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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-12
His Northern Brother

Just make it two, old fellow;
| want to stand once more
Beneath the old flag with you
AS in the days of yore.
Our fathers stood together
And fought on land and sea
The battles fierce that made us
A nation of the free.
1 whipped you down at Vicksburg,
You licked me at Bull Run;
On many a field we struggled,
When neither victory won;
You wore the gray of Southland,
| wore the Northern blue;
Like men we did our duty
When screaming bullets flew.
Four years we fought like devils.
But when the war was done
Your hand met mine in friendly clasI
Our two hearts beat as one.
And now when danger threatens.
No North, no South, we know;
Once more we stand together
To fight the common foe.
My head, like yours, is frosty
Old age is creeping on;
Life's sun is lower sinking,
My day will soon be gone.
But if our country's honor
Needs once again her son,
I'm ready, too, old fellow
So get another gun.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-12
HOME RULE

: a MOTHER week of the session of
~ the General Assembly has drawn
to a close without further prog
ress on the joint resolution providing
for a larger measure of home rule for
the municipalities of Pennsylvania.
Nothing before the Legislature is
more important in all that affects the
welfare and prosperity of the people
than this proposal. Senator Beidle-
man is in hearty accord with the
thought of progressive citizens every
where respecting a change of the
present archaic and unsatisfactory
municipal administration in the towns
and cities of the State.
He realizes better than most men
in public life how as a milestone
about the neck is the present scheme
of municipal government in Pennsyl-
vania. Failure of one experiment
after another emphasizes the need of
some real step forward in the direc-
tion of home rule.
1t is inconceivable that number
of legislators on Capitol Hill would
oppose seriously proposition which
contemplates only the right of any
municipality to provide it's own sys-
tenn of government so long as it does
not impinge upon the fundamental
instrument controlling all cities.
Surely the opposition of few selfish
corporations. which fear their partic-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-12
RED CROSS SLACKERS

VoU may be too old to go to war
Il or there may be other reasons
why you would be exempt from
armed service, but there is no age
limit to enlistment in the Red Cross
and there are none who are exempt
for any other reason, except that they
are too poor to join.
The Red Cross needs you now. But
there is no conscription in the Red
Cross. You must volunteer. If you
don't volunteer you are Red Cross
Stacker.
Stacker isn't pretty name. But if
you don't join now or during the
progress of the campaign that is to be
started next Monday when you look
in the mirror thereafter you will be-
hold the face of a slacker-one who
won't fight or is not allowed to fight
and who cares not for the welfare of
the soldiers who will be doing battle
for him; one who has no thought for
the needy ones the soldiers who are
called away will leave at home.
You will see, in that event, the re-
Election of one who thinks more of a
dollar bill than he does of his coun-
try-for the Red Cross is "a branch
of the national service in wartime and
a membership may be had for as little
as a dollar.
Surely there are none such in Har-
risburg.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-12
Defense on Farms
New York World. ]


During the next six months the
farmers of the United States will
play a critical part in the war. On
behalf of the government Secretary
of Agriculture Houston's appeal to
them was timely. AS he said, the
world at large. as we'll as our own
consumers, must rely more strongly
on them this year than ever before,
and the greatest service required of
our agriculture is an enlarged pro-
duction of the staple food crops
The unfavorable report as to win
ter wheat, which indicates a yield of
5O,OOO,O 600 bushels smaller than last
years short crop, is a. direct warning
that extraordinary efforts must be
made to replenish the worlds food
supply. In this direction the gov
ernment does we'll in exercising an
active influence by laying the case
plainly before the farmers. Where
winter wheat conditions are bad, it's
advice is to reseed to spring wheat
in the Northern belt and to plant
corn in the Southern belt. In any
event, it can assure the farmers that
they will receive high prices.
In the existing situation the ques-
ton of farm labor IS most serious.
Last year the farming interests faced
1t in the most acute form that they
nau ever known, and the growing
competition among employers in
large industrial centers to-day still
further complicates the problem of
speeding up production on the farms.
An industry so little organized and
so unaccustomed to cooperation on
large business lines as agriculture is
under an immense disadvantage in
the labor market.
The railroads and the government
can help in the mobilization and dis
tribution of manpower; but the time
is short If the farms are to be made
TO do their full share in the national
defense and in fastening the end of
the war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-12
Bower of Perry County
ihe Editor of the Telegraph: !:

