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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-18
LETTERS TO THE EDTTOR
NURSES WOULDN'T RESPOND

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Will you please tell me what the
Society of Visiting Nurses stands for
in this city? Why are we asked so
frequently to contribute to their sup
port n what are they expected to
give in return? Simply aid to the
poor in alleys and slums or whatever
kindness they can extend in passing?
Last night at 1880 they received an
emergency call from their own neigh
borhood-a patient who needed sorely
special aid before the physician could
reach the house. The case was laid
before the matron in charge in the
absence of Miss Miller from the city,
and she said the nurses do NOT
HAVE to respond to any night calls"
It was urged that this was an emerg-
ency, that delay in responding might
result in death, that the nurse was
urged to come just in kindness as
one woman to help out another wom-
an in Distress" but the nurses posi-
lively refused to help, or assume any
responsibility, although they would
not have to specially inconvenience
themselves. It is understood that there
were eight nurses in the house at the
time.
1t was impossible to secure any
other nurse and the patient lay in
agony until the physician arrived. Can
you imagine what he said of the
Visiting Nurse Association? Can you
imagine how much help that organ
ization will get from friends of that
patient in the future? Surely those
who profess to follow so closely in
the Masters footsteps going about
doing good" will find a boomerang in
the cup Of water they did NOT ex-
tend?
RESIDENT OF VICINITY.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-18
BluHine
(The Outlaw

Vine oulldWD
To the unthinking American, Presi-
dent Wilson'S strength is that he has
kept us out of war.
So did Mr.. Roosevelt avoid war with
Great Britain and Germany, but Mr..
Roosevelt settled the questions in dis
pute for all time as we'll. They can
never recur again.
President Wilson is simply post
poning final settlement for some flu
ture day. He is storing up trouble
for himself, If he be reelected, or for
his successor. The day of settlement
must come sometime.
With a firm hand in Washington it
is doubtful If Great Britain would
have dared publish the list of Ameri-
a firms as individuals with whom
British subjects are forbidden to
trade.
To declare to Great Britain that
she must trade with ell or none of US
would Immediately settle this cues
ton, for Great Britain must trade with
us or starve.
We are a neutral nation and by
claim the privilege of trading with
England or Germany. as we please.
We can recognize no discrimination.
VIII Washington please find it's
b
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-18
HOW o JAPAN?
Between Friends
BY Frederic ]. Haskin
n TORE than a year ago, American

n HORE than a year ago, American
mi residents in japan appealed to
A'A the authorities, asking them to
curb the hostile attitude of the YER
nacular press. Strangely enough, the
incident attracted little attention in
this country. London correspondents
gave more space to the analysis of the
situation than did Americans, although
England is the ally of Japan and
might be expected to avoid delicate
subjects, especially when they do not
concern her directly.
For some time now the vernacular
press of Japan has been engaged in
an agitation of grievances against the
United States. The tendency was
strongly in evidence before the out
break of the war in Europe; on the
commencement of Japan's hostilities
with Germany it grew virulent, as 1t
was thought America was going to
favor Germany. bu that position hast
lily proving untenable there was and
is a reversal to repeating accusations
of discrimination and injustice in re-
gard to the treatment of the Japanese
in California" So wrote the staff cor
respondent of the London Morning
Post, from Tokyo, in February, 1915,
whose viewpoint should be that of the
unprecedented observer. Between ia
pan and the United States, England
has always been neutral.
The Posts report of conditions is
important because shortly after that
date, the open anti-American stand Of
the Japanese press was somewhat
modified, probably by reason of gov
eminent command. The protest of
American residents in Japan marked
the climax of what may or may not
have been an organized campaign to
stir up hostility. But that the unsat-
I Ta .nIoffanC hafuynar T anap and
the United States still occupy a large
place in the Japanese mind can readily
be seen from a perusal of the Japa-
nese press to-day.
For instance, the powerful Osaka
Mainichi declared as lately as January
81 last, in the course of a friendly dis
cussion of the immigration question
that Japan considers he 'gentlemen's
agreement itself as a humiliating
agreement. If that agreement is to
be trampled on, and laws are to be
passed to restrict Japanese immigra-
ton, the Japanese nation will not
stand the humiliation" And the
Osaka Asahi remarked on February 2
that eff the American legislators are
going to take a hostile attitude toward
Japan and the japanese, the latter will
not be able to keep their patience"
Exactly what would follow in that
event was not specified.
Such u~tterances are mild. They
come after the real storm of invective
is past. The steadily increasing prom
inence of anti-American propaganda,
the gradual shift from friendliness to
a n attitude of question and thence to
actual hostility, eliminating in a state
of the press that even neutral and dis
interested observers characterized as
"virulent" and alarming" taken to-
gether form a remarkable instance of
the molding of the public opinion of a
whole nation. This demonstration of
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CONTINUED OH Page Il
What the Koreans Saw

