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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-09
The Limit of Brutality

If we needed anything to make
more positive the determination to
carry on the war until Germany sur
rendered Internationally, the sink
ing of the Llandovery Castle would
furnish it. The abhorrent brutality
of a nation which deliberately tor
pedoes hospital ships without warn
ing in the blackness of night, slaugh-
tering surgeons and nurses, ram
ming the boats of survivors in en-
deaVor to completely destroy all
traces and evidences of the dastardly
deed-such brutality sinks Germany
and all her people to the level of
outlawed brigands, to whom the
other nations of the world should
show no more quarter than to dam
gerous wild beasts.
1t should make certain, once for
all, that no peace will be extended
except on terms of full damages and
reparations and the limit of punish
ment.-The Bache Review.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-09
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

William H. Smith. the former
banking commissioner, who is very
ill in Philadelphia, was formerly
a newspaperman.
State Zoologist ]. C. Sanders is
just home from series of visits
to conventions in the middle west
Judge Eugene G. Bonniwell.
Democratic candidate for governor,
has been resting in the Poconos.
ID. A. Post. who is named on
the labor safety committee, is a
Wilkes Barre carpenter and has been
prominent in labor affairs.
Ex-Governor John X. Tener is
visiting the Elks convention at At
lantic City.
Congressman Thomas S. Crago'
is at the seashore.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-09
The Call From France
Nurses and Surgeons Should Come Quickly

T HAVE no hesitation in saying
that it (the American Red Crosse
has done work in these last few
days that would justify its existence
and the support given to it if it never
did anything else
The last few days were the days
following the second battle of the
Marine when thousands of wounded
were being rushed into Paris.
Charles II. Grasty, special CORES
pondent of the New York Times,
writes of the horrors of these days
and the superb work of the Amer
lean Red Cross in Paris, in words
that should make every graduate
nurse in the United States beg to be
allowed TO go over to France and
help in the noblest service it has
ever been in the power of human
being to render.
In his cable story published in the
New York Times, Mr.. Grasty says:
Paris, June 9.-Although I have
been at all the fronts and in many
of the first-line trenches, l feel that
l have sfen real war to-day for
the first time. l made a round of
visits to the Red Cross hospitals, to
which have been rushed the casual
ties from the various fronts where
the American troops are engaged.
Paris is headquarters now for
taking care of our wounded. At all
the surgical hospitals to-day the
facilities were taxed TO the utmost.
l found wards filled with American
casualty cases, halls filled with men
lying on cots, in courtyards, and even
outside in the streets, waiting until
the surgeons, working forty eight
hours straight without sleep, could
take them into the operating ROOM"
Then follows an account of his
visits to the five great hospitals con-
Quoted by the American Red Cross
in Paris, and he, adds:
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-09

''One comes away from such
scenes too deeply affected for de-
scriptive details. Everybody who has
given dollar for this work of mercy
for our own may feel fully rewarded
for this generosity. How much more
can be said for those who are giving
their personal service!
81 hear that 10000 military nurs-
es have been called for from Amer
lea. and after seeing what l have
to-day. | hope that American women
who are in Il position to do so will
not miss this unequaled opportunity
for the noblest service it has ever
been in the power of human beings
to render. Nurses and surgeons
should come quickly.
What the percentage of efficiency
in the American Red Cross organi-
zation is l am unable to estimate,
but l have no hesitation in saying
that it has done work in these last
few days that would justify it's eXis-
tence and the support given to it
if it never did anything else. The
Red Cross has been getting ready.
1t has been collecting money and
spending it, filling warehouses and
accommodating medical and other sup
plies for months past. 1t has mill
hons OF surgical dressings In STOCK
in Paris alone. 1t has 600 or 700
camions and motor vehicles, 800 of
them in Paris. Its personnel in
France numbers 400.
Many people have looked askance
of these huge preparations. In the
early operations in Lorraine the Red
Cross furnished considerable sup
plies, but the army could have got
ten along anyway. Then came Can
tigny and the Red Cross was at hand
with a hospital. And now the or
ganization is ready at Paris to take
the wounded American heroes of the
second Marne battle"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-09

and the news that an armed expedi-
tion has landed would come with
little surprise to those who have
been studying the situation.
This much in the Russian muddle
is clear-that within the next few
weeks the allies are going to lose the
the possibility of Russian help or
they are going to checkmate Ger
many in the east. and much depends
upon the skill and tact with which
the immediate situation is handled.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-09
LABOR NOTES

