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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-21
Raising of Crops
By Briggs

Formerly one who raised half a
crop of fruit or vegetables upon soil
capable of producing a full crop was
considered by his more thrifty neigh
bors merely as a foolish individual.
Now he is recognized as something
of a national liability. For his lack
of skill or energy curtails the ma
tons effectiveness.
War is teaching the close connec-
tion between the activities of the
people as a whole. That a nation
could be no stronger than the
strength of tho men, women and
of course, n tru1sm. But 1t has taken
the greatest war of history to inn
press upon the minds of the millions
a truth that formerly interested only
q few.
The farmer who gets part of a
crop from his garden or his harvest
field reduces the total food produc-
ton of the United States by the
amount Of his shortage. In addition,
he sets a bad example and perhaps
influences his neighbors to relax their
efforts. The orchardist who permits
his fruit trees to produce but half a
crop, who fails to use his best eff
fort to find a market for his prod
uct, who neglects to prune and spray
and cultivate, is putting upon others
part of burden which he should
carry himself. He is cutting down
the obligation that circumstances
put upon him.-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-21
Chaplain Versus Medico

A curious discussion has just been
sprung between DR.. G. Wilds Linn, a
'72 graduate of the University of
pennsylvania, and Chaplain Curtis
II. Dickins, of the League Island
Navy yard at Philadelphia. The
chaplain instituted weekly smokers
for the boys at League Island who
work on war vessels or who go down
to the sea in ships. DR.. Linn protest
ed, making the gratuitous assevera-
tion that tobacco in any form is in
furious. Chaplain Dickins asserts
that it has been admitted that to-
bacco intelligently used in a good
thing, appealing to the palate, de-
lightful to the nerves, soothing TO
the temper, inviting perfect ocn-
tent and even semicelestial visions.
He didn't exactly say this, but that
is what his argument means, and
IL the young men of the Army and
Navy want tobacco for solace in the
new and sudden phenomena which
beset them they shall have 1t as a
nepenthe which shall be more ap-
pealing and less harmful than the
leaves of the lotus.
The man who does not use tobacco
in some form in this age is a rare
exception. The favorite forms are
the pipe, cigar, stogie or cigaret. No
human habit ever spread throughout
the world of mankind so rapidly and
so irrevocably. Almost with the first
of the transatlantic peoples to visit
America the primitive pipe of the
North American Indians became an
obsession with the hardly less primi-
tive but more adventurous and ag-
gressive Europeans. - Pittsburgh
Dispatch.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-21
NO "KIPoNA" THIS YEAR

DISAPPOINTMENT of the Xxi
pona" this year, as announced
by the Greater Harrisburg
Navy, will be generally approved by
the people, much as they would have
enjoyed this interesting river carni-
val. The upset conditions caused by
the mobilization of our great
National Army, the going away of
so many of the young men who as
sisted in making the big river event
a success, and the constant appeal
for necessary funds for war purposes
were the moving considerations in
the omission of the "Kipona" this
year.
Let us hope that Admiral ]. Will
liam Bowman, his captains and all
others interested in the development
of the Susquehanna basin, will be
ready a year hence to celebrate peace
on the broad bosom of the noble
river which means so much to Har-
risburg and which will often figure
in the happy dreams of our boys al
the front.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-21
A SQUARE DEAL FOR OUR
FIGHTING MEN
New York World. ]

