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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-28
Reducing Train Mileage

When Fairfax Harrison tells of the
reduction of passenger train mileage
about to be accomplished through
the cooperation of the railroads of
the United States his figures sound
quite impressive. Casual readers will
look a second time at as statement
that 100000 miles of train-haul
are to be Topped from the total now
accomplished without serious dis
turhance of the service, yet not
realize what II means. A little closer
inspection will show just how impor-
tant this really is. The mileage of
the railroads modified under the
committee of which Mr.. Harrison is
chairman totals a little over 243,000,
so that the reduc ion in train move
ment he proposes to achieve will be
equal to almost 80 round trips over
the entire system involved. The
Union Pacific had the stiffest battle
with the elements 1t ever experienced
last winter in Wyoming and during
that time the engines of the whole
system consumed but a little more
coal than will be saved by the rail-
roads OF the country when the new
passenger schedule is adopted. The
saving in man-power. which has al
ready become important in the United
States. is on a parity with the other
factors.--Omaha Bee.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-28
Reed of Missouri
By BRIGGS

Once more it is Reed of Missouri
who is found opposing the President,
blocking urgent war legislation, ap-
pealing to class passion, assailing
character, impugning motives. Reed,
OF Missouri, attacking Hoover, is
running true to form. Reed of Mis-
souri,, fighting food control, is con-
sistently against the administration
and consistently on the side OF hid
den privileges. Reed of Missouri,
whether representing the worst in
politics and corporation interests in
Kansas City or lining up with the
war profiteers in the Senate, is Reed
of Missouri, all the time.
Before he was Reed of Missouri
and gave the state unenviable noto-
riety in the Senate he was Reed of
Kansas City and was different in no
material respect except as regarded
the extent of his capacity for harm.
In Kansas City he was always to be
found on the side of the antipublic
foces. He had and has a natural pre-
dilection for the malign and the
darksome in politics and attorney
ism. He consorted and consorts by
preference with those who work un-
der cover. He hated and hates the
light and men who do things in the
light. Reed of Kansas City was
known here for exactly what Reed
of Missouri is coming to be known in
the Senate and in the. country.
Those who best knew Reed of
Kansas City can understand his per-
sonal animus to Hoover.-From the
Kansas City Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-28
NOW THE ACCEPTED TIME

X OBSERVING the food supply of
the nation is now a theme in
every household and for the
most part every family is doing it's
best to observe the rules laid down
by those in charge of the food cam
paign of the country. Millions of
dollars worth of vegetables have
been raised and unless proper mar
keting facilities are provided, so that
these early vegetables may be
promptly distributed to the con-
sumer, there is likely to be great
waste. 1t is a common remark by
those who have given attention to
the raising of vegetables this year
that they don't know what to do
with the surplus. And here is the
cruX of the whole matter.
Unless provision is made for get
ting the consumer into touch with
the producers, great quantities of
vegetables which have been raised
since the campaign of the early
spring will have gone for naught.
Of course, the various committees in
the several counties of the State are
doing their best to conserve the food
supply and Herbert Hoover has given
some suggestions which are eminent
~ practical. He says we should eat
more vegetables, fruit and fish and
economize in the use of butter. cut
tile daily allowance of sugar in tea,
or coffee and in other ways make
sensible use of the food at home. To
reduce the consumption of food he
has asked the individual to eat one
wheatless meal day, to eat beef.
mutton or pork not more than once
a day and to urge in the home or
restaurants frequented the necessity
for economy.
Through the United States Cham
ber of Commerce the local organiza-
tions have been urged to assist in
bringing about concerted action in
conserving the food supply. This
movement may take form in per-
sonal pledges to do the things that
have been suggested in the daily
routine of the home or elsewhere.
Those men who stay at home must
help win the war and in the true.
spirit of American energy it is
pointed out that he must put his in
dividual shoulder to the wheel.
Here in Harrisburg We are favored
with abundant markets and prox-
unity to the most prosperous farm
ing regions in the United States. 1t
is up to us to do our part in the
conservation of food for our own
people and for those with whom we
are allied in this great war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-28
GET DOWN TO BUSINESS

A LII that the American people
~ ask of the administration at
Washington is to get down TO
business and cut out the everlasting
talk which has almost destroyed con-
hdence in the ability of those in
authority to do the big things which
are necessary to be done to achieve
success in the war. If the little men
could be brushed aside, President
wilson would be able to accomplish
much that now seems impossible.
There are scores of big and brainy
men in the country who are willing
to help him bear the burden, but
they cannot accomplish anything so
long as the decks are cluttered with
busy-bodies and unimportant indi-
viduals who are fussing to no pur-
pose and getting nowhere after
weeks of discussion,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-28
HUNDRED THOUSAND
II men in France by snowfall?
Ru syoOurfaIo

