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The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-08-13
LYRIC Wednesday and Thursday
Sn1ithfeld Neuus
SEIEcTM 0lPlcIU1Esl

with Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Purser.
Mrs. Mary Clifford is home again
after spending several months in
Treasureton, Idaho.
The M. I. A. Of the Second ward
will hold a meeting Sunday Even
ing at $3.50 where the following
program will be carried out.
Opening Song. Land Of the
Free" Prayer. Song. Santa Lucia
BY. Girls Chorus; Our Ally, Italy
will be treated by Joseph Nelson
who. win treat on the following top.
les: Itaiy's part in the great war.
Great Italian Leaders. Display and
explanation Of the nag: Reding.
To the Young Men Of Italy. Duet,
Juanita: Male Quarete. o, Italia,
italia Beloved.
Word has been received announc-
ing the safe arrival of Mr.. w. r..
Kirkbride In France.
Mr.. and Mrs. oliver Nilsson, Mrs.
Kinda chambers and Mrs. Allie Nil
son and children have returned az
tire spending a week at Lakota, Bear
Lake.
The Liberty Swarm CT Dee-Hivo
girls met at the home of Miss Hilda
Anderson. Refreshments were SER
we'd and the girls all reported having
a good time.
Miss Louis Woolford, daughter OF
i,r and -5r1. =. II. Woolford was
married ON Monday at Logan to Mr.
John Bissegger of Providence.
| Mr.. Sylvester Low with Mrs. An
,nie Ried. Mrs. Mae Richardson and
Mrs. Osborn Low and children LEFT
last Wednesday for Alton, Wyoming
Osborn Low.
Word has been yessswed from
Capt. Ralph T. Merrill that he lha'
ltransferred from TT. Smelling. Min
to Camp Custer. near Battle Creel
Mich, where the largest base hospi
tai in the U. 8. 10 located.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Corbstt hav'
irsturned 70 smithfield to max
their homo.
i Attorneys b. 8. Chambers an
Edwin Miles and r. H. Smith o.
lsneng The Bear Lake yisisters hi
}: wssk. = u
81 Mn. Ethel Dunn and Fioss Tuel
} Ter returned homo Monday SITTER ha
. ing spent . few months with the!
husbands At Camp Ksarney. The
: reported that the camp was cleare
J ,out just before their leaving 70
homo. All the Utah boys are ther
for on their way for somewhere.
II Mr.. and Mv. Wick Ewing an
3 family and Mrs. L. N. Lightfoot an
children Of Seattle Wash. are sben
J. Ing the week at Bear Lake.
Il Mrs. d. J. Newboid returned Q
k Sunday from q three weeks Wis
with relatives at Downey. Idaho.
. Mrs. w. w. Merrill returned hon
g Sunday evening from her visit
y Camp Macarthur. Texas, 1t. w. '
Merrill having left for oversee du
Il with the 7th Mortar Supply Ira
. 7th Division of the regular army.
II Mr.. and Mrs. j. E. Shelter ar
! mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Griffiths lie
Monday for weeks vacation
\ the Lake.
!, The N. l.. A. Of the second wal
! held their regular meeting la
!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-05
WAGES AND CARFA.RE

THE War Labor Board has
reached the conclusion that
street railway employees are en-
titled to higher pay in many cities
and there is little worthy of comment
in merely that, for the tendency of
wages is upward in all lines of work.
But that the Board should have ex-
pressed the opinion that to pay more
wages the companies must have more
money is remarkable, indeed. The
general tendency of government reg
ulation has been to regulate pay up
ward and receipts downward.
The public objects strenuously to
any interference with its nickel car
fare and an advance to six or seven
cents would work a hardship on
many. But the public wants the mo-
tormen well paid and, as the War
Board says, the companies must
meet the increased wage scales by
collecting more money. There is but
one way to do this-charge six cents
for a ride, instead of five, as at pres
ent The government is forcing wages
up. the employees are getting the
benefit and the public, as usual, pays
the freight
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-05
Fourth Year of the War
New York Times1

