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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-26

WE ARE falling down. falling
wv down bad. on our War Saw
ings Stamp quota for Har-
risburg and Dauphin county. We
are away behind the amount set for
us by the Government agencies, and
other communities are forging
ahead, some having surpassed us by
more than one dollar per capita
In all other forms Of war work
this community has excelled. Our
young men have volunteered in very
large numbers. Others have re-
sponded willingly and gladly to the
call of the selective draft. Are we
going to let these lads stick. or are
we going to back them up with our
quarters and our dollars?
There is but one answer. We
must buy more stamps, every one Of
us. We must do without some lit
tie luxury each week and put our
savings into stamps and Baby
Bonds. 1t must not be said at the
close of the year that Harrisburg and
Dauphin county were found slack
ing in any form of war activity.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-26
JAPAN AS 4 WORTHY ALLY
BY HARRINGTON EMERSON

money and the men to warrant great
enterprises? She did.
Did Japan have ready armies, we'll
equipped manufacturing plants, did
she have a fervently industrious
civil population? She had them ALL
Did Japan deliver what she prom
ised? She was the first, and alas
the only one of the Allied powers to
date to achieve signal victory over
the Prussians, shattering for all
time their lustful plans of Oriental
conquest.
Japan supplied Russia with both
money and munitions.
Because Russia initially showed
weakness on every one of the five
tests, because Japan initially and
continuously has shown growing
strength on every one of the five
tests let us go ahead with no more
illusion as to present Russia or
future Russia. let us go ahead with
faith and trust in those whose fifty
years of modern history have earned
trust, faith and admiration, and let
the East and the West fight this war
to finish. not for imm mediate, not
even for proXimate, but for ultimate
welfare. That ultimate is not the
exaltation of any one nation, or of
any one race or of any one religion
but for the glory of high ideals, for
peace on earth and for good will to-
ward men.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-26
WERE WE DRIVEN TO 1T?
[Col. Harvev,s War Weeklv1

tCol. Harvey's War Weekly
We know now why the brakes
came off. The explanation of our
pacifist Secretary of Wars sudden
self-reversal is disclosed. 1t is very
simple, and very convincing. He was
driven to it; that is all. He was con-
strained by the remonstrances, ap-
peals, demands or what not, of our
Allies. Any pretense that 1t required
long and profound study, from late
in June until early in August, to
convince one of the ablest public
officials the President has ever
known that two and two make four,
would of course be puerile. The
simple fact is that when our Allies
learned that at the very height and
crisis of the campaign he purposed
to lie down on his job" they read
the riot act to him. 1t was only
through compulsion that the thing
which he vetoed in June he dictated
and demanded in August.
1t is proverbially better late than
never. And though it is theoretically
impossible ever to atone for delay, it
may be possible practically to make
up for it to so great an extent that
the delay will be forgiven and for
gotten. But how much better it
would be to be prompt instead of
dilatory; how much better to act
spontaneously upon our own initia-
tive than to wait until we are drag
ged or driven to it!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-26

that when causes for these minor
grumblings are explained to the peo-
pie they take it splendidly, for. as
far as I have observed. and 1 have
observed very carefully. the people
are going into this war with all their
spirit and in the most devoted fash
ion." Again Colonel Harvey OBJ
serves:
Right you are. Mr.. Secretary.
You have got the measure to the
microscopic fraction of an inch of
the American people in their will to
win this war and make an end for
once and all of the human jackal in
the spiked helmet now loose and
ravaging a world on which he rests
as a blighting curse. The American
people are going into this war with
all their spirit, and, furthermore,
that spirit is growing in volume
and intensity with every passing day
and hour. That is why they are get
ting beyond the mood to tolerate for
a moment any shufiings. and hold
ings back. and putting on the brakes
to check the progress of such vital
war-winning measures, for instance,
as the one for Army increase by ex-
pansion of the draft age limits
The American people are giving
their men and all their resources for
the winning of the war. 1t is their
war. not the war of the President,
or of Congress. or of heads of depart
ments, or commissions. and because
il is their war, which they propose
to continue until victory shall have
been achieved. they are going to ex-
press themselves concerning it's con-
duct-hewing to the line and letting
the chips fall where they may.
Let's get over the foolish idea that
our Government officials are infal-
lible, that their persons are in some
manner sacred and cannot be ap-
preached; but reserving to the peo-
pie the right to point out mistakes
and to urge changes; pledge whole
hearted support, that force. and still
more force, shall be used in the
smashing of the Beast of Europe.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-26
THE AIRPLANE FAILURE

