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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-07
Rebellion in Cambria

lF'rom the Johnstown Democrat
1t is understood that ex-CongresS-
man Bailey has handed over the
Cambria county Democratic organ
ization, rank, file and assets of all
sorts and descriptions, to the Bonni-
we'll rebels, judge Bonniwell is
forming a Democratic state COM
mittee and effecting county organ
izations in opposition to the Wilson
administration leaders of the state
A, Mitchell Palmer, custodian of
alien property, and Vance McCor-
mick. chairman of the Democratic
national committee and also chair
man of the War Trade Board.
OF course, the Wilson administra-
ton leaders will expect the Cambria
county Democratic postmasters to
take up the cudgels for its side of
the party fracas. Neither side has
the faintest hope of electing the
Democratic state ticket, In fact, it
may be gathered that tn, Wilson
Palmer-McCormick faction will do
its best to see that Bonniwell is not
elected. while the Bonniwell rebels
will have their knives and pencils
out to administer a more sounding
defeat to J. Washington Logue,
dry" who is the Democratic NOM
inee for Lieutenant governor and re-
fuses TO obey the Bonniwell dictum
to get off the ticket and give the
place to a real wet" candidate.
With the President cutting off the
political heads of members of Con-
gress on the ground that they have
not been supporters of the admin
istration, is it not a foregone con-
clusion that the same discipline may
be administered to Democratic post
masters who fail at this juncture
Ito come to the aid of the party"
Although ex-Congressman Bailey has
publicly avowed that he does not
know why the Wilson -Palmer-Mc-
Cormick crowd are refusing to per-
NIT Bonniwell to name a state chair
man, others do know and we more
than suspect that the ex-Congress-
man knows. We believe he has been
fully informed.
Palmer and Mccormick are not
such tyros in politics as to fail to re-
alize that there is no chance at all
for the election of a Democrat as
Governor of Pennsylvania. They
care not snap for the result of the
state election in November. The job
of the administration forces is to
secure and retain control of the
Democratic party organization for
use in the next presidential year
1920. The Cambria county Demo-
cratic organization is to be placed
In the hands of those who oppose
the course of the administration s
authorized representatives in Penn
sylvania. No use trying to fool the
Cambria county Democrats as to the
real issue.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-07
A MIGHTY TASK AHEAD

~ PPORTUNITY will present It
self in the next month or so
for some 10000 Pennsylva-
mans to render valuable assistance
20 the United States government by
acting as registrars when the men
who will be called upon by the new
draft law to sign their names for
the national defense appear at their
home polling places. In this State
1t will be only a part OF the might
lest enrolment of man-power ever
known on this continent and prob
ably will surpass even that in the
British Isles. AS the enrolment of
some s25,0OO young stalwarts last
year was our defiance to the Hun.
this tremendous listing of names of
men ready to go where the national
government bids will be the voice of
encouragement to the men at the
front and notice that the whole
country stands behind them.
Plans being made at the State
Draft Headquarters call for every
one of the several thousand polling
places in the Keystone State to be
an enrolment place. 1t would be
beyond the power of the draft boards,
or even of election boards, to reg
lister the vast army that will respond
in our Commonwealth alone. Hence.
It is the patriotic duty OF men who
know the people of their home dis
tricts and who have the time to
volunteer their services to their To-
cal authorities as registrars, and.
similarly. persons or concerns hav-
ing buildings used for polling places
should give them free of charge.
There is real work ahead. The
man power of wonderful country
is to be modified and everyone will
have a part to do.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-07
A GREAT OPPORTUNITY

