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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-28

"The witching Hour" the interna-
Honally famous psychological drama,
which has been drawing
FThe large crowds to the Re-
WitchinE gent this week, Will be
Hour" at shown to-day for the
The Regent last time. The situations
in THE Witching Hour"
are tense and one can never tell what
Is to follow. 1t is replete with start
ling innovations and incidents that be
tie description and, being a virile, red
blooded drama, holds the attention OF
an audience from the flash of the in
troductory title to the finish. c, Aubrey
Smith appears in the stellar role.
Tomorrow Henry B, Walthal,
with Mary Charleson, will be presented
In Little Shoes" This photoplay pre-
cents Mr.. Walthall In an entirely new
type-one he has never before develop
ed so DELIGHTFULLY."- on the screen. Little
Shoes" Is a drama of the heart and the
noted actor throws all of his emotional
talents into n direct appeal Of love.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-28

JOINS STATE CHAMBER
The Scranton Board of Trade to-day
Joined the State Chamber. of Commerce.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-28
.1NgsEsa|N NEN7sIss

RRPHEUM - Tonight - "Uaeie Toms
Cabin"
efiday and Saturday with daily meti-
hees, March and Q "a Little Girl
In q Big, CITY,
HondeX night, March 5-"The White
Spot"
fuesday,, evening only, March e-David
Warfield In THE Music Master
FAJESTIC-Vaudevil
EOLONIAL-"TheA Awakening of Helena
Richie
REG ENT-"The witehing Hour"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-28

Mm. II. Kibbles production of the
immortal American drama, Uncle
Toms Cabin" the most cor
UncIe rect and Impressive scenic
fem's production of the late Har-
Eabias riet Beecher Stoves immur-
tai posterity, will be seen at
Ehe Orpheum tonight, There will be
twenty spectacular and speciality SEN
lations, twenty colored people from the
bottom belt to add TO the pictures and
hing and dance in the levee and other
bcenes, Kaleidoscope visions of his
loricaI interest, and the stereopticsl
lensation, 1.-THE Man Who Freed the
Slaves'-a tribute to Lincoln, Grant,
Sheridan, Sherman and Douglas,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-28

Elkina Fay and Elkins, a trio of ex-
eellent male singers, who are proving
one Of the popular features
kt the of the Majestic BILL intro
Majestic duce a brand of comedy into
their act that is clean and
wholesome, Their song numbers in
klude some old and some new hits, each
being rendered in such a delightful
manner that the audience is loud in
their appreciation of their efforts, Herr
Jansen and Company, in spectacular
Illusion act; Richards and Kyle, offer
ing their sparkling comedy Offering,
sFifty-Fifty," together with two other
Keith hits, complete the list OF attrac-
lions, For the last half of the current
week, The Lingerie Shop" big COM
edy girl" act, featuring ReynoldS the
reigning feature Grouped around this
Attraction are; Noodles Pagan assisted
by his wife and little daughteH in
comedy singing and talking act; Fred
Rogers, clever colored comedian; Roy
Bryant and Company, presenting a
comedy sketch entitled Texas Poll
tics" and one other act,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-28

Friday and Saturday with daily NATL
nees. "A Little Girl
a Little Girl In a Big CITY" The
IN n Big City play is by James
kYrle MacCurdS. WHo
3 said to have written a better sermon
khan many one preached from a pulpit.
eirl's excursion into New York City,
her battle for meager existence and the
preservation OF her honor. Some of the
eCenes I'm the play are said to be thrill
ing and exciting in the extreme,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-12

staple crops. 1t is an admirable sugges-
ton. Since Mr.. Hoover has decided to
place his splendid ability and experience
at the disposal of the food committee OF
the Council of National Defence, that body
becomes the ideal one to handle this prob
lem. But if its work is to be successful in
quickening production, eliminating waste
and keeping prices what they ought to be-
Congress must confer on it ample power
and authority. This course would be desir-
able enough in peace times which produced
food riots; in war time, with indicated crop
shortages and unprecedented demands, 1t
seems imperative. Only Federal board,
with plenary powers, can meet the condi-
tons which will arise, and there is no use
in waiting to create it until the people are
suffering from little food and big prices.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-12
Suffrage and Pacihsm
The Facts of an Anti Arc Corrected
in the Interest of Accuracy

