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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-06
THE U-BOAT A FAILURE?

= NpICATIONS are. notwithstand-
ing the War Departments warn
ing of the possibility of a great
U-boat offensive soon, that the great
naval minds of Germany have lost
faith in the submarine as an in
strument capable of bringing Eng
land to her knees and so winning
the war for the Central Powers.
There is more than a hint of this
in the recent writing of Captain
Persius, whose naval criticisms have
had the ear of the German people
since the very start of the war.
Persius frankly admits that the
U-boat is Germany's last card and
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-06
Some Color Schemes

Brown, which is one of the colors
prevalent in Paris, is not likely to
be used to any extent in this country.
The very good reason for this d.
vergence of opinion about the color
schemes between the two countries
is probably due to the dye SITUATION
In Paris most of the blue and gray
dyes are used for the French SOL
diers' uniforms, just as on this side
of the water much of the brown
dyes are used for uniforms of khaki.
Gray, blue, green oyster color and
red will be, therefore, the most
worn, and combinations of these
with white or checked material are
very chic.-New York Herald.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-06
THE PEOPLES FORUM

criminal court. They report that
the city is immaculate. The police
know it isn't true, unless they are
blind, deaf, and dumb. I can't see
how the court can believe it and
know the citizens laugh at the whole
performance. This saloon, at the
next license court, will apply for Il
permission to legally sell all day
and all night What will be the re-
suit?
The Lynch Hotel, where 1 have
seen women pleading with their
husbands to come home. where at
IL a. m, the other Sunday morning
I saw two automobiles full of young
girls and men leave the place with
hilarity which could be heard at
Third street; then n few doors be-
low, you have another saloon-then
at Third and Verbeke another, then
a little above James another, then
at Verbeke and Williams another:
that makes six saloons within a
square.
In some other cities damages done
by a drunken man are paid by the
saloon owner.
1t isn't fair to only punish that
colored man. Our court, l think,
say that drunkenness is no excuse,
but that doesn't settle it. Common
sense would teach that some person
should be held responsible for poi
soning a man to such a degree that
he does what he wouldn't think of
doing, normally. That saloon
keeper should share in the punish
ment. Doesn't it seem ridiculous
that the people permit the licensing
the saloons which are the cause of
seventy-five per cent. of our crime.
The court is the servant of the peo-
pie and it reflects the. opinion of the
people. The voter who is not in
terested in having the best admins
tration is likewise guilty in this
case. It's a crime to punish only
that colored man.
]. H. EAGER.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-06
An AHenby Myth
From the London observerl

LFrom the London Observer
A strange tale is in circulation at
clubs where men from the East fore
gather, says "A Club Member" 1t
is said that, apart from General AL
lenby's unquestioned success, his
name has had a remarkable effect
on the Turks. For ,Allenby is by
them interpreted as Allah Nabi,
which means the man from Allah,
or the emissary of Allah. There
fore, his triumph has been accepted
as a direct divine interposition. This
was a stroke of luck which never en-
tered the minds of the war authori-
ties when they wisely gave him his
command.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-06
joy is not in things, it is in us
CHARLES WAGNER.
THE WAR CABINET BILL