The administration soldiers insur-
ance bill was drawn up by Judge
Julian Mack, of Chicago, and has
been described as a model of clear,
concise and detailed provision for all
contingencies growing out of service
in the war. Ii is all of that, as will
appear from a reading of Judge
Mack,s exposition in the Sunday
World.
First to be cleared up is the mat
ter of life insurance for the soldier.
What the peace-time hazards to life
are is known. They make the cost of
insurance at the average soldiers
age SS year per $1,000, and it is
the plan of this bill to make the SOL
died bear that cost from his monthly
pay, and he can carry as little as
$1,000 or as much as $4,000 of in
surance at this rate. If the soldier
survives the war he can convert this
term insurance into level-premium
policy and still have the risk carried
by the government without those ex-
cessive charges for high Office sala-
ries and agency expenses which are
more or less the inevitable infiiction
of private life insurance.
Just what will be the extra war
time hazards to the soldiers life
cannot be known in advance. But
they are high enough to put insur-
ance with private companies beyond
his reach, and these costs will be
borne by the public treasury.
This is a most important part of
what Judge Mack calls the plan Ito
give square deal to our fighting
men," But beyond all this are most
liberal provisions for casualty COM
pensation to the soldier and his de-
pendents and for the industrial re-
education and rehabilitation of the
wounded-all at the expense of the
public save only the enforced regular
allotments from the soldiers pay,
which also are added to by the gov
ernment in case of dependents.
1t is rightly called square deal"
In generosity and squareness it is be-
yond all precedent for any govern
ment. 1t is a pension plan sys-
tematized and known of in advance
and Independent of the favors and
caprices of politics. There should be
no question of its adoption.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-21
Our Soldiers Want Books

One of the most interesting de-
velopments of war times is an
nounced through the war service
committee of the American Library
Association in a letter from a
rookie" in 9. camp somewhere on
the map" telling of a revolutionary
innovation in the game of poker.
"A good book beats a royal flush" +"
wrote this rookie, "and is the only
thing known that can beat this COM
bination of the cards. Old regulars
had told us this when we first came
to camp, but we thought they were
merely spnofing. Now, among a lot
of other things, we've learned that
they were right about the books.
Almost all of the boys here would
rather read than play cards, any day,
and our most exciting gambling when
a book appears is to draw straws to
see who'll be second and third and
fourth on the waiting list. Any book
will do. Some like novels and some
like histories and some like books
'of travel. But in a pinch we'll find
good reading in even an arithmetic
or grammar"
Steps to meet this need already
have been taken by the American
Library Association, which through a
committee on camp libraries has
started campaign to raise 81 900, 900
to build libraries at the thirty-two
cantonments and encampments of the
new army to supply the men with
books and to provide good reading
for the siclS and injured at home
and abroad. for the men in the
trenches and for sailors afioat and
ashore.
Hope is entertained that the
100000 needed will be subscribed
in short time, and the library war
service committee is anxious that
every man. woman and child in the
country should have a "finger in the
pie" or at least a dollar in the fund.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-21

7 n their assignment to Camp Han
lock at Augusta, Georgia, the
Pennsylvania militiamen have
drawn one of the prizes among the
new training camps, says the Phila-
delphia Evening Bulletin. Noted for
its climate, which residents assert is
equal to that of the Riviera, the
Guardsmen in their period of drilling
and hardening before their departure
for France, Will enjoy delightful tenn
peratureS, soft summer breezes laden
with the odor of fragrant pine for
ests, sunshine in abundance and a
dry, healthful atmosphere that
should put them in the best of con-
dition. The site to which they have
been assigned, near the United States
Arsenal, is the best around Augusta,
being known as Summerville, for a
century an aristocratic suburb of this
old Southern city, located on sand
hills three hundred feet above the
city.
The nearby winter homes of John
d. Rockefeller and ex-President Taft
are evidences of the advantages of
this location, which has also been
known to the Augustans as Mt. Salu-
brity. According to Augustus wealth
perature has never been experienced
in Augusta, while for thirty years he
claims there has been no record of
a heat prostration during the sum-
mer months.
But in addition to being a favored
resort to health-seekers. Augusta is
also a bustling city, which in the past
fifteen years has grown rapidly. THE
Il e IL
termed by reason of its big textile
factories, where the cotton picked in
neighboring fields is worked into
fabrics. Since the Spanish-American
War, when the city's suburbs also
witnessed the establishment of q
similar military rendezvous, Camp
Mckenzie, the city's population has
nearly doubled. A few ''skyscrap-
pers" have been erected recently and
the appearance of the city modern
ized by the establishment Qf. white
ways" and well-pavcd streets. The
streets of Augusta are matter OF
particular pride to it's residents, as
the city, laid out in 1895 by General
James Oglethorpe, the founder OF
Georgia, possesses wide, well-spaced
highways, plentifully bordered by
parks and lined with handsome
homes, the principal thoroughfare
Greene street, being a spacious bou-
levard with four rows of stately old
shade trees.
AS a military center the city has
always figured in the annals of
Georgia's participation in war. Ogle-
thorpe made it one of his advance
posts early in his administration and
during the French and Indian wal
the English and Colonists were en-
gagged in military operations around
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-21
EDITORIAL COMMENT

