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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-07
OUR INSECT ENEMIES

[From the New York Journal
There are four hundred thousand
described species of insects against
the single human species. The
human species has less than 1000
million individuals in the whole
world: while a single housefly may
in the course of a summer have
5000 million descendants, fighting
for existence against every kind of
competitor, including themselves.
1t is true that the life of an in
sect is brief, but the fact is more
than counterbalanced by the effect
of numbers. A hundred thousand
ants, or perhaps only ten thousand,
could kill a man. A swarm of bees
guided by a fixed common purpose.
could disable and probably kill a
man or several men. Explorers have
been routed by mosquitoes. Great
areas of fertile country have been
rendered uninhabitable by the in
cessant attacks of bloodsucking in
sects.
But the warfare between man and
his insect competitors is only to a
small degree waged at, the point of
the bayonet; it is generally a struggle
for the means of subsistence. Man
has many times been beaten by
locusts devouring his pastures,
meadows and grain. Crawlers on
the ground and buzzers in the air,
moths with wings like silver down
and caterpillars with brilliant regi-
mental stripes flutter about the
gardens and orchards and march up
and down the trees and shrubs,
either devouring as they go or plant
ing eggs from which future devour-
ers will spring.
have seen an estimate of the
annual damage to food crops in the
United States, done by insects,
amounting to 11s million dollars,
and I do not think it exaggerated.
1.-THE insect is a most efficient ally of
the disease germ. 1t is his poison
gas with which he undermines the
strength of his chief enemy, the
only one intelligent enough to COM
prehend him and effectively to COM
bat him.
Fight the fly this summer as you
have never fought him, and begin
at once
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-07
|NON-ESSENTIAL BUSINESS

~ ATURALLY, because of the
~ delicate problems and balances
involved, the government is
approaching with great caution
the problem of differentiating be-
tween essential and non-essentiaI
business. The great need of in
creased war materials produc-
ton, the decreasing man-power
in the industries of the country as
the calls of the draft increase in
number and size and the determine
ton of the whole nation to make the
winning of the war our first busi-
ness. all combine to hasten the day
when some government regulation
of industry is bound to be necessary.
The government control of all steel
production is a big step in that di-
rection and automatically will make
itself felt in the curtailment of
with the war. But it is important
that in planning for the war we
shall do nothing which would leave
us as unprepared for peace as we
were for war. There is danger, if
we simply close this, that and the
other industry as unessential for the
period of the war, we shall ruin
them financially and they will not
be able to resume when we most de-
sire them to help uphold our world
supremacy in both home and for
eign trade when peace comes again.
This has given government off,
cials and economists much food for
thought and has kept bankers and
businessmen in a perspiration of
doubt and uncertainty as to the fu-
ture. Edward A. Filene, we'll
known financial writer of Boston,
comes forward with the suggestion
that nonessential business banned
by decree as unessential be compen-
sated for its imposed sacrifices by
the government. He says:
When it is shown that any
business is depriving the coun-
try of materials, supplies. labor.
or transportation needed for win
ming the war. then the Govern
mept should stop that business.
But justice demands that in
such cases fair compensation
should be made to the owners,
who ought not to be made to
bear alone the burden of an un-
foreseeable governmental require
ment which is needed to win the
war and which is therefore of the
utmost use to all our people.
However costly such compensa-
tion may be, careful analysis and
experience will show that it will
result in a net gain to all con-
cerned.
There is material for considera-
ton in Mr.. Filene's plan. While II
is obvious that some steps to stim-
ulate war activities by cutting down
unessential production must be de-
vised. it would be a happy solution
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-07
THE ANNIVERSARY

