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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-11
Conscientious Objector

The conscientious objector not only
profits by the sufferings of others
while refusing to share those suf-
ferings. but he also demands from the
institutions made possible by the
death and destruction of other men
protection and sympathy. In Bishop
Cookies phrase, he assumes "the
right to the benefits of a civilization
which he tamely surrenders to the
ruthless hoofs of barbarism."
Bishop Cooke here quotes an apt
parody, with this comment;
Nothing. it seems to me, fits the
conscientious obiector so we'll as
parody on Go1dsmith's poem, The
Hermit:
" No fiocks that roam the valley free,
TO slaughter I condemn;
The butchers kill the meat for me,
l buy the meat of them
He will not go to war, but is will
ing to enjoy the results of war. He
will obey God at one end of the line.
but ignore him at the other. 1t
seems to me that one should either
do the killing or stop the eating. or
both. There is no substitute in
morals. But is it possible in any
way conceivable for the conscientious
objector to disentangle himself from
his moral twistings if he remains a
citizen of a government which de-
mands his support for value re-
ceived? Upon what moral principle
everywhere valid is this assumed
right based? 1t is very evident that
the conscientious obJector cannot
play fast and loose with the laws of
God and man at the same time, and
plead conscientious scruples when 1t
is his pleasure and interest to do so.
Conscientious objectors to war like
the Quakers do not do so. They do
not play ball with conscience that
way. They do their part where the
government desires that part shall
be done But our American variety
Of objectors, and English, too, will
not do anything but blandly receive
the benefits of others hardships, suf-
ferings, and death.-From the Out
look.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-11
The Sick Man Speaks

The report that General Won Fal-
kenhayn, formerly chief of the Ger
man staff, had gone to Turkey to
succeed Field Marshal Won der
Goltz as commander and military
adviser has been confirmed.-The
news from the East
I'm changing doctors once again; at
least, they tell me SO.
I'll have some new prescriptions
couched in words / do not know;
I'll have to do the opposite, 1 s'pose,
of what I've done;
I think a treatments over, and 10,
'tis but begun!
They call me Sick Man; Allah knows
the term is not a sham,
And likewise Allah only knows how
awful sick 1 am.
But patient is as patient does, so say
1 through my pain:
Farewell, dear Doctor Won de
Goltz! Hail, Doctor Falkenhayn!
When ordinary folks are sick, they
choose their own NJ. D.;
They call the one they want to come;
alas, not so with me.
When ordinary folks are sick, they
some times say: "Oh, rot!
I'll do without a doctor" Is that so
here? Yes-no!
1 cannot call my pain my own, my
aches are mortgaged all;
My doctors never wait for me to
make an office call,
I'm first upon their morning list, and
there I shall remain:
Farewell, dear Doctor Won del
Goltz- Hail, Doctor Falkenhayn"
If ever I'm allowed to fit where
mortals cease to fret,
A single glimpse of paradise will be
my one best bet;
For just as on my couch of bliss
sink with long spent sigh,
I'm wise from long experience tc
what must meet my eye.
Twill be my Herr Physician, su-
preme In Allah's sphere
(For Potsdam rules in paradise, they
tell me. same as here).
So it really matters little who 1t Is
entertain:
Farewell, dear Doctor Won del
Goltz! Hail. Doctor Falkenhayn!'
"A. H. Folwell in the New York
Sun.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-11
Deep Gloom in Hamburg

