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The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1918-03-29

Seed Corn Committee For Dover
. Township.
III. Miller, Higginsville, MO.
JILL Nelson, Dover, Mo.
John holster, Corder, Mo.
e. J. Rodekohr, Corder, Mo.
The work Of this committee
IS to cooperate with the county
chairman, S. M. Kleinschmidt,
Higginsville, Mo-, is securing
good seed corn for Lafayette
county. Upon investigation this
committee finds that the seed
corn situation is a very serious
one-So bad is the seed corn
thiS year that no farmer can ex-
pect a reasonable stand of corn
without making an ear test.
+ armers who have made an ear
test and have seed corn for sale
are requested to list same, Civ
ing name of variety with their
to wnship chairman. He in turn
VIII forward this list to the
co unity chairman. In this way
ia rmers can be of mutual bene-
fit to each other, as some far
ers will find after making a
test that their seen corn is UNI
fit for planting purposes. The
seed corn committee also re-
qu ests farmers who have made
urate tests to report these
tes IS to the committee in order
they may be an inducement
to cause others to test their corn.
E. J. RODEKOHR,
chairman Seed Corn Committee
for Dover Township.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1918-03-29
The Kind Of Men Needed.

All classes are joining the Re-
serve; professional men, engi-
neers, artisans, laborers of all
kinds. The Reserve welcomes
every patriotic citizen who wish
es to serve, whatever his quail
fications. 1t is a democratic or
ganization in which all classes
meet in a common devotion to
our country.
Men especially needer are me-
chanics, artisans, skilled labor
ers of all kinds, men who can
work with tools. There is great
need for such men now. Every
available man of this sort must
be enrolled promptly or our
country's war work will be re-
tarded.
Only men who are really ready
and able to respond when an op-
portunity for service comes
Should enroll. The Reserve does
not want to be swamped with
records Of men who are merely
expressing patriotism but who.
when it comes down to business
are not going to be able to work
where they may be needed.
Men of draft age are not want
ed if likely to be called soon. En-
rollment in the Reserve is no
ground for exemption.
Acceptance of a Call to Service
Purely Voluntary.
nus Oh Vne positions offered
to Reserve members will be well
compensated. Only occasionally
does some branch of the Gov
eminent want unpaid helpers.
No obligation exists to re-
spond to a call when it comes ;
the Reserve merely presents the
opportunity, trusting to the
Judgment and patriotism of its
members to lead them to accept.
If they should accept in view Of
all the circumstances and Of
their country's need.
Department of Labor.
U. S. Public Service Reserve
Washington, D. c.
Note: Applications for mem.
Dershlp may be had from the
following.
Traders Bank,
Commercial Bank,
Savings Bank,
Morrison Wentworth b.
lntelligencer Office.
w. B. DOUGLASS.
Enrolment Agent for Lafavette
County.
Mrs 7. c. Sanders has return.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1918-03-29

Mrs 7. G. Sanders has return.
ed from a visit in Sedalia.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22
DEFEAT OF VARDAMAN

n n ISSISSIPPI is to be congratu-
M lated upon the defeat of Sena-
A'A tor vardaman for renomiria-
ton. The whole country rejoices that
this misrepresentation is to be re-
tired to private life. President Will
son will regard the result of the pri-
mary as an endorsement of his ad-
ministration, and so 1t is, in a way,
but only such an endorsement as
Republican Pennsylvania or any
other loyal State would have accord
ed him under the circumstances.
The American people as a whole,
regardless of party, are back of the
President in his war aims-which
they take to be the defeat of Ger
many on the field of battle and in
the future fair play for all peoples
and honest dealing between the ma
tions, large and small. They will go
on to victory under that standard
or go down TO utter defeat with the
President rather than accept less
than the great objects for which they
are striving. But as to agreeing with
the President in all of his policies
that is quite another matter, and the
Vardaman incident must be regarded
in its true light. that of patriotic
people declining to return a doubt
straw in the partisan political wind.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22
On to Berlin!
Pittsburgh Post1

