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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-05
Meatless Day a Week
Ordered in England
Dcvonport Cuts Down Potatoes
TO owest Limit

London. April 4-Baron Davenport,
the British Food Controller, has or
dorcd that, beginning April Is, in hotels
restaurants, boarding houses and clubs
there shall be one mcatless day weekly.
In London the day vii! be Tuesday
Elsewhere in the United Kingdom 1t
will be Wednesday,
The Controller has also ordered that
no potato or food containing potatoes
shall he allowed. EXCEPT on mcatlcss
DAYS and on Friday
Baron Dcvonport said he expected to
conserve 90 per cent Of the meat now
consumed. 53 per cent Of bread and 63
pcr cent Of sugar.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-05

coils under 900 tons were sunk IN inc
,amc reriod. The text Of the state
ment reads: 49,,
For the week ended April l Bri'lsh
merchant vessels sunk by mines or sub
marines 500 tons or over. numbered
,;obteen. including two sunk the Pre-.
100 week; under l,6OO tons, thirteen
"The number unnecessarily at
.ackcd bv submarines was seventeen,
including one unsuccesstuly attacked
dnr,ne thc week ended March Is.
"Fishing vessels sunk numbered SIX;
including four sunk the week ended
March p.
ARRIVALS during the week for vessels
of all natioualitics over 100 tons num-
borcd. 2.2Sl; sailing, 2,399.'
Tho above figures show that o66 per
cent Of all vessels passing through the
war zone were sunk. This is an increase
of IA per cent over the previous week
and Of 10 per cent over the low record
OF a month ago. II IS still far below
the record made in the first weeks OF
the campaign.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-05
Benjamin L. Fowler

Benjamin L. Fowler. ffty-two years
old. who for many years was in the EN-
ploy of ~ & X. Fairbanks. in their
office in Manhattan. and later was sales
manager for t4c American Sales Book
Company Of Manhattan, died n
Worcester, Mass. Tuesday. Fifteen
years ago he moved from Flushing
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-05
500 Teuton Hostages
Set Free by Russia
Government Orders Release On
Grounds of Humanity

London, April 4.-Reuter's Petrograd
correspondent says:
The Provisional government has
ordered the release Of 800 hostages
captured in enemy territory. The gov
eminent considers it an injustice to
imprson people whose only offence IS
fidelity to their own states"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-05
In Menoriam

GILLESPIE Francis, in memory OF. Died
April 6, 1908.
GOEBEL - Minnie. Mass st. Aloysius's
Church. Brooklyn. to-day. 6 a. m. =
RANFORD-In everlasting memory OF War
rem Day Hanford. who entered into life
eternal April 4. 1915. =
LEARNED constant and loving memory
OF Vietorine u. Learned. who died April 4.
1918.
NEsBlr Peter F. Mass St Jossphs
Church. Newark. April 4.
REIS-Julia. In loving memory OF my wife
who departed this life April 4. 1915. Gone
but no, forgotten. Herman L. Refs. NJ. n.
WALTER loving memory Of cur dear
little mother. The Walter family. :
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-05
u. S. Freighter wrecked"
Owners Learn of Disaster to
Unarned Zealandia

The American freighter Zealandia
has been "wrcckcd' at sea. according
to cable dispatches received bY the
Universal Transportation Company,
her owners. from their agents in Liy-
crpool. All on board were rescued,
the dispatch added, but did not state
any particulars regarding the Yea
landia's fate. or where the occurrence
took place.
The Ze4landia sailed unarmed on
March Is for a British port with a
general cargo. including grain and
fnndsfn(Ts
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-05

London, April (. French soldiers
have entered the outskirts Of st. Quen-
tin. Scouting forward over the soaked
ground. through violent snow squalls
the Poilus now hold the southwestern
suburbs Of the city.
Meanwhile Niyelle's battaions were
flung forward once more during the
day over the whole front from the
Somme TO the Disc and wrostcd from
the bitterly-resisting Germans the i'm
portant dominating positions marked
by the villages Of Grugies, Urvillers
and Moy, definitely outhanking Hin
dcnburg's lines Of defence for the city.
Without admitting the French vic
tory, the Berlin war report describes
the severity Of the attack. Between
the Somme and the Disc" it says, "the
French continue their violent recon-
NOTHING attack. They have paid with
sanguinary sacrifices for the ground
which has been abandoned by us step
by step
Battle for Captured Guns
West and north Of the town the
British pressure has been unrelent-
ing. But that the Germans are not
yet prepared to give up st. Quentin
is proved by a determined counter
attack which they launched against
the British in an attempt to recover
the six field guns captured west Of
the town on Monday.
The charging Germans reached the
cannon and had a hand to hand com
bat followed in which dubbed rifles
came into play when the hand grenade
supply was exhausted. The British
troops won. The Germans fed and the
guns were dragged triumphantly back
behind lIaig's main line.
Much of the lighting in which the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-05
DEATHS

