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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-11
Detention Prisoner DupeS
Canadians After He Is
Held for Months.
2,550,400 FEET
OF LIBERTY FOR So
Two Loaves of Bread a Day Fed
Austrian in Journey from
Buffalo to New York.

A bedraggled, oil-smeared, rudy
little man with something akin to fear
in his big, brown eyes, stepped softly
into the Office of Arthur Concors,
superintendent Of the Hebrew Shelter
ing and Immigrant Aid Society. 229
East Broadway, yesterday.
'1ch bin HER" he announced calmly,
as though that were the most i'm
portant thing in the world. And it
was, to him, for twenty three-year-old
Eugen Spitz, Austrian reservist and
expert upholsterer, had walked all the
way from Buffalo to New York with
deadly fear of the Canadian army
squirting him on.
Twenty-four days had Eugen been on
the road, and his expenditures for food
during that time had been just the
three dollars, all that he had on start
ing. For eight months before he be-
gan his 4s0-mile walk he had been a
prisoner in Toronto detention camp
and his hike was inspired by the over
whelming desire to put just as much
territory as possible between himself
and Canada.
Spitz came to the United States from
Brunn, which Is near the German
border Of Austria, on June IS, 1914.
He went TO Buffalo to work in dye
factory few months later.
Within the Enemy's Lines.
The most peculiar part of his story
is that last fall German offered him
good job of indefinite nature, and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-11
French Officer in Psyche
logical Analysis of
Great Battle.
COMMANDERS ALONE
AWAKE IN STRUGGLE
al Others Are Wrapped in a
ThoughtleSs Action Dream,
He Declares.
By Nine JEAN ALCIDE PICARD.

Paris. May 16.-The various regi.
-snts .. the front have their news
,,pers, entirely edited by the officers
and soldiers. They are gay, optimistic
MI Of very good and hearty jokes. but
ne serious note also can be found in
,ser. One Of the youngest, ia Revue
Franco Mac6donienne," of the Oriental
army, opens its first number April
With one Of the most beautiful pages
vet written about the war. 1t is called
the Soul Of the Combatant," and is
signed By an officer, Lieutenant L. V.
Here. Il reads in part:
@How are we 90 describe the soul of
ne combstsnt during the attack, in the
bs.-lee The minutes are so intense,
he preoccupation of the aim to attain
81 absorbing, that even the man most
;,clined 70 self-analysis abandons all
,soueht for action. The atmosphere is
90 exceptional that even Immediately
after some difficult phases one does not
recover his soul.
"This is why there are so few books
On war giving a faithful impression Of
this transient psychology.
yet / shall try it and take my ex-
smples from the participation of my
regiment in the last Champagne often
sive.
Confidence Born of Effort.
aTbere is first a period Of prepare
ton: building Of trenches and shelters,
Of ammunition stores and posts for the
Command; the men work day and night
The ureoccupations about comfort be-
come attenuated; out Of the enormous
efforts, results Of which we see daily
confidence is born; q kind Of cheerful
ness, vague, not much talked about
the instinct Of bee in hive, the sem
timent Of complete solidarity, the Joy
Of being artisans Of a formidable work
which shall be perfect only II every one
gives all his strength, all his life. The
acceptance of the sacrifice insinustes,
then imposes itself on all.
II shall perhaps never see again such
prodigious moral spectacle as the
one given by our bivouacs during the
three days preceding the attack Of Sep
.smber %.
AIN the orders given since Ions
weeks the mysterious day Of the attack
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-11
Monday Bargains i'm
Tabloid Form,

