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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-12
Poisoning German Children
With Hatred

IA remarkable contrast between
the sublime and spiritual tones of
the letters of the maidens of France
to the maidens of America is found
in this letter from a German school
girl to a friend in Switzerland which
was published in The Princeton
Alumni Weekly a few weeks ago.
Frankfort-on-Oder, 20, July, 1916
My Dear Louise:
The contents of your last letter
would have hurt me had 1 not known
that your thoughts of our glorious
war resulted from sheer ignorance.
1t is evident that you, a Swiss
girl, with your French sympathies,
cannot understand how my heart,
the heart of a young German girl,
passionately desired this war.
Speaking of it some years ago, my
father said to us: Children, Ger
many is getting too small for us; we
shall have to go to France again in
order to find more ROOM Is it our
fault if France will not understand
that more money and land is neces-
sary for us?
And you reproach us that our
soldiers have been very cruel to the
Belgian rabble, and you speak also
of the destruction of Rheims, and
of the burning of villages and towns.
Well, that is war. AS in every other
undertaking, we are past masters of
war.
You have a great deal to learn
before you can come up to our
standards, and I assure you that
what has been done so far is a mere
bagatelle compared with what will
follow.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-12
THE COMING PROBLEM
[Ohio State Journal


The war is going to change the
labor problem in a marked degree.
Labor is undoubtedly to enjoy a def
mite share of what it produces and it
will depend upon that share as to the
extent capital will employ itself
And it is probable that capital will
be ruled out entirely and labor will
have to take care of itself. This sit
uation may seem to encourage a
class interest. but it will act the 9TH
er way. There will be no labor class
in the future. no class whose inter-
ests are in any way in conflict with
the general welfare. The fight
against capital will have gained
much ground, and then it will be
discovered whether labor is more
necessary to capital than capital is
to labor. These questions are to be
threshed out within a few years aft
er the war closes. Already the gov
ernment is taking steps in this direc-
tion-in the government control of
the railroads and in the nations
agreement with the federated labor
Anyhow, the old labor situation, will
disappear and we will have another
if not q better one.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-12
EASTWARD

Philadelphia Public LEDGER
Oh! to be in France
Where the flags of freedom dance
And the charging lines go forward at
the dawn,
Where the men of every land,
Clean of heart and strong of hand
Stand together 'gainst the devil and
his pawn.
There the roaring guns
Fill the circling of the suns
With an awful aching agony of
sound;
And the bravest and the best,
Who have met their last great test,
Lie uneasy in the quivering, echoing
ground.
Back with half their strength,
Lone battalions pass at length,
And the young, fresh troops go ever
rolling by;
Passing where the rest have passed
But each further than the last,
Toward the victory that only blood
can buy.
Heart and soul would be
In that land of agony.
For there the fire of sacrifice is
bright,
There truth stands victorious,
There honor shines glorious,
Both glowing in the luster of that
light;
There life is worth the living,
In the fullness of the giving
Soul and body to the undying cause
of right.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-12
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES
BY BRIGGS

Rupert Hughes newest book,
Long Ever Ago." was published last
week by Harper and Brothers. His
other books are: Clipped Wings"
Empty Pockets" IN Little
Town." The Last Rose of Summer"
The Thirteenth Commandment"
We Can't Have Everything" What
Will People Say?" In a recent in
terview. Mr.. Hughes said: Forty
seems to be a good time for a wo-
man to ask herself if she will under
take romance as a livelihood. H. is
by no means too late either for Il
man or a woman.
I'm writing fiction l always say
that a person who can tell a good
story well can write one if he will
only take the trouble to learn how
to spell, punctuate and paragraph
and get himself pen-broken."
The Boardman Family" by Mary
S. Watts. Many novels are written
about people of genius or talent who
rise to fame from poverty and priva-
ton. In this novel Mrs. Watts be-
gins at the other end of the scale.
Her heroine is a young woman who
was brought up in the most rigid
traditions of gentility; woman who
might have stayed at home and been
tdheH care Oh nau SHe SO cnoSen-
but who did not so choose. 1t is
with her emancipation that Mrs.
Watts is principally concerned; an
emancipation that is wrought by her
work and art and native common
sense. The narrative occupies a
period of about fifteen years, begin
ming with the first year of the pres
ent century. In its central figure it
adds another outstanding character
to the notable list of creations which
its author has already given to liter
ature. The Macmillan Company,
publishers, New York, S1.50.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-12
Mr.. Creel
New York Times1

