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The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-12-19

Miss lila Michael leaves for Phil
lipsburg, Kansas, Sunday to spend the
Holidays with home folks.
Emil Harrison arrived from Camp
Funston yesterday. AS he has re-
ceived his discharge he will again be
citizen of our city.
Miss Mildred Feather is assisting in
the County Treasurer's office, after
her days work as teacher in the Gar
field school is done.
R. N. Martin, who is taking a little
vacation from his work with the Rock
Island, will go to Atchison Sunday
for visit with friends.
j. d. Jones and family of Satanic
were here Tuesday doing Christmas
shopping. On their return home they
became snowbound and had to stay
over night at Harris.
A message was received by friends
in the city the first of the week from
Gene Martin, who is in New York.
This is glad news for this means that
our friend Gene will soon be with us
again.
Marion l.. Hays, who was formerly
connected with the Equity Exchange
Association before entering the army
more than year ago, is again with
the firm, beginning his work there
last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. E. Dobson received
message the last Of the week from
their son, Ollie, who is a member of
the aero squadron, stating that he
arrived in New York the 18th and
/ that he would soon be home, which
sure sounds good to his home folks
and friends.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-12-19

Miss Francis Stivers of Meade is
the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. A. F. Cor
man this week.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-12-19

Mrs. W. Chamberlin came from
Arkalon yesterday to do some shop
ping.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-12-19
Buy
w. S. S.
JOIN IN

By her voluntary
sacrifices and SUBJ
lime devotion to
j us tice,S America
has startled the
world. We must
send 20,000,000
tons of food to
needy Europe next
year-50 per cent
more than we sent
them this year.
Prove your Ameri-
canism by eating
less.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-12-19

Miss lila Michael leaves for Phil
lipsburg, Kansas, Sunday to spend the
Holidays with home folks.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-12-19

Emil Harrison arrived from Camp
Funston yesterday. AS he has re-
ceived his discharge he will again be
a citizen of our city.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-03

Uncle Sans celebration of our
greatest day will extend around the
world tomorrow. Australia will
honor the Flag and the people will
hold meetings and wear the Stars
and Stripes. In London plan is on
foot to launch a scheme for an Ameri-
can memorial, probably in the form
of a statue of Washington, to be
placed near the Houses of Parlia-
ment. In Rome a detachment of our
troops will take part in the ceIebra-
tion there. these troops being sent
from France. At Sheffield accommo-
dations have been prepared for $4,000
persons at the Army-Navy baseball
game and the field athletics between
British and American units.
And everywhere Old Glory files the
day will be celebrated because our
flag stands for more now than ever
before in its history.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-03
THE PRUSSIAN SWORD

("Answer Wilson With the Sword!'
-Koelnische Volks-Zeitung.)
What is the Prussian sword? A
flaming blade
That leaps untarnished from its
jeweled sheath
And strikes for truth, and honors
laurel wreath
A glorious weapon, strong and un-
afraid?
All, no! The Prussian sword is but
a name
For tactics foul and agencies OBJ
scene;
For poison gas and ruthless submar-
inc;
For towards blows and deeds of
burning shame;
For nurses smitten down at mercy's
post;
Polluted wells and sunken Red
Cross ships,
And food snatched out OF starving
children's lips.
And crimes that hell would hesitate
to boastl
The Prussian sword is treachery and
lust;
God grant that It be trampled in the
dust!
Kenneth l.. Roberts. in Oakland
Tribune.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-03

