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The Era-leader., 1918-08-22
FrankIinton, La, August 22, 1918
Preparing New Draft Law.

Washington, August l9.-Con-
gress prepared to day to enact
quickly the new manpower legls-
lation, extending the draft age
limits to Is and As years for the
American military program which
General March, chief of staff, told
the House military committee
should win the war in 1919.
While the House committee be-
gan work on the bill by hearing
General March, Secretary Baker
and Provost Marshal General
Crowder, the Senate set side Its
summer vacation agreement in
order to take up the measure
Thursday. 1t appeared probably
the bill would be de bated stimuli
taneously in the Senate and
House the last of this week, and
passed soon thereafter. Senate pro-
hibition advocates agreed to temp
orarily lay aside the national pro-
hibition bill and give the man.
power program the right of way
Predicting that the war will be
won or lost On the western front
regardless Of what happens else
where, General March told the
committee that with eighty trained
American divisions of about 5,OO(
men each in France, under an
American commander, victory
ought to rest on American arms
next year. Reiterating his belle
that such force could 60 through
the German lines at will, Genera
March went further and electrified
the committee men by declaring
such a force should bring tn
war to a successful conclusion IL
1919.
To exert this American man
power in securing victory, Genera
March said every single man be
tween 18 and 45 in class 1 woul
be needed by next spring ShiE
ping facilities are assured ne ad1
ed, and maintenance problem
have been considered in the pro
gram Suggestions that the fiv
million army program would ex
haust Americas manpower wei
laughingly denied by Gener'
March, but he joined Secretar
Baker in explaining that it ref
resents Americas maximum effo
for the present.
Plans for calling new registrar
under the proposal explaine
Secretary Baker, provide for
classes probably to be called
order; those between 10 and
"A years OF age those between 81 al
as and those between 16 and l
Mr.. Baker did not object to sep
rate classification of Is year
youths but he and General Mar
said all eligibles probably wou
be called out not later than ne
spring.
The Era-leader., 1918-08-22
Our Darling.

Little Ourban Edward ba|
the three months old lnlab|
Mr.. and Mrs. E. Nj. BanS|
Bogalusa was born May
and died August 18th, ana /
laid to rest in the McGenee'
etery near Bogalusa. ha
meet the little darling sOms
1t is resting in the arp'|
Jesus. A CousD|
When you buy War 0e
Stamps you do not glVe-wl
ceive.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-11
WHY NOT NOW?

Joseph f. GUFFEY. candidate
i for the Democratic nominal on
for Governor of Pennsylvania,
is quoted as threatening liquor deal
ers who oppose him with the wrath
of the White House in the form
of wartime prohibition. A news
paper interview with Mr.. Guffey
credits him with saying:
Should 1 obtain legal proof that
liquor money is being used to cor
rupt votes in this campaign, now
or at the general election, whether
elected or defeated, as a citizen
and taxpayer of this Common
wealth, l am going to make some
people pay the penalty. And IL
the duly constituted authorities of
the State of Pennsylvania can't
stop it. l will be the first one to
petition President Wilson to exc
ercise the power of war prohibi-
tion given him by Congress.
But why wait? If Mr.. Guffey is
influential enough at the White
House to induce the President to do
what millions of people think he
should do, make the country dry
for the period of the war. why de-
lay?
Certainly. it cannot be that Mr..
Guffey means merely to use the legal
club which the President holds over
the head of the liquor trade, in the
form of Congressional permission
to make the country dry during the
war whenever he so. chooses. to
drive the saloon crowd into line for
him at the polls. That would hardly
comport with the dignity of the
White House or with those prin.
ciples of fair play which Mr.. Guffey
is so fond of verbally championing
But be that as 1t may, Mr.. GuffeS
could do nothing that would pro.
mote his candidacy so much as tc
have it become known that he hat
induced President Wilson to stof
the manufacture of all intoxicants
at least for the period of the war
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-11

