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La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1917-02-28

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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-22
For An April Inauguration

Every four years an agitation is
started for changing the date of in
auguration, without result. Nothing is
more unpleasant to endure or more
easy to forget than bad weather. 1t
seldom happens that March or is
suitable for outdoor ceremonies. and
generally the conditions are as bad as
the winter affords. Who will soon for
get the blizzard which "f1ared back"
when Taft was inducted into office?
There is no reason whatever for con-
tinuing the present date, and there
are plenty of good ones for q change
to April 80, when Washington was
first inaugurated. That March was
selected in the first place was a mere
hazard. When the Congress under the
Confederation learned that eleven
States had ratified the Constitution il
passed legislation to carry it into eff
feet. The first Wednesday in January
was named for casting the electoral
votes by the legislatures, the first
Wednesday in February for counting
them and the first Wednesday in
March for the Inauguration. However,
Washington took his time and was
more than a month late in reaching
New York.-From the Philadelphia
Inquirer.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-22
The Copperhead

His name is lost to history but he
deserves a monument. mean the man
who first nailed the word copperhead
to traitorous act.
The word came in during the Civil
War, and, as everybody knows, was
applied in the North to Southern SYM
pathizers. The word has slept for
thirty years or more, since reconstruc-
tion days. Now copperhead bobs up
again in type and cartoon. 1t is the
most bitter political epithet used any
where in the world.
The copperhead is one of the three
fatally poisonous snakes in all North
America. 1t Is especially prevalent in
parts of Pennsylvania. Early settlers
called it the pilot snake. They insisted
that the pilot or copperhead always
travelled ahead of the rattlesnake, and
hence the name pilot.
But the woodsman has a particular
reason for loathing the copperhead a
little more than he does the rattler
The latter sounds his venomous and
ringing alarm before he strikes, but
the coppearhead attacks in stealth
One is an open foe and the other
which is quite as deadly, a hidden and
so more treacherous foe.
To be a human copperhead thus
signifies a degree of loathsomeness
never contained in the name Tory OF
Revolutionary times.-Girard, in the
Philadelphia Ledger.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-22
ALL FOR ONE; ONE FOR ALL

n MERICANs are prone to family
L \ quarrels. We have our differ
ences - political, industrial and
personal, and we some times come to
blows. But let anybody from the out
side threaten to get into our own pri-
vate little melee and 10, what re-
markable change comes instantly to
pass. At once the fighting neighbors
separate and all set upon the out
slider with vehemence most astonish-
ing. In an instant it becomes a ques-
ton of one for all and all for one;
America for Americans and all of us
while enemies become bosom friends
and hostile fists are unbent to work
for the common good, or bent even
tighter to meet the common enemy.
No better illustration of this very
admirable national trait may be found
than the appointment yesterday by
Governor Brumbaugh of committee
of prominent Pennsylvanians to
mobilize the industries and resources
of Pennsylvania for the defense of the
nation. Scanning the list of names,
one cannot be other than deeply i'm
pressed with the liberal views of the
executive in his selections and the
sumo the important duties designated,
for it is not to be supposed for a
moment that a single one of them will
not serve. 1t goes without saying that
they will feel honored to have been
chosen and will give their time,
energies and talents freely to the great
task involved. In the committee are
political rivals and business competi-
tors, figures prominent socially and not
a few who may be suspected of far
better acquaintance with the factory
than the ball room and others who in
private life are scarcely on speaking
terms one with another. But all of
them stand on the common ground of
patriotism and all of them may be
counted upon to do their part, as the
Governor well knew when he named
them.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-22
MUSICAL HARRISBURG

