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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-09-07
A Serenade.

A Serenade.
A most interesting event was a
;erenade given by the young people
Of Winter Garden, Fla. on Friday
night, Aug 81, to the new bride and
,room. Mr.. and Mrs. B. H. Roper.
?ne bride being formerly Miss Char
lotte Smiser, Of Culleoka. Tenn.
Hearty congratulations we're ex-
tended to them from fifty or more of
the young people. The guests we're
invited into the dining room and en-
tertained by looking at the numerous
and beautiful wedding presents,
which were on display. Late in the
evening a delicious ice course was
served and they were bid adleu with
he song, "a Perfect Day." sung by
the crowd just outside the gate.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-09-07

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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-09-07
Dinner For Earl johnson.

Miss Jewel Church delightfully."- en-
tertained at her home on Garden
street, at dinner Saturday evening,
in honor Of her cousin, Earle John
son. who has enlisted in Battery F,
and will leave with that battery soon.
The house was beautified by decora-
tons of red, white and blue, in flowers
and flags. A sumptuous ive-course
dinner was served.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-24
The Roosevelt Division
kansas City Start

If the sight of the American flag
and the presence of American SOL
diers, however few in number, on the
battle front in Europe would have a
heartening effect upon our allies as
visible sign of our participation in
the war, then the government ought
without delay to accept Colonel
Roosevelt's offer to raise and lead
a division of volunteers.
1t must be plain to everybody, of
course, that SUCH a volunteer di-
vision could be raised and placed in
the field much quicker than the arm
les that will be recruited under the
plan of the general staff could be
made ready. But while that plan is
the right one and has the hearty
support of Colonel Roosevelt as en-
bodying the principle of universal
service and training for which he
has contended so long, he does not
overlook the moral effect which
would be produced by the early ex-
hibition at the front of some con-
crete evidence of the immense
weight which the American Republic
is preparing to throw into the scales.
Most of us know very little about
the strictly military aspect of the
proposal to send such vanguard of
our coming army abroad. But weigh
ed on other grounds most of us
would be ready to say that $4,000
Americans of the kind Theodore
Roosevelt would pick, with himself
at the head of them, would answer
in the most satisfactory way the pur-
pose of letting the enemy know we
were in his vicinity. Most of us
would say that the Roosevelt d.
vision would not be a division of
mollycoddles. We would go as far
as to say that they would be men
with more or less of a natural apti-
tude for fighting. to whom fighting
would be not only a patriotic duty
but personal pleasure. We should
expect to. see them exhibit an atti-
tude rather quarrelsome than other
wise toward the enemy and to evince
disposition to harass and annoy
him, to pick on, nag, stir up, chase
and otherwise fret him until he
would wish they hadn't come. All of
which, we understand, would tend in
n general way to further the object
of war, If. as we have been informed
and believe. that object is to make
the enemy want to 20 home.
To recruit such a force as Colonel
Roosevelt proposes would interfere
In no way with the general recruit
ing under the staff plan, for the coll
onel would take only men above the
age limit fixed in the pending serv-
ice bills. They would be men for
the most part who had seen service
in the Spanish War or whose train
ing or outdoor occupations had fitted
them for the job. Such Americans,
hardened by the intensive training
they would receive in the three
months workout 1t is proposed to
give them, fit for anything, but prin-
cipally to fight, and led by a former
President of the United States whose
name and personality are not wholly
unfamiliar in Europe, would consti-
tute sample of the army we pro-
pose ultimately to send that would
give us no cause to worry for the
! honor of the fiag abroad.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-24
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Marching Through Georgia"
10 the Editor of the Telegrobh:

