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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-19
A Song For Sammy

When Sammy gifts to France,
When Sammy gtts a chance,
just watch him sweep the Germans
from the line.
With Tommy and his brother, Mr..
Poilu, in the trench,
Just watch him crown with glory the
battles of the French:
When Sammy gifts a chance,
when Sammy gifts to France.
1t amt for bloomin' dollars that I'm
fghting fur out here,
IL amt for scraps of land or gold the
Widder's cry you'll hear,
It's because I hear the voice Wash
ington and Wayne,
lts because ole honest Abe Is calm
me again
To make the whole world free
For Tommy, Mr.. Poilu, and for
me.
So in the mud you'll find us with the
rats and the disease
When the shells are Dustin over
head like thunder
And the shrapnels falling thicker
than the rain on summer breeze.
AND the blood's a spurtin' from our
veins and muscles torn asunder.
It'll be Sammy in the trench
With the English and the
French.
And the wop who plays the gurdy
way down east
In the Champagne, on the Meuse, by
the Vardar or Suez,
That's the Broadway and the Main
street, now for Sammy.
Joseph K. Willing.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-19
Path of Gold

A path of !gold-oh. build 1t quick and
straight
FS For meercy,s " t,, feet ! + to ,tg tread
Each minute pulses red
From Freedoms wounded heart.
Make haste to do your part!
Swift as they are, your gifts will be
too late
To help the dead.
But there are those who live, whom
A little of the agony they bear
For you-that's true; have you not
thought how true?
These, who have learned how much
body and soul endure.
Their church-bells were as sweet as
Their gardens were as glad with
flowers,
Their women were as pure,
Their children sang and laughed and
AS merry and as unafraid-
o little heads bowed on the desks as
though
The lesson being hard. you fell asleepl
We shudder and we weep-but tears
More, more than tears must pay the
debt we owe
To those whose bleeding breasts have
been our shield,
A wall that will not yield.
God knows this moment is too deep
for hate.
The hour is great. 1t calls us to be
Our hand shall comfort him whom it
must strike
For wounded friend and wounded foe
alike
A path Of goldl Oh. build it quick
and straight!
BY Amelia Josephine Burr.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-19
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Why?

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Why aren't the women who are
sending their husbands, sons and
brothers to the front invited to take
part in the parade when they go
away?
Why couldn't division be formed
with such women as Col. Finney's,
Col. Zeigler's, Capt's. BretZ, Nico-
demus, Stine, Roberts, Hartman,
Bassler's, Jenkins, and all other Off
GERS wives to lead same or some one
of them as chief of division with aids
such as the men do?
Why is it that the ones who are
most concerned never get a chance
for front place, to see their loved
ones pass, but the idle curious always
set best views?
Why, If the above suggestion is
accepted, wouldn't the ones most
concerned, get such a chance for the
boys would pass them, as they would
open rank, for the boys to pass
through.
If the above suggestion is accepted
let each man going away send
First. his wifc-if no wife-Second,
his mother, if no mother, third, his
sister or sweetheart, to a meeting to
be called by Chief Marshal Humer,
at some place and date convenient to
Mr.. Humer.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-19
Mr.. Schwab's Wife
philadelphia Bulletin.l


Ordinarily steel and sentiment
not supposed to have any CON on
denominator, but the speech of Mr.
Charles M. Schwab, at the launching
of vessel where his wife appeared
as sponsor, is worthy of more than
passing consideration. Here is the
most efficient steel man in the world,
admittedly the greatest expert in all
that involves taking coal and iron
ore from the ground and evolving
them into ships, cannon, shells and
skyscrapers. 1t is a mans job and
it involves a host of men working to
achieve results.
But Mr.. Schwab declares that his
success in life has not been wholly
individual, but is largely because for
thirty years he has had beside him a
wife who has been an inspiration.
it is pretty likely that Mrs. Schwab
knows little about iron in any tech
nical direction. but she has de-
servedly high interest in seeing that
her husband IS at all times fit for his
lob and she has well fulfilled her
task in keeping him up to the mark.
Mr.. Schwab is still a young man, and
in the natural course of things has
some thirty years of activity before
him. but that is because he has at
all times had beside him a loving.
tender, watchful wife who has
known how to assist him, how to IL
Illuminate his life, and how to keep all
his faculties ready for creative pur-
poses.
No man achieves anything worth
the having unless he has a wife to
help him or share in his success. No
bachelor understands the comfort
which comes from the association in
the closest intimacy with one who
knows you better than you know
yourself. and who makes you what
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-19
NEW CAMP MEADE

