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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-09-14
WINDHAM COUNTY
VETERANS MEET
Annual Reunion Held at Island
Park Wednesday
Address Made by Department Command
OF Pierce Of vetaennea Capt "
q. htteetet President

The ANNUAL meeting nf the Winthnnt
county Veterans hssucinliun. cant
lluutN g. Hituutri nf lhniilphuin rtrsi
deni. was held "Wednesday nrtr,nuun ~
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-09-14
ULAHHMoNT BEATHN
Etoweli pitched All Tigh, HALL and tu
Gale Uopped the Game hy Score Of

80 Michael o \ \ team won annlhrt
victory al leland rnll SUNDAY nrl
rrnoon. hlnnhing the strong Sullivan
Machine co tenn from ,'lnipmoni
~ II tn u II wns fact. annppv
game. featured hv htnwrll q pitching.
Nihv @ worth al ahuii pnd two double
lnyR hv the lucnln,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-09-14

A woman with soul for poetry rarely
has a taste for clothes.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-09-14
=HOughtOn q SimOnds.
--Houghto q
The Summer Season is Over

From now until Christmas will be n period Of stirring
activy-the time when the needs of all humanity are
most diversified Getting ready for colder weather, the
social aeaaon and the home life indoors a the business
that concerns everybody Just now-those who have TO
look after their individual needs and those who
HonAble for the comfort Of family and the Of
home Let thia store hcp-and be assured that your in
crcsta are Hateguardcd here. in the matter of quality.
and value and service
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-09-14

The American people spend $l7i, OO0, 600
annually ior soft drinks.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-09-14
The New Colors

neetroot Ia the much her
aided new 1eapon nhade.
heat depctihed Nv TIA name
pelgian and navy blue. rupt
and lava brown, Gone taupe.
plum, hemlook green and
brick ahadep have q gene,
uuu showing among the more
staple colutu.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-09-14
The Trend of the
Smartest Suit Fashions

ite Individuality Of design.
there certain eenerates which will lend you pic
distinguishing Designers have much
credit for eHectine useful and good looking
collars in fact The collar s often the striking
of the whole suit
The straight lines which called for well brought
the splenddly tailored effects with their psita and
belts the long close Hckscn sleeve fancy button trim
uings. many with velvet combinations and few
brodered The surplce idea IL which is especially
orosting in modelling of tho unusual suits and
collars, cuffs and fur trimmings pockets nd;-
a season of fur trimmed suits.
An early visit the Garment Sections will many
of the prominent fashion features all lines apparel
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-09-14

nroadcloth tahes itp usual
rtoninent place an a rail-
nui,ina. then uahatdine ,uua
= cloao second t'utther va
,ietipa include tho new al
vettone. which ia perhapu
the most distinctive ~ all
the novelties. alsr bu,ella.
Pcitet Twill, Trico,ine. We
low and OSfutds
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-18
BREAD ON THE WATERS

A GOOD story comes from a
II little New England town
where a poor and aged woman
has Just come into an inheritance
as the result of a kindly act done
early in her life, when she hursed
back to health a Civil War soldier
who fell i'll at her home on his way
back from the army, after having
been seriously wounded. For five
years, it has developed, ever since
she lost her own means, she has lived
on the pension of the man who, dy-
ing, left her sufficient to keep the
wolf from her door for the remain
der of her life.
The story reads like fiction. hut
there is nothing much out of the or
dinary about it, after all. The little
girl scattered her bread upon the
waters and in old age it was re-
turned unto her. a hundred fold.
There never was truer proverh
than that which adjures us to scat
ter our bread" Not always do we
recognize the harvest. Or know why
we are garncring It, hut "as we sow,
even so shall we reap" and if we go
back far enough the effect may be
easily traced to tho cause.
Scatter your bread upon the
waters, and it shall be returned unto
you. And if it he sour, and heavy
and full OF humps, unsavory and un-
wholesome, be sure it will be that
kind which comes floating back to
YOU. But If 1t be sweet. tasty and
nourishing, that also will nc your
harvest.
Scatter your bread, but make sure
OF the kipd you are scattering.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-18
STIFLING THE TRAITOR

