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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-31
GIVE THEM SOME MARK

THE wedding out process was be-
gun some time ago in the Of
ficers training camps. 1t is now un-
der way in the National Guard. Soon
the exemption boards will take up
this work for the great National
Army created by the draft act
Only the physical fit are being re-
tanned. Minor disqualifications, such
as f1at-feet or weak eyes, take many
young patriots out of the service
whose hearts are aching to be SOL
diers.
For these there should be some
insignia. No young man should be
marked as a Stacker who has offered
his services to his country and who
has been rejected through no fault of
his. He is just as much a patriot as
though he had gone to the front.
England has provided a button for
those who volunteered but whose
services for one reason or another
were declined.
Congress might we'll pause a mo-
ment in it's long-winded debate, in
which nobody but Congress is inter
ested, and pass a law granting recog-
milton to the young men whose great
est sorrow is that they are not con-
sidered physically ft to so to the de-
fense of their country.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-31

development as universities. 1t is sug-
gested that first-class colleges be To-
Gated at Richmond, Va, Atlanta, Ga,
and Marshall Tex. Still another
group~o of institutions should be de-
veloped into junior colleges or insti-
tutions doing two years of college
work. A number of institutions are
alreday offering courses of this grade
but they are all in need of more
equipment and larger income. These
institutions, DR.. Jones points out.
should make generous provision for
teacher-training courses, both in
their secondary and college classes.
The most encouraing sign of the
times is the great and growing inter-
est negroes of all classes are taking
ing in the education of their chill
dren. Many poor families sacifce al
most to the point of actual hardship
to keep their boys and girls in school.
A few years ago negro physicians
and druggists, for example, were al
most unknown. Now every commun-
i'S SuPpoi % seNerdl Sucll' r1dTTlSpuFS
has been particularly fortunate in
this respect. Many of it's young col
ored men and women have not only
gone through the high schools but
have taken college courses and have
entered the professions. To these
much of the credit must go for the
great up-lift work that has been done
the past few years.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-31
A Pertinent Query

E. Berry Wall spent the winter on
the French Riviera. at the Hotel
Ruhl, in Nice.
AS Mr.. Wall, exquisitely dressed,
loitered with his chow dog one sunny
morning on the promenade beside
the sea, a western millionaire joined
him.
The millionaire took the liberty of
criticising the lavender color scheme
that was carried out in Mr.. Walls
tie. shirt and handkerchief. Then,
with a loud, harsh laugh, the west
erner said:
81 amt no dude. I'm self-made,
I am. And let me hand you this,
young feller-clothes don't make the
man, nuther.'
No, know they don't, said Mr.
Wall, but tell me why 1t is that SO
many of you self-made chaps look
as If you made your own clothes
too? Washington Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-31
COLLEGES FOR NEGROES

DEQUATE college and univer-
n sity education for colored peo-
L n pie is urged by DR.. Thomas
Jesse Jones, of the United States
Bureau of Education, Department of
the Interior, in a two-volume report
on negro education, just issued by
the department.
If college education is of value to
any group, surely it is to those who
are to be the leaders of the colored
people, as DR.. Jones observes. "Only
a broad minded leadership with a
thorough grasp of human develop
ment can understand the peculiar
difficulties resulting from the close
proximity of such widely varying
races as the black and the white peo-
pie of the Southern States" he says.
The race must have physicians of
real skill and the spirit of service to
lead against the insanitary conditions
that are not only threatening the
group itself but also its white neigh
bors. 1t must have religious teach
ers who can relate religion to the
morals of the individual and to the
common activities of the community.
1t must have teachers of secondary
schools who have had a college edu-
cation in the great modern sciences
and in the historical development of
civilization.
DR.. Jones points out that despite
high ideals and notable enthusiasm
on the part of the race and it's bene-
factors, most of the colored institu-
tions calling themselves colleges are
poorly equipped and ineffectively or
ganized and administered. Only few
institutions at present have the stu
dent body, equipment, and teaching
force of a genuine college. but a
pumber of institutions do some work
of college grade.
Any plan for further development
of college and university education
for negroes, should, according to DR..
Jones, take into consideration in
come, plant, teaching force and
present location of schools Offering
more or less college work. Every in
stitution should realize that success
and honor and human service are
not necessarily attained through a
college department or even through
an industrial or agricultural plant"
The bureaus report suggests that all
agencies interested in negro educa-
ton co-operate in the dayalo,,,,o,,4 =, .
n few institutions of university and
college grade. There seems to be
general agreement that Howard Uni
versity, at Washington, and Fisk
University, at Nashville, Tenn. are
the most promising Institutions for
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-31
FOURTH YEAR OF WORLD
WAR FINDS MANY CHANGES

