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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-28
A BAVARIAN HATE SONG

What kind of songs the German
sings in his trenches we shall not
know to any extent until we make
peace with him. He'd hate song, of
course, he has taken pains to apprise
us of; but another song, not exactly
Of brotherly love, comes over by the
roundabout way of dead mans kit.
The London Times prints a Dig
ging Song" so it was called, which
was found written in the diary of a
Bavarian corporal named Sanktus,
and was collected with other letters
and papers in German trenches be-
fore Verdun. The following is a
rough translation of the poem:
Come on, all you fellows, let each
take his spade,
For the trench work that we must
be plying,
An underground dugout must also De
made,
AS a place for the Prussian to lie
in;
Wherever the fighting is done under
Bavarians are wanted and have, too,
their worth.
(Repeat.)
The gallant Bavarians-this is their
fate;
At everyone's pipe to be jigging;
While the lazy bone Prussian reposes
in state,
The Bavarian's delving and dig
ging;
He's kept at it still-with no chance
of escape;
For there must be commands, and
there must be red tape.
The Prussian is fed like an OK in
STALL
Or his guilet would split with his
gaping,
But the hungry Bavarian gets moth
'ris the veriest fast that he's
keeping;
Bavarian, then, what Will happen TO
you,
With nothing but digging and dogs
work to do?
The Frenchman, he doth the Bavar-
ian dread,
He takes good care not to attack
him;
But seeing the skunk of a Prussian
He's ready to go in and whack
him.
Out of the trenches the Prussian
must clear
Why didn't they put us Bavarians
there
So long live the gallant Bavarian
corps,
To them be a coat of arms given;
Two shovels laid crosswise, a pick
ak before,
And, as a supporter, a bavin-
The best of all badges for each COM
mon man,
Who digs when he's got to, and digs
when he can.
From the Literary Digest.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-28
EDITORIAL COMMENT

The Kaiser seems determined to
have so many of his fighting men
killed off that there will not be
enough left after the war to start
a revolution.-New York Morning
Telegraph.
1t is said that "Bolsheviki" is in
no standard dictionary, which is
not strange when it is considered
that the Bolsheviki are not up to
standard in any other way, either.
Inquirer.
If Lloyd Georges latest proposal,
free medical attendance for every
body, goes through Parliament, good
health will not longer be the dis
tinguishing characteristic of the
poor.-New York Evening Post.
Why not a synthetic substitute
for Kaisers wall Street Journal.
Mount Lassen has quit. There
was too much competition.-Chic
ago Daily News.
The German idea of an armis-
tice is that the other fellow stops
fighting.-New York World.
On the instant that Mr.. Kerensky
said he was tired, he disappeared.
No man can afford to be tired in
reVolution.-St. Louis Globe-Dem-
ocrat.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-28

rapidly developing Hill section. The
State calls upon the municipality to
relocate the structure authorized by
vote of the people to be built at
Walnut street, and the opinion of
the experts, to say nothing of a
great many people who are not ex-
perts. is that the bridge should be
so located that it will be in harmony
with the wonderful plan for a
beauty spot in the center of Harris
burg and at the same time facilitate
communication with the highland
part of town.
When these plans are received
there will be opportunity for the
people to study them. They will be
shown for the benefit of Council and
explained for information of the
people who will vote on the ques-
ton. 1t is hard to believe that there
will be much opposition to the
change. But at the same time the
people should know exactly what
the State plans to do and how the
bridge will fit into the general
scheme which everyone knows. will
mean much to Harrisburg.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-28
New York Times.1

