davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Jackson County journal., 1918-01-11

LLOYD Rickart, former Feoerai
league official, has quit his job as sec
retary of the Toledo club ana Will oe
succeeded by Phil Bresnahan' Dro1ner
of Manager Roger.
Jackson County journal., 1918-01-11

This raven joined up with the Brit
ish naval forces in the Mediterranean,
and is now an especial pet aboard one
of the cruisers. Sailors the world
over are very fond of mascOts. and al
ways have them aboard ship if the!
can.
Jackson County journal., 1918-01-11
Funds for Red Cross.

The University of Minnesota Will 90
nate it's share of the net proceeds from
intercollegiate sports until August !.
1918. to the Red Cross fund.
Jackson County journal., 1918-01-11
BOXERS SLOW IN ENLlSTING
They Are Ready, but Enthusiasm
Not OverpoWering.

Football, track, swimming, rowing
and other athletic stars from practi-
calIy every college in the country,
together with bowlers, golfers, SWIM
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-01
Pity the Poor Germans

THE German people have been
led to believe that the Ukrain-
ian peace meant a full market
basket, and in Austria 1t was de-
scribed as "a bread peace" Now
comes along the Berlin Statistisches
Korrespondenz, the official organ of
the Prussian statistical bureau with
a nice little bit of cheerful reading
for hungry Germans. 1t says:
"Podolia is so densely populated
that it has no grain for export. The
crops of the Governments of Kief.
Volhynia, Kharkof, Tscherniov, and
Poltava are just sufficient for the
needs of their own population. Ev-
en- in peace time there was scarcely
any surplus. The last potato and
hay crops were both bad. Conse-
quently large quantities of corn must
be used as fodder. The Ukraine
sends forth no produce, the supply
being not even sufficient for the de-
mands of the town populations.
The stocks of cattle in the Ukraine,
with the exception Of horses, are
very small and there is no hope of
any cattle being exported"
The poignant part of the situation
is that even the Austrian forces sent
to plunder Ukrainia have to be fed
from home. A cable dispatch tells
us:
THAT Germany and Austria will
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-01
SCHOOL TAXES

n OBERT A. ENDERS, president
TX. of the Harrisburg School
Board, takes the very proper
view that an advance in the school
tax rate Is justified at this time in
order to keep the schools up to
peace standards and pay the teach
ers a living wage. He defends the
course of the board as being good
business" as indeed it is.
To begin with. the board must
pay more for its supplies, just as all
of US must for the things we use,
and that means greatly increased ex-
pense. Also, it is quite true that the
school teachers must have more pay
If they are to be kept on a par with
workers of their class in other lines.
Not only is this mere justice, but
the board could not hope to hold it's
highly efficient instructors IL it were
niggardly in its treatment of them.
War must not be allowed to lower
our school standards. 1t is not pleas
ant to face added burdens of taxa
tion. but much better a few more
mills on the tax rate than that our
children should be cheated of their
rightful heritage. So long as the
money raised is used to meet legiti-
mate expenses increased by the war
and to pay teachers salaries. the or
dinary citizen will pay the taxes
without complaint, whatever wry
faces he may make as he contem-
plates the hole they make in his
bank balance
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-01

not get their much-needed supplies
of foodstuffs from the Ukraine, de-
spite the glowing accounts which
are used to bolster up the spirits of
their hungry peoples, is confirmed
by the Berne correspondent of The
Morning Post, who telegraphs that
the German authorities admit these
hopes must remain unfulfilled for
the present.
Austria actually is sending flour
to the Ukraine to feed her troops
operating there, the correspondent
adds. This information is published
in a local newspaper. which received
it from it's Czernowitz correspondent
under date of March %. The lat
ter obtained it from members of the
military administration, who eX-
planned that difficulties had arisen
in the export of foodstuffs from the
Ukraine, and 1t was found necessary
to send provisions for the Austrian
armies in the Ukraine.
within the last few days one
hundred wagon-loads of Austrian
flour had been sent in and other con-
signments were to follow. This
condition is confirmed by a recent
speech of the president of the Kra-
kow Municipal Council, who, referr-
ing to the danger of famine that was
menacing that city, said there were
wagons full of flour on the trains
traversing Galicia, but only on those
going from west to east"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-01
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
PATRIOTIC ITALIANS

