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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-31
DRAFT ALIENS FOR THE HOE

DY the time comes to plant DO
X tatoes next spring the ranks of
the farm laborers of Pennsylva-
MIA may be so depleted by the de-
mands of military service and the
pressure for labor in industries and
transportation so severe that we
may be confronted with the alterna-
tive of drafting men to use the hoe.
There have been many volunteers
who have been benefited in health
by farm labor and while farmers
have "cussed out" the high school
boy like Greeley used to denounce
the college graduate in the newspa-
per office, the students will be n
mighty help when the pinch comes
However, If an emergency arises
and food instead of mill products
becomes paramount, there are within
this State thousands of men who are
getting out of military service bv
pleading allegiance to a foreipn
power. Mills and factories and rail
roads can afford to give I'M sncb
men for work in the fields and wbiIe
we may be infringing upon treatv
parchments, yet the Allied countries
are so bound up with us that tbev
can afford to disregard decorations
of their sovereign dignity and even
urge their nationals to bend their
backs in the field.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-31
WOULD BE SAFER

Having given the matter consider
alton for something like three years,
it's just possible that our enemies
now regret that they didn't keep on
preparing for another forty years.
Marion Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-31
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 81, 1917

And, hdUin0 thus chosen our
course, let us reneiO our trust in
God and 90 tor1odrd hoithout fear aud
1citb manly hedrtS.-ABRAHAM LIN
COLIN.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-31
Telegraph Quoted Abroad

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
I was reading the Havana Post
and came across an editorial that
was clipped from your paper. 1t
certainly made me feel good to see
something from your paper and l
felt that 1 had to write and tell you
about it. L am here in Havana,
Cuba. Have been sent by the Bald
win Locomotive Works to design and
install oil burning equipment on a
number of locomotives for the Cuba
Cane Sugar Company. They have
about 20 plantations all over the IS
land. l will try to send you the pa
per that l spoke about. Sincerely
yours, EDWARD C. SILK.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-31

If the proposed fusion of the Brit
ish Trades Union Congress and the
British COOPERATIVE Movement takes
place. the greatest combination of
workers in the world, involving g.
10000 workers, will come into ex-
istence.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-31

| home-tte Will always be present tC
help our boys preserve the ideals Of
American manhood and clean living
which they take with them to the
"other side"
ANYTHING FOR RELIEF
THE people of the city, long suf'
II fering and impatient for relief
will back up Council solidly on any.
thing it may do to relieve the almost
intolerable ash and garbage condi.
tions in Harrisburg. Anything thai
offers permanent relief at reasonable
cost will be acceptable.
Commissioner Dunkle should have
the thanks of the voters for his reso-
luton of yesterday, turning over the
ash and garbage collections to DR..
]. NJ. ]. Rauniclz. city health officer,
and charging the expense to the
bondsman of the contracting COM
pany, which has fallen down lament
ably on its job. 1t is a step in the
right direction.
Beyond question, the company is
having troubles of it's own, as all en-
ployers of labor are at this time, but
it has been so long neglectful of the
work it is under contract to per-
form that the public will have small
sympathy with it in its present diff
culties. What the taxpayers want and
must have, is prompt and efficient
collection of refuse. Just now the
householder who is not burdened
with an accumulation of ashes and
garbage has paid to have it carted
away by small boys, or others, who
are none too carefui as to how they
dispose of it, and this with the city
paying thousands OF dollars each
year to the contracting company to
do the work. Paying twice for a
service is irksome at anytime. but it
is doubly Objectionable at time like
this, when living costs are tre-
mendously high and there is need
for every spare penny for aid in one
or another of the many branches
of war work.
Eventually. it must be apparent to
all, we must do what we now pro-
pose as a temporary eXpedient-col-
lect both ashes and garbage through
the city's own agency, or bureau. The
health bureau may do this work
very we'll, for the emergency, but it
would be against the welfare of the
people to divide its energies in this
manner. It is undermanned at best,
and in case of epidemic has more
work than it can we'll perform. A
separate bureau is desirable. if not
actually necessary, to a proper con-
duct of any system that the city
must adopt.
However. the people at this time
are ready to support any move
Council may make in the direction
of relief during the winter months,
and IL those in authority work out
a plan that will result in prompt and
efficient collections during the win
ter. when ashes especially accumu-
late very rapidly, the people will ac-
cept 1t without much question as to
n ethods.
REFORMATION ANNIVERSARY
NNLY the thorough student of
I history appreciates fully the
significance of the Luther Ref
ormation, the quadricentennial of
,-I,icI, will ba pbearvad u ~, oa4,..4
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-31
THE PEOPLES FORUM