n N the same day that the DEM
ocrats of Indiana launched the
Wilson third-term boom at
Indianapolis the Democratic State
Committee of Pennsylvania was
meeting at Harrisburg. The Key
stone Democrats were charged with
the duty of selecting a State chair
man. Immemorial custom in Penn
sylvania gives to the party candi-
date for governor the right to name
this official. But it so happens that
the Democratic candidate for gov
ernor in Pennsylvania this year is
a man who defeated the favorite of
the Palmer Mccormick faction, who
are recognized as the presidents
spokesman in Pennsylvania and even
farther afield. But he does not hap
pen to control the State Committee,
which is subservient to Palmer and
Mccormick, and they refused to
name the chairman whom the candi-
date preferred and voted into the
office a man of their own selection.
Now it is apparent that the office
of Democratic State chairman in
Pennsylvania is of no consequence
as relating to State politics. No one
pretends that the Democratic candi-
date for governor will be elected in
Pennsylvania this year.
But there is another campaign
only two years ahead, when a Presi-
dent will be elected-and it is of
real consequence to the Wilson idola-
ters, in Pennsylvania and elsewhere,
that they have control of the party
machinery in order to use it either
to further the third-term movement
or to advance the interests of whom
ever the President may designate as
the Democratic nominee in 1920.
Hence the affront which Palmer and
Mccormick have put upon their
party candidate in Pennsylvania this
year. 1t means nothing to them
that they have rent the party in so
doing. They have nothing to gain
in Pennsylvania anyway. but they
have much to gain if they can ma
nipulate the Pennsylvania delega-
ton in the next Democratic National
Convention.
There may be, there probably is,
some connection between what hap
pened in Indianapolis and what hap
pened in Harrisburg on the same
day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-03
]. HORACE MCFARLAND
ON THE SMOKE NUISANCE
GSunday Courier. ]

so imminent that action should be
instantly taken to compel abatement
of this unspeakable nuisance. The
old answer was: But our factories
and railroads advance community
interest" Bosh! This is not true.
any more. In Pittsburgh the popu-
lation of Oakland were being slowly
murdered by the fumes from ore
dust cast out by Jones e Laughlin,
who were finally enjoined by law
and each director fined $1,000. In
New Zealand recently the employer
of match factory when ordered to
make things safe for a thousand girl
workers replied: 'I will have to go
out of business" And the govern
ment told him: "It is more import
ant that the girls be decent than
that you make matches" He obeyed
orders and his profits are now in
creased. The smoke nuisance is the
most far-reaching thing to be con-
tended with in civil life. AS pointed
out by Henderson of Pittsburgh. it's
SCOT gas, and acids destroy vegeta-
ton, enslaves the housewife and de-
Stroys health"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-03
A PAN-AMERICAN ARMY

A PAN-AMERICAN Army to be
n trained in the United States at
the expense of this country
would be not only a potent force in
the war on the side of the allies,
but would be an invaluable influence
in bringing all the republics of North
and South America into closer re-
lationship, both during and after the
conflict.
Through our own failure to cul-
tivate the friendship of our south
ern nei2hbors and the efforts of Ger
man Ab.nts tNsow seeds of suspicion
against - in those countries, the
people of'ae lifted States have not
enjoyed the ynfidence Of the Gen.
trail and South American countries
to anEAgreat degree. The Pan
American union, with headquarters
in Washington, and the wise diplo-
macy OF Elihu Root when he was
Secretary of State in recent years
have done much to create better
feeling, but there has been always
more or less distrust of us and our
motives. Our altruistic doctrines
have been beyond the comprehension
of the money-grabbing, graft-ridden
South American governments which
only recently have shown signs of
becoming republics in more merely
than name.
When this war is over we shall be
at peace and in full harmony with
the French. the English and the
Italians. They who go through this
fiery ordeal together will come out
of it with a brotherly feeling that
will hold them together through
many generations and our dealings
with the governments of these peo-
pie are very apt to be conducted on
purely friendly basis. How silly
it would be to find ourselves under
stood and respected in faraway
Europe and misunderstood and mis-
trusted by the people of our own
continent and those of South Amer
lea.
The creation of such an army as
has been proposed would bring to
our shores the young men of all the
nations to the south of us who have
taken I'D arms against the Hun.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-03
CHEERING SOME ONE ON

Don't you mind about the triumphs,
Don't you worry after fame;
Don't you grieve about succeeding,
Let the future guard your name.
All the best in life's the simplest,
Love will last when wealth is gone;
Just be glad that you are living,
And keep cheering some one on.
Let your neighbors have the bios
SONS,
Let your comrades wear the
crown;
Never mind the little setbacks
Nor the blows that knock you
down.
You'll be there when they're for
gotten,
You'll be glad with youth and
dawn,
If you just forget your troubles
And keep cheering some one on.
There's lot of sorrow around you,
Lots of lonesomeness and tears;
Lots of heartaches and of worry
Through the shadows of the years,
And the world needs more than tri-
umphs;
More than all the swords. we've
drawn.
It is hungering for the fellow
Who keeps cheering others on.
Let the wind around you whistle,
And the storms around you play;
You'll be here with Drawn and
gristle
When the conquerors decay.
You'll be here in memories sweet
ened
In the souls you've saved from
pawn,
If you put aside the victories
And keep cheering some one on.
Baltimore Sun.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-03
Intervention in Russia
[Christian Science Monitor


