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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-09
NO FAVORS FOR RICH

Camp Dix, Wrightstown, N. j.
There will be no tailormade uniforms
for wealthy rockies at Camp Dix.
This announcement was made fol-
lowing the call of a fashionable Phil
adelphia tailor upon Kingdom Gould,
millionaire recruit from Lakewood.
now private in the Three Hundred
and Eleventh Infantry.
The tailor, with an assistant, To-
Gated Gould at his barracks and an
nounced to that surprised young SOL
dier that he had called to measure
him for his uniform. 1t happened
that Uncle Sam, in the guise of a
supply sergeant, had issued q COM
plete private's uniform to Gould a
rev minutes earlier. Gould told the
tailor that one uniform was about
all he could wear. but the tailor in
sisted that he must measure the
young millionaire for two expensive
suits, and said that q relative of
Gould's had placed the order Pri-
Vate Gould replied that the govern
ment was looking out for all his
needs He fairly had to shoe away
the much chagrined tailor and his as
sistant.
There are reports that Gould is to
have a commission in an engineering
regiment. At the headquarters OF
the Three Hundred and Eleventh
Regiment it was declared that the
personnel board had not considered
Gould's qualifications for promotion.
Wealth or social position cuts no
ice with the modern army" said an
officer. Uncle Sam gives commits
sions only for services that can be
rendered. the Philadelphia
Record.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-09
THE RAILROADS. PART

N ECRETARY OF WAR BAKER
~ testified in his Chamber of Com
merce address last evening to
the efficiency of the American rail-
roads in handling the vast quantities
of supplies and materials loaded
upon them by the government in the
preparation of the great canton
ments for the National Army. and
those who know the facts will agree
that the tribute was we'll deserved.
But the Secretary did not tell the
whole story.
Figures issued by the Railroads
War Board recently show that about
$500 carloads OF food and other
necessities are being delivered daily
by the railroads at these canton
ments and the camps where the Ma
tional Guard is being trained for
service abroad. according to reports
just received by the Board.
Accurate figures as 10 the extent
to which the supplying of food and
necessities for the soldiers at the
training camps will intensity the
transportation problem will not be
available until all of the camps have
received their full quota of men.
AS the Secretary intimated the
task which the railroads have been
asked to perform is difficult. 1t in
wolves the supplying of all the
necessities of life for sixteen non pro-
ductive cities of a population of 40.-
900 each, and fifty-six smaller cities
ranging in population from 800 to
5000. Altogether. more than a mill
lion men gathered at the various
cantonments must have their daily
necessities brought to them by the
railroads. AS it takes at least five
pounds of food per day for each SOL
dier, in addition to- the food. cloth
ing, fuel and other supplies that are
constantly needed. the railroads have
their work cut out for them.
Our railroad men, from the After
burys and the Kennedys, who have
gone to France. down to the hum
blest trackhand, all have their parts
to play in the successful prosecu-
ton of the war. and they are quite
as important in the general scheme
of things as the men in uniform who
carry the guns and get the cheers.
The superintendents. the trainmas-
ters, the engineers, the flremen, the
conductors and the trainmen who
get the freight over the road in the
least possible time and without ac-
cident, are mighty big factors in the
war preparations now under way.
Never was there a time when the
railroads of the country were oper-
ated under suoh difficulties or SO
efficiently.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-09

to die, this is worth it a thousand
times.
II have been over two or three
times before, but never with a COM
pany of my own. Think of it-a hun
dred and fifty officers and men who
will follow you to He'll, if need be! y
II don't want any of you dear peo-
pie to be sorry for me, although, of
course, you will, in a way. You will
miss me. but you will be proud of
me. Mind you, know what l am up
against and that the odds are against
me. am not going in the way l did
the first time, just for sheer devil
ment and curiosity. l have seen this
game for two years, and 1 still like
1t and feel that my place is here.
80 much for that. want to thank
you from the bottom of my heart for
all your loving kindness to me. This
war has done wonders to me and
makes me realize lots of things I
would not have done otherwise. 1
could write book about 1t, but you
know what / mean.
"Good-by, dear father and mother,
and all of you. Again 1 say that 1
am proud to be where I am now.
"(Signed),
"GORDIE."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-09
THE WAR REVENUE ACT

