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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-20
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
By Briggs

II. Henry Walnut, special United
States attorney investigating draft
matters in Philadelphia, was for
years one of the independents in
the House of representatives and
civil service reform advocate.
General w. P. Duvall, placed in
command of one of the departments,
was an officer detailed to Camp
Meade and to inspect Pennsylvania
Guardsmen.
DR.. C. J. Marshall, State Veter-
marian has been assigned by the
United States government to attend
the national veterinary convention al
Louisville this week.
"A. w. Guager. chemist of the
mine bureau at Pittsburgh, has re-
signed to become an officer in the
sanitary engineering corps of the
United States Army.
Paul H. Gather, of Greensburg,
has been made chairman of the ap-
peal board for his district of the
State. He is widely known Demo
cratic attorney.
Frank A. Knapp, Pittsburgh res
taurant manager, has been sum-
moned to Washington in food con-
troll matters.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-20
The Ancient Sacrifice

Ye dead and gone great armies of
the world.
Sweet CLEAN the fields where ye
were used to pass,
With Death for leader, legioned
like the grass,
Day after day by dews of morning
pearled.
Ye dead and gone great armies, ye
were hurled
'Gainst other armies, great and
dead ard gone,
In awful dark: ye died before the
dawn,
Meier knowing how your flags in
peace are furledl
Ye are the tall forests that were
felled
To build a pyre for strife that it
might cease;
Ye are the white lambs slaughter
ed to make peace;
Ye are the sweet ships sunk that
storm be quelled;
And ye are lilies plucked and set
like stars
About the blood stained shrine of
bygone warsi
by Mahlon Leonard Fisher.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-20
An Old Portrait

There is u portrait pearled with age,
encircled by a carven band
OF gold acanthus richly wrought,
that hangs upon a western
wall;
A little boy and elder girl upon a
poplar terrace stand
Before a portal. dimly seen, of
fluted columns twined and tall.
The lady sister lifts her head from
out a lucent India lawn.
Low-cut above the slender, small,
unheaving breast of virgin
youth;
And sweetly placid are her eyes, like
cool, blue lilies in the dawn,
And placid is the limpid smile
that bows her sweet and ten
der mouth.
But oh. my little father, limned unto
the very breath of life!
From lily-linen pantaloons and
purple-velvet coat you rise,
With black, Hibernian locks that toss
and crowd above the visioned
strife.
The shadowy- burning. darkly
bright young Revolution In
your eyes!
by Sarah N. Cleghorn.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-20
PROUD AND SAD

TIVE of Harrisburg are proud and
wv sad to-day. Proud because
' another company of our vol
unteers is going away, for how long
and to what perils we know not;
and sad because we shall miss them
and our hearts shall hunger for them
until they return, which we all pray
shall be in triumph and safety.
This is not the first time that Har-
risburg has said farewell to troops
marching away to war. -Four times
within the memory of many still
living Harrisburg men have sprung
to arms at the nations call; once
when the Union was threatened, once
when it became our duty to end
Spanish cruelty in Cuba and the
Philippines, again when Villa
threatened invasion from Mexico and
now. upon a mission that Americans
hope will end war for all time.
1t is a glorious, if dangerous, enter
prise upon which these young men
set QUITO make war on war, to
fight that there may be no more
fighting, to risk their lives that
coming generations may live in
peace and tranquility. Theirs is a
privilege as well as sacrifice-a
privilege that many who, on account
of age or other circumstances. are
barred from the army envy them,
for it must be understood that there
are thousands of men in private life
who chafe under the bonds which tie
them to their workaday tasks while
others fight their battles. And so
we are proud and sad to-day, proud
OF the patriotism of those who go;
sad in saying farewell, and, some of
US. at least, sad because we too can't
go.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-20
War Service Census

