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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-06

fortified in the fourteenth century
py Jean d'Avesnes. d In 1872 it was
captured in a surprise attack by
Louis of Nassau, who held it for
-FOUR months against the Spanish
FORCES of the Duke of Alva, thus Civ
ing the northern provinces of the
Netherlands time to organize that
resulted in the establishment of the
Dutch Republic.
The town was captured by Louis
XIV in 1891, but was restored to
Spain six years later.
only ten miles south of Mons lies
the village of Malplaquet. which has
given its name to one of the greatest
battles of the eighteenth century. 1t
was here that the English, Dutch,
German and Austrian Allies. under
the Duke of Marlborough, and Prince
Eugene, won a costly victory over
the French commanded by Louis
XlV's most distinguished general,
Villars. More than 10000 troops
were engaged on each side. and the
Allies lost 10000 men, while the
French retired in good order after
sustaining casualties placed at 49,
The battlefield of Jemappes, where
the French Revolutionary army. un-
uer DumOurleS, ue1eated the Aus
trians in 1892. is also near Mons.
The fortifications of Mons were
dismantled in 1852 and attractive
promenades were laid out along the
encircling military works.
The 10000 inhabitants of Mons
found occupation in the manufac-
ture of cotton and wooden goods, in
sugar refineries, lace works and iron
foundries before the war. The trade
in grain and coal was also consid-
erable, the town enjoying the ad-
vantage of low water freight rates,
being connected with the River
Scheldt by means of the Canal de
Conde.
The Cathedral of st. waltrudis,
begun in the middle of the fifteenth
century from plans by the same
architect who designed the famous
Hotel de Vile of Louvain, is the
chief point of architectural inter-
est in the city. A school of mines
was the leading educational insti-
tuition of the province of Hainaut up
to the time of the German occupa-
tion.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-06
UNFORTUNATE PATRIOTISM

nRESIDENT WILSON is unfor-
tunate in some of his friends.
At time when all political
manipulation should be submerged
in patriotic support of every move
ment for the successful prosecution
of the war, certain of his indiscreet
partisans are taking occasion to drag
politics into the discussion of great
national measures.
Senator Lewis, of Illinois, cam
paigned in New Hampshire the other
day in support of a Democratic can
didate for Congress to fill a vacancy
and had the nerve to charge that
support of his opponent would be
stab at the President and a re-
pudiation of his policies. He asked
the voters whether they were for
the President or the Kaiser"
When called to account in the SEN
ate this week for his indefensible
speech Senator Lewis tried to justify
himself with the statement that "the
man who presents himself as repre-
senting the President stands for the
things for which the President is
fighting, and the man who stands
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-06
A Chance to Get Facts

1t has long been common rumor
that butter and egg prices the coun-
try over have been fixed by butter
anG egg boards operating in Chi
ago or Elgin, that these prices were
fixed not by the law of supplies and
demand, but by manipulation and
fictitious sales on the boards, the
quotations announced being accept
cd by the trade everywhere, although
they may often have had no rele-
vance to actual supply or demand.
Federal investigation of these
boards has been reported many
times in recent years, only to be fol-
lowed by announcements that the
government was powerless in the
matter. A welcome variation is the
report that indictments have Just
Neen returned before Judge Lands
in the United States District Court,
Charging some twenty-five individuals
with attempts to create a MONOPOLY
in eggs in violation of the Sherman
antitrust law. Additional interest Is
lent to the news by the announce
ment that the Chicago Butter and
| jury's action decided to discontinue
| all trading In futures" it's reso-
luton recognizing that there is a
widespread and growing opinion
among the people at large that sales
| of futures in food products result
in advancing prices a conclusion to
which. however" they say, I'VE are
not prepared to subscribe, but, never
theless, deem 1t our duty to so con-
/ duct our business as a board to re-
move any possible cause for COM
| plant, and thereby prevent, as far
as we are concerned, unrest and dis
satisfaction among our fellow coun-
tfymen that might give comfort to
the nations enemies"
Obviously, what is needed is a
definite decision as to whether the
operations of these gentlemen are
responsible for inflated prices, 6
question that cannot be left to theil
voluntary suspension oe their prac.
tices in the guise of patriotism. Il
their operations are legitimate anc
beneficial 1t would be poor patriotism
to stop them. II they are neither
then the law and not the boards
should order the stopping and se'
that II is made permanent. The pros
pect of having the whole matter
threshed out before Judge Lands Il
the best news the public has had foi
some time. He may have better sue
J cess in getting to the facts than tn,
: previous investigators have had
Pittsburgh Dispatch.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-06
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