~ AMP MEADE is the name of
the new national army camp
at Admiral. Md.
What a wealth of memories it
arouses for those who recollect the
stirring days of '9S which called
into being the great army camp of
that name near Middletown, with its
nearly 10000 soldiers and all the
hustle and hustle of wartime prep
aration which 1t brought to Harris
burg.
Harrisburg has been the scene of
war 'encampments from the very
earliest days of the republic, and be-
fore. There are many still living who
recall old Camp Curtin, of the Civil
War, and not a few who went out
from there to the front and return
ing were discharged from that fa-
nous encampment. Then there were
the little encampments at the abut-
ments of the bridges over the river,
with soldiers ordered to fire those
structures If the rebels got past the
Union army at Gettysburg, and now
the little camp on the island where
Companies D and and the machine
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-19
ONE MORE AUCTION

y NE more public auction and the
last of the properties in the
~ Capitol Park zone will have dis
appeared forever. So quietly has this
disposal of the buildings proceeded
that many of the citizens of Harris
burg fail to realize what has already
been accomplished in the clearance
of this large tract in the very center
of the city. Nor is it generally known
that the materials from the various
buildings have been utilized in the
construction of new business places
and homes in the city and suburbs.
Thousands of yards of masonry in
the foundations have also been util-
ICED in the riprapping of the River
Front. There has been little waste.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-19

Stettin before the war than at any
other port in Germany. The city
may be considered the seaport for
Berlin. 1t is the capital and princi-
pal city of the Province of Pomera-
MIA.
The authentic history of Stettin
dates from the twelfth century, when
1t was known as Stedyn. For several
hundreds years it belonged to the
Dukes of Pomerania, one of whom
granted it municipal rights as early
as the middle of the thirteenth cen
tury. The line of dukes became ex-
tlnct in 1887, and eleven years later,
the town became a Swedish possess
sion. 1t was not until the following
century (1720) that it was allotted to
Prussia by the treaty of Stockholm.
Frederick the Great greatly strength
ened its fortifications but these did
not prevent its surrender to the
French without struggle in 1906.
seven years later it was returned to
Prussia. The citys defenses were
razed in 1874, thereby greatly facili-
tating its industrial expansion. Stet-
tin might be likened to Hartford,
Conn.,, for it Is the home Office of
the biggest insurance companies of
the German Empire.
Although other cities have tried
to rob it of distinction, Stettin may
rightly claim the honor of being the
birthplace of one of the greatest wo-
men OF history Catherine II, of
Russia. At the time of her birth her
father (Christian Augustus of An
tZerbst) was military comman-
dant of Stettin. The future ruler of
Russia was baptized Sophia Augusta
Fredericka. She did not become
Catherine" until she was rebap-
tized, at the age of Is, into the Or
thodox Greek Church the day before
her marriage to the son, (afterward
Hote- I'LL of the Russian Empress
Elizabeth.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-19
THURSDAY. JULY 10. 1917
There are epidemtcs of nobleneSS
as aoeH as OF dtSeaSe.-FRoUDE.
THE WoNfAN's PART