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: At this critical time il is essential that
people should carefully weigh their words III
order that they may not be misunderstoou'
The suffragsts especially feel this necessity
"a their question is political, and no unnec-
cssary enmity should be created by mlsstate-
ments. Will you permit few words OF COT
rocton and explanation OF statements III
letter published by Roberta Dorman' OF
Brooklyn, in criticism Of Miss Rankins vote
in Congress on the war resolution, TOT winch
she seems to hold the sufragists OF the coun-
try responsible? She says: "The suhragists
in 1863 held meeting in this city, condemn
ing Abraham Lincoln for not cnfranchIslng
women. The official History Of Woman SUIT
frage' Vol. II. page 200, shows that TINS
campaign cost them the friendship OF Horace
Greeley" and quotes from him to that erect
A reference to the history at this point
shows that the sufragists, led by Mrs. stan
ton and Miss Anthony, were trying to nave
woman suffrage clause incorporated in the
lew constitution that was being formed for
New York State in 1867, and not in 1868. The
Republicans were working to have the word
order that the negro men might be enfran-
chised. and we're determined that the women
should not intrude their claims at that time,
which explains the hostility of Mr.. Greeley
and The Tribune.
A wear or so later, when the Fourteenth
Amendment was under discussion, the suf-
fragists made vigorous campaign against
having the word "male" incorporated. as the
word never had been used in the Federal
Constitution. and here again they were com
PEELED to stand back and not interfere with
the cnfranchisemcnt of the negro men. Never
az any time did they hold President Lincoln
responsible, for in those days the President
did not dictate the actions of Congress.
The quotation from "The National Suf-
frage News" There is hardly sufragist
who is not a pacifst," was used without the
context. The quotation in full is as fol-
lows: There is hardly a suffragist who is
not pacfst, but pacifsm knows many de-
grees Of self-commitment. Pacifsm is an
ideal toward which we arc all struggling.
Women arc averse TO war. They dep
recate il-consdered war talk in the name
of patriotism. They want peace. they work
for peace. they pray for peace. II peace can
be compelled, they will compel it. But suf-
fragists have shown that women will rally
Ground Americas need if war can no longer
be avcrted"
This was published February /. On Feb
ruary 81. when war was imminent. the eXecu
tive council Of one hundred OF the National
Suffrage Association met in Washington and
offered the services of the association to the
government, should they be needed.
IDA Hustled HARPER,
Chairman National Suffrage Press Committee,
New York, April TO- 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-12
At Last!

What neither the equinox, nor gay bon
nets, nor all the poets could accomplish
the right arm of General Wood set in mo-
ton at the Polo Grounds yesterday. Spring
is a shy young thing, very dependent on
the weather, full of temperament and
moods, and no female to tie up to. The
more you pine for her in a long, windy
Marcia month often lasting at least a
thousand days-the less apt she is to let
YOU catch even whisk of her skirt.
But the first ball game settles the ques-
ton. Easter comes, the circus comes
winter may hold his trenches. That sacred
white ball tossed north-northeast from the
Polo Grounds grandstand sweeps away all
opposition. Ancient memory of the first
crisp crack of a bat or the wonderful
spud of ball against glove-all Amer
leans have once actually played BAH them
selves, though you might never guess 1t
from their purely vicarious exercise of
later years-swells up in the heart. Even
a spring heavy with clouds, opened by a
major general, with company-drill of our
first line defence Of hand-grenade throw
ers. cannot disguise herself longer. What
ever else the year may bring, we are to
have warm, fresh days for while at
anv rate
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-12

