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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1916-09-07
The Germans and Mr. Hughes

No word of censure has come
fromtthe lips of President Wilson
for our splendid American citizens
Of German birth for exercising the
keenest interest in the welfare iof
kin and friends as they struggle
and suffer in the trenches for the
Fatherland. They couldn't help it
if they would. They would be de-
void of heart if they did. They
are loyal to their adopted country
and in crisis would folloN the
flag as they have alpays followed
it. no matter the Zoe President
Wilson eXacts no other test,
And yet we are told that some
, of our German CItlZenS are not
pleased with Mr. Wilson's foreign
policy and will vote for Mr.. Hughes.
tMr. Roosevelt is nD@ ,ca npiiel-
ing Maine for Mr. Hughes, whose
cause he did not espOuse until after
a serious conference, the ci1dl1ite
made it plain that he was i'll abSo-
( Lutte accord with him (RoosevelD
on all public questions. 1t is sad
that it was even agreed at this con-
ference that in case Of Mr. Hughes
election. Mr. Roosevelt should b.
made Secretary of State =.
Aud here IS wull Ir Roosevelt
said concerning the Germans in MS
first speech in Maine, at Lewistown
August 81, 1916.
II is our high and solemn duty,
both to prepare our own strength
So as to guarantee our o%n safety,
ana also to treat every foreign Ba-
ton. III any gwen Crisis, as lis con
duct in that crisis demands. The
citizen who does not so act, aud
! whn endeavors to shape America 5
policy in the inter s. uf the cJun-
try from which he or his ancestors
have sprung, is no true Americdn
and has no moral right to citizen.
shin in this country Ii is because
of such action that ! condemn thOs e
professional COMMUNICATIONS
who in our politics act as servants
and allies Of Germany, not as
Americans interested solely in the
honor and welfare Of America"
Mr.. Roosevelt indcts the German
of this country and condemns them
as traitors without a hearing. with
out trial. He alone is the judge of
their loyalty
Unless Mr.. Hughes entertained
the same views Nr Roosevelt
would not be speaking for him in
| Maine.
Are the Germans going to vote
for MIR Roosevelt's candidate for
the presldency9-Bulleti
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1916-09-07
Notice

| have moved my News Stand
from the Southern & Spaldine drug
store To the l.. NJ. Wood drug store,
where the papers will be found
hereafter.-J. c. McAtee.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1916-09-07

The board that was elected for
the 1917 Chautauqua met in D. II.
Stevens office Saturday morning
ard they were not in favor of going
ahead with number of tickets
pledged and number of guarantors
in fact. some refused to serve on
the hoard under the stances
1t was sug lested that possibly an
organization of business men could
be made that would take the mat
ter 10 and A. Jaeger, Jr., f. A.
Thompson and W. B. Fahy were ap-
pointed to ascertain if such an or.
eanization could be made.
The board met again and re-
ported that an organization OF ten
or fifteen men could be made and
that it would assume all RESPONSE
biltes of putting on the chautau-
qua next year. With this under
standing the chautauqua board
voted to discontinue its efforts and
leave the matter to the business
mems organization, We are expect.
ing to have the best chautauqua
next year that we have ever had
| Miss Matte Fields went to Pari,
Saturday and opened her schoo
Monday at Cradle of Science witt
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-13
THE NAvYS PROGRAM

