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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-08
Over He 1os
t~ Penna.

How did L meet de bride?' grim
ned Joseph Coyne when applying for
a marriage license in Allentown the
other day. why it was jest two years
ago at Wheeling, West Virginia, after
stiff fight in which | puts out a
gink with a left hook in de bread
basket. When l piped her off here
after two years | fought she was
handcuffed to that soldier boy, but
soon as we cross our lamps / knowed
the spark of love was all t. tn acety-
lene, so here we are" Coyne is mid
dleweight pugilist of some renown,
and his little speech so affected the
bride-to-be that she paid the license
fee.
No cloud without a silver lining
The adventures of Constable Jim"
Martin, of Darby, near Philadelphia,
should comfort any soldier who con-
templates losing a leg in the war.
Mr.. Martin was currying a horse the
other day when the animal suddenly
uncorked an awful kick which car
ried the constable's wooden leg ten
feet away. 1t was somewhat dam
aged, but still sound enough to con-
vince the horse that a one-legged
man is dangerous to fool with. Mr..
Martin has been inflicted in this same
leg with two gunshot wounds, been
bitten by a mad dog and endured
scalding by boiling water which give
whole legged persons intense suffer-
ing.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-08
WAR WITH AUSTRIA

TONGRESS lost no time in com
l plying with President Wilson'S
recommendation for declaration
of state of war with Austria. There
was no other way out of it. Germany
dictates every Austrian move. Aus
trians are fighting our allies shoulder
to shoulder with Germans. If they
submit to the German yoke they
must submit also to the whip-lash of
the power that is destined to drive
German militarism and all that
stands with it into oblivion.
Every member of the Senate voted
for this just and necessary course.
Every member of the House support
ed the resolution save one-Meyer
London. Socialist, whose speech in
his own defense sounds much like a
plea for clemency based on a con-
fession of guilt.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-08
AS HINDENBURG SEES US

In an interview with corre-
spcndent of the Vienna Neue Freie
Presse Field Marshall Won Hinden-
burg is quoted as saying.
"It is certain that the United
States is making efforts to create a
big army. and the war is an oppor-
tune pretext for this, as In peace
times the difficulties would be too
great. Japan too would not have
looked on with indifference"
The statement is interesting prin-
cipally because 1t is so characters
ticnIly German and expresses so
completely the inability of the Ger
man lead RS to understand the reac-
ton of any other nation than their
own to the present world crisis.
That the United States needed a
pretext for the formation of a "big
army and that 1t found an "oppor-
tune preteXt" in the war is the atti-
tude of military nation and an
autocratic Government. That the
army came as an inspiration from
the people themselves and that the
only pretext which was urged for its
formation was defense of democ-
racy and the rights of civilization is
incomprehensible to the men who
are welding and directing the pow
ers of Hohenzollernism.- York
Sum
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-08
HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAM
THE suggestion has been made
that the School Board POSTPONE

"HE suggestion has been made
that the School Board postpone
its high school building pro-
gram until the end of the war. in
order that men and materials may
be concentrated upon government
contracts of a military nature. In
short. as Director Stamm put it. the
Harrisburg school district should
not compete against the government
for workers and materials at a time
when the nation is sorely pressed
for both.
There is room for discussion here.
Certainly. the School Board has no
desire to hinder the country in the
prosecution of the war and there is
just now n scarcity of labor and
some kinds of materials in war in
dustries. Private and public work of
a local character must give way, in
large degree, to the more important
demands of the nation.
But there is something to be said
on the other side. also. The rev.
enues by which thu country hopes
to finance the war are based upon
business receipts, and if private en-
terprise is to be utterly discouraged
for the period of the war. ruin is
just around the corner and bank
ruptcy is not far away.
1t is not an easy thing to draw
the line, but draw it we must, some
where. Not all new building should
be abandoned because of the war. BY
the very fact of the war some busi-
nessmen have found it absolutely
essential to the operation of their
esta blishments to carry on extern
sive enlargement programs, despite
the extremely high cost of all tNe fac
tors entering into construction work.
The Penn-Harris hotel may be cited
as an illustration. In this case the
plans were made and contract let be-
fore the declaration of war. but even
so the hotel needs of the city are so
urgent that postponement could not
have been considered. Some busi-
nessmen of the city found them
selves in like position and as a re-
suit contractors have been busy all
year.
Perhaps the school district, IL the
full program is not at once neces-
sary at this time. may be able to
strike "fifty-fifty' bargain with the
government; in other words, erec,
che absolutely essential buildings
now, letting the others, go to a more
propitious time.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-08
TROTZKY "REVELATIONS"

