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The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1918-08-03

F.w. Kelso, representing a dental supply house, accompanied by hlS bride is in the iity calling on friends while the Alameda is in port. Mir. and Mrs. Kelso, are on their honeymoon trip.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-03
TREES AS MEMORIALS

n r. c. E. L. KEENE has done a
fine bit of patriotic work in Of
fering to bear all expenses of
planting a tree marked with a spe-
cially designed and properly inscrib-
ed tablet to the memory of every
soldier OF the Thirteenth Ward who
is killed or dies in the service. DR..
Keene is a resident of that district
and has had a big share in its, af-
fairs, but he has done nothing more
praiseworthy than that which he
now proposes.
What a fine thing it would have
been if Park Commissioner E. Y.
Gross would have fallen in with
the Telegraph's plan to observe Ar
Dor Day this month by the planting
and inscribing of one tree for each
gold star on Harrisburg's roll of
honor. The cost ould have been
small and the effect upon the minds
of the participating school children
in a patriotic way would have been
marked. A stately elm to the mem
ory of each dead Harrisburg SOL
died would be no mean memorial.
1t is a pity the interest of the city
could not be aroused. Perhaps some
broad-minded official may come for
ward at a later day to do for Har-
risburg in this respect what is being
done in a small way by DR.. Keene
in the Thirteenth Ward of our own
city and by many progressive COM
munities throughout the land.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-03
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

e. B. Mills, acting superinten-
dent of Philadelphia police, has
opened school for policemen.
Senator Charles H. Kline is
much mentioned as a possible can
didate for judge in Allegheny county
next year.
Provost E. F. Smith. of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, says the
American soldiers are crusaders in
the last crusade"
Col. L. w. Kolb, who has been
visiting the Governor this week, says
that this state needs considerable
rain to get the grain fields into
shape.
Joseph Swain, president of
Swarthmore, presided at the induc-
ton of the student body at the
opening exercises at the famous col
lege.
Henry c. Frick's big bond SUD-
scription sent to Pittsburgh has
caused Pittsburgh newspapers to say
that he still considers himself n
Pittsburgh man.
B. Dawson Coleman. who Is in
charge of supervision of expenditures
on improvem for the Council Of
National Defense, used to be head
of big Lebanon iron industries.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-03
WISE OLD SANTA

C ANITA CLAUS is taking no
n chances this year. \ little while
ago the jolly old fellow was
frightened almost 10 death when
the War Industries Board threaten
ed to put the ban on Christmas Civ
ing and frowned darkly upon holi-
day shopping. So when the embargo
was lifted and the learned gentle
men at Washington decided that,
after all, perhaps, we could have a
war and Christmas all in the same
year. Santa got right busy and laid
in a full supply Of gifts suitable for
every member in the family.
That's how it happens that all the
stores of Harrisburg are now show
ing Christmas goods and asking you
10 shop early. And if you are as wise
as Old Santa and the merchants
aforementioned, you too will do your
Christmas shopping early. There's
no telling what kind of a govern
ment order may come along any
day. so it's just as we'll to do your
Christmas shopping while the shop
ping is good.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-03
Lauder Makes Report
Tells Britons Americans Say It's AS Much Their
War as Great Brtans

Harry Lauder, the Scotch come
dian who toured, America with a war
message from Great Britain. is back
home in John Bulls tight little is
land with the following written re-
port to his fellow countrymen, which
has just been reprinted in the New
York American:
Ye mind the tale of the train
Jumper who said he was for Frisco
if only his trousers held out. Well,
when the folks in New York asked
me how much ground l was covering
I said: The continent of North
America, If my voice holds out" And
it, has held out. But my arms sore
with the handshakes.
/ think that every man and boy in
the United States over 10. must have
had a go at my paw. If I'm a bit dis
jointed the day, you must pit 1t all
down to the wedden. There's been a
wedden the morn. It's my wifes
niece, Mary Kerr Valance (and a
bonny lassie she isl. She's married a
Draw soldier laddie of the name Of
Hamilton. And a fine name. too.
Well, I'm writing these casual
notes in momentary expectation Of
being called out to form part of a
family group in the back garden.
Och! There they go. Will you just ex-
cuse me for a minute?
Voice-Look pleasant, please.
Lauder-How can I look pleasant
with a crick in my
Click!
Well, thank goodness. that's over.
1t was a wonder my voice held out,
for in travelling thirty-three thousand
miles 1 addressed two million people.
IL seems to me that every British
propaganda in America should first
undergo voice training on the hills.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-03