IF the administration had made
good its air program of $4,000
aeroplanes on the French front
at this time the German defeat
would have been turned into a rout
and the war would be over before
the end of the year. Failure TO do
so will cost thousands upon thou
sands of the lives of American boys
and the expenditure of billions of
dollars in the work of destruction
that otherwise could have been de-
voted to promote the blessings of
peace.
The report of the special Con-
gressional committee on the aircraft
falldown is most amazing recital
of official incompetence, and worse
The Navy Departments air program,
operated in precisely the same man
ner as that of the War Department,
appears to have gone along in first
rate fashion, with some delays, to
be sure, but generally with success,
and has been productive of great
naval fleet of hydroplanes. The fail
ure in the War Department, with it's
costly expenditure of time and
money, was enacted directly beneath
the nose of Secretary Baker and is
traceable directly to his proverbial
inability to get beneath the surface
of situations, the whole details Of
which he should have at his fingers
ends.
That the evils have been removed
and the faults corrected is good
news, but one would rather hear it
at the hands of the committee than
from Mr: Baker With the best in
tentions in the world the Secretary
of War has slipped again. most
grievously, ard Congress will be wise
to accept the investigators report
at it's face value and adopt it's rec
concentrations. We must have planes
and plenty of them if we are to win
this war. Whether or not Mr.. Baker
approves the means by which we
get them is of small moment to an
aroused people who are far more in
terested in policies and their results
than in officials and their reputa-
tions.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-26
CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM

THERE are still a few two-by-
nine Democratic organs that
can see nothing but the very
essence of wisdom in every act Of
the Washington Administration.
Shutting their eyes and closing their
ears that they may not see or hear
anything that might break the spell
of their partisan obsession. these or
gans continue to scold all who
chance to differ with the various and
sundry officials who are charged
with the conduct of the Government.
The other day the New York Sun
urged that whatever castigations are
due Secretary of War Baker for
blocking the expanded draft age law
should be left to the impartial
pages of history" but Colonel George
Harvey dissents from the Suns view
that revelation of incapacities and
weaknesses such as these. in times
such as these. should be left Ito the
future historians of the Wilson Ad-
ministration." ''If the house be on
fire." he says, "a timely warning of
the fact is infinitely more to the pur
pose than would be pages of histor-
ical description of the delays and
blunders which resulted in the house
being reduced to ashes. If an in
competent steersman is at the helm
Of one of the most vitality important
units in the Administration fleet,
even non-constructive criticism
which merely exposes the fact is
vastly more serviceable than a post
mortem historical analysis of the
way the incompetent steersman
wrecked the ship. And we submit
that condoning the incompetence
and failing to expose it and keep IT
in the full. glare of piti1ess publicity
is a poor way of standing by the
/, Admiral of the feet and the head of
the Administration"
So, also, in the case of Secretary
McAdoo, who. recently suggested
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-26
EVOLUTION IN FIGHTING