Pershing doesn't want lukewarm
support at home. He believes non
combatants should display a burning
ardor to keep the military kettle
boiling.-Philadelphia North Ameri-
can.
The penitentiaries ought to be self
supporting and under a proper or
ganization of society they would be.
In war times, at any rate, prisoners
who are anxious to get out and fight
should be permitted to stay in and
work. And their work should be
made to count in their own support
Altoona Tribune.
Elihu Root sees no hope for peace
at this time. And Mr.. Root is ad-
mittedly a far-seeing man.-Greens-
burg Tribune.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-21
UP TO TOWNSHIPS SOON

THE legislature of 1917 passed q
law which will enable closer CO.
operation between the State
Highway Department and boroughs
for betterment of State highway
routes which are borough streets,
and it has appropriated almost s2,-
100000 to meet the long overdue
claims of townships under the Jones
dirt road" aid act.
Some of the boroughs have taken
advantage of the first named law to
secure authority to issue bonds for
reconstruction of such of their
streets as happen to be main high
way routes on a "fifty-ffty" basis
with the State Highway Department
and others which are responsible for
disgraceful roads, such as in Pax
tang, may be forced to do so.
The State Highway Department is
now certifying to the fiscal authori-
ties requisitions for distribution OF
almost million dollars to the town.
ships for maintenance of dirt roads
and it will be up to the townships
to get their highways into better
shape. There are few prettier roads
to be found than in the rural sections
of Dauphin, Cumberland, Perry and
other counties in this section, and it
is the duty of the township authori-
ties to utilize what money the State
gives to improve them as much as
possible.
Under the new laws townships will
be called upon to do their part and
If boroughs will not they can be
taken into court.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-21
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

r. L. O'Donnell, who goes up
the ladder in the Pennsylvania serv-
ice, began his railroad career as a
rodman.
Allen w. Hagenbuch, prominent
Allentown man, is chairman of the
district appeal board in that sec
ton. He served in the Spanish
War.
President e. e. Sparks, of State
College, is visiting in eastern cities.
Michael Hartneady, just elected
president of the Panther creek mine
workers, is sheriff of Carbon county.
DIR. S. w. Morton, prominent
Philadelphia physician, is spending
August in Maine.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-21
Speaking Out
David Grayson.

I keep learning that there is
nothing which reaches mems hearts
like talking straight out the convic-
tions and emotions of your innermost
soul. Those who hear you may not
agree with you, or they may not
understand you fully, but something
incalculable, something vital, passes.
And as for a boy or a girl 1t is one
of the sorriest of mistakes to talk
down to them; almost always your
lad of Is thinks more simply, more
fundamentally, than you do; and
what he accepts as good coin is not
facts or precepts, but feelings and
convictions-life. And why shouldn't
we speak outP
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-21
Sim Feiners Are Unrelenting

The Sim Feiners have elected an
other Nationalist to Commons
and the men who are fighting every
phase of home rule except absolute
independence for Ireland are corre-
spondingly elated.
Britain is reaping in a modified
way the political whirlwind that fol-
lowed the sowing of bitter seeds of
unrelenting hatred in the unwise
handling of the grave issues involved
in the Dublin riots, =. Syracuse
Journal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-21

