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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-22
OUR EFFICIENT GUARD

ETTHEN the National Guard of
wv Pennsylvania is called into
active service for the war
there need be no doubt anywhere
about the efficiency of the division.
Adjutant General Stewart and the
administrative heads of the Guard
have been doing their utmost for
years to perfect an organization
(which will give a good account of
itself under any and all circum-
Istances. The late General Frederick
Funston was more than impressed
with the appearance of our boys on
the Mexican border and frequently
referred to the n. G.. p. as unit
which could be depended upon.
Many of the young men who go
out as privates will doubtless come
back as commanders. Their training
has all been of a practical nature,
and it is creditable to General Stew
art and those responsible for the
policies of the militia of this State
that SO much has been accomplished
upon a comparatively small eXpendi-
ture.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-22
THE PEOPLES FORUM

gregate the vicious and criminal, and
that the drink there sold lies the
vicious and criminal passions of the
drinkers. and that therefore they
ought to be suppressed, the cry for
bread is so loud AMI strong that TIE
government ought to sorDiI that any
grain whatever be given to the gin
mill.
Germany is threatening the life OF
the British nation and with nothing
less than starvation. Starvation san
be brought about only by lack of
bread. The situation is acknowledge
ed to be critical. Long ago Lloyd
George said that England was facing
three foes, Germany. Austria and
Drink, and that the last-named was
the greatest. But this was said only
because that drink was then unman-
ming munition plants. How much
truer is it to-day. And yet a recent
debate in the House of Lords dis
closes the fact that If the proposal to
limit the production of beer to 10,-
100000 barrels instead of the 10000
900 barrels of 1915 were put into ef-
feet, it would require 5000 miners
to produce the coal necessary for
the brewing of the beer and a vast
acreage of land worked by 10000 men
to produce the grain for this beer,
W
ployed by the breweries in making the
beer was not given.
Why should America build ships and
man them and risk her sailors lives
to carry grain to England if she is
to permit that grain or grain raised
on her own soil to be made into TO-
100000 barrels of beer? And why
should our own government permit
the brewer and the distiller to bid
up the price of grain against the
flour mill and compel its people to
pay enormously increased prices for
bread? Why should any government
that is calling for every ounce of its
best manhood to face the cannon de-
liberately license an institution to de-
stroy its manhood and lessen their
number? Let every American with
red blood in his veins demand of our
President that he urge Congress to
close the gin mill at least for the
period of the war.
B. E. p. PRUGH.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-22
Gin Mill and Flour Mill

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
used to hear 1t jocularly said in
my boyhood: Bread is the staff of
life, but whisky is life itself" There
was time when nearly everybody
looked upon strong drink as zone of
GODS good creatures" but only abused
oy those whom it really abused. We
are living in a day when new light
mas come to everyone who will not
deliberately close his eyes No longer
Is it looked upon by any informed man
as "one of Gods good creatures" but
as the product of death and the sower
OF death. Gods good creatures
(Sraln, etc.) must first die and fer
ment before strong drink can be pro-
duced, and those who indulge in it in
stead of finding it bringing life" find
1t Fastening DEATH
Our President and other govern
mental officials are calling loudly for
the multiplying of effort to increase
the grain harvest of the country be-
cause of sharply threatened food
shortage. England and other Euro
pean countries are doing likewise.
But how can a country expect the
hour mill successfully to compete
with the gin mill? Yet this is lust
what we are being compelled to see.
The gin mill has no soul. 1t cares
nothing for anything but It's own
Golfers. and reaches forth n relentless
hand at the throat of any agency that
would curtail it's activities. When
1t lays hold upon our grain it not only
destroys 1t absolutely as a food pro-
duct and produces that which carries
death, but it also secures as the re-
suit of this destruction an article
which 1t sells for many times the
price which the flour mill could Sc
cure for it's product from an equal
amount of grain. In times OF grain
scarcity. the gin mill can pay a much
higher price for grain than can the
flour mill and still make a large
profit (money) on the investment.
Not only can the gin mill do this
but in its utter selfshness it will do
so. What use has it for patriotism,
so long as 1T cannot use its country
for its own selfish purposes? Indeed
it does not know what real patriotism
is. For it's own selfish ends 1t will.
do all it can to unfit men to listen to
the call of their country. And If
ever 1t seems to make "A patriotic
move, when that move has been an
alyzed it will be found still to be born
If selfishness, born of fear for It's own
lire or with the hope of securing a
firmer hold upon the body polite. The
gin mill is a merciless tyrant, whose
competition with the -four mill will
have to be stopped. The -four mill
needs all the grain that is raised to
feed the world
Aside entirely from the considera-
tion of fact that the saloons through
whose agency it disposes of it's
product are the mothers of vice and
crime and anarchy. that in them con-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-22
China Stirs in Her Sleen

