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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-04
THIN SKIN, THICK SKULL

Defenders of the administration,
most of them politically sympathetic,
are given to much shouting of trea-
son! and traitor! when it is intimat-
ed by Americans interested in the
outcome of the war that more could
have been and can be done by the
United States Government toward
licking Germany. Pitiless publicity
evidently does not make as good a
watchword as it made a catch
phrase. Friends of the present ad-
ministration, who elected it upon a
campaign of criticism, have since
become peculiarly thin-skinned, in
inverse ratio to the thick skulls of
some of those whom they undertake
to defend. They resent anybody's
interference with what the Govern
| ment is doing, and have set up a
postulate that the king is doing the
! best he can and therefore can do
no wrong.
That sort of thing worked for a
while in England-and worked
harm. 1t never did work in France,
which has borne the heaviest bur-
den of the war. Changes in the con-
duct of the war made by both coun-
tries undoubtedly have resulted in
improvement. Lloyd George saw
light when his ship was heading for
the rocks. He threw out the Jonahs
and steered clear. Persuaded by
capable critics that certain gentle
men We're untitled for their jobs, he
replaced them. He did not stub
bornly hold to a course clearly prov
en- to be in error. If his pride OF
judgment was hurt. he made the
best of it, realizing that the war was
not war of party, by party and
for n party. He realized something
that is seen but dimly over here as
yet; that a nation which is spending
its blood has a rightful interest in
the process of that expenditure, to
the end that as little of it as pos
sible be spent-and not wasted.
Historians have often disagreed
on the lessons of history, but most of
them have agreed on one PROPOSE
ton: that when people, even easy
going, loyal people, become con-
vinced that their leaders are not
leading, they act suddenly and un-
mistakably, and they get what they
go after sticking through thick and
thin to get 1.-THE Daily Iron
Trade.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-04
THE CUE THAT MIs-CUED

~ IFLE manufacturers have told
X the Senate investigating COM
mittee that they went to the
War Department last winter sug-
gesting that war was bound to come
and that they should speed up prep
arations to provide the necessary
equipment. They were told that
there would be no trouble and that
the War Department was not inter
csted.
AS a result, we are lacking about
10000 machine guns which could
have been delivered by this time if
the foresighted and forehanded man.
ufacturers had been listened to. And
yet the War Department was clear
ly following the lead of the White
House. From the opening of the
war in Europe, in August. 1914, down
to the days Just prior to the dis
missal of Won Bernstorff in February,
1917, there was never an intimation
from President Wilson that we would
not continue to be kept out of war.
There never was a syllable from him
to indicate that the advocates of pre-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-04
passive Loyalty"
Rudolph Heinrichs in the Atlantic Monthly
UrOm "A Genuine Letter.

VOU and I, Felix, are both of the
same German blood. There is
not drop of any other blood
in us, so far as l know. You feel the
tug of this blood drawing your SYM
pathies toward Germany. Perhaps
| am hard hearted. | often wonder
whether that is it. l think, however,
that l feel as deep affection for
father and the others in Germany as
you do. And yet there does not seem
to me to be the smallest corner of
me that is not for America, first and
last, and against Germany. l do not
hate Germany. but / want to see her
defeated, and l deeply hope that
America will have a part in defeat
ing her and that i may have 4 small
part in helping to defeat her.
You say that you are loyal if you
are merely passive, and some fool in
Washington. some official or other,
said the other day that the Gov ern-
ment demanded no more than pas
sive loyalty from its citizens of Ger
man birth or origin. 1 tell you, that
passive loyalty today is disloyalty.
You are needed, and 1 am needed,
and every American of German
blood. who considers himself an
American and nothing else is needed.
to symbolic to the rest of Americans
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-04
FRIDAY EVENING,

