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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-06-25
SOUTH SIDE NEWS
Entertained Thursday

Til" members Of the Luther Lea Eu"
Of the ZION lutheran church Will give
AN entertainment Thursday evening IN
tn" social rooms al H. church. nc
rooms Will l." decorated in flags ana
"Inhl"InS representing tho -tlli"d Ma
tons. Tlp" pr"K:am - rs follows:
Quarlrt---MiSSrS R"Ss Tuttl". Ehul;L
ll'lirhrand; M"SSrH. Walter R"E"rs.
.Tuhu Dunn!nE.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-06-25

The distinguishing feature Of furniture OF
the Colonial days is its massive appearance and
in the scroll effect found in the feet and posts
of all pieces The highest character Of work
manship is evidenced in the construction OF
this genuinely American Period furniture,
which we show in Golden Oak, American Wal
nut and Mahogany.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-03
THE STATE PRESS

Never has President in the his
tory of the country had such support
as is being given to Woodrow Will
son. Lincoln never. had it until a
few months before his .Hcath. Nc
Kinley never had il There were
too many who rsver forgave him
for being the leading advocate of the
protective tariff. But the right of
free speech will never be abridged
in this country.-Lebanon Daily
News.
There will be general satisfaction
over the action of the senate post
office committee in recommending
an increase of fifteen per cent. in the
pay. of all postal employees, except
ing postmasters of the first, second
and third class. The question has
been debated long while and the
conclusion reached by the members
of congress seems to be fair and
equitable. or at least as much so as
is possible under existing conditions.
There is no class of government en-
ployes who do more work for small
er pay than those of the postoffice
department. In many instances.
particularly in the railway mail serv-
ice, they have been notoriously
d.-Philadelphia Inquirer.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-03
DAUPHIN COUNTY DRY"

AUPHIN county is going to be
on the water wagon so far as
its delegation in the Legisla-
ture is concerned next January. 1t
is conceded on all sides that any
other course by candidates for the
Legislature in this section would be
equal t. political suicide. The senti-
ment in favor of the ratification of
the prohibition amendment is so
strong already that all parties will
probably nominate dry" candi-
dates.
It has been understood for weeks
that the Republican organization
leaders have no other thought than
the nomination of men who will
favor the amendment AS a result of
this attitude it is believed there will
be practically no contest worthy the
name in the general elections so far
as the prohibition issue is concerned.
If other counties take the same
attitude the prohibition fight will be
over at the primaries, without the
ghost of chance of a wet" Legis-
lature being elected in November.
The great danger lies in stirring up
factional fights between avowedly
dry" candidates for other offices. 1t
would be little short of crime to let
such a thing happen, but there are
signs on the horizon that it may be
attempted. If temperance leaders
permit themselves to be led into a
fight of this kind, at the expense of
the legislative contests, where the
fate of the federal amendment really
rests, they wifi lay themselves open
to the suspicion of being more in
terested in the election of personal
favorites than they are in the tri-
umph of the cause itself. Such fool
ishness may be permitted elsewhere,
but it is not going to be permitted
in this county, if those truly inter-
csted in the adoption of the prohibi-
ton amendment can help it.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-03
Attacking Compensation Lalp

If there are faults in the State
Compensation Law, whose constitu-
tionality is attacked in a suit filed
this week in the local Federal court,
they should be barred as quickly as
possible so that the act can be
amended at the next legislative ses-
sion.
In such cases as have been in
stituted since the law went into eff
feet it seems TO have withstood the
constitutional tests. 1t is under
stood, however, that new issues are
raised in the case just filed and they
will be presented to the court.
The compensation act was passed
to remove injustice in the tfeat-
ment of the faithful, devote[ foilers
of the state and to ligkSen public
burdens growing from the care of
the dependent families of injured
workmen.
In the passage of this act it is
obvious that conscientious effort
was made to deal fairly with the
employer as well as with his en-
ployes. The subject dealt with is
such a comprehensive one, however,
that the passage of an act that would
not result in suits in court was al
most out of the question.
Each case instituted, however,
will have the effect of shedding more
light on the law so that the legisla-
ture will be able to deal with it more
intelligently in every effort made to
amend it's provision in accordance
with the modern trend of thought
and wider experience with regard to
matters at issue.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-03
REFUGE FOR WOMEN

