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The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-01-18
Refused to Heed the
Resolution
N SPITE OF PROTESTS FROM ALL OVER THE
ORDER WENT INTO EFFECT
Associated Press)
Jan. II, $50 p. M

Fuel Administrator Garfeld's drastic
order, restricting the use Of fuel, ef-
fective at midnight tonight, was pro-
mulgated shortly before six o'clock,
within a few minutes after the SEN
ate adopted a resolution asking that
the order be postponed for five days.
ALL SORTS OF FUEL INTENDED
Although the first Interpretation of
the order indicated that it would not
apply to the use of wood, oil, gas or
other forms of fuel, it was declared
tonight that all fuel of every descrip-
ton was intended. Schools are sx-
empted. /
FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS FINE
Violation of the order il punishable
by five thousand dollar fine or twL
years imprisonment or both.
COMMON SENSE COURSE
In a statement which Fuel Admin
istrator Garfield issued tonight, ex-
planning the drastic closing order
which was given to the press yester-
day, he said that the most urgent
thing to be done by this country, at
this time, is - send the American
fighting forces abroadd, and use every
faculty to furnish the Allies VIII WITH food
and war supplies, which were vitaIfy
needed. He described the conditions
at Atlantic ports where needed war
munitions, food and manufactured
articles Of every description, and ag-
gregating tens of Thousands of tons,
are awaiting means of transportation
over seas. He explained that literal
ly hundreds of ships loaded with war
goods for our men, and the allied
armies, can not put to sea because
the ships bunkers are empty of coal.
The coal necessary to send them away
is waiting behind congested freight
that has jammed all the terminals.
Administrator Garfield declared it
was worse than hopeless to continue
to bend our energies to more manu-
featuring when what is already man.
ufactured continues to lie at tidewa.
ter congesting all the facilities and
jamming the railroad yards and side
tracks for long distances back in the
country. It was pointed out that once
we have been able to clear the docks
we can then bend our energies and
use all our power toward manufactur-
ing more efficiently than ever.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-01-18
FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS FINE

Violation Of the order il punishable
by five thousand dollar fine or twt
years imprisonment or both.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-25
SEED TESTING DAY

.NORN is going to come pretty
" near wearing a crown this year.
We are going to eat more pro-
ducts of the splendid grain that the
Indians bequeather to us this year
than ever before, and a lotsof folks
who have grown away from corn
meal mush are finding it as delicious
as they used to in the days when
they wore short dresses or knew
not stiff collars. But in addition
to handing us very large share in
a terrible war, 1917 played hob
with Pennsylvania corn crop. While
it was our best crop and was worth
SIP, 100000. yet there were thou
sands of bushels frosted and many
that were never gathered. Early
winter we'll nigh ruined the crop
in a number of counties and seed
corn is away below par as a general
rule.
And right at a time when the Ma
tional food authorities are vocifer-
ously urging us to raise more corn,
and the farmers and seedsmen are
tearing their hair to get the seed
corn, comes an Adams county school
superintendent with a suggestion
that is a nugget for practical value.
Prof. H. Milton Roth, who has re-
marked upon the interest taken by
boys and girls in raising corn,
has proposed that March Is be
seed corn testing DAY. He would
have the farmers and their wives
show the boys and girls how to test
the corn to be planted for our
record-breaking crops next year.
He would coordinate the interests
of the farm, the school and the
home. If the seed corn is all tested
out, there will be fewer disappoint-
ments, and it will serve to get the
youngsters primed for the big job
that is ahead of them this year.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-25
MONDAY FEBRUARY IS, 1918
Don't let US make imaginary evilS,
Ehen zoe knoto TOE haze so many real
OneS to ncounter.-GoLDsMIT
FOR A CLEAN CITY
MYTH the opening of ash co
Wv lection bids by council to

