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Evening journal., 1917-07-28

Period furniture is most surely the fur
niture to live with-and the Sale is very rich
in this; largely mahogany Decorative fur
niture has established vogue - as the Ty-
rogayan and Chinese Chippendale repro
ductions by BeflIey & Gay.
Evening journal., 1917-07-28
SaIe Opens Monday, July 80

the furniture here is having summoned all suppe
help us by expedting orders.
Lumber is dearGovernment requirements for
and ships have produced scarcity that has the
all But deals made-and the cabnetmaers
requirements the materials though high
than the markets of some years back.
hand decorations
in ed t "'~ No"Y0J
Evening journal., 1917-07-28

Heppevhte, blue black
Newly Walnut 10 pieces in all. Priced $500
Evening journal., 1917-07-28
or complete Decoration and furnishing
The Keynote is Economy

Nothing wasted by dsquetng dpeang everything
ference quality We
noe 0enird techncaites to from making good to
Evening journal., 1917-07-28

We have brought this service furnishing and interior 5
OF the law of quality and price tht
stands first in Philadelphia. Savings average third
FURNITURE lane Seventh hors-Russ rr,bd. ~
Evening journal., 1917-07-28
The Story of a Bedroom Suite

unsd with leaders the American world we had am exper
bring all the points goodness bedroom % c1d have
designs submtedknowng that furniture contour need
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-07
Americas Foreign Trade

Americas foreign trade in 1917
reached the unprecedented total of
SS,953, 100000, of which $6,294,-
100000 was exports and $685.
100000 imports. Exports in June,
the last month of the fiscal year,
totaled S576, 100000, the highest of
any month in the country's history
with the exception of last January
Imports during the month were
valued at 1907, 200, 900.
The trade balance in Americas s
favor for the year was 1885, 900, 900,
That was s1,499, 100000 more than
the year before, $3.50, ,000,0 900 more
than in 1915 and $3.164, 900, ,00O
larger than in the last year before
the war.
The increase in the country's total
foreign trade was $2.422, 900, 900 over
1915, SASH, 100000 over 1915 and
$4,695, 900. 900 over 1914.
Exports during the year were
greater by S1,961, 100000 than in
1916, S3,525, 100000 in 1915 and
$3,929, 100000 in 1914. Imports also
show a great increase. The 1917 tota
was $461, 100000 over 1916, $685..
100000 over 1915 and $765,0O0, ,0O(
Never 1914.-Exchange.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-07
Kelcey's Trousers Crease

1t is claimed that the late Herbert
kelcey, an English born actor who
became widely known in this coun-
try, started the fashion of creased
trousers. One does not have to be
old to remember when trousers were
worn increased, being pressed only
to remove bagging at the knees, the
shape of the legs being left round.
In fact, creased trousers were taboo,
because the readymade article. as it
came from pile on. the counters of
the stores, was always creased, and
the particular customer at once or
dered the removal of that blemiSh,
as it was then considered. The
marked difference between store
pants" and trousers made by a tai
lor lay in the creasing of the gar
ment. 1t may be that Mr.. Kelcey
was responsible that fashion turned
to the store clothes method, and
thereby forever removed a distinc-
ton that had long obtained, but
proof of the fact Is not overwhelm-
ing. The claim is that Mr.. Kclcey
appeared on the stage of the Metro
politan Lyceum Theater with his
trousers creased, and the idea imme-
diately commended itself to New
York Clubmen, so that its vogue
spread abroad, and soon the despIscd
crease became the mark of a we'll
dressed man.-The Springfield Re
publican.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-07
Impudent Pretenses