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
The many friends of Clark NJ Bow
er of Jackson township, who for sew
eral years past have been urging him
to be a candidate for member of the
Legislature from Perry county, are
gratified to know that he will prob
ably be a candidate for the Republican
nomination for that Office next fall.
His interest in the public schools, as a
private citizen and as a director re-
elected for many successful terms, and
his record of faithful and efficient SER
vice to the county in the office of
county commissioner, have caused him
to be widely known throughout the
county as a useful and public spirited
citizen. His lifelong career as an ac-
tive member of the Republican party,
and his residence in the west end of
the county, which has been ignored
for sixty years past in the choice of
candidates for the Legislature make
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-12
THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL ~.
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy
lips from speaking guile.-PSalm 81 rs.
HOOVER OF BELGIUM

TIME whole country will rejoice
that Hoover of Belgium has ac-
cepted the craftsmanship of the
food board of the National Committee
of Defense. His selection was the best
that could have been made and his
acceptance guarantees the proposed
food control of the nation against any
of>the elements of favoritism or scan
dal that might have crept into it in
less experienced or less scrupulous
hands.
Hoover has saved millions from
starvation in Belgium. He came out
of comparative obscurity to be the
good and ever ministering angel to
multitudes of men, women and little
children from whom the German eX-
ponents of "frightfulness" snatched
every means of support and whom
they then refused to feed. He is one
of the great, outstanding figures Of
the war in Europe. He has gone fear
lessly in where angels might have
feared to tread and has come out with
his reputation enhanced and new
1aurels of achievement on his brow.
IlOONGT hnOWS lllOIG tiDOuI 1OOu sup
ply in war times than any other man
in the world. He and his staff are even
now making a careful study of food
price control in all the countries at
war and the information so gathered
will be of vast assistance in controll-
ing prices in this country; for we are
unquestionably at the place where the
national piUa n
some man or body of men dictatorial
powers over the sale of provisions.
Speculation in foods at this time is
a. crime, yet it is still permitted and
on vast scale. How easily it may
be prevented and how prices may be
artifcially controlled is very we'll
shown by the action of the Chicago
board of exchange yesterday which
issued a decree suspending all forms
of butter and egg speculation during
the period of the war.
The people as a whole will have to
bear the brunt of the war debt, both
in money and in men, and they must
not be assessed a single penny more
than is absolutely necessary. They
must be protected from the food
barons who even now are bleeding
them at every turn.
Hoover has the confidence of every
element of the nation. Those who
may have hoped to grow rich upon
the necessities of the population may
not favor his selection for the post,
but at least they know that he will
be as fair with them as he will be hon
est with the consumer. The only fear
is that he may not be given the vast
power that must be vested in him if
his work is to be efficiently done.
Hoover's success in Belgium was due
largely to the fact that he had prac-
tically unlimited control, with no red
tape and no interference from the out
side. 1t should be so in his new
work.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-12

ular preserves might be invaded
through proper local administration,
are not going to be permitted to in
terfere with plan that would rid the
Legislature of the biennial appeals
for relief from scores of municipali-
ties now suffering intolerably from
conditions which are the direct con-
sequence of obsolete statutes designed
for this or that community but gen.
eral in their provisions.
We believe Senator Beidleman will
be upheld by large majority of the
citizens of Pennsylvania in his effort
to give the various municipalities a
real chance to protect themselves and
to provide a sensible and sane govern
ment for communities which cannot
always adjust themselves to a gen.
was foisted upon them by the Clark
act and other similar measures.
The Senator from Dauphin county
is in position where he can at least
uncover opposition and let the peo-
pie know who are placing barriers
in the way of legitimate home rule.
AS showing that he appreciates the
importance of relief, he has himself
introduced a bill providing for single
council in cities of the third class,
comprising one member from each
ward. Whether this would solve the
problem is a question. but it has at
least the merit of giving the proposed
pOunri1 what amounts pra Ctica1iy to
home-rule powers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-12
An Unusual Hazard

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
1 am in receipt of yours of the 5th
instant relative to the provision in the
standard fire insurance policy that
this company shall not be liable for
loss or damage caused directly or in
directly by invasion, insurrection, riot
civil war, commotion or military or
usurped power" and in reply beg to
say that this clause is valid and would
relieve the fire insurance companies
from liability in case of destruction of
the property through any of the
causes enumerated. They are extra
ordinary and unusual hazards not as
sumed by the company in it's con-
tract.
Very truly yours,
]. d. O'NEIL,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-12

