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The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-12-20
live like Gin DweIIers.

A Characteristic bit Of the old world
may be seen near Roundup, Mont.
where Austrian and Italian miners
have built their homes in ancient fash
ION. under a projecting rim rock. By
simply erecting a stone wall they have
q shelter that cannot be bettered for
warmth in winter and GOODNESS in sum-
mer.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-12-20
The Old Roman Hau..hold

In'the days Of old Rome the culinary
department Of an elegant establish
ment boosted pans lined with silver
and pals Of various descriptions rich
" inlaid. There were egg frames that
would cook twenty eggs at once, and
pastry molds shaped like shells. and
IN infinite assortment Of gridirons, fry
ing pans, cheese graters and tart
dishes.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-12-20

Anna, becoming very angry, bit her
smaller sister. Her mother. hearing
the little child CRY, went to see what
was the trouble. When she found
out she reprOached Anna and asked
her over what she had become angry.
Anna replied: Il wasn't angry, that
was righteous indignation. Chicago
American.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-12-20
&HaIf.Mast HIoh.S

Everyone knows when he sees a flag
flown at half-mast that 1t Is a sign Of
mourning. but few have any idea how
the custom originated. 1t arises from
the old naval rule that the sign Of sub
mission was the lowering Of the flag
by the vanquished.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-12-20
Mr.. Groweher Speaks.

"Seme Of these problems they keep
putting up to u.s." said Mr.. Growcher,
make me think Of old-fashIoned CO
nundrums. You're supposed to keep
guessing. what's the dIfferenceT when
1t doesn't make much real difference
whether there's any difference or not"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-12-20
Cutting eIas. cIr.I...

II Is possible to break out circles Of
glass. such as lenses for headlights.
BY making a number OF straight cuts
from the edge Of the glass and break
ing these sections out one at a time.
Be careful not to cut inside the line
Of the circle to be cut.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-12-20

Scientists say that an ordinary
whale lives to the age Of i've hundred
years, while some whales have been
caught whose appearance indicates
they have lived as many as a thousand
years
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-12-20
To End Wire %sInaIno.S

To prevent the singing" Of tele-
phone or telegraph wires passing over
houses. these are muted by putting on
them small olive-shaped pieces Of lead,
or fitting corks on to them.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-12-20
Heart Disease.

1 hear Of a man who fused 80 years
about having heart disease. Lately he
said: after all. I'll be cursed II I
don't believe i will finally die Of some
thing eIse."-E. W. Howe's Monthly.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-12-20

They Suffer for Others Sake.
Locking up an anarchist" said
Bill the Burg. as good for him. But
it's kind o. tough on the other feIIers
that have to live in the same Jail"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-12-20
H.,s R.~nnd conxinninn

It doesn't always follow that be-
cause a girl Is good looking she win
make a good wife. but you can't con-
vince an infatuated youth Of that fact.
Detroit Free Press.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-12-20
Hogs as Pets!

Before the advent of Christianity,
hogs were household pets among the
Hawaiians.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-12-20
THE ODD FELLOWS CHRISTMAS
BALL.

Christmas Reception and Dance,
Thursday night, Dee. 25. Unity Club,
314O Indiana avenue. Elgar and e.
CARS Orchestra, tickets including ward
robe soc, given by Chicago Patriareby,
Odd Fellows.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-12-20
Prolific Country.

Frequently three crops q year are
raised in Abyssinla.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-12-20
THE BROADEAX
Published Every Saturday

In this city since July 18th, 1899,
without missing one single issue. Re
pubhesns, Democrats. Catholics, Pro
testantA Single Takers, Priests, inf
dels or anyone else can have their say
IS long as their language is proper
and responsibility Is fixed.
The Broad Az is a newspaper whose
platform is broad enough for all, ever
claiming the editorial right to speak
its own mind.
Local communications win receive
attention. Write only on one side Of
the paper.
Subscriptions must be paid in ad-
vance.
One Year .................. $500
Six Months ............... S1.0O
Advertising rates made known on ap-
plieation-
Address all communications to
THE BROAD AK
62O6 So. Elizabeth st., Chicago, III.
Phone Wentworth 25o7
JULIUS F. TAYLOR
Editor and Publisher
DR. M. A. MAJORS
Associate Editor
400 South State Street
Phone Drexel 1416
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-16
(Continued)
1he Rnmnnce or SiIk