The plans of the American mill
tary authorities to bring the war to
a close within twelve months by put
ting an overwhelming force into the
field against Germany appeal to
common sense. Why let such a cruel
and expensive struggle continue for
years when there is force enough
available to end it quickly and at an
infinitely smaller loss of men than
If two evenly forces were
kept battling indefinitely? The sight
alone of overwhelming numbers
against them will be a powerful fac
tor in causing the Huns to lay down
their arms, for it has been shown re-
peatedly that they will cry KAN
erad!" the moment they find that
resistance is useless. General March,
American chief of staff, in urging
Congress to extend the draft age linn
its, says that United States Army
of $500, 0,000-such as is expected to
be in France by next June-will en-
able the allied forces to sweep Ger
many where they will, and that If
it were 100000 victory would not
be long delayed. He pointed out that
the freshness of the American troops
is one of the greatest assets of the
cause; 1t is putting new life into
Foch's army throughout. The pres
ence in the field of an American
army of 100000 would thrill every
allied fighter and start the triumphal
march to Berlin.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22
Why They Want Him
[From New York Times1

There is a queer misapprehension
among some of the opponents of Mr..
Henry Ford's burst into the Michigan
primaries. Thus The Detroit Free
Press ascribes to him a contempt for
the political processes by which the
government is carried on. 'Mr.
Ford" says The Chicago Tribune,
"has indulged himself for years in
the qualification of not knowing any
thing about the country's political
procedure, of not connecting himself
with 1t, or having anything to do
with it,"
This is a little unjust. Mr.. Ford
remembers that he cast his first vote
for President for Garfield" in 1884.
If his memory, busy with so many
weightier matters, has mislaid his
candidates name, at least Mr. Ford
once voted, and he knows that there
are Presidents.
But it is not as an authority on
politics, on the American political
system, that he has been picked for
Senator by an expert and an illus
trious hand. Just as the Prussian
Herrenhaus includes number of
-life-peers who are chosen by the king
industrials, national celebrities"
just as the House of Lords has among
it's members great men of business,
of letters, so should not our Senate
be in part Chamber of Notables. of
Magnates, a House of Fame. in an
other than Chaucer's sense?
Few men are better known than
Mr.. Ford. In the matter of swift, ro-
mantle, inexhaustible riches Monte
Cristo was Lazarus compared to this
Wolverine machinist. He is one of
the greatest carriers in the world. In
what hamlet is the sound of his
wheels unheard? His experience on
the ship of peace makes him an au-
thority on shipping. His Christmas
evacuation of the trenches makes
him an authority on military affairs.
Yet not as a common politician, but
as a rare, a natural, an unconscious
genius do his enthusiasts push him
toward the Senate.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22

It's too bad that the Americans are
constantly doing things to annoy their
Hun opponents. They attack without
warning, they don't stop fighting ac-
cordiing to the German schedule and
now they use shot-guns with buck
shot cartridges. OF course, the finicky
enemy pretend that all this is con-
trary to the Geneva convention, con-
Veniently forgetting that it is also a
violation of the convention to use ex-
plosive bullets. liquid fire. poisonous
gases and instruments of barbarous
nature, all of which actually have
been employed by German troops in
the fighting. Shot-guns are used by
military police under recognized in
ternational agreement. but the Hun
always squeals when his own tactics
are turned against him.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22
SPROUL BIG FAVORITE

