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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-16
MAGEE GOES TO BROWNS;
YANKEES GET MARSANS

CLEVELAND. o., July 16.---Colonel Rup-
pert. president Of the Yankees, received
word from Ban Johnson today that the
trade of Lee MaEee for Amanda Marsans
had been completed This deal had been
under consideration since the Yankees were
i'm St Louis. The Yankees agreed to pay
the difference in the salaries Of the two
players. which is S4333, Magee left for St
Louis last night and Marsans will report
To- the Yankees today.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-16
GRAND CIRCUIT MEETING
OPENS AT CLEVELAND

CLEVELAND, o.. July 16.-The Grand
Circuit will open this afternoon at the
North Randall race track and some of
the fastest trotters and PAGERS in the conn
try aree ntered in the meet. which will
continue through until Friday afternoon.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-16
ST. LOUIS WILL STAGE
A. A. U. CHAMPIONSHIPS

II was announced yesterday from ANA
teur Athletic Union headquarters in New
York that the national track and field
championships for this year would be held
at St Louis, as originally scheduled, on
August 81 September 1 and 3. The junior
events will he held on Friday afternoon.
August 81 the senior events on Saturday.
September :. and the all-round and relay
championships on Labor Day.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-16
Getting Into the Line

a., Uettlng Into the Line
IN ready to enlist todav.,,
spin mIoOie actor cried
M btt," borer said,
"SH battle side 6y side."
~ast S,st tot serve nv country, too"
60 az kip'tthher rose to sap
Al we papers fell for az
''uVed them up that day.
setn Win DAY At THE BALL YARD today.
NeA oh ~ Speeding up Is right They have
u""n Erade long enough.
Assisr "a on object IN everything, as John
NJ bonss ~ S9ys. Fred ToneD tOas prom
~ vsar BV 1000 " he tOOn tiOentV games
" y oniy ~. weeds the moneU so badly that
'~ over. 'V~r comes Shy t0ith the season oIlly
('lll Foea stsrs trs bumped the bumps yesterday,
Ned enousb PIoye that the elongated hurler
lose game now and then
~ kii ns y Rays broke the Yankees gloom.
-sa are Caldwell and Fisher.
s' ''i ns,,i ~ ihs concert at The Polo Grounds
| t.'tsn Z y TOO wet for those horn
r4n two Baseball clubs put on
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-16
RUNS SCORED BY
MAJORS THIS WEEK
NATIONAL LEAGUE
ANrERICAN LENGTE

High score saturday, chants 10 runs. u
High sChore sunday, Yankees, l2 runs.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-16
Yesterdays Results


New YOrk-ChiCngO (pOStpOneO.
No other games scheduled,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-16
LAPIZE. FRENCH CYCLIST,
KILLED AT THE FRONT
Champion Bike Rider Loses Life in Air
Fight, According to Paris
Report

PARIS, July 16.--Oscar Lapze, French
champion cyclist was killed Sunday in an
air fight at the front.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-16
Bout in Demand

After Welsh was forced. unwontingly, to
Nlnquish the championship to New York's
pride thus its return to the American
people, 1t didn't take Kilbane many hours
@start for Leonard's scalp, as it were. And
promoters all over the country were anxious
heip Kilbane get a smash at the new
ehamp But it remained for Jimmy Dough-
eV to come through with an offer that
proved satisfactory to Leonard. Kilbane,
Si course, would have boxed Leonard in
Mans Land, only to be given the honor
u Stepping on with the conqueror of the
ancient Welsh.
speaking Of weight, Leonard will have
us better OF about six pounds, as Kilbane
sslaom tips more than 1877, while the light
sveght entry has proved conclusively that
us pest boxing avoirdupois is 1873. SO far
aOnlty is concerned, they can be placed
class by themselves. One is as fast
HeSsed lighting, quoting some one of
Se "hiie ago and, when 1t comes to Slip
sns over the slam, the proverbial mule
IN. Nck any harder, This also goes for
sr. Ouner. Using most recent bouts as a
on' Leonard may be truthfully termed
=, M Te harder hitter, as he has stopped six
MS last seven opponents
Left vs.. Right
~. a..e'hodieally, Kilbane's left is his better
ANY, amy Elelder and upon which he mostly
NJ, mus. @ on the other paw, Leonard's right
eombatants. ''0S' u ''''
bonsAtN acts for the great intra-cham-
N,n Np mix state that each contestant
S,lrhia ram the final week in or near Phila-
bss.a hiIoane and Leonard have COM
amN. PREPARATIONS to move their respective
has s from their usual haunts. Leonard
perDInu Innouheed definitely that he i'll finish
IA, Sias at Atlantic City, hile Kibane
PhnsS.ilnself PhnSS himself to Leiperville, Pa.
ts.sn tueipnla staged a previous battle be-
lams SSo % ehampions-Kilbane VS. Kid Will
Il. RIteh Itareh IT, l9l5-and the clinching Of
brovss tS Leonard match for this city
Ne bsst S'S. rams here have been getting
eunplSs ooAlhs above board, as Bobby
s N.o Is wont to say
-'0 the Quaker city can be termed as
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-03
Turnip Bread

