazleton law
yer, has caused it to be heralded
abroad that he is a candidate for
Republican nomination for Con-
Eress at large. So is Isador Sobel,
former postmaster of Erie.
B. +. Ruth, the Reading coun-
Gilman who has been kicking up all
kinds of fuses, is former Bull
Moose leader of Berks and wants to
be mayor of Reading.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-09
MORE WORK; LESS WASTE

n NE day we are told to save every
penny possible-in order to
buy Liberty Bonds and thus
help win the war.
The next day we are informed that
the only way to win the war is to keep
business going full. tilt-and to do
this we must spend in an open-hand-
ed and carefree manner, like the
once famous Coal Oil Johnny" or
the proverbial drunken sailor"
There are arguments on both sides,
but neither embraces all the truth.
Between the two lies the wise course.
1t is true we must save to buy
bonds. But if we. save to n point
where we do not purchase what we
need, the merchant and the manu-
facturer, the factory worker and the
clerk, have that much less money
and they, therefore, have no cash for
bonds. Therefore, it becomes evil
dent that, if business is not to be
stagnated we must not become a ma
ton of mere money-grubbing misers.
we III America have tremendous
resources. The surface of our riches
has been scarcely scratched. Here
tofore we have lived extravagantly
and spent wastefully. What we need
now is to, buy freely what we really
need, but to waste nothing. Waste
has been our besetting sin. Waste
must be prevented. We must labor
more in order that we may save
more and spend more. More work
and less waste, that is the answer.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-09
Calls With the Ddmn

hear your call and gladly hasten
on,
I feel you near, the cropping in the
gloom
Your faint, first summons hailed me
with the dawn
AS it stole upward from your
lower room.
1 scent your fragrance as of some
wild rose,
1 hurry though my spirit throbs
and quakes,
I'll greet you when I get into my
clothes,
You war-free, Heinz-proof stack
of buckwheat cakes.
William Grant.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-09
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Judge M. B. Stephens, of the
Cambria county courts, says some
of the foreigners ought to turn at
tention to getting English names.
Rear Admiral Francis 7. Bowles
says that much Of the criticism
about Hog Island is far fetched.
j. b. Hutchison, who goes from
the Tyrone to the Conemaugh di-
vision, comes of family long iden-
titled with the Pennsylvania rail-
road.
j. Aldus Herr, the Lancaster
farming expert, says that farmers
will be fine buyers of war bonds
when prices of feed and things on
the farm get adjusted.
DIR. ]. p. Kerr, Pittsburgh coun-
Gilman, has returned from visit to
Camp Hancock.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-09
WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT

The fierce fires of spatriotism
have fused the country into solid
mass as to the end to be achieved,
but they have not burned out
self-seeking ambition or desire
for personal ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
Nothing which has as yet come
into the world has done that and
probably nothing ever Will.
There has, however, so far been
n wholesome and welcome absence
of party spirit and partisan ma
neuver. 1t has been absent
should remain absent and in abey-
ance. 1t can be kept so. but only
by the self abnegation of the
President and by his breadth OF
vision and of action. The power
comes from the people. The use
to be made of the power is in his
hands. The people furnish it. he
directs it.
Through his direction will sue
cess or failure come. Awe -inspir-
- ing is his responsibility. The peo-
pie will follow him in compact
they believe he is thinking ana
acting solely for them and regard
less of party or of self; that
neither haughtiness of spirit. nor
pride of opinion, nor personal ad-
vantage, nor party advantage is
adulterating the purity of his pur-
pose or interfering with the sue
cessful prosecution of the war.
So vital is this that the Presi-
dent should leave nothing undone
TO deserve and preserve this con
fdence. He must leave no piaus-
ible ground for melting suspicion
in the minds of the people .that
such is not the case. Suspicion
that such is not the case Will I'M
pair his power and conElTt@loh lT ION
that such is not the case Will de-
stroy it. His mind must be, open
TO counsel. He must Welcome
well-intentioned criticism. He
must draw to his side the ablest
aids the country affords. Hls VS.
ion must be unobstructed oy per.
sonal or partisan consideratlonS,
and his heart and spirit must hold
hut one impulse-the victory OF
America
No. dear reader. this is not th'
,lea of Republican Senator for
coalition war cabinet. Nor is 1t tn
,rgument of a Republican newspa
Der for the creation of war coun
Ill.
1t is from a speech recently mad'
~ former Secretary of War Garri
son. an ardent Democrat but a MAJ
90 big to permit party politics t.
,dulterate his patriotism or to in
,erfere with his ideas as to th'
proper prosecution of the war. Mr.
Garrison knows that this war is no
A one-man or a one-party job. How
ong will il take for some others t
earn what the people know ant
what they want?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-09