~ LSEWHERE on this page today
appears a letter from a woman
- reader who desires to know
why it is that women are given no
part in the farewell exercises Incl
dent to the departure of troops for
the war. Her questions are peril
nent.
Why should there not be a corps
in the farewell parade made up of
the wives of officers and enlisted
men who are going away, she asks,
and there appears no reasonable
answer. Thoughtlessness is prob
ably the reason for the neglect.
1t has been considered so long the
part of women to stand in the back
ground and weep when their loved
ones shoulder the gun and respond
to the alarms of war that nobody,
apparently, has thought of giving
them the place of honor which they
are entitled.
These devoted wives are indeed
worthy of public tribute. To them
the real sacrifice comes. Theirs is
the hard lot part-to stay at home
and follow the usual workaday duties
of the household while the men for
whom their hearts yearn are facing
all manner of unknown deadly
perils.
The woman who remains at home
is no less hero than the man who
goes out to fight. She is entitled to
the consideration of the public as
much as is her worthy husband
Cannot some way be found in Har-
risburg to accord her the recognition
she deserves?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-19

ing on Walnut street. This will
relieve the congestion which has
been a source of widespread COM
plant for years.
And when the terminal facilities
shall have been provided so as TO
relieve the main city lines of the In
terruption caused by the running OF
Valley Railways cars from Walnut
street to Market Square and return 1t
ought to be possible-as result OF
the street railway survey which has
been under way for two or three
months-to correct many OF the
traffic difficulties which have caused
an intolerable holdup of vehicular
traffic along Market street and the
intersecting highways.
1t is due the business community
and all who use the streets to have
this problem worked out to a finality
at one and the same time. AS soon
as the terminal ordinance shall have
been introduced the plans for oper-
ating the cars on the main city lines
and general traffic regulations should
be adopted and given to the public.
1t is gratifying that distinct pro-
gress is now being made in the
working out of remedial measures
which will give the relief which has
so long been demanded. AS further
improvement in this direction, 1t may
be noted that Governor Brumbaugh
has approved the Beidleman Dill
providing for the widening of the
streets about the capitol grounds.
This will be an important factor in
creating better traffic conditions.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-19
EFFICIENCY

NOW that second war loan is
M about to be launched many
thoughtful financiers an d
others are wondering why Secretary
McAdoo has permitted the tremen-
dous energy and publicity of the first
campaign for the Liberty Loan to go
for naught in failing to take ad-
vantage of the large oversubscription
that has been wiped out by a pro
rata distribution of the bonds to sub
scribers.
1t seems utterly indefensible that
the subscribers were not permitted,
through some proper arrangement, to
take the full amount of their sub
scriptions. Efficiency is not one of
the shining features of the present
administration.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-19
Scenes of German Food Riots
Stettn, In the Suburbs of Which Are the Vulcan
Shipyards. An Important Industrial Center

= N few cities of the German EN-
pire would economic unrest and
industrial disturbances have a
more profound effect upon the Kai-
ser's prosec ation of the war than in
Stettin, where serious food riots are
reported to have occurred recently,
says a war geography bulletin issued
to-day from the Washington head
quarters of the National Geographic
Society. 1t is in a suburb of Stettin
that the great Vulcan shipyards are
located, where so many of the Ger
man warships are built. Even in
peace time the Vulcan works, cover
ing more than seventy acres, en-
ployed 5000 men, and this number
has, of course, been vastly augment
ed since the Prussians began with
feverish haste to multiply the units
of their sinister submarine fleets.
Stettins importance to German
arms does not end with its ship
building activities, however. Loco
motives, boilers and machinery of
various kinds are manufactured
here, while the clothing mills, en-
ploying more than 10000 men, wo-
men and children, are probably mo-
bilized at this time for the produc-
ton of uniforms for the Prussian
soldiers. Stettin is "a miles by rail
northeast of Berlin. 1t has a popu-
lation of 236.000 and is built on both
banks of the River Oder, about
seventeen miles above it's entrance
into the Stettiner Half, a landlocked
arm of the Baltic. Vessels drawing
as much as twenty-three feet of wa
ter can discharge their cargoes here,
especially in the new free harbor,
adjacent to the suburb of Lastadie,
with IGsYs having a total length of
more than IA, ,000 feet. Next to Ham,
burg and BremerhaVeL, m0Tc sh:Ss
annually entered and cleared from
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-19
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