Actual or inferential responsibility
for the doings and utterances of Mr..
George Creel cannot any longer. con-
sistently with the public welfare and
comfort, be borne by the Admins
tration. 1t is the general impression
that when he speaks he speaks for
the President, an impression he has
not very energetically sought to dis
pei. His declaration that he should
be proud to his dying day that
there was no rush of preparation in
this country prior to the day the
President went before Congress-
could not have been made at a
more inopportune time, but that is
not the worst of it. 1t is an avowal
never to be made by anybody at any
time. 1t has aroused public indigna-
ton to a degree which is only faint
ly reflected by the denunciation di-
rected against it in Congress.
The usefulness of the Bureau of
Public Information has never been
satisfactorily demonstrated, but the
demonstration that, if the bureau is
to be continued, it should have a new
head is complete and conclusive.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-12

AS a matter of fact there is but
one race worthy of ruling the world
and which has already attained the
highest degree of civilization. That
race is ours; the Prussians are un-
doubtedly the lords par excellence
among the Germans.
All other nations and among
them, unfortunately, the Swiss, are
degenerate and of inferior worth
That is why l have always been SO
proud of being a true Prussian.
Yesterday, again, our pastor eX-
planned to us convincingly that our
first parents, Adam and Eve, We're
also Prussians. That is quite easy
to understand, because the Bible
tells us that the German God ere
ated all after his own image. II
then, all men are descended from
Adam and his wife, it follows that
only Prussians, or at least Germans
ought to exist in the world, and that
all who push on and prosper ought
to belong to us. You must admit
that that is logic and that is why
our motto is, God with us, Ger
many above everything
You know now why we wished
this war. Is it not shameful that
other nations, who have no right to
existence on the earth, wish to di-
minish our heritage! We are the
divine fruit, and the others are only
weeds. That is why our great EN-
peror has decided to put an end tC
all these injustices and to eXtirpate
the weeds. Do you understand now
| remain your school friend,
KATIE HAMEL,
Daughter of the State Councillor oil
Architecture).
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-12

to the country of their adoption.
Thousands of German boys are in
our army, true and loyal, and we
must be careful in anything and
everything that we do not to hurt the
innocent, while we strike hard the
German ancestry are bearing a
double load, and as Mr.. Taft suggests,
We must be considerate of them
and not add to their embarrassment
by unjust and hysterical suspicion"
Above and beyond all else we must
maintain law and order, and even IN
the punishment of these traitors TO
the Stars and Stripes there must be
exercised the greatest care that no
innocent person shall be harmed.
Foolish people who utter disloyal
sentiments through Ignorance or
bravado must understand that they
are treading on dangerous ground
and when they get into trouble they
it largely upon themselves.
Every patriotic citizen Will do his
utmost to suppress disloyalty. Of
tenders through ignorance or care
lessness should first be warned, and
persistence in their course ought
then subject them to the prompt and
proper attention of those in author
ity. Disloyalty and the dangerous
propaganda of pro-Germanism will
no longer be endured in this coun-
try. \ patient people are ready to
strike the foes in front as well as the
foes in the rear, but by lawful means,
and only by lawful measures
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-12
HATS OFF TO SHUTS

n UR hat is off to General SHUTS,
the veteran Boer warrior, who
put the Sinking, plotting Aus
trian diplomats to rout in three
minutes.
rs it true you wish to make a
separate peace?" asks Smuts, point
blank of the Austrian delegate who
wanted to trap England into nego-
tiations that would cause distrust on
the part of her allies.
Yes. or no?" reiterated the Boer
general, and when the Austrian be-
gan to hedge and evade, he added:
''Then-good night"
That's the kind of diplomacy the
world needs-the yes or no. kind
There never would have been a wal
if diplomats had been frank, fair and
truthful.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-12
Close to Armdgeddon
me wYork Times ]