for there remained to be cut and
practically the entire linen industry
of Ireland had to be requisitioned.
All this is being done. Mr.. Coffin
says, the planes are being made. the
engines are being turned out in a
steady stream and by the middle of
the summer an American air force
of 100000, including 10000 trained
fliers. will give the allies a tre-
mendous advantage all along the
French front.
Here is an accomplishment of
which all America may be proud.
Nobody is asking the politics of Mr..
Coffin and his associates. Nobody
cares. The President is praised for
having picked men who have gotten
the work assigned them we'll under
way. How much more to the admin
credit it would have been
had it acted as wisely in all of its
Shipping Board for
example.
But this is not merely wartime
triumph. After the conflict the
aeroplane industry will be
on a firm footing. the sphere of the
as an adjunct to pleasure
and business will be greatly enlarged
and we shall be able to take the
place of leadership in the industry
which we never should have lost.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-04
GOOD NEWS. INDEED

TTOWARD COFF1NS confident
assertion that the American air
campaign will be launched on
time with 100 per cent. of the Iesti-
mated machines and aviators in the
field is the best news that the Amer
lean people has had in many day.
President Wilson, in this instance,
selected the biggest men in their
line in the country for the task as
signed-by far the most difficult of
the entire military preparedness
program-and they went at it as
business men. Politics had no part
in their activities. Their one thought
was the accomplishment of the work
before them. Now. six months ahead
of schedule, they are able to say
that they are travelling on time and
that there is every prospect OF put
in the field the coming summer.
Would that there were more air
boards and more Howard Collins in
the national service.
Just how difficult the task as
signed was may be realized fully
only by a careful perusal of Mr..
Coffins own article on the subject.
The air board started out without
even an engine and faced with the
necessity of designing a motor that
could be turned out in a score of
factories and the parts assembled
anywhere, or changed from one ma
chine to another in an hours time.
Simplicity of pattern, speed, econ
omy of fuel and ability to stand up
under the grueling wear and tear of
war were essential. Two years and
more the allies had been laboring
and had not an entirely satisfactory
engine. Yet the American air board.
locked in its rooms at a Washington
hotel. and summoning all holders
of patents and all automobile en-
gineers of note in the country, put
down on paper the plans for the
Great Liberty motor that in twenty
eight days thereafter was spinning
fehind an aeroplane and pronounced
ny European aircraft experts to be
the superior of anything in service
against Germany and better than
any German plane.
After such an accomplishment and
the gigantic task of manufacturing
this machine and aeroplanes for its
installation. came the training of a
vast army of workmen and ten thod-
sand artisans for this special line of
work. in addition to the making in
large quantities of all the delicate
instruments with which military
machines are equipped. And here is
where the great automobile industry
of the United States was brought
into the game and proved the saw
ing factor OF the situation. But even
Ehen the difficulties were not solved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-04
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

The Rev. John T, Reeve, who
takes charge of the First Presby-
terian Church, Lancaster, was given
q farewell reception by his church
in Philadelphia.
Joseph Pennell, the Philadelphia
artist. says when people think about
1t the Quaker City's Mummers ought
to suspend for the war at least.
e; B. Dorsett. chief of the
Bureau of Markets, has been invited
to address York county farmers on
marketing work.
Howard A. Butcher, prominent
Ardmore resident and well known to
many, will go abroad for Y. M. c. A.
work among soldiers
s. b. Trafford, the warden of
Lebanon prison, who has Just been
reappointed, is the oldest warden in
the state. He is seventy-eight.
~-Adjutant General Beary was I'm
on draft matters yester-
day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-04
ss.Ooo.O0O OF FooDsTUFFs

