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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-25
A JUST PETITION

TT is to be hoped President Wilson
will heed and grant the petition
of the Grand Lodge Of Pennsyl-
vania Colored Knights of Pythias,
praying that he address a specia
message to the country on the inn
portance of exercising self-restraint
and preserving public order during
the war crisis. The lodgemen re-
ferred particularly to the mob law
and lynching spirit which have
flared up here and there making life
unsafe for even the innocent and
law-abiding colored men who have
been the worst sufferers at the hands
of unreasonable, unreasoning mobs.
The colored men do not mean that
crime should be protected, far from
it. But they do believe all men
should be protected in their rights
and that the guilt or innocence of
the accused should be left entirely
in the hands of a jury of his peers.
This is eminently just and fair and
should have unqualified Presidential
support.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-25
Fighting the Blond Beast
N. A. Reviews War Weekly

IN. A. Reviews War Weekly
The increasing activities on other
fronts than the western are to be
regarded with satisfaction. Italian
troops are making Gery substantial
progress in Albania. other progress
is being made north of Saloniki. and
Intervention in Russia, both in ST.
beria and Murmania. is an achieved
fact. We repeat our conviction that
this is sound policy. Much as we ap-
preciate the necessity of throwing
our strength chiefly upon the west
ern front, we hold that when you
are at war with an enemy you are
at war with him all oyer. and that
1t is desirable to strike wherever he
appears vulnerable. and to block him
at every point at which he seeks to
advance. Let us mass our millions.
by all means. in France and iTlsn-
ders. and conduct the hunting of the
Blond Beast across the Vosges and
the Rhine. But still we can spare
enough men to help Russia to re-
habilitate herself and to prevent her
from falling into the hands of Hun
nish ravishers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-25
Sisters of the Secretary of State
Write of Canteen Work in France

The 'poilu' who is being married
mas gone into aviation and is ready
TO begin his flights now. He had
three days in which to be married.
He brought his fiancee to see me. and
have letters from her. Because /
could not go to the wedding just
now they proposed to postpone it,
May 81 have just finished a
letter of coincidence to the widow OF
one of my 'poilus.' He was married
on the 23d and on the 26th fell in
ms aeroplane and was killed.
Rheims Cathedral
May 1O.-Yesterday 1 made a
visit to Rheims. We approached it
from a hill; so long before we reach
ed the city we saw the cathedral out
hned against the sky, majestic and
apparently perfect. We approached
over camoufiaged roads and through
city forsaken-a city of the dead.
The cathedral is still lovely in its
state of semidestruction. The beau
uful outlines are there and the tow
ers are still standing, although badly
weakened Two large shell holes are
In the roof, while the altar is COM
pletely destroyed. AS we drove away
we got out of the car and mounted a
little hill by the roadside and look
ed back, and out of mist that was
filling the valley we saw the city, so
beloved by all France, rising like a
dream city 1 shall never forget it,"
A WeIl-Equipped Hospital
Last week | went all over the
hospital here. 1t is wonderfully well
equipped and has accommodation for
1000 beds. There is a fine corps Of
surgeons in charge who all use the
new apparatus of the war | have
done a good deal of visiting in the
hospital in my spare moments and 1
love it, The soldiers are so happy to
see US and so grateful for every lit
tie gift of paper, a flower, or a cigar
ret. One of the doctors 1 found care
fully cherishing a postcard picture
of President Wilson and he is anxious
for better picture. Will you get one
FOR me to give to him? Another sur
geon wanted a map of the United
States. He says he meets many doc
tors who tell him where they live in
America and he would like to study
a map"
Work in the Cantecn Kitchen
May 23.-We have had very hot
weather lately and several nights in
the kitchen it was S5 degrees and ex-
tremely. humid. At night we have to
have all the doors and windows
closed to keep out the light, so not a
breath of air comes III, and working
in such an atmosphere is exhausting.
With cooking vegetables and meat
and an oven for heating water for the
dishes, and a seething mass of hu-
manity, it is little torrid to say the
least l wrote you of the
nice little garden back of our house,
where we sat out and had our meals.
We found browntail caterpillars on
one of the trees and so now we must
keep out of the garden
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-25
The TWenty-Eighth in Fray
pittsburgh Gazette-TimesI