Still. l may mention that when |
started out you got the best of every
thing at the hotels, and only n.y.
phenated waiter. who has since been
interned, seemed to know there was
a war on. When l came back siN
months later l lived on brown bread
and attempted thefts of sugar.
In money the results of the cam
paign were eleven million dollars for
the various war loans.
The effects don't end there. The
Americans. like the Scots, are as pru-
dent in the cash department as they
are reckless in the charge, and, hav-
ing put their money into the war
they decided it was their war and put
themselves in,' too-right in. And
they're for keeps there.
You may take it from me, and l
know, for I've been all over America,
that this is the spirit of the states:
This is as much our war as yours.
1t is more our war than yours, be-
cause there is more of us"
Yes, and have another message
u message of riendship-signeda and
sealed, and to endure forever. All the
mists of prejudice between us and
our cousins have, been blown away
by the great guns of the war. The
mist was the poison gas of German
propaganda.
1t was the Germans taught the
Americans that we were all "Haw
haw, Johnnies." 1t was the Germans
taughtlus that the Americans were
all spieadeagle. cock-a- doodle, get
off -the-earth hustlers.
We know better now. And the re-
ception a simple Scottish comedian
got from the American people is q
sign.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-03
RISE OF GENERAL JONES

[From the Youths Companion1
The career of Godfrey Jones, who
at 80 was a mine laborer in South
Wales and at 36 is a brigadier gem
eral in the British Army, is one of
the most surprising incidents of The
war. What makes it especially re-
markable is the fact that Jones, as
a young man. was given a chance as
mine foreman, but failed in that
position from apparent inability to
manage men!
His experience reminds us of our
cwn General Grant, who was a faF-
ure in civilian life before the war. but
a successful soldier from the first.
The rise of General Jones is also
a striking proof of the extent to
which the British Army organ!za- :
ton. which has always been aristo-
cratic in character. has been demo-
cratized by the war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-03
SOUTHERN PREJUDICE

40 Senator Williams. of the Sunny
~ South, objects to universal suf-
~ frage for the reason that colored
women would then be allowed the
ballot
And why should that be an argu-
ment against suffrage? Have not
colored women as much right to vote
as white women?
1t is to be suspected that the Sena-
tor is thinking more about the safety
of his Democratic majority thar he
is of the sensitive natures of his .iiy
white constituents. Perhaps Mr..
Williams might compromise on sepa-
rate ballot boxes for whites and
blacks. Southern racial prejudices
sometimes cease to be tragic and
become funny. Senator Williams
has simply made himself ridiculous.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-03
PUBLICITY AND WASTE
tFrom the Ohio State Journal

[From the Ohio State Journal
The country will be we'll served if
the report that the Congressional
Record is to be printed in way
that will save paper proves to be
true. And if Congress really gets
virtuous in this issue and shuts down
on printing speeches never delivered
and numbering up the record with
matter never read, it will be doinS
its bit to win the war along its CWn
special and peculiar "gasless" lines.
At the same time. if it takes up this
question of waste of paper it might
look into some of the publicity move
ments in the various Federal bu-
reaus and departments which, de-
spite all warning as to a paper scar
city, seem to have been galvanized
into a war activity of unusual pro-
portions. Congressman Moore has
just called attention to the swollen
and plethoric character of much of
this publicity, and if he should ever
go in for physical exhibits on the
floor of Congress he can find some
choice examples made Immediately
to his hand that will enforce any
argument against waste that he may
been called to activities of one bu-
reau, that of Education, which sports
school Life" a twenty-four-page
bimonthly. which is rival to
School Service" sixteen-paga
periodical issuing from the COM
mittee on public information; and
now, with the inks scarcely dry on
these new Government periodicals,
out comes a twelve-page educational
bulletin devoted to "Americaniza-
tion," whi2h. of necessity, covers a
great deal of the ground normal TO
School Life" School Service" and
the regular bulletins of the Educa-
tional Bureau and Mr.. Creel's COM
mittee. 1t seems to be a very merry
battle of the types indeed, with white
paper handy and lots of ink in the
pot. But the why" of it all is some
thing that Congress might we'll look
into.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-03
THE REPUBLIC FIRST