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
AS a loyal Harrisburger, 1 was
shocked recently to overhear a con-
versation of two men sitting behind
me on train to Philadelphia. They
were evidently musicians, possibly i'm
presarios, and were discussing the
drawing qualities of various great
artists. Finally, one of them said,
"kreisler! he'd pack his houses any
where. He's such u wizard"
Except in Harrisburg!" replied his
companion.
"Harrisburg!"-and the tone made
me vince. "You never can tell what
that town will do. I'd rather take
chances with places half its size when
1t comes to making good music pay
Blank (naming a famous impresario)
says he'll blacklist them soon"
Indignantly entered the CONVEX
sation and told them a few home
truths on the audiences we had given
Gluck, Paderewski, Gogorza and
Eames, Nordica, and other great
artists, but fear 1 left them uncon-
vinced of the real musical apprecia-
ton of Harrisburg.
This comment so often heard has
become a reproach to us. We stand
for such big things in civics and phil
anthropy that we cannot afford to fall
behind in musical ana educational
lines. 1, therefore, ask the TELE-
GRAPH to help in crusade to re.
verse this judgment.
There is an opportunity at hand
this week. We have the privilege OF
hearing three of the most popular anC
pleasing grand operas, "Rigoletto,'
Tales of Hoffman" and I'll Trova-
tore" presented by the San Carlo
Grand Opera Company, an organiza-
ton which has had the unique ex-
perience of being the one travelling
grand opera company that has not
failed lamentably, in one, or at most
two, seasons.
When the immense cost of produc-
ing grand opera is considered, also the
increasing intolerance of any but the
best music, the fact that the San Carlo
company grows in favor each season
is surest proof of the kind of opera
! it gives. Owing to the European wal
the cast this year is stronger than
ever before.
There is no question of the merit ot
the opera to be given; the only 'ques-
ton is: How will Harrisburg well
come it?" With such crowds as in
Washington after six days of the Sar
Carlo repertoire, compelled an extra
performance last Sunday night at the
Belasco Theater? With such eager
ness as in Pittsburgh, turned eight
hundred disappointed music lovers
from the doors when Rigoletto was
| played? With the packed houses that
| in York, Altoona, Johnstown showed
the appreciation of the people fol
high-class opera?
hope so. We do not want the dis.
tinguished singers who form this CON-
pany to feel that our city is musically
unresponsive-or as our critics of the
train put it: Just another Harris
| burg frost!"
We want the opportunity to hear
| good operas well sung; and we want
those opportunities to be recurrent. ]
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-22
UNIVERSAL TRAINING

NTUcH has been said for and
NI against universal military train
ing-mostly form the series of
interviews and letters now running in
the TELEGRAPH. One or two of tlrose
who have opposed the proposed Cham
berlain bill have displayed a woeful
lack of knowledge of its provisions
In the first place, there has been eX-
pressed the fear that this measure
army that might be used to put down
labor troubles. The bill distinctly says
that men trained under it's provisions
cannot be called for strike duty. "The
reserve citizen army or the reserve
citizen navy shall not be used in cases
of strikes or other industrial disputes"
is the exact wording of the measure.
Another objection that has been
raised is that such an army might be
rushed into war at the behest of any
hot-headed President so minded. This
would be impossible under the terms
of the Chamberlain bill, which stipu-
lates that the reserve army and navy
so created could be called to the colors
only in case of a defensive war; that
is, if some other nation attempted to
land troops on United States soil.
These are practically the only OBJ
jections that have been raised. They
are easily answered. With them out
of the way the citizen who shrinks
from preparing to defend his home
and family in time of national peril
will have some difficulty in defining
his peculiar type of patriotism.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-22

might the more easily go forward to
Paris.
The tale is preposterous; just how
much so is shown by to-day's dis
patches showing that the French have
forced the Germans to what they have
long avoided-open field fighting. The
Germans might have had this had
they chosen at any time to come out
of the trenches on the Somme.
The Berlin dispatches may do all very
we'll for German consumption and
they may bolster up the hopes of Ger
man sympathizers here and elsewhere.
but they are so far from the facts
that they scarcely deserve place in
the news, except as illustrating the
desperate folly to which the German
propagandists have been prompted.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-22
PIFFIE!

NF all the piffle that has come out
" of Europe since the beginning of
the great war-and there has
been enough and to spare-the press
agent story from Berlin with which
some newspapers decorated their first
pages yesterday is the worst.
The German retreat was a great vic
tory. Won Hindenburg gave up all the
territory he had fought to retain for
nearly three years in order to sweep
forward and drive the allied French
and English back to Paris" He fell
back toward the Rhine SO that he
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-22
"Boche"

The proclamation by Munich
newspaper of the German purpose to
murder American sailors serving as
gun crews on American ships is inter
esting and educational. 1t is interest
ing as it discloses the German mind
anew, and educational as it explains
much in the European point of view
that has puzzled many Americans.
The war has enriched the vocab-
ularies of civilized nations with a new
word. The adjective "boche" means in
French and in English alike a char
acteristic German thing done in q
typically German way.
BY way of example, one might
speak of the destruction of Louvain
the atrocities committed upon Belgian
and French women and children as
deeds essentially "boche." The Lusi-
tania was "boche" performance in
the most unmistakable degree.
The appellation 'IIun' claimed for
the German people by the Kaiser and
temporarily adopted by some English
men tends to become obsolete. Lon
don, like Paris, now invariably refers
to the German as ''boche." Evidently
there is a desire on the part of Ger
mans to establish the term in America.
This will not be difficult. A few more
murders, a little more barbarism, and
"boche" will be as well established in
the United States as in Western
Europe. nd it will be for us, as it
has been D the French and the Brit
ish, n new word made necessary by
the appearance of a phenomenon un-
known to recent generations. C'est
boche, the French say of certain
things otherwise indescribable. AS
usual, they have found the necessary
word.-The New York Tribune.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-22
Failure