n AOPhlN county mas peeH IMAM
ing iron, mining coal and
- manufacturing so many thing:
that we seldom think of it as
one of the notable counties oi
/ Pennsylvania, even as we often fail tc
realize that the Keystone State is one
of the Commonwealths which raises
! a large part of the food it consumes.
| Ii was not until the State Depart
hment of Agriculture began to SYSTEM
atically arrange the data about the
crops of the State that the import
ance of Pennsylvania appeared in the
big scheme of food raising and con-
servation. And the same work has
brought Dauphin county to the at
tention of the students because of its
place in agriculture.
To bring it home, we may say that
the corn and wheat crops of Dauphin
county aggregated in value n quarter
of n million dollars more than the
receipts of the State of Pennsylvania
from automobile licenses during
1917, the banner year for motor We
hicle registration in this State, which
produced three and n quarter million
dollars for road maintenance. Our
corn was worth s2,5S1,794.60 and
our wheat 81, ,165,14S this year alone.
The value of the hay crop of Dau-
phin county for 1917 was Sl,OS4,-
S97.SO. in itself an aggregate con-
siderably greater than Harrisburg's
budget for 1918, quite the largest
ever framed. While the value of
seven staple crops alone, not includ-
ing fruit or any vegetables except po-
tatoes, was s6,072,SS4.56, or about
one-ninth the assessed valuation OF
the city of Harrisburg.
Not counting in what was raised
in the war gardens, which can hard
" be estimated, the farmers of this
iron and steel, coal and quarrying,
manufacturing and railroading coun-
ty. dug potatoes worth $612,19 and
our oats crop, of which the average
man knows mighty little, aggregated
the handsome value of s545, ,45S.32.
NuT rye WIS MOAkli tNCl a'fFNN AAiN
the bucllwheat, which few know we
raise in Dauphin county, was valued
at s7.67S.60.
Dauphin county is not only send
ing forth the flower of its youth
and making its industries do their
utmost to help win the war, mobiliz-
ing its money to buy Liberty Bonds
and to support the agencies for the
welfare of soldiers and sailors and
maintaining its railroad forces, but
it is doing a very substantial part to-
ward helping produce food along
with the other siXty-seven counties of
Pennsylvania.
We have to travel some to catch
up with the great agricultural coun-
ties of Lancaster, York and Berks,
but we feel, after scanning the fig
ures of our crops for 1917, that we
are on our way.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-04

of alien origin, the working Of the
American crucible.
We have boasted in the past that
the American people was not merely
a hodge-podge of fifty or hundred
races, but new race. looking not to
the past but to the future. Here is
your chance to prove it, to prove that
no temptation, however great. no
lure, however insistent, can turn us
who have received the benefits of
American citizenship, who have lived
and grown and prospered and been
happy under American institutions
back to the land that our fathers
left back to the kings they re-
nounced. We dare not be passive.
Instead of being passive, instead
of sitting in armchairs at home,
grumblingly nursing our resentment
as you would have us to do, you and
] should be out on the housetops,
declaring to the German-Americans
our faith in the American democ-
racy and the American people. See
ing how much we are willing to sac
rifice for the privilege of claiming
full American citizenship, other Ger
man. Americans, who have less to
sacrifice, may value American citi-
zenship higher than they do now
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-04
FRIDAY. JANUARY 4, 1918
LUGUBRIoUs MIR. CUTLER

~URWELL s. CUTLER, the new
X chief of the bureau of foreign
- and domestic commerce, sounds
=. funereal note in his annual report
when he says, speaking of the for
cign trade we have won during the
war, important as it is that we
hold our advantage in these and
other markets, we must not lose
sight of the fact that all such ad-
Nantases are likely to disappear II
we do not come out of the war vic
toriously."
The losing OF trade advantages
would be but one of chain of evils
which would, not unlikely" but
ositiveIy. encompass us if we did
rot come out of this war victorious
ly. For instance, Germany would
squeeze us with an indemnity which
would reimburse her for the entire
cost Of her war. She would also eX-
act such assurances from us in the
->-ay of treatment of her manufac-
'Iycs as would make her an undis-
puted arbiter in our market.
In short, the things Germany
would do 10 us make it unthinkable
that she should win, and it is as
tonishing that an officeholder should
even hint at such an outcome.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-04

