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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-26
Navy Yard Activity


Hurry orders are said to have
gone out to all the navy yards in the
country TO get every available ship
at the stations ready for commission
at the earliest possible moment.
Civilian workmen not being available
in sufficient number at some of the
yards, the enlisted men have donned
the various tasks. Activity at the
Philadelphia yard, and also at Boston,
where there are thirty vessels of
various kinds and sizes, is described
as "feVerish."
Certainly, preparation of this
character is not in good order. The
emergency. if one exists, is not of
sudden nature. The Lusitania was
sunk nearly year ago, and ever since
that time there has been a reasonable
possibility at least that this nation
might be compelled to fight for its
rights and honor.
The possibility has been developing
all the time, as crisis has given way
10 crisis: Congress has been in session
the greater part of the time; the con-
dition of the navy has been matter
of open discussion. The Secretary of
the Navy, at one time asserting that
the navy was fit to meet any fleet in
the world, finally has been induced to
admit that il is inadequate. But
Mllnal, lne HeeI IL nearly as uhTeduy
as il was a year ago, authorization fer
needed personnel is wanting, new
work is still held up and such repair
work as has been within the province
of the yards has been the subject of
dawdling.
Explanation is offered, officially,
that the hurry orders are test of
the capacity of the Navy to make
ready at short notice. They are, at
leaSt evidence of the incapacity of
the system of naval administration in
Guiding Congressional authority, to be
ready, as a navy should be for an
emergency, not to speak of a situa-
tion which might have been foreseen
for months.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-26
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Magistrate Joseph Call, of Phila-
delphia, who was arrested for speed
ing near Atlantic City, used to be
in the Legislature.
Louis c. MADEIRA, prominent in
State coal operations, is one of the
incorporators of one of the new coal
companies Just granted a charter
Alexander Simpson was the
orator at the presentation of the
portrait of Justice Fell at Phila-
delphia.
historian, celebrated his seventy-f1fth
birthday this week and was called
upon by members of historical So
cieties.
Lewis Emery. Jr., the Mexican
county oil producer. who is a candi-
date for delegate-at-large, has been
in politics from his twenties.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-26
THE REVOLT IN IRELAND

TARLY reports of the disturbance
t. in Dublin yesterday indicate
that 1t was more in the nature
of a riot than a revolt. The fact that
the disorder followed close upon the
heels of the capture of Sir Roger
Easement red-handed in the midst of
an effort to land German arms in Ire
land indicates that the Dublin trou-
BILE is most likely an echo of the Case
ment plot. 1t is not probable that
Germany sent munitions to Ireland
unless the imperial government was
assured that they would fall into hands
unfriendly to England, and Dublin
would be most naturally the center Of
any revolutionary organization. That
the uprising was isolated also leads
to the belief that it was sporadic and
no part of a concerted movement for
a general call to arms in all parts of
the country at once.
1t is not likely that the disorder will
spread. At the very outset of the war
Germany predicted that with England
attacked in front Ireland would take
opportunity to rise in the rear, but in
a moment, almost, the home rule dis
pute was lost to sight and regiment
after regiment of loyal Irish entered
the service of the King and are now
fighting with distinction in France and
elsewhere.
At the beginning of the war, with
the British government striving few
erishly to raise and equip armies with
which to meet the sledge-h hammer
blows of Germany, an uprising in Ire
land might have had serious results,
but with millions of men now in uni
form and ready for service, who have
not stirred out of England, anything
that discontented Irish might attempt
could be easily forestalled. Germany's
plan for harassing England through
Ireland is two years two late.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-26
Not Good For Labor

Measured solely as an industrial en-
terprise, the manufacture and sale of
LIQUOR is not good thing for labor.
What I mean is this:
Take S10,000,000 and invest It in
farms, machine shops, railroads. coal
mines. saw mills. steel works or brew
cries and distilleries and you will dis
cover that far fewer men are hired to
operate the liquor manufactures than
to operate any of the other industries.
Iiquormaking is an industry that
requires big capital and little labor.
Tt takes plenty of money out of the
workers pocket without putting much
money in it.-Girard, in Public Ledger.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-26
April

April
Swelling bud and fond suggestion,
Waiting of perfume,
fearful rapture, thrilling question
OF restraint or bloom,
Life all dreamlessly asleeping
As in death, but now,
Upward to the sunshine creeping
April, that is thou!
Mysterys authentic dwelling,
Faiths expanding wing.
Maiden loveliness foretelling
Fuller blossoming,
Prophet of the new creation,
Priestess of the bough,
Month of the Imagination
April, that is thou!
-Florence Earle Coates, in Lippin
colts Magazine.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-26
SIGNS OF A GREAT OFFENSIVE

