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WEDNESDAY EVENING, JAN*, A#.
He who is continually changing his
point o1 view icill see more, and that
too more clearly, than one tcho, statue
like. for ever stands upon the same
pedestal however lofty and well-placed
that pedestal may be. — Sir Arthur
HKLrs.
>IR. MANN'S SPEECH
IF President Wilson meant to go be
fore the people with an appeal for
support for the national defense
program lmsed on the assumption that
partisan politics enter into the oppo
sition that has sprung up in Congress,
he will have to change the tenor of his
speech. The address of Congressman
Mann, leader of the Uepublicans in the
House, made on the floor of Congress
yesterday, shows where the Republi
can party stands on the matter of
preparedness, for applause on the Re
publican side of the chamber indi
cated that a majority of the speaker's j
colleagues heartily approved of what
he said.
Mr. Mann voiced the sentiments of I
all good Americans, regardless of party,!
when lie declared that partisan feel- |
Jng must not be permitted to have!
re part in the debate preceding the pas- !
t-ase of adequate preparedness meas- j
nres. All that Republicans ask is that
the program be well balanced, that it!
be sufficient to meet our needs without
being unnecessarily burdensome, that
it be free from the suspicion of "pork,"
that the expenditures in other direc
tions be pared to meet the new needs
and that action be as prompt as the
urgency of the situation demands.
If President Wilson lacks support
for such a program he lacks it in his
own party and he should make that
clear when he goes before the people.
The war has started. Just previous
to a preparedness luncheon at the
Metropolitan Club in Washington, yes
terday, at which ex-Postmaster-Gen
eral George von L. Meyer was to be a
guest of honor, he accepted the invita
tion of Truxton Beale to settle a little
argument on the sidewalk in front of
the club house. Hostilities began
promptly, and Dr. Carey T. Grayson,
the President's physician, who happened
to be at the club house, treated Mr.
Meyer's eye. It is not stated who re
placed the patch of skin removed from
Mr. Beale's forehead. The ex-Postmas
ter-General did not permit the litie af- |
fair of the curb to Interfere with his
luncheon engagement. After his clothes
had been dusted and his eye cared for,
he calmly entered and took his seat.
Yet we have people who Insist that
Americans have lost their fighting
spirit.
PHILIPPINE FKKF.nOM
NOT satisfied with mixing things
elsewhere throughout the world
the Wilson administration now
proposes to throw the Philippines in
to the vortex of disaster by declaring
the archipelago free not later than
1920. Tt is stated in dispatches from
Washington that the President has
given his approval to an amendment
to the Philippine government bill, now
pending in the Senate, which provides
/or the independence of the islands
in from two .to four years: this in
spite of the warning of ex-President
Taft and others who have an inti
mate knowledge of the forces at work
in the islands concerning the unpre
paredness of the natives for inde
pendent rule.
The Allentown Morning Call has just
Issued an industrial edition of fifty-six
pages, setting forth very attractively
the business activities, prospects and
opportunities of that section of Penn
sylvania. "Let us study our home town
and boost," is the slogan suggested by
Mayor A. I*. Reichenbach, and the Call
appears to have done both to a superla
tive degree.
THE RECORD AXI) WILSON*
THE Philadelphia Record has
been making so much of a re
cent speech of Jacob H. Schlfr.
the banker, as a prop for its own as
sertions that the tariff is not to be an
issue in the coming national cam
paign, that one wonders how it Is
going to regard the declaration of
President Wilson in favor of Ihe cre
ation of a tariff commission. If the
tariff question has been permanently
settled by the Underwood law, as Mr.
jgchift and Kecord would have us
WEDNESDAY EVENING,
1 believe, why has the President deem
ed It necessary to create an expensive
board of tariff commissioners and in
doing so incidentally admit that some
of the schedules now in effect should
be revised?
The truth Is that the Record and
other Democratic newspapers see In
the tariff one of the great issues of the
coming- campaign and they ore doing
whatever lies In their power to dis
count it in advance. A large major
ity of the people of this country un
questionably believe In the necessity
of a protective tariff, but by a pro
tective tariff they do not mean a law
designed to favor capital at the ex
pense of labor, but rather a regula
tive measure that shall do no more
than make possible the high wage
scale of America as against the cheap
competition of Europe and at the
same time guarantee steady work for
both capital and labor. That is what
a protective tariff means and that is
the kind of a law the Republicans
mean to enact next year.