Napoleon was wont to say that
tactics changed every ten years. The
evolution in ways of fighting has so
speeded up that in the greatest of
all wars the transformation comes
at least every ten months.
German tactical contributions
have been in chemistry and cannon
surprising use of high-powered and
accurate. machines. Their 75s are
the best guns in Europe and in the
hands of their masters have pro-
duced q curtain of shells. a barrage,
which may be dropped over a de-
tachment of the foe to cut him of
till the pollus mop UP the position,
or thrown in front of an advance
to keep it safe until it reaches its
objective. American gun crews
have proved such apt pupils of their
French instructors that word comes
of crack Yankee batteries which
can serve the 75s so fast that cap
tured German officers ask for look
at the big new machine gun.
The British have produced char
lots of fire. Where the lay OF the
land favors their use. tanks are the
For a brief space on the Somme in
1916 the advent of the armored
monsters, crawling out of holes,
knocking down trees and crushing
machine guns. thrilled the world.
Last autumn, at Cambrai, they had
better test. Just at dawn. without
artillery preparation. a line of mon
sters flopped over the top. toward
the enemy positions. 1t was no fault
of the. tanks that the promising
Cambrai salient was later narrowed
until it could no longer be held.
The glory of the tanks is in the
future. They are multiplying fast
The offensive of 1919 will see
American-made and American
manned tanks swarming toward the
Rhine as flivvers swarm toward the
beach on a S0th of May.-Boston
| Globe.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-26
BEDLAM DECLARES WAR
IN, A. Reviews War Weekly

IN. A. Reviews War Weekly
Announcement of the BolshevilS
declaration OF war upon the Allies
is not likely to make anybody's flesh
creep. 1t is only the verbal formu-
lation of n long existant fact. Just
as the Huns declared war on civili-
zation when their hordes swept into
Belgium, so did the Bolshevik crew
of crooks and madmen declare war
on Russia's former allies when they
sold out to the Huns and turned
loose Hun armies of reinforcement
on the western front.
If among them there were deluded
ones who really relied upon Hun
faith when they subscribed to that
Brest-Litovsk document, humorously
described as a peace" treaty, and
which virtually put Russia under
the Huns feet, the delusion could
hardly have been shared by the
leaders in that interesting dicker.
With them, beyond much doubt, it
was simple case of barter and sale.
They got their price and they deliv-
cred the goods.
Such of these leaders as survive
the maelstrom and manage to es-
cape with their plunder may yet find
their way back to our own shores.
This was their original base of op-
erations. They sought shelter and
prospered here, and. after the man
ner of their kind, turned on the hand
that fed them. From the moment
of their arrival they began an anar-
chist. crusade against America and
everything American. Then the op-
portunity opened in Russia. They
a h nd off 30
wreck and ruin here and flew to the
more promising field. But that field
has now been pretty we'll cleaned.
The days of Bolshevikery in Russia
are clearly numbered. Not, of course.
that the end will come without the
usual accessories of slaughter and
arson. There will be'plenty of that,
no doubt. But the spree could not
go on indefinitely.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-26
THE TEARS OF RHEIMS

Howard Wheeler in Everybody'sl
We had motored almost all night
on the way to Rheims. 1t was rain
ing hard and very cold. The morn
ing was a little brighter. We were
almost five miles out when we got
our first view of the cathedral
La Glorieuse Mutilee." the French
call it. The towers stood out clearly
against the sky-certainly a wonder
full mark for the barbarian gunners.
As we entered the dead city and
turned into the avenue leading to
the cathedral. at a little distance it
seemed to me that the reports of the
damage had been exaggerated. But
as we came closer it was plain that
the church was just a shell.
We stopped at some distance and
walked toward the entrance. There
were great holes where pavement
had once been. and the whole area
around the cathedral was a waste
from glancing shells or misaimed
shells which had been fred at the
historic structure. And from this
debris. from the fallen stone that
will always stand as monument to
the Hun, there rose that wonderful
statue of the Maid of Orleans, un-
touched; not even a nick in the up
raised sword.
Inside it was the old story over
again. There were great holes in the
roof. demolished statuary, torn
pavement. Even the spot where
Jeanne dare stood near the main al
tar while Charles VII was being
crowned King of France vas oblit-
Grated forever. The same terrible
story-with one difference. A por-
ton of the roof had been of wood
covered with lead. At the time of
the first bombardment interior re-
pairs were under way. The bonn
bardment set fire to the scaffolding
and the flames caught the roof. The
lead sheathing melted, dripping on
the floor or running down the walls.
In many places 1t still hung in long.
slender festoons. The guide ex.
planned the cause very slowly so that
should understand.
I'VE have come to call them" he
concluded, "the tears of Rheims"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-26
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Congressman Thomas S. CragS.
who jolted Washington with some
remarks about losses in his speech
the other day, comes from Greene
county and served through the Phil
ippines. He was for years in the
National Guard.
Prof Harvey C. Hayes, Swarth-
more professor, has been given leave
for the war as he is working on
physical work for the Navy.
Edgar c. FELTON,, former head
of the Steelton works and now active
in the work of distributing labor, Is
establishing agencies in railroad stS.S
tions.
DIR. Earnest LaPlace, of Phila-
delphia. has been made a major in
the medical service.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-26
PENNSYLVANIA'S GLORY
[From the Philadelphia Inquirer1

