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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-16
LETTERS TO THE, EDITOR

he gave to the devils works years
that might have been devoted to
great usefulness.
We know about the babes that
the Beast of Berlin slew! How
about the babes that booze slowly
persecutes and tortures.
All! Friend and neighbor we have
awakened to the fact that booze
must go and must so without the
manufacturer getting one cent Of
compensation.
Millions for defense but not one
cent for tribute"
Our governor says, 'whisley is
not good for soldiers" so we realize
fully that it is not good for civil
ions.
Gilmore also says "but for the
demand of the public for wines,
beer and whisky, there would be no
liquor traffic"
True - the demand has come
from the youth of land but the
fathers and the mothers have taken
things into their hands and when
they are through legislating there
will be no further demand for the
liquor peoples valued product.
How they will miss the harvest they
once reaped and how hard it will
be to get to work!
Bill will miss his ease and luxury
also.
This is a day of uprooting evils
and we will let no stone unturned.
Yours truly,
JEFF WILSON.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-16
SLAVES TO FEAR

[From The Protestant, by Burris A.
Jenkins, Christian Century Press]
One Saturday night, anxious to eff
ferVesce-I started to say brain
weary, but that is presumption, too
many men with a thimbleful of
brains complain of that killing
fatigue. it is killing, isn't it'll
called up a minister on the telephone
and suggested that we go to the thea
ter together-to an excellent show,
a high class drama or comedy.
well, ah, brother" he hesitated,
"I-ah-"
ooh, you have something else on
hand?" said l.
mo, but, ah-you know
Then 1 began to comprehend, and,
to relieve the tension on the tele-
phone wire, | said:
"Oh, / see. Conscientious objec-
tions? You don't go to the theater?"
"Well you see," came the hesi-
tant reply. "It is not on my own ac-
COUNT have no conscientious scru-
pies, you know, but my young peo-
pie
Now IL that is not slavery, I don't
know what it is. One is a slave of
his children who banishes from the
table an article of food that is whole
some for grownups, but bad for chill
dren. One is slave who hides a
thing and surreptitiously partakes of
it when the children are not looking.
He is worse than a slave-a pharisee.
One is a slave who does not dare to
follow his conscience and do what he
knows is good for him because of
some young persop
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-16
THE REFUGEES
BRIGGS

Slowly they come-these mutely sor-
rowing Folk,
These newly risen Dead, these sad
Rememberers,
Back to their fields-baCk to those
places where
OF old the hearthiires burned. Moth
ing is left.
Out of those days but tears-the
tears that live
In mortal things'-ashes and tears.
These who have tasted Sorrows
deepest cup
And lived. they know not why, and
died, they know
Not how--then lived again what
shall be done
For these, Grief's children, in the
days to be?
Back from the tomb-slow Lazar-
uses-they come
With wounds so deep that even God
has not
Long while the power to ease them
or to cure
Back into sudden sunshine! How
shall these
Remember to forget the days that
were?
How lose the old deep horror of the
ways?
How fly from madness of remem-
bered days?
Lo, Life is still the answer-Life
that comes,
Tenderly bearing gifts and clothed
anew.
With healing Freedom. Life will
light again
Those darkened faces through
World Brotherhood
And touch dry eyes to tears, mute
lips to speech.
The dawn of great Tomorrow will
give back
The upward looking and the light
again,
And Love will lay her fingers on
their hair
And touch their hearts to singing
Hope
VIII walk all ways. But they who
snatched the torch
And left these lampless in an utter
night
How shall they answer in that Latter
Day.
What shall they render in the
Reckoning?
MARY SIEGRIST.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-16
WAR AS AN EDUCATOR
[From the New York Mairl

