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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-07
The Habit of Saving

Those "single-slice- Of bread" fig
ures issued by the Department of
Agriculture are impressive. If every
home in the United States and
there are 10000. 900 - should waste
one slice of bread a day, 1000, 900
bushels of wheat would be wasted in
a year, or the annual product of
400 acres. We all know that
there is more than an average of
one slice of bread for each American
household wasted in a day. So we
may be sure that our waste ap-
proaches the 10000. .000-bushel mark
in a year.
War is not a blessing. But 1t may
have incidents that come as bless
ings under Martian disguise. Per-
haps this war is going to teach us
as a people sane economy in our
homes. We throw enough out of the
window each year to keep poverty
away from the thousands.
II, when the lowering clouds have
passed and the sun of peace again
shines on this land. we shall have
learned the significance of q slice OF
bread and other culinary units OF
our domestic life. we shall have con-
ferred an altogether surprising boon
on ourselves. For thrift is a habit,
Just as in waste. We acquired the
habit of waste in piping times Of
peace. The habit OF thrift awaits
us If we have the character as q
people now to acquire it.-From the
Cincinnati Times-Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-07
Prussianism at It's Purest

There is a world of meaning in
the words of the German General
Won Blume, who publishes review
of the military situation in the semi
official North German Gazette. with
our three allies" he says I'VE now
have to guard ourselves against
thirteen entirely hostile and nine
half-hostile states, comprising the
greatest part of the earth's inhabit-
ants. The more enemies the more
honor"
Nothing could be more typically
Prussian than that. Nothing could
illustrate more powerfully the extra
ordinary vanity, the amazing conceit
of the German ruling classes, which
has convinced them that the Ger
mans are the chosen people; that
German Kultur is superior to any
other culture, and must be imposed,
by force If necessary, upon the other
and inferior" peoples. This vanity
is utterly mistaken by the fact that
the great majority of the earth's in
habitants entertain very different
opinion of the Germans, of German
kulture. and of Germany's cause in
this struggle.
General Won Blume points out that
Germany and her three allies are
hostile and nine half-hostile states"
He seems TO take pride in this. 1t
has not dawned upon him that he is
emphasizing the very fact which is
most damning to Germany-the fact
that the opinion of the great major
ity of manhood is adverse to her.
Charleston News and Courier.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-07
TIE APPLE CROP

= OVERS OF apples will be de-
lighted TO hear that conditions
in the Franklin county fruit belt
are not as bad as at first said to be
and that in general the apple crop
will be a success AS reported some
time since by the Telegraph. Adams
county apples are in excellent con-
dition and little hail damage has
been done there. This statement
coming from a no less authority than
the famous DR.. Fletcher. OF State
College, should quiet any fears that
might have arisen.
Men like the Tyson brothers, of
Adams county. have done SO much
for apple growing IN that section
that 1t is gratifying to note how rap
idly the industry is forging to the
front in competition with the in
dustry in other States. Apple Seed
Johnny" may have been the father of
apple growing in Pennsylvania, but
It is men like the Tysons and DR.
Fletcher who have placed It on a
scientific, profit-making basis.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-07
HOW COLLARS WEAR OUT
THE LITERARY DIGEST devote

TJHE LITERARY DIGEST devotes
more than half column of its
current issue to a scientific dis
cussion of the topic-"How Collars
Wear Out The Digest refers. of
course, to collars of the stiff, linen
variety which for years have stood at
once as a badge of gentility and a
mark of submissiveness.
But why scientific research should
be necessary to ascertain how collars
wear out will puzzle the average
man who believes not only how, but
why, and his views are backed up
by long-suffering and bitter ex-
perience.
For example, he buys a new collar
and after giving it proper initiation
into its duties as the guardian and
adornment of his precious neck, he
entsusts it to the tender mercies of
the laundryman. Most men believe
that all the strong arm gentry OF
the country get their early training
in laundries.
The first couple of trips make no
apparent impression. The collar
comes home stiff and glossy. But by
and by faint tickling just forninst
the Adams apple gives sign that the
herculean efforts of the laundrymen
are beginning to get in their work
around the edges, as it were. About
the same time the front buttonhoIes
begin to grow, affording ample play
for the vilest tendencies of depraved
collar buttons Gall collar buttons are
depraved by nature; some say they
were invented in Germany and from
then on to the bitter end the wearer
never knows at what embarrassing
moment collar and shirt may part
company in front, leaving the un-
fortunate and unoffending necktie TO
face a miserable existence of divided
allegiance.
Finally there comes the awful
reckoning, when, with murder in his
soul, with a neck sawed to the raw
and the upper edge of his collar
filed down to a razor edge, the
wearer rebels and in Berserker rage
tears the collar in twain with a fine
ripping sound and casts IT from him,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-07
Civil Liberty