Frome time to time the news from
China suggests that to be Chinese is
not necessarily to be Chinafied. Most
OF. the Chinese are peaceable, but
some of the Chinese, when they want
to, fight very hard. The revolution
which overturned the Manchus start
ed in Southern China, and since it
started there has been fierce resist
ance to all attempts to get the Man
chus. or anybody resembling the
Manchus, back into power. The dead
president Yuan Shi Kai, met his
defeat and perhaps his death be-
cause he outraged the fighting spirit
of Southern China. Only this week
there has been further fighting in
the southwest provinces because the
revolutionary troops in Sze-Chuen
would not submit to their military
governor. In the whole course of the
revolution, both in Its widespread eff
fectiveness and in it's persistence and
vigilance, there is plenty of evidence
that the Chinese are by no means
worms under the heel of the op-
pressor.
There are so many Chinese and
they differ so much and see so little
of each other that no generalization
holds for all of them, but this one
probably comes as near holding as
any OIHeT' CIllla IL really waxing
up and acquiring a sense of it's rights
In the long run neither the Japanese
government nor Europe itself will be
able to dominate it, and China will
be, as some one has somewhere said,
the outstanding fact of the next CEN
tury. Despite it's peateableness it
will be found to have retained it's
characteristic civilization as well as
any nation in the world, and to have
retained it a great deal longer than
any of the militant. conquering ma
tions ever did. In addition to this
it can probably develop all the mill
tary ability it needs, If the organiza-
ton of the world remains such that
nothing but military ability can guar
antee racial liberty and survival. A
hundred years from now a sneer at
China will arouse surprise or pro-
woke laughter.-San Francisco Bull
letin.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-22

fight with him to get into the army
any way that is possible, declaring
there was nothing dramatic" in his
proposal save as all proposals indi-
eating eagerness or willingness to
sacrifice life for an ideal are dra-
matte.
Colonel Roosevelt's going to sEu-
rope at the head of a division or
even as the commander of a single
brigade would have aroused such en-
thusiasm throughout the United
States that the administration and
all concerned in the prosecution of
the war with Scientific definiteness'
would have been immensely aided.
But while the Roosevelt volunteers
have not been permitted to go to the
front they have accomplished much
in the direction of awakening the
people to the serious business which
is before us. Even Congress with
its laggard attitude and the depart
lent heads must now realize that
there is much to do and that every
patriotic citizen must do his bit.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-22
BaldWin's Prize Bass

Any member of the Pennsylva-
Mas Legislature who faces the iron
rules of Speaker "Dick" Baldwin can
appreciate what it is to be a Penn
sylvania black bass. A very, very
hard life, beset by hazards and the
hook.
The Speaker is one of the niftiest
anglers in Delaware county, but John
Twadell will not now admit that he
is the very niftiest although for a
while he thought so. For years past
the rivalry between these two in the
matter of catching the biggest
Brandywine bass has been the result
of a far closer contest than was Mr..
Baldwin's race for the speakership.
One season the prize bass falls vic
tim to the prowess of Twadell and
the next to Baldwin. Having stag
gered home under the weight OF a
four and quarter -pounder, Mr..
Twadell imagined he had the battle
cinched for another year, when 10,
up comes the Speaker with four
and-a-half FOUNDER.
Your fish certainly looks smaller
than mine," said Mr.. Twadell
Yes, 1t does, but the weigh scales,
not the eye," replied the Speaker, sis
the true measure of a bass"
1t was long afterward before the
Speaker informed his angling rival
that the reason his own fish was SO
heavy was the half -pound of bird
shot which the car of the Assembly
had carefully poured down the
throat OF his prize catch.-Girard in
Public ledger.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-22
Parsimony is Not Economy
kansas City Times. ]