DR.. J. L. Eisenberg, the new
head of the Slippery Rock State
Normal School, used to be head of
the Chester schools.
e. l.. Bowman, one of the State
supervisors of industrial education,
has been detailed to Franklin to
make an industrial survey of that
city.
DIR. T. o. Glenn has been ap-
pointed the government pension sur
geon at Bradford
Senator r. II. Ware was a speak
er at the Philadelphia Civic Club
meeting yesterday.
Mayor A. d. Newell, of New
Castle, is puzzled about what to do
over requests for permission to work
in war gardens .on Sundays.
George ID. Dixon, the Pennsyl-
vania railroad vice-president who is
arranging the new schedule to IA
cilitate war movements, is one of
the nations experts on transporta-
tion.
Bishop Eugene A. Garvey, of
Altoona, is raising money to estab-
lish an orphanage at Cresson on the
mountain top.
Col. Daniel Ashworth, burgess
of Grafton and prominent veteran,
has been named to a court position
in Allegheny.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-06
NIEATLESS DAYS AHEAD

THERE is pending in the House
at Washington a bill which
forbids, under severe penalty,
The slaughter of female cattle under
six years of age and male cattle un-
der one year. This plan is the out
come of measure sponsored before
the Council of National Defense by
Secretary of Agriculture Houston,
who declares that he has evidence
that "meatless days" will be the lot
of the whole country unless rigid
prohibition regarding the slaughter
of calves is enforced.
1t is said that throughout the
rich Cumberland Valley there are
few calves, as result or the prac-
tice of converting into veal the
young stock upon the theory that
the raising of cattle is too expen-
isive under present conditions to be
profitable.
Some months ago this newspaper
printed an interview with a railroad
official of Missouri, then in Harris
burg, in which he predicted that
meat would be a luxury within the
next two years because the incFeas-
ang cost of feed was destroying the
cattle industry.
Representative Britton. of Illinois,
who introduced the bill forbidding
The slaughter OF calves, declares that,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-06
Advertising and Freedom

Louis w. Hill, chairman of the
Great Northern Railway board of
directors, submitted an unusual pa
per to the Associated Advertising
Clubs of the World at st. Louis this
week.
Turn the power of advertising
loose on the problem of floating our
great war loans" said Mr.. Hill, ION
the problems of agricultural and
manufactured production. Do it, and
the cause of democracy is safe and
triumphant.
This country has its most tre-
mendous tasks to do. But if Amer
lean business. cannot weather such a
shock and come back stronger than
ever, 1t is a pretty poor quality of
business"
In business as usual-only more
so-lies the welfare of the nation.
What the country needs is not
only people who will get down on
their knees and pray for their native
land if necessary, but people who
will get up on their feet and work
and fight for it."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-06
Fads and Philanthropy

