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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-05-02

...,en.ion is called TO the advertise
80, signed by VIM. N. Pennell, Esp-
,raassntative for Maine Water So9s-
Crc,nna nfes "-Adv., -,A
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-05-02

Mrs. Phoebe Sylvester has gone to
Clinton. called by the serious illness
Of her father, Frank Shaw.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-05-02

AUGUSTA LOCALS

Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Croker Of Gin
ton are visiting relatives In this city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-11-24

Three sons of Mr.. and
Mrs. T. M. Cogswell, zoos
New Hampshire avenue. Top,
Lieut.. Ralph ]. Cogswell; cen
ter, Theodore L. Cogswell !;
bottom, Field Clerk Robert F..
Cogswell.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-02
As Moore Sees Them

(J. Hampton Moore, in the Even
ing Ledger.)
Damon and Pythias, in their
palmiest days. did not have much"
on Arthur G. Dewalt, of Reading,
and Henry j. Steele. of Easton. The
"unscrambling' of these two distin-
guished Democratic Congressman
from Pennsylvania is unthinkabie.
They walk together. eat together,
think together and sleep under the
same roof. The beauty and charm
of their friendship is recognized and
appreciated by their colleagues on
both sides of the House. and the
wonder is that the Palmer-McCor-
mick aggregation of Democratic
formerly a State Senator. and in
1909 and 1910 was intrusted with
the Democratic State Chairmanship.
He has proved himself more of a
lawyer than politician in Washing
ton, and as a member of the Inter-
state and Foreign Commerce Com
mittee has sustained the standards
of the bar of Pennsylvania. His
speeches on the railroad-control bill,
the war-risk insurance bill and other
great war measures were carefully
listened to by the House. which is
unusual in debates involving tech
nical and intricate legal research.
Congressman Steele, who waf
early recognized as a sound lawyer
by reason of the fact that the Penn
sylvania Bar Association had called
him to the presidency, also enjoys
the same generous attention of the
House when he speaks. Steele is a
member of the highly important
committee of the judiciary and has
been assigned to much of the work
requiring the consideration of a ma
ture and well-bal9nced mind. Add
George S. Graham to this combi-
nation and the Pennsylvania lawyer
Is we'll represented in Congress.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-02
"The Memphis Blues"
Irwin S. Cobb in the Saturday Evening Post

than once it has been hard to keer
the unattached inhabitants of ihe
village that the band was quitting
from moving on with it.
If live TO be hundred and one
shall never forget the second night
which was o night of a splendid
f1awiess full moon. We stood with
the regimental staff on the terraced
lawn of the chief house in a half
deserted town five miles back from
the trenches. and down below us in
the main street the band played
plantation .airs and hundreds of ne
gro soldiers Joined in and sang the
words. Behind the masses of mp
turned dark faces was ring of white
ones where the remaining natives oi
the place clustered, with their heads
wagging in time to the tunes.
And when the band got to "Way
Down Upon the Suwanee River" ]
wanted to cry, and when the drum
major, who likewise had a splendid
baritone voice, sang, as an interpo-
lated number, Joan of Arc" first
in English and then in excellent
French, the villagers openly cried
and an elderly peasant, heavily be-
whiskered, with the tears of a JOY
Gus and thankful enthusiasm running
down his bearded cheeks, was with
difficulty restrained from throwing
his arms about the soloist and kiss
ing him.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-02

or aboard the trolley cars. II was a
fine example of the willingness of the
American citizen to sacrifice his own
pleasures for the benefit of the ma
ton as a whole.
IF the army needs gasoline 1t can
have all of mine," was the way one
motorist put it and he voiced the SEN
timents of thousands.
There are those who believe that
the gasoline restrictions might be
worked out on a more equitable
basis: that by limiting each car owner
to given amount and permitting
the use of the given quantity when
ever the owner should desire, would
be better than to rule all the cars off
the roads on one day. but the great
majority raised no objection and
complied with the fuel administra-
tion's request without protest, while
those who declined to be governed
thereby held down their heads in
shame as they passed pedestrians on
the highways and looked anything
but happy. The gasoline Stacker"
wasn't popular yesterday and he
knew it.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-02
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
SUNDAY GASOLINE
To the Editor of the Telegraph:

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Won't you kindly allow me space
in your valuable paper to express my
disapproval OF the proposed reSula-
ton prohibiting the use of motor
cars on Sunday. 1 am in favor of
any practical method, whereby Gaso-
line can be conserved and am willing
to pay my part of sacrifice and in
convenience in order to forward the
cause of my country and the Allies in
this great war. But the prohibition
of the use Of motor cars on Sunday
would work a very great hardship
upon that class of persons who use
their cars for pleasure. The great
majority of this particular class has
no opportunity to use their cars ex-
cept on Sunday. This numerous class
of people will be deprived of the use
and pleasure of their cars entirely
unless they take a day off during the
week, which is more than probable
some of them would do, thereby TAX
ing away from useful employment
many persons whose services are
greatly needed. When we consider
that a great number of people are
taking a day off during the week to
go pleasure riding, because they can
not use their cars on Sunday, IL may
possibly be found that the loss to
the government would be greater IN
labor as we'll as in gasoline than 1t
would be If tho people were allowed
TO use their cars on Sunday. 1t
would seem to me that If the govern
ment would allow each user of auto
mobiles a certain quantity of gaso-
line on Sunday which would con-
serve gasoline and at the same time
give the users of cars an opportunity
to use the same. This will also teach
the people to be economical in the
saving of gasoline.
If people knew how to use their
motors they could probably save one
half of the gasoline ordinarily used.
BY restricting the quantity of gaso-
line to eacn person, the people will
be compelled to learn how to adjust
the carburetor so as to economize
gasoline both to themselves and to
the government.
Very respectfully, yours,
W. NJ. FELTON,,
Auto and Aero Mechanical School,
$50 South Front Street,
Steelton, Penna.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-02
MISS RANKIN
New York Times1

New York Times]
Il love my country, but I cannot
vote for war" II know of no one
else who is in favor of it," (con-
scription). II regard woman suf-
frage the greatest question before
the American people" These are the
classic utterances of the only wom-
an Congressman" Miss Rankin. who
has just been beaten in the Mon
tana Republican primaries, where
she was a candidate for Senator.
Her platform naively said that she
would "as heretofore vote for every
measure that" President Whsor
may recommend to more effectively
prosecute the war;" "As heretofore
was delicious.
Hailed as a glory of feminism by
the feminists after her election, her
political career in the House and in
her state is an awful example Lach-
rymose pacifist, foe of CONSUMPTION
kootooing to or consorting with Sim
Feiners, the Non-Partisan League
the I. w. W.; imagining in the inno-
cence of her too tender heart that
the Anaconda Copper Company and
John d. Ryan, its president, now the
c-..cf of our air service, were the
sum of all villainies, Miss Rankin
has mistaken anarchy for labor, by
her mistaken sympathy with the
radical disturbers and strikers in the
copper mines has unintentionally
helped the opponents of the war.
She seems to have thought the
farmers would have supported her
The farmers know the l. w. W., and
there is a song about them in the
hymn book of that savoury concern
lately so heavily hit by the hand OF
Justice. Miss Rankin should never
have gone into politics. Her judg-
ment is feebly developed in compari-
son with her sentimentality. May she
prosper and grow conservative!
Meanwhile, let us remember with ad-
miration her plan of putting the
newspapers into the hands of the
government. Each city would have
one newspaper edited by govern
ment board, sans advertisements, de-
livered free to every citizen. That, al
least, is a project of genius. 1t adds
to the friendly regret with which we
part froLl Miss Rankin. Even a pa.
cifist can be amusing.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-02
DON'T BELIEVE THEM