T HE stupendous might and un-
daunted loyalty of America, Just
beginning to be recognized by
Germany, which is plainly planning
for peace, has never sbeen displayed
since the war began as it was last
night at the great meeting of the
Union League in Philadelphia, where
chief speaker.
In the language of the day, Mr..
McAdoo cut loose" That is what
America wants. The singing of the
majestic and terrible strains of The
Battle Hymn of the Republic" arous-
cd the huge audience to frenzy.
"A man who doesn't think we are
justified in this war has yellow blood
in his Veins-not red blood" de-
ci9red the cabinet officer.
"As for those who are not heart
and soul in the war we must make
them feel that they stand apart. We
aren't hesitating to waste lives in
order to save liberty. The people of
Russia have failed to establish them
selves because they failed 20 deal
with traitors. 1t is our purpose now
to make America an unhealthy soil
for such as these. We will finish him
(the Kaiser) before we get through
this infamous despot, this sacri-
ligious egotist, who claims a part
nership with God"
Mr.. McAdoo is the first member of
the cabinet to fully express what the
great bulk of Americans feel. His
resolute words form a wall of ada
mant for the patriot TO back up
against. Here is no faltering, no col
lusion, no wavering. This is from
the shoulder. 1t will do more to
muffle the traitor, active or pas
sive, than anything which has been
said.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-18
INDUSTRIAL LOYALTY

The dissipation of German hopes
that there would be fertile soil in
this country for n Bolsheviki pro-
gram, operating through the /. w.
w. and kindred elements of indus
trial discomfort, is evidenced in the
report of the Secretary of Labor that
in six months since the declaration
of war, although there have been
521 separate instances of industrial
discomfort to which the attention of
the Department of Labor has been
called, in but 43 has there been Il
failure of the efforts of mediation
and concihation.
No extraordinary magic attaches
to an anDointment as federal me-
diator. 1t is not to be assumed that
a new formula has been discovered
which will be effective against in
dustrial disputes under all Gircum-
stances. In the majority of in
stances there has beeen no attempt
made to arbitrate carefully the diff
ferences as to wages or conditions of
labor. The universal appeal has
been to the patriotism of either side
in the dispute, and the agreement
has been reached by one side or the
other, or both, waving all selfish
considerations, even beyond the line
of justice, and making a sacrifice
if necessary, in order that the pro-
cesses of production might not be
infpeded.
Giving due credit to the Depart
ment of Labor for its efforts at
peacemaking. the figures are chiefly
significant as a barometer reading
indicating fair weather in American
industry. while the sign of war
reigns in the zodiac.-Philadel
Bulletin.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-18
Over he 1oEs
t~ PenNo.

Shamokin: The Government will
acquire a new insight of anthracite
miners earnings through an order re-
quiring all coal companies to report
to the internal revenue collectors the
names and earnings of individual
miners earning in excess of $1,000
per year. Payrolls are being gone
over, and clerks report that they
have found many miners who come
within the scope of the federal in
come tax law.
Antonius Antopolis, Allentown
Greek, who was drafted for the
army, but who failed to appear for
examination, was arrested at Allan
tic City and was sent to Camp
Meade without further delay. It's Il
long way from Tony to Themisto-
cles.
The father of a four-year-ol boy
in Yorkville, Pa, reports that the
youngster has asked Santa Claus for
a road roller. Gee whiz, the State
Highway Department should look up
this livewire.
This war is going to make many
high fliers in Schuylllill Comfy"
predicts We editor, besides those
who are profiung through Govern
ment commissions and high prices.
Just look at the big aviation squad
ron we sent away"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-18
ENTERPRISE AND THE WAR

