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Valdez daily prospector., 1917-12-10

What the British reduce to four let ters in describing their new engine of war the Germans honor with thirty five. The German equivalent of the word tanks is "Schutezengraben- vernichtungautomobile" which means "trench destroyed automobile. One wonders what the German equiva- lent of "Byng" would be.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-12-10

A man who once was peanut ven- dor has just been appointed to po- sition on the supreme court of the Philippines. It need not be inferred from that, however. that the peanut politicans are coming into favor.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-12-10
COL. DAWSON TAKES
 TROOPS 10 NEW YORK

Col. w. P. Davison recently had charge of a large body of troops talk en from the Pacific Coast to New York from where they were to leave for France. Letters from Gen. w. P. Richardson say that Col. Davison spent one day in Washington with him and Major J. c. Mehafiey. who Is still in Washington.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-12-10
SEATTLE ROBBERS KILL
 THOs. KNIGHT, CHAUFFEUR

SEATTLE, Dec. 10. - Thomas Knight. . public chauffeur, was shot and killed by robbers last night whflsf returning with . party from Tho out Skirts of the city.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-12-10

Steamship Admiral Evans-Sailed south from Valdez. Sunday. Steamship Victoria-Sailed south from Valdez, Friday December 6. Alameda-Sailed south from Val dez, Monday, Dec. 10. Steamship Alaska-Sailed for Valdez from Seattle. Saturday. December s.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-12-10
MANS GRADATiON.

MANS GRADATiON. r IKE leaves on trees the race of man Is L found Now green in youth. now whitening on the ground: Another race the owing spring sup plies; They fall successive and successive rise
 Alexander Pope
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-12-10
FISH

Fresh black cod, silver salmon halibut and kippered cod just re- ceived on this boat. Love-Whitley Co.
 If
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-12-10

HOUSEWIVES are asked to donate their old sewing machines to be useo in hemming in the Germans.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-12-10

THE hardest thing about skating is the ice.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-12-10

TresA bulk cAoeoIa&ss And . Hev liss o9 box cAnAiss as .HSat'a H
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-12-10
Announcement

Christmas gifts now on display at the residence of Mrs. Graham. All are invited to call. Give your orders early. Hours 10 .. m. to 2 p. m.
 Mrs. Graham and Mrs. Depue.
 k-dec-13
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-17
Cornfed Patriotism

Privation loaf? Not for this sec
ton, with seventeen million acres of
corn in Kansas and Missouri alone.
Leave off the loaf altogether, for
that matter. There is corn bread,
corn pone, Johnny cake" corn
mullins, hoe cake, or whatever may
be your favorite name for it, to fall
back on. And certainly there is
nothing akin to privation about a
steaming slab of corn bread gar
nished with home grown sorghum
molasses. Nor is there any danger
of honest hunger with a kettle OF
corn meal mush sputtering on the
kitchen stove.
Maybe you have grown away from
"Johnny-cake' in the last two de-
cades of lolling in the lap of lux
ury. In that case now is the time
to get back to the habit and teach
it to the family. Bvery loaf of bread
saved, they say is u bullet against
autocracy.
corn selling on Western farms AT
ten and fifteen cents a bushel. the
government sent Corn Meal Muir
ply to introduce corn bread and he
was spurned. The peasant would
munich his black rye crust, but corn
was fit only for mis- cattle and so has
remained. Perhaps tastes there are
not so highstrung now. If they are
we can eat the corn here and send
the wheat there. Much of the South
got along on little aside from corn
for four years back in the sixties
and liked 1t so well that corn still is
in favor there as a food.-Kansas
City Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-17
Price Russia Must Pay

