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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-03
SAVING $1,000 YEARLY

VIZ HEN the Berks-Dauphin turn
WV pike is declared free and open
to the public about August 1
the people of Pennsylvania will be-
gin to save not less than 100000
annually, because the $1.02 charged
through travellers between Reading
and Harrisburg totaled not less than
that sum each year. The State, to-
gether with Berks, Lebanon and
Dauphin counties, has bought the old
pike for $4,000. The investment,
it will be seen, is a good one.
The elimination of this toll road
is a monument to what can be done
of organized forces. Opposition to
the turnpike had existed for many
years, but individual effort failed to
free the thoroughfate. A number of
months ago the Harrisburg Motor
Club, through its efficient secretary,
j. c.. Myton, began campaign
against the pike, being Joined by
Lebanon and Reading motor forces.
The pike company was hailed before
the Public Service Commission and
ordered to improve the road accord
ing to State Highway Department
specifications. The William Penn
Highway Association, organized for
work about year ago, Joined in
the campaign against the pike peo-
pie. AS result of the force brought
to bear the State will shortly possess
this hitherto tollroad in it's entirety;
and travellers on the William Penn
Highway will no longer suffer the
S1.02 gouge which drove much traf-
fic to other sections of the State.
The William Penn Highway AS
sociation aided materially in the en-
actment of legislation of benefit to
road users of Pennsylvania. 1t OBJ
tained passage of a law intended to
shorten the Penn way fifteen miles
between Harrisburg and Newport.
Its influence was used in favor of the
$50,00O,000 bond issue, to which it
stands committed. The same infiu-
ence was used in support of the
measures which permit State aid to
boroughs, and which also enable
counties and their municipal subdi-
visions to spend dollar for dollar
with the State in the construction of
permanent highways.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-03
By BRIGGS

must drive them out tomorrow" they
were heard to say.
During Thursday night much dis
quietude was manifest among the
rebels. Their forces did not lie down
to rest, but were. marshaled;. many
changes were made and the battle
lines were improved Commanders
and men seemed to realize that the
fate of the mighty conflict.
Before. the. full dawn of the day the
roar Of battle was heard in greater
inspired with mighty wills. We're ar
rayed against each other. The con-
centration of nerve and heart and
military prowess plead nightly for
learned the result of that days con-
fiict. Pickett's charge closed the
three-days' battle. The scenes that
Ths rst tfe waf is daS If
the rebels triumph, the second, ended
without securing them any decided
advantage; 1t was rather ominous of
ure hopeful; but the third closed leav-
ing them repulsed at every point and
broken in heart.
BY 3 a. m. Saturday, July 4, all the
The morning dawned upon us with
the rebels gone; and there, and every
where, came the bluecoats marching
and filling up the streets! Bands We're
pay ptOple were praying. tears
of joy filled the faces of all, and. the
shouts of victory and triumph filled
the air. The drenching rain ceased,
the heavy clouds broke away, and
the sun, as with renewed splendor,
shone out of the eastern sky. Heaven
seemed to smile upon thei changed
scene, and with fervent prayer we
thanked God that our flag, baptized
and rebaptized with the best blood
that was ever shed in freedoms cause.
floated over us again.
There remains much more to be
said, but this might weary. The world
will never know the extent of suffer-
ing and woe that were. endured on the
Gettysburg that this nation might
live. And now how changed the
scene of that once bloody field! Kind
nature has covered the track of DESC
lation made by war. Science and art
with munificent and lavish hands,
have beautified and adorned. in honor
of the dead, sthe heights where sleep
our noble heroes.
patriots have toiled and in their
country's cause
Bled nobly. and their deeds. as they
deserve,
Receive proud recompense. We give
in charge
Their names to the sweet Tyre. The
historic muse.
Proud of her treasure, marches with
it down
To latest time; and sculpture. in hei
turn,
Gives bond in stone and ever-endur-
ing brass,
To guard them and immortalize hel
trust"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-03

quite, as properly these insurance
concerns declined. 1t was right that
private business be given opportun-
ity to take these risks if so inclined,
but it is to the credit of those in
control of the large life companies
that they declined to jeopardize
their holdings by the assumption of
possible losses. the extent of which
nobody can estimate. This is mat
ter for the government and the
whole country will unite in giving
those who devised the soldier in
surance plan the credit they deserve
If they succeed in working it out.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-03
Keep Hammering Away"

