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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-12
APPEALS FROM WEST

Two appeals from the West were
made to Senator La Toilette this
week. one came from former men,
ber of the Socialist party, Charles
Edward Russell. who pleaded, or
rather demanded, La Follette's
resignation. That was vain. Bob has
Ave years and FIVE months to serve;
more than $4,000 and mileage to
draw from the Treasury. IL he con-
serves his health by refusing to walk
in patriotic professions he will con-
tinue to gum up the Senate until
March, 1928, unless his colleagues
kick him out.
The other message to the Prune
of Primrose, was sent by seditious
Socialist:
"The Hon. Robert La Toilette, United
State Senator. Wisconsin, Wash
ington, d. C.:
Omitted States Marshals are in
office now with warrants to seize
property.
"ADOLPH GERMER."
The German creature has been one
of the most venomous of the pro-
German puhlicists. When at last the
machinery of the law nipped him II
WAS natural that he should turn to
the Senator from Wisconsin.
We shall be interested to see what
steps La Toilette takes to protect
Herr Adoiph Germer. who evidently
believes that his hero has some pow
ers above the law.-New York Sun,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-12
THE WAITING

l wait and watch, before by eyes
"Methinks the night grows thin
and gray;
wait and watch the eastern skies
To see the golden spears uprise
Beneath the orifiamme of dayl
Like one whose limbs are bound in
hear the day-sounds swell and
grow,
And see across the twilight glance,
Troop after troop, in swift advance,
The shining ones with plumes and
snow.
I know the errand of their feet,
l know what mighty work is
theirs;
I can but lift up hands unmeet,
The thrashing floors of God to beat,
And speed them with unworthy
prayers.
I will not dream in vain despair
The steps of progress wait for me;
The puny leverage of a hair.
The planets impulse well may spare,
A drop of dew the tided sea.
The loss. If loss there be, is mine,
And yet not mine IL understood;
VI OiS Shdil grasp anu Oll0 TeSi5nt
One drink life's rue, and one its
wine,
And God shall make the balance
Ngood.
o power to dol o baffled will!
o prayer and action! we are one;
Who may not strive, may yet fulfill
The harder task of standing still.
And good but wished with God is
done.-Whitttert
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-12
THE SOLDIER ANSWERS

A DJUTANT GENERAL THOMAS
~ ], STEWART answered the last
call yesterday. The man who
made the Pennsylvania soldiers of
this generation worthy of the tradi-
tions of their forefathers in the
Revolution and gave him an un-
equalled standing in the organized
militia of the American republic died
In the midst of the work to which
he had given the best years of MS
life and which is the Montgomery
county soldiers monument. He
would not have had it otherwise. The
call came to him on duty and he an
swered with a record of things we'll
done.
General Stewart held the office of
adjutant general longer than any man
in the history of the State. \There
have been some distinguished men in
that place and the Keystone State
has been high in military matters, as
in industry, finance, philanthropy
and other activities which make up
our life. But Stewards record will
shine beside them. Thrice he was
called upon to send the citizen SOL
diers into the service of the nation,
and he was summoned to reorganize
and re-equip and change and relo-
cate the organizations with a fire.
quency that would have disheartened
a man with only an ordinary sense
of duty He was the heart of the
Pennsylvania National Guard,s whose
position to-day in 'the armed forces
of the land is a matter of pride
to all.
The place of General Stewart in
the social, fraternal and political
life of Pennsylvania was a notable
one, because he had a personality oil
his own. He was welcomed every
where and he will be missed every
where.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-12
Soldiers Must Have Tobacco

A MERICAN soldiers are now in
n France. More are going every
week. They'll soon be up in
the front trenches fighting. They
need smoke now and then to mako
things a little more comfortable for
them, to ease their nerves after a
terrible day under terrific lombard
ment.
"Our Boys in France Tobacco
Fund" rs West Forty-fourth street,
New York city, has been organized
to furnish tobacco to the soldiers.
Every dollar you contribute buys
four packages of tobacco, each with
a retail value of As cents. In each
package is postcard addressed to
the person who paid for 1t. The SOL
dier accepting the package will send
his thanks. on the card to his friend
back home.
The Medical Journal writing of
tobacco, says in recent, issue:
Some. of the clergymen of Los
Angeles object to the distribution of
tobacco among the soldiers at the
front by the Red Cross Society.
While the grounds for this objection
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-12
HEROISM