HREE years ago to-day beastlS
Germans sent the Lusitania
with her load of men, women
and babies. to the bottom of the At
lantic, and thereby sealed the doom
of the empire.
For three years the bodies of the
innocent victims of the bloodthirsty
Wilhelm have been tossed in their
uneasy graves in the currents of the
Atlantic, and yet with flaming swords
in hand they fight. a mighty host,
on the blood-stained fields OF France.
The remembrance of that dastardly
deed kindles the minds of American
soldiers as they sail the broad At
lantic to meet the foe on the West
ern Front. 1t goes with them into
battle and steadies their nerves and
strengthens their arms as they poise
themselves for the blows that shall
continue in never-ending rain until
Kaiserism is no more and all the
Lusitanias in all the world may sail
the seas without fear of the cowardly
hand of the submarine assassin.
Somebody has suggested as our
battle cry in this war-"R Remember
the Lusitania." But is unnecessary.
We have no need to remember, be-
cause we cannot forget. Like the shot
at Concord that was heard around
the world, the blast that sank the
Lusitania circled the globe and reused
the lighting spirit of men every
where whose hearts are tuned to
things higher than the aggrandize-
ment of a bloodthirsty and ambitious
monarch.
When the history of the war shall
have been written it will be found
that the downfall of the German mil
itary power began the moment all
America was aroused by the torpedo
ing of the Lusitania.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-07
YPRES IN FLANDERS
Translated From the French of Moise Wyseu Captain
Pollards "The Story of Ypres'
By J. MILTON CARR
BY ]. MILTON CARR

1 have bought copy of your
work so interesting and at the same
time so true to fact, and / find that
YOU have said all that could be
said and in a manner far better than
l would have been able to do.
While our "Jasses" at the other
end of the line struggle and die he
roiCally at the User, you were there
with your chivalrous and noble
"Tommies" who struggle and die
superbly to defend what is left at
our poor little Belgium.
You have personally seen the
death of Ypres, with the breeze you
have heard, with the stars you have
seen and poignant horror has shaken
your very bones and entered into
your life.
You did not know perhaps that
Flanders which you have so heroic
ally defended, was such a distant
far-away land, but at the voice of
her suffering you have loved her
and her whole soul has entered into
your soul. That deed has throbbed
in your arteries. that hate has
lifted her mutilated arms in a su-
preme appeal.
You have had the marvellous Wis
ion of a past yet more marvellous
surging mid these ruins, and the his
tory of Flanders is for you marvel
ously perpetuated.
Your generous blood has flowed
upon her fields and the soil has
drunk your blood with the blood of
our other noble defenders. Today
she is impregnated with it, and
when again the new grain shall
shine in our fields that grain will
be rich with a common comming-
ling, for your dead and our dead
sleep together in one long fraternal
mbrace.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-07
y nee upon a time, in the coun-

n nee upon time. in the coun-
try of Flanders, there was a
- city, loveliest among the many
lovely cities of Flanders; an hun
dred belfries watched over her, an
hundred villages grouped in her
shadow.
In summer her golden harvest for
leagues around waved in shining
distances, and it seemed that voic-
es from the unseen carried upon
the breeze whispered to us of her
beauty.
Alas today she is dead. heroic
and martyred, and no more in Flan-
ders are seen the many belfries, the
shining fields, the quiet villages as
of old. The wind passing abroad
has heard the sound of her weeping
and carried it to the ends of the
earth, and a sigh passed over the
whole world.
The stars that pave the sky have
seen with their bright and fright
ened eyes the demented rage of fire
and blood, the writhing poor tortur-
ed bodies, and the stars paled in af-
fright and closed their eyes that
they might see no more.
But when Ypres fell breathing out
her soul in those last red embers-
the land of Flanders shook with
trembling and the bones in her an
cient cemeteries stirred with fear
and reproach as if the hour had
sounded for the last great Judg.
ment.
1t was in Flanders some time
since you did me the honor, my
dear Captain Pollard, to ask me for
few notes for your historic study
of Ypres. and you saw that 1 was
much embarrassed
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-07
BOY SCOUTS, ATTENTION

TOY SCOUTS of Central Pennsyl-
X vania, have you heard what the
Germans did to a French Boy
Scout few days ago?
They stood him up in front of a
telegraph post and shot him.
Killed him in cold blood because
he would not betray the hidinG
place of a detachment of French
soldiers.
The little lad went to his death
with a smile on mis- lips.
They could kill his body, and did,
but they could not kill his brave,
loyal spirit.
Boy Scouts of Central Pennsylva-
MIA, does this mean anything to
you ?
Does it not animate you with a
fierce desire TO avenge the death of
your fellow Scout in France
Does it not arouse in your hearts
renewal of your pledge to do
your part toward providing Ameri-
can soldiers with rifle and ball,
with food and clothing, with bomb
and machine gun and all those other
things which are necessary if they
are TO slay these brutes, who would
do to America what they have done
TO Belgium and France, and so free
the earth from the terror of German
frightfulness ?
Every Liberty Bond you sell,
every Thrift Stamp you buy, every
Red Cross donation you procure,
every Y. NJ. c. A, knights of Column
bus or other war work gift you So
licit. every war garden you cultivate,
every farmer you help increase the
food supply, is bit-your bit-to-
ward victory.
Put your shoulders to the wheel
whenever the chance offers and so
help avenge the little French Boy
Scout the wretched beasts in Ger
man helmets, who masquerade as
men, shot to death in far-off France.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-07
THE PRIMARY FINAL