A S THE allied pressure against
L - the German armies increases
In France. the German propagan-
dists in this country have increased
their activity. For every allied wave
that sweeps over the German lines
a wave OF falsehood and misrepre-
sentation is turned loose by pro-
Germans in America, in an effort to
weaken our effort and determine
ton at home, we'll knowing that
American soldiers in France win be
no more aggressive than those of us
back here provide the means.
All manner OF disturbing and dis
quieting stories have been set afloat
in the past few weeks. Among
them is the lie about frightful cas-
ualty lists held back by the Federal
authorities. General Pershing and
General March have both seen fit
TO deny this report, and they are
men of their word.
Another has to do with the de-
portation of shipload of Red Cross
nurses. This falschood is designed
to keep American women from en-
listing for hospital service in France.
A third is to the effect that negro
troops are thrust only into the most
dangerous places. The casualty lists
prove the untruth of this. Negro
troops are sharing the dangers OF
the war with their white comrades
in-arms, but are not being sacri-
feed. =.
These and dozens Of other lies are
being circulated to destroy the con-
fidence of the people in the Army
and the Navy, to create discomfort
and dissatisfaction. When somebody
whispers one OF these doubtful
stories into your ear, ask him where
he got his information. Trace the
lie back to the liar.
Don't believe a single story that
cannot be proved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-02
1.-TWO days we stayed on there

1.-TWO days we stayed on there
with an American negro regi-
ment near the 'front.'. and they
were two days of superior variety
of continuous black face vaudeville.
There was the evening when for our
benefit the men organized an i'm
promptu concert featuring a quartet
that could succeed on any mans bur
lesque circuit. and a troupe of buck
and wing dancers whose equal 1t
would be hard to find on the Fig
Time There was the next evening
when the band of forty pieces sere-
naded us. l think surely this must
be the best regimental band in our
Army. Certainly it is the. best one
l have heard in Europe during the
war. On parade when it played the
Memphis Blues" the men did not
march,. the music poured in at their
ears and ran down to their heels, and
instead of marching they literally
danced their way along.
AS for the dwellers of the Fren III
towns in which this regiment has
from time TO time been quartered,
they, ] am told, fairly go mad when
some alluring. compelling, ragtime
tune is played with that richness of
syncopated melody in it which only
the black man can achieve; and as
the regiment has moved on, more
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-02
SUeetening Soft Drinks

A substitute for sugar for sweet
ening soft drinks has been discov-
cred by the Bureau of Chemistry of
the Department of Agriculture. and
will be given free to the industry in
the hope that it will assist in the
conservation of sugar. The bureau
is prepared to furnish bottlers with
sweeteniug formulae that will allow
the actual sugar content in soft
drinks to be cut to so per cent or
less, and at the same time will pre-
serve the customary taste and quail
ity of the beverages. Starch sugar,
starch syrup, maltese syrup and
honey are the bases of the substi-
tutes used.
The bureaus specialists have CO.
operated with bottlers in using these
to sweeten and give body to soft
drinks. Their favorable opinions 81
the results have been sustained by
four tasting juries made up of rep
resentatives of the bottling ir9lus-
tries, bureau experts, representatives
of flavoring extract manufacturers
and women and children represent
ing the consuming public.-From
the Scientific American.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-02
The Fading of "The Day"

North American Reviews War
Weekly.l
The war is not over by a deal.
Many weary months of, misery and
carnage must come and many thou
ands OF human beings must be killed
and manned before the last shot is
fired and the curtain is finally rung
down on the hideous nightmare spec
tacle. But that Germany can emerge
from the awful chaos she has wrought
otherwise than in the bitterness of
defeat can be now no longer in
doubt. Her one hope was in the last
desperate plunge of the summer that
is NV on the wane, and that hope
is gone and gone forever. She won
nothing in that last frenzied gamble.
She lost men by the hundred thou
sand, mountains of munitions and
supplies, vast army's equipment in
cannon and small arms. and, above
| all. prestige and. from now on. all
hope of anything ahead save dogged,
sullen. steadily weakening defense
| against the deadly, irresistible ad-
vance of the inevitable fate.
Whether General Foch presses his
| present advantage to still further
localized achievement. whether he
| strikes a new and maybe a harder
blow in still another quarter, oil
whether he holds the foe in con-
stantly harassed. and tortured dead
lock for months to come until oui
own overwhelming force gets there
the result for Germany can but be
the same. She tried her last chance
and she failed. She shot her heaviest
bolt and ii recoiled on her own head
She has lost the war-lost that grea'
Day" for which during half a cen
tury she had been preparing ano
Which was to have put a PROSTATE
world under her feet.
| How slowly or how swiftly the
mighty Hun fabric will crumble tC
ruin is now the only uncertainty ii
! the awful tragedy's climax. For Ger
many herself the quicker the agony
is over the better; the less of wreck
age she will have to crawl out from
under; the more of material, fiuic
and static, she will have wherewitt
to take up the heartbreaking task o.
beginning all over again, and-tryins
to recover from the wretched pligh
in which her madmen in control viii
have landed her.
A pretty high price to pay fol
shining swords, rafting sabers, cock.
| ed moustaches, swashbuckler swag'
| gering and years of drill sergeant
knoutings-a pretty high price fol
boons such as these, precious as the,
| are. But Germany will pay 1t, pay /
| to the last silver, receiving the united
| loathing and eXecration of the civil
! lied world she has outraged by way
of final, but wholly inadequate, ac'
| uuittance,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-02
DOGCODEAND BONEHEAD

