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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Leo S. Rowe, who is mention
as a possible ambassador 10 CT
was formerly a professor at the q
versity of Pennsylvania.
Reuben ]. ButZ, chairman
the Liberty Loan work for Leh
county, has been making addres
at towns which won Honor flags
Harry ]. Trainer, one of
experienced politicians of Philad
phia, says that voters should
pens in voting this month becaI
of chances that some election 4
GERS, who might be crooked. sho
employ pencils TO invalidate ball
Judge c. B. Wilmer, of
United States court, has been mi
a doctor of laws by Franklin
Marshall.
Col. John Gribbel will make
commencement address at Juni
College this year.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09
THOSE POLES

TITY PARK COMMISSIONER
| J GROSS Announces that he means
to take immediate steps for the
removal of poles marring the beauty
of the River Front park. The poles
never should have gone up. but being
up no time should be lost in bring
ing them down. 1t would serve no
good purpose to try to fix blame
for the error which permitted the
electric company to place the poles
where they are. but it is very inn
portant that they be ordered out be-
fore the precedent has been estab-
Ilshed of permitting poles on the
West Side of Front street.
City Electrician Delhi is putting
the wires under ground throughout
the business section of the citv as
rapidly as possible and when this
Is completed the work of riddinr
harrisburg streets in general Of
needless poles must he commenced
Poles that can he replaced by CON
quits have no right to places on
public thoroughfares. They are both
unsightly and dangerous.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09
PRO-GERMAN EDUCATORS

1t would be interesting to learn
in how many other educational in
stitutions besides Vassar is sedition
talked by teachers without the Off
cial cognizance of the respective
faculties. And, by the way, is it not
high time that college faculties gem
orally were being sharpened, by col
lege trustees. to n point where they
would be more quickly cognizant Of
such matters :? The fact that Ger
many deliberately planned to carry
on her propaganda through the
higher educational institutions of
the country mas not just been
brought to light. 1t has been pret-
ty well known for nearly four years.
How it so long escaped the atten-
tion of the faculty of Vassar, which
included an instructor in the Ger
man language named Agathe Will
helmina Richrath, is a wonder
From the Christian Science Monitor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09
GOOD ADVICE

X PEAKING in the House yester-
~ day, Congressman Mann, Repub-
~ lican floor leader, gave his col
leagues and people of the country
in general a bit of good advice when
he said;
We are appropriating unbeliev-
able sums and mistakes will oc-
cur. We have made mistakes,
both personally and legislatively,
but in war there is no such thing
as partisanship. What we all
need what the administration
needs, what the country needs is
determination and patience.
Perhaps We have been too anxious
for immediate results. May be we
have been too quick to censurc
Certainly, as Mr.. Mann intimates,
nothing is to be gained by appeals
to partisanship as opposed to pa
triotism. or by wholesale denuncia-
ton before the facts have been de-
veloped. Constructive criticism is
one thing; uncalled for abuse or cx-
aggeration is another.
In this respect it may be well for
the public to suspend judgment of
the aircraft program failure until
the truth is developed. On the
face of it the situation looks ex-
tremely bad. There should be thor
ough investigation and if the ugly
appearances develop into facts pun
ishment should rot be withheld
from those responsible. Only by
such means can we keep the govern
ment free from repetitions of such
conditions and our war efforts
speeded to the utmost.
But we should not jump at con.
clusions. The aircraft muddle is nc
daT' looked last winter, and we
have forgotten already much of the
Hog Island excitement and are be-
ginning to point with pride to tbs
achievements of that yard as ship.
building center. 1t is likely that the
aircraft program is through the rap.
ids and approaching calmer waters.
1t is a gigantic undertaking at best
and when it is considered that nearly
1000 planes actually have been
built and much of the required
equipment of other kinds standard,
lied and beginning to be produced
in quantities. it may happen that
the aircraft board will come out Of
the investigation in much better
light than would now appear. A
all events. it is not fair. as some
writer's have done, to charge that the
whole of the air program appropri.
alton has been wasted. The error
of such a conclusion is apparent
without going into details and will
soon begin to make itself manifest
The billion dollar wheat crop indi-
oates fhuf rha farmers ra doft.p- thai.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09
THE AWAKENING