SIGNS OF \ GREAT OFFENSIVE
TT would not be surprising, in the
light of recent events, if develop
ments show the attack on Verdun
by the Germans to have been designed
primarily to interfere with Joffres
plans for great offensive.
The terrific onslaught, we now
know, could not have brought the Ger
man armies one step nearer Paris, but
1t was hurled at a point which could
be successfully defended only by vast
numbers of men and a great number
of big guns. Perhaps the German war
staff hoped to harry Joffre into hurry
ing the offensive that all signs indi-
cate he is planning. If so, it has
failed, for Verdun still stands
staunchly as ever and Joffre goes
calmly ahead, getting the fresh mil
lions from England into position,
bringing up the quarter million Rus
slams that have been detailed for serv-
ice in France and piling high the
stores OF ammunition that must be
used if an effort is to be made to blast
the Germans out of their trenches in
France.
1t may well be that the French drive
which began so unexpectedly last Fall
and stopped so suddenly was meant
to show that the Germans could be
dislodged and that the campaign now
being worked out is the result of this
demonstration.
At all events, Joffre appears to be
preparing to hurl another of those
"thunderbolts" which he is said to
have "conjured up" when he threw
the Germans back at the battle of the
Marne.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-26

n "a
w ticle in the American Lawyer
two months after Theodore
Roosevelt's retirement from the presi-
dency. said:
Government control which we
are undertaking so extensively and
with so light heart. sets UP, not
reign of law but t;,,idua reign tud9 OF
ment on the part of Govern.
ment officials in the regulation OF
the business of stock companies
viduals and supplying the chief IN
vestments of thousands of commu-
mites. l can see no radical dif1ef-
ence between Governmental owner
ship and Governmental regulation
of this discretionary kind.
There is no logical stopping
place between that and the actual
conduct of business enterprises by
the Government. Such methods of
regulation. 1t may be safely pre-
dicted. will sooner or later be com
President Wilson is sponsor for the
bill providing for government owner
ship of the merchant marine. Legis-
lation is pending for a government
owned munitions plant, and an appro-
priation of $40, 100000 is being consid-
ered Tor goNernment-oWneu nitrate
plant. The government will construct
the Alaska railroad and probably our
battleships. The Federal Trade Com
is attending to the regulation
of business to the minutest detail,
while the Federal Reserve Board brow
beats the banks. The country is being
regulated until man doesn't dare
make a move without the advice of
expert counsel and then he lies awake
nights fearing that counsel may not
have read the law in the light of the
bureaucracy's interpre-
tation. Meanwhile the Transformation
from a representative to a commission
form of government finds mo logical
stopping place"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-26
sTEELToN PROGRESSING

1.-TWO commendable accomplish
ments stand forth in to-day's
news of the campaign now being
waged in Steelton to obtain an ade-
quate system OF parks and Fairgrounds
for the borough.
First of these is the welcome an
nouncement that the Pennsylvania
Steel Company, recently acquired by
the Schwab interests. has thrown its
great influence on the side of progress
by announcing through General Man
ager Quincy Bent that it will con-
tribute 5000 TO the fund for establish
ing Fairgrounds.
Such course on the part of the
borough's chief industry cannot help
but instill feeling of confidence in the
minds of Steelton people that the bor-
ough will prosper under the new order
OF things. The effect it will have upon
the success of the entire recreation
movement is almost inestimable. With
the big corporation forces in favor of
such purely welfare project, political
and other forces will surely "see the
light" and also line up to help assure
success for the movement.
The second commendable accom-
plishment is the endorsement by the
Municipal League of an ordinance
creating a parks and Fairgrounds COM
mission to direct the recreation work.
Such commission should be looked
uron with favor by the borough coun-
Gil. whose burdensome duties 1t will
lessen without in any way curtailing
its powers. 1t will also assure care
full expenditure of any money entrusted
TO its care and will obtain for the
borough nonpoltical management of
its parks and Fairgrounds.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-26
EDITORIAL COMMENT

A British opponent OF conscription
says that conscript army can't fight.
The German Army, for example,
Nashville Southern Lumberman.
Captain Franz Won Papen has been
sent to Holland to do work similar
to that which he did in America" The
Dutch do have their troubles. - New
York World.
Mr.. Roosevelt says that President
Wilson is the friend of Mexican ban
ditry. But General villa probably
thinks that he has an odd way of dis
playing his friendship. - Nashville
Southern Lumberman.
Germany Apologies to Switzerland
for unintentional intrusion. How
hanged!-Syracus Post STANDARD.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-26
Air Power of Future
Hartford Courant !