tol. Mr.. Snyder says he will refuse
to pay any more until satisfied that
they are needed.
For some time there have been
rumors that change might be made
in the office of the fund. One report
was that Albert l.. Allen, assistant
manager, who has been at Washing
ton on national compensation mat
terS, intended to resign this winter
and so to the national capital.
Appointment of Harry e. Klugh,
of this city, as chief clerk of the
State Department of Agriculture,
seems to have caused some heart
hurnings as several men in western
counties got the idea that because
the late DIR. NJ. d. Lchliter, Tor
years chief clerk. came from Ale
gheny county, that the successor
would be named from that section.
Secretary Patton says that the ap-
pointment was made on the ground
of efficiency and in recognition of
Klugh's service in the department
for a dozen years.
People at the State Capitol are
indulging in considerable amusement
over the ardent manner in which
Scranton leaders are working for the
appointment of a registration COM
missioner to succeed Mayor-elect A.
T. Connell. Notwithstanding the fact
that a commissioner will have moth
ing to do for many months there has
been such activity as has not been
known for a long time. Mr.. Connell,
Senator Lynch and ex-senator Nc
Nichols have been here day after day.
fairly camping on the Governor S trail
while Sheriff Schlager and Commits
sioner Won Bergen have been keep
ing the wires hot. So much feeling
has been aroused over the appoint
ment that the Governor is going to
take his own good time.
The Governor has also been TAX
ing his time in the matter of the
Public Service Commissionershlps
and one of his friends remarked to-
day that the state has been saving
money by the Governor not hlllns
the places The present commits
sioners are all working hard and
keeping right up with the mass of
business so that the state is aot
losing so much by the Governors
careful consideration of the men
suggested for the places"
Governor Brumbaugh is mo-
mentarily expected to name judge
for Washington county. He has
been in consultation with many men
about the place.
Congressman b. K. Focht, OF
Lewisburg, is getting his fences ready
for denomination. The Union coun-
tian says that he will be willing to
enter the lists with all comers. AS
he has won the fight in the face OF
Democratic opposition of the
staunchest kind and against covert
enemies he ought 10 make it very
interesting.
james ]. Gerry. deputy pro-
thonotary of York county, and Coun-
ty Treasurer A. +. Fix are preparing
to sail as rivals to Congressman A. r..
Prodbeck, of Hanover, for the Demo-
cratic nomination for Congress in the
York-Adams district. Brodbeck does
not like the idea of opposition and
some of the Democratic state ma
chine leaders may look into York
conditions. Banking Commissioner
d. F. Lafean. s. X. Mccall and John
c. Schmidt, of York, are being sug-
gested as Republican candidates.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-04
LABOR NOTES

Federated shopmen employed on
the Western Maryland Railway have
received wage increases the last few
months that total 10 cents an hour.
The rate is now 80 cents for boiler
makers. machinists and blacksmiths
These workers are 100 per cent. or
ganized.
At the last convention of the Metal
Polishers. Buffers. Brass and Silver
Workers Union of North America, it
was voted to relinquish jurisdiction
Of the silver workers. Beginning with
the first of the year this interna-
tional organization will be known as
the Metal Polishers international
Union.
The members of Stockton (Cal)
Typographical Union have secured
the acceptance of, a new scale which
adds so cents per day to their wages.
Beginning January l, 1918. the news
paper printers work seven hours and
forty-five minutes. April 1, 1918, NJ
teen minutes more will be taken off.
According to data found in a re-
cent issue of the Gewerkschaft, the
official organ of the Austrian Trade
Union Commission, on January 1,
1917. the members numbered 166, 907,
of whom 2S.907 We're women, as
against 372.216 men and 42.979 wom-
en- members on January 1. 1914.
Because of the fairness of Justice
Higgins. president of the Common
wealth Arbitration Court, and the an
tagonism of the New South Wales
(Australia) government to organized
labor, some workers urge that the
state industrial laws be ignored and
that unions register under the Com
monwealth act.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-04
4 REEL EXAMPLE,