The President, however, has com
pletely reversed himself on
and there is evidence that the Demo
cratic party, which disregarded the re
ports of the tariff board appointed by
President Taft and refused to make
appropriations to continue this board
in existence, is preparing to follow
suit.
According to the President's plan, as
authoritatively outlined at Washing
ton. the functions of the tariff com
mission, which is to be "nonpartisan,"
will be as follows:
To investigate the administrative
and fiscal effect of customs laws
heretofore enacted or to be enacted
in the future.
To investigate the relation be
tween rates on raw materials and
those on finished or half-tlnlshed I
products.
To investigate the effects of ad
valorem and specific duties and of
those which are a combination of
ad valorem and specific duties.
To perfect the arrangement of
schedules of duties and the classifi
cation of articles In the several
schedules.
To study the provisions of law
and the rules and regulations of the
Treasury Department regarding
entry, appraisement. Invoices and
collections.
In general, to Investigate the
working of the customs and tariff
laws in economic effect and admin
istration methods.
Finally, to inquire into the cost
of production at home and abroad;
collect facts and present to Con
gress figures with reference to
partisan theories, but on which a
tariff law can be based.
Here Is direct admission that the
Underwood law Is not satisfactory even
to Its framers: that a protective tariff
may be, in some instances at least,
necessary, and that the tariff Is still
very much a political issue.
Charles D. Hilles, chairman of the
Republican National Committee, is not
disturbed over the proposed swing
around the circle by President Wilson. He
believes that the European conflict is
the only mainstay of the President, and
that outside of the parrot-like state
ment that "he lias kept us out of the
war" there is no argument to offer for
his re-election. Mr. Hilles and other
leaders of the Republican party through
out the country express the conviction
that 1916 is to be a Republican year,
and that the next President will repre
sent the party of protection and pros
perity.
HI'KRAH FOR THE SI'NHSH
HUNDREDS of fishermen who tire
of sitting in a boat in the hot
sun all day waiting for an in
different bass to gobble the toothsome
dainty so carefully prepared for him
on the end of a long line will rejoice
that Eish Commissioner Buller is going
to devote tnuch of the attention of his
department to the propagation of the
blue gill sunfisli.
This type of sunfisli varies from a
quarter to a pound in weight nnd he is
all appetite and fight. There never
lived a black bass with the ferocity
and pulling power of an adult blue gill
scouting for his breakfast, and there
never lived a bass that raised such
large families as Papa and Mama Blue
Gill take pride in producing for the
amusement and edification of countless
small boys and older anglers, too.
Added to this, a half-pound blue gill
well browned and hot from the pan
can give even a trout cards and spades
as an appetizing tid-bit.
A blue gill may never have broken
a tarpon line or pulled a fisherman
into the water, but for all-around sport
he fills the bill. He loves to linger be
neath shady banks or rocks, or along
sunken logs, where the water eddies,
the long grass blades sway and the
food floats right into his dining-room
door. But he is not afraid of swift
currents and frequently he may be
taken quite freely where the fisherman
wades knee deep in a stream abound
ing in eddies and holes that tempt a
lover of trout to try a fly.
There is lots of fun fishing for blue
gill sunflsh and Mr. Buller will add
about 25 per cent, to the batting aver
age of the Joy of Living for the
average citizen if he succeeds in his
purpose of making the streams abound
with them as they once did, back in
the pleasant days of bright sunshine
and cooling breezes and blue skies
| when we went whistling across the
[ dewy meadow at sunrise, calm in the
assurance of good sport in store and
of a well-filled creel at evening time.
SUPPORT THE HOSPITAL
THE colored people of town very
generously have appointed a
committee to raise money to as
sist in the support of the Harrlsburg
Hospital. Their effort comes at a very
opportune time. The calls upon the
hospital during this winter of excessive
sickness have been exceedingly heavy.
The funds, however, are no greater
than before and every care must be
taken in order that the efficiency of the
institution be not weakened by the
great amount of new work it has been
called upon to do. The forethought
and helpfulness of our colored citi
zenry ought to be a hint for others.