French have held the Western front until
England arrived. The present crisis may
be passed without great suffering for this
country incident TO delay in putting
an army in the field. But these are
chances that no wise statesman or
thoughtful citizen would care to run.
The question of CONSUMPTION is not the
question of raising troops to fight Ger
many The question of consumption Is the
question of training men who can fight
when war comes, that our country may
not again be two years away from pre-
paredness when war does come. The Eng
lish experience is the best illustration the
world could ever have of the futility OF
the volunteer system, since it demonstrates
beyond all question that it takes not less
than two years, and nearer three, to put
volunteer army in the field in such con-
dition that it may meet conscript army
with a chance of victory. The story OF
English failure in Gallipoli, in Neuve
ChapelIe, at Loos, the tragedy of the early
slaughter of the Somme-these should be
landmarks to Americans. To-day the Eng
lish army is winning battles, but there is
no English officer who will not tell the
visitor to the battefields Of France how
terrible has been the toll taken of the
best. the bravest, the material out of which
officers should have been made, by the
volunteer system.
The question is whether America is now
to prepare for the future or not, Con-
scription is the only method Of preparing
a nation to be ready at the moment when
war comes. Volunteering is system de-
v.sed to meet the emergency of an UMPIRE
rared nation. 1t has never yet IN history
proven adequate. 1t is a system which
enables nation to defend itself two years
after it is attacked.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-12
Good for Miss Rankin

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: | have read and also listened to the
critics and the scolds who are so surprised
and disguised with the sobs and the tears of
the Congresswoman from Montana, Miss
Jeanette Rankin, as she voted "No" on the
resolution for war.
Now | am for war, and all OF my neigh
bors know that | am not a pacfst. / am
also an uncompromising suffragist.
But for the life of me | cannot see why we
should expect woman to lose all the graces,
or weaknesses, if you choose to call them so.
of her just because we have given her
the rights to which she is entitled. Amy anti
sufrragst ought to be ashamed to sneer at
the sob that Miss Rankin tried to stihe when
she realized that her first public vote would
help decide whether bloody war should be
Americas choice or not. These very anti
suirragists have dinned into our ears for
months that the granting of the vote to
women would brutalze our wives, our
mothers and our sweethearts. And when
Jeanette Rankin acts like the tender. sym
pathetic woman she is the very critics who
prophesied that women would lose their
femininity in politics now complain that
women don't lose il quick enough.
am glad that Jeanette Rankin did give
little sob. am sorry she could not see her
way clear to vote against Won Tirpitz and
Zimmerman and the other Prussian wolves,
but ! respect her as a woman of courage.
And | am glad she wasn't the brazen-faced
hussey our anti-sufrage friends announced
suffragst women to be. American men do
not expect the women Of the United States
to abandon their gowns, their millinery or
even their high-heeled shoes just because we
allow them to vote. And we certainly do
not want them to lay aside their merry
laugh. or still the lullaby that only woman
can sing, or let their tears run dry, just be-
cause we have invited them in to consult
with US as to taxes and politics and loaves
and fishes and statecraft and war.
If lived in Montana land it is one of the
greatest states in the Union) | would glory
in the spunk of the woman Congressman,
and | would be for her for Senator from
Montana. Thank God she hasn't quit being
woman Just because she is voter and an
offceholder. The people of Montana will
get more for their money out of their little
woman Congressman, with the sob in her
throat, than most of the other states will get
out of their seasoned political hack.
All honor to the first woman Congressman
for proving that she is true TO her sex! She
did not please many Of us by her vote, but
she voted like gentlewoman and We like
her for it. ALVIN NJ. HlGGlNS.
Spuyten Duyvil, New York City, April 10,
1917
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-12