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
While everyone is bent on showing
his or her patriotism in some way,
might it not be we'll for some of our
newspapers to remind civilian band
leaders that th9 day of Marching
Through Georgia" has long since
passed away. Army bands no longer
play this air, for in the ranks OF
the various branches of the army Will
be found an equal percentage of men
who claim the south as their home,
and who are fully as patriotic as the
men of the north.
without entering into a discussion
of the advantages gained or the
wrongs committed on that march to
the sea, it seems hardly fair that on
every parade of mixed organizations
this air should be played. This is
the only way to make a southerner
angry, and now that the south is
working just as earnestly as the
north for the common good of the
nation, 1t seems small thing to be
continually forcing men from the,
south to listen to the strains of
Marching Through Georgia"
II we are to be a patriotic nation.
let us confine our music to those airs
that inspire both north and south
alike to greater efforts, for 1t may not
be long until the soldier of the north
and the soldier of the south may be
fighting side by side and then each
will have but single aim.
CHARLES w. THOMAS.
Harrisburg, Pa, April 23, 1917.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-24
The Dogs Appeal
thc Edilor of the TeIegrdbh

To the Editor or fHe IeIegfdPH'
Through you, to the men who
make your laws we extend most
our paws. Haven't they
some little chap at home that will
help us plead-it's oftenest the little
child that best understands our
need. There's more than one of us
that's gone to some awful torture
place, hoping, longing through un-
told fear and pain, to see some much
loved boys face. Just dogs! yell
low ones, nameless ones, flesh and
blood and bones. Yes, mostly bones,
that no one feeds or owns. But If
you want to search inside of us, for
some hidden mystery - to make
material for writing scientific his
tory.
Don't, / pray of you, do 1t with n
knife-Grant us yet our little span
of life. Study, search, and scrutinize
But do 1t meeting our honest eyes.
Read in them love and faith and
keeping true. See in them a creature
coming very near to you. Stand by
Mr.. Gans-Hold up his hands.
Don't vote "No"-but bravely an
swer AYE" Ask the little chap at
home to tell you why. Vote for
House Bill nine hundred fifty-two.
Save us, Men, it's up to you.
BILLIE BOWSER.
We are praying for this bill clear
across the country in Kansas, Billie
Bowser and /. We have not words to
tell all that means to us and to SO
many, many others.
H. H. JACOBS,
Kansas City.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-24
SPRLNGTIME IN THE PARK

rush, seemed to fade into the still
ness of the Land of Long Ago-to
the land of little children-to the
land that artists know! For he
painted, yes, from memory, just an
old forgotten nook. fringed by slen-
der ribbon grasses, where some pre-
historic brook might have left it's
faint impression, where the oak trees
cast their shade. where the flowers,
smiling gayly, grew and fiourished
unafraidi
Other people stopped to watch
him; men, with shoulders worn from
toll, watched the artist as he pic
tured Just a bit of country soil.
Women, ragged-shawled and tired,
looked upon his work and sighed,
then went on to meet the future that
was waiting wistful-eyed.
Through the park breeze came
creeping, and it touched the artist s
hair; and he paused, and glancing
saw us as we stood and watched him
there. And he blushed to see us
watching, and knew that he had
strayed through the country woods
in summer where real country
breezes played. And 1 knew the
small oasis in the busy city street
seemed a bit of meadow to him,
where the air was cool and sweet;
and / knew that he'd forgotten city
houses in a row. and l knew that he
was living in the Land of Long Ago.
Standing there I smiled, but swiftly,
as heard him softly say, Yes, it's
Just the farm ! came from.
Summer seems so near to-day!"-
Margaret e. Sangster, Jr., in The
Christian Herald.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-24
The American Flag