A great army of Japanese would
no doubt be joined with the troops
CT the Allies which, as in the case
of the Boxer invasion. would include
the flags of all the powers. But the
predominant role, If such interven-
ton comes, must be played by the
United States. Germany need not
deceive herself in any way. The
United States is perfectly equal to
the task of sending an army into
Siberia, and the question whether
she will do so or not may be said by
now to have been reduced to the de-
Gliding factor of the length of the
war. The Wilhelmstrasse need not
be under any delusion. In a very
few months the necessary transports
can be built, and long before they
are built the regiments to fill them
will be ready. The Pacific coast is
already equipped with shipyards
which can turn out the necessary
tonnage, and the Pacific Is a much
safer route, in the day of the sub
marine. than the Atlantic. With
Russia assured of the good faith of
the Allies, and with Vladivostok con-
verted into a huge base. the eastern
claw of the pincers would have been
welded on again, and the question
of the German exploitation of Rus
sia would be settled on the battle
field, though whether at a confer
ence table or on a battle field the
result will be precisely the same.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-03

What is your opinion of the
smoke nuisance in Harrisburg was
asked.
Mr.. Mcfarland cast a reflective
eye over his beautiful lawns and
gardens and then directed it at his
mansion. II suppose you think I
am too far away to suffer with the
smoke" ne related. well, I'm not.
On painting my house recently L
had the whole structure thoroughly
washed and scrubbed, but could not
set it clean and l called in the
painter. Said he You never will.
for it is plastered with cinders and
steel filings from the smoke But
this is a trifle," he went on, "com-
pared to what others endure in Har-
risburg. To ME it has long been
past my understanding why the
Chamber of Commerce does not take
this outrage in hand. What is the
object of its committee on civic af-
fairs? The picture of our new
Capitol Park being deluged night
and day with filthy, black smoke is
too horrible to contemplate, and the
necessity of conservation of coal is
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-03
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

General Charles S. Kutz, one of
the new brigadiers. is a West Point
er and comes from Reading.
Frank M. Hardt, the new vice
president of the Philadelphia Trust
Company, was formerly deputy gov
ernor of the Federal Reserve Bank
and is a University of Pennsylvania
man.
w. A. Glasgow, Jr., is spending
this week at White Sulphur. The
eminent Philadelphia lawyer has
been an aid to the food administra4
ton.
-Ex-Judge w. w. Porter, of
Philadelphia, will spend the month
in the White Mountains.
Mayor Babcock, of Pittsburgh,
has issued a proclamation calling
attention to the importance of the
National Educational Association
convention in Pittsburgh this week.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-03
PRACTICAL WAR WORK

TN the hurry and haste of war
work we have heard compare
lively little of an organization
that during the years has been mod
estly at work in many benefcient
ways-The w. c. T. U. Now comes
the government with a special bull
letin saying that since the United
States entered the conflict the Ma
tional Union has engaged in many
lines of service"
For educational purposes, through
the United Committee on War Tenn
perance Activities for the Army and
Navy, sixteen ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS have
been placed in the cantonments at
an expense of $4,000. These stereo-
photographs are passed from one
camp to another so that their lessons
reach in succession large numbers
of men.
Nearly $4,000 has been expended
in the purchase of fourteen field
kitchens for the comfort of men in
the firing line as they return ex-
hausted from the trenches. Two
hundred and thirty-nine fatherless
children of France have been
adopted through the Department of
Flower Mission and Relief Work.
The organization had invested $780,
900 for comfort kits up to last No
vember, since which time the amount
has been almost doubled.
Various States are rendering spe-
eiaI service in providing hostess
houses. among them Massachusetts,,
which has purchased an $1,000
property for this purpose. Kansas
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-03
MY YOUTH