10 the Editor Of the Telegraph;
1t was my privilege to be a guest
at a meeting Monday evening at
which scene of interest occurred.
The people at the meeting were
chiefly a group of our italian citi-
zens. The guest of honor was n young
man who went out April 30, as a Sc
lected man to Camp Lee. This young
mans name is Dominec b. Vellone.
AS the evening wore on piece was
put on the Victrola which proved to
be the Garibaldian hymSl. Italy ma
tional song. 1t set the Italians to
laughing and singing. Then one went
sang q song to the music of the ma
tional hymn. 1t was then that the
interesting scene took place.
The young man who was to leave
in a few hours for Camp Lee said,
now let us sing America And
they sang it and we sang 1t. Only
they sang 1t in Italian, and we, who
knew none of their language, sang it
in English. More Italians were sing
ing than Americans, because there
were more Italians. The signs of
deep enthusiasm and of sincere 10y
atty to the land of their adoption,
were evident in every action, every
note. The young man who had been
drafted came to me and said: Il am
glad to serve this land where / live.
I go to help men become free, and
keep men free!' Fine, wasn't it?
Sincerely,
G. E. HALVES.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-01
Comparatively Speaking

In Washington there are spas
modic attempts on the part of exc
cutive departments to pin upon the
back of the galloping Congress the
charge that Congress has been re-
sponsible for delays. No doubt in
some rare instances the accusation
will stick. But, as compared to ex-
ecutive speed, Congress is an airplane
preceding the advance of an apple
cart over rough ground.
"I am amused when our friends of
the shipping board complain that
Congress has been slow" said a con-
tractor to me. "As you know, we
have just finished a shipbuilding
yard for the government Now, here
is the literal truth-it took longer
for the executives to read and sign
our contracts, even after the terms
were all settled, than it took us to
build the yard. Richard Washburn
Child in Golfers Weekly.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-01
CLEAR THE WAY

TFaugh- -Ballagh means Clear
the way" it is the Gallo motto of
the famous Irish InnislSillin Regi-
ment. There are many Irishmen in
the ranks of the 307th Infantry of
the National Army. The officers car
ry blackthorn sticks.1
There's a Blackthorn Regiment be-
longs to Uncle Sam,
And it's heading out cor trouble
any day,
Be it France. or Greece, or Russia, it
doesn't give a damn,
Only start it on its way and, Clear
the Way!
SO clear the way before us when our
marching orders come
Can't you hear the flies a-screaming
and the throbbing of the
drum,
And the roar of marching feet
Down the crowded city street.
Past the avenues of faces? It's the
long good-by for some.
It's the price we gladly pay
To the Resurrection Day.
Let us pay 1t as we play it--Faugh-
a-Ballagh Clear the Way /!
We have never faced barrage, and
we've never shed our blood.
Though we've done our duty de-
cent up to date,
But we're strong on stumps and
snowfelds, were hyenas for
the mud,
Wen be ready when We hear their
Hymn of Hate.
We've a debt that's due to England
We've a price to give for
France.
We've score with God Almighty
we would pay.
We have talked and we have dallied
while the others staked our
chance.
1t is time we drew our cards-so
Clear the Way
There's length of battery trenches
where the trees are torn and
dead.
With the reek of rotting horses
in the air;
When through the binding fog the
shells come wailing overhead.
And it's waiting for us now over
there.
When the yellow mud Is spattered
from the craters in the snow,
Where the dice of death are load
ed--let us play.
We have pledged our word to Free
dom and it's there that we
would go,
With the strength that Freedom
gives us-Clear the Way!
Clear the way to No Mans Land.
with bugles shrill and high.
Clear 1t to the lid of hell, with flags
against the sky.
Clear the Way to Kingdom Come.
and give us glad good-by-
We've a blow to strike for Free
dom--Clear the Way
Capt. w. Karr Rainsford. N. A.,
In the Outlook.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-01
THE FEAR OF AMERICA