The New Yorker Staats-Zeitung,
the principal daily newspaper
printed in the German language in
this country, is engaged in publish
ing from day to day what it claims
are the only complete lists of the
vessels sunk by the U-boats. These
lists are much longer than those
given out by the governments of the
allied countries, and their correct
ness has been challenged.
The editor of the Stats Zeitung
seeks to justify the publication. in
this country of these and many other
statements, the object of which is to
make it appear that the Germans
are winning greater successes in the
war than the allies are willing 20
admit or the newspapers printed In
English are making known to the
public. on the ground that the Amer
ican people should be informed of
the truth, whether it is palatable to
them or not. Viereck, the editor of
the notorious Fatherland, renamed
the American Weekly Immediately
the United States entered the war, is
following the same course and max
ing the same defense of 1t. So are
the editors of practically all the Ger
man-printed newspapers in the
country.
There is no use in mincing words
about this matter. The claim of
these German, or proGerman, edi-
tors is false. The Leader is safe in
saying for the American press that
it has facilities for obtaining war
news immeasurably superior to those
of the German publications in this
country. and that it is not following
the suicidal policy of trying to de-
ceive the public. The American peo-
pie know the American newspapers
and should need no reinsurance on
this score. On the other hand, by
the confession of some of their own
number the German-American edi-
tors rewrite what little real news
they print and doctor" 1t to suit
their own notions and purposes.
The object of the Stats Zeitung,
the erstwhile Fatherland, the Kai-
ser's organ here; the Waechter, and
similar publications. is to discourage
the American people as much as pos
sible in their prosecution of the war
and to give Germany all the help to
win 1T that they can. The question
is, How much longer will this he
permitted to go on?-The Cleveland
Leader.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-07
Our Burden in the War

Sir Edward II. Carson, speaking
as a representative of the British
Ministry. expresses his confidence in
the triumph of the entente allies. On
the eve of the fourth year of the con-
flict Sir Edward is able to view the
situation calmly and even cheerfully.
He admits no doubt that Russia will
again be brought into effective CO.
operation with the allies. But he
puts the strongest emphasis on his
faith in the influence of the United
States. He believes that we shall, in
good time give material aid of over
"whelming power which will make
"an end of all doubts as to the COM
"pleteness of the victory of the al
lies" So also Major General Fred
erick B. Maurice, representing the
British war office, is confident of VIC
tory because the allies have the
whole power of the United States tc
draw upon. New York Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-07
South Feeds North

The South is furnishing annually
about $780, 100000 worth of early
vegetables, fruits, fish and oysters to
the North and West. without which
these sections would suffer a food
famine, especially for potatoes,
onions, citrus fruits, peaches, APP
pies and other products. One South
ern road alone handled 34.500 car
loads of vegetables and fruits orig
traffic of this kind shipped from the
South to the North and West
amounts annually to about 200, 200
carloads, or over 100000 tons, and
at a low valuation it is estimated
that the aggregate is over 5000, 900,
900.
The extent of the potato industry
is indicated in shipments from the
Charleston section of over $4,000
600 worth of potatoes this year,
while Florida shipped a still larger
amount, and the aggregate ship
ments from Virginia will reach
about 100000 barrels, worth to the
growers about $2O,0O0,000. On one
day in July 6S6 carloads of potatoes
were shipped from Virginia to the
North and West. The total shipm ent
of potatoes in the United States on
that day was S3S carloads, and of
this amount all but 81 carloads orig
mated in the South, and of these 81
carloads produced in other sections
23 were from the Pacific coast.
In addition to these enormous
shipments of vegetables and fruits,
the South, from the Chesapeake Bay
to Texas, furnishes the bulk of the
oysters consumed in the West and
a large proportion of the fish.
This great contribution of the
South to the nations food supply
has been so slightly appreciated that
few months ago the Assistant Sec
retary of Agriculture was constant
ly threatening the South with star
walton unless it raised all of it's own
foodstuffs, because, he said, the
country would not permit cars to be
used to carry grain and meats from
the West to the South, entirely
ignoring the enormous shipments OF
Southern foodstuffs into the North
and West.-From the Manufacture
ers' Record
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-07
DO WE LIKE CORN?

y UST note this learned observation
Il from the editorial columns OF
- our esteemed but grossly mis-
taken, contemporary, the New York
Sun:
Americans do not like corn as
food.
All, come on over here to Harris
burg, Mr.. Sun Man and let US treat
you to some
Chicken corn soup, or
Corn fritters, or
Corn pudding, or
Corn roasted in wood ashes, or
Corn pone, or
Mush and milk, OF
Fried mush, or
Pawnhaus, Or
But what's the use of rambling on
forever and besides we must hurry
out and buy three dozen ears OF
fresh corn. We're going to have
roasting ears for supper.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-07
Soldiers Reward