Italian Renaissance Table Lamps,
N.9o. Subway floor. Central Bldg.
Mems Atwood Summer Suits.
Special. $3.50.
Second floor. Mems Shop. Fast Bldg
Seamless Tapestry Brussels Rugs,
N75; formerly SLIPS.
Third floor East Bldg
Conti's White CASTLE Soap, large
bars, usually 7ic.. at CSC.
Street floor, Livingston ST.. East Bldg.
Lenox Laundry Soap, 10 cakes for
25c.
None c. o. D. Counter deliveries
only. subway floor. East Bldg.
s37 to SIS Clock Sets, s2i67 to
500. Subway floor. Central Bldg.
Sl9.9S felipe. Dinner Sets, SIS.
Subway door Central Bldg
Si.49 Cot Glass Bowls, S29s.
Subway floor Central Bldg.
S2.i9 Flor de Merode Cigars, Sl9S.
Box OF 80.
Street floor. Mems Shop. East Bldg.
Mems 81 Fancy Shirts, 69c.
Street floor. Fulton street. East Blcs.
Decorated Wicker Flower Baskets
Fourth floor. Central Bldg.
$500 Yds. Cretonnes, ranging
from 1sc. TO ISc.
Third floor. Central Bldg.
1898 Couch Hammocks. S7.9s.
Store Orders Only.
Sporting Goods store.
Fourth foOr West Bldg
priscilla" Coffee, lib. carton,
reg, 32c., at BIC.
Third floor. West Bldg.
Boys White Duck Knockers, SIC.
Second Floor. Livingston ST. East Bldx.
Colored Dress Goods Remnants,
39c. Yd, were sec. TO 79c-
Street floor. West Bldg.
Women's Silk and Cloth Coats at
SASS; regularly s25 and $50.
Second floor, Central Bldg.
Sport Silks, formerly s14s and
s1.69 Yd, now Si.24.
street floor. West Bldg.
24c. Montauk Chocolate Marsh
mailows, 19c. lb.
Street floor. center. Central Bldg.
Fancy Striped Ribbons, l7c. and
24c. Yd.
street floor. center East Bldg.
81 and $50 Silk Fans, soc.
street moor, center, central Bldg.
$40 FulI-sized Comfortables,
S2.75. Subway floor. West Bldg.
sl50 MORE SILK Bags. 81.
Street floor, Fulton -, Central Bldg.
Parasols, sl.75, usually 1924 and
1874.
Street floor. Fulton st.. Central Bldg.
Jewelry at ljc. to Sc. each, for
merly 25c. 10 S..
Street floor. center. Central Bldg.
Fountain Pens at Csc. to $3.50;
we're S1.jy TO $3.50.
Street floor. Fulton street. East Bldg
36-in. Printed Seed Wolfe, ice. I'd.
Street foor Central and West Bldg
All-silk GeOrgette Crepe. Sl49
Yd.; has sold for Sl75 I'd.
Street floor. center. Central Bldg
lOc. Stamped Linen Doilies, -
inch, SC. Art Embroidery Store.
Second n0or. West Bldg
Shoulder Capes in Imitation Err
mine. $3.50.
Second floor. Central Bldg
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-11

was designated by the letter N. On
September 22 we learned suddenly that
this was the day, N-3. Everybody pre-
pared himself. Letters 10 the loved
ones, letters Of business and different
interests filed tho bags of the postmen.
"The guns were carefully oiled with
the minute care which quiets and occu-
pies the mind. The men grouped
around us listened with confident
familiarity to our explanations about
the action which was prepared and the
dangers TO which we would be exposed.
Dear faces of our troopers, proud and
stirred. affecting an easy and uncon-
cerned bearing and laughing loudly at
the smallest jokel
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-14
THE DONATE STATUARY
THERE is wide popular intere
throughout the city in the loc;

T\HERE is wide popular interest
throughout the city in the loca-
ton of the Donate statuary pre-
sented to Harrisburg by Mr.. Hershey,
the genius of the sweet favored town
on our east.
1t was generally expected when
this statuary was accepted by the city
last year that there would be no
difficulty about it's proper placing, or
concerning the location agreed upon
by the Art Committee chosen for the
purpose of selecting a site.
It now appears that the cost of
erecting the statuary in proper way
is an obstacle and the municipal
authorities are not clear as to lust
how the three lovely figures in bronze
may be given a suitable environment
on the River Front. Inasmuch as the
Department of Public Safety, which
has control of the filter plant and
pumping station, has jurisdiction over
all the fountains of the city it would
seem that this department should
properly locate and care for the city's
most important gift of this character.
City Commissioner Bowman has
done so admirably in the reduction
of water rentals and in the general
conduct of his department that we
have no doubt he will evolve some
plan for the setting up of the group
OF statuary which has evoked so much
discussion. His handling of the affairs
of the Water Department has been
manifestly businesslike and inasmuch
as it is productive branch of the
city government we believe that the
statuary should be under his charge
and keeping.
1t is expected that the proposed
Eby memorial will be located on the
handsome plaza at the pumping sta
tion. In any event, some reasonable
plan should be worked out for the To-
cation of the statuary to the end that
the people of Harrisburg may eniov
this work of art and show proper
appreciation of the generosity of the
donor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-14
DIPLOMATIC "PIFFLE"