! It beat* all how State Highway Com
i missloner Cunningham and his staff are
| setting over the State and Into touch
i with road conditions everywhere. U#v
| ernor Brumbaugh is determined that
the highways of Pennsylvania shall
represent a substantial part of the con
structive program of his administra
tion. Jn this he will have the enthusi
astic support of every good citizsn.
| TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE"!
—Germany's proposals to Belgium
and Austria's offer to Oermany lead
to the belief that the Teutonic allies
| prefer their peace in pieces.
—lt begins to look as though the
j Chicago road roller will be shipped to
St. I^ouis.
—Mars appears to be having almost
as much trouble with its canals as we
are having at Panama.
—Time may be money, but the fel
low who has most time on his hands
is usually poor.
Pennsylvania spent with Its laun
dries last year more than *10.000,000.
If cleanliness Is next to godliness,
Pennsylvania must be next door to
heaven.
—Germany has offered Belgium a
new "scrap of paper."
1 editqrialcqmment
Pan-American unity Is a beautiful
thought, but it must be remembered
that peace-advocates are always of one
mind until they get together.—Wash
ington Post.
International law is not very influ
ential at present, but It must be borne
in mind that enough scraps of paper
carelessly treated may start a danger
ous blase.—Washington Star.
Summing things up in general, one
may say that the two heroes of the
year who have kept their following are
I* ield Marshal von Hlndenburg and
Charlie Chaplin.—Chicago Daily News.
President Wilson is sure to go down
in history as a man of international
note.—Christian Home and School.
TWO SIDES
[Kansas Ctty Star.]
The big feature of German pre
paredness is likely to be overlooked in
this country, where attention has
been centered on the empire's military
efficiency. Colonel Roosevelt is doing
an important service in emphasizing
the essential part in the war of Ger
man industrial organization.
America has been allowed Its enor
mous natural resources and the com
parative sparseness of population to
take the place of efficient, organiza
tion. But there are evidences of in
creasing strain. The out-of-work
problem that Kansas City—and every
other city—faces every winter is. one
of these. The growing revolt against
injustices of industry, the demand for
escape from sweatshop wages, the in
sistence on decent working conditions,
the pressure for workmen's compen
sation acts, widows' pensions and the
like, all indicate that the United States
is beginning to face problems similar
to those which have confronted the
nations of Europe.
Germany realized the necessity of
solving these problems a generation
ago. England put off facing them
until the comparatively recent advent
of Lloyd-George. The consequence
is that the industrial organization of
Germany has been far adapted
to meet the strain imposed by war
than that of England.
Military preparation, as Colonel
Roosevelt has pointed out. is only one
side of the national problem of pre
paredness. There must be a program
for social and Industrial justice such
as the Progressive party advocated in
1912 if.this nation is to be prepared
to do its part in either peace or war.
KNOWING A GIRL
"* * * show me a mother ivho is
kind of heart, decisive or will, Chris
tian in character, a good housekeeper,
whose daily orders are that 'dirt, debt
and the devil' cannot enter her home,
who can play as elegantly on the
cookßtove as she can on the piano—
in short, a mother given to industry,
self-sacrifice and consecration and
the reproduction of such a mother is
easily seen in the daughter."—Some
clergyman in Chicago.
Show us a woman such as you de
scribe, and nine times out of ten we
will show you a woman who is trail
ing the girls about eight hours a day,
picking up after them, who takes
turns with her silent partner in sit
ting up watching the front door until
the young ladies arrive about two a.
m. from an evening of turkey-trotting
and grizzly-bearing.
Scientifically speaking, to tell
whether a girl is going to make a
good wife or not, requires something
more than the knowledge of what her
mother is. Strange as this may seem
to our misguided Chicago brother, a
knowledge of the girl's father is im
portant. His very insignificance may
have a great bearing upon the case.
Her grandparents also enter into the
calculation. The best rule by which
to judge a girl's capacity is to take
account of everything—of her father
and mother, her grandfathers and
grandmothers, her environment, her
companions, her schooling. Write this
all down carefully on paper, making
due allowance for each influence.
Then throw it out of the window,
and you will know as much about
wha< the girl will do under given
circumstances as you did before.
Life.
