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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-10
STOP 1T NOW

~ITY COMMISSIONERS GROSS,
with the cooperation of the
police department, should not
lose a day in stopping the dumping of
garbage and loose paper over the
river bank at Maclay street and
northward. Already the neighbor-
hood is plastered with rubbish blown
from the dumps along the river
bank. This is simply outrageous.
A few examples of those respon-
sible for this sort of thing will soon
remedy the trouble.
There must be no let down in the
care exercised over the cleanliness
and health of the city. There must
be q strong hand at the helm to
prevent the breaking down of the
regulations regarding the disposal
of garbage and ashes and waste.
Much of the trouble, of course, has
come from the utter failure of the
contractors to properly dispose of
the garbage and ashes of the city,
but even this is no justification for
the dumping of the noisome offal
on the streets and vacant lots.
1t must be stopped and 1t ought
to be stopped instantly.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-10
NO CUTTERS!

General Pershing fears the Amer
lean people may be discouraged by
the reports that the deadlock on the
western front cannot be broken.
American resources, he insists, with
those of our Allies, can force mill
tary decision.
The general needn't be disturbed.
The American tribe is used to long,
uphill fights If we recall correctly,
our forefathers fought for independ-
ence several years longer than the
present war has lasted. In the Civil
War both North and South held on
in the face of the greatest discour-
agement.
Grant moved against Lee in May,
1864, in the campaign that was to
speedily end the war. But one bat
tie followed another, with enormous
losses, until Lincoln became con-
vinced that he could not be re-elect-
ed, and the opposition party adopt
ed platform declaring the war a
failure. But these politicians mis-
read the feeling of the people. The
prolonged deadlock on the Peters,
burg front did not discourage them,
and finally Northern resources tri-
umphed over Southern determina-
ton. The day came when the lines
defending Richmond crumbled and
the war suddenly ended.
General Pershing may rest as
sured that there is no other thought
in this country to-day than to fight
it out, The American people come
of a fighting stock. They are not
quitters.-Kansas City Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-10
FOR INDUSTRIAL WORK
washington ID. c. Star.l

washington Cd. CD Star.
Within three months after its or
ganization the United States Public
Service Reserve has enrolled more
than $4,000 citizens for industrial
work, 5000 of whom are skilled en-
gineers. The reserve was organized
as an industrial clearing house" to
equalize the distribution of labor
during the war, and these men, who
represent almost every state, have
their present employment If they can
serve their country to a better ad-
vantage in some other line of actiV-
ity.
William e. Hall, named by Secre-
tary of Labor Wilson as director of
this work, is pushing as rapidly as
possible the work of organizing state
branches, Pennsylvania being the
only state to have such an auxiliary
at present. Care will be taken not
to interfere with men now working
in essential industries, and such
workers will be recognized by the
award of some insignia showing they
are directly aiding the nation in
the prosecution of the war.
At present the reserve is rapidly
placing men in various departments
of the Government where special
skill and training are required. More
than six hundred divisions have been
established, and every name filed is
cross-indexed so that it is possible
to pick men for any special task at
a moments notice.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-10
GERMAN-AMERICAN LOYALTY.
BY c. KOTZENABE.

M emotions tell me one thing
M at this awful time, but my
reason tells me another. AS
German by birth it is a horrible
calamity that 1 may have to fight
Germans. That is natural, is it not ?
But as an American by preference,
can see no other course open.
For twenty-five years Germany has
shown dislike for the United States
the Samoan affair. the Hongkong
contretemps, the Manila Bay incl
dent, the unguarded words of the
Kaiser himself, and, lastly, the Hal
tlap controversy in 1914 =.
And 1t has not been from mere COM
mercial or diplomatic friction. 1t is
because their ideals of government
are absolutely opposite. One or the
other must go down. It is for us to
say now which it shall be.
Because of my birth and feelings
beyond my control have no particu-
lar love for the French and less for
the British. But by a strange IRONY
or rate L see those nations giving
their blood for principles which I
hold dear, against the wrong princi-
pies of people 1 individually love. It
is very unhappy paradox, but one I
can not escape. 1 do not want to
see the allies triumph over the land
of my birth. But 1 very much want
to see the triumph of the ideas they
fight for.
1t sickens my soul to think of this
nation going forth to help destroy
people many of whom are bound to
me by ties of blood and friendship.
But it must be so. 1t is like a dread
full surgical operation. The militar-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-10
THE VALLEY TERMINAL

