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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-24
international Slackers

There are plenty of alien born who
will Loyalty serve this country. There
are others who, on high moral
grounds treason of a pc
culiarly dirty sort-will be asking
exemption from the draft, or If not
that, then Optional service" Born
abroad, they cannot find it in their
noble herts to fight against anything
European. Rubbish! They were
untrue to some European country,
before coming here. That is why
they came. Now, on high moral
grounds" they propose to be untrue
to America.
Corner an alien of that stripe. Ask
him why he came The first answer
is usually Il didn't want to serve in
the army" Remarks on the "land
of opportunity" follow. There are
additional remarks on ''the land OF
freedom" Mere footnotes, these
The ruling motive was his desire to
wants to nab all the benefits a coun-
try bestows and not pay for them
as Major Chipcrfeld told one of them
Monday. No matter where you put
him, he has the same determination
he had it at home, he has 1t here
He is an international Stacker. One
exclamation of the superb fighting
spirit displayed by European armies
Is that many q European shirker had
left his country for his countryc
good and emigrated to America. not
TO become an American and assume
American responsibilities, but to es-
cape paying the price of loyal citi-
zenship.
Talk all you like about the melt
ing pot" International slackerdo N
won't melt. No gentle treatment
affects 1t. You can reason.or wheedle
or sentimentalize until the cows come
home, but only harsh measures avail
Give an international Stacker the
very dose he fees from country to
country to dodge. Draft him. Drill
him. Make him serve. In that way
you will pound into him the first
rudiments of manhood. - Chicago
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-24
Too Many Names
By Briggs

A woman entered a Chicago saw
ings bank and placed $50 in front
OF the teller. He pushed out the
book for her signature and said,
Sign on this line"
MY whole name?"
Yes, maam."
Before 1 was married?"
No, just as it is now"
An my husbands name, too?
Why, the man has been dead seven
years"
You should sign your name Mrs,
followed by your husbands name, or
Mrs, your Christian name and then
your husbands name, or Mrs, your
husbands full name, or you might
simply sign your Christian name and
your husbands surname. Write it
as you are in the habit of signing it."
"Oh, but l can't write. Pitts
burgh Chronical Telegraph.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-24
BUT No CoNNmrrEE

A BILLION more in taxes, and
~ new bond issues to the tune of
nine billions more. These are
the inconsequential sums which Mr..
McAdoo says Congress must provide
for before it takes any adjournment.
We assume that the Secretary of the
Treasury will remain firm in his op-
position to having any joint commit
tee of Congress clothed with the
right to know what is being done
with all this money
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-24
Worked It Out Himself

After all, the ordinary citizen
knows more than his self-appointed
advisers. Immediately after the Unit
ed States went into war a number of
people took it upon themselves to
urge everybody, everywhere, to econ
omize. Then within a month other
neople started movement for
i'business as usual" In the mean
time the common citizen went about
his business, neither making a
speciality of eeonomizing nor trying
to do business as usual" but ad-
justing himself to the unusual con-
ditions and economizing in a reason
able manner where changed circum-
stances required. The Composite
citizen" is a pretty level-headed in
dfVidual At.-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-24
The Overshadowing Fact

Do not try to guess how long the
war is going to last-guesses are of
no value. Here is a fact which is
more valuable than any guess, pre-
we must stand together and fight 1t
through, no matter whether the war
be long or short.-W. ]. Bryan's
Commoner.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-24

Steps are being taken through
many organizations to safeguard the
morals of the citizen soldiers who
are making UP the population of the
various camps now being establish
ed. No work is more worthy OF
support and of the best thought OF
those who are devoting their ener-
gies to it.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-24
Safe in Berlin

In spite of alarmist reports that
American citizens are being pressed
into the German army the general
belief is that, considering how many
Germans there are in this country,
our nationals will be about as safe
on the Wilhelmstrasse as on Broad
way.-New York Evening Post,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-24