"HE same cables bring the news
that Germany at last is prepar-
ing her people for the news of
.America's growing strength in the
war and that for months previous
the Germans had been parading
f1fteen half-starved American pris-
oners throughout the country to
prove that Americans cannot stand
before German troops. The German
government has gone to great pains
to make the people believe that
America would never amount to
much as a fighting factor in the war.
Apparently the thing has been over
done. There are indications that the
people at large, Notwithstanding the
governments propaganda, have a
wholesome and abiding respect for
America and American soldiers that
in some localities at least is near akin
10 terror.
What was the effect on the Ger
snan populace when the pitifullv
small group of American prisoners
were paraded for their derision we
have no means of knowing, but the
result of this bit of news spread
throughout the American forces of
France will be anything but con-
hucive to gentle treatment when the
Yankee boys have their next bout
with Fritz. Imagine for a moment
hhe feelings of the men of the regi-
ment to whom these poor chaps be-
1ong and consider how you would
pike to come at them from the Ger
man side of No Mans Land, as the
word went down the trenches to
Square accounts"
More and more 1t becomes evident
fhat America is obtruding herself as
pm ever-growing object of fear in the
Herman mind. All of which is good
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-01
Freedom of Labor and CdpitdI

The plan to make strikes or boy
colts unlawful during the period of
the war should not he represented as
labor's or capitals victory. Conces-
sions were made by both, resulting
in what may be called a victory for
the freedom of both.
The report submitted by the War
Labor Conference appointed by Sec
retary of Labor Wilson outlines a
program for the prevention of in
dustrial troubles during the war,
and contains provisions that should
insure industrial peace when the war
is over. Each side agrees to lay aside
its most powerful weapon-the
strike and the lockout-for the per-
iod of hostilities. Employers are not
to discharge workers because of
union membership. and workers are
not to use coercive measures to in
duce persons to join their unions or
compel employers to bargain with
them. All these provisions might we'll
become a permanent part of the new
industrial order.-Leslie's Weekly.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-01
THE PRICE OF ICE

r CE to the small consumer in
Harrisburg is to cost no more
this year than last. In this re-
spect. at least, we are now about to
reap some benefit from the hard
winter that kept us shivering so long.
Mr.. Hoover and the local food ad-
ministrators are entirely justified in
their stand against profiteering in
ice. Ice is so closely allied to the
food supply that it may be said to
be part and parcel of the food ques-
ton. 1t might have happened that
prices could not have been kept
down this year had it not CHANGED
that local dealers were able last win
ter to lay in unusually large sup
plies of the natural product. Am
monia, which is required in large
quantities for the making of artificial
ice, is in great demand for war pur-
poses. 1t is both limited in quantity
and high in price, so that localities
where the natural ice supply last
winter was below normal will have
to pay more than usual for their
ice.
Modern living conditions demand
ice for every family. 1t is a house.
hold necessity and the poor cannot
afford to pay excessive prices for it.
The whole situation has worked out
very well for Harrisburg. the ice
companies and the food administra-
tor cooperating to that end.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-01
HUM-DINGING THE HUN

r I will not be at all surprising-in
fact it is to be eXpected-that
since the American troops have
become a factor in the war and the
American officers are in q position
to make suggestions with the pres
tige of participants, there will he
some new methods introduced and
some new stunts" pulled off. While
! it is true that Americans have no
monopoly of Imagination, initiative
and inventive genius, yet the board
and varied experience of Americans
has been such as to make them
prompt in seizing opportunities and
resourceful in meeting emergencies.
The American soldiers, both Off
GERS and privates, come from every
walk of life. Many of them have
had varied individual experiences
life in the city, on the plains, in the
forests, in the mines on the rail-
roads, and they have been trained
from youth to meet new situations,
cope with unusual difficulties, take
, long chances. form decisions quickly
and act promptly. No man could
have. ridden bucking bronchos on the
prairies without gaining more conf
dence in himself. No man could
have mingled with the motley
throngs of the mining camps with
out becoming a better Judge of men
and how to handle them. Taken
by and large, life in America pre-
isents an almost endless variety of
experiences as compared with the
humdrum routine of life in the old,
conservative nations of Europe.
In the matter of courage and in
willingness to sacrifice. America can
not excel the brave men who have
held and are holding the Allied lines
in France. In the planning of de-
fensive campaigns and in the larger
problems of the war, quite likely the
European commanders are the equal
of any. But we have been pleased
to believe that some of the
stunts" recently consummated were
suggested by Americans, and we
fondly hope that in the next few
months American genius will direct
some brilliantly successful feats that
will add pep" to the Allied cause
land greatly hasten the victorious
end.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-01
AFTERWARD
Dear eyes, twin limpid glories.
Dear tender, honest eyes.

