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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-08
THE LIBERTY LOAN

or wasting them. We have wasted
perhaps five billions annually in ways
more or less harmless, in indulgences
and amusements and careless man
agement of personal finances. The
people are to have the question put
to them whether they prefer the
ways of the slackers and wasters, or
whether they prefer that their sur
plus funds should buy instruments of
victory.
When the people are saving to buy
the Liberty loan, they are getting
behind the men behind the guns. A
dollar in the national loan is both a
dollar saved for the owner of the
bond and a dollar for the upSeep of
soldiers and sailors of the nations
fighting against ruthless warfare. Ev-
cry dollar of the five billions yearly
wasted on indulgences makes other
people work for the spenders. Every
dollar spent for the Liberty loan
helps those working for the COM
mon cause. Every dollar the nation
spends comes back with interest to
those who enable the nation to spend
it. The money must be borrowed be-
fore 1t can be spent. 1t is borrowed
to spend. The spending means wages,
and prosperity for the thrifty. To
waste a dollar is to help Germany by
lessening your country's resources.
To save a dollar and lend it to your
country or our allies is to benefit
yourself equally and to provide the
funds to ease life for those perhaps
unable to lend to the country.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-08
Science to Catch U-Boats
TFrom the New York World1

Can a submarine be made to give
notice of its presence as 1t passes
through the water and register its
whereabouts to watchers on shore
far away? The intimation that Edi-
son is working in conjunction with
French scientists to perfect an elec-
trical device to locate U-boats at
sea stirs the imagination. Sciepce is
the great detective; it catches the
waves of motion set going by an
earthquake thousands of miles away
and has instruments to record the
thoughts that pass through the hu-
man mind. But certainly neither the
seismometer nor the sphygmometer
can match a mechanism so delicate
and precise that it can note and reg
lister the noiseless passing of an i'm
visible boat under the oceans sur
face far off.
This is the very wizardry of
science. That the invention Is within
the realms of possibility will appear
entirely credible to generation
which has known the wireless and
knows Edison. Assuming that it is
made practicable, q certain poetic
justice will attach to the fact that the
country which gave the submarine to
the world should provide scientific
defense against ii.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-08
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Colonel Richard Coulter, Jr.,
commander of the Tenth Infantry, is
quietly getting some of his compan-
les up to full war strength.
Bishops Franklin Hamilton and
John Hamilton, who are brothers.
spoke yesterday at the big Methodist
celebration in Pittsburgh.
Judge Bell. of the Clearfield
courts, who is one of the men elected
two years ago. has warned saloon
keepers getting licenses that tbs
must check all disloyal converse
ton in their places or take oonaE,
quences.
ID. s. Kless. prominent Tyrone
man, has been chosen as the heaA
OF the new Blair Chamber of Ck@~s4
merce.
DIR. Henry S. Pratt. who has
lust returned from Belgium, is a
member of the Haverford faculty.
Bishop McCloskey, who was
consecrated few days ago in Phil
adelphia to go to a Philippine diH
cese, celebrated mass yesterday at
his former church in Media, con-
firming seventy children.
Judge C. +. Gummey, OF Phila-
delphia, is back at his home in the
country where he goes as soon as
May comes around
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-08
MUZZLING THE PRESS

CPEAKER CLARK and other
~ leaders Of Congress have
taken firm ground against the
proposed espionage bill providing
Z a censorship of newspapers of the
United States. Congressman of all
parties declare that the provision
in the pending act is in direct viola
ton of the constitutional guarantee
or free speech and a free press.
1t is quite certain that the news
papers of the United States are as
patriotic as those who would muzzle
them with an alleged war regulation.
One of the chief troubles of the Brit
ish nation during the war has been
the failure of those in authority to
keep the people advised of the con-
ditions and the requirements. Ameri-
cans are accustomed to publicity of
their governmental activities and aside
from purely military information
there is no excuse whatever for put
ting on the lid through an alleged
war measure.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-08
Courier-Journal Loses an Idol