Economy does not mean miserly
self-denial and boarding. 1t means
simply the elimination of waste, for
which America has most unenvia-
able record. What the United States
and her allies need is to be assured
of an ample supply of food. The
pinching of money to hide in the
cupboard does not make food. You
can't eat money.
And while parsimony may add to
your pile, 1t is taking away from the
other fellows resources. Moving
your own lawn. for instance, when
you can afford to hire it done, is
snatching a living from someone
else. Wearing shabby clothes and
refusing to buy as you have become
accustomed, affects the workers in
the clothing industries. .I
There is no patriotism In being a
miser. Niggardliness does not help
your Nation or your fellow man.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-22
KILL THE WEEDS

IDEAS, beans, corn and other
! vegetables in countless gar
dens in Harrisburg are just
beginning to show themselves above
the ground. Between the rows, also,
weeds are appearing. They are ever
so small now and easily killed but if
left alone in a week or two they will
give the gardener hours of toll and
trouble, if they do not kill his vege-
tables and ruin the garden. Little
weeds may be hoed out now with
small effort. Get ahead of them
now or later they will get ahead of
you. Weeds and vegetables are
sworn enemies. They cannot live
and prosper together. 1t is either
the weeds or the vegetables. You
must make your choice at once.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-22
THE CoLoNEEs MANLY COURSE

n
further grown in popular
favor through his manly ac-
ceptance of the dictum of President
Wilson in the matter of the Roose-
welt division proposed for the fight
ing line in France. lie has demon
strated the highest type of patriot
ism in his declaration that mo indi-
viduaps personal interest should for
one moment be considered save as it
can serve the general public's inter-
est"
But in thus stating his position the
former President makes clear that
in the declination of his service at
the front and of the thousands of
volunteers who were ready to follow
him the administration has not been
entirely fair, especially in the sug-
gestion that the organization of the
Roosevelt division would require
army officers who are needed for the
training of the new army. He points
out that while not more than fifty
officers of the regular establishment
would have been needed to properly
organize the Roosevelt forces; the
sending to Europe of the first expe-
dition of regulars will require many
more of the officers than the plan
he proposed.
IT is believed. however, that the
agitation for Colonel Roosevelt has
resulted in the decision to send as
rapidly as possible the first army to
France. With this result the Colonel
manifestly pleased, while regrettiR
mot having been allowed himself to
render active service. "Our sole aim
Is to help in every way in the sue
scessful prosecution of the war" saws
akolonei Roosevelt, and he follows
patriotic statement with an ap-
those who were ready to
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-22

ton which will first protect and
safeguard the poor and those who
must depend upon their earnings for
sustenance.
1t Is the opinion of those who have
watched the situation that consider
able relief will come through the
extraordinary agricultural efforts
now being put forth, but the de-
mand is going to be great and the
conservation must start right away.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-22
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES

The following books will be pub
lished on May 19 by Houghton Mif-
fin Company: The Heart of the
Balkans" by Demetra Vaka; I'm
heritance Taxes for Investors" by
Hugh Bancroft; Henry Cabot Lodges
WAR Addresses, 1915-1917;" 'Is
Civilization q Disease?" by Stanton
Colt; Letters and Writings of James
G. Croswell;" Watching and Wait
Batchelder; Hints on Landscape
Gardening" by Prince Won Puckler
Muskau, edited by Samuel Parsons:
THE Reserve Officers Handbook"
by Captain US. Sutherland. and The
Little Days by Augusta Gill.
1t is interesting to know that
watching and Waiting on the Bor-
der" by Roger Batchelder, to be
published on May 10 by Houghton
Miff1in Company, is strong appeal
for universal compulsory service.
The author was a member of the
machine-gun company of the Eighth
Massachusetts, Regiment at the time
of the mobilization of the National
Guard last year. and his book gives
a spirited account of his experiences
from the time he went into camp at
Framingham until he came home
from the Mexican border. The book
will have an Introduction by e. Alex
ander Powell. the well-known war
correspondent.
''How to Make the Garden Pay" a
manual for the intensive cultivation
of home vegetable gardens, Is a
timely book, announced for publica-
ton shortly by Aoughton Miff1in
Company. The authors are Edward
Moonson and Charles Thomas Brues.
assistant professor of economic en-
tomology at Harvard. The book gives
a list of the common garden vege-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-22
NO DELAY OF PENN-HARRIs