New York Times.l
"HE story told on the witness
stand by Colonel Isaac N. Lewis
makes it the duty of the Senate
Committee on Military Affairs to
conduct a thorough and exhaustive
investigation of whatever it is that
is the matter with the Ordnance
Bureau. 1t should go to the bot
tom. 1t should dissipate the fog of
doubt that now hangs heavily over
that bureau and bring up what Is
under it. In time of peace 1t is not
we'll that important army improve
ments should be delayed or stopped
because of personal feeling, but in
time of war, and above all at this
moment, such a state of affairs
would be criminal. We can put up
with it in time of peace, in fact we
have put up with it; but If one
mans prejudices stand in the way
of our equipping our soldiers with
weapons for perhaps a year to come,
then prejudice and personal feeling
cease to be merely censurable.
OF course it will be denied, it is
denied, that the failure to adopt the
Lewis gun is due to personal feeling.
But the circumstantial evidence does
not favor the denial. Merely to Sc
lect one incident IL IS eXtraofdl-
nary that when Colonel Lewis sent
two checks for $17,500 to the War
Department, representing royalties
he had received on guns made for
the British government and divert
ed to the United States, the War
Department deposited the checks,
but would not even write him let
ter of acknowledgment of this fine
action. Besides, General Crozier'S S
previous denials do not inspire faith
in future ones. Why did he deny, as
he did. that Lewis had offered the
gun to this government free of roy
atty?
The question is whether we are to
send a million men to France when,
according to Lewis testimony, they
cannot be properly armed for a
year. There is no doubt that they
could be armed if his gun were ac-
cepted. The British and French are
using it now; they used 10000 in
the last drive. The Ordnance Bu-
reau. that is to say, General Crozier.
maintains that it is not good
enough. 1t is good enough for the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-28
BLOW TO PROHIBITION"

licity department of the National
Association of Distillers and Whole
sale Dealers, just received at this
office, flies a streaming line across
the page: -Four Dry Massachusetts
Cities go Wet-Blow to National
Prohibition"
Between the time of publication of
the clip sheet and its receipt in Kan
sas City Congress had voted to sub
NIT the prohibition amendment.
That elbow to National prohibition"
somehow didn't fall so heavily that
anybody would notice it.-Kansas
City Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-28
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Speaker r. ]. Baldwin is sci
ting up pins to run again in Deld
ware county.
John C. Bell, former attornd
general, says it is a mistake to dis
continue instruction in German bd
cause some one has got to know tn
language to spot those who use
for unpatriotic ends.
H. II. Rowand, the new did
trict attorney of Allegheny count
was assistant district attorney I'D
seven years.
DR. r. II. Harte, prominent Phil
adelphia surgeon, was seriously hui
in an accident in France.
Calvin Pardee, Jr., the Hazletd
coal operator, is arranging for a pi
rade for the drafted men of his dill
trict.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-28
LABOR NOTES

Girl bus drivers in London receive
50 per day, with an additional war
bonus of $1.25 weekly.
International Machinists' Union in
six years increased it's membership
from 5000 to 100000.
Two Labor party candidates will
run for the Middlesborough eng
land) electoral districts.
A retirement law for superannu-
ated Government employees is fav-
ored by the A. f. of L.
Twickenham, England, has now
five horse butcheries, owing to the
influx of Belgians to that district.
About 80 per cent of the German
masons and their helpers are in the
military service.
Thirty women wearing khaki
trousers are working as pipefitters in
a large New Jersey chemical plant.
The Texas Court of Criminal Ap-
peals has upheld the Eel Paso anti
picketing ordinance.
England is sending from 5000 to
10000 women workers to France
every month.
Policemen in Dallas, Tex, have
won their long fight for the eight
hour day.
The five Plasterers' unions in st.
Paul and Minneapolis have amalga-
mated.
Baltimore garment workers will
secure 10 per cent increase on jan
uary 1.
Tacoma (Wash.) nurses, through
their association, have raised their
rate $5 per week.
Hugh L. Frayne, labor representa-
tive on the war industries board has
been entrusted with the duty of look
ing after the welfare of men and
women employed in war work.
Two hundred women recently dp-
piled at the Portsmouth IN. H.)
Navy-yard for the 100 positions now
open for women in the electrical
shop.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-28
THE SILVER LINING

