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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-28
GENERAL TO HIS SON

Discipline, like charity, begins at
home. and you must see that you
yourself possess what you try to in
culcate. If you, consider that you
have been unjustly treated, and that
another. less competent than you,
has received the promotion which
you yourself expected, keep your
feelings to yourself. Refuse to be
embittered and do your duty as
cheerily as ever. This war is not
being fought in order that you may
get Advancement. No man is
infallible, and it may we'll happen
tina. Your immediate superior has
not tackled the problem in front of
him in the best manner, but what
ever his orders are, back him up
heart and soul and remember that
fairly sound plan energetically
carried out will generally succeed.
but that perfect one is doomed to
failure If not properly supported" )"
This is the advice which one of "a
Generals Letters to his Son"
(Houghton Miff1n Company gives.
and which might we'll be taken by
every young officer
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-28
FAKE REFORMERS
T last the secret is out!


~ The self-appointed reform
bosses of the Democratic party
are reformers only when it is con-
venient.
How often have We heard from the
lips of A. Mitchell Palmer or Ma
tional Chairman Vance C. McCor-
mick the charge that the strong
hold of rum in Pennsylvania is in
the Republican party. How often
have the subsidized newspaper
mouthpieces of the National Char
man made the same false accusa-
ton.
And now what? Why, Judge
Bonniwell. an out-and-out rum can
didate, has been nominated by the
Democrats, and Palmer, speaking
for the machine, says: "Bonniweli's 8
nomination simply means that the
Democratic party n Pennsylvania is
wet. shall support
Bonniwell."
There YOU have it.
The Palmer-McCormick organiza-
ton is going to urge the election of
a wet" candidate whom it has
charged with being anything but
good gubernatorial material.
The public is now getting a glimpse
of these pure and sanity, holier than
thou reformers in their true light,
and the cloven hoof is showing from
beneath the monks cloak.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-28
Men Who Write Success Ads

H. C. Witwer, the humorist, says
in funny story printed in the June
American Magazine:
The nation is bein' flooded these
days with advertisements claimin'
that any white man which works
for less than forty thousand bucks
year is a hick. The best of 'em
is wrote by friend of mine, Joe
Higgins. who gets all of twenty bucks
every Saturday at six-one- thirty in
July, August and September.
THE ads that Joe tears off deal
with inventions. He shows that
Edison prob'ly wouldn'. o: made a
nickel over a million IL he hadn't
discovered everything but America
and that Bell. Marconi. Fulton and
that gang wouldn't of been any bet
ter known to-day than ham and
eggs X they hadn't used their brains
for purposes OF thinkin' and IN
vented somethjn'. There's fortunes
which would make the Vanderbfits
and Astors look like public charges,
explains Joe, 'awa,tin' the bird which
will quit playin' Kelly pool some
night and invent a new way. to do
anything
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-28
GOOD-BY, GERMAN
(From the Evening r,edper ,

(From the Evening Ledger.)
The Board of Public Education has
responded to an undoubted public
demand in ordering that the teach
ing of German in the schools be
stopped.
There is a feeling that the Ian
guage cannot be studied without sub
1ecting the pupils to some subtle
sort of German propaganda. And
there is also feeling that even IL
there were no danger of misleading
the young people, the. language of
the Germans does not deserve the at
tent.on of free-born Americans. The
school board evidently believes that
this feeling is entertained by a ma
Jority of the people in the city or it
would not have acted.
We assume. however, that the War
Department will not reject officers
who understand the German Lam
guage, nor discharge from the army
soldiers who can talk with German
prisoners and can understand what
IS said in the trenches os the enemy
when they approach them through
No Mans Land. While German may
not be necessary here, IL is of the
first Importance that there be in our
army in France a generous number
of men who understand the Ian
guage.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-28
EDITORIAL COMMENT

