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THREE MONTHS OF
REST FOR VILLA
Bandit to Disband Army aijd
Give Up Military Cam
paigns For Present
EI Paso, March 3.—From a wound
ed Villa soldier, who Is hero to-day
for treatment, government agents
claim to have learned of Francisco
Villa's plan to reduce his force to 300
picked men .abandon his campaign
against' Chihuahua City, Mex., and dis
appear for three months on a secret
mission in the interest of his pro
visional government, ot which Miguel
Diaz Lombardo is to be provisional
president.
Villa's reason for this move was
said to have been two-fold. One to
regain his health, which had been
broken by exposure in the field, and
by his old wound in th eleg, and to
make a desperate effort to capture
Carranssa while the first ehief was on
his present trip from city to city in
Central Mexico.
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BEING FAIR WITH THE GIRLS
By Beatrice Fairfax
Men pride themselves on being
"good sports." Btu I think that in
their dealings with women they for
get what being a "good sport" really
means!
Nothing is "sporting" in the best
Sense unless it is based on principles
of honesty and fair play. A man
who lays any claim to being a gentle
man brings the spirit of. fair play as
a matter of course into his clubs, his
athletics, his business life and bis
amusements of every sort, except
those in which women are concerned.
The average man in his relation
ships with women wants amusement
and entertainment. If he can get it
for the asking, he takes it. But he
values what he gets for nothing at
nil.
My girls write me that the men
they know lo&t interest in them when
denied kisses and caresses. All
around me in social life I see the
same thing—men demanding the
privilege of "making love" to women
whom they do not even pretend to
love in any fine sense.
And ever since the days of the old
song, "He loved and rode away," that
is just what men have been doing.
They make love lightly when per
mitted, and tire easily. Worse still,
they "kiss and tell.''
All this is reprehensible enough,
unkind and even dishonorable. But
what makes it even less "sporting"
is the fact that whenever men are
expressing their honest opinion to
each other or to an older woman for
whose favors they are not striving,
Ihey acknowledge that they are look
ing for an ideal girl who won't per
mit herself to be kissed and caressed
by all and sundry.
Oh, yes, men confess it. Their
"dream girl"—the girl they mean to
love and marry is a girl to'ho holds
hsrself too high to permit any light
and facile lpvetrtaking. As for the
rest, they say, "Oh, I'm just amusing
myself. She ought to know that."
The Sad Part of It
She ought to—but she doesn't!
Too many girls fancy that the way
to hold a man is by letting him have
what he wants. Girl after girl has
confessed to me sadly when it was
too late: "Oh, I was afraid to say
no. There was Molly Green waiting.
And if I didri't. give in to him, I was
afraid he'd go after her."
Too late the girl learned that after
she has given in to him, the men gets
tired of what was his for the asking
and goes off for new worlds to con
quer.
The spirit of the chase makes men
like hunting. But is it "good hunt
ing" to blind the quarry first and then
to hunt it down?
Where is,the masculine instinct of
fair play? How can any self.-respect
ing man reconcile the statements he
makes to the girl he wants to win,
without the responsibility of marry
ing and supporting her, with the
statements he makes to outsiders
for whom he has enough respect to
cause him to tell them the truth?
To Susie, John says, "Oh, I've got
to kiss you. You know I'm fond of
you. Don't torture me by refusing.
You couldn't be so selfish and un
kind." And Susie, either because
she is a loving, self-sacrificing little
thing, or because she is emotional
and easily moved, lets John kiss her.
Then John tells his men friends
or some older woman for whose men
tality he has plenty of respect that
he's going to marry a girl who is dig
nified and who holds herself above
Idle love-making—the sort of girl, in
fact, who is fit to be a good man's
wife. And he feels very noble and
righteous as he says it.
Is that honorable sport? Is that
"fair pla,-?" I leave it to you boys
—to you and your own consciences.
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SATURDAY EVENING,
Courtesy Water Supply Commission.
The photograph shows an Ice cake above Mlddleto"\vn live feet thick by actual measurement. Note the crevice
the center of the cakt\
This shows the spongy composition of the ice and how it jams \inderne ath the surface, creating dams.
TOWNS MENACED
BY ICE GORGES
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this year is spongy and honeycombed
and such ice packs and jams until it
forms a perfect dam for tlood waters.
No open spaces between gorges are
created. And the result is the possi
bility of great bodies of backwater
being formed.
Heavy Rain Sole Hope
The one hope of the Commission
experts is that heavy and continuous
rains may send a great volume of
flood waters down the Susquehanna,
and that the ice pack may be swept
into the bay over night. If only mod
erate rains should fall over the wa
tershed, it is feared the ice from the
upper stream will be swept down to
jam the ice pack of the lower stream
the tighter and pile the gorges the
higher.