A party of women and children
who have been interned in Germany
since the outbreak of war arrived
in Gravesend yesterday. Most OF
their menfolks are still at Ruhleben.
A lady who has been living in
Hamburg until recently told Daily
Chronicle representative that the
bread riots there were due to the
very poor quality of the bread.
1T is not only impossible to eat
It." she said, but it lacks nutrition
and produces disease. There has been
an outbreak of smallpox as one re>
suit, and also a considerable amount
of frostbite due to the lack of nour-
ishing food. The bread is made
chiefly of turnips.
There are practically no men
left in Hamburg, and the riots were
organized by women. who smashed
a number of windows. The soldiers
in the local barracks were ordered to
fix bayoDets and so qucll the dis
turbance, but they refused to do so.
Peace was eventually restored by
the police.
1.-The German people" she went
on, "believe everything their papers
tell them, and are quite content with
the explanation that the German re-
tirement is simply a strategic move.
They were glad to hear OF the Rus
sian revolution, because they imag-
ined it would mean an earlier
peace."-London Chronicle.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-03
Nation or Newspaper

Tread at the 31st annual dinner OF
the American Newspaper Publishers
Association at the Waldorf Astoria,
New York
Hail, men os might, you who control
The body, and, almost, the soul
OF written thought in this great land
Your duty is to understand
What is your duty in these days
When every word of blame, or
praise.
Must count for good alone and be
For national integrity!
1t is for you to understand
That in this democratic land
Where liberty of speech must be
A tenet of true liberty,
1t does not mean that reckless men
Be given license with the pen
To undermine the basic walls
On which the nation stands, or falls.
And Furthermore, it is for you
To understand that what you do
Whatever worth it may possess,
What you do not is none the less
OF value to the common veal,
For silence, wisely kept, may seal
The nations safety till the last
And greatest danger shall have
passed.
You men. of might, with power in
hand
To make. or break, this goodly land,
Are you for news at any price?
Are you prepared to sacrifice
The nation, or your profit, should
You win, or lose, in making good
It's up to youl
What will you do?
w. J. hampton.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-03
Hand That Rocked President

Helen r. Martin. the author of an
interesting series OF novels about the
Mennonittes, lived in I.anca ster, Pa,
when she was a girl. Her mother
lived in Chillicothe, o., when Presi-
dent Wilson's mother was resident
of that town. The two women were
intimate friends. One day, when
Mrs. Martin was a girl of seventeen,
Woodrow Wilson. then an obscure
professor at Princeton. went to Lam
caster to give a course of lectures.
Mrs. Martin and her sister returned
home from the first lecture full of
enthusiasm over the brilliancy, wit
and Charm of the unknown lecturer.
why" said the mother, on learn
ing his name. ''he must be the son
of my old school chum, Jane Wood
row! Don't come home from the next
lecture without asking aim whether
his mothers name was Jane
So after the next lecture Mrs.
Martins sister went up timidly to the
lecturer and said my mother told
me I was not to come home without
asking you whether your mother S
name was Jane"
Mr.. wilson laughed and said it
was.
Then continued the girl, "my
mother said that I should tell you
that she often rocked you to sleep
when you were a baby-that is, II
your mothers name was Jane. -
New York Herald.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-03
The War of Love