There must be a good deal of
drawing on the imagination by
writer's of the cabled news dispatches
from Paris which depict officials of
the French government as IAN
noyed" at Herr Trotzky because he
has seen fit to suppress the diplo-
matte correspondence of Germany
while making public some of the
diplomatic correspondence of gov
ernments which have been trying to
aid Russia. Why should anything
else be expected of the Bolsheviki
agents of Germany than that they
work for Germany?
Why should anybody take TrotZ-
ky or his alleged revelations seri-
ously, anyway? In these there is
absolutely nothing new 49, nothing
that had not been known to the
world long before Trotzky and Le-
nine appeared on the scene at Pc
trograd. No official documents"
were necessary to show that France
expects the return of the provinces
filched from her by Prussia or that
the Russian people and their gov
ernment have looked forward to the
day when Russia would control Con-
ohu tiiS ilOi
is there any news in the fact that the
government of her allies urged Rus
sia to stand firm in this war.
If Herr Trotzky's. act in making
public those docum ents proves any,
thing at all, it is that he and his
associates are willing to go to any
length to discredit Russia and that
their own subservience to Germany
is complete. Even that, however, is
not news.-New York Herald.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-08
THE MARIN AFRICA

NNHE colossal magnitude of this
war is realized when one under
stands that the very small part
of it in Africa is far greater con-
flict than the entire Boer war. more
soldiers involved, more casualties.
more territory at stake, wider car
mage. Tie promise of President
Kruger. patriot Dom Paul that the
price would "stagger humanity"
sounds trifiing in this cataclysm.
England loses as many men in one
day as she lost in the whole series
of Roer battles and skirmishes.
Curiously enough, Boer officers are
In great measure responsible for
what has just happened, the COM
plete clearing of the Hun from East
Africa. The last remnant of German
force on the Dark Continent has now
taken refuge in Portuguese Africa,
whence it will soon be driven.
This African campaign of the Brit
ish will go down in history as a
model for military enterprise. No
glaring mistakes were made. To be-
gin with. England realized that the
Poer Is a natural strategist and
brave, so Sir Smith was
quickly relieved and the job given
to General Jan Christian Smuts. Re-
Gently General Vandeventer, another
Boer strategist, has been in charge,
Many ex-Boer soldiers are with the
English. and like the American
pioneers who learned how to fight
the Indians, these men know how to
infict the most damage while little
endangering their own bodies.
That Germany earnestly desired to
hold her African colonies goes with
out saying. Each of them. German
East Africa and German Southwest
Africa are one-third bigger than the
State of Texas, and the first one. at
least, has extraordinary resources.
Impressing many thousands of ma
tives. German officers, with a good
number of regular and powerful ar
tillery. invaded British East Africa
was fought. This part of Africa is
exceedingly wild and exotic, teeming
with disease and pests. The sting of
the tsetse fly kills all domestic ami
mails; malaria and sleeping sickness
are rampant. Yet despite these and
myriad other obstacles the British
Boer expedition kept boring in over
almost impossible terrain. They
fought clear up on Mt. Kilmantaro.
which rises to nearly 10000 feet;
some of their encounters were semi
naval. on the chain of great African
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-08
THE NEWSPAPER

IT believe in the power of new
paper advertising" writes ]. Oedd
Armour. "The press has made itsel
a great economic factor in the cor
mercial activity of this age. 1t hI
demonstrated it's worth to a poil
where l can say. without hesitancI
that newspaper advertising WI
create, intensity and broaden bud
ness" This is a pretty convinci1
statement from the president of
concern that does a business annua
ly of a half billion dollars. "Fo|
tunate is that community which l1|
a good live newspaper" saws M
Armour. "for its editorial and al
vertising activities are second to /
force in building up and develouil
Its tArritory. ."-Newspaperdon,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-08
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

