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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-21
HOW EDISON JUDGES MEN

If you have been regarding Edison
as n genius, and nothing else. you
have been mistaken. The Vice
President of Thomas Edison, Inc,
says in an article about Mr.. Edison
in the February American Maga-
zine:
mo one knows or probably ever
will know exactly what standards of
judgment Mr.. Edison employs in
forming his preliminary Judgment
of n man. There are treatises on
the subject of character reading,
but Edison would scorn to adopt
the rules eXpounded in any of them.
Whatever rules he uses are drawn
from his own experience. Although
partially deaf, Mr.. Edison has not
cultivated the faculty of lip read
ing. However, he is an expert read
er of human faces. Very possibly, he
long ago decided that it is less i'm
portant to read a mans words than to
divine the intent behind them. He
is a close observer of mems eyes.
Also, he appears to entertain a COL
lateral interest in ears, chins, fore
heads, and heads.
Thomas A. Edison's activities
have brought him in contact with
many men in various walks of life
He has sat at countless conferences,
deaf and Indifferent to the conver-
sational camouf1age which most men
use to mask their motives, and has
studied faces. cataloguing each type,
I think. and thus arrived at the
standards of judgment which he now
uses. This is merely my opinion.
Perhaps Mr.. Edison would not ad-
nit that his opinions of men are
based on any such classification of
his observations. Perhaps he is not
even conscious of having made OBJ
servations of this kind; but If you
will cultivate reticence, study the
faces of all the men you meet, and
classify them by types in the light
of their subsequent acts. I am pretty
sure that you will ultimately ac-
quire the habit of forming your
preliminary estimate of q man very
much as Mr.. Edison gains his first
impressions"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-21
LITTLE TUBERCULOSIS

Colonel Charles Dercle, French
Medical Military Attache OF the
United States Surgeon-General's Of
flee, has prepared a statement for
the March American Magazine in
which he says:
Americans have been told that
tuberculosis has ravaged the French
troops, and that it will spread to
the United States Army. The truth
is that there is less tuberculosis in
the French army to-day than there
was among the French people before
the war. .s
When our soldiers were mobil-
lied in 1914 they had been Sleep
ing, as was the custom in France,
with closed windows. They had been
working in shops and offices, where
fresh air was thing to be afraid
OF. They almost never took outdoor
exercise.
"The result was that some of
them were tubercular. We took
these men and put them into special
hospitals. But the number of such
cases has been exaggerated by Ger
man propagandists. More than this,
we soon found that a good many of
them didn't have tuberculosis at all.
They were merely below par physic-
ally. With proper treatment, they
were soon fit to be put in the fight
ing ranks.
Tuberculosis has steadily de-
creased in the French troops. Life
in the open, plenty of exercise, regu-
larity in eating, and wholesome food
have improved their health in this
respect, as in others"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-21
THE GERMAN OFFENSIVE

~ ECRETARY BAKER informs us
in his weekly review that the
~ much discussed German often
sive on the West Front is about to
be started. We are told that the Ger
man forces are being mobihzed Tor
crushing blow" The attack is to be
a. Supreme effort" So be it, and the
sooner the better. So far from mop
ing that the Kaiser will make half-
hearted effort to get through 1t
should be the prayer of every friend
of the allied cause that the Central
Powers put every ounce OF energy
at their disposal into the attack. At
all events, the French, the English
and the American lines will hold
them and the greater force put into
the blow the greater the reaction OF
failure will be upon the German
armies and upon the mutterinS mass
es back of the fighting lines.
Here and there at the outstart the
German onrush may dent the allied
front. Here and there hole may be
punched in the first line defences.
Our losses may, and probably will
be, heavy. But the campaign will end
just as Verdun ended, with the allied
lines tight and firm and the attack
ing forces battered and breathless.
So let the German battering ram
do it's worst. Let its blow be as
mighty as German power can make
it. For after it has failed, after the
German armies have been pounded
into a recognition of the fact that
victory is hopeless, after the German
workmen learn that there is nothing
in sight but a long and losing war,
then will come our turnS
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-21
Over he lob
c~ PexNa.