tions of the United States, has this
to say concerning conditions thai
have forced even the powerful New
York newspapers to advance theil
price to two cents:
What should have been done
wear ago all the one-cent daily
newspapers of New York did last
week-went to two cents. II they
hadn't done so some of them
would have been forced to the
wall. The cost of white paper
and delivery to newsdealers was
nearly twice as much as the pub
fishers got for the one-cent paper
from the dealer, which was sixty
cents per 100 copies. Necessarily,
the newspaper was dependent up
on the advertiser for life. That the
advertiser has dictated to the
newspapers in some instances is
acknowledged. How could you eN-
pect it to be otherwise when the
newspapers were drawing three
quarters of their support from ad-
vertisng?
This not only was an unhealthy
hut an ominous situation. The
newspaper was not free. The ad-
vertisers could destroy any pub
lication that offended them.
OF all the great newspapers in
New York only two have been
making any profit. one came near
breaking even. The others had
constantly increasing deficits.
The two-cent rate will give a
profit from circulation and will
lessen the thralls in which the
publishers have been bound to the
advertiser. 1t will curtail the cir
culation of some sheets, particu-
larly those of many thousands of
circulation, most of whose read
ers are persons WHO have to
count their coins carefully and to
whom two cents for a paper may
seem a good cal of money. but
it will make for better news
papers.
This sums up pretty we'll, from al
and unbiased author
ity, the reasons why newspapers tina
are honest with their readers anC
themselves have been compelled t.
increase prices to two cents IT,,
copy or ten cents the week.
The newspaper is a business en-
terprise just as much as is the gro
Gerry store. Nobody has a right t,
ask that the newspaper be publishe,
at loss. No newspaper publisher
unless he be immensely rich ant
prompted by some selfish or politi
cal motive, can now afford to sci
a paper for a penny.
The purveyor of the penny pape
cannot collect legitimately enougl
from the advertiser to pay his ex
penses, and his circulation gets NOR
and more costly the more papers h
sells. Every increase in circulation
makes his losses heavier. The NOR
papers he puts out the worse hi
situation.
The man who buys a penny pape
is accepting a gift from it's pub
Usher. Now it so happens that it 1
neither in accord with business prIn
ciples nor human nature to Civ
something away day after day un
less the giver has some object fl
view. In the case of the penny pa
per it may be that 1t is controlle
by some big business, desirous of
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-09
LABOR NOTES

San Francisco Labor Council is as
sisting the newly-formed Film Ex-
change Employees Union to secure
recognition from the film exchange
managers. The new organization IN
cludes inspectors, shippers, poster
handlers and bookers.
In Great Britain the labor party,
trades union congress and the
great cooperative societies, repre-
senting together not much less than
half the population of the United
Kingdom, are working in close al
lance.
The Kansas State Laundry Board
has abolished the provision which
allowed an employer to extend the
work day to ten hours whenever he
saw fit to declare an emergency. The
Board orders that the straight nine
hour day be put into effect.
In Germany the first step to in
duce the government to fix minimum
wages was taken in January, 1911,
by the conference of German home
workers, which in a resolution re-
auested the government to fix by
legislation minimum wages for home
workers. so that in order to earn a
living they would no longer be
forced to work excessive overtime.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-09
Might Be Wrong Again

All we hope now is that the fell
low who predicted an open winter
won't spoil matters by prophesylng
an early sprihg.-From the Detroit
Free Press
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-09
misunderstood.

II hear that Burrows has come in
FOR some money"
Then he'll have to go out without
1t as far I am concerned"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-09

As between the new hotel and the
Post Office and which of them will be
completed first, our bets are all on the
hotel
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-09

THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.,
Telegraph Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-09
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY o, 1918

am among you as He that Serr-
eh.-JEsUs.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-09
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg makes tons
of sausage every week?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-09

Member of the Associated Press-The
Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled 70 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, 1918-02-09

Ell. J.STACKPOLE.P Prsst s. EditoriH- Chief
Il. r. OYSTER, Business Manager.
GUS NJ. STEINNETz, Mdndging Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-09
HISTORIC HARRISBURG

HISTORIC HARRISBURG
The young men of the town used
to have rifle ranges back of the
old state arsenal which was in Capt-
toll park
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-09
A KICK.

Mr.. Squirrel-Here, you get away
from here. II makes my wife nerv.
Gus to see you hanging around!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-09
AN INDEPENDENT PRESS

COMMERCE AND FINANCE,
one of the best-known and
~ most reliable business publica-
tions of the United States, has this
to say concerning conditions that
have forced even the powerful New
York newspapers to advance their
60 +vup aaptS.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-09

n NE day we are told to save every
penny possible-in order to
buy Liberty Bonds and thus
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-09

Signs of more trouble loom at
Pittsburgh where Council seems dis