A n inadvertent and wholly base
N less newspaper statement that
the construction of the Penn
Harris Hotel had been indefinitely
postponed was promptly met by the
secretary of the hotel company with
a clear expression of the exact situ-
alton. Instead of an indefinite post
ponement the architects are now go
ing over the estimates of the build
ers with view to starting work at
the earliest possible moment, pos
sibly within the month.
While building materials and labor
and all else entering into the build
ing of a great hotel are higher in
cost now than at any time within
lthe generation the live wires back
of this proposition realize the cry
kng necessity of hotel for Harris
eurg and will decline to be charac-
terized as cutters even in the face
of such discouraging conditions.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-22
Stuff We Are Made Of
kansas City Star.J

War is calculated to bring to the
surface the stuff we are made Of
Even when the very life of the Ma
ton is menaced. some find it impos-
sible to lay aside prejudices, to see
clearly, to talk wisely. to reflect pat
riotically. AS the war preparations
proceed, and when Uncle Sans men
begin to shed their blood for the flag,
men and women will be measured by
their attitude toward the conflict and
toward the considerations and sacri-
fees it imposes.
You will form new opinions of some
of your neighbors, and possibly
some of your neighbors will form
new opinions of you. Men who
have looked big in the soft times
of peace, will dwindle and shrivel un-
der the stress of war; men who never
have risen above mediocrity will
achieve distinction; the new life, the
strange and dreadful strife, will
bring daily surprises. The respec-
tive activities will make little diff
ference, for all will be drawn into
tho struggle in one way or another,
and individual conduct and perform
aIive will be relative-accordin to
the parts assigned.
And stuff will tell.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-22
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

The Rev.. p. C. McEnroe, of
Mahanoy City, who celebrated his
gilden jubilee Sunday, is well known
to many Harrisburgers as he has Of
ficiated here.
Col. George e. Kemp, the COM
mander of the First infantry has to
visit men in a dozen counties to
keep his lines intact and to boom
recruiting at the some time.
Bishop Rhinelander says that
military service is the essence of
Democracy"
III. M. Kirk, prominent New
castle man, is spending some time
at the seashore.
DIR. Henry Lehman, one of the
Philadelphia chemists, is active in
the movement for a club of chemists
in that city.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-22
EDITORIAL COMMENT

There is no way of estimating to
what extent. if any,. president Will
son was influenced in his action re-
Jecting Roosevelt by personal or
political motives. But no impartial
American can examine his explana-
tion without discerning that the mill
tary reasons he alleges are utterly
inadequate and specious.-Philade
phia North American.
The news that an American fleet
of destroyers is in British waters is
news worth hearing. 1t shows that
the navy is getting into the war any
way, and perhaps it's example will
now be followed by Congress.-Kan-
sas City Times
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-22
Liberty Loan Prosperity
kansas City Times.1

America, as ]. Ogden Armour
points out, is not really lending
money to the allies. She is extending
them credit. for the funds received
from this country will be expended
here for supplies.
Thus subscribers to the liberty
loan will not only be helping in the
fight on autocracy, but will be insur-
ing their own Nation against depres-
sion. Money that might otherwise
be boarded up against a bad turn in
financial conditions resulting from
the war will be put into circulation
in the United States. That means
more money to hire labor and more
prosperity generally.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-22
FLOWERS FOR THE GRAVES