THE public naturally wondered,
when it was announced by the
police department Monday that
there is no place in the city where
a homeless, helpless woman might
End refuge over night, why the
Young Women's Christian Association
had not foreseen this need and pro-
vided for it. So it was with much
pleasure that the Telegraph last
evening published the associations s
announcement that it is ready at any
and all times to give shelter Ito
stranded girls or women, and that as
many as a dozen can be cared for in
the rooms set aside for that purpose
without overcrowding.
The Young Women's Christian As
sociation, it is announced, has been
equipped for this service for a long
time and actually has provided
scores with bed and lodging. The
might bell' is within reach at all
hours and none is too humble to
receive the organizations bounty.
This is as it Should be. 1t is COM
forting to know that there is such a
place in the city. The police, in cir
cumstances similar to those which
arose Saturday night, when a mother
and two children applied at the
Mayors office for lodging, should not
hesitate to avail themselves of the
plant of the Y. w. c. A.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-03
A BANNER COUNTY

THE Telegraph recommends to
the women of the West Shore
the patriotic meeting to be
held in the Camp Hill High School
Friday afternoon by the woman's
committee of the Council of Nation
al Defense. The woman in the home
is no less a factor in the war than
the soldier in the trenches. Just
to the extent that she does her full
duty the soldier is able to fulfill his,
for unless the households of the
country conserve the present food
supply and plan to increase that of
the coming year the efforts of the
soldier will be all in vain and we
may be whipped by the only foe
that can overcome our armed
legions-which is hunger.
Cumberland is a banner county
in the matter of all kinds of war
work. 1t stands in the front rank
of counties throughout the country
in many respects. The women of
the West Shore are getting together
to hear what they can do to help win
the war. From the standpoint of
national patriotism and local pride
they ought to take advantage of
the opportunity in large numbers,
and doubtless they will.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-03
Senator Sprouts Liberty Loan Appeal

us for further aid in the task of fl
nancing the war, and the Third Lib
erty Loan must be oversubscribed if
the men who are fighting and dying
for us. are to be victorious, and hu-
man liberty preserved.
"As David Lloyd George has said
Your firing line is the bank or
postoffice in which you buy your
bonds. To reach that firing line and
to become an active combatant
yourself, there are no communicat-
ing trenches to grope along, no bar
rage to face, no horrors, no wounds.
The road to patriotism is clear be-
fore you; follow it, and it will lead,
ere long, to safety for our people and
victory for our cause
THE motto Love of Country
Lead@ is not only that of The Union
League, but of every loyal Pennsyl-
vanian as well, and we call upon
you, the citizens of our great Com
monwealth, to lend your money to
the Government in order that the
blood of our forefathers shall not
have been shed in vain"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-03
The GubernatOridt Contest
[ Altoona Tribunel

Thus far four gentlemen have
presented themselves to the Repub-
licans of Pennsylvania as candidates
for the gubernatorial nomination.
Three of these have declared unre-
servedly in favor of the election of
senators and representatives to the
general assembly who are favorable
to the ratification of the prohibitory
amendment to the Federal Constitu-
ton. Each has affirmed his inten-
tion to use his influence to carry rati-
fication through. The fourth aspir-
ant, Asa Weimer, of Lebanon county,
frankly proclaims his opposition to
prohibition. The Tribune advises it's
friends to register a vote against Mr..
Weimer. AS for the other gentle
men, Messrs. O'Neil, Sproul and Hab-
good, since they all three stand on
the Tribune's platform and since
they are all men of their word, this
newspaper will not take sides be-
fore the primaries, but will cordially
support the nominee, whether that
be O'Neil, Sproul or Habgood.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-03
Over tie lob
tM Pexxa.

