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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-03
Financing the War
BY William @. Ward
Briggs

The United States, although less
prepared for war in a military sense
than any other nation on earth ex-
cept China, nevertheless entered the
war better equipped financially than
any of the nations which had pre-
pared themselves for hostilities down
to the last button and lynch pin. The
reason for this coincidence is two
fold, and both branches of the rea>
son spring from circumstances en-
tlrely foreign to any pre-conceived
plan of national defense One of
them is the vast deluge of foreign
gold which has come to us since the
war commenced, and the other is the
federal reserve system of banking
If we can so organize and regulate
our affairs that each citizen in the
interest of the nation as a whole,
we shall be amply able to sustain
the credit of our allies and we shall
have nothing to fear for ourselves,
even though the financial structure
of the outside world may crack wide
open. We have the wherewithal to
extend enormous credits to our own
government. and through it to our
allies, on a sound gold basis. Also
wc have the machinery with which
to finance our own internal trade on
the basis of barter-goods for goods
entirely independently of the gold
standard and our international trade.
1t remains for us simply to use
these two systems for their respec-
tive purposes exclusively, and we
shall have nothing to fear either
from imitation of our own currency.
or, within limits, from the govern.
ment and foreign credits which we
may hereafter predicate>upon our
gold reserve.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-03
THE SOLDIERS CHANCES

TNEARFUL friends Of American
soldiers may take heart from
Washington reports, which are
that only about IL soldiers are killeu
or die OF wounds in each 1000 men
mobilized for fighting along the west
ern. front in France.
This statement of the Committee
on Public Information is based on
the report of NJ, Tardieu, French
high commissioner. which in turn
has its foundation in the official fig
ures of the French war department.
The encouraging postscript is added,
also, that these figures are being
gradually reduced by reason of the
better defense the Allies have learned
to make against German bullets,
shells and gas.
Thus war, it would appear, is not
much more dangerous than fatalities
in the mines or some of the steel
mills where safety first is not ex-
tensiveiy practiced. and matches up
pretty well with railroad fatalities as
they were only a few years back.
Every American life is precious
beyond computation, but that the
losses of Americans in France
promise not to be more than IL to
every 1000 is heartening news in the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-03
n ROF. j. T. Rothrock, former
State Commissioner of Forestry,


State Commissioner of Forestry,
has been delving into history a
bit and here is what he says:
The belief of the world seems
to be that a league of nations to en-
force peace will be the surest proaec-
ton against future wars and 1t is
probably we'll founded; but, never
theless, it may be we'll to examine
into some plans which have hitherto
been proposed for our protection and
for the worlds protection.
THE Father of Democracy"
Thomas Jefferson, while we were still
smarting over Great Britain's wrongs
to us, was polite enough and had
vision enough to write as follows:
"Gerat Britain is the nation which
can do us the most harm of any one
of all on earth; and with her on our
side we need not fear the whole
world. With her then, we should
most sedulously cherish a cordial
friendship; and nothing would tend
more to knit our affections than to
be fighting once more side by side
in the same cause. Not that would
purchase her amity even at the price
of taking part in her wars. But the
war in which the present PROPOSE
ton might engage us, should that
be its consequence, is not her war,
but ours. Its object is to Introduce
and establish the American system
of keeping out of our land all foreign
Powers, of never permitting those
of Europe to intermeddle with the
affairs of our nations. 1t is to main
tain this principal, not to depart from
it. And If, to facilitate this, we can
effect q division in the body of the
European Powers and draw over to
our side its most powerful member,
surely we should do it.
Nor is the occasion to be slight
ed which this proposition offers of
declaring against the atrocious viola
ton of the rights of nations by the
interference of any one in the in
ternal affairs of another"
This bland proposition to use tho
Lions paw to rake American chest
nuts out of the fire may have been
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-03
Libraries For Training Camps

