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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-18

A THOUSAND years ago, and
~ three years over. one of those
who sat in high places took ad-
vantage of the necessities of the
people and cornered the food supply.
There-had been a protracted period
OF rain in Mainz, the harvest was
ruined and famine followed. The
people were perishing with hunger.
But, as the story goes, the grana-
ries of Bishop Hatto were overflow
ing. He had gathered grain during
the years of plenty, and he had
enough to feed the whole population.
Naturally enough, the population
came to him to be fed. They worried
his lordship with their opportunities.
So, according to the legend, he gath
cred them all together in a big barn
and set fire to the barn.
That was the end of the people,
but there were still the rats to reckon
with. The rats also were hungry for
the grain. and Hatto couldn't get
them to go into an empty barn to be
burned. Finally they chased him
from his palace. and he took refuge
in his strong tower. built in the mid
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-18
The Capture of London

That ante-hellum, stony British
stare, celebrated in song and story
and American tradition, cracked into
thousand pieces when our soldiers
marched through London yesterday.
Women pushed through the police
lines to kiss our husky engineers.
veteran Tommies embraced them
like SO many crazy poilus, and tears
and cheers ran riot from Piccadilly
to the Strand. What is. technically
known in America as big time was
had by all.
Probably we are still too closely
related to Britons to understand
each other completely. That linger-
ing American resentment of British
toploftineSs and reserve dies hard.
But - Brftons do their full share in
dropping their ancient stoniness,
what will we have left to complain
of? There have been many signs of
new breadth of mind in England
and a growing spirit of brotherliness
toward such preposterous outlanders
as Canadians and Australians. Now
even Americans are pressed in. The
surrender of London could scarcely
be more complete.-New York Tri-
bune.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-18
Makers of the Flag

I am whatever you make me. moth
Ing more. .
I am your belief in yourself. your
dream of what a people may be-
come.
Sometimes am strong with pride
when men do an honest work, fit
ting the rails together truly.
Sometimes I droop, for then pur-
pose has gone from me. and cynic-
ally 1 play the coward.
Sometimes I am loud and garish.
and full of that ego that blasts 1udg-
ment.
But always I am all that you hope
to be, and have the courage to try
for.
1 am the days work of the weak
est man, and the largest dream of
the most darinS.
am the constitution and the
courts, statutes and the statute maxi
ers, soldiers and dreadnaught, dray-
man and street sweep, cook, coun-
selor and clerk.
am what YOU make me, nothing
more.-Franklin K. Lane.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-18
SATURDAY EVENING. AUGUST Is
STATE HUNTING HANDS

"HE war has brought many
strange and unusual conditions
in official, Industrial and every
other walk of life. but it is doubted
whether such startling changes have
been made anywhere as In the State
service. A decade ago such a thing
as a branch of the government 60
ing out to urge people to take Jobs
would have given the politicians a
fit and the Capitol would have been
about the last place that a contractor,
an orchard owner or even the head
of a department of a city govern
ment would have gone to get some
one to fill a position.
Now the officials of the imperial
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania are
hustling around not only to get will
ing hands to work in the field, or
chard, mill and office, but are maxi
ing strenuous efforts to get hands
that will stay on the pay rolls of the
Highway and other departments, The
State has to build roads, to use labor
IN ltS forestry Work ana IN Otner
lines. 1t has given freely of its Of
ficials trained and skilled men to the
national service, as was to be expect
ed of the Keystone State, and now 1t
is up against It," to use the slang of
the day, to replace those men with
others who are qualified to direct
operations of highly specialized
character or work that is complicat-
ed and demands particular knowl-
edge. AS for its own field forces 1t has
to take its chances with the rail-
roads, mill owners and others.
But while this is going on it is be-
ing appealed to by farmers confront
ed by bumper crops, peach and apple
orchard owners, faced with q huge
yield of which not one specimen can
be lost at this time; mill owners har-
ried by demands for finished prod
ucts and people in almost every line
to get them hands.
The old order changeth when gov
ernments seek men.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-18
The Japanese Mission