No country is more interested in a
peace that shall be a guaranty of the
safety of democracy in the world
than is Russia. But the soldiers and
workmen, who are agitating for a
peace conference, should reflect that
no peace that woulo leave the funda-
mental issue of the war unsettled
would afford such Il guaranty to any
democracy, least or all to Russia.
They may feel very sure, too, that
If their peace overtures find any ia
vcr in Germany it is not because of
any sympathy of the German gov
ernment with their aims. German
militarism has it's own aims, and
even though those aims may con-
template peace at this moment, the
motive behind that program is not
one that promises any security to a
peace that would meet the aspirations
of the Russian people for the free
development of their institutions.
Ru6sia's democracy was war born
and it must be war nurtured until it
finds stability, not in a separate
peace that leaves autocracy undis-
turbed as it's next neighbor, but in a
world peace that leaves that auto
cracy broken and forever incapable
of again plunging the world into the
horrors it is now passing through.
Democracy Is not boon to be won
cheaply. 1t is not to be purchased
and made secure by a peace of eX-
pediency or peace of unrighteous-
ness. When Russian democracy
overthrow it's own autocracy 1t had
only made a start toward the goal 1t
must attain if it is to deliver the
Russian people from their enemies.
Another autocracy more powerful
than that OF the Romanoffs, must be
overthrown before the Russian peo-
pie are free and that autocracy still
confronts them unbroken. The Rus
sian soldiers and workmen, who
have everything to gain by a peace
that the democracies of America,
England and France are striving to
bring to them, and which will be
one in which all democracies can
find safety, should not make that
task harder by trying to buy free
dom at a bargain. Nothing but
payment of the full price-which is
continued war until German mill
tary autocracy is crushed--can bring
it to them with a guarantee that it is
safe for the future.-Kansas City
Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-17

took Hall Sunday afternoon should
be we'll attended. Harrisburg peo-
pie last fall contributed sufficient
money for the purchase of 465
Bibles for the purpose named and
these will be distributed among the
hotels of the city at the meeting next
Sabbath.
AS the State Secretary in his call
aptly says: There never was time
when it was more necessary that
the actions of all men be grounded
upon the Word of God than the pres
ent," and the Gideons have made it
their self-appointed task to see to it
that those who are far from EOme
and in a strange land shall not lack
opportunity of beginning and ending
their days work with q verse or q
chapter from the Book of Books.
Their kindly ministrations are to be
observed in hotel rooms all over the
land. They have been constantly at
work for years. They mean to keep
right on. They ask little and they
give much. The people of the city
owe them their support.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-17
owe CAN START AT oNCE,

n MONG the sayings of famous
n seamen that adorn the history
of the United States navy
none is more characteristic than the
reply of Admiral Sims, commander
of the f1otilla of destroyers on his ar
rival in British waters to the question
of the English commander as to how
soon the Americans would be ready
for service.
1--WE can start at once" said Sims,
and to prove it in an hour after the
long voyage across the Atlantic the
whole American contingent had
steamed to sea in active search of
German U-boats
Unless history fails to repeat itself,
as 1t has done in every war since
John Paul Jones first made the Stars
and Stripes terror on the seas, the
American navy will give good ac-
count of itself in this conflict. Some
of these days we shall open our
newspaper to discover that Hobson
has been ut-Hobsoned and that we
have in the navy a new Dewey or a
new Schley. Accomplishing the i'm
possible always has been the favor
ite diversion of the United States
navy, and it will be surprising, in
deed, If the dash and enterprise that
have carried it through a thousand
deadly perils and snatched victory
time and again from almost certain
defeat do not accomplish new mar
vels in the present war.
American naval commanders are
men of imagination, and imagination
is as necessary to naval success as
are courage and expert gunnery. We
have been much impressed recently
with the importance of superiority of
armament and cannon as prime re-
quisites of naval success, but there
still remain those great factors, the
man behind the gun," and the Off
Ger behind the man behind the
gun" In these the United States
navy acknowledges no superior and
few peers.
I'VE can start at once" is as ever
the slogan of the men who keep the
American flag aloft at sea.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-17
THURSDAY EVENING. MAY II
Wisdom is OfttimeS nearer
IDhen De Stoop than Uhen IDe
SOdr.-W0rdSU0rth
SUPPORTING THE PRESIDENT
HERE and there partisan efforts