Swecping aside the gatherings of the pacii-
ia. and tho snares of the disafected, Con-
gress must here and now declare for univer-
sal military service or fail in Its duty 10 the
nation. Entering the greatest connlct o' a.,
time. and with its future at stake inc o"'teu
States must be provided with an army worthy
Of its resources and adequate Tor lts heeuS'
Such an army never has been and never can
bo secured by recourse to volunteers.
We need not appeal to England's recent
and costly experiment for an Indictment Vi
the volunteer system. That Indictment -
written upon every page OF our own eHpe
rience Dependence upon volunteers shatcneu
victory from the American Colonies uo@e"
times during the Revolution and threatened
the cause of liberty until it was finally saved
he the regulars Of France. In the war oil
1912. after volunteer forces had been ihg'o-
riously expelled from Canada, after the battie
Of Bladensburg had been lost and the natona'
capital had been burned, James Monroe con-
tossed the failure Of voluntary service by
rroposing conscripton. 1t was voluntary
system which sent the forces OF this coun-
try into the Mexican War to face over
uholming odds and risk a fate from which
thew were saved only by the genius OF their
commanders and the mistakes OF their ad-
versaries. And from Bull Run to gettysburg
the volunteer system under which the union
,n..red the Civil War piled failure upon
failure and defeat upon defeat until IN des-
no, alton Congress resorted to consumption
and the draft
We arc accustomed to rejoice, and justly
in the spirit Of 1876, but the difficulties tnat
shirt was forced to surmount show IN the
fact that in January, 1875, out Of 10000 VOL
unteer troops authorized three months before
only 10000 had been enlisted and many Oh
these had not Joined the colors.
Four years later, after the colonies had
vainlv increased their bounties to volunteers
from one hundred to one thousand dollars
for each recruit, General Washington de-
clared in letter to the President of Con-
gress:
1T is the true policy of America not to
content herself with temporary expedients,
but to endeavor, if possible, to give con-
sistence and solidty to her measures.
emptory draft will be the only efectual
one. Had we formed permanent
army in the beginning, which by the con-
tinuance of men in service had been capa-
BILE of discipline, we should not have had
TO retreat with handful of men across
the Delaware in 1875, trembling for the
fate of America, which nothing but the IN
fatuaton of the enemy could have saved
After lifetime's advocacy of volunteer
citizen soldiery, Thomas Jefferson observing
the failure of the voluntary system in the
War of 1872 wrote to Secretary Monroe:
"It proves more forcbly the necessity OF
oblioino every citizen to be a soldier. Ihis
was the case with the Greeks and Romans
and must be that of every free state
Where there is no oppression there Will be
no pauper hirelings. We must train and
classify the whole of our male citizens
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-12
Counties for Sale

from The Baltimore american
1t is rather q fantastic idea-too fantastic
to be practicable Of organizing another
state out of the four West Virginian counties
located in the northern spur often termed the
panhandle A bill has been introduced in the
West Virginia Legislature which proposes
that the four northern counties-ABrooks, Han
cock, Marshall and Ohio-shall be permitted
to organize as an independent state upon con-
tition that these four rich counties assume
entirely the Sl2OOO.O0O obligation which the
Supreme Court decision has apportioned to
West Virginia in the final adjustment Of the
separation claim of Virginia.
The rest OF the country would have some
thing to say about the introduction OF another
small state into the national galaxy. Doubt
less the proposal to cut West Virginia into
two states is somewhat in way of jest The
sale Of the four counties 20 Maryland, Penn
sylvana or Ohio would be proposition less
difficult Of realization. The panhandle is
iammed in between Pennsylvania and Ohio,
and it doesn't touch Maryland, but its bust
ness affihation is really with this city.
West Virgina's largest city-Wheeling
in this panhandle region. If the four coun-
ties mentioned were really on the bargain
counter, Maryland might be interested. There
would of course. in order to make the trans
fer attractive have TO be thrown in a con-
Meeting strip in order 10 assume a territorial
continuity.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-12
Russia Not a Parallel
The Essence of Democracy, Individual
Thinking. Unknown in Germany

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir. Those who are looking for revolution
IN Germany should note the difference between
that country and Russia. For hfty years
Rpssia's revolutionists, in the main, have peeh
"intellectual.." Siberas prison camps nave
been populated by students of Russian uni
versities.
In Germany the reverse has been true
Since 1913 it's PROFESSIONAL class have been au-
tocracv's abject slaves. They are vital part
~ the Kaiser's machine. Without their lnces-
SAINT drilling Of the German mind, making IL
q matrix. plastic to any dictum they enuhciate
to support the gospel that might makes
,iohtn it would have been impossible for the
Kaiser 70 have rendered the German thought
;mpervious to any appeal based upon primer.
nile The early in the war pronunclameh'o oA
n;rotv. four leading German professors, under
writing every crime which the Kaiser's war
machine had perpetrated or would perPe'ia'''
was an exhibition of moral penury among III
tellectuals without parallel III hIs'or''
How completely the socialists leed ou' -
Wilhelm's hand is shown IN the present az
.empt of its so-called leaders 10 snare INC
Russian democracy into separate pe"'e
These are the same manikins that he employed
in the attempt to debauch the Italian social
lists to keep Italy from joining the Allies. .
All of this shows that the very essence OF
Observation-Disclosures thinking-ls unknown
in This ruthless and scientifically brutal au-
tocracv. There is no present sign that the d.
vine spark is afame in the German breast
Until that spark is lighted real revolution Is
O"N'' -, POPEPT PAkER
impossible. hooTHi DAMN
Brooklyn, April 10, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-12
Another Woman Votes Yes