rATOR CHAMBERLAIN,
~ 0er,ocrat: Senator Hitchcock
~ Democrat, and Senator Naos-
north Republican. each has lo''
a. senate of the United States thal
America is not playing the part IN
the war she is capable OF piaEins'
racb has said that President wilson
ors Secretary Baker have done DIG
.birgs in the face Of difficulties
Each has disclaimed any invent u
tito one iota of power srom elther
H. President or Secretary. All
three have declared their one pur-
nose in criticising has been ana Is 10
make America 100 per cent. eftec-
five against Germany by orihs'ns
- tbe administration aid more OF
the bir men of the country.
Surely. the friends OF Preslaen'
wilson will not persist in their asser-
.,,n, that the war cabinet bill IS
republican political scheme "ro"
;ts two leading eXponents are IN
e,or+iol Democrats. Surely 'he
pnos;dent will not dare to say that
~ .,,aea Senators are mistaken ana
that only he. is right, when the "iio'e
oo,,,+rv realizes that these men ere
in better position to know the Iru'h Il
ooroerning the things whereof theE
sDoak than the President hlmsen -
II has came down 10 this-that
leading men, regardless OF party
,,.,.e reached the belief that this war
can he successfully conducted Only
nv the united abilities and efforts
- tho whole country. 1t is not
one man lob nor a one party JOB.
II is bigger than men. 1t IS bigger
than parties.
We do not stop to ask The religious
convictions of the ffremen who re-
spond whenN our home is aolaze'
We have no right now 70 ask, is
this man a Democrat, or is that man
a Republican, when rescuers are
needed to save the very life of the
nation. The only question that
should have any weight ISIS he the
Rest man for the place."
The President contends that the
present machinery. designed wnen
the country was in its infancy, Is
ADEQUATE for the conduct Of the war
and that it's efficiency cannot be
improved upon by Congress. He
might with equal logic argue that
the organization of the country
general store of a half century back
is sufficient to operate successfully
a modern department store. The
protlems of the Civil War were
simple as compared with those CT
to-day, yet Lincoln found need OF
tn, service of big men outside his
own political party. That he dit
not under the circumstances deem
a war cabinet necessary is no proof
that he would be opposed to such
a measure as is now before Con.
gross under present circumstances
Ii taking the stand he does Presi.
dent Wilson not only assumes g
grave responsibility, but he il
trifline with the support Of Con.
gress and creating a measure a
doubt in the minds Of millions who
haze been standing behind hin
stcadfastly in this war and who vii
continue as long as he will permit
them to do so and still feel thai
tho country is putting 100 per cert
into the fight for democracy
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-06
EDITORIAL COMMENT

A cynic commentator on the re-
cent revelations of delay in war
preparation suggests that as Mr..
Wilson was reelected because he
kept us out of war, his Administra-
ton is now making good.-ChlcaSo
Tribune.
When the Petrograd BolsheVikl
refuse to fight Germany and then
threaten Rumania with war, they
must not expect the rest of the world
to understand their mental processes
or accept their theories as proof OF
exceptional virtue. - New YORK
World.
A profit is without honor unless II
is decentlv small.-Seattle Post-Intel-
ligencer.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-06
The Perpetual Vision

What lightens labor, santifies toll
and makes n man good and strong.
wise and patient, just and benevo-
lent. both lowly and great, as we'll
as worthy of intelligence and free-
dom, is the perpetual vision before
him of better world beaming
through life's shadows.--Victor
Hugo.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-06
WE ARE LAMBASTED

III HE Telegraph is in receipt of
noing, not to say jeering com
munication from one who sign
himself "Goosebone Man" referrin,
in caustic language to a recent edi
torial in these columns under tn,
caption, The January Thaw," o
which letter We quote herewith ;
paragraph:
And not only do you occasion
any poke fun at the Goosebone
Prophet, but YOU have the nerve.
without any authority whatsoever
save your own supreme gall. to
predict January thaw. Now, l
kme" in at & the start you were fax
ing. higa What does man, be-
about the weather? If You
had asked a Goosebone Man
any one OF 'em-he would have
told you right off that there would
be no thaw this year until late in
February. and maybe not until
March. The Goosebone Men knew
from the marks on the bone that
January would be a rotten month.
productive of nothing but death.
pneumonia and hardships and that
there is no hope for an early
spring.
Just like that he said it, and a lot
more. We admit we have been
properly lambasted. But are we
flabergasted? Not us. Optimism
is our middle name and we take
pride in getting a little fun out of
almost every situation-even the oc-
casional funeral of a Goosebone
Man, or some others we could men,
tion. but won't. That's the reason
we joked about the hard winter and
hoped for a January thaw. But dear
Goosebone Man, if you will pardon
us for being alive long enough to
explain, we didn't say the thaw
WOULD come. We only said we
HOPED it would come and were
careful, VERY careful, to express
the belief that it would NOT come.
Our friend, we fear, grows pessi-
mistic. The winter has got on his
nerves. We recommend the follow
ing stanza from the Washington Star
as at once seditive and a tonic:
Cheer up, chillun. tho the wealth
er's mighty raw.
Every time dar comes a freeze.
dar's gotter come a thaw.
1t takes a little patience till de
freezin'-time is done,
An If YOU lose yoh temper. why. it
doesn't help yoh none.
That's the idea-"every time you
gifts freeze. you gotter git a thaw."
and so the thaw is coming one OF
these days, and the snow will melt
and the sap will run, and the blue
birds will come, and the flowers will
bloom, and our fiannels will be laid
away about a week too soon, and
Book beer signs will wax and wane
and every sign of spring will appear
save only the little German band
of yester year. You see, dear Goose.
bone Man, we're entirely hopeless
The thing is not that the thav
didn't come in January, but that II
surely is coming. And now let:
all join in singing that appropriate
little chorus which goes like this
So, cheer up, chillun, cause you
sholy might as we'll;
We all has our troubles, an dars
nothin' new to tell.
Each botheration seems about de
worst you ever saw,
But every time you gifts a freeze,
you's gotter have a thaw.
Them's our sentiments.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-06
WHY NOT TAFT?