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.,
telegraph Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-24
FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST "a

Yea, haze found thee, God!
Thy breath doth fH me tcith q
fire diUine-
And 10ere a thousand aoorldS like
this my foes,
The battle mould be brief-the
Uictory mine!
ANON,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-24
EDITORIAL COMMENT

A Providence, r. l.. man married
to escape the draft and enlisted to
escape his wife.-Franklin Even
ing News.
Mr.. Nicholas Romanoff, a we'll
known resident of Petrograd, has
gone to Siberia, where he will remain
indefinitely in the hope that his visit
may have quieting effect upon the
nerves of the revolutionary govern
ment of Russia.-Pittsburgh Post.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-24

HISTORIC HARRISBURG
The ground about the first arsen
N Capitol Park was used as a dri
ing place by military companies
summer evenings
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-24

E.J. J.sTACKPoLE,P Pres't s. Editor-in. Chisf
F. r. OYSTER. Business Mdndgcr.
GUS NJ. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-24
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg has been
making steel used for heavy ord
nance purposes?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-24

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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-24
OUR DAILY LAUGH
HISTORY RE
PEATING IT
SELF.

What beauti-
full hands your
d a u g h t e r s
have"
Eyes. They're
just like mine
used to be when
I had a mother
to wash the
dishes for me-"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-24

Some amusing incidents are conf
mencing to turn up at the Auditd
Generals Department where the I'M
heritance tax is commencing to conf
in under the direct inheritance tai
act of 1917. In one estate which wa
worth less than $500 the executd.
solemnly figured out exactly hot
much discount could be allowed. II
another case man found the dis
count would be a matter of cent
and asked that a warrant be did
patched to him for it. Considerabl
interest is being shown In the wal
the reports are coming in, especiall
from the big counties.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-25

Sergeant Major QuisIey of Govern or's Island, notified police head quarters that Homer A. Stewart a mill tary prisoner on the island, had escap- ed.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-25
CONSUMPTION OF WHISKEY
 BEER AND CIGARETTES
Greater Last Year Than Any Previous
 Year Since 1909.

Washington, Jan. 24.-The amount of whiskey consumed by the Ameri- can people in 1916 apparently was greater than in any previous year since 1909, according to the tax re- turns to the treasury department com piled today, and the amount of revenue collected by the government on whis- key, beer and ciarettes during the year was the largest on record.
 While returns, show that thesst tend ency toward prohibition has not low cred the governments revenue from whiskey, officials believe a portion of the increase-nearly $24,000, 900 more than 1915-is attributable to the fact that the government is at present col lecting taxes on all the whiskey pro- duced in the country, whereas because of extensive frauds, such was not the case a few years ago.
 The number of paper wrapper cig- arettes upon which the government levied tax during the year reached the grand total of 25,232, ,S60,92S as compared with 17,93e. .234, POS in 1915. paper wrapped cigarettes and do not include tobacco used by snEkers who roll their wrapped cigarettes and do not include tobacco used by smokers who roll their own cigarettes.
 Records show that government col lected tax of $1.f0 per gallon on 146, 355,14 gallons of whiskey during the year, a total of s16O,ss0,660. as compared with 124,549,21O gallons and a tax yield of s137. GOA, 131 in 1915. Beer consumption, according to the records was 1,145,5S3 barrels. or 1895, SIS, ,073 gallons, in 1916. as against 57,So5, ,S69 barrels, or 1.7s1,S ,SS1. .939 gallons the previous year
 The tax yield on beer during 1916 was $91, 71S.S75; in 1915 $s6,70S, ,S03
 Total revenue on beer and whiskey during '1916 was s252, ,70S, ,935 as com pared with $223. 712. .934 in 1915. Cigar cites yielded internal revenue to the amount of s31,54f, 200 last year and $22, ,424,042 the year before. making the total revnue to the government from these three sources S2S4, ,25o,2S5 in 1916 and s246 163,97 in 1915, an increase over last year of $36, 6,11S, ,239.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-25
JOHN DILLON COMMENTS
 ON WORLD PEACE PLAN. Declares President Wilson Spoke for Friends of Humanity in Every Nation.