BY direction OF the railroads war
board the railways of the country
are taking a census of. the men en-
ployed, with a view to assisting the
government in determining which
employees should and which should
not be exempted from military serv-
ice. Under the regulations of the
exemption by classes. but each in
dividual case must be taken up and
determined upon it's own merits,
having, of course, consideration for
the maintenance of the national in
terest, as provided by law" The pro-
vost marshal general has advised the
railroads war board, however, that
'it is the policy of the administra-
ton to so execute the 'selective serv-
ice act as not to unnecessarily Grip
pie any industry" The census being
taking of all railway men will show
who are unmarried and who are not,
with details as far as practicable as
to those dependent upon the married
men. Another classification will
show those who may be relieved
from the service without embarrass-
ment because they can be replaced
either by men inexperienced in rail-
way operation or by women. The
railway lists OF those whom it is be-
lieved should be relieved from mill
tary duty are &c be prepared in de-
tail for each district. With the
lists will be affidavits setting out the
facts in detail. subscribed to by the
immediate superior officer and certi-
fed to by the superintendent or head
of the department in which each in
dividual is employed. The roads will
make direct application to the ex-
emption boards for the exemption
from military service of all employees
whom the lists and affldavits show
should be relieved from military
duty under the terms of the selective
service law.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-20
ITTITH the fall of Czernowitz

MYTH the fall of Czernowitz
wv and the capture of Chotin
the Central Powers have en-
tered the gates of Bessarabia, one of
Russia's richest provinces, which lies
between the Pruth and the Dniester
rivers, and which was taken from
Rumania in exchange for the Do
brudJa district, after one of Russia 8
wars with Turkey. The following
bulletin by the National Geographic
Society, from its headquarters here,
gives an interesting picture of this
province, its history, It's normal ac-
tivities, and its physical features.
Bessarabia,, the Russia province
lying between the Pruth and the
Dniester rivers and bounded on the
south by the Danube and the Black
Sea, might be likened to a tall, slim
pitcher without handle. 1t is COM
pletely bounded by water except at a
very narrow point at the mouth of
the pitcher. The Dniester river
forms the eastern boundary of the
province. Flowing out of the crown
lands of Galicia. the river runs east
in general direction for approximate
ly fifty miles. Then it turns south
east for ninety miles as the crow
flies, and finally runs south of east
for hundred miles to Dniester Bay,
an arm of the Black Sea, some fif-
teen miles from Odessa, Russia s
principal port on that inland body of
water. The Pruth river. flowing out
of Galicia runs east for about twen-
ty miles, then turns southeast for a
hundred and ten miles, and then
sligh''v west of south to it's conflu-
ence with the Danube.
Bessarabia Is a little smaller than
Vermont and New Hampshire to-
gether. It's greatest length is 275
miles, while its greatest width is
175. 1t Is mostly fiat except for some
well-wooded offshoots of the Car
pathian mountains in the northwest
1t might be said to be the vineyard
or Russia, being great producer OF
wine. The population of 2,500.00C
is made up of Moldavians, Little
Russians, Poles. RumanIans, Bull
garians, Jews, Armenians, Greeks
and Tartars. More than 100000 OF
the inhabitants live on the soil. The
capital is Kishinef. which is located
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-20
A GREATER HARRISBrRG

GINCE tho consolidation of the
- Bethlehems the chief interest Of
the people has centered in the
choice of mayor and it appears that
one of the most distinguished citizens
of the new city has been induced to
stand for the honor. Big things are
happening in the Lehigh Valley and
big men are demanded for the i'm
portant work that must be done.
While Harrisburg is listless and out
of sorts over the decadence of public
interest in matters of vital interest
here the Bethlehems and Allentown
are pushing toward a great munich
pality through the annexation of SUR
rounding towns.
City Solicitor John E. Fox has a
vision of the still greater Harrisburg
and we may look hopefully to him
10 lead US to the achievement of the
things which are easily possible in
our development.
But there must be an awakening
Even in war period we must give
attention to the selection of public
officials who will express in their acts
the sentiment of the community.
In the Bethlehems the Office is
seeking the man so far as the mayor.
atty is concerned, and Arch Johnston
has been drafted for the job. Some
such thing Is going to happen in
Harrisburg one of these days.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-20
a BOOK FOR A SOLDIER