"It is in the toll and danger Of so
great an adventure as you are soon to
experience that mans true charao-
ter will become manifest. He will be
brought face to face with the reali-
ties. The little things which once
engrossed his thought and called
forth his energies will be forgotten
in the stern events of his new life.
The sternness of it all will not de-
prive him of the satisfaction which
comes from doing his best. AS he
found qualification and joy in the
peaceful pursuits of the old life, so
will he find a deeper qualification
and a greater joy in serving his
country Loyalty and doing his part
in molding the future.
"And when your task is completed,
when tho grim days of battle are
over, and you return once more to
the quiet life of your profession OF
occupation. which you have so gen.
erously abandoned at your country's
call, you will find in the gratitude OF
your countrymen an ample reward
for the great sacrifice which you have
made
IF enthusiasm and ardor can make
success sure, then we, Americans
have no cause for anxiety, no reason
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-07
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Horace B. Haskell, the new
nresident of Beaver College, was
formerly connected with Newman
college, at Jerusalem. Lately he has
been in Vermont.
Palmer ]. Kress, prominent AL
lentown oculist, will go TO France
with American troops to look after
their eyes.
DIR. o. J. Snyder, who is stirring
IN things because of the War De-
partment attitude toward osteopaths,
is a member of the state Board.
Arthur b. Cole, new transfer
man of the Pennsylvania. at Altoona,
used to be In the Mountain City
Countil.
BY Walton, Girard College ply
sical director, will have charge of
athletic training of troops at SYRIA
cuse camp.
DIR. Charles Schall. Greensburg
pastor. is chaplain of the Tenth
Pennsylvania.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-07
HON. Nations of the World Have
SucceSSiveIy Declared War
1914


waron Serbia.
August Germany declared war on Russia. .,.., ,.
neutrality.
August $-Germany declared France.
August 4Great Britain Germany Germany
retalated with a similar declaration.
Austria Ol -''''''' wa"
August 9-Ansria g. declared war Montenegro.
August 12-Montenegro declared war on Germany
August u night-England declared Austria.
August 25-Austra declared waro japan.
November 6-Engand declared Turkey.
May 2sItaly declared war Austria.
June June $9san o Ma, Marine inc & declared war on Austria
October 15-Serbia declared Bulgaria.
declared war on We" Brlgara P sus"
October October 1S-Iay Italy declared war on Bulgaria;
March gEGermany % declared declared war on Portuga
August 25-Italy declared Germany
AUGUST AUGUST decaTsd daTsd war WAR ON ON T@aS RTSF
August S1-Turkey declared IN
November 25-Greek provisional (venzelis
14-China wit
April 6-Ameca declared state of against Germany
April 9Austra severed relations United
April 1VBrazI severed relations with Germany ''
April 1S-Austra severed relations with Brazil
April ssTurkey severed relations with the
May 9-Liberia Germany
May 1S-EHonduras severed relations with Germany.
June 9-Germany severed relations with Haiti
June Tune Esan & Domingo severed relations with Germany
Up
Central powers aies-Germany, Austria Hungary
their alies-Amerca England France,
tugaL Rumania Cuba Panama and sam-ffeen nations
Liberia Honduras Nicaragua
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-07
TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 7

I 1otH be true, for there are those
50ho trust me;
totIl be pure, for there are those
Who care;
toiH be strong, for there is much
to suffer;
toiH be brave, for there is much
to dare;
I a0iH be friend Of GII-the toe-the
friendleSS;
I a0iH be giUing, and forget the gift;
i0iU be humble, for bno,0 my
UedkneSS;
I tCiU look Up-dnd laugh, and toUe,
and lift. ANON.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-07

to doubt the outcome of the conflict.
But enthusiasm and ardor are not
all; they must be founded on a pro-
found conviction of the righteousness
CT your cause and on an implicit
faith that the God of Battles will
strengthen the arm of him who fights
for the right.
I'm the time of stress and peril,
when a man stands face to face with
death in its most terrible forms, God
will not desert him who puts his trust
in Him. Evening Ledger.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-07

badge as their proudest decoration
and it was dense diplomatic service
indeed that imagined the sons of the
men who risked life and limb for
this country would turn against it
in the hour of its need, in favor of a
government that had done nothing
for their forebears but make it so
unpleasant that they were compelled
to take up their residence elsewhere.
The people of Pennsylvania know
the Pennsylvania Germans and
they are proud of them. but it is
pleasing to note that their virtues are
appreciated abroad.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-07
THE STUDY OF GERMAN