What we are going to do, then,
we mothers, when the tumult and
the shouting have died, and the long
wait comes? We will pray. The
churches of France are full of kneel-
ing women. And we will work.
There is no spectacular work for
mothers in q war. They cannot drive
ambulances, or guide aeroplanes. al
though they are capable of doing
both. There will be no need Of the
wigwagging that some women are
so painfully learning! But they will
will make up such little packets as
brushes. and chocolates and fresh
socks and gingerbread. and a Bible
and playing cards and cigarettes.
And in between times, they will
wait in that quiet that is not peace.
There are two wars being waged
to-day. One Is the war of hate, and
one is the war of love. And this
last is the bitter war; because It is
being fought in women's hearts, be-
tween their fears and their patriot
ism. 1 know.
"And because fear is evil. 1t will
go down to defeat. Women are
brave, and mothers are the bravest
of all women, for they have faced
the Gethsemane of child bearing.
They will not weaken now.
Napoleon said, Give me the
mothers of France, and ! Will make
France
From "The Altar of Freedom" by
Mary Roberts Rinehart (Houghton
lMifiiin Company.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-03
There Amt No Such Animal

The American nation has been
living the life of the prodigal son,
with no fatted calf in the prospect.
If we come to husks we shall re-
main on husks, and they are un-
pleasant eating.
There is plenty and will be plenty
where there is thrift. Extravaganza
will eat up the productive forces and
destroy the sustaining capacity of
the nation.
The United States no longer Is a
land of the unlimited. II is land
with its boundaries we'll defined. The
swift shock of war does only what
the slow processes of economic pres
sure would have done eventually. We
can appreciate what is happening
when 1t becomes theatric in war
We might have failed to see the
same forces working in the unthe-
atric of peace.
What the American people must
consider is that they must adjust
their consumption to their produc-
ton and put restraining hand upon
waste. Economy is the first wal
duty, and 1t is an obligation upon
every one. 1t must be accomplished
by universal service.
There is no doubt we are the
prodigal sons. What we'd like tc
know is the whereabouts of the calf
Chicago Tribune.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-03
JOFFRE'S MESSAGE TO AMERICA

braries and from the fragmentary
reports sent from France and from
England by military missions whose
area of activity was always circum-
scribed by the failure of the diplo-
matte department of our govern
ment to give them the slightest aid
or countenance in their pursuit of
useful knowledge?
Let the General Staff make it's own
statement to the people OF the Unit
ed States, If 1t chooses; but the peo-
pie of the United States are in no
mood to suffer the General Staff,
either directly or indirectly, to sup
press. the facts which 1t Is the neces-
sity OF the country to know. 1t is
very bad sign II already the Amer
lean people are to be deprived of the
truth-to be deprived of the judg-
ment and advice of those who know
most about military affairs, out of
Difference to preconceived theories of
the General Staff of our own army.
The people of the United States
can be trusted, Just as the people of
France and Britain can be trusted
to face the truth. In the end the
people of this country will have the
truth. no matter what censor or
general intervenes. We shall dispose
of the men who are not efficient in
our General STAFF. as have the
French and the British. We shall
dispose OF the officers in our service
whose methods would repeat the
tragedy of J.oos and the failure of
Gallipoli. But it is of prime impor-
tance that they should not be able,
by taking advantage of q universal
desire to serve and a general reluct-
ance to criticise, to endanger
precious American lives and post
pone by q year effective American
entrance into the war.-From the
New York Tribune.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-03
THE CHAMBERS GOOD WORK