mo other place in Germany has
been hit so hard by the war as Ham
burg" writes an English woman just
returned from the big German port
after many years residence there, in
recent issue of the London Daily
Mail. NO other community sighs
so anXiously for peace. There is
no more talk of victory Give us
food, and then we'll, hang out the
flags is what they are saying to-
day.
TO the thousands of English peo-
pie who knew Hamburg in it's gay,
prosperous, well-fed days the Alster
city would present q sad and sorry
sight to-day. There is no sign what
ever of it's former prosperity. The
harbor is dead. The vast business of
export and shipping on which thou
sands of Hamburg families depend
ed is at a standstill. They have had
to make heavy drafts on savings and
hotels, once the city's pride. the
Esplanade and the Atlantic, are prac-
tically shut and bankrupt; they de-
pended on the patronage of wealthy
visitors, especially Americans and
English. Cafe life ceased MANY
months ago., You can get no coffee
that is drinkable-the so-called sub
stitutes' are vile and there has been
no tea for u long time.
THE Hamburg goose was a once
famed national dish. A goose when
1t can be had, now costs $25 or
$40: in the old days fine one cost
$3.50 to $2.25. There is no lack of
money: but money is worthless be-
cause only in rare instances can one
buy anything with it, There were
never so few fat men and women in
Germany. 'Pot-bellies' have disap-
peared. Everybody in Hamburg is
and looks underfed.
Hamburg depended to an enor-
nous extent on English trade and
goodwill for its prosperity; and
though the Hamburgers at first
prayed that Gott would strafe Eng
land, they are beginning now to
think of the future. They hope Eng
land will forgive and forget, and
help the port to regain some of its
greatness. You will hear a good
many Hamburgers say they know
now that it was not England who
made the war. They are beginning
to blame Berlin The Kaiser is not
nearly so popular on the Elbe as
he once was. / do not think there
would be much cheering for him to-
day If he rode around the Alser with
his friend, Herr Balm. Hamburg
soldiers are very bitter when they
come home. You hear good deal
of talk, attributed to them. about
freeing Hamburg from the rest of
Germany. when the war is over.
They want to be like England
yet If Hamburg Is a sample of
the rest of Germany. I do not think
that even such hardships as I have
described are going to make the
country stop fighting. They know
things are going badly but they have
not yet abandoned faith that. some
how or other. they will win"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-11
To America
By Briggs

What Is the voice l hear
On the winds or the western sea?
sentinel, listen from out Cape Clear
And say what the voice may be,
lis proud, free people calling loud
to people proud and free.
And it says to them: "Kinsmen. hail!
:. We, severed have been too long!
NOW let us have done with wornout
The tale of ancient wrong
And our friendship last long as our
love doth last, and be stronger
than death is string"
Answer them, sons of the selfsame
race,
And blood of the selfsame clan;
Let US speak to each other face to
And answer. as man to man, -.
And Loyalty love and trust each
other as none but free men can.
Now fling them out to the breeze.
Shamrock, Thistle and Rose,
And the Star Spangled Banner unfurl
with these
A message to friends and foes
Wherever the sails of peace, are
seen and wherever the war wind
blows
A massage to bond and thrall to
For whenever we come, we twain,
The throne of the tyrant shall rock
and quake,
And his menace be void and vain.
For we are lords of stronger land
and we are lords of the main.
Yes, this is the voice of the bluff
March gale;
We severed have been too long,
But now we have done with a worn
out tale
The tale of the ancient wrong
And our friendship shall last as our
love doth last and be stronger
than death is strong.
ALFRED AUSTIN.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-11
UNRECoNsTRUcTED NJ. c.'s

IN many respects John Sharp
Williams, of Mississippi, has
- been a valuable public servant.
In both the House of Representa-
tives and the Senate he has brought
to the discussion of public issues a
keen analytical mind, a wealth OF
legislative experience and rare abil-
ity in expressing his ideas for the
enlightenment of his hearers. More
over, he is always frank, which is
supposed to be a virtue. There Will
be many, however, who will think he
should not have been so frank in de-
bate a few days ago when he de-
clared:
am a States-right Democrat.
and l am going to stand by the
State. My primary allegiance is
due to the State, and not even TO
the Federal Government.
That undoubtedly expressed Sem
ator Williams view of his govern
mental obligations and it undoubted-
" indicates the attitude of most
Southern members of Congress to-
ward the Federal government. 1t
also explains much that seems so
inexplicable in the sectional legis-
lation and administration of the past
four years.
The South is in control of both
the executive and the legislative
branch of the government South
erners place states rights above ma
t!onal interests. Northerners place
national interests first. Men in the
two houses of Congress from the
Northern states look out for the
welfare of the South with the same
interest that they look out for the
welfare of the North. The South
ern delegations look out for the
South first. Whatever the political
complexion of the administration the
South gets a fair deal-when the
Democrats are in control, she gets
more than a fair deal. The reason
is very frankly and forcibly stated
by Senator Williams. In some re-
spects, 1t is best that we know en-
actly his fundamental ideas OF the
American government, but at this
distance from 1851 it is to be re-
GREETED that there should be any
one in the United States Senate pub
hcly teaching the youth of the land
that any mans first allegiance can
be to the State and not to the Fed
eral government.
However, it is we'll that the peo-
ple of the North understand what
they are doing when they help give
the South control of the national
government.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-11

