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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-26
SEPTEMBER HAZE

More than any other month Sep
tember presents the phenomenon of
dual personality. She has two utter
ly different temperaments. and both
are characteristic.
First, and perhaps best, is the
brisk, clear September. 1t is a time
of energy and ambition. One may
on walking all day. Barometric high
pressure brings high animal spirits.
There is crispness. sometimes even
frostiness, in the air. The nerves of
men and animals are healthily
atingle.
This is September temperament
which savors somewhat of October
but October's chromatic joyousness
is lacking. 1t is rather summer
grown ripe and we'll favored.
Some night the brisk September
passes. and there comes with the
morning lazy, dropping, Lavender
September. Nj the brightness is
gone from the sky. Either it is
mali ttliSu WIFI iilIl WlSDY ClOuQS
or it merely fades to a remote, un-
defined, weary hue which is no more
than the ghost of heavens true blue.
The sun is tired. It's light comes
drowsily. 1t comes to a drowsy, Ian
guid world.
But heavy contentment rather than
| melancholy is the spirit of the
phase. One does not care to walk
far. There is no temptation to frisk.
To lie still and almost thoughtless, to
listen subconsciously to the grass
hoppers and cicadas or to the sub
dued monotone of an indolent brook,
this is enough. 1t Is a blessing to
be idle physically and mentally.
Such listlessness is no offense. All
Nature is torpescent and calls to
dozy comfort. One who loves Nature
must obey her calls and match her
moods. To doze away a bright brisk
September day would be crime, but
to yield to the somniferous influence
of the lazy, hazy September is but
natural obedience.
1t is the haze that visibly makes
the day. There is no distance. The
far away is blotted out. The earth
is snug and friendly. The haze
brings everything close or shuts 1t
out wholly. 1t is soft, silky bless
ing. Its tapestry is too thin TO
touch. but substantial enough to
tranfigure and beautify the solid
realities. All the world is dreamy
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-26
NEW, SWEET DAYS

The world God gave us--it can't roll
wrong
When the heart o. the world sings
the one true song;
The one true song of Love and Light,
Born, like the bloom, from the dark
o. the blight;
When children, like roses. bloom
round Loves door
And the blessing of Gods on the
bread O. the Poor.
o we seem to be walking the won
derful ways
OF the new. sweet days, of the new,
sweet days!
For the tears of the years, still the
the sweet relief
If the world has its joy, shall it
shrink from its grief?
And souls that know SORROWS sor-
row all loss
When it rests meath the shadow that
shines from a Cross?
They know that the weeping endures
for the Night
But JOY comes with Morning and
blesses its Light;
And they, too. shall walk in the won-
derful ways
OF the new, sweet days, of the new
sweet days.
Light O. the world, though the black
storms may fall;
Stern strife of Life, but Life's Lord
over all!
Love in the flowers that spring from
the soil;
Love at the threshold and Love In
the TOLL
Love beckoning on to the heights of
the lights;
Love, like a Star in the desolate
nights!
And the wide world to walk in the
wonderful ways
OF the new, sweet days, of the new
sweet days
Frank l.. Stanton in the Atlanta
Constitution.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-26
WHY BABY CRIED

a girl not more than 12 years
old was burdened with what was un-
questionably her youngest living rela-
tive. AS she got into a Third Ave-
nue. elevated train at the BROOKLYN
Bridge the other day the relative,
very pink and very young, was
silent, but as soon as the train start
ed so did the relative. The baby
had a very weak, fretful cry and
kicked it's tiny feet so that the long
skirt resembled q systematic series
of explosions in a linen factory.
Maybe you've got him bundled up
too close, little girl" suggested a wo-
man next to the racket. Nope" said
the bearer of the angered bundle,
yer wrong. First place it's a girl,
next place 1 know why she's bawIina
She hates the L. S'long as l kin
remember, she hates the l. She's
afraid Wen all fall off it - New
York Letter to the Pittsburgh Dis
patch.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-26
REEDS HAZARD
[From Golfers Weekly