When freedom from her mountain
height
Unfurled her standard to the air,
She tore the azure robe of night,
And set the stars of glory there.
She mingled with it's gorgeous dyes
The milky baldric of the skies,
And striped it's 'Rure celestial white
With streaking of the morning light;
Then from his mansion in the sun
She called her eagle bearer down
And gave into his mighty hand
The symbol of her chosen land.
Majestic monarch of the cloud,
Who rear'st aloft thy regal
form,
To hear the tempest trumpings loud
And see the lightning lances driven,
When strive the warriors of the
storm,
And rolls the thunderdrum of heaven,
Child of the sun! to thee 'tis given
To guard the banner of the free,
To hover in the sulphur smoke,
And bid its blendings shine afar,
Like rainbows on the cloud of war,
The harbingers of victory!
Flag of the brave! thy folds shall fly,
The sign of hope and triumph high,
When spelrks the signal trumpet tone
And the long line comes cleaning
on.
Ere yet the lifeblood. warm and wet,
Has dimmed the glistening bayonet,
Each soldier eye shall BrightIy turn
To where the sky-born glories burn,
And. as his springing steps advance,
Catch war and vengeance from the
glance.
And when the cannon-mouthings
Heave in wild. wreaths the battle
shroud,
And CORY sabers rise and fall
Like shoots of flame on midnight's s
pail,
Then shall thy meteor glances
glow,
And covering foes shall shrink be-
meath
Each gallant arm that strikes
below
That lovely messenger of death.
Flag of the seasi on ocean wave
Thy stars shall glitter DER the brave;
When death, careering on the gale,
Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail
And frighted waves rush wildly back,
Before the broadside's reeling rack,
Each dying wanderer of the sea
Shall look at once to heaven and
thee
And smile to see thy splendors fly
In triumph DER his closing eye.
Flag of the free hearts hope and
home!
BY angel hands to valor given;
Thy stars have lit the welkin. dome,
And all thy hues were born in
heaven.
Forever float that standard sheet!
Where breaths the foe, but falls
before us.
With Freedoms soil beneath our
feet,
And Freedoms banner streaming
o'er us?
BY Joseph Rodnan Drake.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-24
Our Little Boy Scout
Is a Volunteer Now
By BRIGGS

His slender form. his frightened eye,
His quick salute with shoulders high
We watched with pride as parents
will,
Their girl with dolls. the step of Bill.
In khaki clad for daily hike.
We bade adieu all smiley like
And welcomed home when twilight
fell
Our own Boy Scout still marching
well.
At roll call, mess or in|the drill.
The valley camp, the charge uphill
In face of fire-a sham of war
He seemed at home; Let cannon roar.
From boy to man, Do we transform?
How close the calm is to the storm!
Is it a day, is it an hour
Or just the deepening of power?
The peoples need is to be freed
From hell black creed of kingly
greed.
He heard the call. the aim is clear.
our eX-Boy Scout-a volunteer.
j. A. BELL,
40 South Harrisburg Street.
Steelton, Pa.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-24
THE RIVER FRONT
~ITY COMMISSIONER GROSS

@ITY COMMISSIONERS GROSS
~ is quoted in an interview as
having determined to lose no
time in the riprapping OF the River
Front from Hardscrabble to Maclay
street. Fortunately for the city the
heavy ice and high water of this
spring did not damage the embank-
ment so much as had been feared,
but It would be unwise to risk an
other food and the consequent in
jury to the slope.
Commissioner Gross is right in ar
ranging to go ahead with the work.
This is quite as important as any
other activity of his department and
1t ought not to require moro than
a few weeks to complete the protec-
tive system outlined by the en-
gineers of the State Water Supply
Commission last year. Harrisburg
appreciates the Susquehanna basin
and public use of. the shore line
should be increased wherever pos
sible through the final treatment of
the terrace, the placing of numer-
Gus benches, the planting OF shrub
berry and the making of easy walks
along the slope from the top to the
granolithic walk at the bottom.
While labor scarcity has entered
somewhat into the outside work Of
this year. there are many men too
old for military service who are
available for this work. There will
be general approval of the decision
Of Commissioner Gross to proceed
with this plan.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-24
Kaiser's Defeat
kansas City Times1

