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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-04

that each Should have equal chance
for preferment. Merit alone should
count.
1t is encouraging to note, accord
ing to the Manufacturer source of
information, that the college and uni
versity men of wealth, and those who
have had the opportunity of studying
world problems, have been the ones
who have most quickly responded to
the call of the country They have
demonstrated that money has not
sapped the vitality of American man
hood; that money has not destroyed
the patriotism of the young men
of the land, and, with all of the priv
ileges which boundless wealth has
conferred upon them, they have held
that duty to the nation was the su-
preme test of character, and they
have measured up to the call.
The man from the shop is the
"bunkie" of the man from the bank;
the lad from the cottage is tent
chum of the youth from the man
sion. Each will learn from the other
and when they come home again
there will be a great smashing of the
bars of caste. Rich or poor they will
find that the rank is but the guinea
stamp; a mans a man for a that"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-04
Somewhere in France

When Rochambeau's gallant troops
came ashore at Newport to help the
American colonists win independ-
ence from their mother country, 1t
was to write one more page in a
chapter of history that goes back to
Troy and Carthage. But when
BLACK Jack" Pershing strode down
the gangplank at Boulogne to take
command of our country's armed
forces in France, a new volume was
opened, a volume that may conceiv-
ably close with nothing less than
the federation of the world. Our
age has long been perfecting the
means by which human unity can
be maintained. Steam and electric
ity are the conquerors of estranging
space and sundering time. The men
of the eighteenth century had al
ready shown how education, justice,
and liberty can answer that dreary
riddle of Ignorance ruled by tyranny
for which ancient wisdom had no
solution. Our own United States has
been above all others the land
where the races of every cline might
meet unhindered by the jarring am
bitions of historic nationality. The
symbol of that whole revelation is
our flag borne by our soldiers
through French streets in the pa
.rades of July IA. the anniversary of
the fall of the Bastille. The foe is
the old one: the doctrine that some
nations and classes must rule others
by the sword. Against that enslav-
ing creed, as upheld by Prussia's le-
gions. the new world has set its
strength. Voices are raised in Ger
many that seem to show realization
of this, voices declaring that Ger
many cannot stand alone against the
tide of democracy that now flows
strong even through what was the
Russian Empire. The world turns
to a new order in which there shall
be scope for the best that all men
can do. There are wrongs to be
righted. evils to be atoned. but. more
than these, there is this vision of a
lust politv for all mankird. and 1t
is for those who can see that vision
to bend their every energy to its
triumph/ That is what the Stars
and Stripes means as II floats in
France in this year of grace 1917
Golfers Weekly
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-04
THE DIFFERENCE

TTOW we do change our views!
II Only a few weeks back pub
lication that may as we'll be
nameless shed great salt tears in
copious quantities and took the
TELEGRAPH righteously to task for
daring to publish pictures of one of
the little camps of national guards
men protecting the railroad bridges
hereabout. Yesterday that same
journal printed pictures of Truck
Company No. on its way to Mount
Gretna with full information as to
route, destination and other details.
What a few months back hysteri-
cal publishers thought gross viola
tions of propriety. If not actually
treason, they now look upon as evi,
dences of enterprise. The chief diff
ference between them and the
TELEGRAPH is the length of time
required to arrive at correct point
Of view.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-04
Prugh to Pack
o TIE Editor of the TeIegrabh:

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Will you please give space to the
following letter addressed to Charles
Lathrop Pack, president of the Ma
uonal Emergency Food Garden Com
mission:
Dear Sir:
Your letter of the 23d ult., sent to
supposed pastors of the churches of
our land, reached me in due time,
but found me so busy that l have
not had time to reply to it before
this.
You will note by this letterhead
that l am not pastor, but am en-
gagged in the task of helping to over
throw the liquor traffic of our coun-
try.
The object of your endeavor is a
laudable one, albeit / am not sure
that the business of the pastor is to
turn his attention to the serving of
tables. The Church has a far great
er work on her hands than looking
after the conservation of the natural
bread. If she look after her own
mission faithfully, she will do her
full share in eliminating all kinds
of waste, for waste is not Christian
virtue.
''I can not but feel that there is
mighty lot of official trifling with
what l believe to be a very vital ques-
ton, conservation of food. Nothing
that has been said by your commits
sion or by any other agency looking
to its conservation has been too
strong for me; but I feel that, in
the face of very real danger of
shortage of food, 1t is even worse
than 'trifling,' yes, almost criminal
negligence of duty. for our Congress
and our President to hesitate for a
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-04
Cotton Going Abroad