PENNSYLVANIA is generally
conceded to have one of the
most valuabl laws for the con-
troll of dogs in the country and it
was enacted after years of trouble
and months of study. Every dog in
Pennsylvania must be licensed. no
matter whether his owner resides
and has him in his yard in a city or
in the heart of farming commun-
ity: Furthermore, dogs must be kept
penned up at night in the rural dis
tricts, this meaning that the house
yard or the barn yard is to be the
runway for the animal Aliens may
not own dogs at all.
The purpose of this dog law was
primarily to get rid of useless dogs.
Determined efforts are being made to
revive the sheep industry in Penn
sylvania and it will not be long be-
fore million sheep dot our hills and
the national need for wool will be
materially helped. The dog is the
greatest enemy of the flock. This
accounts for the stringent features of
the law. but illustrates what may be
added to State wealth by regulation.
Unfortunately. in some counties
constables and others charged with
enforcing the law have had to be ar
rested to make them see their duty
with resultant bad feeling, and, with
this line of procedure established in
the courts, we are now confronted
with the mean-spirited oficial who
makes the law as obnoxious as pos
sible in his resentment In this and
adjoining counties some individuals
have been insisting upon carrying
out the law with a rigor that would
scarcely be improved upon in the
sheep-raising townships of Washing
ton or Greene county, and dogs have
been ordered tied where the bleat
of sheep would cause alarm and
where chickens are protected against
the midnight roost robber. The ac-
tivity seems to be due to the calling
down Of some men who did not even
take the trouble to see II dogs are
licensed. 1t is the wrong spirit in
which to take a valuable act and
makes an officer not only a bone
head, but a laughing stock.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-02
A Rome-Constdntinople Line

A new company has been formed
in Naples under the name, Trans
balcania Italiana," with the object
of bringing about direct railway con-
nection between Rome and Constan-
tinople. The proposed route. is
Otranto, Valona, Monastir. Saloniki,
seres, Drama, Zanthi and Dimotica.
Only the line, Valona- -Monastir, is to
be- newly built: all the other lines
are existing. Otranto will be con-
nected with Valona across the Straits
of Otranto, some fifty miles, by large
ferry steamers. The new line, 1t Is
hoped. will strengthen Italy's infiu-
ence in Albania and the Balkan
states.-From the Railway Gazette.
London.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-02
Thanks the Telegraph

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
The general committee arranging
the Labor Day celebration wishes to
thank you for the courtesy extended
them in giving publicity to the occa-
sion; also for the donation of the
prizes for the contests to be held
at Reservoir Park.
At a special meeting. even date. a
rising vote Of thanks was extended
by the entire, committee.
Respectfully yours.
A. A. POIST,
Secretary.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-02
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Captain william H. Gravel, a
former Philadelphia civil engineer, is
now on General Pershing's staff
Archbishop Dougherty blessed
the new bells in Chester city
churches yesterday.
The Rev. Daniel L. Marsh, Pitts
burgh clergyman, is just home from
France and was greeted by friends
at his church yesterday.
&C. F. DaCosta, Philadelphia at
torney, has been made special pro-
secutor for the federal cases in East
ern Pennsylvania.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-02
THE IMPERIAL M'ADOO

