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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-18

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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-18

If there is any reason why Harris.
burg should not have Shade Tree
Commission, which would give atten-
tion to the trees that we have and
those which should be planted, let
the people have it. What is every
body's business is nobody's business,
and any citizen with half an eye can
see the necessity of something like
consistent care of our trees.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-18
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg is increasing
the number of its motor trucks
immensely?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-18

Postmaster Sites has been so busy
with the War Savings Stamps cam
paign that he has not even worried
about the approaching moving day
when the Federal Building will again
be occupied by Uncle Sans postal
force. Meanwhile, the postmaster Is
not forgetting the attractive environ
ment of shrubbery and green sward
which will finish the much-delayed
remodeling Of the Government Build
ing. He proposes to make the sur.
roundings of the enlarged building
harmonious and worthy Uncle Sam.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-18

z. j. STACKPOLE,Pr Pres't s. Editor,n-C Chief
F. r. OYSTER, BnSinsss Munger.
GUS M. STEINMETZ, Mdnaging Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-18

The Belleville (Ill) Stove Mounters
and Range Workers Union has ad-
vanced base prices 201a per cent.
and secured day rate of so cents
an hour.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-18
Over he lob
;N Pcw~1.

There's a nice new garden near my
old home kitcben door,
Where 1 while many happy hours
away;
While a spring songs ringing. and
singing o'er and o'er,
To the tune of Darling Nellie
Gray"
And the harvest will be strong,
Attune your heart and soul unto
the sod;
For the soul of earth is giving
OF the seasons richest song.
Through the wondrous love and
grace of God.
Lena B. Clendening.
Pennsylvania soldiers abroad are
learning to eat snails, according to
this letter from Frank Fabarelli, of
Easton:
II am driving a seven-passenger
Puegot, no tin Lizzie but the tin
Lizzies' make them all eat dirt on
the hard hills. They can pass all
the big cars. No 'sauerkraut guz-
zlers' have got me yet, but trolley
nearly did-one of them about the
size used on the South Side. L am
not having bad time of it-stop
at the best hotels and have lots to
eat-chicken, duck, veal, frogs and
snails. Yes, sir, edible snails, and
they are some good, too, so don't
worry about me. Just the same
want to see this thing blow over.
You know you can't send over
any more stuff unless it's wanted.
It's right too. for a lot of stuff sent
over is wasted, and we can get
everything from the canteen or the
Y. M. C. A. as cheap or cheaper than
you can get it back home"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-18

Senator Beidleman's friends are
going to compliment him with large
vote in the primary next Tuesday.
While there has been an absence of
the usual political activity this year,
the people are fairly well Informed
regarding the campaign and the i'm
portance of selecting proper officials.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-18
TURNING TO THE BIBLE

~ OUNTLESS persons, in the stress
of mind and heart resulting
- from the sorrows and sacrifices
the first time, perhaps, to the Bible
for comfort, consolation, inspiration
and help. Thousands upon thousands
of soldiers carry their testaments
with them under pledge to read at
least one chapter a day.
1t has been so since the days of
Israel. In the hey-day of peace and
prosperity the sons of Abraham were
wont to turn their thoughts to
worldly pleasures and pursuits and to
become forgetful of their God. The
history of the Chosen People is a
constant repetition of transgression,
punishment, penitence and triumphs
Always there was at hand a wicked,
covetous people to be used as the
whip to drive the erring Israelites
back to the faith of their fathers.
There are those who see in the
madness of Germany the concentra-
IlOn OIL the evil SplFlIS Ol the WOIiu
in the German people, and who be-
lieve that, like the herd of swine,
they are rushing headlong toward
the sea. Others read the book of the
present and future in the light of the
past. They see in the Kaiser and his
hosts the whip that is to chasten the
Christian peoples of the world and to
bring them to their knees in prayer
and supplication, after which, it may
be, the whip itself shall be cast into
the fire.
But whether or not these or any of
the other numerous scriptural theo-
ries of the war are accepted, it is
plainly apparent that people in gem
eral are turning to more serious
thoughts of the things that are vital
and eternal and away from the
flippant and the ephermal. The Bible
has become the great textbook of the
war for the allied peoples, and it's in
fluence is growing as we give our
selves unreservedly to the cause of
right in the great conflict.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-18

The Franklin Repository says:
1T is very amusing to see a few
people around hese oppose the can
didacy of Senator Sproul on moral
grounds when such well-known Phil
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-18

The International Hod Carriers,
Building and Common Laborers'
Union of America recently dedicated
it's new headquarters at Quincy
Mass
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-18

The Department of Labor and the
United States Shipping Board are at
tempting to work out a system
whereby wages will be regulated to
compensate for the increased Nost of
xing.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-18

