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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-17
Right and Wrong

There is one great trouble among
men, and that is because they have
not clear conceptions of what is
right and what is wrong. They go
through life with their thoughts all
confused upon this subject, and
very often take the wrong side al
most as a natural result. But ev-
erybody should have a clear idea of
what is right and wrong, for IL they
do and make use of the knowledge
their lives win be happier and so
ciety exalted. A few questions will
make plain the riglirness or wrong
ness of a matter in question: On
which side of this issue Is rever-
ence, honesty, purity. unselfshness,
candor? If these do not figure on
a side of an issue, you may be sure
IL is the wrong side. If there is an
omission of any one of these quail
ties it is the wrong side.
Judgment in these matters of ev-
eryday life, upon which q person
wants to be right, can easily be
reached by interposing these ques-
tions. Suppose upon the common ex-
perience of voting there may be
some doubt; juct ask these questions
concerning the candidate and you
will find 1t is a very easy matter to
be on the right side. Does the can
didate suggest reverence, honesty
purity, unselfishness, candor2 If not,
he is on the wrong side: 1t makes no
difference what party badge he may
wear. II you want 10 be right you
will vote against him, The same rule
will apply I'm all the concerns of life.
Ohio State Journal
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-17
Loyaty of Your Children

There is hardly mother of aver
age intelligence, am sure, who does
not try to protect her child from
companions who are coarse, untruth-
full, insincere; from bullies and brag-
CARTS; from children who are bad
hammered or ill-tempered, says Laura
Spencer Porter, in The Mothers
Magazine for September. A brief as
sociation with such influence even
for few hours day in school or the
playground is harmful. If mother
lets her child associate for only half
an hour each day with an influence
that is detrimental she has evidence
enough in hand to see how easily
her child is influenced. She sees the
real danger and she takes steps at
once to counteract the unlovely in
fluence and to break the harmful re-
lationship or to remove the child
from the association which plays
upon him harmfully. And she Is, as
we all know, most wise to do this;
most wise to have a care in q mat
ter of such grave Importance.
Yet l have known many mothers
who though so careful in all these
more obvious matters concerning
the proper companionship for their
hC6iCCI lliCl CuiDly tlO q
subtle companionships; mothers
who without protest, or for that
matter without realization, allow
boys and girls to come constantly
under the harmful influence of un-
loveliness, untruth, insincerity and
vulgarity, in companionships and re-
lationship which are perhaps the
most lastingly important in the
child's life-home surroundings. She
has been careful to see that the
child has no bad companions, but
she has failed to realize that the
home influence is by far the greatest
of them all.
The occasional association with
a bully or a braggart undoubtedly
has its influence, but it may not be
a very lasting one. But the daily,
hourly, subtle powerful influence ex-
erted by the child's home surround
ings, you may rest assured, will play
upon him as nothing else in the
world will.-Exchange
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-17
Willie Lamb; a War Time
Portrait

He danced through life. through
many a cabaret.
At Babylonian feasts he graced the
floor,
While the loud orchestra, its
chords would pour
Like crimson wine, until the break
of day.
His face was young-and weak. We
used to say,
Here is one made for laughter
nothing more;
A lad whose pagan beauty we de-
plore,
An Ariel, or perhaps Dorian Gray"
Yet high above the music of the
dance,
Young Lamb had heard the bugles
over There;
And while we sat and dreamed in a
strange trance.
He left the shallow Broadway gilt
ter and glare,
And gave his boyish heart to strick-
en- France
Ahl call him light and foolish
IL you darel
Charles Hanson Towne. in Life
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-17
WOODEN CROSSES

Go live the wide world overbut when to die
I held it half lifetime through wars mschance
I the wooded the fields
thrush old
A chime mellow
Stone crosses take notice-but the little wooden
Are thrilling minute to the music of the guns!
Outstanding at attention
o.
But Tombstones Civilians loll
At angle and of slow
The tawdry tinsel garland safeguarded under glass;
On the vault empaled in ironscaing paint
The who die England don't rubbing
An automatic stamper and a strip of tin
Record number their
And the Squire dies England treated the
still batalions
allowance
None better than his neighbour circumstance
All beads the turned the France!
wal is carr on,
while they skyline, while
living soldier them and his teeth anew!
perhaps fulfilled;
diadem
V. C. S. M NJ.
them will tell they
Beside the Final Honour of simple Wooden Cross.
e W. HORNUNG In The London Times
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-17
The Home Guard