CNTATE LIBRARIAN THOMAS
~ LYNCH MONTGOMERY. presi-
dent OF the American Librarians
Association. has sent out a call for
aid in raising a million dollars for
books for soldiers.
There ought to be no difficulty in
getting the money. The project is
praiseworthy in the extreme.
Satan finds some mischief still for
idle hands to do" and the idleness is
the bane of the soldiers life. Leisure
with no wholesome occupation pre-
senting Itself brings temptation even
in civil life. but 1t is trebly productive
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-20
Continuity

After eternal things, Eternity!
After enduring days, unending
ones,
With only spells of rest between
the suns
Which dim. at last, and fail us ut
terly!
What matter SO the cycle rounded
be,
So seconds blend with centuries,
and all
Our visionings become perpetual,
Palaced between the zenith and the
sea!
And if our lives, outlasting, can re-
solve
Into this good or that surprising
i'll,
Wherefore may not Eternity distil
A kind of wine alchenic and evolve
A something which Perfection
shall excel
Or on a ruined Heaven erect a
He'll
By Mahlon Leonard Fisher.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-20

Under a ruling OF the War Depart
ment the colored troops called to the
colors are to be trained in the same
camps as the other troops in the serA
vices to which they belong. And why
not, pray? AS the esteemed Philadel-
phia Record suggests. the divisions
of which the new National Army will
consist are distributed on geo.
graphical and not racial lines. These
colored men will form parts of the di-
visions drawn from the sections of
which they are residents. and as in
the Spanish-American and other wars
in which they have had opportunity to
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-20

of evil when its subject is in far
country. without anything to do or
amy good thing to read.
To provide books for soldiers will
keep many of them out of mischief
and will give others opportunity to
keep up with the times and to fit
themselves for various occupations
after the war. not to mention the
surcease from toll and care that
comes from an hours perusal of a
good book.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-20
EDITORIAL cOr1nENT

Why not call Uncle Sans stalwart
soldier sons "Samsons ?"-Kansas
City Star.
The Kaiser IS enthusiastically in
favor of home rule-for Ireland.-
Boston Transcript.
The Chicago Herald boils 1t down
to this: 81. w. w. means, I work
for Wilhelm Springfield Repub-
lican.
We see by Upton Sinclair's seces-
sion from the Socialist party that
he is about to publish new book
Boston Transcript.
B. L. T., of the Chicago Tribune,
has an argument that the liquor in
terests refuse 10 use. 1t is that pro-
hibition would mean a scarcity of
washer women.-Toledo Blade.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-20

participate, they are certain to main
tain record for bravery and devotion
to duty equal to any other troops.
We of Harrisburg have not forgot
ten the splendid battalion under
Major Young at Camp Meade in 1898,
and the pages of the country's his
tory are emblazoned with the brave
deeds of colored soldiers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-20

Altoona is about to pick four mem
bers of the City Commission who will
agree upon the city manager plan for
the Mountain City. In this city those
who have favored the manager sug-
gestion are helplessly rolling their
eyes and declaring the people have
lost all interest in municipal affairs.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-20

George F. Watt will be sadly missed
in the business and civic and social
life of the city. He was man of
forceful personality, devoted to the
interests of Harrisburg as the head
Of one of our greatest industries.
and a citizen of vision and enthusiasm
He carved his own way to high pl@ce
in his day and generation, and the
world is poorer for his going.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-20

Mayor Smith is again moving for
harmony in the Republican party in
Philadelphia He will have the good
wishes of all Republicans in this en-
deavor. Most of the party's troubles
started in the metropolis of the State,
and peace ought to come from the
same quarter.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-20

Judge McCarrell is resting at
Eaglesmere. and the comforting
thought that nobody will oppose his
reelection must enhance the pleasure
of the summer outing. Dauphin county
voters have habit of rewarding good
and faithful servants.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-20

