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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-30

London, Sept. 30.-Brttish losses In
September were at the rate Of more
! than $500 q ~. The casualties on all
/ fronts reported in this month swere:
Officers, 4Ass: men. HALO.
Heavy a. were the British losses In
September. they were lighter than
those Of August. with 127.s45. q daily
average of Ait. In July. the first
month Of the somms offensive, the
losses were about half those Of Aug
ust or September. notwithstanding the
British stoTmed the German drst line
defenses. Tie losses that month were
t1.57S 70 thGt the total OF the three
month1 = to7. 100.
Tho n Overneas news agency esti-
mates tho combined French and Brit
ish losses IN the Somme battle. up 10
Sept. Is. amount to about 100000.
Heavy Fighting Continues.
Unusually hard fighting occurred yes
!. terday on the Somme front in conse-
quence Of German counter attacks. A
division Of the new British army was
engaged. The official report says:
During the night the enemy shelled
heavily our battle front south Of the
Ancre. We consolidated the ground,
too yesterday morning at d.Estremont
farm. northwest Of Lesar$ and i'm
proved our positions In the Thiepval
area.
Enemy counter attacks were beaten
on In the neiEhborhood Of the Schwa-
ben redoubt and Hessian trench The
fighting In this section yesterday was
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-30

The muscles Of the human Jaw exert
force os s:s spepnds
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-30
British and French Losses
Since Advance Began is
Half Million.
BRITISH ALONE
OVER 800, 900
Casualties During September Average
More Than 5000 Per Day - Losses
Past Month Not 50 Heavy az In
August - Unusually Heavy Fighting
ssiIl in Prosrsss, Germans Making
Counter Attacks.

The Rournanian invasion Of Tran
sylvania has met with setback in
the Hermanstadt region, some
twenty miles north Of the Rouma-
nian border, according to Berlin. A
victory over the strong Roumanian
forces by troops under General Won
Faikenhayne 10 announced.
General Won Falkhayne Is one Of
the most noted Of German military
commanders and was chief Of the
general stan until recently. when
he was displaced by Field Marshal
Won Hindenberg. Today's mention
Of his name In an Official statement
was the f1rSt intimation that he was
in active service In the field.
The fact that q general Of such note
has been given command in Tran
sylvania apparently means that an
important campaign in this terri
tory Il under way. ANEW Teutonic
offensive successfully pressed there
would place Roumania between two
fires, az large German force Is in
Dubrudja, under another Of Ger
manys martial heroes. Field Mar
shal von Nackensen.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-30

Allied Drive Takes Heavy Toll.
Germans Deny Submarine Attacks.
Roosevelt Flags Wilson Mexican
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-28
FARM LOAN BANKS

MOT only in the North, but also in
" the Southland, the farm loan
plan of the Wilson administra-
ton is severely criticised as .imprac-
tical and not what was promised.
Speaking at Memphis, the head of the
Farm Mortgage Bankers Association
of America said:
If my diagnosis is correct. it will
lead to a period of agricultural
speculation and expansion which
will prove disas strous to the pro-
posed benehciaries.
This is precisely the opinion of the
scheme which was voiced by the
farmers who gathered on Capitol Hill
the other day to consider the location
of Federal farm bank in the eastern
section of the country. They did not
hesitate to say that the proposed
financial scheme in its present form
would prove disappointing through
out the East, especially in view of the
fact that farmers are able to make
better financial arrangements with
their own local banking institutions
than could be possible under the farm
loan bank act as enacted by the last
Congress.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-28
SATURDAY EVENING, OCT. 2s
UNCLE SANS HUMILIATION

