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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-04
Feeding Damaged Wheat
[ From Pennsylvania Farmer.

[From Pennsylvania Farmer.l
Many farmers in this section will
be confronted with the problem of
,disposing. of wheat damaged by
sprouting and exposure. When mar
kets are normal is questionable
policy to attempt to sell damaged
wheat. Under present conditions,
and with other grains high, it will
certainly pay many to feed such
wheat if they have any fattening
animals on the farm. Badly sprout-
ed wheat is a total loss, but there
will be much that has feeding value
that cannot be put into condition for
marketing. This wheat may be fed
to hogs at q considerable saving
over the present cost of corn. The
Missouri Station has but recently
concluded feeding tests indicating
that slightly damaged wheat is a
close second to corn as a hog feed.
In pounds of grain required to pro-
dune 100 pounds o. pork, damaged
wheat was ahead of corn. 1t ri
uuired 4S3 pounds of damaged
wheat to produce 100 pounds of
gain in the hogs, as compared with
5S2 pounds of corn in the same test.
Where hogs are available it would
seem advisable for. farmers to use
the damaged wheat to replace the
corn in the fattening ration. For
younger hogs, the addition of tank
age to the damaged wheat ration
will insure good growth and con-
siderable saving over the cost of
other feeds at present prices. Where
hogs are not kept, considerable
quantities can be disposed of to ad-
vantage in feeding poultry or even
dairy cows
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-04
THE PLACE TO BEGIN

TT is to be hoped that the return
to Harrisburg of Arnold w.
Brunner, the architect of the
State in the Capitol park improve
ments, with the revised plans for
the street changes and the terracing
and coping of the Third and Walnut
street sides of the park, will not be
long delayed. This is the work
wherein Harrisburg first pledged
itself before all of the State to CO.
operate and it is ready to begin.
In fact, from what some of the city
fathers say it has been ready for
weeks. 1t would like to start to
make dirt fly so that when the time
comes for it to do it's share in the
wonderful bridge to be built as a
soldier and sailor sons, it will have
the habit of cooperating well de-
veloped.
In no place in the State is there
greater interest in Governor Sprouts
plan to make the Capitol the civic
center of the Comm than In
Harrisburg. 1t has been the eX-
perience that many state capitals
regard state improvements as wholly
state matters. Not so in Harris
burg. This city wants to bear a
part and it wants to start right in
on the Capitol park, so that it can
show to the State that it is ready
and at the same time better the
traffic conditions for the hundreds
of tourists who come to Harrisburg
to see the State House, and who say
things about the way to get in and
out of the park every hour of the
day. This is a place where some
thing should be done and where it
can be done this fall.
And we repeat, Harrisburg is
ready to make the dirt fly.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-04
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE MOSQUITO NUISANCE
The Editor of the Telegraph :

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Dear Sir. If it be true that the
city of Harrisburg has failed to take
advantage of the expert assistance
placed at it's disposal by the State
Commissioner of Health to make
Harrisburg more than ever model
city, some one should be called to
account for it.
The big men of Harrisburg, the
leading civic organizations, went to
a meeting at the Capitol and pledged
the support of the city to the plan
of the State. From what l know
the State authorities have been try
ing to get action. The city authori-
ties seem to have been trying to
avoid action just as they have been
sidestepping that city bathing beach
and more bath houses until the sum
mer is nearly ended.
This year because of the weather
conditions Harrisburg has been
plagued by mosquitoes. There have
been more than ever and they have
been more ferocious than ever. And
in the Telegraph we read that q
State official says that he has been
trying to get the city authorities
stirred up so that they will eradi-
cate the mosquitoes by going to the
places the State has marked out and
following the plan which the State
used with such conspicuous success
last year in ridding Hog Island of
mosquitoes. 1t looks to me as if
some one in the Harrisburg city
government was just bit too
strong for his job to pass by such
an opportunity to bring relief to
hundreds of his fellow citizens who
have to sit and slap and scratch
every night when they could spared
the annoyance and pain. The doc
tors say that mosquitoes carry ma
laria. The city has a department. to
keep us healthy. Won't the city
officials please take their own doc
tors advice, and use the good sound
business sense to accept what the
State offers free, especially when it
has been proved to work in the most
"skeeter" ridden district in Penn
sylvania? VOTER.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-04

torch in order to lessen the baggage
of returning divisions. Nobody
would have objected if this stuff had
been turned over to needy French,
Belgian or Italian people, but to de-
liberately burn it is a crime that
should be punished. 1t is too late,
unfortunately, to get back any of
wasted material or the money loss
involved, but it is not too late to
find out who was responsible and
make an example of him. The
efficient Mr.. Baker apparently has
some explaining. on his hands that
will require the limit of even his
we'll known abilities along that line.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-04
CAUSE FOR INDIGNATION