While the terms of the trading
with h-the-enemy act seem harsh with
respect to aliens who made invest
ments in the United States in good
faith before the war, the administra-
ton and it's advisers insist that the
surest way to bring the war to n
speedy close is to prevent Germany
from getting supplies or from OBJ
tanning information of any kind from
the United States. 1t was this argu-
ment that forced the $64O,OOO,O0O
aviation bill through the House with
scarcely ripple. A certain mysti-
cism is thrown about such bills which
indicate that the administration
knows what it is about, but does
not desire, even though Congress, to
have its plan of operation made
known to Germany. So persistently is
TINS attitude maintained, both as to
appropriation bills and bills confer
ring military power, that the pos
sibility of doing injustice to those
who have hitherto been our friends
is not taken seriously into account.
Nor doesJft avail much to call atten-
tAOAA " NilO llhSiy WASTE OIL
funds in the making of tremendous
lump sum appropriations like that
for the aviation service without spe-
cific information as to details. The
administration answer comes back
each time, good and strong-"We
must have support and have it
promptly TO beat Germany, and we
deem these means essential. We do
not want to unfold our plans to the
enemy"
Oddly enough, it is a different
story when cotton comes into view.
Even the Presidents embargo pro-
clamation, which specifically men
toned foodstuffs and coal, iron and
steel among the forbidden products,
did not mention cotton. AS a conse-
quence, the attention of the House
was called to the omission, and dur
ing the debate it was admitted that
Germany had been obtaining Ameri-
can cotton through neutral countries
even since the declaration of the ex-
istence of a state of war.
Members from the Southern States
are naturally testy on the subject of
a cotton tax or any restrictions upon
cotton, and they met the charge that
the Presidents embargo declaration
had specially excluded cotton IN
silence. They did contend, however.
that what cotton had gone through
to Germany had gone through neu-
trail countries before the authorities
here were able to stop it.
Since the cotton that has been
slipping into Germany is used prin-
cipally as war munition and is as
much an aid to the enemy as food
stuffs or the incomeI from invest
ments, or the activities of German
insurance companies in the United
States, which the President has pro-
hibited, it is thought probable that
cotton itself will sooner or later be
placed under the license ban.-J.
HAMPTON MOORE.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-04
The Aircraft


BY Lewis Worthington Smith.
Once it was earth's chief glory that
we rose
Into the clear blue where the free
wind blows.
Up, up was mans long cry. We fash
ioned wings
We caught at wonder as an eagle
filings
His strength upon the tempest, till
Their madness, war. as if its shame
were pride.
Now, back they draw us from the
rapturous suns
To lead the furies, signalling the
guns.
Once, once again! Our hearts cry for
the air.
The sky is clear. No bugle's burst and
blare
Bids us be ravening monsters out of
Ours is the newer freedom and the
spell
OF speed and distance and the sweep
and swing
That mount and find the earth's hori-
zon ring.
Out of their murk fiendish message
runs;
We are their blazons signalling guns.
UP. up! The petty and the mean slip
by
A blotch of green below, above the
sky.
We are faith flying where the falcon
fails.
We are strength driving where the
seagull squalls.
We are love breathing where the
swallow wings.
| We are faith lifting where the sky
lark sings;
| And down they drag us where the
thunder stuns,
Not men, but demons, signalling the
guns.
From the English Tongue and
| other Poems. (Four Seas Co..
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-04
THE PEOPLES FORUM