"HE sooner City Council passes
the ordinance permitting the
proposed Valley Railways
changes in Walnut street the better
for all concerned. The plans have
the approval of the Municipal
League and the City Planning Com
mission, which is a guarantee that
the city's interests will be protected
and that the traffic problems they
are designed to solve will be met
thereby.
The Valley lines are destined to
deliver to Harrisburg each morning
and transport back to the Cumber-
land side each evening almost as
many passengers as are carried by
the Harrisburg trolley lines. The
West shore is rapidly becoming a
great residential section. Eventually
it will be city of many thousands.
But most of its people will continue
to have their work or business on
this side of the river. Even now the
congestion during rush hours has be-
come we'll nigh impossible, result
ing in Inconvenience and delays, not
alone to 'cross-river people, but to
Harrisburg passengers as we'll.
The proposed terminal station in
Walnut street will solve this problem
and relieve traffic conditions in Sec
ond street and Market Square aswell,
Double tracks will be required over
the river and, as has been intimated,
this will require a new bridge. Here
is where Harrisburg and Cumber-
land county might find the long
looked for answer to the free bridge
question. What would stand in the
way of the city, Cumberland county
and the railways company joining to-
gether in the construction of a
bridge that would at once provide
free foot and vehicle transportation
and room as well for two trolley
tracks? Possibly, there are unsur-
mountable obstacles in the way of
such an enterprise, but If so they are
not apparent.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-10

lures. Twenty-Five years ago lum-
Der was regarded as almost as much
of a necessity as wheat, while to-
day it is steadily being replaced by
various substitutes. Each year more
steel, concrete, brick or tile is be-
ing used in places where lumber
was formerly employed. This is
particularly true in cities where
enactment of building codes and the
development of new forms of con-
struction have created a demand for
more durable building material.
Shingles have given way largely to
composition and tile roofings; wood
en- sidewalks have been almost
wholly replaced BY cement, while
the modern skyscraper with. its steel
framework, and stone, brick or tile
walls. occupies the site of some for
mer frame structures, and what
other cities are doing Harrisburg
must do. The frame firetrap must
stay down once it is down and re-
moval of such structures should be
encouraged.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-10
FIRE PREVENTION


TYRE prevention has become a
question of supreme importance
throughout Pennsylvania. Fire
Marshal Port recently issued a re-
port showing that from January l
to September 80 of this year more
than 1900 fires occurred in Penn
sylvania. This enormous loss ought
to be avoided in practical ways and
the appeal to the people to be more
careful should have response every
where.
Incendiarism must always be
reckoned with, of course, but most
of the fires and destruction through
fires result from the carelessness of
the people themselves. There are
few houses in which there is not q
constant invitation to fire through
the dumping of hot ashes against
wooden structures, oily rags thrown
in out of the way corners.
unprotected gas jets against fiimsy
lace curtains, cigar ends carelessly
thrown away and other indiscretions
of the same sort. There is careless
ness on every hand and If the losses
from fire are to be reduced it is the
business of the people to take a hand
in removing the causes.
What are you going to do about
cleaning up your own premises, re.
moving waste and paper and com.
bustible matter? Don't expect youl
neighbor to do what you do not dc
yourself. 1t is said that sixty per-
cent. of the fires are the result OF
sheer carelessness and Fire Marshal
Port is on the right road when he
calls attention to these things and
utters a warning.
Cold weather ushers in a fire loss
period and now is the time for house.
holders everywhere to thorough.
1y rid their homes and surrounding
of anything that might cause a
blaze and become a menace to life
and property
A recent fire up town points a
moral as to another kind of pre-.
caution that should be taken. II
this instance a frame garage wen-
up in smoke almost as quickly as
1t requires to relate the facts. Wood
has no proper place in such struc
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-10