Secondary in Importance to Pitts
burghers and all other Pennsylva-
mans only to the news of continued
allied success yesterday was the
statement of General March, chief
of staff, concerning the identity of
the troops engaged, for in the list of
divisions appeared the Twenty
eighth. Pennsylvania own and for
merly the National Guard of the
state. Nothing, unless it were the
announcement that the Eightieth,
composed of selectives from this i'm
mediate district. was in the battle,
too, could bring the war home any
more sharply. 1t is as though the
firing line were only a few miles
away and all our sons and brothers
were out on 1t. No longer is the
western front a mere expression, re-
mote in its implications. The boys,
who little while ago were patrolling
the Mexican border. in camp on
Schenley oval or IN training at Camp
Hancock, are now fighting, actually
fighting, for u.s. They have reached
the last stretch OF the long road that
led out from home when they heard
the call. From now on the Twenty
eighth-with its glorious old Eight
eenth and Tenth and Sixteenth
will be pointing toward victory and
the transports that will bring them
home again.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-25
LEST WE FORGET

"Leno me your wings, oh, wind"
That l may fly
Up through the boundless reaches
of the sky
And gather stars, to strew the graves
where lie
Our soldier dead, stilled in Deaths
majesty
With new culled staF-dust.
Lend me your song, oh, nightin-
gales"
That l may sing
OF daring deeds. and that the world
may ring
Of heroism, sacrifice, the widows
walls,
And echo thrill the earth and
heaven through.
That mau and all Gods angels may
be true,
That golden notes from out a sill
yer horn"
May sound my song of songs to ma
tions yet unborn,
Lest they forget.
Lend me your perfume, flower, leaf
and blade"
That l may burn
4 fitting, sweeter incense to these
dead
Than ever yet has burned or shed
its light
On honor's roll, that all may read
Alright
The story of their deeds in man
kinds fight
For Liberty.
Lend me your tints, oh, rainbow"
For the flag
Your twin that floats SO proudly Ger
the land
Where freedom and humanity go
hand in hand,
Where brother-love and honor. more
than gold,
And gentleness to weakness, ever
hold
Their place; lend me your tints, IL
needs be, to renew
Our flags proud message in it's ev-
cry hue,
And star and fold.
Lend me your gift to hate. Ye
Furies' Clan"
Lest I forget;
May God forgive the wish, all kind
ness ban,
Even in thought. exc action. and in
prayer.
This must be banished from the
creeds of man
Who have what we have to avenge
and bear.
Teach me TO hate. forgiveness to
forswear,
Forever, ay! and then!
The time has come, has come. when
the Christ's cross
Must yield, its gentle message give
| way to the sword;
When man must count love and for
giveness loss,
| AND by the wish to slay. alone be
stirred.
William P. Hunter.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-25
AFTER THE WAR

F VERY fresh issue of the illus
~ trated journals presents pic
lures of girl and women work
ers in new occupations. From railroad
shops to munition factories they are
taking places long monopolized by
men. They are responding nobly to
the emergency. They are proving
their worth, and doubtless will con-
tinue to do so.
These new activities of women
have excited certain self-announced
industrial experts" who are begin
ming to worry about the "readjust-
ment period" to follow the war.
What is to happen" they are ask
ing, when the men return and find
their places filed by women?"
This is shooting wide of the mark.
Our problem will not be so much to
displace the women workers as TO
find new places for the men, and that
ought not to be so very difficult if
proper steps are taken now in prepa-
ration for the coming of peace.
We shall then find ourselves with
the greatest merchant marine in the
world and commanding vast markets
that have been starved for years and
hungry for our goods. Industrial and
civic development and construction
held back by years of war will be
ready to absorb vast quantities of the
things which we shall have to sell.
We shall have a productivity beyond
our former widest dreams. There
should be work for men and women,
too. But not all women will want to
continue in the mills. With the dis
charge of our soldiers will come a
very epidemic of marriage and in
addition countless wives now work
ing for wages will go back to their
normal business of home-making.
But much hinges upon our prepa-
rations for peace and there are few
indications that the federal govern.
ment is giving any more considera.
tion to this than It did toward pre-.
pairing for war before we actually
got into it.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-25
HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL

r T will be we'll to remember that
Postmaster Burleson has said
that the telegraph and telephone
systems of the country under
private ownership have been opcr-
ated in a highly successful man
ner. Mr.. Burleson might have said
the same of the conduct of the postal
department before he took charge.
but he would make himself the
laughing stock of the country If he
said anything like that now. Heaven
help the public If he does no better
with the telephones and telegraphs
than he has done with the malls.
He says he has in mind improve
ments and economies" In the pos,-
office department his Improvement
has meant, for example. that spe-
cial delivery package mailed in New
York in the evening does not reach
Harrisburg until about thirty-six
hours later. Before he took charge
the same package was laid down on
the desk of the man addressed the
morning following the evening on
which it was mailed. The Improve
ment" in this case has been a delay
of twenty-four hours in delivery, and
the necessity of a complete change
of mailing arrangements by the
business man in question. This is
only one case of many. Philadel.
phia is now so hard hit by blunders
of the Burleson administration thai
the newspapers are engaged IN a
crusade for betterment.
An economy" of the Burleson
variety has been to cut down the
number of mail clerks and post.
office employees at time when bust.
ness has been growing rapidly and
their burdens consequently on the
increase. Then, too. he has seer
to 1t that in order to save money
the men of the postal department
have not received advances in wages
in anything like the proportion giver
to men in private enterprise. In
short, he has succeeded by his nom
sensicaI ideas of Improvements and
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-25
STREET LIGHTING

IN HE Fuel Administration is to be
commended for its effort to save
lighting current and gas-which
in the final analysis means coal. 1t
is a small matter for a merchant to
forego the lighting of his show win
dows if all his competitors are un-
der the same restrictions. The
brilliantly-lighted hotel may also dim
its luster somewhat without injury
to anybody. But Administrator
Hickok is wise in going slow in the
matter of street lighting.
The Fuel Administration made a
grievous error last winter with its
"coalless days" working needless
hardship on thousands. and it would
make another grave mistake if it
rushed pell-mell into the regulation
of street lighting. Doubtless, we may
find it possible to get along without
some of the present light, but the
highway and police departments
should be consulted before any
steps are taken in that direction.
The automobile driver must de-,
pend within the city limits largely
upon the street lamps to guide his
course. He is not permitted to use
his heavy headlights. To deny him
the street light would be to endanger
beth pedestrians and the occupants
of motor driven cars. But even
more serious is the fact that crime
flourishes most in poorly lighted dis
tricts. Deeds of evil love the dark
ness is an old and true saying.
Robbery unquestionably would in
crease with a serious reduction in
street lighting.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-25
CAMPAIGNING BY MAIL

In Kansas, now that the wheat
harvest is about to be completed, and
the Liberty Bond drive and the Red
Cross drive are out of the way and
there is nothing else to do, the peo-
pie are beginning TO inquire as to
who's running"
Up to this time the campaign has
consisted very largely of letter writ
ing by the candidates, and in this
plan, IL is well known, Governor
Capper, who is running for the Unit
ed States Senate, has all the Other
candidates laid in the shade" 1t is
said that Governor Cappe-'s mailing
list is the envy of all Kansas poll
ticians
A good story is told of how the
Governors correspondence bureau
works: Frank Grimes is one of
Charles F. Scott's campaign manag-
ers. One evening recently Grimes
went up to the Central National bank
building in Topeka to visit "Harve"
Motter secretary of the Henry Allen
committee. Motter was visiting with
an old friend, Swede, from Central
Kansas. He introduced him to
Grimes.
ANY politics out your way?"
Grimes asked.
Amt bane much yat," replied the
Swede.
ANY talk about United States
SENATOR" Grimes persisted.
oh, little" was the reply.
Who are you for?" Mr.. Grimes
questioned.
"Oh. l guess 1 bane for Gov'nor
Capper.
Anybody for Scott out that way?"
Scott? Who bane Scott?" asked
Mr.. Motter's friend.
Why, he's a candidate for the
Senate" was the answer.
Il tank not" the Swede replied.
Il got letter from Gov'ner Capper
yesterday and he said nothing about
Scott bane candidate" kansas City
Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-25
SLEEP, LADDIE, SLEEP