At the moment the Teutons are
having presented to the allies pre-
limizary plans for peace. a peace
that would leave unrequited the
wrongs done by the Teutons and
that would give to them the scepter
of permanent control over Europe
and would exact autocracy to the
pinnacle of presumption. Japan
comes forth through its mission to
the United States with a pledge of
unalterable allegiance to this coun-
try in the prosecution of the war.
Japan writhes under the sting OF
German intrigue that in the past has
been used to bring about bad rela-
tions with the United States. Its
representative. Viscount Ishii. re-
spending to the American greeting
said he and his associates are here
to say that in this tremendous strug-
gle for those rights and liberties
America and Japan are bound to-
gethep. that when the victory OF
the allied forces is secure, America
and Japan should so live that your
sons and our sons will have a GER
tainty of good neighborhood so live
that on word or deed of either can be
looked upon with suspicion; that
venomous gossip. hired slander, sim
lister intrigue AMI influence, of which
we have both been the victims, can
in future only serve to bring us
closer together for mutual protec-
ton and for common welfare.
Until peace can be had that will
forever remove the Kaiser with his
personal rule, diplomatic intrigue
and insolent lying, as in the case of
the cable to the President brought
out by Mr.. Gerard, there will be no
peace. So says Japan. So says Amer
lea. So say the allies.-Baltimore
American
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-18
A LESSON FOR GERNIANy

TT is an old saying that chickens
come home to roost," and 1t is
forcefully illustrated by the form
Of punishment the new Russian gov
srnment has meted out to the former
Car, who has been sent to Siberia.
AS Nicholas begged to be banished
to the Crimea instead of the barren
wastes to which he was sentenced,
how his thoughts must have started
back to the years of his unlimited
power. when every offense against
the government or one of its retain
-rs was punishable by hard labor in
the Siberian mines. How little in
those times did Nicholas dream that
one day he himself would be COM
PEELED to foresake all he held dear
and take the long, dismal road to the
frozen steppes.
His punishment has been made to
fit his crime, and IL Russia in so do
ing has set an example for the Ger
mans, when once they awake to the
character of the Kaiser and the
frightful depths into which he has
plunged the nation. the banishment
If the ex-czar will have served a
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-18
Pickers for Apple Crop

In q couple of weeks we will be-
gin harvesting all over the United
States an apple crop equal to two
bushels for every man, woman and
child in the country. This is a war
crop. The consumers of the United
States will be urged to use apples in
the food saving campaign by which
we are increasing the amount of
wheat and other staple foods sent
to our fighting allies.
Eat an apple and send a bis
cult, is the motto this year.
War conditions also confront the
apple growers, for there is q scare
ity of piclSers and careful prepara-
tionS must now be made to see that
this crop is all safely harvested and
put into storage. Now is the time
to begin organizing picking crews
in every apple growing section. A
survey of the situation shows that
the farmer win need cooperation
from business men in the towns and
cities round about AT which he
trades and which have just as great
an interest in this crop as the farm
er himself. This is emergency orr
ganization work to be taken up i'm
mediately by Chambers of Com
merce, Boards of Trade, State and
County Councils of Defense and bus
mess men generally.
The labor supply to harvest this
crop exists right in the cities ad-
jacent to the apple orchards in most
cases, but the draft and the demands
of factories and railroads for labor
have disturbed the normal supply of
workers upon which the farmer
usually draws, and it is necessary
to recruit new kinds of workers.
People who have never regarded
themselves as apple pickers may this
year be asked to go to the orchards
and help get in the crop for pa
triotic reasons.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-18
The Music-Makers

We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of
dreams,
Wandering by lone ea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
World losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon CLEANS:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
OF the world forever. it seems.
With wonderful. deathless ditties
We build up the worlds great cities,
And out of fabulous story
We fashion an empires glory;
One man with dream. at pleasure,
Shall go forth and conquer a
crown;
And three with a new songs meas
ure
Can trample an empire down.
We, in the ages lying
In the buried past of the earth,
Built Nineveh with our signing,
And Babel itself with our mirth;
And o'erthrew them with prophecy
ing
To the old of the new worlds
worth;
For each age is a dream that is dy-
ing,
Or one that is coming to birth.
Arthur O'Shaughnessy.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-18
CUTTING BREAD PRICES