Allen. John Heating. Annie
Aspeil. George Kelly. Maria
BALM. Oscar T.. Kellogg, Robert VI.
Blackburn. Mary p. Kingston, George ".
Brizzolara. Frank Iuessen. Louisa A.
Cawlcy, Catherine +. May. Theresa
Campbell, William K. Mclean Mrs. Alex.
CofTey. Irene Y. McNierney. Patrick H.
Conn. Alexander Miles, ADA r.
Conan. Helen Moloy, Margaret
Cuddy. Richard +. Nonheimer. lsidor
Cummings. Mary Nathan, SIMON
Crothcrs. John Neville Mary r.
Dolsn. Henry j. Pearson. Nelson
Dowd. Patrick D. Reuman. Anna II.
Dunphy Margaret Roth. Anna
Eddy, Ulysses d. Russell, william X.
Ellis, Melville Schancupp. Helene
Ford. Mary VI. skinner. sarah y.
Gleason, Mrs. Peter Talmage, John y.
Gregg, Alma l.. Tiffany, Joseph 3.
Gridley, Abbie F.. s. Tuska. Julia
Haagney, Patrick VOlz. William
Heise, Fred Waddell. Andrew c.
Hochster. Felst Ward, Gertrude P.
Hull, Asa Weilage, George
Juska, Julia Wild. Anna
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ENGAGEMENTS

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CEMETERIES
THE wooDLAwN CEMETERY.

S3ys 81. b. Harlem Train ana b. trsJsA
I''' one 3. :"i :. i s.:. fG -; 4. A.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-28
Wealth as War Asset

To what degree the weight of eco
nomic power thrown by the United
States into the balance against Ger
many brings victory closer for the
Allies is indicated in a booklet is
sued to-day by the Mechanics and
Metals National Bank, of New York
city. This booklet, entitled APPLY
ing Our Wealth to War;" shows that
the developed resources of the Unit
ed States are more than double the
resources of any other single ma
ton; that, in fact, our wealth eX-
ceeds the combined wealth of the
worlds three other greatest powers
the British and German empires
and the French republic.
The United States possesses one
third the reckoned wealth of the
world, the Mechanics and Metals Ma
tlonal Bank calculating it at $780,
0OO,0O0,000. Our wealth is twenty
five times larger than at the time OF
the Civil War. Besides material
wealth, however, the bank empha-
sizes the adaptability and organiza-
ton of the American people, on
which, 1t maintains, a successfH out
come of the war will largely de-
pend.
The annual income of the Amer
lean people is placed by the bank at
$40, 900, 100000, the annual savings
at $4,000, 900, 900. The booklet is de-
signed with the purpose of stimulat-
ing subscriptions to the Liberty Loan.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-28
Must Have Training

How afraid we are of airing our
love of our country How shame
facedly we rise to the national an
them! How many excuses a man
will give for going to war, except the
fundamental one thai he loves his
country and is going to stick by her
though the heavens fall!
Little boys, these men of ours, hid
Ing their deepest feelings with a
gibe.
Some things we women must
learn, and now is the time to learn
them. Sacrifice is an old story to
women. They have always known it.
But not sacrifice to an abstract ideal.
Sacrifice to an ideal, then-and per
sonal service.
And this personal service, mothers
of America, is not rolling bandages
for the other womans son.
That hurts, but it is true. This is
no time for evasion. And 1t is not
because | have made my sacrifice
that l say 1t. 1t is because, unless
we give, unless our army is large
enough, those who have failed in
their duty are sending the best youth
OF the country to death. 1t will be
murder.
In return for what we give. we
women of America have the right to
demand certain things. First of all
we can and must demand time that
our boys may be trained. We have
taken long time to go into this war.
And because the country would not
believe that we must eventually be
involved, we have lost precious years.
Mary Roberts Rinehart in The
Altar of Freedom"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-28
PEACE IN SIGHT