TT Sleepy Hollow would only
wake up, it is perfectly certain,
as has been, for some time past,
insisted in these columns, that the
war could be finished this winter.
Every day evidence is accumulat-
ing in support of this fact, for it IS
fact. And the latest is that sup
piled in the interview with Lord
Robert Cecil, printed in our issue of
Saturday. Lord Robert Cecil is Il
statesman who does not speak rash
ly. From the beginning of the war
he has never been betrayed into any
of those rococo utteranceS which
have made the speeches of certain
of the worlds statesmen more ro-
seate than reasonable. When, there
fore, Lord Robert Cecil deliberately
admits that he sees a weakening in
German confidence, his words may
be accepted without hesitation, es-
pecially as they are supported by
the whole trend of observation by
judges equally in a position to form
accurate estimates.
At the same time, If the war is
to be brought to close this winter,
Sleepy Hollow must wake up; the
gentlemen seated on the bench by
the Inn door must be recognized as
the garrulous Rip Van Wrinkle that
they are, and must be treated as
such. The profit-monger, for in
stance, must be summarily disabus-
ed of the belief that war is being
waged entirely for the purpose Of
making him rich quickly. The SEN
sational journalist must be brought
to understand that Armageddon is
not being fought simply to supply
him with headlines, even though so
ingenuously manipulated as to have
more relation to an enemy's propa-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-11

no more delightful touring anywhere
In the world than right here In Penn
sylvania.
A road map of Pennsylvania is a
part of the advertisement, and almost
In the very center of this great and
growing road system and right In the
heart of tho Keystone State lies
Harrisburg.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-11
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

-Langdon F. Koons, noted Uni
versity of Pennsylvania athlete, has
gone to France.
John S. Speer, State Game Com
missioner, is an enthusiastic trap
shooter and seldom misses many
events.
The Rev. f. F. Keever, formerly
a Catasauqua minister, has been
chosen chaplain of New York reg
iment.
The Rev. j. G. Beane, reelected
president of the Total Abstinence
Union at Scranton, is a Pittsburgh
clergyman.
John Wanamaker, Jr., has been
made captain in the United States
Quartermaster's Department.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-11
THE HUB OF IT

YNDER the caption, The State
to Tour-Pennsylvania," the At
lantic Refining Company urges
the people OF the country to spend
their vacations automobiling through
Pennsylvania, using up full page in
the Saturday Evening Post for the
purpose. This is directly in line with
the efforts Of Governor Brumbaugh,
the William Penn Highway Asso-
citation and other individuals and or
CARNATIONS. See Pennsylvania First
is a motto that scores of motor clubs
have helped make popular.
Hear what the Atlantic Company
thinks of Pennsylvania:
She has beauty-mountain and
dot Sae her aMo northern ussSf Central iorest and
western counties, giving way. to
smiling pastoral scenes in her
rich. rolling southeastern coun-
ties, made more picturesque by
quaint Pennsylvania Dutch and
She has Observation-Disclosures
Hall, where liberty rang out;
Valley Forge, enshrined in the ma
dom Of it's famished. ill-clad pa
triots; Betsy Ross House, Birth
place OF Old Glory" worid-famed
Gettysburg-and scores of others.
She has Graded statesmen and
sage, poet, painter and inventor.
She has ndustry-colossal steel
mills, belching blast furnaces,
tremendous textile industries. a
hive of activity by day and night.
She has resources-of forest,
field. mine and hillside-seem-
ingly inexhaustible. Here is thu
mother State OF the twin giants
1t is an inspiration for every
true American to see and know
Pennsylvania's resources, so vital
at this time.
All marvelous-awe-i Inspiring
And all within the reach of your
motor car-unhampered by con-
finement to a railroad track
Yours is the privilege of seeing
here the Workshop of Nature"
and the scarcely less wonderful
Workshop of Man"
Excellent hotels the State over.
and some of the finest stores of
the East complete the chain of
comfort and convenience.
This is good advertising-good fol
the Atlantic Company and especial,
good for the State.
When the new road loan is ap
proved and the money available ant
good roads radiate in every direction
from the larger centers there will b,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-11
CALL TO THE COLORS