JAPANESE silk reelers have COM
II bined to hold up the price of
raw silk to s64s per bale. or
s175 higher than the average price
for the past 10 years.
The outcome of this action will
not be lost upon the Southern cot
ton growers. who asked charity from
the Nation when cotton prices were
low, but who show no disposition to
treat fairly with the world in it's
travail today.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-04
War Time Wit in London

Three years and four months of
war have speeded up aa good many
things. in England. AS to whether
jokes have been accelerated along
with other things the reader may
fern his own judgment after running
through these examples from an is
sue Of the Bystander, London.
The German people are going to
vary their diet by eating earth. This
is good news, for, as everyone knows,
you cannot have the earth and eat it.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-04

raredness had ceased to be nervous
and hysterical.' There never was
the faintest gesture to show that he
did not continue to turn away from
the subject OF the national defense.
as he did in December, 1914.
The War Department had receiv-
ed but one cue; and that was fol-
lowed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-04

the public business in municipal ad-
ministration. and this fact should be
kept in mind in the reorganization of
the City Council
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-04

Mayor Keister is right in his dec
laration that Harrisburg will keep
step with the State in everything
that has to do with the permanent inn
provement of the Capitol Park area.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-04
WAY OF INVESTIGATION

Very few Investigations hold up
in way that makes them as inter-
esting at the finish as they were at
the Observation-Disclosures Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-04

A contemporary wit points out that
there is a German prisoner of war in
this country who has not yet escaped.
We are informed that the poor fell
low suffers from gout.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-04
SAFETY FIRST

A kaiser sings a happy song,
Although, in quest of pelf,
He gets his people in all wrong,
He always saves himself.
Washington Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-04

Among his colleagues in the new
French government, M. Clemenceau
has included NJ. Nail. IL the latter
helps the ministry to hold on to office
longer than its recent predecessors,
he will be well worth his screw"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-04

Tho father of Earl Aurand, the
first Harrisburg soldier killed in
France. is worthy man and in need
Of employment. Surely, it ought not
10 be necessary to more than. state
The fact in patriotic Harrisburg.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-04
BOND OF PERFECTNESS

And above all these things put on
charity, which is the bond of per-
fectness.-Colossia III, II.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-04

City Council must provide for a
real collection of ashes, or be pre-
pared for the increasing protests of
an outraged public.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-04

All railroads have BLACK Dia-
mond" flyer, now that every coal
train is given preference in the move
ment Of traffic.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-04

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO..
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-04
DO YOU KNOW
That Harrisburg steel Is being
used for making locomotives?

HISTORIC HARRISBURG
Admiral Farragut was q visitor to
Harrisburg Just after the Civil War
and was given a great reception by
the veterans and citizena
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-04

E. .STACKPoLE, Prrs't s. Edisor-in.C Chief
+. r. OYSTER. Business MGnGger.
GUS NJ. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-04

The meetings of the allied agricul-
tural organizations to be held here
this month are of far greater i'm
portance than any similar meetings
held in years and it is interesting to
note that the number of associations
meeting here in the third week,
agricultural Week." as it is known,
is double what it was four or five
years ago. Hundreds of representa-
tive farmers and specialists in fruit,
cattle, poultry, cheese and other
lines, will be in Harrisburg for the
greater part of the week.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-04

From all accounts there will be
some brisk competition for honors in
corn at the mid-winter agricultural
show here late this month between
boys and girls corn clubs. The re-
quests for information which have
been reaching the State Department
of Agriculture indicate that there
will be some struggles worth watch
ing between clubs and that the very
finest of the corn will be shown here.
Already numerous local exhibitions
have been held which have settled
riyalries in townships and counties
and the winners will come here with
their golden products.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-04

@URWELL s. CUTLER, the new
X chief of the bureau of foreign
- and domestic commerce. sounds