" HE Telegraph on Saturday pub
lished an exclusive picture
Il made by Underwood and I'm
derwood, the noted photographers,
showing the burning of a million
dollars worth of airplanes IN
France by order of the War Depart
ment as a means of ridding itself
of an incumbrance after the signing
of the armistice.
And yet Democrats complain be-
cause Republicans in Congress are
"grumbling constantly" over war"
expenses.
Not a Republican has a single OBJ
lection to raise against a single item
of necessary war expenditure. They
voted for the appropriations which
Mr.. Baker said were necessary with
out debate and gave into the hands
of the administration without a
murmur such power as even the
German General Staff did not possess
all with the object of winning the
war with the least cost of American
life. And insofar as this money was
spent to that end and the autocratic
authority vested in the Government
exercised purely for the purposes in
tended Republicans the country
over, in Congress and out, are in
hearty accord. But when the War
Department burns up a million dol
lars worth of airplanes, built at IN
finite cost of money, labor and the
self-sacrifice of a devoted people,
especially when the machines might
have been held in reserve for war
emergency or used in the develop
ment of air traffic commercially, then
Republicans and Democrats too are
justified in entering vigorous protest.
This airplane incident is waste
raised to the nth power, but it does
not stand alone as an example of
gross extravaganza. There come
from France we'll authenticated
stories of so-called Salvage dumps" "
where millions of dollars worth of
blankets, boots, clothing and equip
-ment OF all kinds was put to the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-04
ChuzzleWifS Eden TODAY
[From the Christian Science
Monitor I

[From the Christian Science
Monitor.
Eden has changed since Martin
Chuzzlewit and Mark Tapley tried
to develop the spot which Dickens is
believed to have given that name in
the American State of Missouri. The
swamp was too much for them. But
now comes the report that this
identical tract has lately produced
$1,000 bushels of corn and has $50
acres successfully planted to oats
and 1875 acres protitably raising
alfalfa. In 1910 the land which
Dickens is held to have named Eden
was still as ChuzZlewit and Tapley
found it and were defeated by it: the
soil was good, but the river annually
overflowed it, and except for while
in spring, made permanent an un-
profitable swamp. Then came a
farmer from Indiana who said mo
land is low land If properly drained"
and had the initiative and eloquence
necessary to organize drainage pro-
ject. The cost of the scheme was
$40 an acre, and the objection was
raised and overcome that the land
was worth no more than $40. Today
the reclaimed land is worth upward
500 an acre, and that part of the
once hopeless Eden which the or
ganizer improved for himself is con-
sidered perhaps the most valuable
farm in the State.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-04

Y "A =
wv learn that Pennsylvania may
be the first of the States to
reorganize it's National Guard after
the war. it is exactly what we
should expect to hear. 1t is the
Pennsylvania way.
Pennsylvania has a history of
citizen soldiery ready to fight, in
fact some times accused of spelling
for a fight, from the days when its
farmers dropped hoes and took up
flint locks to help Bouquet and
Forbes redeem the western half of
the State, clear down to the Argonnc
and the Lys, with Monmouth,
Lundys Lane, Chapultepec. Gettys-
burg and Manila as bright spots of
intervening years. Its National
Guard was ready for the last war
before the War Department was
ready for the Guard.
Men of the 2Sth, the 42nd, the
10th and all the other divisions in
which Pennsylvanians fought in
France and Belgium will gather
with the Reserve Militiamen at the
mastering places when the word
goes out to give the Nation and
the State a body of men ready for
any emergency, trained, expert
enced, vigorous and spirited. So
now it is to be hoped that the au-
thorities at Washington will have
arms and equipment from ;he vast
stores at hand ready 20 issue to
the State of Pennsylvania when it
calls for them to keep alive its
tradition of preparedness for any
call that Columbia may make.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-04
BEWARE BAD WATER

~ EWARE of bad water. Every
X summer Harrisburg has froIn
one to a dozen cases of ty-
phoid fever brought in from the out
side; vacation typhoid" or picnic
typhoid" the physicians call it, be-
cause for the most part it is ac-
quired on outing jaunts or camping
trips.
Campers, fishermen, swimmers
and mixers are most apt to pick up
the germs. Often they are care
less and in many, cases reckless,
willing to take a chance" wheI G
the chances are all against them.
Water is not always good because
it chances to be clear and cold.
Don't drink water unless you
KNOW it is pure.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-04

Die tchen 1Ce may rant it said
of me, by those lcho kne,C me best,
that dhcdyS piucked thistle and
planted tlotUer whem / thought
tIotoer 1oould grotc.--Lincon.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-04
WHO HAS "RIGHT?"