nHILANDER C. KNOX has done
i more in a few speeches to illumi-
nate the Mexican situation than
all that is contained in the statements
and talks of the last two years. In his
remarkable discussion of the issues of
the present campaign at the Chestnut
street auditorium in this city, he
pointed out the impossible attitude of
President Wilson from the very be-
ginning of the Mexican controversy.
From direct and personal knowl-
edge, he made clear that notwith-
standing the de facto government of
Mexico had signified its desire to make
reparation for American lives and
restitution for American property lost
and that Huerta was the admitted
constitutional head of the Mexican
government, the Wilson administra-
ton still insisted that Huerta should
go and that the dictum of Presi-
dent Wilson should be obeyed
All the long train of evils sue
ceeding this arbitrary attitude at
Washington has followed and while
pretending that we have been kept
out of war" with Mexico, the United
States has been expending millions in
maintaining an army on the Border
and a punitive expedition into the in
terror in an alleged hunt for Villa,
1t is inconceivable that any consid-
erable number of intelligent people
Will continue to listen with patience to
the cIamorous appeals of the Wilson
supporters and to regard him as the
greatest statesman in the history of
the country
A inundated and disgusted people
are only waiting the day when they
can express at the polls their opinion
of Wilson and his administration. All
the great powers now look upon MS
with contempt and the positive harm
which has been done the American
people by the administration at Wash
ington cannot be fully realized at this
time. 1t is only as the attitude Of
formerly friendly nations is shown in
an occasional remark or a published
statement that we gather the real feel
ing of the other nations toward us.
What has happened with respect to
Mexico has characterized the interna-
lonal diplomacy of a weak admins
tration from the outset. We are
neither feared nor respected, not even
by the distracted people south of the
Rio Grande.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-28
WELL KNOWN LABOR UNION
. MAN TAKES GOMPERS TO TASK
FOR TRYING TO DELIVER VOTE

ted to a days labor. and no one may
work out of hours at all or volunteer
anything beyond the minimum
Il need not point out how economi-
caliy disastrous such regulation of
labor is. 1t is so improbable to the
employer that in some trades IL will
presently not be worth his while to
attempt anything at ALL He had better
stop altogether than operate at an in
evitable and invariable loss.
The labor of America is rapidly be-
coming Improbable under its present
regulation by those who have deter
mined to reduce 1t to a minimum
our economic supremacy may be
lost because the country grows more
and more full of Improbable servants"
Again we find that on March is, 1907
Mr.. Wilson again expresses his kind G..
wishes for labor in the following state
ment:
1--WE speak too exclusively of the
capftalistic class. There is another, as
formidable an enemy to equality and
betterment of opportunity as it is. and
that is the class formed by the labor
organizations and leaders of the coun-
try"
1t was Woodrow Wilson also who
said:
THE usual standard of the laborer
in our day is to give as little as he
may Tor MS wages.
THE class formed by the labor or
ganizations and leaders is a formidable
enemy to equality and betterment of
opportunity"
II am fierce partisan of the open
shop"
labor unions drag the highest man
to the level of the lowest"
"The Chinese were more to be desired
as workmen than most of the coarse
| nDP haf -
eastern ports"
Many Others Like These
There are many other statements and
extracts from the writings of Mr.. Will
son, but time and space will not per-
nit me to quote. However, the above
statements compare favorabIy with the
statement of a man who would be a
friend OF labor at a time when he had
nothing at stake; are they statements
which you would expect from a man
claiming to be the friend of labor, which
Mr.. Wilson and his chief would have
you now believe he is?
MIR. Gompers, ct al. in their next para
graph would have you believe that
labor has received through the Wilson
Administration, recognition for the
rights OF human beings and opportunity
for all to participate in the affairs of
the enation in degree that has never
way, pray Mr.. Gompers? Was IL bv
going in and taking Congress by the
throat choking it to death, and be-
coming the whole cheese. box and cloth
himself; violating platform pledges
throwing our Panama Canal omen to
the world in competition with our
American shippers? Was it by the
Underwood tariff law, whereby he
placed the American Workman in com
petition with the undarnaid .r,o.tx,..
of the world? Was 1t by removing
trainmen from the government service
to make room for his political friends.
thereby building a political machine for
himself, Notwithstanding civil service
laws? Or was it by neglecting those
whom you have sworn to protect in
your official capacity as president Of
the A. r. of L.?
Mr.. Gompers, ct al, tell us that Mr.
Wilson kept us out of war. If this he
Continued on Page 1871
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-28
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
The Hughes College League

