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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-03
Calamity is neQn's true touch stone
and Fletcher.
CHRISTIAN ENDEAvoR WEEK

THR1STIAN Endeavorers through
~ out the world this week are
observing the crowning event
of the year of Endeavor activities.
Christian Endeavor week began with
last Sunday, which was day of re-
1oieing, when Christian Epdeavor
was thirty-six years old, The climax
of the week will be Decision Day."
tomorrow.
The Rev. Francis T., Clark, DID,
founder of the great movement, can
now look back triumphantly to the
evening of February 2, 1891, in the
parsonage of Winiston church, he be-
ing at that time pastor of the WILLIS
ton Congregational church, at Port
land, Maine, when he organized the
first Young Peoples Society of Chris
tian Endeavor. The organization has
had marvellous growth ever since. The
first convention was held June ., 1889,
when only six societies were repre-
sented. The young peoples work has
had constant success in many lines
of activities until to-day the society
has an enrolment of $4,000 branches
and 1900, 900 members.
In Atlantic City, in 1871, President
w. II. Taft was one of the principal
speakers. At that convention Dr.
Clark introduced the slogan for the
Endeaverers "a Saloopless Nation in
1890" which has been ringing
throughout the world ever since,
A Campaign for millions which no
doubt win be realized in two years,
is making great progress, The aim is
for a million new Endeavorers, q mil
lion new converts uniting with the
church, a million new members of
the peace union, a million new dol-
lars for missions, ten thousand new
societies of the Christian Endeaeor,
twenty thousand new comrades of the
quiet hour, ten thousand new legion
eTs, ten thousand new Christian En-
deavor experts and five thousand new
lfe-work recruits.
Pennsylvania EndeaVorers, with %
500 societies, are doing their share.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-03
Save Your Waste PAPER

Paper is so expensive these days, II
will pay you to save and sell it. The
February Woman's Home Companion
says:
Nowadays the economical house
wife should save all her waste paper,
for which she may obtain q fair price.
Many hesitate because buyers de-
mand that II be baled, but here are
directions for making a simple baling
press; Procure a large box, and
lehgthwise of the bottom cut, a slot
a few inches wide. Next lay three or
four stout strings lengthwise across
the bottom inside. Have them q few
inches apart. parallel to each other
and long enough to tie over the bale
after the box has been packed full of
paper. Having done this. provide q
lining of old cloth, carpet or heavy
paper, allowing the ends TO extend
over the box, as was done with the
strings. Each day deposit yor waste
paper in the box, pounding it down
occasionally to make it compact.
When the box is stuffed full, draw the
ends of the lining over the top and
fasten the strings securely The slot In
the bottom of the box will enable you
to force the bale out of the box"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-03
avoid hastilities. il possible. with

|aveid hostilities, if possible, with
honor.
The desirability of rehabilitatipg
ourselves as a nation In the eyes of
the world was strongly emphasized by
the sneaker; There is no question
that our national reputation has suf-
fered abroad since the outbreak of the
1war and our course in the present
crisis must he such as to improve our
standing among the nations of the
world. But it is not true that the
country as whole has been smitten
by the blight of materialism to a de-
gree that would prompt the people to
accept peace with anything but honor.
at all costs, Americans will insist that
the ancient freedom of the seas be
preserved, that the American flag
may fly where Americans carry it and
than Americans go wherever their
pleasure or their business may take
them. The religion of patriotism is
not dead here, however much foreign
peopes may believe it, and only such
IA national crisis as that through
which we are now passing is neces-
sary for a revival in all its varied
forms of enthusiasm and service.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-03
HE'S MAKING MAINE DRY
Young Governor Milliken Rgidly Enforcing Prohib
tory Law; Old Alliance Is Broken

confscation of all vehicles used in
conveying liquor.
Although the Governor did not re-
quest it he has approved a bill already
submitted to the Legislature that
would make possession of liquor in
any form prima faeie evidence of a
violation. 1t is said the provisions OF
this bill are so wide that they would
make it a penal offense for a man 10
take n drink of liquor in Maine.
Prices of Booze Soar
OF course the liquor traffic has not
been completely stamped out, the
present law is not extensive enough
to permit that, but compared to the
Maine of former years the State now
resembles a section of the Sahara.
The few bootleggeFs hardy enough TO
ply their trade are charging fifty cents
a half pint for the worst kind of
whisky and fifty cents for a bottle of
beer. and there are only u few of these
boQtleggers where before the new
Governors inaugural Lewiston alone
had at least one hundred more or
less open liquor resorts.
The open violation of Names dry
law in other years was due largely TO
the lax State administration and to
tie control of sheriffs by LIQUOR houses
instances sheFiffs were able to retire
with comfortable fortunes after a few
years lin office, They were able TO
take graft both ways-once from the
shipper and once from the illegai
seller within the State. But the firm
minded young Governor who was
elected on an absolutely dry" plat
form has made these emoluments of
the sheriff's office thing of the past.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-03