The big Paxton oak, which local
tradition says began to grow before
the first log cabin was built at FAX
ton Presbyterian Churchyard' was
among the trees DESTROYED IN tne
storm of last week. The DIE 4ah
wes tbe pride of the grove and has
Locked down upon worshipers in the
woods. the log church and the stone
church for fully 200 years. The
same storm which wrecked so many
trees in and about Harrisburg DE-
stroyed the old willow near tne
manse. one of the prettiest trees in
that part of the county.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-18

-GeorBe j. Brennan, writing in
the Philadelphia Inquirer, gives
some interesting facts regarding the
election on the prohibition amend
ment held in Pennsylvania on June
Is, 1886. At that time the results
were different from what would hap
pen now He says: Philadelphia
gave a surprise to the Prohibition
lists. When the votes in the Quaker
City were finally tabulated it was
found that while 26,468 had voted
for the proposed amendment, there
were 11S,963 recorded against it, a
majority in the city of 92,494 for the
'wets." The total vote in the state.
including Philadelphia, was 296,617
for prohibition and 4S1,6 ,644 against
it, majority for the "wets" of 1885,
027. At the same special election
there was submitted suffrage
amendment which was defeated by
majority of 236,952."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-18

IN AUPHIN county will have a
home candidate in the State
primary elections ofsnext Tues
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-18

Women will not be needed in in
dustry in America unless the war
lasts beyond 1920, according to
final report on a survey made for the
Society of Industrial Engineers of
Chicago.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-18

SiXty-five hundred and thirteen
women are holding down 81 different
classes of jobs on the Pennsylvania
Railroad lines east of Pittsburgh.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-18

Miss Alice r. Eaton, librarian OIL
the Harrisburg Public Library
leaves to-day for a visit to the can
tonments about New YORK. City to
insnect the manner in which the
camn libraries are being organized.
she will also address library classes
in New York City. One of the camps
which she will slsit by request Will
be Camp Upton, where a big library
has been established.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-11-29
EQUIPMENT OF 800
 SHIPS BOUGHT BY
 U, $. GOVERNMENT

New York, Nov. 2S.-The govern ment has purchased from the Mar conf Wireless Telegraph. Company of America, Wireless apparatus on some 800 ships now under government con- trol, according to an announcement here tonight, by Edward J. Nally, vice president and general manager of The company.
 MT. Nally, who made this announce ment on his return from Washington, where he had gone for a conference with officials of the navy department, added, that apparatus at all the small coast stations maintained in the past by the MarcOni Company also had been sold to the government.
 The terms of sale, he said, were based upon the earning value of the stations and apparatus. The transfer, he explained, ''does not ill any way affect the status of the company's large stations for trans-oceanic com munication.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-11-29
FROM WAR TO PEACE REORGANIZATION OF
 LABOR IS BIG PLAN

Washington, Nov. 2S.-Reorg aniza- tion of the Department of Labor from a war to a peace basis is to be worked out by special committee appointed today by Secretary Wilson, Louis F. Post, assistant Secretary of Labor, is chairman of the commit tee, and the other members are the heads of the various departmental! bureaus.
 "All indications are," said a state ment tonight by the department, that the Department of Labor, which was tremendously expanded to meet the exigencies of the war, will play a great part in the reconstruction period and number of special war services now in existence will be ca pable of handling various phases ot the demobilizatio nproblem Already the United States Employment Serv- ice is replacing soldiers and civilian war workers in peace employments and gathering data on local labor conditions upon which demobiliza- tion of war industry will be largely contingent"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-11-29
COTJNTIES RELEASED
 OF TICK QUARANTINE
Largest Since Campaign Began For
 Eradication of Parasite.

The department of agriculture at Washington announces that all re- main quarantine areas in South Caro- lima and 116 counties and parts of counties in nine other southern states will be released from federal quaran- tine December 1. The area embraces 79,217 square miles.
 The area will be the largest freed in any one year since the Federal Government in 1906 began active vo- operation with the Southern States in the campaign against the destructive cattle parasite. The territory freed this year will raise the total area lib- erated to 45S,529 square miles, which is 63 per cent of the area quarantined in 19O The progress made this year strengthens the opinion held by offi- cials of the Burea uof Animal Indus try of the department that within a few years the South will be entirely tick-free.
 The counties to be released ill Ar kansas are:
 Chicot and Stone Counties, and parts of Desha and Faulkner Coun- ties. Total area to be released ill State, PISA square miles.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-11-29
PROMINENT CHURCHMAN
 RECOMMENDS HOBO