A Pennsylvania boy with Per-
shing's expedition writes home that
the French language greatly fasci-
mates the intelligent Yank and pre-
diets that many a country boy will
come back home with a good work
ing knowledge of it. For one thing
it is so handy" says this enthusiast.
"Only the other day one of the flying
men sprung new one, calls a chap
that drives a tank, "tankeur," and
that is catching on everywhere"
Heck-"Yes, have met your wife.
In fact, 1 knew her before you mar
ried her."
Peck-"Ah! That's where you had
the advantage of mel didn't"
1t is to laugh when you hear this
talk from pro-Germans that Ameri-
cans have no power of resistance.
Out in the western part of the state
an old man died who had lived in
one hotel for forty-two years!
Nature is wise and kind. A Goldfish
lays 100000 eggs in silence. If it
cackled every time like a hen every
body would have to wear ear muffs.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-21
By Meredith Nicholson

When We fought the Apaches it
was always a problem for our SOL
diers to find them. They were enor-
mously cunning in hiding themselves
in the hills; they were masters of
camouflage before the word was in
troduced into the military vocabu-
larry.
The country is now beset by great
numbers of Apaches who do not
fight in the open but use weapons
that range from casual innuendo to
brazen lying. 1t is the business of
all loyal Americans to protect the
men who have valiantly undertaken
to fight for us by land and sea from
the consequences of the malicious
speech of the insidious enemies. The
Kaiser has a long arm. His fingers
tickle first one group in America and
then another. Those who respond
to his seductive arts will find money
ready to aid them in their purposes.
AS in the old melodramas, it will be
hidden in the roots of a certain tree
down by the old bridge. Persons of
German ancestry or birth who, not
being against the Kaiser are against
America; pacitists who advocate
peace at any price; malevolent gos-
sips who lie about the Red Cross
and its work; other liars who at
tempt to impede the success of Lib
erty Loans under one preteXt or
another; all such are enlisted in the
kaiser's army of mendacity that is
now at work to destroy the effect
iveness of American arms in the
most righteous of all wars.
Reports have lately been circulat-
ed that the American Government
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-21
HE BEAT ME HOME

When for a little walk we went,
On errand or on pleasure bent,
AS we drew near our vine-clad gate,
My alway-present walking mate
Would slip his chubby hand from
mine e
And, toddling on past shrub and
vine,
Would turn and say. with baby wit,
IT beat 90 home, little bit"
God was so good to him and me
AS to permit our lives to be
Like those of two frank, boyhood
chums
Together solving life's hard sums.
I, as the elder, sometimes knew
Where in his path lay bog or slough
So I might point it out in time
To save him from the fall and CRIME.
To- day some kind friends came and
spoke
Gently to me. And then awoke
A slGm bering memory of Then:
dreamed he was a babe again;
That he before my feet had sped
To reach our door a step ahead
Through trembling lips 1 whisper It,
HE beat ,me home-a little bit"
BY Strickland Gillian.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-21
LIARS MAGNIFICENT
BY MEREDITH NICHOLSON


is discriminating against the Catho-
lie Church. This is a typical lie.
In my own city (ndianapolis) the
Catholic Cathedral flies over it's
door daily a much-bestarred. serv-
ice flag, and Catholic boys of my
acquaintance have won commissions
on their merits without any consid-
Grafton whatever of their religious
belief. They themselves never
thought of such a thing. But the
Kaisers' agents have hit upon this as
means of spreading dissension. In
Indianapolis we have had repeated
evidence of the spiteful industry of
the Red Cross liar. The Red Cross
liar is the man or woman who says
that money contributed to the Red
Cross is wasted; that somebody is
making money out oftRed Cross con-
tributions, or that hospital supplies
are improperly or wastefully made.
Another liar in the Kaiser's Ameri-
can army of liars spreads reports
that our men in the cantonments
are dying by thousands for lack of
proper attention. The reports of the
chief medical officer of the army are
published constantly and are ac-
cessible to all. There is no foun-
dation whatever for such stories.
w uICH IOT the halSerS mars! Am
erica has not yet been honeycombed
with sedition as Russia was, but the
work is going on. There is a great
work to do in America to maintain
its domestic security while the war
proceeds to its triumphant conclus-
ion-futility of any red-handed war
lords attempt to world domination,
and incidentally destroy lying as a
fine art as it is directed from the
high councils of Berlin.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-21
THE AMERICAN WAY