There is nothing more to be
dreaied in war;" said the late Colo.
mel G. F. r. Henderson in one of his
mastery essays, than the combined
labors of a thoroughly welI-trained
general staff, except the intellect
and audacity of a great strategist." {"
However efficient the German Gen
eral Staff is in the present war. the
western Allies have in Ferdinand
foch the great strategist. AS the
litth year of the conflict opens the
enemy realizes as never before why
the intellect and audacity of the
eminent Frenchman are TO be
uIeaoed' Again, as in the first bat
tie OF the Marne, the Germans, baf-
fed and defeated, are falling bacls
upon the line Fismes- Rheims. and
again they are succumbing to The
crait and energy of General Foch.
IN the presence of the abIsst
strategist the war has produced +he
German General Staff, still a model
OIL organization, is at its wits ond
TO guess what disposition shall he
made OF its resources to second +ba
defensive strategy of the high con,N
mand. How shall the Initiative he
wrested from General Foch? shall
an offensive be started in Flanders
to halt his advance and divert him
from an objective which has not
,peen revealed? The problem is one
Tor a rival genius. for some one more
subtle than Ludendorff, or than oII
the adopts of the General Stan in
council.
The fifth year of the war begins
with fair prospect that the landing
OF British and American troops at
Vladivostok and on the Murman
coast, to be followed in Siberia bv
Japanese disembarkations, will rally
patriotic Russians to join with the
Allies and the heroic Czecho-Slovaks ks
in a campaign to redeem Russia
from the German oppression. There
may even yet be a Russian front in
Europe, for it would be taking coun-
sci with foolish optimism to expect
an early ending of the war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-05
THE FIRST LAW

A BOUT the first thing that the
~ Pennsylvania Legislature of
1919 should do after getting
down to business, ought to be to pass
a law permitting any concern oper-
ating under a State charter to invest
its cash IN Liberty Bonds. 1t is re-
grettable that we have to wait so
long as January to have this done.
When the General Assembly
passed a series of bills last year
facilitating investments in Liberty
Bonds it was thought that building
and loan associations were given full
powers. But Attorney General
Brown, after a study of the statutes,
finds that the peculiar organization
of the building and loan association
does not bring it within the statutes
enacted to aid in absorption of the
national securities. With manifest
reluctance, the chief law officer rules
that they may not buy such bonds.
Some associations have bought war
bonds and maybe they will not be
sued If they hang on to them. And
no one would object very much If
they continued to buy them. The
defect of the statute is so apparent
an oversight in drafting that there
is no need for excitement. But there
should be no time lost in correcting
1t after January.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-05
No Longer Village Pest
kansas City Star.l

Remember the village pest OF
other days - that delivish Pick
Smith, as freckled as a turkey egg,
with his brickdust hair sprangIing
every which-a-way, and his bare
feet as warty as toads' backs; impu-
dent little cuss that used to raid your
pet pear tree and sass you when you
chided him? Only kid in the old
home town, you recollect, that had
the nerve to grab up snake by the
tail and pop his head off. Somebody
was forever aiming a brick at him,
and usually missing him; and then
he'd grin a lopsided grin, and go
and do it again.
Well, he is up to his old tricks
yet. He is an aviator "over there"
and is giving the Huns as much
trouble as he used to give us here.
We saw him the other evening in
news reel at the Palace Theater.
There he stood, straight and stiff in
his uniform, and a fussy old French
general with whiskers pinned a War
Cross on his chest and kissed him
on both cheeks.
And when the general got
through his spooning and went away
Pick Tipped his head around and
winked right at us for a second and
cracked his queer twisted grin.
Yape, us folks that he used to pes
ter so are mighty proud now of
Lieutenant Pickering Smith.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-05

of any intention to ascribe to the
President motives that would be in
consistent with the dignity of that
high office especially in time of war.
How fine 1T would be If we could
all attribute the Presidents multi
tudinous political moves to a desire
to entertain his fellow citizens by a
display of humor, dry or otherwise
How much more respect we should
have for the ONCE. and how much
more confidence in the occupant, IL
We could feel that 1t was mere hu-
NOR and not glaring inconsistency
that prompted him to say that poll
tics is adjourned" at the same time
that he was scheming to control
Senatorial elections in BEHALF of his
own party or his political supporters
In other parties. We wish we could
look upon it as humor only, but 1t is
too serious to be so regarded when
the prestige of the highest office in
the land is used to put the brand
of disloyalty on as tried and true a
man as Irvine Lenroot, and to save
the falling political fortunes of a
man like James Hamilton Lewis.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-05
A NeW World Is Born