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
The Hughes National College
League, with headquarters in New
York City, has been formed for the
purpose of securing concerted action
on the part of class of voters in be-
half of the Republican and Progress
sive candidate, Charles Evans Hughes.
Local branches of this league are
formed throughout the country at the
request of the national officers. No
financial obligation accompanies men,
bership in this league. but those be-
coming members are called upon and
expected to get out on the firing line
and lay before the voting public a
clear and concise explanation of the
many and extremely important issues
of this campaign and to give concrete
and unanswerable explanations and
convincing arguments why the voters
should case their ballots for Hughes.
To aid them in his work, literature
will be sent the members from the
national headquarters.
Too often those who are most quail
fled and capable of taking an active
part in politics and in political affairs,
merely go, to the polls and vote, and
in a great many instances, do not vote
at all. Political conditions are what
they are in most cases because the
man who should vote and knows how
to vote does not vote at all. No man
can claim himself good citizen unless
at every election he exercises his
greatest duty, that of voting and vot-
ing right.
Therefore, any effort to arouse the
voting public to it's duty should be
met with the heartiest appreciation.
And that is what the Hughes College
League is doing. Thousands of men
who. heretofore, have never taken an
interest in politics are now devoting
days and nights in giving their best
efforts, realizing that it is their solemn
duty not only to vote themselves but
to instill others with the same idea
and to explain to them the especial
importance of this campaign.
The success of the local branch has
been little short of remarkable. 1t is
already force in this campaign To-
cally in the same degree that the
national branch is nationally, and ali
local members automatically become
members of the National League. It
is giving unbiased, unprejudiced and
unselfish service in behalf of the next
President, Charles Evans Hughes.
SECRETARY
of the I.ocal Branch
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-28
Harry A. Mackey.
REPUBLICAN TICKET

REPUBLICAN TICKET
For President,
Charles Evans Hughes, of New York
For Vice President,
Charles Warren Fairbanks. of Indiana
For Auditor General,
Charles a. Snyder. of Pottsville
For State Treasurer,
Harmon NJ. Kephart, OF Connellsville
For Congress-at-Large
Thomas S. Crago. of Waynesburg
M. NJ. Garland. of Pittsburgh
Joseph Mclaughlin. of Philadelphia
John r. X. Scott, of Philadelphia
For Congress-1Sth District
Aaron S. Kreider, of Annville
For Senator,
Edward L. Beidleman, of Harrisburg
For Representative,
First District
Augustus Wildman and J. w. Swartz
Second District,
Ira Z. Ulsh and David J. Bechtold
For Mine Inspector,
Charles ]. Price, of Lykens
Nonpartisan Ticket,
Supreme Court,
Emory A. Walling, of Erie
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-28
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

j. Howard Erevin, we'll known
here, has been elected president of the
Montgomery county school directors
organization.
General w. A. Mann. the new
chief of militia affairs, is a Pennsyl-
vanian by birth. He graduated from
West Point in 1875.
Provost E. F. Smith. of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, addressed the
Allegheny County Alumni last night
The Rev. William Henry Cutler,
Bellevue minister, has gone to France
to join the American ambulance corps.
j. M. Murdoch, of Johnstown, has
been elected a member of the Camp
Fire Club of America, to which only
ten Pennsylvanians belong.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-28
BROKEN PROMISES

DROKEN promises mark the viii.
- son administration at every turn.
Even its apologists are finding
difficulty in squaring the Wilson
pledges with the Wilson perform
ances. Pretense and sham are char
acteristics of the whole course of the
adminNkration. These apologists in
sist that the present spotted prosper
ity of the country is due to Demo
cratic policies and the Underwood
tariff bill. but those familiar with the
operation of the Underwood act know
that it's immediate effect was to cause
the balance of trade to run so heavily
against us that business stagnation re-
suited. bankruptcies increased, en-
ployment of labor diminished and only
because of the unusual demand for
foodstuffs and munitions abroad was
the most deplorable and depressing
panic in the history of the country
averted.
War taxes were imposed to the ex-
tent of millions upon our people, in
face of the contention of the Wilson
defenders that "he has kept us out
of war"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-28
HINTS FOR THE SUBURBS

