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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-10
Getting Quick Action

Not so many years ago a Ha-
waiian house conceived the idea
of canning pineapples on the plan
tation and of sending the fruits
in that shape into this market. But
people here were in the habit of
buying pineapples whole and raw,
when they wanted them at all;
and so vast quantities of'th can
ned goods were glutting the store
houses with no takers. In desper-
alton the Gamers began an extensive
advertising campaign. They not
only moved the stock in the store
houses, but created a great demand
for pineapple in cans, which has
grown steadily ever since.
Perhaps the government knows
something about the advertising that
started the rush in Allentown re-
Gently for grape fruit jam. which
was the only preserve among the
army stores offered there that
wasn't selling well. Somebody
we wonder Widespread the story
that the stuff was easily convert
ible into excellent wine. Presto!
It's all gone.
Everybody reads the newspapers,
and through their advertising col
umns can be marketed quickly any
commodity that has enough merit
to satisfy public demand.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-10
The Wicked Monsoon

[Irom the Springfield Republican.
Australia has evidently suffered
great disaster in what is called
the most devastating drouth in the
history of the country. Destruc-
ton seems to have been great est
in the northwestern part of New
South Wales, presumably the re-
gion beyond the Darling river. This
region depends for it's meager
enough water supply upon those
curious seasonal winds called the
monsoons, which are set up by the
difference in the temperatures be-
twen the ocean and the vast table
land of Asia which the Hmalayas
bound. Normally the monsoons i'm
pinge upon the northwest coast
bringing moist air which fills the
sources of the Darling. But the
monsoons are subject to consider
able fluctuations. which shippers
in the days of sail power used to
study carefully, and the occasion
al drouths, worse than those of
what used to be called the great
American desert which afflict re-
gions usually habitable, are prob
ably to be ascribed to abnormal
weather conditions many months be-
fore and thousands of miles away.
Coming on top of the burdens due
to the war this new disaster will
cause much distress.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-10
4 Mountain Colleen

[ Paul Henry in the Irish Edition of
the London Times
From the summit of one of Con-
over the peerless country of west
Ireland, dotted with innumerable
little loughs beloved of the fisher
men, over the gracious lines of her
cloud dappled hills, and the. valleys
where the purple shadows linger;
over the scattered ''clachanS'--little
handfuls of whitewashed toy houses
tucked away in the sheltered folds
of the hills, to the coastline. bitten
into with sandy bays guarded by is
lets of porphyry get i'm an opal and
azure sea. Out of the sou'west a
wisp of mist--a gray veil trailing
from Il gray cloud floating in the
blue-passes over the hills. Where
it catches on a height it breaks in
showers on the toy houses, and
passes on. leaving the wet. sparkling
eyes of the cottages, laughing back
to the sun.
At a turn of a lonely road among
the mountains-far from village or
house--a woman comes down a
rough track from the higher hills.
Dressed in geranium homespun
and with an orange headshawl-the
turbulence. of her color flaming
against the encircling mountains
her bare feet are firmly planted as
she walks among the stones. She
hangs on her foot for a second as
she returns your salute. wild
grace is in the carriage of her head.
The beautiful softness of her voice,
Z.
wraps you round like a caress Her
gray eyes. soft and kindly, hold yet
"a smoldering fire. the brooding mys-
terry of her race is round her like an
aura. She passes by coming from
the mountain solitudes and going APP
parently into them again, rare,
aloof, dignifed figure.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-10