Our responsibility for the wise and
temperate use of civil liberty is of
general obligation; and it is our ex-
ample as a Nation. that has sensibly
affected the civilized world. The
image of personal freedom, of order,
of security. of happiness, and of
national prosperity, which our coun-
try presents. has had its influence
wherever learning and commerce
have penetrated. When our revolu-
ton began, despotism prevailed
everywhere, except in Great Britain
and her colonies; or II civil liberty
existed at all on the continent of
Europe, it dwelt IL timid retirement,
in the romantic valleys of Switzer-
land, within the shade of the loftiest
Alps. But we have lived to witness
a visible improvement In the institu-
tions and policy of nations. after the
tempest of the French Revolution
had subsided, and its ravages were
repaired.--James Kent (1s2s).
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-07
The Honey Bee

Oh, de bee is on de clover,
An he's singin' of a song
AS de sun goes driftin' over
Where de day is warm an long.
oh, dat bee is kind o. funny.
Yoh thanks he'll try to win
Fob de sweetness of de honey.
But he'll sting you II he kin
You hardly don't know what to
say
Bout sech a blame contrary
way!
Oh. de bee is kind an gentle
While he's toilin' through dc
hours,
An a-singin' sentimental
To de bushes an de flowers.
Den he'll take a sudden notion
Dat It's time to start a fight,
An he'll stir UP a commotion
Anywhere dat he kin light
An dar is folks. II pears to me,
Dat acts Jes' like dat honey bee.
Washington Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-07
MONEY FOR RIFLE CLUBS

MONEY FOR RIFLE CLUBS
TT is to be hoped that the COM
= missioners of Dauphin county
will take advantage of the law
approved by Governor Brumbaugh
yesterday permitting counties to
give financial assistance to rifle
clubs, the members of which pledge
themselves to come to the protec-
ton of their respective counties at
the call OF the Governor.
The Harrisburg Rife Club is a
fine example of the spirit and serv-
ice such organizations may render.
It has been in existence little more
than a year, yet it has sent to the
officers training camps or to the
army more than half of its enrolled
membership. It has spent and is
spending its own money to perfect
it's members in the use Of the rifle.
The government is aiding in a gen.
eral way, but the county should
stand willing to do its part.
These men are sacrificing their
own time, money and effort for the
safety of the people as a whole. A
soldier who cannot shoot straight
may as we'll not be on the battle
front or in the militia body entrust-
ed to home protection duties. A
crack shot is worth a dozen whose
craftsmanship is poor. The rifle
clubs make sharpshooters of their
members. They should be support
ed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-07

followed by line of conversational
condemnation not ordinarily used in
polite households.
That's the how and the why OF
collar 'wear-out But we can give
the Digest sure cure for the evil.
We know It's q sure cure. for we
have tested 1t ourselves. It's like
this. You buy dozen or more soft
collars or soft shirts with collars
attached. put your stiff collars in a
laundry box and store 'em away on
the top shelf of your clothes press.
Then you forget where you put 'em.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-07
Home With Heads Up

I believe that many of the men
who have dropped out" here at
Plattsburg have come to the conclu-
sion that they should never have
dropped in." That in itself goes
far toward settling the policy" of
the new method of selection of off,
GERS whether of the new army or of
the reserve corps.
1t means that the man who must
leave Plattsburg or the other camps
can go home with his head up. He
has been convinced not that he was
unfit to serve his country, but that
he was not fitted to serve it in the
capacity that appealed to him. And
the mere fact that he displayed
enough initiative to seek command
should be everlastingly in his favor.
Some OF the earlier dropped men
from the encsmpment were perha ps
bitter about it. The later home
farers have been not even philoso-
phical about it. They have been en-
thusiastic, ready to return to their
homes and do what they could
Herbert Reed in the New York In
dependent.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-07
Labor Notes
By BRIGGS