Almost every day we receive addi- tional evidence of the wonderful curative qualities and healing power of Hobo Kidney and Bladder Reme- dy, made of Louisiana herbs and con- taining no alcohol or habit-forming drugs. Read the testimony of one of Shreveport's leading men-a cap- tain of finance and one of the busi- est workers in the Lords vineyard. "To Whom It May Concern:
 Shreveport, La, August 27th, 1918.
 l have been using HOBO KIDNEY AND BLADDER REMEDY for some time and find it the best medicine | have ever used for kidney and Bladder Troubles. can cheerfully recommend it to anyone who has Kidney and Bladder trouble.
 (Signed) James s. Noel"
 Free booklet to be had for the asking contains hundreds of other wonderful testimonials from persons who have been pulled from the slough of despond by Natures Remedy.
 At all druggists or sent direct full treatment, bottles, $5.
 Hobo Medicine Co.,, Shreveport, La -advt
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-11-29
GOVERNMENT WILL
 BUY HOG ISLAND

Philadelphia, Nov. 2S.-Announce- ment that the government through the emergency fleet corporation had definitely decided to purchase the real estate of Hog Island ship yard and thus become sole owner of the great ship building establishment, was made today by H. L. Ackerson, one of the officers of the corporation. The real estate is owned by the Amer ican International Corporation and is valued at $1,760,000. The government has expended approximately $60,000,- 900 on equipping the plant.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-11-29
BOARD NUMBER 1
 REPORTS THIRTY
 SEVEN OBSERVERS

Failure to return Questionnaires classes registrants as deserters.
 Exemption Board No. l, through Chairman Looseley, reports that thir- ty-seven have failed to return their questionnaire to that board, and un- der the regulations they are classed as deserters. In some instances per- sons have changed their post office addresses, and mail sometimes goes astray. In such cases, if proper proof is shown, the registrants will be dealt leniently with, but the proof is on the registrants.
 Should unavoidable reasons pre- vail why these questionnaires have not reached the board by December 9, all will be placed on the deserter list, as the records of Board No. 1 will close on that date.
 The following are reported delin- quent in returning their question naires to the board, as required:
 The following have failed to return their questionnaires: Frank Sevier, (col:), Masses Bailey (coD, John Adams scoD, Herman Sanders (coD Ernest Smith (coD, Elihu Clarence Scott (coD, Theodore Carnelius Davis (cou. Harvey Stewart twh, Ede- mund Hugo Springer swh), Frank Lomax (coD, Frank Hudson (coD Joseph Spilliard (coD, Paul R. Cal bert (wh). Joe Hatley scoD, Newton McCutcher (wh), Johnnie Byas (coD Tom Greene (coD, Eddie Lambert scol), Frank Leslie Rankin (wh), Jes- SC Washington (coD, Mamie Lambert (coD, Richard Chester List (wh Met l.. Jones (wh), Tom Edgar Montgomery swh), Nataniel Lyles (coD, John Henry Lee (coD, Hubert Barnes (coD, Eddie l.. Andrews (coD, Oner Lee Thomas 'coD, Leon Geo. Taylor (wh), Arthur Mitchell (coD, Ceral Lareuso Thomas (coD, Cladd Bryan Rose (wh), James M- Ramsey lcoD Howard Felix Gardner (wh), William Robertson (coD.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-11-29
JACK DEMPSEY WINS
 FROM BILLY MISKE

Philadelphia, Nov. 2S.--Jack Demp- sey won the popular decision from Billy Miske of St. Paul, in slow six round bout at Thanksgiving day matinee. Only half a dozen hard blows were landed during the fight. Ihere was scarcely any action in the hrst two rounds. but in the third Mlske jolted Dempsey with an upper cut to the jaw which gave him the advantage in this round. After this bout was all in Dempsey's favor, the St. Paul man frequently resortins to holding in order to save himself from punishment.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-11-29
PRISONERS RELEASED
 FROM GERMAN PRISON