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
I want to express to you my ap-
proval and congratulations upon
your ringing editorial in Saturday
evenings issue, headed President
Wilson-Wet. The situation is so
fully set forth, that comment is
hardly necessary. but effort must
not be abated if the outrage sought
to be perpetrated is to be defeated.
So, keep hammering away. What
boots it" if the housewife Is urged
to join the National League of
American Women for Food Conser-
vation, If the brewer is. allowed to
continue the manufacture of malt
liquors? Ip other words, we are ask
ed to do with so much less wheat or
other grains, that the beer guslers
may have their daily allowance of
that which ruins body and soul, and
too often puts them on the public
charge. Shame on us as Nation.
if we permit the adoption of such a
policy. So. again I say, keep ham
mering away. and the sentiment of
the thinking people may be so
aroused, as to have some influence
on the authorities at Washington.
This, at least, is the hope of one
who believes in
CONSISTENCY,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-03
Bread and "Booze"
70 the Editor of the Telegraph:


You're right. "All hell's poppin'
and no pitch hot for the fellows
who are trying to defend Congress
and the President and are pretend
ing to be temperance people while
they are helping to rob the people
of bread so that the lager beer swill-
ers may take bath in beer" as
you so we'll put it. The people are
going to remember these hypocrites
who have been telling the public
they are for prohibition and who
are wet to the core. Will they be-
lieve them the next time they start
going around the State telling folks
they are for local option and that
they hate booze? No, No. They will
give them the merry ha. ha, and
ask them what they did when they
could have used their influence with
the President to help make the
country dry. Don't let them fool you
even If they do, as you say, call you
hard names" Remember sticks
and stones would break my bones
but hard words won't hurt me-" And
they won't hurt you. But they will
make you friends. A. K. 7.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-03
INSURANCE FOR SOLDIERS

~ ONGRESS should adopt the
Presidents plan for the insur-
ance of soldiers. The men
who go into the trenches ought to
have the same right to insurance
protection as the men who labor
in munition factories or on the rail-
roads or on shipboard The thought
is new, but with the backing of the
government there should be no
trouble in working 1t out. Very prop
erly those back of the movement in
vited the big insurance companies of
the country to participate in 1t, and
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-03
FAIR PLAY

THE President has promulgated
his draft and exemption regu-
lations and a careful perusal of
them will convince the reader that
those who helped him frame them
have made an earnest effort to deal
fairly with the men of military age
who come under the CONSUMPTION
act.
The President includes a para
graph of precaution to members of
exemption boards, calling their at
tention to the necessity of an abso-
lutely fair and impartial admins
tration of the rules laid down. This
was hardly necessary. The exemp-
tion regulations themselves are such
as to safeguard n every possible
way the interests of the individual
and leave little to the discretion of
those actually in charge of the work
But even without that, the cal
iber of the men named for this i'm
portant work is such as to warrant
fair-dealing, Notwithstanding the
hSdA dA-tiCdoOh VI InOSG pOllIlClduS WHO
have been trying to make political
capital out of the most sacred duty
the citizenry of this Commonwealth
has been called upon to perform in
more than fifty years. These are the
same character-assassins who for a
decade have been numbering the
regulations of decent men when
ever opportunity offered, in the mis-
taken notion that in some myster-
ious way they might win public
favor thereby. They have been re-
pudiated by the public so often. that
they might have acquired better
sense, were they capable of 1t, and
their present efforts do no more than
bespatter themselves with the mire
In which they wallow.
The exemption boards in every
district know that the eve of the
Sublic is upon them. Doubtless, they
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-03
WELL KNOWN. PEOPLE

Secretary of the Commonwealth
Woods, who has been ill, was able
to come to the city to-day. He will
spend the Fourth in Center county.
Senator ]. p. McNichol is So
to-day.
DR.. F. G.. Scharman, secretary
of the Cambria County Medical So
ciety, has started to enroll the doc
giving New York state pointers on
how to organize it's state police.
DIR. Maitland Alexander, Pitts
burgh minister, says future genera
tions will bless the course of the
United States in this war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-03
Lincoln's Ghost Walks

