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Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1917-06-23
IN HARMONY FROM NOW ON
Units Of Allied Powers in the Field
and on the Oceans to Be Placed
Under One Control.

Washington, June An interna-
fiOnal army staff and international
navy staff for coordination of military
and naval operations will be created
BY the allied powers.
The organization of such bodies Is
deemed absolutely essential If the al
lies are to win the war. The nations
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1917-06-23
Arrest Man in Keet Case,

Hutchinson, Kan.-The police here
announce the arrest of Dick Carter,
of Springfield, Mo-, against whom a
warrant charging first degree murder
has been issued in connection with the
mysterious disappearance and death
of baby Lloyd Keet.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1917-06-23
FRENCH FRElGHTER SUNK

Steamer Mississippi Sunk BY German
Submarine OFF Coast Of Brest,
France.
New York.-News of the destruction
Of the big French freight steamship
Mississippi by a German submarine,
with a loss Of M of the merchant.
mans crew, was brought here by Of
ficers Of a British freight vessel that
arrived from a French port.
The Mississippi, Of 6,677 tons gross,
was torpedoed and sunk about las
miles out from Brest, France, accord.
ing to officers Of the British ship,
which rescued AZ officers and seamen
from open boats.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1917-06-23
GERMAN VESSEL IS SUNK.

Few German Vessels Have ventured
Onto High Seas Since War.
Amsterdam.-The German steamer
Thuringen has been ~torpedoed and
sunk while en- route from Hamburg to
Rotterdam, according to word re-
cciveC here.
Sinking of German steamers by sub
marines have been exceedingly rare.
Only occasionally do German vessels
attempt to navigate the seas, except
raiders and warships.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1917-06-23
BY o

Two Torpedoes Fired at American
Steamer Missed Mark.
An Atlantic Port.-An American
steamer arriving here reported an en-.
gagement with a German submarine
off Brest, France. The U-boat fired
two torpedoes at the steamer, but
neither found its mark. The naval
gunners on the steamer fired on the
undersea craft, but do not think they
registered a hit. After 10 shots from
the steamer the submarine disap
peared.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1917-06-23
HIGH OFFICIALS IN COURT.

Executives OF Twenty-Five Railroads,
Cited For Contempt.
Chicago.-Subpoenas have been is.
sued here for high executive officers
OF 20 railroads centering in Chicago,
calling them before Judge Charles M.
Foell in superior court to answer con-.
tempt proceedings instituted by At
tprney General Edward J. Brundage.
1t is alleged that the railroads are
In contempt of a court order for in,
creasing passenger rates beyond the.
tw7-cent limit fixed by law.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1917-06-23
TRIBUTE TO LAFAYETTE.

Genera! Pershino Places Wreath On
Tomb OF Hero.
Paris.-The Marquis de Chambrun,
descendant Of Marquis de Lafayette,
returned formal thanks to General
Pershing when he laid a wreath on the
tomb Of the famous revolutionary gen.
eral in the Picpus cemetery. General
Pershing said il part:
ut is a great pleasure for all US
Americans to have had this opportun-
ity of visiting the grave of a mar who
did so much for America"
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1917-06-23
ZEPPELIN IS SHOT DOWN.

Daring Aviators Defeated In Attach
On British Coast.
LondOn.-TwO German Zeppelins
executed the second early morning
bomb raid on the English coast at 2
q. m. Sunday. One of the monsters
glided out Of the night across the
East Anglican coast and another over
Kent. The latter was sent plunging
to the earth in flames by the combined
assault Of aeroplanes and anti-aircraft
guns as it bombed the coast town.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1917-06-23
Sweden RepeIs Zeppelin.

Copenhagen.-A Zeppelin was OBJ
served outside the harbor of Cimbris-
hamn, Sweden. A violent cannonade
was directed against the dirigible,
which withdrew in a damaged con.
ditiOn.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1917-06-23
BELGIAN MISSION ARRIVES.
Officials From Belgium Headed BY
R,ra~ Aa~@k

OFFICIALS from Belgium Headed BY
Baron Moncheur.
An Atlantic Port.-Belgium's official
mission to the United States has ar
rived in this country. 1t is headed by
Baron Moncheur, former minister to
the United States, land now chief of
the political bureau Of the Belgian
foreign office at Havre.
Other members Of the commission
are General LIE Cleroq, Hector earlier,
Major Osterrieth, Count DUrsel and
Jean De Mertens.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1917-06-23
Aoed Locke Become. ReaI+x.