TNHE milk and Ice cream regula-
tions adopted by Harrisburg
should be extended to cover the
whole district surrounding. Harris
burg has come to mean so much more
than the mere territory within its off,
cial boundaries that the full force and
benefit of local regulations are lost
If they are not adopted by the COM
munities roundabout which are parts
of the city in all but name.
To be a healthful, progressive city
all of the little towns that have sprung
up around Harrisburg on every side
must be healthful and progressive,
too. The Legislature recognized this
condition when it gave the city plan
ming commission jurisdiction three
miles out from the city limits. and the
health boards could with profit follow
this example.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-28
of the Local Branch.
REPLIES TO UNKNOWN,
'itor of the Telegraph:

To tie Editor of the Telegraph:
Permit me to reply to the letter in
the Telegraph on Thursday. October
26th, signed Unknown"
The Associated Aid Societies receiv-
ed approximately twenty five (25) tele-
phone calls, requesting the name and
address of the family to which the
writer refers.
VIII any one say that it would be
well to have given the information
asked in each instance?
We respect the privacy OF the fam
lily just as much as any giver may de-
sire to respect his own privacy in the
matter of. giving.
The secretary desires to say to the
writer that he does not believe at any
time in giving names and addresses to
"Unknowns." He has had sufficient eX-
-perience on this point, especially when
the inquiry concerns woman and
children.
1t is easily possible for any person to
send money to the ONCE of the Asso-
ciated Aid Societies anonymously
number of gifts have come for this
particular family in this way and they
reached the family just as surely as
If sent direct
The help that the Associated Aid So
cieties gives is never meager. but al
ways adequate and supplies every need,
beyond that would be waste.
Organized charity is not making per-
sonal service impossible. Many fami-
lies and many helpless children come
to us with their needs. We are always
glad to make use of personal service.
as well as money, in supplying these
needs and there is always need of
both.
Unknown" will be welcome at any
time at our office. We will be glad to
make use of his service, and while do
ing 1t, will respect the confidence Of
the left hand"
Very truly yours,
JOHN YATES,
General Secretary, the Associated Aid
Societies
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-28
LOur Library Table,,
KS1XtA>,Fsw MINUTES ~irn- -rHz SfssN
80 >kLIKsr boeks . HAaAxiHks-sP

"T'he Towers of IIium,. by Ethelyn
Leslie Huston George II. Doran Coz.
More or less dangerous for the young
and unthinking in that it tears the con-
ventions to shreds and raises the COM
mon law to a high standard by sane
tioning an Illegal marriage and crown
ing IL with happiness.
June Ferriss, a popular college girl,
frivolous and thoughtless, suffers be-
reavement and loss of fortune and is
precipitated into loneliness. Enter
problems of femininism, of maternity
and the daring of a woman to choose
the father of her child. A happy con-
clusion is reached in spite of the shock
to society. The book is delightfully."-
written.
''The More Excellent Way, by Cyrus
Townsend Brady (Putnams). A tale
of modern society and the divorce
question, with the scenes laid in New
York, Sorrento, Bermuda, and Reno
Rarely has an author, without attempt
at preaching, written a story so subtly
influential, so provocative of thought
even while it seems to leave no time for
thought in the swift succession of it's
dramatic deyelODmeut
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-28
PROUD OF HIS HOME TOWN
TIME Telegraph likes the way Edison

]. Hockenbury goes about let
ting folks of the various cities
in which he conducts his Y. NJ. C. A.
and other campaigns know where he
lives when he is at home. Mr.. Hook
enbury is a modest man, as anybody
acquainted with him knows, but in
the very nature of his work it is neces-
sary for his picture to appear in print
with considerable frequency. And
when it does, right underneath his
name the reader will find the words
-"Of Harrisburg. Pa" Mr.. Hocken-
bury is a "citizen of no mean city,
and by the same token he is no mean
citizen" so that credit is reflected
both ways when the well-known CAM
paigner signs it Edison ]. Hocken-
bury. of Harrisburg, Pa"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-28
to Catch Flies"