TIME reply of Germany to the
Sussex note is diplomatic "piffle."
OF all the absurdities that have
come out of Germany since the out
break of the war this is the climax.
The American government respect
fully asks: Did a German submarine
sink the Sussex" And the reply
comes: mo, the German government
does not believe one of its submarines
sank the Sussex. To be sure, one of
its submarines was nearby at the time
and did sink a steamer, but it was not
the Sussex. We feel sure of this be-
cause while the ship was sinking the
captain sat on deck sKetching the
scenery, and incidentally he made
pencil picture of the sinking vessel
which does not at all resemble the
Sussex. No, the name plate of the
sunken vessel was not included in the
sketch"
Was ever anything more ridiculous?
Did ever a government attempt to
convince a doubling world with an
excuse more transparently false? How
can the United States continue to deal
with a nation the diplomacy of which
is based upon such a gospel OF false
hood and subterfuge?
This is the length to which we have
attained after all these months of
dickerlng over the sinking of the
Lusitania. that we are put on with a
tale so palpably untrue that it is i'm
IN
for other than home consumption and
in an effort to place the blame there
upon America for whatever eventual
tiles may ensue. Not to view the
matter in that light must lead to the
conviction that Germany is not only
warmad, but that her foreign ministry
has become drivelingly insane. as well.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-14
THE NEW POLICY

TIME promotion of w. S. Ruther-
ford, of Harrisburg, for years
head of the order department at
Steelton. to be chief of the order de-
partment for the whole of the Beth
lehem Steel Company, with headquar-
ters at South Bethlehem, is the first
demonstration of the new policy of
promotion at Steelton.
1t will be remembered that Presi-
dent Grace, in an interview with a
Telegraph reporter, said il was the
purpose of the Bethlehem company to
promote PENNSYLVANIA Steel employees
into the service of the Bethlehem COM
pany as rapidly as vacancies occurred
and as the men showed fitness for
advancement. The Rutherford ap-
pointment is a plain indication that he
opportunity for the working force at
Steelton has been widened, rather than
lessened, by the new ownership.
Schwab's big men of to-day were
small men in his employ but few
years ago. "Pull'' in the Bethlehem
enterprises is unknown. Ability and
energy are the open sesame to the
highest places in the service of the
company. The Rutherford promotion
ought to be Of vast encouragement to
the hundreds of men at Steelton who
have been watching closely the policy
of the new organization with respect
to the employees of the recently ac-
quired plants.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-14
MOONLIGHT SCHOOLS
y RFF5a
By Frederic ]. Haskin

irretrievably lost because he could not
write them down. The teachers. hear
ing these things, were also inspired
and the upshot of the matter was the
establishment of the moonlight school.
This simply meant that the public
day schools were kept open during the
bright moonlight nights of the Ken
lucky autumn by volunteer teachers,
who called on the various illiterates
Of their communities and induced
them to attend. At the beginning
there were many doubts as to the
plans success. The teachers thought
they knew thing or two about that
invincible Kentucky pride. But from
the beginning the moonlight school
was popular. People came, and in
great numbers. They came down the
rugged mountain trails, women carry
ing their babies, and old men hobbling
on canes. Soon twelve hundred per-
sons were enrolled in the moonlight
schools, the youngest of whom was
eighteen and the oldest eighty-six.
During the first few weeks of the
experiment the trees and fences and
walls of the barns began to blossom
out with singular decorations. In their
enthusiasm over their newly acquired
knowledge the people were carving
their names in large irregular letters
on every available wooden surface.
Many who had boarded small sums of
money under the kitchen hearth did
some rapid eXcavating and opened
bank accounts. 1t was so fascinating
to be able TO write your own name on
a check!
Besides the three Rs, the moonlight
schools taught agriculture, horticul-
ture, road building and home eco
nomics. Magazines and newspapers
began to make their appearance in the
various households and in Washington
the Department of Agriculture was
swamped with requests from Rowan
county for farm bulletins. Special
textbooks were provided which would
appeal especially to the moonlight
pupils.
So the moonlight schools grew and
fiourished each succeeding season. and
with them grew the ambition of the
Rowan county school teachers. They
We're now determined to Danish illit-
eracy from the entire county. There
were still many persons who for vari-
Gus reasons refused to attend the
schools, so it was decided to take the
schools to them-1guratively of
course. The teachers canvassed the
whole county. invading the hiding
places of the most stubbornly elusive
illiterates, and made list of the names
of these persons, together with all the
information obtainable concerning
their peculiarities and eccentricities.
Thereafter, when an illiterate proved
abdurate and insisted that he did not
want to be educated. the teachers con-
suited the details of his history as ap-
pearing on the list in an endeavor to
find some means of appealing to him.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-14
illiteracy in Kentucky after