'ERE and there partisan efforts
i i are being made to discredit
Republican newspapers that
happen to differ with officials in
matters affecting the conduct of ma
tionaE affairs. 1t will be q sad day
in the United States when the loyal
press of the country snail be forced
to approve by it's silence the in
efficiency or partisanship of men
who happen to be in public places.
OF course, no loyal newspaper
will give aid or comfort to the enemy
through publication of matters
which are manifestly improper, but
the efforts of certain Jealous sup
porters of President Wilson to place
in his hands club to compel news
paper subservience to the wishes of
the administration in all matters
only serve to accentuate the protest
which has gone up from all quar-
ters against a drastic censorship
proposal.
1t will not be gainsaid that the
Republican leaders in Congress and
elsewhere, including ex-Presidents
Roosevelt and Taft, have done their
utmost to uphold the hands of the
President in preparations for the
national defense. This is the only
patriotic avenue of real public serv-
Ice and there has been no evidence
anywhere of a desire to do other
wise than properly support the ad-
ministration, but all over the coun-
try are certain little men who as
sumo to speak for the President on
all occasions who are doing more to
destroy faith in the administration
at Washington than they are to
bring the people generally to its aid.
Nothing which may be attempted
at Washington will do more real
harm than the choking process by
those who have already been char
acterized as "slackers" by the Dem
ocratic New York World. Certainly
this great metropolitan newspaper
cannot be accused of disloyalty to
the President.
the Kitchen cabinet" when Demo-
cratic leaders refuse to go along
with the President in everything
that he proposes, especially when
Republican statesmen make possible
the enactment of measures which
are advocated for the national de-
tense. These incidents in a great
national crisis are not overlooked by
the people and the puerile efforts of
Democratic newspapers of the small
bore variety to belittle Republican
support of the administration will
fall fiat under the circumstances.
1t is self-evident that the admin
istration party in Congress is dis
playing little enthusiasm for the
vital measures which warfare de-
mands and the administration is do
ing nothing to stimulate patriotic
legislation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-17
AN HOUR MORE TO PLAY
That's One Thing the Daylight Saving Plan Means,
Says Henry M. Hyde in the Chicago Tribune

lO o'clock, as at present, one would
actually turn out the light at 8
O'Clock, though, under the proposed
scheme. his watch would mark the
hour of 10.
In factories and stores which now
Keep open in the afternoon after
dusk has begun to set in experience
has shown that there is less likeli-
hood of accidents if the establish
ment is closed while it is still day.
light.
Save Coal Bills
If the daylight saving plan were
adopted all over the United States
1t is estimated that more than one
million tons of coal. now burned
to produce electric light, would be
saved. In the present situation, with
n greater demand for coal than can
be readily supplied. with railroads
congested with coal cars, and the
constantly rising price of fuel, that
is an item worth considering.
There is bill now before Con-
gress which provides that on the
last Sunday in April OF each year all
the timepieces in the country shall
be advanced one hour and on the
last Sunday in September they shall
be set back an hour, thus saving
an additional hour of daylight dur
ing the spring and summer.
AS measure of economy the plan
had already been adopted in Eng
land, France, Germany. There is
more than possibility that it will
be adopted in the United States in
time to get the benefit OF it during
the present year. So far no argu-
ment which even appears reason
able has ben advanced against it.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-17
Favorite HYMNS

Favorite hymns of famous men
make an interesting catalogue. Glad
stones special choice was Praise to
the Holiest in the Height" and it
was sung at his funeral Tennyson's s
favorite was "Holy, Holy, Holy" One
OF Ruskin's preferences was Jesus,
Here From Sin Deliver" upon which
he preached a little sermon to some
three hundred school children, his
guests one afternoon at Brentwood.
Matthew Arnold's choice was when
Survey the Wondrous Cross
watts masterpiece>, tho third verse
o. which NJ. A. was overheard recit-
ing to himself only an hour before
his quite unexpected fatal seizure.
And Henry Ward Beecher declared
Il would rather have written Jesus,
Lover OF My Soul than have the
fame of all the kings that ever sat
or the earth.-From the London
Chronicle.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-17
Loan For Every Farmer