Has success your pathway dogged,
Everywhere you turned,
Never left your heart in doubt,
Never left you spurned?
Has good fortune tracked you down,
Followed on your drift,
Poured the gold into your lap
AS a Midas gift?
Has fulfillment close pursued,
-brimmed your glass,
Left you naught for which to yearn,
Naught to come to pass?
Then you have been robbed of mucf
Strengthening for men;
If at first you do not fail,
Try, try again.
-McLandburgh Wilson in Life,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-22
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Nathan Il. Folwell, prominent
manufacturer of Philadelphia, is be-
ing congratulated upon his birthday.
S. p. Ker, head of the new west
orn Pennsvlvania and Ohio steel com.
bine. is an enthusiastic golfer.
w. II. Donner, the steel manu-
facturer, is planning big things for one
of his plants near Buffalo.
Ralph M. Campbell, OF New Cas-:
tie, is being doomed for presidents ~
the State organization of the Sons c.
Veterans. He is we'll known hero
Congressman II. w. Temple in g.
address at Pittsburgh upheld the right
to arm ships. He is a college profess
sor and a deep student of law.
George Wharton Pepper, chair
man of the denfense committee, is
Plattsburg graduate.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-22
Labor Notes

Hd0Ol 4NOISS
Toronto cioaK cutters are 81 per
cent. organized.
Union painters in Chicago get 40
cents an nour.
Greece has enacted civil service re-
tlrelnent leglslauon.
Tunnel workers in Arizona have
the elSht-hour day.
Increased pay has been granted To-
ronIo lCanaua5 Policemen.
Kansas had 81 coal mine fatalities
last year.
Many Canadian manufacturers have
agreed to give preference to returned
soldlers in filling vacancies.
A West Virginia law provides that
checkweighmen shall be placed at
mine tipples. The purpose OF this leg
lslauon is to assure miners pay for
all coal mined and prohibit operators
from robbing their employees.
President William D. Mahon, of the
Amalgamated Association of Street
and Electric Railway Employees, has
been selected by the executive council
OF the A. f. of l.. as successor to the
late Dennis A. Hayes.
Kansas City (Mo.) local central
body favors the principles of trade
unlonism being taught in the public
schools and has asked every member
OF organized labor to petition the
board of education to this effect.
A bill has been introduced in the
California Legislature that would in
crease wages of compositors, press
men and bookbinders employed In the
State Printing Office from SIS to $3.50
day,
The international executive board
or the United Mine Workers Union
has inaugurated a vigorous organic
ing campaign in nonunion coal fields,
and has placed this work in charge OF
a permanent committee on organiza-
ton.
The United States produced 477,=
100000 tons of coal In 1912 though
employing only 723,000 men in the in
dustry, while Britain, with 1,O69.OOu
coal miners, brought only 26O, 100000
tens to the surface.
In Arabia the pay of cooks and
house servants runs from $3.50 to
$500 per month. Other daily wages
are as followsi Carpenters, so to 5S
cents masons, 85 to 90 cents; coal
coolies, 20 centsj day laborers, 10 to
16 cents.
Officials of the New York State Fed
Grafton of Labor are arousing trade
unionists to the danger of a constabu-
larry bill being passed at this session
of the State Legislature.
The Locomotive Engineers Mutual
Life and Accident Insurance Associa-
ton, conducted by the Brotherhood OF
Locomotive Engineers, protects It's
members at less cost than old-Iine
companies:
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-22
A HARRISBURG OPERA LOVER.
DOLLARS AND THE DAIRYMAN

DOLLARS AND TIE DAIRYMAN
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
1t is interesting and amusing how
our State is getting after the common
class of peoples dollars; when the
hunters license started and we were
required to pay a dollar for a license,
people seemed fairly we'll satisfied.
We hear rumors to increase that
fee to 81, but it seems quiet at pres
ent. Now they are aiming for a State
tlsherman's license which is merely
! fifty cents to start on. AS q rule the
farmers sons go hunting on Novem-
Der l and go fishing on Ascension Day,
which relates mostly to the poor class
of people who are absolutely not
able to pay. That bill is in committee
now and seems to have died.
We are having tax at present on
agricultural lime, and tax at present
on fertilizer, and q bill introduced in
the Legislature to tax cats. The gen.
tleman that introduced that bill
should be the tax assessor and catch
the cats and put bands around their
necks. Then you would certainly see
the cats spit and scratch and the poor
fellow would have to be doubly pro-
tected by our State Compensation
Board.
We notice in the latest newspaper
reports of the Interstate Milk Com
mission appointed by the different
governors in their reports recently to
have the farmers pay 81 for q permit
to sell their milk and urge dairy in
spection which seems in my opinion
to give a great many jobs for some
State College students.
1t is claimed that there are $780,
900 farmers in the State of Pennsyl-
Vania; in a rough estimate there are
100000 either dairying or selling but
ter, which would mean another 5000, ,00C
out of the farmers and dairymen' S
pockets. Why should we pay q pre-
MUM to sell our product in a free
country?
A case of beer costs but 81 for "a
pint bottles; the food value of a quart
of beer is considered less than three
per cent. and still costs ten cents at
the bar for q pint bottle of beer. While
1 am no friend of local option it is
merely an illustration. A quart OF
four per cent. butter.fat milk is con-
sidered forty-three per cent. food
value. Take the average quart of milk
which is less than ten cents per quart
retail, why should there be a kick
when you buy a quart of good milk
for ten cents and pay ten cents for a
pint bottle of beer?
Is it not time that the public in gen.
eral looks into the above matter and
sees that the dairymen are protected
by urging the different members OF
the Legislature and Senators to see
that the dollars stay in the dairymen'
pockets?
FROM ONE WHO KNOWS.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-22

