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The sun., 1917-09-21

BROWN TO TRAIN OFFICERS.
University Given Recognition by
War Department..

PROVIDENCE, X. l.. Sept. 20.--An ON
cial communication has been received
from the War Department by President
Faunce designating Brown University
as an infantry unit Of the Senior Di-
vision. Reserve Officers Training Corps,
This gives official recognition to the
courses in military training and tactics
which Brown IL to offer during the COM
ing year under the supervision Of Ma
Jor Charles W. Abbot. Jr. U. $. A., re-
tired, Adtutant General Of Rhode Isla nd,
Students who have successfully com
pleted the work will be eligible for ex-
,An,inations leading TO commissions as
officers OF the line.
The sun., 1917-09-21
MAY CLEAR UP MURDER,
Huck1e, Indicted for Killing
Sweeney, Pleads Guilty to Robbery

Indicted for the murder and robbery
OF George +. Sweeney. real estate oper-
ator and cousin Of Comptroller Prender-
gast. Charles T.. Huckle, Is years old
OF IS Fifth avenue. Brooklyn. pleaded
guilty to robbery yesterday before
County Judge Roy and was remanded
to Raymond street Jail for sentence on
October /. Meanwhile Huckle will make
a statement to District Attorney Lewis
setting forth his knowledge OF the ,ase
Sweeney was found dead Apri! 81.
furnished room at i37 State stree.
Huckle surrendered himself to the po-
lice. He admitted being In the hou,.
with Sweeney and that both were uud.-
the influence of liquor They were
joined by third man, and Hucklc let'
for neighhoring saloon. Sweeney was
robbed of cash and jewelry amounting
to 5000.
The sun., 1917-09-21
FLAMES KILL TWO WOMEN.
Burned When OIL Lamp In Kitchen
EXDlOles,

Mrs. Bridget Foley. 20 wears old AL
her sister. Miss .Aunie Mcmahon. e0.
were burned to d"A1t last night whe h
an oil lamp explodsA in the kitchen ~
their home in tenement house a. oAss
Fulton street East New York
In attempting to smother the Same>
Mrs. Foley's daughter. Miss Anne Fo-
ley, oS years old. was severely burned
on the arms She was carried from tho
fat by Percy Buckelew, a chauffeur. ".
ing on the floor below the Foley home,
and taken to the Kings County Hospital
The sun., 1917-09-21
FREE FROM MENINGITIS
Rockefeller Doctors Send Good
News to Camp Mills.

Physicians from tho Rockefeller Insti-
tute relieved the anxiety Of the officers
at Camp Mills yesterday by reporting
that they had examined the cultures
taken from thirty members Of the 167th
(Alabama) Infantry and had found no
traces OF meningitis.
The sixth soldier to be listed among
the camp dead passed away yesterday.
He was Hillary Jernigan of F Company.
lS7th Infantry. His death was due to
heart trouble.
The Garden City Club gave q dance
last night at the Garden City Hotel for
the benefit Of the War Relief Fund The
band from the 18TH Infantry played for
the dancers Many of the wealthiest
families In tho section belong TO the
club. and tho proceeds are expected to
be large. They will be devoted to the
relief of the families Of the soldiers who
have gone into service.
Gen. and Mrs w. A. Mann and the
regimental commanders of the Rainbow
Division will be the guests Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ralph Peters at their Garden City
home Saturday afternoon.
The sun., 1917-09-21
NEWARK SENDS 1,169.
Mayor Raymond Predicts Men Will
Come Back Heroes.

I'VE feel sure that you are coming
back heroes" said Mayor Raymond OF
Newark yesterday In closing u brief ad-
dress to 1859 selective service men who
left that city for Camp Dix, at Wrights.
town. ". j.
without uniforms, bundle laden and
carrying flags. the young men marched
through Broad and Market streets from
the City Hall to the Pennsylvania Rail.
road Station, where they boarded trains
for the cantonment. Platoons Of police
and hremen acted as an escort to the
future soldiers. while four bands fur
nished the music.
The sun., 1917-09-21
LOUDEN ADMITTED TO BOND.
hut He Must Avoid Matrimony and
Pro.German Activities.