VTTHY not former President Taft
wv for confidential advisor in the
War Department, or for Sec
retary of War in case the President
changes his mind about retaining
Mr. Baker? The country would
applaud such a move. Mr.. Taft was
once Secretary of War. He is ad-
mittedly one of the biggest men in
the world. He has the confidence
of the public and he has been a per-
sistent and consisted supporter of
President Wilson in all the latters
war aims. We humbly, but hope
lessly, suggest him for the high place
in his country's service for which
his patriotism, experience and ability
so amply qualify him. But it is not
to be thought that he will be given
it, Such a course would be too
much along the line of hard busi-
ness sense of the type Washington
knows so we'll how not to display.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-06

AS a result of the conference be-
tween the employers and the men,
the striking funeral undertakers' em-
ployes at Dublin, ireland, have re-
turned to work.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-06
LABOR NOTES

The United States Employment
Service will have the task of mobil-
izing 100000 workers for agricul-
ture, shipbuilding and war contract
plants.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-06
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg at one time
had icehouses along the river
bank and everyone cut his own
supply?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-06

There was time this winter when
we were peeved because the trolley
car was behind time. but it has gotten
so we feel like giving the conductor
an extra nickel every time his car is
on schedule.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-06

Dublin Qreland) Master Carriers
Association has offered its men an
increase of three shillings and six
pence in addition to their previous
war bonus.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-06

The best news we have heard for a
long time is that thirty German edi-
tors went to Won Hindenburg to tell
him that by May l there will be no
more food left in Germany. Not that
we love Germans the less. but that we
love peace more.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-06
Rof1armakers

Boilermakers, machinists. black
smiths, car men and sheet-metal
workers employed by the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad have formed a
system federation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-06

Member of the Associated Press-The
Associated Press. is exclusively en-
titled TO the use for republication of
all news dispatches credited to it or
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, 1918-02-06
HOW II
WORKED.

j u S t on g
m o n t h a G o
Edith and I
agreed that we
would point out
g a C h others
faults without
reserve.
And you are
still doing it?
Oh. no; we
haven't spoken
to each other
for twentv-nine
days.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-06

THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING co.,
telegraph Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-06

England's cooperative movement
owns it's own tea gardens in India
and Ceylon, palm oil plantations in
West Africa and wheat fields in Can
ada.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-06

Eleven hundred and ten were killed
in general industrial establishments
in Pennsylvania last year. 1,112 in
mines and 44S in public service.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-06

by April I shall be in Paris
Hindenburg. Where have we heard
them words before?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-06

There's one good thing about this
weather; it has put all of the old
hard winter" liars out of business.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-06

ESJ. .STACKPoLE,P Prest s EditoriH. Chief
F. r. OYSTER, Business Manager.
GUS NJ. STEINMETZ. Mdn1ging Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-06