~ INCE the adjournment of Con-
gress the business community
~ and the people generally are be-
ginning to find out more about tie
great war revenue act than they were
permitted to learn during the con-
sideration of that measure.
One of the things which is arous-
ing widespread criticism is the para
graph taxing salaries and earnings of
professional and business men eight
per cent. over and above $4,000 a
year. Next to the outrs geous i'm
position upon the newspaper indus
try this paragraph is about the limit.
It is understood that Claude Kit
chin, the southern gentleman who
happened to be chairman of the
HOUSE committee on ways and means
was responsible for inserting this
excessive profits" tax, and as he has
maintained throughout his whole
course in the House a spirit of an
tagonism to the industry of the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-09
SAVE THE FODDER

There is one product of most farms
that is not conserved as 1t should De
and that is the corn fodder. the
part of the corf crop which is not
nut into silos would provide more
Valuable feed than it does If farmers
would endeavor to, store and use the
fodder of the huske9 corn more care
fully. Analyses show that dry, we'll
preserved corn fodder corEtains only
Slightly less protein and Nat, and
more carbohydrates than Dies tim
othy hay. Practical exnerience
shows that such roughage, when
shredded and fed, produces better
results with milk COWS than tiSnothy
hay.
est food value, the corn must iRe cut
before it is dead ripe, or while the
stalk and leaves are quite green. u
cut at this stage, well snocBed, l,
promptly husked, and the fodder put
under shelter or well "rtcked, the
nrtritive elements may be nearly all
retained. II, however, it Is left eX-
nosed to the weather for any length
of time the loss is great. The ele-
ments of nutrition in corn stover are
very soluble and it has been found
that it depreciates rapidly, the loss
amounting to so per cent or more,
wnen subjected to alternate rains and
drying. 4,.,o
II will furnish q great deal OF val
IIable feed, and the refuse, or the
mart not eaten, makes the best kind
Of bedding and absorbent.-Pennsyl-
yapin Farmer.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-09
MIR. HERSHEY'S GIFT

TINE presence of NJ. S. Hershey at
the Chamber of Commerce din
ner last night serves as a re-
minder of the shameful manner in
which the city of Harrisburg has
treated his gift of the Donate statu-
ary. Isn't it about time that Council
gives some attention to the placing
of this work of art? Or is it to con-
fess that it cares nothing for the
beautiful and would rather pay stor-
age on the fountain than have it on
free exhibition in one of our public
places?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-09
ALL SIGNS AGREE

A LII the time-honored signs point
n to a long. hard winter. The
wild geese are flying south
much earlier than usual, the leaves
are falling from the trees in that
occult manner which portends cold
weather, the squirrels are boarding
nuts more greedily than ever. The
goose's wishbone has not yet been
uncovered-but it doubtless will tell
the same story. In addition. the ad-
has fixed a price for
coal which Nis higher than that of
last year, the food conservators tell
Us to cut down on the eats. Mr.. Nc
Adoo warns us to get ready for
higher taxation. Thus man rein
forces the precepts of nature.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-09
rHE SEASON rAsr oLosING

!" HE falling leaves and the frost
on the pumpkin most admonish
our city officials of the import
ance of completing as rapidly as pos
sible all outside work There is no
time to be lost in putting the streets
In f1rst-class shape, doing all the
planting necessary in the park areas.
and giving attention in every way
to the things which are important
from the standpoint of protection
and conservation. It should also be
remembered that any additional fa-
cilities for the water department
ought to be supplied without any
delay.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-09
NO REWARD FOR HALE

M ATTHEW HALE. of Boston,
N who poses as the national
head of the Progressive party
and who sponsored the abortive con-
ference at st. Louis last spring when
the only tangible result was a de-
cision to flirt with the Prohibition
lists, has been nominated for Lieu
tenant Governor by the Democrats
of Massachusetts. He will not be
elected. of course, and his nomina-
ton has put, him beyond being re-
warded. as Victor Murdock and
Bainbridge Colby have been. through
appointment as a minority member
of a government commission.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-09
Soldier Boys Brave Farewell