The Romance OF SILK
1t is a long step from cement to
silk, and yet, as showing the re-
markable versatility of the industrial
situation in the Keystone State, a
step worth the taking here. Ther e
are several good reasons why Penn
sylvania produces one-third of all
the silk made in America. In the
first place, silk manufacture is essen
TALLY woman's industry. A woman
can attend loom as well as a, man,
or look after spindles, or supervise
the quilting of thread.
Nowhere else can such an abun-
dance of women workers be foun l
as in the coal regions and the heavy
manufacturing districts. Such in
dustries are largely closed to wome en-,
and hence the wives and daughters
of the miners and factory work
welcome employment in silk mills.
Then, again, the silk that milady
wears may seem filmy and its sheen
may be charming, but the process
of manufacture demands a surpris-
ing amount of power. Especially is
this true of the spinning, or throw
ing" as it is technically known.
Raw silk is too thin to be woven
directly. The spun silk that consti-
tutes the warp, or threads that run
lengthwise of the goods, is known
as organzine.
The Power Required in Making Silk
A pound of good quality raw silk
will yield enough unspun thread to
reach from Philadelphia to New
York and return-1S1 miles; vet IN
making organzine, or warp thread.
every inch of that must be twisted
some sixteen turns, after which il
is doubled and twisted about four
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-16
LEST WE FORGET"

The Manufacturers Record for
long time, and ably, has emphasized
the true American point of view re-
garding the Germans. In an edl-
torial. the editor, Mr. Edmonds says
that the punishment imposed upon
Germany is not sufficiently drastic,
though Germany is making great
many people feel that it is being
harshly dealt with. The safety of
the world, he says, can never be
secured so long as the German ma
ton, for the next two or three
generations at least, is not held in
bondage until new generation is
educated away from he German
line of thought and taught to real
ize fully the criminality of the whole
nation. in bringing on this war. I'm
less the delegates to the Peace Con-
ference recognize this fact and act
on 1t entirely without and regard
to the maudlin sympathy which a
nation of criminals is seeking to
win, we may count that the time is
not far distant when Germany VIII
again enter upon a world war. All
the Peace Conferences and all the
Leagues of Nations which can be de-
vised will not be sufficient to con-
troll Germany in the future days
when war will be made more dia-
bolically hideous than the worst OF
this war by the power of science
concentrating its whole energy upon
the creation of methods of destroy
ing armies and cities and nations,
unless we impose upon Germany
now such penalties as will make
that forever impossible"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-16
No Wonder Germany Quit
NUMBER SIX

IVT7 E HAD the craziest buncn
Wv of unlickable fighting men
in Uncle Sans Army"
said Major Frank G. Mahin, of the
Army recruiting Office, S25 Market
street "As' boy used to pore over
the heroic deeds of our forefathers
and marvel at the nerve of Johh
Paul Jones, who, when his snip
was sinking under him and his, sur
render was demanded, answered:
have just begun to fight Those ola
boys were good fighting men all
right, but whether they would have
done what our bunch of wild IN
dians did in France is another ques-
ton. They didn't have to conteha
with gas and high explosive, with
machine guns and aerial torpedoes'
and furthermore when cold weather
set in they quit till spring. Wheh
we went into rest camp we workeu
ten to twelve hours day, nothliiS
exciting, no danger, just rotteh olu
grind. Then when we got back INTO
action everybody was so glad 10 set
away from a rest camp and they
were so anxious to get as far from
it as possible, that they would SIM
ply start for Berlin and keep go
ing. Ten men might discover ma
chine gun nest and start for II; one
might get there, but he was am
ply sufficient to clean it out, be mere
two>or twenty Boche in 1t. further-
more, to stop one of those crazy
galoots you just about had TO XIII
them. Scores of times l have seen
men with wounds that here at nome
would put them utterly down ana
out as soon as received, going rlShI
ahead as though nothing had nap
pened l remember one kid, one Oh
my runners, whose jokes, pranks
and good humor were absolutely uh-
extinguishable. During the Mouse
Argonne offensive he was trottlng &
along just behind me when shell
burst very close to us, very, very
| close. A fragment took TINS lad
left arm off midway between the
wrist and elbow and threw 1T OH
| twenty-five or thirty feet to one
side. When I picked myself up /
| looked around at him and saw his
arm was gone. When / got up he
| got up, looked down at where his
| arm had been and then began to
| search. In a minute he saw his
arm lying on the, ground, trotted
over there, picked it up in his rlSh'
hand and came back to me with
grin on from ear to ear. AS he ap-
preached he held up the severed
arm and said: Well! what do you
know about that? A perfectly good
hand 1 found over there on the
ground;' threw the hand away and
started on to follow me. l actually
had to send a guard TO get that boy
| to the dressing station; he said he
wasn't hurt, why it wasn't even
| bleeding much. And that is the sort
of thing that made the American
| doughboy invincible."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-16

