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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-21
German Loan Uphill Fight

TVERY power OF persuasion and
n pressure at the disposition of
- the German Government was
brought into play to make a success
of the seventh war loan of 15,OO0,-
100000 marks, ($3,5 100000 at
normal exchange.) according to re-
ports found in German newspapers
recently reaching London. The time
for the acceptance of subscriptions
was scheduled to run thirty days
from September 19, but 1t was limited
that in case the full amount was not
raised by the end of that period be-
lated patriots would still nave a
chance to subscribe.
discourage England from contin-
ming TO fght!" was the catch phrase
officially adopted by the Government
for the purpose of getting subscrip-
tions. News and advertisements of
the campaign filled late papers to
the exclusion of almost all other top
les.
The Krupps subscribed $12.5OO,-
O00. the Mendelssohn Bank in Berlin
Sc. 600, 900, and the Town of Berlin
S15. 900, 900, making the municipal
itv's total war loan investment $780,
)o0O 600. In general the campaign
for the loan was being waged on the
lines originated by the British Treas
! urv authorities last winter. Cabinet
| Ministers and Deputies addressed
meetings, and the magic name oil
Uindenburg was used for all it was
worth. Dutch newspapers contained
| advertisements reminding German
residents abroad of their patriotic
duty.
| Poetry, music and the promise o
decorations by the Kaiser were some
of the methods adopted or suggested
for inducing the Germans to ransacl
their cupboards. stockings, and othei
savings banks for the new loan. On'
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-21
FUTILE DISPUTES

In stating prudential rules for our
government in society, must not
omit the important one of never en-
tering into dispute or argument with
mother.
/ never saw an instance of one of
two disputants convincing the other
by argument.
/ have seen many, on their getting
warm, becoming rude and shooting
one another.
Conviction is the effect of our own
dispassionate reasoning, either in
solitude or weighing within ourselves,
dispassionately, what we hear from
others, standing uncommited in ar
gument ourselves. 1t was one of the
rules which, above all others, made
Doctor Franklin the most amiable of
men in society, never to contradict
anybody" If he was url\od to an
nounce an opinion, he did it rather
by asking questions, as IL for infor-
nation, or by suggesting doubts
Thomas Jefferson.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-21
BARNARD TO CRITICS

The Council of the National Acad-
envy of Design Is the latest expert
body to protest against the imposi-
ton upon London and Paris of re-
pleas of Mr.. George Grey Barnard's
conception of Lincoln. ITO U.S." the
Aca 1emicians say this presentation
does not convey the recognized
characteristics of Lincoln" Neither
does it to most laymen. Some time
in '63 John Hay went with Mr. Lin
coin to look at the statuary of the
East pediment of the Capitol. The
President, with an eye of an expert
objected to the statue of The Wood
chopper" by Powers, as he did not
make q sufficiently clean cut" Mr.
Lincoln knew how a woodchopper
looked or should look. Most Amer
leans know how Lincoln looked, how
he should look in q monumental ef-
figy speaking truly the man and his
character.
Yet there has been some little in
justice done to Mr.. Barnard's inven-
ton. Few can see it without recall
ing a line of hymn that was a fav-
orite with the Jubilee Singers:
Nobody knows what pain fell"
IL it's a denotation of physical, and
not mental, pain that the statue
seems to portray, yet by remote as
sociation of ideas Mr.. Lincoln is re-
called in one aspect of his achieve
ment. The Jubilee Singers bring to
mind emancipation and the Emanci-
pator. This merit should not be for
gntten or grudged.
Mr.. Barnard takes. of course. a
different view. In this letter to The
Times he appears with a grandiosity
not unworthy of his genius, of his
long solitary thought, and of the
form in which he has embodied it
for the marvel of the world:
To the Editor of The New York
Times:t
These lines, my only answer, are
worthy, hope, to be placed on your
editorial page:
For he shall grow up before him
as o tender plant, and as a root out
of a dry ground: he hath no form
| nor comeliness; and when we shall
see him. there is no beauty that we
should desire him.
"He is despised and rejected OF
men; a man of sorrows, and ac-
quainted with grief, and we hid a.
il we've our faces from him; he wa:
despised, and we esteemed him not.
| Isaiah. lii.
George Grey Barnard.
The comparison which Mr.. Barn
ard invites, his answer to the crit
i les. is perhaps as bizarre anC
singular as they in their blindness t.
4 originality find his statue to be
Athanasius against the world wa
not more loftily confident. Yet h,
seems to admit that there is no form
or Comeliness or beauty in his Lin
coin. Seldom does the criticised
agree so thoroughly with the critics
New York Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-21
SUFFRAGE IN NEW YORK