II Count" Max Chimang. alias Lynar
Louden, bigamist and alleged accel-
orator for German sentiment. can give
n bond for 5000 he will be released
from the penitentiary where has been
for nineteen months serving indetermi-
nate sentence.
Judge Rosalsky allowed the bond :,es-
terday, with the statement that Louden
might remain at liberty so long as he
put a kicking strap upon himself in
the matter Of wives. while the Federal
Department OF Justice gave notice that
II would keep an eye ON the man.
The sun., 1917-09-21

A feather in our cap
AS we walked out to
lunch the other day, we
happened to be right be-
hind a customer who was
just leaving with his SON.
He was so forceful in his
versation that we
couldn't help hearing what
he said:
"They certainly have The
goods. They may charge a
little more. but they do give
you your moneys worth
every time"
Isn't that just it? You
pay a reasonable price and
you get what you want
The cheapest things are
often the dearest.
Everyth h in G men and
boys wear.
Army officers uniforms
ROGERS PEET COMPANY
Broadway Broadwa'
IL.
at 18th St, THE at 34th 81
Broadway Corners" Fifth Ave
at Warren atAist s.
The sun., 1917-09-21
COURT RIYETS BAN
ON O'LEARY'S BULL


compliments. According to the different
breeds Of Britishers they have over there
fighting for civilixation-they must have
been crossed by n,ggers and God knows
what-if Great Britain claims to be the
mother Of all Of them"
He wrote that the question with him
was whether or not the United States
was going to be q British colony or an
Independent nation. and he further re-
proaches Mr.. Rider:
Don't tell me about the patriotic
stand Of your newspaper when I know
that you have adopted your present
policy because you figured Germany was
going to win the war and you said,
What's the use Of getting in trouble
with the damn fools over here who think
they can change the result?' / wish you
would read this letter before your board
Perhaps they are at fault. Even they
may be wrong. Their money does not
make them right. Get busy. Retrieve
yourself. Put a poker In your paper.
Don't let Victor Victor Ridderl frighten
you to death. He's fine fellow. but
he's scared to death. All he can see is
Germans hanging from lampposts. Tell
him not to worry. Put a punch in your
editorials. Study Buu for American
ideas. Surely you have stood for 80
much from a whelp like Mitchell and his
gang and yet remain on friendly ter,.s. "
Closes with Dig,
"a, elo9es WIN tnIs oE
sS"se nov man can DC 1o
!r'enoiy WIN MS enemies ana SO nosti'e
70 ms t.iehos. Is this gong 10 DC me
p"losophy o, the coming peace! IS tnis
q uan o, ierman cnAractet! II IL
.ne'e wni pe no fasting peace. oecause
.ne haoo" WIN suen cnar1c'er NJ
oe. W oeco"'o 'he oupe VI oT''isn
'"Ir.sue H,I
. eious % %auASs oHe.eu 70 tne
couI. " 'ne nnteo Sta,eS AttoIney eA'
roseu TUG sIc,ousness ol ,he 1ntl-Amer'
icanism complained OF oy the postmaster
nene' tnc ostes,er0eheEa' h'in'
eem n'eue anuan - Io"o~s'
ne eA~mihs.lo" OF copies OF UNI,
puo',.a'.oh w mn, showeo Una. u NAG
or.n uu'S VI. Pesnt Huropean
war istoJ .nal Hs MISSION was &c
oreeo olscon'eht wNn .he conouct OF tne
war IN Wh'ch tnls hatloh ~ now engaged
especially among Americans OF !risf
| oilth or extracuon: 70 oentIe All OF the
! activities OF the United states IN the con-
ouc. Vi the WAL cast suspleio,, anu uis.
content upon the motives OF the United
states IN prosecuting tne war 10 create
general spirit OF hostinty with respect
| thereto' that the pupncatloh tnTou&hou'
The sun., 1917-09-21
BAKER VISITS CAMP.
Secretary Praises ORA fted Men He
Sees at Camp Meade. .

WAsHINoroN, Sept. 20.-The men Of
the National Army who have reached
Camp Meade. at Annapolis Junction.
Nd. are "a nne looking. cheerful party
Of average young American citizens" :"
Secretary Baker said to-day after a n.y.
ing visit 10 the camp. He was accom-
panied by Major-Gen. Scott, chief Of
stan. with whom ne visited the head
quarters Of Major-Gen. Kuhn. command
ing the cantonment Gen. Kuhn has been
mentioned as a possible successor Of
Gen. Scott. when the latter retires from
ONCE next Saturday.
The Secretary's visit to camp Meade
was unheralded. and Mr.. Baker said the
only salute he heard was the explosion
Of dynamite with which tree stumps
were being blasted from the camp site.
The sun., 1917-09-21