MYTH the opening of ash COL
wv lection bids by council to-
day, it is to be hoped that
the beginning of the final chapter
of the ash nuisance is being written.
1t is encouraging to note that fol-
lowing the recent survey of condi-
tions, city councilmen Joined in say
ing that some means of relief must
be found. To-day, Mayor Keister
officially asks the public to co-ope-
rate with him in cleaning up the
debris of the winter and in keeping
the streets clean. This is an excel
lent move and no doubt will be pro-
ductive of good results, for Harris
burg people are proud of the city's
reputation as a clean town and are
always ready to do their part for its
improvement. But permanent re-
lief must come from council itself.
A dozen or more years ago few
streets were paved and ashes dump
ed on them were sometimes useful
in filling mud-holes, and at all
events were soon obliterated by We
hicular traffic. People expected
dirty streets then, and thought
little of them. With paved high
ways, and a most efficient street
cleaning department, under the
watchful eye of Commissioner
Lynch, all that was changed and
Harrisburg became known far and
wide, as Mayor Keister says. as the
'cleanest and best paved city in the
country" Even under the old hit
or-miss private contract for ash
removals, this was true, but with the
collapse of the entire system the
past winter. the highways again
have taken on the appearance of viii
1age streets and the people are dis
gusted. The beauty of the city is
marred and the health of its resi-
dents endangered.
Councilmen realize this, and are
taking steps to remove the menace.
The more expeditiously they move,
the better. In the meantime it is
the duty of all of us to cooperate
with Mayor Keister in the cleanup
he has proclaimed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-25
THE FOOD SITUATION

NAT less wheat now 'or you will
T. eat none next summer.
That sums up the whole
grain situation now confronting the
American people.
Eat less meat now or go meatless
in the coming months.
That. also. is a condition that
must be confronted by the Ameri-
can public.
Make no mistake about it, we are
going to send over the ocean what
our Allies and our soldiers need.
even If we go hungry here. The
German must be held in check and
his armies broken, and hungry
men, with hungry people back of
them, cannot do, that. So, first and
foremost, we are going to feed those
in the war zone. If we suffer. it is
our own fault. If we want tn
greedily gobble up everything in
sight to-day, we must expect to go
hungry tomorrow, But there is
/ no need for empty stomachs in
America.
The situation is like this-if Won
had one loaf of bread and one piece
of meat in the house and you knew
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-25
RUSSLA'S ONLY HOPE

Whether Germany demands an
indemnity of s4,000,0OO,000 from
Russia, or only S1,5O0, 100000. as
Trotzky is represented as stating it,
makes very little difference to Rus
sia. She can pay neither one sum
nor the other. Germany's security
for the payment will be her power
to seize Russian territory, and ne
cessarily failing to collect in cash.
she will seize the collateral. Rus
sia's only way of escape lies through
the resumption of her former rela-
uon with the Allies, a return to her
place among the Powers fighting to
destroy German despotism. 1t NAV
be thought improbable that she will
choose that way, but it is absolute
ly the only possible way for her to
escape the peril that confronts her.
Her re-entry into the alliance a.
gainst Germany would give her the
moral right to aid and protection by
her allies, and 1t is conceivable that
important aid might be given by
Japan. Her right to assistance would
be undeniable, for she would rem
der a service to the Allies of the
west comparable to that she rem
dered at the beginning of the war.
which was in the highest degree i'm
portant. Forced to resume fighting
on the eastern front, Germany would
find her plans for the loudly trump
eted drive in the west much disar-
ranged, to such a point even that she
might be compelled to abandon
them. Such a service. the mere
threat of military operations which
would necessitate the retention of a
large German force in the east.
would demand substantial recogni-
ton and repayment from the Allies.
for its value would be very great
New York Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-25
YOUR INCOME TAX