The lepers Of 1Iolokai bought S5,-
600 worth of Liberty Bonds, wishing
to guard against the possibility OF
having to associate with Germans
Louisville Courier-J journal.
German army is frantically eager
to get out of the low, damp valley il
is in-you see, the German soldiers
are now wearing paper pants.-Chi-
cago Daily News.
An American newspaper man in
France has been made a Chevalier. OF
the Legion of Honor. The office car
ries no salary.-Dallas News.
Some idea of how F'inland's lin
dependence" is turning out may be
formed from the information that a
Prussian duke is running fo- king
on the Hohenzollern ticket.-Kan-
sas City Star.
If Messrs. Willard and Fulton
can't find any place to fight in this
country, they might be reminded
that there are no laws restricting
lighting in Flanders and Picardy.-
Nashville Southern Lumberlan.
Professor William Herbert Hobbs
blames the intellectuals of allied
countries for not having duly warned
the people of the German menace.
AS a matter of fact such warnings
were sounded, but coming from the
intellectuals no one paid any at
tention to. them. - San Francisco
Chronicle.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-28
Disappearance of Shad

Philadelphia Evening Telegraph
The TRANSITION of Gloucester's fa-
nous fishing shore into a shipbuiid-
ing plant can hardly be considered
in the light of a sacrificed industry.
for the shad that cnce came so plen-
tifully come no more. During the
past two or three years only a few
have been caught. A fine shad that
formerly could be had in its entirety
for twenty-five cents now costs five
time that.
Numerous are the causes given for
the disappearance of sha6 from the
Delaware. Some contend they have
been driven away by the refuse of
chemical plants dumped into the
river; others say the young are de-
stroyed by German carp, while each
town along the stream has its local
oracle who gives everything from
changed zodiac conditions to the
noisy explosions of motorboat EN-
gines as the real reason.
None of them suggests an exhaust
ed supply. For many years the Dela-
ware has been fished over it's entire
length with mile-long nets and less,
and notwithstanding the efforts
of the government to increase
shad propagation, the determination
seems to be almost complete.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-28
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

The Rev. Dr. r. f. Johnson has
pledged the support of the Dry Fed
Grafton of Philadelphia to Senator
William C. Sproul.
Judge F. NJ. Trexler was among
the speakers at the big naturaliza-
ton meeting at the Army camp at
Allentown.
The Rev. C. NJ. Nicholas, who
comes from this section, preached
the Memorial Day sermon to Potts
Vile Spanish War veterans.
Bishop Rhinelander, of Phila-
delphia, is delivering sermons at the
series of meetings on the parkway.
-Congressman w. W. Griest, OF
Lancaster, is at Atlantic City.
stephen B. Luce. of the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania Museum, has
been made lieutenant in the Navy.
He is a grandson of an admiral.
L. Saylor Zimm erman will be
Memorial Day speaker at Schaeffers-
town. He is one of the legislative
candidates.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-28

to defeat Germany and destroy her
power of aggression. The lives that
are declared to this cause are offer
ed both to God and to humanity in
a service that is above all.
When this is accomplished it
may we'll be said that 1T was more
stupid than criminal to imagine at
the opening of the twentieth century
that nation has for it's mission the
subsection of another people, and,
If they do not submit, to put them
to the edge of the sword. When they
discovered that violence and false
hood are forces, it was sheer stu.
pidity to believe that these forces
dominate men, and that one can by
a blow from the shoulder lift hu-
manity to the level of Christ and of
Cain. Cain was stronger than Abel,
since he killed him; it is. however,
the race of Abel which has civilized
the earth. The Pharisees were
stronger than Christ, since they
crucified Him. It is, however, the
Galileau who has conquered. It is
he who is to conquer on our fields
of battle. The soldiers of the Re-
public are the soldiers of God. for
God is above ALL That, for to-mor-
row. To-day we may say with the
young soldier. Rupert Brooke, CIV
ing his life before Gallipoli:
Honor has come back. as a King to
to earth,
And paid his subjects with a royal
wage;
And uobleness walks in our ways
again
And we have come into our heritage.
"The victory is already won in
the sacrifice; and the men and the
women of the years to come will
have the peace"
Two of the principles for which
all OF Germany's enemies are now
fighting are the eight of the weak
to exist independent of the strong.
and the denial of the right of pos
session as a reward os conuueSA.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-28
Stories of "Chdrlie" SchUab
PHILADELPHIA Ledger.)