Lincoln highway, says that the high
way has been much written up, but
has been let run down." The state
highway officials are given intima-
tions that they had better repair it,
Pittsburgh is having a real old
time Congressional and Legislative
campaign and the way congressman
Porter and Campbell are having to
fight for nominations is worth
watching. Porter has been especial
ly assailed for his record in Con-
gress.
. The Philadelphia quarter ses-
sions court has held that the Phila-
delphia municipal court is without
the powers of a committing magis-
trate and has dismissed proceedings
against Magistrate George Persch.
Chester county officials will de-
termine when they will be ready to
try the Philadelphia Fifth ward
cases. which have been transferred
to West Chester to get a better at
mosphere.
-Laekawanna county is haying
the usual pleasant time in Legisla-
tives contests. Judging from the
newspapers, the candidates are MAXI
ing most of the noise and the voters
are either cutting coal or going
about their business without regard
to what the politicians are saying.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-11
MARCHING INTO PICARDY

When Pershing's men go marching
into Picardy;
Marching, marching into Picardy-
With their steel a-slant in the sun
light and their gray hawks
awning
And their wagons rumblin after
them like thunder in the Spring
Tramp, tramp, tramp, tramp,
Till the earth is shaken
Tramp, tramp, tramp, tramp,
Till the dead towns waken
And flowers fall. and shouts arise
from Chaumont to the sea
When Pershing's men go marching.
marching into Picardy.
Women of France, do you see them
pass to the battle in the North?
And do you stand in the doorways
now as when your own went
forth?
Then smile to them, and call to
them, and mark how brave they
fare
Upon the road to Picardy that only
youth may dare
Tramp, tramp, tramp, tramp,
Foot and horse and caisson-
Tramp, tramp, tramp, tramp,
Such is Freedoms passion
And oh, take heart ye weary souls
that stand along the Lys
For the New World is marching,
marching into Picardy
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-11
Over tie lob
tn Pe,.Ma.

Fifteen pupils cf the sixth grade
in the public school at Uniontown,
were arraigned before Miss Ella
Peach, the principal, and fined 10
cents each for punching out the
kaiser's eyes, cutting off his cars,
removing his head and mutilating
his body. They gladly, paid their
fines.
The offense (this word is question
ed was committed in the pupils
biographies this morning by prcar-
rangement, it was admitted, because
the patriotic school children "were
sick and tired having the kaiser
staring boldly at us every time we
opened the geography"
After the pupils were fined, it was
announced by the school authorities
that the page to which the students
objected will be removed from all
the Biographies in use in the school
Troubles of n deaf and dumb wo-
man were aired recently in a West
ern Pennsylvania court. She want
ed separation on account of friend
husband drinking but what irked
her more than that, from her testi-
mony, was that when she began &c
rebuke him when he came home
late at night, ne would turn off the
electric light and silence her.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-11

Apri's sun is in the sky and Aprirs
in the grass
And I doubt not that Pershing's men
are singing as they pass
For they are very young men, and
brave men, and free
And they know why they are march
ing, marching into Picardy.
Tramp, tramp. tramp, tramp,
Rank and file together
Tramp, tramp, tramp, tramp,
Through the April weather.
And never Spring has thrust such
blades against the light of dawn
AS yonder waving stalks of steel
that move so shining on !
1 have seen the wooden crosses at
Ypres and Verdun,
1 have marked the graves of such
as lie where the Marne waters
run,
And know their dust is stirring by
hill and vale and lea,
And their souls shall be our cap
tains who march to Picardy.
Tramp, tramp, tramp, tramp,
Hope shall fail us never
Tramp, tramp, tramp, tramp,
Forward, and forever E!
And God is in his judgment seat,
and Christ is on his tree
And Pershing's men are marching,
marching into Picardy.
Dana Burnet in the New York
Evening Sun.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-11
Condition of Winter Wheat

Within a twelvemonth the whirli-
gig of time has brought about
wondrous change in the wheat stu
alton. Only a year ago the story
was of extensive winter killing, and
of consequent abandoned or plowed
up fields, that only too surely pre-
saged the calamitously reduced pro-
duction of last summers harvest.
To-day the tale is of a prospect un-
equaled. since the bountiful harvest
of 1916 and of promised abundant
yields. especially in those great win
ter-wheat states where last season
harVests were so distressingly scanty.
The striking improvement in the
condition of the growing crop is gen.
eral, save the usual exceptions here
and there, which fortunately fail to
affect the general total.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-11
LET THERE BE NO BLOT