The Rev. A. G. WELDON writes from
Andong, Korea: ION the opening day
of our new hospital, November 4, all
the higher officials and many sub
ordinates, together with nearly all the
prominent men, Japanese Inc Korean,
in the city, assembled for the dedica-
ton. After the addresses the COM
pany enjoyed an inspection of the en-
tire plant. You should have heard
the remarks as they went from one
strange sight to another. Most of
them had never dreamed that there
were such comforts and conveniences.
The hot and cold water accommoda-
tons took the Japanese, and the we'll
heated rooms without visible fire took
the Koreans. The immaculate beds,
polished floors, %spotless, white-painted
walls and ceilings, gave us all a great
lesson in cleanliness. 1t was also a
great marvel to them all that some
n of another race, living away off
In America, should think enough of
them to give the funds to make pos
sible all these comforts and con-
~veniences." - The Christian Herald.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-18

the power of the press is one in which
Americans have something more than
an academic interest.
1t began as far back as seven or
eight years ago.. The old enthusiastic
approval of the United States began to
be missed from editorial and public
~utterances, as it became increasingly
evident that the United States would
oppose points in Japan's program. The
atmosphere of unfriendliness increase,
but for a time there was nothing de-
finite to crystalline it.
The definite event came with Mr..
KnoX's proposal for the naturalization
of the M~anchurian railways. To say
that such an idea was unpopular in
Japan IS putting it mildly. Even to-
day, when the Japanese require an ex-
ample of American perfidy they often
bark back to. the eminently just and
statesmanlike Manchurian railway
proposal.
From hat point the hostile ten
dency grew in a fashion easy to fol-
low, though it still grew slowly.
Other issues were substituted for the
Manchurian railways, the immigration
question and the California land legis-
lation were kept In the limelight for a
season, and still later. the conflict of
policies in China, but always the
United States was held before the Japa-
LlCSS PSOplO III IL ll6 III u oil SllSIlyy
an aggressor, a malicious interferer in
the manifest destiny of Nippon.
In 1913 and 1914 the attitude of the
press grew more openly hcstile, false
charges against the United States, de-
nunciations of our policy came faster.
until the whole matter eliminated in
the protest before mentioned, after
which the muf1er was clapped on.
To-day while the sentiment of the
nraGe ie still cIIGniNinJ . and PaCarffttl
it is hardly openly hostile. But the
mischief has been done.
Such a campaign, continued through
years, cannot fail of its effect. 1t
must be borne in mind that of the
hfty-four million Japanese, the great
majority read nothing but the local
~vernacular press Of their district
such of them as read at all. Among
the illiterate, it is the pronouncement
of hat same vernacular press hat is
spread by word of mouth. There is no
reason whatever for lower-class Japa-
nese to doubt the literal accuracy of
what he reads in his papers. They
are his only source of information
about world-events If they tell him
that the United States is maliciously
interfering with the eminently just
and laudable plans of the empire, love
of which is with him not only a matter
of patriotism but a religion, he accepts
the statement without question.
Nothing has been done to dispel the
impression thus created. While actual
Indictment of hostility has abated. the
public mind is left with the totally err
roneous impression that America re-
CARDS herself as the enemy of Japan.
A strong public sentiment has been
worked up against the United States.
The lid is on now, but the pot is still
boiling.
ECnntinund IN Ionna II
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-18
Junk After the War
tChicago Journal