AS the governing military class in
Germany has itself put forward
Count Won Reventlow as its spokes-
man and interpreter to the world in
matters relating to the war, we may
accept as having due weight of au-
thority his prediction in the Berlin
Tages Zeitung that without victory
the Kaiser's throne cannot stand.
That is q view that will be widely
shared, in Germany and out. by
great numbers of persons who have
formed their opinions without the
advantage of Count Fon Reventlows
intimate knowledge of the situation.
The imperial German throne was set
up with the sword, its buttresses
have been the military and priv
ileged classes that have benefited by
its power and it's tradition of victory
and conquest, and 1t would not be
at variance with the history of mill
itary autocracy If 1t should fall with
the shatterins of that tradition.
Napoleon was as well aware of the
necessity of victory to uphold his
military system as Count Won Re-
ventlow Is of it's necessity to that
of the Kaiser, and was as frank in
admitting 1t. To pause in his career
of conquest or to try to draw back
was to fall, he said. He must carry
unsheathed the sword of Marengo
and Austerlitz. The Prussian mill
tary system must uphold the tradi-
ton of its victories over Austria,
Denmark and France or meet an
other Waterloo.
The Won Reventlow declaration
only goes to make palmer what most
all the world already had recogized,
and that is that this. war Is one of
democracy-of world democracy
not against the German people, but
against an outworn absolutism in
trenched in Prussian militarism.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-24
IN THE STATES sERN-E


THRoUGH the organization OF
the Committee of Public Safety
for the Commonwealth, Gov
ernor Brumbaugh and all associated
with him in this patriotic work ex-
pect that much will be accomplished
in the way OF conserving the re-
sources of Pennsylvania and provid-
ing for the unusual demands growing
out of the mobilization of the ma
TONS armies. In addition to the
main committee appointed some
time ago, the Governor Is now or
ganizing the State into eighty-seven
districts, each having local COM
mittee which will Cooperate with
the general body and assume respon-
sibility for preparedness In its own
particular district.
When these committees shall have
been fully organized there will be at
least 10000 citizens cooperating
with one end In view, thus avoiding
all lost motion and waste through
separate agencies such as were pro-
pObGu III OC6A4A1AiA6 VI IAAO "SAA
Of preparation.
The first meeting OF the local COM
mittee will be held at the Board Of
Trade rooms tomorrow. this meet
ing having been called for the pur-I
pose of organization. Every effort
will be made to encourage intensive
farming and the giving of every pos
sible assistance to the farmers in the
work of tilling the soil and planting
the crops. Through this organization
the needs of every part Of the State
will be ascertained. SO that no time
shall be lost in securing the max
imum of effort in the production OF
food and the mobilization Of all the
resources of the State.
Governor Brum mbaugh has directed
every State department to aid In
this work, and through the schools
and colleges and the various activi-
ties In all communities much will be
achieved.
Pennsylvania Is q great agricul-
tural State, but the importance OF Its
enormous mineral and industrial re-
sources has in q measure dwarfed
the farming community in the aver
age mind. Since the declaration Of
war with Germany. however, our
people have begun to understand
that Pennsylvania is one OF the lead
ing agricultural districts OF the
country. In fact. Lancaster county
Is the garden spot OF the nation and
the valleys OF the Susquehanna and
the Juniata, not to mention the Cum
berland and Lebanon districts, are
rich In agricultural production. Our
food supply must be increased as q
war measure and every citizen
should do his utmost to encourage
right now the activities in this d.
rection.
The Committee OF Public Safety
wiii' Of course. do everything within
lts power to organize these forces OF
the state, but no individual should
wait upon any committee to tell him
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-24
GUNNER waits around the cor

GUNNER waits around the cor
- ner. and the Spring is on the
land! But the city is-the city.
and folk do not understand! Some
too busy, do not heed it; some, un-
knowing, turn away; some, with
tired eyes bent earthward, think a
day is just-a day. But this morn
ing, as 1 hurried down the crowded
city street, I could feel the thrill of
summer! Something seemed to
guide my feet to a little park that
nestles, an oasis, in the way-an
oasis in the city. There the little
children play near a crumbled mar
BILE fountain; there the city sparrows
call; and the sun, as in the country,
smiles a greeting over all!
To the little park / wandered in
the morning of the day. Every spray
of grass seemed singing, Summers
not so far away" Tiny flowers,
(stunted, maybe) peered at me; a
sunbeam strayed toward me from
the merry corner where the little
children played-played at fairies,
as we used to; played at giants tall
and grim. Overhead the trees were
showing baby leaves on every limb.
Marble fountain, childish voices,
dancing sunshine seemed to say,
Spring is here-here in the city;
summers not so far away!"
In a corner sat an artist sketching,
with his gaze intent. stood near and
watched, unbidden, watched the col
ors that he blent; watched the grow
ing of his fancy, watched the magic
of his brush; watched him, silent,
and the city, with its clamor and its
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-24
Censorship Must Be Sensible
. IPhiladelphia Record