with the boys just so that my mother
did not find it out. Mother found it
out in the end, but 1 am going to
stick to our Lord Jesus and walk
those Golden street in Heaven and
from now on will be a soldier of
Jesus Christ our Mighty Teacher,
the One we can take wherever we
will close this, from a friend of
Christ. ]. e. H.
Private in Co. C, 112th U. S. Inf,
Camn Hancock AuguStn. Ga
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-31

A minister in the Buchan district,
Aberdeenshire, Scotland, is earning
16 cents an hour as peat caster
in q moss.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-31
LABOR NOTES.
BY BRIGGS

Unskilled workers In some factor
les in England are earning from $50
to 500 a week.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-31

The cost of living in Winnipeg,
Canada, is from 20 to 80 per cent.
higher than it was a year ago.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-31

Member of the Associated Press-The
Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled to the use for republication OF
all news dispatches credited to it or
not otherwise credited in this paper
and also the local news published
herein.
All rights of republication of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-31

At Vancouver conference of la
Dor organizations affiliated with the
British Columbia Federation of La
Dor voted that power to call a gem
erad strike be placed in the hands
OF the executive of the B. G. Fedora
ton of Labor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-31

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.,
Telegraph Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-31

The United States Government will
conscript labor to handle ships in
port if the dock strike on the At
lantic coast assumes serious proper
tions.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-31

q. ]. STACKPoLE,P Pres. 6 EditoT-in. Chief
f. r. OYSTER. Business Manager.
GUS NJ. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-31
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg silk is being
used for Army purposes?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
Two of the early public libraries
were in Market Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-31

Officers and seamen of British
merchant ships who, by reason of
wounds or illness due to the war, are
compelled to give up their employ
ment are to receive the silver war
badge.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-31
OUR DAILY LAUGH
DIDN'T FIG
URE ON COST.

Before w e
were married
you used TO say
| should never
want for any
hing.
That's so. But
low could I
lnow tho cost
0f living was
yoing TO do o
kyscraping act.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-31

Two million farmers will me-
morialize President Wilson, asking
him to secure a more perfect opera
ton of the selective draft act, which
they claim is depriving them of nee
essary labor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-31

Two hundred farm laborers in the
Raphoe Ureland) district went on
strike when their demand for rs
shillings a week was not acceded to.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-31

The North American, which
represents the very opposite IN Re-
publican matters and which has
been more or less friendly 20 the
Wares, assails the Senator to-day in
this language: Just how State
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-31

BY the time Weather Observer De-
main adds up the various brands of
weather that have come upon Har-
risburg in October he will have n
list that will be remarkable indeed.
Thunderstorms in the last half dozen
days of the month, some on the same
day as snow squalls. Rains and
sunshine of intensity within an hour.
White frosts and high temperature
on the same morning are only few
of the varieties.
New Britain herald., 1917-02-16
FAIR AND WARMER.
saturday will Be Cloudy, Weather
 Man Predicts.

