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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-05
BORDERING ON TREASON

CENATOR STONE, the Democra-
~ tic chairman Of the committee
on foreign affairs; Senator La
Toilette, some times Republican and
most of the time not, and their little
band of fellow conspirators against
the good name and safety of the ma
ton they so woefully misrepresent,
stood on the borderland of treason
when they brought about the defeat
of the armed neutrality bill yesterday.
The President has been betrayed in
his own household. No German plot
ter could have asked more than Stone
volunteered. But this traitorous con-
duct on the part of men who should
have been first to defend the honor
and welfare of the country has served
one good end. 1t has indicated very
clearly that the great majority of
congressman and senators are heartily
behind the President in his determin-
alton to arm American shipping
against piratical submarines and to
take whatever other steps may be nee
essary to protect Americans against
foreign aggression.
If anything it has strengthened the
position of the President and the loyal
Republicans and Democrats who stand
with him on the common ground of
national defense. Just as good came
eventually from the treachery of
Benedict Arnold in revolutionary days,
so good may be expected from the
traitorous conduct of Stone and his
followers in the Senate. The bill that
the new Congress will pass will go
much farther than the mere arming
of merchant vessels. The public is
aroused and prepared to go to any
length to convince doubling foreigners
of the solidarity of the country against
outside interference of any kind.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-05

dent.
Buffalo Dinner to Successor
PRESIDENT Polk gave a dinner in
honor of his successor, Thursday
March l, at which members of both
partles were present. A feature of
thls dinner was a large hump of buff
Ialo meat which the retiring Presi-
dent had specially ordered from the
west.
President-elect Hayes and party left
columbus, Ohio, at noon, Thursday,
March l, before Congress had for
mally decided the contest, and arrived
at Washington at noon the next day,
where he was the guest of Senator
Herman, about to be Secretary of the
Treasury.
The New York Times of March s.,
says: The quidnuncs have been busy
all day (Sunday) trying to find out
whether Hayes has taken the oath or
not; and if not whether he is Presi-
dent or not; or whether the country is
to be without a President until to-
day, noon"
But this doubt was resolved by the
incoming President. On Saturday
evening, March 8, 1877, President
Grant gave farewell dinner to mem
berS of his cabinet at which Mr.. and
Mrs. Hayes were the guests of honor
Among the guests were Secretary of
War j. Donald Cameron and Miss
Cameron. Just before entering the
diningroom, without the knowledge of
the rest of the diners, President Grant,
President Hayes, Secretary of State
Hamilton Fish, u. S. Grant, Jr., and
Chief Justice White retired to the
red room where the oath was admins
tered. 1t seems to have been agreed
by both Mr.. Hayes and the Chief
Justice that there was no necessity
for this, but it was urged by both
General Grant and his Secretary of
State and Mr.. Hayes acquiesced. He
again took the oath on Monday, March
3, at noon.
Politics Not So Bitter
There were many disquieting ru-
mors during Sunday, one of which
was that Mr.. Tilden had taken the
oath at noon, and this was accepted
as true by many members of Mr..
Tilden's party
Whatever portentous signs may ap-
pear in the international horizon at
this third Inauguration on the fifth day
of March, surely our internal politics
are less bitter than in 1849 or in 1877,
and Mr.. Wilson need not fear that Mr..
Hughes will take the oath on Sun
Gay.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-05
Effective

A lady entered a railroad car and
took a seat in front of a newly mar
ried couple. She was hardly seated
about her.
Her last years bonnet and coat were
fully criticised with more or less gig
Cling on the brides part, and there is
no telling what might have come next
if the lady had not put a sudden stop
to the conversation by a bit of strate-
gy.
She turned her head, noticed that
the bride was considerably older than
the groom, and, in the sIhoothest of
tones said:
Madam, will you please ask your
son to close the window =
The son" closed his mouth and the
bride no longer giggled.-New York
Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-05
Cody Eagle Screams