There are no ghosts, you say.
To haunt her blaze of light;
No shadows in her day,
No phantoms in her night,
Columbus tattered sail
Has passed beyond her hall.
You'll meet in Salem town
No silver-buckled shoon;
No lovely witch to drown,
Or burn beneath the moon;
Not even n Whit of tea,
On Boston's ghostly quay.
-
No ghosts where Lincoln fell?
No ghosts for seeing eyes?
I know an old cracked bell
Shall make ten million rise,
When his immortal ghost
Shall call the slumbering host.
From "Ghosts of the New World,
by Alfred Noyes, in the Bookman
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-03
CONSISTENCY?

~ ONGRESS and the President
proposes to waste 100000
loaves of bread daily in order
that beer drinkers may have their
daily ration"
Congress and the President have
made it penitentiary offense to sell
a glass of liquor to uniformed SOL
dier and propose to make a patriotic
virtue of selling the same liquor to
a civilian, who tomorrow may be,
and likely will be, soldier.
Consistency?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-03

desire nothing more than to perform
their work to the best of their abil-
ity, but even though here and there
might be found one who would like
to favor friend, he knows that
upon him the condemnation of
all who know him. There are few, II
any. who would take such risk.
The President need not fear. The
exemption boards will be as fair in
has been in framing them, at least
so far as Pennsylvania is concern
ed
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-03
Next EXCESS Desired

Registration estimate exceeded;
Liberty Loan allotment oversub-
scribed; Red Cross quota more than
raised. Now let's see If we can't get
our share of recruits.-Concord
Monitor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-03
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg is making
more iron and steel products
now than ever before?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
When Harrisburg became the
state capital 1t had thirty taverns.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-03
THE FOURTH OF JULY

w this year or fateful decision
more of what the Fourth of July
means to America than we ever
knew before. Upon the threshold
of another such conflict as that in
which our forefathers risked their
all for the cause of liberty upon this
continent we begin to comprehend
the magnitude of their sacrifice and
the high purpose that prompted it..
All over the eastern and southern
sections of the United States there
are nameless, unmarked graves of
those who stepped forth and barred
their breasts to the barb of death
that we might inherit the blessings
of freedom and liberty to a degree
unknown elsewhere throughout the
world.
Harrisburg will have no public
celebration tomorrow, but that does
not mean it will not observe the day.
II there be no booming of cannon,
no blare of bands or speeches of the
spread eagle variety, there will be
many quiet little family reunions
throughout this city and vicinity
that will mean more than all the
mass meetings and parades the city
ever has held. In these family cir
cles will be gathered the hundreds
of young men who will go away
shortly to face the hazards of war
beyond the ocean with the high in
tent of making worldwide I, , bless
ings of freedom which their ances-
tors wrought fol then. upon this
continent.
Somehow, across the long reaches
of the years, we have caught the
Spirit of '76. Washington, Lafay-
ette and others of heroic stature who
forged the structure of American
liberties, those heroes who made
real the dream Of government of
the people, by the people and for
the people," have come very near to
us. No longer are they mere figures
in the realms of history, dimly dis
cerned and little understood. In a
moment they have become our fell
lows of great enterprise. Suddenly
they have stepped down from the
pedestals of fame to be our COM
rades in the service of God and hu-
manity. There is no mystery about
them now. We know why they left
home and f1reside and all they held
dear; why they relinquished person
al ambition and forsook riches and
high places and pleasure to take up
arms against tyranny and oppres-
sion, for we have entered upon just
such a duty; we too have heard the
voice of the tyrant commanding
freemen to don the chains of serfs;
we too have heard the cry of Free
dom for succor, and as we draw our
swords our answer is, 1--WE come"
We have wandered, at times, far
from the affairs of our fathers; we
have worshiped the golden calf; we
have wasted our patrimony; we have
fingered long beside fountains OF
folly and in the pleasant valleys of
forgetfulness. But all that is be-
hind us. We are back home again.
Liberty beckons. We have sounded
forth the trumpet that shall never
call retreat" We stand where our
fathers stood. We are as one with
Washington.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-03

