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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-30
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A the leaders in the Second Lib
~ erty Loan campaign in this sec
ton Donald Mccormick and
William Jennings have generously
rendered in a public statement their
thanks and congratulations to all
who had a part in the successful can
vass in behalf of Uncle Sam. 1t
would now seem to be the graceful
thing for all the people of this COM
munity to give these two indefatigible
managers a rising vote of thanks for
their intelligent and earnest efforts
in raising the allotment apportioned
to this territory. They have won the
good will of all patriotic citizens for
disinterested and important public
service.
When the history of the war, so
far as this community is concerned,
shall have been written. one of the
most important chapters will have to
do with the raising of funds for the
prosecution of the war. AS chairmen
of the district and county forces, Mr..
Mccormick and Ms. Jennings met
the expectations of all interested in
this remarkable campaign for the
mobilization of the funds of the peo-
pie. and they had the cooperation
of as able a body of committeeman
as ever campaigned in Harrisburg.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-30

manity, will have become its own
god.
christianity will be done away
with according to the ideas of Metz
sche as the great awakening and en-
ervating influence. The only great
person is he who has power and uses
it. Sin, redemption, repentance, the
greatest and most profound things
that human thought tries to fathom,
do not exist for this company of
heartless bullies, whose members,
with monocles in their left eyes and
rafting sabers in their right hands,
challenge the world in order to place
the German heel upon its neck in
ancient Roman fashion,"
Some light may be thrown upon
this movement by the open confess
sion of atheism made by Count Won
Bernstorff just before his departure
from our shores. The Christian
Evangelist refers to his quoted
words as exhibiting a symptom of
modern Germany. AS a contrast to
the not remote past it recalls that
the late ambassadors father was a
deeply religious man, and one of the
evangelical leaders of the Germany
of the last generation-the Germany
that so many people love and rever-
ence and believe in."-From the Lit
erary Digest.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-30
THE ANXIOUS DEAD
o guns, fall silent till the dead me
hear

o guns, fall silent till the dead men
hear
Above their heads the leglons
pressing on:
(These fought their fight in time of
bitter fear
And died not knowing how the day
had gomez.
o flashing muzzles, pause, and let
them see
The coming dawn that streaks The
sky afar;
Then let your mighty chorus witness
be
To them, and Caesar, that we still
make war.
Tell them, o guns, that we have
heard their call,
That we have sworn, and will not
turn aside,
That we will onward till we win or
fall,
That we will keep the faith for
which they died.
Bid them be patient, and some day,
anon
They shall feel earth enwrapt in
silence deep,
Shall greet, in wonderment, the
quiet dawn,
And in content may turn them to
their sleep.
john McCrae in the Spectator.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-30
UNIVERSITY FUNCTIONS

What is the matter with our uni
versities is that all the students are
schoolboys, whereas it is of the very
essence of university education that
they should be men. The function
of a university is not to teach things
that can now be taught as well or
better by university extension lee
turers or by private tutors or mod
ern correspondence classes with
gramophones. We go to them to be
socialized; to acquire the hallmark
of communal training; to become
citizens of the world instead of in.
mates of the enlarged rabbit hutches
we call homes; to learn manners and
become interchangeable ladies and
gentlemen. The social pressure
which effects these changes should
be that of persons who have faced
the full responsibilities of adults as
working members of the general
community, not that of barbarous
rabble of half-emaciated schoolboys
and unemancipable pedants. - G.
Bernard Shaw.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-30
TEMPORARY EXPEDIENT