Dublin, Jan. 24, SAT p. m.-John Dillon, nationalist member of. parlia- ment for East Mayo, in a statement to The Associated Press today, said:
 1.The speech of President Wilson is and momentous uttered by the ruler of a great power for more than a hun dred years. There cannot be the slight est doubt in some definitions of the principles laid down that he is speak ing for liberals and the friends of hu- manity in every nation. No peace can last or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just pow CTS from the consent of the governed.
 Coming at such a crisis from the president of the United States, these words Will strike deep into the hearts of all lovers of liberty throughout the world. The president quotes the case of Poland. Surely the case of Ireland is much stronger and more to the point. Reaction in Russia is but fierce pressure on the emperor to break his pledge to Poland: reaction in Great Britain has dominated the government so far as Ireland is concerned.
 ''So long as Ireland is held under martial law and self-government is denied the Irish nation, it will be diff ficult for Great Britain to obtain full credit as the champion of small na- tionalities and of the right to full se- curity and liberty of economic devel- opment possessed by all peoples, small and great"
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-25
Senate Turns Down
 the Peace Debate
ADMINISTRATION LEADERS oP.
 POSED DISCUSSION
LED BY SENATOR STONE
Senator cumnins Proposal to Set Aside Week for Free Discussion Placed on Senate Calendar Without Action.

Washington, Jan. Predetermined opposition was revealed by admInis- tratton leaders in the senate today tc Senator cummins' proposal to set President Wilson's world peace ad- dress. Led by Senator Stone, chair man of the foreign relations commit tee, the democrats stood against the with the press of legislative business such a discussion at this time would make necessary an extra session of congress.
 Debated For Two Hours.
 For nearly two hours the resolution which the views on world peace set forth in the presidents address were alluded to only incidentally. At the outset Senator Stone moved that the resolution be referred to the foreign relations committee. Later Senator Norris moved to amend the motion by adding instructions that the committee make report within ten days. Fin ally the resolution went to the senate calendar without action. and it will re- quire affirmative action before it can be placed before the senate for a vote.
 Cumnrins Pressing Consideration
 Senator Cummins insisted tonight on pressing the matter at every oppor- tunity and as a motion to take it up is debatable it can precipitate discussion during the first hour of the senate's session every day unless parliamentary expedients are adopted to prevent.
 In urging his resolution Senator Cummins declared that the presidents proposals, right or wrong, were the most important ever made by a chief executive of the United States and that the senate owed a duty to the country to discuss them, and to ad- wise the president in the matter.
 If there ever was time" he said, when duty commanded that we give to the world and the country the hon proposals that affect the integrity of the nation. the peace of the world and the happiness of mankind, 1t Is now" Stone Led Opposition. Senator Stone insisted that any dis cusSion in the senate was bound to be two-sided and not of a character to enlighten the president or guide his footsteps. He also declared there was scarcely time left for disposing of pressing legislation before March and suggested that discussion be left to another time.
 Let the World Discuss 1t.
 There is no desire on the part of the presidents friends to prevent the fullest expressions on the subject Senator Stone said. "Let the country discuss it; let the world discuss it. But for the senate to set aside such an amount or tune as LnlS IeSluIlOn pIO- poses when no official action can be taken, seems to me to be a melancholy waste of time"
 Senator Shafroth, of Colorado, pro- posed that the senate discuss the mat ter in special session after March I, when it will meet to consider cabinet appointments and other nominations. Senator Lodge urged adoption of the resolution now maintaining that it would save instead of waste time, be- cause any senator can discuss the is sues if he chooses, no matter what legislation is under consideration.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-25
DINNER OF PARTNERS OF
 STOCK EXCHANGE FIRMS
Postmaster William C. Van Antwerp
 Urges Clean Methods.