The Blair County Medical Society
has "emphatically" endorsed Ma
tional Prohibition, with the state
ment: "AS physicians we realize
the necessity for the abolition of the
use of Intoxicating drinks for the
welfare and happiness of the human
family and for the prevention of the
awful amount of human suffering
that accompanies their use" Also:
THE medical profession no longer
dispensable in the treatmen of dis
eases, but knows that they cause
HARM" thus denying the argument
in favor of beer and light wines,
which the booze sellers are trying
to save from the wreck.
The youngest American soldier
preparing to fight against the Kais-
er is believed to be William Bren-
ner, of Marietta, who is barely 16,
and has been in service a year.
Read about the wild adventure of
a Pennsylvania Railroad conductor
as narrated in the Lewistown Sem
tinel: Conductor Stonebraker, one
of long line of railroad men on the
Middle division was cut off with his
crew at Lewistown Junction on Fri
day for rest under the siXteen-houl
law and visited Lewistown proper fol
the first time in his life although he
has passed through it almost daily
for the past thirty-two years. He
speaks very highly of the town and
says it has our sister village at Miffl-
in skinned to DEATH"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-03
THE INCOME TAX
Monthly Payments" Sale Reported During
Year Made

a which states
that therefor is to be made in monthly ana
the last made How he reports the amount of profit
is held that dollar received under such contract
n
article dealer portion of the profit to be derived from
payments during the should be included in the dealers
dealer $500 another under contract call
twenty S4O0.
the number of yields
a s a
heretofore
o be included
income, the such
a reasonable be as a deduction
the repossessed article o.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-03
A LOVER OF CHILDREN

The Red Cross Magazine publishes
in it's Junior Number for April. 1918,
a series of delightful unpublished
letters from Joel Chandler Harris,
creator of the immortal Uncle Re-
mus to his small daughters, Mildred
and Lillian. His letters display that
rare charm and good humor which
has compelled the love of all
America. For example:
az March, 1897.
MY Dear Daughter:
Conhdentally, between You and
me. entire nous, sub rosa, Qikewise
nix cum arous) I'm the most worth
less and forgetful daddy you ever
had. l get absorbed in my work, and
forget to send your papers when they
sbould/be sent. And then when you
fail to get them you sit and bite
your fingers and say to yourself that
your are forgotten; and then along
comes one of the dear sisters-or
two of them-and they see you look
ing doleful. Then this dialogue oc-
ours:
"Sr. NJ. L.-"That child is not feel
ing we'll / think she ought to have
a pill =, IL
Two. at the very least. See how she
of course
"Sr. Sacred Heart Cat foot of stair
way). Did 1 hear you say "liver?"
Three pills for the liver. Don't for
get, three
Chorus behind the scenes.
oh, a doctor must be a cheerful
giver'-(treble)
One pill for a shake and two for
a shiver'-(alto)
And three for that awful thing the
liver'-(bass.)
Consequently you must be feel
ing very much better. Why, of
course ] received your report and
appreciated the wonderful record
YOU are making. But don't study so
hard as to give you a distaste for
your textbooks. Health-my dear
-health-is the main thing at your
age. Still, I like your' reports; they
are a great satisfaction to me, and If
you can get such records and not
overtax your mind. all right.
Your affectionate.
DADDY"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-03
MRS. CINCINNATUS

FRS. MARY LINCOLN BECK
NJ WITH, great-granddaught
Ava of Abraham Lincoln, who has
been representing the woman's divi-
sion of the Creel Committee on Pub
lie Misinformation in Cuba, has quit
Mr., Creel to engage in a useful and
patriotic work. She is going to
plow the fields of the family farm
in Vermont as a part of her war
work this spring. She has inherited
sufficient Drawn from the railsplitter
of Illinois to do mans stint in the
glebe, and the sinews of the Green
Mountain boys are now being devot-
ed to trench-digging.
Mrs. Beckwith is a trump! The
honest plow, has become one of
our chief weapons against the Hun.
II Cincinnatus were alive to-day he
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-03
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
-E. M. Kaufman. city treasu