[From the New York Times
The most encouraging thing about
the tremendous success of the Third
Liberty Loan is not the oversubscrip-
ton. even though that should run to
a billion; it is the increase in the
number of subscribers. 1t appears
that 100000 Americans bought
these bonds: and that is 1880, 900
more than the number of those who
took the First Liberty Loan; it is T.
100000 more than the number OF
those who took the Second. Not in
any oversubscription - though the
loan is splendidly oversubscribed,
too-but in this proof that America
is at last aroused, at last feels that it
is her war, lies the cause for that
deep thankfulness which men Who
love their country feel to-day
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09

The mems thoughts pass easily
from the sweetheart to the mother
who bore them, and we have a
third class, the Home Song. 1 have
been awakened in the night by men,
going up to the line, singing Keep
the Home Fires Burning 1t is
very thrilling to hear it in the dead
of night, when every singer is within
range of the enemy's gunus.
ION the eve of one big battle a
soldier handed me a letter in which
he gave me the addresses of his
father and his sweetheart, so that l
could write to them if he fell.
I'm the last battle he said, one
of my brothers was killed and an
other wounded. If l fall 1 shall die
without regrets and with a heart
content: but it will be hard with
those at home; and l want you to
break the news gently. These are
terrible times for those at home
at home That is their constant re-
frain. and it finds an echo in the
songs sung by them.
But the chief favorite of all
Home Songs is. | think, the follow
ing:
There's an old fashioned house in
an old-faShloned street,
In a quaint, little old-fashioned
town:
There's a street where the cobble-
stones harass the feet,
AS it straggles uphill then down;
And, tho to and fro through the
world l must go,
My heart while it beats in my
breast.
Where'er | may roam, to that old
fashioned home
Will fly like bird to its nest.
In that old fashioned house in that
fashioned street,
Dwell a dear little o1dfashioned
pair:
I can see their two faces so tender
and sweet,
And | love every wrinkle that's
there.
I love ev'ry mouse in that old-fash-
ionAd house
In the street that runs uphill and
down,
Each stone and each stick, ev'ry
cobble and brick,
In that quaint little old-fashioned
town.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09
GERMAN IN SCHOOLS

" HE school board doubtless was
actuated by principles of ,,a
triotism and loyalty to country
when it abolished the study of the
German language in the schools of
Harrisburg, and at first thought the
temptation is strong to add a word
of commendation. Certainly tho
manner in which German impsriol
propaganda has been injected into
textbooks in general use tends to
make one suspicious of ANYTHING
written in German and the crimes
that have been committed in the
name of Germany are strongly con
ducive to condemnation of ANYTHING
and everything German. But we must
not permit our common sense ,nd
good judgment to be warped or mis-
led by our wartime. emotions.
Under existing circumstances. no
boy or girl should be forced to the
study of the German language. But
with General Pershing calling in vain
for l,2OO telephone exchange on
orators who can speak German. If
appears as though we may be decf1-
ing a little hastily. The bigger our
army in France the more valua BILE
n knowledge of German will be to our
men. The more Americans in France
who can speak German the better
We shall be equipped to learn what
lines. We expect cur men will he
marching into Berlin one of these
days, and the joke would be on us
surely, if none of them could speak
German. After the war. doubtless
we shall compete with German sales
men in sections of the world where
German is the spoken LANGUAGE
Shall We send out our young men
handicapped by inability to meet m
scrupulous traders on their own
ground?
America must beat the Hun on the
battlefield and afterward in busi.
ness, and little knowledge of Ger
man might not come amiss in either
case.
But If our school boards are de-
termined to root our German, verb
and noun, they should at least sub-
stitute French or Spanish, both OF
which will be of great practical value
during and following the war. Amer.
ican schools are notoriously weak in
modern languages. as compared
with those abroad, and the eIimi-
nation of one should be followed by
the introduction Of another.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09
Philddelphid'S ModeStg