Before the coming of spring our
armies will be marching across fam
ing Europe. to lend their aid in the
name of justice along the French
frontier, in the hell of hate where mil
lions struggle now. Over the Scared
and hideous battlefields, in Shiny
trenches. on bloodstained plains and
lofty mountain heights the Stars and
Stripes will float to cheer us on to
victory, and cast its peaceful shadow
on the unknown graves in that foreign
land where many of our countrymen
will rest. This war will take a toll of
blood from nearly every town within
our borders. Daniel Webster said:
Let our object be our country, our
whole country and nothing but our
country" Our countrys call for help
will soon ring from sea to sea. How
will Cody answer2-Cody Enterprise.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-05
AWAY WITH THEM

TINE Legislature at last has dis
covered that the State has too
many laws. 1t is proposed to
repeal a large number of statutes
which have become obsolete through
changed conditions and which do
no more than cumber the books of the
Commonwealth and obstruct the
processes of law to the advantage of
nobody, not even of lawyers. 1t is
doubted if many of these laws ever
did serve any useful purpose, but,
that aside, since it is generally ad-
mitted they are useless let's get rid of
them as fast as possible. Away with
them! We are overlawed at best.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-05
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

a. Merritt Taylor, the Philadelphia
transit expert, had birthday the
other day. and friends sent hlm
postcard shower.
james NJ. Yeager, former United
States marshal, made one of the ad-
dresses welcoming home the Lewis
town soldiers of the Eighth
President ]. C. McCraken, of La
fayette, has referred to Washington
the plans for military training for his
college.
j. r. Patterson, prominent in Lu-
zerne county coal mining operations,
is taking an active part in the, fire pre-
yention work in the coal regions.
John A. McSparran, master of the
state Grange. will be the head of the
Grangers' new casualty company,
which is designed to insure the farm
ers against accidents.
Rabbi Krauskopf, prominent
Philadelphian, is taking leading part
in the move to abolish capital pun
ishment.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-05
GERMAN WOMEN AND STYLES

TINE German government is a
, powerful institution, but there
are points past which even
it may not go. 1t tells the peo-
pie what they may eat and
what must be let alone, it regu-
lates their mode of travel and their
hours of work, it sets their clocks
ahead for them and turns them back,
it orders them into the trenches and
out at will, but-the best it can do
with women's styles is to make the
feeble suggestion that the government
will not regard any woman as un-
fashionable who wears her winter
clothing through the summer months.
Now if the government can only regu-
late the thermometer and arrange
with the weather man not to let the
mercury get above 20, say, in the sun,
why there may be a FEW women
who will continue for a little while
wear their winter toggery but not
much longer than it is necessary for
them to get a line on the cut and pat
tern of the new gown worn by that
stylish Mrs. Schmidt" on the next
street. The Kaiser is married man.
He knows about how far this world
power" stuff goes with the ladies.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-05
\. POLITICAL PoRrENr2

THOSE who believe in signs or
see any significance in peculiar
condolences may regard yester-
days weather as portent of no
particular good for President Wit
son and the Democratic party.
IT will be recalled that yester-
day, March 4, the day the Presi-
dent is required to take his oath
of office, was precisely the kind of a
bareback" day that March 4 eight
years ago was-and the history of the
Taft administration and what fol-
lowed is sad story for Republican
ears. Not even the most bitter enemy
of President Wilson could wish him
the misfortunes that beset President
Taft, but there are quite few who
will hope that history Will repeat it
self four years hence at least to the
extent of reversing political prestige
at Washington. If there is anything
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-05
Cargoes

Quinquireme of Ninevah from distant
Ophir
Rowing home to haven in SUNNY
Palestine
With a cargo of ivory and apes and
peacocks,
Cedarwood, sandalwood and sweet,
white wine.
Stately Spanish galleon riding from
the Isthmus,
Dipping through the Tropics by the
palm-gree shores.
With a cargo of diamonds, emeraldss
amethysts,
Topazes, cinnamon and gold moi-
dores.
Dirty British coaster with SALT
caked smoke stack,
Butting through the channel in the
mad March days
With cargo of Tyne coal, road rails.
pig-lead
Fire wood, iron ware and cheap tine
trays.
--Masefield.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-05
pRoH1RIrIoN PRoHIBIrs

n Il last prohibition really prohibits.
"A The Presidents signature to tho
"bone-dry" bill makes it uhlaw-
full to take liquor into dry States,
even IN quantities limited to the hip
pocket flask or the dress-sult 'life-
saver" 1t has been the favorlte plea
of the liquor men that prohibition
does not prohibit" and II was this
everlasting taunt perhaps as much
as anything else that spurred the tenn
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-05
The Sinecure