A PRIL 1 is rapidly approach
n ing and with it the end
of the period in which
you are required to report the
amount of your dncome to Uncle
Sam. Don't wait to be notified. The
government is not required to serve
notice on you that the tax is due.
The law makes it your duty to seek
out the federal agents and report to
them, giving an accurate account
of your income for the past year. If
you are in doubt let the govern
ment's own employees decide for you.
The original intention was to close
all reports March /, and since the
government has granted an addi-
tional month of grace 1t will go all
the harder with those who are not
in when the books close. You may
file your return any time before
April l, but If you wait until April
2, you are subject to a fine of not
less than $40 nor more than $1,000
and an additional assessment of so
per cent. of the amount of tax due.
Returns are required of every un-
married person-man or woman -
whose net income for the calendar
year 1917 was $1,000 or more and of
every married person whose net in
come was $4,000 or more.
The rate of tax is at least two per
cent. on net incomes of unmarried
persons in excess of $1,000 and on
net incomes of married persons in
excess of $4,000. Payment must be
made on or before June Is, 1918.
The estimated revenue to be COL
lected this year under the War Rev.
enue Act is $4,000. 900, 900. of which
s666, 100000 is in individual income
taxes. Last year 100000 persons
paid income taxes; this year it is
estimated the number will be more
than 100000. If you are one of
them, remember that your dollars
are for the support of the war. BY
promptly filing your return and
promptly paying your tax you are
helping the Government to early VIC
tory. Pay your income tax in the
same spirit in which you bought
your Liberty Bond. The proceeds
are for the same purpose-to keep
the Hun out OF America and to
make the world safe for democracy.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-25
''DRY" SENTIMENT GROWS

TINE State Y. NJ. C. A. delegates
have gone home, each one
pledged to work for the nomi-
nation and election of candidates
who will support the prohibition
amendment in the next session of
the Pennsylvania Legislature. As
rapidly as they meet the great, virile
organizations of the State are lin
ing up in favor of this very worthy
measure. Before the May primaries
are at hand, the sentiment of the
people will have been so crystalized
in its favor that the legislative can
didate who dares oppose it will face
a tremendous handicap at the polls.
Leaders of all parties must recog-
nize the fallacy of any course that
runs counter to the will of the peo-
pie. This year the voters want legis-
lative candidates who will vote
"dry," and unless all the familiar
signs fail, they will have them.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-25
German Lies and German Liars
BY PORTER EMERSON BROWNE

"All Germany wants is a just
peace!"
That's ALL A just peace that will
give her Poland, Belgium, Alsac-
Lorraine, Austria-Hungary, Turkey,
Bulgaria, Servia, Roumania, control
of the Baltic and the Black Seas and
ports on the Mediterranean. A just
peace in which she can coordinate
her new possessions preparatory to
taking another wallop at the rest of
the world! AS her own people have
already announced that it is her in
tention to do!
England is making her colonies
do all the fighting"
England lost 1900 member
entire standing army-in the first
few months of the war. And she is
now holding the biggest part of the
western front and sending troops to
Italy besides!
THE Germans would never try to
conquer America"
Take the English Navy away for
few weeks and see! Germany has
announced her dream of world
power. If America isn't in the
world, where is it?
These are a few of the Type A
lies.
OF the other types are the follow
ing: Germany is unbeatable; so why
go against her? We will never get
troops to Europe in time. We can't
equip our soldiers. We can't feed
our soldiers. Germany never in
tends to attack us here; so let's keep
our troops at home to defend us
when she does. If we must choose a
machine gun for our Army, let US
pick one that isn't invented yet. We
must have free speech;, it is better
to have people talking than doing
things.
Germany undermined Russia with
lies. Germany undermined Italy
with lies. She Is trying to under
mine America with lies.
Don't be fooled. America has,
and is, mobilizing, ecuipping, and
drilling troops. She has sent and is
sending them to Europe. She will
give 'em plenty to wear, plenty to
eat, plenty to shoot and plenty of
guns to shoot it in. She is building
gigantic fleet of airplanes. She is
building a great fleet of destroyers
and adding to her battleships and
cruisers.
America is going to make the
world safe for democracy. The
President has said so. and the coun-
try has said so, and they mean what
they say.
Tag the German lies for just what
they are-German lies.
Use your head! Don't be fooled!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-25
FALL OF JERICHO