TN ENDORSEMENT by Secretary
~ McAdoo of the recent 10000
900 five and one-haif per cent.
bond issue of the Miami Conservancy
District, which has for it's object the
construction OF such a system Of
food control in the Miami Valley. as
will prevent q repetition OF the Day.
ton disaster of q few years back,
while the nation is marketing four
per cent. Liberty Bonds, is COM
meutary upon existing financial con-
ditions. The government has let II
be known that it does not approve
generally of bond issues for local or
private enterprises during the war,
but Mr.. McAdoo in his letter TO the
Dayton commission makes it clear
that there may be exceptions. Public
and community needs must be met
and big enterprises in some in
stances must be carried on despite
the war. In Harrisburg we have
as an example the Penn-Harris Ho-
tel, financed before the war and de-
SiShSd " iiSSt a. very III StIlJ uclnanu.
The growing importance of this city
as military, munition and war sup
ply center makes adequate hotel ia
cilities necessary. Very properly the
work of construction is being hur-
ried along.
AS Mr.. McAdoo says, 'it is only by
subordinating local and personal in
terests to the public welfare, and by
enforcing the most rigid economy in
matters of public and private enter
prise, as well as in matters of per-
sonal expenditure, that the United
States can hope to bear its part of
the financial burden of the war and
TO release sufficient labor and mater
ials for war purposes without deple-
ton of our resources" and just how
far any community or corporation
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-18
CONFESSION OF FAILURE

The Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion pleads the extraordinary con-
ditions of war as its excuse for hand
ing over the railroads to Congress
for pooling and other legislation, or
to the President for operating during
the war under Government guaran-
tee of an adequate annual return
1t is not good excuse. The ex-
traordinary conditions of war as ef
fecting the roads have been under
the eyes of the commission for many
months. The now admitted made
quacy of their revenues has been OBJ
vious. The fundamental condition
of adequate railroad revenue and
credit is not Government credit, but
adequate railroad rates The Com
mission is charged by law to allow
adequate rates or IAN adequate
annual return" but it has dawdled
over that issue all summer long with
out being able to decide anything
until now the situation is concededly
out of hand
1t is a confession of failure without
excuse.-New York World.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-18
KOLR AND BROWN

Colonel Louis Kolb doesn't care
who knows that he is a master bak-
er as we'll as a bon raconteur and a
prince of good fellows.
When the Attorney General of
New York was hammering the bak-
er's business in that state to bring
it into conformity with the statutes
the Colonel was standing in Il
group with Governor Brumbaugh,
John Gribbel and our Attorney Cen
eral, Francis Skunk Brown, waiting
to board n train at harrisburg.
Suddenly Colonel Kolb dotted his
hat to somebody out in the street.
The others followed suit.
who's that you're bowling to?'
queried the Attorney General.
"a bakers wagon" answered the
Colonel. "I wanted to get our At
torney General to pay due respect
to the business that his colleague
over in New York is prosecuting."-
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-18
The Way of the Child

T F we expect our children to fol-
low in our footsteps, we make
sad mistake, and prepare our
children for fail Ire and ourselves
for bitter disappointment says Ly-
man Abbott in the Outlook. We
must teach them to fly; but when
they have learned we must expect
them to fly in paths of their own
choosing. If we wish to retain the
companionship of our children, we
must follow them into their newly
discovered realms and join with
them in their experiences; we cam
not expect them to remain satisfied
to share our life with us-to think
as we think and to feel as we feel.
If the child manifests the artistic
temperament, the parent must learn
with him something of art: if the
scientific temperament, something of
science. If the parent finds himself
unable to do this, then he must be
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-18
A B c OF KuLTUR

] stands for Junker. My! he looks
fine!
See! He is singing Die Wacht" on
the Rhine.
You could bet on the Rhine he
would much rather be
Than helping the Kaiser to get to
Paree.
K stands for Kultur--it keeps the
Beer cold;
1t cures all Disease and prevents
growing old;
1t polishes silverware. kills any corn.
And babies all cry for 1t when they
are born.
L stands for Loot-the warriors
prize,
That quickens his footsteps and
brightens his eyes.
In each little village that's burned
to the ground, -.i
There's booze and Havanas enough
to go round. Life.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-18
WELL. KNOWN PEOPLE

Col. L. A. Watres has been
chosen head of the Scranton Boy
Scouts organization in which he has
shown u great interest for years.
Col. E. A. Deeds, of the United
States Army, says he thinks the
floods which have caused so much
damage in Western Pennsylvania.
valleys can be controlled.
Rudolph Blankenberg says that
he would like very much 10 go
through just one more campaign.
w. Hayward Myers, vice-presi-
dent of the Pennsylvania and former
Harrisburger, has been elected presi-
dent of the st. David's Golf Club.
William Finn plans to stay at
Pittsburgh all winter and will forego
his usual southern trip because of
work.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-18

