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Oxford eagle., 1918-05-16

OF this state to raise
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large quantities NJ
desirable food in
hHH,3IE2 their gardens than I'm
kNFsIssN many less favored
XEtEEksX3 states in the Union.
<SsE2 Make your square
yard Of earth in your
garden produce ita
greatest quantity of food
Last year ii was said that one-sixth
OF the food supply OF Germany was
grown in their home gardens. As we
are at work levery one Of us) to
achieve victory over the autocratic
ideas OF Germany. IL is necessary for
Us to beat them al their own game
t. efore. the Food Administrator Of
Mississippi requests that every home
grow q garden producing such food as
the housewife desires. and then see 10
IL that none OF il is wasted. BY so ,
irg you wiil be doing a great part to
help win the war
We have reports and letters on file
in this office from all over the United
States on garden subjects showing
that the Interest is intense throughout
the whole United States: ii extends
beyond The boundary of this country,
and reaches TO wherever the American
flag floats: from Hawaii. particularly.
we note that food admin istyatioRs and
agricultural departments show very
great care and interest in having every
foot OF ground that is available on thai
island planted with good seed and cul
tivated to increase the food supply.
In Mississippi the ground may pro
duce so many variations OF vegetables
that you will find a great interest In
selecting a variety which will be pleas-
ing 10 your palate when the food has
come 10 maturity.
Let every man and woman do their
utmost 10 produce a bigger g7sden an
better garden than ever before
grown.
Oxford eagle., 1918-05-16
UNITED STATES
FOOD Administration
MISSISSIPPI DIVISION
sy HARPER LEIPER,
Field Representative.
HOW ABOUT YOUR
BIG WAR GARDEN 7

The fertility OF the soil in Missi.sip-
pi. together with the climatic condi.
ton. makes it possible for the people
Oxford eagle., 1918-05-16

The Eagle Is bigger and better
ana it Is g g.cssiag better every week
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-16
Pershing Advances
(From New York Times)

There is a thrill for the American
people in the news that their First
Army is in battle on the st. Mihiel
salient and advancing on the outer
works of Metz. Hitherto American
troops have co-operated with the
French in the Rheims-Soissons Sec
tor and with the British in Artois.
The Americans are now fighting as a
homogeneous force and playing the
greater part in strategicai move
ment, the French cooperating on
their right and left. This movement
is being directed by General Pershing,
and the honors of victory will be his.
He is attacking on front of twelve
miles, and he has his own flying corps
to signal to his artillery and bomb
the enemy. The Stars and Stripes are
going forward after long period of
waiting, which has tried the patience
of the American people. They have
longed to see their own army in ac-
ton, having faith in it's invincibility,
desiring a demonstration of its SOL
dierly qualities not only to impress
our brave allies, but to show the
Germans how the Americans whom
they have disparaged and affected to
despise can fight for just cause.
The glorious day has come at last.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-16
Let the Punishment Fit the Crime


II behooves us to be on our guard.
Already German propaganda is
busily at work in this country to
establish a condition of mind on
which it hopes eventually to realize
IN weakened public sentiment. 1t
emphasizes the spirit of forgiveness
let bygones be bygones-they see
their mistake-the German people
were not to blame. and so on.
There is only one safe course for
civilization, unless it seeks repeti-
ton of the present confagration. The
oHender at the court of nations must
not only be punished, but must be
rendered hafmless.
In the case of an insane, or ma
licious bad man loaded with dam
gerous weapons, who is apprehend-
ed killing enemy and innocent alike,
he is first of all deprived of his
weapons, and then locked UP and
carefully watched until reason is re-
stored.
The Hun is the bad man of the
world. AS the first condition to
peace, there should be taken from
Germany all her dangerous weap-
ons of warfare. All battleships, sub
marines and ships of war. All weap-
ons and remaining ammunition of
her armies. All machinery used in
the construction and manufacture of
same. All records of the military
system with which her secret-serv-
ice archives are filled by the ton. AS
partial offset to the industries and
cathedralS and towns wantonly de-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-16
ARCH-TRAITORS
MUCH has been said by way of
lVl newspaper criticism of George