" HE Pittsburgh Gazette-Times
publishes a list of candidates
who have declined to say
whether or not they are willing to
stand by the results of the uniform
primaries in May, and deducts from
their silence that they do not intend
to submit to the decision of the
voters If they are defeated. The
candidates so named are given By
the Gazette-Times as follows:
]. Denny O'Nen. McKeesport,
for Governor.
Asa A. weimer. Lebanon, for
Governor.
John r. X. Scott, Philadel-
phia. for Lieutenant Governor.
William ]. Burke, Pittsburgh,
for Congressman -at-Large.
Lex n. Mitchell. Punxsutawney,
for Congressman -at-Large.
Joseph n. Mccarthy. Philadel-
phia, for Congressman-at-La Large.
c. NJ. Miller, Bellevue, for Con-
gress, Twenty-ninth District.
NJ. Clyde Kelly, North Brad
dock, for Congress, Thirtieth Dis
John NJ. NORM. Pittsburgh. for
Congress, Thirty-frst District.
John Heinz, Pittsburgh, for
Congress. Thirty second District.
William ]. Howarth. Pittsburgh.
for Congress, Thirty second Dis
trict.
The man who seeks nomination
on the Republican or Democratic
ticket in a free and open primary
tacitly agrees 20 abide by the deci-
sion of that primary and he is in
honor bound to give his successful
opponent just as hearty and sincere
support at the general elections as
he himself would have expected
had he been the winner. This is
the principle of majority rule. 1t is
the method by which parties choose
their candidates. 1t is tr basis up
on which the uniform primary is
founded. Without it parties could
not exist and nominations would be
merely the decision of two or a nun
dred men to run for the same office
with resulting confusion and tur-
noii in an extreme degree and the
chances very good for an entirely
unqualified man getting enough
votes to win.
If Mr.. O'Neil, or Mr.. Scott, or Mr.
Burke or any of the others named
do not mean to he governed by the
decision of the May primaries they
should say SO now, so that the voters
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-07

clerk in the secretary's office, was
called to the stand to tell of Con-
gresham Scott's inquiry about the
petition. Objections by Mr. .Geyer
were sustained by Judge McCarrell
and Thorn's only testimony was that
Mr.. Scott came to me and asked
for general information about the
Woodward petitions. He did not
state what interest he had in the
matter Among the witnesses
from Philadelphia, who were called
today was George woodward, the
chauffeur, who told the court he had
been asked to run for the office and
was told all his expenses would be
met.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-07
Over he lob
tn Psnn0.

It's wonderful to see the trans
formation of an American soldier"
says a Pennsylvania veteran officer
who has been with the British forces
two years. I'm camp he is out for
horseplay. But when he gets across
here he seems to feel that the entire
responsibility of the war is on his
shoulders,
The Bloomsbury School Board
unanimously decided to eliminate
German from the High school at the
close of the term. 1t would appear
that the capital of the state is
mighty slow in not doing likewise.
Surgeons at the Allentown hos
pital have been able to save the life
of Florence Mayberry, hurt by being
run down by a trolley car, through
a skin-grafting operation. the girls
mother furnishing the skin.
We thought that the Yellow
Breeches Creek was the crookedest
stream in the world. but the U. S.
Survey says the Humboldt. in Ne
vada, wins out. At one place the
river flows eight miles between two
points two and a half miles apart,
its course being north twenty-five
times, east eighteen times, south
thirty times and west forty-one
times. At thirty-three different
points it is within $50 feet of itself,
the current flowing in opposite di-
rections. And il ends its course by
fading away into the desert.
I,
Smith. six feet six inches tall and
weighing 400 pounds, a former po-
liceman and hotel proprietor, is
dead at the age of Co.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-07
Eat All You Can

Eat 'em up!" is said to have been
the war cry of the American troops
in France. Go to 1t! There are no
food conservation regulations on the
battle front to prevent it.-From the
New York Hotel Review.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-07

of the problem that would leave
these closed mills and factories A.
nanced and ready to resume opera
tions In full at the bidding of the
government when the war ends.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-07
Real Titles