&C. LaRue Munson who was her,
yesterday attending u hearing at tho
office of the Public Service Commisl
sion, has been named as membe
of the State Committee for Wal
Saving.
Postmaster A. S. Guffey, ofPitts
burgh, says people should send
money to soldiers to help them buy
things in France.
j. p. Bryan. sheriff of Beaver
has made n census of all aliens ilI
his county on his own account.
Frank A. Vanderlip, the banker
is to be the speaker at the big Pitts|
burgh meeting tonight.
II. A. Wright, head of thj
Wilkes-Barre railways, says that hiI
company will be compelled to rais|
rates.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-08

lakes. Nyanza. Navassa and Tan
ganyika. The Germans were nearly
always on the defense, but with their
powerful artillery and 100, 900 train
ed blacks accustomed to the climate
it was indeed a task.
In the Boer war Dom Paul's little
army had only four big guns, the
Natal and the other three removed
to Pretoria and never used again. In
this campaign hundreds of high
centimeter guns thundered in the
dense forests. along the squdgy
creeks and on the mountain tops of
Central Africa.
To one who has studied affairs in
the Dark Continent this turn of
events is of consuming interest.
When the British were about to cap
ture Pretoria a party of resolute
Boer generals took oath in General
Botha's front yard that they would
sieze the first opportunity to again
fight England. Most of them are
now with England. A reason for this
is that the Beers lost confidence in
the Germans during their war for
survival. On his solemn word,
Kaiser Wilhelm promised Mr.. Kru-
ger to send men, artillery and ships,
then changed his mind. In the opin-
ion of many statesmen this was Ger
mans stupendous blunder. England
was In no shape then to fight great
power and. moreover. the world was
against her in sentiment.
Again. after Germany secured ter
ritory in the Dark Continent. she
Immediately demonstrated that she
was not a good colonizer. In East
Africa the German Imperial officers
personally conducted slave markets.
and mutilation was not unknown.
Germany now does not possess one
square inch of the African continent,
when three years ago she owned
over one million square miles with
a population of fourteen millions,
including $4,000 whites.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-08

himself down like a camel-and he
won't realize that he can't take those
souvenirs home, and that he will
have to carry them all about with
him for months and months and
months. When he has sweated
through a few route marches with
his load of souvenirs, he'll begin to
throw away the least precious of
them: and pretty soon the gems of
his collection will follow the others
into the ditch.
Before he gets within the sound
of the guns he will see a good many
airplane fights, and this will in
crease his desire to get to the line
itself. Then when he actually hears
the guns he will be all enthusiasm.
full of questions. BY gradual stages
last he sees the great flare in the
sky. hear the tremendous noise
right at his ear, and is close to the
line. And then what he feels is not
fear, but a strange, vacant, lonely
feeling, a restlessness and longing,
not for home, but to be in the front
line with the men who are in dan
ger, because what he feels most Is
a tremendous pity for them. 1t is
the psychology of the soldier that
what he is conscious of then is not
tense pity for the men who are on
the front line, the sense of their
danger and the wish to share it with
them.
But sooner or later he will be
under shellfire himself. And the
first time that happens to the Volun-
teer he will feel a great regret that
he didn't wait for the draft! 1t will
be only momentary, but for the in
slant he will feel a great desire to
run-not at the Germans! He will
want to run away, but somehow .he
doesn't; somehow he can't; and he
and all his comrades. all feeling the
same way, go on steadily moving
forward!
"It is when he comes to his first
ruined village that the awfulness of
war will hit him face to face, and
he will feel lonely and deserted him
self, and very small. He gets used
to shellfire very soon, and he comes
to think that the German guns are
pretty rotten! But when, going into
the communities tiOn trench, he sees
his first wounded being carried out
on stretchers-well, you can't de-
scribe the feeling it gives him. He
is pretty well unnerved at first, and
then he is flooded with a tremep-
dous pity for these men. Then his
pity changes to admiration, and he
begins to feel kind of envy of
them; if he could go through it
without suffering all that they are
supposed to, he'd like to be one of
those wounded men himself: it's like
what the drafted man who has been
exempted must feel when he sees
the regiments marching away"
ontinued)
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-08
ONE FLAG FOR CoIoRED RACE