Yesterday and to-day we find illus
trated at Bethlehem another phase
of Mr.. Schwab's versatility, in the
music of the Bach choir of which
he is patron saint.
Opportunely there comes to me
from various sources another crop
of Schwab anecdotes
While the steel magnate was TAX
ing a wheel-chair ride on the Board
walk at Atlantic City he noticed j
penny, which the negro lad who was
propelling him saw also,
Why don't you pick it up?" asked
Mr.. Schwab.
We'll, 1 didn't think it was worth
while-it was only a. penny"
You must never talk that way
answered the man of millions. 81
saw it. too. and wondered why you
passed it by. Always look out for
the pennies and the dollars will come
of themselves.
He made the boy pick up and
pocket the despised coin.
When Schwab was a boy in the
village of Loretto, Pa, the school
master--an enthusiast for geology
told each child TO bring him a speci-
men to describe.
When the pile was collected the
teacher picked up the stones ono by
one and told the pupils about them
Young Schwab's contribution hap.
pened to be a Jagged piece of brick.
This" said the schoolmaster
holding up the first stone, ''is piece
of feldspar from the cross roads.
This" he added, ''is a piece oi
mari from the meadow.
Here" he continued, I'VE have q
piece of argillaceous sandstone from
the quarry"
Then, coming to Mr.. Schwab'.
contribution, the bit of a brick, he
said in tones of black anger, "Ant
this is a piece of impudence from
Charlie Schwab."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-28
Over tie 1oEs
cn Penna.

The city council of Ellsworth set
aside a "Dandelion Day." and paid
the boys and girls twenty-five cents
a bushel. One boy dug twenty
seven bushels.
A Keystone farmer writing to
complain to the State Board of
Agriculture about the war-girl farm
hand sent him claims that she asked
the first day what kind of scented
soap to use in washing lettuce. and
that her board does not pay for her
help.
Says a meditative Pennsylvania ed
itor: They'll keep on using the word
morale until pretty nearly every
body will know what it means"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-28
THE KAISER CONFRONTED
BY CHRIST AND NAPOLEON

X HRIST was offered all the king
I doms of the world if he would
fall down and worship. In
this episode of his life. as The Com
mercial and Financial Chronicle
(New York; interprets, there was
oHered him the gift of physical
force which would promptly con-
quer them ALL" This, then, was
In line of temptations common to
US all, to pay high for physical
Well-Delng and material advan-
tage. But Jesus rejected the
temptation and gave the tempter
his name in saying, Get thee be-
hind me. Satan" The writer in this
wall street paper shows that the God
OF the Kaiser is the one who tempt
ed Jesus, for when any king or any
state in the proud possession of
conscious power to conquer another
state claims divine support in the at
tempt, the God he invokes is the
God of this world who tempted
the Saviour, and only when finally
defeated left him at the cross"
This, it is shown, is the enemy "em-
bodied in those who claim that
might makes right" against whom
the democracy of the world has to-
day to wage relentless war" The
writer continues:
The Kingdom of God is at stake,
for that is not of this world; and
civilization. which is the sum of
mans attainments in his long strug-
gle toward his goal, is attacked. and,
II defeated, is sure to be destroyed.
To secure the casting out by
the nations, as an utter fallacy, of
the doctrine that might, either in
the man or in the state, makes
right, and the rejection of the pur-
pose to conquer others that their
property may be possessed, and thus
to open the way that peace as the
gift of God to men of goodwin
may be obtained, the nations are
united today NJ ao1, eaorgEoe ~ -.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-28
A GOOD APPOINTMENT

The Philadelphia Ledger to-day
says: Political circles were eagerly
vacancy In the Orphans Court. The
Governor is to be congratulated upon
his wise selection.
Mr.. Henderson does not wear the
tag of any politician. He owes his
appointment 20 none of them. In
every way he is hts own master. A
most commendablo and satisfactory
choice.--Philadelphia Inquirer.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-28
No Kitchin Tar Bill This Time
New York Times. }