A government official at a luncheon
in Washington said recently:
I'VE are continually turning down
requests for sconsulships. Our con-
sular service. you know. has been
taken altogether out of politics.
You cannot talk now as Consul
Smith talked in the past.
so you've got n consulship, eh,
n traveller said to Smith.
Eyes Smith answered, lighting O
cigar
I" rs 1t hard work?' asked the trav-
eler.
Not after you get It, Smith re.
nlied. d."-Washington Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-05
STILL, THEY'RE TRAINED NOW
ICnlnrn hin Stntn

The hardships of being fought
should be divided as equally as pos
sible, and should this country be
forced to take up arms against the
government of Germany, no doubt the
military authorities themselves would
suggest that those New York huck-
sters be excused from service.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-05
THE INAUGURAL

lT<O-DAY'S inaugural is moment
= Gus occasion. At no time since
the Civil War period has the
nation faced a future frought with
more grave possibilities than those
which confront President Wilson at
the outset of his second term.
- There is strong contrast between
conditions to-day and those OF that
other Inauguration day only four years
back. Then the President stepped
into power with a subservient Con-
gress at his beck and call and a myriad
of petty domestic problems, and few
big ones to solve. The thought of a
world-war was in nobody's mind, save
perhaps of the few in which the dream
of universal dominion had even then
taken definite form, and the frightful
state of affairs to-day was beyond the
Imagination of any man.
At that time the President took up
the duties of his office with man at
his elbow who proudly boasted that
his main purpose in office was to place
the United States on a basis of per-
manent peace with the nations of all
the world. To-day that plan of
peace is shattered; Ion the perch
whence has flown the white dove the
warrior eagle preens his feathers and
the nation is on the brink of warfare,
if not actually at war.
Tremendous tasks are before the
chief executive. His the duty of put
ting the country on a war footing. His
the responsibility of rising to leader
ship that shall place behind him in
hearty support the last man and the
last dollar of the nation, if need be.
1t is too late now for regrets. The
,I &c ,fsrI,4, l.
shifts, it's unnoted insults it's mis-
taken policies, its errors of judgment,
its transgression of American rights,
its murder of American women and
children, is gone. 1t is to the future
that we must look. Many Americans
had hoped for change of helmsmen,
but fate has decreed otherwise, and
the only thing left for us is to support
the man whom destiny has chosen to
guide the ship of state, with every
ounce of strength and loyalty at our
command. We may differ with him
in many things, but in his efforts to
place the country on war footing he
must have fullest cooperation If we
are to come out of the impending con-
flict without tremendous sacrifice and
with honor and success.
President Wilson has not always
been above his party. Indeed, his ad-
ministration has been marked by as
bitter partisanship as ever has been
witnessed in national affairs But for
all that Republicans will not forget
that he is the President of the whole
country, and not of any particular
party; that the safety of the nation
is largely in his hands and that he is
entitled to every particle of assistance
it is possible for the rank and file to
render in the present crisis Tho
country must do it's part if it expects
the President to do his. Few will
envy him his task.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-05

Pennsylvania contributed nothing to
the House and Senate opposition to the
armed neutrality bill. The good name
of the State for patriotism never has
had a stain,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-05

in the weather there is something
good and plenty coming to the DEM
ocracy.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-05

The Kaiser ought to send over an
iron cross for Senator Stone in return
for the double-cross he gave the Presi-
dent.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-05
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg is making hum
drcds and thousands of parts of ma
chimes used to manufacture muni-
tions?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-05