istic, undemocratic demon which
rules Germany must be cast out. 1t
is for us to do it-now. I have tried
to tell myself that it is not our af-
fair, that we should have contented
ourselves with measures of defense
and armed neutrality. But / know
that is not so. The mailed fist has
been shaken under our nose before
If Prussianism triumphs in this war
the fist will continue to shake. We
shall be in real peril, and those ideas
for which so much of the world s
best blood has been spilled through
the centuries will be in danger of
extinction. 1t seems to me common
sense that we begin our defense by
immediate attack when the demon
is occupied and when we can COM
mand assistance.
There is much talk of what people
like me will do, and fear of the hy-
phen. No such thing exists. The
German American is as staunch as
the American of adoption of any
other land and perhaps more so. Lot
us make war upon Germany, not
from revenge, not to uphold hair
splitting bubbles of international
law, but let us make war with our
whole heart and with all our strength
because Germany worships one god
and we another and because the lion
and the lamb can not lie down to-
gether. One or the other must per-
ish.
Let us make war upon the Ger
many of the Junkerthum, the Ger
many of frightfulness, the Germany
or arrogance and selfishness, and let
us swear not to make peace until the
Imperial German Government is the
sovereign German people.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-10
HOW MISS CAVELL DIED

Hugh Gibson, who was first sec
retary of the American Legation in
Brussels at the outbreak of the war,
tells this incident, in the Worlds
Work for October, in connection
with the shooting of Edith Cavell:
Last night Mr.. Gahan, the Eng
lish chaplain, got pass and was ad-
mitted to see Miss Cavell shortly be-
fore she was taken out and shot. He
said she was calm and prepared and
faced the ordeal without a tremor.
She was tiny thing that looked as
though she could be blown away
with breath, but she had great
spirit. She told Mr.. Gahan that SOL
diers had come to her and asked to
be helped to the frontier; that know
ing the risks they ran and the risks
she took she had helped them. She
said she had nothing to regret, no
complaint to make, and that If she
had it all to do over again she
would change nothing.
'They partook together of the
Holy Communion, and she who had
so little need of preparation was
prepared for death. She was free
from resentment and said: I realize
that patriotism is not enough. !
must have no hatred or bitterness. to-
ward any one.'
"She was taken out and shot be-
fore daybreak.
"She was denied the support of
her own clergyman at the end, but
German military chaplain stayed
with her and gave her burial within
the precincts of the prison. He did
not conceal his admiration and said:
She was courageous to the end. She
professed her Christian faith and
said that she was glad to die for her
country. She died like heroine
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-10
TEUTONIC LOGIC

At the time of the destruction OF
Louvain by the German troops in
August, 1914, Hugh Gibson, first sec.
retary of the American Legation in
Brussels, in company with some 9th.
er diplomatic officials, was conduct.
ed about Louvain by a German Off
Ger.
Just to see what would happen >
says Mr.. Gibson in the Worlds Work
for october, 'I inquired about the
provision of The Hague Conventions
prescribing that no collective penalty
can be imposed for lawless acts OF
individuals. He (the German off,
cer) dismissed that to his own salts
faction by remarking:
All Belgians are dogs and all
would do these things unless they
are taught what will happen to
them
Convincing logic!
with a hard CLINT in his eye he
told us the purpose of his work; he
came back to 1t over and over, but
the burden of what he had to say
was something like this:
I'VE shall make this place a
desert. We shall wipe it out so that
1t will be hard to find where Lou
vain used to stand. For generations
people will come here to see what
we have done and it will teach them
to respect Germany and to think
twice before they resist her. Not
one stone on another, tell you
ME Elm Stein auf einander!'
II agreed with him when he re-
marked that people would come here
for generations to see what Germany
had done-but he did not seem to
follow my line of thought"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-10
AN OFFICE