Pennsylvania Railroad officials have
given full consideration to the part that
that great corporation will have In the
development of the Capitol Park zone
affect the property of the railroad
company. 1t is obvious that the new
passenger station must be located at
the foot of Walnut street, fronting
the park and the State authorities are
going forward on this assumption
The city authorities likewise will pro-
ceed with the part that must be play
ed by the municipality in this great
Improvement.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-18
Headmasters Who Have a Head

1t is perhaps unnecessary to say,
when one looks over the list of able
educators from Pennsylvania, New
Jersey and Maryland, who have Just
formed the Philadelphia Eleadmas-
ters' Club of Boys Boarding Prepar-
atory Schools, that the headmasters
have shown that they have head in
deciding that this is the time to bring
about closer cooperation in the mat
ter OF educational essentials, That
the primary cause for the orgauiza-
ton is also a patriotic one, in that
the headmasters wish to train the
boys along lines of mental and phys
ical education which will make them
more intensely fitted for the nation
al service, is a thing to be expected
at this time and from the men of
high ideals who are back of this new
movement. But at the same time
even patriotism does not lead every
one to wise action, and the uncom-
mon sense which underlieS this new
organization is not found every day
in the educational world either in
the secondary schools or in the COL
leges. The fact is, however, that
cooperation along certain general
lines, with pointed exchange between
the best schools, must prove of the
gravest value not only to the schools
themselves, in the matter of imme-
diate war necessities, but to prepara-
tory school education in general. for
the future as we'll as for the pres
ent. On all sides there are demands
that secondary education shall reor-
lent itself with regard to the new
needs of the nation and of civiliza-
ton, and such cooperation that the
headmasters propose should estab-
lish some of the most pregnant basic
factors naaHad in American pdllra-
tion of today.-Philadelp Public
T,edpnr
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-18
THE STATE PRESS

Although Prussians are the freest
people on EARTH" the kaiser's Iaith-
tul Socialists. led by Pnllip Scheide-
mann, found that a Sunday mass
meeting in Berlin is "verboten.' -
Pittsburgh Dispatch.
"Our navy is wonderful" says
Daniels. Ye Gods, has Daniels just
found out?-Erie Dispatch.
Distinguished Chicago psychopath
announces that the longer you kiss
the same woman the less thrill you
get. because the electro chemical
action diminishes. Darn 'em, they're
trying to work us toward a kissless
day.-Allentown Chronicle.
An abused Benedict appeared in
n Pittsburgh court and complained
that his wife had threatened 10 kill
him! that she threw an alarm clock
and powder box at him, hit him IN
the eye with a stove hook, bit his
middle finger, tore his night shirt
and then whacked him over the head
with a broom when he tried to es-
cape. And merely for this he asks
the court to grant him legal sepa-
ration from his gentle spouse! He
must be pacifist-Lebanon Daily
News.
Now that a Russian general has
been killed by being thrown off q
railroad train, the Russian officers
will learn that they must implicitly
obey the commands the private SOL
diers give them.-Reading News
Times.
The man who cannot find his ma
live dialect somewhere in Chester
must have had his "igloo' near the
"big nail" or slept for centuries with
tie Hittites.-Chester Times.
Now that Jerusalem has fallen the
Kaiser will be under the necessity OF
explaining that his Junior Partner
went back on him-Baltimore Sun.
If the fitness of things is to be
subserved, why not substitute the
American COW as the great national
bird? We may be a bit mixed on
the pathological data. but a good
COW is some bird.-Lebanon Daily
News
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-18

content to let the growing child live
in one kingdom while he lives in
another This is hard for the parent,
especially for the mother. To see
her boy growing away from her
sometimes seems to her more than
she can bear. But if she cannot join
with him in his intellectual and spir-
itual adventures, she must bear the
separation with such courage as she
can command. The world would be-
come a monotonous world, and an
unvital world, and an ungrowing
world. and a dead world, If it were
not composed of men and women OF
differing abilities and interests, as
we'll as of differing vocations and ac-
tivities. Life is a great orchestra;
we cannot transform it into drum
and fife corps, nor insist that our
children shall play the instrument
which we have chosen for our play
ing.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-18
NATIONAL PROHIBITION