Labor Notes
Men of % nationalities work in one
Arizona mine.
Ohio's So hour work week for
women was effective June 20.
Canada has practically no returned
soldiers out of employment.
BAY City (Mich.) iron molders
have raised wages to s4 day.
Retail clerks at Beaver Falls, Pa.
have formed a union.
Chile will organize a system OF
Government labor exchanges.
Wages of colored workers in this
country average $s.6s a week.
Toronto plumbers have been in
creased to so cents an hour.
Government employees in ahe Meth
erlands have minimum wage.
Canada will introduce vocation
training for disabled soldiers.
Chicago stockyards employ more
than 5000 colored workmen.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-07
MUNICIPAL BOTANICAL GARDENS

speaking in general terms, the con-
spicuous social contribution In to
provide the opportunity, and see to
it that all the people take advan-
tage of it.
Perhaps the most significant con-
tact with nature is the handling of
plants. We are seeking now for
an army of people with some ex-
perience in handling plants; for
more people who will cultivate
plants wherever space permits. You
have been made to realize, in these
days of testing our resources, that
the most important material prob
lem We are facing as nation is
the problem of d-production and
conservation. Food-production has
Jagged far behind population, and
this increasing gap must be closed
up. Our science of transportation
has far outstripped our science of
food production, so that we have
come to depend not only upon a
diminishing food supply, but also
upon transporting that supply across
continent. To learn to grow plants
and grow them everywhere, espe-
cially near our great centers of
population, is a crying need.
The development of home gard
ems, therefore. is not merely a serv-
ice for social betterment that all
recognize, but it is becoming more
and more a public necessity. Any
institution that gives you and your
children this traiulng is not merely
sn educational institution, but also a
public beuefactor. A botanic gard
| en- doing such work is like power
! house, radiating energy throughout
| the community. Such training is an
/ nn1lian1pnf which nnlN "a
| life, but it is also an equipment for
| service.
These two contributions, social
and educational, seem very obvious,
| but the third contribution needs full
Ter xplanation.-From address de-
| livered at Brooklyn, April 10, 1917,
by Professor John Merle Coulter.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-07
Throw at Unseen Targets

On the common not two hundred
yards from the hutments there arc
many queer earthworks where re-
cruits in the reserve battalion of the
London regiment are taught almost
under war conditions. They are
given bomb bing practice in all its diff
ferent stages, and the raw recruit
finds that the hurting of a Mills is
not as easy as 1t looks at first sight.
First of all, the men throw the
grenades in the open at a well de-
fined mark, until after some weeks
training they are able to throw from
the directions of an observer with
a periscope, who watches for the
heads of the enemy to pop up. These
heads are on a hinge, and may ap-
pear in any one of a half a dozen
different traverses or emplacements.
The observer has to be continually
on the alert, and the bomber must
also keep all his wits about him. so
that he can snake his blind throw
as efflcacious as possible.-London
Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-07
EDITORIAL cOrr1ENT.

THE mailed fist OF Germany, with
further aid from Almighty God, will
restore you to your throne" is
Your Williams message to Con-
stantine, his jobless brother-in-law
BY this time even Constantine must
suspect that that mailed fist" is be-
ing held by the Allies for insufficient
postage.--New York Herald.
Frederick Palmer, writing in Col
her's, says there are no extraordinary
happenings any more, and that he
may yet have to write about a siege
of Jerusalem conducted by the Kan
sas National Guard. There are some
fascinating speculative possibilities In
the above remark, the Lawrence
Jeurnal-World points out. One can
imagine a Kansas boy in the Meso-
potamian expeditionary force. stand
ing on the site of the Garden of
Eden, thinking of Kansas and wish
ing he were back in Gods country"
Kansas City Star.
There is flattery in calling them
gamblers. Gamblers take
chances.-Newark News.
A Kentucky woman shot at her
husband and killed a Jersey COW
worth 500. A gun is a dangerous
plaything in the hands of a woman
who can't shoot straight.-Kansas
City Star.
Liberty Bonds are not yet listed on
the Berlin bourse. - Wall Street
Journal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-07
VOLUNTEERS