moment to outlaw the using of any
foodstuffs in the making of alcoholic
drinks. If 1t be so important, as Mr..
Hoover put it, for housewives to
save the crusts, how infinitely more
important to save the 100000
loaves day that could be made from
the grains worse than destroyed by
the liquor traffic! Indeed, the heroic
efforts at conservation of foods put
forth by the various agencies would
be ludicrous in the face of the eff
forts of those in high places to save
the eX-German, pro-German beer
agency the criminal privilege of using
grains to perpetuate their nefarious
trafflc, If the danger were not so real.
The reality of the need to conserve
food eliminates these efforts from the
lud1crous and makes it dangerously
near reasonable.
I'm view of this, in the name of
patriotism and national service as
you appeal to me for my 'co-opera-
ton in placing this request ('to Join
IN the immediate conservation of
foodD before the members of your
(my) church, / likewise appeal 10
you to give me your 'co-operation in
placing this request for nation-w wide
prohibition so strongly before our
President and Congress that they
will be compelled to yield to the de-
sire of the vast majority of the
American people for it's enactment.
More than one result will thus be ac-
omplished:-
Il. Food supplies will be increas-
ed greatly.
"2. The manhood of the nation will
be greatly conserved and the pro-
ductive powers of the nation greatly
increased.
"3. The criminality of the nation
Will be greatly reduced, the resulting
wrongs to our people greatly lessen
ed, and the ordinary expenses of gov-
ernment greatly diminished.
I'VE rejoice at the passage of the
resolution for a constitutional
amendment by the United States SEN
ate yesterday, we greatly hope the
House will do as we'll, but we need
and should not wait in this crisis
time for the ratification of the
amendment by the requisite number
of States before securing nation
wide prohibition. Do your bit along
this line.
Sincerely yours,
''B. j.. p. PRUGH,
Prohibition State Chairman"
Harrisburg. Pa,
August 2, 1917.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-04
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Dairy and Food Commissioners
James Foust has been at Atlantic
City this week attending the meeting
of the American dairy and food Of
ficials.
IT, w. Tobias, Blair county con-
troller. is a strong good roads advo-
cate.
= Thomas ]. Harris, Johnstown Of
fetal well known here, Is candidate
for council in his town.
Lawrence Schnapps, Pittsburgh
traffic man, has been placed in
charge of passenger agencies in that
section by the Pittsburgh and Lake
Erie.
DIR. ]. T Rothrock, of West
Chester, attended his first meeting
Yesterday as forestry commissioner
since his reappointment.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-04
AUGUST

-ULY went out in a burst of alb
normal heat, but August is run
y ming pretty nearly true to form.
There is something at once delight
full and melancholy about August.
The summer season comes to its
height and wanes then. Vacations
begin and end. The full flash of the
warm season gives way to the haze
of Fall and the days are hot and the
nights are cool-forerunners of the
frosty evenings not far in the fu-
ture.
Clara Thaxter's stanZa sums up the
of the season most beau
tifully and completely:
Buttercups nodded and said good
bye,
Glover and daisy went off to-
gether,
But the fragrant water lilies lie
Yet moored in the golden Au-
gust weather.
The swallows chat about their
flight,
The cricket chirps like a rare
good fellow,
The asters twinkle in clusters
bright,
While the corn grows ripe and
the apples mellow.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-04
KING COTTON

T LSEWHERE on this page to-
n day is published an extract
from an address by Congress
man j. Hampton Moore on the no
cessity of including cotton on the list
of embargoes to neutral countries.
Strangely enough the embargo proc
lamation of the President fails to
specify cotton among the articles the
expectation of which is interdicted.
Yet cotton is as prime O necessity as
steel. 1t is an essential ingredient of
high explosives, it is a sine-qua-non
of clothing. Yet there is nothing save
a lack of shipping facilities to pre-
vent its expectation to neutral coun-
tries and it's final arrival at an enemy
destination. All the staple products
OF the North, those of the factory as
well as those of the field, are for
hidden to move from our shores ex-
cept by government license. But q
royal road is left open to King Cot
ton.
Nor is this the only instance in
which this favored child of Demo-
cratic legislation and administration
has figured. Cotton falls under no
BAN of taxation by federal authority,
either directly or indirectly through
the division of war profits. And It
was only when cotton was added to
the products to be controlled by the
food bill that the insidious assaults
began upon that measure under the
guise of an ethical pretense which
was chiefly bolstered up by the votes
of Southern legislators.
How long will this condition of
things continue? None can say. King
Constantine, OF Greece, managed to
stick to his throne a little longer
than. his cousin Nicholas of Russia;
and the two kaisers yet retain their
crowns. Their abdication or de-
thronement by force is not unlocked
for. If it shall take place prior TO
1919, they will precede King Cotton
into private life, as we think; be-
cause there is little hope that q Con-
gress which is controlled by Demo-
cratic majority hailing from the
Southern States will ever raise the
impious hand of revolution against
the sacred rule of King Cotton. There
can be no other kind of a Congress
until after the elections of next
year. We shall then expect the down
fall of King Cotton.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-04
NEW PLACE OF WORSHIP

