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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-09
SHOOT AND SHOUT

Theodore Roosevelt has long been
known as an apt phrasemaker-
speak softly, but carry big stick"
"malefactors of great wealth." race
suicide" and many others come to
mind as his contribution to the yer.
natular strength of what we may
perhaps be permitted to call the
American language. At a recent
meeting in New York he coined an
other cpigrammatic sentence which
should be added to the list. A great
audience gathered in Madison Square
Garden at a public meeting under
the auspices OF the mayors commit
tee on national defense. The crowd
shouted it's approval of the patriotic
speeches to which it listened. The
speech of captain in the Australian
army who has been wounded twenty
times in the war was received with
especial enthusiasm. When Mr..
Roosevelt's turn came he referred to
this Australian soldiers speech as
the best address of the evening, and
said to the audience that they did
we'll to applaud him. but added: 81
want to see you shoot the way YOU
shout"
The country must realize this
more fully than perhaps 1t does now
If the United States and its Allies
are to he victorious in the war.
Shoot the way you shout" is a good
motto for these war times.-From
the Outlook
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-09
Y. M. c. A. WAR WORK
TI,ewistovn Gazette1

IsGWlSlONil NTdL6tle
1t is the nearest thing possible to
the home and actually becomes such
to the boy who has been called to
defend his country and were it lack
ing he would be largely without COM
fort and a place for recreation when
not on duty. But for this institution
many would be deprived of even q
place to write a letter or opportunity
to read a paper and the people at
home whether they have a boy in
the service or not may well ponder
the result were not such a place pro-
vided for our soldiers. 1t not only
looks after the boys in a materialway
but many are being converted
through it's efforts at the front, where
the heart. if guided in the right chan
mel is susceptible to better influence,
when IL left to seek unquestionahle
recreation there would be shipwreck
of both character and life.
is ten thousand dollars. This is one
of the sections of our land which
has prospered largely through the
present war prosperity. Already
over three hundred of our young men
are in the service and surely our
people will not consider it too much
to provide about thirty cents per
capita of our population for their
comfort and the possible salvation
of their souls. We ought to provide
double the sum asked of us and we
will he disappointed If we do not
speedily secure at least the amount
that is asked.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-09
GARFIELD A MISFIT

The governments fuel administra-
ton has been badly bungled. In the
summer when people normally put in
coal for the next winter the govern
ment advised them not to stock up
because prices would be lower. Now
winter finds them without coal and
unable to get it,
Early in September Doctor Gar
field, fuel administrator, gave out a
statement which was published in
The Star, in which he said:
Don't stock up on the present
high priced coal more than you ac-
tlIally need the upward
trend in prices that always comes
with war and which has been in pro-
gress and still is in progress in this
country in coal up until the present
time will be stopped. | will be tre-
mendously disappointed il the meas
ures we put into effect October l do
not bring positive reduction from
present prices of coal in practically
every American city"
The immediate and direct effect of
this was to cause people in Kansas
City and elsewhere to put off buying
their coal in the expectation of get
ting a better price. DIR. Garfield re-
enforced his statement by his an
nouncement on September 80 that
the government had taken complete
control of the fuel situation limiting
the profits of retail coal and coke
dealers throughout the country to
basis that is expected to bring about
a reduction in prices to the consum-
err" "The consumer in every COM
munity," the statement continued,
should be able to get coal of any de-
scription at approximately the price
he paid in 1915"
People took the fuel administra-
tors advice, with the consequence of
being out of coal and unable to get
any now that cold weather has come.
The outcome has made it evident
that Doctor Garfield was lacking in
information and in judgment. He
undertook to advise the people of the
United States and now they are suf-
fering for following his advice. He
has been an excellent college presi-
dent But he has proved himself a
misfit as a fuel administrator.
This is not his fault. The fault was
in selecting him for a position for
which he was not qualified. For fuel
administrator there was need of q
man of wide business experience and
great executive capacity. The presi-
dent of Williams College did not hap
pen to have those qualifications.
Under the circumstances there
should be no hesitation in asking him
to give way to a man adapted to the
job.-Kansas City Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-09
DIG OUT THE SPIES
rnent