WYE ARE proceeding blithely
w along in our reckless career of
Government control. Having
taken over the railroads, the tele-
graph lines and the telephone plants.
the administration is now consider
ing the street car systems of the
country. Perhaps there Is a good
reason for this latest proposal. but
il so it has not been maze public.
1t is easy in war >lmes to scramble
up the railroads, the trolleys and the
lines of wire communication, but
the real difficulty will come with
effort at restoration. Very likely we
shall never go back to the old order
of things entirely. But public own
ership is another thing from public
control, and it is doubtful in the
if a majority of Americans will vote
to bring into being the vast gov
ernmental machine, with its multi
tude of political jobs. that would be
involved in the operation of our
public utilities as public property.
That being true, statesmen should
begin to cast about for an intelligent
means of meeting the problem when
it shall arise. Perhaps here above
all others lies the constructive Re-
publican party's best opportunity for
great public service.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-07
ALITTLE LATE

NECESSITY, it is said. is the
IN mother of invention, but what.
we wonder, possessed Mrs.
Angus Stura, of Chillicothe, to invent
a luminous keyhole, which, we are
told. anybody can find? 1t would
seem in this case that invention must
take the role of a posthumous child.
Necessity is dead. Prohibition killed
her in Chillicothe. where the key
hole hunters all went out OF business
when the booze emporiums were
closed by public decree. But think
what a benefactor of the bibulous
Mrs. Stura would have been had she
put her device on the market in the
days before good old General Public
declared relentless war on King AL
cohoL.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-07
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Charles S. Calwell. the Philadel-
phia banker. is on a motor trip
through New England.
Senator William c. Sproul, who
will talk to Delaware county poultry
men tomorrow. owns a dozen farms
including some in this section and
runs them like a factory.
j. Lee Plummer, Blair county
lawyer, is on, an automobile trip to
Kentucky.
DIR. Leon c. Prince, who is nfal1.
ing up a list of Cumberland men il
the Service, is q historian of note
and professor in Dickinson College.
e. T. Parker is the new head of
the Bethlehem Merchants Associa-
ton.
Col. 2. M. Young, of the COVER
nor's staff, is the chairman of the
executive committee of the Lehigh
Country Club.
-"Dick" MarshS, the old Uni
versity of Pennsylvania football
player. is now in the army.
Congressman w. w. Griest, who
had been Ill during the early part
of the summer, has recovered and
is back at Washington.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-07
Our MOtheridnd

America! Dear motherlandt
From homes across the sea,
With eager longing to be free,
We came and cast our lot with
thee.
And thou, with outstretched, loving
hand,
Didst welcome us, dear motherland!
America! Dear motherland!
Beneath the foreign skies,
With trembling lips and tear
dimm'd eyes,
We severed precious kindred ties.
Then hither came-and so we
planned
To be thy children, motherland!
America! My motherland!
The light that spanned the sea,
And made us pin our faith to thee,
Was the right star of destiny.
For equal freedom thou dost stand
For truth and justice, motherland!
America! Our motherland!
Now foes thy peace assail,
Their barbarous deeds shall not
avail
To make thy valiant children
quail.
With one accord. we'll take our
stand
If need be, die for motherland!
Frank B. Thomas. in The Ro-
tartan.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-07
The Called Jade WinceS
[Col. Harvey's War Weekly1

The Huns are protesting against
mans inhumanity to man." The al
lied air raids upon German cities
have evoked a wall of woe. There are
Hun pleas and protests against any
aerial bombardments of places back
of the line of battle; because, says a
Parliamentary Deputy in Baden,
they serve no military purpose, and
cause only innocent women and chill
dren to suffer-" We might perhaps
dismiss such representations with a
paraphrase of the apt reply to the
proposal to stop capital punishment:
Let the assassins beginl" But some
further comment will be profitable.
We say, then, that such utterances
are both cowardly and false. This
Hunnish Deputy, or his fellow Huns,
went into Mysteries of joy and rap
ture over the destruction of the Lusi-
tania, apd over the bombardment of
residence towns and schools and hos
pitals in England, and of churches
on Corpus Christi in Paris. 1t seemed
to them a great and glorious triumph
of Kultur to make innocent women
and children suffer. The protests and
pleas of the allied nations and of all
the civilized world against those
things were an object of scornful
laughter to the Huns. But now
when a taste of similar-not identi-
cal-treatment is applied to them
selves, how the Huns whine and yelp
with pain! When they murdered
American women and children in
operations which served no military
purpose. their Old German Gott was
with them. and he who did not from
his inmost heart approve the deeds
was accounted no true German"
But now when German railroads and
munition factories and military
camps are bombarded from the air,
"Gott i'm Himmel! but war is He'll"
they squeal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-07
THE FIGHT NOT OVER