IN EDICATION tomorrow of the
new synagogue of the Chizuk
Emuna congregation will add
a new and beautiful place of worship
to the many such in Harrisburg. This
congregation is one that has been
benefited by the removal of build
ings from the Capitol Extension
zone. The new temple at Sixth and
Forster streets is a direct result of
the removal of the congregation
from it's old home.
Chizuk Emuna is the oldest Jew
ish congregation in Harrisburg and
one OF the moic devoted. It's mem
bers have given literally toward the
new building. Tomorrow they will
be rewarded when the handsomest
Jewish synagogue in Central Penn
sylvania is thrown open to them.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-04
DEPosED, NOT DIsGRACED

~ ENERAL BRUSILOFF has been
(r deposed but not disgraced. His
~ resignation as commander-in-
chief of the Russian forces on the
eastern front in favor of General
Korniloff, the peasant soldier, for
the moment relegates him to a minor
position. But he is nevertheless Rus
sias foremost soldier. Had it not
been for the treachery of the Car
or those who surrounded him Brush
lof' would have laid all Austria trib-
ute to Russia. and might even now
be knocking at the gates of Berlin.
He is a bigger, better soldier than
Won Hindenburg and is the outstand-
ing military genius of the war, II
brilliant leader and a remarkable
organizer. Unless all signs, fail he
will be heard from again before the
war ends and may yet be in at the
death of the German menace.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-04
OUR VOLUNTEERS

THE American Manufacturer COM
ments Interestingly upon the
figures of the War Department
showing the number of men that have
volunteered for army or navy SER
vice since the war began, observing
among other things that "the higher
the degree of education of the man
or of the community. the greater has
been the spirit of patriotism and
self-sacrifiee. Wherever there is lack
of patriotism in the individual or in
the community, it may with safety
be said that there is lack of intel
ligent broad education"
This is neither a rich mans nor
a poor mans war. The other day the
collegebred son of one of Harris
burg's well-known men, went into
the army as a private. At the same
day a young man in the employ of
this same wealthy and influential
citizen was commissioned as first
lieutenant. And so far from being
jealous the father of the private
congratulated his employe publicly
upon his good fortune, wished him
God-speed and promised him his old
place back upon his return. Both
private and officer will make good
soldiers. They heard the call of their
country and volunteered. 1t is right
and entirely in accord with our dem
ocratic principles that poor and rich
should stand shoulder to shoulder
with each. other in the trenches and
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-04
A Dream of Peace

Can you lure me, Morpheus, in my
dream,
To a land where, peace and justice
seem
To rule supreme in the hearts of
men,
Then bring me back to this world
again?
Will you carry me into some vale of
peace,
Where wars and rumors of wars
have ceased;
Where the law supreme is the. law
divine,
Where peaceful rest shall e'er be
mine?
Can you take me to some pleasant
shore,
Where they do not know the horrors
Where Joy and happiness e'er in
And the sun goes down on a land of
peace?
Can you show me a valley where
every man,
Is glad that he lives in his own
peace-land,
And leave me there awhile with
them,
Fora little rest with peaceful men?
Can you carry me into land where
kings,
Are relegated as ancient things;
Where men of war are never heard:
But every one has a peaceful word I?
All Morpheus! Thou hast given my
dream,
For l lived in a land where all did
seem,
AS a haven of rest on a stormy sea I;
Twas a land of peace, heaven to
me.
But thou hast brought me back
again,
To land which throngs with mar
tial men.
OMorpheus, come on the evening
breeze,
And take me again to land of
peace.
BY V. e. waltimyer, Stewards
town, Pa.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-04
Sauaring Himself