June R. Buvee, Erie county
legislator, was among people at the
Capitol. He stopped off here on his
way from Atlantic City.
Charles Miller, former governor
of Delaware, was among large con-
tributors to the fund for the house
of the Provost at the University of
Pennsylvania.
james Alcorn, public service
commissioner, will spend part of
August at Eaglesmere.
Col. II. P. Bope, Pittsburgh steel
man, is taking a great interest in the
formation of home defense organ
izations in Allegheny county.
Col. E. II. Ripple, commander of
the 18th infantry, is the son of one
of the States noted Guardsmen.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-19
GOING TOO FAR

~ ONGRESS has not debated the
cost of the war up to this time.
- The government has been given
whatever it asked. The House has
passes the $64O,O00 aircraft appro-
priation, very properly, without a
word of debate, and its favorable
recommendation by the Senate COM
mittee to which it was referred in
sicates it's speedy adoption by the
upper branch. Now comes Secretary
Daniels with request for $3.50, 0,000,-
900 with which to establish a coast
patrol of aeroplanes. There is dan
ger of going too far even with war
appropriations. We are thinking too
freely in terms of billions. The
country's resources are vast. but they
are not inexhaustible and Congress
will go slow in granting this request
at least without pairing it consid-
erably.
At present there is no apparent
need of a great air fleet for coast de-
fense purposes. 1t is not likely that
the war will develop any great eme1-
gency along our coasts. But If 1t
should arise it would be easy to di-
vert a large number of planes de-
signed for the French front to coast
defense purposes. Beside, if present
plans are carried out, the close of
the war will find us with a very
l.
tremendous quantities of aeroplanes
and supplies. From these we could
easily supply the Navy with as many
planes and opei ators as would be
needed for peacetime patrol of our
coasts.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-19

gun company of the Eighth Regi-
ment are awaiting their call to the
training grounds.
These rallying points of Pennsyl-
vania patriots all should be marked
and 1t is particularly appropriate
that at this juncture the Governor
should have before him the Beidle-
man bill for the purchase of ground
and the erection of monument, on
the site of old Camp Curtin.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-19
RELIEVING CONGESTION

"HERE will be general approval
of the proposition to remedy the
traffic conditions in the central
part of the city through a terminal
arrangement for the Valley Railways
line on Walnut street. For months
this matter has been u.uer consider
alton and all kinds of propositions
have been submitted from time to
time without result. After a con-
ference of the Municipal League, the
City Planning Commission and the
officials of the two street railways
systems the problem seems to have
been solved to the satisfaction of
everybody.
The public has a large interest in
this matter and no word of objection
has been heard from any quarter re-
garding the plan proposed, which
contemplates stoppage of all
cross-river cars in terminal build
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-19
On Road to Lemberg

To the west of Bohorodczany, on
the Grabovka-K Krivicz line,> the en-
emy is holding back our ADVANCE
Petrograd statement.
To the west of Bohorodczany,
On the Grabovka- -Krivicz line,
There are consonants awaiting,
Just to see that I get mine.
So 1, longing, look at Lemberg,
And to Brussiloff I pray:
Get you on, you Slavic soldier,
To a place that 1 can say.
ITO a place that 1 can say,
In my simple Gotham way,
When I open up my paper
For the war news of the day."
A. II. F.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-19
A Simple Remedy

A Chinaman was once asked If
there were good doctors in China.
Good doctorsl" he exclaimed.
China have best doctors in world.
Hang Hang one good doctor; he
great; save life, to me-"
You don't say so! How is that?"
callee DR.. Han Kon. Civ some med
icine. Get velly. velly Ill. Me callee
DR.. San Sing. Give more medicine.
Me glow worse--go die. Blimeby
callee DR.. Hang Chang. He got not
time; no come. Save life.-Good
Health Magazine.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-19
Fashion Note