are going the limit in breaking down
the anti-German barriers.
On Capitol Hill the spiked helmet
is seen among the legislators, when
perfectly reasonable proposition Is
submitted for the repeal of the man
datory clauses in acts regulating OF
fcial advertising and which force
the placing of such advertising III
German newspapers. All that the
bills picked thus far in a Senate
committee provided is the elimina-
ton of the German requirement,
leaving officials discretionary power
to place the advertising in news
papers printed in the English Ian
guage. Fair-minded legislators have
a duty to perform before adjourn
ment.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-16
The Industrial Titan of America
Pnnsylvas Wonderful by John Oliver La Go
Reprnt F& ia Geogrnh cMagnMn

teen turns in the reverse direction,
the exact number of turns depend
ing upon the use to be made OF
the thread.
The two twistings are equal to
twenty three turns for every inch OF
the original thread, so that the revo-
lutions of a spindle required to con-
vert a single pound of raw silk into
a pound of organzine reaches the
enormous total of 264,00O,000. In
other words, if the conversion had
to be made by a single spindle, IL
would have to do ten thousand turns
a minute, fifty-five hours a week, for
eight weeks or lose it's union card!
What happens in the case of the
warp threads takes place in less de-
gree in the woof threads-the ones
that run across the goods-which
are known as tram, and have only
a single spinning.
After such facts as these, any one
can readily see that a great deal of
power is needed in'-T nc making of
even such delicate material as silk.
They explain why such a large per-
centage of the silk woven in Amer
lea is prepared for the weaver in
the coal region around Wilkes Barre,
Hazleton and Scranton. Cheap fuel
means cheap power, and cheap
power makes silk throwing profit
able.
The throwing and dyeing are
usually done for the weavers on a
commission basis. The raw silk, as
it comes from Japan, China, or
Italy, is first steamed and degummed.
This gum takes away about one
fifth of it's weight. After this come
the dyeing and throwing, and usual
ly the weighing.
Women Armorcd With Tin
The weighing process is very in
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-16
GOD BLESS OUR WOMEN

VrTITH the gradual resumption
wv of normal peace activities the
Red Cross workers of Harris-
burg are relieved of much of the
strenuous labor which was neces-
sary during the war period. This
does not mean that there has been
an entire cessation of the unselfish
service which has been rendered
by the local chapter in its various
divisions. Much is still being done
for the refugees of Europe and the
soldiers at home.
The splendid women of Harrisburg
who were banded together in this
wonderful organization will never be
forgotten by the men who rallied
to the colors at home and abroad,
and when the final chapter of the
war shall have been written the
mothers, wives, sisters and sweet
hearts of the lighting forces will
have an important place in the
brilliant record of the country's
part in the world struggle.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-16
The Awakening of Industry