NALL ~ I1E SOLONS
HIS is call to the colors. It ls
u addressed to the people of Har-
risburg.
Very shortly it will become our
duty to elect three school directors
to succeed three present members.
What kind of men-or women. for
by law women may serve on school
boards-are we going to entrust with
the conduct of our school affairs?
1t is an important question. A
great stir is being made over the
choice of men for council, but not a
word is heard concerning the school
board, which is quite as important
as the city legislative body. Espe-
cially is this true now, with more
than million dollars to be ex-
pended for new schools during the
coming two years.
Men of high type, of broad ex-
perience and unquestioned integrity
are needed. We have seen the dis
NAL failure little men are making of
school affairs. The conduct of the
boards business is in poor hands.
Blunder after blunder has been
made. The majority in control has
voted in way that demonstrates the
necessity of change - but change
that shall merely change individuals
and not the character of the boards
will be merely to leap from
the frying pan to the fire.
The public has roundly condemn
ed the school directors who voted
for the hit-or-miss high school pro-
gram that bids fair to set back the
educational system of the city at
least ten years. The terms of three
of these men will expire in Novem-
ber, yet not one man of the type
needed to bring the board up to high
standard has offered himself as a
Fear of criticism, we
are told, is behind this backwardness
on the part of good citizens to stand
for the board. Criticism there will
be of a sort, whether directors do
right or wrong. But fear of those
who live but to condemn and who
do not know how to praise should
not keep good men from becoming
school board candidates.
With the nation at war and econ
omy and wise administration of
public affairs more important than
ever before it becomes the duty of
those of us who do not enter the
army to see that offices within the
gift of the people are we'll filed.
This is a call to the colors-the
colors of Harrisburg. Who will vol
unteer?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-11
AN EARLY TEST OF LOYALTY

THE Socialist party in New York
City has gone on record in or
ganized opposition to the selec-
tive draft. But a mere resolution In
a party convention may not neces-
sarily bring the delegates into con-
fiict with the law. 1t is only when
academic declarations are translated
into action that the policeman, the
provost marshars guard and the
other agencies for maintaining order
put in their appearance. The test of
socialistic sincerity cannot long be
delayed, however; for the draft will
soon be in full operation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-11
A Comeback

The druggist danced and chortled
till the bottles danced on the
shelves.
whats up?" asked the soda
clerk. Have you been taking some
thing?"
NO" gurgled the dope dispenser,
gleefully. but do you remember
when our water pipes were frozen
last winter?"
YES but what
well, the plumber who fixed
them has Just come in to have a
prescription filled. Daily
News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-11
Labor Notes


Canadian postal clerks have re-
ceived increased pay.
Women machinists will be en-
ployed by the Michigan Central.
Great Britain has 100000 working
women.
Yucatan, Mex, schoolteachers have
formed cooperative society.
Telephone girls at Aberdeen, Wash,
have secured union recognition.
Brewery workers at Vancouver.
B. c., ask a 50 a week increase.
Workingmen in Portugal have Sc
cured the right to organize.
Newark. N. j., union BARRIERS have
been granted SO week more pay.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-11
Some Slogan