transaction making him, at cost
of s5,000,0O0. owner of the greater
part of that Yorkshire town. Al
though he has been away from York
shire so many years, Copley is as
proud of it as anything he has
achieved in his life. Tie love of the
old home persisted, and. since the
most disagreeable memory of his
childhood there was the tyranny OF
landlords. he has devoted his for
tune to the purchase of the town
and surrounding country and will
give every tenant opportunity of ac-
quiring his property on easy terms.
Then there is Henry c. Frick,
eXecrated during his life by those
who misunderstood him. toiliuS
steadily and saving constantly that
he might give the bulk of his int
mense fortune to the public. If
Frick had not had opportunity for
gathering this vast sum of money
together. society as whole and
charity in particular would be poorer
by nearly s10O.000,000.
Communities seldom tax them
selves for the things the money OF
the Sam Copleys and the Henry
Fricks so to purchase. Means to
procure them must come Il ON the
private purses of public-spirited men
and women. Many hesitate because
they are timid. busy or ignorant o.
the best means of putting their
money TO work. on ,ials OF such Il
foundation as is proposed would be
at the beck and call of all such. Not
only that. il would be their duty to
suggest and to solicit. There Is
III Harrisburg that should 80
eventually to public uses. and the
VIII afford the means of
putting it to work.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-10
ALL IN THE CLUTCHES
OF "THE JUMPS"
From Eoerybody's MagazineI

But we are nervous. We are
still worked up. The national pulse
rs higher. A scientist has said that
the very SecretionS of our bodies are
different, when we are at war
For four years the music we
have heard has been war music. The
talk we have heard has been war
talk. The news we have read has
been battle news.
Go TO the library and get a news
paper or magazine of 1913 and
try to read it and YOU can't Its
tempo is too slow.
a manufacturer oVerSold a few
months ago is piling stock to-day.
Another who could not produce dur
ing the fighting days finds the bars
down on raw materials, and he is
running his factory night and day.
is 1t any wonder people are
jumpy and irritable? Since the dav
last November when the armistice
was signed, it is safe to say that
more petulant letters have been
written, more impatient kilograms
filed than in the entire decade from
1904 to 1914. Names for men and
things are stronger and harsher We
have grown accustomed to calling
men slackers, pro-Germans, Bolshe-
visits, profiteers. a cold in the head
is Influenza" A sneeze is a crime.
There are such things as wounds
that do not bleed, sears that do mot
show. There are cases of fever in
the trenches of business, and she'll
shock where no real shells have
burst.
Let us try to calm our own nerves
as much as we can and remember
that the nerves of the other fellow
have been against the emery wheel
Let's get back into the amiable habit
of tearing up the impulsive letter
and rewriting the brusque telegram
Let's call things by gentler names
"A little less haste in our decision,
little less of the court martial in
our judgments. a little less door
die, a little more do-and live. The
world has been made safe place to
live in. Let's act as if we felt safe"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-10
The Bugle'S Dream

There were tented men on the
bivouaC line,
And tented men on the ross-sown
plain,
But that seems ages ago, and to-
night
The stars of peace in Il blue sky
shine.
And the world goes on with its work
again
In the little closet his bugle lies,
That called SO often the men to
fight,
And it drcams-if bugles have
dreaming eyes
OF warm lips touching its lips once
more
In those Christmas days of the awful
war.
1t sees him then in the vision rise,
A hero. knowing nor doubt nor fear,
over the top mid the motley cries
OF the bursting bombs and the she'll
fire near;
over the top, and afar in the snow
a little home meath the Christmas
stars.
And his heart so lonesome and
hungry to know
And dealt SO strict with its jolts and
jars
For he shall be numbered meath
crosses, too.
And only the bugle in dreams behold
The lad so ruddy and strong and
true,
With lion heart serving as straight as
gold.
In Flanders fields, in the popped
land
In the potted plains where the shells
were worst,
1t is Christmas time where the
crosses stand.
And Christmas time where tke star
fires burst
But the bugle there in it's closet sees
It's loved one come, and it only feels
His lips on its, own, while the melo-
dies
Awake once. more where the dream
list steals,
And the heart of the buGle is glad,
so glad
That he comes again, its gallant lad
That he takes it up, and for reveille
Blows Holy Night" in the old, sweet
way.
+. Mex, in the Baltimore Sun.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-10
HrOIFS ThrdU, His Song