AS both judges Potter and Mes
trezat, whose recent deaths make
TWO vacancies on the Supreme Court
bench, came from the Western end
OF the state a claim is made that
their successors should be chosen
from there. 1t is we'll that tho
ludgeships should be generally dis
tributed, but the selection is not one
of geography so much as it is of fit
men. The Western part of the state
has been very regularly recognized
in naming men for the Supreme
Court, but it is n fact that they
have mostly become settled residents
of Philadelphia before they have
got very far along in their term.
Like some two millions of other peo-
pie they find this is a good city 10
live in.-From the Philadelphia Tel
egraph.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09
By Theresa Virginia Beard

With our backs to the WALL
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig
April 13, 1918.
God spare thee not, America,
This penitential day
Against the wall in Flanders,
The nations stand at bay:
And thou, the strong, the mighty,
A laggard at the fray
God drive thee hard, America,
So hesitant, so slow;
God smite thee in his anger,
And fling thee at the foe;
The last black dregs of sacrifice
May it be thine to know
God save thee, o America
The glory and the fame,
Once thy fathers, be thy children's
Not thine the deathless shame
That freedom fell in Flanders
Calling upon thy name
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09
THE STATE PRESS

In SUBSCRIBING Tor SlOU,OUU worth
of Liberty Bonds the Shah of Per-
sia has better appreciation of a
good investment than many Ameri-
cans who lack both in business judg-
ment and in patriotism.-Wilkes-
Barre Record.
United States District Judge Van
Fleet, of San Francisco, has trimmed
three German whelps to suit our
taste There never was u viler nest
of conspirators than the German
consulate at San Francisco. Not only
was revolution in India seriously
promoted but there's no question but
in that office plans were promoted
for dynamiting of public and private
works, and other schemes for whole
sale murder. Judge Van Fleet gave
Bopp, Won Brincken and Won
Setback, the leaders, all the law al
lows-two years in prison and '$10,-
900 fine. The punishment hardly fits
the crime but there's some cheer in
seeing our internal enemies get the
limit, even if the limit is too low
Sharon Telegraph.
We are fully familiar with the old
saying that he who laughs last,
laughs best, but nevertheless Ameri-
cans will be unable to suppress a
smile over the announcement from
| Germany that the newspapers have
been given to understand that this is
not the Kaiser's battle. This does not
mean that the German effort is over
for blows just as heavy will fall and
new gains will be made by the enc
my but 1t is pleasing to see that the
old cocksureness has been eliminated
from the official announcement
Pottsville Republican.
1t is to be hoped that the men who
are chosen as the SUCCESSORS to the
late Justices Potter and Mestrezat to
! the Supreme Court of this state will
be lawyers or judges who are en-
tirely free from any faction or par
tisanship, but who stand high among
the people and the members of the
bar for their integrity and ability.
| Judge Mestrezat himself in a speech
before the Bar Association said:
THE system-that of playing par
tisan politics in the selection of
judges-is not confined to any state
or political party. 1t Is wrong in
theory and worse in practice. 1t in
vites distrust in the judiciary and has
tendency to make servile and de-
pendent courts. Beaver Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09
AGAINST THE WALL

With the poem reprinted below,
Theodore Roosevelt sent the follow
ing note to the editors of the Out
look:
II have just read Against the
Wall a stern and notable poem hy
Theresa Virginia Beard, which has
recently been published in the Min
neapolis Journal. Mrs. Beard is the
wife of a professor in the University
of Minnesota. She is fit to be a
fellow-countrywom of Julia Ward
Howe"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09

threatened lynching. There could be
no better comment upon our national
solidarity or earnestness than that
one out of every six people. young
and old. in the country. bought
bond under the new loan.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09