ed on the Nfiddletown car till G:05 p.
IN. | left Cameron and Market
streets for Middletown. The car was
packed, 1t was almost impossible to
get standing room, The motorman
stopped twenty-eight times between
Harrisburg and Steelton, not to let oft
any passengers, but for people who
wanted to go down the line, The con
ductor opened the back door every
time; not to take on any more pas
sengeFs, because that would have
been an impossibility. but to tell them
there was another car following, We
arrived at Middletown at 7:06 p. m.
We did not have those eongestions
when We had the old experienced
motormen and conductors. The most
of the tie-ups do not occur in the
subway and Market Square, but out
of the city limits. The inexperienced
motormen do not understand sig
nails and simply wait till they see an
other car In sight and the next thing
they know there are three or more
cars in the same block, / will bet Mr..
Musser the price of a box of good
cigars against a nickel's worth of
peanuts he cannot tell me when the
cars were tied up i'm the Subway for
fifty minutes, outside of the Subway
being flooded. In the last year there
have been more accidents. especially
since the strike OF Railway company
employees, than there has been in the
past two or three years; none, or very
few happened in the Subway. No, the
trouble lies with the inexperienced
employees. ] am no striker, never
worked for the company and never
will; only / believe in putting the re-
sponsibility where it Justly belongs.
Thanking YOU for this courtesy,
am daily reader of the Telegraph
and citizen of Harrisburg.
CITIZEN
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-03
Right Hand and Left
New York Sun1

With his right hand President Will
son puts down on paper his thoughts
on the subject of world peace. With
his left hand he switches his personal
medical attendant from the stairway
to the esealator.
With his right hand the President
salutes the Congress deferentially.
With his left hand he beckons the
Congressman into tri-weekly confer
ences at the Capitol, at which they
learn from his lips what he expects
them to do,
Mr.. Wilson keeps his right hand
conspicuously off legislation; with his
left hand he forces the legislators
into line.
Mr.. Wilson keeps both Lands off
Mexico, where things go from bad to
worse; but when he comes to war on
the other side of the world he puts
both feet in it.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-03
The Child and the Bee

! watched busy humble -bee
kissing the roses "cap-a-pie,'
The roses did not seem to mind
Just tossed their wee heads in the
wind.
Coaxed | ooh busy bumble-bee.
Wont you Just once kiss little me?
"Why should you choose common rose
"When you've chance to kiss my
nose?"
And then the busy humble bee.
AT last sat up and noticed me-
| stood quite still. just like the rose.
And let him kiss my wee pug nose!
Oh dear! That nasty humbie-bee!
How tiewers stand him | can't see!
He just may kiss that red, red rose
I'll let my mother kiss my nose!
BY Edna Croft Diehl,
PaXtang, Pa.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-03
DUNG CARL e. MILLIKEN. til


new Governor OF Malne, mas put
= that State on the water wagon,
Though Maine has had prohibitory
law for some years it was never en-
forced to any extent until the youth
full temperance advocate became Gov
ernor n few weeks ago. Now Port
land, Bangor and Lewiston, as well as
the smaller cities are as dry as Kan
sas towns.
Milliken's first act was to inform
sheriffs and public prosecutors that he
would institute custer proceedings
against them unless they enforced the
law to the, letter. 1t is true the Maine
law regarding such custer proceedings
is vague and the Governor would have
had to so to long and technical pro-
ceeding to make good lis threat. But
he bluned the sheFiffs and prosecutors
who had been winking at violations of
the prohibitory law for so long Boot
leggePs were either arrested or warned
by the officers to get out. The mode of
action depended on how close the al
lance had been between the law vio-
lators and the officers. But at any rate
arrests for drunkenness have display
ed q remarkable decrease in the last
few weeks.
Would Tighten the Law
The Governor has asked for four
amendments to stfaighten the pro-
hibitory law. These would make easier
the process of removing delinquent
officers; would make owners of build
ings in which liquor is sold account
able as we'll as the actual sellers;
would make violators of the liquor
law suffer both fine and Jail sentence
and would provide for the outright
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-03
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

General A. ]. Logan, commander
of the Second brigade, is in Florida
for brief vacation.
w. j. Bremen, the Democratic
leader in Pittsburgh, is among advo-
Gates of more bouleVards for that
city.
John Cadwalader. tho veteran
Philadelphia Democrat, is urging the
President to sieze the interned ships
before trouble comes.
Il. J. Mclaughlin. Cambrla's
blast furnace engineer, will go to the
Wharton Company's new plant.
II. ID. Harman, who spoke here
last week, addressed Ohio legislators
yesterday,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-03
Horses Out of Yellowstone