Dear eyes, twin limpid glories.
Dear tender, honest eyes.
That told such wondrous stories
And most of them were lies.
Dear lips, that promised blisses,
That used to pout and quiz.
Lips made for love and kisses.
That kissed my lips-and his.
Dear voice like summer weather,
That spoke of love and youth
And spring, and years together
And never spoke the truth.
Dear heart, so close to my heart,
That answered to its call,
That made of love a high art
And never loved at all.
Dear mem'ries. ash and ember,
Dear things that pain and grieve,
And yet / shall remember,
And--sometimes still believe.
Pollock in the Century.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-01
No Better Than Bonds

There is a rumor going about that
certain persons are boarding cur
rency in the fear that the exigencies
of the war will invalidate all other
forms of credit. 1t seems to ibe their
idea that So note must in the very
nature of things maintain the value
which the government engraving
places on it. For these persons it is
worth while saying that the engrav-
ing offers no greater surety than the
surety of the United States govern
ment. The use of this currency to
purchase Liberty Bonds merely
transfers it to another form of gov
ernment obligation. If Liberty Bonds
should become worthless, currency
would become worthless. Govern
ment bonds and government notes
rest on the same foundation.-Chi-
cago Tribune.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-01
SACK OF LOUVAIN

brand Whitlock in Everybodys.1
All over the city the soldiers be-
gan firing wildly at the facades of
the closed houses; the people ran to
their cellars in terror; the soldiers
beat in the doors, turned the people
into the street, shot them down. set
fire to the houses. There were rid
erless horses galloping about; mad,
a blind, demoniac rage seemed to
have laid hold on the Germans. and
they went through the streets,
killing, Staying, burning and looting,
torturing and massacring, and for
three terrible days the vast and aw-
full tragedy was enacted.
The people were assembled in
tragic groups between the totter-
ing walls of burning houses: march
ed through choking, suffocating
streets that were strewn with the
dead bodies of men and of horses,
the women and children weeping,
screaming, imploring, and the SOL
diers compelling them to walk with
their hands up, or making them
kneel, or run, or kicking them, or
striking them with their fists or with
the butts of their guns. herding them
through the streets, in the midst of
ders, with wine-b bottles under their
arms, went reeling past, crying out
at the captives: 'Hund! Schwein!
Schweinhund!'
And so. for another day and an
other night, the madness went on,
the murder. the looting, the sackins.
the riot and the burning and the
lust; with soldiers pillaging the
houses. bearing the wine in great
baskets out of the cellars, to be guz-
zled in the stfeet. while men and
women and children were shot down
and their bodies left to lie in cutters
or on the smoking ruins, or thrown
into foul cesspools.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-01
WEST ALWAYS AWAKE

Some of us here in the East have
been wondering whether the West
The West didn't have to wake up
to the war or anything else. The
West never has been asleep, when it
came to national needs or world
help. The West always is ready to get
on the firing line and give more than
is asked of her.
She has the spirit as well as the
sense of service. She centers the best
hopes of that democracy whose fate
this day hangs in the balance. Her
so-called "fads" of yesterday are to-
days foundation stones. She is the
Gibraltar of Americanism. and the
man who questions her loyalty only
reveals. his own ignorance.-Phila-
delphia North American.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-01
MACHINE GUN FORTS