No truer patriotism, no loftier
heroism can be found than that
which is often displayed on a ships
deck, and to my mind there is
scarcely any other position which is
so manly and grand, and which
makes such demands on the noble
qualities of a true man, as the COM
mand of large vessel. Selfcontrol,
fortitude. quickness of perception,
knowledge of men, enterprise,
presence of mind in action and ex-
alted courage and fidelity to trust
are but a few of the qualities re-
quisite to the good seaman and ship
master, and they are qualities which
are often displayed at sea, not only
in the navy in the time of war, but
in the ordinary merchant service,
Nor are the great deeds of seamen
the less. noble and valuable, as ex-
amples of what man Is capable of in
the hour of trial, because SO often
or rewarded at most by
a few obscure lines in the marine
columns of the daily newspapers, or
by n gold chronome eter or service of
G.. w. Benjamin.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-12
MR.. HOOVER ON MEATS

Food Administrator HooVeRs ad-
dress to the National Livestock Con-
ference on the subject of meat sup
ply and prices must have surprised
his hearers, as it undoubtedly will
startle consumers. Food control as
recommended and to some extent
practiced has contemplated the sus-
pension of customary business meth
DDS and even of economic law. If
government was not actually to fix
prices 1T was to regulate production
and distribution as to prevent extor-
ton.
Now Mr.. Hoover says that in view
of thd worldwide shortage of food
animals and the insistent demand
for meats, prices must continue to
soar, and that the only remedy,
aside from selfdenial, is to increase
production. Pricefixing is not pos
sible and seizure of the packing
houses will not do, he says. Stock
growers must have prices that will
stimulate their industry.
Wherein, then, does that program IN
differ from the usages responsible
for the conditions as to food which
the governments elaborate plan. of
control was designed to correct? The
first principle of economic law is that
scarcity expresses itself in high
prices, ana that hlgh prices In turn
not only restrict consumption and
prevent waste but encourage pro-
duction so that normal relations be-
tween producers and consumers may
be restored. Voluntary agreements
as to prices to be paid stockgrowers
have been entered into by the pig
packers for many years and have
been the basis of more than one
Federal prosecution.
If Mr.. Hoover means that he can
do nothing more than this, his ad-
dress was less dissertation on food
control than a panegyric on the i'm
mutability of the law of supply and
demand.-New York World.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-12

are not stated in the newspaper re-
ports, they can easily be inferred. 1t
is hardly likely that they will carry
any weight with the Red Cross au-
thorities. The intense nervous strain
imposed by the conditions at the
front in the present war requires
that everything possible should be
done to allay nervous irritation.
"Amusements for the men when
relieved of duty at the Immediate
front are recognized as an important
factor in preventing neurosis. Many
of the men in the army are con-
firmed smokers, and to deny these
men tobacco is to induce a degree
of nervous irritation which will ma
terially initiate against their eff
ficiency.
1T would be the height of folly,
both from a medical and a military
standpoint, to deny tobacco to the
men at the front. Much to their
credit, the women of Los Angeles
who are prominent in relief work
practically unanimously favor pro-
viding tobacco along with other COM
forts for men at the front"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-12
CORRECTED MORTALITY
(From the New York Herald)