No. Men Assigned

The 1,729 men who will arrive to-
morrow will be assigned to barracks
as follows:
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-29
THEY CAN'T BEAT THAT

stood reverently on the deck OF
a New Jersey ferry boat with a
young man, a private in the ranks
crossing the river to entrain for
camp after a short furlough. 1t was
in the neighborhood of o'clock
in the evening and quite dark.
Downtown New York, its thousands
of office windows alight, as a Gods
tistful of glowing jewels piled high
and shining against the black back
ground of night sky. The young SOL
der looked and swore a reverent
oath.
"They can't beat that" he said
simply and without explanation. mot
that and all that's back of it. Isn't
1t great? That's what we're fighting
for! That down there and every
thing that's behind it-Chicago, Du-
luth, New Orleans, Cheyenne, San
Francisco, the Rockies, the prairies
--phew! All the people in those
places. You know, when 1 get over
across, no matter what kind of a
jam may get into some time-badly
hit or stuck alone in the dark when
things are coming pretty thick-if
can just hold the feel of all that
in back of me-. II think I'll man.
age to hold up fine"
1 think you will, old boy. Let it
go at that!-William Slavens Nc
Mutt in Golfers Weekly.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-29
THE PEOPLES FORUM

| though, not the fools, that did it.
Some other fools shouted: Lets
all wear cotton"-thoroughl igno-
rant of the fact that we need all the
cotton we can get to make high eX-
plosives out of it, for ourselves and
our allies. If the so-called cotton
wear" propaganda had gone over
we would have had to fight this war
out with fire crackers, or soda crack
ers, or pea shooters. That was a fine
idea, wasn't it? All of which goes to
prove that we had better let the ex-
perts in this country carry out the
Presidents ideas. And the rest of us
can find plenty to do keeping the
fools from throwing wrenches in the
gears.
Right now the fools are buster
than ever before. Some of them are
holding peace demonstrations down
in Boston, and the rest of them are
sitting up nights trying to work ont
new stunts for putting business on
the Fritz"
President Wilson, after comforting
with delegates from the nations that
have been in this war from the be-
ginning tells us that the all-import-
ant thing for us to do is to keep our
industries going In spite of this
counsel, the fools are shouting at the
top of their voices:
Don't buy any automobiles"
Don't buy any new clothes"
Don't spend any money with the
laundries-turn your collars wrong
side out and wear them two days"
Keep your wife away from the
department stores"
Don't let your children go to the
movies
Don't do anything that will keep
our factories and our stores and our
places of amuSements running"
"Close up everything and pay the
expenses of this war out of the eX-
cess profits of bankruptcy"
The fools in this country might as
we'll be made to understand right
here, that we are not going to play
into the kaiser's hands by listening
to their monkey chatter. We know
just how serious this war is. We
know, on the other hand, that our
fools are even more serious.
We must have business in this
country.
We must keep our heads un.
We must preserve our prosperity,
because Americas wealth is her big
gest gun.
Shall we let the fools take the
wheel at this dangerous turn in the
road?
Please, you ninety-nine and seven
millions, answer in chorus:
WE WILL NOT"
ANDREW REDMOND.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-29

employers and employees alike distinct
understanding that special terms
| and conditions favorable to increased
efficiency shall prevail there. Also,
England has established a national
agency of arbitration to hear and
decide all major controversies be-
tween masters and men in the war
industries. For the period of the
war arbitration is compulsory, and
strikes are thereby made Illegal,
which has worked we'll for all con-
cerned.
The government has taken into
the high government councils, into
the cabinet and ministries, accredited
representatives of labor, and for the
lesser administrative departments
has selected trade unionists as
labor advisers" 1t likewise has
encouraged the establishment of
shop committees to deal with en-
ployers in matters of shop practice,
in regard to which there are sharp
differences of interest and opinion,
and has entered into a national
agreement with the trade unions in
volved in the war industries to the
effect that all established union
standards of employment that may
be abrogated during the war will
be restored after the war.
nd
land has fostered discussion and
proposals which look to the crea-
tion after the conflict of repre-
sentative deliberative bodies in each
industry to consider not only prob
lens of rehabilitation and recon-
struction, but to continue perma-
about better understanding concern
ing such fundamental policies as
of output, regularity of !
employment in production of scien-
tific management and adjustment of |
production to demand. There has
even been created a reconstruction
to give immediate force and
impetus to the agitation for drastic
industrial reorganization.
All this has been painfully evolved
over the period of the years since
the war began and it is ready made
experience which the United States
if it is wise, will study
Much of what England
Is doing can and should be done
here. 1t should be the care of the
administration to. make railroad
men and others engaged in indus
tries vital to the war understand
that their own best interests lie in
support of the gov
by the attainment of maxi
mum efficiency each in his own
particular line.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-29
PARIS WEARS A SMILE