AYEW YORK newspapers are "all
M het-up" over the ultimate des-
tination, so to speak, of the
newly created woman suffrage vote,
which is on it's way apparently with
out much idea as to where it is
going. The Democrats would like to
have it, of course, as witness the
hasty appointment of a noted wo-
man suffrage leader of the Empire
State to be the first woman deputy
attorney general Of the United
States, and it is just as apparent that
for favor with the recently enfran-
chised voters.
1t is an interesting situation, but
not one over which anybody need
become greatly excited. If the two
political parties in New York bid
ding for suffrage votes are induced
thereby to offer more than they
otherwise would in the way of re-
form legislation, the excitement will
have been we'll worth while, but it
has not been the experience in other
suffrage States either that the great
bulk of women voters swing to one
or the other of the two great parties
or that their influence is felt in any
marked degree, at least during the
very early stages of the extended
franchise. The certain results are
that the voting machinery and cleo
ton expenses will be increased and
that there will be no immediate
great turnover politically in New
York.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-21
UTTER FOOLISHNESS

"O increase the available food
supply the authorities of New
York State have been asked to
suspend laws relating to conserva-
ton of the salt water fisheries and
to let down for the period of the war
statutes covering the killing of
game. The idea is to permit the TAX
ing OF large quantities of fish and
the killing of deer and other game
out of season.
Unquestionably, this would add
something to the quantity of pro-
visions in sight for immediate con-
sumption, but at what price! Are
we so near the bottom of the larder
that we must denude our forests of
their game and rob our waters of a
form of foodstuff that is dwindling
far too rapidly as it is? We think
not.
Millions of dollars are being eX-
pended yearly for the encouragement
of the propagation of game and fish
and for their protection. A winter of
sN"ANSS pOehSiiiiiG Oll eilSoC SuppllSo
would do irreparable damage. We
have been thinking all too much of
the present and too little of the fu-
ture. The greatest difficulty the con-
se1vationists have to overcome is the
education OF the public to thought
for the morrow. Slowly but surely
the lesson is being forced home, but
one month cf reckless squanderng
of our fish ard game reserves would
undo all that has been accomplished
i'll this direction through years OF
DainstakirS effort.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-21
Round Up the TrotzkYs

Leon Trotzlfy, head of the Maxi
malist revolt that overthrow Premier
Kerensky, and who now issues re-
ports in the name of the new Rus
sian government, is about forty
years old.
Long identified with revolutionary
movements, Trotzky. after being ex-
PEELED from Switzerland, France and
Spain, came to New York early this
year and became reporter on q
Russian newspaper, living in The
Bronx.
On the overthrow of the Gear he
started Immediately for Russia.
In view of present conditions il
might be the part of wisdom for
the government to take n census OF
the other Leon Trotzkys, OIL
kindred fugitives, ready to join with
our enemies we are harboring in this
land of the free Just now.-New
York Telegram.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-21
ANOTHER EXAMPLE

Railroads ask increase of freight
rates, because many of the weaker
roads are facing ruin. Such increase
means higher cost of living and rail-
road labor justifiably asks higher
wages. Then the railroads pray for
another increase of rates. This is
the American railroad situation, in
nutshell, and it is the situation in
respect to many of the great indus
tries. 1t was the railroad situation
in Great Britain until the British
government took absolute control Of
the railroads, consolidated them,
guaranteed the same dividends as
those of 1913, invested in improve
ments for which it will be reim-
bursed when the roads are restored
to the owners, and provided for au-
tomato increases in wages to meet
the rise in cost of living. 1t is tc
this British plan that Washington
seems inclined to resort in respect OF
our misunderstanding Herald.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-21
THE GARDEN COUNTY