Tomorrow, the first of August,
will mark the opening of the fourth
year of the world war, and Prussian
aristocracy, at bay. faces hostile
world outside it's battle lines and
disunion within them as it enters
the fourth year of the war for domi-
nation of the world.
Added to its open enemies are
the United States, Brazil, Cuba, Uru-
quay, Panama, Haiti, Guatemala,
Honduras, Nicaragua, Rumania,
Greece, Siam and Liberia, twenty
two all. No longer in diplomatic
relations are China, Bolivia and
Costa Rica. Among the others are
few friends and some possible pow
erful enemies.
An American army is in France,
other American forces are to go in
the near future, and 100000 men
are registered to form armies of
100000 each. OF the vast riches of
the United States $1,000, 100000 is
other $4,000, 700, 900 is asked, A
$640, 100000 air fleet and a $780,
100000 merchant fleet are on the
way. American wealth and inveu-
tive genius are marshaled to use all
known weapons and devise new ones
to make the world safe for
democracy"
Democratic Russia-still struggling
with the forces of disorganization-
spurns the offer of a German peace
and strives to bring to the German
peoples the freedom it has won.
Armies outnumbering it's own, with
more airships, more guns. more am
munition; better food. better cloth
ing, better transportation. have al
ready shown their power to smash it's
lines and are making ready for even
greater blows.
Within it's walls of steel the cry
for peace rises insistently. Austria,
no longer dominated from Berlin
through the aged Francis Joseph and
the pro-Prussian Count Tisza, is
openly anxious to negotiate for it's
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-31

life. Turkey, bankrupt, starving,
ravaged by disease and fearful of the
coming fate of it's ill-equipped ar
mics, is plainly tottering. Bulgaria
Is feeling for terms on which to
switch over if the defeat of Germany
should become apparent.
The war truce of German parties
Is broken. The Socialists, foes of au-
tocracy, and the Junkers. friends of
II, are rending the land with their
struggle and are carrying their de-
bates even to the army at the front
Austrian and Bavarian Clericals-is
the Vatican supporting them ?-have
used their balance of power in the
reichstag to compel a declaration
against conquest and to bring about
a crisis that has forced out the
kaiser's chancellor. The diet of
Saxony only warns the crown of
"distrust" unless it supports democ-
racy in the empire.
Hungering already, lacking the
necessities of war and of industry.
and now facing the embargo rule of
America that will shut off the sup
plies they have been getting through
neighboring neutrals, the German
peoples are plainly distressed and
apprehensiVe of the future.
A military expert says that Russia,
though in a chaotic condition, is by
no means out of the war. The pros
poets for a separate Russian pecae
are not good; it is hardly likely that
any such move will occur But Rus
sia will not be of very much good to
the entente during the current year
BY the time next year arrives and
Russia finds the distinction between
liberty and license, when she realizes
that peace can be obtained only
through war and that to adopt any
other means will only destroy what
the revolution created, then she will
be in the field stronger than ever and
with a solidarity conspicuous now by
its absence. BY that time, too, the
resources of the United States will
be available in considerable measure
and at work
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-31
YOUR ESTATE