TRIENDS of the Federal prohib-
i itory amendment will hope that
the leaders of the Dry Fedora
ton have facts to substantiate their
claim that 100 members and twenty
seven Senators in the next Pennsyl-
vania Legislature-enough to turn
the State into the dry" column.
pledged to vote against rum. are GER
tain of election. But this is no time
for overconfidence. Advocates of
prohibition will remember equally
optimistic forecasts in recent local
option campaigns. This fight will
not be over until the vote is an
nounced in House and Senate, and
those interested will do we'll to leave
no stone unturned to bring about
the end desired. Nothing would
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-07
The Vast Difference
[From the SYRACUSE Journal. ]

From the Syracuse Journal.
The telegraph and telephone sys-
TENS have been managed under the
most scientific methods of modern
business qualifications. Whatever
else might have been the criticism
directed against the wire concerns,
business ineff1ciency was not one of
them.
The same cannot be said about the
arrangement of the Postoffice De-
partment. Its unbusinesslike meth
DDS are probably known in some
measure to the lowliest employe.
To great extent these official sins
of omission and commission nave
been kept from public scrutiny, and
deficits have been met by Congress
appropriations. But the telegraph
and telephone systems have private
money invested in them and they
have been dependent upon their
revenues for operation and to pay
dividends.
II the same style of management
that made that of the Postofflce De-
partment a public reproach is to be
transferred to these concerns, what
will be the answer to the American
people?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-07
There Are Many LdmppoSts
IN. A Reyiew,s War Weaklv1

IN. A. Reviews War Weekly.1
Two men were caught in the very
act of lighting bomb in a powder
factory in the outskirts of Newark.
N. ]. II the bomb had exploded, the
vast works would have been de-
stroyed and hundreds of lives in the
densely populated district might
have been lost. The men pleaded
guilty to violation of the espionage
and sabotage acts, and therefore
made themselves liable to fine and
Imprisonment. 1t should be incon-
ceivable that they be kept many days
from confronting a firing squad. If
such disposition is not made of them
what becomes of the Presidents s
fine plea for the vindication of law
and order?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-07
Father of Quentin Roosevelt
kansas City StarI

kansas City Star1
Theodore RooseveIt's contribution
to The Star yesterday came with the
earnestness and solemnity of the man
who has made the supreme sacrifice
for his country. 1t was the. father of
Quentin Roosevelt who wrote:
Nothing that we can do will light
en- the bitter sorrow of those who
have lost the men they loved; stern
pride in the courage and gallant de-
votion of thosawho are dead is the
only staff that will help to carry that
burden for the living.
But there is one thing the fathers
and mothers who have lost their sons
do insist on-more strenuously per-
haps than those whose souls have
not been thus awakened. They in
sist that the Nation at once take the
steps necessary to guarantee that the
sacrifice shall not have been in vain.
We must now help the Army as
whole by straining every nerve with
Sut days delay immensely to in
crease our strength, our numbers and
our resources at the front. We should
provide now, and as a matter of fact
we ought to have provided six
months ago. for an army of six or
seven million men, so that when next
spring opens we may have at least
four million fighting men at the
front.
All America must echo this insist
ence. The one job is to smash Ger
many and smash it as early as pos
sible. We know how to do it. We can
do 1t. The only thing required is an
overwhelming preponderancei in men
and equipment. America can supply
that preponderance. =
BY an overwhelming effort we
should be able to end the war next
year. Without such an effort it might
go on for two or three years longer.
Can anybody doubt that long drawn
out war fought by smaller forces
will be far more costly in the end
both in men and money than a short
war fought with all our resources?
The most alluring and most fatal
error that besets us is to underesti-
mate the size of our job. We ought
to prepare and prepare at once to
have an army of four million men in
France next spring. To fail to make
our greatest effort viii be uselessIy
to sacrifice mems IiveE
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-07
~ oGER W. Babson, the famous