AS an illustration of the lofty
sentiments possessed by men who
die on the European battlefield in
the war for democracy, and a re-
minder for Americans who may be
backward in contributing to the Sec
ond Liberty Loan for the same great
cause the Liberty Loan Committee
has made public the last letter by
Captain V. G.. Tupper, of the Cana
dian Scottish Sixteenth Battalion. to
his father, Sir Charles HILBERT Tup-
per, before his death at the battle of
Vimy Ridge last April. The soldier
wrote:
MY Dear Father am writing
one of these in case letters for the
third time, and, of course, / hope
you will never have to read it. If
you are reading it now, you will
know that your youngest son went
under as proud as Punch on the
most glorious day of his life. 1 am
taking my company over the top
for a mile in the biggest push that
has ever been launched in the world,
and 1 trust that it is going to be
the greatest factor toward peace.
Dad, you can't imagine the Won
derful feeling; a man thinks some
thing like this: Well, If 1 am going
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-09
HERE Is A PUNCH

Phe most reliable authorizes deny
that France is "bled white" France
has had ghastly ordeal, put sne Is
stronger in national energy than
In 1914 her shots, for all field
guns. averaged 1900 q day. She now
sends into the enemy's face $4,000
shots a day. In the beginning OF the
tiiiery, To-day she has 5000 pieces.
Her casualties at the Battle OF the
Marne were Sal per cent. To-day
thev average 1928 per cent.
France has a million more men
In tho feld than she had at the be-
ginning.
And here is punch: Germany
was whipped at the Battle OF the
Marne, but the square-necks don't
know it, and it is this stubborn. bull
necked ignorance that is putting the
finishing touch on the Teutons.
The Silent Partner.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-09
GIRARD AND THE LOAN

~ LSEWHERE in the Telegraph
II to-day appears one of Herman
L. Collins (Girard) excellent
Liberty Loan primer. This primer
is of special value to the hundreds
of Harrisburg school children who
are interested in the forthcoming
contest in which winners in a short
essay contest will be given cash
prizes. Prospective entrants should
clip Mr.. Collins primer. And the
fathers and mothers of these en-
trants should read it, too. So should
the small investor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-09
WANTED-FACTS

Navy officials were quoted by the
Associated Press yesterday as depre-
eating the publication of reports
that the submarines have been beat
en-. While they have confidence in
the final outcome, they say that the
drain on the Allied shipping re-
sources is heavy.
This sort of frankness is far bet
ter than any attempt to lull the pub
lie into a false sense of security.
The nation wants to know the facts,
no matter how discouraging they
may be. A country that can't stand
up under encouragement has no
business trying to maintain it's po-
sition in the world.-Kansas City
Journal,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-09
BELGIAN DECORATIONS

The deportations occurred near
the end of the period of our stay in
Belgium. They were the final and
the fully sufficient exhibit, prepared
by the great German machine, to
convince absolutely any one of us
who might still have been clinging
to his original desperately main
tanned attitude of neutrality that it
was high time that we were some
where else-on the other side of the
trench line, by preference. There
could be no neutrality in the face
of the deportations; you are for that
kind of thing or you are against it,
We are against 1t; America is against
it; most of the civilized nations are
against it. That is the hope of the
lantic Monthly.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-09
John BULLS WAY

In Great Britain five men run the
war. There the stolidity of con-
servatism and of caste has been
melted in the crucible of all-compell-
ing time and need. The energies of
Great Britain have been fused into
one great and single effort. that of
projecting its lighting armies fed aud
equipped into france. Fdch flu
sion and concentration of spirit must
be the experience of America. Thus
only will 1t exert all its power and
employ all its resources to bring the
Government of the German empire
to terms and end the war.--Phila-
delphia Ledger.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-09
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Chairman Ainey, of the Publid
Service commission. has been invited
to deliver an address at Scranton on
American diplomacy in the East.
Senator William E. Crow, thd
State Chairman, has been spending
several days visiting eastern cities
and declaring that he will let polil
tics drift for awhile.
Secretary of Internal Affairs
Houck was at the seashore over thu
weekend.
Mayor Armstrong. of Pittsburgh
is out making Liberty Loan speeches
-Ex-Auditor General A. e. Sis
son, of Erie. is taking a big intereS
in organizing the Erie home defens
league.
DIR. Charles B. Penrose, chair
man of the State Game commission
is going hunting this fall in spit
of his recent injury to his leg.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-09