The story of how General
Joshua obeying the commands of
the Lord, captured the city of
jericho is told in the second chap
ter of Joshua, as follows:
And seven priests bearing seven
trumpets of transforms before the
ark of the Lord, went on (about the
city, continually, and blew with the
trumpets; and the armed men went
before them; but the reward came
after the ark of the Lord, the
priests going on and blowing with
trumpets.
And the second day they COM
passed the city once, and returned
unto the camp; so they did six days.
And 1t came to pass on the sew
enth day, that they rose early about
the dawning of the day, and COM
passed the city after the same man
ner seven times.
And it came to pass at the sew
enth time, when. the priests blew
with the trumpets Joshua said
unto the people, shout, for the Lord
hath given you the city.
And the city shall be accursed,
even it and all that are therein to
the Lord; and only Rahab shall live,
she and all that are with her in
her house, because she hid the mes
sengers that we sent.
so the people shouted when the
priests blew with the trumpets; and
1T came to pass, when the people
heard the sound of the trumpet, and
the people shouted with a great
shout, that the wall fell down fiat.
so that the people went up into the
city, every man straight before him,
and they took the city"
The spoils of Jericho, then a
Canaanitish city. according to the
Biblical narrative. must have been
immense. The hill Karanthal, north
west of the modern Eriha, is the ira
dftional high mountain" where
Jesus was tempted by Satan.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-25
SOeaier SO~q4
By Briggs

STAR SPANGLED BANNER
On! say, can you see, by the down,s
early light,
What SO proudly We hailed at the
tWllight's last cleaning:
Whose broad stripes and bright stars
thro' the perilous fight.
Ger the ramparts we watcb,d
We're SO gallantly streaming =?
ana the rockets red glare, the
bombs bursting in air.
GaVe PROOF thro' the night that our
flag was still there.
CHORUS
On, say, does that star-spangled han.
ner yet wave
Ger the land of the free and the
home of the brave.
Oh! thus be It ever when freemen
shall stand
Between their loved homes and
wild wars desolation;
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the
heav'n rescued Land
Praise the pow'r that hath made
and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our
cause it is just,
And this be our motto, 'In God is
our trust!"
CHORUS
And the star spangled banner in
triumph shall wave,
Ger the land of the free and the
home of the brave
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-25
HIS SMILE

He wasn't rich as dollars go,
He didn't have pile of dough,
He didn't own a motor car,
He couldn't often travel far,
He couldn't dress in costly style,
He just possessed a kindly smile.
He had a happy sort of way,
Knew how to work. and how to
play,
And he respected women fair,
And dealt with men upon the square.
And people thought him much worth
while
Because he had a kindly smile.
You do not need a store of gold
The love of real friends to hold:
Be honest, boy, and kind, and true.
And do the work you find to do;
Win openly and not by guile,
And folks will like you for your
smile.
Detroit Free Press.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-25
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Judge Eugene G. Bonniwell,
president Of the State Firemen's as
sociation, is busy with plans to help
the state authorities stamp out fire.
speeches.
Major B. w. Frazier, one of the
old Philadelphia City Troop officers,
has been assigned to one of the new
cavalry regiments.
Congressman Thomas s. Crago,
of Greene county, was one of the
speakers at the Princeton Alumni
luncheon at Princeton.
DIR. l.. M. Gates is the president
of Scranton's new bank, just ahpa>
to begin business.
Powell Evans, we'll known heN.
is arousing Philadelphia owes ~
numerous automobile thefts.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-25
What About Your advertising
in War Times?

merchant who WEAKENS effort IN
wartime business active the
rights would be the soldier
the merchant SERVES He is vital
thant ~
he the whee
stopped through
distribution He must strive
merely BF,TTER
USUAL
advertising of
would like American business
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-25
VTTHEN the Germans let loose
wv upon the world their poison