New Haven, Feb. 16.-For New Haven and vicinity: Fair and warmer tonight; Saturday generally cloudy and warmer
 For Connecticut: Cloudy and some what warmer tonight and Saturday; fresh to strong west winds.
 Conditions: A well defined distur- bance is central this morning over North Dakota. It is causing unsettled weather with rising temperature, in the northern districts between the Rocky mountains and the lake region. A. secondary disturbance central over Ontario is causing light snow in the lake region. The lowest temperatures reported this morning were from northern New England, where from 10 to 20 degrees below zero was reported. Conditions favor for this vicinity l fair weather with slowly rising tenn kperature followed by increasing Ec3oudiness.
New Britain herald., 1917-02-16
ONE TOWN DEAF TO GALL FOR PATRIOTS
Their Flag Is Crocheted Motto "There'S No Place Like Home"

Hartford, Feb. 16.-One town in Connecticut gave the surprising in formation to the state census head quarters today that it had no patriots within its border. The first select man by telephone, reporting to Jo- seph w. Alsop. in charge of head uarters not only said that there were no patriots in the town but that noth- ing had been done about taking the census and no one could be found to volunteer to begin the work. The name of the town is withheld MT. Alsop will try to meet the situation today.
 Ninety-nine towns have completed their list of census takers and have reported to headquarters and forty eight of the remainder have this work done in part.
 Eight hundred information blanks, properly filled out. were filed last night at headquarters out of those already sent out. Of the 800 male persons who were registered, 577 said they could drive a team, 200 per sons could drive horse. 117 are good swimmers, IT are telegraphers and two are wireless telegraphers.
 The City of Hartford headquarters has about 1000 more to look after.
 The state headquarters issued a call, for women volunteers today to serve in a clerical capacity.
New Britain herald., 1917-02-16
WITH K. & E, FOR
 A HALF CENTURY
William E. Parker Began As
 Packer Fifty Years Ago

William E. Parker of 47 Curtis street, at the end of his days work next Tuesday, will have completed fif- ty years of continuous service with the Russell & Erwin company. Enter ing the employ of the company on February 20, 1867, when it was still in it's earliest stages, he has watched it's growth steadily until today it Is among the foremost and largest con- cerns of it's kind in the world.
 AS a young man just out of High school, MT. Parker secured the foun- dation for his knowledge of the hard ware manufacture in the packing room which was located at the corner Of Washington and Myrtle streets on the east side, the present site of one ot the p'"nt's largest buildings. 1t was here George Post, then foreman, intel himself in the bright lad, who Jed evidences of being one of the c, -3any's most valuable assets in later } ears MT. Parker was later promote to the foremanship of the packing room. but his ability later secured for him a place in the office. and today he is assistant to General Manager B. A. Hawley.
 There is probably no attache of the company today who was with it at the time MT. Parker started to work. The founders of the concern, H. E. Russell and c. B. Erwin, were very active Tn the management at that time and an- oher who took much interest in the growth and extension of the concern was Dr. woodruff who was secretary. All Of these men have since passed away. Daniel Gilbert of this city was working for the company when MT. Parker commenced, but he was pen stoned off several years ago.
 The late Emory Parker. father Of MT. Parker, was superintendent or Russell & Erwin for many years. The family removed to this city from Mer- iden when he was very young. The oo- servance of the fiftieth anniversary of his connection with the company, Will not be occasioned by anything out of the order from his present daily rou- tine,
New Britain herald., 1917-02-16
TEN RECRUITS FOR NAVY
New Britain Young Men Answer Uncle Sam's Invitation by Offering Them selves for Service in Seas.

Ten local young men have re- sponded to the call of Uncle Sam TOT recruits for the United States navy, and the officer in charge at the post office has put in a busy week arrang- ing the details necessary for the sending of the ambitious hove a-"ov. F. S. Wright, who is meeting with suc- cess in this city, reported tuua. .--at of the large batch of applicants dur ing the week ending last evening, only four men were rejected for physical disability.
 The list of those who left the city is as follows: William PolitiS, of 15l Hartford avenue; Frank w. Fritson, of BPS South Main street, l(fourth en- listment;) Donald J. Murphy, or 32 Beaver street; James H. Curtin, of 54 Winter street; Thomas F. Mooney of 101 Willard street; Suren Man. ooleian, of 98 Commercial street; Merle P. French, of 610 West Main street; Harry H. Okenquest, of 29 Will son street; Raymond G. Crowley, of 76 Elm street; w. c. Wearne. Out-of- town enlistments through the local office were as follows: Edgar M. Bailey and w. H. Hart of Bristol. James Dever, who has been with the travelling party for the past few days, received notification this morn ing to open an office in Meriden at once.
New Britain herald., 1917-02-16
RETURN TO QUARTET PLAN.
First Church Retains Hart as Organist
 and Director.