M newspaper criticism Of George Geo Ua
Creel and the Governments
official publicity bureau, and de-
servedly so, but the Committee on
Public Information has justified its
existence in the exposure of Lenine
and Trotzky as the arch-traitors of
Russia, who sold their country and
its people to Germany for $25, 200, 900
in Prussian gold.
The proof which Mr.. CreeI offers
is beyond question. 1t leaves abso-
lutely no room for doubt. Lenine
and Trotzky, posing as friends of the
common people of Russia, have been
in reality the paid tools of Germany.
Instead of the high-minded ideal
lists, befriending the poor at the ex-
pense of the rich and striving for
universal brotherhood, this pair Of
international gutter snipes has been
plotting a serfdom for the entire
Russian race worse than anything
the Cars of the past 400 years have
imposed.
Developments in Russia in recent
months have revealed Lenine. and
Trotzky for what they are; the Creel
papers are merely corroborative evil
dence, so far as they are concerned.
They and their .Bolshevik govern
ment have so shamelessly worn the
livery of the Kaiser that little proof
was needed in their case. But with
Germany it is different.
The imperial government all along
has virtually contended that it did
not start the war, despite all the evil
dence to the contrary; but now 1t is
proved before the whole world tina,
the Kaiser was planning hostilities
against France and Russia, which of
course included Belgium, as early as
June. 1914, and that If the Serbian
excuse had not arisen another would
have been found. The Kaiser is left
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-16
CONGRATULATIONS

have no words of sympathy to
waste
On those brave boys who sail
across the sea
To give their youth, their strength
and energy,
And of wars mighty rack and rue
to tastei
To one and all say, with eager
haste,
envy you so glorious a chance!
Would that I, too, might serve,
Somewhere in France"
Or with Italia's host or Britain's
band
Fighting for honor, for my native
landi
For stalwart natures, ideals true and
claste,
There is no forum greater than
that field
Where Right and Wrong, in mortal
combat, strive!
Proud should they be who make
such conflict yield
That splendid Peace on which the
nations thrive!
I have no tears of sympathy to shed
For those frail women who must
give a son
To aid in deeds that now are be-
ing done
Where cannons roar and shell-torn
earth is red!
Nay, / am filled with happiness in
stead!
For, in the lists of human enter
prise,
What goal shines brighter in am
bilious eyes
Than this. to which the patriot soul
is led?
What life is nobler, and, if death
must be,
Whence comes more glory to
eternity
Than from the annals of Wrong S
" overthrow
The righteous conquest of an evil
foe?
Soldiers and Mothers, you are
blessed by fate!
do not PITY congratulate!
LURANA SHELDON,
In New York Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-16
PerShing Says Prayers Help

General Pershing says that the
prayers of Americans at home are
helping the soldiers in the trenches.
In letter to the Rev. DR.. Charles
S. Mcfarland. replying to greetings
of the Federal Council of the
Churches of Christ in America. he
says:
THE powerful resources of the
nation which have been placed un-
grudgingly at the disposition of the
army are indispensable for the ac-
complishment of our duty. But we
know that mere wealth of material
resources or even of technical skill
will not suffice The invisible and un-
conquerable influence let loose by
the prayers and hopes and ideals of
Christian America, of which you are
representative, Is incalculable. 1t
furnishes the soul and motive for the
military body and it's operations. It
steadies us to resist manfully those
temptations which assail us in the
traordinary conditions of life in
which we find ourselves.
I'VE of the army think with graf
itude of the unfiagging service and
wonderful trust in us of the
churches at home"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-16