Through some oversight last week
we failed to mention the return of
Mrs. Jonie Jones and daughter, Alice
from visit with relatives and friends
at Beardstown. The item was given to
a member of the News force, but
was lost in somo way before 1t
reached the news columns.--From
the Cerro Gordo News
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-04
City Responsible
tor of the Telegraph:

10 the Editor of the Telegraph:
Is the city responsible for the
number of drownings in the river re-
Gently? think SO and will tell you
why. If the demand of the public
Tor well conducted municipal bath
ing beaches had been needed by city
council, bathers would use these in
stead of bathing in dangerous places.
With life guards and life lines handy
there would be little chance of any
BODY going to his death, This is a
thought along the line of municipal
bathing places 1 have not heard ex-
pressed previously.
INTERESTED.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-04
WHY WE hight

~ ECRETARY McADOO in a
- speech yesterday assured the
~ public that America would fight
until complete victory" shall have
been attained. Complete victory over
Germany is necessary to insure
world-peace in the future. Germany
herself every few days gives fresh
evidence of this. AS a reason why
we are fighting and why we must
continue to fight until Germany is
conquered, take the sinking of the
English merchant ship the Belgian
Prince, related by one of two men
who escaped, as follows:
The German submarine tor
pedoed the Belgian Prince. but the
ship did not sink Immediately. So
they proceeded to loot 1t, smash
belts and then having the crew at
their mercy, forced them to come
aboard the deck of the submarine
and strip.
The submarine started off.
After running on the surface for
q mile or two 1t suddenly sub
merged, throwing the helpless
eight drowned.
Not until the sea and the land
shall have been freed from the raw
ages of these murderous marauders
can America sheath the sword she
has drawn.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-04
Germanv's Internal Problem

Germany's internal problem has
become almost ridiculously simple.
She is merely hesitating between
democracy and a dictatorship.-N
York Evening Post.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-04
An Easv lob

The new German foreign minister
is said to have a reputation as slug
gard and q late riser. He won't have
to get up very early to fill DIR. Zim-
mermann's shoes.-Savannah News
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-04
SOME LITTLE
WHILE.

All see yo' Is
h o u s ecleanin'.
said Mrs. White.
Yes, replied
Eliza, dey els
n o t him lak'
movin' things
round once in a
while. Why, All
des come err
eros a pair OBJ
slippers under
de bed dat All
hadn't seen foh
five years.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-04
SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 4

An ounce Of mirth t0iH SerUe God
further than q pound of sadness
THOMAS FULLER.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-04

1t is time the loyal newspapers of the
nation demand that this blot be re-
moved from the .escutcheon of jour
nalism in America.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-04

1t is stated that 1000 employees or
the Santa Fe Railroad in Coloraeo
will receive a 10 per cent. bonus
next December.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-04
NuNIoNs OF THE KAISER
THIS is the kind of thing the
New York Stats Zeitung pub
fishes almost daily:

llSHeS dlulOsI udliys
In Milwaukee, the city where
once there was to be read in the
show windows ALSO English is
here spoken" the German Ameri-
can Bank, has in slaVish servil-
ity. and fearing 1T mi~ht lose a
customer with the name Smith"
changed its name. Nix deutsch!
And these gentlemen of the bank
were before. the year 1914 those
who in Berlin, in Wiesbaden and
in Hamburg wanted to be feasted
as German Americans"
If an American newspaper pub
lished in the English language in
dulged in such sickening balderdash
It's editor would be hailed before the
federal authorities at once-and very
properly so. But the German press
is permitted to traffic in treason to
the United States the while 1t fattens
off the prosperity of the country. and
the Department of Justice sits idly
by and smilingly twiddles its thumbs.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-04

If the war continues for three YEAR,
more many of the railroads of tae
United States will be operated by
women.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-04
Attack Concentrated

The Austrian empress is said to be
strongly in favor of peace with every
body except the Emperor Charles
Boston Advertiser.