(From the New York Herald)
Some time ago the Herald" noted
that the impression apparently so
prevalent among the friends of
American soldiers that large pro-
portion of the American expedition
ary forces cannot look forward to a
safe return home was entirely un-
supported by the actual experiences
of the war and utterly uniustified by
the official satisfies. The French,
who have suffered the most, have
a mortality of scarcely more than
IA per cent. for the six months of
strenuous fighting from January to
July of the present year.
But the whole story of the fighting
in the west of Europe shows more
favorable results even than that The
statistics carefully collected from
official sources show mortality for
all the allies on the western front OF
not more than IL per 1000 of those
engaged. This figure includes also
those who died subsequently, some-
times even long after, from battle
wounds.
In spite of another prevalent inn
preston to the contrary, carefully
fostered in some quarters, the NOR
tality of recent months is not high
er than it was at the beginning of
the war, put much lower. 1t was
the first million men from France
and the first hundred thousand from
England who had to bear the brunt
of German preparedness and their
own comparative unreadiness. The
lesson of war has been learned. The
mortality of British and FAench
forces now is not much more than
one-fifth what it was at the Marne
and in Flanders.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-12
WHOLE DUTY OF KINGS

Kings are not responsible to God,
but to their people, whose will Keeps
them on their thrones. We want
kings who, bowling to this principle,
are willing to give an account of
their actions in this world and not in
the next. If they also have special
accounts to settle with God, they can
do so after their deaths IL they reach
Heaven. If kings, are to succeed in
remaining and reigning after the
present maelstrom that is visiting the
world has passed they will do so
only If they respect and meekly sub
NIT to the will of the people over
whom they reign. Kings nowadays
are but presidents of republics who,
instead of being elected every four
or five years, receive their offices
hereditarily. From a speech of
Elentherios Venizelos in the Athens
Hestia.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-12
A TRIBUTE TO WOMAN

have observed among all nations
that the woman ornament them
selves more than the men; that.
wherever found. they are the same
kind, civil, obliging, humane, tender
heings that they are ever inclined
to be gay and cheerful, timorous
and modest. They do not hesitate,
like men, to perform a hospitable
or generous action not naughty, nor
arrogant, nor supercilious, but full
of courtesy and fond of society; in
dustrious. economical, Ingenious:
more liable in general, to err, than
man, but in general also, more vir-
tuous, and performing more good
actions than he.-John Ledyard
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-12
ANOTHER cREEL FuAsoo

q ECRETARY DANIELS needs a
~ new press agent. The Creelized
reports of naval successes are
more in need of censor than the
uncensored press reports which Mr..
Creel was appointed to curb Fol-
lowing the Fourth of July battle"
story, a typographical error in the
Navy publicity department yesterday
thrilled the country with the report
that six German submarines had been.
sunk by United States warships. Sew
eral hours later, after early editions
of the newspapers had published
news of the great victory" secre-
tary Daniels himself was forced to
the embarrassment of a public de-
nial. Isn't it about time that some-
body censored the censor?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-12
JUST PLAIN OURS

To those misguided persons,
largely of foreign birth, who in this
hour of the nations peril seek to
stab 1t in the back by resisting
its laws and giving aid and comfort
to the enemy we commend a few
words spoken before the American
Bar Association by Andrew Alex
ander Bruce, an Associate Justice
OF the Supreme Court of North Da-
kota. This gentleman, q native Of
India, came to this country as an
English alien and received his edu-
cation here. In his new home he
has prospered and made an honor
able name for himself. He expresses
his loyalty to the United States in
these words:
came to this country alone and with
out friends. We sponged on all that
America had, her free lands, her
free schools, and above all, her spirit
of openhearted comradeship. She
owed us nothing, but she gave us
all. We should be ingrates, we
should be ours, If in this hour Of
her need we counseled with her
enemies or were disloyal to her
cause"
Contrast this utterance with that
oI lue Wretcneu creatures VINO came
to America from Russia, found an
asylum from oppression here and
prospered, but who have since gone
back to their native land to slander
the United States and spread demor-
alizatlon and anarchy among the
people and the army. Many of these
tngrates still linger here and strive
to scatter sedition and distrust. In
the language of Justice Bruce, they
are ours. Fortunately. their number
is few as compared with the CRATE
full millions who share the views of
the North Dakota Judge as to their
duty to the country that has given
them everything. - Philadelphia
r oQ0rd
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-12
FUNDS IN SLIPPERS