CIGNS of peace within the Re-
y publican party of Pennsylvania
have been noted recently and
there is general approval of the pro-
posal that factional discord, which
has caused such general protest,
shall cease. Strong men in the or
ganization in all parts of the Com
monwealth have insisted that con-
tinuance of the factional activities
can result only in party disaster.
Pressure from all quarters has
been eXerted upon the leaders and
these are beginning to understand
that any further disturbance may
seriously affect the party at large
in the campaign next year. There is
no occasion for the bitterness which
the session of the Legislature, and
while Republicans cannot always be
as one upon men and measures, they
can at least agree TO disagree with
out party disruption and continual
dissension.
Few Republicans there are who
will not hail with pleasure evidences
of party harmony. Perhaps no more
significant incident in this direction
can be mentioned than the dinner
which is to be given in this city to-
morrow evening in honor of Sena-
tor Sproul, leader of the organiza-
ton forces by Senator Ware the
leader of the State administration
wing. In the breaking of bread to-
gether factional differences may be
forgotten and a better understanding
reached in the management of party
affairs.
All good Republicans will hope
that the dove of peace will have a
prominent place at the banquet.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-28
ADVERTISING PROSPERITY

.NNE of the most constructive
n pieces of advertising publish
ed by the HARRISBURG
TELEGRAPH in months was the ad-
vertisement of Doutrich & Company
which appeared in columns of this
newspaper last Friday. 1t is well
worth reprinting. 1t ought to be in
the hands of every businessman and
every person with money to spend in
this and every other city. 1t is more
than an advertisement; it is a care
fully prepared, well rounded, con-
vincing essay.
Don't be a business Stacker" is its
title and by way of introduction is
this definition of the man who has
permitted the war to frighten him
into a too close tightening of his
purse strings:
The business Stacker here at
home is our one real enemy-rar
more of an enemy than the Kaiser,
because the Kaiser cannst get at
us. If you cannot thrust a bayo-
net, you can at least drive your
business harder than you have
ever driven it before, and thus
help create the imperative pros
perity with which alone this war
can be won. 1t betrays weak
mindedness to think of diving
headlong into a period of panic,
penance. abject fear and hyster-
ical economy. The man who
sneaks down and buys a marriage
license life preserVer is not the
worst breed of Stacker. Conscrip-
tion will take care of him. But
for the business Stacker there is
no law but his own conscience.
The man who destroys business
takes the bread out of the mouths
of thousands.
Business as usual" was the Eng
lish slogan following the entrance
of Britain into the war; business bet
ter than usual should be that of the
United States. Seven billions of dol
lars are to be spent by the United
States government in this country.
Think of the prosperity that will
make. There is no reason why we
should hold back. There is every
reason why we should go forward.
There is no place in the United States
for the business Stacker" Look
up your Fridays HARRISBURG
TELEGRAPH and read that lad"
1t doesn't advertise the wares in
which the company deals; it adver-
tises prosperity.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-28
SUGAR BEET SEED SHORTAGE

ITHE Dutch ship ''Noordam.
i bound for the United States
was turned back by German
subs" the other day to discharge
$4,000 bales of sugar beet seed con
signed to growers in this country
That will result in an injury to the
sugar beet industry here that viii
be consequential in the year to come
If Germany had any respect for the
law we would remind her that sugar
beet seed is not contrabrand. If we
had possessed a little more respect
for the industrial welfare of the
United States we would be raising
beet seed sufficient for our own use
to-day.
Both parties have been censurable
with respect to tariff duty on beet
seed to encourage domestic produc-
tlon-the Democrats doubly so be-
cause of their antipathy to any tariff
policy which would encourage do
mestic sugar production. During the
fiscal year 1913, when beet sugar had
a protective tariff, our growers i'm
ported about 100000 pounds of
the seed, and the following fiscal
year, 1914, with sugar operating un-
der 20 per cent. reduction of duty,
and scheduled for free list May l.
1916, imports of beet seed fell to
about 100000 pounds, decrease
of 33 per cent.
Several considerations operated
after that to favor the beet sugar in
dustry; the war was creating a vast
draft on our sugar supply; the DEM
ocratic tariff law was a rank failure
as a revenue producer; and the vote
of the growers in Utah and other
localities was needed. So the pro-
gram of free sugar after May /,
1916, was destroyed. just a few days
before it would have become effect
i've.
The effect was immediate and as
tonishing. We had imported but g.
100000 pounds of the seed up to
May, 1916. BY the close of the fiscal
pounds. and by the close of the cal
endar year 1916 we had imported
100000 pounds, the greatest i'm
portation in our history. The bulk
of it prior to the war came from
Germany; now it comes from Russia
and the Netherlands.
The Department of Agriculture
finds that we are well able to raise
our entire supply in this country,
and the imposition of a small tariff
to encourage its growth would make
us Independent of Europe and such
an instance as that of the Moor
dam" would not poster us.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-28
FINDING THE RIGHT JOBS
FOR WOMEN IN WAR TIME
A Vocational Commission Is
Athlete Gets the Place of the Dock Laborer
Goes Fight For His