An Office is a funny thing: Each
morning certain men
And certain girls and certain boys
come into it again
And hang their coats on certain pegs,
their hats on certain hooks,
And sit them down at certain desks
in front of certain books.
They all have certain work to do in
just a certain time.
Concerning certain dollars for GER
tain fixed per diem;
And then at just a certain hour, in
sunshine or in rain,
They close their desks and hurry out
to catch a certain train.
An office is a tragic thing when that
is all there is.
When each one has his certain work
and certain way of his
And wallows in certain rut and
never seems to see
That there are certain other ones in
life as well as he.
For we would find a certain fun in
certain other ways,
If we would give a word of cheer on
certain busy days
When problems veX, when certain
things require a helping hand,
Would give a certain sympathy that
mortals understand.
An office Is pleasant place-at
least, a certain kind,
That has a certain brotherhood,
where day by day you find
Some neighbor with a new idea he's
glad to pass along,
A certain sort of friendliness, GER
tain sort of song.
There is a certain day that we owe
to other men
To help them when they need a lift
to steady them again.
An office can become in time, to man
and girl and boy,
A certain kind of fellowship, and
work certain joy.
Douglas Malloch in American
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-10
GERMANY's PEACE MOVE

A ENCOURAGEMENT of Germany's
~ latest peace proposal was badly
timed, from the standpoint of
Berlin. Falling on the same day that
President Wilson made public his
views in opposition to a premature
end of the war, at the same time the
French High Commission was pro-
claiming the waning of German man.
power and while Haig was delivering
another smashing blow at the Prus-
sian lines in Belgium, the only effect
upon the public mind is to force
home the conclusion that Germany
knows herself to be beaten and is
trying to save what is possible from
the ruins.
But we do not spare the cornered
rat, nor do we permit the wounded
copperhead to crawl off to his hole
to recuperate for another attack
Germany must do one of two things
-unhorse the Prussian war lords or
bow eventually to the sword of the
allies. AS Secretary Baker so aptly
put 1T in his speech here Monday
evening, the English can win on the
Flanders front any day they choose"
as has been demonstrated repeatedly
by General Haig. The Germans are
losing men at the rate of $4,000 a
month. They are being pushed back
in Belgium and are threatened by a
new allied offensive in the Balkans.
They have called to the colors all of
the 1918 classes and some of the
tender youths of the 1919 class. The
Prussian warlord has shot his bolt.
He will be able to continue to fight
for long time, but the peril of Ger
man world dominion is past, unless
we consent to a peace that would
leave Germany in position to do it
all over again under more propitious
circumstances, and it is not for a
moment to be imagined that the
allies will agree to any such folly.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-10

Chester and Reading are also short
on houses and we shall soon be a
country of homeless people unless
something is done to provide sufficient
dwellings for those who cannot afford
to buy and must rent their homes.
Meanwhile. the people of Harrisburg
should be doing everything possible
to make comfortable those who are
searching for dwelling places. There
are many houses for sale and these
are gradually being taken over by
persons who are unable to rent salts
factory homes, but there ought to be
sufficient capital and enterprise here
to take care of this great need with
out unnecessary delay.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-10
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Lieutenant Governor McClain,
who was here yesterday, is on west
ern trip looking into cattle condi-
tions.
Ex-senator John S. Fisher, of
Indiana, one of the leading lawyers
of Central Pennsylvania, was here to-
day.
-Ex-Mayor Blankenburg says he
does not want office, but he does
love a political battle in Philadel-
phia.
General C. B. Dougherty, former
commander of the National Guard,
is now the active spirit in the State
Armory Board.
of Gettysburg College.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-10

publican nominee for Poor Director,
and William III. Gibson, the Wash
ington party nominee for the same
office, on the ground that the act of
Assembly under which the nomina-
tions were made applies only to the
Middle Coal Field Poor District,
which was organized under an act
of Assembly of 1862, a purely local
act, and that no notice of an inten-
ton to pass such act was advertised
in the district, as required by the
constitution and act of Assembly.
All Pittsburgh city candidates
are to appear on the same platform
in an old fashioned town meeting
late this month.
Bethlehem and Easton newspa-
pers are giving much space to con
graduating Congressman H. j
Steele. 1t looks as though he would
run again.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-10
WHAT AM I, LIFE?