BY snowfall?
That is what the War Department
thinks. That means lots of warm
clothes, braziers, earmuffs and high
boots. And it means winter trenches.
One of the Royal Engineer officers,
Lieutenant c. G. Martin, out of the
wealth of his experience, has found
the requirements of the "ideaI' win
ter trench. The ideal never has been
and probably'never will be, attained,
but 1t is som ething for the Sam
mics to strive for when they want
to work warmth into freezing feet.
Lieutenant Martin fixes the re-
qulrements for one mile of front, in
Guiding first and second lines and all
communications, where breastworks
are essential owing to the prevalent
waterlogged condition of the ground,
as follows: One million eight hundred
thousand yards, or 900 miles, of wire
weighing 110 tons; 1900 6-foot
standards; $4,000 small pickets; g.
100000 sandbags. weighing 1000
or corrugated iron; 1,125,000 run
ming feet of timber. average dimen-
slons 3x3 inches; large varying guam
titles of riveting material, including
timber. plants, wire netting and ex-
panded metal.
70 According to Lieutenant Martin S
estimate, an average man will fill aid
place in position on the parapet,
parados or dugout, at the most
twenty-five sandbags in one night
So to fill and place the 5000, ,000-odd
bags would take a working party OF
battalion about 240 nights work or
some eight months. A British en-
gineer company of eighty engineers
would require six years.
OF course these figures are based
on the ideal trench. In practice moth
ing of the kind is possible, but it
gives some idea of the vast quantities
of material needed to construct even
fairly suitable winter trenches and
the amount of work involved.
1t has been found in the British
army that the engineers must be
assisted by the infantry, and the di-
viding line between them has been
continually narrowed since the be-
ginning of the war. 1t is more than
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-28
Riches From Extortion

This country is spending so much
money now that much of it is sure
to be wasted and fall into the hands
of sharpers and grafters. There is
only one thing the government can
do and that is to see that for every
dollar it pays 1t must receive sub
stantial return for it, and that the
situation be guarded that every man
who gets a dishonest dollar should
be indicted for treason and i'm
prisoned or shot. 1t is no time to
parley with traitors. 1t was reported
in the Senate debate that a man got
$4,000 for 1000 aeroplane, Think
of boy over in the trenches risking
his life that such scoundrelism may
exist at home. We have an idea that
only burglars. lncendiaries and muir
derers are criminals. Every man
who takes advantage of his country's
woe and makes ten or two for one
ought to be arrested and sent to the
trenches or to prison. We are too
easy, too Indifferent. Drafting boy
to fight for his country and then
allowing some fellow to stay behind
and get rich supplying him with food
is an insult to patriotism. - Ohio
State Journal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-28
The Heavenly Hills of Holland
W wondrously they rise

How wondrously they rise
Above the smooth green meadows
Into the azure skiesl
With blue and purple hollows
With peaks of dazzling snow,
Along the far horizon
They march serene and slow.
No mortal foot has trodden
The, SUBMITS of that range,
Nor walked those mystic valleys
Whose colors ever change;
Yet we possess their beauty,
And visit them in dreams,
When the ruddy gold of sunset
From cliff and canyon CLEANS.
The old Dutch painters loved them,
Their pictures show them clear
Old Hobbema and Ruysdael,
Van Goyen and Vermeer.
Above the level landscape
Rich polders. long-armed mills,
Canals and ancient cities
Float Hollands heavenly hills.
Henry Van Dyke, in Harper's
Magazine.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-28
SIX MILLION SANDBAGS
FOR MILE OF TRENCH

likely that the same thing will be
true of our own army.
Many of the sandbags used in con-
structing parapets are by-product
of mining and tunnelling. The great
secret of successful mining is silence,
and it has been found that the most
satisfactory method of disposing of
the earth displaced in tunneling is
to put 1t in sandbags and drag it to
the head of the shaft by hand or by
winch. Here the infantry take over
the filled bags for use in the trenches.
II there is an excess dummy trenches
OFTEN are constructed on available
ground high enough to cast shadow
visible to an aerial observer. The
Prussians have been known to spend
the greater part of a day shelling
such a trench.
The usual mine gallery now used
is about 4 feet high, 2 feet 6 inches
wide at the top and 3 feet at the bot
tom, measured inside the timbering,
and this means a section about IL
feet square.
Galleries have frequently been run
out 400 feet, yielding 400 cubic
feet. or about 500 sandbags of earth.
Work on the face of a gallery is
usually done by three men one
working, one filling bags and one
resting. The remainder of the party
share up and timbers the gallery.
The average rate of progress is about
tweve feet a day.
The depth of a gallery varies ac-
cording to the tactical requirements
and may be from IL to 120 feet.
There are two distinct types Of
charges used in mines-one for the
common mine. used with the idea of
making a crater on the surface and
destroying the enemy's work, and
another called camouflets, used to
destroy the enemy's mining works
under ground and so charged as to
leave the surface undisturbed.
Mines previous to the operations
around Messines had been charged
up to $4,000 pounds, producing crat-
ers SO yards long and 40 yards wide.
The charges of camouflets vary
with the depth and the soil, and in
some cases charges of two or three
tons have been fired without disturb
ing the surface.
The galleries are generally lighted
by candles during construction, but
when the mines are being charged
electric torches are necessary.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-28
Indeed Thev Do