OF price-fiXing generally it must
be said that it has not made good
in history. The plan has been tried
many times, but invariably ways
have been found to evade the regu-
lations. AS an experiment in gov
ernment it is faulty because, among
other reasons, it fails to allow for
human nature. which is basically
selfish and does not long adapt it
self to schemes for making it do
what is undesirable.
In times like the present, however,
price-fixing may be feasible because
the public is with and not against
the policy. The element of patriot
ism enters into the situation. People
want to do their share in winning
the war, and they not only submit
to regulations they would at other
times resent, but they actively try
to assist the regulations by doing
even more than is required.
AS a temporary eXpedient in an
emergency price-fixing may accom-
plish the purposes for which it is
being used, although its failure
would be assured if it were to be
continued after the emergency had
ended. At least it will receive the
earnest cooperation of practically all
the people of the country, and If they
can't make it a winner nothing can.
Detroit Free Press.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-30
THE BUREAU OF MARKETS

n NE of the arguments raised
against the creation of the
State Bureau of Markets as a
branch of the State Department of
Agriculture during the recent legis-
lature was that it had never been
possible to buck the eternal law of
supply and demand with a statute.
However, the General Assembly of
Pennsylvania saw fit to establish the
bureau, giving it almost plenary
powers and the Governor accepted
the recommendation of an experi-
enced farmer and agricultural OK
pert as its first chief. The bureau
seems to have been successful in
getting peaches and other fruits dis
tributed and is endeavoring to get
1000 bushels or so of potatoes so
lined UP that it can distribute them.
1t has been doing other things from
time to time which indicate that II is
in running order.
just now the charge is being made
in newspapers and in the market
place>that farmers are holding back
their produce. The old cry is heard
that the farmer. seeing that his time
is coming. is sitting with his back
against the barn waiting for higher
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-30
REVERSED JUDGMENT

can beat the fellerS runnin', can
climb the slickest tree,
And our best baseball performer
hasn't got no cinch on me.
There's a dozen stunts and trick
plays 1 could beat the blazes
at
If 1t wasn't I'm so hindered cause
my mas 'fraidy-cat.
She won't let me go in swimmin'
where Deephole is clear and
cool,
Cause a little boy got drowned there
playing hockey oncet from
school,
She won't let me make explosions,
though I've got the science
pat,
Oh. there's lots o. fun I'm missing
cause she's such 'fraidy-cat.
When that slide-for-life was runnin'
yard,
All the guys Jest dared me try 1t, but
1 fought temptation hard
TIL Len Haskins yelled out tauntin',
II know what yer baking at,
You could do this jest as easy, but
your mas a 'fraidy-cat."
l was promisin' to smash him It'll he
couldn't hardly see,
When that slide-for-life got busted
and 1t did the work for me.
When Doc Smith had sewed his side
up and had patched a broken
slat,
Len says real apologizin', ''Wisht my
mas a 'fraidy-cat."
When our oldest brother William.
that We used to call Jest
"BilI'-
Joined the army and went marchin'
with the soldiers to Fort Sill,
I thought mad jest take on awful,
like Jim's mother, Miz Sprat,
Wiring 'er hands and look all tearie,
but she fooled us good on
that.
She's the bravest of the whole bunch;
said life wasn't worth while
If folks couldn't do their duty to
their country with smile.
went out behind the grapevines
and Jest throwed up my hat
And hollered, "Rah for our mai She
amt no 'fraidy-cat."
by Emma Clark Karr.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-30
THE VALUE OF EXPERIENCE

X TATEMENTS which we have
heard in court and in public
~ buildings lately to the effect
that judges who have behaved them
selves well and shown that ability
and highmindedness for which the
bench of the keystone State is noted
should be reelected, especially IN
Philadelphia, would seem to apply
to State Commissions on whose rolls
are men who have given of their
time and best thought to advance the
affairs of the Commonwealth. Com
missions such as those supervising
the activities of the State in the line
of fisheries, schools, game, water,
charities and the like have men
whose experience has helped i'm
mensely and who by reason of their
service have become valuable to the
public.
Governor Brumbaugh has recently
announced appointment of a number
of commissioners to make reports to
the next legislature on variety of
in Pennsylvania and his selections, in
many cases. were notably fit. Men
were chosen for their knowledge of
certain matters and for their interest
in the projects, in other words for
their experience. Sportsmen and
others have become concerned over
reports that some experienced com.
missioners are being assailed before
the Governor on political grounds.
Names of men who have spent their
own money as well as given of their
time without compensation have been
made targets of enemies who have
not advanced anything against their
public service. They just want them
out, not on State, but on purely local
or private grounds.
Experience, counts on a State COM
mission or board or committee of a
Commemorative Government just
as it does at the directors table of a
corporation, or a bank of society.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-30
A MISFIT ELECTION LAW