Looking back at the situation
which prevailed in industry in tho
months Immediately succeeding tho
armistice and the uncertainty and
pessimism which then was wide
spread, it would seem that the doubt
as to revival then existing was
mainly based upon a conviction that
there would be a heavy, and per-
haps startling, drop in prices This
apprehension paralyzed all forward
business and produced a panicky
impulse on the part of those who
had goods, to get rid of them before
the slump came. This conviction
has now been completely eliminated
and because of belief that prices will
hold and even advance industry re-
awakening in practically every line.
The thret of unemployment too,
is receding and there is even belief
that shortage of labor in many di-
rections will develop. In fact the
development has already taken place
in some industries and occupations.
On the farms nearly everywhere there
is a demand for more men. The
idea of reduction of wage scales has
been abandoned, a potent reason be-
ing LnaL Lne price Oh IOOuSIuIIS is
higher instead of lower than last
year.
1t is impossible to guage the highly
favorable effect which the growing
assurance of big crops is having
upon the general situation, and
these prospects furnish the back
bone of the optimism prevailing in
Industries and in the stock market.
Wealth flowing in to the agricultural
districts enriches the whole country
through the return flow which al
wavs takes place, for the farming
community is by necessity a spender
The farmer is constantly renewing
his plant. He spends his new money
on farm machinery, fencing, build
ing material, autom obiles. This year
the amount will be very large.
In 1914, the six million odd farms
Of the United States produced crops
of over $4,000, 900, 900 value-about
sa70 per farm. In 1917. the amount
was $13,600, 100000. or more than
$4,000 per farm. In 1918. the aver
age per farm is estimated at $4,000.
| and will probably be $4,000 this year.
THE Bache Review.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-16

teresting, both from the standpoint
of manufacture and wearing. In
silk that may have cost eight or ten
dollars a pound, the extraction of
the gum represents a serious shrink
age. 1t happens that silk has a par
ticular affinity for tin dissolved in
hydrochloric acid. So the silk manu-
facturer proceeds to treat his de-
gummed silk to a bath of liquid tin.
1t absorbs several ounces to the
pound of silk. Then he washes it in
a phosphate of-soda preparation
which increases its power of alb
sorbing tin, and gives it another
bath. He may repeat the process
until his pound of raw silk, which
had shrunk to thirteen ounces by
the degumming operation, takes on
enough tin to make it weigh at least
twenty and perhaps forty or even
sixty ounces.
This weighing is of advantage to
the wearers. An ordinary 19-inch
taffeta, that retails at, say, $3.50 a
yard, is composed, probably, of five
eighths silk and -eighths tin.
Yet it is satisfactory in its luster and
will ordinarily wear for two seasons,
which is alleged to be the longest
any woman would want a silk dress
or waist to last. If that taffeta were
made from untinned silk it would
cost $2.2O a yard and serve milady
no better.
During the last year or two, un-
der the stress of raw silk prices of
unprecedented heights, weightingl
came to be done in the woverl
goods as we'll as in the tram and or
ganize, so that the women of tie
country often wear as much tin as |
silk, and frequently more.
ITO Re Continuedl
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-16
ANTI-NOISE CAMPAIGN

A LWAYS on the firing line in
~ everything that has to do with
the welfare of Harrisburg the
Rotary Club has properly taken
under consideration a resolution di-
rected against the thoughtless and
illegal noise-makers in Harrisburg
We have no doubt that every
other important civic organization
will be glad to join with the Rotary
Club in suppressing the nerve
destroying and uncomfortable dis
turbances which make some sections
of the city almost uninhabitable
The violation of the anti-cutout
ordinance is almost universal, and
needless of the police department,
these offenders go on their noisy
way Shrieking locomotives, fiat
trolley wheels and screaming sirens
all contribute, with the unmuffled
cutout, to the discomfort of thou
sands of people and the unnecessary
racket
II there was any real justification
for these noises there would be no
protest, but it is assured on all sides
that there is no reasonable excuse
for the unearthly pandemonium
which has grown almost intolerable
during the last few weeks.
OF course, it is the duty of the
Police Department to suppress these
noises through enforcement of the
ordinances and other regulations,
but since this has not been done il
devolves upon the public-spirited
civic organizations to assume the
burden and end the agony. A few
arrests and stiff fines by the police
authorities would remedy the trou-
BILE in a short time, but lacking a
vigorous expression of public senti-
ment the guardians of peace and
order are disposed to keep hands
off.
More power to the Rotary Club
in this latest move for the welfare
of the community. Every other as
sociation should Immediately align
itself with the movement.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-16
GOVERNORS FINE ADVICE