The Army investigation n
brought out some depressing thin
and If we thought they were inc
table accomplishments of big tas
like war-when undertaken by
democracy we should be in a hon
less state of mind by this tin
But we know they are not. "
know they are the result, the nd
ural and unacceptable result, oil
wrong system. The system is
part of democracy, it is merely
growth upon democracy and can
cut away.-Kansas City Timeg
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-28
TO SHOW WHAT 1T MEANS

~ SUPERINTENDENT GEORGE
A. SHREINER's request to the
~ distinguished planners of the
Capitol Park extension and beauti-
fcation to advance the studies for
that part of the great undertaking
which will demonstrate the advisa-
bility of locating the bridge at State
street is important for Harrisburg.
The city is vitality interested in the
relation of the proposed park to its
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-28

II
General Crozier as chief of the
ordnance bureau?
We are talking of sending
lnllnon men to France" next spring
and due to Crozier's backwardness
and his personal antagonisms even
if we do have the men We will not
have the machine guns with which
to equip them and without which
they cannot fight. Worse than that,
it may be spring of 1919 before the
American Army has sufficient guns
of the kind to make it an efficient
r1iIitary force-unless we borrow
more weapons from poor, hard
pressed France. And even so they
will go into the trenches with
weapons that never have had five
minute test in actual battle and
concerning the effectiveness Of which
no Army man can testify from
actual experience.
The story of Crozier's inetticiency
is sad one, for it is going to cost
thousands of American lives before
his stupidity has been overcome.
The allies are to-day using 10000
Lewis machine guns, on every one of
which the inventor, Colonel Lewis,
a retired United States Army officer,
receives $50 profit. Colonel Lewis first
offered this gun free to the United
States Army and Crozier, his per-
sonal enemy, declined it without a
trial. Afterward the Germans, un-
der the guise of Belgians, almost got
it, but Colonel Lewis withdrew when
he discovered the ruse and in 4S
hours after he had landed in Lon
don the English government had
adopted it and given him an enor-
out 5000 a week in English fac
tories and all the allies are using
them, having demonstrated that they
are the highest type weapon in the
war.
Now comes Colonel Lewis to offer
1000 a month to the United States,
he to turn all his profits from the
manufacture back to the govern
ment and to give his own services
absolutely free, to which Crozier
turns a deaf ear, and goes forward
with plans to make what is known
as the Browning gun, which he and
others say is superior to the Lewis
gun. That may or may not lie true,
but it cannot be manufactured be-
fore the tools are made with which
to turn it out and the government
is only now advertising for the tool
makers, That means months and
months before a Browning gun can
lie made, and even then it will be
very much of an experiment. Mean
while, our boys in the camps are
drilling with wooden models and
our boys abroad are at the mercy of
the French government and - alb
surdity of all absurdities-are using
the very kind of guns which Crozier
declines to give them, althougn he
might have 1000 every month if he
desired.
Now if the Germans only will wait
politely until we can turn out suffi-
cient Browning guns, and the
Browning gun proves the success
claimed for it, why everything will
be all right.
But how about men like CrozieI
in the government service? How
about continuing in office a mar
who will let our armies go unarmeG
to France when he might have
equipped them with a very superior
type of weapon? How about an off.
Ger who puts personal antagonisms
before patriotism? What is TO bt
Jonn x1yifh clIph hao
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-28
THE WATER SUPPLY