There he five things to a mans de-
sire:
Kline flesh roof tree. his own fire;
Clean CUP of sweet wine from goats
hide.
And through dark night one to lie
beside.
Four things poor and homely be:
Hearth fire. white cheese, own roof
tree.
True mead slow brewed with brown
malt:
But a good woman is SAVIOR and salt.
Plow. shove deep through gray
loam:
Hack, sword, hack for straw-thatch
home:
Guard, buekler. guard both beast
and human
God, send true mar his true woma n. {.
Willard Wet lies in Jessie -. Htt-
tenhouse's Book of MederH
Verse" (Houshton Mifft1 Coz
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-10
DAYLIGHT SAVING

NF AYOR KEIST'ER has done 4
VI popular thing in presenting
Il daylight-saving ordinance
in City Council. There are. in the
office OF this newspaper petitions
containing the names of thousands
upon thousands OF Harrisburg men
and women who want the extra hour
of daylight during the warm months.
1t would appear that ninety-nine
per cent. of the population, at
least, is in favor of daylight-saving
for the city and surrounding towns.
Wherever a blank petition has been
presented it has been filled almost
as quickly as the names could be
signed.
The fact that New York, Phila-
delphia and other large cities have
adopted similar ordinances gives
rise to the belief that in one form
or another Harrisburg will be able
to save daylight as usual next
summer, which. to use a time-worn
phrase. is a "consummation devout-
II TO he wished"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-10
CdrpenHer-BeckeH
From the New York Herald.

From the New York Herald.
Ring history was made in the
last night when, in the presence OF
our fellow New Yorker the Prince
OF Wales. the nobility and gentry
OF Great Britain, the sporting men
or London and u representative
group of Americans. Georges Car
pentier-a French soldier, lately
with the colols-won the heavy
weight championship of Europe by
knocking out the champion of Eng
land in the first round.
britannia shrieked as Joe Beck
EFT fell and was counted out.
There was time when persons
of the English speaking race
though-bless their simple hearts
that whereas Il Ercnchman might
be superb with 81 dueling sword or
pistol in his hand. when II came to
the manly art of John l.. Sullivan
and Bob F'itZsimmon he simplv
Was not in it. Al any rate. every
schoolboy knew that It son of France
could not do anything unless. in
rough ana tumble fashion, he was
allowed to use his feet as well as his
fists. Thus are delusionS DESTROYED. /.
our greatest men, from Lord
Byron, with his limp, to Theodore
Roosevelt. loved the excitement of
the roped arena. In literature writ
ten in English alone has boxing been
Sloriiied. George Meredith. no less.
gave the finest description of n bare
fist fight in the open air in one of
his novels. George Borrow. author
of The Bible In Spain" was
responsible for an account of Il road
sid" ito. without intermissions.
that would stir the blood of an an
chorite. while in Tom Brown AT
Rugby is the classical battle of the
sch ool playground.
But the glory is departed. and an
exclusive AnElo-SaXon. American
and Irish occupation has become
that of Gaul as we'll.
Mr. Dempsey, holder of the world $
championship. now has come to re-
feet on the benefit that may be de-
rived by professional pugilist from
active service at the battlefront.
NiVe Carpenter,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-10
COPLEY AND FRICK

A LMOST daily the observing
~ reader may find in the columns
of any newspaper examples Of
the manner in which such a foun-
dation as that now being formed for
Harrisburg through the Chamber OF
Commerce might be made to benefit
the city. Everywhere men of wealth
are turning their attention to how
they can make their money work in
the service of the community, and
still others are prepared to make
public bequests through their wills.
Take, for illustration, Sam Copley.
the London banker. Thirty
years ago he left Huddersfield. Eng
land, With less than 81 in his pocket:
to-day he virtually has completed u
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-10
ArmiStice Ddy Visions