NE drive" is scarcely over be-
a fore another is announced.
~ Last week it was for Liberty
Bonds, next week the Thrift Stamp
pledge campaigners will begin their
rounds. Following that will come the
Red Cross, and then, unless signs fail,
the Y. NJ. C. A. Will make another
plea. There is no lodging the per-
sistent war service campaigner. He
comes with authority of the govern
ment at his back and in IL cause
the merit of which none can deny.
The sooner we rearrange our mode
of living to meet the ever-increasing
war demands the better for all of
us.
OF course, some are not in a posi-
ton to give heavilyto every war serv-
ice activity, but all must do their
part, large or small. 1t is easily un-
derstood that there may be men and
women who cannot invest $50 in a
Liberty bond, but there is none so
poor in these days of steady work
and high wages as to be unable to
buy Thrift Stamps. So the work
of the Pledge Committee ought to
be easy. although the amount to be
raised in this county is large.
Truth is we have long way to go
before we in Dauphin county reach
our quota. The sum fixed for us
is $50 per capita for the year. Up
to this time our investment in
Stamps in Dauphin county is given
as 1854 per capita, pitiful COM
parison with little Union county
which boasts per capita invest
ment of 5000. Nor do we stand
we'll among our immediate neigh
bors, Huntingdon having a per cap
ita of 1913; Snyder, $3.47; Sulli-
van, 1897; Fulton, $2.31; York,
sass; Lancaster, s4.15, and Cum
berland, which has made an excel
lent showing in every kind of war
work. s3.72.
We have boasted that we of Har-
risburg and Dauphin county are a
patriotic people. We are justly
proud that Harrisburg was free
from the first call under the selec,
tive service act and has just es.
capped another draft because so many
of our young men enlisted as vol
unteers. Both city and county have
oversubscribed every Liberty Loan,
Red Cross, Y. NJ. c. A. and other
war work fund raised during tht
past year. A Thrift Stamp failure
cannot be permitted to stand as :
blot on the proud record of the com.
nunity.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-11
AN APPEAL TO REASON

TFrom Pittsburgh Gazette -Times.1
Support of candidates best quail
fled to discharge the duties of the
state offices to which they aspire is
a duty of patriotism which cannot
be ignored by citizens solicitous for
the common welfare. On considera-
ton of that factor, it being admitted
nothing can be urged against the
personal character of either of the
leading candidates for the Repub-
can nomination to the governorship,
the Gazette-Times is convinced Sem
ator William c. Sproul should be
nominated and elected. The Della
ware man is peculiarly equipped, by
long experience in the Legislature
and assiduous attention to the large
affairs of state government, to full
ligence and progressiveness and
give complete satisfaction to the
people. He is not an unknown
quantity. He, is thoroughly famil-
lar with the needs of the common
wealth and eager to realize them.
He is neither visionary, ultra-radical
nor unduly conservative. A prac-
teal businessman, accustomed to
handling large affairs, a statesman
in the sense that he can and does
project his vision beyond concerns
of the moment and correctly ap-
praise the results of actions pro-
posed, which he knows how to make
effective; a politician of high char
acter and fine impulses, solicitous not
for personal advantage but for en-
during benefits to all the people; a
man of principle and defined poll
cies, scorning resort to base eXpe-
dients to advance himself at the eX-
pense of the public, Senator Sproul
has made an enviable record in the
upper branch of the Legislature and
revealed himself competent and by
temperament fitted to be executive
of the State of Pennsylvania.
Mr.. j. Denny ONeil, who is con-
testing with Senator Sproul for
the Republican nomination. is we'll
known and respected in Allegheny
county both as a man and as a pub
lie official. AS county commissioner,
to which office he was elected twice,
he was an admirable servant of this
community. But. in this compare
lively minor office, Mr.. O'Neil never
displayed talents suggesting his pos
session of any of the equipment es-
sential to "a successful and satisfac-
tory governor. Nor has his later
experience in administrative posts
to which he has been appointed
served to qualify him for the higher
office.
1t is almost certain, for the Amer
lean people mean to bring it about.
that the war will end during the
term in office of the man who is
elected governor next November.
The state government will be called
opon to exercise the utmost wisdom
in the reconstruction period. Pre-
liminary to that the people of Penn
sylvania must rehabilitate the state
government. That is to be accom-
plished by electing to the governor
ship the best man available for the
place. Unquestionably that man is
| Senator Sproul.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-11
WELL, KNOWN PEOPLE