United States. 1t is not surprising that
he managed to slip in final sting
through the medium of the confer
ence report. Mr.. Kitchin, however,
saw to it that the salaries of con-.
gressmen were not included in this
tax.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-09
AMERICANISMS!

God grant that we soon may have
this tranquilizing peace of which
philosophers have dreamed and poets
have sung but peace when it comes
must mean the crushing of militar-
ism for all time to come.-Samuel
Gompers.
We will stand with the world
against militarism. We are not in
this fight because we love war. We
are fighting because we love peace.
We know that this world is not big
enough for peace and Prussian
militarism. Militarism, all militar-
ism, must be destroyed no matter
what the cost.-Clarence Darrow.
This war is the supreme struggle
of democracy against autocracy. Do
away with democracy and achieve
ment ends. Take whatsoever you
will in securing better conditions.
better hours, better pay, in emanci-
patton of labor. better division of
worlds wealth for labor-how will
you secure any one of these things
except through mocracy?-Charles
Edward Russell.
We cannot acquiesce in a cow
ardly peace. We cannot fail 10 strus-
gle against despotism and militarism
that would dominate the world. we
cannot surrender that democracy we
have inherited after so great strug-
gle.-John Spargo.
The true meaning of democracy?
1t is something that links the last
the least man with the throne OF
the eternal meaning of existence and
gives that humblest man the divine
enfra franchisement.-J. Stitt wilson.
1 see in the American Labor move
ment the greatest champion of an
democracy of free state
and of a happy and contented peo-
ple.-Frank p. Walsh.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-09
THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH

They are of the world; therefore
speak they of the world and the
world heareth them. We are of
God; he that knoweth God heareth
us; he that is not of God heareth
us not. Hereby know we the spirit
OF truth. and the spirit of error
I John ~, % and g.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-09
KNITTING

This war has brought q custom back
that seems to be most fitting
1t was the vogue in grandma's time;
it is the art of knitting.
Our women spend most of their
time
At knitting socks; they say it's fine
They meet in groups of eight or
nine.
Knitting,
Knitting,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-09
Knitting.

This knitting game was something
new to nearly every girl;
She had to learn to cast stitch, to
make a seam and purl.
But now they say it's simply rich,
1t isn't hard to cast a stitch,
The work goes on without hitch,
Knitting,
Knitting,
Our women are a loyal crowd, their
work is not for show;
Our soldier boys will sing their
praise, wherever they may go.
This knitting's made an awful hit;
For everybody's doing 1t;
You can't persuade the girls to quit
Knitting,
Knitting,
Knitting.
Our soldier boys will wear the socks
our girls so kindly knit.
Here's hoping, girls, that you will
try to make a perfect fit.
An awful thing 'twould be, you see.
A misflt sock Is misery;
The soldiers all, we fear, would be
Quitting,
Quitting,
Frank l.. Armstrong in the Pitts
burgh Gazette-Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-09
. TUESDAY. OCTOBER o. 1917

There are people toho do not knoto
hot0 to 1odSte their time alone, aud
hence become the Scourge OF busy
people.-DE BoNALD.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-09
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg is rolling
steel plates for Pacific coast
shipments?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-09
A MERE YOUNGsTER.
obbroHiaticns |

Duck: You say you're over hfe.
years old. eh! Why you're not our
OF your shell yeti
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-09
AN IMPRESSIVE GATHERING