The chairman OF the ways and
means committee talks as though he
were the House of Representatives
Also, he talks os though he wished
to punish the entire country for the
defects OF the legislation which he
was allowed to impose upon 1t. Fur
thermore, he talks like a contortion-
list who walks ahead and looks back
ward. On Thursday he was sure
that there would be no difficulty
about passing a tax bill between the
holidays and the 4th of March. On
Friday he is sure that no tax bill ever
has been or can be passed in less
than half year. What he may have
said on Saturday, or may say here
after, is not yet known, but 1t is sure
that there will be no such tax bill
as he talks about.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-28
PRESIDENTS ADDRESS

RESIDENT WILSON voices the
expressed conviction Of the lead
ership of the Republican party,
and doubtless of a majority of Dem
ocrats in Congress when he asks for
immediate consideration of 1919 war
revenue legislation. His address
yesterday reflected the sentiment of
Senatorial debate that preceded it
and was to large degree an ampIi-
Eication OF the views of most of the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-28
I'VE KNOWA JUST CAUSE"

although you raised us to be too
proud to fight, we know just cause
when we see it, and IL you could see
the French women as I see them
you would be proud that you had
two boys to give"
IF I die I want to know that 1
have died as every man ought to die.
fighting for what is right. I do not
feel that I am fighting for France
alone, but for the cause of all
humanity. which is the greatest of
all causes"
Extracts from the letters of Kiln
Rockwell. American aviator. to his
mother.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-28
PROHIBITION SOON

DRESIDENT Wilson has signed
the Hiwaiian prohibition bill.
Gradually he is approaching
the point when he must issue a de-
cree against the manufacture and
sale of all intoxicating liquors in the
United States.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-28

| far-sighted Senators and members
of both parties.
The President takes the correct
view. The war must be fought to a
/ successful finish and money is as
necessary to that end as men. The
people are as one in their deter
mination to continue on. no matter
what the cost in blood or treasure.
until the German beast has been
slain. AS the President says, they
know they must pay the bill and
they are ready for the sacrifice. pro-
viding the taxation is just and
equitable. But they ought to be told
thus year how much they must pay
In taxes next year. in order that
they may prepare to meet their
obligations. as well as to guide their
investments in Liberty Bonds in the
meantime.
President Wilson never sensed the
state of the public mind more ac-
curately nor interpreted it more
clearly than when he said to Con-
gress yesterday:
Have you not felt the spirit of
tne nation rise and its thought
become a single and common
thought since these eventful DAYS
same in which we have been send
ing our boys to the other side?
think you must read that
that the people of this country are
not only united in the resolute
purpose to win this war. but are
ready and willing to bear any
burden and undergo any sacrifice
that II may be necessary for them
to bear in order to win il. We
need not be afraid to tax them,
II we lay taxes justly. They know
that the war must be paid for
and that it is they who must pay
for ii, and If the burden is justly
distributed and the sacrifice made
common sacrifice from which
none escapes who can bear 1t at
all. they will carry it cheerfully
and with a sort of solemn pride.
have always been proud to be
an American, and was never more
proud than now. when all that we
have foreseen about our people is
coming true: The great days
that they ask for or admire is
duty. greatly and adequately
done; when their only wish for
America is that she may share the
freedom she enjoys: when a great,
compelling sympathy wells up in
their hearts for men everywhere
who suffer and are oppressed
and when they see at last the
high uses for which their wealth
has been piled up and their
mighty power accumulated and.
counting neither blood nor treas
ure now that their final day of
opportunity has come. rejoice to
spend and to be spent, through
a long night of suffering and ter
ror in order that they and men
everywhere may see the dawn OF
day of righteousness and justice
and peace.
The people are ready. They ask
only to be told in ample time the
extent of the support required or
them. It will be the duty of Con-
gress to remain in session until the
financial program for the coming
year has been decided upon.
The nature of the taxation, as the
President intimates, should be such
as to appeal to the popular sense of
fair play The burden must be
placed where 1t can be most easily
borne. but the levy must touch the
oocketbook of even the humblest, to
some extent. This is everybody's war
and everybody must help pay for it.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-28