To the Editor Of the Telegraph:
Sir: Please explain the regula-
ton of the new automobile act which
reads as follows:
when two vehicles approach the
intersection of two public highways
at the same time, the vehicle ap-
preaching from the right shall have
the right of way"
1t is understood that both We
hicles are on the right-hand side of
the street. Yours truly,
OLD SUBSCRIBER. q
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-04
What's the Use?

From the Kansas City Times
IL Is idle talk of coming seven
cent pieces for street car fares. 1t
would be only another year before
we would have to discontinue them
and begin to in-fourteen-cen
pieces.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-04
INTRODUCING the NeW Pastor in
Kansas

'IOgden correspondence Manhattan
Mercury.l
The Rev. Snare gave two good SER
mons Sunday which if some of the
people of ogden and community
who have not attended a church
service for fifteen or twenty years
had been present to hear they might
not have slept quite as peacefully
Sunday night.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-04
What's to Follow the Ukulele? ?

[From the Philadelphia Record.
The time is ripe for some hither-
to unknown musical instrument to
leap into popularity. That sort of
thing goes by waves, and we are
now in the trough of the sea of
melody. We need som ething to
cheer us, and it is only necessary
for somebody to start something to
make the crowd fall in line hilari-
ously.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-04

Halifax wrote her name in large
letters on the upper cpd map Satur-
day. linking up with Lykens, Wicon-
isco ana the other communities that
have been celebrating the return of
their young heroes.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-04

Members of the Associated Press-The
Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled to the use for republication
of all news dispatches credited to
1t or not otherwise credited in this
paper and also the local news pub
lished herein.
All rights of republication of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-04

We wonder if there is anything sig
nifcant between the prohibition law
and the sudden increase in coffee
prices?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-04

grocery business for a little while,
but there will be no book accounts.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-04

Some of the Cumberland Valley
cornstalks better look out or they will
be mistaken for telegraph poles.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-04

The fellow who Stands on his
dignity" seldom adds much to his
stature.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-04
DO YOU KNOW

Harrisburg had taverns be-
fore IL was even a town?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
EARLY Industries of Harrisburg
were chiefly repair of wagons.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-04
NEW NATIONAL GUARD

VIZ HILE it is most gratifying to
wv learn that Pennsylvania may
be the first of the States to
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-07-27
Temperature Equals
High Mark Of Year;
No Heat Prostrations

Although the mercury climbed to
101 yesterday, no heat prostrations
were reported at Central station.
On only one other day this year
has the thermometer reached the
1Ol point, and that was on July 9.
With many business houses clos
ing at noon, Omahans crowded re-
sorts and bathing beaches to obtain
relief from the hot wind.
Country roads were crowded with
autoists seeking respite.
The fire department spent busy
afternoon. Nine calls were sounded
between 2 o'clock and 5 o'clock.
At S a. m. the thermometer
registered 79 degrees. AT 2 p. m.
it had risen to 90, and at 8 it had
found the century mark. Between
4 and S o'clock it had reached l0l,
tying the previous record of the
year.
Relief is promised by weather
man Welsh, who predicts thunder
showers Sunday and cooler weather
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-07-27
FIRE FIGHTERS
SAVE LIVES BY
LEAP WATER
Trapped by Flames. 70 Men
Submerge in Stream Up to
Their Necks. 4

Missoula, Mont, July 26-A crew
of nearly 20 men, fighting a fire in
the Selway forest last Thursday was
trapped by the flames and saved
themselves by leaping into a stream
where they remained up to their
necks until the fire had passed. A
horse was lost and several persons
injured. their saddles being burned
from their backs. Ali the mems
camping equipment was destroyed.
Word of the narrow escape reached
district headquarters here today.
Hopes Given Setback.
Boise, Idaho, July 26.-Hopes OF
federal forestry and interior de-
partment representatives here di-
recting forest fire campaigns that
conditions were better in the forests
and on the public domain where
fires have ben raging the last four
weeks, were given a setback, Satur-
day evening, when reports received
from the Fitsum and Hazard creek
blazes indicated a serious situation.
Reports from these fires were
that the high winds of Friday after
noon continued into the night and
if this is the condition at other
points in the fire area the fires may
have reached alarming proportions.
Telephone service between the fires
and the local offices is bad, and no
reports have been received from
several of the fires that were threat
ening to overpower the crews Fri
day afternoon.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-07-27
Williams Denounces
as Lies Stories Told
Of His Administration