When the flying machines become
lords of the air, Great Britain's
supremacy on the seas will be a hol-
low possession. She will have to be-
come also mistress of the air If the
tight little island is to remain practi-
cally immune from attack. Militar-
ism. with its highly developed aviation
department, will become more danger
Gus than navalism.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-26
ONE CONSOLATION
by Wing DInEer

Prices on this thing and that thing
Have been rising while the war
Has been raging. till they're higher
Than they've ever been before.
There is just one consolation
That I'm sure will chase the frown
Caused by such conditions-prices
On golf balls have downward gone.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-26
TELEORAPH'S PERIScOPE

Looking forward over the long
road leading to the November cleo
tions, running for Office just now has
all the appearances of a marathon.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-26
OUR DAILY LAUGH

BUM OUTLOOK.
He: Too bad I
haven't had the
advantages a of an
education as we'll
as you.
s h e: Believe
me, you'll get the
a d v a n { ages OF
mine as soon as
were married.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-26

Good roads, conveyance for school
children to centralized school,
abandonment of one-room township
schools, a new school building and Il
community center.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-26

The world may owe every man a
living, but it's hard to collect for the
fellow who comes around only on
payday.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-26

Says Bouck White, IT'S hell to be
poor" and the Bible says it's a pretty
hard squeeze for a rich man to get
into the Kingdom of Heaven, so the
prospects seem mighty poor for most
OF us.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-26

All, ha, now we have it! Colonel
Watterson has discovered that Wall
Street is behind the Ford candidacy In
order to elect Roosevelt. Strong logic
from Kentucky.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-26

Slowly but surely Nebraska is
learning some things about Bryan that
the country at large knew long since.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-26

Amelia Paulik, four-year-old girl
of Millmont, a suburb of Reading,
was drowned in a rain barrel near her
home day before yesterday. The little
tot evidently fell into the barrel while
at play.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-26

If only the other fellow enjoyed
our talk as mdch as -we-de,- what a
world of wonderful conversationalists
this would be.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-26

Hilltown township, Bucks county.
wants five things and has started a
campaiEn to get them. They are:
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-26

Montgomery County Commissioners
are advising the constables to get after
all dogs which do not bear license
tags. Death is stalking In their
canine footsteps.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-26

A band of youths living in Lansdale
have become entirely too conversant
with the plots that find their origin
and completion in hair-raising dime
that class OF literature at once
harmful and instructive. Robberies
have been committed which have been
traced to "Dead-Eye Dicks" power
full influence.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-26
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg tin is used i'm
manufacturing utensils for the
South American trade?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-26

Mrs. Martha E. Lewis, an octo-
genarian of Spring City, has an Easter
egg that she dyed when a little girl.
No, hard boiled!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-26
LEST WE FORGET

WILSON, in an ar
wv ticle in the American Lawyer
two months after Theodore
Roosevelt's retirement from the presi-
dency, said:
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-26
Does Newspaper Az
vertising Pay?
Ad-
Does

A large paint manufactures
asked this question of retailers
throughout the country:
NO. 6 SAID:
'In my opinion newspaper ad-
Vertising is the best means of
publicity available. In my four
teen years of business for myself
1 think the money L have put into
newspaper advertising has
brought me greater results as a
trade getter than any money
spent in any other mode of ad-
vertising.
at is very difficult to figure
direct results from any adver-
tising, but 1 certainly think the
papers have helped immensely"
Continued tomorrow
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-26

rhe speedfool
makes I h Q
angels weep,
The swim fool
has ambition,
re icefool Is be-
yon d all
doubt
The C o d e s I
proposition
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-26

A frisky wind, one of the sort that
snatches caps and initiates the
famous F'latiron corner for mischief.
seized upon bills to the amount of
$3.50 which little Louis Schlanger, of
Berwick, was carrying to the bank for
his father, and carried them gaily
across lots to spots unknown. at least
to Louis. Louis is just tall enough
TO reach the mantelpiece, too!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-26

HISTORIC HARRISBURG
The first forge is supposed u
have been erected here about 1900. r.
was the forerupner of the blast
furnaces.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-26
WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 2

Occupation is the scythe of time
NAPOLEON l.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-26
THE STATE FROM DAY TO DAY

There is Philadelphia man,
Rosenthal by name, who is unique in
his line, that of evading work. Hav-
ing proved his ability to maintain his
entity for a period of ten years with
out doing a bit of work, he is now
making a visit to the county prison
until he can provide concrete evidence
of his good faith to protect wife and
children. "It was too cold in the
winter and too hot in the summer"
said he.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-26

published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.,
Telegraph Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-26

e. J. STACKPoLE. Prss't and Editor-in-Chisf
r. r. OYSTER. Business Manager.
GUS NJ -ST5INMETZ, Managing Editor.
The Tomahawk., 1916-09-07