Laborers from Porto Rico are be-
ing imported for work on Govern
ment contracts.
Thousands of women are being
employed in France to make war
balloons.
on July s. at Chicago, ILL.,, Inter
national Broom and Whisk Makers
Union will convene.
The Farmers party in New York
state thaetens to put a ticket of its
own into the political field.
The annual convention of the
American Federation of Labor will
be held at Pittsburgh, Pa, July 10.
The commission form of govenn-
ment for New York city is suggested
for the duration of the war.
Family cooks at New Orleans have
organized and demand a wage rate
of s25 a month and their keep.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-09
EDITORIAL COMMENT
BRIGGS

More food riots in Austria!
What's the matter with those peo-
pie? Always thinking of their
stomach when the fate of the Ger
man Emperor is at stake!-Pitts-
burgh Gazette Times.
Foch says the way to win is to
attack. The Kaiser tries Foch's
strategy and loses half a million
men. The real strategy seems to
be in giving the advice to an enemy
fool enough to act upon it.-Brook-
lyn Eagle.
William the Last has reigned thir-
ty years at an average cost to hu-
manity of S5,OO0,000,000 a year. 1t
is no joke to call him Bill.-Brook-
lyn Eagle
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-09

years ago? Was it for the good of
the service that he was reprlmanded
for some of his conduct at the Platts-
burg camp? Was It for the good of
the service that he was practically
snubbed when he returned from
France? The military service of the
United States seems to make some
very strange demands for its own
good.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-09
THE RIGHT TREATMENT

NE AYOR KEISTER has been "a
MI worker all his life and he has
small sympathy for loafers
Work or fight means just that
with him and the people of the city
will endorse most heartily his cru
sade against those who would do
neither. The arrest yesterday of a
dozen or more men without visible
means of support is a proper step.
1t will provide an incentive to those
worse than useless members of the
community who will neither work
nor go into the army. Keep it UP.
Mayor, you have the right idea.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-09

Those tchO say they WiH forgive
but can't forget an injury simply
bury the hdtchet tChiIe they ledUe
the handle out ready for immediate
uSe.-DwIGHT L. MooDY
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-09
What va Medn-AtticS?

Poets in the olden
Times used to live
Up in attics, but
Nowadays the attics
OF many poets are
Unoccupied.
st. Louis Star,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-09
CheeerleSs Future

We sometimes wonder II 1t ever
occurs to Austria that all she has to
hope for even in the event of glori-
Gus and complete ultimate victory
is to be bossed around for the rest of
her natural life by beery megalo-
State Journal,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-09

That's a bright
looking office boy
you've got.
Bright! w h y,
that boy has seen
every d o u b | g.
header and he
hasn't given me
the same excuse
twice.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-09

What is pollti-
cal Q c o n o m y,
dad?
To be perfectly
candid, my son, I
can't tell you.
Sometimes I think
there isn't any
such thing.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-09

"For the good of the service" is the
only reason given in response to the
demand of the American people that
the administration explain the shelly
ing of General Wood Then, il the
present ostracism of Wood is for the
good of the service. are we to assume
that it was also for the good of the
service that he was ridiculed when he
made his pleas for preparedness four
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-09
GOOD ROADS

L
u Vania has gone on record
against the proposed State loan
for the permanent improvement of
the highways. 1t will be noted that
from time to time the group of men
in control of the State organization
of farmers has consistently opposed
improvement of the roads through
loan. Notwithstanding the great
need of improved highways through
out Pennsylvania, especially in the
farming community, this attitude
of the Grange persists and it would
seem TO be about time for the i'm
portant interests which require easy
communication on account of pres
ent day conditions TO organize
against this unaccountable opposi-
ton.
The current number of Farm and
Fireside" declares, in an editorial,
that good roads have twice saved
France in the present war. Had it
not been for the radiating road sys-
L
ernment the Germans would have
won the battle of the Marne and
reached Paris. The Germans had
calculated on only three divisions
the invasion. Instead. the excellent
system of highways made it possible
for five divisions to be sent to this
front.
Again. shortly after the battle
of Verdun started, the French
railroad. which was to furnish
many of the supplies to the
troops, was destroyed. The French
Government, however, had ma
cadam road thirty-two feet wide,
on which four lines of traffic,
two in either direction, were
maintained. Day and night IA
600 motor trucks carried men and
equipment
a hole was made in the road. a
man with a shovelful of rock
slipped in between the line of
trucks and threw the rock into
the hole. then jumped aside to
let the trucks roll the rock down.
The farmers of Pennsylvania are
too intelligent a class to be swerved
from a proper course of action by
the little group that gets together
from time TO time and adopts reso-
lutions against the proposed loan on
the pretense that it would be an i'm
position and all that sort of thing.
How Pennsylvania is going to get
good roads from current revenues
is hard to conceive and il. is OBJ
viously unfair to expect the people
of the present generation to do all
the road building for years to come.
Farmers who have studied the
problem realize that prompt trans
portation means much to them in
the marketing of their crops and
general farm operations.
Good roads will help win the battles
of industry in war time as we'll as
in peace time and the Farm and
Fireside' evidently expresses the
opinion of the intelligent farming
class. In the same magazine for
July, from the pen of II. j. Krier,
appears this little poem. which il
Illustrates the value and Importance
of eood highways
I am the road
That carries the load
From countryside to town.
If you drag me true
l will pull for you,
And never mire you down.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-09
Dads Confession