From Leslie's: The war has enor-
mously increased the already large
crop of philanthropic societies. Ev-
cry such organization calls for a
long list of officers, a paid secretary
and paid assistants, a large amount
OF expensive literature. and in some
instances a magazine. To meet the
expense of. this publicity there is a
steady solicitation of the public for
funds. On our desk are more than
n dozen appeals that have come in
during a few days. If one joined all
these societies, or gave to them all
there would be nothing left for the
church or the hospital. Indeed the
churches complain that these out
side appeals for money have cut
down their incomes.
Ministers say if they preached on
all the special causes to which they
are asked to devote a sermon and
service, there would be no Sundays
left for the preaching of the plain
Gospel. Many a busy person, ap-
pealed to by the commendable
causes represented in these new So
cieties and unable to give personal
attention to such work, esaes his
conscience by a generous contribu-
ton and the permission to use his
name on the list of vice presidents
All societies have an imposing list OF
vice presidents of prominence, which
gives weight to their appeals.
Our criticism is not that the causes
represented are always unworthy oi
support, but that the thing has beer
overdone, that the middleman is toe
big an item of expense in philar.
thropy just as he is in business.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-06
Republican Victory

Under ordinary circumstances the
election which was held in New
Hampshire recently to elect a mem
ber of Congress to fill a vacancy
would have attracted the widest at
tention. In view of the stirring
world events abroad and the selec-
tive conscriptive agitation in this
country it was permitted to pass with
slight newspaper mention.
Yet this election served to show
the undiminished strength of the
Republican party. Sherman f. Bur-
roughs. Republican, was elected to
the place by a rather wide margin
in the face of extraordinary efforts
to effect his defeat. 1t is said this
places him in line for the United
States Senate to succeed Harris F.
Hollis, whose term will expire next
year.
The Democrats were hopeful of
carrying the district because New
Hampshire gave Mr.. Wilson it's cleo
toral votes last year and because of
the slogan, stand by the President"
Democratic Senators, James, Lewis
and Owen were sent there to en-
phasize this slogan and are deeply
chagrined over the overwhelming de-
feat.-The Scranton Republican.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-06
THE DEPORTATIONS AT MONS

n IONS, famous in the world war
V as the scene of the great bat
tie after which the Anglo
French forces began their memoir
able retreat toward Paris, a retreat
which finally ended oil the banks of
the Marine, has come once more into
the limelight through Il recent order
or the Germans providing for the
deportation of its citizens-a fate
which has befallen the citizens of
many of Belgium's stricken cities.
The National Geographic Society, in
war geography bulletin issued from
it's Washington headquarters, gives
the following information about
Mons, its Industries before the out
break of the war, and something of
its interesting history:
AS the capital of Province of
Hainaut, Mons was, up to August,
1914, one of the most thriving cities
of Belgium, for it was the center of
the country's richest coal region, LIE
Bortnage. OF the 1876, 900 coal miners
of the kingdom three-fourths of the
number lived in this province and
were known as Borains (coal bor-
ers).
Mons occupies the site of a cas-
trum established here by julius Cae-
sar during his campaigns against the
Gauls. 1t crowns hill on the banks
of the little River Trouble, 3S miles
by rail southwest of Brussels. Its
founding as a town, however, is at
tributed to Countess Waudru in the
eighth century, and the first 500
years of its history constitute a per-
iod of much hardship and poverty,
the whole region being known in
that age as 'the poor land of a proud
people,"
Count Baldwin of Flanders, one of
the noblest and most popular leaders
of the Fourth Crusade and the first
Emperor Of Romania, being crowned
in Constantinople, was one of Mons
most generous benefactors. It was
he who granted the city it's charter
in 1900. just five years before he
met death at the hands of the Bull
garian King, who is said to have cut
off the hands and feet of the cap
tured Emperor and thrown him thus
mutilated into a valley. where he
fingered for three days before death
ended his agony.
Mons has been the scene of sew
eral great military struggles. 1t was
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-06
Labor Notes
By BRIGGS