~ ENATOR SPROUL continues to
- increase in favor with the peo-
pie without regard to party af-
filiation. He realizes the conditions
which confront the country and his
speeches breathe a fine spirit of
patriotism. He is going about meet
ing the voters here and there, but
Indulge in the usual hectic political
campaign. In this he will have the
approval of all good citizens.
The issues are clearly drawn in
Pennsylvania as between Sproul and
Bonniwell and there will be no con-
fusion at the ballot box in November.
The Republican standard bearer has
taken a clear and unequivocal posi-
tion with respect to the important
questions which concern the people
this year and at the very outset
declared in favor of the adoption of
the proposed prohibition amend
ment to the constitution. This fact
. alone demonstrates correct read
ing of public sentiment and all who
favor the abolition of the drink traf-
fic will welcome the challenge of the
Democratic nominee to a square con-
test on the booze issue.
Let us have it out at the Novem-
Der election in the open. If the
people of Pennsylvania are in favor
of continuance of the rum traffic
with all that follows in it's train,
they will line UP behind Bonniwell.
On the other hand. If they believe
the time has come to crush this
business. they will manifest that de-
sire in the support of candidates who
favor the prohibition amendment.
Those misguided temperance folk
who still believe that they should
throw away their votes upon a
purely political Prohibitionist who
has no hope of election will probably
represent an insignificant part of the
total vote, but even these should
consider well how they fritter away
their strength this year.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22
Human Touch Needed
[From the Pittsburgh Dispatch

Charles M. Schwab, the human
dynamo who is directing the prac-
tical side of the shipbuilding pro-
gram in furtherance of the Govern
ment's military program, gave some
excellent advice a few days ago in
Philadelphia to well-meaning patri-
otic workers. Patriotic speeches
are all right and SO are slogans and
posters" said the director in his
plain utilitarian way, but they arc
being crassly 'overdone. Go among
these shipbuilders with the human
touch-thats what they need-and
drop the hot air. I know men and
know what these men want. They
are doing the work in the sweat of
their brows, and, believe me, they
know what's what"
AS perhaps the most personally
successful manager of steel plants in
the world, Mr.. Schwab's everyday
words make the best kind of advice.
His knowledge of men is not the
least valuable of his equipment as a
phenomenally successful superin-
tendent and general manager before
he went to the head of the class as
erector of one of the largest steel
try. He knows men thoroughly. The
men who labor in the Bethlehem
plant will vouch for his knowledge
of human nature, and men who ever
worked at Edgar Thompson or
Homestead will corroborate. 1t was
Mr.. Schwab's ability and willingness
to go among the men with the
human touch that contributed sub
Stantially to his success from the
day when, as q comparative youth,
he became general manager of the
Edgar Thompson works. He al
ways could get more work from the
men.
Criticism of the overdone patriot
ism of oratory and slogans and catch
phrases and posters is better from
Mr.. ISchwab than the ordinary man
because there is not the slightest
danger of misunderstanding or mis-
interpreting him. He knows men
and that knowledge warns him that
if the oratory and other demonstra-
tions of patriotic overzeal is kept up,
one result will be a revulsion and
testy temper among those which
may ask questions about practical
results that may not be so easy to
answer. Keep up the patriotic talk,
says Mr.. Schwab, but also go among
the men. who are doing the work and
offer them the genuine human
touch. They need 1t and-this is
Mr.. Schwab's strong point-they
have a claim to 1t.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22

dreams of throwing hand grenades
down the great throat of the curfew
whistle.
Meanwhile the law is being broken
in a thousand places all over the city
and boys and girls who should be at
home in bed continue to wander at
will, where they will. Children
laugh at the curfew regulations and
policemen growl when they are men,
toned. The man who wrote Cur
few Must Not Ring Tonight" might
have saved his ink. 1t doesn'a
amount to n hoot in Harrisburg
whether it rings or toots or remains
silent
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22

United States Senator James Hamil-
ton Lewis is doing considerable talk
ing in France. Among other things,
he has declared at long range that the
war will probably be over before the
next Presidential campaign and that
with the war over. there is not the
slightest chance of the third-term
question arising" Jim Ham also be-
lieves that the people will not look
to the military heroes for the heads
of the tickets, and that "the leaders
will naturally be statesmen rather
than soldiers" He also emits the
opinion that "the Democratic party
cannot go to the East for it's candi-
date" Aha, there's the milk in the
cocoanut. Jim Ham lives in the Mid
die West and is not soldier.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