Oh, my youth was hot and eager,
And my heart was burning, burn
ing.
And the present joy seemed meager,
Dwarfed by that perpetual yearn-
ing.
was always madly asking
Ampler beauty, keener pleasure!
Had not wit enough for basking
In the sunshine. rich with leisure.
Now with, -ripeness of October.
I have reasoned and reflected,
And I feed my soul. grown sober,
With the crumbs that I rejected.
Bradford in Contempor-
ary Verse.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-03
GUAM HAS GONE DRY

IFrom the Chicago News1
Returned to the ark is the dove;
For the sole of her foot there is
rest
She has found cold water and love
Where the east meets the bur-
geoning west!
We know not the how or the why.
We know but the when and the
from;
The Island of Guam has gone dry
Hooray for the Island of Guaml
The Yankeefled dusky Ladrones
Have paused on the advertised
brink;
No more pick they enemy bones
And now they are off'n the drink
The former headhunters have won
Beginning the First of July.
A place in the bone-drying sun
The Island Of Guam has gone dryI
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-03

They would learn about us first hand.
would make friends here and come
to a full understanding of our great
ness as a nation and our virtues as
a people. They would go home with
new Ideas of the United States. and
IL they fought shoulder to shoulder
with our men In the great war, the
tie would be that much more bind
ing. By all means let us have this
South American legion and let us
substitute for the German language
which is being dropped by our
schools, the Spanish of these south
ern neighbors.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-03
SUGAR
YNDER the new regulations Of
the Food Administrator .eacf

TT NDER the new regulations of
the Food Administrator each
individual, man, woman and
child is entitled to buy and consume
three pounds of sugar a month for
ordinary household purposes.
This, however, does not restrict
families from buying sugar in twen-
ty-five pound lots for canning and
preserving purposes. But sugar so
purchased must be used in that way
only or the purchaser becomes liable
to arrest and heavy fine.
The Food Administration is ap-
pealing to the sense of fair play that
is a characteristic of the American
people. Violations of orders are pos
sible without the likelihood of de-
lection. But the individual or the
family which takes an unfair advan-
tage of the situation is un-American.
The sugar order is necessary to pre-
vent a serious shortage later in the
year. To over-indulge in sugar now
means famine later, and anybody
who has knowledge that neighbors
are breaking the rule should not
hesitate to report them to the Food
Administrator.
The sugar ration is sufficient to
meet the needs of the ordinary fam
lily at this season, when an abund-
ance of fruits makes puddings and
pies unnecessary as desserts. The
man or woman who accepts the or
der at its face value and lives up to
it in letter and spirit is doing his or
her part in the war. The violator is
a Stacker.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-03

furnished rest room at the Hostess
House inside Camp Funston. and as
sisted in furnishing the Army City
Hostess House outside the camp. The
State of Washington has opened two
homes, one for the young wives Of
soldiers and one for girls who need
care until they can be returned to
their homes.
The Iowa w. c. T. q. has under
taken, as one of it's special aids to
the government, the care of the
United States Army reconstruction
Hospital to be established at Des
Moines, with a capacity of $500
beds. Comforts that will add to the
welfare and happiness of the soldiers
will be provided. About 100 electric
fans will be installed. also talking
machines, a library, games and
other forms of entertainments. Sup
plies of fresh fruit, jellies, jams, COM
fort pillows, service bags. tray cloths,
napkins, handkerchief, sweaters.
socks, etc., will, also, be provided as
needed, The plans are indorsed by
the commanding officer and meet the
approval of the State Division of the
Council of National Defense. A
motherly woman employed by the
w. C. II. U. will be in constant at
tendance to write letters or to min
lister to the comfort of the men as
a mother would do.
Those who have thought of the w.
C. T. U. as purely a peace organiza-
ton fighting for national prohibition
will have to revise their conclusions.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-03
EDITORIAL COMMENT