~ OVERNOR SPROUL has been
= making some admirable
speeches recently and in these
public utterances has given strong
expression to the duty of all classes
of our citizenry, to support American
institutions and eliminate the de-
structive and disturbing elements
that have been injected into the
body polite through careless i'm
migration regulations, In an ad-
dress at the University of Pittsburgh,
he called upon the students to take
an active interest in public affairs
in their several communities and
to avoid shifting civic responsibility
which should rest equally upon. all
persons and in. every community.
Fine advice. Also, the Governor be-
lieves that those who are not sat
isfied with our system of Govern
ment would do well to seek a place
where they may find one that will
conform with their peculiar views.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-16
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

w. T. Ellis the Swarthmore
writer is reported detained in Egypt
Mayor Stncy b. Lloyd, WE'LL
known here as an attorney, is homo
from army service in France.
-Ex-Chief Justice d. Newlin
Fell took an active part in flag day
exercises in philadelphia.
Colonel G.. A. Burrell. of the
Chemical Warfare section, who was
awarded the Distinguished Service
Cross, is a Pittsburgh man and
noted for research work.
M. M. Cochran the Uniontown
man at the head of the movement
for Bethany College, has gathered
in 100000.
Or. Lambert OFT, who says beer
&c not intoxicating and has stirred up
the doctors, is Philadelphia Chem
list. -
eorr,erlv Of this city, delivered the
comm mencement address at Geneva
College.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-16
THE SPIKED HELMET

A FEW months ago the pro-Ger-
~ man attitude now observed in
public places here and there
would have called down the execra-
ton of the average red -blooded
American, but responsive to the sort
of Prussian propaganda that has
encouraged delay and negotiation in
the peace settlement the Hun SYM
pathizers on this side of the ocean
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-16
Truly Touching
rrro,o Harvev's weekly. l

TFrom HarVey's weekly
Not since the Walrus and the Car
penter wept over the unhappy fate
of the oysters have we seen anything
quite so touching as the fearful solic-
itude OF the Presidents Democratic
friends and propagandists lest the
Republican party shall damage itself
by opposing the League of Nations.
They would be quite hearbroken If
by refusing to sanction abrogation
of the Monroe doctrine and repudia-
ton of the declaration of indepen-
dence the Republican Senator's
should get in Dutch" with the
American people. This friendly an
dety is deeply and trly affecting.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-16
ITO Be Continued)
The Hun in Belgium
[From Brand WhitIock's New
Book, Belgium"

FROM bTdnQ w nlLlOCh I4NSW
Book, Belgium"
Herr Won Strum was nervous, agi-
tated and unstrung; 1 suppose that
he, too,H had been without sleep for
nights on end. Tears wee continu-
ally yelling into his eyes and sud
denly he covered his face with his
hands, leaned forward, his elbows
on his knees, an attitude OF despair.
Presently he looked up.
"Oh, these poor, stupid Belgians"
he said. "Why don't they get out of
the way! I know what it will be.
| know the German army. 1t will
be like laying a baby on the track
before a locomotive"
He bent over, stretching his hands
towards the floor as though to illus
trate the cruel deed.
'I know the German army" he
repeated. "It will go across Bel
GUM like a sbeam-roller; like a
steam roller"
He liked the phrase. which he
must have picked up in America
he had an American wife and
kept on repeating it.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-16
Better Make 1t Golden Lamb
[From the Rochester Democrat
and ChrOnicIa

[From the Rochester Democrat
and Chronicle
The suggestion made by Broad
way business man that a victory
obelisk of solid gold. so or 100 feet
high, be erected on. Manhattan
Island, is less original than would
seem on first thought. 1t is recorded
that in early Biblical times one
Aaron caused the thank offerings of
the Egyptians to be melted and q
statue of golden calf raised for the
worship of the Israelites. Obviously
the nature of the New York monu-
ment would logically depend upon
its location. Should the New York
memorial be placed in the street
called Wall, the image of a we'll
shorn lamb of colossal proportions.
would be analogy to the more ap-
propriate symbol.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-16

the fraternal and other organizations
maintain the best traditions of Amer
lea In the support of our ideals we
need have no fear of the nondescript
and dangerous theorists who come to
our shores with an Unborn distrust of
all constituted authority.