Labor Notes
Dayton, Ohio, unions aim to get
5000 new members this year.
Teamsters at Paterson, N. j., have
secured a $500 weekly increase.
Fur workers in New York City
have secured the eight-hour day.
A public war Kitchen has been
opened at Nottingham, England.
Mattresses in New York now have
a 54-hour week.
Connecticut cigarmakers plan a
statewide label campaign.
An eight-hour day has been le-
gally granted policemen in Kansas.
Beginning July /, New Rochelle,
N. Y, plumbers will get $5 a day.
Peoria. ILL.,, street car employees
have secured a nine-hour day.
Ohio's 50-hour-a-week law for
women is effective on June 10.
Boilermakers at Mobile. Ala, have
secured "a for an eight-hour day.
Organized labor in Alaska has Sc
cured the universal eight-hour law.
Springfield, Mass, ironmoulders
will get S4.25 a day, starting July 30.
E..IE 1. 1.
licewomen fully uniformed and on
active duty:
Berlin, Germany, Cooperative So
ciety has 125 branches supplying
the working classes.
In England many unskilled women
munition. workers are earning SIS a
week.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-06

against the President stands against
the things for which America is
fighting. l made the issue. deplore
that the community could not accept
1t as SUCH"
Senator Harding, commenting on
the statement of Senator Lewis, said:
I'm making the world safe for de-
mocracy, we should make democracy
safe for the American people by put
ting patriotism above politics"
In view of the splendid way in
which the Republicans at Washing
ton have stood behind the President.
the attitude of men like Lewis serves
to draw attention to those who are
sincerely supporting the Government
and the rest who are taking advan-
tage of a crucial situation to pro-
mote partisan feeling and political
ambition.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-06
FIGHTING FOR OUR RIGHTS

TN confronting the Prussian men,
ace it is we'll fol. the people of
the United States to realize that
they are not only entering a war for
human rights and worldwide dem
ocracy, but also for the real pro-
lection of our own country. This is
not a sentimental war. 1t is a con-
flict involving in the first instance
the inalienable rights of a free peo-
pie and the Berlin government hav-
ing trodden upon the most sacred
heritage of American citizens we are
now determined that this sort of
thing shall cease, whether we shall
have world democracy or not.
We must not lose sight of the fact
that the sinking of the Lusitania, the
impudent proposition that we could
send one ship to England a week,
and other like offenses against this
country have justified the entrance
of the United States into the war.
We are not a milk-and-water people.
While we have grown soft and m
different through a long period of
peace and prosperity, the essential
elements of a free people are inher-
ent in our population and the enor-
nous enrolment of military eligibles
imperialists at Berlin that they have
misjudged the temper of Americans.
Nor must it be forgotten that we
have assimilated into our body poll
tic millions of men and women of
foreign birth who are patriotic and
earnest defenders of our free insti-
tutions. Hundreds of thousands of
men born under other flags will
fight in this war under the Stars
and Stripes with a devotion as sin
cere and deep-rooted as that of our
native citizenry.
We have been a long time getting
awake, but the gathering storm
cloud of war has spread it's shadow
over the whole country and to-day
the people of the United States are
aroused to their duty as never be-
fore. Slackers and anti-war busy
bodies will find themselves in a Woe
full minority from now on. 1t would
be well for all such to bride their
tongues and conceal their lack of
patriotism and cowardice under at
lease a surface pretense of loyalty
to the flag.
Harrisburg as the center of a
patriotic section of Pennsylvania has
manifested its fealty to the govern
ment in a way that is exceedingly
creditable and all the traditions of
previous wars are being maintained
in the present crisis.
So let us realize that while world
democracy is an ultimate goal, the
United States has an obligation to
defend those principles of freedom
which have been handed down to us
by sturdy and earnest and patriotic
ancestry. Our rights have been in
Vaded by the European enemy not
once but many times, and we would
be less than men should we fail to
defend these rights upon the sea and
the land and with all the power
and force of prosperous and peace
loving people.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-06
God Bless EN-!