NTOULDN'T you like to feel that
w you had a part in the Me-
mortal Day observances the
Grand Army will conduct at the
cemeteries in the vicinity of Harris
burg? Well, you may. The vet
Grams will open their post rooms on
the morning of Memorial Day In
order that you and all other patrio-
tic citizens may make a contribu-
ton of flowers. Every soldiers
grave should be decorated this year.
You can help. 1t is a small thing
the committee of arrangements asks.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-22

/. If you haven't taken Liberty bond
to help Uncle Sam in the prosecution
of the war, then you ought to be
thinking about it and that right seri-
ously. These bonds are in small de-
nominations and can be had on the
instalment plan. AS they have the
strength of the Government of the
United States behind them there can
lie no question about their security.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-22
Not Yet Decided

Editors Note-The question of col
lecting income tax from public off,
cials has not yet been finally decided.
There has been much debate pro and
con. The bill is now in the House
and may be whipped into something
like it's final form there within the
next ten days.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-22
BETTER THAN USUAL HERE
TINE Chicago Tribune comes out
L in the Fourth Estate with this
advertisements:
BRITAIN'S SLOGAN
Business As Usual"

BUSINESS AS USual'
Throughout the war the wise
men of England have striVen to
maintain the industrial structure
OF the Empire intact despite all
difficulties.
You business leaders of America
to-day are confronted with the
same problem.
The Council of National Defense
has issued a warning against hys-
terical, undiscriminating economy
which It says, is worse than
waste. 1t urges that the general
business be not slowed down.
This. is a direct injunction to
you auVertlSerS to use your tre-
mendous influence over the public
mind to promote a sane, normal,
level-headed attitude toward the
daily activities of life.
Any other policy is an invita-
tion. to internal disorder and even
panic. Let us with all our
strength strive to keep
Business AS Usual"
Harrisburg businessmen appar-
emily do not need the warning. The
has published more
advertising since the declaration of
war than in any like season in its
history. This means that business
is good in Harrisburg. 1t is going
to continue good, for as a great iron
railroad and general distribution
center this war will bring us
greatly increased trade. Work is
plentiful and will continue so. II
prices are high, so are wages and
going up all the time.
There is no reason why business
should not be as usual and many
reasons why it should be better than
usual. If Great Britain has been
able to maintain a semblance OF
normal conditions the war need have
no terrors for us, so far as business
is concerned. The Tribune's warn
ing is timely, but it already has
been discounted in Harrisburg.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-22
Tax on Public Officials

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
viii you kindly advise whether
public officials, state and national,
and departmental employees are taxed
under the proposed war levies?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-22
RESTRICTED.


It's moved
into q restricted
n Q | g h borho0o
we have.
One of thoss
n e l ghborhooda
where We have
to build a $10r
600 house
Not so bad a.
that. But We
had to get rid
of the goat.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-22

straw, generally regarded as q waste
product.
Since the war began more than
100000 men in England have left
other occupations for that of the
mines, because underground work
ers are barred from military service.
The Vermont State Senate. by a
unanimous vote, refused to concur in
House Bill No. AT, which would
prohibit any strike until sixty days
after the Public Service Commission
had published its report of the griev-
ance.
Plans to enlist 10000 boys of Utah
and Idaho into a crop-raising camp
for the summer months under the
direction of the Mormon Church and
the Utah Agricultural College are
completed.
A tuberculosis hospital law in Ver-
mont provides for the building of
county hospitals by a popular vote
at the annual March elections. The
State will pay $40 week for every
person making use of these institu-
tions.
Canadian painters have secured
wage agreements, carrying Accent
minimums. in Brantford, Hamilton
and st. Catharines and in Niagara
Falls a Ascent minimum and the
union shop.
The New York Municipal Bureau
of Personal Service admits the high
cost of living in its statement that
the best an unskilled laborer's fam
lily can hope to do at present is to
live on $9S0.41 a year. as against
$84494 for the year 1915.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-22
Labor Notes
By BRIGGS

Mills in England have succeeded in
making twine and yarn from flax
straw, generally regarded as a waste
product.