Aged Joke Becomes Reality.
Copenhagen.-Venerable jokes about
cabbage or hay cigars has become a
sad and serious reality in Germany,
owing to the scarcity and high cost of
genuine tobacco.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1917-06-23
Jan DESTROYER Injured:

Tokyo.-While japanese destroyer
were attacking a submarine in the
Mediterranean, the destroyer Sakaki
was torpedoed and damaged. The
damaged craft vas towed to port
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1917-06-23
Booze Revenue Goes Hjoh.

Washington.-High tide of .whiskeyr
and beer revenue receipts-and pre-
sumably consumption-in the United
States was reached during the fiscal
year now closing. Cigarette smokers,
of the nation, figures show, also used
more than they have ever smoked be-
fore. :
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1917-06-23
GIRLS BODY FOUND IN CELLAR.

High School Student Buried In Cellar
OF Bicycle Dealer.
New York.-Discovery of the body
of 1S-year-old Ruth Cruger, the miss.
ing Wadleigh high school student,
who had been murdered and then
buried six feet under the cellar of a
shop occupied by a bicycle dealer who
fled to Italy after she disappeared,
cleared a mystery which had bafflad
the police for months. The girls skull
had been crushed.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1917-06-23
FeTshing's Nephew Joins Army.

~FeTshing's Nephew Joins Army.
Chicago.-Frank E. Pershing, 20,
nephew of Major General Pershing and
captain of the University of Chicago
football team for next fall, has en-
listed as a private in the regular army.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1917-06-23

Declares American People Had No
Choice But to Take Up Arms-Du.
plicity and I~ntrioues Of the kaisers
Government Forced the Conflict In
Which the Nation 10 Engaged.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-12
The Tricolor

The flag of France is blue and white
and red;
Red for the blood her hero sons
have shed,
White for the stainless hands thew
lift on high
To the blue glory of the stainless sky
Lo, where the Marne, q sluggish SER
pent winds.
The happy warriors sleep in quiet
trance;
Their pure red blood a chalice cur
that binds
All sons of Freedom to the flag OF
France.
Snow-white the wings of avions a:
they fit,
Daring the foe and tempting cir.
cumstance; ~
Snow-white their pilots records
too, that knit
All sons of Freedom to the flag o.
France.
One spar of blue. mid storm cloud.
rent in twain,
Is pledge for shrouded suns re
kindling glance;
A pledge, the golden deeds upon The
Aisne,
For sons of Freedom and the fial
of France.
The flag of France is blue and whit,
and red;
Red for the blood her hero sons hav,
shed,
White for the stainless hands they
lift on high
To the blue glory of a stainless sky
Francis c. Fay, in New Yorl
Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-12
Darkening State Department
New York World I

By practically closing the State
Department to newspaper corre-
spondents Secretary Lansing intensi-
fies conditions which have long been
subject of complaint. What has
often been called the dark depart
ment is now to become darker than
ever The United States is the only
great self-governing country in
which no method of eXacting infor-
nation as to foreign affairs, even on
proper occasions, has been provided.
Interpolation by member of Con-
gress is not possible, for no repre-
sentative of the State Department
attends that body. The publication of
white books is rare, and such diplo-
matte matters as sees the light does
so usually long after 1t has ceased to
be of interest.
Mr.. Lansing has created a Bureau
of Foreign Intelligence to which all
inquiries are now referred; but, like
every other agency of the depart
ment, it is secretive and perhaps un-
informed. The great need in this and
in fact, every branch of government
is a bureau of publicity. Although
the Secretaries of State, War and
Navy recently organized something
of the kind, it is as yet more of a
hope than a realization.
There will be less talk and less
need of censorships if information
to which the public entitled were
promptly forthcoming. In most
things, even in war, there is little
need of secrecy in such a govern
ment as ours. When attempts are
under cover the chances of harmful
publications are greatly increased.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-12
What Mr.. Gompers Wrote