President Gompers has issued a call
to the forty-nine unions of Federal
employees affiliated with A. f. OF L. to
elect representatives to a convention
which will be held in A. +. of L.
Building. September IT, for the pur-
pose of organizing a national union.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-03
RcbeIs Not Confident

our second night In the embrace
of the Confederate army did not diff
fer materially from the first. To us
who were ministering to the needs of
our heroes. the success of our arms
seemed doubtful. This our new
ncighbors would have us believe. They
were worse than Jobs comforters
But now and then we could snatch
from their subdued conversation
some hope that not all was lost. "The
Yankees have good position and we
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-03

E.J. .STACKPoLE,P Prss't s. Editor-in- Chief
F. r. OYSTER, Business Manager.
GUS M. STEINMETZ, Manaeine Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-03
TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1917.

Think Of your toretatherSi Think
Of your posterity!-JoHN QUINCY
ADAMS.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-03

Many of the roads in Dauphin and
Cumberland counties are showing
veritable hedges of wild roses in
some sections. The roses are all in
flower now as summer seems to have
really come and they have been not
only admired but gathered by visi-
tors. Flowers along the fences are an
attractive feature in number of
counties and there is nothing pret-
tier than the wild rose of Central
Pennsylvania.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-03
Labor Notes

A wealthy native of India has
given fund of $1,000 a year for
fifteen years to aid in suppressing
tuberculosis in Bombay.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-03

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.,
Telegraph Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-03

BARRIERS of Edmonton. Canada, have
asked the city solicitor to prepare a
bylaw limiting their working hours
from a. m. to p. m. daily. and
until 10 p. m. Saturdays and days
preceding holidays.
Cheyenne record., 1917-05-24
|LINDERFELI IS MAJOR.
TROOPS MUSTERED IN FOR NEW
CAVALRY SQUADRON.
John Evans Has Charge Of Resistra
ton for seIective Service for
Colorado Troops.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Denver.-General orders issued by
the adjutant generals office recog-
nized the official organization of the
Second squadron of cavalry of the
Colorado National Guard. X. e. Lin.
derfelt, former army officer and for
several years active in the state mi
litia, has been commissioned major OF
the new cavalry.
Maj. Linderfelt accepted the com
mission and reported at the state
house for duty. The troops compris-
ing the squadron already have been
mustered into ,the state service and
include Troop E, Denver; Troop F.
Walsenburg; Troop g, Steamboat
Springs and Troop H, Telluride.
John Evans began the active duties
Of provost marshal of Colorado. He
was assigned to the rooms of the
speaker of the House of Representa-
tives, where he will have charge of
the administration of the registration
for selective service for Colorado
troops. He will be subordinate both
of the State Military Board and the
War Departments His work will in
clude the notification of all the sher-
ifs in Colorado of their duties in re-
gard to the registration of citizens for
war service.
Cheyenne record., 1917-05-24
WASHINGTON.

Representative Daniel w. Comstock
OF Indiana died Of pneumonia. He was
II years old and a veteran OF the Civil
War.
President Wilson in a statement
outlining the administration food
control policy announced he had
asked Herbert c. Hoover to become
American food administrator and that
Mr.. Hoover would accept the place.
Final action was taken in Congress
OF the bill increasing the navy's en-
listed strength to 10000, the marine
corps to 10000. and increasing the pay
Of navy enlisted men.
A training camp for negro officers
will be established at Fort Des
Moines, Ia, where 1900 candidates for
commissions in negro regiments Of the
new army will be trained
Approximately 100000 American
soidiers will take part in the fighting
ah France before the close OF the 1917
operations II the government IL able
to carry out Its present plans.
Cheyenne record., 1917-05-24
SPORT.

The team representing the Univers-
ity of Colorado won the intercollegi-
ate field day at Boulder, by making 7s
points.
Outdoor track and field champion
ships of the western intercollegiate
conference will be held at the Univers-
ity of Chicago June 9.
Joe Leopold of Denver and Roy
Moore fought a hard fifteen-round
draw at Tulsa, Okla. The bout was
hammer and tong throughout
Cadet Elmer o. Oliphant, recently
elected captain of the army football
eleven for this season has also been
selected to captain the army's base
ball nine for next spring, it was an
nounced at West Point, n. Y.
Cheyenne record., 1917-05-24
w ES TIE RN.