ON THE COLOR LINE
[From the Crisis.! ,
—As a result of a gift of $25,000
from Andrew Carnegie and an appro
priation of SB,OOO by the city council, a
Negro Public Library has been opened
in New Orleans with 5,000 volumes.
—Colored people at Detroit, Mich.,
have effected an organization which
aims to < are for the homeless children
in that city.
—The colored branch of the St. Louis
Young Men's Christian Association has
just closed a very successful campaign
led by Dr. J. K. Mooreland. The Cen
tral Association promised $75,000
toward meeting Julius Rosenwald's
gift of $25,000, provided the colored peo
ple raised $50,000. Committees were
organized, and the ten-day campaign
closed with a result that more than
$68,000 had been subscribed by the col
ored people.
—Mrs. S. R. Givens is speaking
among colored clubs of the Southwest
in the interest of a movement to en
courage history and art among colored
people.
—At a mass meeting in Atlanta, Ga.,
colored people raised $8,900 for a Young
Men's Christian Association building.
The Governor of the State was present.
The ground has already been purchased.
—ln Miami, Fla.. negro voters helped
to carry the prohibition ordinance.
—St. Catherine's School and Convent,
new Catholic institutions for negroes,
at Germantown. Pa., were blessed by
Archbishop Prendergast.
—J. R. K. Lee. for sixteen years a
teacher at Tuskegee Institute, has suc
ceeded G. N. Grisham as principal of
the Lincoln high school, Kansas City,
Mo.
EXCELLENTSELECTION
[Philadelphia Record.]
By the Governor's appointment of
Michael J. Ryan as a member of the
Public Service Commission Pennsyl
vania secures the services of a faithful
public official who can be relied upon
to bring to his work the very best that
is in him. Philadelphia neve" bud
» better City Solicitor that Mr. Ryan,
nnd if It had been properly appreciative
lof his absolute Integrity and unflHsr
ging zeal In protecting its interests il
would have elected him unanimously
for a second terni. That it failed to
do so and also to elevate him to the ju
dicial bench are reflections upon the uw
telligence of Its voters, not upon the
merits of Mr. Ryan.
harrisburg telegraph
fd!XUt
By th« Ex-Oommltteemaa
Democrats of the State do not seem
to liave risen to the announcement of
A. Mitchell Palmer that he will be a
candidate for re-election as national
committeeman any more than they
have shown any indication of accept
ing any "olive branches" from the
Monroe county man and his col
leagues.
Palmer's announcement failed to
interest many who have been boost
ers of the reorganization among the
Democrats and has brought what
amounts to a defiance from Demo
cratic congressmen at Washington.
Now that Palmer's boom has been
launched it is likely that some of the
Old Guard chieftains will get together
and arrange for opposition to Palmer.
I The Democrats elect their national
committeeman through the national
| delegates and that Palmer will have
rough sledding in a delegation which
will be for Wilson Is conceded.
—Seething Philadelphia was com
paratively quiet yesterday except for
! some resentment by Democrats of
Palmer's slurs about their small num
ber. Some of these Democrats retort
ed- that if the number was small In
Philadelphia, State Chairman Morris,
who lives in Philadelphia, should be
held responsible. The Washington
party standpatters who are trying to
halt the return to the party move
ment are now threatening to throw
out the men who declare for return.
If this is done it will leave only the
front row of the progressive parquet
occupied.
—One E. R. Wood, who has been a
candidate for Governor and various
other offices, is now running for the
Republican nomination for President.
Air. Wood is a fine old Philadelpliian
with a fondness for politics and is
visiting various counties in the inter
est of his aspirations.
—Representative M. B. Rich, of
Clinton, has announced his candidacy
for renomlnation.
—Congressman C. W. Beales, of
Gettysburg, who was here yesterday
declared that he would not run again.
Maybe Congressman l.afeun will try
for the district nomination if there
is a fuss over congressmen-at-large.
—Woman suffragists are getting
ready to make a tight for election of
Congressmen favorable to the suffrage
amendment and last night the head
quarters in this city Issued a state
ment that a conference on the elec
tion would be held in March and plans
made for the launching of a campaign
for Congressmen favorable to suffrage.
—Congressman Arthur G. Dewalt
is having an interesting time with his
boom for re-election. There are some
opponents in his own county.