On the western front two lines are
From the Alps up to the sea;
Two surging lines-great human
And the weight of carnage upon
each. falls,
AS upon other, equally.
But are they equaisH Who are
they
Were they not friends of yesterday?
They are men in whom is best and
worst,
Who by their deeds are blest or
curst.
But can such men be best and blest :?
say!-how can they stand the
test?
Who by their willful murder plots,
And cruelty planned barrage,
Have strewn their victims on the
fields
Like human camoufiage.
And surely they are not the worst,
The innocent-the strong
Who've taken arms against the
brutes
Who planned to do the wrong.
Are they the worst who bind the
wounds
OF the broken and shell torn?
Are they-the fatherless. motherless
And homeless poor. forlorn.
Are they the curst who've sacrificed
To vengeance and rapine.
All they were and loved and had
And all they might have been?
Who say you then are best and blest?
Who are the worst and curst?
'Tis not for us to Judge that wayl
There is best in all-and worst!
For it's the right you think,
And the wrong you don't
And the good you do,
And the evil you won't,
That tells what's in a man;
So you may do wrong If you Judge
too strong,
For the best may fall the lowest of
all,
If they fall as the villains plan.
On the Western front. two world
ideals
An Old world and New;
But the "OId" must fall for the good
of all.
Then to arms! Let's see 1t
through!
Now listen, you men who've turned
the clod
For a competence of gold;
Then finding it. lost fear of God.
And to mankind have grown cold:
For God has a way of His own to
repay
All the wrong that is done by man;
So the "Old" must go, can we gain
say
That ii falls far short of His plan?
Now unto us World is born,
1t brings a meaning new;
So If you love your fellow man
Join the ranks! Itsis "up to you"
Ray s. Brown. in The Rotarian.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-05
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

C. c. Greer, the Cambria fuaI
administrator, is getting after trsc-
electricity. 'oo MUCH
Congressman John M. NORM
was grand marshal of the big naradn
OF Eagles in Pittsburgh.
-Ihe Rev. r. G. Belts T.a+roho
cIeTsyman' has given up his cbarpe
" pecoIne q chaplain in the Army
-Dr. Carl G. Pearse, president of
the wisconsin State Norman School
mas peen visiting Pennsylvania SoI
reyes most OF which are omen tbis
summer Tor training of soldiers
"a Z. Terry, who succeeds Logan
~mchee ~ as secretary of the Pittsbu1gb
Cnamper OF Commerce. started a. =
neWspoy and has for years bean lie
ulct superintendent of the Wester,,
Union at Pittsburgh "eS'ern
- +. Gaffney, who is in cbarea
OF appropriations for PhiIadeInbio
CITY council, has told heads az de-
partments that they must decide he
tween essentials in city government
gets. up ouo-
e. S. Bayard, the PittsbprsbJ
STOCK authority and writer. is urg-
ing more sheep in Pennsylvania.
Herbert w. Goodall, Just elected
Wce-president OF one of the PbiIa-
oeIphia trust companies, is one of
the youngest bank executives, in the
United States.
Elisha Lee has resigned from
subsidiary companies of the Penn
syivania, since he entered the gov
erhmeht railroad service.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-05
OLD-TINIE MUSTER DAY.

&" HE people of upper Dauphlr
county, who have been right
UP to the mark in every line
of patriotic effort from sending
first class soldiers to subscrib-
ing for Liberty Bonds and Thrift
Stamps, furnished the rest of
the county, Harrisburg included.
with an example of practical work
for the nation on Saturday at Eliza
bethville. Responding to the call of
Provost Marshal Crowder to see that
the men within the draft age receive
instruction in what the war is about
and how to fight it, the energetic
people of half dozen communities
revived old. fashioned Muster Day
and Elizabethville, the headquarters
of Dauphin Draft Board, No. 3, and
a center of war activity, had the
honor of being chosen as the place
for the demonstration. And spIen-
didly did the people of that progress
sive borough do their part.
Under the orders of the board of
instruction, which was named consid-
erably before some city boards
throughout the State got into action,
men of draft age from Lykens, VIII
Jamestown, Wiconisco and Gratz and
the adjoining countryside to the
east; from Millersburg, Halifax,
Paxton and other towns along the
Susquehanna and from the villages
to the north as far as the Mahan-
tongo were modified in Elizabeth
vile Saturday morning. 1t was a
Pretty husky bunch, it may be said.
But it was not the appearance of
these young men in response to the
call that stands out. 1t was the way
everyone in that section took part.
The whole district seemed to have
come around. Patriotic addresses,
community singing and prayers car
ried home the lesson of the hour to
the young men and then they were
given rudimentary instruction in
military matters with the band play
ing and the folks all looking on.
Seventy years ago patriotism and
readiness to spring to arms for the
ration were kept steaming by Mus
ter Day" throughout the country.
The rapid formation of regiment
after regiment and the response of
young men for war duty in the Civil
War demonstrated the value of these
periodical assemblages for military
instruction. And now, without know
ing it, we have come around to the
same thing and the people of the
upper end of the county have given
the rest of us something to think
about.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-05
WHERE THE MONEY GOES