* TATE TREASURER KEPHART
tho other day received tho trif-
ling sum o! sixteen cents, rcp-
resenting the cash value of four beer
checks found in tho pockets of an
unknown corpse IN a PHILADELPHIA
morgue. Sixteen cents-the mans en-
tire estate! Sixteen cents. represent
ing the accumulation of a lifetime
of work! The coroner must have
been unusually thrifty or possessed
of a grim sense OF humoC, else he
would not have gone to the trouble
\to escheat a sum so trifing.
Yet, after all, is there anything TO
hugh about in the incident? How
about your own estate? How big
would 1t be If suddenly you were
called away and the appraiser began
his work? There are those in Harris
burg who are living at a pace that
would leave their heirs far less than
the price of four beer checks if the
balance We're struck. Indeed, there
nre not few who would be willing
10 strike a balance and find sixteen
cents to their credit.
To leave the price of four beer
checks when you pass out of this
life is scarcely matter for self-con-
graduation, but even sixteen cents is
better than a deficit. Don't laugh at
lhe beer check escheat. Cast up your
own accounts and see where you
stand. Don't let a day pass over your
head, If you can help it, when your
personal liabilities are greater than
Four assets, unless, perhaps, you are
putting your savings into some we'll
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-31
DRY VEGETABLES

VERY Harrisburg housewife is
n entitled to a book on drying
fruits and vegetables, the gift
of Uncle Sam. The processes there
described are simple. With this in
formation at hand failure to save
for next winters use every bean,
tomato, beet, potato, apple, peach
and pear that has been grown is to
nullify by so much the great work
which man and nature have wrought
in thousands of gardens and fields.
BY sending a two cent stamp to the
National Emergency Food Garden
Commission, in Washington, it will
be possible to obtain complete infor-
nation about the drying processes
which ought to be utilized by every
gardener and farmer in the country.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-31
EDITORIAL COMMENT


Chinese imperialism based upon the
status queue ante didn't last long
New York Telegraph.
What's Ireland coming to when an
Edward de Valera can beat a Patrick
Lynch at a Clare election New York
Sun.
The literary executors of Stevenson
should make haste to revise his COUP
let about our being as happy as kings.
New York Call.
Those who are inclined to fret at
the hardness of the Allied troops in
the Near East are reminded that ii
took Moses forty years to bring his
band through this same strip of ter
ritory.-Council Bluffs Nonpariel.
One reason the Kaiser doesn't
banker for peace drafted upon the
status quo is because IL would mean
for him the status quit.-New York
Telegraph.
The demon rum now knows how IL
feels to be soaked.-Boston Tran
script.
why do we fight in Europe?" asks
an inquirer in the Philadelphia North
American. Well, Germany is in Eu-
rope.-Louisville Courier-Journal.
Dropping bombs over German muni-
tions plants is form of "reprisal"
which violates no principal of war
and also possesses a military advant-
age.-New York World.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-31
NEED FOR THE HOME GUARD

THE outbreak at Chester, which
may be followed by others dur
ing the period of the war, is re-
minder that it is always advisable to
have military body at the command
of the authorities in case of riot
When the National Guard leaves for
the training camps the only force
outside the State police, which is too
small to be of great service in case
of widespread disorder, is the Home
Guard. These organizations through
out Pennsylvania must be brought to
a high state of efficiency and armed
as soon as possible. They are made
up OF citizens from every walk of
life. They may be expected to handle
disorderly crowds with discretion and
firmness. Often a mere show of arm
ed force is sufficient to disperse a
mob.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-31
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Colonel e. L. Kearns is rapidly
getting the Eighteenth Infantry up
to war strength.
Leonard Kraft, prominent Phila-
delphia labor leader, says that the
Philadelphia unions Will not stand
for pro-Germans.
THE Rev. NJ. B. Gurley. of Ger
mantown, preached his farewell SER
mon Sunday, as he goes to France as
a chaplain.
-Ralph r. Wolf, secretary of the
Johnstown Y. M. c. A., has resigned
to take up army work for the asso-
citation.
The Rev. w. T. Zeigler. of Le-
highton, has given up his charge to
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-31
No Sacrifice Too Great