1t will be found, according to the
German foreign minister, that in re-
sponsibility for the war "England's
policy has very dark pages to Show"
The darkest ones probably are those
revealed by the former German am
bassador to London, Prince Lich-
nowsky, who showed that the Brit
lsh government was so simple as to
believe that Germany was willing 10
Join it in any reasonable move for
peace.-Kansas City Star.
The American Federation of La
Dor is evidently convinced that in a
Government for the people there
should be no doubt about the people
being for the Government.-Was
ington Star.
If the G. o. p. fails to tender n
vote of thanks to the North Carolina
Congressional district that elected
Representative Kitchin, it will be a
fragrant case of ingratitude.-Maco
Telegraph.
By bringing their U-boat war to
this side of the Atlantic the Huns
have brought it where we want it.
Dallas News.
Nothing sold here made in Ger
many" will be shopkeeper's sign no
treaty can regulate.-Wall Street
Journal.
A German military expert says
that the Teutons know exactly how
many reserves the Allies have. Per-
haps that is why they slowed up the
drive.-St. Louis Star.
In all walks of life those young
men of military age are greatly
missed. But they would be missed
more if they were not doing their
duty in the Army.-hicago Daily
News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-03
What He Needed

Waiter (to persevering Scot)-
you seem to be having a difficulty in
getting all that soup up with your
spoon, sir! Shall I bring you a bit
Of blotting paper Prom Answers.
London.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-03

It was in 1885 that Abraham Lin
coin, stumping his district in Illinois,
declared for equal suffrage. 1t will
be rather difficult for President Will
son to acquire a reputation as a
leader in the movement.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-03
THOROUGH
NESS.

M r s. B.
George, dear, I
have decided to
keep a goat.
Mr.. b. A
goat.
Mrs. B.-Yes.
You know what
a lot of vege7
tables we pre-
served. 1 don't
intend to have
the tin cans
vast ed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-03
Looks Sort of Like a Brewery

[From the Cleveland Plain Dealer
Boston is camouf1aging the public
buildings in anticipation of German
air raids. Imagine Bunker Hill
monument disguised as a sauerkraut
factoryl
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-03
DO YOU KNOW
That Harrisburg is sending tons
of shoes to the army depots?
HISTORIC HARRIsRuRG

John Harris was one of the men
who sold his grain and other things
to the American Army for paper cur
rency when other people refused to
do so.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-03
BETTER
FORM.

How long is
the war going
to last?
1 don't like
the way you put
t h e question.
Why don't you
make 1t: How
long is it going
to take US to
win?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-03

A resolution calling for the elimi-
nation of piecework and the substi-
tuition of week-work in the cloak
and skirt making industry of the
United States and Canada was adopt
ed by large majority at the annual
convention of the international
Ladies' Garment Workers Union.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-03
LABOR NOTES

The platform recommended for
the Australian Labor party's adop-
ton at the coming convention in
cludes proposals for a 40-hour week,
Saturday being q universal holiday;
an increase of old-age pensions to
SIS a week and naturalization of all
mines.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-03

Dlllloll SSdillCli ilO hClCl "
boycott Germans to the limit after
the war. They are tremendously in
earnest when they say they will not
transport Teuton goods for five years
after the dawn of peace.
Standardization of wages of COM
mon and unskilled labor, to halt the
enormous labor turnover that is
slowing up war work throughout
the country, is under consideration
by the Department of Labor.
Toronto (Canada) unions demand
that a representative of all building
trade unions be placed on the Pro-
vincial Housing Commission.
Vice-President r. A. Riggs, of the
Trades Congress of Canada has re-
signed his office.
A regular farm wage scale is pro-
posed in Colorado, ranging from $50
to $50 for permanent help.
The training camp for nurses at
Vassar College this summer will
have women from thirty-five states
enrolled.
The sixteenth biennial convention
of the Brotherhood of Bookbinders
convenes in Kansas City July next.
Niagara Falls (Ont.) carpenters
demand 62h cents per hour, an in
crease of 71s cents.
Demands of Winnipeg car motor
men and conductors have been
granted, aggregating over $4,000 a
year.
1t is proposed to uniform train
crews in khaki.
Journeymen printers in Germany
get s6.65 to S7.44 a week.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-03
MIGHT WORK.

They ought to
put a tax on
getting angry.
How would
you collect?
w ell, yo u
couldn't stamp
your foot with
out using a
G. o v Q n m ent
stamp.