TFrom Louisville-Courier Journal
The closing debate in the Lower
House of Congress before 1t passed
the army bill by an overwhelming
majority Saturday was darkened by
the following vapid burst of un-
meaning vulgarity from Speaker
Clark, who had all along predicted
the defeat of the bill:
"A lot of old skunkers all over the
country who think that nobody Is
going to be forced into this war ex-
ccpt boys from 10 to 25." the Speak
er said. land that their miserable.
cowardly hides will be safe, have
been sending kilograms here. / know
them. I know every man in my dis
trict who has telegraphed me, and
1 know who Is at the bottom of 1t.
and I can take a double barreled
shotgun and run out of my district
every man who sent me telegram
to vote for conscription, and, IL
school doesn't keep too long, 1 will
run few out, too"
In his speech at the banquet OF
the American Newspaper Publishers
Association in New York the Hon.
James w. Gerard, lately United
States Ambassador to Germany, as
the report tells us, arraigned Speak
er Clark for his advocacy of the
volunteer system and expressed
thanks that "some beneficient prov
idence which keeps the American
people from putting forward their
near-statesmen" intervened in 1912
to prevent Mr.. Clark from getting the
Democratic nomination for Presi-
dent. "I was one of the financial
supporters of Mr.. Clarks campaign"
said Mr.. Gerard. "and In the light
of events ] am not sorry that he
was beaten"
The Courier-Journal desires to say
ditto" to Mr.. Gerard. 1t was one
among the foremost newspaper sup
porters of Mr.. Clark in 1912. I'm
der it's lead Kentucky instructed for
him and her delegates voted for him
to the last. The bare thought that
such q man might be President of
the United States is little short of
appalling. Surely God has this coun-
| try in his holy keeping!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-08
H1IS generation has no personal o
1 experience of how a national debt p

I\HIS generation has no personal
experience of how a national debt
may be a national blessing, says
the New York Times. Neither are
there pleasant memories of the time
when some few Americans bought
government bonds both at discount
and at a sacrifice as a matter Of
patriotism, and found their funds re-
turned to them after years with an
increase which would have aroused
suspicion If promised by get-rich-
quick concern. Our previous national
loans which were fioated In war time
were issued as a basis of national
currency, and were taken by banks
in great sums, although there was
also popular appeal. The Liberty
loan now announced Is to be differ
ent. Bank subscriptions are discour-
aged. The appeal is to the million,
or rather to the several millions, 1t
is to be hoped, who wish to put their
cash in the field against Germany,
For that reason there is need of a
campaign of education regarding the
manner in which the billions asked
for may be given in confidence that
they will return to the giver after
having done work of beneficence.
The loan is a means of making pa
triotism profitable, and of reducing
not be raised by taxation without
reaching every mans pocket. The
time is coming when rich and poor
alike will have to choose between
putting funds into the Liberty loa
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-08
WE SALUTE THEM
+ a IL Harrisburg rejoices to-day
n that General Joffre and the dis
fipg,iisba1 ErannI,,oax - II.

+ 4 IL Harrisburg rejoices to-day
"A that General Joffre and the dis
tinguished Frenchmen in his
party escaped injury in the railroad
wreck of last night. But all Har-
risburg likewise regrets that the in
cident makes impossible their visit
to-day.
General Joffre is second only to
Lafayette among Frenchmen in the
hearts of Americans Had he found
1T possible to pause for moment
in this city he would have been ac-
corded a welcoming reception quite
as warm as that with which the peo-
pie of Harrisburg received the bril-
liant young Lafayette. when he rode
horseback into town to pay his re-
spects to the Governor of the State,
for whose freedom he had rendered
such heroic service.
1t is a grievous disappointment
that General Joffre is not to add his
chapter to that Of Lafayette in the
annals OF Harrisburg. But in the
safe-deliverance of him and his
party from peril we are happy, and
in spirit we salute them.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-08
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES
By BRIGGS