[From the New York Mait1
The most interesting subject in the
world is Man, the next most inter-
esting is Earth, Mans home.
Our knowledge of geography has
been doubled, nay trebled, since the
war began.
Four years ago the ignorance of
the rank and file of us regarding the
superficies of the planet on which
we live was stupendous.
If the reports of the school eX-
aminations prior to 1914 are to be
believed, the children in the grammar
schools, and the students in the high
schools as well, were deplorably Off
when it came to geography.
Fortunately, all is different now.
To-day the knowledge of geography
among us, from the little boys and
girls up to the oldest of us, is go
ing ahead by leaps and bounds. Fol-
lowing the war news, we learn some
thing new every day of countries
and cities, of nations and tribes. In
the battle accounts we learn of the
terrain, of the fora, and, to a GER
tain extent, of the fauna, of many
regions.
From little San Marino to vast ST.
IBERIA we have learned things of
which, before the war, we had never
so much as dreamed. We know now
how very small San Marine is, as
we'll as where it is; and as for ST.
IBERIA, we know-what many of us
did not know four years ago-that
it is as big as the United States, and,
instead of being a waste of desert,
tundra and ice, is potentially one of
the finest and richest portions of the
earth's surface.
And the war news that has come
to us from Allenby, Maud and Mar
shall has opened our eyes as they
had never been opened regarding the
old Bible lands, Syria, Palestine and
Mesopotamia.
Every one now knows just how the
famous rivers, Tigris and Euphrates,
look; as we'll as the physical fea-
lures of the ancient lands through
which they flow.
AS a teacher of history the great
war has done a wonderful work. 1t
has brought to our minds i'm Won
derfully graphic and striking fash
ion what Denmark, and Poland, and
Bohemia used to be, and what tney
arc striving to be again.
About the absorbing interesting
story of Alsace-Lorraine we all know
much more than we did in August,
1914; and of international law, the
rules of war, the usages of war, an
cient and modern, the nature of gov
ernment in general and democratic
government in particular, we have
/ learned much that was hidden from
us q few years back.
! The great war is not only making
| the world safe for democracy it is
showing what democracy is, and
what the world is.
AS an educator the war is discount
! ing all the schools and universities.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-16
N0D Unnuzzle the Press
[From the North American Review
War Weeklyl

[From the North American Review
War Weeklyl
With the end of the war should
vanish every excuse for that uncon-
stitutional muzzling of the press to
which the country with amazing
patience has now so long submitted.
There is no longer danger of news
leakage that might be of Informative
value to the enemy. He is not in a
position to make use of it if he had
it. There is no longer danger of
treason preachments. They would
be perilous only to those who were
fools enough to utter them. The
only conceivable purpose for con-
tinued gagging of the press might
perhaps lie in the political eXigencies
of the. party in control of the Adj
ministration. How far force of habit
may lead those in authority at Wash
ington along that line of endeavor
remains to be seen. Clearly it is q
road just now very far from safe
for the particular brand of Democ-
racy involved.
The Administration policy of free
press suppression has been so grad
ually and, in some instances, so
adroitly imposed that the general
public probably has not fully real
lied what an alarming growth this
most hateful form of autocracy has
become. In an article in the last
number of the North American Re-
view Mr.. Richard Barry presents the
matter in a plain narration of fact
which is startling. He clearly shows
that, all but unconsciously to our
selves, we have grown into a timid
acceptance of a form of coercion
utterly at variance with all our ira
ditions and convictions. By citation
of specific cases in point he demon
strates that under strained applica-
tions of the Espionage Act, the
supervision of the military censors,
the direct orders of the War Indus
tries Board and the adroit manipula-
tions of the Politicalmaster General,
the great masses of the American
people find themselves about as eff
fectually barred from full, free, un-
supervised access to the news of the
day and uncensored interpretive
comment thereon as Potsdam itself
might desire.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-16