r ANCASTER COUNTY, the gar
den county of the land, as the
- poets of the farm and granary
like to term it, has once more earned
its title. Not only has it led the six
ty-seven counties of the common
wealth in raising wheat, but it is over
the 100000 bushel mark, and from
all accounts it's broad acres are so
we'll sown with the great cereal that
il bids fair to surpass that splendid
yield in 1918.
And We notice that Lancaster has
wrested from Lehigh the title of
first in potato growing. Quietly, but
with that careful attention to agri-
cultural detail that has made FAM
Gus the farmers of the county Lam
caster has been increasing its acre
age in Iuds. 1t is not far from o.
10000 bushels. And there are inti-
nations that when the corn returns
are in that Lancaster will be away
up in the van again.
1t only goes to show that when the
prices are right the farmers of this
State can be depended upon to do
their share. York. Franklin and
Cumberland made great yields of
wheat and Schuylkill county. which
has never been considered an agri-
cultural county because of its prom
inence in coal production, caught the
fever and produced twice as many
bushels of potatoes as last year.
There will be some fat bank ac-
counts in the counties hereabouts
this winter and when Uncle Sam
comes around with another war loan
he ought to find abundant support.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-21
BAC1IELoRs. POST oBTT

THE President of Dartmouth Col
1ege proposes that college men
who join the Army shall have
recognition of their service through
"a degree of bachelor of military
science, which is to be granted to
them as of their class. This is in
line with Civil War traditions, when
the colleges OF the North gave of
their best to save the Union. and
rewarded them with their degrees as
IL they had stayed on at their studies
some of them, alas, being carried
on the rolls as bachelors. post obit.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-21
Over tie Toe
cn Pexna.

The lid Is off in Gettysburg. The
doors of hotel barrooms which were
closed on account of the soldiers
have swung open with the Sammies'
departure. This. reminds us of recent
statistics that the brewers used 6S,-
100000 bushels of grain in 1916.
This grain would make annually car
oes for over a thousand vessels of
1,60O tons each.
According to an estimate of a
Highway Department expert the far
mers of the United States have al
lowed $3OO,000,000 in real money to
escape their pockets each year be-
cause of poor roads. Just when the
farmer has the opportunity to mar
ket his crops at top prices bad wea-
ther closes the roads to heavy haul
ing and he must wait until another
season.
The proposed merger of Lutheran
churches. of the country will affect
nearly fifty congregations in Lehigh
county alone.
Maryland papers are giving much
space to the punishment meted out
to man imprisoned for terribly
beating his wife. With q blacksnake
whip, four feet in length the sheriff
of Allegheny county, invoking an an
cient law. bestowed twenty lashes on
the wifebeater's bare back. While this
progressed the other prisoners Joined
in a chorus of Nearer My God To
Thee" Local critics We're much per-
picked to understand why this should
have been selected. One suggests
! that a line from Shakespeare would
have been more pertinent for this
cruel husband, for example that one
from McBeth: Lay on, McDuff, lay
on, and damned be him who cries
hold, enough"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-21
THE DARKEST HOUR

A letter to the editor of the Phila-
delphia Public Ledger says:
"The German Emperor and his
conferees must be now in the seventh
heaven of delight; but IL they have
read history, they will find that it
was in just such times that defeat
came to their great prototype az
progenitor, Attilla, called the Scourge
of God, who had almost conquered
his enemies when new enemy
poured down upon him and gave
him one of the greatest defeats of
his life. After recovering from this.
and when in the height OF his great
est Joy, on the eve of his marriage
or the night of his marriage, he died
very suddenly. Right and truth are
able to conquer their enemies in the
very hour when their enemies seem
about to conquer them. So let us
take courage and go on, for the fates
have decreed that we must win this
war and victory may be nearer than
we think"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-21
BALLAD OF BROKEN
THINGS