During that brief but solemn
Memory Moment" of Armistice
Day. what visions must have como
to those youths of all lands, safely
returned from over there" Visions
of sorrow and suffering, of silence
and desolation, Of painful waiting
and of struggles to the death! Here
is what came to one former British
soldier, as he related it to tho MAN.
chester Guardian:
For two brief minutes I saw
again the dist orted horizon of North
crn France, and the last resting
place of so many of my gallant COM
'rades. One by one the dearest of
them were visualized during those
brief two minutes. 1t was SOM
Der and sacred moment"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-10
The Lord GiDeS Moses the LdIU

And the Lord said unto Moses,
Come up to me into the mount, and
be there: and I will give thee tables
of stone, and law, and command
ments which / have written; that
thou mayest teach them. And
Moses went up into the mount And
the glory of the Lord abode upon
Mount Sinai. and the cloud covered
1T six days; and the seventh day he
called unto Moses out of the midst
of the cloud. And Moses went into
the midst of the cloud. and gat him
up into the mount: and Moses was
in tho mount forty days and forty
nights Exodus xxiv, 2 to Is.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-10
No Sunday Gasoline
IFrom the Washingt ON Star.

[From the Washingt on Star.l
Washington motorists have been
warned to avoid Baltimore on sun
day if their gasoline tanks are not
full. The ancient blue laws OF Mary
land have been applied to the sale
of gasoline there, and service sta
tions in Baltimore are thereby pro-
hibited from selling or delivering
gasoline on Sunday. The chief of po-
lice. who issued the order, stated that
cars may be operated on Sunday,
whether privately owned or owned
by taxicab companies, providing
they have gasoline. The law as ap-
piled in Baltimore is not yet OF
state wide application.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-10
Wy T. ARE in the clutches of an
wv epidemic, the jumps"
SEQ how nIain foIk come Q


See how plain folk come
together of an evening and spend it
harassing one another to exhaustion
over the high cost of living. See
how the conventional "laboring man"
hustles down to his shop to get an
other raise from the boss: how the
boss hustles down to the accounting
department to see how much he has
got to put up prices to meet the
raise.
Then that lap of the circle hav-
ing been completed on Tuesday, all
concerned, of course, have to start
off around Il slightly elevated, but
otherwise identical, circle on We'd
nesday.
High or low, no one is spared by
this dread epidemic. Sir George
Paish, best known of English finan-
cial experts, succumbs. predicting Il
collapse of world credit as not only
possible but imminent, and Mr.. Will
son is likewise overcome, announcing
his Willingness to die for the sake
of securing his League of Nations.
Well, let's forget it all for mo-
ment anyway, and ponder this little
sermon from an esteemed contem-
porary in the advertising world
Batten's Wedge:
There has been a war. The eff
fort put forth by our people has been
greater than any single word can
describe.
The country has borrowed sew
eral times as much money as there
is in the country. There is not an
office, shop, factory or store that has
not been pulled and hauled about.
Men have gone from their desks and
other men have taken their places.
The personnel of customers has
changed. Old standards are shot to
pieces. Prices have gone every
where. Costs, policies, methods
have been changed and rechangcd,
and with all this we have bravely
kept UP pretense that nothing
much has really happened.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-10
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

A. T.. Sisson, former auditor gen
eral, was among the visitors to the
city yesterday and remarked that
the next census was going to show
Erie to be some miles ahead of Har-
risburg in population.
Thomas w. Templeton, superin-
tendent of public grounds and build
ings. used to be in Congress, but says
that he likes Harrisburg real well.
w. S. Ellis, the traveller, is maxi
ing some addresses on Asiatic mat
ters that are attracting some criti-
cism in Philadelphia.
Chester w. Sutherland, prom
inent in affairs of Washington county.
was among visitors to Harrisburg
yesterday.
William Conner register of wills
of Allegheny county. used to be
member of the Legislature. =
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-10