by the Secretary of the Pennsylvania
Good Roads Association, which put
out bulletin favoring the loan ana
explaining its objects just previous
to the elections:
I have just been handed copy
of your pamphlet called Build
the Maintenance Into the Road,
and after reading it / was GER
tainly sorry l voted against tne
bond issue for fifty million DOL
lars. I wish l had seen 1t sooner.
Please send me copies or all your
pamphlets.
Here we have the answer. AS soon
as the people were convinced that
the road loan was a good measure
they approved it, and in the face of
the uncertainties of the reconstruc-
ton period they may now congratu-
late themselves that they have $780,
100000 at their disposal for eXpendi-
ture should the time come when
there are more seekers for jobs than
there are jobs. Fifty million dollars
would be a god-send to the working
people of Pennsylvania should dull
times come.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-16
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Senator T.. w. Patton, re-elect-
ed in Philadelphia, was for years q
select councilman in that city.
Senator w. Clayton Hackett, OF
Easton, donated a park to the peo-
pie of that city where he was born.
Senator william E. Crow, just
reelected, likes to talk of the days
when he was newspaper reporter
james M. Campbell, elected to
the Senate from the Mercer district
served in that body several sessions
ago.
Senator Charles w. Sones, of the
Williamsport district, is bog lun.
ber manufacturer.
-Senator-ele Wallace J. Barnes,
of Wayne county, served as pro.
thonotary of that county. He will
fill the old Hardenberg chair.
Representative Harry Zanders
tailender of the House list, served
for years on Carbon county school
boards.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-16
THE nuNIR MOTHER

10 the Editor or the elegFdPH:
Some time ago a bitter complaint
from Australia of savage cruelty to
fur-bearing creatures was published.
About three million opossum skins
are yearly exported from that land,
and an eye witness stated that it
was a common sight in Australia
to see the poor mother opossum
lying dead or dying in the steel trap,
while her starving little ones crowd
ed round her, seeking the nourish-
ment she could not longer give. This
spectacle seemed to call for ven-
gence on the cold-hearted land which
permitted such things, but does it
not call more loudly for retribu-
ton on those who make themselves
responsible by buying and wearing
the skins of those hapless dumb
mothers?
when Henry Bergh started his
crusade against the cruelty of trap
ping he was interrupted in his work
through lack of funds. Monsieur
Bonnard, a Canadian Frenchman,
who had made a fortune in the fur
trade, by trapping, left it to further
Bergh's work, for he had seen
such cruelties practiced on animals
in his business, memory had become
a horror" and so the fortune
wrought from the blood and terror
of the animal heart, went to its balm
and succor."
Discourage the use of furs. Fur
animals caught in traps (Which are
not visited often, or are neglected.
sometimes suffer terrible agonies for
days before they die.
And the cause of all this suffer-
ing VANITY - the desire to
ornament the human body with the
heads, tails, claws and skins of our
furry little brothers of the wood.
Yours for,
HUMAN EDUCATION.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-16
ITURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1918
HARRISBURG MEMORIAL

rHE thought of the Harrisburg
community is now turning to the
consideration of a proper men,
rial for the men who have fought
nd died for their country and the
oppressed peoples of the world. Just
Fhat form this memorial should
axe is a matter for serious consider
tion and there ought not to be a
a$y decision.
leS,the erection of a permanent
Aal many things must be kept
I1i4G. 1t should not only be orna-
Mental; it ought also to be useful,
possible.
With the growth of Harrisburg it
S obvious that we must have a
great, modern, well-equipped and
siequate hospital. Why not make
h an institution a memorial of
activities not only of the soldiers
Id the men who have served in the
fghting forces, but also a proper
Recognition of the splendid service
of the Red Cross, the National War
Aid and, the other organizations that
nave contributed so largely to the
comfort and welfare of those who
=have gone forth to battle for right
|eousness and justice.
No argument is necessary to con-
Vince the average person in this
community that We are now con-
Fronting a serious situation with re-
|gard to hospital facilities. The old
|institution at Front and Mulberry
streets, is no longer able to meet the
demands upon it. Nor is the newer
hospital at Front and Harris streets
adequate for the increasing demands
Eef the community. Both have done
Wonderful work, but we must now
think of a hospital such as a city
Hike Harrisburg requires. And what
could be more suitable as a me.
~ orial of a great struggle for hui
lfnanity?
/ OF course, there are many other
attractive forms of memorial struc.
lures, but we doubt whether any
could be more useful or appropriate
than a great modern hospital erected
on spacious site and with proper
Environment.
This newspaper would be very
lhappy to give publicity to any sug
gestions looking to the permanen
memorial which will be the expires
sion of the sentiment and desire O.
the entire community. This war wa!
largely fought for the relief of suf
ffering humanity and a hospita
would constantly remind the futur,
generations of the purposes anC
aims of the world war. 1t would b,
the good Samaritan visualized in ;
permanent structure, dignified in it
proportions and equipped with tn
latest life-saving facilities.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-16
Facts and Fancy