Josephus Daniels is at it again. He
has now declared war on the Navy
League. which has been doing much
for the comfort of our fighters at sea
Secretary Daniels won't allow the or
ganization to send any more knit
goods and comfort kits in it's own
name. SO there! Some sacred persons
at Washington are inviting the gull
lotine.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-20
THE RED CROSS PLEA

ed to provide $4,000 pieces ad.
ditional.
This is big order. The articles
cannot be made in a day. They in
clude everything from sweaters to
wrist warmers and socks. They are
needed Immediately. Already the
cold season is approaching and our
men will be in the trenches before
snow flies. Frost is almost as deadly
a foe as the Germans. Trench life
is perilous and unpleasant at best.
Add to it cold and dampness and it
becomes doubly so.
While We are sitting beside open
fires, or warm radiators or hot stoves
the coming winter, thousands of our
fellows who stand between us and
the horrors of a German invasion
will be facing the hardships of life
in the open, with bullets and shells
overhead and melting snow or ice
underfoot. Denied even the consola-
ton of a campfire that would merely
make of them targets for the enemy's S
guns, their warmth must come from
within. Heavy wooden sweaters,
wristbands, mittens and socks they
must have if they are to weather the
winter healthy and efficient.
The Red Cross has asked for help,
The Red Cross has never asked in
vain. Harrisburg and Steelton have
responded to previous calls as gener-
ously as any communities of their
size in the country. 1t will not do
to fail now, and if money alone
uo,,I5 oa--x,ar +Iara oo,,Id boa 30
question as to the outcome. But this
call is of another sort. 1t is one
of personal service rather than of
monetary contribution. Only women,
who already have done so much for
the Red Cross, can do this work.
One thousand knitters are needed to
make the garments for which the
national headquarters has asked.
Here is a time when fad fits in
very we'll with utility. There was a
period when knitting was almost a
lost art. Our grandmothers knit the
socks. the mittens and the com
forters" for the whole family. But
with the coming of machine made
stockings and gloves the knitting
needle took its place beside the can
dlestick as an old-time curiosity in
a majority of households. Recently,
however, it has become quite the
thing" to knit and most women
know how to ply their needles
as efficiently as did the ladies who
lived in the days before department
stores and their multitudinous wares
came 10 relieve IOUS6h6epGTS Oh
many of their tedious tasks.
From knitting neckties, collars
lace and the like, these women will
now turn their attention to making
garments for soldiers. We say will,
for there is no doubt about it. Har,
risburg and Steelton women are quite
as patriotic as their brothers who
have enlisted as volunteers in sucl
numbers that the draft will not ap
ply in Harrisburg on the first call FOL
troops.
Under a ruling of the War Depart
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-20

published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.,
Telegraph Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-20
lob Got Off Lightly

AS a usual thing we accept life
as it comes, taking the good or evil
the gods send as matters of course
but 1t riles us a little to see the
wife's relatives who nave come out
from the city to spend the weekend
or so with us go back home with
divers suitcases and packages and
bundles that they never brought
with them at all, the same being
used as vehicles for the transporta.
ton of various foods and commodi.
ties from our home to theirs. All
Job had was boils.-Liberty Press.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-20
DO YOU KNOW
That Harrisburg's two island
parks are unique among Ameri-
can cities?
HIsTORIC HARRISBURG

When the State Capital was re-
moved to this place there were thirty
taverns, which grew up because of
the numerous roads centering here.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-20

American cities bitterly protesting
against overestimates of their size
and rate of growth offer a refreshing
novelty.-Springleld Republican.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-20

isn't the high cost of living dread
ful?"
Awful. After my husband has
paid his bills at the golf club there's
hardly anything left for U.S."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-20

e. J. J.STACKPOLE,P Pyss't s. Editoy-in.C c hief
T. r. OYSTER. Business Monagsy.
GUS NJ. STEINMETZ. Mondeing Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-20
MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 20

II you ten the truth, you hdve in
finite poDer supporting yoU; but If
not, you haze infinite potoer against
you-CHARLEs GEORGE GORDON.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-20