—Representative M. R. Kitts will
be one of the candidates for mayor of
Erie to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of the mayor-elect. Kitts was
one of the thorns In the side of the
bosses of the reorganized Democracy.
Ex-Mayor Stern, V. D. Eichenlaub.
William Blosser and Grant Smith are
also candidates.
—The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times
notes the interesting fact that the
Armstrong administration in Pitts
burgh has not yet made up its mind
to support Senator Charles J. Magee
for re-election as senator because
Commissioner William A. Magee has
not yet made up his mind about what
he intends to do in the way of muni
cipal legislation next winter. The
same newspaper also contains this
interesting bit of information: "Mayor
Joseph G. Armstrong and his asso
ciates in the management of the Re
publican organization are giving a
good deal of attention to the making
of a slate of legislative candidates. In
order to secure an indorsement a pros
pective legislator must agree that he
will oppose all anti-liquor legislation
and follow the lead of the Mayor #n
all bills affecting the government of
the city. The liquor interests and the
German-American Alliance are work
ing with the Armstrong organization."
—Judge J. N. l,angham, former
corporation clerk in the auditor gen
eral's department, is now holding his
first license court in Indiana county.
There are remonstrances against all
applicants.
—Captain Isaac E. Johnson, of Me
dia, is said to be out against Congress
man Thomas S. Butler, for the Repub
lican nomination in the Chester-Dela
ware district.
—Our old friend, Col. P. ray Meek,
does not see much use in the Demo
cratic party trying to defeat P. C.
Knox for senator and still less use of i
trying to do it with Secretary of
Labor William B. Wilson. In that bea
con of old-time Democracy, the Belle
fonte Watchman, Col. Meek adds this
light to the real situation in the re
organized Pennsylvania Democracy
which has been disorganized by Pal
mer and his pals: "The suggestion,
[which comes from Washington that
Secretary of Labor Wllliom B. Wilson
be nominated for United States senator
by the Democrats of Pennsylvania will
hardly meet with popular favor. Mr.
Wilson represents nothing that is his
torical or traditionary in the Demo
cratic party In this State. When he
didn't know which party he belonged
to and didn't care much, the Demo
cratic organization of the State took
him up and elected him to Congress.
* • • With Mr. Knox as the Repub
lican candidate for senator a Demo
cratic nomination is a forlorn hope.
But it is a high honor, nevertheless,
and should be bestowed upon some
gentleman of character and ability.
There are plenty of such within the
ranks of the Democrats of Pennsylva
nia, and to suggest William B. Wilson
for the office is a crime against the
integrity of the party and an insult to
the intelligence of the voters of that
faith. The party can be rejuvenated
and restored to its former hopeful
place in political life, but that result
can be. achieved only by repudiating
the professional office seekers."
TO-DAY'S EDITORIALS
The Public I.edger, Philadelphia—
If President Wilson's reported conver
sion to the tariff commission idea has
been based upon the belief that the
adoption by the Democrats of a scien
tific method of collecting industrial
data for the guidance of Congress in
the fixing of customs duties Is going to
forestall the growing demand of the
country for a revision of the tariff by
its friends, he will soon find how utterly
he is mistaken. On the other hand, if
there are any pronounced protection
ists who imagine that the President's
decision to put tariff revision on a sci
entific and nonpartisan basis ought to
be opposed as inimical to their own
<ause, they will place themselves in a
false position before the country and
run the risk of losing the support of
many thousands of voters whose ad
herence to the principle of protection
is qualified by the condition that it
shall no longer be controlled by solely
partisan and selfish considerations.
The Baltimore A mrrlrnn —Posi ti velv
a last appeal to patriotism was that
which the Belgian Burgomaster so pa
thetically made to intending suicides
when he asked them not to shoot, but
to drown or hang themselves, since the
I town was fined SSO by the Germans be
cause a Belgian shot himself. The Bel
gians are forbidden to possess fire
arms, hence the anneal to shuftle oft
| the mortal coil in a less entangling way.
! The Philadelphia PrrM—What the
President wants is that Carranza shall
hold Villa to a strict accountability,
but it Is doubtful If Carranza has the
ability to sling language the way some
I people can.
THE CARTOON OF THE DAY
BETTER HEAVE THAT DECKLOAD OVERBOARD
—Front thf Phlladrlphtn Record.