TT Mr.. Hoover succeeds in his
effort to keep wheat prices at a
figure that will make wheat pro-
duction attractive and profitable
to the farmer and at the same time
enables the public to get bread at
lower prices or, what amounts to
the same, a larger loaf for the same
price, he will prove himself a wiz
ard before whom Marlin or Alladin
might bow the knee in humble sup
plication for instruction in the
gentle art of legerdemain.
When Mr.. Hoover demonstrates
that he can do this he will have
demonstrated also that food control
is not merely a matter for war
times, but that it must become a
permanent institution in our federal
government.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-18
Stock Suffrage Argument

A member of Congress and his
wife had been TO Baltimore one aft
ernoon. When they left the train at
wife discovered that her umbrella,
which had been entrusted to the care
of her husband, was missing.
where's my umbrella she de-
manded.
"I fear I have forgotten it, my
dear" meekly answered the states
man. at must still be in the train"
"In the train!" snorted the lady.
And to think that the affairs of
the nation are entrusted to a man
who doesn't know enough to take
Lamb.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-18
TURN OUT, EVERYBODY

LII Harrisburg should pause a
IA moment Monday to bid farewell
to the soldiers of Company D, of the
Eighth Pennsylvania Infantry, order
ed South to the training camp at
Augusta in advance of their fellows.
These are our volunteers. These
are the young men of vision who be-
gan to prepare when preparedness"
was a joke and when a National
Guardsman ran the risk of being
called "tin soldier" Through all
the trying days when to be a men,
ber of the Guard meant hard work
and no thanks, these men worked
and drilled and got themselves into
readiness to take their places side by
side with the regulars in this their
country's hour of need.
These men of Company d have
helped make Harrisburg the only
city in all Pennsylvania where no
man will be drafted on the first call
for troops for the National Army.
They are going away in order that
somo others may remain at home.
They leave their positions, lay aside
their civic activities, take up their
arms and fare forth to the uncer-
tainties of soldering that others may
continue in their peaceful pursuits.
For being farsighted and patriotic
we owe to Company D, and all the
other National Guardsmen. for that
matter, debt of gratitude. They
have shown the world that in Penn
sylvania, at least the spirit of the
volunteer is not dead and that in
Harrisburg it has reached the very
perfection of It's flower.
And the least we can do is to turn
out as a city on Monday, to go with
them to the railroad station, as we
would a party of friends or relatives;
to encourage them with our pres
ence; to let them know that we ap-
preciate what they have done and
are doing; to pledge to them our
support here at home and our pres
ence with them in the trenches
should the need arise; to bid them
god speed, with our best wishes for a
safe and triumphant return.
Turn out on Monday. everybody
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-18
Labor Notes
By Briggs


Frisco bricklayers ask SS a day.
Birkenhead, England, has police
women.
Twenty-nine states have mothers
pension laws.
There are $4,000 coal miners in
Pennsylvania.
Guelph. Can, iron molders demand
increased pay.
India will this year produce S4,O79.-
600 tons of rice.
Carpenters at Winnipeg. Can. want
60 cents an hour.
Bookbinders at Toronto get a 20
per cent. increase.
Brantford, Conn, sheet metal work.
ers have organized.
The cotton factories in Japan en-
ploy $4,000 women.
Vancouver (B. c. Fire Department
went on strike recently.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-18
BREWERY CONSERVATION

IN HE New York World, than
which there is no more con-
sistently inconsistent newspa-
per in the country. pleads earnestly
in behalf of Hoover. the admins
tration and the new food law-and
then wires instructions to its Wash
ington correspondent to color his
news stories in favor OF the booze
ring that is trying to prevent the
House from adopting the prohibition
amendment resolution.
The World evidently believes that
the total abstainer should. IL neces-
sary. half starve himself in order
that his alcoholic neighbor may be
able to drink himself to death.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-18
Only the Enpty-Headed