That column of the newspaper
which aims to be amusing-isn't it
perhaps a better index to the state
of the public mind than the stock
quotations some evenings and even
some of the ponderous editorials
themselves? We have seen lots of
loaded editorials which told less than
what Philander Johnson's Senator
Sorghum" got off the other day in
the Washington Star. An interviewer
asks the Senator if he has done any,
thing to help his country.
Yes, The repliesl, though large.
ly in a negative way. L have kept
silent to jump in and complicate the
debate
On the same page of the Star we
find this quoted from the Boston
Transcript:
Il am willing to hazard whatever
reputation l have for Judgment
Senator Reed.
All, go on. don't be piker, bet
something.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-26
GONE TO SCHOOL

Baby has gone to school to-day, gone
trudging away alone,
And only a mother can understand
\ how empty the world has grown ;
TheN toys are scattered about the
swing out under the china tree,
And where the Tilt of the baby song
and happiness used to be
Is only silence; the rope-swing
hangs, slow-swung by the winds
to-day,
And the kitten is stretched on the
porch asleep-the baby has gone
away
With little book meath a little arm
to the schoolhouse down the
lane;
And the mother waved when the
baby turned, and her eyes were
dim with pain.
The mother waved when the baby
turned. The baby was proud to-
But there was pain in the mother
heart when baby had gone away;
Tho baby-going away to school =
adventuring all. aloneI
And only mother can understand
how quiet the world has grown
The toys are scattered, the kitten
sleeps, there isn't laugh or call;
NO footsteps come through the
kitchen now, or patter along the
hall,
And the mother arms on the window
sill and head on her arms -
sits long;
For hours the world is an empty
world, unknowing the baby's
song.
The heart of a mother! Who's big
enough to fathom a mother-heart
Who, watching the baby go trudg-
ing off can tell why the tear
drops start?
Can tell why the smile on the moth
er's lips is trembly and full of
pain,
AS the little figure that turned to
wave grows smaller along the
lane?
The baby going away to school. She
looks to a farther day
And baby, grown to be tall and
straight, out in the world away
And the lonely minutes she knows
to-day are presage of lonely
years
And the baby form and the lane are
blurred, and lost through the
shine of tears.
Judge Mortimer Lewis in the
Houston Post
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-26

" OW fortunate it would have
been had we adopted universal
military training five or ten
years ago. 1t would have meant
much in the present crisis-it prob
ably would have kept us out of the
war. But it's no use to cry over split
milk. The question is, what shall we
do now? Every thoughtful man must
feel that a nation unable to protect
itself promptly is blind to the tragic
possibilities of its heedlessness. War
comes Unexpectedly and, as in our
own case, it is sometimes forced
upon an innocent bystander." For
three years we submitted to insult
and injury, until forbearance ceased
to be a virtue and there was moth
ing left for us but to assert our
rights and to defend them. No coun-
try in the world hates war more than
we do. Only extreme provocation
would induce us to take up arms.
Experience shows abundantly that
a peace-loving nation is not safe be-
cause of that fact. Belgium and
some of the Balkan states are evi-
dence of it.
AS the world is constituted, and
has been through thousands of
years of strife, there is only one safe
plan, and that is to follow the ad-
vice of Washington-in time of
peace, prepare for war. If we had
done this a few years ago, we would
have saved billions of dollars and
tens of thousands of lives. 1t is COM
mon knowledge in military circles
that trained men, by knowing how
to take care of themselves in camp
and in the field, rednce the mortal
ity and casualties at least two thirds,
and, what is even more vital, men
of special training only can be used
in modern warfare.
Nationally, we need a little fore
sight, a keener appreciation of the
necessity for providing for future
contingencies. We cut ice in the
coldest sort of weather when nobody
wants ice, for we know it will be
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-26
UNPOPULAR WAR"