u II
wv upon the world their poison
gas and their liquid fire. the
world, aghast, thought that the end
had been reached.
it had not. For since that time
have these same Germans found,
and brought to use, even a still more
lethal weapon-a weapon alike as
yelled as it is deadly, as noXious as
is Is effective, and quite in keeping
with the absolute negation of ethics,
or morals, of decSncy, of humanity
that has marked Germany's warfare
the present date.
And this new weapon is lies.
Throughout this country, as well
as throughout the countries of the
allies, Germany has flung her serri-
ed lines of German liars. All kinds
of lies they tell, and in all kinds of
ways, from the 42-centimeter lie
that no one believes down to the
dumdum lie that makes a little hole
going in and a big one coming out,
and the chlorine lie that you don't
even know is lie until you find that
you are overcome to a point where
some friend has to give you the
restorative of truth.
There is the direct lie, and the
richochet. There is the nitroglyce-
rim lie that explodes itself when it
hits; and the time-fuse lie that does
not go off for a week or so. There
are lies on the land, in the air, on
the sea, and under the sea.
And all these lies, effective and in
effective, big and little, are directed
against each of the allied nations to
confuse, to distract, to puzzle, to de-
lay them in the successful prosecu-
tion of the war.
"The life of an aviator is only 80
hours in the ART"
And there are aviators who have
been flying for three years!
THE Navy is rotten with diseased"
Maybe so? But you must admit
that when it comes to sinking sub
marines they do pretty we'll for q
bunch of invalids.
The camps are hotbeds of i'm
morality"
A lie on the face of It. If there
we've the inclination, there is neither
the place nor the opportunity.
This is not Americas war?"
Whose war is it to defend the
rights of America and Americans
against submarines at sea and plots
on land to present Texas, New Mex
leo, and Arizona to Mexico? To say
nothing of blowing up American
ships in American harbors, and
American factories in American
cities?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-25
A WORTHY INSTITUTION

INOSTENTATIOUSLY, but very
u efficiently. the Children's In
dustrial Home, which last
week celebrated its forty-second an
niversary, is performing a service
in the community that only those
familiar with it's activities fully un-
derstand. Last year it provided a
truly home-like refuge for an aver
age of ninety-three children who
otherwise would have been either
neglected in their own homes or
would have become inmates of the
poorhouse. And this. under diff
culties that would have discouraged
any but most courageous and con-
scientious board of managers.
When the war, with its many de-
mands upon pocket-books. time and
is over. Harrisburg people
will be ready to contribute the
money for the fine new home that
should house this very worthy in
stitution.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-25
OUR ENGINES IN FRANCE

(From the Philadelphia Inquirerl
NOW that so many wells of CEN
sorship have been lifted, it NAV
be said. that one of the great
achievements of this country in
France has been the construction
of railway from the American sea
port base to the trenches and the
operation OF 1t by locomotives made
in France by American mechanics
This was referred to in speeches in
the British Parliament and is a
fact much better understood in Eur
ope than here.
Germany knows only too well and
all too sadly. that there are being
turned out weekly in France sneci.
mems of the locomotive art such as
Europe has never seen individually
nor collectively. The plain truth is
that most of this work is being done
by Philadelphia boys who learned
their trade in this city and who are
working longer hours than ever in
their lives for the smallest of wages
to make ready the engines which
will haul ten times as much freight
as any engine in France or Ger
many to-day.
More than this. we are building
there, as here, freight cars which
look colossal to those who have
ONGil " cars with little
more capacity than a large motor
truck. This country has built en-
gines and cars and has constructed Il
railroad over which a train of one
hundred cars carrying fifty tons
each will transport supplies to our
boys. That is a feat of war on its
engineering side which will make
our enemies, as we'll as our allies.
sit UP and take notice.
A IaI- Il
the person of General Atterburv Is
building and managing a railway
which is being fitted up with every
possible equipment. and in our hum :
BILE opinion this will help nightly
in winning the war. This is oniy
one of Philadelphia's contributions
to victory, but it will be one of the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-25
A French Big Bertha"

According to a correspondent of
the Washington Post in France. the
French have outbuilt the German
big Bertha" of AZ centimeters cali
ber, and their artillery now includes
the So centimeter mortar. He states
that the length of the new gun is
such as to render this piece practi-
cally howitzer. The same author
ity states that one of these pieces
was used in the Verdun surprise at
tack last August. and also in the
Chemin des Danes attack in the
neighborhood of Laon, where it's
projectiles wrecked the entrances to
the quarries and prevented the men
inside from reinforcing the first
line troops engaged with the enemy.
TWO shells from the "52" sufficed to
wreck Fort Malmaison.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-25
ATTEND THIS MEETING

NHESTNUT STREET AUDITO-
~ RUM should be crowded to the
doors this evening, when noted
of Europe and the halls of govern
ment, come to tell us what we must
do to help win the war. They will
bring us a message of startling inn
portance. They will paint conditions
in their true .colors. They will show
us that it is very distinctly up to us
at home to do our part. If you
pose as patriotic American, attend
this meeting.