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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-19
Buddy Thanks Telegraph

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
On the morning that I first met
you 1 knew that we were going to
get close together during this three
weeks of strenuous work, and !
want to assure you that 1 sincerely
value the friendship that has de-
veloped during that time. Also
please accept my real appreciation
for the splendid publicity and space
you have given me throughout the
campaign.
The editorials you have written l
value particularly because / believe
it is peculiarly effective in convinc-
ing people of the vital value of this
wonderful movement that 1 repre-
sent.
shall be looking forward to the
time when L can pay a little visit to
this good town which has treated
me so royalty, when 1 can renew the
friendships that l have made, not
the least of which, by any means
is that of your own good self.
With kind remembrances,
Sincerely yours,
LEWIS BUDDY,
Nat. Field Scout Commissioner.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-19
RECONSTRUCTION DAY

TIME national conscription bill
has been signed and the regis
tration day fixed. The Presi-
dent defines the new law in language
to which every patriotic American
can subscribe. He says:
1t is in no sense conscription
of the unwilling; 1t is rather Sc
lection from nation which has
volunteered in mass.
1t is not an army that we must
shape and train for war; 1t is a
nation.
The nation needs all men, but it
needs each man, not in the field
that will most please him, but in
the endeavor that will best serve
the common good.
Congress has provided that each
man shall be classified for SER
vice in the place to which 1t shall
best serve the general good to call
him.
That is the way everybody should
feel about it. Conscription. as tho
President says, is merely a scientific
means of selecting the proper men
for the proper places, in order that
there may be no misfits. no wasted
energy and that the war may be
brought to a successful close at the
earliest possible moment with the
least loss of life. To be conscripted
for service now IS just as patriotic
as to volunteer. When a man regis
ters in effect it is as though he step
ped before the recruiting officer and
said: Here am !, ready for service;
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-19
Wants Square Deal
To the Editor of the Telegraph:

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Will you please tell me why the
men of the National Guard and reg
ular army are not given a fairer
deal?
Why are men taken from civil life
and placed over these men as Off
GERS, when men in the National
Guard and regular army have serv-
ed from five to fifteen years. They
are fully as capable-some of them.
L understand the colonels of regi-
meuts were asked to send twenty
five men to the training camps.
Why should Colonel Wood of the
First Pennsylvania Cavalry pick his
men from the First and Second
Troops of Philadelphia-his favor
ties? Are these things right at a
time like this when mems patriotism
is aroused and they get no better
chance than that? Why cannot
politics be forgotten at this time?
A WIFE OF A GUARDSMAN.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-19
Sunday Farming
To the Editor of the Telegraph.

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
AS 1 sat at my front window last
Sabbath morning and watched the
men and horses laboring on the
tract being laid out by I. G. Calder,
and known as Cloverly Heights, the
IDEA came to me that it would be a
grand, good thing to follow the ex-
ample of that patriotic pastor of
the church in Lexington, Mass, who
closed his church for the months of
May and June so that his flock"
could spend their time in caring for
their gardens and so he could en-
list in the service of his country.
BY this / do not mean to say that
believe it necessary to work on
real estate propositions on the Sab
bath, but l do say that in justice to
the man who works from seven in
the morning until six in the even
ing, six days a week, that it would
be perfectly proper and fitting that
he be permitted, and in fact en-
couraged, to spend as much of the
sabbath in his garden doing his
bit as his conscience dictates.
lie who does not have the morn
ings and evenings to spend raising
something to eat, is entitled to more
consideration than anyone else be-
cause he belongs to a vaster army
than those who work from eight
thirty to tive-thirty. A large num-
ber of these men either lie around
the house and read the Sunday pa
per or go down to the corner and
talk things over" because of some
thing better to do.
Why not enlist these men and
their families in the great army of
the hoe" By so doing he would
be doing his country a service that
otherwise he does not have the op-
portunity to perform because of his
long hours of labor.
L do not believe in closing the
church at any time, but there are a
great many people who do not attend
regularly and who would be doing
their country and state a vaster
amount of good by raising a good
supply of food for next winter than
spending their Sundays at home or
on the corner.
My object in writing to you at this
time is to enlist your support and
cooperation in a movement that is
every day becoming more essential
because of the lateness of the sea-
son, and it is, therefore, necessary
that more people be enlisted in the
garden movement. 1t is in the name
of the laboring man who has longer
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-19
SATURDAY EVENING. MAY 10
CleUer men are good, but
they are not the beSt.-Car-
lyle.
NO TIME FOR HAIR-sPL1TrING