IF whole-souled enthusiasm be any
criterion by which to measure re-
suits. then the program of perma-
nent development and improvement
of the Susquehanna basin as promul-
gated By the Greater Harrisburg Navy
is certainly assured.
When Harrisburg's scores of canoe-
lists. motorboatmen and other river
sportsmen finally considered the time
ripe for urging councilmanic recog-
milton of the rivers needs as a great
recreation place they banded them
selves together into what is now the
city's biggest association.
And when the Navy was formally
organized the members decided that
the truth OF the Susquehanna's popu-
larity should be driven home to the
councilmen. The first Kipona, the
regatta and water carnival, arranged
and staged under the direction of the
Navy, was the result. How many thou
sands flocked to the river shores and
bridges to add their cheering voices
to the great outdoor 'ad" is matter
OF history.
But the Nays work has only begun.
Municipal lighthouses and bathing
beaches. boathouse facilities, properly
blasted and marked channels-these
are only few of the necessary i'm
provements which the splendid body
of youthful river enthusiasts demand.
Oddly enough, some other thousands
of Harrisburg folk, young and old.
apparently discovered that the pretty
island shores, the many pools and the
rocks within an easy padding distance
of the shores offered ample oppor-
tunity for bathing. and that all that
was lacking were suitable facilities for
accommodating the bathers. So the
Navy's demand for bathhouse and
bathing beach facilities was given first
place on the list of things needed and
things that must be provided"
Close upon the heels of the most
successful river demonstration ever
held followed this important action
of the Navy.
Not only has 1t authorized the ap-
pointnlent of committees to collect
necessary data on bathing beach and
bathhouse facilities, lighthouses and so
on, but it has decided to pay from its
own comparatively shallow pocket the
cost of an architects estimate on the
construction of a bathhouse and bath
ing beach,
Thus Council will know exactly Just
what such needs will cost. and it will
know, too, in ample time to take neces-
sary steps to make proper provision in
the city budget for 1917.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-13

1t isn't the thing you do, dear.
It's the thing you leave undone,
That gives you bit of heart ache
At the setting of the sun.
The tender word forgotten.
The letter you did not write,
The flower you did not send, dear,
Are our haunting ghosts at night.
The stone you might have lifted
Out of a brothers way;
The bit of heartsome counsel
You were hurried too much to say;
The loving touch of the hand. dear,
The gentle winning tone.
Which you had no time nor though
for,
With troubles enough of your own.
For life is all too short dear,
And sorrow is all too great.
To suffer our slow compassion,
That tarries until too late;
And II Isn't the thing you do. dear
It's the thing you leave undone.
Which gives sou a bit of heart ache
At the setting of the sun.
Margaret =. Sangster.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-13
knowledge Storehouse

tFrom the Kansas City StarJ
When you get to expounding your
expert theories on history and gov
ernment, quoting facts" Official in q
superior manner. inventing details the
while to support your convictions, be
sure that ]. B. Smith of Atchison is
not in the audience, because he may
CALI you. Mr.. Smith bought twenty
nine volumes of the Encyclopedia Brit
annica, each volume containing more
than 1000 pages. ana has read the
whole set from cover to cover. He has
read the works of Abraham Lincoln
and thirty-five biographies of that mar
tyred president. He has read the Bible
four times. and score of other stan
dard works on the Scriptures. to saw
nothing of an exhaustive study of the
history of Rome. These facts in them
selves would not be so remarkable If
Mr.. Smith did not remember everything
he ever read, and has his facts at his
immediate disposal In a manner most
annoying to habitual wise guys"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-13
Joys of the Open Road
kansas City Star. ]

lkNaAodo StSy oeaAsI
A well-off business man of Phila-
delphia walked this summer from
that city to his summer cottage in the
hills Of New Hampshire. five hundred
miles. And now, his vacation over, he
is walking back home again by diff
ferent route.
The newspapers of the East have
made much of his exploit, printing his
picture as he walks, and giving his
views on walking. He started to walk
mainly for the sake of his health, and
it was much benefited; but now he is
walking for fun. He says he never
got so much pleasure out of a jour-
ney before. "You don't see the coun-
try when you scoot across it by train
or motor car" he says. When you
walk 1t you have time to drink 1t all
in; you loaf along at your ease and
scene enchants."
This man has found something good
that will lengthen his life and crowd
1t with real joy. II he keeps at 1t. Few
of us walk enough. With the coming
OF trains, motor cars and street cars
walking has almost become lost art
We pant and grumble IL we have to
walk a mile.
fIoDuuiJ Lie 6oou Hcdlln ana lOuE
life of our forefathers was because
they walked SO much. Doctors rec
ommend walking now as a cure for
many ills. Golf Is simply a revival
by means of game of skill, of the
ancient art of walking. There Is tonic
in walk. There is happiness in It
too. for q walk of three or four miles
with the lungs filled with pure air and
the muscles working, stimulates the
circulation, burns out waste and pois.
onous matter and banishes the blues
A quaint philosopher said that any
man who contemplated suicide would
forget it If he walked five miles In the
country instead.
The joys of the open road, and the
health to be found there, have beer
sung by many philosopher and poet
ancient and modern, but the majority
of us are too busy with our petty
business affairs to heed the call.
The world Is too much with US. Late
and soon,
Getting and spending. we lay waste
our powers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-13
Mind
William Ellery Claiming. ]