= LLOYD GEORGE pays a splendid
compliment to President Will
son when he says that it was
he who insisted upon a supreme al
lied war council in which should
be concentrated full authority for
the prosecution of the war. Lack of
centralized control has been the
greatest weakness of the allies on
every front since the war began.
Perfect coordination of PURPOSE and
effort has been the Central Powers
greatest asset. With it. no such
catastrophe as overlook Italy last
fall would have occurred. Without
it Germany would not have been
able to Withstand the hammer blows
OF the allies in the west With it
the allies will be able to hold out
against all the pressure the Germans
can bring to bear in the west. With
out 1t there is no telling what might
happen. The conditions demanded
it as first essential to allied sue
cess.
This is not England's war, nor
Frances war, nor Italy's war, nor
Americas war, but the war of all of
them together and the interests and
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-21
For Prohibition Amendment

Unusual significance attaches to
the approaching primary election in
Pennsylvania because of the question
of overshadowing Importance to
come before the next Legislature:
that of ratifying the proposed
amendment to the Constitution of
the United States prohibiting the
manufacturer and sale of intoXicat-
ing liquor. The Chronicle Tele-
graph. believes that amendment
should be ratified, even though in
taking this position it may seem
to depart from it's consistent ad-
settle matters of this character for
itself. The prohibition question,
however, obviously has become u
broadly national issue, fact which,
while accentuated by conditions aris-
ing from the war has been steadily
impressing itself upon the intelli-
gence and conscience of the Ameri-
can people even in time of peace.
The Chronicle Telegraph, therefore,
admits no inconsistency in announc-
ing it's vigorous support of the pro-
hibition amendment which is in
keeping with it's traditional hostility
to the liquor traffic and accompany
ing long train of evils.
RuNOCdIeS VI plOuiDltlOH SuOulu
realize clearly that there is but one
way in which to make their support
effective and that is in the election
of members of the Legislature who
are pledged to vote for the amend
ment. This may sound like a tru-
ism, but the warning is justified by
the fact that in the past opponents
of the liquor traffic have often failed
to display practical common sense
when they have had the chance
to secure substantial reforms, sub
stituting rhetoric for action. This
question should be decided at the
primaries. The Chronicle Tele-
graph will give it's support to those
candidates at the primaries who
have declared themselves in favor
of the prohibition amendment, will
abide by the decision of the pri-
maries and urge the election of the
nominees of the Republican party.
The time for united action of the
prohibition forces is before the pri-
maries. Let us choose candidates
pledged to prohibition and victory
will be assurred.-Pittsbur Chron-
icle Telegraph.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-21
"GO AHEAD AND KNIT"

1t has often been rumored that
the Navy Department does not well
come knitted garments for the
sailors. Secretary Daniels denies the
charge in a letter in the March Wo-
mans Home Companion. lie says:
THE Navy Department does, of
course, furnish necessary clothing
for the sailors, but the additional
comforts which are provided by the
women, working through the Red
Cross Naval Auxiliary, are very ac-
ceptable to the men in the service
and, in addition to the comfort
which they afford, the men are
cheered by the knowledge that the
women at home have them in re-
membrance and are anxious to send
these articles for their comfort. The
Department is very glad indeed to
have them and they are of real
service and satisfaction to the men
and are greatly priced by them"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-21
LABOR NOTES