Women of Belgium Charlotte
Kellogg (Funk and Wagnalls $1.OO
neD-Here is another side of the
war-a side which no author has as
yet treated as unit--a side just as
vitality interesting as that which is
side which has a particular interest
to America. This country has sent
millions of dollars in cash and in
food and clothing collateral to Bel
GUM. And in this volume is given to
us an inspiring word picture of what
has happened in a war-devastated
country because of our generosity,
plus. For the open hearts and hands
of America could have accomplished ID
but little had 1t not been for those
women of Belgium who so magnifi-
Gently turned tragedy to triumph.
Women of Belgium" is u glowing
tribute to the Belgian women. who
being helped. helped themselves
who, accepting gifts from us are
"honorably proud" in being able to
consecrate these gifts not only to
bodily sustenance, but to the means
which shall bring n greater. more ef-
ficient Belgium when freedom shall
come.
Charlotte Kellogg is the only
American woman member of the
commission for the relief of Belgium,
and she spent eight months there
seeing and studying the system
which is holding the bodies and in
dustries of Belgium together. Her
volume is series of short sketches.
unconnected, but all combining in
drawing a graphic word study of a
work which described in the words
of Herbert c. Hoover, head of the
commission, who says "our task and
theirs has been to maintain the
laughter of the children, not to dry
their tears"
The entire profits of this volume
go to the relief commission. In ad-
dition to having published a volume
in such a worthy cause, the pub
fishers have published a book which
should find a place in the heart OF
every American and especially
among the women, whose sisters in
Belgium are so heroically carrying
OH a task of stupendous proportions
that life might be preserved, that
cheer and comfort might be dis.
pensed. that Belgium after hei
months of torture might rise a ma.
ton honored. respected and loved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-08
Sillv Glass Distinctions

AS a Southern man, represent
equally rent. capital and wages.
which are all confounded in our es-
tates-and I protest against attempts
to array, without cause, without a
color of pretext or plausibility, the
different classes of society against
one another. as If. in such a.country a.
as this, there could be any natural
hostility, or any real distinction be-
tween them-a country in which all
the rich, with hardly an exception,
have been poor, and all the poor may
be rich-a country in which banking
institutions have been of immense
service, precisely because they have
been most needed by a people who all
had their fortunes to make by good
character and industrious habits
Hugh Swinton Legare.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-08
Advertising Policy Changed

The Acme Tea Company, which
was the first important concern to
abandon the use of trading stamps,
is one of the leading figures in the
$24 100000 merger which was in
corporated as the American Stores
Company, in Delaware, last week.
The other members of the combine
are the Bell Company, Robinson and
Crawford, Childs Grocery Company
and George M. Dunlap Company.
Chandler and Company, Inc, of
Philadelphia, who handled the fl
nancing state that in place of the
old method of house-to-house circu-
lar advertising there will be largely
displays in the newspapers. The
new chief has announced that none
of the old employees will lose their
positions through the merger, since
it will be the policy of the company
to extend the territory and open
more stores in cities already occu-
pied.--Editor and Publisher.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-08
Communicating Schwab
Philadelphia 1nquirerl

Charles NJ. Schwab has been for
some time at Washington in confer
ence with the military departments
and it is intimated that his services
are to be commandeered for the war.
No force is required. A few days ago
Mr.. Schwab offered his Bethlehem
and other plants to the government
without any stipulations whatever.
1t is well known that Mr.. Schwab
now has armor plate, artillery and
plants which produce in ex-
cess of the famed Krupp works at
Essen! He has some of the largest
shipbuilding yards in the country
and turns out practically everything
that is needed in war except explo-
sives. When the government decided
to build an armor- plate plant of its
own, Mr.. Schwab protested that it
was unfair to those now making
armor plate, that this country got its
product cheaper than any other and
offered to let the government fix the
price at which he should furnish
armor- plate. This was refused.
Now Mr.. Schwab is almost the
right arm of the government. No
man in the world knows more of his
special subject than he and none is
prepared to do the Nation a greater
service. In the coming months Beth
lehem will be able to do for this
country an enormous amount of Of
fensive and defensive work. A few
years ago there were those who
snered at Schwab as a dreamer. He
had a vision which has come true.
The grocer's clerk of the last genera
ton has become the Krupp of Amer
lea and on q patriotic basis.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-08