And now. Mr.. Director General Nc
Adoo. having asked for increases of
railroad tariffs to a surprising de-
gree. won't you please tell us aside
from wage advances what you are
going to do with the money!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-28

DR.. Cyrus Townsend Brady will
doubtless be greeted by great audi
ence at the Chestnut Street Audi
torium this evening. AS an author.
soldier. sailor and clergyman and a
student of international affairs he is
peculiarly equal to discuss the sub
ject, why God Doesn't Stop the
War"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-28
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg tin plate is
being used for much govern
ment work just as are our steel
plates?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-28
Judah Takes Jerusalem,

Now the CHI dren of Judah had
fought against Jerusalem, and had
taken 1t. and smitten it with the
edge of the sword. and set fire to the
city.-Judges, 1. 8.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-28

Thank heaven, the days are past
when it was considered the proper
thing to celebrate Memorial Day by
two games OF baseball at Island Park.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-28

If you have flowers to spare, take
them on Memorial Day to one of the
Grand Army post rooms in time for
use by the veterans.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-28
THE ONLY WAY.

Disguised Boy Doll (n back
ground)-Gee, guess If want to
ne popular with those girls I'll have
to CnliStl
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-28

Colonel Roosevelt and Mr.. Taft have
shaken hands and are good friends
again. And both are bigger. better
men for the reconciliation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-28
HISTORrC HARRIsBURG

Early Harrisburgers used to go to
Paxton and Coxestown for church,
services.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-28

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad
upper.-FRANcIs BACON.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-28

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-28

The session of the Supreme Court
held here yesterday was not only
the shortest on record here in years,
but the first in n long time during
which some decisions were not hand
ed down. AS rule the court hands
down a couple of dozens of opinions
and the decision to hold the session
in Philadelphia for the May deliv-
-erances was surprise to many law
yers who had expected announce
ments here.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-28

Ell. Prss't s Edisor-sn-C Chief
T. R OYSTER. Bxsinsss Moyogsr.
GUS M STEINMETZ. Managing ESitor
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-28

AhS HiiduelpHld LeuBer to-day
says: "olitical circles were eagerly
debating yesterday report that Will
liam ]. McNichol, who was named at
the primary election to succeed his
father, the late Senator James P.
McNichol, would withdraw and that
Representative John r. K. Scott
would be substituted to give the
Wares floor leader in the Senate.
The nominee denied there was any
thing to the story. He said he had
heard nothing about it, and added:
Mr.. Ware has never spoken to me
about anything of the sort. I don't
think he will Senator Ware, when
asked pointblank If the story was
true, replied as follows: Say why
don't you newspaper fellows give us
news any more. Here 1t is almost a
week since the primaries and you
haven't even found out who Is NOM
mated for Congressman-a
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1918-05-18

ing airmen, as War Department Off
Gals feel that the newly-commission-
ed fiers will acquire valuable train
ing in plotting the big mail carriers
over long cross-country flights.
The planes, each capable of a
minimum speed Of ninety miles an
hour, are built along the lines of the
regulation bombing machine. They
are oneseaters as a maximum space
is desired in the fuselage for the
storing Of mail bags.
The schedule provides for the de-
parture of one pane each day from
both Washington and New York. The
machines leave promptly at 11.20 in
the morning, and it is hoped to have
the mail deposited at the terminals
not more than three hours later. Start
ing from the Mall in Washington,
near the Washington monument, the
trip to Philadelphia, about 1875 miles,
is expected to be made in about an
hour and twenty minutes. At the
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1918-05-18
i. s. AIRPLANE
Continued IRON Page one)

+ WASHINGTON, May 15.-With the
establishment of a regular airplane
mail service between Washington and
New York, the post office considers
Shat the project is experimental only
an the sense that a now familiar
means of locomotion is to be put
practically to new use. The war
has demonstrated effectively that the
ni-plane as a conveyance is almost as
de pehdble and safe as an automobile,
SO the only real ostibacle in the way
of successfully operating the new cir
Hne lies in maintaining service under
all kinds of weather conditions.
The War Department has furnished
Twelve large training planes for use
in the new service. lAviators have
Seen detailed from the ranks of fight