stroyed in Belgium and France, burn
or destroy all her plants for the
making of utensils of war, and all
shipyards where warships are built.
Remove all submarines and aircraft
and destroy the places where these
have been or can be kept. Carry
away all materials gathered for the
manufacture of things of war. Root
and branch, let the work be thor
ough and unwearied. Forbid her to
maintain either navy or army for q
long term of years. Let the leaders
who represent the spirit of Hunism
suffer the just penalty of their
crimes, by permanent exile. or 9TH
erwise, as necessity may. decree.
With these things accomplished
there may be hope, in the course of
two generations that the German
people may come to realize what
constitutes the qualifications for
membership in the family of ma
tions.
When the poison gas of German
propaganda reaches us. as it inevi-
tably will one of these days, <and
your generous sympathies are ap-
pealed to, ''to forgive and forget" "
do not forget the enormity of the
was it's occasion; and the spirit of
greed and power which prompted
it all; and like a juror sworn to put
away his sentiment of pity, and rem
der only justice according to the law,
so let us each stand firm and lend
our voice to a public sentiment
which demands punishment for the
offender, and protection to the
world
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-16
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1918
You cannot dream yourself into q
character; you must hammer and
forge yourSlf into one.-FRoUDE.
NO PEACE NOW

THE Austrian proposal for peace
discussions by the belligerent
nations is an admission by the
Central Powers that their case is
hopeless. Tney are like a party of
thieves cornered by the police trying
to save their necks and retain their
booty by promising to be good in the
future. We cannot make truce with
,murderers and robbers. We cannot
sign a treaty by understanding with
the Kaiser who has a habit of tear
ing up treaties and pronouncing
them mere scraps of paper when they
stand in his way. We cannot make
peace while the Kaiser has it in his
power to start another war.
Germany and Austria are on their
last legs. Another year will see them
conquered an6 powerless to again
0rench the world in blood. Their
governments have been guilty of
crimes that would take an individual
to the gallows. They must be pun
1shed and punished so severely that
never again will any tyrant of the
kaiser's stripe have the temerity to
raise a mailed fist against weaker ma
tions. The blood of outraged woman
hood, the sufferings of enslaved girls,
the MANNED bodies of childish vic
Tins of German hate, the pale ghosts
of starved babies; these and myriads
OF Justice-loving men, ready to make
the supreme sacrifice on the altar of
liberty, raise their voices to the world
against premature peace. We
would be false to our own boys who
have died on the fields of France if
we paused now with victory in our
grasp.
No, we must go on. The road is
bloody and the going hard, but at the
end lies the hope of humanity for a
millennium OF peace, and we must
not pause until we have attained the
goal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-16
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

-E. Lowry Humes. former legis-
lator and United States district
attorney for western Pennsylvania
has been commissioned a mayor Ii.
the judge advocate generals depart
ment.
Horace r. Manley, the new
United States commissioner at Phila-
delphia, is Media insurance and
rear estate man.
The Rev. H. L. Chance, of Phila-
delphia. has taken charge at Allen
town.
Thomas Kennedy, miners pres
ident in the lower anthracite field.
is expected to be reelected at Mes
quehoning this week.
&C. D. Weirick. district attorney
of Lebanon county, is active in the
abor work of his county.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-16
A Mothers SeUen Soldier Sons
TCol. Harvev's War weewlv

tCol. Harvey's War Weewlyl
Well, we do owe Redlands an
apology. and that apology is ''ereby
rendered with the hope that 1t will
be accepted as frankly as it is Of
fered. At the same time we would
wish to extend to the people of Red
wood City, San Mateo county, Cali
fornia, our hearty congratulations on
having so splendid an American
mother as Mrs. w. H. Wyman among
their citizens. She is an honor not
only to Redwood City but to San
Mateo county, to the State of Cali
fornia and, indeed, to all American
motherhood. And we would still
further congratulate the people of
Redwood City and of San Mateo
county on the superb way they rose
to appreciation of Mrs. Wyman's
patriotism when the facts in her
case were brought to their attention.
Not only did Mrs. Wyman get the
seven-star service flag she coveted,
but she got, through formal presen-
tation from the people of Fresno city
gold seven-star service pin, with
every star a jewel, which ornament,
with a very pardonable pride, she
is now wearing.
And that is not all. The people of
San Mateo county are raising q fund
wherewith to purchase for Mrs. Wy
man a home which is to be all her
own, and in which we hope she will
live to elcome those seven splendid
.ons of hers when the war is over.
Incidentally, we may mention that,
after some little trouble in learning
the correct address of Mrs Wyman,
we have committed to the care of
the Politicalmaster General certain
substantial testimonials of regard
which we received from War Weekly
readers. and which we also greatly
hope-although the hope, alas, is
tempered with some measure OF
doubt-that the Politicalmaster Gen
eral will succeed in delivering into
the lady's hands before the war is
ended and the boys get back.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-16
A "WET" PLATFORM