APPRECIATING THE POTATO
By Frederic J. Haskin
V J
The Irish potato, like the prophet,
has been not without honor save in its
own country. It Rets its name be
cause it saved the Irish from famine.
The French recently erected a monu
ment to Antoine Augustin Parmen
tier. the man who Introduced it into
that country. It is most widely ap
preciated in Germany where potato
meal is just now an important factor
in the empire's war economics.
In America, where It originated, the
potato is. of course, widely used, but
almost as much is wasted as is eaten.
Owing to its large'content of water,
it is not profitable to ship raw pota
toes far. Practically all of the other
potato-eating countries have invented
methods of converting it into meal
which is used for bread-making and
stock food. In Germany potato meal
has been a staple for a century.
Now this country is beginning to
follow suit. The homely spud, long
neglected, is being pushed into the
spotlight of science. Ways to dry it
and dessicate it and pulverize it. so
that it may be preserved Indefinitely
and shipped to the ends of the earth,
are being devised. Its varieties are
being multiplied so that there will be
one suited to every section of the
country. New ways of cooking it are
constantly coming to the fore. We
now have potato meal, potato bread,
potato muffins and potato pudding. It
looks as though the potato was deter
mined to masquerade in every dish
on the bill of fare.
The climax of the potato's glory will
be reached in a few weeks when the
department of agriculture will hold
an extensive potato show in one of
its new buildings. Here will be placed
on exhibition all the different varie
ties of potatoes which the government
experts have succeeded In producing,
together with full data upon the con
ditions of climate and soil to which
they are adapted. If there is any sort
of a potato which you can raise in
your back yard or on your farm, go
to the government potato show and
you will find it there.
The department of agriculture is
now observing and studying the po
tato from many angles. On its experi
mental farm at Arlington it has erect
ed a plant for drying potatoes and
grinding them into meal for stock
food. So far the experiment has not
been a complete success. The ap
paratus consists of a potato-washing
machine which was purchased from
Germany, and a traveling wire screen
for drying the pulp by pressing it
over steam-heated pipes.
The perfection of a practicable ap
paratus for doing this work will be
worth many millions to American
agriculture. From 10 to 20 per cent.
\ of the American potato crop is wasted
every year because it is not good
enough for table uses and there is no
means of preserving it for stock food
or converting it into flour.
The problem in this country is to
produce the stock meal cheaply
enough so that the farmer can sell
it at a profit. The government ex
perts believe that the producer would
get about twenty cents a bushel for
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HE KNEW!
By WlnK Ulngtr
I've one boy who's always ready-
Information to Imparl—
Ne'er confesses lack of knowledge.
No. indeed, lie's far too smart
He may not, of course, be posted.
But an answer he will frame.
Makes no difference what the subject
Always, brother, 'tis the same.
Of "The Magic Wheel," at present
He is talking quite a bit.
Has a boy friend who Is taking
An Important part In It.
So I asked, "What part does Bill play?
'Cross his face a smile did steal.
Then he spoke up. "Biggest part, dad,
In the show, why, lies the wheel.
MUST BE CAREFUL
[New York Sun.]
If Judge Gary of the United States
Steel Corporation isn't careful he
urges support of the Administration's
defence program next thing he
knows he'll be getting a letter like
the one that went to Colonel Harvey
I when the Colonel was "hurting;" a dis
tinguished candidacy.
JANUARY 26, IQI6.
potatoes which were ultimately used
in that form. This price would not
make it profitable to cultivate them
in many sections of the country for
use as stock food alone. It would,
however, make it possible for the
farmer to get something: for his culls,
and by sorting them thoroughly, to
put a higher grade of potato on the
market for table use.
There is one commercial organiza
tion in this country which has for
its object the manufacture of potato
meal. This concern is experimenting
with the various drying and grinding
processes with a view to establishing
a string of "community potato mills,"
in sections where the production is
heaviest and hence the waste greatest.
The idea seems to be a large one and
ought to be worth a great deal both
to the promoters and the farmers. At
present, however, the experiments are
rather at a standstill because Ger
many is about the only source of po
tato machines and the war lias put
her out of the market.