The immense strides and changes
that have taken place in the methods
of warfare are fairly illustrated in
the movement which has been in
augurated to furnish reading to the
soldiers. In the old days this sort of
thing was done in haphaZard way,
but now we are going about 1t
Systematically and on a large scale.
Indeed, we are not going to give
the lads merely reading matter, but
libraries. The American Library AS
soctation plans to raise a million
dollars, and 1t hopes to maintain q
regular library building in each one
of the cantonments and training
camps, this library to be in charge
of a skilled librarian. When we con-
slider that most of these camps will
have more or less permanency, the
importance of the movement will be
understood. New York undertakes
to raise S250,000 of the sum needed
and intends to do 1t by one days
drive" in the latter part of Sep
tember.
The success of the movement is
assured in advance, so much so that
the question of the character of the
books to be placed in the camp Ii
braries Is already being considered.
The field director of the movement in
NEW 1OTk says JnaJ inc thirst TOT
reading on the part of the young
soldiers is very great and that means
must be taken to satisfy this thirst
In an intelligent manner. Most per-
sons would imagine that the great
est demand would be for works of
fiction. but experience proves that
this Is not the case. The men turn
rather to books of learning, scientific
works and books that deal with i'm
portant subjects, such as law and
political economy.
The young men who are preparing
to go into camp will have many
months of hard work before them
and there will be hours when the
opportunity for reading will he hailed
with delight. Under these conditions
a camp library with ten thousand
volumes-which is the present in
tention-will be source of pleasure
and profit to them, 1t is a good move
ment, and when the time comes the
people of Philadelphia will of course
do their part.-Philadelphi In
quirer,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-03
When Eggs Is Eggs

1t was a question propounded by
an ancient philosopher, possibly
Plato: when is an egg not egg?"
And a contemporary philosopher,
possibly Socrates. replied. When 1t
is a little chicken"
Commissioner Foust. of the Dairy
and Food Bureau. at Harrisburg, has
found new definition for this
ovarian conundrum. He and his
agents have caused the arrest of a
score of Pittsburgh dealers in al
legged eggs upon apparently we'll
grounded charges of trafficking in
'rotten" eggs. Therefore, 1t is thus
officially proclaimed that an egg is
not an egg when 1t is rotten.
BY no means were all of these
decadent eggs yolked and albumened
in the shell. They were liquid and
solid. canned and frozen, preserved
and picked. in varied ways known
only to magicians of the manipula-
ton of the fruit of the hen which in
it's best estate is a fruit fit for the
Sods. Long experience, and the cum
ming born OF 1t, had taught them
the occult lesson of making ancient
eggs, long past the age OF ordinary
and palatable culinary suggestion,
serviceable for many uses except the
simple use of gustatory enjoyment
and appealing human nutrition. 1t
would not be appetizinz to enumer-
ate the varied avenues in which
these eggs have been made active
and profitable.
Everybody except the dealers un-
der suspicion. and who are not to be
named until after their possible in
dictment. will give Commissioners
Foust and his enterprising agents un-
bounded commendation for this
M n hn RkaA L.,
of eggs and tho hens which lay them.
The hens are among the best friends
of mankind. Such dealers as those
referred to are Just about the mean
est enemies of neutrality-suspicious.
Dispatch.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-03
IAROR DAY

n E ILLIONS of working people
IN paused to-day for a breath
between tasks. as it were.
Labor has just completed the most
strenuous summer in the history of
the country and is about to take up
the even harder work of a winter
that will call for the very best that
lies in every American.
The great mass of American
working people have earned their
brief period of rest and recreation.
Following the patriotic example of
President Gompers, of the Fedora
tion of Labor, they have engaged in
the great work OF putting the nation
on war footing and of creating the
instrumentalities by which the
tyranny of Kaiserism shall be stamp
ed out in the world for all time.
Conditions throughout the land have
been particularly favorable for labor
disputes, but it must be said for the
most part that the man who earns
his bread by the sweat OF his brow
has behaved most admirably and
with a devotion to country that did
not mark the opening chapters of
the war in England, however much
conditions may have improved in
that respect there since
Labor has won much since this
war began that it will not lose when
peace comes Wages are high and
they never will go back to the old
levels. Working conditions are i'm
proving and will continue to i'm
prove Only the remote possibility of
some frightful blunder on the part
of labor leaders during some crisis
to come could rob the workers of
the benefits that have come to them.
1t, therefore, becomes the part of
labor to consecrate itself anew, on
its own annual holiday, to the i'm
mense task before it, to new heights
of patriotism and TO greater efforts
in behalf of the nation Labor be-
gins another year with brighter pros
poets than ever before 1t remains
for wise and conservative leadership
to guide it safely over the shoals of
needless agitation and frultless con-
troversy, that the twelve months TO
come may be as peaceful and as
prosperous as they must be If labor
is to do its fun share in winning the
war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-03
NATIONS NOW CONSIDERING
GETTING TOGETHER