Cold Wave Coming
U. S. Weather Ffcrecaster Demain
to-day could give no prediction of
heavy rains within a week. The
present disturbance which has been
hanging over the Middle Atlantic and
Gulf States will be spent in about 3G
hours, s;nd any rainfall during that
time will likely be light. Following
will be several days of colder weather
and it is possible that a cold wave in
the Great Northwest may sweep
down into Pennsylvania and send the
temperatures as low as eighteen to
twenty degrees. Such a cold wave
would give the ice a chance to freeze
and pack the tighter, making the
condition even more mimical than at
present.
Carefully Watching Stream
The AVater Supply men are getting
but little Sleep as a result of the dan
gerous status of the river. They are
on the job night and day standing
ready to warn people downstream in
case any general movement of the
ice should occur. Each hour they
are receiving reports from agents
both up and downstream.
One thing that makes the condition
particularly dangerous is that the ice
from tho West and North branches
of the Susquehanna have not yet
passed Harrisburg. If all ice
were down, there would be little
cause for tear, because heavy flood
waters would then have a chance to
sweep the ice pack below the city in
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ice above Wllliamsport has passed
into the Main stream and the North
branch Ice has also Jammed and
gorged at; points north of this city.
Practically the only Ice which has
passed the city has come from tho
Juniata and it is this ice which has
caused the Jams and gorges along the
lower stream from Middletown to
Bainbridge and beyond.
In the lower stream the main sheets
of ice are standing firm against the
pushing of the ice from the Juniata
and the Water Supply engineers be
lieve that only terrific pressuro can
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HJURJUSBURG TELBGRXPS
break UB these acres and acres of or
iginal ice.
Another thing that makes the river
dangerous is the thickness of the ice
at most points. John Reckord, one
of the Commission's men photo
graphed a cake of ice above Middle
town. which was five feet thick by
actual measurement. The average
thickness of the ice is from two to
four feet. If such heavy cakes are
swept over the hamlets and towns
of the lowlands by flood waters,
nothing under heaven can prevent
the sweeping away of the homes of
j the people along the river.
I Here and there are open channels
between this city and Marietta, but
they are few and far between. At
Steelton, opposite Hess' Island,' there
Is an open space; opposite treWlck
street the Ice pack again cuts off tho
channel; at Cumbler's heights, be
tween Zimmerman's Island and tho
Steelton shore there Is a considera
ble gorge; at Hlglisplre the chan
nel is packed and gorged; at the heud
of Calvert's Island Is a small open
channel; similar open cliannols which
extend for several hundred 6r even
a thousand feet, extend along the
river to Balnbridge, but from that
point downstream, scarcely any open
spaces can be found.
Along the west bank of the river
there arc still fewer open channels
and most of the original ice reirfalns
intact. At Hainbridge the main gorge
is from thirty to forty feet high.
Prepare to Soncl Warnings
The Water Supply engineers re
ported that one of the dangers which
threatens Middletown is the possi
bility of ice cakes sweeping over the
meadowiands when the flood waters
come. Tho ice is now even with the
top of tho river banks and there is
grave possibility that when the break
up comes these ice cakes will not be
retained within the banks of tho
stream.
Warnings will be sent out forty
eight hours in advance of any possi
ble flood danger, however, the Wa
ter Supply Commission stated to-day.
Know Turns to Rain
Weather Forecaster K. R. Demaln
holds out but little hope for better
weather. He says, "Unsettled with
rain or snow to-night and probably
Sunday."
The snow that now covers the streets
land pavements with half a foot of
! slush and water started yesterday aft
lernoon at 12:45. Until this morning,
three and one-half incheß had fallen.
I before the snow turned to ruin. This
'makes a total depth of the snow six
land one-half inches in the last two
days.
Mutual Men to Welcome
Soldiers Wed., March 14
Kmployes of the Pennsylvania Hail
road, who recently returned from the
border, will be a part of the Mutual
Beneficial Association program on the
night of March 14. They wlil line up
at the armory and with the Mutual
Beneficial band, march around the hall,
and line up in front of the platform.
Master Mechanics J. L. L. Cunning
ham will welcome the soldiers. Isaiah
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MARCH 3, 1917.
Reese, Jr., chairman of the committee
In charge of arrangements, will make
a brief speech, and President J. K.
Qruver, or Harrlsburg Assembly, No. 4,
Mutual Beneficial Association of Penn
sylvania Railroad Employes, will speak.
Other features on the program will
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Include vocal and Instrumental selec
tions, acrobatic exhibitions and a
humorous monolog by "Billy" Kitchen-
It Is expected that 1.200 members will
attend. Officers of the association from
I'hlladelphla will also be present.