The German method of handling
potatoes is more elaborate than any
of those tried in America. In Ger
many the potatoes are first washed,
then cooked in a steam vat and crush
ed between rollers. The resultant pulp
is passed through heated steel cylind
ers which are perforated so that they
press the product into flat cakes.
These cakes may be ground up fine
and made into flour. Potato bread has
been a staple in Germany for over a
century.
Experiments in the use of potatoes
as a bread stuff are being carried on
in this country by the Michigan State
Agricultural College. The Michigan
cooks have produced a sort of potato
bun which is declared to be quite a
delicacy.
In this country ,of course, our
bumper wheat crops make it unnec
essary to use substitutes for bread
stuff. The high cost of living in this
country, however, is traceable largely
to our national extravagance and
wastefulness, of which allowing 20 per
cent, of our potato crop to rot on the
ground is a fair sample. If we ate
more potato bread we might not have
to pay so much for beefsteak.
Germany produces about four times
as many potatoes as the United States.
This Immense crop is used for a wide
variety of purposes. Not only is the
vegetable eaten fresh and made into
bread, but alcohol for industrial pur
poses and in the form of brandy, and
starch are manufactured from them.
The Department of Agriculture is
encouraging the farmer to grow spe
cific varieties of potatoes which are
suited for special purposes. In this
way, a higher market price may be
commanded. Thus the making of po
tato chips requires a dry, hard potato
which will absorb a minimum of
grease. High-class hotels and restau
rants soon find that in order to main
tain the reputation of their cuisines
they must always obtain the same sort
of a high-class potato. Some potatoes,
for example, will bake much better
than others, while potato salad may
require yet a different sort.
THE STATE FROM D/^TODAY
Lancasterltes will not have the
pleasure of seeing the wonderful pro
duction of David Griffith, "The Birth
of a Nation," which has created such
intense Interest all over the country
where it has appeared. Mayor Trout
has made the announcement that it
will not be shown because of his be
lief that the story libels the great
commoner, Thaddeus Stevens, who is
buried in Shreiner's cemetery, Lan
caster. This production is booked for
the Orpheum in Harrisburg in the
near future.
Northumberland county's youngest
wife died yesterday in Sunbury of
pneumonia. It was her birthday anni
versary, and Mrs. William Kline, the
10-months-old bride, was only sixteen
years of age.
One hundred of the fairest daugh
ters of Heading will participate in a
"tag day'" which it is planned will
bring in a large revenue that will be
used for the aid of Hebrew sufferers
in the war zone, following the recent
proclamation of President Wilson and
Governor Brumbaugh. "Tag day" has
on every occasion proved successful
when pretty girls were used as "tag
gers," and this will not prove an ex
ception.
Says the Lancaster Intelligencer,
the game of golf in the United States
is so big that there are 1,064 listed
clubs, scores of public links, dozens of
private courses and countless unlisted
clubs. Imagine if you can, all the golf
balls required to keep these clubs ac
tive for a year; imagine them piled
up in one huge pyramid, and if you
don't become light-headed, it isn't be
cause the mound doesn't reach to the
clouds.
An iron furnace belonging to the
Freeman estate at Cornwall, having
been idle for fifteen years, is now to be
operated again by the Lackawanna
Iron end Steel Company. This makes
the fifth stack which the Lackawanna
company la now operating in Corn-
I wall.
Abetting (Eljat
Serious consideration is being given
by .State Game Commission officials
to the suggestion that the next legis
lature be asked to pass a law for a
closed season on quail for at least
two years In order to allow them to
propagate now that the federal quar
antine has cut o(T any hopes of im
porting quail from Mexico or Culm
for many months to come. The
legislature forbade the hunting of
wild turkeys for two years a couple
of years ago and the result was that
through the safety the birds enjoved
and judicious distribution of turkeys
I from other States Pennsylvania had
the best wild turkey shooting it hail
ever enjoyed last Fall. The federal
action will stop importation of over
10,000 quail for the commission, which
had appropriated the money for them
and sent an agent to Mexico to buy
them and will also prevent many
dealers in live game from getting
birds. The disease against which the
quarantine is aimed is due to a para
site which affects the digestive
organs. It has killed off many valu
able quail imported into this coun
try.