Little Willie, although not much of
a singer, has the spirit all right. He
was rendering an especially erratic
version of Columbia, Gem of the
Ocean, the other evening, and an en-
tirely new, though suitable, interpre-
tation of the words of the song. He
began:
20 Columbia, gem of the ocean.
The home of the brave and the
free
The listeners withstood several
a break.
"A world offers homage to thee"
he screamed.
Then came the triumph of the
song.
Thy banners make Germany
tremble."
And the little group of listeners
broke out into cheers.-Indianap
News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-28
A Figurehead
New York Tribunel

Louis Raemaekers, the famous
Dutch cartoonist, does not. believe
the Kaiser is a real man of blood
and IRON" HE is too conceited to
be a strong man." is the judgment
of this keen observer of human nat
ure in general and Teutonic nature
in particular. HE poses for strong
man. He is holloY."
This opinion win find an echo in
the suspicious of many less atten-
tive observer. Those carefully train
ed and fiercely erect mustache points,
that mien of Jove releasing his
thunderbolts, the blaze of decora-
tions which his chest thrusts forth,
the hand-on-sword business - these
are the trappings OF a stage emperor.
No man could be as mighty as Mr..
HohenZollern looks.
The probable truth of the matter
is that the VAN, self-conscious En-
peror William. with his sense of di-
vine partnership and his physical
impotence. his love of publicity and
his lack of humor, lends himself
Ideally to the. purpose of the sinister
and silent bureaucrats who really
guide the German machine.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-28
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Harry ]. Schools, who is a can
didate for district attorney in Leb-
anon county, is an attorney of that
city.
General w. M. Black, of the
United States engineers, is a native
of Lancaster county.
Judge F. M. Trexler, of the su-
perior court, will take tour to
Alaska.
Louis w. Hill, of the Great
Northern Railroad, is the man who
is planning to take over the Thomp-
son coal lands in Western Pennsyl-
vania.
Col. Frank G. Sweeney. the off,
Ger in charge of the draft headquar-
ters, has served for years as in
spector general of the National
Guard.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-28
CONSERVE THE PORK

THERB is no sign that Congress
does not mean to go deeply into
the public purse at this time
for river and harbor appropriations.
Indeed, 1T begins to look as though
at least $2S,OOO.OOO will be thus ex-
pended. Congressman have been de-
manding loudly that the people con-
serve the food supply and 1t is re-
spectfully suggested that Congress
itself might do something toward
saving pork"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-28
SHAMEFUL


Ii saVagery is not confined to
n Germany. We shudder over the
outrages German soldiers have
inflicted upon the people of France
and Belgium, but how are we to feel
about the mob of several hundred
men and boys that set upon a lone
colored man" in Chester yesterday
and who would have killed him but
for the interference of the State po-
lice? In the case of Germany it is
the government which has ordered
OF countenanced the outrage and in
this country 1t is the spirit of the
mob.
The negroes have every whit as
much right in Chester as have the
white men who attack them. Both
came there because work was to be
had at far higher wages than in
their home towns. Both are "out-
siders' so far as residence is con-
cerned. The white man cannot claim
that "his place" is being taken by
negro, for as conditions are it is just
as much the negro's job as his. If,
as has been alleged, the negroes are
unruly, there is the law ready to
take it's course and absolutely no
excuse for mob violence which has
been worse than any crime that any
of the negroes may have committed.
The Chester riots are a blot upon
the fair name of Pennsylvania. In
Harrisburg and vicinity there are
hundreds Of negro workers. Many
of them have been imported from
the South to fill jobs that no white
man could be found to take. Some
of these have been bad characters
and have been arrested and pun
ished. But for the most part there
has been little or no disturbance
since the newcomers found the police
were in earnest and fearless. There
has been no mob violence and there
is little chance that there will be
any. The negroes who have claimed
Harrisburg as their residence for
years have aided materially in put
ting a check on the inclinations of
the latecomers and have rendered
valuable assistance to the authori-
ties in this respect.
There is plenty of work in Harris
burg and Chester, too, for every
body, white and black; more, indeed,
than can be done. for employers in
every line are seeking in vain for
men. Because negroes have come
north in large numbers is no reason
why they should be abused. To at
tack them in mobs is shameful and
cowardly. The use OF ball cartridges
on the next mob that assemblies in
Chester or anywhere else would have
a salutary effect. If the negroes are
at fault let the law take it's course.
If they are not. let them alone.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-28
"Godspeed"