The British Premier's speech
makes it clear that this battle is as
close to Armageddon as it is possible
to get; that the two contestants are
engaged in a death grapple, and that
all that has gone before. in Russia
for instance, has been mere prelimi-
nary play. Equally matched, and
with no tricks in reserve, no cards
up their sleeves, the battle is simply
a brutal test of strength. 1t calls
for every ounce of it. This is so we'll
recognized in England that the
Ministry has apparently been blamed
for wasting armies in Mesopotamia
and Palestine; but the Premier an
swers that triumphantly. I'm Meso-
potamia there is only one white divi-
sion in all, and in Egypt and Pale
stine together there are only two
white divisions, and the rest are
either Indians or mixed with a very
small proportion of British troops"
With these forces the British have
destroyed two Turkish armies and
kept the Turks out of the battlelinc
in France.
The world will be eager to hear
more of Brigadier General Carey,
who improvised a force of "engin-
eers, laborers, signalers, and any
body else who could hold a rifle" and
held the gap the Germans had open
ed on the way to Amiens. But for
him and his scratch corps, the Pre-
mier broadly intimates, the Germans
might have got to Paris. We shall
know more of Carey before long, and
of this astounding fight of his; and
it appears certain that it will be
years before the world ceases to hear
Of him
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-12
TRAITORS TO THE REAR

A LII disloyalty TO the government
u at this time should be sup
pressed without regard to any
thing save the good of the nation.
We have done enough pussy-footing
in this matter and the time has come
when all patriotic citizens must show
their colors, especially when the
ugly head of the pro-German pro-
pagandists shows itself.
We must be careful. however, in
our attitude TO avoid any appearance
of disregard for constituted authority
or law. Ample provision is at last
being made for the proper treat
ment of disloyal persons and under
the new sedition act of Congress
there will be provision for $he
punishment of those who think more
of our enemies than they do of our
soldiers and the welfare of the
United States.
Ex-President Taft has sounded a
proper note in his recent statement
that our citizens of German origin
are to be divided into two classes.
He says, the Pennsylvania Germans.
who came over before the Revolution
and settled in this State still re-
tain German traditions in their mode
of life, but, driven from home in a
search for religious freedom, they
never have had particular affection
for the Fatherland. They are loyal
TO the backbone"
Mr. Taft points out further that
the Germans who came over in 1S4S.
led by Carl Schurz and other coura-
geous liberty-loving leaders Of high
ideals, came to avoid militarism and
despotism. They loved freedom and
hated slavery They enlisted in the
Civil War in great numbers and
every battlefield was wet with their
blood. There was a considerable
German immigration after our Civil
War of those who sought the ma
terial advantages this country Of
fered, but who recognized Schurz as
their leader. Since Germany's ma
Lsrial progress began, after the
Franco-Prussian War, the immigra-
zion has been small. Our present
generation of citizens of German ori-
gin are generally valuable members
of the community and are descend
ants in large measure of those who
came over between 1S4S and 1870"
1t is a remarkable fact, however
that the sons of these original Ger
man settlers are the worst offenders
at the present time. Time after time
reports reach the public of the al.
most inconceivable attitude of many
of these persons. They seem to nave
forgotten all that this country has
meant to them and their families and
to have absorbed in some fashion an
idea that their first duty is to Ger.
many and not to the United States
IT is favorable sign, however, that
since the destruction of the Lusi.
tania and the outrages on the battle.
fields of Europe those who were dis.
posed to applaud German effort al
the outbreak of the war have beer
turning back in patriotic devotion
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-12
Over tie 1oh
tN PeMna.