The highest force in the universe is
mind. This created the heavens and
earth. This has changed the wilder
ness into fruitfulness, and linked dis
tant countries in benehcent ministry
to one another's wants. 1t is not to
brute force. to physical strength, SO
much as to art, to skill. to intellectual
and moral energy, that men owe their
mastery over the world. 1t Is mind
which has conquered matter. 70 fear.
then. that by calling forth a peoples
mind we shall impoverish and starve
them 10 to be frightened at a shadow.
believe that with the growth of in
tellectual and moral power In the COM
munity, its productive power will in-
crease. that industry will become more
efficient, that wiser economy will ac-
cumulate wealth, that unimagined re-
sources of art and nature will be dis
covered l believe that the means of
living will grow easier. in proportion
as a people shall become enlightened
self-respecting. resolute and Just
Bodily or material forces can be meas
ured. but not the forces of the soul:
nor can the results OF increased men,
tai energy be foretold.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-13

given them, it is also doing much to
bring all the different peoples con-
cerned together. Those who have visit
ed the devastated districts. the dis
patch already referred to declares, have
been impressed with the dominant quail
ity of determined industry in the face
OF disaster displayed by the peasants.
This has made special appeal to the
British farmer, and ne has shown him
self determined to do all in his power
to restore these people to a position
where their willing industry can once
again bear good fruit
1t is welcome to find. everywhere, q
very general recognition of the fact
that the restoration Of the battlefields
of Europe and the homes and property
OF the pee pie who formerly lived and
worked upon them. is one OF the first
obligations laid upon all parties to the
present struggle. The British farmer
takes the eminently just view that his
land is being defended on another mans
land and, therefore. 1t Is laid upon him
TO do all possible to make good the
ravages such defense may cause
Christian Science Monitor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-13
Prizes From Liquor Men


group of men interested in the
liquor business in California have Of
fercd $500 III prizes TO the school pupils
OF that state for essays containing the
boat arguments against prohibition, on.
the theory that Prohibition would de-
stroy the vineyards of California.
From the 3tondpoint of safeguarding
their own business interests this is !.
bad thing for the liquor men to do, for
just as sure as fate, If the boys and
girls begin looking into the effects of
prohibition and comparing them with
the results of open saloons they are
bound to become prohibitionists. The
story in The Star Sunday about prohi-
billion in Denver would be enough in
itself to set any fair minded person
against the liquor business; The pa.
thetic story in The Star Tuesday of
George Wallace, who was ruined by
whisky and has spent forty-eight of his
seventy-two years in prisons. is anoIhef
argument in favor of prob ibition. AL
most every day some tragedy of crime.
or accident, or misery caused by whisky
is. chronicled in the newspapers But
who can produce an instance of where
cept the man who sells IL?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-13
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Picking the Cabinet
To the Editor of the Telegraph:

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Following is a suggestive list for the
constitution of Mr.. Hughes cabinet,
calculated to be the strongest in the
history of the nation and adequately
capable of handling the reins of gov
ernment in. this the greatest crisis in
400 years:
Secretary of State-Elihu Root.
Secretary of the Treasury-Frank A,
Vanderlip.
Secretary of war-Theodore Roose-
Welt.
Secretary of the Navy-George Won
L. Meyer.
Attorney General-William H. Taft.
Secretary of the Interior-Gifford
Pinchot.
Secretary of Agriculture - James
Wilson.
Postmaster General - John wana-
maker.
Secretary of Commerce - Oscar S.
Straus.
Secretary of Labor-Thomas Mott
Osborne.
The above represents the most ex-
pert body of counselors in the world at
the present time. and if adopted would
place the United States in a position
of indisputable leadership. sumptu-
ously respected by all and a model of
good government, international right
eousness and benevolence.
JOHN w. RHOADS.
Edge Hill, Pa, Sept. 2.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-13