adapted to the period and conditions
under which it was made, but in its
very essence it would be a monu-
mental blunder for the present-be-
cause 1T ContemplateS q division of
Powers and the creation of two arm
ed camps which might at any time
fly at each others throat. 1t is, of
all methods suggested, the one least
likely to make the world safe for
democracy" Infinitely wiser was
the utterance of President Wilson,
in his address to the Senate, jan
uary 22, 1917: There is no en-
tangling alliance in a concert of
Powers. When all unite to act in the
same sense and with the same pur-
pose, all act in the common in
terest and are free to live their own
lives under a common protection
Then, again, limitation of arma-
ments has been brought forward as
remedy, safe and sures against
future conflict. How readily we for
get! 1t is just 110 years since Ma
poleon, in the Peace of Tilsit, i'm
posed on Prussia herself the condi-
ton that her army should not eX-
ceed $4,000 men, which was prac-
ticaily evaded by replacing each
body of men by another as soon as
it was fairly versed in military exer-
ciSes." Limiting Prussia's army
turned virtually the whole male pop
ulation into an army. 1t is, there
fore, not at all strange that the sys-
tenn has been continued, and is even
now advanced as a possible element
of coming peace. 1t is we'll adapt
cd to German policy!
Limitation of armament, even
when made universal, must be q
part of a much broader plan a
league of nations to enforce peace
Even this can only be effectual when
broad enough and flexible enough to
combine overwhelming forces.
1t is comforting to think that al
last the dominant nations are be-
coming so sick of war as to serious
ly consider getting together" a
wiser thing to do than armins
against each other. Thel~ IS at least
hope in it.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-03
ASH CANS AND GARBAGE PALS

ASH CANS AND GARBAGE PALS
THE garbage and ash problem in
this city has been sufficiently
trying on the nerves of the peo-
pie without imposing the further
annoyance of placing the reeking
and odoriferous receptacles on the
sidewalks all over town. 1t is in
conceivable that such a proposition
could be made seriously in this day
OF the city's development. Any off,
cial responsible for such a backward
step deserves the contempt of the
community and we have no doubt
whatever that a regulation of this
character would Immediately in
woke the wrath of the population.
We have had an expert survey of
the ash and garbage situation here
and it ought to be easily possible for
the gentlemen to whom the voters
have entrusted the management of
our municipal affairs to evolve some
plan of disposal that will be scien-
tific, prompt and generally efficient,
Let us have no penny wise pound
foolish" policy in the premises. If 1t
costs more than heretofore to re-
move the garbage and ashes, then
the funds must be provided. 1t will
not do to excuse lax management OF
any department affecting the health
of the people on the score of increas-
ed cost.
The people of Harrisburg are
thoroughly out of patience with the
shilly-shallying over the garbage and
ash disposal question. They have a
right to expect a business-like han
ding of the matter and no makeshift
involving the decorationL of our
curb lines with all manner of re-
ceptacles overfiowing with the waste
of the households will be tolerated.
Already there are threats of in
junction proceedings to restrain the
officials responsible from placing the
unsightly cans on the sidewalks to
the disgrace of the city, and should
this preposterous arrangement be
put into effect. the people would be
entirely justified in calling a public
meeting of protest.
Harrisburg has been making sub
stantial progress in civic matters for
several years. and the official or Off
cials who would now humiliate the
community by regulation requiring
garbage and ash cans to be placed
on the sidewalks for the convenience
of collectors who have by their in
efficiency made the system in this
city a subject of constant complaint,
can not hope to escape public con-
dennation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-03
THE COMING PRIMARY