TF the Harrisburg Chamber OF
Commerce did no more than
bring to the city such dis
tinguished speakers as DR.. Newell
Dwight Hills and former Congress
man James Francis Burke, who ad-
dressed last nights meeting in the
Board of Trade Building, 1t would
be doing a service Harrisburg could
I'll afford TO lose. No more able
speakers are procurable than those
who came here in response to the
invitations of the Chamber, and its
membership is to be congratulated
upon the opportunity thus afforded.
Both DR.. Hills and Mr.. Burke are
doing a great work in arousing the
country to the immensity of the task
confronting it. Not a man who was
present last evening but understands
better to-day the long series of
causes back Of the world conflict in
which we are about to engage, the
principles which led us as a nation
into it. the responsibilities we face
and the tremendous Importance OF
coming through triumphant.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-03
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Richard L. Austin, prominent
Philadelphian, looks for higher
prices and says that the labor situa-
ton is making things acute.
Baron Won Hauser, the Austrian
consul at Pittsburgh, well known
here, will leave Friday for his home.
He left Pittsburgh yesterday.
Judge Joseph Burlington, of the
United States court, looks for a pro-
tracted war, according to an address
he has Just delivered.
H. II. Althouse, who is to make
the investigation of grade crossings
in Reading for the civic authorities
of that place. used to be chief en-
gineer for the Erie railroad.
Captain c. C. Gangloff. who is
in charge of the raising of new
company of engineers for the Ma
tional Guard, is captain of the Potts
Vile company. The captain served
on the border.
Director of Safety William r.
Wilson, of Philadelphia, says that
men who do not work should be ar
rested and has issued orders to round
up tramps.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-03

n LII Washington dispatches agree
~ that in his talk with newspaper
men on Sunday Marshal Joffre
stated his belief as a soldier that Ii
was essential to send American
troops to France to be trained either
by French or British officers under
conditions approXimating actual war.
All Washington dispatches agree
that this portion of Marshal Joffres
comment was censored. We are told
now that this censoring was done by
the French Mission itself, and that
the vital part omitted from Joffres
original statement urged that small
units of the American army be sent
to the front at once, there to be
trained within sound of the guns.
We are told that this was omitted
to be too definite"
But why too defnite?" Is it that
the French Mission, finding itself
faced with rooted objection on the
part of the American General Staff
to any transportation of American
troops promptly to Europe, hesitated
to permit the declaration of Joffre
to stand? 1t is possible to under
stand the motive, but one must still
regret the decision.
The people of the United States
are entitled to know in what way
they can best prepare an army. They
are entitled to have set before them
the judgment Of the men who are
! familiar with conditions existing in
the present war-~-the men who have
commanded armies Of millions (on
the battlefield. who have won VIC
tories and endured attacks unparal-
| leled hitherto in the history of war.
Is it proposed that against the
| judgment of these men should be
placed the opinions of our General
Staff, opinions collected in the Ii
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-03
EDITORIAL COMMENT
By BRIGGS

Even in the edited" version OF
Marshal Joffre's statement to
the Washington correspondents,
still more in his replies to various
questions, his desire that the Ameri-
can flag should be seen at the front
as speedily as possible is perfectly
obvious. Like his fellow commits
sloners, he is reluctant to give un-
welcome advice; but he and they are
the best qualified judges of the
necessities of the case, and the Ad-
ministration will doubtless weigh
well their Philadelphia
Public Ledger.
To gag the newspapers would be
the most disastrous thing that Con-
gress possibly could do.-Philadel-
phia Inquirer.
These are the days when it's al
right to call spade q spade
Sharon Herald.
John Barleycorn is certainly meet
ing his match these days.-ChesteI
Times.
Reviewing the food situation
Bradstreets finds that winter wheat
has improved, that the visible sup
ply or wheat Is q buShel for every
person, besides farm reserves and
the flour that housewives have
bought by the barrel in fright, and
that, as usual, short crops have
long tails" A time for economy
surely, and for planting all the land
that can be properly cared for with.
out wasting seed. But panic never
helps. New York World.
history Of the Republican Marty know.
without being told that T. r. is th,
ablest man in the country when 4
comes to creating a division.-Bostor
Transcript.
The only thing that's wrong will
tho navy is that you haven't enlisted
yet.-Savannah News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-03
WHO WILL WRITE 1T?

tons T .ons ~Fi's that the rsnsrs.ons sssrs oa
unborn will sing as we now
sing the Star Spangled Banner?"
Every one of our great conflicts has
brought with it a sheaf of patriotic
songs, some of which have died, but
most of which live and find voice
wherever Americans foregather on
patriotic occasions. Just so this war
will give birth to something better
and more lasting than the machine
made, rag-time products of the past
few years. But the true war-song
will not come forth until the nation
shall have been stirred to depths as
yet untouched. Such songs spring
spontaneously from the heart. They
are inspired, not designed. The War
of 1912 gave us the "Star Spangled
Banner" the Civil War 1.-THE Battle
Hymn of the Republic" What shall
the new song be? Who will be its
author?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-03
When Friend Wife Calls
GFrom the Irish World