You have heard this talk of heroes,
of the man who grabbed the flag
And, with death-defying daring,
leaped the buiwarks, with the rag
Shot to pieces, torn and tattered,
gone through many ripping mill,
But with sacred ribbons fluttering.
our good old Glory still;
You have read of captains leading
to the very mouth of hell
And of men, like yelling demons,
following after him pell-mell-
Yes. they're heroes! but remember,
while acclaim is in the air,
That the man behind the soldier is
the chap that sends him grub!
Yes, the man that saves his country
is the man behind the gun,
And the girls behind the men behind
they're angels, every one
And it's mighty fine to praise them.
but just pause q while and think
That we've got to clothe the soldiers,
and they've got to eat and drink,
And they've got to nave more pow
der, and they've got to have more
guns,
And they've got to have our money
by the yellow, clinking tons!
For the spoke and wheel are useless
If they haven't got hub,
And the man behind the soldier is
the chap that sends him grub!
In O. show-down-say they need us;
say they NOW our first wave down.
And we've got to empty substitutes
from every State and town
Well, you'll see the hordes advan-
cling, Uncle Sam will send them on.
Like mighty cloud that rises from
the troubled horizon!
Sure, the red blood of America Is in
the fight to stay,
Whether we do things at home or
whether we are sent away
And the man behind the soldier, he
will hold his banner high
Till there is no room for hatred un-
derneath a smiling sky!
Henry Edward Warner in Rich
mond Times-Dispatch.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-17
sLACKERS-THATS ALL
PROF. HUXLEY.

"HE resistance to the draft in
Oklahoma, North Carolina,
Georgia and Texas is not oppo-
kition to the principle of conscription,
Ebut to military service of any kind.
THE men who are resisting the draft
ARE not in favor of the volunteer sys-
ITEM, as evidenced by the fact that
they have not themselves volun-
lteered. Their theory is that people
lother than themselves ought to bear
the burden of war.
A vast majority of the people Of
the United States recognize the JUS
Nice of the selective conscription sys-
tenn. Registration of all persons
liable to military duty and the draw
ing of numbers by lot in such a
manner that favoritism was abso-
,lutely impossible is a system with
(which no reasonable fault can be
found. No one has even intimated
that there was unfairness in the
drawing.
While it is, of course, impossible
that human beings should be above
making mistakes in the admins
tration of that portion of the law
which relates to physical examina-
ton and exemptions, and although
there will probably be many in
lstances in which the officers admin
astering the law display exceedingly
poor judgment, yet tnere has up to
this time been no complaint of de-
liberate unfairness. This being true,
It is apparent that those who forcibly
resist the draft DO so not because Of
any feeling that an injustice'is being
done them individually, but because
they refuse to recognize any liability
on their part to serve their country
an it's time of need. They would not
have served under a volunteer sys-
tenn and they will serve under the
transcription system only in case they
are forced to do so. They are slack
ers-nothing more nor less.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-17
TROOPS IN RUSSIA WOULD HELP

THE optimism regarding Russia
which the members of the Root
commission have brought back
from Petrograd is fully justified If
only the mathematics of the situation
as to be considered. The numbers of
the Russian people, their strength of
Fundamental resources and the un-
doubted high quality of their de-
votion to the nation all spell ultimate
triumph.
The difficulty at present, however.
is to unity and make use of these
essentials of victory. Mr.. Root is
reported to have told the President
that there is no necessity to send
american troops to the Russian front.
Yet division of Sammees over there
would afford a daily object lesson to
the Slavs of the solidarity of the
races which are making war upon
the Teuton and would do more to
stiffen resistance to the insidious
work of German propagandists than
thousands of speeches or millions in
loans.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-17
FRIDAY EVENING. AUGUST II