The decision of the Dauphin Coun-
ty Court in adhering to the letter OF
the nonpartisan judicial ballot law
and thus actually multiplying the pur-
pose of it's sole nominee" clauses
as applied to several contests in the
recent primaries, serves to empha-
size the incongruity of the law as
part of our electoral system.
The text of the law is faulty in
that It does not follow with exact
ness the original conception of the
primary election, as distinguished
from the preliminary process of
nomination. The theory of the in
novation is that the primary, or
earlier voting, should be on par in
formality and effectiveness with the
second or general election, but that
it is in substance sitting process,
by which the number of candidates
voluntarily appearing or nominated
by the acts of the electors may be
reduced to a group capable of COM
parative selection. And, consistently
with that idea, it is held that If any
one of the primary group of candi-
dates shall be endorsed by a majority
OF the electors, there is no necessity
for a second consideration of his
name.
But the primary, as it has been a
part of the American electoral sys-
tenn, has been an entirely different
function, and strictly a process of
nomination. rather than of election.
It's sole purpose has been the selec-
ton of candidates, preliminary to a
campaign, during which these as
pirants for electoral favor should be
subject to closer and more critical
examination and consideration, 1t is
conceivable. and in fact has many
times been subject to demonstration,
that n successful candidate for
nomination may be found unfit in
the interim preceding the election
and that the earlier decision would
be reversed, situation for which
the sole nominee clause of the pri-
mary election plan affords no re-
course.-Philadelp Bulletin.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-30
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

"A. H. Fosdick, we'll known here,
has been made safety engineer of the
Bethlehem steel parent plant, sue
ceeding George It. Fonda, who is in
charge of safety at all of the Bethle-
hem plants.
E. b. Morris, the Philadelphia
banker, is giving couple of after
Moons a week to the work of the
Public Safety Committee.
C. Gregg Llewellyn, Western
Pennsylvania Revenue Collector, who
comes from Fayette County, has
been made chief of all deputy rev.
enue collectors and goes to the Pact-
fic coast on his first duty.
u. S. Herbert, in charge of safety
at the Cambria plants, is having ar
rangements made for a public meet
ing to boom safety in Johnstown.
General Tasker II. Bliss, chief
of staff, likes to take trip up to his
old home in Lewisburg every now
and then.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-30
PATRIOTIC STUDENTS

TUDENTS of Harrisburg. Steel
Nton and Duncannon contributed
- thousands of dollars to the Lib
erty Loan campaign. Central, of this
city, coming forward with more than
$1,000, and Tech with more than
$4,000. The bulk of these bonds were
bought by the students with their
own money. No better evidence is
required that the boys and girls of
the nation are taking the war Sc
riously and are willing to deny them
selves little luxuries and pleasures of
school life to help beat the Germans
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-30
THEIR, PROUD HISTORY