Robert K. Cassatt.. head of the
War Savings work in Pennsylvania
is giving up his outdoor sports, of
which he is very fond, to get the
Thrift Stamp idea before the people.
e. f. Harrison, prominent in
affairs at Pittsburgh, is urging Pitts
burgh employers to have their men
go into Military Training organiza-
tions.
F. c.. Bell is the new school
superintendent of Lawrence county.
Judge ]. w. Ray of Greene
county, sent farmer jurors home SO
that they could work on their fields.
The Rev. j. NJ. G. Darms, of AL
lentown, will become post chaplain
at Camp Meade.
City Solicitor A. A. Cochran, of
Chester, has two sons who are en-
signs in the Naval Reserve.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-11
A Tribute to Harr4 Lauder

Harry LADDERS remarkable war
book, "A Minstrel in France" which
appeared this week, is having a rec
ord breaking sale throughout the
country, partly as the result of the
widespread publicity that the famous
Scottish singer received during his
recent American Canadian tour. In
addition to his work for the Red
Cross, the Y. M. c. A. and other ma
tional organizations, the veteran hui
morist took a foremost part in the
Liberty Bond drive. In seventy
seven cities that he visited he ad-
dressed vast audiences in behalf of
the Liberty Loan, his sales of bonds
aggregating many millions of dol
lars. He is now finishing his cam
paign in New York. In recognition
of LADDERS splendid work, the New
York Times, last week, published the
following poem by Vida S. Owens,
which deals forcefully with the spirit
and object of the Liberty Loan:
April music in the air,
Do you hear?
Blossoms bursting everywhere,
Far and near.
Song of birds upon the wing,
Every bud, each living thing,
Tells of hope and life and spring,
Over here.
Bombs are bursting "Over There.
Don't you hear?
Death is lurking everywhere,
Ever near.
Wallowing in slime and mud,
Tortured by the Crime and blood,
q ~ 20
Lads who laughed but yesterday,
Over here.
Maybe it's your boy and mine.
Fighting in your fight and mine.
Will you sit at ease. or whine.
Over here?
Are you coward, traitor, Stacker?
God forbid! Then be a backer!
Back that boy of yours and mine.
Lend a hand, and get in line,
Buy a bond, and swell the line!
Buy bondl
,Will you leave him in the trench,
With its poison gas and stencil,
With the wounds that drip and
drench?
Lend a hand and lift him out!
Help him put the foe to rout!
He can do it-never doubt.
Lend a handl
BY that consecrated sod.
That those hero lads have trod,
Where they went to meet their God
Lend a hand!
Lend a hand, and never cease
Till with Victory comes Peace
Forward Haste this glad release
Buy a bond!
Vida S. OWENS.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-11
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
B. r.. t. ENDORSEMENTS

To The Editor OF Tie IcTegTdPH'
Would you please give us the
enclosed, in an early edition: Har-
risburg Lodge 3S3, Brotherhood of
railroad Tfainmen, at a regular
meeting held on May 9, 1918, en-
dorsed Brother A. Ramsey S. Black as
q candidate for the Legislature from
the City District. Also l.. G. Smith,
who is a member of the B. of l.. f.
and E. The lodge also has endorsed
Brother ]. r. Wilson, who is mem
ber of Lodge 383.
Yours fraternally,
II. G.. PETERS.
Secretary, Lodge 3S3.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-11
Entirely LnlperSondI

A pretty girl at an evening party
was bantering a genial bachelor on
his reasons for remaining single.
"No-oo, I never was exactly dis
appointed in love-" he said. II was
what you might call discouraged
You see, when l was very young ]
became very much enamored of a
young lady of my acquaintance. !
was mortally afraid to tell her oi
my feeling, but at length 1 screwed
up my courage to the proposinl
point. I said. Let's get married.
And she said, Why, who'd have
us p "-Tit-Bits.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-11
A War Christening

And the name is to be?" asked
the minister as he approached the
baptismal font with the baby in his
arms.
John Jellicoe Douglas Haig Lloyd
George Bonar Law Smithers."
Dear mel" said the minister,
turning to the sexton. "A little more
water, Mr.. Jones, if you please!"-
Tit Bits.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-11