IT is probable that the United
States will be compelled to endure
much of the annoyance that
arose in the early days of the war
in England through the impolitic
and thoughtless action of men in
public place or on advisory commits
sions and boards. Let us hope, how
ever, that the efforts of Pennsylvania
to place herself squarely behind the
government will not be weakened in
any way through controversy or
splitting of hairs upon any subject.
All that the people want is efficient
administration of the trusts reposed
in the various bodies created for the
national defense. There are imbued
with patriotic motives and a desire
to be of service in this time of crisis.
Political or factional or other con-
siderations must not be permitted to
interfere in the slightest degree with
what shall be done at this time.
Disagreement upon non-essentials
may be expected when men are small
and arbitrary in their attitude, but
where the situation calls for the
highest form of public service it may
reasonably be expected that per-
sonal differences will be submerged
in the great desire to accomplish that
which is best for the people.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-19
sTEELToN's CELEBRATION

TIME hyphen appears to have dis
] appeared completely in Steel
ton. There are no German
Americans, or observation-disclosures,
or oation-Americans; wheresoever
they were born, the people of the
steel town are just plain Americans
to-day. The banners of their home
lands stand furled at home while
men and women of all races and
creeds that go to make up the cos
mopolitan population are marching
beneath the folds of old Glory.
Under the leadership of Quincy
Bent, local head of the big Bethle-
hem Steel plants. and the progress
sive men and women of the town,
such an event as that scheduled for
to-day could not be other than a sue
cess, but a parade half the size of
that arranged would have been
highly creditable to the town. Har-
risburg congratulates it's neighbor
on its spirit and enterprise.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-19
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

DIR. w. w. Keen. noted Phila-
delphia physician. was hurt in an
accident near his home and is con-
fined to his room.
Blaine Aiken, who has been
transferred to the officers reserve of
the National Guard, has been active
in the service for twenty years.
Representative Fred Boyer,
chairman of the House judiciary
general committee. used to be an as
sistant city solicitor.
DIR. ]. P. Kerr. Pittsburgh coun-
Gilman, who was here during the
week, is spoken of for mayor of that
city.
Senator Fl. A. Tompkins of Cam
bria is a big coal operator and is
enlarging some of his operations.
e. T. Stotesbury. the Philadel-
phia financier, says that he will quit
the transit board II the disputes are
not ended soon.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-19

to his first experience as his start
ing point, he said:
Wanamakcr Tribute
"Our little allowance of advertising
money went to the newspapers then,
as it goes nearly altogether to-day,
because, If l ever have a monument
for discovering anything. it will ba
for finding out that the only adver-
tising of direct and instant benefit
to both merchant and customer. is in
the daily newspaper of known cir
culation. All others are vanity and
vexation of spirit. To have learned
this fact has greatly helped my en-
terprises. though often there has
been serious discomfort in saying
so publicly"
"The hand that wrote this tribune
to newspaper advertising was the
hand of the worlds greatest mer-
chant-John Wanamaker."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-19
THE TRAINING CAMPS

.THOUSANDS of young men
i throughout the country are
now in training camps being
put through their testing by compe-
tent officers and when the great
army of the people shall be called
into the field later in the summer
1t is reasonable to expect that officers
thoroughly equipped for their work
viii be ready for their country's
service.
While the War Department has
made no announcement in regard to
the second series of camps, never
theless it seems possible that one
VIII be held commencing in August.
This will give an opportunity to
all men who failed to apply in time
to enroll in these camps or who
were not admitted because of lack
of room to enter an officers training
camp.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-19
The Fool Censor
Manchester Guardian ]

A correspondent guarantees the
accuracy of the following: An aged
lady of literary tastes, in the course
of letter to her nephew in the
States, quoted the well-known Ring
in" and Ring out" verses from "In
Memoriam." She learned with
amazement that the censor had de-
leted with acid" one verse, namely:
Ring out old shapes of foul disease.
Ring out the narrowing lust of
gold.
Ring out the thousand wars of old.
Ring in the thousand years of peace.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-19
Charles M. Schwab says:-

Bethlehem's biggest asset is not its
rolling mill plants. its gun shops. its
armor works. it's rail mills; it is the
men who make up its enthusiastic or
ganization. For more than thirty
years 1 have been experimenting the
manufacture of steel. and 1 can say
that my mon at Bethlehem are the
most energetic. competent and lovabie
young men with whom 1 have ever
worked.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-19

orally affecting the constructive
work of the State. In the prepara-
ton of calendars much of the junk
OF the session gets in tho way of
the more serious proposals and to
avoid obstruction of this sort re-
CURES careful attention day by day
by those who are really interested
in accomplishing results.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-19