T<HE Palmer-McCormic wing of
i the Democratic party was con-
sistently inconsistent on Satur-
day when, after it had "repudiated"
Judge Bonniwell because he opposes
prohibition, it adopted a platform
which makes no mention of the pro-
hibition question.
In other words, the Palmer-Mc-
Cormick crowd pretend to be dry"
but they are very careful not to Of
fend the breweries, the distillers and
Che saloonkeepers by taking a firm
stand for prohibition. If they were
sincerely dry they would have
adopted ringing temperance plank.
They would have come out openly
and would have urged their candi-
dates to work and vote for the adop-
ton of the national amendment py
the next Legislature.
The platform is made up of the
same old meaningless mouthinss.
1t is interesting and important only
for what it does not endorse, rather
than for what 1t does. Palmer aud
Mccormick are for prohibition Just
so long as it is politically profitable
for them to be so. Senator Sprouts
manly declaration in favor of the
prohibition amendment is not only
in strong contrast with this hedging
and lodging by the little Democratic
politicians who have been saying he
is not sincere, but it shows him to be
man with the courage of his cou-
victions, while the Palmers, the Nc
Cormicks and their ilk are hiding
their heads in the political sands ana
pretending there is no liquor issue
by declining to discuss it. And these
political towards have the temerity
still to- go about attempting to con-
ceal their wolfish characters be-
meath the sheepskins of reform.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-16
AN IMPORTANT SERVICE

THE Harrisburg Chamber of
Commerce is performing high
ly important service in bringing
to Harrisburg the noted housing ex-
pert, Lawrence WELLER. Mr.. WELLER
comes for three days this week, dur
ing which he will make a brief sur
vey of the local housing situation,
and will outline his findings and his
proposed treatment at luncheon of
the Chamber on Friday.
Harrisburg is fortunate in procur-
ing so able an engineer. Mr.. Veillcr
is secretary and director of the Ma
tional Housing Association. He is a
pioneer in his line, having given
twenty years of his life to the study
of housing conditions and the cor
rection of housing evils. He is not
a theorist. His plans have been
worked out economically and salts
factorily in scores of cities. He is
eminently practical, with no fixed
ideas as to what must or must not
be done. He is perhaps at his best
in devising methods for the treat
ment of individual problems. He
knows how to make old houses hab-
table and presentable and rundown
communities desirable as residence
sections. He knows how to make
very dollar spent buy one hundred
cents worth of housing improve
ment
Harrisburg is facing a serious
shortage of houses. There are those
who do not believe we should confess
our lack in this respect. They think
that by attempting to conceal it
from the world it will somehow or
other cure itself and that manufac-
turers and shippers will continue to
come to Harrisburg with their
plants. regardless of the fact that we
have no place for workmen or off,
cials. This is a narrow and a fool
ish view If we want more people
We must provide houses for them.
1t is possible that the Government
will do something for us to meet an
emergency due largely to war condi-
tions and the enlargement here of
war industries But, at any rate, we
should plan now for what eventually
we must do. The Chamber of Com
merce views the situation correctly.
Its housing survey is it's most i'm
portant service to the community
this year. .....,s
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-16

is convicted out of his own mouth.
He is seen by the world as the arch
fiend of all time. even as TrotzlSy
and Lenine are exposed as traitors to
their country and traffickers with
him in human life and human liber-
ties.
Is there anybody who wonders
why we are at war? Is there any,
body who fails to understand why
we are willing to sacrifice our last
man and our last dollar to keep this
frightful Prussian Thing from the
shores of America?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-16
Booze Celebrating Departure