A y Italian diplomat declares
II bluntly that treachery in the
ranks of his army, treachery in
duced by German money, was re-
sponsible for a large share in Won
Mackensen's drive upon the Isonzo.
There is no doubt that the German
spy system penetrates everywhere.
Well informed people at Washington
believe that the executive depart
ments and every branch of our serv-
ice are infested with German agents.
If there is any substantial basis for
this belief, it is the duty of the secret
service to be getting busy in antici-
patton of furnishing employment for
a few firing squads.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-09
HE KREIsLER CANCELLATION

~ ROMPT cancellation of the
- Fritz Kreisler concert when it
became known that Kreisler is
In officer in the Austrian army will
be approved by patriotic Harrisburg
beople, who feel that they should
fefrain from patronizing one who.
pas taken up arms against their
lilies, and may do so again. Art
|nay be above international dissen-
|ion, and it should be generally so
regarded. but there is a difference
between art and artists. Kreisler is
Pro-Teuton. His sympathies ma
|urally lie with his former comrades
IN arms. lie is in America only be-
|ause there are dollars to be gar
hered here. 1t is not his fault that
he is not in the United States be-
bind a German general, for that is
he direction in which he was headed
when he was in the Teutonic armies.
But in approving the cancellation
ho harsh criticism should be offered
he Keystone Concert Company for
Booking him. This organization has
brought many world-famous musi-
pal artists to this city and when
It signed up Kreisler the country
vas not at war and the management
fid not know Kreisler was an Aus
Erian officer. 1t has called off the
foncert at a cost of hundreds of
follars. 1t is to be commended for
Fectifying promptly the error into
which it had unwittingly stumbled.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-09
FOR THE SAKE OF THESE

the early days Of the til
tanic world-struggle, conditions
that were unspeakable existed
b the prison camps of Europe In
hany instances thousands of men
Fere herded like cattle into a space
|apable of accommodating decently a
Jew hundred at the best. The men
Rere poorly clothed and badly fed.
few opportunities for the practice of
PERSONAL cleanliness were afforded,
Ind English-speaking prisoners who
kere fortunate enough to secure a
look published in language they
|ould understand would separate the
|olume into parts and pass the Sec
ions or pages around the camp in
rider that everyone might have an
to "kilI' a few of the
bever-ending hours of hopeless wait
hg.
With the organization of the "Pris-
Iners of War Work" department of
|he Young Mems Christian Associa-
tOn. all this was changed. Prisoners
Il every tongue wills owe lasting
Iebt of gratitude to the unselhsh la
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-09
AMERICA HAS WAR GAS

In all this remarkable develop
ment of our chemical industries since
the war it has been necessary to
overcome numerous obstacles. In
sidious diseases may develop from
handling chemicals. Intensive study
of occupational diseases in the chem
ical trades has resulted in discover
ing some sad instances, but numer-
Gus life-saving devices have been
worked out to the welfare of em-
ploye and employer
The information gained has been
of value in solving the problems, Of
fensive and defensive, in connection
with the iniquitous gas warfare in
augurated by the Germans. We must
wait until the end of the war before
making public what has been done
in this direction, but it will not be
long before the results will speak,
and in no small voice.-Charles
Baskerville in the American Review
Of Reviews.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-09
EDITORIAL cOrr1ENT