So eager are we to see the farm
ers get plenty of rain this summer.
that we will willingly get up in the
night and shut all the windows and
perspire until morning. If 1t will
only rain.-Kansas City Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-31
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg is turning ont
big castings for government
work?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-31
TUESDAY EVENING. JULY 81

Steep is the WGy and tOiISOme,
Long and hard and Slo1U,
Yet 7Oider Viel0 and purer air
Are ours, each step that zoe 90.
PRISCILLA LEONARD.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-31

secured property of one kind or an
other where your equity is we'll pro-
tected.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-31
OUR DAILY LAUGH
LUCKY.

"1t has been my experience that
at every public dinner there's al
ways one speaker who bores every
body"
MY! How lucky you've been."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-31
Labor Notes
- -

The Federal Supreme Court has
held unconstitutional a law of the
state or Washington making it un-
laWlul Tor private employment agen-
cies to charge fees to workmen,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-31
HIsTORIC HARRTsRURC

The first borough in Dauphin
county was Harrisburg, incorporated
in 1891, although there were older
towns.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-31

state OF Washington making it un-
lawtul Tor private employment agen-
cles to charge fees to workmen.
Sh1ngle manufacturers in the state
OF washington are spending money
without stint in an advertising cam
palSn against the eight-hour de-
mand of their organized employees.
Although agreements exist between
the brewery workers unions and en-
ployers in Philadelphia, the latter
nave voluntarily raised wages on the
claim OF their employees that this was
necessary to meet the high cost or
living. The increase means an ada-
tlonal $1,000 a week to 1900 workers.
Official figures on the proposed To-
year arbitration agreement with the
unlon-shop division Of the United ny
pothetae and Franklin Clubs OF
America, submitted to the referendum.
mas been announced by the Internn-
tonal Typographical Union. The
vote was 26,757 for and 14,2S2 agains,.
The frequency of accidents among
railroad and factory workers due 70
the failure of men of foreign birth
to understand warnings or orders, in
duced the Pennsylvania State Indus
trial Board recently to adopt a rule
making it necessary for persons conn
manding groups of laborers to be able
to understand the language spoken
by their colaborers.
California's Industrial Welfare
Commission has established a s1O-a-
week minimum wage for women in
mercantile industry.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-31

Il. ]. .STACKPOLE,P Pyes't s. Editor.in-C Chief
+. r. OYSTER. Business Mdnagey.
GUS M. STEINMETz, Managing Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-31
IT CAN BE DONE.
THE EXCEPTION

mo gentlemen would lie about his
golf score"
Certainly not-unless, of course,
he was quite sure that no other gem
tleman was in position to prove
the falsehood Of his statements"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-31

published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.,
Telegraph building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-31

1T is said that as Pershing's men
through Paris, when the
flag passed by the orphan
children knelt in the streets.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-31

Attaches of the Auditor Generals
department are rather used to odd
kinds of requests and letters, but one
came in yesterday which made them
sit up. 1t was forwarded to the
auditing department by the Attorney
Generals office and contained a re-
quest from a man in New York state
to secure payment of bill owed him
by a PENNSYLVANIA. The Attorney
Generals department held that it
was without jurisdiction and figured
that possibly the State might have a
claim sticking around, too. However,
the Auditor General is not collecting
bills for other people.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-31

California's Industrial Welfare
Commission has established a s1O-a-
week minimum wage for women In
mercantile industry.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-31

The demon rum now knows how IL
feels to be soaked.-Boston Tran
script.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-31

Lew r. Palmer, chief factory in
spector, is a busy man these days.
He is not only running an elaborate
inspection system, but has been CIV
ing extra time to the Council of
National Defense, of which he is a
roembar
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-31

Chinese imperialism based upon the
status queue ante didn't last long,
New York Telegraph.
Douglas Island news., 1917-08-24
BALTUFF DOING WELL