TT speaks we'll for the good cit
izenship of the community that
the Harrisburg recruiting dis
trict has responded with 1900 more
volunteers for the Regular Army
than the quota prescribed by the
War Department, and that of these
Dauphin county came forward with
155 more than required.
These men will have advantages
over those who are conscripted. They
Will train with men who know how
TO fight. They will be shoulder tc
shoulder with the experienced sol.
diers Of the Regular Army. than
whom there are no better in the
wcrld. The privilege of volunteering
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-07
Municipal Band Concerts

X ovERNoR BRUMBAUGH hav-
VI ing approved a bill permitting
cities to appropriate money for
municipal band concerts, Harris
burg should put itself on record as
the first municipality in the State
to take advantage of the new law.
Harrisburg had free band concerts
in Reservoir Park long before any
other third class city in the State
gave any thought of music for the
masses under municipal auspices.
The late George G. Kennedy was the
father of the park band concert in
Harrisburg. He personally solicited
subscriptions with which TO meet the
expenses and took much pride in
bringing TO the city many of the
crack musical organizations of the
East Later. under V. Grant Forrer's
superintendency of tie old park
board, the concerts were continued.
More recently they have been
dropped as a feature o. summer life
in Harrisburg; more's the pity.
Nobody is to blame for this. What
Is everybody's business is often no.
body's business, and it has been so
with the free band concert move
nent. Under the old plan a few
people paid for the pleasure Of all.
BY the provisions of the new law
The band concert funds would come
out OF general revenues. and the ex-
pense thereby properly distributed,
If 1t be too late to make an ap-
preparation this year an item by all
means should be included in next
years budget.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-07
Down With Autocracy
July 1, 1917,


u. S. S. Prometheus,
Care Postmaster. New York, n. Y.
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Would you mind putting this great
piece of poetry in your paper and
waking some, boys up at home
Please, and oblige me. 1 got this
from Our Navy, the magazine of the
service. Harry S. Clark, formerly of
S57 Clinton street. Lemoyne.
The war clouds are gathering thick
in the east,
The peaceful vocations of men
have ceased,
Go forth into battle, each mothers
son,
To save what our forefathers died
for and won.
Come on the front with your Drawn
and your brains.
And the spirit of Seventy-six N
your veins,
We need you right now and we need
you bad, too,
Every day that you slack, is no
credit to you.
Our honor's at stake and our coun-
try's in trouble,
So take up your arms, to the front
on the double,
Each man do his bit and show he's
hacker,
We all know that God, and the
world. hates a Stacker.
The eyes of the world are upon you.
young fellow.
Do you want 1t to see plain as day
that you're yellow?
There's only two channels open to
One is the khaki and one is the
blue.
Let US rise in our might to our task
on the run.
With the bursting of shells and
the roaring of guns,
We know that our cause Ia most
righteous and just.
And we won't see "Old Glory"
dragged into the dust.
Hurrah for Old Glory, the Red,
White and Blue,
And remember the things she has
done for you,
Forget for a time your work bench
and tools,
Until Attorneys crushed and
Democracy rules.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-07
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Robert s. Conklin, commissions
of forestry, who was sworn in II
another term yesterday, was one
the first men connected with the d,
partment.
Representative G. NJ. Palmer, (
Pottsville, who was here this wee
had to register under the draft b,
cause of one week. 80
IS. A. Small has been commi
stoned as a justice of the peace (,
Chambersburg.
Ex-senator Walter McNichols,
Scranton, was among Capitol visitor
-Prothonotary J. M. Cook.
Somerset, Is Ill.
Howard Heinz, the chairman
the food conservation end of II
Public Safety Committee, is devotir
all of his time to the work.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-07
T is a noteworthy fact that the