According to the plans of the music committee of the First Congregational church there will be return to the quartet plan of conducting the musi- cal services at the church. Mrs. Howard Horton, soprano soloist, and IN. G. Curtis, tenor, have been secured to give their services for another year and will form the nucleus of the quartet. One of the Hartford churches has given Mrs. Horton a f1attering offer but she has decided to remain, thus saving the committee a problem at the outset.
 Up to last year the church had a quartet but the plan was then changed and chorus choir installed, led by soloists. Professor George B. Mat thews was given the position of choir director and Theoron Hart became the organist. Under the new plan Mr. Hart will be retained as organist and choir director. The committee will announce the other two members of the quartet very soon.
New Britain herald., 1917-02-16
EDUCATORS MEET.
State Teachers in Convention at New
 Haven.

state IeaChcrS in Convention at New
 Haven.
 New Haven, Feb. 16.-Educationa, methods and the various prob1ems confronting educators in public and private schools were up for discussion at the regular winter meeting of the Connecticut State Teachers association and other educational Organizations which opened two days session here today.
 The winter meeting was instituted at the last annual meeting of the Teachers association and an invita- ton was extended by it to the other educational bodies in the state to take part. The invitation was accepted by Superintendent associations, School masters club, Connecticut Association of Classical and High Schoo Teachers. Connecticut Arts asso citation, Connect icut group of the New England Mod ern Language association and the Connecticut Business Educators asso- ciation.
New Britain herald., 1917-02-16
MILITARY BILL IS BROUGHT TO SENATE
Statutes Made to Conform to
 Federal Regulations

Hartford, Feb. 16.-The new mill itary bill was reported to the sen ate today It makes the regulati onG for the state militia conform to the federal law and provides for support of militiamen's dependents by tho state immediately upon the militia men being called from the state for duty. The bill also repeals that pro- vision of the present law which gives peade officer the right to call out the militia when he is unable to com municate with the governor. It also provides a fine of from ten dollars to fifty dollars for any person. who, after being drafted fails to present himself for physical examination. . The section of the new military till provides that whenever the militia shall be called into active field service of the state the state shall pay week { ly allowances to the dependents. The governor. state treasurer, secretary of state and comptroller will be board to administer such allowances which shall be on a basis for $20 a month for wife and $6 month for each l minor child of the militiaman. The board will have the right to pay all lowances to 0 father or mother pro- Vidlng the soldier has no wife or children, also providing that no al- lowances shall be made to any single soldiers dependents to the extent of more than $50 a month. This bill. if it became a law. would be in- operative if the United States as- sumed payment of the allowances. No Boxing Exhibitions.
 The judiciary committee reporte
 unfavorably on the Kopplemann bill for a commission to regulate boxing exhibitions.
 The judiciary committee reported favorably to the house an increase in salary for Superintendent Egan of the state police from S3,000 to $4,O00 and the bill went to the appropriations l committee. Ernest K. Taft was chos- en deputy judge at Stafford Springs ] for the full term.
 Among favorable report were those changing the number of deputy sher- ifs in the several counties; establish. l ing two taxing districts in Milford
 providing for exemption from taxation
 to the amount of $1,000 of property l owned by soldiers and of those who
 have served in the army, navy, marine 1 or revenue marine services of the | United States; and amending the Wa.
 terbury charter concerning advertis l ing of bond issues.
 In 8 senate resolution George H
 Jackson is named as judge of the New 1 Milford court.
 Among unfavorable reports were
 those on bills providing that life i'm
 prisonment only should be the penalty for murder in the first degree, and de.
 auctions in wages of persos arriving late for work.
 The house chamber will be used bs
 the labor commission for it's hearing.
 on bills relating to employment O. | women and minors.
New Britain herald., 1917-02-16
HE DIDN'T SAY "H0CH!'
German Lecture Interrupted When Unknown Man in Audience Tells
 'eTo Hell With the Kaiser"