William, Maclay had a wonderful
gift of vision and we can imagine
him walking along the river front
in the evening life of 1903 and 1904
confident that some day the people
who would come after him would
appreciate the scenic beauties Of the
valley which those folks to whom he
talked derisivelv called John Harris
swamp and Maclay's briar patch
Professor Harley's article is an in
teresting and timely contribution to
the sketches of the fathers which are
now appearing In the newspapers Of
the country and his extracts from
the writings of George Washington
Harris and Edgar Stanton MacIav
show that some day the senator Of
the old school will be given his place
in Pennsylvania history as the time
will come when John Harris. father
and son. will receive recognition at
home
The Washington times., 1917-09-06
WAR
NEWS SUMMARY

The retreat of the Russian forces the eastward and northeast
ward Riga continued today with definite aim than
when the withdrawal the Baltic city began Military
atOrs PerOgrad frankly admit that is impossible to fore
what line of defense the Russian forces will eventually take
along which the observation made that
panic has seized the auxiliary foree to the rear of the
be supplied with necessaries.
The three chief
One Russian moving northeaswad along the the
Gulf of Riga The Germans in pursuit. having captured the
fortress the mouth the Dvina and crossed the Lvn river
Russian of the Aa annhIated German
feet today appeared in the Gulf Of Riga apparently aid the land
forces the
Riga thirty city,
moving along the Pkov road and the Germans here have also
upper pursuit
the Segvo Lemburg and Detushabray
The continuation the Italian offensive operations meeting
with renewed and this spite of large additional Austrian
that have been brought up both the arso and the
The Monte San Gabrielle holding
the Banszza the north and northeast; eliminates the
chief of Austrian against the Gorilla and the
Daniele another formidable
southeast Monte
positions in the CapOvanO valley hankng
Basza plateau the south and east be made unenabe
the Italians bring their to bear from the summit Of
San Gabrielle
The Italians beginning their advantages in
this region renewing the attacks against the remaining Austrian
positions and gaining further
battle proportions northeast
Gorizia 1900 prisoners already falling the
Italians
Austrian command evidently regarding the
importance onthe former the
immediate sehave ranged most Of their
along ne yesterday attack great
the Italians CastagneviZZa the Adac
made the Italian works.
progress made owing the gor of the Italian attacks
In Flanders British Official reports of the last hrysx hours
a the artillery fire in the Ypres region
attacks of infantry On the front held
by the French there resumption of activity the Asne
their attacks the California
plateau being quickly repused The artillery fire both
Sides west and of the Meuse on the Verun 'front.' continues
vita ADHt.
The Washington times., 1917-09-06

the world of reality to your Experience obectied
moving personality of owke wisdom unsecured humor
and unblushing ruhulness prudent wary yet wholesome
y loyal is to afford you spiritual and dramatic delight
Youth must learn that Lifes Tragedy WeakW Youth
must learn that the fall begins when has not the stamina
to say "No After the first evidence of loss of control
the human machine may carry you almost anywhere to de-
sructon Youth must learn not merely from his Expert
but from the experience of others that Sin dsis
poison in her cup of exhlarang pleasure Why does
some write play to prove that Youth masculine Youth
does not need his fling to develop his manhood?
The play Experience should be appreciate its
moral and driving earnesness is not drveing whine
nor sentimental gush It's real e painted truthfuIy
neither softened overdawn Such painful Revelation
displayed in the Epogue of Lost Souls This
of haunting agony touches the very springs of sym
pathy Muated souls feeding the tingling Of
Illusion diseased brains wrecks who just wanted
the sport and the exharaon of the fling present spec
tace of agony and revuo Victims of the dope reveal the
curse of opiates Here is the aurement Of tomorrow
Whether it is due overweight industrial pressure wheth
er it is accompce of Drink will succeed it when pro-
hbition in full swing do not know But is the
Curse of Cocaine which play reveals in its hdeous real
ism. This is the lesson which must be driven home.
RABBI ABRAM SIMON.
[An the passions make up Experience"
Love- Fear, Hate and Remorse have for their compan-
ions Pleasure Wealth Luxury Ambition oxcaton Pain
and bitter Disappointment Real men and play these
parts in Experience"