the roads upon the White Earth
reservation, and the balance to the
Red Lake reservation, as these are
the only Chippewa reservations
now in the State, all the others
having been coded under the act
referred to, and we respectfully
request that this be done.'
Mr.. Balllnger, in communion
ton giving the information he re-
ceived from the Indian office reia
tive to the matter, states that
some members of Congress rec
commended that $4,000 of the ap-
preparation Of $50, 900 be expend-
ed at the Fond du Lac reserva-
ton, and in justification stated
That the white settlers upon that
reservation had constructed good
roads, and that in order to COM
plete the roads it was necessary to
improve the connecting links run
ming through the land allotted to
the Indians, and that it would
take $4,000 do do this. They ex-
planned that it was mainly for the
purpose of completing the roads
on the Fond du Lac reservation
that the appropriation was made.
Acting Commissioner Of Indian
Affairs Merritt explained that the
1000 would complete the con-
struction of roads on the Fond du-
Lac reservation, and that it was
the desire of the Indian Office to
carry out the recommendations Of
the members of Congress, partic
ularly when they were in line with
sound public policy, that it would
be useless to scatter the appropri-
alton.
While he was in the Indian
office, Mr.. Ballinger explains, Mr..
Merritt gave directions that the
remaining $4,000 Of the $4,000
appropriated should be expended
upon this reservation, but en- ill.,
The Tomahawk., 1916-09-07
Reply To Petition

On the 22nd of last month a
petition was numerously signed by
many of the villagers here protest
ing against the assignment of &c.
600 of the $4,000 that was APP
propriatcd under the provisions of
the Indian Appropriation Act of
May IS, 1916, for the purpose of
building roads and making other
improvements upon the Chippewa
reservations cf this state, to the
Fond du Lac reservation.
The petition, which was as fol-
lows. was sent to Attorney Balm
ger of Washington, ID. c., to pre-
The Tomahawk., 1916-09-07
SUBSCRIPTION: $3.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
New Excuse For Evading
Law.

Information has frequently been
given to The ToMAHAwK that the
regular excuse for evading the
law which provides that Chippe-
was shall receive the preference in
the positions IN the Chippewa In
dian service, has been that there
are no vacancies.
In an application made recently
by Edward Perrault on behalf of
his father, Joseph F.. Perrault, for
a clerkship in the Chippewa SER
Nyice, the excuse is made by Assist
ANT Commissioner of Indian Affairs
E. B. Merritt that practically all
clerical positions in the Chippewa
service require stenographers and
typewriters.
In order that members of the
Chippewa bands of Minnesota may
fully understand the new excuse
for not giving them positions, the
following correspondence between
the Iudian office and Congressman
Sveenerson and others is herein
given:
Washington, D. c.,
August 25th, 1916.
j. E. Perrault, Esq,
White Earth, MINI.
My dear Mr.. Perrault:
[ have your favor of the 22nd
instant, and inclose communica-
tDns | received from the Indian
NOfice several days ago, from which
YOU will observe that the Com
missioner communicated with your
son ON August 18th, last. You
are. of course, aware that the
power Of appointment in the In
dian Service is in the Secretary OF
the Interior, and that the influence
of the Congressman, under present
circumstances, ends with an en-
dorsement and recommendation
which l have given and made as
strong as | could. l would sug-
gest that you take the matter up
with the Superintendent at your
Agency.
Very truly yours,
Fl. Stevenson.
The Tomahawk., 1916-09-07
Chippewas of Minnesota where the
compensation is paid from their
tribal funds.'


The Chippewa Indian Service is
not strictly speaking the govern
ment service and does not come
within the purview of the civil
service law and for this reason it
is not optional but compulsory
upon the superintendent among
the Chippewas of Minnesota to
create vacancies for Indian appli-
cants for positions in the Chippe-
wa service when the persons who
hold the positions are not men,
bers of the tribe in Minnesota.
There IS no such qualification in
the Indian appropriation act of
last May regarding Indian en-
ployees as there is in the other
acts quoted which provide that In
dams shall be employed when
practicable, in the government
service.
If the expenses Of the service
The Tomahawk., 1916-09-07

vestigation it was found that this
$4,000 had already been allotted,
only one thousand of which comes
to this reservation; and that the
superintendent had already been
notified of the separate assign
ments of the amount.
If the members of this and the
Red Lake reservations desire to
raise the issue, it seems that they
must now appeal either to the
Secretary of the Interior, or Uni
ted States courts.
The amendment which provides
for the appropriation of $4,000
was drawn by the Chippewa dele
CATION that was at Washington
when the Indian bill was before
the senate Indian committee, and
they deemed that they had safe
guarded the expenditure of the
amount of the appropriation by
specifically stating reservations,
and leaving out the words ''ceded
reservations, which are usually
applied to coded reservations and
which have ceased to be rescrva-
tions since the government opened
them to settlement.
The Tomahawk., 1916-09-07
The Opposition To The
Right Of Nomination
Bill.

There was more or less criticism
made last winter at Washington
by the Indian delegations that
were there on account of the tele-
gram sent by Rev Coolidge, presl-
dent Of the Society of American
Indians, to the chairman OF the
senate committee on Indian affairs