Post office will not be opened be-
fore March," and for the benefit of
Postmaster Sites we append this quo
tation: Hope deferred maketh the
heart sick"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-06
HISTORIC HARRISBuRG

One of the early signal corps COM
panies in the Civil War was re-
cruited here.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-06

There are indications that Mr..
Kuehlman is not living up to the pro-
nunciation of his name
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-06

Cheer up, folks. Florida also has
freezing weather.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-06
OUR DAILY LAUGH

MADE HIM
MAD.
l S { Book
worm: Why so
sad, Louis ?
2 n d Book
worm: After
b o r n g a IL
through that
volume 1 found
it is a blank
book.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-06

CHANGE OF
SENTIMENT.
For coal l used
to hate to
go
I scorned to
chop t h {
wood,
But now the
fuel is SO
low,
I only wish ]
could.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-06

Representative Harry b. Scott,
of Center, has been picked as one
of the men to have charge of fuel
arrangements in the central part of
Pennsylvania.
-Ex-Representative Frank c.
Reese. of Schuylkill, is suspected of
having senatorial ambitions.
City Manager Hinkle's action in
chopping down the emoluments of
the city treasurer of Altoona from
5000 OF 1900 has attracted much
attention in other cities of the third
class, which are having troubles
over filling offices.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-29
Y.Mc. \ NOTES.

At the army Y. M. G. A. Dec. list,
1918, the Army Y. M. G. A. viii have
their first victory celebration. This
promises to be one Of tho most inter
esting meetings ever held at this place,
for the reason that all Of the previous
meetings were preparing for war and
sustaining the boys over there. But on
the lst of December we are asking Des
Moines to show herself on this occasion
as she has always done and give the
two speakers who have recently re-
turned from over seas. The committee
was fortunate in securing the services
of Captain Cooper, now stationed at
Camp Dodge, and Corporal Fred Turner,
who has spent eleven months over there.
We are also glad to offer you another
surprise. Sec. Durdon and the Camp
Dodge Glee Club will furnish the music.
Come early and get good seats The
program will be given at four Q clock.
The public is invited.
The young mems class meets on
Thursday of each week. All young men
are invited at eight clock. Come and
bring friend.
Edward Ross, See.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-29
UNCLE SANS
MAIL POUCH

Nov. >, 1918.
Dear Mother: I received your letter
and was glad to hear that you were we'll
and getting along all right. That makes
me feel better as you are the one I have
to worry about. have been blessed as
I haven't been sick or had any trouble.
The army is what you make it. II you
do what you are told you will find it all
right, and if you do not you viii find it
hard. As for myself, if get home, /
would not take $1,000 for the expert
ence. 1 have seen and walked lot of
places that you read Of. We never stay
in one place more than eight or nine
days, and when we travel we walk, car
ry about rs pounds on our backs, so you
see if you can stand that you must be a
man. Well, mother, yon speak Of going
AWAY. + think if Iswere you would
rent one room and not break up house
keeping, as / might, be home in the
spring and that will make our home
happy. Well as have not the time to
write any more will close. Give love
to all. Tell brother he thinks he has
travelled some, but have been further
around the world looking for fight
than he has on pleasure, and when you
write send me his address, but I think
it would be better for him to write as
he has more time. Well answer soon.
From your loving baby boy to the dear
est mother in the world.
w. H. Elmore,
-..... - HdO CO. SO4th Inf
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A FARM HOME FOR THE coLoRED
MAN.

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ALBA NEWS.

Mr.. John Thomas of Chicago is here
at the home of his parents, Mr.. Cor
nelius Thomas, who has been very Ill,
but is little better at this writing.
Mr.. Walter Benning is staying in as
he has been sick for the past week.
Mrs. Will Richard was Centerville
visitor over Sunday.
Mr.. Charlie Davis was up from Ot-
tumwa and spent Sunday at the Monroe
Davis home.
The top was lifted on Monday last
and schools were opened, and churches
were open Sunday.