1.-THE War Department announced
that on recommendation of General
Pershing no bodies of deceased Of
ficers and soldiers would be sent to
this country until after the close of
the war.l
Under the lilies of France they lie,
Silently taking their last, long
rest;
And the soft breeze murmurs in
passing by,
While rivulets echo the tender
behest.
Sleep, laddie, sleep.
While onward shall pour the VIC
torious band,
And the Teuton be crumpled
behind his frontier;
Though the hoarse shout of triumph
shall fill all the land,
And an eagerly listening world
shall hear.
Sleep, laddie. sleep.
When our boys shall at last sail back
Ger the deep
With freedom established forever
and ay,
They shall not be unmindful, o lad
in your sleep,
But tenderly STOPPING shall bear
you away.
So sweetly sleeping.
And under the lilies of home you
shall rest
Where nature seems poised in
tenderest prayer;
And the thought of a land who went
over the crest
Shall render that mound surpas-
singly fair
While you sleep, laddie, sleep.
-Elbert Robb Earring.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-25

economies" in wrecking a depart
ment of the government that was
formerly the pride of the nation and
a model of efficiency.
This is no reflection upon the
working forces, who have been
forced to give up lifelong occupa-
tions in the service to go in large
numbers TO other lines of endeavor
where their efforts are more appre-
ciated or to continue to work under
almost intolerable conditions.
If the telegraph and the telephone
are to go the same way as the post
office department. we repeat, Heaven
save the public, and the nation. too,
which just now is so dependent
upon efficiency in all lines of busi-
ness.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-25
A French Schoolgirls View

1T was a little river-almost a
brook. 1t was called the User. One
could talk from side to side without
raising ones voice. The birds could
fly over it with one sweep of their
wings. And on its banks there were
millions of men, the one turned To-
ward the other. eye-to eve. But the
difference which separated them
was greater than that between the
stars in the sky. It was the differ
ence which separates justice from
injustice.
THE ocean is so great that the
seagulls do not dare to cross It. For
seven days and seven nights the
great steamships from America, 60
ing at full speed. must drive through
the deep waters before the light
houses of France come into view.
But from one side to another
hearts are touchinG."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-25
KEEP TROOPS MOVING
kansas City Starl

There should be no abatement in
the movement of troops to Europe.
The events of the last week have
shown what it means to the allies
to have enough men to take the of
fensive. 1t would be a very great
mistake for Secretary Baker to per-
NIT the movement to slacken.
With plenty of men it is possible
to overwhelm the enemy with the
least loss to the attacking troops.
This was demonstrated in the Ger
man offensive in March when
PGough's army was cut to pieces. We
can turn the tables on the German
if we will.
That means that Congress must
make speedy provision for calling
additional troops by extending the
draft ages. We cannot keep up the
present transportation rate without
providing for the training of more
men Immediately. -
The heavy troop movements of
April, May and June were made pos
sible by the use of some British ton
mage in addition to our own. AS
stated in the House of Commons
something over 100000 men, or ap-
proximately half of the total number
transported il that period, were
moved in British ships. Assurance
was given that these ships would
continue to be available for this
service.
Our own tonnage, of course, is In
creasing and some of the japanese
ships obtained in exchange for steel
11ae t.. &s.A A.
spring are now coming into our pos
session, ccording to recent announce
ment. With these resources there
seems little question of our ability to
keep up the record figures of the
past months.
The required manpower must
come from America. We are the
allied reserve. The stage of the war
Is now reached when the reserves
have been called up. The faster they
arrive the quicker the finish.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-25
PEACE FEELERS