Father" said the small boy,
what is constructive criticism ?"
Constructive criticism, my son, is
your own line of talk which, If Of
ferkd by some one else, would be
called ordinary faultfinding. -
Washington Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-09
Theu Are So Careless

Hippopotamus meat is said to be
as good as pork. but the chances are
that lot of hippopotamuses running
about would muss up a back yard al
most as much as chickens.-Marion
(Ohio) Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-09

That was a ter
rible session we
had last night. Do
1 look very bad
Bad? You look
lik e a p a ! m
Beach suit that's
been out in the
rain.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-09

"One never knows what the Russian
mind will conceive or what the Rus
sian will execute" says Kerensky,
but we suspect he meant WHOM the
Russian will execute.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-09

Two colored men put forty Germans
to flight the other day. What would
happen. we wonder. il we had three
million colored troops in France.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-09
FATE's SUEsTI.
TUITION.

- = -
TUITION.
Optimist: T h e
things we fear
must never hap
pen.
Pesslmist: Yes,
but we generally
g e t something
equally bad,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-09

In planning your vacation, it is
we'll to remember that there is an
other Liberty Loan coming along next
fall.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-09
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg is making spe-
ciaI metals for government muni-
tions?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-09
Coming of the Gospel

Our gospel came not unto You in
word only, but also in power. and
in the Holy Ghost, and in much as
surance.-I Thessalonians 1, S.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-09

Having regulated the price of wheat
downward. will not the President
please do something similar to cotton
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-09

Some of the modern poets appear
to use typewriters that fiat in the
whole upper register.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-09

TELEGRAPH Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-09

HISTORIC HARRISBURG
In 1900 Harrisburg had two fer
ries crossing the Susquehanna and
the Middletown ferry was also in
operation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-09

A SCTT SIH<.
s h e wanted to
play Carmen
And look like
t h | 8, s h 9
said,
She knew that
she could do
Il
For h e r lips
were carmine
red.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-09

Ell. .STACKPoLE,Pr PRESS s Edissr-,n.C hiSf
F. r. OYSTER. Business Manager.
GUS Nj. STEINMETZ. Msn6ging Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-09

Member of the Associated Press-Ths
Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled 20 the use for republication of
all news dispatches credited to II or
not otherwise credited In this paper
ana also the local news published
herein.
All rights of republication of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-09
OUR DAILY LAUGH
1T DOES.


Money m a k es
the mare go.
Yep, and nova
days with the cost
of gasoline where
1t is it takes
money to make
the little old four
cylinder go, too.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-09

The Capitol plaza and the Null
berry Street bridge were put into
the discard last night as the windiest
places in Harrisburg. They have
divided that honor for a long time
and many a man and woman is dis
pose d to accept such judgment with
out further contest. The new place
was registered by a man who had
been working on top of the Penn
Harris. He said that to his certain
knowledge there had been more
wind in the valley of the Susque-
hanna the last month than he had
ever known and. it seemed to center
about the new hotel.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-09

War on speakeasies in the sub
urban districts was declared by
Mayor Alex T. Connell. at Scranton.
Asserting that complaints have been
made that mine workers spent their
Sundays drinking il. these unlicensed
places. and in consequence are unfit
for work next day the mayor said
that he already has sufficient evi-
dence to start criminal prosecutions
against the proprietors. AS coal pro-
duction is a most vitad war idustry.
Mayor Connell says the speakeasies
are a menace to maximum produc-
ton and they must go.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-09

reports coming to the State De-
partment of Health indicate that
there was very little if any tetanus
reported In Pennsylvania following
the fourth of July. The reports
are not complete. but all signs are
that there was less observance of
the day by means of explosives of
various kinds than for a long time.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-09