A good many American girls who
used to think they were cut out 20
be wives of foreign titled men are
now coming to realize that the titled
fellow they want to marry Is somc
corporal in the American Arnx.-.-
Wilmington &~
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-07
John and Jesus

Ye yourselves bear me witness that
said, 1 am not the Christ. but that
/ am sent before him. This my joy
therefSre is fulfilled. He must in
crease, but 1 must decrease.-John
Iii, % to 80.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-07
No Golden Mean

If the newspapers denounce the
air craft delays. they encourage the
Germans, and If they don't denounce
them and the delays keep on, they
also encourage the Germans.-From
the Newark Advocate.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-07
Family Out of Luck

There is a plot on, we learn, to
make Alexis Romanoff emperor of
Russia. and just when that unfortu-
nate kid had hoped to join the Boy
Scouts.-Grand RAPIDS Press.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-07
OUR DAILY LAUGH
TO BE EN-
COURAGED.

Miss Rich
Nearly all of my
admirers think,
l should be able
to get tips from
you on the mar
ket.
Mr.. Rich -
Encourage them
in the idea, my
dear. 1t won't
be long before
Til be ready to
u n | o a d t h Q
stock I'm carry
ing.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-07
And AUoid Party Line

The next time Emperor Charles
wishes to communicate with Prince
Sixtus he will probably use the
nhonA.-Marion Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-07

Get ready for the Rose Show and
prove that the Pacific coast isn't the
only place where roses grow in pro-
fusion.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-07
CRUSHED HIS
CONCEIT.

He-On the
street today a
very handsome
young | a d y
smiled at me.
S h e I
wouldn't feel
badly about 1t.
There are some
MEN who look
even funnier
than you do.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-07

Practise in life ,ohdt you pray for,
md God tCiH gire it to you more
1bunddntIy.-PUsEY.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-07

Ell. J.STACKPoLE,P Prss't s EShoriH-C c hisf
T. r. OYSTER. BnJiasJs MondEer.
GUS NJ. STEINMETZ. MGnoEiHg Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-07

THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO..
TELEGRAPH Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-07

TOY SCOUTS of Central Pennsyl-
X vania, have you heard what the
Germans did to a French Boy
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-07

One of the. prettiest OF the dis
plays of flowers along Front street
is the row of boxes of pansies at the
executive mansion. They are of all
colors and the blooms are bewtlder-
ingly numerous. The pansy is one
of the most effective of spring deco
rations and the mansion row is at
tracing much attention and praise.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-04-20
THE BIRTH OF A LIE.

For several months the country
has listened 10 the false statement
that the Red Cross is selling sweat.
ers and other articles knitted by the
women OF the United states pro
German sympathiEers have been dill.
gent In circulating the story, and II
IN one OF those kind OF stories that
only grow with an unqualified de-
NAL for many viii dlsbellevs the
story but Set retain hidden sore
spot In their consciousness because
Of tho doubt inferred. Now comes
Private Peat and tells where and
how tho story started. Unlntention
ally, but none tho less effectively, as
he admits, he started the story. and
It IL quite probable other stories dot
rimental to our soldier boys started
In a similar manner.
1t seems that Pcars home folks
sent him three sweaters. closely
knitted and warm as Canadian
mothers know they need TO he. Now
Peat could not wear all three nt
once. and two ot his companions
needed Just such garments. lie had
been unfortunate at poker and was
In need of money. without thought
Of harm be sold two OF the sweaters
To his comrades. who did not have
! upOuls ut homo a., tN..t.Htr.I - o.,
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-04-20
HittCr Thoughts,
CHAPTER y

So Lieutenant Hardy thinks of
me not tuu' And cared for him.
II sounds silly. scuumcuml TO elre
for man after one meeting That
il what / have done Nuf thought
the way hc looked u' wc meant more"
than casual fricnduuo-s
And hts advice "cuwr ont ut Nour.
self Help others ' irel ne Ii any
love had been nurg hack Boo MY
face For ne must huvv seen 10 I'm
my ewes. my whole expression
The other men laugh ut me.
scorn mo And hc whom I Thought
was different, is sorry for m" /
hate men I never want 90 see thom
again. And as FOR girls what W"
thcy1
So swiftly IL has come. 1of,1Sc
Yesterday / was happy, satisfied
And now. / have nothing. Not oven
self respect sclf-Confidcncr Just
cynthia without charm could
stand II am n mo- one knew But
this year | believed w1 self popular
Instead. ! have hcon a laughing
stock n could only go away rp
anywhere to shut out tho hofrii
fact
why rot'
and Aunt would ho happy without
me Perhaps they have only had ur
lu the house uu sutier1nU'. MN
whole world seems tu have rrum
nIcd. To hayc tall.u. hr.Hus" of a
few words spoken by "A cad But
truthful words
can live no longer with these
fIIuN .f
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-04-20
WPaheg1eN'icnME'
e:

he said aloud, and then u voice an
swrrud, u gucss YOU have, Lots OF
people do Ana then IA nd-looking
old muoley COW pushed hor head
over the fence and smiled at him.
Ana. oh. my she had IA big. bcauti-
ful smile, and this made tho little
rabbit laugh and forget how tired
he was
"Do YOU know where my Uncle
Lucky lives Mr. Lucky Lefthlnd
ruotR' ho asked
"To ne sure replied the moolcy
COW. "llo lives over yondor," and
she pointed across the meadow.
Hop under tho fence, little rabbit,
ana ,hen hop across the meadow
over the daisies and buttcrCups. and
You u tihd the place. never fear"
So the little rabbit did as she told
him, and when he came to the fence
on the other side ne saw his uncle 8
house not very far away But oh.
dear pc! The fence was not at all
Ike the fence on the other side.
There wasn't any room between the
woven wires TO crawl through, and
80 billy Bunny didn't know what to
do. But ho didn't wonder very long
No, sircc nam. Hc started right in
10 dig a tunnel under that wire
fence. and pretty soon he was on tho
other side, hopping away toward
urlo LuckN's house and In about
i've hundrcd and "a half hops skips
and jumps he came TO the front
gate And there on tho porch sat
the Kind old gentleman rabbit with
the big diamond pin which his
nephew had given him shining like
u star in his red tic. And I'm tomor-
rows story Ill tell you what good
time tho little rabbit had at his
mmrln.4 hnman
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-04-20
Little BennB's N0tcbooE

This aftirnoon in skool liA' ...
kins passed me u note, @Slut a.
dare vou 10 q lwfflnE eohllsss<sf
40. ,.i,L nrc crr cuwn tho "a rcaL
uitbo,,t ber finding OF ,Il5,,eS and
n.,,,r Nieerirg Ms fere on u. !
oa",ad a note bach. =, 10 fcrat
never take a dare ywfing little
hcNei Lo ana, cav ".,...thInu tho
~" N he hat - hur not
oaWtls a,.,,I his wv .''ssod Ftu9
mhttsr nd then ] '' ",.,,,1 a rI.,.
mutch' "a then PUBS ''" ,l,i,.r.
cawfiss rawfr as n he W. .r...-
" pis and / cJwited IL ~, a., l....
werSe Seapd Miss kitty sltt'',,' '',.,,9,l '9 ...
one. a. us and wc boih ',.,I.,.
oN', 600 was a.l better An"9 p..s
IL gnc stopped LOOKING mn ..
soon o,t,oI o moro little ciWlIS 'a aarG ID,
cav 'I.,,,,rblrr it AN oyer Ag.", ',,.,...l D
VIZ and then We 'ay' t....r
dlu n,r cavff u was c,,,J5l i.rE
sulcu 90 iypectcd. ana M,7n n,,.... &
than We down tho ile ana F'.. ...
4u'' T,nrt ~ pudscs u''N'
charles SiuNn'
,,,mq srd rudF Iii, rrH Nlei
Are you p''l'.'
KITTY, puaa
es7 u'',, v.erc cawftuE '. ...
In'I ',,sne an hour H... ..,,a
piss l-,,,y And she fi..' r.t,..
sed Mlss anrt - saving Benny
70 ny rerfeckly well ,,,.o KITTY
are you Trov Z scd, and A' dtt
d9n' ,, 40 do YOU mean by you '
know ,r,ry I sod.
did' on account ,,,r Of lGigT'.Es 1,t,r .sEsool t''
ma ma Miss KITTY sed' ii"''
cawff. o,,d she sod N'
my question, ,,.o said
! don't. dom 'n'iS after 'skool with cha.
sed Miss Kitty,
Wich 1 did.