will readily comply with the
request of Mayor Keister tha
they use less water until the supply
can be increased, but that is not the
important point. The necessity
never should have arisen. Harris.
burg is now suffering for the mis-,
taken economies practiced some
years ago when upon recommenda-
ton of the then superintendent
Council agreed to reductions OF
rates that left the department ham
pered for funds for the purchase OF
much needed equipment.
Back of all this is another fail
ure of the poor old Clark act. Be-
fore they were bewled out by the
passage of the small council law,
trained and efficient commissioners
had charge of the water depart
ment, They had made a close and
lengthy study of the situation.
There never was a time when the
city was in peril of no water. Water
rates were among the lowest in
the United States and the supply
was pure and abundant at all times.
The men in active charge had been
in their respective positions for
years and they knew their jobs.
Then came the Clark act, with its
change in office every few years, its
dropping from the service of the city
of practically every man who. had
been responsible for the growth and
development of the water plant and
the substitution of others who had
to learn from experience what the
former commissioners and employees
already knew. Political expedient
demanded a reduction of the water
rates, and it was done. Came an
other campaign, and another cut.
And now, with the city larger than
ever, with munition plants running
over with urgent Government war
orders. all requiring an ample sup
ply of water, what do we find? The
supply insufficient and the pumping
equipment little better than a wreck
and working overtime every day of
tthe week. Under the old form OF
government this would not have
happened.
Council must, as the Mayor has
outlined, back up the present SUI
perintendent in an effort to correct
the condition as soon as possible
The matter already has been toe
long postponed. When Commission
er Dunkle retired he left with Coun-
ell a complete outline of the condition
and needs of the department, but
notwithstanding this, little or moth.
ing was done, other than to include
appropriations for improvements il
the annual budget. The water de.
partment head should have knowr
that the city was on the verge of G
disastrous water famine and SHOULD
have taken whatever radical steps h,
found necessary. Instead, he waited
to be prodded. Quick action is nee
essary. Harrisburg must have wa
ter, whatever the cost. We are pay
ing the piper for ill-considered ex
periments in municipal government
and for inefficiency and politica
jugglery in office.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-28

Some of these days when American
soldiers get machine guns. and
rifles, and uniforms and other things
of the sort. Germany may be prompted
to make a real peace offer.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-28

The Mt. Carmel man who lost ten
toes in a blizzard has the consolation
of knowing he will never have his
toes frozen again.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-28

The only man who ever broke a
who never made any.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-28

Food conservationists are now using
turkey hash as a medium.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-28
STRIVE NOT

Strive not with a man without
cause, if he have done thee no harm.
Proverbs iii, 80.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-28
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg steel is used
for gun carriages for the Army?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-28

The German "shock" battalions usu-
ally get just what their name i'm
plies.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-28
OUR DAILY LAUGH

LADY, said mo-" didn't I? Why
don't you go away?
Hobo-Ah, lady, a beautiful wom-
ans no so often means yes.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-28

HISTORIC HARRISBURG
Signal corps men were establish
in the dome of the Capitol duril
the Gettysburg campaign.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-28

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.,
Telegraph Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-28

Girl bus drivers in London receive
50 per day, with an additional war
bonus of $1.25 weekly.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-28

Ell. STACKPoL5,P Pres't s. EditoT-in-C Chfsf
F. r. OYSTER, Business Manager.
GUS NJ. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-28

John P. Dohoney, investigator o.
accidents for the Public Service Com
mission, was forced by the exigencie;
of his work to spend Christmas DaJ
in Pittsburgh. He had to eat dim
ner in that city. When he went q
one of the big cafes he ordered whaI
he would have gotten at home.
"Meatless day. sah," said the wait
er.
But want turkey" persiss-
Mr.. Dohoney
Sorry, sab, dats meat. We cd
fish, sah," replied the man with th|
tray.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-28
TOO LITTLE FOR THE JOB

r SN'T it about time we got rid of
General Crozier as chief of the
ordnance bureau?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-28

Hugh L. Frayne, labor representa-
tive on the war industries board has
been entrusted with the duty of look
ing after the welfare of men and
women employed in war work.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1917-03-30
NUMBER 3s
American Women
Responding to Call.

American women are notably re-
spending to the call to DO into the
Red Cross service. In New York
City alone it was said last weekend
that more than $500 would be
Immediately available for the hos
pital auxiliary service of the Amer
lean Red Cross in the event of war.
Since this country severed diplo-
matte relations with Germany, the
Red Cross training center has been
swamped with volunteers and il
has been necessary to enlarge the
quarters. The Red Cross has been
busy collecting supplies and mate.
rials for an emergency. War aud
the Red Cross work will take the
desire for the ballot out Of the sys-
TENS of a good many American
women-if, indeed, such women
ever desired to vote.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1917-03-30
Nashville GrOcers
Cut Out Delivery.