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Speaking on the great national crisis,
IN Episcopal rector said in his sermon to-day
that war undertaken 10 vindicate ideals Of
righteousness was the essence of religion,
and that this country had no alternative but
&c fight for principle. Miss Rankin must
have been drugged by anamic pacifst argu-
ments to have so entirely mistaken the situa-
ton Congress confronted this week when on
Friday morning she voted mo" in burst Of
emotionalism From Western woman Spar
Tan courage was naturally expected for the
pioneer has always faced danger with steady
nerves. II is no excuse for Miss Rankin that
women oppose war because we visualize
It's horrors much more acutely than its glo-
ries. because in the last analysis We suffer
and die a thousand deaths in the deadly sus-
pense of waiting for news. and know too well
the pain of the bleeding heart in the silent
night watches.
Not the less must every woman with red
blood in her veins accept the challenge TO the
worlds honor Germany's overweening ambi-
ton has Numbered, and do her bit" by en-
couraging the young manhood of her country
to shoulder the burden of patriotic duty and
fight for the flag. Justice, honor, freedom,
these three are greater than suffering. and
war is a cleansing fire when undertaken to
vindicate them.
Miss Rankin missed her golden opportu-
nifty. dignifed, 81 am against war. but |
vote Yes and am ready for the firing line"
would have immortalized the first woman to
sit in the House of Representatives.
AN AUSTRALIAN WOMAN VOTER.
Nau York AnrU
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-12
The Little Land" Idea
Filling Small Plots Helps Food Supply
and Individuals
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The attention you have given to the
food question as an important part of pre-
paredness indicates a broad-minded journal
ism, and, as many of your readers seem in
terested in the subject, am calling their at
tention to magazine published in San Fran
cisco, Little Lands in America" periodical
of propaganda. This magazine takes for its
slogan "Ruralze the Cities" and says TO the
back to- the-lander Learn to feed yourself.
The back to- the land movement failed because
people put their money into a business be-
fore they had learned it.
We Little Landers" have no isms and no
quarrel with any system of government, COM
r1erce or social life. We note that all is not
well in the world and offer a simple home
remedy to relieve much immediate distress.
We merely point out that there is ample his
torical and scientific evidence that nation
ceteriorates when the cities become over
large and congested; there is some poetical
comment on that subject for those who like a
dash Of literary flavor in the testimony sub
m:tted
On the other hand. it has been thoroughly
demonstrated that progress and much of the
charm of civilized existence originate in the
cities, and it is not wise, nor is it practicable,
to halt abruptly the growth of urban life. We
wish to utilize to the fullest extent the ben
Gifts of city life, but to modify the evils. and
offer a compromise the ruralized city, in
which, as far as possible, each individual shall
till small piece of land
Little Landers had planned a very slow de-
vcopment of this idea, but the present alb
normal conditions have intensified the need
for immediate attention to the subject. We
believed the matter was to be personal one,
the solution OF the food problem to be indi-
vidual, and collective effort would be for
communities or development concerns to take
up as a business proposition, but the atten-
ton Europe has given to small gardens (Lit-
tie Lands) a wartime measure warrants
the belief that it should receive the fullest
local, state and national consideration. In the
mean time | am working my own little garden
part of the day and drilling a few nights a
week, and to me they seem equally important
as a small, personal contribution to the ma
tional defence. LITTLE LANDER
Hollis, Long Island, April 5, 1917.