This is an unpopular war"
whisper the pacifists and all others
who would help the German side of
it. You hear il occasionally accom-
panied with a wise wag of the head,
"An unpopular war"
But surely it is not so unpopular
as the Revolution. That war was
so unpopular that many times 1t
seemed that Washington's little
al my would dwindle to nothing. The
majority of the wealthier class was
all against the war. There were up
risings against it. Whole regiments
were recruited and armed and
marched out to join the enemy and
fight against Washington and his
army.
1t is not nearly so unpopular as
the Civil War was in the North,
where Lincoln constantly had to
contend against the pacifsts-"cop-
pcrheads," they called them then.
Iu 1864 the Democratic party, de-
clariHg the war a failure, called for
peace and for a time Lincoln ex-
pected defeat.
Men like LaFollette, who believe
thev can ride into further political
power on the antiwar vote; and
men like Stone and Reed of Mis-
souri,, who expect to get enough an
tiwar votes to re-elect them, ought
to profit by history.
Nobody to-day cares to admit that
his ancestors were against Washing
ton in the Revolution or that they
supported Vallandigham in the Civil
War. And after this war is over
and the cause of civilization is vim
dicated, our children are going to
look back on the antiwar agitators
Just as to-day we look back on the
Tories of the Revolution and the
copperheads of the Civil War. -
Kansas CITY Star
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-26
BREAKING UP THE GUARD

TINE breaking up of historic or
ganizations of the National
Guard of Pennsylvania has sent
a wave of sentimental regret over
the State. In the Spanish American
War the regiments went away as
units and returned as such. The men
who had trained together in times
of peace went through the period of
hostilities together. But times have
changed and so have conditions. Our
new armies must be made to con-
form to the new standards. Every
thing must be sacrificed for effi-
cheney. The people of the Common.
wealth have accepted the reorganiza-
ton order in that light. They are
sorry, for example, to see the old
Eighth Regiment smashed to bits.
but they are out to win this war
and to that end they will bend ev-
cry effort and desire.
The radical measures taken at
Camp Hancock give rise to the sus-
picion that the Eighth, and indeed
the whole National Guard system. is
being taken apart for all time. When
this war is over either there will
be limitation of armament or a Ma
tional Militia will take the place of
the National Guard. 1t has pro-
duced some splendid soldiers and
troops that will compare with any.
but it is cumbersome and no longer
adequate to the needs of the nation.
At least that is the deduction one
may draw from what is transpiring
in the training camps.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-26
WELL KNOWN PEOPLl

William T. Greasy is spend
considerable time in Washington
ranging for the protest Of the fa|
ers on the way the draft Is opel
ing.
The Rev. DR.. II. G. Gleissl
Pittsburgh, prominent IN work
that city for several years, has Il
TO Detroit to take up mission woI
Joseph Painter, long active
musical affairs at Pottsville, has d
called to Camp Meade to orgaI
bands.
Lieutenant Governor Frank
McClain, who was here YESTERDAY
giving two days a week TO the VI
of the state Defense Commission
Philadelphia.
George M. Duff, active in re
ious work in the Pittsburgh dist
will go into the Y. M. c. A.
work.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-26
CONCERNING CROWS

Peter Menkin Brown, Berlin corre-
spondent, said in Baltimore in a
lecture of the blockade:
'The Germans are suffering from
our blockade more than they'd have
us think. There's a real dearth of
foodstuffs, and there's a real pest
of profiteers.
Think of it - the Germans are
now eating crows! More than that,
the profiteers have cornered the
crows of Germany. so that the gov
ernment has had to fix crow prices,
which range. l believe, from sixty TO
eighty-five cents, according to the
weight and age of the bird.
But imagine 1t! Concerning crow!
That It no way to help your country $
caws!" From the Detroit Free
Press.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-26

If the garbage problem is solved in
u way TO meet the expectations of the
people, they will not bother about the
term of the contract or the particular
method of disposal; but woe betide
the officials who shall bind the city
for a long-term agreement which
may involve years of unsatisfactory
service. The present insuffera BILE
garbage and ash arrangement and the
recent costly experience of the city in
the work of repairing the paved
streets should be sufficient warning.
VIII it be needed?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-26
GERMANS SEE US