TTA AVE you ever wished you could
II be a Santa Claus to the little
folks the good old saint is apt
TO miss on his yearly rounds?
Wouldn't YOU like to put a big
pack of toys on your back and go
down into the highways and byways
of the city, stopping at the doors of
the little houses where the gaunt
shadow of want hangs over the
thresholds and, where joy is a
stranger?
Wouldn't it be a fine way of spend
ing Christmas eve. by scattering your
bounty far and wide in the homes of
little folks where the treasures of
childhood are few and the toys thev
have are crude, handmade things
conjured from the brooding imagi-
nation of boys and girls yearning
for those things that are so plenti-
ful in more prosperous households?
Well, the Red Cross is willing to
do that thing for you. Yea. anxious
to do 1t, but YOU must do your share
in filling the pack the Red Cross
Santa will carry into the homes of
the needy on Christmas Eve.
. If you have whole, second hand or
new toys take them TO the Red Cross
Toy Mission. If YOU have none,
send your check or bill to Miss
Margaret Ringland. care of the
Red Cross. Harrisburg. for more
than toys will be needed. All man
ner of cheer coal, fool. clothing.
will be necessary if Christmas is to
be made a real holiday in the homes
of many little people who are look
ing forward with faith unshaken to
the visit of Santa Claus. the while
their parents dread the coming of
the day.
Won't YOU help lift the shadow
from at least one household on this
next Christmas Day?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-10
BUSINESSLIKE BODY

"HE Constitutional Convention.
which held its first session here
yesterday, gives every indica
ton of being a businesslike body. 1t
wasted no time in long-winded ora
tory, but got down to solid work in
less than an hour after it met. 1t
has divided its work along lines that
will make for both speed and prog
ress. Systematic procedure and
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-10
order DOlDn Political Signs
[From the American Motorist.l

From the American Motorist.
Political advertisements must dis
appear from the state highways of
New York and Pennsylvania. Cam
didates for office there have been in
the habit of posting the highways
with political advertisements. The
state highway commissioners of
those two States have recently is
sued instructions to division engi-
necrs and road superintendents to re-
move all such signs from the state
highways.
In his letter to division engineers.
the State Highway Commissioner of
New York says:
II have noticed that political
posters have recently appeared
on telegram nules and trees
within the right of way of state
highways. As no candidate could
wish to begin his appeal to voters
by violation of the law, l
feel that these posters have been
placed through ignorance of the
statute prohibiting the display
of advertising signs along high
why's. You will Immediately have
all such poster. removed and
notify the candidate by letter
that he has mode an improper
use of highways As previously
instructed you VIII remove all
stems except those OF county
fairs and chautauQuas from the
rights of way along state roads"
Even where the laws do not speci-
ficalIy provide against advertising
sigrs on the highways, the county
road authorities, who have iurisdic-
ton Over local roads. can in most
cases order such signs removed.
The only signs which should be al
lowed on the rights of way of public
roads are those which should inform
the traveller OF direction or distance
or warn him of danger to himself or
others.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-10

prompt decision marked every move.
The Commissioners show evidence.
of having given careful thought to
their duties before they arrived here.
with the result that they lost no
time in unnecessary preliminaries.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-10
EillSiUe

Where is the proiiteer?
Not here.
I've looked around.
He can't be found,
That's clear.
He's always somewhere else
It's queer.
He's over there,
He's anywhere
But here.
louisville Courier-Journal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-10

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Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled to the use for republication
of all news dispatches credited to
it or not otherwise credited in this
paper and also the local news pub
lished herein.
All rights OF republication OF special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-10
Too Much to Hope For

[From the Kansas City Times.
If Congress wants to regain it's
popularity 1t need only pass bill
giving housewives mandates FOR
their cooks.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-10
Liqht READING

IFrom the Dallas Ncws.J -.
eur idea, of light reading matter. is
what a mind reader reads.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-10
Letters

There are letters of accent and let
ters of tone,
But the best OF all letters is to letter
alone.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-10

Bethmann-ITolweg is said to he
working for the restoration of the
Kaiser. Anxious to be kicked in the
face again by royalty. we suppose.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-10

And now we begin to appreciate oul
river coal more than ever.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-10
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg p.ctzels
are shipped into half dozen
counties?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-10
HISTORIC HARRISBURG

This city had an artillery COM
pany back in the thirties.