1t is our opinion that the only way
Kaiser Bill will ever reach Paris is by
riding in on one of those 75-mile
shells.
Read about this man and then say
prayer for DR.. Isler. An Altoona
paper tells: "One of the most re-
markable instances of pluck and de-
termination to triumph over ad-
verse conditions and win an educa-
ton is shown by the case of Thomas
Reilly, of this city. At the age of so
years he will be graduated this
spring from Grove City College, in
the western part of the state.
In his youth he was terribly burn
ed in the iron works at Holidays
burg. Later he taught school in the
country districts, and few years ago
lost a remunerative position because
he was not a college graduate"
Cyril Harcourt, who wrote a very
clever book and play called "A Pair
of Silk Stockings" is the author of
"A Pair of PettiCoats," now showing
in New York playhouse. Cyril is
getting very close to the deadline.
Elimination of the German lam
guage is having it's battles in Penn
sylvania. At Reading a split in St.
Paufs United Evangelical Church is
in prospect as result of a Walkout
at a German service following Il re-
cent congregational decision to hold
alternate English and German serv-
ices. The pastor, the Rev. H. il.
Kreidler, and most of the members
favor the abolition of all services in
German while the war lasts, deeming
them unpatriotic, but a German
speaking minority, chiefly elderly
members, has thus far been in con-
troll. All can speak English. The
members who walked out when they
found the service was to be in Ger
man are trying to force the issue
and say they will demand satisfac-
tory action.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-12
The Booster Spirit

If you think you are beaten, you are {;
If you think you dare not, you
don't.
If you'd like to win, but you think
you can't,
It's almost cinch you won't.
If you think you'll lose, you're lost,
For out of the world we find
Success begins with fellows will
It's all in the state of mind.
If you think you're outclassed, you
are
You've got to think high to rise.
You've got to be sure of yourself
before
You can ever win a prize.
Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger or faster man;
But soon or late the man who wins
Is the one who thinks he can.
From S. w. McGilI, Nashville.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-12
WHAT'S YOUR IDEA?

" HE Syracuse Post-Standard be-
lieves it has found name for
the Kaiser by which he should
be known in history.
William the Frightful is the Post
Standards recommendation.
William the Frightful is good, but
the fault with it is that it is too good
for the wretch who cares no more
for the lives of his countrymen than
he does for those against whom he
makes war.
The Telegraph, therefore, would
amend the motion with a suggestion
of its own. Here it is:
Butcher Bill
Butcher Bill, who is going to be
gored to death in his own slaughter
pen.
If you have your own pet name
for Wilhelm send it along. avoiding
profanity, if possible.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-12
WELL kOWN PEOPLE
WELI.1OWN PEOPLE

j. DennO'Neil, who opened
his campaigyesterday, has been
living in McFsport for thirty-three
years.
Fire Mhal Chal Port, who
has been in orida for his health,
will be homn a short time.
-Augustu&. Oliver will direct
Pittsburgh's d Cross campaign.
Major VIII. Davis, Pittsburgh
health direet says that the pneu-
monia outbIk in that city is one
of the wora1nown.
-Lvingst Seltzer, Schuylkill
superintende has been reelected
for his foui term.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-12

Organized labor in legislative cam
paigns of 1918 in several states is
urging the extension of the exclusive
state fund plan of workmen's COM
pensation as n result of years of ex-
perience under various systems of
administration.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-12
COAL FOR NEXT WINTER