Member of the Associated Press-The
Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled to the use for republication of
all news credited to 1t or not other
wise credited in this paper and also
the local news published herein.
All rights of republication of special
dispatches herein are also reserved
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-21
"Unhung Traitors" of America

Colonel Roosevelt does not tnince
words when he tackles any of the
great subjects of the hour. In the
course of a brief address in New
York the other night he paid his
compliments to the Industrial Work
ers of the World and their allies and
he pronounced them 'Unhung trait
ors."
That tells the story in two plain
words. 1t applies not only to the
lawless bands that have tried to Grip
pie the United States by melting
strikes and riots, but also to all those
who by word or deed do anything To
weaken or discredit the United
States in the great struggle in which
1t is engaged.
Those who preach disloyalty or
treason are ''unl1ung traitors" There
Is no other way in which they may
be designated. - Philadelphia In
quirer.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-21

AS a loyal citizen of Harrisburg,
and one who wants to see this good
old town forge right ahead, are you
really doing anything to help place
in charge of municipal affairsAofficials
of the right type, men who will do
everything for the making OF better
and more wholesome city?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-21
To Win His DISCHARGE

The youth who tries to avoid con-
scription with the plea that he has
seven cousins in the German army
should be assured that he will be dis
charged after he has captured six of
these cousins.-New York Sun.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-21

Now that the State can aid boroughs
to improve sections of main highways
through these minor municipalities.
We may hope that the impossible
stretches near Harrisburg will cease
to be a disgrace.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-21
'PENNsY" AT THE FRONT

NJ o better choice for railroad ex-
N ecutive in France could have
been made than w. w. After
bury, whose genius along the lines
of transportation have helped to
make the Pennsylvania railroad the
greatest in all the world. 1t no doubt
will be source of satisfaction to tho
men of the system to know that the
several regiments of engineers re-
cruited from among Pennsylvania
employees will have at their head
their old commander, and that the
chieftains of the big corporation
they serve are not asking the rank
and file to do more than they them
selves are willing to do.
Mr.. Atterbury knows railroading
practically and theoretically. He
knows what to do and how to do il.
and he has a very laudable habit of
accomplishing the impossible. There
is every reason to believe that he will
maintain the reputation of. the
Pennsy for excellent service under
any circumstances.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-21
Gently. says:

A \ article on the subject OF price
u fixing, appearing in the New
= York Journal of Commerce re-
Gently. says:
Under the enormous stimulus
which is being given to produc-
tion in so many important lines,
IL is certain that when the war
capacity of the country will be far
beyond what IT has been in the
past and there is good reason to
believe that permanent benefits
will be realized and widely dis
tributed. 1t is true that producers
instinctively fear period of over
production and OF Improbable
prices following such an eNpan-
sion as is now occurring, but
while prices will fall enough to
greatly relieve domestic consumers
the foreign outlet will probably
be sufficient to take our surplus at
fair prices.
AS we all know, the chief causes
of this enormous stimulus have been,
first, an export trade which increas
ed from an annual average for the
five-year pre-war period of s2,166,-
! 100000 to 6,294,O00, 900 for the last
fiscal year ended June 3O-a 200
per cent. increase-and, second, to
the necessity for supplying by do
mestle manufacture many commodi-
ties formerly purchased abroad
Fully rs per cent. OF our exports to-
day consist of war munitions-cloth-
ing, machinery, food and explosives,
while the remaining 20 per cent.
goes to countries cut off from Euro
pean purchases. The new dye and
lchemical industries are examples OF
the second cause. With our entry
into the war the industrial throttle
was opened to the last notch.
Such an epoch-marking war works
seemingly economic paradoxes. Nor
mally mills running at capacity are
able to reduce the unit cost of out.
put. But demand has overwhelmed
competition, earnings have been gen.
.erousiy distributed, and as generous.
ly put into extensions, and the high
wage scale has bulged the pockets
lof laborers. Raw material sources
are pushed to the limit to feed in.
satiable mills. These factors have
Increased unit cost
Except for certain building and
ram materials there will be a ter.
rifle slump in our export trade tc
Europe Immediately following the
war. This is bound to react more OIL
less on the market at home, evil
denced by falling prices. There will
come a period of rehabilitation in
Europe. and of retrenchment here
with labor seeking to perpetuate the
present scale. Except for lack oi
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-21