Perhaps the most VaIudbIe result
iof all education is the ability to
make yourself do the thing you haze
ito do t0hen it ought to be done,
rqOhether you like it or not; it is the
HtrSt lesson t0hich ought to be learned,
bdnd hotOeUer early a mans training
begins, it is probably the last lesson
lhe learns thoroughly.
-PRoF. HUXLEY.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-17
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Archibald Johnston. who is be-
ing doomed for the first mayor of
Bethlehem worked in the steel works
at that city.
M. A. Neeland. for years with
the Steel Corporation, is the new
president of the New York Ship
building Company.
National Chamber of Commerce,
says in an interview that the ma
tion's business now is war.
John G.. Harman, who is figur-
ing in Columbia county politics, was
formerly in the Legislature.
Lieutenant Colonel f. A. Sny-
der, who is to command the First
Engineers of the Seventh Division,
is we'll known here.
Paul Littiefeld, secretary of the
State Chamber of Commerce, will
represent the headquarters at the
National Chamber Of Commerce
convention at Atlantic City next
month.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-17
Peace Talk Is Pro-Gernan

The peace talk which is being per-
sistently disseminated now is pure
Iy a prof. erman move, intended I'd
save for Germany whatever can be
snatched. ty craft and dishonest
guile, out of the wreck. 1t should
be absolutely ignored by Americans.
Negotiations of any kind with a
nation that ignores honor and hui
manity is out of the question. The
strivings for peace on it's part are
underhanded attempts to re-estab-
lish q power determined to enslave
the world with its brutality, That
power Is rocking at its foundations.
1t must be struck down and swept
off the face of the earth.
Anyone. then. who is for peace
under the present status is either
pro- German or misguided fanatic,
dangerous to the country, 1t is treas
enable to the cause of Liberty to
advocate peace at this time or at any
time until Germany has been forced
to complete surrender.-TheB Bacha
Review
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-17
Labor Notes
By Briggs

Women are not allowed to become
drug clerks in Germany.
Bolivia has S04 miles of railway
built and 5000 miles projected.
+ Printing pressmen throughout Can
ada are making splendid progress.
Seven thousand workers In Cali
fornia oil fields demand an eight-hour
day.
Dundalk, Scotland, distillery work.
ers demand an increase of S1.25 a
week.
Coal miners at Nanaimo, B. c., have
secured an eight per cent. increase
in pay.
Chicago hotels are considering the
replacing of their men walters with
women.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-17

of experience, ability and fair repu-
tation. He is just the type needed in
City Council. His election was as
certain as anything of the kind can
be and his retirement will be dis
tinct loss to the city. There are few
men in Harrisburg so well qualified
for the superintendency of the water
department as he.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-17
Hate

Hate is ill-will. When you dislike
another person intensely. when you
detest and abhor some human, your
mind creates poison in your own
system; and no man can make good
while poisoned.
When a man let's his enmity and
malice get the better of his COM
mon decency, he is the one who gets
hurt.
When the world becomes peopled
with folks who are repulsive, re-
pellent and repugnant to you, It's all
off with you.-The Silent Partner.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-17
And in another paragraph he gave
MIR. DUNKLEs WITHDRAWAL

TT is to be regretted that Samuel
F. Dunkle finds it impossible to
stand as a candidate for City
Council. Since his election by Coun-
cil to I'LL the vacancy caused by the
death Of Councilman Bowman. he
has conducted the water department
along most efficient and economical
lines. Mr.. Dunkle is q businAss man.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-17
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg Is using
ouantities of coal in its INDUS
tries every day that would have
run them for a month twenty
years ago?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-17
Siam Can Heln Some

One OF the best things about
Slams entry into the war is that the
country is reported to have a WE'LL
equipped aviation corps. Aviators
can find employment on every front,
and II will be hard to find too many
Of thems-Portland Oregonian.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-17
EDITORIAL CONVENT