n OSCOE CONKLING SIMMONS,
X, the noted negro speaker, said
something last evening, during
his address at the armory, that
should be food for thought on the
part of some white men. He pointed
out that there is but one flag for the
colored race, and that is the flag of
America, He might have gone on and
said that there never was a question
of negro loyalty and that in all the
history of the country there never was
a negro traitor. Colored men have
fought and died for the flag, but they
have never betrayed it. Some of the
foreign-born residents of this coun-
try, who owe all they have to the
blessings of American government
and who cherish disloyalty in their
hearts, could take lesson in patriot
ism from the negroes of the United
States.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-08
LORD PROMISED NOAH

And God spake unto Noah, saying,
go forth of the ark, thou, and thy
wife, and thy sons, and thy sons
wives with thee. Bring forth with
thee every living thing that is with
thee, of all flesh, both of fowl and
of cattle, and of every creeping thing
that creepeth upon the earth. And
Noah went forth. and his sons, and
his wife, and his sons wives with
him. And Noah builded an altar
unto the Lord. And the Lord said
in his heart. I will not again curse
the ground for mans sake. While
the hearth remaineth, seedtime and
harvest, and cold and heat, and sum-
mer and winter, and day and night
shall not cease.-Genesis viii, Is to
%.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-08
FROM THE CHRISTMAS FUNDS

THRIFTY men and women of
Harrisburg during the next
week or ten days will reap the
fruits of eleven months of saving,
when the banks pay out the Christ
mas savings fund deposits.
There are many thousands of dol
lars in these funds-and perhaps no
single fund is under $40, while others
are many times greater.
Harrisburg has a heart-and a
heart that is big as all creation. And
it has the dollars.
A heart and a dollar are all one
needs to become a member of Har-
risburg Chapter of the Red Cross.
A heart and a single dollar!
Why not couple them-all of us
in our Christmas giving?
Let's all have Red Cross member
ships in our homes this Christmas.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-08
INTERVIEWSWITHEMPEY-No.2
Machine Gunner Empey Gives Good Advice to Am
erican Soldiers = "War Not Nearly So Bad
as It's Cracked Up to Be"

THE French are looking to the
Americans as the saviours of
their cause, and the Americans
must be careful to preserve that SEN
timent The French are tempera-
mental" said Sergeant Empey, au-
thor of over the Top If French
man kisses an American soldier, the
American mustn't poke him in the
chin: he must kiss him back. And
the French are-the American must
just remember this-eXceedingly po-
lite. You must never poke fun at q
Frenchman; that is a mortal insult
And the American must remember
that the careful French politeness
does not mean that the Frenchman
is afraid of anything in the world.
Why, q FrenChman will apologize to
German when he sticks his bayonet
into him!
But, after all the Americans are
going over there in the Frenchman's
backyard. They are fighting togeth-
er to keep common enemy from
climbing the back fence. But it is
the Frenchman's yard. And the
American must keep to the paths
and not step on the flower beds.
Not" he added quickly, that
there are any regular customs or
ways of doing and saying things
that the American must adhere to.
That was the case before the war,
but things are changed now-both
the Frenchman and the Englishman
are changed with them; they are
good fellows together now, and they
excuse each others mistakes. The
thing for the American to do in
France is to be and act always as a
pnnn A m
full reception If he is just real,
straight Yankee.
When he gets to his billet or viii
lage, the American soldier will find
that prices will slightly rise. He
mustn't consider that as an injury
or an insult, but really as a compli-
ment. To the French people every
American is a millionaire; they set
the best before him and he is expec-
ted to pay the price. The American
tourists in France have given. that
impression. And when you throw q
ball against wall, it is sure to re-
bound. The harder you throw it,
he remarked refectively, "the hard
er it will hit you when it comes
back.
when the American soldier first
gets to France" he went on, che
will have fine time enjoying new
scenes for about two days. Then he
will begin to be anxious to get up
the line, to investigate, to see just
what is going on, to get into things.
He'll have to curb his patience foI
awhile. But while he is going
through his training period he will
be an ardent souvenir collector. He
will get all the souvenirs that he can
possibly buy and steal. He will load
ITO Re {
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-08