That every woman can do her own
little bit" in her own particular
way is asserted by Tom l.. Johnson,
Spanish American war veteran, who
proves it with an incident that oc-
Cured on the train speeding to
Camp Douglas from Milwaukee the
other night.
A soldier found himself entirely
without funds to pay his fare and
faced removal from the train and
consequent report as absent with
out leave" when a young married
woman, on her way to visit her hus-
band at the camp, realizing his po-
sltion, removed a dainty white slip
per from her foot and passed it
through the car amid the applause of
the passengers, When the slipper
had made the rounds it contained
S3.15.-MilWaukee Sentinel
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-12
WHAT ABOUT COAL

VIZ HEN President Wilson ap-
wv pointed DR.. Garfield fuel ad-
ministrator the public under
stood that it. was for the purpose of
reducing coal prices to the consumer,
as well as for the institution of re-
forms for fuel conservation. In
stead, retail prices in Harrisburg and
elsewhere have been increased
sharply. DIR. Garfield has promised
regulation in Philadelphia. where
similar conditions prevail. Harris
burg would be obliged, indeed, if
the Federal administrator turned his
attention to this city. We should like
very much to know why prices have
not been reduced and, if the retailers
are justified in the advances they
have imposed, just what benefit
Federal regulation is to the con-
sumer.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-12
WELL KNOWN PEOPL|

The Rev. Daniel I. McDer|
Philadelphia priest, who has
after Mayor Smith over certain|
ditions, has frequently crusade
that city.
DIR. J. P. Kerr and e. V.
cock, two of the candidates
Mayor of Pittsburgh, are sal
have developed into real on
since the campaign started.
-Isadore Stern. who was pi
nent in the last Legislature, Id
with serious charges about ex|
tions in Philadelphia.
Franklin Spencer EdmI
Philadelphia lawyer we'll ki
here, is taking an active part Id
formation of the school mobiliz|
Col. L. A. watres, former
tenant Governor, is head OF
Home Guard at Scranton.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-12
THE CHARITY REPORT

" HE report of Secretary Nc
Candlas, of the Associated
Aids, shows very clearly the
scope of work this organization is
doing in the community and its
need of hearty public support. An
interesting feature is the varied lines
of activity undertaken by this clear
ing house of charitable work in Har-
risburg.
Time was when a charity meant
merely the giving of relief in cases
where families or individuals had
not the means of keeping soul and
body together. A bucket of coal
and loaf of bread were considered
"a generous response to request for
laid. But charity is no longer ad-
l9ninisteFed with such an inadequate
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-12
PIONEER GOLD MINER

On his way to Livingston, Mont,
to attend a meeting of the Society
OF Mountain Pioneers, David b.
Weaver, seventy-eight years old,
of SaXton, Bedford county, paid
Altoona a visit. He is one Of
the two survivors of the prosperous
who discovered the first placer gold
mines in Montana. He was one of
three men who discovered the placer
mines in the Yellowstone Valley,
August 80, 1864, and later he un-
covered the rich fields of Emigrant
Gubch, out of which millions of
dollars were taken. He was born
in Hope%ell, Huntingdon county
and was twenty-three years old when
he went west.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-12
CRIME OF CARELESSNESS

Suppose that when we get well in
to the war there should be in one
year thirty-tive thousand of our
soldiers killed; seven hundred thous-
and seriously wounded; and 2 mill
lion slightly injured in battle, what
pail of mourning would hang over
this country!
But that many deaths and casu-
alties occur by accident to workmen
in the industries of the United States
each year, and we scarcely hear il
mentioned. The worst of it is that
the great majority of all these deaths
and injuries are the results of care
lessness. They are preventable ac-
cidents. Three-fourths of those
thirty-five thousand dead might just
as we'll be alive, earning a living
for their families.
A workman tosses a burning Gig
aret stub into pile of scrap material
in shirtwaist factory in New York
and one hundred and forty-five en-
ployes are burned to death.
Taking a shorta cut through the
railroad yards to get home, John
Jones was struck by switch engine
and killed, says a news item; and
there were five thousand deaths from
that cause alone in this country last
year.
A workman cuts his finger and
goes on working. Germs infect the
wound, blood poison sets in, he dies.
There are thousands of deaths each
year from that cause alone. A wash
Ing of the wounds and then a dash
of iodine upon each one would have
prevented all those deaths.
And so it goes; nearly million
casualities-a year through careless
ness.
do people fall over this prectpice
often?" asked a woman passenger
as the stage coach careened toward
the edge of 300-foot cliff. -
mo mann, they never fall but
once" answer the driver.
Carelessness is one crime where
punishment is swift and sure.-Kan-
sas City Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-12