William BalWG who left here three months ago for Pyualup, Wash. where he had owned small tract of land for several years, writes Henry Erie that he now has between goo and 600 young chickens and a general assortment Of fruit, vegetables and garden truck. He says that it is his intention to en- gage extensively in the chicken bus
 mess and by next yeor he will have thousands of chickens where he now has hundreds. He has an idea Of raising chickens for sale in interior AIask,. where he spent several years before coming to Douglas. Mir. Baluu was formerly captain Of Hose Company No. 8, and was de- lighted Go see that his old comrades won first prize at Che Fourth of July contest. He wished to be remom- bercd Co an his old friends
Douglas Island news., 1917-08-24
SPIRITS GET
 GABRIEL'S GOAT
Young Norwegian Has Strange Hal lucuauous and Admits
 His Weakness

Gabriel Anderson. young Nor- vgeau. was adluIecJ insane hy % ur, m United States Commissioner ucu.ous rour. Wednesday after. noon and e now hold u tbc federal IaI at Juneau awaiting deportation to au asylum ou Che outside.
 The .asc ot Anderson. who a but aS years ot ago. is % most peculiar uuy IIc arrived m town last week from Tabu vbcre h. admits hay mr uut a number of asb traps for tHc purpose of ubcrat.ug 0sI which hs srys are needed by He poor rco- rre ar rHe .umrr. Ue wont to work sunday as member ul che Tr.ld- we'll train crow. but h.s actions wore such as fn .r.ur. suspicion among hu-e v.H whom re .amc tho com u.l The officials were notified and Tuesday evening He was taken into custody. TH. night he oycr- ...|.". ... ........ TT. ... ..... ..... m- m number %. oId blankets which nc s..I were wUt for usc and o.n,rus. .mmeue things bc found m Hc .L Ue also wrote few poem. mI mad. wTr ngguearl- m1 property aseresltue something u.e a milton dollars Go friends and relatives
 Anderson says ue Is wholly gou- uoud by spirits and what .bcy demand ol hum Hc does ue admits having b..u confined for a period i'm m asylum u rhe state O. Wash. m.fm and says ue was committed by evil mon simply h..ausc hr dg. wuI.I Ha. a certain rich man give him ss.. with which fr appglse tHc wants ol tU. poor
 The unfortunate young man has H..r In Alaska un.y ,.rut months.
Douglas Island news., 1917-08-24
MARKET
 CONTINUES GOOD
James Company Still Has Orders Ahead for Aeroplane Material
 and Canneries

George E. James, head of the saw .mlll and lumber industry of thc same name. returned yesterday af- tcrnoon from hurried business trip to Seattle, where he reports Che lumber market as being lively but labor conditions as being very un- settled. SO much SO that, aside from government work. there is not much doing tn tho building line, private parties being backward about start ing construction until tho dincr- onccs between the lumber industries and labor are settled, tho labor unions threatening to quit rather than handle lumber from what is termed "uurair" mills.
 As a result of this feeling Of m- rest there is considerable "watch- ml waiting" which win continue m- tn some definite and mutual under standing is reached by the capital lumber and the labor handling it
 While In Seattle Mir. James dis posed of another good lot of um- Der from the stock now on hands in the yard here and it will be shipped os soon as it can be gotten from the yard Co the wharf lt will be used iu acroplano construction, thc same as about 2OO,OOO feet pre- yiously shipped from here.
 The James Company is now sup- plying large order to Che Booth Fish Company at Sitka.
 Asked as Co the likelihood of Che mill rcsumiug operations in Che near future, Mir. James said he would have some information to give out later.
Douglas Island news., 1917-08-24
BUT SEVEN DAYS LEFT

After today but seven days, i'm cludng Sundays. will be left tn which Co register, os the books will close September 2nd. which is Sun day. and Saturday of next week will be Che last day for getting on the lists which are open at the drug store of E. E. Smith in Douglas and at D. J. Kmzic's onico n Trcadwcll The total number registered on Che Island is now considerably upward of 15O. Registration has been briskcr during tho past few days than for some time. Those eligible and unregistered when the books close will be liable to prosecution and. what is more, they will be prosecuted.