Arrangements are being made to
sell 1900 horses which heretofore
have drawn touring stagecoaches
through Yellowstone National Park
for use in European armies. Their
places will be taken by automobiles.
The change will remove one of the
picturesque features of the Yellow
stone tour, but at the same time will
facilitate the trip through Geyser-
land. Tho change is made at an OPP
perfume time for a pecuniary view
point as the horses that will so to the
European fighting governments will
bring highest prices.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-03
THE REILGIoN OF PATRIOTISM

mod grant that Wilson either keep
NJ us out of an ignominious,
eleventh hour participation in a
war which was none of our making.
or provide us with an issue worth
while to the end that it may be said
OF America, in the event she is drawn
into the struggle, that her deeds We're
lust, her words truth and her thoughts
freedom The words of DR.. J. Dun
can Spaeth, of Princeton University.
Opportunsly spoken at the University
Club banquet last evening, struck q
responsive chord in his hearers that
brought them to their feet singing
America" with the old-time fervor
that cynics like to claim is no longer
a factor in American life.
DIR. Spaeth's speech started out to
be a discussion on college loyalty, but
the eminent lecturer slipped into
deeper channels and dipped into the
subject of nationalism and the sub
serviency of every other doctrine 20
the overpowering religion of patriot
ism, His prayer for divine guidance
to the President in this time of ma
tional crisis closed bril-
liant analysis of the ma
tionai situation; a situation which
finds Americans ready by instinct TO
fight, but prompted by intelligent un-
derstanding of tho issues Involved TO
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-03
Outside Suggestions
kansas City Starl

When the city administration de-
sired systematic suggestion for inn
proving the efficiency of several of
the city departments, it very sensibly
went to New York and got trained
men from the Bureau of Municipal
Research to make the surveys. These
men were familiar with methods of
other cities and they brought to their
task special information, combined
with the outside point of view and
freedom from prejudice.
The results have justified the plan.
Under the city manager plan of gov
ernment the municipality could go out
side the city to get an experienced and
efficient man to conduct the munich
pal business, Tie advantages are
obvious.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-03
British Tanks"
Frederick Palmer in CoIller's1

IFTtuefIcK Palmer IN CoIlIer'sI
Germans surrender to q tank In
bodies after they see the hopeless
ness of turning their own machine
gun and rife fire upon that steel hide.
Why not? Nothing takes the fight
out OF anyone like finding that his
blows go into the air and the other
fellows go home. There seemed a
strange loss of dignity when Prus-
sian colonel delivered himself to a
tank, which took Kim on board and
eventually handed him over to an in.
fantry guard: but the skipper of the
tank enjoyed 1t If the colonel did not.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-03
PLACING RESPONSIBILITY
Harrisburg, Pa., Eeb. I, l917

THU IISUUIBl IH'i It CD. IT. IJIF'
TO the Editor Of The Telegraph:
Permit me, through the columns of
your valuable paper to say, or rather
answer a few questions in regards 20
traffic suggestions of the Harrisburg
Railway company. l see Mr.. Mussep
.blames it all on the subway or Mar
ket Square. Now l do as much. or
more, riding than any man in Har-
risburg. l can tell q few facts myself,
Not over two weeks ago / had oc-
casion to go to Middletown on im-
portant business. ! left the Hill on q
Twenty-third street car at Eighteenth
and Derry streets at fifteen minutes
of six p M, got to Cameron and
Market at seven minutes of six. wait
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-03
Discarded Rubaiyat

"a loaf of hread--a jug of wine
- began the young man who
quotes poetry.
Are you aware" interrupted Miss
Cayenne, that bread is becoming
more expensive every day, and that
this is a prohibition community. any
how Washington Star. ..
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-03
Cold-Blooded Preference

Would you rather have money
than brains?"
Yes" replied Mr.. Growcher. You
can hire an alienist with money, but
with only brains you can't hire any
assistance whatever" Washington
Star,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-03
Food Product

The Dove of Peace. as we have
heard,
Becomes a plump and doeile bird.
Which unto those who fight and steal
Looks like a rather tempting meal.
%-Washin aion star
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-03
Appreciation

Ed Gin motor car)-This controls
the brake. 1t is put on very quickly in
case of an emergency,
-Ed-Oh, | see; something like O.
kimono,-OranGe Post
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-03
Pioneer DAYS

Tell me of your early educational
hardships."
well, lived seven blocks from a
Carnegie library and we had no au.
tomobile. Courier Jour-
nal,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-03
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg is central
point for gathering of crops of
half u dozen counties?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-03
HISTORTC HARRTSRJTRG