THE primary election for the
nomination of candidates for the
several Offices to be filled in the
city and county will be held on We'd
nesday September 19, and now is
the time for all citizens who really
have an interest in their commun-
ity to inquire as to the fitness of
those who are seeking their votes
and to determine who should be
elected as administrators of public
affairs.
Alleged ballot reform laws amount
to nothing unless the people them
selves give force and effect to these
measures. After all, it is a personal
matter and it is not fair to expect
your neighbor to do what you your
self should attend to.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-03

Tomorrow evening at Island Park
there will be concert by the Eighth
Regiment band incidental to an ice
cream and cake festival under the
auspices of the soldiers now encamp-
ed on the Island This festival has
two purposes - one social. the other
financial 1t is hoped to raise con-
siderable fund for the special welfare
activities OF the boys while in the
field We cannot take too good care
of those who have gone into the serv-
ice of their country and the festival
tomorrow night should be great
SUCCESS.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-03
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Roland S. Morris. ambassad|
to Japan, will have charge of 4
for the visit of d
Japanese mission to Philadelphia.
Bishop McCloskey. who visit
his home in Philadelphia, has I
rived at his see city in the Phil
pines.
Howard Heinz, the State I'd
director, has been visiting LancasI
and York to see the curb markets
Colonel w. C. Mckee, colonel
the First Artillery, has been cd
nected with the national guard |
twenty years.
Judge j. J, Burlington, of Pit
burgh, who spoke here last sprit
will address a patriotic meeting
Slavs of Allegheny county this wed
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-03
MUST COOPERATE

A LII elements of the United
~ States government must CO.
operate heartily if the war is
to be prosecuted successfully with
out unnecessary sacrifice. The charge
made by Senator Penrose on the floor
of the Senate Friday that Secretary
McAdoo's failure to take the Senate
committee on finance into his conf
dence regarding appropriations nee
essary to put the country on fight
ing basis is back of the aggravating
delay in the passage of the war reve-
nue. bill illustrates the point.
How different this attitude of the
Secretary is as compared with that
of the Senate committee members
and the numerous witnesses who ap-
peared before it during the delibera-
tions leading up to the framing of a
measure that must now be changed
radically because of last minute rec
concentrations of Mr.. McAdoo, is
shown by Senator Penrose in a re-
cent address before the Senate, lay
ing stress upon the patriotism that
characterized those with whom the
committee discussed subjects of reve-
nue. and taxation. In this respect
Senator Penrose said:
want to express here my ap-
probation of the patriotism,
without a single exception and
without regard TO party politics.
committee or called individually
on the members of the committee,
Everyone was entirely willing to
bear his share, to the fullest ex-
There was no dissenting voice in
this respect. The only question
presented was that of distributing
the taxes so that they would bear
classes of taxpayers, The same
spirit that prompted the taXpay-
ers also inspired the committee,
The committee patiently. consider
gestion with the single view of
rendering the framework of the
tax bill logical, equitable and at
the same time effective in fur
nishing the means of raising the
necessary revenue. No one asked
any favors, and none were grant
ed, and ] am particularly glad TO
be able to say that in addition to
the absence of partisanship any
spirit of sectionalism was en-
tirely absent, a situation which
indicated a harmonious, patriotic
purpose to provide for all the
financial requirements of the war.
Here is spirit that should be en-
couraged, The great taxable public
and the leaders of Congress, too,
must be made to feel that the ad-
ministration trusts themj that it is
holding bacli nothing that they
should know. Take the Senate COM
mittee on finance itself, for example.
To spend every day for two months
in the framing of a revenue bill only
to find that it must be radically re-
vised because the Secretary of the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-03