David G. Morros, the Washing.
ton and Jefferson football coach.
has entered the army as captain at
Camp Meade.
jay Cooke, the philadelphia
food administrator, has gone to the
seashore for, a few days rest.
Francis K. Newcomer. major of
engineers, who crossed the Vesle
river under fire in conspicuously
brave manner. is a Pittsburgher.
Edward Box, the editor. is in
France on war work.
Col. w. d. Forsyth, the chief of
staff of the new Liberty division, is
well known to many Pennsylvanians.
He has lately been detailed to WASH
ington.
William A. Law, Philadelphia
banker. has become a member of the
Y. M. c. A. board for the war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22
Bricks Without StrdW?

But from the beginning I have
planned, as a matter of regulation,
to have men from eighteen to nine
teen put in a separate class, with a
view to deferring their call until it
is ssary."-Secretary Baker.
1--WE will need every single man in
Glass 1 between eighteen and forty
five. We must not delude ourselves
with the idea that those in the
eighteen and nineteen calls are go
ing to be deferred any length of
time. They will have to be called
early next spring in order to get
their training in time to get to
France. General March.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22
CURFEW

IN ESPITE the repeated and en-
phatic declarations of an army
of earnest elocutionists to the
effect that "Curfew Shall Not Ring
Tonight" the curfew has been
sounding right regularly down
through the years in all we'll regu-
lated communities.
Solemnly, mournfully,
Dealing its dole,
The Curfew bell
Is beginning to toll.
That was back in the days of the
good poet, Longfellow. Here in Har-
risburg we do it in more practical,
If less romantic wayne simply
toot a whistle a given number of
times and children within the age
limit are supposed, we say-to take
hurried directions for home and
mother.
Dark grow the windows,
And quenched is the fire:
Sound fades into silence
And footsteps retire.
That also was in Longfellow's
time.
DuL HOL 50 III f1dTTlSDurB.
The steam that is used to toot the
curfew signal here might better be
saved to heat UP the cold radiators
sen "fuelless' days next winter. The
warning it sounds abroad means
nothing, absolutely nothing. in the
fair young lives of Harrisburg boys
and girls, and even less in the iaded
lackadaisical round of existence of
Harrisburg policemen, who appear
to go to sleep so long in advance of
the curfew siren that even its thun-
derous notes can scarcely rouse them
to a sense of duty.
'Heigho, yawns the browsing Off
Ger on his favorite corner. what's
an ordnance between friends. any
way" and sinks back to pleasant
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22

Have you been reading DR.. Davis
"The Kaiser as 1 Knew Him for Four
teen Years?" If not. turn this even
ing to another page of the Telegraph
and you'll want all the preceding
chapters of this compelling story.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22

Many of the boys of the One Hun
dred and Tenth and the One Hundred
and Twelfth regiments have made the
supreme sacrifice. but the spirit of the
nation is being expressed in the high
est form OF patriotic devotion. and
Pennsylvania is over there in the way
the Hun can now understand.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22

Community singing is being en-
couraged at Duncannon, where the
townsfolk gathered at the Jennings
summer home last night and sang
the popular war songs. Who will start
the community "sings" here?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22
BREAK UP THE BIG BLOCKS

To the Editor of TIE IeIegfdPHl
Why don't the several coal deal
ers who continue to display huge
blocks of coal. weighing many tons,
in front of their business places, re-
duce those enormous blocks to fuel
proportions and win the favor of all
consumers?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22

President Wilson is still being
sharply criticised for his interference
in the selection of candidates for the
House and the Senate. but we must
steadily keep in mind that politics is
adjourned"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22

When peace is finally declared the
news should come from the Allies in
Berlin. Germany will never know all
the truth until the "Yanks" have
marched down the Unter den Linden
and through the arch of the Emperor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22

Mayor Keister and his associates in
the city administration will doubtless
pick up quite bit of useful informa-
tion at the Erie convention of the
League of Third Glass Cities. But
they should keep constantly in mind
that Harrisburg is considerably ahead
of other cities, and not fall into the
error of being pulled down instead
of lifting UP in their official inter
change of thought
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22