[From the Philadelphia 1nquirer1
Senator Sproul. in the course of an
eloquent address at Erie, declares
that more Pennsylvanians have died
upon the field of honor since this
war began than those of any other
State in the Union. He did not in
tend to make any invidious distinc-
ton in a cause where all are equal
ly doing their duty, but he could not
refrain from expressing the pride he
felt over the glorious sacrifice of
these sons of the Keystone State. AS
with Colonel Roosevelt, the war has
got very near to Senator Sproul, be-
cause his own son was among those
gassed by the Huns. Fortunately, he
is recovering, bat the incident en-
ables the Delaware county statesman
to feel with those other fathers and
mothers of the Commonwealth who
have read the pames of their sons in
the ever-growing casualty lists.
The war is coming home to us in
the most intimate manner. In the
thick of the fight have been the
boys from Lancaster and Lehigh
counties and from Philadelphia. One
battalion, including these young men,
has been pushing forward for
twenty-seven days in pursuit of the
fleeing Huns. There have been
counterattacks and fierce fights and
some of our boys have had to pay
the price of their courage and gal
lantry. But the commander of one
of the companies is authority for the
statement that, amid the worse hor-
rors of war, not one of these Penn
sylvanians faltered or turned back.
We would not be human if we did
not feel proud of such representa-
tives, and Senator Sproul speaks
truly when he says that they have
given imperishable glory to the
great State of Pennsylvania.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-26
Prisoner Tearing Papers

A lanky private was detailed to
take a captured German artillery Of
ficer to regimental headquarters. He
had progressed about half mile
when. the American notioed that his
charge was tearing up some papers
he evidently didn't want to get into
American hands and scattering the.
pieces along the road.
"Ain't you the cute cuss?" said
the American. Now you just go
back and pick. them all up"
The officer may not have under
stood the instructions. but he did the
gestures which accompanied them,
and he complied. He spent the next
half hour painstakingly gathering
the fragments of a map which. when
pasted together. showed all the
Boche artillery positions in his sec
tor-From the Stars and Stripes in
France.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-26
THE DOG DAYS" END

MYTH sunset tonight the dog
w days" end. and housewives
who dread the season will be
inclined to rejoice. But be not too
demonstrative until you take a look
ahead. By mid-January of 1919
August of 1918 is going to appear in
the light of a pleasant period of
balmy days and peaceful nights.
The prospect is not bright. Unless
we mistake, there will be more
''lightless nights" and "fuelless days"
and we shall be "cussing" the Kaiser
more fervently than ever and BAN
ishing the shivers along our spines
by working ourselves into fits of
temper. Then shall we look back
to these dog days" as blessed sea-
son.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-26
: TITLE Japan defeated the great