China wants to send an army of
10000 men to Europe and a million
laborers for the, digging OF trenches.
The new entrant into the group of
Allies is not without potential possi-
bilities.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-21
Where GLORY Is

For what glory is it. If, when ye
be buffeted for your faults, we shall
take it patiently? but If, when We
do we'll, and suffer for it, We take 1t
patiently. this is acceptable with
God.-I Peter, II. 20.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-21

Our soldier boys are leaving us
gradually for the active duties of final
preparation, and we send them away
with tears of regret, but with pride
in their devotion to country and con-
secration to unselfish service
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-21
GO TO IT

THE West Shore Firemen's Union
has taken up again the proposal
to merge all of the West Shore
towns into Harrisburg. This is a
proper move. With Steelton and one
or two other suburbs added this
would make Harrisburg the third
largest city in the State and with size
come advantages that less populous
communities operating under one ad-
ministrative government cannot af-
ford.
1t may take some Nine to work
out the plans the firemen have in
mind. But they are on the right
track and eventually will win.
Go to it, firemen, you have hold OF
live and popular subject.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-21

E.J. J.STACKPOLE,P PrfS't s. Editor-in. c Chisf
= r. OYSTER. Business Manager.
GUS M. STEINMETz. MdnoginR Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-21

Reading is considering a piggerv
for garbage disposal and the ques-
ton is now uppermost because the
municipal incinerating plant is now
out of operation for lack of coal Our
own Councilmen are in the midst of
the garbage problem here and it must
be decided Alright. No temporizing
will dc,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-21

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING co.
telegraph Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-21
r1IcTORIC HARRTsRTrRG

Troops went out to war from Har-
risburg in the Whisky Insurrection
escorted by committees of citizens
on horseback.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-21
OUR DAILY LAUGH
AN IMPROVEMENT.

"This critic describes your new
book as droll."
Il guess l must be improving. He
alluded to my last book as utter
rot"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-21
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg is getting to
be a great center for assembling
parts of machinery?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-21

Riprapping of the river slope ought
to be followed promptly by the filling
out of the shoulder above the riprap
Nine and the regarding of the walk.
The planting of shrubbery and vines
Is on the program of autumn activity
for the Department of Parks.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-21

Again the Rotary Club has done a
gracious and kindly thing In having
as its luncheon guests the young men
of the community who have just been
commissioned as officers after a
period of intensive training in the
camps at Fort Niagara, Madison Bar
racks and elsewhere. The occasion
was one of great interest and benefit
to the club members and their guests.
Our Rotarians represent an optimistic
element of the city and the organiza-
ton has much to its credit of con-
structive and substantial achievement.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-21

Bug Fireman-How lucky I found
his box of macaroni when our hose
1,'~Si.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-21

Senator Horace w. Schantz,
who is also Lehigh's Republican
County Chairman. is making ar
rangements for the Republican
county meeting. to be held next
Saturday at Levan's, near Allentown.
He has the promises of Lieutenant
Governor Frank B. McClain and
Auditor General Charles A. Snyder
to make the principal speeches and
local leaders on the oratorical menu
include Assemblymen George ]. A.
Miller, District Attorney Warren e.
Miller, former District Attorney
Fred P. Gernerd and Ralph t.
Schatz. The Democratic county
meeting at Dorney Park last Satur-
day was below normal, with little
enthusiasm.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-21
INDUSTRY "AFTER THE WAR"

A N article on the subject of price
~ fixing, appearing in the New
- - York Journal of Commerce re-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-21
HIS LITTLE JOKE.

Goat-Ha, Ha! I guess I mig
call myself a "two-dollar Bill"!