The attitude of Samuel Gompers,
President of the American Fedora
tion OF Labor. toward the Boy
Scouts of America, is clearly stated
in a letter which he sent to James
f. West, Chief Scout Executive,
upon receiving the information of
the action taken at the Rochester
meeting of the Federation. Mr..
Gompers wrote:
1T is gratifying 10 know that the
declaration of the Rochester con-
vention of the A. f. of l.. has had its
effect by allaying criticism on the
part of labor movement through
out the United States. 1t is the de-
sire of the officers of the American
Federation of Labor to keep in
touch with the Boy Scout movement
so that in matters affecting the
rights and interests of the working
people as represented by the A. f..
of L., there may be a constantly
closer attitude on the part of the
Boy Scout Movement toward the or
ganized labs movement in its work
and struggle for the achievement of
a higher political moral and social
standard AS a man, and as Presi-
dent of the American Federation of
Labor, l shall be glad to do anything
within my power to carry out the
declarations of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor in this regard.
II thank you for the report of the
Boy Scouts of America of last year,
copy of which you so kindly sent
me. / shall be glad TO receive your
semi -monthly bulletin regularly"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-12
BARRING FIREWORKS

DOBERT ADAMSON, fire COM
X missioner of New York, has
put a ban on the sale of all
kinds of fireworks in that city and
their use on the Fourth of July.
This may be a perfectly wise pre-
caution from the standpoint of pub
lie safety, but the commissioner is
widely in error when he bases his
action on the reason that "all pow
der usually used in fireworks should
be conserved for use of the United
States government"
To forbid the sale of these goods
on that ground is foolish and would
serve only to put an unnecessary
hardship upon jobbers and manu-
facturers who now have on their
shelves all of the explosives that
would be used for Fourth of July
purposes this year. Contracts for
fireworks usually are placed a year
in advance. It might be all right
to rule fireworks out next year, but
certainly not this, on the score OF
conservation.
Another curious feature of the
situation is the fact that, since the
ban has been placed on the reckless
use of the dangerous varieties OF
explosives. the public has returned
largely to the use of the little old
fashioned firecracNers and the inn.
port reports show that large quanti-
ties of these have been brought into
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-12
PLANT. PLANT! PLANTl

n EPORTS of the condition of
N winter wheat have stirred still
further those who are bending
every effort to increase the produc-
tion of foodstuffs in the United
States. We are still in the midst
of the seeding time and must be up
and doing.
Governor Brumbaugh and others
are urging planting, and still more
planting, but it is feared that even
these appeals may not be sufficient
to increase the food production to
the necessary quantity throughout
the country.
Gardens are being cultivated
everywhere and vacant lots used,
but there are still thousands of acres
which might be utilized in the rails
ing of vegetables of every sort. Chill
dren who cannot Eght can plant and
cultivate, and now is the time to go
back to the customs of earlier days
when the children on the farms pro-
duced quite as mucn in the way of
food products as the adults. We
can't grow too much stuff, but we
must get busy now.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-12
No Bread? Eat Candy
Minneapolis Tribune. ]

1t was Marie Antoinette, wasn't 1t
who, when told that the people were
crying for bread, asked why they
didn't eat cake? We have been
warned by the government to take
steps to prevent a shortage of food
in this country.
But the government has also set
out in enthusiastic terms the -four
ishing condition of the candy busi-
ness. We are told that it has ex-
panded with great rapidity; that
whereas at the conclusion of the
Civil war we had only about 400 es-
adjustments, with an aggregate
product of only S3.000,000 a year,
the number of establishments has
grown to over $500, and the prod
uct to $1S5, 100000. The expenditure
per capita at the beginning of this
period was 13 cents per annum, and
now each person during a year is
spending for candy $3.50.
So it appears that if we run short
of bread we can eat candy. There is
however, a practical side to the con-
fectionery industry in war time
Army commissary departments have
found it worth while to supply candy
to the soldier. 1t is a great stimu.
liant.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-12
The Colonel Getting Warm