whom no gasfitter could triflle with
to the bossing of the lady plumbers,
rather than the other way around.
Although, the Ii. c. of l.. being what
1t Is, who woulu not prefer to be the
plumber?
A Fair Division of Work
Then, because one is the daugh-
ter of a magnate or the granddaugh-
ter of woman who has organized a
relief society with a press agents
that any reason why one should get
all the night jobs as truck driver? ?
Truck driving, like plumbing, is a
lovely job. Especially in the spring.
Freedom and individualism have
gone out of this community in the
middle classes, but the truck driver
has kept his soul his own.
We nominate for the truck drivers
jobs all those poor wives and maiden
aunts who have never, in all their
forty-odd years, been able to call
their souls their own. Their rcnais-
Sance is here.
And although we know that most
women who will take mems jobs be-
cause of this war will go into a
munition factory, or into a civil SER
vice job as a clerical worker or into
husbands or sons places behind the
counters or the plow, we feel that
some of those delightful stationary
positions that strong and able-bodied
men now decorate and monopoliZe.
The 6-foot imperious elevator start
er, who stands all day long in the
hallway, speaking now and then to
some favored passer-by, answering q
question at intervals, but earning his
living by series of signals to a watt
ing and attentive-eyed mob of ele-
vator operators, has always been a
marvel to us.
Women AS Elevator Men
Why should this not be nice po-
sition for some poor woman who has
to go out to support herself? Why
would not women make perfectly
nice elevator men? They are GER
tainly quick witted and they are
even more used than men to running
all day long up and down the stairs :?
Why should not women have the
nice jobs as floor walkers? Why
should women not stand in a grand
and imposing manner at the front
door of a department store?
Why should they not sell tickets
in the subway. seated on a comfort
able stool? Why should they not
open the door of hotel taxis for rich
and beautiful people? When all the
exquisite and imperturbable young
men are waited away from box Of
fees and hotel desks and jewelry
counters and the candy counters and
soda fountains into the trenches,
why cannot some of the weary wom-
en- of America be put in their places?
Before the munition factories are
filled and the civil service and the
yeomanry lists made up, and the
farms overrun with your mothers
and sisters, we ask you that little
question.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-28

The war is on and in the eco
nomic upheaval that must follow the
enactment of the conscription act is
about to begin.
And those of us-namely, we poor
women-who are going to be the
most upheaved are beginning to face
the future. For into the places of the
men who will fill the ranks of the
army and the navy, Plattsburg and
the aviation corps, will go a con-
stantly increasing number of women.
Young women, old women, married
ones and single ones; those who have
slaved all their lives and those who
have never lifted a finger, will step
forward to fill the places temporar-
lily forsaken by the men compatriots.
This is no unique emergency. Eng
lish women and French women, who
are running everything from locomo-
tives to trans, and making munitions
as well as bandages, have pointed
out possible future for American
women. American women, who are
quite as forehanded as the men, have
for months been training thems selves
to be not only better cooks and more
thrifty housewives, but also daring
ambulance drivers and fearless radio
operators-for young women who
have spent their lives on the golf
links and behind 60-horse power mo-
tors and steering gears are not going
to be content to be mere nurses
aids.
The Old Illusion Shattered
Feminism and earning a living and
the Twentieth century have killed
the old illusion that a woman who
wants to serve her country should
find haloed sphere in holding the
head of some dying soldier, or in dis
ff.t e-s. Ia
home songs in the conValescent ward
of some hospital until tears come to
the eyes of the soldier who has al
ready seen quite sorrow enough.
No. This sort of thing, thank
heaven, has gone out. The women
who have long since ceased being
weak and clinging creatures in time
of peace cannot easily assume less
dashing roles in time of war. They
would much prefer, and they know
it to be infinitely wiser, to leave the
dying soldier to the far more capable
hands of a registered nurse, to re-
linquish the entertainment of the
convalescent to the professional
artist who will never fail to fill the
wards with healthful laughter. For
women who have worked-profes-
sional women, secretaries, business
women, stenographers-are not con-
tent to serve their country in any
capacity that does not exact fully of
their experience and ability. Why
should $4,000 year woman make
bandages or pack comfort kits that
any debutante can manipulate?
A vocational commission armed
with an understanding of women and
some intelligence tests is necessary
to assign the champion athletes
from Smith and Nassar to the docks
and the expert suburban housewife
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-28
EDITORIAL COMMENT