The Department of Justice is No,
gong to escape just censure for its
Ieniency in handling the disloval
helpers of the Kaiser in this cor,,r,.
Ex-Justice Charles Z. Hughes recer,i,.
declared In an impressive speech be-
tore the American publishers. that
there Is ample law for the apprehen-
sion and punishment of the sneak
ing pro-Germans masquerading as
citizens of the United States. Too
many worthy Democrats" may have
been catapulted into places they were
not qualified to fill. perhaps. for the
good of the Secret Service.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09
No Disguise Needed

Drop that Victory bread" and
Liberty bread and call it what it
is-"War bread" We are not chill
dren, that need to have unpleasant
things disguised for them.-Albany
Journal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09

The best thing about the Third Lib
erty Loan is that many people who had
not bought bonds previously became
SO wrought up over the failure OF
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09

Women employed in this country
have increased by 1,413,O0O since
1914.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09

Labor unions in Sweden will at
tempt to organize rural workers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09
4 MERCIFUL
MAN.

1 say, Pat,
that's the worst
looking horse
I've ever seen in
harness. Why
don't you fatten
him up?"
"Fatten him
up, is it? Shure,
the poor baste
C an h a T ly
carry the little
mates that on
him now.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09

Wages for women and minors are
regulated by law in Oregon.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09

Swat the fly, shoot the spy, cut out
the lie, swear off on pie, quit drinking
rye, and never say die.-Fort Wayne
News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg is furnish
ing many men for the expef
branches of military service p
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09
Great war garden weather.
LABOR LEGISLATION

~ ENATOR SPRoUL. whose can
- didacy for the Republican
gubernatorial nomination has
been closely linked with that
of Senator Beidleman for Lieu
tenant Governor by reason of the
alignment of ]. Denny O'Neil and
John r. X. Scott for the same nom
nations, like Senator Beidleman, has
taken an advanced stand on labor
and humanitarian legislation. The
war will be marked by the enact
ment of many laws along these lines
and it is highly important that there
should be then in the executive
field of the government men famil-
lar with the States achievements in
this field and in sympathy with the
extension of new benefits through
the adoption of wise and liberal
measures.
In his platform Senator Sproul
outlines his views and purposes in
this respect in the following very
clear and positive language:
Pennsylvania. with her natural
advantages, material resources
and nearness to markets, is in
stronger position industrially than
any equal area on the face OF the
earth. and with such blessings
she should be a leader in progress
sive enactments in the direction
of complete justice and oppor-
tunity for men and women to
work with their hands and minds
to make the Commonwealth
great and prosperous and con-
tented. The humane laws upon
our books are working well and
we cannot afford to take a single
step backward. but. on the other
hand. we should progress steadily
toward amplifying those laws and
expanding their beneficent infiu-
ences. We have already seen the
benefits of our care of our work
ers and our women and children
and these benefits will be more
marked in another generation.
Pennsylvania can and must take
an advanced position among the
States of the world in social legis-
lation, not only because she can
afford to. but because she wants
to. In my service in the Legisla-
ture l have seen the development
of our policy in social and hui
manitarian lines as far as it has
Deen utNelOpeu ana my TttOTu
will show that I have uniformly
supported these policies. l reiter-
ate my full sympathy with these
laws and | pledge myself to aid
in further progress along these
lines.
Senator Sproul foresees what
other trained observers have noted
that the man who works, whether
with brain or muscle, is going to
have an ever-increasing voice in the
affairs of the State and the regula-
ton of business methods and work
ing conditions. Wise leadership is
highly important in such a period.
Men of experience. sympathy. un-
derstanding and unquestioned per-
sonal integrity are essential in places
like the governorship when prob
lens of vital importance 10 millions
of people are under consider ration;
else >7ith perhaps the best of in
tentions great injustice may be done
and irreparable mistakes made
Senator Sproul has visioned the
future clearly and there is no mis-
taking his attitude on the great
questions of social progress that will
arise for settlement in Pennsylva-
MIA in the next few years. His
views strongly recommend him for
the high office he is seeking.
81 l.,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09
H1STORIC HARRISBURG

william Maclay had an idea
some day Harrisburg would tax,
both sides of the river and he pl
ned accordingly.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09