n HIo school authorities say
there is a great falling off in
the number of students de-
string to study German the coming
year. This is not surprising. Nor is
the reason solely sentimental. There
is hard common sense behind it in
many cases, no doubt. High school
pupils may study only a given num-
ber of languages. What more
natural. then, that French, or Italian
or Spanish, the latter especially,
should supplant German, for at the
close of the war our dealings with
Germany will have shrunk to a min
imum, while our business with
France, Russia, Italy and above all
the Latin-American countries will
have gained tremendously. OF ut
most importance is it that our young
people be able to speak Spanish,
with French as a strong second.
Germany used to stand for Gull
ture, and there is an old-time Ger
man literature that is as delightful
as the literature of any people and
moro charming than most. But 1t
has been supplanted by the hymns
of hate and the books of war to such
extent that America has come to
look with suspicion upon anything
German, and to ponder on the sim
cerity of stories and poems, religious
works and essays the sentiments of
which do not correspond with the
acts of the people. 1t is question OF
actions speaking more loudly than
words, and lack of interest in the
study of the German language i.
merely a reflex of the popular attl-
tnde Of mind.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-07
Charity Begins at Home

| NA1dLAtJ DSSLlkS at 44SlAAC
roHN YATES, secretary of the
eJ Associated Aids. finds himseli
beset on every side with requests fol
assistance and less than $1Oo in the
treasury. He is making an earnest
plea for immediate contributions.
The recent Boy Scout campaign
the Liberty Bond sale, the Red Cross
campaign and numerous other de-
mands on the public purse have
made serious inroads upon the gifts
of money usually reaching the cof-
fers of the Associated Aids. Added
to this is the increased cost of every
thing that goes into the work of
the charities. Coal, clothing and
food are all higher in price than
ever before, and there are more
persons in want than is usual at this
season.
How this happens, with work more
plentiful than ever and wages higher,
is explained by Mr.. Yates, who says
that desertions of families by hus-
bands are more numerous than at
any time since his coming to this
city. The effect of the war has been
to slacken the moral fiber of So
ciety and ability of men to pick up
work wherever they happen to be
has encouraged delinquent husbands
to drop family ties and depart be-
tween sundown and dawn for parts
unknown. Scores of helpless women
and children have been left thus
to the tender mercies of public char
ity. Every week brings to the AS
sociated Aids more of these deserted
wives and babies.
The usual spring campaign of the
Associated Aids was abandoned this
year in favor of the Red Cross, it
being deemed necessary to give the
national movement preference over
merely local needs. But the extra
ordinary conditions generally pre-
vailing have greatly increased the
need of local charities the country
over. Everywhere charitable or
ganizations are making the same
appeal as here. Funds are low and
those in charge fear that a reduc-
ton of Associated Aids resources
would remove the only protection
these deserted women have and so
tend to increase the evil.
AS Mr.. Yates says, the morale of
the country is quite as important as
the morale of the troops, and what
ever agency tends to harden the
moral fiber of the nation is indis-
pensable in this crisis. The disabling
of institutions caring for the poor
would be real calamity.
Harrisburg must do it's part in
this critical period as it has in all
others. Charity begins at home.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-07