Good old Harrisburg is humping
along saving sugar, reducing its waist
line, making a more efficient milk
distribution and helping to conserve
fuel. When the boys come back we
can afford to feast, but not until then
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22

Secretary McAdoo is catching on.
but he will not forget that the long
headed Pennsylvania Railroad officials
have already taken steps to run their
trains by electricity.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22

There is still hope, we understand,
of something being done to save the
shade trees of Harrisburg. Park Com
missioner Gross favors the appoint
ment of a commission.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22

"Thats the most beautiful building
in the city," said one girl to another,
as they passed down Walnut street
and admired the floral front of the
home of the Telegraph. Thanks,
awfullyl
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22

Complaints of failure to properly
look after the silt basins along the
Susquehanna intercepter are heard.
Commissioner Lynch will stand for
nothing of this sort. if he knows it.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22
He'd Neper Start Anuthino

How happy the kaiser would be if
he could turn the clock back to
August 1, 1914. with the information
at hand he has collected since!-
From the Pittsburgh Dispatch.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22
HOW ABOUT THE CABLEGRANfs

1t has come to my knowledge that
cable messages sent to relatives in
this country by anxious soldiers have
never been delivered What becomes
Of them? Also the cable> rates in
same cases are practically prohibit
tive. H.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22
Big Jump, Too :

King Ferdinand : of Bulgaria is
travelling for his health. The Crown
Prince Is also making some rapid
jumps for the same reason.-Erie
Dispatch.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22
CourQqe and Heroisn1

True courage is not incompatible
with nervousness and heroism does
not mean the absence of fear, but
the conquest of it.-Henry Van
Dyke.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22

"Any man who chooses to run the
risk can manufacture whisky secretly
for fifty cents gallon" says Arthur
Brisbane. One can but wonder how
Mr.. Brisbane knows.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22

Belfast shipbuilders have achieved
a worlds record In completing an
s,000-ton standard ship in Is days
after she was launched.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22
THURSDAY, AUGUST ~, 1918

Hurry and Cunning are the too
apprentices of Despatch dpd of Skill,
but neither of them ever learn their
pGster's trdde.-CoLToN
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22
Mystery About the Kaiser

A Detroit paper remarks that the
kaiser speaks English fiuently. What,
then, keeps him from understanding
it? = From the Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22
His Oup, Affair

Darn a cutworm!' calculates an
exchange. Let the cutworm mend
his own ways say we.-Boston
Transcript.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22

The Women's County Committee of
Fife. Scotland, is enrolling 900 wo-
men for wedding and harvesting the
fax crop.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22

How about the Curfew ordinance2
Is this also a dead letter and unen-
forced like the cut-out regulation as to
motor vehicles?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22

Pressmen, mailers and stereotypers
of the newspaper offices in Toronto
have been granted a per cent. in
crease as a war bonus.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22
e. ]. sTACKPoLH

Member of the Associated Press-The
Associated Press Is exclusively en-
titled to the use for republication of
all news dispatches credited to 1t 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, 1918-08-22

Agricultural workers In West GIou-
cestershire. England, are threatening
to strike unless they are paid s11.25 a
Iweek
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22
DO YOU KNOW
That Dauphin county is very
much on the map for the train
ing it is giving the boys?
HISTORIC HARRIsnIrRc

"A century ago Harrisburg bows
were taught to handle rifles bv
shooting SQUIRRELS on the hills op-
posite the town.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22
LABOR NOTES

United Mine Workers has a Cana
dian membership of almost 5000.
A provincial bureau Is being formed
in England for the employment of
discharged soldiers in civil employ
ment.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22

Harrisburg friends have sent
their congratulations to Ex-Post-
master Caleb S. Brinton. of Carlisle.
Mr. Brinton likes to tell of the days
when he taught school and of his
first case as a lawyer. He was also
on Shippensburg Normal School
faculty.