would be the basis of excessive
charges in the autumn. Plainly, some
regulations must be adopted to pre-
vent the cornering of food products
not only by spectators, but by in
dividuals so selfish that they pro-
pose taking care of themselves at the
expense of all others.
Already the TELEGRAPH has
called attention, through an inter-
view with one of the leading COM
mission houses of Harrisburg, to the
practice which exists of purchasing
canned and other goods largely in
excess of present requirements in
order to stock the larders of those
able to anticipate future needs. This
naturally results in an abnormal sit
uation and the jumping of prices to
meet a fictitious demand.
With the approval of the admin
istration at Washington, bill has
been introduced in Congress author
izing the President whenever in his
opinion the national emergency may
require:
To fix maximum and minimum
prices for food, clothing, fuel and
other necessities. and the articles
required for their production;
To prescribe regulations to gov
ern the production of these COM
modities, and, if necessary, to
requisition the producing fac
tories, mines or other establish
ments;
To compel holders of necessities
to release them in amounts in
suring equitable distribution;
To regulate exchanges in such
a way as to eliminate market ma
nipulation:
To compel railroads to give
preference to the movement of
necessities;
. To levy such important duties
as he finds necessary to prevent
excessive dumping" of foreign
products, and
To impose limitations or prohi-
bitions upon the use of grain in
the manufacture of liquor.
These limitations and regulations
would be in force only during the
period of the war. but no one will
question the wisdom of some such
plan to prevent an unfair distribution
of foods as we'll as waste and ex-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-08
George Hensel on Fast Time

George w. Hensel, the Quarryville
philosopher, a brother of the late
Attorney General Hensel, tells this
good one:
"a picture was recently taken in
Germany in one-millionth part of
second which recalls the story of a
drink that wasn't taken in Quarry
Vile. In declining, the dutiful hus-
band, with tremor borne of disap-
pointment and pathos, murmuring
regret, uttered these words: II would
be delighted to join you, gents. but
if 1 was to take drink tomorrow
that wife of mine would smell 1t to-
day."
"This is faster time than they
make at Havre de Grace"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-08
BARIEYCORN MUST GO

CTRoNG pressure is being brought
- to bear upon Congress to en-
act a general prohibition law to
conserve millions of bushels of
wheat for food. A prominent busi-
ness man of Maryland has used the
newspapers for an advertisement of
- telegram which he sent to Presi-
deat Wilson on this subject as fol-
lowss
For GNd's sake, for humanitys
sake. for tthe nations welfare, 1
earnestly and urgently appeal to
you to use your influence to pro-
hibit, during the war at least, the
manufacture and sale of intoxi-
eating liquors throughout the ma
more. than S2,000,000,000 yearly
and is destroying soul, mind and
body of drinker.
# the capital dry, why not the
nation?
This and other kilograms have
been falling upon the President and
the Congress as an avalanche of ap-
peal A week or two ago more than
thousand leaders in all depart
ments of activity sent kilograms urg-
ing the prohibition of the manufac-
ture and sale of liquor for the period
OF the war In one of the leading
pulpits of Harrisburg Sunday it was
announced that the congregation
would be asked to consider a reso-
luton providing for prohibition al
the services next Sunday.
Thus the great wave of sentiment
is rising all over the country and
what other nations in this way have
done we must do.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-08
Legal Tender

To the counting house we led him
and we showed him all our store,
And we said: Here's gold in plenty.
Take your fill and take again!
Cover France with golden dollars!
more?"
Like the blare of far-off bugles,
comes the Marshars answer
Mem"
Here is steel to keep the cannon
belching death without a pause,
Here is food and fat and fuel; here
are ships-supplies,- then,
Many million hands to labor. What
could better serve our cause?"
Hark! ITO arms! Form your bat
swer: "Men!
Men alone are legal tender! Men so
precious, men so dear,
That no other coin will answer.
Theirs no specie half SO high!
Ask of mothers who have paid 1t.
Ask of France If you would hear
What a darling wealth she squan-
ders. Freedoms costly pearl to
buy.
This be then our city's salvo to the
Hero of the Marne,
AS with cheers and tears we greet
him:
Marshal Joffre, we spurn the
'cants'
And the 'will-we? won't-we? must
we's?'
AS you saved us at the Marne,
So a living wall of manhood do we
offer now to France"
Charlotte Holmes Crawford.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-08
FOOD SPECULATION