LIE Japan uelSdleu the great
but weak colossus of China,
little Japan astounded the
world by defeating the armies and
navies of Russia. Growing Japan
built mills and factories and rapidly
rose to a position of the first rank,
always, with the old Japanese honor,
strictly adhering to the sacredness
of given word of pledge, of treaty.
Has Japan honorably worked as
an ally? She has.
Did Japan have noble ideals?A She
did and they were:
To discover the secrets of the
universe, to stay it's disease, to sub
Jugate it for the benefit of humanity.
To lead again up into the light the
great yellow race which has sup
piled the world with so many of its
leaders. To take first rank herself
among the civilized nations of the
world and to establish as to Eastern
Asia a Monroe Doctrine of the far
East for the Oriental.
Japan's aims were high and
we of the United States were her
best friends and greatest admirers
until insidious German propaganda
tried to and, to our shame, succeeded
in arousing distrust.
Did Japan have the brains, the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-26
Montcldir's AngeIus
he Editor of the Tribune:

To the Editor of the Tribune:
Sir-Your suggestion of an
"Angelus" is excellent. It is recog-
nized here at the hour of IL. And
the bell of the "Old First" Presby-
terian Church is rung at that hour
every day. Edwin Ferris.
Montclair. N. J., Aug. Is, 1918.
From the Montclair Tribune.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-26
SYMPATHY

They who discern not.
Who shall inform them
Or make them. perceive
What their eyes are beholding?
Can they be glad with your joy?
Or pulse with your art-beats?
You point the face in the cloud
And they who look after
Shall laugh at your beholdins
And your pleasure be ashamed.
Give not the gold of your joy
Into hands that tarnish.
Helen Hoyt in the Dial.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-26

Member of the Associated Press-The
Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled TO the use for republication of
all news dispatches credited TO it or
not otherwise credited in this paper
and also the local news published
herein.
All rights of republication OF special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-26
A Lucid Interpretation

AS we understand it from the ex-
plantations of the German war cor
respondents, Won Hindenburg length
ened his lines in order to shorten
them.-From the Dallas News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-26
The Only Good Thing

There is only one thing good to be
said of the grasshopper invasion,
and that is it is not German propa-
ganda.-Baltimore American.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-26
The Regular Thing Now

A goose once laid a golden egg,
In days long gone and olden,
But at the price they are to-day
Most any egg seems golden.
kansas City Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-26
He's a Regular LdSSigny

(From the Phila. Evening Ledger)
Even the literary world has its
massifs. Think of Irwin Cobb.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-26
MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1918

The SdddeSt sight in oil the toorld
is not q grave of the dead, 0rievous
as thGt might be, but it Is q grave Of
the Irving - humanity SepuIchred
toht!e yet dlire. - FRANCES e. VIII
LARD.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-26

During the last year the Canadian
membership of the Brotherhood of
Carpenters increased 1900.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-26

Twenty thousand women have been
placed in positions by the government
since February 1.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-26
God Is Lioht

God is light, and in him is no
darkness at ALL John LIS.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-26
PROVISO,

PROVISO.
The proposed
food embargo
should shorten
the war.
Unless t h e
belligerents are
of the sort that
would rather
fight than eat.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-26

Bozeman (Montana) has increased
the wages of city laborers from $3.50
to $500 a day of eight hours.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-26
DO YOU KNOW
That Harrisburg preserving
products are helping the Army
provision supplies?
HISTORIC HARRIsBURC

Harris Ferry was a center OF
safety organizations against Indians
In two wars and many important
conferences were held here,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-26

A 50-hour law for women and chill
dren was defeated in the recent ses-
sion of the Massachusetts, Legisla-
ture.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-26
SAMPLES.


The farmer now
in comfort
dwells.
Accommodating
pl Q n teous
pelf.
As condescend-
gly he
sells
What he's not
going to eat
himself.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-26
LABOR NOTES

Manned soldiers will be taught new
trades at school to be established
in Philadelphia.
Employees of the Canadian Ford
Motor Company demand SIS for an
eight-hour day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-26

Manchester IN. HI cotton opera.
tives have been conceded a is pei
cent wage increase.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-26

Some of the reports sent in by
the local draft boards throughout
the state are of interest because of
the sidelights they give on local con-
ditions, but Saturday night telc-
gram which got Major w. G. Muir
dock out of bed was a regular
searchlight. 1t came from a board
in Fayette county and announced
that claims for industrial exemptions
had ''submarined class l."