jamestown IN. " Typographical
Union has secured an agreement
which increases wages So a week.
Trade union recognition is the
first essential if employers would as
sist in the minimizing of industrial
dissatisfaction, says the Committee
on Industry and Employment in New
York City, affiliated with the Mayors
Committee on National Defense.
To live as comfortably now as in
1914, working people in Philadel-
phia and vicinity are Obliged to
spend for bare necessities alone
SS& per cent. more than was need
cd before the war, according to sta
tistics by Investigators for the Fed
eral Department of Labor.
Surveys in Is states for the Ma
tional League of Women's Service
showed that there were approXi-
mately 1,266,061 women in the
United States engaged in essen
tions factories the estimates show
100000 are employed as against g.
500 in 1910.
When the United States entered
the war one of the first acts of
the President was to call the rep
resentatives of labor in consultation,
and on all the important Govern
ment boards and commissions, as
well as on numerous minor commit
tees, labor is represented. The re-
suit is that all the forces of organ
lied labor are with the President
and backing him up in winning the
war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-21
YARNS ABOUT YARNS

= T is only a short time since that
ten dollar bill and the sweater.
You remember the story. 1t told
of a devoted mother sewing a green
back in a sweater she had made for
a soldier and of the sweater being
sold and the money discovered in
Steelton, Shickshinny or Shingle-
house, the place according to the
geographical impulse of the repeater
of the all-wool, whole cloth, yard
wide lie. 1t was an artful piece of
German propaganda and a good
many worthy people were fooled.
These are not pleasant words, but
that damnable story got wide cir
oulation and it took some plain
speaking to down it.
And now we are confronted with
a story from Venango county that
anthrax is carried in yarns. An
thrax has heretofore been trans
mitted mainly through steer hides.
Yarn is made out of wool. Wool
comes from sheep. Therefore, we
are told, there is danger. The fact
that yarn goes through numerous
processes and is treated various
ways, to say nothing of being dyed
with chemicals that would slaught-
err more bacteria than a Hun could
kill defenceless women and children
in years campaign, is disregarded
by the credulous. oh, stop the tell
ing and writing OF such stories.
When the next disseminator of n
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-21
The Line in Lorraine

Lorraine means "Lothair's King
dom," but certainly it's most famous
figure was that Duke of Lorraine,
Godfrey of Bouillon, the hero of
many tabled exploits, who was said
to have cloven asunder the body
of a Moslem emir with one stroke
of his good sword, who was leader
of the First Crusade, who saw the
deliverance of Jerusalem and be-
came the. ruler of that Holy City
wrested from paynim hands. The
American soldier might do worse
than swear "By Godfreyi" Whether
we now hold mile or FIVE miles
will presently be of no Importance,
for our expeditionary forces have
but made a beginning. A look at
the map will satisfy any American
how much of the front line our men
should be defending before very.
many months have passed.-From
the New York Sun.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-21
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Col. Asher Miner. commander of
the old Ninth Pennsylvania regi-
ment, is home from Camp Hancock
on sick leave.
Harry K. Lathy, a Philadelphia
service man, has just
forty-nine years in gov
ernment service.
John Wanamaker. who has been
in Florida, will start north in
short time.
Levi l.. Rue, Philadelphia bank
president, has been spending a short
vacation at the seashore.
&c. w. A. Reichard, of Lehigh-
ton, has been named as supervisor
of war gardens for Carbon county.
S. A. Weisberger. prominent in
Jewish circles in Scranton, will give
up his business and go to France as
an army clerk.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-21
MIX IT AT THE MILL

-HE American housewife is sore
ly puzzled just now by the
newly-enforced grain regula-
tions. How to use up the grain sub
stitutes that must be purchased in
equal quantities with white flour is
causing her no end of worriment.
For the most part she has not bought
less -four, but has purchased the
same amount of -four as formerly
and the other meals, too. She has
not yet learned the art of mixing and
she is much distressed by conflicting
desires to be patriotic and to serve
her table with the accustomed tasty
loaf of we'll baked bread.
The answer to the difficulty is not
hard to find. 1t is so simple that one
wonders how Mr.. Hoover missed it
at the very outstart 1t lies in mix
ing the wheat flour with the substi-
tutes at the mills. Thus grain slack
ing would be eliminated, for with
nothing except mixed flours on the
market there could be no opportu-
nifty for lodging the food regulations.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-21

story that would make some heart
ache or start tongues buzzing comes
around use reason and tell the teller
to cease from troubling.
But the point is that this lie about
the yarns is only sample. There
are lies galore. Not as many as
we had to endure last fall. But
still a superabundance. Employ
common sense and ridicule the tel
Ter. If that will not stop the chat
ter and the story is vicious or harm
full or the disseminator is persistent,
use your telephone. You can figure
out who to call up.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-21
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21. 1918
NEVER A DOUBT