"A man wounds woman companion
following drunken orgy" is the way
the headlines tell of chooting at a
Kansas City hotel. "At the time the
police entered the room two quarts
of whisky were standing on the
dresser" the account says. THE man
was apparently intoxicated"
Booze is determined to impress on
the country that no mistake has been
made in the determination to Danish
it from the United States.-Kansas
City Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-16

Let US all hope that a proper bill
will be presented at the next session
of the Legislature providing for the
utilization of prison labor on the roads
and public work. An average of 215
prisoners. are in the Dauphin county
jail. and because there is no provision
in law for working these men they
are boarding at the expense of the
taxpayers instead of doing the work
that is being done in other parts of
the country by those serving terms
for all kinds of offenses. Warden
Francies, head of the State institution
in Center county. strongly favors the
use of prison labor as humanitarian
as well as economic policy. Dauphin
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-16
A CORRECTION
To the Editor of the Teiegrobh.

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
In the newspaper reports of the
recent Dauphin county w. C. T. u
convention my name was mentioned
as chairman of the Committee or
Arrangements for the Public Schools
contest, one of the most important
of the whole year. The credit foi
this should have gone to Mrs. John
DeGray. who did an excellent piece
of work. If you will publish this ]
shall be greatly obliged.
MRS. II. b. HARTZLER.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-16

Republicans who still believe the
liquor interest should have considera-
tion are manifestly blind to the signs
of the times. The Republican State
Committee should at least see the
handwriting on the wall, and blaze
the way for all candidates.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-16
Goino to Knit, Mdybe?

General March says 95 per cent.
of the American troops are being
withdrawn from the French and
English and concentrated at a point
that he did not designate. Now
what do you suppose they are being
concentrated for? To knit socks,
maybe kansas City Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-16
Always OffensiDe

Germany and Austria have agreed
that the present is no time for a
peace offensive, according to a news
dispatch from Switzerland. The
present appears to be a bad time
for any sort of an offensive for Ger
many and Austria, except as to their
conversation, which is always often
sive.-Kansas City Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-16
VIII They Miss Me-?

oh, will they miss me over here
When to the war I've gone;
And will they weep that one s
dear
Has put the khaki on?
I hope they'll miss me over here,
And likewise, I declare,
I hope all Huns that I come near
Will miss me over there.
Joshua Lott.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-16

Mr.. Palmer, praising National
Chairman Mccormick and himself in
this city, declared that both are now
engaged in "war work" Isn't it a
crime to drag these two patriots away
from their jobs to dabble in politics.
when the President insists that poll
tics is adjourned"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-16

1t is intimated in dispatches
from the now reduced st. Mihiel
salient that General Pershing's
obJectives in the offensive he has
Undertaken are limited.-New
York Times.
Limited, apparently. to the ability
of his husky fighters to keep up with
the fleeing Germans.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-16

Mississippi unions have Joined a
state federation.
Musicians at Stratford, Canada,
have organized,
Berlin, Germany. has 100000 mu-
milton workers.
When the British Trades Union
Congress meets at Derby in Septem-
Der for it's annual conference the
membership cf affiliated unions rep
resented probably will be more than
100000.
Right of approximately 100000 en-
ployes in shipyards controlled by
the Emergency Fleet Corporation to
organize trade unions and right of
employer to form similar organiza-
tions is recognized by the corpora
ton.
Chinese walters, long known to
this country, particularly the West,
arc making their first appearance in
London. Heretofore Chinese have
been employed as domestics only in
the Kitchen.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-16
ESteen1inq Others

Let nothing be done through strife
or vainglory; but in lowliness of
mind let each esteem other better
than themselves-Phili ii, g..
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-16

After the war those thousands of
German aliens interned at different
places in this country, and who are
constantly prating of the dear
Fatherland." should be Immediately
loaded on ships and sent to Germany.
Their room will be much more desir-
able than their company.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-16
Looking Unto the Lord

Therefore I will look unto the
Lord; 1 will wait for the God of my
salvation; my God will hear me-
Micah vii.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-16
DO YOU KNOW
That Harrisburg has more
people employed on the railroads
now than ever before?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG

I'm old days when there were
menaces to health, in Harrisburg,
the people got together and bought
the properties and cleaned them up.