Former Senator Works. of Cali
fornia, makes himself ridiculous by
charging that the arrest of one OF
the speakers at pacifist meeting on
the charge of resistance to the Sc
lective draft law was done for the
purpose of intimidating thinking
people" Thinking people do not
have anything to do with these So
called pacifist meetings, which are
organized and conducted solely in
the interest of Germany.-Springfield
Union.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-18
EDITORIAL COr1r1ENT

Hot attacks are made in Congress,
asserts a headline. That is where
most of the heavy blows against
America have been struck thus far
in the war.-Philadelphia North
American.
The German military leaders re-
fuse to believe that an American
army has landed in France, and
probably General Pershing will have
TO take his forces right into Berlin
to convince thGm.-Seattle Post-In-
telligencer.
IF the enemy navy can be in
duced to show themselves again,
we will do the rest" says the Ber-
lin Anzeiger. 1t must be awfully dis
couraging for the German navy to
go out hunting in the Kiel canal day
after day and never find the enemy.
San Francisco Daily News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-18
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

-Ex-Congressman ]. D. Hicks en-
tertained the members of the Blair
county bar at his country home yes
terday
The Rev. II ]. Hoyt, former
chaplain of the First infantry, has
iment near Philadelphia.
William NJ. Croll, of Berks
county, has taken charge of the
farm army of that county and is
asking for volunteers for the field.
Mayor Armstrong, Of Pittsburgh.
has made an appeal fog more dis
ply of flags in his city.
Major Walter Sterling. ordnance
officer of the Pennsylvania. division,
lives in Wilkes-Barre and Aas been
connected with the Guard from boy
hood.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-18
HIS DRAFT BRIDE

NE UGH has been written of the
NI the young men who have been
married to escape the draft
and in condemnation of the young
women who lend themselves to this
cowardly practice, but when Miss
Ethel Cochrane, of New York, went
to the altar last evening as the bride
of A. Walter Murdock, of that city,
1t was not to save him from military
service. He has been found physical
ly fit and his new wife will not stand
in his way as AZ soldier. Said she,
speaking of her contemplated mar
riage:
I think that a girl going with a
fellow for long time with the
intention of marrying him should
marry him IL the question is put
up to her at the present time.
But it should be with the definite
understanding that IL he is called
on to go to war he will go and
she won't let herself be offered
as, an excuse for him to stay
behind.
1 think 1t is a shame that girl
should marry a young man to
keep him from doing his duty to
mis- country. 1t is an injustice to
both his country and himself and
l don't think they can ever be
happy IL they start off their mar
ried life that way.
Here is bride of whom her hus-
band may be proud. She has both
patriotism and common sense. Her
philosophy is good and she is right
about the future happiness of the
man and woman who start their
married life on a wrong basis. The
girl who marries a man to keep him
out Of the army will never have any
respect for her husband, and mutual
respect is the foundation of happi-
ness in the welded state. Nor will
a hush and who hides from the re-
cruiting officer behind the skirts of
a woman make a good help-meet.
We suspect there are a lot of Miss
Cochranes among those who recently
have taken out marriage licenses and
that the other kind of war wedding
has been greatly over estimated by
reporters looking for sensational
stories in the midsummer dull sea-
SOC.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-18
An OUTSTANDING MAN

@ AVS the Zeitung Am Mittag, one
- of the Berlin publications that
is trying to hypnotic Germans
into the belief that there is much
pro-German sentiment in the United
States:
To many Americans the Ger
man Emperor continues to be one
of the outstanding men OF con-
temporary history.
Sure! But that's also the way some
of us feel about Jesse James, and
villa, and General weyler, and Cool
gosZ
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-18
Proving It