THE dinner of the Chamber of
Commerce last evening was an
impressive event. Secretary Baker
brought to the assembled business
men the wonderful story of the re
sponse of American business to the
needs of the nation, and Governor
Brumbaugh rendered the Secretary,
in the name of the Commonwealth,
Pennsylvania's mighty aid in the gil
gantic task now confronting the
country. The speeches were marked
by red-blooded Americanism and an
entire absence of political feeling or
reference. The spirit manifest was
zone for all and all for one"
A characteristic of the Secretary's
address was entire absence of doubt
in the outcome and wholehearted
confidence in the ability of the coun-
try to carry out successfully the
work so well begun, and the response
of the Governor was in full accord
with the patriotic impulse of a State
that has given to the country the
best National Guard in the world"
which is sending the flower of its
young manhood into the training
camps, which has cheerfully shoul-
dered the great responsibility of pro-
viding one-tenth of the resources
necessary to carry on the war and
which must provide the bulk of arms
and other supplies required by our
armies and those of our allies.
The Chamber of Commerce has
done an excellent thing in affording
this opportunity for Harrisburgers
to acquire first-hand information as
TO just what the government has
done and is doing in the way of
putting the country on a war footing,
and to get reflection of the spirit
manifest in the undertaking.
In presenting Spencer C. Gilbert as
toastmaster of the banquet of the
Chamber of Commerce last night,
David E. Tracy. the president took
occasion to compliment Mr.. Gilbert
upon his service to Harrisburg 1t
was a fine tribute to a citizen who
stands out pre-eminently as the type
of man who serves his fellow-men
without hope or thought of reward
other than the satisfaction which
comes from doing that which is help
full and unselish. All present approved
Ghe deserved compliment, and storm
of applause emphasized Mr.. Tracy's
sentiment
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-09

HISTORIC HARRISBURG.
Harrisburg FORCES made munition
for the American Army in the Wa
of 1912.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-09

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.,
telegraph Building, Federal Square.
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Member of the Associated Press-The
Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled to the use for republication of
all news credited to IL or not other
wise 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, 1917-10-09

Ell. J.STACKPoLE,P Prss't s. Editor-iH-C c hisf
F. r. OYSTER, Business Manager.
GUS NJ. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-09

John II. Reitinger of the Phila1
delphia office of The Associated
Press, was in terrible state today
Mr.. Reitinger has reported every ond
of the big worlds series baseball
games for years, with a score or SO
of intercollegiate football games
thrown in and thousands OF Harrls1
burgers have read his stories Wltnou
knowing that the well-known newsI
paperman who comes here to "cov1
err the State Senate when in session
was the field expert. But it happens
that Mr.. Reitinger has also been
handling the news reports OF thd
sensational Philadelphia political
hearing.
Tombstone epitaph., 1917-05-27
cocHIsE MURDERER
 ESCAPES FROM PEN

Word has been received here that one of the most cowardly murder. CTS who was ever convicted in Co chise county. Luther c. Price, had made his escape from the Clifton road camp. Luther Price was con vic'ed or rather pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to life Imprisonment for the killing of Tol Wilson, in the Chiricahua muontains. He was with Wilson. got him drunk and then camped rear an old well. during the night be killed him and threw his body down the well. and then took Wilson's horses. saddle and outfit and tried to sell them.
 He was arrested shortly afterward Price had always been an cdtiaw before this and he is now believed to he the party who caused the dis appearance of one or two others in that locality.
Tombstone epitaph., 1917-05-27
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE, AT PHOENIX, ARIZONA
 State of Arizona

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN Notice is hereby given that the State Of Arizona has filed in this of. ice its School Indemnity Land Selec- lion. List No. ls1. Serial No. 0332s2. applying to select as indemnity. the following described lands. to-wit: List No. l6l. Serial No. 0332s2:- In T. l6 s. R. g E.: VIZ NwA: NwL SWA Sec. l4; WIZ Sec 2l.
 tAll in c. & S. R. M.) During the five weeks period of pub iication of this notice. or any time thereafter and before final approval and eertification. this office will re. ceive protests or contests as to any Of the tracts applied for and transmit the same to the General Land Office. Dated at Phoenix. Arizona, Mar. 5, 1917.
 J. L. IRWIN,
 Register.
 JOHN J. BiRDNO.
 Receiver Date of first publication Mar. II, 1917.