God help the Germans They've
done drawed met" shouted a Louis
Vile hero of the draft in the street
Friday Isn't that good enough
slogan for all the heroes of the
draft Courier-Journal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-11
PROSPERITY BULLETIN
NO. As

How can any but a diseased
brain conceive the idea that busi-
ness can be disturbed in America?
The wealth of the world is here.
This is the sole remaining reser-
voir of wealth, wealth beyond
the tabled dreams of anyone and
resources that are invaluable to
the future.
WILLIAM g. M'ADOO. Secre-
tary-Treasurer, speaking at AS
sociated Advertising Clubs Con-
vention.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-11
HISTORIC HARRISBURG

Coal was brought here from
on arks over a century
ago. but the Lykens coal soon took
the local market.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-11
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg is sending
q number of its skilled railroad
men to France?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-11
HARRISBURG VOLUNTEERS

TT ARRISBURG not only escapes
II the first draft, but the revised
and corrected quotas give this
city credits to the number of 76 on
the second draft. Only one other
city in the State, Lancaster, escapes
the first call and none has made such
a splendid showing as Harrisburg.
This will be the a bright spot in
the history of the city. 1t will be
appreciated more in the future, pos
sibly, even than it is to-day, when
hiJtorians shall point out that had
the whole nation been so quick to
volunteer there would have been no
need of a conscription law.
These volunteers of ours will make
good soldiers. They are the type of
men of whom William L. Law, of
Philadelphia recently wrote:
The country is engaged in ex-
porting it's most precious product,
in the form, of vigorous young
soldiers who represent the high
have never made a business Of
fighting, for they come from a
land where right ranks above
might and the worship of cold
steel is unknown. The Kaiser will
find that our sammees bear no
dollar signs" upon them, and
that their patriotism is NOT
prompted by a three-year course
In compulsion, but by the deter
mination to right a terrific wrong.
Unframed in the technique of
militarism, which the world is
coming to recognize as scientific
rowdyism on a huge scale. these
specimens of glorious manhood
will fight like maniacs when the
first Hun shows his head and
somebody says: "Lusitania."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-11
SATURDAY EVENING, AUG. ii

The only looy to regenerdte the
worlG is TO do the duty Dhich lies
nearest US.-CHARLEs KINGSLEY.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-11

published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.,
Telegraph Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-11

T.J. .STAcKPoLE,P Pyest s Ediiorih. Chief
i. r. OYSTER. Business Mondger.
GUS NJ. STEINMETZ, MdndgiHg Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-11

Telephone girls at Aberdeen, Wash.
have secured union recognition.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-11

Yucatan, Mex, schoolteachers ha'
formed cooperative society.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-11

Brewery workers at Vancouver
B. c., ask a 50 a week increase.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-11
SCARCITY.

Arc dancing
men scarce this
season?
l haven't OBJ
S erv G d. But
with all this do
mand for SOL
dlcrs and farm
ers I fancy
they'd b C ( t or
make { h Q m
selves so.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-11

Newark, N j., union BARRIERS have
been granted SO a week more pay.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-11
RIVALRY.

DIFFERENT.
He used to
say he loved the
G r o u n d s h Q
walked on.
Now?
s in c Q h err
father bought q
limousine she'd
be insulted IL he
even dared to
hint that she
ever walked.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-11

There seems to be something in the
claim that war years bring hot
waves This years heat record in
Harrisburg comes at time when the
city is bending its energies to getting
ready for war. The last time the
mercury went into the record busi-
ness was on Santiago day, July g.,
1898. That day will long be remem-
bered as one of the worst ever
known. There have been hot days in
between these two times, but the war
years have the call. 1t is said that
1863 and 1866 were memorable for
hot days.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-11

Canadian postal clerks have re-
ceived increased pay.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-11

Great Britain has 100000 workir
women.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-11

Worklngmen in Portugal have Sc
cured the right to organize.