lock. Each interest felt that the other
expected too much.
Less than a year ago the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad expressed q desire to
build a new freight spur into the
borough along this canal. but it was
unwilling to assume the drainage prob
lem. The borough was unwilling to
permit construction of the spur unless
the railroad assumed the drainage
problem. Again there was q deadlock.
Then a compromise was suggested.
Quincy Bent. new head OF the Beth
lehem Steel Company's local plant. the
towns principal industry. informed In
terested parties that the towns princi-
pal corporation was anxious to see. the
town progress and suggested that the
only way to get ahead was to have all
forces united. working toward one end.
The other evening months of nego-
tiations came to u aead. an agreement
was effected and now the borough. the
steel. company and the railroad are 60
ing to build big system of sewers to
drain the upper end and West Side Of
the borough. The freight spur and a
new freight station will be built to
place the borough in a more advan-
tageous position 80 far as transpor-
tation facilities are concerned.
Each interest will pay just one-third
of the cost and each will get just about
one-third OF the benefits so far as 1t Is
possible for human mind to estimate.
Each interest now trusts the other. AL
are working for the common end.
Steelton has some other problems.
They are going to be tackled soon. The
new era is here.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-13

MOT long ago the Telegraph pre-
IN dicted that a new era was about
to dawn for Steelton.
For many years the borough was
content to go along as a small town.
often found where there is but one
industry.
There were two "camps"-the bor-
ough. comprised principally of en-
ployes of the towns only big industry,
and those associated with the manage
ment of the corporation itself. Each
felt that the other should take the
Initiative where any municipal prob
lem was involved. Neither would make
advances. and. speaking of municipal
affairs. there was a noticeable lack of
frankness and openness in most nego-
tiations.
Then came a change.
The borough's principal industry
passed into new hands. New blood
was infused into the towns life and
modern methods were injected into the
corporations dealings with the bor-
ough.
AS a result. there is now but one
camp" There are still two forces,
but each Is working toward a common
end. bigger, better. more desirable
Steelton.
Confidence has been reinspired, and
1t Is mutual confidence.
Problems that are as old almost as
the borough itself are being tackled in
q new way and with different methods.
That they will all be solved is indi-
Gated by the manner in which the
municipalities most troublesome ques-
ton, what to do about "the canal
nuisance" is about to be answered. -
The Pennsylvania canal. long aban-
doned for boating purposes. for years
has been used as an open storm drain
by the borough. Property owners and
residents along its shores have long
complained that it is an eyesore and a
menace to health.
When Council was asked to elimf-
nate tho nuisance" it was found to be
owned by private corporation. Coun-
ell asked the corporation to have the
stream fillec. The corporation replied
that it was up to the borough to solve
It's own drainage problems. A third
corporation was brought into the dis
pute and each interest intimated that
It was up to the other fellow" to do
something.
For years the situation stood dead
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-13
BRITISH FARMER PREPARES
TO AID STRICKEN BELGIANS
M the many schemes, already SET

INF the many schemes. already set
I in motion, for repairing the raw
~ ages of war few are moro inter-
esting or remarkable than the effort of
the British farmer. under the leader
ship OF the Royal Agricultural Society.
to come to the aid of the farmers of
Belgium and Northern France, and do
all possible to enable them to recover
their lost ground and position. AS was
pointed out in recent dispatch to this
paper from London. after the Franco
Prussian war of is70-71. the farmers Of
Great Britain established a fund for the
purchase of seed corn for the French
peasant in invaded areas. To-day the
British farmer is mapping out for him
self much greater task, for not only
does he contemplate coming to the aid
of the farmer in Belgium and Northern
France, but he is looking ultimately to
help to rebuild. restock and repant the
devastated farms of Serbia and Poland
as well.
Quite apart from the immediate and
much-needed help the movement af-
fords to a class of people specially de-
serving all the assistance that can be
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-13
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Francis I. Gowen, prominent
Philadelphian is home from the Maine
coast where he spent the summer.
commissioner of Health Dixon
did not take a vacation last year and
this year the paralysis outbreak took
away the chance.
John w. Phillips, president of the
lower anthracite field bankers organ
ization. is a Mahanoy City banker.
Mayor John V. Kosek, of Wilkes
Barre. who is in the limeligbt because
of the jitney strike, is a lawyer.
The Rev. G. w. Burns, prominent
Germantown clergyman, has accepted
call to Minneapolis.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-13
MIR. Hughes on the Stump
[From the Providence Journ.