conception of the duty of the pros
porous member of the community
! TO the "down-and-
The Harrisburg Associated Aids is
no mere temporary relief society.
It Is devoted largely to construc-
tive family service, the advising of
the unfortunate, putting the jobless
in the way of the job. solving indi-
vidua1 problems, Strengthening out
tangled family skeins, the giving of
loaf where needed-ln short, the
mobilization of the resources of Har-
risburg in the interest of those who
stand In need of aid.
The society Id encountering Just
now what Its secretary is pleased
to term 'genteel poverty"-persons
In distress for tho first time, sorely
In need of assistance and too proud
to ask for II. To those the society
wishes to bring home the fact that
IL stands as the expert adviser for
the man or woman who cannot
make ends meet or who has troubles
OF family nature which he or she
as an individual does not know how
to overcome. The society would
like to De approached in this spirit.
1t would have people in general
understand that no stigma attaches
to such applications for assistance,
Just as the troubled city official goes
for advice to the city solicitor. so. the
distressed citizen is invited to lay
his problem before the sociological
experts in charge of the Associated
Aids. The society is simply an in
strumeut for the use of the COM
munity and the more frequently it
is used the better for those who
need its kindly guiding hand.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-12
SON OF THE SEA

I was born for deep-sea faring;
was bred to put to sea;
Stories of my fathers daring
Filled me at my mothers knee.
was sired among the surges;
/ was dubbed beside the foam;
All my heart is in it's verges,
And the sea wind is my home.
All mykboyhood, from far vernal
Bourns of being, came to me,
Dream like, plangent, and sternal
Memories of the plunging sea.
Bliss Carman.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-12
SEEKS LOST GRAVE

In search Of the graves of he
ther and mother. who were kill@
the Scott Indian massacre. Mrs'
Kitchen, of Walla Walia. WasI
In Baker county. Oregon, but 81
has had no success. She was q
at the time of her parents dea
The massacre was in the '60s
timers tell how Scott and his
were ambushed and shot on !
Creek. when they were returI
from O dance. The father wa
stantly killed and two shots pi
Mrs. Scott's body,
Their children, a boy of ., a
baby girl, were asleep In the boI
of the wagon and escaped. Thd
was Mrs. Kitchep,-P ortland
gonians
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-12
LABOR NOTES
By Briggs

A strike of Edinburgh Scotland
dressmakers was successfully arbi-
trated.
over 10000 of the half-mIllIon
working girls In Japan are under 20
years of age.
Six hundred young women carpen-
ters are at work building army huts
for the British soldiers.
There was slight decrease in the
cost of living in Canada in July, as
compared with June last.
Hundreds of women are being
trained for telegraph service by the
Santa Fe Railroad Company.
Henry L. slobodIn, chairman of the
New York State Socialist party. calls
on labor to support the war.
Nine thousand miners in Tredegar
Valley. Monmouthshire. Wales, struck
owing to several alleged grievances.
Railway employees of Leeds, Eng
land. are asking for double the pay
they were receiving before the war.
South Wales steel and tinplate op-
eratives demand 100 per cent. bonus.
They now get 37h to SIN per cent.
The 141 savings banks In New York
state show a gain of over 500, 900, 900
in resouTces during the past year.
Special series of courses have been
organized in Columbia University for
training women for banking positions.
Pennsylvania's mining laws require
TO mule to be given 700 cubic feet of
air minute and miner 200 cubic
feet.
A call has come from france for a
volunteer unit of 100 women workers
to be recruited Immediately and sent
to France for service in cAnteen sta
tions.