Wages of organized walters at
Seattle. Wash, have been increased
SO a week.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09
CONTROL
NEEDED.

My kettle of
preserves has
exploded and is
sprouting all
over the kit
chen. What had
/ better do?
Send for one
of those experts
on food control.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09

Poor democratic Germany is now
defending herself against autocratic
Finland.-Wall Street Journal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09

nicipal kitchens in operation.
Wages for women and minors are
regulated by law in Oregon.
Labor unions in Sweden will at
tempt to organize rural workers.
Women employed in this country
have increased by 1.413OOO since
1914.
Wages of organized walters at
Seattle. Wash, have been increased
SO a week.
Organized painters have made At
lanta. Ca. union shop town.
Many of the tanks used by the
British armies are manufactured by
women.
Baltimore stationary engineers an
nounce a wage increase of 10 cents
an hour.
Women are entering the glass
blowing industry in some parts of
the country.
Last year the public employment
bureaus of the state of California
successfully filled 92,959 positions
The State Supreme Court has up
held the Washington women's mini
mum wage law.
The reserve trenches for the ar
mics of Italy are being dug by the
women of that nation.
Every year about 100000 children
leave the English elementary schools
at 13 years of age to go to work.
The Seamen's Union, which op-
crates in three great divisions-the
Pacific, Atlantic and Lake districts
comprises a membership of about
$4,000.
BY making the bakers bread as
unpalatable as possible, the English
government has forced the women to
do their own baking.
Drugclerks in the Wheeling (W.
Val district have organized and are
now affiliated with the Retail
Clerks international Protective As
ISOLATION.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09

Every time we see a little man with
tortoise-shell spectacles. We think of
Ford wearing Packard tires.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09
EDITORIAL COMMENT
BY BRIGGS

We seem to be getting fewer paci-
llSts and more he-fists.-ln-
dianapolis News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09

The Kaiser is the only German
who has six living sons in the army.
New York Morning Telegraph.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09
LABOR NOTES

England will soon have 1000 mu.
icipal kitchens in operation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09

Organized painters have made At
lanta, Ca, a union shop town.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09
OUR DAILY LAUGH
THE FIRST
QUARREL.

Mr.. Bird: See
here, I won't
stand 1t any
longer. These
worms are not q
bit like mother
used to bring.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09

Many of the tanks used by the
British armies are manufactured by
women.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09

The billion dollar wheat crop indi-
Gates that the farmers are doing their
bit.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09

Lloyd George at last took the Irish
bull by the horns, but it remains to
be seen what the bull will do.-Chi-
cago Herald.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09

Baltimore stationary engineers an
nounce "a wage increase of 10 cents
an hour.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09

The reserve trenches for the ar
mics of Italy are being dug by the
women of that nation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09

Every year about 100000 children
leave the English elementary schools
at 13 years of age to go to work.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09

Women are entering the glass
blowing industry in some parts of
the country.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09

The State Supreme Court has up
held the Washington women's mini
mum wage law.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09

Last year the public employment
bureaus of the state of California
successfully filled 92.959 positions.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09

The Seamen's Union, which op-
crates in three great divisions-the
Pacific, Atlantic and Lake districts
$4,000.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09

BY making the bakers bread as
unpalatable as possible. the English
government has forced the women to
do their own baking.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09

joy is not in things, il is ia US
CHARLES WAGNER