-E. NJ. Kaufman, city treasurer
of Lancaster, is serving his fifteenth
term.
&C. A. Stearns, just appointed a
clerk in the Department of Public
Instruction, served for years as coun-
ty school head in Susquehanna
county.
Howard Knauss. manager of
the Reading Iron Company's fur
mace at Emaus and an authority on
the Pennsylvania iron business, Is
developing ideas of running for the
Legislature.
DIR. ]. T. Rugh, Philadelphia
surgeon appointed a major in the
Army, is an authority on ortho-
pedics.
John f. Boisseau, long with the
Bell Telephone publicity depart
ment, will become a banker in Bal
timore.
Henry f. Brengle, new head of
the Philadelphia Trust Company,
has been identified with Philadel-
phia banking for twenty-five years.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-03

activities, which have been nation
wide and have been strongly infiu-
entail in developing the will of the
people to withstand hardships and
make sacrifices uncomplainingly for
the sake of the cause. Very quietly,
without bass-drum or fireworks. Mr..
Taft has gone about his work until
now his endorsement of any move
ment or enterprise is sufficient guar
antee to insure it the full confidence
of the public. He is a bigger man
to-day than when he was President,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-03

would tuck in his toga, spit on his
hands and hitch another gang plow
to the tractor.
Unfortunately. while this descend
ant of the Great Liberator is at the
plow, Mr.. Creel is sowing the
thistles of Democratic political
propaganda and the tares of false
report. But with the aid of the
Beckwiths the country will win.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-03
. S president of the Union League

A ) president OF the Union League
~ of Philadelphia. Senator w. c.
Sproul, has issued the follow
ing patriotic appeal to the citizens of
Pennsylvania:
Here in our state, the Declara-
tion of independence was framed
and signed, and for seven long years,
suffering untold hardships, our
forefathers fought that we might be
free.
In the dark days of later years,
when it seemed that this Republic
was to be split asunder, a group of
patriotic citizens of our city and
Commonwealth founded The Union
League, to support the National Gov
ernment; and, as it is written in our
annals-'Their lives and words must
continue an inspiring stimulus to
rouse this and future generations to
the obligations that rest, either in
times of war or peace. upon every
citizen of the Republic
Our Government now calls upon
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-03

The task of making out income tax
statements has been completed for
this year. Now let us have a revision
of the hodge-podge of laws. along
some such line as that suggested by
Senator Smoot. so that next year any
man of intelligence and ordinary
business ability can understand what
the law requires.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-03

Vice-President Marshall said in a
recent speech in New York City, at is
a remarkable thing that the American
people always elect their fools to office
and leave their wise men standing on
the street corners" To which Presi-
dent Wilson will probably say: Speak
only for yourself. Tom"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-03
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1918

There t0GS q man in our tot1n
INFESTED all his health,
With mGdIy dUdriciOus aim,
TO tCin the goal Of tCedltb;;
And t0hen the same he had attained
With all his might and main,
He Udtnly ldCiShed all his 1CedIth
To get his health again.
AMOS r.. WELLS.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-03

Every time a Republican urges the
administration to cease delay and
speed the war; the administration
retorts. you are trying to hamper the
prosecution of the war" But where
would we be to-day if no one had
raised a howl over the persistent pro-
erastination?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-03

Although government economists
set an earning minimum of S7SS a
year, postmen only get $500 when
they enter the service.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-03

The United States used 55 pei
cent. of the worlds output Of tin in
1916.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-03

When a workingman in England
leaves his occupation and doesn't
find another in fourteen days, he is
automatically in the army.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-03

Women by diluting the British
army from the kitchens up to clerical
work have now released ten divisions
for the firing line.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-03

The United States Wage Board, in
vestigating present time living condi-
tions, found a number of families
actually saving money on $500 in
comes.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-03

Baltimore Clothing Cutters I'm
ion has secured wage increases of 81
a week.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-03

Seventy per cent. of the tobacco
workers in Germany are women.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-03