We hold these facts to be proved:
That no husband ever wants his
wife to call on him at his Office
during business hours, except upon
his invitation.
That no wife can possibly know
how she upsets his routine, disorders
the mental processes that go on dur
ing those hours, end subjects herself
to the gossip of his office mates.
That there is no easy way to make
a. wife see this.
We proceed from these truisms to
a few observations. &.
a lovely creature breeZes into her
husbands office, just because she
happens to be passing. She says:
Now, don't let me disturb you a
minute know you are busy.
Dearie, what good does that desk
light do you at that angle? Don't
YOU know you will ruin your eyes
What a mess your desk Is in! Look
at Mr.. Officemate's, how neat it is.
Well, just let me stick this little
package in your lower drawer. and
you bring 1t home with you when
you come. Oo-oh, Dearie, l just
opened that drawer to slip this pack
age in it and l couldn't help seeing
that bill from Smiths--and you told
me It was paid"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-03

David z. Tracy. William Jennings,
Z. L. wallower. W. N. Donaldson, j.
William Bowman. Charles w. Burt
nett 6. c. Gilbert and other prominent
citizens have been mentioned in con-
nection with the vacant mayoralty.
These men represent in their public
activities all that is best in our mu-
niclpal progress. They have each and
all figured prominently and creditably
in the advancement of the city and 1t
ought TO be the effort of the City
Council to choose a man of this type
for chief executive.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-03
BOY SCOUT WEAPONS
THE weapons Of the Boy Sc

4 NL1L- "CdPOAAo Va N--~
in the present war will be the
shovel. the rake and the hoe,
saws Lewis Buddy, national organ
izer, and adds that the Scouts will do
their bit on the farms and in the
gardens this year, instead of in the
trenches.
Thus he ouiets the foolish fears OF
mothers who may haveimagined that
their little lads might be called upon
for military service.
Boy Scouts are not trained for war.
Boy Scouts do not drill and do not
carry arms. There is nothing mill
tary about the Scout organization
Yet there are those who persist In
the silly fallacy that the Boy Scouts
are in reality Boy Soldiers. Nothing
could be farther from the truth.
Probably this idea gained curren-
cy through the fact that the Boy
Scout movement developed from the
siege of Ladysmith in South Africa
Baden-Poweu saw young boys in ac-
ton as messengers and observers un-
der trying circumstances and went
back to England to give the Boy
Scout organization its start in the
world.
Boy Scouts never have been en-
gagged in warfare, and never will be-
But they will have many very real
duties to perform at home before the
present conflict ends. For example
tbsv will render much more efficient
service leading the Charge Of the
Hoe Brigade" than they would be
able to accomplish with the soldiers
at the front.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-03
The Second

Holdsworth Perrin, poet and critic.
tossed aside a resume of Austria's
position on the submarine question.
Austria" he said. would like to
repudiate her ally's murderous sub
marine policy, but her position in
the alliance us like the henpecked
husbands inv the home.
This husband coughed and said
timidly to the Parlor maid:
Is my wife going out this even
ing, Mary?'
"'Yes. sir; I believe so, sor'
"'And-er-Mary, am going
with herr, "---Washington Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-03

Americanizatioa Of the aliens goes
forward with intensity throughout
the country. Many of these alien / tesi-
dents are showing a patriotism which
is worthy emulation by native-born
citizens. In one of the school build
ings OF this city there are hundreds
Of children of foreign-born residents
and nowhere are the songs of our
country more heartily rendered than
in this school, This war will mean
the weaving OF thousands upon thou
sands into the fabric of American
citizenry.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-03

proceeds in every direction. 1t is not
improbable that the production OF
food this year will be enormously in
excess of anything that the country
has achieved in many years. While
there is shortage of labor and a
scarcity of seed 1t is still believed that
much will be accomplished by way OF
increasing the food supply.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-03

It is a remarkable fact that in con-
sideration of the great war measures.
which have passed or are now passing
through the Congress. it has been
necessary for President Wilson to de-
pend upon the important Republican
leaders instead of the Democratic
spokesman of the Senate and House.
1t is no time for partisan discussion,
of course, but these facts are self-evi
dent and have already aroused nation
wide comment.