In 1915 there was plenty of hot
water in Paris. This year, except
on Saturdays and Sundays, you
battle cold or you don't battle at all.
Even of the Ritz this is true. Then
there are two days when you get
along without meat. You are asked
to be economical with electricity. 1
imagine that it takes money and per-
haps influence to keep a motor car
full of gasoline. But, on the other
hand, there are ten taxicabs where
there was but one before. And they
are up to all their status quo ante
tricks.
If the restaurants are not precisely
gay, they are we'll filled; 1t would be
difficult to lunch or dine anywhere
without meeting a number of people
whom you have known well at home.
or course j don't know how about
many American soldiers there are in
France, and could not tell you If ]
did, but when 1 tell you that going
into the American Red Cross head
quarters is like going into the Rae
quet Club / do not exaggerate. II
is this, / think, that has taken the
strained look out of so many French
faces.
Matches are not quite so dear as
they are scarce and unscratchable
1opdCSO lS plSIlllult DuI expensive
AS winter approaches the price of
umbrellas rises. Stationery is high
(I shall thank God when the price
becomes prohibitive). The gum on
postage stamps is of good quality
The price has not been advanced. .
l know definitely of but one
thing that has gone down. 1t is a
book. Two years ago it was dis
played in the window of an Avenue
de POpera bookstore. Today 1t is in
the back of the shop. 1t no longer
looks new. 1t can be had for q
song. 1t is by me.
Paris is far gayer and far brighter
than 1t was two years ago. But this
is only true of its face; the real
heart of Paris bleeds and is sick
with grief. l believe the gayety and
brightness of Paris in these days to
be the most stupendous feat of good
manners that the world has ever
seen.
Outside my window there is q
splendid plane tree. From this the
great leaves are steadily falling
That is France. For three years
now the lives that were her glory
and her hope have fallen, fallen
fallen. But IL, ignorant of this
worlds affairs you happened into
Paris on a little visit from Mars II
would be some time before you could
be induced to believe that q war was
going on anywhere. In this matter
the French have touched the sublim-
tiles of good breeding Juverneul
Morris in Golfers Weeekly>
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-29
GOVERNMENT AND LABOR

Of the soS e the the @p"s.
ton is being asked, what
about labor? And the answer is
that labor should have nothing to
fear and not much to expect at the
hands of the government. There is
no reason to believe that the Presi-
dent, as controller of the railroads,
will be any more unfriendly to rail-
road employees than he has been as
the figure that has stood between
thcm and the railroad managers
during their recent disputes.
II anything a more equitable dis
tribution of joy may be anticipated.
Just as there are intimations of
wholesale reductions of the salaries
of officials for the benefit of the
rank and file, so the government
may be expected to recognize first
the needs of the more poorly paid
classes of employees. But in both
these steps there is danger, for to
remove the hope of large returns
for effort may take from the field of
railroad endeavor scores of able ex-
clusives who are apt to go eventually
where there is more money to be
earned, and to advance the joy of
the humber employees, while ignor-
ing the claims of the skilled laborers.
such as engineers, conductors and
the like, would be to create dis
satisfaction at the expense of the
service.
The government having taken
over railroad control, willy nilly
must accept also the railroads prob
lens, and it must consider without
delay the labor phase of these, or
like England in the early days of
the war we may find ourselves face
to face with the very thing we are
trying to avoid-an impaired or
stagnated transportation system.
How Great Britain finally solved
not only her railroad difficulties, but
her labor questions of all kinds, ss
they apply to industries affecting
the war might prove an interesting
study for Secretary McAdoo and ihe
(, Railroad War Board. After much
controversy the English government
finally has specified what are the in
dispensable war industries, the rail-
roads among them, and has given
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-29
IN THE DIVVY

CNIGNS that the municipal pie of
~ New York City is about to be
divided are not wanting. Rep
resentatives Daniel ]. Griffin and
Henry Bruckner, who spring from
the loins of the Tammany Tiger,
have rendered their designations
from Congress presumably to accept
civic sinecures, and it is reported
that several more of the brood will
leave Congress shortly.
Representative Fitzgerald, it is an
nounced, is to be associated with q
law firm in the metropolis which nets
large amount of business through
Tammany. For another thing, it is
stated that the Tammany exodus
from Washington means that the
contingent ia tired of presidential
tyranny.
Fitzgerald, at least, may have
acted upon the language of Caesar:
For my part, had rather be the
first man among these fellows than
the second man in Rome"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-29
CONTRASTS