The miners of gold. the makers of
furniture, the sellers of merchan-
disc, the loaners of money-these
men are all now doing their bit.
These men all know the value of po-
tatoes and pork.
All through this great empire of
corn and cotton you can see thou
sands of women working in the
fields-women (God bless ENID.
America owes it's position as a ma
ton, its primacy in commerce, to
the producers of corn; beef and cab
bage.-The Silent Partner.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-06
Stimulating Trade

True economy, healthy economy is
the call of the hour. This can best
be brought about by each and every
one doing double duty--by conserv-
ing our resources.
There is no extravaganza in intel
ligent buying at any time.
But there is, at this particular
time, an imperative. a national ne
cessity for stimulating trade, in
spring individual confidence, and
helping to prevent the boarding of
cash.-The Silent Partner.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-06
Earned His Title

eff you have never had any mill
tary experience, how did you happen
to get the title of colonel?" asked the
inquisitive stranger.
well, If you must know" replied
the old fashioned Southern gentle
man, "early in life l gave SIS to a
colored head waiter and I've been a
colonel ever since. Birmingham
Age-Herald.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-06
Chance For the Critics

For long time we have refused
to give the railroads of this country
a square deal, and now the critics
will stand on the street corners and
find fault with these great CONNER
cial arteries because they cannot
handle the business brought about by
abnormal demands. - The Silent
Partner
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-06
Good Morning Club

A good morning club" has been
formed at Columbus, Ind. 1t re-
requires members to speak to twelve
persons at church every Sunday
morning.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-06
BETTER YET.

BETTER YET.
Jones is a
wonderful law
yer. I've never
come across his
equal at cross
examination.
Oh, he's not
SO much. You
ought to hear
my wife cross
e X a m in e me
when / come in
late at night.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-06
Making Up For Lost Time

The Russian people seem deter
mined to make up for the centuries
which they passed In silence.-Sa-
vannah News. fy..4. .,.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-06
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE Q

Is life so dear or peace so Stceet as
to be purchased at the price of chains
and SldUery? Forbid 1t, Almighty
God! I knotO, not 1ohGt course others
may take, but as for me, gipe me lib
erty or give me death!
PATRICK HENRY.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-06

e. J. .STACKPoLE,P Prss't s. Editor-in. c. hief
F. r. OYSTER. Business Manager.
GUS M. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-06
HISTORIC HARRISB

HISTORIC HARRISBURG Z
Units of a dozen commands were
raised in and about the settlement
known as Harris ferry during the
revolution.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-06

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.,
Telegraph Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-06

Governor Brumbaugh and several
members of his staff together with
some personal guests will go to Get
tysburg on Friday to attend the
dedication of the monument to GEN
eral Robert e. Lee. 1t will be q
notable gathering of veterans and
officials. The Governor plans to make
the trip by automobile.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-06
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg steel produc-
tlon this year will be a record?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-06
AN UNFOR-
TUNATE
DEMISE.

You say faith
er was very
much stuck UP
at the time OF
his death?
Yes. he died
of fly paper.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-06

Yesterday afternoons rain caused
ar unusual display of low hanging
clouds along the First mountain.
There appeared to be an exception
ally strong current of air through
the gap and the clouds were driven
back along the mountain and then
spread over Wildwood Park. They
did not appear to be much over
100 feet above the ground and from
a distance it looked as though there
had been a big fire.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-06

Motorcar owners and motor
cyclists are sitting up and taking
notice of the bill now pending in
the State Senate to increase the Ii
cense fees and to further regulate
operation. If the proposed federal
taxes are raised and the State raises
license fees, there will be fewer cars
and cycles declare their present
owners.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-06

Announcement of the enlistment
of Lane S. Hart, III, and William B.
Hart made yesterday calls attention
to the fact that these two young
soldiers are the grandsons of a noted
State Treasurer of PENNSYLVANIA.
They are sons of Lane s. Hart, Jr.,
whose father was William B. Hart,
who was elected treasurer right aft
er the Civil War in which he had
taken brave part. The young SOL
diers are grandnephews of Major
Lane S. Hart, for years one of the
citys leading bankers and now re-
tired.