Tremendous campaign necessary to
make Liberty Loan more than a sue
cess.
American railroads made record in
passengers carried and in decrease Of
accidents.
Railroads are asked to revise their
schedules and cut down on unneces-
sary traffic.
Two Mexicans split open the head
OF Ah Wing. a Globe. Ariz.. Chinese
merchant, when they attempted to
rob his store.
United States Senator Harry Lane
of Portland. Ore. who is i'll at a hos
pital in San Francisco, was reported
by the physicians in charge to be very
low.
Cheyenne record., 1917-05-24
GEN ERAL.

Theodore Roosevelt formally dis
banded his division in a communica-
ton addressed to his followers.
A far.reaching plot to overthrow the
present government of Costa Rica, Of
which President Federico Tinoco is
the head, has been uncovered.
An appeal to the churches of the
country to make Sunday. June Sd.
Liberty Loan Day" was sent to
clergymen everywhere by the Liberty
Loan Committee.
The government is in the market
for 250.0 horses and mules for army
use, which probably will cost 800, ,000,.
900. They will be used in addition to
10000 motor trucks and automobiles
Announcement was made by the
Federal Reserve Bank Of New York
that 1t had been requested to receive
subscriptions for an additional issue
OF $2OO,00o.O00 treasury certificates OF
Indebtedness.
Capt. Franz Rintelen of the German
navy, David Lamar and Henry B.
Martin were found guilty Ia New
York by Jury in the Federal Court
Oh charges Of having conspired IN
1915 to disrupt the munitions traffic
between this country and the entente
allies. The jury disagreed rs to four
other defendants.
A German giving the name of Hen.
ry Hartman Is being detained by the
Department Of Justice officials at ri
Paso, Tex. for investigation as an
alien enemy. He came from Carri-
zozo, N. NJ. where he was employed
as a brakeman on the E Paso &
Southwestern railroad.
Plans were progressing at Dallas.
Tex. toward union of the two
branches OF the Presbyterian Church.
which was split at the beginning Of
the Civil War. The union is expected
to be completed before the end. Of the
present General Assembly.
Cheyenne record., 1917-05-24
FOREIGN.

Potato situation in Germany IL
growing worse.
Irish Nationalists reject Lloyd
Georges solution of Irish problem.
Heavy German attacks may mask
further retirement at other points Of
line.
A great public manifestation in ia
vor of the entente allies has been set
for May 81 at Madrid.
The formation OF . cabinet in
which six Socialists are included
was completed at Petrograd.
A London Daily Mali dispatch from
Berne says Germany's latest peace
balloon has been started from Munich.
Only three French merchantmen
were sunk by submarines in the week
ended May 13, according to official
announcement at Paris.
The number OF men killed in the
war thus far was estimated at 7,00O,-
900 by Arthur Henderson, member OF
the British War Council.
The Deutsche Kirchen Zeitung
otolS6 tAdt tAC 1tOAAdA SdIllO1lC CIc16y
of Germany has inaugurated power
fully organized peace movement.
All of the southern part of Palestine
has been laid waste by the Turks, &C.
cording to Milan dispatch published
by the London Daily Telegraph.
The official statement by the Ger.
man army headquarters staff says
that the ruins of the former village OF
Bullecourt were evacuated by them.
A new note of protest to Germany
over the shelling of the Spanish
steamer Patricio by submarine was
dispatched to Berlin, demanding i'm
mediate satisfaction.
In their first engagement with
enemy submarines American destroy
ers beat off German U-boat which
sought to attack the White Star liner
Adriatic, according to the London
Chronicle.
The Kaiser and Field Marshal Won
Hindenburg were responsible for the
refusal of the German chancellor to
announce peace terms in the Reich
stag, according to advices received at
The Hague from Berlin.
The London Daily Telegraph prints
a dispatch from it's Rome correspond
ent, sent from the Italian front under
Fridays date, who declares that the
fighting has been the most frightful
of the whole European war.
Swiftly on the heels of chaos has
come sudden apparent order in Rus.
sia. On the job, in Petrograd, the new
Cabinet is in harmony. At the front
the army has ceased "fraternizing"
and is using bullets. Russian mine
throwing bombardments are reported
from several sectors along the 800.
mile front.