ATEWS dispatches from Washing
" ton to the effect that the War
Department is not likely to
change from it's original site near
Middletown for the location of the
great army supply depots to be
erected this spring is not surprising.
To those who have given the subject
careful study it would seem that
there never could have been any ser
ious consideration of any other in
this immediate vicinity, and since
the Harrisburg district was selected
from the entire eastern seaboard
territory as the best adapted from
the standpoint of transportation IA
cilities there could be little debate
over the wisdom of the original Sc
lection of the particular plot upon
which to locate the buildings.
Army engineers who made the
original survey chose Harrisburg be-
cause of its admirable railroad con-
nections, with main lines intersect-
ing to all points of the compass
short hauls to most of the large
shipping centers and the coast, it's
gigantic ready-made railroad yards,
its healthful surroundings and its
great provision producing resources
in the immediate locality. That set
tied. they next picked out the Mid
dletown site because of its adaptable
ity. 1t had all ready for tapping
main line railroad frontage, big
classification yards within easy
reach, a big labor population to
draw from and trolley, electric. gas
and telephone service of a metro
politan character.
These things doubtless counted
heavily in a situation of which time
is the prime essence. Harrisburg
had to give in this nearby site all the
essentials demanded by the govern
ment for quick action. There was
no need for anything but the filling
up of the land along the river, a
small thing considering the nearby
Stag and cinder dumps of the steel
companies which may be had for
the asking, and the erection of the
buildings themselves. 1t is safe to
say that nowhere. else in the United
States is there a combination of con-
ditions so favorable to a quick de-
velopment of the magnitude eontem-
plated by the War Department.
1t reflects credit upon Secretary of
War Baker and those acting with
him that this ground was chosen.
despite the efforts of those interest
ed deeply in other tracts in other
parts of this and nearby States, and
that they were influenced only by
the advantages of the location, into
which they examined with utmost
care, refraining from signing the
leases for the ground until they had
satisfied themselves fully that they
had reached the best possible solu-
ton of their problem.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-21

personal ambitions of each must be
sunk for the good of ALL
The allied peoples care little for
the nationality of the general or the
army to whose prowess the Kaiser
must finally kneel. What they wan;
is victory by the shortest, easiest
route and never mind who leads the
charge.
So, if President Wilson made the
recommendation and insisted upon
its adoption, the more credit to him.
Petty European politics and army
jealousies must give place to Amer
lean efficiency and the allied war
council is good place to begin.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-21
SMART AND SNAPPY

HARRISBURG policemen, for the
II first time in history, are to be
properly clothed. The baggy
blue uniforms with the big brass
buttons are antiquated. They be-
long to the "rube constable" of the
vaudeville stage. They never were
in keeping with the dignity that
ought to go with the office and
they are a handicap to policemen
trying to handle unruly prisoners.
Mayor Keister has had the courage
to depart from the established or
der and the new dark gray whip
cord uniforms, with leggings, will
give the force a smart, snappy ap-
pearance that will make for self
confidence, public respect and eff
cheney. The wonder is that it was
so long in coming.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-21
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg will be a
headquarters for distribution of
tractors by the big warehouses
this year?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-21

Early Strawberries have arrived,
but we are not in position to say any
thing concerning their flavor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-21

About the time his wife begins to
talk housecleaning, the average man
commences to wonder why he didn't
ioin a submarine crew last fall.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-21
USurg Forbidden

Thou shalt not lend upon usury
to thy brother.-Deuterono xiii,
10.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-21

Our idea is that Scott Nearing is to
the United States about the same
thing as Bolo Pasha was to France
just before the verdict came in.