or fires. Representative sportsmen
are giving of their time and money
TO help and the general public senti-
ment supports the work OF the com-
mission. Yet in the face of this all
year provision for sport that lasts
two weeks there have been reports
of game killed out of season. and
from the Caledonia district alone of
seven does shot within a few miles
since the opening of the season. In
other sections does and fawns have
been killed and allowed to lie.
Prosecution and publicity is what
these outlaw hunters need.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-08
EDITORIAL COMMENT

Complaints are growing that Ger
man agents have too much leeway in
this country. The fact is, they haven't
been given enough rope.-Brooklyn
Eagle.
Quiz Follows $2,000,000 Blaze,
runs a headline. Yes; but isn't it a
pity that the quiz always follows and
never precedes the blaZe?-NeW
York Morning Telegraph.
Would Colonel House consider a
nomination for the Presidency in
192O?" asks an exchange. In all
probability not. The sentiment of the
country seems to be against three
terms.-P Inquirer.
The Kaiser shall not press down
upon the brow of labor his iron
cross.-Boston Transcript.
There are indications that the
German peace dove is about to
scream again.-New York Sun.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-08
TEN COMMANDMENTS

First. Don't lie; 1t wastes my
time and yours. I'm sure to eaten
you in the end, and that's the wrong
end.
Second. Watch your work, not
the clock. A long days work makes
a long day short and a short day s
work makes my face long.
"Three. Give me more than 1
expect and I'll pay you more than
you expect. 1 can afford to increase
your pay If you increase my prohts.
-Four. You owe so much to your
self that you can't afford to owe any
body else. Keep out of debt or keep
out of my shops.
Five. Dishonesty is never an ac-
cident. Good men, like good women,
can't see temptation when they meet
1t.
six. Mind your own business and
in time you'll have a business OF
your own to mind.
"Seven. Don't do anything here
which hurts your self-respect. The
employe who is willing to steal for
me is capable of stealing from me.
Eight. It's none of my business
what YOU do at night, but If dissi-
patton affects what you do next day
and you do half as much as L de-
mand, you'll last half as long as
you hoped.
Mine. Don't tell me what I'd like
to hear but what 1 ought to hear.
I don't want valet for my vanity,
but l need one for my dollars.
Ten Don't kick if kick. IL
you're worth while correcting you're
worth while keeping. 1 don't waste
time cutting specks out of rotten
apples"
The foregoing mandates are
framed and occupy q conspicuous
place in the office of a big Philadel-
phia wholesale house.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-08

In France a law has been passed
setting up a special fund for pay
ment of compensation for industrial
accidents to men employed in indus
try who have been previously dis
abled in the war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-08

The Legislatures of five states pro-
vided during the current year for
various lines of Investigation in So
cial insurance. The states taking
such action are Connecticut, Illinois,
Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-08
LABOR NOTES

Musicians at st. John, n. B.. have
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-08

Lynn, (Mass.) coal teamsters have
raised wages 50 a week and secured
Saturday half-holidays throughout
the year. Nine hours shall consti-
tute days work except on Satur-
days.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-08
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg soldiers
have been among the first to
enlist in every war of the Re-
public?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-08

OF the available water power in
Sweden, estimated at 5000, 000
horsepower, about 15 per cent is in
use. The number of plants in oper-
alton or in process of construction
in 1916 was 453.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-08

Electrotypers' Union at SPRING
field, Mass, has secured a two-year
agreement. Wages are increased 80
a week the first year and an addi-
tional 81 a week the second year.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-08

1t will cost approximately $34, ,260
n year more to install the double
platoon or two-shift system in the
Calgary (Canada) Fire Department.
For this reason the new project will
be shelved.