Some Nashville grocers are going
to cut out the alleged free deliv-
cry Of purchases made in their
stores and give their patrons the
benefit Of the considerable saving
So-called FREE delivery has never
been free in Nashville or elsewhere,
for the delivery vehicles and driy-
ers are maintained at the expense
OF the consumers, but in houses
running that system the purchaser
Of goods which he takes into his
own hands, pays for something he
does not eet-delivery. The dealer
finds the delivery Of goods a bur
den, but he is sharp enough to also
know that the telephone and deliv-
cry sell for him many goods that
would otherwise remain on his
shelves. Delivery also means cred
it--and there you are.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1917-03-30
AMI Stock LQlD. People Haze
Meeting and Pass ReS0lu uti0nS

wilfully and knowingly. while Ia
the Legislature convened. discrin-
mate against the majority Of the
voting populace Of Henderson coun-
ty in favor Of a chosen few leaders
of the minority, without due
thought, care or consideration
which is a strict violation Of every
principle Of justice and good GOV
ernment.
1T further appears also that Sen.
ator Fulghnm did concur with Mr..
Montgomery to railroad this In.
iquitous and Styeian law over the
protest Of the majority Of their con.
stituents in this county. This inior-
nation was obtained from q letter
written by Mr.. Fulehum, under
date OF March ~, in which ne said
that he was bound to observe the
wishes Of Representative Monteom.
cry. That was the first intimation
we had received that Mr.. FulRhum
had been elected on a platform de-
clarine that Mr.. Montsomery's In
terest and wishes should be para
mount to that Of all the people !
therefore now submit the following
resolution for your rejection or
adoption:
RESOLVED, First, That we will NOT
support the said MONTGOMERY or
Fulghum for any public Office either
Of profit Or trust.
RESOLVED, Second, That we will
not support for county Office or for
Representative any candidate Ia
sympathy with the stock law, and
that each and every candidate
shall be required to pledge them
selves to do all in their power to
have the said law repealed.
RESOLVED, Third, That we are op-
posed to minority rule. tyranny and
despotism and that we favor fair
and just elections and a rule Of the
majority; and we further believe
that all local measures should be
referred to the people Of the Sec
ton affected, and thus determine
by a fair election whether q meas
ure proposed shall or shall not be-
come law; and that our Repre-
sentative shall be so instructed"
A resolution was adopted ~
questine the county papers to pub
lish the above resolutions
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1917-03-30
Mission Day a Suc-
cess With Baptists.

Last Sunday was Missions Day
at the First Baptist Church Of Lex
ington and, we are informed, was
the successful in the history of the
local church organization.
For mission purposes, home and
foreign, the handsome sum Of 1920
was raised in the Sunday School
alone. each class contributing its
pro rata part and thus making the
very gratifying total given.
The Baptist Sunday School is to
be congratulated upon its recogni-
ton of the necessity for missions at
home and abroad--likewise its lib
erality in the matter Of giving to
that cause. for in religion, as in all
else, the final test Of man is
MONEY.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1917-03-30
Both OF Them
Wanted the Baby

Judge N. R. Barham heard an in.
terestins habeas corpus case last
Tuesday brought over to Lexington
from Decatur county, over the Gus.
tody Of the 15-months-old child Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Calvin Milan, who
have been residing near Beacon and
have been living apart The hear
ing consumed several hours. as
there were thirty or more witness
es.
Judge Barham gave the child to
the mother until the first of May,
at which time the little fellow Is to
be given into the custody Of the
father to be kept until the June
term Of the court, when further ac-
ton will be taken.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1917-03-30
German Cruiser
Returned Home,

The German auxiliary cruiser
Moewe returned to its home
port last week and reported that on
its second trip into the Atlantic it
had captured % steamships and
five sailing ships. The Germans
have certainly done vast damage
to the various kinds Of vessels Of
the entente nations--and the end is
not yet; but the sixty days are out
since Germany's declaration Of UNI
restricted submarine warfare and
England has not even bent its
knees, much less got on them to
Germany, as the Kaiser predicted
would happen.