Has anyone thought of the magni-
of the Junk business in Europe
after the WARP? There have been
squibs and comic drawings about it,
but how much serious consideration
has it received? Last year, in the
United States of America $l40,0 900 900
was paid for scrap iron. This is a big
and wasteful country. but it cannot be
using up metal at more than a fraction
of the rate prevailing in the war zone.
Thousands OF tons of iron, not to men,
ton copper, brass and lead, have beer
shot away at each of many narrow
strips of the battle line. The topsoil
in the salient of Ypres. on the line
north of Arras, on the Somme front,
and above all at Verdun must be so
saturated with metal as to be a sort
of artificial ore. Surely, in the bitter
poverty which will be Europe's portion
when she is through with war lords,
that resource will not be forgotten.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-18
The Railroad Situation

The Presidents effort to bring abouEv
a peaceful settlement of the railroad
wage dispute is likely to be productive
of lasting good for the entire trans
p~ortation industry. 1t will have far
reaching results in showing, first, the
need of proper legislation or action
by the Interstate Commerce Commas
sion in providing adequate rates to
meet the constantly increasing cost of
operating railroads, and second, the
necessity of securing a better under
standing between capital and labor,
so that the country may be spared
the unsettlement caused by such re-
curing disputes. Coming at the mo-
ment when the joint-committee of
Congress is about to begin it's inves-
tigation of the laws relating to the
regulation of interstate carriers, these
developments must direct public at
tention to the need for relieving the
transportation industry of the r~estric-
tons which TO- hamper its opera
tons in so many States.
This movement, therefore, to pre-
vent a portion of railroad labor from
tying up the commerce of 100, 100000
people will probably accomplish much
more than could nave beer foreseen
at the beginning. Although the rail-
roads have shown good earnings for
a few months, it is ridiculous to sup
pose hat they could pay out $780,
900, 900 more each year in wages with
out obtaining a further increase in
freight rates. The problem must be
solved scientifically, without display of
passion, prejudice or political manu-
vering. The situation calls for the
exercise of intensive commonsense.-
First National Bank Bulletin, Phila-
delphia.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-18
Labor and CAPITAL

Nudge Ebert H. Gary, in Leslie's.1
To employers of labor I would say:
Treat your men right. treat them
Justly and literally" To employees !
would say: Loyal. efficient service is
sure to be rewarded. Do not permit
outsiders to influence you to act con-
trary to you own interests" To both
employer and employe I would en-
phasize the fact that each must rely
upon the other for success neither is
independent of the other; they succeed
or fall together.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-18
PICTURE WELFARE LEAGUE

IF h newly-formed Motion Pic
ture League lives up to its 3D.
ject of cleaning up the movies"
1T will have done a great work. In
recent years Pennsylvania has been
freed to a large degree of the obnox-
ious films hat once Haunted them
selves in the face Of every attendant
at moving picture shows. But there
are States not so happy in this he
spect. There is so much good in the
movies and so many possibilities for
delightful entertainment that it is a
pity some producers have been tempt
ed from the paths of decency by the
hope of greater profits. thereby to
some eyes placing the whole moving
picture world under a shadow.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-18
Poe;E& in
Pe~~o4eOa~io
By the Ex-C Committeeman