In John Harris day there We're
fewer islands in the Susduehanna than
now and woods grew right down to
the river shore.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-03
AMERICA AND WAR

| tlon oil Spanish American war days
The people OF this country do not
want to fight. They have showed that
at every stage of the often-renewed
controversy with Germany over the
/ transgPession of their rights. They
have turned the oaher cheek until pa
tience has ceased TO he virtue. They
have been goaded TO the point of
madness more than once. But al
ways they have preserved their
equanimity and have restraned their
impulses. Even now they are willing
that every step be taken to keep the
peace, il that.can be done with hon-
I or.
But let nobody, here or abroad,
imagine that the United States cannot
fight. If the nation is drawn into the
conflict it will so reluctantly, but once
the step has been taken there will be
no turning back, We have the men
| and the resources and the will. All
that is required is time, and that is
at our disposal, thanks to the posi-
| ton in which Germany finds herself
at home. If it be war; then the Unit
ed States will be in it TO q victorious
conclusion and nothing can stand in
the way of that, eventually.
The fulfllment of the destiny of the
United States is not yet. The nation is
melting pot in which the process
of melting has been scarcely more
than we'll begun, Some great crisis
may be necessary to forge the country
into the unit it aspires to be, but
nent was not allowed to lie fallow un-
til the needs of an oppressed and re-
hellious Europe demanded a refuge
for freedom-loving and liberty-seek-
ing people, TO be overrun by the min
ions of a despot. If ever there was
divine purpose in the development of
nations it has been expressed in AM
erica, which stands for everything
that is uplifting and progressive,
where a new race OF men is being cre-
ated from the most virile and up
standing of the oppressed peoples Of
the old world.
There is something of more than
ordinary stamina and courage and will
to do in even the humhlest and most
ignorant of the immigrants who seek
our shores. They have the spirit of
the pioneer, which is the determina-
ton to risk all and dare all in the
hope of self-improvement. The hum
BILE foreigner" of a generation back
is the father of the substantial men
and women of the community to-day.
The later comers have been absorb
ed. but not fully assimilated. A vio-
lent assault upon the nation from the
outside probably would accomplish
more in that direction than years of
ordinary events.
The sympathies OF the country nat
urally have boen divided with respect
to the war in Europe and there may
be those even now inclined to waver
in their allegiance, but it would be
we'll for them to do their wavering In
profound silence. Ambassador Gerard
Is quoted as having informed a GER
tain eminent German statesman that
there is a vacant telegraph pole in the
United States for every traitor, and
that is the way Americans feel about
1t. But there will be use for few
poles. The nation will stand united
against the assaults of any foreign
enemy and the outcome will never be
for a moment in doubt. Thousands of
soldiers went into the Civil War as
aliens and came out Americans. 1t
would be so to-day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-03
HOPE.

II he 4 c I o r:
There are no
great plays any
more.
T h O G r a n X:
No great plays!
Just you wait till
our ball team gets
into its summer
fern.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-03
OUR DAILY LAUGH
a FISHING
PARTY.

Friend: I think
there's a fish on
your line ..
p h o n Q Girl:
Dear me. I won
der what number
he wants.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-03

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELHesaLAPH PRINTING CO.,
TeiesraPh Building. Federal square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-03

H. EJ-STAcKPoI.E.R Ryest oHd Ediiorin- Chief
Il. r. OYSTER. Business Mdndger.
GUS M. STEINMETz, Managing Editor.
The Detroit times., 1917-09-20
ONE DEAD, ONE
HURT, IN CRASH
Mad Automobile Ride Ends In
Fatal Wreck; Driver j.
Arrested
Going Over the Top in NO
Mans Land" of Detroit
Casualties for the Month Of
Septe mbcr
LEO-f8
WOUNDED-e5
MISSING

Charles Woliien, SO 37t Town
send aFc eas killed AMI james g.
Cavanaugh. NO $50 Bcnteauave
VAS seriously injured when fhr
automobile crashed into % parked
car on Waterloo near Sic
Donrallavc at fho end OF mad
dash ouf from the heart of fhe city
"Wednesday night
Cayanaugh has been arre feI.
charged with driving AN auto while
drunk. and according to ihe ioiice
both men wore under fho influence
of liquor whom 'he accident occur
rcd Wifnes ses declare that fhe car
urched from one side of fhe road
to fhc other many times
The men were driving rapids -
fhev -ma bed MO fhp car 0f Hu
g. Ruphier 80 1se Baldwin ave-.
domoii-hing both cars ami hulnF
Cayanaugh and Woilitu f0 fhc
pavement
Mrs Walter Schrtoikarf. 81 Ffars
of age. $50 $50 Penn IianA. ave-.
sustained serlou niure when he
Was fuuck tf-a drivrrir car 8llf
her home Ncdu da afternoon
Milton Stevens. aeD1 and wo
other boys had started rhc car ara
then lcN i' fu e0 down thn sfrrcf
alone 20 struck fhe woman clane
nr blow and camc fo "a sfop aRamr
"a telegraph pole Nrs 5rh.rfeikart
Was taken home