• • *
State officials who have been ob
serving the registration of automo
biles believe that the number of cars
owned by farmers and used in farm
or market work will pass the 25,000
mark this year. Reports received
from assessors and crop reporters by
the State Department of Agriculture
indicated that there were over 22,000
owned in the country In December
and since then agents have been busy
getting orders for cars for Spring
delivery.
• * •
Organization of an additional en
gineer company for the National
Guard will soon he effected it Is be
lieved about the Capitol, the interest
taken In preparedness having caused
a number of moves to get official
countenance for such an organization.
The State now has two engineer com
panies, one in Philadelphia and one
in Scranton. Altoona and Pittsburgh
have been mentioned for the third,
but nothing has been announced by
the militia authorities.
• • •
Folk who know the Beckleys, who
live near the Colonial Country Cluh,
are smiling these days as they see in
one of the seed catalog "ads" running
in the magazines, a babyhood pic
ture of O. P. Beckley's son, Park. Mr.
Beckley is one of the horticultural
experts of this country, taking a
prominent part in that work at the
Mount Pleasant Press where it. has
become one of the most important
ends of the business. When his boy
Park was a youngster he was forever
and anon taking pictures of the little
rascal in beautiful floral poses. The
one the seed company Is using in its
ad is particularly artistic, showing the
lad smelling of a beautiful flower.
Intimate friends of the Beckleys have
seen that same picture In the photo
album on the living room table of
their beautiful country home, for it
Is one that "O. P." never fails to
show his friends.
By dint of industry more than fif
teen tons of waste paper have been
gathered by the Men's Bible Class of
Derry Street United Brethren Church
during the last several months and the
men are now busy trying to gather
fifteen tons more. When the thirty
tons are collected It will be shipped
in carload lots to waste paper jobbers
and the proceeds will be turned into
the church building fund for the bier
Easter offering which is an annual
event at Derry Street. This Men's
Class, with 400 men, is the largest
in the city and it is doing a remark
able work on Allison Hill. It has one
of the best orchestras In the city,
which plays each Sunday under the
direction of Earle E. Renn, one of the
younger attorneys of the Dauphin
[County Bar. It's got drums, too,
despite the opposition of some of the
old-time religion folk who imagine
it's not quite the proper thing to make
music In church on much other than
an organ. Next, week bells are to be
introduced, it is announced. One of
the progressive steps recently taken
by the class was the institution of a
regular monthly class dinner, where
the fellows all get together, fill them
selves with good things of the earth
and then settle down to well planned
business meetings. The dinners are
served at actual cost and just to show
what can be done not long ago the
menu was turkey and all the fixin's
at a cost of twenty cents.
• • •
Major General C. M. Clement, of
Sunbury, the commander of the Na
tional Guard division, is one of the
oldest officers in the Guard. Tie has
served in it for over a quarter of a
century and commanded the Twelfth
Infantry in the Spanish war.
1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~
—Howard B. French, the new
president of the Philadelphia Cham
ber of Commerce is a member of the
State Board of Charities.
—C. L. Huston, the Coatesville iron
master, has given SI,OOO to the Jew
ish relief fund.
—H. C. Frick is playing golf in
Florida these days.
—E. J. Lynett, mentioned as Demo
cratic candidate for United States
Senator, is Scranton's biggest pub
lisher.
—H. E. Lewis, the new assistant
to the Bethlehem Steel Company
president, is a great athletic booster.
—Theodore N. Ely has been elected
vice president of the Philadelphia
Museums.
1 DO YOU KNOW
That Harrisburg makes parts
for many traction machines?
IHSTORIO HARHISBURG
The first road laid out to tlds
city came from Mlddletown.
LOVE THE LORD
Take good heed therefore unto
yourselves, that ye love the Lord your
God.—Joshua xxll, 11.
Plan Your Work
Work Your Plan
That la a good suggestion to
the National Advertiser.
Plan your advertising with a
knowledge of the market and
Its possibilities.
Plan It so that your energy
will be directed towards the spots
of highest return don't just
shoot money at the map.
Planned with this in mind your
advertising will inevitably go to
the daily newspapers.
And once your plan is made,
W'OIIK IT.
Manufacturers in the "plan
ning stage" are Invited to write
to the Bureau of Advertising.
American Newspaper Publishers
Association. 806-807 World Build
ing, New York,
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