THE Telegraph has received com
/ plants from a number of Har-
risburg people on the ground
that the retail prices for coal fixed
by the local committee are higher
than those of some other cities and
therefore unfair. The Telegraph has
attempted no comparison of figures
here and elsewhere, but Fuel Com
missioner Hickok, has the data upon
which the retail prices were fixed
and he and the committee, repre-
senting the Chamber of Commerce,
the Rotary Club and the Municipal
League presidents. believe that the
retail coal dealers are not getting
more than a fair profit. Indeed, the
committee of consumers would have
been willing to allow the dealers
more than the fuel administrator
proposed.
But the coal question goes deeper
than price. 1t is already a question
of coal at any price. There is in
prospect for next winter a more SER
ious shortage than that which caus-
ed such widespread hardship during
January and February of the pres
ent year.
The Coal Age" an authority on
the national fuel situation. says
that:
The production of coal so far
million tons less each week than
the output estimated as necessary
to prevent another fuel famine
next winter.
1t adds what the newspaper dis
patches have been carrying the past
week or two-the reports of serious
labor disturbance and threats of
strike in the anthracite fields of this
State. Nor does The Coal Age"
place the blame on the mine work.
ers, who are said to be discouraged
by the fact that Secretary McAdoo
has offered certain favored mines all
the cars they want if they will sell
coal at slightly reduced prices to the
government for the railroads. Says
the publication quoted:
The direct result is dissatis-
faction and discouragement on the
part of the miners at the idle
plant and an increased cost of
production for the less favored
companies.
Men can't live even on high
wages when they can work but
two or three days each week, and
the companies cannot mine at low
cost under such conditions. Presto,
up go coal prices and wages. and
the public pays what the railroads
save!
With no desire to pass snap-judg-
ment on Mr.. McAdoo's methods. it
would appear that anything which
tends to reduce the general produc-
ton of coal is poor business. 1t is
too much to hope that coal will
either be cheaper or more plentiful
next fall. The thing to do now is
to forget the price increases and buy
as much as the pocketbook will per-
nit, the dealer will sell or the bins
hold. Last winter there were times
when many of us would have pur-
chased coal at any price, and could
not. That condition will be repeated
next winter, in aggravated form.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-12

Urgent calls have been sent out by
the anthracite coal operators for
more mine workers in an effort to in
crease the present army of $4,000
men up to the normal force of 1915,
when there were 177,0 mine work.
ers in the regions.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-12
GIVE

Give until you feel that you
Cannot give another soul
Give until you're broke, and then
Make some coin to give again!
What is all you give away?
There in Flanders yesterday
Was a soldier, fine and true,
Who gave up his life for you.
Detroit Free Press.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-12
LABOR NOTES

Professor Baldwin of the Michigan
Agricultural College is of the opinion
that women can assist production by
relieving men in cities rather than
themselves working on farms.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-12

Think of giving an American sol
der in France a Creel pamphlet on
the virtues of the administration, in
stead of slice of bread or piece
of meat.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-12

With Secretary Baker in Europe.
we are at least relieved of the an
noyance of his excuses for the fall
down of the Signal Corps and the
army aircraft program. or would he
insist on telling US that everything
Is going we'll?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-12

1t looks as though Emperor Charles
admitted the truth before he had re-
ceived instructions from the Kaiser
as to the kind of lie he was to tell.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-12

News item-"Paul Jones suspected
of disloyalty." After all. Shakespeare
knew what he was talking about
when he intimated that there is moth
ing in a name.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-12

Madagascar fishermen sprinkle 6
poisonous substance on rivers and
lakes which paralyzes the fish and
causes their bodies to rise, when they
are caught, by hand and eaten with.
cut harming their captors.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-12

Where is the fellow who was boast
ing last week that he had all his gar
den made?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-12

Information concerning the progress
of the war is all right, but when it
comes down to tons of it being
shipped in steamer holds that could
be used for supplies and food. we are
getting too much of a good thing.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-12

but even at that they are merely in
the primary grade of American in
struction.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-12

The early spring suit crop has been
seriously damaged by the storm.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-12

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telegraph Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-12

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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-12

The Germans learned a fresh les
son on the American front yesterday.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-12

HISTsIC HARRISBURG
For halfcentury Harrisburg used
to be thesng up place OF hundreds
of RATS u-y April.