~ OGER w. Babson, the famous
X statistician. who is now chief
of the Information and Edu-
cation Service of the Department of
Labor, strongly advocates that good
will in business, created by advertis-
ing, should be allowed for by the
Government in taxing capital Tes-
tifying before the House Ways and
Means Committee. Mr.. Babson said:
IF hire a carpenter to erect
sign, and painter to advertise my
business thereon. I can charge the
service of this carpenter and painter
as capital invested. If. however,
invest the same amount of money in
paper and ink, the Government re-
fuses to consider it capital invest
ed. This is absolutely unjust and a
distinct discrimination.
THE work and the services of ad-
vertisingmen are just as valuable to
this country as the services of any
mechanic. In many ways the serv-
ices of the advertising expert are
more valuable because the demand
for goods must come before goods
are manufactured. Trade marks and
brands are as important in develop
ing domestic industry and in
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-07
TAKING A VACATION
rs 1T PATRIOTIC to take a vaca-
ton this summer"

rs 1T PATRIOTIC to take a vaca-
ton this summer"
This question has been asked
by readers of the Telegraph repeat
edly in the last few weeks. and the
answer is: Certainly. if you actually
feel the need of a rest.
A tired worker is not up to mark
in production and he is in danger
of becoming sick. Rest and recrea-
ton are the only known remedies.
Medicine is in most cases of the
kind nothing more than a spur to a
tired horse. Change of scene and
occupation is the essential.
Even the hard-muscIed. carefully
trained soldier requires his vacation
periods. He goes stale" to use a
camp term, If he is kept under
strain too long. So with the man or
woman in any occupation.
II you are in fine physical trim.
go cheerfully to work and enjoy
your duties; you don't need a pro-
tracted vacation. If you lag and
potter over your tasks or are in
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-07
Unlettered in Music
TChristian Science MonitorI

lCnrlSIlan science mOnitOrI
1t is almost proverbial that, when
ever a writer of books makes ref
erence to musical composition, he
falls into some blunder which re-
duces the musical fraternity to tears
or laughter. An instance of this is
quoted by writer in a recent Notes
and Queries as a typical case. The
sinner is Charles Dickens, who, in
ID Dombey and Son." makes a PLAYER on
the violoncello say: "I have whistled,
hummed tunes. gone accurately
through the whole of Beethoven's
sonata in B." Now of all the twelve
keys, B is the only one in which
Beethoven did not write a sonata, re-
marks Notes and Queries CORES
pondent and adds that there are even
stranger blunders about Gounod's
"Foust" in Reade's "Woman-Hater," /"
and about Wagner's Tristan" in
Ann Veronica" For the comfort of
authors, who have or may commit
''howlers" in the musical line - an
apparent contradictions of terms-let
It be said that the immortal william
himself is by no means free from
blunders concerning music. !.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-07
Longest Days Vary

The longest and shortest day of
the year varies. In 1918 the longest
day was June 10. Is hours and IS
minutes from sunrise to sunset. In
1917 from June 16 to June 22, in
elusive, each day was Is hours and
IL minutes long. In 1918. December
19, 81, 23 and rs. will each be eight
hours and four minutes from sunrise
to sunset, while the intervening
days, December 20, 22 and "a, will
each be one minute longer. In 1917
only December 21 and 23 were the
shortest days, each containing eight
hours and four minutes.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-07
DOWN WITH THE REST