Ceres appears, the Crop Report as
serts,
CARRIED in the latest fashion-trail-
ing skirts
All green and gold, a flowing ribbon
girts
Her ample bodice, tricked with tas-
seled corn
Dew gemmed. sun painted, spillins
from her horn
of all the products of the
SOIL
While leaning on his hoe, the son of
toll
Shakes from his eyes the sweat, ana
with an air
says: ""She is all there"
And best of all-get ready for
thrill
I decked her out and did 1t with a
will,
But you (meaning you) will have to
foot the bill"
Maurice Morris.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-19
ONE WHO WONDERS.
Information Denied

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
1 am a resident of West Fairview.
am on the conscription list. 1
have tried in vain to get my draft
number. 1 have asked members of
the board and have been notified
that they turned their lists over to
people whom believe have no bust
ness with them. They have not
posted their lists and L am at a
loss to find my number. Can't you
get for me the information? Suppose
these lists are lost by the parties to
whom they have been entrusted,
what then?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-19

you are or at least manages to keep
what you have acquired. Mr..
Schwab's tribute to his wife is that
Jf all good men. 1t is significant only
because of his prominence. The
world is ruled by good women, and
good men are glad to share in the
results
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-19
An Oregon War Slogan

(From the Portland Oregonian)
To>'em and at 'em,
And at 'em ana to 'em,
And to 'em and at 'em again.
If we don't do 'em when we get
to 'em,
Let's up and at 'em again.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-19

HISTORIC HARRISBURG :. :. =.
In old days one of the favorite
picnic grounds used to be about
where ThirteeLSh and Walnut streets
intersect.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-19
CROP PEST LETTER
BY Prof. J. G. Sanders, State
Economic Zoologist
APPLE MAGGOT

WY HITE footless maggots,
wv which burrow and mine
the flesh of certain va
rieties of apples, are serious
pests in several northeastern
states. including the northern
part of Pennsylvania.
A fly with black banded wings
punctures the apple, and lays
eggs in the pulp. Soon the de-
veloping maggots ruin the fruit
for human food. Summer and au-
tumn sweet or subacid varieties
are attacked most seriously. One
generation a year is produced.
The adults appear in July and
August, and suck up stray liquids
and juices for a number of days
before laying eggs.
Control by lightly spraying the
trees with arsenate' of lead and
water, at weekly intervals. Scat
tered, coarse drops of the spray
are sufficient. The usual second
brood codling moth spray. about
August first, is also helpful.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-19

The Italian War Department en-
ploys 72,324 women, many of whom
are used in digging trenches.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-19

The Railway Mail Association has
voted to affiliate with the American
Federation of Labor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-19

One thousand three hundred wom-
en- are working as street car conduc-
tors in Glasgow, Scotland.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-19

Many women are occupying Eng
lish pulpits.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-19
INQUIRER.

Editors Note-These lists are pub
lished on another page of this even
ing's issue of the Telegraph.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-19
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg aprons are
sold to hotels all over the
country?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-19

Western women of the United
States have pledged themselves to
assist in the harvest.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-19

The boot allowance of the Metro
politan (London, Eng.) police has
been raised from IL cents to 25 cents
a week.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-19

E.J. STAcKPoLE, PreSt s. Editor-in- Chief
=. r. OYSTER, Business MdHdgey.
GUS M. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-19

published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.,
Telegraph Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-19

One million eight hundred thou
sand women are active farmers and
gardeners in the United States.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-19

In 1906 there was one trainman
killed for each 124 employed; in
1911, one killed for each 1872 en-
ployed, and in 1915, one killed for
each 274 employed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-19
SNUBBED.
BY BRIGGS
A SERIOUS MATTER

"Does she bow to the inevitable?r
mo. she cuts it dead"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-19

1t might be added that a good
many housewives expect their gar
dens to bring forth their increase
this year because the demand for
jars for preserving in Harrisburg is
something tremendous There have
been more jars sold in this city than
ever known before and the stores
handling them have been compelled
to replenish their stocks again and
again.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-19

Venezuela by law has prescribed
a standard of purity for butter ant
forbidden the sale of that containing
any adulterants.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-19

To release men for the army,
young women are being trained to
run the elevators in the Equitable
Building, New YorR.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-19

A further war bonus of 81 a week
has been granted to the clerical staffs
in the Royal British dockyards.