THE Y. NJ. C. A. will ask for
nearly three times as much
money for war work purposes
the coming year as it found need
for during the, twelve months which
will come to an end in November.
There is reason for this-the Army
will be three times the size 1t was
a year ago. and it costs more to
operate overseas, where the men are
'quartered in small detachments,
than in the large camps in this
country. Many Y. NJ. c. A. huts
are required in France to perform
the service of one in America. Then,
too, the French and English must
be cared for when they come to the
huts as well as our own boys, and
the Italian high command has just
asked for 7. M. c. A workers for
the Italian army, asserting that thus
only can the high morale of the
troops be maintained. This is a
high compliment to the American
Z. M, C. A; also. it adds heavily to
its already weighty load.
The Standard Oil Company is a
small business organization as COM
pared with the Y. NJ. C. A. overseas.
The Literary Digest quotes some in
pteTesting phases Of the work. as
EtFonsht out by DE- John r. Mott.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-05
Foch's Triumph Complete
New York Times

lNeW tOrk IlmeSI
General Foch has practically dis
posed of the Rheims-Soissons sal
lent. fiattened it out, effaced 1t. In
the form of a horseshoe 1t ran for
eighty miles. little moro than a fort
night ago; at its furthest sweep al
most reaching Conde, south of the
Marne. Epernay was in danger,
Verdun likely to be cut off. 1t was
remarkable how the Franco-AmerI-
can front held without breaking on
the long exterior line. one cannot
help thinking now that If General
Foch had been operating on the IN
ner side of the salient German tac-
tics would not have availed against
him-he would have disrupted the
enemy's front and poured his forces
through. 1t was a supreme test of
his geheralship when he turned i'm
pending disaster into signal sue
cess that expanded with every day
OF lighting. He has taught The
enemy that when they have to deal
with him salient can be stretched
too far.
General Foch more than any one
else knows how great his debt to the
Americans is for their obstinate
stand at Chateau Thierry and tor
the vigor and fierceness of their
SOuhleTdIIdCkS. InOu SndlL not
pass!" the watchword at Verdun,
was adopted by the Americans. Con-
fident that they would hold that key
position, General Foch could afford
to risk an assault in force at the
western side of the salient. Had 1t
failed, the fifth phase of the great
German offensive would obviously
have been such a triumph as might
not have stopped short of the gates
OF Paris, and in all probability 1t
would have isolated Verdun.
1t was rot possible to draw fast
the strings of the bag, but late dis
patches report the Allies as having
reached the line of the Aisne and the
Vesle from scissors to Fismes. A
stand by the enemy on the Vesie
cannot be of long duration, IL it be
attempted at all. On that part of
the neck of the salient left to them
towns are burning, and the signs
are that a retreat to the Aisne, over
ground fairly level and interested,
has been planned. 1t is to be noted,
however, that the terrain lends it
self to pursuit, and the enemy will
be in difficulties while trying to
reach the banks of the Aisne.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-05
LARGER TEAMS
[From the Pennsylvania rarme

lFrom the Pennsylvania Farmer1
Almost every farmer can use
larger teams or more horses per
man. In the fertile sections of
southeastern Pennsylvania, where
the Pennsylvania Dutch know how
to do things, four, five and six or
even seven horses are commonly
used to haul heavy loads. The sin
gle line, good lead horse. and a
man who knows how to drive sucn
team are of course, essentials, and
it is doubtful IL this practice could
be followed to any extent where the
single line. is not used. Three and
four horses abreast, driven with
check lines will, however, help cut
considerably and will serve the same
purpose.
In preparing the seed bed on these
Pennsylvania farnls it is a very
common practice for one man to
handle two harrows, driving one
team ahead with single line on the
lead horse and leading the other
team behind the first harrow, thus
doing the work of two men. but with
no greater effort than is required to
drive the one team. This sounds
strange to men who have not seen
or practiced 1t. and common to those
who have II is a great labor saver.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-05
DRY" PENNSYLVANIA
CFrom the Scranton Tribune1 !