A woman owning a house in Phil
adelphia before which a gang of
workmen were engaged in making
street repairs was much interesting
in the work.
And which is the foreman?" she
asked of a big. burly Celt.
A proud smile came TO the coun-
tenance of that individual as he re-
piled:
"Ot am, num-"
Really" continued the lady.
"Oi kin prove 1t, num-" rejoined
the Irishman. Then, turning to a
laborer at hand. he added. Kelly,
ye're fired!'-Harper's Magazine.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-18
War Economy

Loud comes the cry to help and saw,
While we are In the war.
Save the wheat and save the coal
And save the apple core.
And If your breeches have a rent,
No cloth to it attach;
Don't mend it-for a hole will last
Much longer than a patch.
Morris Rosenzweig.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-18

double purpose. But in his case the
Germans will be hard put to devise
a suitable punishment. The Nicholas
is innocent as a day-old babe when
compared with the arch field OF jun
kerdom.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-18
A Comparison

A splinter of steel struck the picket
squarely between the eyes. 1t was
midnight, and he was alone and
helpless. While cropping his way in
the agony of it all, dozen rifles
were lowered to blow the poor boys
soul into eternity, when out of a
blind hope this soldiers heart leap
ed into song. Listen:
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-18

Every rife in the enemy's advance
line was lowered. and the boy in
gray was taken to the rear of the
army of the boys in blue.
Compare this Christian warfare,
this civilized warfare. with the un-
speakable, uncivilized. unholy war
of the German Geronimos, whom we
must fight over there for all we ars
worth, lest we get cleaned up over
here.-The Silent Partner.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-18
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg tin is used
in United States army camp
equipment.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-18

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.,
Telegraph Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-18

'All my trust on Thee is stayed;
All my help from Thee l bring;
Cover my defenceless head
With the shadow of Thy wing"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-18
HISTORIC HARRISBURG

Mexican war troops were must
cred into service in front of the Cay
itol.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-18

e. j. .STACKPOLE,P Prsst s Editorin- Chief
F. r. OYSTER. Business Mandger.
GUS NJ. STEINMETZ, MdHosire Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-18

Jesus, lover OF my soul,
Let me to Thy bosom fly,
While the billows near me roll,
While the tempest still is high.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-08-01

tell them that it was his fault and that
his son had protested in vain against
his design"
'Why didn't you do it?" asked one
Of the reporters.
II couldn't, sir" faltered the old
man. 1T wasn't true. The son there
was to blame" 49,. w.
He sank down in his seat and COW
cred his face with his hands and broke
into dry, horrible sobs. It was not easy
for him either, this shifting Of RESPONSE
bility.
,'You see," said young Meade, Il
guess that settles the matter. Now you
have nothing more to do here"
"Nothing," said Rodney at last, mot
in this Office at least. We must wait
for the doctor, but we can do that out
side"
One by one the men filed out, leav-
ing the dead engineer with his sen, the
secretary, and the woman in the room.
Bert" said the woman, laying her
hand on his shoulder, "why or how i
feel it cannot tell, but know in my
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-08-01

great cause, lying in splendid self-sac-
riflce. You are running yourself for
your fathers name and he is abetting.
Why? It can't make any difference to
him now. But it makes a great differ
ence to me. Have you thought Of that?
I'm going to marry you anyway. Only
tell me the truth, Bert. BY our love I
ask you If you want me to keep your
secret I'll do it. But If you won't tell
me I'll get that evidence, I will find
out the truth, and then shall publish
it to the whole world and then"
"And you would marry me then?'
asked Meade, swept away by this pro-
found pleading.
II will marry you now, instantly, at
any time," answered the girl. Indeed
you need me. Guilty or innocent, am
yours and you are mine."
''Listen," protested the engineer,
nothing will ever relieve me Of the
blame, Of the shame, of the disgrace of
this. But am a man. have youth
still, and strength and inspiration. On
til can hold up my head among men
I am nothing to you and you are free
There was a finality in his tone
which the woman recognized. She
could as well break it down as batter
stone wall with her naked fist. She
looked at him long time.
''Very WE'LL" she said at last, "unless
I shall be your wife I shall be the wife
of no man. I shall wait confident in
the hope that there is a just God, and
that he will point out some way"