TUST about a year ago it was es-
Il timated that there were half a
thousand miles of highway in
Pennsylvania. many of them upon
the main travelled roads, for which
toll was collected and the majority
of the stretches which drivers and
owners of vehicles were taxed to
pass over were in state of repair
as out of date as the toll road idea
itself. Men who had control of
stock of the companies looked long
ingly at the half million dollars
voted by the Legislature to buy the
roads and prices stayed up even
after negotiations had started.
State authorities wisely adopted a
plan of insisting that one-half of the
cost Of buying up these roads be
borne by the county wherein they
were located, and although Highway
Commissioner O'Neils ears were as
sailed by walls. he adhered to this
scheme. The result has been that
there has been freed 200 miles of
road from the man at the gate"
The Commissioner has not much
money left. but he has aroused a
deal of sentiment.
The next Legislature ought to lose
no time in appropriating enough
money to enable the Commonwealth
to Join with counties in getting rid
of the rest of these anachronisms.
The automobile owners are provid-
ing millions in licenses and some of
it could be made available If neces-
sary.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-07

clined to lose your temper over
trifles. by all means try to take a
few days away from the Job. even
though physically you may think
yourself fit.
he is a wise man who knows how
and when to play. and he who plays
well is nearly always an intelligent
and effective workman.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-07

q ENATOR SPROUL is striking
- right at the heart OF things in
the few speeches that he has
been making since his nomination
as Republican candidate for Gov
ernor. He is not bothering about
personalities and as for himself is
submitting his candidacy to the peo-
pie with the assurance ofehis friends
that there is little for him to worry
about.
He doesn't mince words, however.
as to the importance OF sending to
Washington strong and able Repub-
hcans, who will in the next Congress
have an important part in the shap-
ing of legislation so vital to the win
ming of the war. Like other pa
triotic Americans, he is not permit
ting politics 20 disturb in the slight
est degree his support of the gov
ernment, but he believes the splen-
did service already rendered the ma
ton in this crisis by such men as ex-
Presidents Taft and Roosevelt and
scores of other distinguished states
men and leaders of the party is suf-
ficient answer to the occasional fling
that Republicans should support
the President" when the truth is that
the President has been more con-
sistently supported in all important
war measures by Republicans, in both
the Senate-and House. than by many
OF his own party.
In the next Congress, however.
Republicans are going to have a
larger share in determining the
things which are vital and necessary
TO the end that there mayb no hesi-
tation anywhere in prosecuting the
war with full force and power.
As the next Governor, the disin-
guished Senator from Delaware will
also be in position to lead in the
work that Pennsylvania is doing and
will continue to do until a triumph
ant peace shall have been achieved.
It's our opinion that II Hindenburg
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-07

mo powder is being used during
working hours by girls at the. she'll
plant in Hazleton." says the Philadel-
phia Record: but what. We wonder.
do they put in the shells?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-07

One of the important resolutions
passed at the American Federation
of Labor convention instructed Pres
ident Gompers to visit England,
France and Italy in the interests of
labor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-07

More than 1000 employees at the
Missouri Pacific shops have started
working 10 hours a day and will
work seven instead of six days a
week.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-07

Arthur Yeager. Governor of Porto
Rico. is charged with violating the
rights of assemblage in refusing to
permit Porto Rican workers to meet
for organization purposes.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-07
No Sun For Us

How different we are from Will
helm-we are well content with a
modest place in the shade.-From
the st. Louis Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-07
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg steel Is In mu-
nitions landed in Siberia and
Archangcl?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-07
LABOR NOTES

New York hotel proprietors predict
the possibility of having to close their
dihing-rooms If present labor troubles
continue.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-07

Thousands of Austrian women of
all classes are serving behind the
lines as members of the Woman's
Battalion driven thereto by hunger.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-07

Member OF the Associated Press-The
Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled to the use for republication of
all news dispatches credited to IL 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, 1918-08-07

please the liquor leaders more than
to think that the dry" element had
become overconfident.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-07
HISTORIC HARRISBURG

A century ago Harrisburg had five
military companies and most OF the
men were marksmen.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-07
OUR DAILY LAUGH
VERY.

He is very &C.
tive in financial
matters. isn't
he 2
You bet, he
owes me ten
dollars, and ev-
cry time he sees
me he dodgus
me.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-07

It's our opinion that II Hindenburg
had been wise he would have re-
mained dead
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-07

Cheer up. think of the Kaiser; he
has more to worry him than the hot
weather.