Republican Congressman complain
that If they praise the Government
they are thought to be praising the
Democrats and if they criticize it
they are called ro-German.-Chi-
cago Daily News.
Aside from the patriotic side of
the case, where could a man secure
a better business proposition than
getting paid per cent interest an
nually for utilizing his money to pro-
tect himself.-Marion Star.
Germany has not won a solitary
victory on land when met man for
man and gun for gun since this war
began, and anybody not a mental de-
fective knows by this time she never
will.-New York Telegraph.
Nicholas Romanoff, in his pleas
ant, steam heated Tobolsk flat, looks
out over that comparatively peace
able town. and murmurs, Poor Ker-
ensky!"-Chicago Daily News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-09
MR.. HANDS COURSE

To TIE Edtor of the TelegrdPh:
I regretted to see the name of
Fred c. Hand mentioned yesterday
in connection with the Fritz Kreisler
concert and rejoiced that Mr.. Hand
had taken time by the forelock and
had cancelled the Kreisler engage
ment. Mr. Hand has brought many
world famous artists to this city and
know he is man of patriotic prin-
ciples as well as of artistic tastes.
The Keystone Concert Course it was
which brought Madame Schumann-
Heink to this city and introduced her
to the people at the big patriotic
meeting which she addressed. Mr..
Hands course in Harrisburg has al
ways been one of good faith with the
public.
MUSIC LOVER.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-09
AN UNENvIED DISTINCTION

DRAZIL'S declaration of war
X against Germany was made by
unanimous vote of the Senate
and by a vote of 149 to l in the
Chamber of Deputies. The one man
who made up the minority was
doubtless for day or two the most
talked of man in the Republic of
Brazil; but his fame will hardly be
alluring.
Up in New England there was q
man who was known to the end OF
his days as "the man who had the
fight with the minister" When the
whole story was told, it developed
that the, minister walloped him good
and plenty-but his title remained.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-09
THE NEW ASYLUM HEAD

THE board of trustees of the State
Lunatic Asylum in Harrisburg
has done well in choosing a
pan of countrywide fame to succeed
pr. II. L. Orth as superintendent
|f that institution. DIR. Z. NJ. Green
ONES with the highest recommended
lions of leaders of the medical pro-
|ession.
DR.. Green must be a man of more
han ordinary ability if he is to fill
properly the shoes of the men who
lave been superintendent of the To-
|al hospital for the insane. DIR. Orth's
|ervice of of twenty-seven years has
been marked by wonderful improve
hents and developments. The plant
as been almost reconstructed and
|reatly enlarged under his admins
ration. The old white dome and the
|ntiquated administration building it
|heltered are gone and in their place
|tands a group of buildings of the
host modern construction.
To be sure, the trustees have had
|heir part in these changes, but it
as been the superintendent who has
food as the directing and inspiring
|orce. This big institution on the out
|kirts of the city is managed so
uietly and efficiently that the peo-
lie scarcely realize It is there. Never
|heless, the city is jealous of its good
anne and it is pleased that the re-
|iring executive, who leaves active
Ruty as the ruling factor in more
han 5000 lives for n well-earned
est, is to be followed by a man well
be lays it's down and to continue it
n the same high plane.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-09
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

H. r. Bodine, manager of the
Altoona Chamber of Commerce, who
formerly lived here, was one of the
prime movers for the city manager
campaign in that city.
Judge II. c. Quigley, of Belle
fonte. is enjoying his annual hunt
ing trip.
John II. Daley, reelected ia
Pittsburgh Council, is a former
newspaper editor.
Stephen Sousley, elected Bur-
CESS of Hamburg, is the first Repub-
lican to hold that office in the Berks
county town in many years.
w. II. Tomhave, State College
professor, is conducting series OF
addresses to tell farmers how to
butcher cattle properly.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-09
ANOTHER HITCH
Harrisburg. Pa,
Nov. B. 1917.