[From the the Stars and Stripes in
France
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-04

as lavish ornaments is regarded as an
unpatriotic Stacker.
Dress suits and fine ball gowns
worn in peaceful days at many social
function are now going to the old
clothes section of the Red Cross sal
wage department and the triumphs
and joys associated with them are
forgotten in the more serious things
Of this serious moment. And those
who were wont to array themselves in
fine linen and be as inconsequential,
in the scheme of things, as the lilies
of the field, which neither toll nor
spin, are seeing in a new light.
Becomes Real Blessing.
They have become humanized by
the habit OF wearing old clothes and
performing useful service in strength
ening the nations will to win the war.
The artificial mannerisms which put
them in an aloof class has gone into
the ash can Of discarded things and
they have come down to realities and
have re-discovered themselves. They
are finding the world more inter
esting place in which to live and they
would hate to go back to the empty
andl frivolous past with its boredom
its ennui and its aimlessness. To them
democracy is very real blessing
1t is hard to find a real snob in
Omaha today. There seems, rather,
to be rivalry in friendliness. lively
spirit of brotherhood. Nearly every
home has its service flag in the win
dow. Nearly every person has some
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-04

starter. All Of my neighbors come -
me for their starter"
Mother used starter" reminis-
Gently remarks Mrs. Rich. "and il |
could get one | believe | would try
to bake bread, too. Ny husband finds
bakers bread hard to digest and |
know he would love to have some pal
atable home made bread and there are
so many good war breads being made
with substitutes now" ~
II will gladly furnish you with a
starter" volunteers Mrs. Humble, and
right there is born an intimacy aud
friendship that discovers two delight
full and charming persons to each
other. The democratic old-fashioned
spirit Of neighborly service has been
revived.
Salvage Department Profits.
Fashion, the autocratic dictator of
style, the fetch at whose shrine so
many unthinkingly worshipped, has
been Knocked from its high altar. The
ostentations display of lavish and =
pensive articles of dress and adorn-
ment is now taboo. There is need
for the conservation OF Woolens for
soldiers clothing, of linen for sur
gieal uses, of cotton for explosives, Of
silk for aviation purposes, silver and
gold for war financing, platinum for
the ignition points OF great guns fred
by electrical contact, and the person
who wastefully drapes these over his
or her form, or wears precious metals
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-04

your contract and come" quickly
came the second wire from Mrs. Ar
mour.
A few weekend trips to Chicago
and the vacation days before and after
July 4th were life-savers. Miss Fitch
worked both ways and succeeded in
teaching her large class at Creighton
and in staging her pageant in the
Auditorium at Chicago
Mr.sWilliam Wrigley said it was far
more beautiful than anything grand
opera had ever produced.
Other famous-for-something-or or
other folks said equally compliment
ary things about the gorgeous affair.
The money-box said: $25,00000 net
for the Salvation Army war fund
drive.
And Miss Fitch is an Omahan heart
and soul with the true spirit of the
west back of every undertaking.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-04

wear them can be no strangers. That
is why Mrs. Rich, in her limousine.
stopped at the corner Of Sixteenth and
Farnam streets the other night, and
beckoning to group of soldiers who
were waiting at the corner for car
to go to Fort Omaha, begged to be
permitted to drive them there.
1t is also the reason why nearly every
automobile owner in the city gives the
man in khaki a lift when the latter
signifies by salute his desire to
ride.
There is democracy, too, between
the young officers and the enlisted
men in the service, though regulations
and unwritten custom decree it
should be subdued in its expression.
War is as a rehner's fire. 1t is
burning out the dross of snobbery and
uselessness in our social relationships
and is replacing it with consecrated,
devoted sacrifice and service. the two
greatest handmaidens of democracy.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-04
The Dancers Represent the Mime. de Pompadow Period
Two Lovely Dancing Girls Pool Represent Egyptian

But these visions have become real,
her dreams materialized and when she
created Women of the Ages" and
staged it in the wonderful gardens of
Mrs. J. Ogden Armour's country
home at Lake Forest, ILL.,, there was
not much left to dream about. This
elaborate pageant was so beautiful in
concept and in presentation that the
guests at this lawn fete felt that it
should be given again and made avail
able for the general public.
Next, Mrs. Armour became chair
man of the great Salvation Army
drive and Immediately wired Lillian
Fitch, who was (and now isl teaching
summer normal course in dramatic
expression at Creighton University.
Come Immediately" said Mrs,
Armour.
1T can't be done" wired Miss Fitch.
Pay whatever it costs, but break
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-04

rs there another city in the whole
/ United States producing steadily
- as many bright stars I'm our celeb
rity heaven as Omaha, Neb.?
We challenge them to sides-a de-
bate--to prove it, We have Our
doubts.
When Lillian Fitch taught dramatic
expression in Omaha she was con-
ceded to be Sine"
When Lillian Fitch worked with
Mrs. Myron Learned and others, her
pageants were we'll attended and CIV
en- local honors. @ ali
When Lillian Fitch spread her
wings (Which were held down by lack
of opportunity in Omaha) she few
and descended on welcome soil, amid
anxious people. Her aims were high,
her vision unbounded, her dreams
soaring