y ATIONAL prohibition won a
IN tremendous victory yesterday
when the House, by decisive vote,
passed the resolution putting amend
ment of the constitution forbidding
the manufacture or sale of intoxi-
cants up to the legislatures of the
several states. The Senate having
adopted a similar resolution, the
prohibition question is settled so far
as Congress is concerned. 1t now
remains for a majority of states to
approve the proposed amendment,
after which it becomes an irrevoca-
BILE tenet OF government.
Seven years will be allowed
for this and the prohibitionists
have the advantage, since any State
may vote down the amendment one
session and adopt it the next, where
as If the amendment is once passed
it cannot be recalled. No doubt
there will be a great scramble in
many States TO be first on the pro-
hibition bandwagon and the growth
of temperance sentiment is so rapid
everywhere that liquor manufacture
ers and merchants may as we'll be-
gin to prepare for the end.
The whole nation may we'll re-
joice in this action of Congress. The
drink evil has been a curse to the
country. 1t must go the way of
slavery and similar institutions. A
century hence men will wonder why
it was permitted to exist so long.
The most gratifying feature of the
House vote yesterday was that party
politics played no large part in it.
For example, majority of Repuoli-
can members from Pennsylvania, in
cluding Congressman Kreider, voted
in favor of the resolution, while a
majority of Democrats of this State
opposed the prohibition measure.
The State representation as a whole, |
regardless of party, voted $3.50"
on the measure.
No party is the party of booze
and neither of the big parties is the
party of prohibition, but a majority
of all parties favor it, which is the !
best augury in the world for its sue
cess before the various legislatures.
Congress has given the nation a
Christmas gift worth while.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-18
PASSING THOUGHTS

It's strange how people say II
cahn't"
In Boston;
And how a nephew says my ahn't"
In Boston.
One rides around within a 'cah,"
And streets are smeared with sticky
"tah;"
The "R" is camoufiaged as "ah,"
In Boston.
But things as strange are on each
lip
In Jersey City:
The well known whip becomes a
''wip''
In Jersey City.
The sparrow wears the title bold,
In Jersey City.
The second drink precludes the
"thoid,"
And what they hear they say they've
hold
In Jersey City.
Life.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-18
EDITORIAL COMMENT

The information that Russa's gold
reserve is in safe hands" is lndeiin-
ite, but it makes 1t plain that the
MaXimalists haven't got it anyway
Kansas City Times.
Count Karolyi says he is going to
get in touch with the Allies"
Quite a number of his countrymen
already are, but there is always
room for few more.-Chicago Her.
aid.
A visiting French representative
declares that Germany went to war
largely to ret iron. Well. she has
had a lot of French iron and steel
in fashion she did not exactly an
icipate.-Chicago Herald.
A red rag to bull, and red
cross to a Prussian.-BoSton Herald.
The compiler of the Russian
who's Who" has our sympathy
Macon Telegraph.
Our soldiers need new clothes
more than you, ana oIto--er.-Wall
Street Journal.
If God is leading the Germans for
ward in Italy, who is leading them
backward in Belgium-Wichita Bea-
con.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-18

proffers of the city. to the end that
the prolonged controversy over the
necessary improvement should come
to an end. 1t is only fair that those
who have been ready to accept the
awards of the viewers should be given
an opportunity to locate elsewhere, as
they have been ready to do so for
more than a year.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-18

OF all the literature of the war.
none is so illuminating as the letters
from the Harrisburg boys in France
and elsewhere in the service of their
country. There is a spirit of devo-
ton to duty manifested in these COM
munications to the Telegraph which
must leave a deep impression upon
those who are behind the lines.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-18

Not only are the people of Harrisburg
interested in the progress of the Penn
Harris Hotel. but visitors. commercial
men and all having occasion to stop
here on official or other business are
constant boosters of the Million dol
lar structure now rising skyward at
Third and Walnut streets.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-18
THE LORD IS Coon

And let these my words, where
with have made supplication before
the Lord, be nigh unto the Lord our
God day and night, that he main i
tain the cause of his servant, and
the cause of his people Israel at All
that all the people of the earth ma
know that the Lord is God. and thaI
there is none else.-I Kings VIII. RI
and so.