What If the Italian defeat proves a
complete disaster? What if the worst
should happen and Italy should be
put out of the war?
Well, then it would be up to us to
take another hitch in our belt and go
to it harder than ever. For Britain.
France and the United States can
win this war-and will win it, If need
be-without help from any other ma
tion-Kansas City Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-09
WATCH ALTOONA

TT EEP your eyes on Altoona.
Ia They are about to try the ex-
pertinent there of applying the
city manager plan to the admins
tration of municipal government un-
der the Clark act, and Harrisburg is
nightly interested.
No city in the State has been so
beset by religious bigotry and class
antagonism as has Altoona in the
past ten years. The new Chamber of
Commerce inherited, rather unjustly,
we imagine the antagonisms of the
old merchants associations which
the shopmen accused of interfering
with their railroad pass privileges,
and the result has been a political
tumble in local politics that brought
ell good thinking people of the town
to the point of despair of ever pro-
curing efficiency in city offices. At
least that is what one gathers of the
situation from a distance.
Last summer few of the leaders
of the discordant factions got their
heads together, with the result that
there was nominated a ticket for
city council which anybody could
support wholeheartedly, with perfect
assurance of fair play and honest
government, and these four candi-
dates for council one and all pledged
$4,000 a year each of their salaries
for the employment of a high-class
businessman to be city manager,
they to hire him for two Years and
he to be subordinate only to their au-
thority. They were all elected by de-
cisive votes. The agreement is that
they shall go about performing their
usual duties and deyoting no more
time to the city than would be re-
ouired of directors on the board of a
large corporation which employed a
manager to do the active work of
operating the enterprise. Thus, while
placing the city on a business basis,
they yield nothing of the authority
vested in them or the responsibility
required of them by the Clark act.
Harrisburg will watch with keen
interest the development of this plan
in Altoona. If it works well perhaps
it may be possible to inaugurate a
similar scheme of government here.
Altoona is to be congratulated upon
having the courage of her convictions
and the hardihood to try the expert
ment
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-09
BEGIN RIGHT-SMILE

. If you are a fellow-worker it is
your human duty to begin the day
with a smile. If you are an en-
ployer it is ten times more your duty
to smile-in your own interest as
we'll as in the interest of those whom
YOU employ. Begin the day right
Smile.-Buffalo News
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-09
TRUE DOCTRINE PURITY

Perverse disputings of men of cor
rupt minds, and destitute of the
truth, supposing that gain is godl-
ness; from such withdraw thyself
But godliness with contentment is
great gain. For we brought moth
ing into this world, and it is GER
tain we can carry nothing OUT
Timothy VI, ST..
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-09
VIGOROUS RuTTER

The only butter obtainable in Ber-
lin is canned, and it is one of the
few German institutions that is still
very strong.-From the st. Louis
Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-09
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER o, 1917

Absorption in trifleS, attention
My to the meaner aspects of life, is
iHing more faith than is killed by
ggreSSiue tmbclef.-GEoRGE ADAM
NTH.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-09
SOME SPRINTER

It is a happy husband whose earn
ing capacity can keen pace with his
wife's yearning capacity.-From the
Birmingham Age-Herald.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-09
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg's chances
of becoming cattle distribute
ing center are not properly
realized?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-09

Women employed in restaurants in
New York are not allowed by law to
work more than fifty-four hours a
week
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-09

Member of the Associated Press-The
Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled to the use for republication of
all news dispatches credited to 1t or
not otherwise credited in this paper
and also the local news published
herein.
ali rights OF republication OF special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-09
LABOR NOTES

The Brotherhood of Carpenters has
2S5.675 members.
County councils in the Midlands
and West of Ireland released their
employees to help save the harvest.
Women employed in restaurants in
New York are not allowed by law to
work more than fifty-four hours a
week.
Russian radicals demand complete
and supreme responsibility of em-
ployers for any violation of the law
governing labor.
AS the result of the shortage of
boys the United States Government
at Washington is now employing
messenger girls.
The secretary of the Irish Railway
Clerks Association has applied to the
Board of Trade for a further advance
on the war bonus.
1t is estimated that 10000 women
have been employed in the Wall
Street district of New York since the
beginning of the war.
New Haven Comm Corset Workers
Union is conducting a vigorous or
ganizing campaign among women
employed in this industry
About sixty men of the electrical
department of the Belfast. Ireland.
tramway went on strike over the
question of rates of pay.
Striking telegraphers employed by
the Great Northwestern Telegraph
Company have forced this concern to
accept an arbitration award rendered
under the Canadian industrial dis
putes investigation act.
The Brotherhood of Painters and
Decorators has increased a member
ship of S5.221 on August 1, last year.
to $500 on August 1. this year.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-09