The sum of 5000 will be available
at the nearest bank for every On
tario farmer who desires to increase
his acreage and needs to money to
buy seed
No farmer in Ontario need go
without seed this year.
Loans will be repayable with in
tcrest at 6 per cent the first of No
vember after the farmer has sold
his crop.
If the crop fails and the farmer
is unable to repay the money, the
Ontario government will make it
good.
These are the main features of
the arrangem ent made by T. w, Nc
Garry, provisional treasurer, through
the organization OF resources COM
m!ttees, with the Bankers Associa-
ton, for loans to Ontario farmers
who need seed and have no money
with which to buy 1t.
These are 175. 900 farmers in the
Province of Ontario, so that If every
one takes advantage of the arrange
ment the sum of thirty-five million
dollars is involved.-From the To-
ronto Globe.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-17
Possibilities of Bad Verse
tFrom the New Republlc1

No one has yet written any ade-
quate appreciation of the possibili-
ties of bad verse. The verse, l mean,
that is composed at the crisis of life
OIL the mountain tops of exultation
and in the joyless valleys, by per-
sons unskilled and ordinarily un-
poetic. The verse that is hidden
away in vases and bureau drawers
never to be shown, and always pro-
duced in some moment of vanity
Only the true poet cou'd write a
just appreciation of bad verse; and
from his pen the words would come
too much tainted with the implica-
ton of irony. The quality of bad
verse is not strained. 1t is written
to suit no magazines policy. 1t is re-
warded with no check. 1t is a brave
denying OF reality; a prayer that is
its own answer. 1t is, to use Maeter-
linck's phrase, 20. making or invok-
ing of wings" by creatures that creep
on their bellies.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-17
The Future of Business

The uncertainty which has existed
ever since the war began as to the
conditions that would prevail after
the war IS clea cling away, and conf
dence is becoming established that
there win be plenty of business not
only while the war lasts but for a
term of years thereafter. The
amount of work which is piling up
for the principal industries. and par
ticularly the iron and steel industry,
gives assurance of this. There IS o
great volume of business booked
into 1918 and bookings into 1919 are
not infrequent. The shipbuilding
industry is certainly good for five
years of activity, and steel men be-
lieve that railroad equipment and
construction, and other important
demands will not be satisfied in much
less time. The lumber industry looks
forward for several years of assumed
activity. and if we are alert to our
investment opportunities abroad we
can create a large outlet for many
lines Of goods. Our developing re-
lations with Russia China and South
America are very favorable to trade
expansion IL we are prepared to give
the financial assistance they will
need and are worthy of-Bulletin of
the National City Bank.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-17
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

DIR. John A. Brashear, Pitts
burgh scientist, is home from Japan
and says that there is good feeling
now toward America.
Charles b. Spatz, former legisla-
tor from Berks county, is turning at
tention to real estate developments.
II. C. McEldowney. a Pitts
burgh banker, is head of commit
tee of Pittsburgh bankers pushing
the war loan in that end of the State.
DIR. w. r. Robson, Spanish war
veteran, is organizing Washington
county home defense ORGANIZATIONS.
Anderson Fl. walters, Johnstown
publisher and former congressman,
is the new president of the Johns
town Rotary Club.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-17
</OU wake. The room is already
flooded with sunlight. You look