American Army of Occupation, Nov. 28 (By The Associated Press .)-More than million and half prisoners of various nationalities have been re- leased by the Germans, according to estimates based upon reports receiv- ed by the American third army.
 Of this number approximately 25O,- 900 will pass through the American lines and will be fed by the Amer jeans. Most of the quarter of a mil. lion prisoners are French, English, Italian and American soldiers. The army, assisted by the Salvation Army, the Young Mems Christian Associa- tion and the Knights of Columbus, is shouldering the bulk of the task.
 The explanation of American pris- oners released from German prison camps and reaching Identification camps virtually has been concluded under the direction of army surgeons.
 The examinations indicate that the physical condition of the men in gen. eral is as good as could be expected, although some cases are reported where the men complained of bad treatment, bad shelter and poor and insufficient food. Of several thousand men examined no evidence has been found of reported cases of incubation with malignant and contagious dis eases.
 Paris, Nov. 28.-Americans prIso1.- CTS are pouring into France and are following on the heels of the British and Canadians who have been pour ing into Metz, Nancy, Luneville and other French frontier towns. The American Y. M. c. A. is caring for these men and providing them with every possible comfort. Out of fifty American wounded prisoners who have returned the following are re- ported among those safely lodged in sleeping quarters established by the Red Triangle:
 Corporal Thomas R. Phillips, Dal- las, Texas; Private Harry Ford, Gravette, Ark; Corporal Joseph H. Bishop, Dill, Okla.; Privates William Lummus, Canton, Texas; Floyd Ed cock, Elgin, Texas; Hiram B. Booth, Leflore, Okla; Ediee J. Hoffman, Castel, Llano county, Texas.
 Norfolk, Va, Nov. 2S.-Three trans ports, the .Pocahontas, Rotterdam and President Grant, with returning Am erican troops have put into Hampton Roads within the last "A hours. The Rotterdam landed several hundred wounded men who were sent to the soldiers home hospital at Hampton The other troops will be distributed to various camps to await mastering out orders.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-11-29
CONSERVATION
 FOOD CAMPAIGN
 STARTS SUNDAY

Washington, Nov. 28.-An intensive campaign to bring home to the Amer ican people the need for food conser- vation so that 300 million hungry people in Europe and the Near East may be fed, will be conducted next week by the food administration.
 Beginning next Sunday, when a message from Food Administrator Hoover will be read in churches all over the country every possible med inn will be used during the week to awaken the nation to it's Opportunity for renewed service and sacrifice for the relief of millions released from the German yoke"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-11-29
RIGHT TEOUSNESS MUST BE HANDICAPPED ERE
 MERCY IS EXTENDED
German Now Supplicant Where Arrogance once
 Prevailed.

London, Nov. 2S British Wireless Service. 1.-The Archbishop of Canter bury, ill replying to message from Professor Delssmann, of Berlin Uni versity, transmitted by Archbishop Spderblom of Upsala, implOring mer- ciful treatment at the peace confer- ence, lin the name of Christianity says:
 "Professor Deissmann's statement as to the present situation is not one Whirh l can accept as correct. lie speaks of the European situation as though all that. IS needed on the part of the Christian circles in the belli- gerant nations is mutual forgiveness and concillation in order to fight in unison against the terrible consequen- ces of the war and to serve the moral improvements of the nations and of mankind"
 The archbishop calls attention to the fact that on September 22nd, 1915, he sent letter to Professor Deiss- mann pointing out these essential matters, but received no reply except a verbal acknowledgment and con- tinues:
 We have fought without hatred and, so far as possible without pas sion and now that victory crowns the cause for which we fought we desire to be equally free from hatred and passion in the course we follow as victors.
 But we cannot forget the terrible crime wrought against humanity and civilization when Cnls StupendouS war with it's irreparable agony and cruelty was let loose ill Europe. NOT can we possibly ignore the savasery which the German high command dis played in carrying on the war. Out rages in Belgium in the early months, and, indeed, ever since, the character of the devastation wrought in France, including the inhumane deportation of innocent civilians; the submarine warfare against passenger ships like the Lusitania, and the rejoicings which ensued in Germany; the un- speakable cruelties exercised on de- fenseless prisoners down Io the end, including even the last few weeks all these things compel the authori- ties of the allied powers to take se- curity against a repetition of such a crime.
 "Ine position would be different had there been on the part of Christ ian circles in Germany any public protest against these gross wrongs or any repudiation of their perpetra- tors.
 "The peace we hope to achieve must be peace not of hate or re- venge, the fruits of which might be further and even more terrible strife. We wish by every means to avert that possibility. But righteous ness must be vihdicated, even though vindication involves sternness.
 There is, however. as 1 need hard ly say, no wish on the part of the allied nations to crush or destroy the peoples of Germany. Evidently to the the contrary is amply abundant"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-11-29
SUGAR CERTIFICATES
 ARE DISCONTINUED

Washington, Nov. 2S.-Distribution of sugar under the certificate system will be discontinued December 1st, under an order issued yesterday by the Food Administration. In announce ing the order. the administration em- phasized that requests for conserva- tion of sugar were in no way modi- fled. Domestic consumers, it. was said, will be expected to observe the voluntary ration of four pounds per person month. and public eating place will be required to use only four pounds of sugar for each ninety meals served.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-11-29
STIMULATES POTASH
 PRODUCTION IN U. $,

Washington, Nov. 2S.-The problem of increasing potash production in the United States so that the American farmer may be permanently freed from the grip of Germany's mono poly on the worlds supply of fertiliz- CT materials was turned over to the interior department today by the war industries board.
 President Wilson directed that the interior department take over this work from the chemicals division of the board as part of the program Of definitely continuing necessary work started by agencies created dur ing the war.