1t used to be thought that the Bel
gian forts of armored steel and con-
crete, almost completely buried in
the ground, would hold out against
any artillery. But when the Ger
mans brought up their great ho-
witzers and hurled undreamed of
quantities of high explosives on
these forts, they broke and crumL
bled to pieces. Then it was predicted
that the day of the fort was over.
But the machine gun has developed
a new type of warfare. Instead of
great forts mounting huge guns. we
now have little machine gun forts,
and they are far more troublesome
that the big fellows. To the Ger
mans belongs the credit for this type
of fort, which consists of small
concrete structure, hidden from view
as far as possible, but commanding
some important part of the front
Pill boxes the British call them. be-
cause the first ones they ran across
were round in shape and something
like pill-boX in appearance.
These pill-boXes are just large
enough to house a few men and a
couple of machine guns. Conceal
ment is of the utmost Importance;
their safety depends upon it. Air
pi'lo9 @iS p'i IiSui'iiS Leaieu' NC
cause a machine gun emplacement
is recognized to be so important that
whole battery of artillery would
be turned upon suspected pill-boX.
1t is claimed that some pill-boXes
are built with turrets that rise out
of the ground. Normally they are
completely buried and covered with
turf so that no one would expect
their existence. During the bonn
bardment preceding a charge they
would remain hidden. and only a
chance shot could put them out of
business. When the charge took
place the elevating mechanism
would be operated, and out of the
ground would rise the miniature
fort, ready to halt the advancing SOL
diers. "A. Russell Bond in st. Mich
olas
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-01
A TOURING CENTER

~ RGANIZATION of the South
ern Tours Association by the
same men under whose direc-
tion the Empire Tours of New Eng
land have become famed throughout
the world will make Harrisburg
more than ever an automobile tour
ing center and will bring thousands
upon thousands of visitors to Har-
risburg yearly.
To be the northern terminus of
these Southern Tours, which extend
as far South as Jacksonville and as
far west as st. Louis, is in effect to
make this city the junction point for
the southern tourist going north to
New York and New England and the
northern tourist going south. The
new Penn-Harris hotel is the mag
net which has attracted this very
desirable patronage to Harrisburg
and all that has been invested in the
new hotel would be we'll worth while
If 1t brought no other benefit.
The new tours take the automo-
bilist over smooth roads through
highly interesting and picturesque
country of the southland and are
so arranged that they bring one at
the end of the days journey to good
hotel accommodations, the assurance
of bath, a palatahle dinner and a
mi fNr -taH Ia hA1 dNynr .tr,cr
of following the carefully laid out
program entour are needless to men
tion and those who have devised
the present routes have inspected
them from one end to the other,
have made their arrangements with
hotel arrangements for special at
tention to automobile parties and
are getting out literature that will
be at once guide to the man at
the wheel and a "bluebook" of in
formation concerning points of in
terest along the way.
Many persons desiring to tour the
south have been deferred from so
doing by. lack of reliable knowledge
concerning road and hotel conditions.
Unquestionably, these new Southern
Tours will be extensively patronized
and the good that will come of them
will not be in pleasure alone, but in
the very material benefits that are
always derived from closer relations
an9 more intimate association of
neighboring peoples. AS it happens
now the great lines of passenger and
news communication run largely
from east to west across the country
and thousands of Americans who
know all about the east and the west
know little or nothing about the
South, with the exception, possibly,
of few of the Florida resorts.
With northern tourists going south
and southern tourists coming north
new ties between individuals and
communities will be formed and new
commercial relations established.
All told, the Southern Tours Asso-
citation has done a very excellent
piece of work in the formation of
its organization, the full value of
which will not be realized until the
project has had opportunity to de-
velop.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-01
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Judge w. B. Broomall, of Della
ware county, presided at the Chester
Liberty Loan meeting.
General L. T. w. Waller of the
marine corps, is helping build up the
Home Defense Reserves in Philadel-
phia.
DIR. John w. Jordon, librarian
of the Historical Society of Pennsyl-
vania. says the society will arrange
for aiding in war work.
Bishop Talbot opened the ses-
sions of the Reading Archdeaconry
at Hazleton. this week.
Secretary Daniels is to speak at
the Philadelphia Chamber of Com
merce luncheon tomorrow.