Meridian, (Miss.) unions plan la
Dor temple.
Musicians International has 700
local unions affiliated.
United Mine Workers have a Cana
dian membership of $500.
Nebraska labor unions ask a license
law for BARRIERS.
City flrefghters at Omaha, Neb.,
will form union.
Cleveland. o., unions are working
for a general eight-hour day.
Workers at Marshfeld, o., have or
ganized q cooperative store.
Telephone operators at Providence,
r. l., have organized.
There are two colored local unions
at Houston, Texas.
Portsmouth, Va, coal trimmers
have eliminated Sunday work.
Hoquiam, Wash, building trades
are 100 per cent. organized.
IT is said that the deportations from
Brussels are now being made at the
rate of about $50 men daily. Many of
these men, it is alleged, are not idlers
but skilled workmen who have been
engaged for at least a part of their
time in their trade.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-05
HISTORIC HARRISBURG

Tn old days the Capitol grounds
used to be the drilling place for the
militia companies.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-05
WILSON THIRD PRESIDENT TO
BE SWORN IN ON MARCH s
By BRIGGS
BY H. II. SHENK

Curator of State Museum and Former Head of the
Chair of History at Lebanon Valley College
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-05
MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 5

Experience keeps dear school; but
fools q1iH learn in no other.-B. Frank
lin.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-05

We expect to hear the usual line of
fruitless talk about changing the in
augura1 date.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-05

perance forces to the endeavor that
has resulted in the bone-dry law. OF
course, liquor will still find it's way
into forbidden territory, but not in
like the quantities hereto
fore. The "bone-dry" statute is the
biggest victory prohibition ever won
and is long step toward the enact
ment of prohibition amendment to
the national constitution.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-05

T.. J.STACKPOLE, PreS't dnd Editor y-i,. c Chief
;. r. OYSTER, Business Mdnager.
iUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-07-05
NEW LAWYERS ADMITTED
TO BAR IN SOUTH DAKOTA

Pierre, S. D. June 3O.-The folioWllS
persons. graduating at the law school
at the university. have been admitted
by the supreme court to the practice OF
law in South Dakota: j. A. Bertclere.
Lead, S. D.; Clio c.. Clothier. Mobridge.
S. D.: j. Henry Elk. Nermilion. 5. y,
Oscar S. Erickson, Sioux Falls, >. ~
Sam G.. Horner. Sioux City, Ia; WIN.
C. Hutchins. jr., sioux City, Ia Jerry
III. hammers, Vermilion, S. d.; Claud
%. Manary. Sioux Falls, S. D.: Del1efo
l.. Olsen, Willow Lakes, S. D.; EDWARD
III. Purh. Highmore,' S. d.: II. Barney
lSchneckloth, Correctionville, Ia: >. "a.
fShanard, B~ridgewater. S. D.; Leo +.
jTierney, Manchester. Ia; Ghas. ..
wackernlan. Nermilion, S. d., n tern
tWasem, Harrisburg, S. ID.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-07-05
Estate RESPONSIBLE
TO PUBLIC employees
Need Not Garry Insurance--ob.
legation Same as That of
Private Employers.

Sioux Falls. S. ID, .June psf. w.
Dwight, of this city. president of the
state board of r%egrents, asked Attorney
General Caldwell for an opinion as to
whether or not the new workmen's
compensation law which will go into
effect in South Dakota on July l ap-
plies to teachers, officers and other
employees Of the state educational in
Institutions, and especially whether it
IS the duty of the state board of re-
.egrent4 to take out insurance for the
benefit OF sucn employees. The attor-
ney general has ruled as follows: In
view OF all these considerations l think
1t is entirely clear that neither the
state nor any Of its municipal corpora
tons or political subdivisions are re-
quired to carry insurance for the bene-
fit of any Of its employees though the
state n it's municipal corporations
and political subdivisions are each and
all responsible to their employees in
case of injury precisely Is a private
employer coming within the compre-
hensive provisions of the workmen's
compensation law"
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-07-05
HONOR PRIZES AWARDED
TO UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Vermilion, S. d., June 2S.-Prizes ana
honors in h college of law at the Uni
versity of South Dakota, awarded an
nounced for 1917, as follows:
Highest scholastic honors in the
senior class, carrying with it a prize of
a $500 set of text books. the Cyclopedia
of Law and Procedure, was awarded to
Jerry hammers, of Marion Junction.
Fern Wasem, of Harrisburg, stood sec
ond in this competition.
Highest honors in the junior class,
with a prize of any three volume work
published by the Lawyers Cooperative
Publishing company, went to N. A.
Dobie, of Clear Lake. Ray B. Palmer, OF
Webster, la, stood second.
A girl, Miss Margery Anderson,
daughter of Judge ]. w. Anderson OF
the district of Sioux City, led the fresh
man class. She received a law diction-
airy as a prize. A. l.. Beardsley, of Sioux
City, stood second.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-07-05
SUBMARINES EQUIPPED
WITH KNIVES FOR NETS