X ERMANY having put out an
II other peace feeler, the allies
will do we'll to ignore it COM
pletely. This is no time to talk
peace. We are busy, too busy lick
ing the Huns to think about any
thing but unconditional surrender.
We have set our minds to war and
the best answer the allies could
give the Kaiser is Secretary Baker
announcement that he means TO
men.
Germany would like to get out of
the war now in order to reorganize
and get ready for another great
slaughter, when she could take on
the nations one after another and
win the world for herself. The Ger
man peace terms are absurd on their
face. All the Prussian gang wants
is TO get the nations around a peace
table to discuss fundamentals which
are not open to discussion so long
as the allies stand firm in the field
on the platform so admirably laid
down by President Wilson.
The Wilson doctrine of peace is
the only one acceptable to America.
We have demonstrated tha. we can
beat the Hun at his own game and
when we talk peace it will be to tell
Germany just what must be done
The Kaiser's place at the peace table
will be between two American SOL
diers armed with rifles. if he is dig
nified by any consideration what
soever.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-25
NE ISS EMMA S. LANSING and
M Miss Katherine E. Lansing,

.
sisters of the Secretary of
State, have been working with the
American Red Cross in France since
last September. They are now con-
Quoting canteen in a village near
the front where they are often under
nre. Following are extracts of letters
addressed to Secretary and Mrs.
Lansing in March and April:
Thirty bombs were dropped here
last night. Those of us who were
not on duty at the canteen last night
sat in cave belonging to the Sisters
of Mercy listening to the popping of
the mitrailleuse, the roaring of the
cannon, and the bursting of bombs,
but feeling pretty safe so far under
ground.
March IA, at the canteen, a. m.
Last Saturday night the clocks
were all set ahead one hour, and, l
assure you, when we leave the can
teen a little after in the morning
1t is still very cold, although the
weather is wonderful-full of sun
shine all day. 1 had only four hours
sleep last night, as we had an alerte
and had to stay dressed, fearing our
evening visitors, who are frequent.
They come about the same. hour
each night-a little before 8. Our
orders are never to go out after the
alerte sounds, except to get to a cell
lar. Very near the canteen the
French have built an abri for us
which will hold about fifty people,
and only two doors from here is an
excellent cave, to which the Sisters
of Mercy have given us a key.
A Glimpse of the Canteen
April IL, $50 a. MI am writing
at the canteen, where 1 am on the
shift from midnight to o'clock l
wish l could give you an idea of the
atmosphere here at night. In front of
me group of French infantry with
one Zouave is playing cards. Near
by is one of the blacklist of negroes
have ever seen, in the blue uniform
of the French, walking up and down
to keep himself awake. An Ameri-
can ambulance man is playing the
piano; an Italian is sitting at table
eating bread and cheese; and the
whole large sale is filled with SOL
diers sleeping. talking or listening to
the music. My letter has been inter-
rupted a number of times; once by
an American soldier who wanted to
tell me how he happened to enlist.
all about his family. and the girl,
and he wished to show me their
photographs; and again by a French
soldier. who wanted to tell about his
family.
April PA have been out buy
ing a wedding present for one of
my 'filleuls. Did 1 tell you that have
now about 45 soldiers to whom
write more or less often? / am very
unhappy about some of them, from
whom l have not heard since their
part in the big battle.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-25
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES

The Putnams announce that they
have in train for immediate puiblica-
ton THE Devastation of Europe"
by DR.. Wilhelm Muehlon. This is the
American copyright edition, the
volume being issued by special ar
rangement with the Swiss publish
ers.
DIR. Muehlon. himself a German,
and formerly director of the great
krupp works, in this remarkable
volume has barred the German plot
to despoil Europe. The book, COM
ing from the pen of one who, though
now. in exile, was until recently most
intimately connected with the rul-
ing group in the empire, is an his
toric document of the first import
ance, containing revelations that
even a public surfeited with sensa-
tions will read with wonder, accord
ing to the publishers.
Judicial investigation to determ-
inc the identity of the anonymous
author of two widely circulated
anti German books, "J'Accuse" and
THE Crime" has been ordered by
the Swiss government. A cable from
Paris states that a dispatch from
Berne to this effect has just been re-
ceived by the Temps.
The book "J'Accuse," published
in this country by George H. Dorar
Company under the title, II Accuse!'
was suppressed by the Swiss govern
ment in March, 1916, and it became
a capital offense in Germany to have
a copy of the volume in ones posses
sion. The author was simply given
as "A German" and he was the first
to bring scathing indictment
against his own country as respon-
sible for the war. The book has been
attributed to various sources. THE
Crime" which followed by the same
hand, was a work of even more Wig
orous character.