Democratic critics are industriously
trying to spread abroad the impression
that Mr.. Hughes speaking tour is a
disappointment to his friends.
Some of them complain that he is not
vigorous enough. Othcrs say he is TOO
vigorous. Some profess to miss the
Rooseveltian wealth of invective from.
his speeches. Others, on the contrary,
object to the vehemence of his attacks
on the administration. He is at once too
limp and too violent. too judicial and
too partisan. too cold and too hot
Meanwhile Mr.. Hughes has had ex.
traordinarily large audiences on his
Western trip. He has spoken freely ana
frankly to them on most or all (of the
issues of the day. II there is ahy inn
pcrtant question that he has Ignored,
what IL it? II there is any national
to- express q definite Judgment, let his
critics give US the facts.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-13
EDITORIAL COMMENT

II Bulgaria was "the Judas of the
Slav race" Rumania has thrown on
the role of doubling Thomas."-Phila-
delphia Public Ledger.
If the paper famine gets much worse.
it's even possible that Mexican money
may assume some actual value.-Ph!Ia-
delphia North American.
A new anglers magazine says it will
print no fiction. Thus shutting off all
real fishermen from its list of conrriou.
tors.--New York Telegraph.
Kind-hearted Democrats must expert
ence keen feeling of regret when they
see that distressing Progressive Repub-
lican wrangle in California.-NashvilI
Southern Lumberman.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-13
TELEGRAPH PERISCCPE

When the war Is over Bulgaria may
be spelled Bulged-area-
And there was a poet who actually
won fame by calling these ".he melan-
choly days"
That Galician village Tustobaby
must have been named by comic opera
composer.
About this season some of the
summer firtations show sigus cf skid
ding
When young man takes a girls
hand he is getting ready TO ask her
for it.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-13
| WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB
LEARNED OF THE CITY

lQuestions submitted to members of
the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their
answers as presented at the organiza-
tion's annual Municipal Quiz."1
What provision is made for the teach
ing OF unusually gifted pupils?
Provision is made by which they
can do advanced work and skip a
year in the course of studY
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-13
THE END OF THE WAR

T<he forecast of peace in 1917 with
the Allies victorious, made by
General Alexei Alexievitch Brus-
siloff the other day. is worthy of
moro than passing note. Brussiloff
it was, who in 1915, with Russian
armies in disorderly retreat and Won
Hindenburg threatening Petrograd,
made similar prediction. That was
before the doughty warrior had led
his forces against the Germans and
Austrians in the most brilliantly sue
cessful campaign the Allies have con-
Quoted on any field. At the moment
he was comparatively unknown to the
world at large-altnough highly re-
garded in military circles-and he got
small attention at the hands of the
newspapers. Beside, his views under
the circumstances seemed prepost-
erous. At the same time he gave a
pretty accurate outline of what was
to happen last spring and the past
summer. Events show that he knew
whereof he spoke.
Consequently, General Brussiloff's
views at this time are worthy of at
tention. In the course of an interview
the other day. he said:
While a huge work remains to be
accomplished, a successful result is
already in our hands. The game is
already won. ! said so two years
ago. when penury of ammunition
obliged US to undergo great re-
verses: We must consider that for
the allies the present war cannot
be compared to a lottery, in which
one has to have a certain number
to win. We must go on until the
END. and not have the weakness to
think about premature peace
Now. you will ask me when one
may suppose that a true peace will
be signed, a peace which the. allies
VIII be able to accept with the joy
not prophef The fStnss 1ssf IS tbs am
hands of God. But If I had abso-
lutely- to make an hypothesis
should be inclined to think that the
month of August, 1917, might see
the-end OF our memorable work.
There is a marked similarity be-
tween these views and those of the
late Lord Kitchener. who thought
three years would be required for the
defeat of the Teutonic hosts. The
world. weary of war, will hope that
Brussiloff speaks with full knowledge
and there are strong indications even
to the casual observer that he does.