The toy no skillful fingers may repair
Is dearer far in fearful childish
eyes
Than all remaining treasures whole
and fair.
For here is tragedy that beauties
The broken doll assumes heroic
The saints must die before we can
The broken things are the immor-
tai things!
Yea, shattered gods the heart of man
ensnare;
'Tis the SCARED loveliness we
praise and prize;
To wreck and ruin fealty we swear
How near ones soul the Coliseum
lies!
Ere she may know her life's true
wakenings,
And see, ere straining flight may
scale the skies,
From ashes must the fabled bird
arise
The broken things are the immor-
tai things!
Ruin and dust and ashes of despair
On these we build our shrines; and
here our cries
OF alteration and exalted prayer,
Ascending like the smoke of sacri-
flee,
Halo waste lands and homes. On
dying sighs
Are waited seeds OF perfect flower
ings;
The Christ accepted death. and He
was wise
The broken things are the immor-
tai things!
L'ENVOI.
o Belgium! There is victory that dies,
Power that umdermines the
thrones of kings;
Fear not defeat; disaster glorifies-
The broken things are the immor-
tai thingsl
Blanche Weitbrec.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-21
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Samuel B. Scott. former legis-
lator is preparing to take a hand
in politics in Germantown again.
Charles L. McKeehan, promi-
nent Philadelphia lawyer and ac-
tive in University of Pennsylvania
affairs, has been named n major In
the United States ordnance corps.
He is secretary of the State Board
of Law Examiners.
IS. D. Warriner, the Lehigh Coal
executive, has been at Washington
on anthracite matters.
The Rev. Hugh Robert Orr
Pittsburgh minister, has been made
an editor of an Illinois literary mag
azine.
The Rev. DIR. Maitland AleXan-
der. former moderator of the Pres
byterian church, is preaching al
Camp Hancock.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-21
GERMAN HUMOR

days and nights, and the trenches
were in frightful condition" says
Major Ian Hay Beth in "All In It."
the continuation of The First Hun
dred Thousand" (Houghton Mifflin
Company. THE German trenches
n few yards distant, were in an even
worse state. Suddenly a plaintive
voice cried OUT
Are you dere, Jock? Haf you
whisky? We hat plenty water
mot bad for a Boche, the platoon
decided" concludes Captain Beth.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-21
PAPERS FOR SOLDIERS

NOTHING keeps the soldier in
M such good humor as frequent
and intimate communications
from home and no correspondent
can be so efficient in this respect as
the home newspaper. But the burden
of delivery has been so great, dur
ing the early days of the big train
ing camps. that millions of these pa
pers intended for soldier boys have
gone astray. In other cases it has
been impossible to parcel them out
to individuals at the camps and a
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-21
THE AGE OF THOUGHT

Privateering and proffteering are
closely related terms. One repre-
sents an ocean activity: the other a
pursuit on shore. April 16, 1855. the
the compact. Europe has abolished
Watering. America refused to enter
the compast. Europe has abolished
war-profiteering. This gives us some
thing to think about. Shall we
think State Journal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-21
MYLADY's HERB GARDEN

England has found it advisable to
resort to the gathering of garden
herbs and weeds for medicinal pur-
poses. The ld-fashioned industry
had fallen into disuse until the drug
supply from Germany was cut Off
Ohio State Journal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-21
MOMENT OF TRIUMPH

One never knows when he has
won in an argument until he hears
his own views advanced by the man
Who opposed them six months before.
st Louis Globe Democrat.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-21

Colorado State Federation of La
bor's plan to assure sons and daugh-
ters of labor a college education is
being given enthusiastic support by
officials of the Colorado State Uni
VersitY.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-21
DO YOU KNOW

That HaFTisburg's bank
cIcarings have been steadily
climbing and are ahead OF those
of some cities of larger size?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-21
HTsTORTC UARRISBURG

The first burgess office was located
IN Market Square near the Market
iquare church,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-21


Women workers are found every
where in England. They aRe rapid
ly Joining the trade union movemen. |.
and while they are not receiving the
same wage as men in many cases, the
unions are making this battle with
pronounced success.
Commissioner of Labor Younger
will ask the Washington State Leg
islature to check the exploitation OF
workers by Alaska Gamers. Poor
food, worthless checks and a bogus
"first-aid', plan are complaints OF
workers in this industry.
Cincinnati Central Labor Council
demands that justice be accorded me-
groes who have been lured from the
South by unscrupulous employers
The unionists insist that the black
man be paid living wage to support
his family and aid him in establish
ing new home ties.
At a conference of Texas and
Louisiana oil field workers, a COM
mittee was appointed with instruc-
tions to request oil producers and OPP
,rators of these two states to meet
with them to discuss improved work.
ing conditions. The proposed changes
include union recognition, the eight
hour day and increased wages.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-21
LABOR NOTES