The Kaiser will go down in his
tory; in fact, he is going down al
ready.-Springfeld Republican.
Germany expects every Hessian
fly in the wheat belt to be true to
the Fatherland.-Bost Transcript.
When Edison discovers a method
of safety from the submarine peril,
he might tackle the automobile
St. Louis Globe Democrat.
The Kaiser may have lost control
of the Reichstag. but he is still able
to muster q few votes in the United
States Senate.-Boston Transcript.
1t is said that the Crown Prince
lauds U-boat warfare as the last ar
gument of kings. Let us hope it may
be the last.-New York Sun.
In the list of names of experts
who have been selected to run Amer
lean troop trains abroad we fail to
note that of Mr.. Mellen.-Boston
Transcript.
Chicago's Mayor is right in think
ing that we should protect ourselves
against invasion. A good place to
begin would be our politics.-New
York Evening Post.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-17
time.
DON'T WASTE TT

WYE warn our readers against
wv wasting platinum. Despite
the discovery of several new
mines in Alaska. the supply Is lin
tied and must be conserved. So don't
waste it, even II the price is only
k146 an ounce
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-17
Docs It Seem Fair2

About half of the discomfort in this
world arises from the circumstance
that men cannot collect the living
they think the world owes them
putting In about eight good
hours OF toll a day.-Houston Post.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-17
limiting at Some One

German noodles are excellent in
their plnce, accompanying a pot
roast, for example, but they are en-
tirely undesirable at the head of q
great city.-Chicago News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-17
IITsTORIC HARRTSBURG

John Harris entertained many OF
the men who became leaders OF
passed through here on their way
to their new homes.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-17
ROOTS REMEDY

~ LIHU ROOT, head of the United
n States commission to Russia,
speaking i'll New York the other
evening, said:
There are some newspapers pub
lished in this city every day, the
editors of which deserve convic-
ton and execution for treason.
And sooner or later they will get
It. The American people are not
going to see their young men led
to death through the Vaccinations
of these ill concealed friends of
the enemy of our country
And in another paragraph he gave
what many will regard as a proper
remedy for the evil when he said:
There are men walking about
the streets of this city Tonight
that ought to be taken out at sum
rise tomorrow and shot for trea-
son.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-17
THE POPE'S MESSAGE

w to the effect that President
Wilson is disappointed in the Pope's
peace proposals, as outlined in his
message made public yesterday.
They are not specific enough to pro-
vide a basis for peace negotiations,
he believes, and with that a major
ity of Americans, we think, will
agree. But after all, their very lack
in this respect may prove a virtue,
for they leave to the President tho
opportunity of making reply which
would not commit this nation to any
thing and would place the burden
of responsibility for refusing peace
upon the shoulders of Germany. At
all OuuS lnlS huSl pe dSSohlPiiShSob
If the proper effect is to be made
upon the minds of the German peo-
pie.
One big outstanding fact is entire
ly missed by the Pope in his very
laudable effort to bring the war to
an end-the utter unreliability of the
German government as it exists to-
day. We know by past experience
that Prussianism knows neither
truth nor honor. We cannot deal
with that kind of government until
it is beaten to it's knees. Treaties
are mere scraps of paper" so far
as 1t is concerned, and the day after
peace terms had been agreed upon it
might be expected to turn and rend
without warning those with whom it
had just made solemn agreements.
Two things, or either one of them.
will bring peace, and nothing else.
Either Germany must unhorse the
rascals now in control of affairs
there, or Germany must be dubbed
into submission. The first depends
upon the German people, for it is
perfectly evident that men who have
gone the lengths the Kaiser and his
colleagues have to win world power
will not relinquish their hold except
by compulsion. The second lies with
the allies, America included, and
there are signs that the long delayed
victory is only a matter of time.
Germany could we'll afford to dick
er for Alsace and the territory in
vaded and held by German arms, be-
cause if the terms proposed did not
suit she could reject them. But the
allies could not treat with Germany
as the Pope suggests, for men do not
parley with murderers and highway
men for the return of their loot.
No! Unless Germany is willing to
consider steps that under present
conditions are unthinkable, the war
must continue until the German peo-
pie are aroused to the enormity of
the crimes their rulers have COM
mitted or the allies smash the armed
forces of the country or starve them
into submission.
Nevertheless, the Pope's message
can be of vast service to the allies,
who should see to it that their ex-
pressed terms of peace are so shaped
as to eliminate any differences OF
opinion that might work to their dis
advantage. So long as the allied
aims are as one with respect to the
main objects of the war. so long
will their solidarity be maintained
and the ever-growing pressure upon
Germany from without be increased
until the breaking point is reached
On the other hand. Germany will be
forced to admissions that will fur
ther solidify public opinion in the
allied countries while stirring up
dissension at home, or the Kaiser
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-17