1t was a fine tribute which his mill
tary staff and the large assembly of
members and guests of the Pennsylva-
MIA Society paid Governor Brumbaugh
at the Chestnut Street Auditorium
Tuesday night. The occasion also fur
nished opportunity for several of the
most popular speakers in the States
service to again win the plaudits of
their fellow-citizens for inspiring and
helpful addresses. Not soon will those
who We're present forget the worthy
defense of the volunteer soldier by Cen
eral Thomas ]. Stewart. He meant every
word he uttered and as a tribute to
the volunteer it was a classic.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-12

Universal military service seems to
be coming with leaps and bounds. When
the TELEGRAPH suggested military
training in the more advanced educa-
tional institutions of Harrisburg, some
months ago, the pacifists or this COM
munity imagined that we were pro-
ceeding to initiate the militarism of
Germany. When will some of our peo-
pie realize there is no comparison be-
tween militarism and proper military
preparedness?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-12

form. Let each member of the Ag-
ricultural Guard justly feel that he is
serving his country perhaps better
than if he were enlisted in navy or
army
Who will be the first to enlist in the
Agricultural Guard in your family?
What school district will be first to
enlist its whole rural population as
"A G'I What county will have the
largest enlistment in the Agricultural
Guard before May?-Organ Judd,
American Agriculturist.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-12
Labor Notes

Chicago electrotypers secured a five
year agreement through arbitration
with these wage increases Foremen,
SO a week. molders, SO a week. fin
ishers, So week for first year and an
additional 81 for last two years;
branchmen, so for first year and 81
a week for last two years.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-12
THE PEOPLES FORUM

him now in the belief of his friends
! a strong candidate for the nomination
The fact that Perry is an agricul-
tural county will add to the popular
ity of Mr.. Bower who is a farmer and
the son of a farmer.
A TAXPAYER.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-12

The Pennsylvania State Industrial
Board has announced that It would
require safety eye goggles or helmets
of approved type for all persons en-
ployed in chipping metal, dry-grind-
ing, forging. sand-blasting and manu-
featuring and handling acids.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-12
OUR DAILY LAUGH
HER CHOICE.

1 told my wife
she was a lemon
for not wanting
to come bathing.
What did she
say?
Said she would
rather be a lem
on than n beach.
nut.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-12

Workmen who contract disease in
the course of employment are entitled
to compensation, according to a de-
cision by Judge Audenreid, in Phila-
delphia upholding an award made by
the workmen's compensation board of
PENNSYLVANIA
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-12

In opposing a bill to prohibit wom-
en- working at night a representative
of a munitions plant assured the Con-
necticut legislative committee having
the bill in charge that many women
perferred night work so that they
could attend their household duties
during the day"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-12

Harrisburg has not lost sight of the
Importance of a city manager. Even
those who have served in City Council
or in other municipal positions of trust
are now admitting that some such ar
rangement would be more satisfactory
than the present commission scheme
If we must continue the present ar
rangement, let those who are willing
to serve their city without compensa-
tion come forward and offer themselves
to the end that they shall conduct it's
affairs through the employment of a
proper manager or subordinates who
will be responsible to a central au-
thority.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-12

In its report on the labor market
in January, 1917, the New York State
Department of Labor says the aver
age earnings for a week of all en-
ployes, both male and female, includ-
ed in the returns, were s15.26 in JAM
uary, are compared with $15.53 in De-
cember.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-12

II this thing keeps up the Germans
will have to ask permission of General
Haig when they desire to visit the Hin
dcnburg line.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-12

The British War Office is appealing
for 1000 women as cooks and wait
resses for duty with various units; age
1S-45, salary $3.50 per annum, free
uniform aft = probation. laundry al
lowance, in
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-12
TWO VOICES
A Southern Volunteer
By BRIGGS

Yes sir, fought with Stonewall,
And faced the fight with Lee;
But if this here Union goes to war.
Make one more gun for me!
1 didn't shrink from Sherman,
AS he galloped to the sea;
But if this here Union goes to war,
Make one more gun for me!
/ was with. them at Manassas
The bully boys in Gray;
l heard the thunders roaring
Round Stonewall Jackson's way.
And many time this sword of mine
Has blazed the route for Lee;
But if this old Nation goes to war,
Make one more sword for me.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-12
Emerson Collins. the silver-tongued