Camp Hill must realize that it's fu-
ture does not depend only upon the
enlargement of its borders. which is
most desirable, but directly upon the
permanent treatment of the highway
from the river to the limits of the
borough. There is no worse road in
Pennsylvania than this piece of high
way, which has been a constant
source of complaint so long that even
the goodlooking young girl who
drives four horses in the cultivation
of a large field near Camp Hill cannot
divert the attention of the peeved mo-
torists. However, it must not be for
gotten that this would have been
remedied long ago had not the State
backed out of its bargain to- lend the
borough the aid it asked.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-19

we are sorry that Colonel Roose-
Welt is not TO be permitted to go to the
front. If the President is right in his
conclusions the country is wrong; II
the President is wrong. then both the
PRESIDENT and the country will be suf-
terers, The suspicion will not Gown
that there is vast amount of poll
tics mixed with patriotism at Wash
ington.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-19

1t is probable that the several bills
providing for permanent treatment of
the Capitol Park zone will have final
consideration next week. There is no
opposition whatever to these meas
ures, all members of the Legislature
and State officials realizing that there
is but one thing to do, which is to
carry out the plans so admirably con-
ceived by Mr.. Brunner and Mr.. Man
ming.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-19
THE PEOPLES FORUM

hours of labor and less time to de-
vote to a garden during the week
that 1 suggest that he be permitted
and encouraged to work his garden
on Sunday.
Yours very truly,
VIM. HOWARD SPEAKMAN,
1717 Revere Street.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-19
Labor Notes

Strikes in this country date back
to 1740, when a group of journey
men bakers in New York City struck
for higher wages.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-19

To meet the increased cost of liv-
ing, 10000 female munition work
erS in England have asked for an in
crease in pay.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-19
Sort of Rhymes With Golfer

The fact that Joffre doesn't rhyme
with anything is battling the war
poets, and let us all be thankful
that it is so.-New Orleans States.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-19
HISTORIC HARRISRuRc

When the first State officials came
here to establish the Capitol, the
townspeople rode down to Middle
town to meet them. That was ia
years ago.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-19
CLOSE ATrENTIoN NEcEssARY

MYTH the rapid-fire work of the
w closing weeks of the Legfsla-
ture it will be necessary for
those in charge of important meas
ures to keep their eye on the clock
and their hand on the levers of leg
lslation. As is always the case the
hnish of any big session is accom-
panied by more or less hectic con-
nltlons which frequently interfere
with the proper consideration of i'm
portant measures.
After all is said and done, how
ever' the bills which should have
immediate attention are those gen.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-19

assign me to the post I am best
qualified to fill. l ask no favors.
desire only to serve my country ac-
cording to my fitness"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-19

Far be it from us to hold Germany
up as an example for patriotic Ameri-
cans, but will the gentlemen of the
Legislature forgive us for calling at
tention to the very short session of
the Reichstag?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-19

Nairn (Scotland) School Board has
agreed to pay a war bonus of $50 to
teachers with a salary of $500 or
less.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-19

Corporations and all others respon-
sible for openings in the paved streets
should do their utmost to have re-
pairs made as quickly as possible.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-19

An electrical process is being tried
in Russia for the manufacture of
gold leaf, heretofore made only by
hand.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-19
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg can furnish
men familiar with every branch
of raiiroading to the government
servtce2
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-19

Peat covers about a seventh of the
area of ireland. and deposits are es-
timated to contain 40,000,000 tons OF
fuel.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-19

Among other things, the Germans
should take note of the fact that Cen
eral Pershing is from Missouri.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-19

General Hindenburg appears to be
more successful than Henry Ford in
getting his men out of the trenches.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-19

This is Roosevelt's war" shrieks
Gum Shoe Bill'' Stone. If bill" isn't
careful his dear friend. the Kaiser. is
going to be offended by undue neglect.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-19
bridget
A TOUCH OF REALISM

Mrs. Battlecry-My club has asked
Us to take part in the pageant of the
COS that they're giving.
Friend Husband-What do they
want US TO do. impersonate the Civn
War2
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-19

London. (Can.) Street Railways
offer to recognize the recently organ
lied union and to grant a number of
concessions was accepted.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-19

E. J. .STACKPoLE,P Prest s Editorin. c hief
F. r. OYSTER. Business Manager.
GUS NJ. STEINMETz, Managing Edito,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-19

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING co.,
Telegraph Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-19
OUR DAILY LAUGH
HEARTIIESS.