There is pending in Congress an
important measure having for it's
purpose the development of the water
powers of the country. 1t is not Wis
ionary to suggest that the day may
not be far off when the tremendous
power of the Susquehanna river will
be harnessed for the development of
great manufacturing and commercial
enterprises along this noble stream.
Harrisburg is admirably located for
great Industrial development, and
cheap power may easily be provided
through the use of the natural sup
ply, which is already being utilized at
different points along the broad Penn
sylvania stream.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-11
SATURDAY, MAY II, 1918

Genuine greatness is marked BY
simplicity, unostentqtiousness, self
forgetfuIneSS, hearty interest in
others, a feeling of brotherhood t0ith
the human fdmily.-CHANNING.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-11
WISE CHAIRMAN HAYS

-1 LILLIAN II. HAYS, Repub-
Nv lican national chairman.
radiates common sense and
voices popular thought every time
he speaks. When he said in New
York this week that he could see no
reason why women should not have
full voice in politics and the affairs
Of the country he expressed a grow
ing conviction and looked forward
TO a condition apparently to be
reckoned with in the very near
future.
But far more impressive, from The
standpoint of being able to read
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-11
LABOR NOTES

While on January l, 1912. the fed
erations affiliated with the central
organization of Swedish unions had
only S0,7O7 members, on January 1,
1917. the membership had risen to
14O.SO2 and during 1917 the member
ship continued to increase so that in
August 169 900 members were repre-
sented at the congress.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-11

Alright the popular conception of the
duties of national chairman and
the public attitude toward politics
at this time, is Mr.. Hays smiling
declination to be led into a dis
cussion of presidential possibilities
in 1920. The chairman rightly con-
cludes that this is no time TO raise
that issue. The people are not in
terested and nothing could be more
fatal to aspiring hopes than that
any man nursing a presidential am
bition be suggested as candidate
now. So many circumstances may
arise, so many unlocked for de-
velopments may appear, so many
changes occur that 1920 presidential
talk now would be foolish and
disastrous.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-11
Men and Territory

General Foch will know when ter
ritory becomes more valuable than
men. To the Germans men are still
less valuable than territory.-sSpring-
field Republican.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-11

Member of the Associated Press-The
Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled 70 the use for republt ;ation OF
all news dispatches credited to 1t OF
not otherwise credited in this paper
and also the local news published
herein.
All rights of republication of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-11

John II. Patterson, president of the
National Cash Register Company. saws
we cannot win this war on what our
forefathers did; We cannot win with
the sort of weapons they used" That
is the situation in a nutshell. We
must back up our men on the fighting
front with the most modern guns and
hghting appliances that an up-to-date
country can provide. To do this
Uncle Sam must have money, and the
drive for War Savings Stamps viii
give a further opportunity for pa
tfiotic citizens to stop the Hun.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-11

cided possibility of a labor govern
ment Out of a population of 49,
600, 900 about 100000 are members
of the labor unions, or about nine
per cent. organized of the population
The labor unions have at present
forty-two members in the House of
Commons
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-11

The United State Supreme Court
recently heard arguments in a case
that involves the constitutionality of
the federal child labor law which de-
nies interstate shipment to commod-
,ities made in whole or in part by
children under IA years of age. The
case started in North Carolina, where
cotton mill owners are objecting to
this restriction. The Federal De-
partment of Justice is defending the
law,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-11

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO..
Telegraph Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-11

Ell. .STACKPOLE,P Prss't s. Editor-iH-C hisf
f. r. OYSTER. Business MdndEsr.
GUS M. STEINMETZ, MaHdging Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-11
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg sells many
tons of steel to car building
works?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-11

"Have you decided to do your
bit?"
"I am going in for farming.
think it Will be perfectly grand just
to vegetate."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-11
proof.

PROOF.
THAT fellow wouldn't lend money
. his best friend. He refused to
buy one of Uncle Sans Liberty
Bonds"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-11
OUR DAILY LAUGH

Bug-It makes me sore.
WormA-What does?
Bug-Why old Turtle can take .
bath whenever he wants. He carries
O batktub on his back all the time.