Thousands are idle in different
trades in New South Wales, Austria
liza, owing to the shortage of coal All
coal mines are working, but there is
little shipping to remove the coal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-21

There are two large labor organi-
cations in England-the British
Trades Union Congress, with q MEM
bership of 100000, and the Cen
eral Federation of Trades Unions,
with a membership of 100000.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-21

E.J. STACKPoLE,P Pres't s. Editor-in- c hisf
F. r. OYSTER, Business MGndger.
GUS NJ. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-21

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING co,
Telegraph Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-21

The proposed merger of Lutheran
churches. of the country will affect
nearly fifty congregations in Lehigh
county alone.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-10-07
CAsSoPoLIs, MICH.
EXElIPTIoN BoARD NEws.

The local board is busy examining
the last $50 men called in an effort
TO nh Cass county's quota of los. OF
the 46s previously called and exam
ined. but s6 are on the accepted list,
while the board is quite certain that
a number Of these will be released
By the district board to which they
have appealed.
oliver Johnson Of Vandalia, who
was examined by the board Aug. 25.
and ordered to appear later for ex-
animation. has passed and valves ex-
emptiOn claims.
Adrian Bowers Of Wayne filed a
claim but is held for service. and
Charles J. Cook and Cornelius Bres-
nahan OF Dowagiac, and John H.
Wagner Of Vandalia have appealed
from the decision Of the local board.
Several exemptions have been al
lowed 20 men who were held for
service. Those allowed were Reed
Bostwick. Roy Johnson. Halle Shid-
eler. Lawrence Stamp and Leonard
Bartlett. Henry Deckert, referred to
the Washtenaw board, was also ex-
empted.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-10-07
OrECUIT COURT NEWS.

one thousand dollars damages was
awarded Charles Everhart in his
suit against John Clute. Mr. Clute's
attorneys asked for 90 days TO hle d
motion for a new trial. and 40 days
en- which TO file a bill of exceptions,
and il is probable the case will be
carried 10 the supreme court.
Bert Jakway Of Marcellus. who
was recently arrested. charged with
violation OF the local option law.
was given a fine.of $50 with the al
tentative of going to Jail for 80 days.
lie paid his fine:
The suit Of Lot L. Baird VS.. Addie
Laupheimer. involving about 500 in
an accounting. was dismissed by the
court for the reason that both parties
involved reside in Kansas and the
Judge held that the court here had no
Jurisdiction. Mrs. Laupheimer was
i'm this county on a visit when Mr..
Baird sent his account from Kansas
for collection and had suit started
here
An appeal from the probate court
allowing the Will Of Lucinda Skies
was dismissed the case of the Evans
Coal Co. VS.. II. II. Huyck goes over
the term. as Mr.. Huyck's son. VIII
liam. a valuable witness in the case,
is in the army and not accessible:
the appeal case of John d. Rogers
Us. D. r. Bowles from justice court
was dismissed. the parties not ap-
pearing.
Divorces We're granted TO Adah A.
Taylor Of Dowagiac from Zachariah
Taylor. Mrs. Edith V. Wheeler from
Jesse I. Wheeler, Rose Robinson
from John Robinson. Mrs. Veda Ellis
worth from Ora n. Ellsworth, and
she was given the custody Of their
child. while the father was ordered
to pay $40 a month toward its sup
port; Francena Banker from Charles
Banker charge desertion: Mrs.
Nettie Harvey from Charles o. Har-
vey. charge desertion; Mrs. Grace
Alley from Whitfield Nelson Alley.
and Mrs. Tressa Stefenson from
Oscar Steffenson.
Judge DesVoignes has filed his
opinion in the case Of Thomas
Stapleton VS.. Arthur 3. COrnthwaite
which was a suit to discharge
mortgage given by the plaintiff on
property on State st. in part pay
ment for the laundry business of the
defendant. which the former was
compelled to abandon because Of the
breakage of machinery and lack of
funds. The court held that the plain
tiff was far below the average man
i'm mental vigor and ability TO grasp
business details, and decreed that
the mortgage should be discharged.