Treasury has held back information
the committee should have had
weeks ago is disheartening. to say the
least. Senator Penrose and his fell
low members of the committee have
devoted themselves wholeheartedly
to the tremendous task of distribut-
ing war taxation fairly over the whole
country. They have done q fine piece
of work and they are not to be
treated like a parcel of school boys.
especially in a matter that means
life or death to thousands of Amer
lean soldiers and may jeopardize the
success of American arms.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-03

Park Commissioner Gross is said to
have taken UP with his colleagues In
City Council the matter of completing
the rip-rapping of the river slope so
abruptly stopped few days ago at
Hamilton street. With the materials
in sight. contractor who under
stands the work and general public
approval there should be no further
fussing about the matter.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-03
Polite Piracy

A pleasing tale is told by Captain
Crooks, skipper of the American
bark Christine, recently sunk by a
German submarine. The hero of it
should not be forgotten. For Captain
Erlanger, commander of the attack
ing vessel. emulated the commander
of the Mantelpiece in politeness.
When the Christine was held up, the
skipper and his crew took to the
boats and were ordered on board
the submarine. will you step into
my cabin?" said the German seaman
to the American. Nor was it a spider
and fly invitation, as Captain Crooks
had too much reason to fear. There
was luncheon and Rhine wine, and
amiable conversation. 'I am very
fond of Americans Captain Erlang-
er confessed, 'and it hurts me to
sink any vessel belonging to them"
Even pirates may be courteous.
HE was the mildest-manner' man
That ever scuttled ship or cut a
throat"
Captain Erlanger had to do the
first, but he had compunctions about
taking life. On the contrary, he saw
that the Christine's boats were we'll
provisioned before he set them
adrift. Nor would he believe that
other submarine commanders could
be guilty of the atrocities imputed
to them. although he admitted that
he had heard of such things. For
my part" he said, II would rather
perish than commit such an atroc-
ity." Sing hey, the gallant captain
that you are. 1t is a pity, for the
the credit of Germany and humanity,
that other submarine commanders
do not follow his example. Moth
ing can make attacks upon mer-
chantmen legal. But they would not
arouse such worldwide bitterness If
they were unaccompanied by MUIR
der. Here's to Captain Erlangeri
and may his tribe increase!-Phila-
delphia Ledger.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-03
Be Not Afraid

BE not afraid of sudden fear,
neither of the desolation of the
wicked. when 1t cometh. For the
Lord shall be thy confidence, and
shall keep thy foot from being taken.
Proverbs Ill, 26 and 26.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-03
A Moral Work

"I don't want to marry him Just
because he has money"
Certainly not, my dear. But sure
~ somebody has got to keep him
from getting into the habit of spend
ing 1t upon himself. From Life.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-03

Allentown has beaten us to it.
Saturday night its new hotel. costing
100000, the enterprise of a public
spirited citizen. was thrown open to
the public Twenty-Five apartments
in the MOTEL were leased before it was
finished Page the Penn-Harris. Mr.
TraYlor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-03

Germany rejoices because she has
lost no merchant ships in many
months. Being somewhat in the same
position as the beggar who thanked
God he had no riches to worry about.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-03

light of the tales of frightful slaugh-
ter with which the public has been
Mortified since the very outbreak of
the war,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-03

Naturally the Kaiser's personally
conducted newspaper organs are not
pleased with President Wilson's ad-
dress, but how about the thinking
German people?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-03

Lebanon has increased it's popula-
ton about 1000 by annexing a slice
of a contiguous township. Harris
burg is in for jump in its population
by the same method.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-03
MONDAY EVENING, SEPT. 3

hold him great, toho for Iove's sake,
Can giUe With generous, earnest
iCiH;
Yet, he 1Cho takes for Iove'S st0eet
sake,
think I hold more generous still.
-LoNGFELLow.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-03

Won Holwegg says Gerard is liar.
Judging others by himself, wo sup
pose.