New York. Jan. 24-The days of ssshade lamps and ceEpoPass half tones" fslve passed in this C: untTy, never to-retssru, and the members Of the New York stock exchanges ..riust deal openly with the oJff5tfc" William c. Van Antwerp declared n his speech as toastmaster tonight at the annual dinner of the Association Cf Partners of Stock Exchange Firms Stock brokers her, 0 s-~- r7ust let their Tight so shine" that men will see their good works. MT. Van Antwerp added.
 He referred to the alleged Teak of advance information on President Wilson's peaca note as news of a foreign invasion appearing ill the newspapers.
 Although a cloud sometimes ap. pears on our horizon" he asserted ''the stock exchange enjoys a degree of public confidence such as it has never enjoyed before"
 Police Commissioner Arthur Woods who was the next speaker, told the diners that the days of shade lamps" had also passed in the New York po- lice department. The shades, he as serted, had been removed from the lamps, more lights have been supplied and the "old system can never re- turn
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-25
DECISION AGAINST lABOR'S
 NATIONAL PEACE COUNCIL
Indicted for Alleged Connections With
 Strikes at Munitions Plants.

New York, Jan. 24.-An order filed in the United States court here today refused the demands of Frank S. Monnett, former attorney general of Ohio. and Jacob c. Tyler, of East Orange. N. J., leaders in Labor's Ma tional Peace Council, for a bill of par ticulars concerning their indictment by federal grand jury for alleged connections with strikes at munitions plants making war material for the entente allies
 Monnett and Taylor, who were in- dicted with Franz Rintelen, an alleged German agent. Representative Frank Buchanan and others, asked that the government supply them with names and locations of munitions plants at which they were charged with fo- menting labor troubles, and names and addresses of officers and persons in control of labor organizations they were charged with intending to bribe to bring about strikes. They demand ed also that they be informed of the particular facts constituting the con spiracy charge as stated in the indict- ment.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-25
ESCAPED CONVICT IN JAIL
 AFTER TEN YEARS FREEDOM
Before Discovery Had Held the Re-
 pect of Residents of Austin, Minn

Austin, Minn., Jan. A.-EOr more than ten years WenZel kabat, escaped convict, fought to rehabilitate himself as William Coles" So successful were his efforts that he held the respect of this community. Tonight Coles has become Kabat again and in custody of police, is on his way back to the state prison of Wisconsin to finish his life sentence as the convicted murderer ten years ago. of G. Mccarthy, a far mer-
 According to the story Kabat told the police, he escaped from prison with the aid of an automobile which was waiting for him outside the prison walls which he scaled.
 Immediately, kabat says, he began search for Mccarthy, who he says, still lives. His search carried him in to Mexico South America and remote parts of the United States. Unsuc- cessful, Kabat came to Austin less than two years ago and established 6 tailor shop.
 Later he became employed in packing plant The son of the owner giancing through an old pamphlet of sMen Wanted" recognized Kabat's photograph as the picture of Wi liam Coles
 The crime for which Kabat was con- victed occurred more than ten years ago. The farmhouse in which Me Carthy lived was burned. Kabat was employed there. Bones were found in the ruins and McCalsay was miss ing.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-25
OF HOUSE
 ABANDON OPEN MEETINGS.
Hereafter Are to Harmonize Differ
 ences in Secret Caucus.