GFrom the Pittsburgh Dispatch.]
Colonel Roosevelt may be correct in
his claim, made in Kismet Temple,
Brooklyn, to the Kings County Re-
publican committee, in an impassioned
speech, that the Government is afraid
he will do his work in the war too
well to grant him permission to sail
to France with n division of volun-
teers. but his criticisms may not ad-
vance the cause he advocates. He
makes the claim with Rooseveltian
incisiveness that the men to fill his
division are ready, only awaiting his
word to dash to the mobilizing point
from all States of the Union, and that
nothing stands in the way of an
American force on the French front
within two months, but the fears of
the Government that he will do his
duty too well. The cheers that pune
| tuated his expressed desire to
| fight for France must be taken to
mean enthusiastic sharing in his aims
and his conclusions, but cheers in a
political organization of antagonistic
| faith to that of the administration
may be without practical effects.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-12
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES

THE Adventure of DEATH" by Rob-
ert w. Mackenna, NJ. A, NJ. D.-The
Putnams will publish late in May Il
volume entitled The Adventure of
DEATH" by Robert w. Mackenna,
Nj. A. NJ. ID. 1t is written by Il
medical man who proves that, as a
rule, all fear of death is taken away
from the dying, and that, so far as
can be ascertained, the act of death
is free from pain. He also shows
that there is reasonable ground for
belief in the survival of person
ality. An interesting section of the
book deals with the feelings of SOL
diers in action. In spite of its sub
ject the book is uplifting, strength
cning, and free from gloom. The
chapter headings indicate the scope
OF the volume: -
Poem, The Great Adventure, The
Fear of Death, The Painlessness of
Death, Enthanasia, What Life Gains
From Death, Does Death End All,
Epilogue.
JofTre. - No imaginable event in
the long months of conflict still to
come can rob the victor of the Marine
of his pre-eminence. He is the one
grandiose figure of the war. No
imaginable event can rival the bat
tie of the Marne in its significance
for the history of the world and
civilization. 1t does not matter that
Marshal Joffre has been replaced as
leader of the French armies. 1t
does not matter that the battle of
the Marne left a heavy task and
tremendous sacrifices for the French
nation to carry through. If the
genius of Joffre spent itself on the
Marine, it was in the performance of
Il supreme mission carried out
amidst all the circumstance of a
great drama--a mighty issue decided
after agonizing suspense amidst the
hush of a watching world. After
two and a half years of crashing
conflicts and untold heroisms, of
sweeping victories and great retreats
of war map unrolling itself over
three continents, it is still impossible
to go back TO the now old story of
breath, without the sacred awe,
aroused by the presence of powers
and issues almost more than human.
The drama of the great war has
worked itself out contrary to all the
rules of dramatic construction. There
were no long acts of preparation and
development. Hardly had the play
begun when the climax was upon us.
Forty-one days from the rise of the
curtain to the pitch of the action,
and thirty-two months of slow des-
cent towards a final curtain not yet
in sight. Is it any wonder the
events and the man of those forty
one days still maintain an unap-
proachable fascination? = From an
Editorial in the Nation, New York.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-12
The Answer

Now that Honors last word has been
spoken
And our flag for the battle un-
furled;
Now our false sleep of peace has
been broken
BY the war drums that beat
through the world.
VIII there still be the long, weary
waiting?
Shall we strike with the bare sword
of Right?
Or will endless and futile debating
Continue far into the night?
There's a call ringing clear DER the
Do you hear it? Again and again;
1--WE need you-your sons and your
daughters,
Are you coming to help us-and
when?"
Must we still remain silent. denying
Our duty, the debts we should pay;
Or shout back like thunder replying
Hold on! We are coming-to-
day!"
H. Varley, in the Philadelphia
Public Ledger.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-12
The Church and the War