Attorneys Edward w. Lank and
Ignatius A. Quinn, representing what
is known as the 'OId Guards Demo-
cratic Organization in the Forty
sixth ward, Philadelphia, have begun
quo warranto proceedings in the name
OF the Commonwealth of Pennsylva-
MIA against the forty-four registrars
representing the reorganization Dem
ocrats in that ward who were appoint
ed by the Board of Registration Com
missioners. The majority of this
board is made up of Ware Republicans
and reorganization Democrats. The
OIu Guara's organization in the Forty
slxth ward is recognized by the Phila-
delphia Democratic City Committee
ana under the Personal Registration
act OF July "a, 1913, it is commended it's
list OF registrars should nave been ap-
pointed by the commissioners. The
reorganization leaders IN the ward are
James H. Howard and Samuel Henry,
while the Old Guards Democrats are
led by James 1. MCGOWAN and John J..
McQuaid, and they were seated in the
Philadelphia City Committee. The
luz Warranto proceedings were filed in
Court of Common Pleas No. 2, to
which court is assigned all matters
PCT Gaining " eleCIlOnS LnlS year. Inc
court has not yet fixed a time for the
hearing OF the writs. Similar proceed
ings We're begun by the same counsel
in the cases of three registrars ap-
pointed in the Forty-third ward, and
1t was stated that there will be sever
others filed in the Twenty-ffth ward
and n in the Fourteenth ward.
Senator Martin has been getting
about considerably in Cumberland and
the other counties of his district this
summer and is confident of reelection.
County Recorder James E. Lentz
is taking no vacation this year. Jim
my" used to be a travelling salesman
and says he would sooner stay at the
office and let his clerks do the going.
Deputy Secretary of the Common
wealth Godcharles is going to cele-
brate the n hundredth anniversary
of his Milton newspaper by issuing a
special edition.
Former State Economic Zooiogist
Surface has been dropped from the
roll of Farm Institute speakers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-18
The Senate at Work
kansas City tai

lHdLodS lily oldl'I
1t was intimated in the Senate the
other day that Congress may sit until
October. u S why such a protracted
session is necessary may not be plain
on the face of things, but the Congress
sional Record will supply the reason to
anybody who takes the trouble to read
1t. Whole pages are taken up with
senatorial exchanges that resemble
nothing so much as the sidewalk con
v~ersation of two men who W no.
where to go and with plenty of time
in which to get there.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-18
EDITORIAL COMMENT

1t will be a lon time, 1 fancy, before
the Sultan of Turkey consents to go IN
another sympathy strike.-New York
Telegraph.
1t isn't the fact that England start
ed the war that enrages the Kaiser,
but the realization that she is going to
end it.-Boston Transcript.
OF course, the captain of the Deutsch-
land knows nothing about baseball, but
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Star-Eagle.
Part of Riley's fame, it must be ad-
mitted, was due to the fact that al
though a citizen of Indiana, he had
never been mentioned for the Vice
Journal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-18

a cent more. but the Wilson adj
ministration prefers to levy all sorts
of taxes which the American citizen
cannot possibly avoid. But, in due
time, a Republican administration will
change the schedules as Champ Clark
says they can be changed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-18
MOVING PICTURES AND LIQUOR

TIME following are culled from
forty-three letters written by ex-
hibitors of motion pictures in
the seven States that went dry on
January l last:
C. p, Rochester, Wash; Since
the closing Of the aloons my bust
ness has Increased IA per cent"
+: H., victor, Col: Men who for
bar, now accompany their families
to the pictures. Business has in
II. D. T., Fayetteville, Ark: 1--WE
have had no sale of Intoxicating
drinks in this vicinity for many
years, but / have heard from friends
n~oticeably when their towns went
Il: H. s.. Hawkeye. Ia: The
great factor in putting the saloons
out of business, as we have lacked
in amusement for young men, es-
pecially before the movies came
&C. c. S.: Wallace, Idaho: THE
closing of the saloons has been a
great BENEFIT to US q Business has
a Prohibitionist, but it helps my
S SpsI1Fsssti 10 ha ne not H gst hay SSyd more @ops
since the. law went into effect.
where before. / always had ten or
twelve a week."
The others are generally of similar
import.
Not much need for comment, is
there?
When the saloons go, the drinkers
find their amusement with their fam.
lilies in the Smovies instead of alone
or with convivial companions at the
bar. And the movies leave no head
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-18
THE HUGHES TOUR