MO illiteracy in Kentucky after
IN after 1920" This is the slogan
which appears in newspapers, on gate
posts, telegraph poles and in barber
shops throughout the Bluegrass State.
in Kentucky five minutes before some
proud citizen sidles up to you and
SAYS:
Some campaign we're waging down
here, eh? Ever hear about our moon
light schools?'
In Kentucky everybody is self
appointed publicist and apostle of
learning-the whole state is inspired
And no wonder; for not only has their
slogan reverberated throughout Ken
tuciy. but ii has been heard in seven
teen other states as well. all of which
have established moonlight schools.
II all came about through a woman
"a rather small. dark-eyed Kentucky
woman, with the pluck and clear
vision of pioneer. Her name is Mrs.
Cora Wilson Stewart, and she started
the mo illiteracy" campaign while
superintendent of public schools in
Rowan county.
In Kentucky. as in a great many
other states, a considerable per cent.
of the adult population in the rural
communities is illiterate. For exam
pie. one night Mrs. Stewart attended a
rural school entertainment where in
the course of the program a young
man with a very good tenor voice sang
a pleasing ballad which was his own
improvisation. After the program was
over Mrs. Stewart shook hands with the
young man and congratulated him. 81
should like to have a copy of your
song" she said, 'if you will write 1t
down for me- The young man
blushed, then smiled grimly. II can
neither read nor write" he said.
"Often I think of songs, but forget
them while waiting for someone to
come along and write them down"
Mrs. Stewart was appalled,. Here
was a man with decided talent. who
was capable of giving something to the
world, handicapped because he was
hopelessly illiterate. Then came the
inspiration. Was it, after all, hope
less? Was there not some way in
which these adults-old, middle-aged
and young-could be taught TO read
and write? Mrs. Stewart estimated
that there were 1852 such illiterates
in her county alone.
A meeting of public school teachers
was called and Mrs. Stewart laid the
situation before them. She told them
about one old woman who bought a
speller and sat up until midnight
studying so that she could learn to
read letters received from her daugh-
ter, who was away at school. She told
them of a big, stalwart farmer whose
eyes had filled with tears as he said. II
would give twenty years of my life If I
could read" She told them about the
young man and his songs which were
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-14
THE PRESIDENTS SPEECH
T<HAT was n high-sounding speech
which President Wilson delivered

T<HAT was n high-sounding speech
which President Wilson delivered
at political gathering in Wash
ington last night, but just what does
it mean?
The President asked his audience II
they were ready to go in" for the
cause of humanity and to come out
when the cause of humanity shall have
been served. Americans always have
been ready to do that. In all the his
tory of this nation they have never
done anything else. Military glory and
the acquisition of territory never were
American ambitions. We have fought
only for our own protection or for the
rights of mankind as a whole, in one
form or another.
This generality is so plainly true
that it requires no presidential interro-
cation for demonstration. So the
President must have had something
definite in his mind when he put his
question last night. Are we ready?
Ready for what? Why cannot the
President be frank? Surely the coun-
Try OuSnI 10 De permitted 10 KNOW
where the administration is heading,
if it knows itself. If we are to be
ready" we ought to know just what
we are TO be ready" for.
Truth is that the President has cried
wolf, wolf" so often that people want
TO see the beast before they believe
that the executive has not been fright
ened by frisky sheep. Timid Con-
gressmen We're induced to give away
our birthright in the Panama canal
because the President looked solemn
and intimated that the country was on
the verge of war with England. Again,
during the preparedness" swing to
the West, one might have thought
from his words that an army of in
vasion must be even then on its way
toward our shores.
The country needs no presidential
heroics to spur it to it's duty as a
guardian of humanitarian principles,
but it doesn't like to be told that there
is a great big bugaboo just around the
corner about to gobble it up. 1t wants
to see the bugaboo.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-14
The Old Motto