IL AOAli llAO 0SIeihlOh
The Dry Federation of Pennsyl-
vania announces it's belief that the
coming session of the General AS
sembly will ratify the federal prohi-
bition amendment. Reason for This
belief is given in the publication of
the names of those who are de-
pended upon to vote dry" The list
includes two representatives from
Cambria county, Mr.. Horne, of the
city district, and Mr.. Griffith, of the
county district. The election of these
candidates is regarded as a foregone
conclusion. In the list Senator
Tcmpkins is placed as likely to vote
against ratification.
The statement of the Dry Fedora
tion indicates that the real battle
for ratification will come in the State
Senate. There is scarcely a doubt
but that the House will favor rati-
fication. The Senate holdover "drys"
are given as Ware. Eyre, Jones,
Leiby, Graft, Weaver, Craig, Mason
and Beales. The federation urges
that pressure be brought on holdover
senators to bring them into the
dry" fold. The battle promises to
be most interesting, with party lines
entirely demolished.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-05

represent, rather. the kindly, diff
cult, and entirely willing self sacri-
nee of whole nation, the vast ma
Jority of whom are working people.
There is only one altar for this
act of sacrifice-it is the table of the
American working classes. And the
rite is performed by men, women
and children, at every meal of the
day, day after day, week after week
1t should be known out there, in
the farmhouses and cottages of the
American continent, that the people
of this country, tightening their
belts and confronting the future will
an indestructible confidence, are
mindful of Americas self-sacrifice
and are grateful to her men and
women and children for their self
sacrifice-self-sacr which will
save the world.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-05
German-Americans Mav HELD

i, When communications were open
four years ago, it would have been
easy for German-Americans to
reach the minds of the Germans at
home. It may not be impossible
Eow. We hope at least they will
make the effort to show to their kin
and friends in the old country that
the crimes of their government have
estranged the sons of Germany In
other lands, that che view of Ger
many's olood-guiltiness expressed by
the stunts /eitrnc IS the view that
has impressed itself upon the minds
and hearts Of the great mass of Ger
man-Americans as the true view. As
tho only one.--NeW York Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-05
PAINFULLY DRY

THE editor of the Duluth News
Tribune places to the credit of
dry humor" President Wilson's
politics is adjourned" pronuncia-
mento. That is certainly a very
charitable view of the Presidents
perplexing political peregrinations.
The scribe who holds sway in the
sanctum of the News Tribune is cer-
tainly an optimist-we had almost
said a hopeless optimist. Perhaps it
is an entire absence of suspicion of
the motives OF his fellow men that
induces in him the belief that what
most people look upon as carefully
planned, partisan, political manipu-
lation. is merely humor. But what
ever the explanation. our contem-
porary in the town that made Proc
tor Knott famous can be acquitted
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-05
England'S appreciation
(Harold Begbie in the London chronicle.)

n MER1CA is sending to these
"A Islands almost two-thirds of
our food supply. sixty-fve per
cent of the essential foodstuffs eaten
by the British citizen comes to him
from the American continent. This
IN itself is something which calls
for our lively gratitude.
But there is a quality in the ac-
tion or America which should inten-
SHY our gratitude. For these Amer
lcan supplies. essential to our health
and safety, represent in a very large
measure the personal and voluntary
self-sacrifice of the individual Amer
lcan citizen. They are not crumbs
from the table of Dives. They are
not the commandeered supplies of
an autocratic government. They
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-05
.SOISSONS FINALLY FALLS

I'M HE Associated Press on Sat-
urday announced the fall of
Scissors.
Sensational newspapers served by
less accurate news associations an
nounced the capture of scissors. to-
gether with $4,000 troops, the even
ing of the second day of the big
allied drive.
There is this difference between
the Associated Press and some other
news gathering organizations. that
the Associated Press never exagger-
ates, never anticipates the fact,
never reports rumor for truth, never
take a chance" but Is always
prompt with the news when 1t really
is news.
Telegraph readers get the full AS
sociated Press reports every even
ing, supplemented by the dispatches
of reliable correspondents with the
American armies.