An official who has scrutinized the
reports made by German diplomatic
representatives to their government
before the declaration of war fur
nishes this extract from one of them
THE Americans are very rough.
IL you call one of them a liar he does
not argue the matter after the man.
ner of German gentleman, but
brutally knocks you down. The
Americans have absolutely no
kultur. the New York
World.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-26
EXCUSE FOR CANES

Soldiers are encouraged to carry
"swagger sticks" because it keeps
them from slouching and putting
their hands in their pockets. This
should bring the cane again into
popularity. Many men would like to
carry canes If they had a reasonab BILE
excuse for doing to, and the army
has furnished the excuse,-Chicago
News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-26
FOR OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

A(N GENM la M EKlCANS y
ITO H. KAHN, who addressed
ID the Harrisburg Chamber of
Commerce to-day, is a great
banker. But he is more than that.
he is fine example of the German
American who has dropped not only
the hyphen but the German as well.
He prefers to be known as an Ameri-
can. pure and simple. Not that he
loves Germany less. Down in his
heart there is a deep and unquench-
able affection for the land of his
| birth. Two things inspire him in his
present course of answering devo-
ton to the American cause. In the
flrst place, having become an Ameri-
can, he puts all other nations in Sec
ond place. Secondly, his belief in the
principles of democracy and the right
of self-government has brought him
into full harmony with the aims of
the United States in the present
conflict. He feels that in taking sides
with the allies he is contending for
the freedom of the German people.
He, in short, is an American of the
Karl shurz type.
His speech to-day is a text from
which German Americans may read
full justification for the course that
has made so many of them in Har-
risburg and vicinity ardent support
ers of their adopted country in its
effort to overthrow Prussian auto
cracy, a power which Mr.. Kahn
says he has hated and Ioathed that
spirit ever since it came within my
ken many years ago, hated it all the
more as I saw it ruthlessly pulling
down thing which was dear to me,
the old Germany, to which 1 was
linked by ties of blood, by fond
memories and cherished sentiments
The difference in the degree of guilt
as between the German people and
their Prussian or Prussianized rulers
and leaders for the monstrous crime
of this war and the atrocious bar
barism of its conduct, is the differ
ence between the man who, acting
under the influence of a poisonous
drug, runs amuck in mad frenzy and
the unspeakable malefactor who ad-
ministered the drug, we'll knowing
and, fully intending the ghastly con-
sequences which were bound to fol-
low"
The world fervently longs for
peace, adds the speaker, but there
can be no peace answering to the
true meaning of the word, no peace
permitting the nations of the earth,
great and small, to walk unarmed
and unafraid, until the teaching and
leadership of the apostles of an out
law creed shall have become dis
credited and hateful to the sight of
the German people, and to this
all liberty-loving German-American
may subscribe and enter the war
against Junkerdom, with the full
conviction that they are revolution
lists fighting for the freedom of the
German people. All others are be-
levers in the Prussian dictum of rule
by force and hate. They are not
Americans and never will be. Their
place is not here, but in the body
guard of the Kaiser.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-26

profanity and in a dignified manner:
but until he removes the kinks in
the boroughs of Paxtang. Penbrook,
camp Hill and a few other places
there Will be no real harmony in
pennsylvania. 1t ought to be pos
sioie to enter the Capital of this i'm
perlal Commonwealth without
single bump, and. ]. Denny. here's
hoping!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-26

General Pershing will probably de-
clare a holiday when he hears that
the proposed Congressional junket to
Europe has been called off. There
was once a man named Uriah placed
on the firing line, but he wasn't a
Congressman.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-26

SO Moorhead C. Kennedy may be
summoned to join the big railroad
leaders in France. Well. it only goes
to prove that the batting of great rail-
road and industrial leaders is a peace
pastime
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-26
ALL TOGETHER

DoN'T all speak at once" is q
rule that does not apply to the
new Liberty bond subscriptions
Let's reverse the rule and all sub.
scribe at once, and Show the Kai.
SER"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-26