She-I attended cooking school
before WI were married.
He--W i.at did you do there play
bridgef
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-19

Cards have been received here
that General George w.
Goethals has entered a big engineer
ing firm in New York, of which John
C. Jay Jr., formerly of this city, is a
Mr.. Jay was connected
with the Pennsylvania Steel Com
pany for several years.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-04-11
operation by the government for public
service, without private profit.

operation by the government for public
service, without private profit.
8. Immediate ption BY the
government Of an natural resources, IN
Guiding mines and oil wells and their
operation under the Bureau Of Mines
without profit. Let those who kindled
the fire be made to furnish the wood.
a. The Government shall deal with
the workers in any conscripted industry
thru the organizations formed by the
workers. with due safeguards for the
right Of unorganized workers. This will
protect both the government and the
workers.
5. Immediate taking over and opera
ton by the government Of all food
storage warehouses, and the passing Of a
law making speculation in food supplies
an act Of treason, under the articles of
war.
We appeal to the American people, our
fellow countrymen as true patriots to
a, y
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-04-11

the chief incentives for war, we demand
that such steps be taken as will make it
impossible for private profit TO be made
Eout Of war. Following the recent act
Of the states Of North Dakota and Wis
consin thru their legislatures, we demand
that there shall be CONSUMPTION Of wealth
to defray the expenses of war and Of
preparation for war. We demand that
no deferred obligation upon future gem
CREATIONS shall be levied in the shape of
national bond issues, but that Pay as
you go'' shall be the policy of this ma
ton.
. We recommend further that there shall
be: /. "A graduated income tax levied
by Congress upon all annual incomes
above five thousand dollars, which shall
amount to CONSUMPTION Of all incomes in
excess of one hundred thousand dollars
a year.
2. Immediate CONSUMPTION by the
government: Of all railroads, and their:
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-04-11

4 ~
Ito .avenge" the loss Of some $50 lives
| by sacrificing the lives Of untold thou.
sands is madness.
2. Because the repeated violation
of international law by both sides in
this conflict is not primarily directed
against us, but is incidental to the death
grapple Of great commercial empires.
8. Because it is well known that
beneath the conflict of nationalties, 9
fundamental cause of this war is the
rivalry Of commercial competitive
groups controlling their respective
governments, and which through secret
diplomacy and corrupted press have
betrayed their people into wal. OF which
they do not even now know the causes
or the aims.
Profits From Blood.
4. Because we are convinced that
the impulse in our country at this time
to war comes not from the people, but
principally from financial and commercial
groups, who from the blood and agony
of the people would coin profits for
themselves.
s.. Because it has abundantly been
shown in the last few weeks that our
entry into the war would mean the
notification of the First Amendment to
the Federal Constitution, which provides:
Congress shall make no law.
abridging the freedom of speech or of
the press, or Of the right of the people
peaceably to assemble and to- petition
the government for redress Of grew
ances"
6. Because under the guise of fighting
for the democracy of other peoples, we
would fasten upon ourselves militaris-
tic imperialism.
Z. Because the United States, tho
greatest nation now at peace, Won =
thereby forfeit the high position it Las
taken in favor of the settlement Of i, sc.
national disputes by means Of arbitration,
and in, favor of the establishment of
federation of nations.
8. Because we believe that the great
majority of the people Of the United
States are opposed to war; that they have
been fagrantly misrepresented by the
greater part Of the metropolitan press,
and that in opposing war we speak for
them.
WE THEREFORE URGE upon our
government the following measures as
alternatives to war,
/. That President Wilson, who
warned Americans out. of Mexico,
shall also warn Americans for their
country's sake, to stay out Of the war
zone.
2. That in view Of the changed
situation resulting from the Russian rev4
olution, and the liberation of the forces
of democracy throughout Europe, the
President renew concrete peace pro-
posals to the belligerents.
Consider Commission.
8. That Joint High Commission be
appointed to consider the questions now
at issue between this government and
that of Germany. Such commission
averted war with Mexico even when that
seemed inevitable.
4. That conference Of neutral
nations be called to clarity and if possible
unity the neutral attitude toward the
illegal methods of both belligerents.
5. That the mediation Of any neutral
nation be accepted # offered.
6. That an advisory referendum vote
of the people be taken before declar-
atiQn of war, except in case Of territorial
| nvasion.
I11Is
In order permanently. to remove 0 ne G