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING co,
Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-09

County councils in the Midlands
and West of Ireland released their
employees to help save the harvest.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-09

Russian radicals demand complete
and supreme responsibility of em-
ployers for any violation of the law
governing labor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-09

HISTORIC HARRISBURG
One hundred years ago they used
to celebrate elections by public
dinners at which each man paid hi
own plate charge
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-09

q. ]. STACKPOLE, Pres't s. Editor-in- c hief
]. r. OYSTER, Business Manager
bus M. STEINMETZ, MGndging Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-09

AS the result of the shortage of
boys the United States Government
at Washington Is now employing
messenger girls.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-09

The Brotherhood of Carpenters has
2S5, ,675 members.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-09

Payment of state corporation cap
ital stock and loan taxes is com
mencing to show the approach of the
close of the fiscal year of the COM
monwealth and there is a big in
crease in the number of checks
reaching the Capitol. The checks
range all the way from So or $40
up to 100000. Generally the last
two weeks in November the state
revenue jumps into the millions and
there are signs that it is going to
be something impress again.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-09

With the departure of the Signal
corps contingent tonight Harrisburg
will have sent men to practically
every branch of the United States
military service. 1t is already rep
resented in the navy and marine
corps quite extensively and it has
men in the cavalry, infantry. artil-
lery, the medical, quartermasters
ordnance, signal, aviation, engineers,
railway, forestry gas and flame, cleo
trical and every other branch. The
number of Dauphin county men is
shown by the places where they
turned up to vote on Tuesday
throughout the country's camps.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-09

Senator Boies Penrose, who was
here yesterday on his way to Penn's
Creek to be guest of Judge Wilmer
on hunting trip, says that he will
hardly get a chance to go west to
hunt in the Rockies, but that he has
found Pennsylvania to be a pretty
good hunting state. The Senator il.
anxious to get a bear.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-09
CREDIT.
to ask for it,

II believe charity should begin at
home"
Eyes. and I believe that's the
weakest excuse ever thought of for
not giving"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-09

The secretary of the Irish Railway
Clerks Association has applied to the
Board of Trade for a further advance
on the war bonus.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-09

The Brotherhood of Painters and
Decorators has increased a member
ship of S5.221 on August 1, last year.
to $500 on August 1. this year.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-09

About sixty men of the electrical
department of the Belfast. Ireland.
tramway went on strike over the
question of rates of pay.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-09

New Haven Comm Corset Workers
Union is conducting a vigorous or
ganizing campaign among women
employed in this industry.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-09

1t is estimated that 10000 women
have been employed in the Wall
Street district of New York since the
beginning of the war.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-31

f. A. Rice of Tacoma has been
appointed city chairman for Ia
coma's allotment of $4,000 of the
$3,750,000 war camp community
recreation fund which the Ameri-
can commission on training camp
activities has decided to raise at
once.
The chairman for the United
States is John N. WHY'S, automo-
bile and aeroplane manufacturer.
This fund, Ray f. Carter, Taco
ma representatie of the commits
sion, explained Wednesday, is
based on the estimate that for SO
a soldier year, amusements and
facilities can be furnished in war
camp cities which will make both
soldiers and sailors happier and
healthier, protect them against the
moral hazards of the cities, make
them more efficient in combat,
and send them away filled with an
invincible American spirit, inspir-
ed by the right kind of contact