What am L, Life? A thing or wa
terry salt
Held in cohesion by unresting
cells,
Which work they know not why,
which never halt,
Myself unwilling where their Mas
ter dwells,
I do not bid them, yet they oil, they
spin
A world which uses me as 1 use
them;
Nor which to praise, which PAM
per, which condemn.
So. like a marvel in a marvel set,
I answer to the vast, as wave by
wave
The sea of air goes over. dry or wet,
Or the full moon comes swimming
from her cave,
Or the great sun comes forth; this
myriad 1
Tingles, not knowing how, yet
wondering why.
John Masefield.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-10
BUT SHE DIDN'T

She was a very newly-fedged bar
'oness or duchess, or something like
that, and, somehow or other, she
became thick with a professor, as
the classical blokes would have it,
and he invited her to come to his
observatory to see the eclipse.
She arrived about two hours late.
i've come to see the eclipse" she
told the professors assistant. PRO
fessor Squashnoddle invited me TO
come"
I'm sorry, but the whole thing
was over an hour ago." said the as
sistant, contritely.
Then" said the dignified dame,
'T will wait for the next."-From
London Ideas.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-10
WHISTLE FANTASY

Out in the dark the train passes.
And the whistle calls to the child,
Desolate, piercing, wild,
From the track, in the meadow
grasses.
Far, far away" 1t screams,
Far, far away,
Out in the distance are dreams
Dreams you shall follow some day
Far through the endless wild;
Distance, dreams"
Backward the faint call streams;
Far in the dark the train passes,
And the whistle calls to the child.
Margaret Widdemer in the Cen
tury Magazine.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-10
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR

Within two weeks Columbus has
twice paid tribute to the late Paul
Laurence Dunbar, negro poet-once
in gathering at Memorial Hall and
once in the meeting of the Kit-Kat
Club. In both places the praise was
high and the regret was expressed
that such negro voices are not more
numerous. To satisfactory progress
two things are always necessary
good leadership and a willingness to
be led,-From. the Columbus Even
ing Dispatch.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-10
INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE

In a New England town q local
celebrity was brought up before the
justice for stealing chickens. The
prisoner was noted for never telling
consequently there was general sur
prise when he pleaded guilty. 1t ev-
identity staggered the justice. He
rubbed his glasses and then scratched
his head.
"I guess-I'm afraid-well, Hi
RAM" said he. after a thoughtful
pause, "I guess I'll have to have
more evidence before I sentence
you.'-From Case and Comment.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-10
VIERECK'S
vTIERECK'S WEEKLY, formerly
" THE Fatherland." continues

YIERECK'S WEEKLY, formerly
" THE Fatherland." continues
upon its seditious mission un-
disturbed by the government. To be
sure, it's contents are not quite so
rabidly pro-German as formerly, but
the fact remains that the magazine
was created for the purpose of
spreading German propaganda in the
United States despite its prominently
displayed and recently devised motto,
America First and America
Only"
However. perhaps we take vier-
eck's too seriously. Apparently it
makes its appeal only to the gullible
and rapidly dwindling class. of Amer
leans who invest in wildcat mining
stocks, If one is to Judge from the
' type of advertising it carries.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-10
ROYALTY OF VIRTUE

In the American army you will
find plenty of young men of char
acter-young men who bear rule so
high, so fine, so pure. that the whole
world is sure to come within the cir
Gle of this infiuence-this influence
that pays homage to the royalty of
virtue-American Mothers. - Ex-
change,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-10
NEEDED.

NEEDED.
Keep your wife
supplied with q
box of candy and
perhaps she won't
nag you.
Candy wouldn't
stop her. That
woman can keep
on talking with
her mouth full of
hatr0ipq
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-10

Harrisburg cannot grow unless
homes are provided for those who
want to live here. 1t is up to the city
to get busy through it's municipal
bodies and it's civic organizations in
starting a building boom. Even the
war situation does not justify a failure
to take care of those who want to
make their homes with us. Our in
dustrial plants are all busy on long
time contracts and are constantly
seeking more employees who must have
| dwelling places.