'E. j. .STACKPOLE,P Prsst s. Editorin-C Chief
f. r. OYSTER. Business Manager.
GUS M. STEINMETz, Managing Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-17
OUR DAILY LAUGH
HE WAS
WISE.

oh Jimmie,
let's play war
and use your
balloon for an
observation bal
loon.
Nix on that, I
tried that yes
terday and the
enemy captured
my balloon, and
1 had to buy
another.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-17

published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.,
Telegraph Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-17

John B. Oberholtzer, former
sheriff of Lebanon. has simplified
matters in the contest for prothon-
otary in that county by withdrawing.
There are two candidates left.
Auditor General Charles A.
Snyder will address the State Elks
convention at Sunbury next Tuesday.
james A. Carey, one of the
prominent Philadelphia leaders,
charges politics in the latest transfers
of police in Philadelphia.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-17

Women are not allowed to become
drug clerks in Germany.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-17
PERHAPS 1T
WOULD.

My, J
wonder II II
W o u | d take
them off of me
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-17

Printing pressmen throughout Can
ada are making splendid progress.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-05-16
BOTTOM FALLS
OUT OF WHEAT
Less Than One Percent Of
Usual Business,

CHICAGO. May ls.-There seemed to
be no bottom today TO the wheat mar
kct Lack ~ support was 40 evident
that prices made an almost sheer descent
of 10 cents a bushel Under the emer-
fency rcRula lions I'm force the only posi-
bic buyers would have 10 be shorts hut
the demand from this source appeared 10
have suffered either through sufficient
purchases or because Of belief that values
would 40 ttill lower. Hardly hs many ns
u score OF brokers were In the pit and
the aggregate Of trading seemed less than
a fraction Of | percent NJ the total vol
une OF business ordinarily transacted
Opening prices, which ranged from . 10
~ points sIo~er, with July nj 81 15f 2 so,
and September ,at s. 0G02 ~ were fol
lowed by setbacks respectively 10 s. 25
and S. o. with only transient intervening
rallies Of 20 2 cents.
Before the first hour Of the session
ended September wheat broke still fur
ther. smashing below s? On and ceiling AZ
ilss. an overnight fail OF 23 cents a
bushel
Corn and oats dropped with wheat. The
warm weather, favorable TO crop develop
mont tended also 10 increase bcarist
sentiment
corn. after opening tdlAc lower. dc.
I sccrdod to cents OF more under yes
/ tcrdays finish
| Oats. rnrnnwhile. fcll about cents
/ Trade In both corn and oats was Of mod
| crat" proportions
Absence OF demand weakened provi
sions Offerings. however. were nc
large.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-05-16
DOGS AID RED CROSS.
Society Urges Gifts of Sporting Ami
mails Cease, However.

PARIS Dogs have rendered yalua
bic service in Red Cross work in
France during the paa two years but
the society in Paris, which supplies the
dogs to the ambuIances at the front.
has issued a request that no more
porting dogs be presented to the army
"Ai,hough intelligent, rcSourceiul and
courageous dogs which have been ac-
cuHomcd to 60 out with Sportsmen
will not do for. war service" says the
,ocictyS notice They are so com.
pletely the slaves OF their old passion
that no training can cure them A
pointer. once he scents pheasant
can't resist the temptation and viii
abandon a wounded soldier to 60 II
n,irSuit Of the bird"