at your watch. 1t is only 5
o'clock. Two hours remain before
1T is time to get up. You try to
doze off again. The dazzling sun
light makes it hard to get back to
sleep.
At s O'Clock you are at your desk.
AT in the afternoon the days work
Is done. You get home forty min
utes later. BY o'clock twilight has
begun. One hour later and the sun
has set. Daylight is over and gone.
suppose. now, you had walked at
the same time in the morning. Sup
pose your watch had marked 6
O'Clock instead of 5. You would have
gone to work at s o'clock, as usual,
and quit at o'clock. But at the
end of the day you would have had
a whole extra hour of daylight to
use as you please, working in your
garden, playing golf or baseball,
walking in the parks, swimming, or
what you please.
From Employees Standpoint
From the standpoint of the work.
man or employe that seems the most
important advantage in the daylight
saving movement-the scheme for
turning all the clocks and watches
one hour ahead in the spring and
turning them back for the same dis
tance in the fall, when short days
and early darkness come.
OF course. it is also true that ev-
erybody would save one hours con-
sumption of electric light because
he would go to bed one hour sooner
after it became necessary to use arti-
ncial light. Instead of retiring at
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-17
DAYLIGHT SAVING"

DAYLIGHT SAVING" now has
- the endorsement not alone of
the Legislature, but of the
Chamber of Commerce of Pennsylva-
mia and of trade bodies and business
men all over the State. The Legis-
lature recommends the passage OF a
national law by Congress to that
end for the reason that the move
ment must be countrywide to be ef-
fective. A state law would be SO
confusing as to be disastrous, If not
impossible of operation. In these
days of interstate railroads and ma
tional solidarity in many other re-
spects state laws that might have
worked admirably century ago are
impossible. So the Legislature of
necessity has put the matter up to
Congress.
We are told that turning the clock
back one hour from April to Septem-
Der would save q million tons of coal
a year that now go into the manu-
facture of gas and the generation of
electricity. This item alone, espe-
cially at time of fuel shortage,
would make adoption of the plan
well worth while. But, will Con-
gress take that view of it? Or will
1t prefer to chatter unendingly about
the necessity of conserving the ma
ton's resources, while by its own
neglect it continues to conspire for
their wastage? fhe people will
watch with interest the progress of
the daylight saving" bill.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-17
Increased Capacity

The steel industry has been great
ly stimulated by the war. On De-
cember 81, 1914, the total capacity
of the country for making steel bill
let's and castings was 40,9I5.3 tons.
and on December 81, 1916, according
to the preliminary estimate of the
American Iron and Steel Institute.
1t was 4S,77O,000, with $3.50, 500 ad-
increase already in service on Janu-
AIRY 1 last was therefore 20 per cent
and when present construction is
completed the increase will be 35
per cent over the capacity of 1914.
Bulletin of the National City
Bank.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-17
OuR WHOLE Duty

business activity and industrial
ID prosperity for period of years
are confidently predicted by
many leaders in the business world.
They agree that the prosecution of
the war will have no serious effect
upon the going forward of industrial
and commercial activities.
The point is made clear in a re-
cent interview by ]. Ogden Armour.
Discussing the economic conditions
and the future of the nations de-
fense, he declared yesterday that
the prompt adoption by the Amer
lean people of the business as
usual" idea would enable the nation
to prosecute the war without ex-
periencing the temporary depression
which was felt in England and
France. He said further:
AS patriots it is our duty to stop
the waStage of food; as patriots
it is equally important that we do
not stop the ordinary purchasing
on which the business and the in
dustry of the country are found
ed. Hysterical economy is as
is prodigal waste. The pursu-
ance of our normal business along
usual lines is of paramount inn
portance at this time in order that
our nation may maintain itself on
a sound economical and industrial
basis from which to prosecute the
military phase of the struggle for
the freedom of mankind.
Faith in the great need of the
people of to-day; faith in pIovi-
dence to lend might to our right;
faith in nature to respond bounti-
fully to the wonderful efforts of
our agriculturists to increase the
food supply, to provide a surplus
for our allies. and faith in our
Government, which has taken hold
of the problems before it in a way
that demonstrates that it is de-
serving of our faith.
All over the country business men
are beginning to realize that there
is no occasion for hysteria or for
any radical change in their usual
activities. AS a result, business is 60
ing ahead with increasing impetus
from day to day and once our ma
tional policies shall have been
agreed upon and the defense meas
ures fully put into effect there will
be a gradual disappearance of un-
certainty and nationwide cooper
alton in everything which will give
confidence throughout the business
world.