"HE American people will stand
for much during war times.
They will quietly submit to
many mandates of government that
would cause bitter resentment were
the country at peace. II may be nee
essary at times to sink personal priv
ileges and liberties for the general
good in times of national stress. and
Americans as a people do this gladly
when there is any real necessity and
they will even obey orders that have
neither basis in law nor excuse in
common sense rather than appear to
oppose the powers that be- in their
war plans.
But when it comes to resigning
their privileges as citizens and CIV
ing up their right to aspire to public
office, patience ceases to be a virtue,
and they may be expected to take the
matter into their own hapds at the
coming elections and teach those
who would rob them of their consti-
tutional rights a lesson that will not
soon be forgotten.
The Imperial McAdoo has chosen
the present tense moment in national
affairs to tell railroad employees that
they may not hold public Office, un-
der the pretext that thereby he is
taking the railroads out of politics"
No Czar could be more autocratic
than to tell his subjects that they
may not aspire to public office. This
is a privilege and a right guaranteed
by the constitution, yet this fellow
McAdoo. whose statesmanship was
acquired digging tunnels and whose
political knowledge gained mainly
by association with New York Tam
many politicians, thinks nothing of
ruling the constitution out of exist
ence so far as he and the railroads
are concerned by the issue of a mere
written order.
BY this means he is to take the
railroads out of politics" and to pre-
vent lobbying" 1t is to laugh! Take
Harrisburg for example. Will Mr..
McAdoo say that Ramsey Black,
Democrat the only railroad en-
ploye who was a member of the Leg
islature from this city last session,
was a member of a railroad lobby?
The whole record of Mr.. Black proves
the contrary. He voted for railroad
brotherhood legislation. but never for
any bill that might be construed as
favoring to any unfair degree the
railroad companies. Does anybody
believe, that Albert Millar, the only
Republican candidate from Dauphin
county for the Legislature this year,
would be a railroad lobbyist? He
and Mr.. Black, should they be elect
ed, might be expected to line up
strongly with the unions, but never
with the railroads for purely corpo-
ration legislation.
No: when the railroads lobby
they use their influence upon men
not connected with the companies.
They have found it easier to operate
in that way.
The Imperial McAdoo's order will
have no effect on the railroads in the
LEGISLATURES, but it will result in the
railroad brotherhoods, the labor
unions, losing their direct represen-
tatives in House and Senate in Penn
sylvania and in many other States.
The McAdoo order will rob the
brotherhoods of their strongest ad-
vocates in the Legislature.
How long do the voters mean to
stand for this sort of nonsense?
Mr.. McAdoo is head of the rail-
roads. He is also holding political Of
fee. Does he mean to abide by his
own order?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-02
Nehemiah, the Builder

1t came to pass in the twentieth
year of Artaxerxes the king, that
wine was before him: and I took up
the wine and gave it unto the king
And I said unto the king, If it please
the king. and if thy servant have
found favor in thy sight, that thou
wouldst send me into Judah. unto
the city of my fathers sepulchres,
that 1 may build it. So 1t pleased
the king to send me.-Nehemiah
II, to 6.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-02
CONGRATULATIONS

Ut IS safe estimate to say that
more than ninety per cent. of the
= automobilists of Harrisburg and
Central Pennsylvania observed the
"gasless" Sunday order. With very
few exceptions car owners left their
machines in their garages and went
to church or into the country on foot
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-02
His Use For IT

Proving that the world does move
If you had presented a medieval
knight with a modern steel bathtub
he would probably have had it cut
up into NATURALIZATION the Dal-
las News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-02

Member of the Associated Press-The
Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled to the use for republication OF
all news dispatches credited to 1t 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, 1918-09-02

"Bonniwell can't sell out the Demo-
cratic organization in Pennsylvania
says a Palmer Mccormick person. Just
as If anybody would want to buyNit.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-02
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg is COM
PEELED to turn away food for
which it has not enough places
for cold storage?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-02

Mr.. McAdoo wants suggestions as to
how to run the railroads, and every
body has at least a half-dozen.