Washington. July 26.-General
denial Of charges made against him
was entered before the senate bank
ing committee by John Shelton
Williams, comptroller of the cur
rency. He defended the administra-
ton of his office, deniei he had
prosecuted the Riggs National bank
of this city and characterized Frank
J. Hogan, attorney for bank Off
cials in the Riggs bank case, as "a
rapid fire falsifier."
Samuel Untermyer, New York
attorney, wilt appear in Mr.. Will
liams' behalf Monday and the comp
troller plans to make closing
statement.
In defending the treasury's atti-
tude toward the Riggs National
bank, Mr.. Williams charged Off
cials of that institution up to 1914
with "multitudinous infractions OF
the law"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-07-27
ST, MARY MACLANE,
AM IN JAIL; HELPw

Chicago. July 26.-Mary Mac
Lane, author of 81, Mary MacLane'
and star of the fervid film Men
Who Have Made Love to Me-" had
opportunity Friday to gather mater
ial for a new book, perhaps, en-
titled "Modistes Who Must Be
Paid"
Two unromantic detectives went
to her home while she was enter.
tanning friend. bearing an original
manuscript calling for her arrest on
a charge of larceny by bailee. Ac-
cording to the charge, the gowns
which she used in the five reels
of frenzied love making had never
been paid for or returned. When
asked whether she could obtain bail
Mary said:
II have only IS cents"
Her guest accompanied her to the
station to try to arrange bond but
this had not been found at mid
night.
For the first time since her "tor
tured' l9-year-old soul writhed be-
fore the public some IS years ago
in the form OF thin. but tits said
a, highly profitable octave, Mar,
went into the great silence and re
fused 20 talk to reporters.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-07-27
WILSON DENIES
WIFE WITNESSED
YANKILLTREATED
Brands as a Falsehood Story
Emanating From Paris That
She Told Him of Case.

Washington, July 26.-President
Wilson. in letter to Representative
Dallinger, republican, of Mas sachu-
setts, made public, characterized as
entirely inaccurate, a recently pub
lished statement by John w. Kehoe
hospital superintendent of the
Knights of Columbus, that Mrs
Wilson obtained personal evidence
in Paris of brutal treatment OF
American military prisoners.
A dispatch from New York quoted
Mr.. Kehoe as saying Mrs. Wilson
while at base hospital No. 81 was
beckoned to the cot of a soldier who
displayed numerous welts on his
arms and back" and that she re-
ported this to the president with ths
result that "the entire guard staff
were brought up on charges and re
moved"
In the correspondence with the
president given out by Mr.. Dallin.
ger, the latter quoted from the news.
paper account and asked for addi
t1OIldl llllCl llldtlOll 81 lildt IC llllRl IL
learn from the War department the
punishment meted out to those
guilty"
The president replied as follows
"My dear Mr.. Dallinger:
"The newspaper article to which
you refer was entirely inaccurate
Mrs. Wilson saw no evidence of vic
lence on the patient whom she me-
in base hospital No. 81 and her in
quiries brought out the fact thai
whereas one of the prisons used BY
the American army in Paris hat
been delivered over to them in {
very bad condition, the conditions
had been rapidly corrected and suct
harsh treatment as had been prac
ticed in one or two instances hae
been promptly checked.
Every sincerely yours,
"WOODROW WILSON,"
With the corresponding, Mr.
Dallinger gave out a statement tc
the effect that he could not reconcil.
the presidents favorable reference!
to prisons with the recent testimon,
of General March. chief of staff o
the army, showing conditions rival
ing that of Siberian prison camps,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-07-27
House Recess Will
Hold Up Prohibition
Enactment Law

Washington, July 26-Legisiation
for the enforcement of wartime and
constitutional prohibition probably
will not be enacted for two months
as the result of the decision of re-
publican leaders to have the house
recess fom August 2 to Septem-
Der 8. =
Senate leaders have indicated thar
many changes would be made in the
house bill and should"the senate pass
its measure before the house recon-
vened in September considerable
time would elapse before final en-
actment as the difficulties between
the senate and house would have to
be thrashed out in conference.
Final decision to have the house
recess was reached Saturday after
conferences between republican
leaders OF the two houses. Little
opposition to the plan was expressed
by senators, it was said. but there
was no suggestion that the senats
recess.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-07-27
LoWden and Harding
Presidential Possibilities

Washington, July 26.-Talk turned
to "favorite sons" during hull in
the house and the names of Cover
nor Lowden, Illinois. and Senator
Harding, Ohio. both republicans,
were mentioned in connection with
the presidential nomination.
Representative Dennison, Illinois,
declared in speech that the dele
CATION from that state would present
the governors name to the repub-
lican convention and Representative
Emerson. Ohio, said that Senator
Harding would be the choice of the
Buckeye state delegation.