We found 1t in the attic, where it long
had lain away;
The dust had veiled the letters in a
shroud of misty gray,
A spiders web was tangled in it's odd
fantistic weaves
Across the frame whose corners were
handcarved in oaken leaves.
The old, discarded motto-it was
worked in green and red
On perforated cardboard, and God
Bless Our Home" it said.
God Bless Our Homeland loving
hands reach out from all the
years,
The hands that always reached to
help, that wiped away our
tears;
And now we know full we'll that when
this motto held its place,
They meant the faded prayer that to-
day we slowly trace;
That every morn of work to do, that
every night of rest,
The good old home was by some mys-
tic benediction blest.
w. ID. Nesbit.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-14
COOPERATION

VXTHAT can be done by the en-
wv thusiastic cooperation of a
number of persons united in a
common cause has been admirably
illustrated in the matter of the rum
mage sale for the benefit of the Har-
risburg Hospital. This sale is not only
fine demonstration of community
cooperation for and in the interest of
a worthy institution, but is an exhibit
of the value of getting together for
the welfare of all the people. This
rummage sale has been an eye-opener
for all who have any knowledge of
its ramifications. 1t will not only be
good thing for the hospital but it
will likewise be helpful in the future
movements for the city's development.
If the same energy and cooperation
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-14
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

e. 7. Stotesbury. the Philadel-
phia banker will build big suburban
home near Germantown.
Horace w. Davis, deputy attorney
general, who addressed the state Con-
Vention of borough officials this week
on borough regulation, used to be
borough solicitor of Sharon.
DIR Edward Margin has been put
at the head of the military training
committee of the Philadelphia school
officials.
Lieutenant Governor McClain,
whose birthday is to-day, is far-famed
as a singer.
DR.. G. w. Shelton, Pittsburgh
minister. here this week, is one of the
foremost local option men OF the
country.
Horace Geiger, who will run for
Legislature on the local option ticket
in Germantown, is a retired WOODEN
merchant.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-14
Why So Many Balls Were Lost

A young married couple who lived
near a famous golf course were enter
tanning an elderly aunt from the depths
of the country.
well. Aunt Mary. how did you spend
this afternoon?' asked the hostess on
the first day.
"Oh. 7 enjoyed myself very much"
replied auntie with a beaming smile "I
went for walk across the fields. There
seemed to be great many people
about, and some of them shouted to me
i'm most eccentric manner. but I Just
took no notice. And. by the way" she
went on ~ found such a number of
curious little white round things.
brought them home to ask you what
they are"
And the dear old lady produced from
her handbag about 4 dozen golf balls!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-14
Roosevelt Sentiment
Blythe in SATURDAY. Evening Postl

blythe in Saturday Evening Post1
/ have been about the country a
great deal since the first of the year,
and have discovered that where one
man was talking Roosevelt last Fall
ten men are talking Roosevelt now.
These men are not all Progressives.
either. There are plenty of Republi-
cans, men who stood by Taft in 1912,
who are of the opinion that the situa-
ton demands the colonel, not merely
on account of war or other problems,
either domestic or international, but
because they have come to the con-
clusion that he is the only man who
can hope to win against the Presi-
dent.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-14
Silent Partners Advice

Loyalty is Difference to discipline,
devotion to organization, allegiance
to associates. Disloyalty is rebellion.
revolt. mutiny, treason.
Loyalty makes a man a superman.
He can do the kind of work that
counts
Loyalty to the foreman does not
mean playing second fiddle. 1t proves
that you can be a leader when the
leader is sick. Some violin.
The impatient, insubordinate indi-
vidual is of no value anywhere, at any
time.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-14

Since the dropping of the large water
mains in East State street under Pax
ton creek the completion of the gap
in the concrete work along the stream
is now possible. 1t seems. however,
that there is no available appropriation
for this work unless some balances may
be found which can be utilized for the
purpose. Under the recent decision of
City Solicitor Seitz the surplus excess
interest funds of the various loans may
possibly be used for this emergency
expenditure. 1t is certain that the gap
should be closed and closed promptly.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-14

Two hearts that beat as one, friend
Robesonia.
John Ash, of Trappe, has scarlet
fever and his house is quarantined.
Trapped, John, in Trappe
The Philadelphia Record tells of an
aged woman of that city who made
elaborate preparations to die, first
taking bath and then dressing her
self in white clothes, after which she
turned on the gas Contrary TO her
expectations, she was discovered be-
fore life was extinct
There is hog cholera in Waynes-
boro.
A girl living in Pottsville, fifteen
years of age, has received from the
city S3,410 damages for stepping into
a defective sewer inlet and sustaininp
a fracture of the leg.