Machinists of Kingston, Can, have
established a nine-hour workday and
a wage rate of 81 cents an hour.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-03

Boilermakers in Altoona, Pa, have
organized the first local of their craft
on the Pennsylvania railroad east OF
Pittsburgh.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-03
EDITORIAL COMMENT

Teuton war of "self-defense"
against Scandinavian countries is
about due.-Wall Street Journal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-03
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg steel is used
TO manufacture fine instru-
mentS?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-03
HISTORIC HARRIsBUR

HISTORIC HARRISBURG
Conrad Weiser' was one of the
first men TO predict that Harris
Ferry would eclipse Middletown and
1t made him unpopular.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-03


against Scandinavian countries is
about due.-Wall Street Journal.
Russia is learning that Germany's
Idea of peace is for the other fellow
to stop ighting.-Newark News.
Another good home guard is the
home garden.-Chicago Daily News.
Burglary alarmingly increases in
Germany; and what can be expected
when the state sets the example? p
Wall Street Journal.
Manchuria seems to be again get
ting in readiness to play the role of
an innocent bystander.-New York
Morning Telegraph.
Somebody has figured out that
the new National party is the twen-
ty-third third party" but you can
not scare it that way.-Boston Her
aid.
"a mess of Russians left us but of
late. ."-"Love's Labor's Lost" Mess
is the word, now as then.-Chicago
Tribune.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-03

The Mohammedan men in India
eat no meat, but do the work OF
horses.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-03

Another. good home guard is the
home garden.-Chicago Daily News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-03
OUR DAILY LAUGH

"It is said that furs will be very
much worn this fall"
IL know my furs will be. They
we're very much worn last season, in
,act nearly worn out"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-03

A man showed up at one of the
hotels yesterday morning, in a high
lly incensed condition. He demand
ed breakfast, and when he was
shown the way, declared that some
one with belated idea of April first
jokes, had turned his clock forward
an hour. The joke was perpetrated
on April 1 and hit on April 2.
What made the man indignant was
that he did not discover the trouble
until he got down stairs and found
no breakfast ready.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-03

In less than three months the
Brotherhood of Railway Car Men has
enlarged it's rolls on the 500 Line
railroad from 40 to 900 members.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-03

please give me Thrive Stamp"
asked a man at the postoffice win
dow, which handles the stamps. The
man came from foreign shore.
New name for that" remarked
the clerk.
whats wrong with it?" asked the
man.
well, they're called Thrift
Stamps, but you stick to them, and
you'll thrive all right said the clerk
"Oh, dis Engliese," quoth the
alien.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-03
LABOR NOTES

Ffremen at Montreal, Canada, are
knitting socks for soldiers.
Graniteville Is. c. textile workers
demand higher wages.
Bricklayers at Memphis, Tenn, get
S71s cents an hour.
The Mohammedan men in India
eat no meat, but do the work of
horses.
Seventy per cent. of the tobacco
workers in Germany are women.
Baltimore Clothing Cutters I'm
ion has secured wage increases of So
a week.
The United States used 55 per
cent. of the worlds output of tin in
1916.
Although government economists
set an earning minimum of S7SS a
year, postmen only get $500 when
they enter the service.
Machinists of Kingston, Can, have
established nine-hour workday and
a wage rate of 81 cents an hour.
Women by diluting the British
army from the kitchens up to clerical
work have now released ten divisions
for the firing line.
When a workingman in England
leaves his occupation and doesn't
find another in fourteen days, he is
automatically in the army.
The United States Wage Board, in
vestigating present time living condi-
tions, found a number of families
actually saving money on $500 in
comes.
Boilermakers in Altoona, Pa, have
organized the first local of their craft
on the Pennsylvania railroad east of
Pittsburgh.
In less than three months the
brotherhood of Railway Car Men has
enlarged it's rolls on the 500 Line
railroad from 40 to 900 members.
A Massachusetts constitutional con-
vention has practically agreed to sub-
nit a statewide initiative and refer
endum plan to the electorate.