The Supreme Court of California
in an opinion written by Chief Jus
tice Angellotti, has rendered al
anti-intunction decision of far-reach,
ing importance.
Federal Judge Boyd, of North
Carolina, has ruled that the Keating-
owen labor law is unconstitutional
because it takes away the parents
rights to say when and where a chilC
should work.
A new union of the Internationa
Timber Workers has been formed
at Portland, Ore, and is expected
10 nave membership running in.
to the thousands in the near future
Dressed in overalls and working
shirts and wearing heavy leather
gloves, 16 women are working at the
Sacramento shops of the Southern
Pacific sorting scrapiron.
In bulletin issued by the Federal
Bureau of Labor Statistics, the In
ternational Typographical Union is
quoted as reducing deaths, due Ia
tuberculosis, from 31.2 per cent. in
1900 to 1871 per cent. in 1915.
The Canadian Press, a newsgather-
ing agency, has signed a union shoT
agreement which includes it's coast.
to-coast jurisdiction. The new
schedule establishes the highest aver.
age wage paid by any press associa.
ton in North America.
Montreal (Canadia) Typographica
Union has signed up a new scale fol
its job printers that fixes the mini.
mum at $24 per week for day work
and $3.50 for night work, being
an increase of 81 per week.
"Womanalls" are the latest thine
in women's working apparel. They
are nothing more than modified over
alls. exactly like those worn by work
men. They have been adopted by
the General Electric Company fol-
a force of girls working on lathes
drilling machine and punch drills.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-26
LABOR NOTES
By Briggs

Ten thousand woodmen and mill
men in Humboldt county, California,
demanded an eight-hour day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-26
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg engines al
furnishing power at SoutheI
government plants?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-26

Gus Wildman is now taking a shy
at the Post Office job. Here's hoping
that he will never prove gutter.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-26
OUR DAILY LAUGH
NO GREAT DAMAGE

NO GREAT DAMAGE.
she says I made a toy of her
neart."
Don't let that girl bluff you. Sn.
mas been engaged seventeen times
Her heart is one of those indcS;ructi.
BILE fovs."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-26

Give that poor girl and her baby at
the Harrisburg Hospital a chance
Let him who is without sin cast the
first stone"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-26

Senator Henry Washers, of Y
was at the State Highway Dep
ment yesterday on business at
Capitol. The Senator declared
+he county of York was producin
its best and was also going to ha'
great fair this year.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-26

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.,
Telegraph Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-26

HISTORIC HARRISBURG
In 1862 Harrisburg organize
militia company in each of its wa
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-26

Ell. STACkPOLE,P Pyes't s Edisorin. thief
2. r. OYSTER. Business Mondgcr.
GUS NJ. STEINMETz. MoHGgiHg Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-26

The Supreme Court of California,
in an opinion written by Chief JUS
tlce Angellotti, has rendered an
anti-injunction decision of far-reach-
ing Importance.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-26

Member of the Associated Press-The
Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled to the use for republication OF
all news credited to it or not other
wise credited in this paper and also
the local news published herein.
All rights of republication of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-26

AS a matter of fact automc
thieves are getting to a point W
the Harrisburg police departr
must take more cognizance of II
insurance companies which dea
insurance for cars have been qu
investigating some things w
have been going on about this
and vicinity lately and prosecut
for the sake of examples are III
incidentally, the police departr
may have to speed up a bit IN
following up of complaints.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-26

Five more counties filed returns
OF judicial primaries at the Capitol
to-day. 1t is expected that all of
the counties except Philadelphia and
Allegheny will be in hand by the end
OF the week. The Department of
State has not received word of any
contests arising out of the primaries.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-26

Insurance Commissioner Charles
A. Amber, who has been here the
last few days, says he is Saving
wood"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-26

A new union of the International
Timber Workers has been formed
at Portland, Ore, and is expected
10 nave a membership running in
to the thousands in the near future
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-26

The police department yesteiI
caused the arrest of man bla1
for considerable trouble oec1
pat" Hylan was on the job. T4
was a controversy over whethei
certain man had been "swip1
automobile tires, and while 1t
going on IIylan informed the q
that the man had eight tires on|
machine. When an Investigation
made 1t was discovered that the 4
had one tire inside of another.
parently his game was to steal 81
ones and then steal a larger one
put over it. He is now behind
bars.