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Search as you may, it's highly i'm
probable that you'll find a time in
all history when man needs a higher
ideal and a clearer conception of
things truly righteous to guide him
through the dazzling complexities of
the present.
Man to-day in this country is call
ed to take up the gauge of battle in
the great cause of freedom. Our
country is going to prove herself
worthy-have no fear of that. But
in proportion to her conception OF
the highest ideal is going to be her
worthiness And right there is where
we must first answer another Gala
call which takes us penitent to the
feet of Him, who, in giving His
! blood for uS-gives us the true
ideal and conception.
And this is not u one-sided call
it is one which in clarion tones
| comes to each of us-for those of us
who stay home need that ideal and
truth just as much as those who go
And this ideal If we cherish it will
lend an indefinable support to those
who fare forth to engage in the
worlds most stupendous struggle for
humanity.
Seek Him who embodies that
ideal. AS close to us as He always
is-it is for you to reach out to Him.
He is waiting for you-He will re-
ceive you and you Him If you will but
seek. And in receiving Him, you
will make your part in the struggle
lighter, which, in turn will strength
en- the cause of your country. Seek
Him to-day in prayer, and to-mor-
row in prayer and church.
CHR ISTT A N CTTTZEN
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-12
"Slapstick Patriotism"

To tie Editor of the Telegraph:
am quite as patriotic as the
average patriot. 1 AM an average
patriot; and by that mean that my
love of country is rated always at
par. But l am not "slapstick pat
riot" and by that l mean that l do
not display my patriotism at the
slightest provocation. / am not a
professional patriot-who is, by the
way, protesting so vigorously at all
times that he is a patriot that doubt
arises as to his patriotism. The
'slapstick," or professional" patriot
is continually saluting the fiag-or
thinks he is; and continually rising
to show respect for the national an
them, when respect at such times is
quite as out of place as the rendi-
ton of the anthem itself.
Permit me to protest against the
'slapstick patriotism" which in
spires moving picture organists to
play 'The Star Spangled Banner
two or three times an evening. Per-
NIT me to protest against cabaret
amusers, who, even though the cab
aret attendants be intoxicated, break
into the stirring strains of the an
them.
The Star Spangled Banner
should not be played as though IL
were Poor Butterfly" You know
that. Why cannot the moving pic
ture theater managers absorb that
idea, and the managers of cabarets
and other places of amusement?
The Governor of Pennsylvania
owes it to the flag and the national
anthem to issue a proclamation, If
he has the power, setting forth
when and where the anthem should
be played and the flag displayed.
1t is a mighty sad commentary on
the patriotism of a great many
folks that they are willing to salute
the flag and rise when cheap or
chestra or a picture organ plays
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-12
SATURDAY EVENING, MAY IL
Character is impulse reined
dolDn into steady continuance.
&C. II. PdrkhurSt.
SCHOOL BOARDS DECISION

IF Harrisburg gets the best possible
high school building program for
the million and n quarter to be
spent, it will be by no virtue of the
school board. Regardless of the
capabilities of the men who were
chosen yesterday to design the build
ings, the method of choice was such
as to leave the question of ability
and merit entirely in the back
ground.
When Messrs. Keen, Boyer, Bretz,
Boil and Werner voted to divide the
work among four architects they did
so with no assurance that they were
purchasing for the school district the
best talent available for the work.
There was not the barest suggestion
of competition. No plans were sub
mitted. The directors were guided
simply by their own desires and their
will to do as they pleased because
they had control of the board.
1t is to be hoped they sincerely
believe they voted in accordance with
the best interests of the school dis
trict, but they give no concrete facts
upon which to convince the public
that they did.
Instead of any we'll outlined build
ing program the extreme likelihood is
that the city will get a mere hodge
podge for the vast sum of money to
be expended, for even though the
architects selected give to Harris
burg as good work as any four ar
chitects possibly could, they will not
be working together and their ef-
forts will not be co-ordinated either
architecturally or with regard for uni
formity of building design. Each is
at liberty to select his own style and
model the buildings as 1t seems best
to him, so long as he keeps within
the general specifications to be pro-
vided by DIR. Downes. OF course, the
board might make changes and re-
visions, but is the board better quail
fed than the architects themselves?
The whole controversy was unfor-
tunate and the result is not calcu-
lated to increase the confidence of
the public in the efficiency of the
school board as a whole. Some rad
ical changes must be made at the
next election.