"Was the Democratic platform here
adopted in 1912 .molasses to catch flies
otherwise known. as American in
vestors? l quote it:
1.-THE constitutional rights of Ameri-
can citizens protect them on our bor-
ders and go with them throughout the
world Hughes. at Baltimore, Oc-
tober 10.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-28

have been almost closed by, the mate
rails and machinery of the contractors
on the never-ending remsdelings job.
Unless the Department of Highways
does something to improve the sltua-
ton. legal action is threatened to COM
pei reasonable attitude by the con-.
tractor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-28
WHAT THE. ROTARY CLUB
LEARNED OF THE CITY

[Questions submitted to members of
the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their
answers as presented at the organiza- :
tion's annual Municipal Quiz."J
How many buildings are used for
City Offices?
Courthouse, Commonwealth Trust
Building, Board of Trade, Telegraph
Building and Calder Building.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-28
SATURDAY EVENING,

ment and found that at least 163 of the
men admit that their Jobs at home had
been taken by others while they were
down in Texas. These men know, as
few others can. that they have /been
kept out of the war. the immineAce of
which prompted them to enroll; and
they also know that they are now kept
out of job.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-28

One jury has rendered a verdict
against the Wilson administration.
Some time ago Wilson appointed a GER
tain deserving Democrat" to an i'm
portant postmastership out West and
the businessmen of the city filed a.
protest which questioned the integrity
of the appointee. The objectors made
their charges public and were sued for
libel. The jury decided against the
Wilson appointee
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-28

Not in years have the colored men
rallied to a cause in this city as have
the negro citizens united in the sup
port of Charles Evans Hughes. At the
big meeting in the Courthouse this
week, the speeches were eloquent and
forceful, and reference was made re-
peatedly to the changed conditions at
Washington and elsewhere Under the
Wilson regime.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-28

81 wouldn't take a million dollars
apiece for them." said James Kearny.
of Scranton gazing fondly on his newly
arrived quadruplets. And we violate
no confidence in observing. Mr.. Kearny,
that even at a much lower figure bid
ding would not be what you might term
lively.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-28

The First Illinois Regiment was one
of the earlies to return from the, Bor-
der. Its mon had more than three
months of ''watchful waiting" Most of
them gave up good jobs to respond to
the emergency" which called them out
--an emergency" which is now known
to have been only political and per-
sonally political to the President, at
that. They returned. many of them. to
find that not only had their time been
sacrificed on the altar of Wilson's cam
paign for reelection. but that they had
lost their hold on the civilian employ
ment which they formerly enjoyed. The
Chicago Tribune canyassed the regi-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-28
BLOCKING TRAFEnC

n TTENTIoN has repeatedly been
n called to the intolerable condi-
tions at the Federal building.
For many months Locust street and
the sidewalk along the post office
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-28
Our Daily Laugh
JUST IN TIME.

JUST IN TlME
Here ! just ar
rived W 1t h .
trunk full of abb
breviated fancy
bathing suits and
I find the beach
closed for the
season.
o h t h a I
shouldn't worry
you've have q
fashionable open-
air colony here
for the winter
and you'll be able
to start q new
fad.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-28

"Flour eleven dollars a barrel" Hur-
rah for the "workingman's friend" who
thus keeps his promises to reduce the
high cost of living caused by the
dreadful tariff"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-28

II these Mexican disturbances keep
up 1t may be written little later that
che kept us out of war-until after
election"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-28
no TIME TO

40 TIME TO
4 SPARE.
y Bug: Where
away Snailey?
Snail: I'm go
Ing to the sea-
shore for the
summer.
b u & {: W h y
summers over,
man.
Snail: / know
1t; I'm talking
about Is IT.
stupid.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-28

Mr.. Baker has conveniently forgotten
just what he said about the Revolution
airy heroes-but the voters have not.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-28
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg steel is used
for smokestacks?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-28
EDITORIAL COMMENT

Thirty-one American authors have
come out for Hughes, after denounc-
ing Vance c. McCormick's hyphenate
grade fiction.-New York Sun.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-28
HISTORIC HARRISRI1RC
Pointed Paragraphs

Soldiers OF the War of 1872 encamp-
ed in the Riverside parks.