TT is a noteworthy fact that the
United States is beginning to
appreciate botanic gardens. This
appreciation may be relatively su-
perficial as yet, but the superficial
is usually the preliminary step that
leads to the fundamental. The de-
STABILITY of botanic gardens was not
obvious when large areas in state
of nature were available to almost
every one; but when we developed
congested populations in cities and
made artificial most of our open
areas, the thought of botanic gard
ems began to take form.
Those of you who have travelled
in Europe must have been impressed
by the multiplicity of such gardens.
They began there in the form of
monastic gardens, in which the So
called "simples," used in primitive
medicine, were cultivated. Then
they came out into the open as city
gardens, chiefly for the enjoyment of
the people and to beautify the city.
Finally, they became also scientific,
and gradually led to such great es-
Establishments as the botanic gardens
at Rome, Geneva, and Paris, the
great modern gardens on the out
skirts of Berlin and Munich. and
that greatest of all garden establish
| ments, the Kew Gardens of London.
These are but conspicuous illustra-
tions of what almost every European
city had developed before be began
to think of garden establishments.
There is nothing more artificial
than city life, and therefore nothing
more abnormal. Some are able now
and then to renew their contact with
the natural and normal, but most
are not. A botanic garden brings to
| the many a touch of what only the
! few can secure for themselves. You
have doubtless developed some very
definite and effective ways of ex-
pressing the social contribution OF
this garden to the life and welfare
of this community. But to me
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-07

is still open. but the time left is
limited. For the man who expects
to be conscripted and who prefers
to go as q volunteer there Is no bet
ter way than 20 get into either the
Regular Army or one of the National
Guard units at once. There is room
in both.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-07
Regular Names

Note was made recently of the e
listment of Ulysses s. Grant, 3
grandson of the great Union geners
in n New York regiment. Enroll
in a Yale contingent now ready r
France is William H. Seward, Al
a great-grandson of our famous eli
war secretary of state. Even in
republic there IL something graf
fully significant in these fresh lin
ing of old family names wi
national affairs of destiny. Inded
one of the finest features of the re
democratic life might we'll be q
persistence of old-family traditio
of readiness and faithfulness 20 d
public service.-New York World.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-07
SATURDAY, JULY I, 1917.
MAD DOGS

A MOTHER German air raid over
"A London! More women and
children slain. The Prussian
mad dogs are swapping again at the
heels OF Christian civilization. There
is only one way to stop a mad dog.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-07
SPIES
ed.

q PIES are everywhere in this
- country and little has been
done to prevent their opera
tions, according TO dispatches from
Washington. This Notwithstanding
early plans. approved by the Presi.
dent, for circumventing their activi.
ties. And here is the explanation Of
Lincoln Colcord in the Philadelphia
Public Ledger as to why Mr.. Wilson:
program has not been carried out:
The story runs that the Cabinet
also highly approved Of the pro-
lect, and thought that It ought to
the question OF how it was to be
done. Thereupon trouble arose.
Secretary. McAdoo said that. of
course, this central intelligence
bureau would be organized under
the Treasury Department, since
Secret Service operations tradi-
uonally had been conducted under
his department. Secretary Baker
Immediately objected. saying that
in view of war conditions the CEN
tralized intelligence bureau ought
TO be under the War Department
This brought a demand from
secretary Daniels that IL be organ
4ECu the NAVY dTInenI,
since the navy was the older
branch of the service and our war
operations would all be overseas.
Secretary Gregory thought that it
ought to come under the Depart
ment Of Justice. since he had the
best intelligence bureau to start
with. Even Secretary Burleson
put in claim on it. saying that
the Post Office Department was
larger than any other and covered
Thus, between nine stools, the
project fell very fat, and has
never Since been revived. As a
consequence the country to-day is
without adequate provision for
collecting intelligence regarding
the host of spies which must be
sending information to Germany.
This is fine time for the littl,
men who make up the big cabine
to air their differences.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-07
GAVE IT UP,

"Going to plant potatoes in your
garden this spring?"
II thought I would, but xhen 7
looked up the way to do 1t found
that potatoes have to planted in hills,
and our yard is perfectly fat"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-07
DO YOU. KNOW

That Harrisburg is the dis
tributing point for immense
quantities of anthracite as well
as bituminous coal?