HERTAIN activities of food specu-
~ lators justify the most string
ent regulations within the dis
cretion of the President to prevent
unreasonable prices as the necessi-
ties OF the nation increase. Already
men are securing Pennsylvania and
entering into contract with farmers
and others to purchase their pota-
toes in the field at a price which
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-08
Using Our Resources
kansas City starl

In a big war the problem is to
utilize our resources to the fullest
degree, and to put every man in the
position where he will do the most
good for the country.
Is there any question that Theo-
dore Roosevelt's enormous influence
and abilities could be put to better
use than in permitting him to raise
and lead q division to France?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-08

The Department of Parks has given
orders that the stretches about the
new Cumberland Valley railroad
bridge on Front street shall be re-
stored by the contractors under the
provisions of their original agree
ment. When these stretches are put
in shape that section of the River
Park will be one of the most attrac-
tive in the city.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-08
The Press Gag Fails
New York Tribune]

There never was any excuse for
the press muzzling section which
Attorney General Gregory injected
into the espionage bill. That section
in its original form-and in every
other form in which 1t was offered
by spokesmen of the administration
represented merely a crafty effort
to abridge the freedom of the press.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-08
Charles M. Schwab says

The man who attracts attention is
the man who is thinking all the time,
and expressing himself in little ways
1t is not the man who tries to dazzle
his employer by doing the theatrical,
the spectacular. The man who at
tempts this is bound to fail.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-08
A Prevalent Idea
leicester Timesl

The Government is asking the
newspapers to advertise free of
charge all war advertising. And of
course the ammunition men and the
oil men and the bankers will be ex-
pected to do their work for nothing.
Not SO you can see. it.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-08

Dauphin county will make a fine
showing in the returns of the extra
agricultural efforts of the year. Not
only are the Harrisburg girls and
boys joining in the work. but also
hundreds of old and young in the
country who have not heretofore par
ticipated in the raising of crops are
now cultivating the land in every di-
rection.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-08

We talk much of the autocracy of
the ,Kaiser's realm where the people
must do and say just what the Kaiser
approves. We must be careful in the
United States that the effort to throt-
tie the newspapers does not partake
of the same sort of dictatorship.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-08
PREPARING FOR PEACE

VT7FIILE many of the most able
wv leaders of the country are
engaged in preparations for
war, others are just as deeply
immersed in preparations for the
peace that will follow the war.
Our international relations in COM
merce have given these leaders
cause for thought and a strong
effort is being made to increase the
good feeling which now prevails
among the allied nations. One writer
says:
Our war time experiences ought
certainly to have brought home
to everybody the Importance to
our domestic peace and prosperity
of having strong position and
outlook in international affairs.
Everybody now knows that no
nation, however big and pacific,
can keep out of war simply by
sincere desire for being left alone.
Likewise, that no nations bread
and butter is Independent of in
ternationa1 conditions. The rest
of the world has forced hectic
prosperity upon us and at the
same time international commerce
has reached right up to our doE
mestic hearthstones and raised
the cost of living to heights never
before known.
This same writer declares that
the war has brought opportunities
to this country, but with them new
responsibilities and new possibilities
of serious character that we cannot
ignore. There is a very general con-
sensus of opinion among those who
know much Of international comfy
that we must cultivate our new rela-
tionships and take our proper place
in the family of nations.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-08
Labor Notes

Proprietors of mills in South Caro-
line are spending $1,OO0.0OO year
in the improvement of living and
working conditions. South Carolina
now has a well-enforced child-labor
law.