New York, Feb. 16.-A perfectly innocuous German lecture which had been sailing smoothly along for an hour, illuminated only by few stereopticon slides, was torpedoed amidships without warning in the darkness of the assembly room at the Majestic hotel last night, when some person as yet unidentified rose from his seat, took a squint through his periscope, and then at the top of his voice hurled this lusty chal- lenge:
 ITO hell with the Kaiser!'
 Before the light could be switched on he dashed for the door, and then, presumably, submerged. Two house detectives went in wild search, but didn't even see any oil bubbles.
 As for the meeting, it promised for few exciting seconds to break up in tumultous disorder. Each man looked at his neighbor in suspicion until it was learned tho miscreant had de- parted.
 Max Merz, vao was personally con- ducting the lecture, halted in pained astonished After the turmoil had somewhat subsided he inquired be- seechingly: Shall I continue ''
 "Yes, go on," was the response, and under the convoy of another pair of detectives fur ished by Copeland Townsend, the Majectics manager, the lecture proceeded to it's destina- tion.
New Britain herald., 1917-02-16
TO BOOM REFORNfATORY,

Chief of Police. William J. Raw lings, Edward c. Connolly and Miss Elsie c. Osborn, probation officers mem bers of: the Women's advisory committee of New Britain Charity or ganization and other prominent char ities and correctional workers have signified their intention of going to Hartford next Wednesday when the Legisla tive committee on Humane Institutions gives the first public hearing on the bill providing for the establishment of a state reformatory for delinquent women. The hearing is scheduled for o'clock in the af- ternoOn.
New Britain herald., 1917-02-16
CARGO CONGESTION
 MAY BE ENDED SOON
(Continued from First Page) patrol boats were awaiting outside to escort the ship to an anchorage.
$ Must Increase Halifax Force.


 Washington, Feb. 16.-Details of the arrangement for examing east bound transatlantic shipping at Hal flax, N. S., instead of Kirkwau, are being worked out rapidly through ex- changes between the British admiral ty, the Canadian authorities and the British embassy here.
 Robert Spear Hudson, third secre- tary of the embassy, now is in New York consulting with the British consul general and with representa- tives of shipping interests, prepara- tory to going to Halifax, where he will act as the agent for the emhcJsy in arranging for the examination of shipping.
 The comparatively small force of inspectors already assembled at Hali- fax to search the passengers and car go of the Danish liner Frederik VIII, upon which Count Won Bernstorff and his party are travelling, is said at the embassy here to be inadequate for examination of the total volume of shipping expected to pass by way of Halifax and it will be necessary vir- tually to duplicate the elaborate ma chinery at Kirkwall.
 The consideration of conducting the examinations on the western side of the Atlantic, which British officials here declare is entirely indeference to the needs of American commerce, American ship masters are expected to cooperate and avoid any attempt to make their way across the Atlantic without inspection.
 Instead of abandoning the practice of issuing 'letters of assurance" to merican exports to facilitate the handing of their goods in transit, the British authorities now state that this practice will be made general and all exporters will be required to procure such "letters of assurance.
New Britain herald., 1917-02-16
TOWERS IS EULOGIzED.
Attorney Alling Speaker at Elks
 Lodge of Sorrow.

Exercises in memory of the late Joseph Towers were held at the meeting of New Britain lodge, B. r. O. E., last evening. Attorney B. w.. filling, delivered an eloquent eulogy There was a large attendance of friends of the dead commissioner present.
 District Deputy w. c. Twombley of Stamford paid his official visit to the lodge and complimented the officers and members for the excellent condi- tions he found. Three candidates were initiated after which a social session was held.