Vancouver. B. c.. is planning a mu-
nicipal coalyard.
Building laborers at Winnipeg, Can,
ask 40 cents an hour.
The first agreement in fifteen years
| between the painters and their en-
ployers of ottawa, Canada has been
put into effect. The painters will re-
ceive 37h cents an hour, and the
| paperhangers AZ cents an hour.
Fifty thousand workers in the Lam
| cashire, Cheshire and Derbyshire
bleaching and dyeing trades have
been granted by the Manchester Con-
ference a new bonus ranging from
S1.75 to $3.50 a week above pre-war
rates.
Maintenance-of-way employees have
secured their first contract with the
| Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
Railroad. The contract includes an
average wage increase of SIS a month.
overtime and improved conditions.
A few conscientious objectors still
| teaching in London, England, ele-
mentary schools are to go. After a
County Council decided by sixty-one
votes to IS to transfer them to other
| branches of municipal work.
Buffalo IN. " Hotel Mems Asso-
citation has signed a two-year agree
ment with it's organized walters and
have made a verbal agreement with
cooks, granting wage increases, one
| day off in seven and a 10-hour day
| within fourteen hours.
The Southern Pacific Railroad has
several tramp traps" in the shape of
freight cars which are left in condi-
tion to invite the tramps and after a
number of them have boarded it the
doors are mysteriously closed and
they are prisoners.
Maryland. like West Virginia. has
compulsory labor law, to meet the
emergency of war. which goes into
effect on August 20 and requires every
able-bodied male in the state, between
the ages of IS and so. to register and
hold himself available for such en-
ployment as may be assigned him in
case he has no job of his own.
Steam Engineers Union No. 1S.
whose members are employed in
breweries in Cincinnati. Newport and
Covington, KY, have secured new
agreement which raises wages $3.50
a week and. for the first time, abol-
ishes the seven-day week Eight
hours a day and the six-day week
will be the rule hereafter.
In the year 1915 there occurred in
New York state over 300 200 acci-
dents in the United States, 5000, 900
industrial accidents. 10000 of which
were fatalities. These 10000 acci-
dents. the equivalent of one-third of
the population of the state of New
York. involved total time loss of
105.O00,00O days. This is $4,000 work
ing years; $500 centuries.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-07

T1 HE New York Herald pays hlgl
compliment to Pennsylvani
- Germans and their patriotic con
duct since the beginning of the wa
with Germany, in the following edi
torial comment:
Pennsylvania leads all the
States in army recruiting since
April with total of 20,007 en-
hstments. The nations call is
being answered in the Keystone
State in an admirable manner.
and the enlistments come from
the rural districts quite as gen.
erously as from the cities, as is
indicated by an Honor Roll"
printed by a rural newspaper
Town and Country. of Pennsburg.
thirty-four country boys" from
a district about ten miles square
have enlisted. Especially note
worthy is Pennsylvania fine re-
eruitting record because the state
thousands of citizens of German
extraction, who by their acts give
proof that hyphenism is non-ex-
istent among them.
Since the beginning of the war
Americans have been hearing so
much from the Vierecks, the
HeXamers and the Weissmanns
that the impression spread that
they, and they alone, represented
Americans OF German descent.
Events have proved that these
comparatively new arrivals from
Germany had gained a veneer of
Americanism and that behind
this lay a loyalty to the kaiser
and his de-humanlzed modern
Germany. The Pennsylvanians of
German descent, whose ances-
tors came to America before the
revolution and whose blood flows
IN the veins of millions of Ameri-
cans, are the ones who by long
residence and proved loyalty have
the right to speak for the real
Americans of German descent.
Hltherto. since the invasion of
Belgium and the sinking of the
Lusitania they have turned their
races away from the modern
Germany that glorifes such hor-
rors. Since the Kaiser began his
war on the United States the
where are enlisting to fight the
Kaiser and thus giving the su-
perlatiye proof that they are for
the United States-first, last ana
all the time. 'A
The Herald has taken n correc
view with respect to the Germans
O. Pennsylvania, who in reality ar
no more Germans then they ar
Scotch, or Irish, or Dutch, or Eng
ltsh, for most of them have reside
in this State for so many years tba
the younger generations in man
cases do not know even from whs
district in Germany their ancesto,
came, or the year of their comm,
To te sure, their language has pei
sisted, in a more or less altere
form, but they have inter-marrie
until there are Pennsylvania Gel
mans" who have such names 9
Hodgeson, Palmer, MacCormack an
McIlhenny Many such cherish til
traditions and customs of their Ge-
man forebears and are proud of the
lineage. In them live the kindly di.
position, the hospitality, the thri
and the sturdy virtues that haN
made of them good citizens and 10y;
Americans. They owe allegiance n
more to the Kaiser than to the Kin
or Spain. Indeed, many of their ar
cestors left the Fatherland becaut
they could no longer render loyalt
to government with the principle
of which they were out of sympath,
During the Civil War these Penn
sylvania Germans rendered gallar
service for the union. Hosts of ii
older men wear the Grand Arm
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-07
OUR DAILY LAUGH
BEYOND
QUESTION.

These eggs are
strictly fresh ?
You are quite
sure?
Yes, sir. The
chef boiled them
for himself and
hadn't time to
eat them, sir,