Brawny, broad-shouldered lads ne'er
known to lag,
Hearts blood as red as the stripes
in our flag.
Brave, unfailing, strong and true:
Noble heroes, we bid you adieu.
Sacrificing, loyal, courageous, having
no fears,
Beloved, adored American soldiers.
PERCY VINTON RITTER.
Harrisburg.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-28
In Plain Sight

Willie Stone had been sent on an
errand to the home of the rich Mr..
Lott. He returned with the astonish-
ing news that Mr.. Lott was going
mad.
What makes you think that?"
his father asked
THE way he talked" said Willie
when / went into the room where
he wanted to see me he said, Boy,
where is your hat?' and there 1t was
on my head all the me!"-New
York Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-28
Matter of Statistics

There is one way for every man to
determine for himself whether the
world is growing better or worse.
All he has to do is to ascertain
whether the number of people who
agree with him is increasing or di-
minishing. Houston Post.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-28
THEY'LL Do It Yet

So far the German universities
have had the fortitude to refrain from
comforting the degree of D. D. on
commanders of U-boats. - From the
Columbia State.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-28
A Little Premature

In assessing a fine of $50,000,000
against Rumania the Kaiser was a
little premature. The Rumanian
Commission at Washington hasn't
obtained that loan 1t came for yet
Kansas City Journal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-28
Wanted From America

Britain's appeal is for ships, ships,
ships; that Of France for men, men,
men. Now Russia is heard in poly
syllables with locom olives, locomo-
tives. ACCOMPLISHMENTS Re-
publican.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-28
Nation Gives I'm

The kaiser must have given up the
notion of annexing certain American
states to Mexico or he would hardly
have given up Zimmerman, who
bad the job in charge
Press.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-28

Avoid kissing If you would have
a beautiful mouth" says Lillian Rus
sell. This is outrageously false. Isn't
Lillian's mouth pretty good looking,
after all these years? - Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-28
Ver- Conservative Ladv

A Marietta lady asks a divorce be-
cause her husband. hasn't taken a
bath for seventeen years. A pa
tient woman, at that. Some would
have begun to protest about fourteen
years ago.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-28

Toronto (Canada) linotype opera
tors and compositors engaged in
newspaper work received an increase
in pay of $3.50 a week.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-28

The Parkersburg (Pa.) iron works
will be shut down for a weekethis
summer so that the 500 hands can
be used for harvesting crops.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-28
Wise or Otherwise

Chicago Herald - Mobilization of
the National Guard suggests the Ger
mans Will soon be denying the arri-
val of another American corps or two
in France.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-28
Labor Notes

Siamese natives obtained petro-
leum from the earth by digging pits
about sixty feet deep and dipping it
out with pals.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-28
SATURDAY, JULY 2s, 1917

When the outer eye grows dim,
Turns the inner eye to Him,
Who makes darkness light,
FGirer UisionS you may see,
LtUe in noo1er company,
And in larger liberty,
Than the men Of sight.
JOHN OXENHAM.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-28

Minneapolis Tribune-Women of
the country are advised by the De-
partment of Agriculture to can as
much fruit and vegetables as pos
sible this year. The theory is that
this kind of canning helps to can the
Kaiser.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-28

Philadelphia Public Ledger - No
matter how much daylight is saved,
there will always be time to be an
American.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-28

Washington Post-Kentucky sta
tisticians figure that conservation in
corn Ticker is poor way to save the
colonels.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-28

Seattle (Wash.) shipbuilding and
metal trades have made rapid strides
in the last few months, one local
from 800 to $500 members, and still
growing.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-28
DO YOU KNOW
THAT Harrisburg is develop
A.
ing into a big car repair center?
ITSTORJC UARRTSRrRc

General Sullivan considered Harris
Ferry an ideal place as a base of
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-28
PROTECTION ARGUMENT

VIZ ITH the coming of the war
NV the very heavy importations
Wv from Germany ceased en-
tirely, and those from Eng
land have fallen to very small
proportions. Meanwhile, the Amer
lean manufacturers have not been
able to increase their capacity
sufficiently to meet the heavy de-
mand which they must now
satisfy.
Wonder how that statement ever
escaped the blue pencil of the free.
trade editor of the New York Times
from which it is quoted.
The Underwood tariff law
took all protection away from cut
lery for instance, and during the ten
months free operation of that law
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-28

. The American Federation of Labor
has refused to participate in a trade
union peace conference to be held
in SWitzerland on September II.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-28

E.J. J.STACKPOLE.P PrsSt s. Editor.in. Chisf
F. r. OYSTER. Business Manager.
Gus M. STEINMETz. Manogine Editor.