Base Of the American Flotilla in
British Waters, June 80. (by the Asso-
ciated Press.)-The captain of a tor
pedoed merchantmen has turned over
to the naval authorities here a sketch
Of a new type of German submarine
equipped with a wire cutting device de-
signed to release ii from nets. The
sketch shows several strands of stout
wire hawsers stretched from the bow
through the coming tower to the stern.
Attached to these is a series of heavy
circular knives, a foot in diameter and
placed about a yard apart.
The captain made the drawing while
in a small "a after his ship had been
tOrpedoer.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-07-05
WILL DIVERT BIG SIOUX
TO FILL LAKE POiNSET1

Castlewood, S. d.. June 2S.-After eff
forts extending Yer a number of years,
1t now is announced hat the prelim-
mary work of turning a portion of the
surplus waters of the Big Sioux river
into Lake Poinsett, Hamlin county
through Dry lake, will mmence in
the near future. There is a fall of IL
feet from the Big Sioux river to Dry
AXE, and it is probable thai a dam
with a flood gate will be constructed in
the river, and that the natural water
course running from the river to the
lake will be dredged. The proposed
Improvement is one of the most i'm
portant ever undertaken in the state,
and when it is finished Lake Poinsett
will be one of the best fishing, hunting
and pleasure resorts in the state or
northwest.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-07-05
THATCHER, OF GOOD ROADS
FAME. ARRESTED AS SPN

Vermilion, S. D., u n 2s.-News
from Chicago to the affect that a Ger
tain gentry who parades under the
sobriquet of Colonel Thatcher is I'M
der arrest and is being detained in jail
in that city while authorities are in
vestigating his status in quo as a
Prussian spy. has caused no little
comment in Vernlilion.
The '%colonel' has been looked upon
by South Dakotans as a harmless
eccentric whose hobby is good roads,
especially the Washington Transcon-
tinental highway. He worked hard
and faithfully for this project, appar-
emily without compensation from any
visible source, although he always
seemed well supplied with the neces-
sary funds to travel from place to
place.
The fact that the wandering col
onel' had concealed on his person a
number of maps which he is said to
guard with jealous care, lends cred
ence to the charge by government
agents that he is a spy.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-07-05
PROVES THAT FORD is RACER
DESPITE SOUTH DAKOTA SAND

Bowdle, S. d. June 30.-A travelling
man who undertook to show a douotins
THOMAS that a Ford is really a racing
car would have proved his case If 1T
he'd not been for a sandy spot In the
roadside. He bet a man that he could
drive his Ford from Selby to Bowdle. a
distance Of 80 miles, in 40 minutes
When within two miles of Bowdle. with
five minutes to go on. the car struck a
sandy spot in the road and completely
overturned. The occupants escaped
with minor injuries, and the Ford only
had a wheel broken. However, the
friend of the travelling man is fully con-
WINGED that the Ford really is d racing
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-07-05
ANCIENT ITEM RECALLS
TREATMENT OF BANDITS

Deadwood, S d., June 30.-That road
agents and all around a men We're
given short shrift during the early days
of the Black Hills is recalled by a 40
year-old item printed this week in the
Deadwood Pioneer-Times, which reads
as follows:
'sThe three who We're hung at Rapid
City last week were first placed on
horses with their arms pinioned behind
them, all tied to one limb of a tree, the
horses driven from under them and
there they we're left to die kicking until
life eXnired".