"HE farewell demonstration cf
the colored people of the city
yesterday in honor of the de-
parture of the first body of their
fellows for the training camps was
worthy of the occasion and remind
full of the proud place the colored
man has had in the history of the
country since its earliest days.
1t was a colored mans blood that
stained the streets of Boston and
helped to fertilize the seeds of ma
tlonal liberty that, springing up,
brought into full fruitage the Amer
lean Revolution. Colored men fought
with Washington and in the War of
1912. Colored men performed some
of the most valorous deeds for the
freedom of their less fortunate fell
lows in the Civil War, and notably
those of the famous Tenth Cavalry,
gave excellent account of themselves
in the Indian Wars which followed,
and colored men came to the rescue
of their white comrades on the
bloody slopes of San Juan Hill. Col
ored men took part in the Mexican
invasion last year and suffered be-
fore the whitening ambush fire of
hidden bandits. A colored man, it
was-one "Hercules'-who went to
the rescue of John Harris when he
was captured by Indians. A colored
man was with Peary when he pene-
trated to the North Pole.
The colored people have no reason
to feel other than proud of their
place in the history of the country
and they have no cause to doubt that
what their forefathers did in the
past the young men who went away
yesterday will repeat.
DIR. Charles Champion, at the fare
well service Sunday night, spoke a
great truth, which both whites and
colored are too apt to forget, when
he said that "he who digs the trench
is quite as important to the success
of the military operation as he who
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-30
STATE REPRESENTATIONS

A book about the United States
post office says that letter-writers
when addressing an envelope should
write out the name of the state in
full, on account of the similarity
of certain abbreviations-"Ind and
Md" Me" and MO-" Penn"
and Tenn" for example. An ad-
ditional reason is found in the repe-
tition of the name of many towns
in different states-there being elev-
en- Bostons besides the one in Massa-
chusetts, twenty-six Kingstops be-
sides the one in New York, twenty
five Springfields besides the one in
Illinois, etc.-From the Outlook.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-30
STOP THESE LYING STORIES

"HE Telegraph has heard repeat
edly a tale that has been in
circulation recently throughout
Central Pennsylvania, the essentials
of which are these: That a poor
woman made a sweater for her SOL
dier son and gave it to a member of
the Harrisburg Red Cross chapter
to forward to him. When the lad
failed to receive the garment, so the
story goes, the mother visited the
chapter headquarters and found the
garment being worn by one of the
women there and identified it by a
ten dollar bill which she had sewed
into a pocket.
The story is lie.
There is not one word of truth
In it,
1t is like many others of the kind
which have been started by pro-Ger-
mans to discourage contributions to
the Red Cross.
The Red Cross would be very glad
to know who started this falsehood.
If you know, you will confer a great
favor upon the devoted women of
Harrisburg and all Central Pennsyl-
vania VINO have given of their money
and hours of labor so generously to
the Red Cross movement by telling.
The man or woman who repeats
such story without proof of its
truth is Willingly or unwittingly a
tool of the Kaiser and is giving aid
to Germany.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-30
South American Progress
SANE
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GCleveland Plain Dealer1


Four South American republics,
Brazil Bolivia, Peru and Uruguay,
have definitely taken their stand in
opposition to Germany. A fifth, Ar
gentina, is restrained from similar
action only by the obstinate obpo-
sition of a pacifst chief executive,
and Argentina has taken the pre-
limlnary step of expelling an un-
welcome German minister.
Five nations. Chile, Paraguay,
Ecuador. Venezuela and Colombia
remain strictly neutral. In popula-
ton, area and wealth the five neu-
trails are far inferior to the five ma
tions hostile to Germany.
No South American state has as
yet formally declared war. The
breaking of diplomatic relations and
the open assurance of sympathy with
Germany's enemies may be taken as
an unofficial declaration. Were Ger
mny less preoccupied with nearer
troubles she would certainly Resent
states and thunderously declare war
as she did in the case of Portugal in
the spring of 1916. The Portuguese
attitude at that time was precisely
tho same as the Brazilian, Peruvian
and Uruguayan attitude to-day. In
1916 Germany still had sufficient
pride and sufficient leisure to fulmi-
nate.
Ry officially excluding Germany
from their lists of friends the South
American nations are doing all that
can be asked. Actual belligerency
would not be much more valuable
to the allies. Already Brazil is pa
trolling the South Atlantic and thus
relieving the Allied navies. Uru-
quay offers the Allied warships the
use of their ports. On the Pacific
side Peru is equally useful.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-30
DRIED UP THE JORDAN