There is bitter irony in the con-
trast between the record of facts
presented by General Crozier to the
Senate committee and the bland gen.
eralities in Secretary Bakers New
York address," remarks the Chica-
go Tribune.
There is also a "bitter irony in
the spectacle of Mr.. Baker rafting
around in the War Department in
time of war, and such men as Root,
Garrison, and Roosevelt officially un-
employed.
1t is n wonder that President Will
son with his keen sense of ironical
contrasts and moral values (not to
mention possible sense of burdens
that might be 1ightened by being
shared), has not noticed it.-From
the Milwaukee Sentinel.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-29
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

-Ex-Judge Charles Il. Rice, of
Wilkes Barre, is being congratulated
upon the bestowal or the trench
war cross upon his son.
PROF. d. r. Sumstein, of Pitts
burgh. says that the examinations OF
men for soldiers demonstrate the
need for physical training.
j. II. Sundheim, prominent
Philadelphian, says that every build
ing and loan association should sell
the thrift stamps.
Joseph Spang, retired Pottstown
manufacturer, is being given good
wishes on his fifty-second wedding
anniversary.
tornev General, seems to be very
much in demand for luncheon
speeches these days.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-29
POOR BUSINESS
= ARK COMMISSIONER GROSS
> has permitted Council to strike

n ARK COMMISSIONER GROSS
has permitted Council to strike
his appropriation for complet-
ing the rip-rap work along the river
from the general budget ordinance.
This is bad housekeeping.
The circumstances are these. Thou
sands upon thousands of cubic yards
of earth have been filed in between
the steps and the street to enlarge
vthe park and protect the sidewalk
above. part of this "fll' has been
rip-rapped to prevent floods from
washing out the bank. But much re-
mains unprotected and high water
at any time may cause thousands of
dollars damage.
In addition to this and as a further
reason why the work should be COM
pleted the coming year, the city now
has q very favorable contract for the
rip-rapping; one that Mr.. Gross was
fortunate in procuring and which
he cannot duplicate.
BY permitting the rip-rap item to
be dropped while every other depart
ment is receiving larger appropria
tions shows a lamentable lack of
force on the part of the park super
intendent, leaves the city liable to
heavy damages from flood and abro-
gates the best contract it can ever
hope to make for the work.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-29
WHEN ALL DRANK MILK

In those early days, as the new
corners fiocked into Missouri, those
who had come earlier and who kept
tavern" had way of classifying the
new arrivals as Northerners or
Southerners, without questions. II
the stranger asked for sweet milk
he was from north of the Ohio River
from New England or one of the
Middle States. If he called for sour
milk, that identified him as from the
South. Sweet milk sold in st. Louis
at twenty-five cents a gallon. Sour
milk was eighteen and three-quar-
ters cents a gallon.-From Mis-
sourians of One Hundred Years
Ago" by Walter b. Stevens.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-29
CAN'T GAG II. r..

~ ECRETARY OF WAR BAKER
says I'VE must speed up our
military effort" That is what
Theodore Roosevelt, Leonard Wood
Congressman Gardner and a lot OF
other men of foresight said three
years ago. Wood and Gardner have
been put where their voices cannot
be heard and the doughty Colonel
would be silenced if some in high
places had the power.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-29
EDITORIAL COMMENT

| The Chaplain of the House of Rep
resentatives gave financial touch 10
his invocation at the opening of Con-
gress by praying that the nation
| might be united "in the bonds of
patriotism. San Francisco Bulletin,
Austria now favors a speedy
peace" AS we recall it. she also
favored a speedy war.-Brooklyn
Eagle.
When the worst has happened
Germany may gladly find refuge in
the declaration of the Allies for the
protection of the rights of weak ma
tions.-Newark News.
why not law providing that in
case the accused is pretty she shall
be dismissed and the state saved the
cost of trying her for killing her
husband?-Terre Haute Star.
Although some people may not
accept Secretary McAdoo's theory
mat Germans have been depressing
Liberty Bonds in the market. the
prevailing opinion in this country is
that in due time Liberty Bonds are
going to depress the Germans.-New
York World.
The Appeal To Reason did not
have to change it's name to The New
Appeal when it decided the espouse
the cause of the Allies in the war for
Democracy. Any appeal to reason
seems to be new enough appeal
among a large body of Socialists
Philadelphia North American.