Herein differs fact from fancy,
thinks as they befall us from things
as we would have them, human ends
from human hopes; that the first are
moved by u thousand, the last on
two wheels only, which (being
named) are desire and fear. Hope,
of course, is nothing more than a
desire with a telescope magnifying
distant matters, overlooking near
ones; opening one eye on the OBJ
jects, closing the other to all objec-
tions. And if hope be the future
tense of desire, the future of fear
is religion-at least with too many
of us.-R. d. Blackmore.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-16

and hamlet should cooperate in this
important work. Every man who re-
turns after the war should be given
the best possible job. so he may real
ize that the appreciation of the home
folk is not expressed in words only.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-16

So the Clown Prince has not been
shot. but is staying at the residence
of the Governor of Limburg. The
name of his present location is at least
in harmony with his general makeup.
as the odor of his presence must sug-
gest the principal product of the
town.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-16
Filters Don't Stop Influenza
(From the London Times)

Recent researches conducted by
NM. Nicolle and Lebailly, of the
Pasteur Institute of Tunis, have
proved that the microbe of influ-
enza is what is known as a filter
passer''-that is, it is so small as to
pass through any filter, no matter
how minute the iinterstices may be.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-16

The Kaiser boasted that he would
sacrifice million lives to take Paris.
The war he started has cost 10000, 900
lives. Is he to be allowed to live out
his own life in ease and comfort In a
Dutch castle?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-16

Bully for the State Department of
Labor and Industry. which is prepar-
ing to furnish employment for the
disabled soldiers and sailors when
they come back. Every city and town
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-16

~ of the Associated Press-The
6ciated Press is exclusively en-
q to the use for republlcatlon on
news dispatches credited 10 II o.
ntherwise credited in thlS paPe5l
niso the local ne~s puoIlsheu
efn. ,,.,. oe sDecial
gatches herein are also FeseAN N9N'
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-16

The problem of keeping labor profit
ably and constantly employed is quite
sufficient to prevent the President
from attending the peace conference.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-16
Domestic Veteran

Knicker-How do you keep your
cook so long?
Bocker-We give her service
stripe for each day
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-16

1.-THE Watch on the Rhine" is soon
going to be more than q mere song
to the Yanks.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-16
DO YOU KNOW

THAT 1t will be fine to have
an old-fashioHed Inauguration
again?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-16

Another name for Bolshevik is an
archist.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-16
HISTORIC HARRISBURG

Harrisburg was one OF the firsi
cities in which the present arc liRhi
was used experimentally, =.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-16

What a fine yellow streak has de-
veloped in the yalorous Hun. He
never showed pity and he should have
none of il.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-16
SBURC TELEGRAPH
BSPAPER FOR THE HOME
Founded 1881

"a evenings except Sunday by
hEINGRAPH PRINTING co.
nbh Building, Federal Square
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-16

Thirty-one of the branch offices of
the Federal Employment Service now
have womens divisions. each in
charge of capable woman skilled in
placement work.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-16

Three Syrians employed by the
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation
recently earned $40 by a nights work
in which they broke the worlds rec
ord for riveting. averaging more than
FIVE rivets a minute.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-16