For the Lord your God dried up
the waters of Jordan from before
you, until We were passed over, as
the Lord your God did to the Red
Sea, which he dried up from before
us, until we were gone over: That
all the people of the earth might
know the hand of the Lord, that it is
mighty: That ye might fear the
Lord your God forever.-Joshua iv,
% and "a.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-30

holds it against the enemy" We
cannot all be generals, but we can (
all be faithful soldiers in the ranks
and if each of us lives up to the
great traditions of our best heri-
tage we shall come through this war
in a manner which will make our
children proud to be called Amer
leans.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-30
A LEAN BEOUEST

'I understand your late uncle re-
membered you quite handsomely in
his will"
''He paid me handsome compli-
ment"
How was that?"
TN cutting me off without q
penny he stated that he knew was
too unselfish to want any of his
money" From the Birmingham
AGe-Herald.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-30
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 80, 1917

Satisfaction, even after one has
dihed tCelI, is not so interesting and
eager a feeling as huRger.-SARAH
ORNE JEwETT.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-30

The Italian Minister of Agriculture
recently compelled the award of 12,-
713 prizes to women workers on
farms. In Italy, owing to the scare
ity of agricultural machinery, the
lack of labor since the war has been
felt more than in any other country.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-30
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg machinery
is being used in many plants
making munitions for the armies
"over there?"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-30

Member of the Associated Press-The
Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled to the use for republication of
all news dispatches credited to it or
not otherwise credited in this paper
and also the local news published
herein.
All rights of republication of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-30

Telegraph Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-30
HTSTORIO HARRIsBURG

The volunteers for the War OF
1912 practiced shooting on the big
island opposite the city.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-30

Ell. STACKPOLE,P Pres't s. Editor-in- Chief
+. r. OYSTER. Business Manager.
GUS M. STEINMETz. Managing Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-30

Col. Henry w. Shoemaker, the au-
thor and publisher, who was here
yesterday to see the Governor, was
much interested in the plan to have
a row of trees named for the Execu-
tives of the State. Col. Shoemaker
is one of the authorities on Pennsyl-
vania trees.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-30
LABOR NOTES

Frisco butcher shops now close
Saturday, p. m.
Russian railroad employees demand
better conditions.
There are 100000 miles of railways
in the British Empire.
Coopers International has not lost
strike in two years.
The women of Poland do the work
that is usually done by men in other
countries.
A plan for encouraging the emil
grafton of native laborers from In
dia to British Guiana, Trinidad, ia
maica and Fiji, announced by the
British Government, is expected to
result in the permanent settlement
of many thousands of East Indians
in each of these four colonies.
Radical Russian labor leaders de-
mand the prohibition of night labor
(from 8 o'clock in the evening until
6 o'clock in the morning) in every
branch of national industry, with the
exception of those occupations where
1t is made obligatory by technical
considerations and in such cases only
with the approval of the labor or
ganizations involved.
For some years there has been
joint machinery between the British
trade unions and the cooperative
movement to prevent labor disputes
in cooperative. societies, and it is
proposed to improve and extend this
so as to deal with the questions of
wages and conditions of work of the
army of cooperative employees.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-30

The women of Poland do the work
that is usually done by men in other
countries.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-30

Coopers International has not lost
a strike in two years.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-30

The oaks in the Row of the Cow
ernors" are going to grow straight
and righteous as becomes trees
named for such illustrious person.
ages. The saplings planted with
such formal ceremonies last Friday
have all been roped and wired so
that they shall be inclined toward
Heaven, as we'll as an example to
other trees in the Capitol Park.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-30
SIGNS.

Why did you
pass up that
boarding house
I recommend
ed?
Because there
was a sign on
the front door
t h at said,
Boarders taken
In.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-30

1GOtJs
I dreamed
last night 1 had
q million dol
lars.
That was nice.
No. 1t wasn't.
When i checked
up I found that
I was still $48
short of having
enough to buy
all that you
wanted.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-30

There are 100000 miles OF railways s
in the British Empire.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-30

Frisco butcher shops now clos
p. m.