IT was hardly to be expected that
III Democratic brethren would be
tickled over the red-hot campaign
ing of the Republican standard-bearer
in the West. They had anticipated a
different sort of campaign and the
generalization that has followed the
Hughes invasion of the Roosevelt
territory is a distinct shock to the
Democratic managers. Discussing this
phase of the situation, Chairman Will
cox of the Republican national COM
says:
Just now Mr.. Hughes is engaged
in tearing the phylacteries from the
brows of the pharisaical heads of
Democracy's leaders in the matter
of our civil service n our diplo-
was elected it was expected he
would occupy a high place in the
matter of civil service and he had
the support to a great degree, of
what might be called the higher
thought of the country.
But he grievously disappointed
that great Independent element
which deprecates p~artisanship in
Government civil service and in
stead of a period of moral uplift
his administration has carried on
a great raid upon the merit system
in its efforts to care for deserv-
ing Democrats"
Every day it becomes more evident
that the people are ready to repudiate
the Wilson follies and reinstate at
Washington a sane and same govern
ment which will restore the confidence
of the people and invite the respect
of the nations of the world.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-18
Cruel Treatment

Let US hope that this is not to be
SO ruthless a campaign as is indi-
Gated by the refusal of Wisconsin Of
1eials to allow Senator La Toilette
to speak at the state fair. unless he
gives a guarantee that he will not
discuss politics.-New York Evening
Post
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-18
WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB
LEARNED OF THE CITY

[ouestions submitted to members of
the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their
answer as presented at the organtza-
How many paid employees of the
Fire Department?
One chief engineer, / assistant
chief engineer, l tillerman for
truck, 23 drivers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-18

"A writer in the Baltimore Amer
lean commends the backyard as a place
to spend ones vacation-but he wasn't
referring to some backwards we know
about.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-18

money recklessly spent in setting EN-
up again"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-18
a Different System
washington Herald

washington Herald)
The Germans gained $26, 1000, 900 in
savings in 1915, but their losses are
not computed by the same system.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-18

The Kaiser contented himself with
wishing thai circumstance would per-
nit hin going into the trenches-and
King George simply went
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-18

One good thing about the State
Bureau of Employment is that it has
reduced the number of student book
agents about sixty per cent.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-18

The italians have the "key to
Triest." but the lock appears a trife
rusty.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-18
TELEGRAPH PERIScOPE

The Pittsburgh Dispatch prints a
Song of Pennsylvania" The copy
right, we pause to note. is held by its
author, a New York State man.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-18

If one Joseph Pulitzer. who offered
Justice Hughes $4,000 to administer
his estate. were alive the New York
World would doubtless be singing a
different presidential song.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-18

This incident, but for the mercy OF
Providence, might have occurred in
Harrisburg. 1t may be duplicated
here any day. A dozen or more fam
lilies are in want, and there is almost
no response to the call for aid. What
a lot of unfeeling wretches we are!
Our own neighbors' children hungry
and lacking clothes, while their faith
ers are IN their country's service, and
we stand idly by squeezing the breath
out of the eagles on our dollars or
spending them selfishly.
There is another side to this matter,
however. The breadwinners who are
al the border went there to meet an
emergency, which, as the. Bulletin
says, never developed. How long are
they to be kept there? Why is it
necessary for them to remain idling
away their time at SIS a month under
canvas while their families are at
home in want and workmen are in
demand?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-18

evenings except Sunday by
TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.,
Telegraph Building, Federal Square.