The War Labor Policies Board has
prepared contracts for government
use which require the observance of
state labor laws. with especial refer
ence to child labor. convict labor and
factory statutes
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-16
LABOR NOTES

There is an actual shortage of
housing accommodations in Germany
and this shortage will probably be
aggravated after the war.
Women in England do 60 to 20
per cent. of all the machine work on
shells fuses and trench warfare sup
plies, and have contributed 1850
trained mechanics to the Royal Fly
ing Corps.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-16

Men familiar with the advance in
the productive capacity in the indus
trial establishments Of Harrisburg
during the war are of the opinion
that it will not be so hard to readiust
the processes so that there will be
articles of importance in peace times
manufactured instead of materials
and munitions for war. The big
plants here are manufacturing things
which are the basis of many prod
ucts used in everyday life and those
which are specializing can be of
value in meeting the demands of
transportation and construction.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-07
Summon 81 Restaurateurs
To Answer Charges Before
Food Board Saturday

Proprietors of sixty-one restaurants
and lunchrooms have been summoned
to appear before the Federal Food
Board next Saturday morning to an
swer charges that they have failed to
observe the food regulations. Two we'll
known restaurants, according to the
board, have declared they were "un-
willing" to observ. porkless days. Of
ticials said that if the restaurants
failed to abide by the regulations their
supplies would be cut off
Mrs. f. Gray Griswold, who organ
lied the System for food saving by
volunteer rationing" among wealthy
families, said yesterday that $4,000
families had signed pledges to use
weekly a minimum quantity of meat,
-four and sugar for each member Of
their households. Mrs. Griswold de-
MED that it required an income Of
$4,000 to use the "short ration sched-
ule' adopted by her system with the
approval of Food Administrator Hoo
yer, Any family with an income Of
$1,000 could use the schedule, she said.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-07
Packers Fight Heney's S
Plan to Inspect Files
u. S. Court Of Appeals to De-
eide if Seized Letters Can
BE Examined

CHICAGO, March O. Whether Fran
els J. Hcncy, counsel for the Federal
Trade Commission, will be permitted
TO examine the letters and documents
recently taken from the private Office
vault of Henry Needer, counsel for
Swift g. Co., packers, now rests with
the United. States Circuit Court of APP
peals.
Judges Baker. Evans and Kohlsaat,
of the reviewing court, to day listened
to arguments on the validity of the
search warrant under which the letters
and documents, characterized by the
government as tending to prove the
commission of felonics by the packers,
were seized by the United States Mar
shall.
In support of the Nccder appeal to
have the writ declared invalid. Elwood
G.. Goldman and John j. Healy, Veeders
counsel, argued that there was no
proper basis for the issuance of the
writ.
They contended no probable cause to
believe fclonics had been committed
had been shown; that the Federal Con-
stltution and the espionage statute un-
der which the writ was issued prohibit
the issuance Of a search order without
showing Of fact; that the seizure of
the papers was not in accordance with
law; that no felony had been charged,
and that the issuance and serving of
the writ was an abuse of the process
of the court.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-07

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~ shoes wi which thev claimed
3d. and although it felt
pc some oher they persuaded
hc
the
they stu then
Avenue shoe shop, and told that We're
We interviewed the of the
system OF marking shoe sizes is used in his
like to think they small this particular
pannt concerned the tha
had 3AA shoe he riven
12B Although f. r. claims that ar
styles
IN TINS particular ow-heeed
YOU'D require larger The gave US the
the from whom he
the
ms statement the
312B other words, e. r. had
because she could not that particular % which she
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On he whoe the handling indicates
he cooe M sizes nlstake that
racce The defence of the
says tnat ne writes down to- his public merchant is not justified
merchandise
not the most exclusive There trade we
demands method of
e results any indicate that the policy
mas cost the store customer Surely would have been simple
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must nave required no little
aS e pou Ae s to keep her from knowing that was
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indeed who can't get the truth to customer and , @ %