Temporarily the Senate has laid
aside the espionage bill in order to
take up the bill to place the army
of the United States on a war foot
ing. The latter is of far greater i'm
mediate importance. The laws defin-
ing and Furnishing treason would
meanwhile be adequate to reach all.
whether aliens or citizens or profess
sional or amateur newsmen, who
collect, report or publish informa-
tion of military value in order to
give aid or comfort to the public
enemy. Some Senators have ex-
pressed the belief that the laws
against treason as they stand are
sufficient. Anyhow, law that might
result in the suppression of legiti-
mate and honestly patriotic criticism
of the government ought not to be
passed until it has had the most
anf. .1zr. kfrx.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-24
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Bennett oliver, son of the PIN
burgh publisher, George L. OliT
has been accepted for service in
reserve aviation corps.
Booth Harrington, the auth
is being entertained in Philadelpl
this week.
Frank M. Ritter. former cI
service gladiator in the Legislatu
came here to see the Legislators|
work. The House beat one of
bills as part of the entertainments
Judge f. A. Bregy, of Philad
phia, was dined yesterday in hot
of thirty years on the bench.
Commissioner of Fisheries n
ler says he has been SO busy he
not been able to cast q trout fly 4
season.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-24
VOLUNTEER OR BE DRAFTED

VOLUNTEER OR BE DRAFTED
"TILL you volunteer or wait to
w be drafted?
That is the question which
confronts the young men of the
country. and it is their proud privi-
lege to step forward and answer 1t
by Offering their services freely.
Captain Harrell, recruiting officer
In charge OF the Harrisburg district,
reports that the number of volun-
teers from this city and Central
Pennsylvania has been larger in pro-
portion to the population than from
New York, Philadelphia, or, in fact,
any part of the United States except
certain portions of Indiana. Never
theless, the number is not nearly up
to the quota desired by the War De-
partment. Ten years, at the present
rate OF enlistment, would be required
to bring the army up to the necessary
figures. What a shameful showing!
Volunteer is the proudest title
any soldier can bear. from the
humblest private to the highest Off
Ger in the service. 1t is no credit to
anybody's patriotism that he re-
spends to the summons of the draft
ing offlcer. That system may be the
most efficient, but to the volunteer
belongs the honor and the credit Of
having stepped forward to meet his
country's needs before the demand
became so pressing that conscription
had to be enforced.
In Civil War days, at almost every
call. the men of Harrisburg and of
Central Pennsylvania volunteered in
numbers far exceeding the quota
demanded of the district.
In the War of the Revolution
whole companies of settlers left
their little homes almost defenseless
to fling themselves into the fray IN
defense of liberty and their rights
as freemen.
Shall it be said that their sons are
of their proud and
patriotic parentage? Was Gettys-
burg the high water mark of
in Pennsylvania?
Wars are fought by young men.
There is the strength and the virility
demanded by the strenuous life OF
the soldier. It is right that they first
should step forth to defend the
heritage older men have handed
down to them. 1t is proper that men
without family ties and the respon-
sibilities that go with them; with
out dependents to leave to the mercy
of a more or less charitable public,
go first. To these the call now
comes insistently. Will they respond,
or shall it be written into history
that the young men of Harrisburg
and Central Pennsylvania in this
emergency lodged the recruiting
office as they would a smallpox hos
pital?