"You always speak kindly of thu
absent?"
YES" replied Miss Cayenne; "somt
tiresome peoples absence is so desir.
able that ] am willing to offer induce.
ments. From the Washington Stan
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-22

Search of old law books shows thai
restrictive measures on liquor nave
appeared in the Legislatures regular,
ly for fifty years. Ever since the ClVll
var there has been a gradual move tc
check LIQUOR sales and this State ha:
had a varied amount of legislation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-22

the lntoleraDle coHulIlonS pEouShI
about by German disregard for Amer
lean rights on the sea. The whole ma
ton is aroused to the necessity of
quick action and while the President
may be moving behind closed doors to
the defense of the realm in a manner
commensurate with the Importance of
the occasion, the public would feel
much more content with his deliber-
ateness of procedure if it were given
some hint as to what is going forward.
Congress never should have been
permitted to leave Washington. The
unfortunate filibuster which resulted
in many vital emergency measures
falling by the way made it imperative
that prompt measures be taken to cor
rect the grave error committed by the
little band of self-seekers who stood
in the way of their country's measures
to protect itself from foreign aggres-
sion.
But there is no good in fault
finding, except as newspaper criticism
unquestionably has had large part
in squirting President Wilson to hasten
somewhat his dilatory preparations for
war. What is needed when Congress
does assemble is that men of all
parties shall lay aside their political
interests and devote their energies
solely to patriotic consideration of
measures necessary in the crisis that
now impends. Nor will the people
hold the President blameless if he in
sists entirely upon his own way. Wise
compromise of views is vitality inn
portant to action that will hurry the
mobilization of our tremendous re-
sources to meet any demand that may
be made upon them. Two heads are
better than one any day and the
President tacitly admits his de-
pendence upon Congressional CO.
operation when he declines to assume
responsibility for acting in the absence
of approval by House and Senate.
Aside from the declaration that a
state of war exists-a mere formality
to give national recognition to a con-
dition that even now exists-Congress
in extra session will be called upon to
decide questions of even more far
reaching importance than armed con-
flict with Germany. To Congress the
people must look for such effective re-
organization and enlargement of the
army and the navy as will place them
in position to make successful wal
upon the mightiest military machine
the world has ever known. Congress
faces also the great question of uni
versal training and the raising of g
citizen army, and whether or not this
is to be used for national defense only
or for foreign service in case the need
arise in Europe.
These things cannot be decided in a
day. There will be many differences
of opinion. Debate is to be expected
Snap judgment is not to be counten-
anced. The country must be con.
vinced that the program decided upor
by Congress and the President is the
best that could be devised. It is foI
these reasons, and in no spirit of cap
tious criticism, that newspapers the
country over have been urging insist.
emily a little more vim, energy ant
lpromptness at the White House.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-22
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg is one OF the
States big centers of distribution
of foodstuffs?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-22

Il. J.STACKPOLE, Prcs't aud Editor-in.C Chief
i. r. OYSTER, Business Mandger.
GUS NJ. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-22

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.,
Telegraph Building. Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-22

I understand
McCole's matri-
monial difficult
ties have been
settled.
Yes, his wife's
relatives have
agreed to main
tain strict neu-
trality.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-22
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
MisanthropY

The first frehouse in Harrisburg
was located on the river front.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-22

One of the funniest Capitol Hill
stories came out yesterday. A mar
met a deaf and dumb man in the
corridor. The man wrote down where
he wanted to go. The man took MN
around and when he struck the once
found that the man in charge nae
noor evesight and not having the
glasses he needed with him could moi
read what the deaf and dumb man
wrote In the form of request for IN;
formation. So the man who mac
volunteered to act as escort had Ia
take what the mute wrote and read
it to the man with poor eyes.