Washington, Jan. 24-ReFublican members of the house tonight formal E dropped the policy of holding open public conferences over party matters and by a vote of 10S to Is agreed to secret caucus to harmonize differences.
 The republican conferences have been open ever since the days of the progressive fight in the house led by Victor Murdock of Kansas. At the outset of tonight's meeting Represent ative Humphrey of Washington moved an executive session, and there was a half hour discussion that led to the final decision to clear the house gall leries and proceed in secrecy. Repre- sentative Gardner of Massachusetts and 14 others stood out for open ses- sions.
 Representative Gardner, on whose petition the conference was held, urged strict and undertaking conservatism which has been so marked of late years except during RooseveIt's second term and submitted a legislative pro- gram for the party. His program in cluded unemployment insurance, old age insurance, a minimum wage for women and children and an eight hour day for women and children, with no overtime, compulsory arbitration of all transportation disputes, compulsory military training, immediate prepared hess, the budget system and elimina- lion of pork in public building and river and harbor acts.
 The brains are on our side of the house." MT. Gardner said. Democrats spend money like drunken sailors, but for all that the people will retain them in power. in spite of democratic in competence, if we turn our backs on liberal legislation"
 Representative Fordney made a speech on the revenue situation.
 Republican Leader Mann was absent on account of a severe cold.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-25
FIVE SENATE LEADERS AT
 WHITE HOUSE LAST NIGHT.
Had a Long Conference With Presi-
 dent Wilson-Refused to Talk.

Washington, Jan. 24.-Five demo cratic leaders of the senate. three of them members of the foreign relations committee, had a long conference with President Wilson at the White House. Afterward all of them refused fiatly to talk.
 In the conference were Chairman Stone and Senators Pomerene and Saulsbury of the foreign relations committee and Senators Walsh and Hoke Smith.
 The president is much interested in the efforts of Senator Cummins and other republicans to force an open de- bate on his peace address and in some quarters it was believed that it was in this connection that the senators were called to the White House. There have been suggestions that in order to pre- vent interference with legislation by daily discussions of the Cummins reso- lution, which would set aside next week for the debate, the administra- ton might favor either fixing a limit ed time for the debate now or an agreement to postpone it until the senate holds it's extra session after the fourth of March
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-25
TO GIVE STOCK BROKERS
 TIME TO PRODUCE RECORDS
"Leak" Inquiry Has Been Suspended
 Until Next Tuesday.

New York, Jan. 24.-To give stock exchange brokers time to produce rec ords of the dealings nf their custom CTS during the time the international peace situation was a factor in the stock market, the rules committee of the house suspended today it's leak inquiry and returned to Washington. They will come back probably next Tuesday, by which time it is expected the brokers accounts will have been examined by the committees experts.
 The committee expects to learn from these accounts who were the big op- orators in the market prior to the pub lication of the presidents peace note and then will summon these men to find out if they had any advance in lorna ton on the note, and, if so. where they got it.
 The adjournment came after the committee had been informed by Chairman Samuel F. Streit, of the stock exchange clearing house com mittee, that 1t would be physically inn possible for the 500 brokerage houses belonging to the exchange to produce the desired data within two weeks or a month. This conf1icted with an earlier statement by President H. G. s. Noble. of the excseange, who thought the first responses might come within day or two.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-25
SUIT AGAINST BARONESS
 MAY VAN PALLANDT BRIDE Miss Frank Gray Shaver Says She
 Was Deceived by Baroness.

Menominee, Mich, Jan. 24-Miss Frank Gray Shaver, in the suit against Baroness May Van Pallandt Van Erde, for S125, 900, alleged to have been obtained from her by .niSrepreSenta- ton, today related msny incidents tending to show, she said. that the baroness was constantly deceiving her.
 Miss Shaver related how at Hot Springs the baroness said she had not been dressing herself very lavish ly and then donned a beautiful pur- pie evening gown and adorned it with a necklace of one hundred pearls said to be worth $100.0O0 and other ex- pensiVe jewels.
 Miss Shaver said that after nine years separation they reunited and began to drink intoxicating liquors again, the first time in that period she had indulged.
 She then told of their trip abroad.
 While at London, the baroness act ed as purse holder for the party, ac cording to Miss Shaver. There Miss Shaver gave her $1,5O0 in cash. she said, and s14,G90 in Westinghouse stock, which she asserts the baroness sold to buy pearls
 Numerous postcards and letters from the baroness to Miss Shaver toI'i of the interest she felt in her.