Emerson Collins. the silver-tongued
orator of the West Branch, intimated
in his speech Tuesday night that GER
tain imperial imitator of one Napoleon
may find ample time hereafter on an
other sequestered island, perhaps, to
contemplate the fact that the men of
the United States are quite as able in
this day to defend their rights as were
the "shopkeepers of London" in the
time of the Little Corporal
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-12
I'm not SO full of flghtin,

Nor half so full of fun,
AS / was back in the sixties
When l shouldered my old gun;
1t may be that my hair is white
Sich things, you know, must be.
But If this old Unions in for war,
Make one more gun for me!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-12
THE PUBLISHERS LOYALTY

PUBLISHERS of Pennsylvania at
their conference here this week
took patriotic ground in the
matter of supporting the administra-
ton at Washington in all proper
measures for the protection of the
country and prosecution of war with
Germany. There was no suggestion of
partisanship in this action. Unanimity
characterized the discussion and the
prompt passage of the resolution
pledging the support of the three as
sociations, which include practically
all the important papers of the State,
indicated the desire of the publishers
to stand by the President in every
important particular. If there was
any thought in the mind of any Ger
man sympathizer that there would be
material division of sentiment in this
country, it has rudely been dispelled
by the incidents of the last week.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-12
hain't forgot my raisin'-

Nor how IN SiXty-twO,
Or thereabouts, with battle shouts,
/ charged the Boys in Blue;
And / say; fought with Stonewall,
And blazed the way for Lee;
But if this old Unions in for war,
Make one more gun for me!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-12

The "Big Push" begins to have the
appearance of a punch on the nose.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-12

j.. E.J.STACKPOLE,P j. Pres't aud Editor-in. Chief
+. r. OYSTER. Business Manager.
GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-12

The Red Cross needs you now; don't
be Stacker.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-12

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO..
Telegraph building. Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-12
Don't Stay at Home
TWilliam Penn Bulletin1

Insurance Commissioner.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-12

Mouse: Say,
M r. Aeroplane
Dragon Fly-take
me up to see IL
the moon is really
made OF green
cheesel
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-07-05

The Oregon jackrabbit promises to
be drafted into the food preparedness
service, according to suggestion
made to Congressman Nick Sinnott
of Oregon, by o. H. Benson of the
Department of Agriculture. The
eastern Oregon congressman has been
instituting inquiries lately as to feas-
ibility OF canning jackrabbit meat
both from the standpoint Of home
use and for manufacture for sale. Mr..
Benson suggests that rabbit might be
canned successfully by the lone
period cold pack method" described
in full in Farmers Bulletin S39, just
as safely as vegetables and fruit or
other kinds of meat. Anyone may
obtain copy Of this valuable bulle-
tin by writing to Congressman N. j.
Sinnott house Of representatives,
Washington, D. G.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-07-05

G. A. Sheppard, Of Sheppard &
Brock, Of Portland, has written to
Secretary Olcott concerning the work
done on the Summer and Albert lakes
project for extracting potassium salts
from the lakes. The City Safety De-
posit Company Of Omaha, Neb., has
written the secretary concerning op-
rortunities to lease the lakes. The
old lease to the lakes vas given to
Jason Moore. who assigned 1t tc the
Pacific Chemical Company The
lease has expired long ago bu, has
never been cancelled ci account of
the opposition of Governor Witty
combe and Treasurer Kay Mary ex-
tensions have been ma lie, but recently
the company was told II 1t CID not
come within the terms of the contract
the lease would be terminated.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-07-05

Western members of congress are
receiving letters from constituents
urging the early designation of lands
for entry under the 64O-acre home
stead act, and from others who ask
that designations be delayed, in the
interest Of range cattle production
particularly After the law passed
there was rush of applications, and
about $4,000 are on file. The land
office had no funds to make classifl-
cations, however, and turned the job
over to the geological survey, which
likewise had no funds for such pur-
poses. So there has been no classifi-
cation and no designations to date.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-07-05

Hearings before the Or ;ca public
service commission To- the - per
cent horizontal Increase IN int astate
freight rates as asked Dy lie rail
roads will begin in Portland on July
8, and will cover every portion of
the state before they are closed. 1t
is expected that the commission will
give about 20 hearings. There are
now "a applications on file for in
creases in rates. The hearing on
July 9 will be that of the Portland
Railway, Light & Power Company,
when 1t presents its side of the case,
Carriers, shippers and consumers in
all parts Of the state will be given a
chance to present their side of the
case before the commission.