One ship we can afford to lose is
the censorship.-Brooklyn Eagle.
An army at the front is worth two
in the training camps.-Baltimor
Sun.
The food situation is acute when
they fight so over Mush.-St. Louis
Globe Democrat
One can admire Marshal Joffre
without being able to pronounce him.
New York Morning Telegraph.
We didn't start the war, but there
is a general expectation that we're
going to finish it.-Philadelphia
Press.
The time for the War Department
to have prepared for a three-year
war was three years ago.-Boston
Transcript.
1t is reported that the Berlin po-
lice have arrested a man because he
shot at the Kaiser and missed
Philadelphia North American.
There's really nothing like a heavy
dose OF u-boat for bad case of neu-
trality.-Council Bluffs Nonpareil.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-28
Song of the Sea Slugs

Sing me a song of a frail NJ. L.,
May the Lord have mercy Lkpon us:
Rolling about in an oily sweel,
May the Lord have mercy upon us;
Out on high explosive SPREE.
Petrol, Lyddite and T. n. T.,
Looking for U-boat 8. 8. g.,
May the Lord have mercy upon us.
Sing me a song of a bold young
Lieut."
May the Lord have mercy upon us:
Two gold bands on an "owed-for
suit"
May the Lord have mercy upon us;
Ship the cable and full ahead,
Hard a-starboard and heave the lead,
The detonators are in my bed,
May the Lord have mercy upon us.
Sing me a a song of bright young
May the Lord have mercy upon us:
very ignorant half-bal1ed cub,
May the Lord have mercy upon us;
OF the Kings regulations he knows
not one,
He has left undone what he should
have done.
And, oh, my Lord, when he fires that
gun,
May the Lord have mercy upon us.
Sing me a song of CMB (engineer)
May the Lord have mercy upon us:
Bred in a garage and sent to sea,
May the Lord have mercy upon us:
Taken away from the motor trade,
Seasick, sorry and sore dismayed,
But a hell of a "knut" on the grand
parade,
May the Lord have mercy upon us.
Sing me song of the NJ. L. cook,
May the Lord have mercy upon us:
With a petrol stove in a greasy nook,
May the Lord have mercy upon us:
Our meals a lukewarm lingering
death,
Well praise the Hun with our final
II he'll strafe our galley and slay our
chef.
May the Lord have mercy upon u.s.
Sing me song of North Sea base,
May the Lord have mercy upon us;
A dirty. forgotten one-horse place,
May the Lord have mercy upon us;
When the wind blows west, how
brave we arel
When the wind blows east, it's diff
ferent far,
We wish we were back in the harbor
bar,
May the Lord have mercy upon us.
M. L., in The Rudder.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-28
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Samuel Rea, president of The
Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
will make speeches in support OF
the Liberty Loan.
Judge w. c. Ryan, of Bucks
county, will make the addresses al
hagraisings in his county Wednes.
day.
DIR. Herman Hornig, Philadel.
phias official entomologist says thai
saloonkeepers ought to take stepi
to eliminate the flies from bari
which carry many diseases,
DR.. John A. Brashears, the
Pittsburgh astronomer. made the
speech at Jeanette's flagraising.
John Brophy, the new president
of the Central Pennsylvania miners
is only thirty-three. He lives II
Clearfield.