DENNSYLVANIA'S tradit ional
readiness TO forego even con-
stitutionaI rights when the re-
public is in peril is splendidly set
forth in the opinion given TO Sec
retary of the Commonwealth Cyrus
E. Woods by William H. Keller, the
Commonwealth's able first deputy
attorney general. to the effect that
in time of war the inherent right of
soldiers TO vote at general election
can be set aside when it might in
terfere with military measures for
the national defense In these days
we are hearing much from little
men about patriotism and some ut
teraRces emanating from individuals
cloaked with a little brief authority
sound like veriest squeaks beside
the lofty sentiments coming from
the great President at Washington.
Pennsylvania, within whose borders
lie Valley Forge and Gettysburg, has
not been free from noisy patriots.
some of whom talk with the ballot
in mind and the fear of loss of Of
fee In retrospect We have heard
a whole lot about protecting the
inalienable rights of the men at the
front. who are busy with a gigantic
task and not bothering about cleo
ton. and we have been treated to
disgracefuI factionaI fighting by
leaders of a party which called for
adjournment of politics. In short.
we have some times wondered
whether some men did not think
more about what effect the war
might have on elections than about
ways to win the titanic struggle.
But Mr.. Keller sums up the spirit
of the Pennsylvania at the front
and the right thinking man at home
when he says: That right (the right
to vote). as well as many others.
must be enjoyed in such a manner
as not to endanger the existence of
the republic. If military operations in
which the soldiers from this State
are engaged are of such a nature
that, in the judgment of the supreme
command. their success would be in
terfered with or imperiled by an
attempt to take the soldier vote,
then this right will have to be, for
the time. foregone. II. as we'll as
many other constitutional rights. is
subordinate to the supreme duty of
! defending the nation in time of
peril" Mr.. Keller scarcely needed
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-03

Harrisburg, Pa, October g. 1918.
Statement of the ownership, man.
agement. circulation. etc. of the Hnr-
risburg Telegraph, required by act of
Congress. August "a. 1912.
Editor. E. J. Stackpole. Harrisburg,
Pa; managing editor. Gus NJ. Stein
metz. Harrisburg. Pa; business man.
ager. Frank r. oyster, Harrisburg,
Pa; publisher, The Telegraph Print
ing Company, Harrisburg. Pa, E ].
Stackpole. president.
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Stackpole. F. r. Oyster. Harrisburg.
Pa.
No bonds or mortgages.
Average number of copies of each
issue sold or distributed through the
mails or otherwise to paid subscribers
during the six months preceding the
date of this statement. 26.451.
+. r. oyster. Business Mgr.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this I'd day of October. 1918.
(Signed) II. B. MUMMA,
Notary Public.
(My commission expires March 9,
D..
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-03
THE LONG ROAD

1t took so long to part that day!
The door. the gate were both 100
soon,
And so she went a little way
Along the road
Where the still, autumn afternoon
About us glowed.
With slow steps and little said
We climbed the hill and stood
while
Amid the gold and purple spread
About its crest,
And saw the road run mile on mile
Into the west.
And then said I, "I might have
There is no place for us to part
I cannot bear to tread alone
A road so long,
For one grows faint and sick at heart
Where TWO are strong.
See how tho road now runs between
The sunny meadows, green and
gold,
But plunges soon below a screen
OF forest night,
And last those strange, far hills
enfold
Its course from sight.
so looking forward we, may guess
OF hope and joy, of fear and woe.
But joy is greater, sorrow less
If shared, sweetheart.
All, may we not together go
And never part?"
Close to the hills-the Hills of Rest
trace the road that now we know
In deep content. to that bright crest
Where once we two
Stood gazing, and she answered low
''I go with you"
-Gorton Csrruth in the Youths
Companion.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-03
UNTIL SUN GOES DOWN

.T<HIS war must so on. whether or
= not Germany asks for peace.
We cannot quit fighting while the
Kaisers armies are on allied soil,
or before our soldiers reach Ger
many.
James W. Gerard. former ambas-
sador TO Berlin. voiced popular con-
viction when he said in Liberty
Loan address in New York Tuesday:
The United States and her allies
must force their way we'll into en-
emy territory, despite all attempts
at peace. and must keep on going
until Germany bows 20 their will"
The war must be carried to Ger
many. "Brutes can understand
nothing but brutality" declared Cap
tain vint before the Chamber of
Commerce yesterday, and while no.
body in allied lands favors the raw
aging OF Germany as Germans have
ravaged Belgium, Vet it il felt that
Germans must have 4 taste of what
war means at home. They must be
taught the meaning OF the thing they
have done TO France. They must ee
punished in the only way they can
understand.
So the war must so on. And We
who are supporting it must continue
to buy Liberty Bonds. Il fear pre-
mature peace more than fear Ger
many" said Captain Vint. and we
feel the same way. We must. there
fore, lend our money TO tho Govern
ment to provide The means OF carry
ing the war into Germany and the
American armies into Berlin.
There is an old belief that a
snake does not die until the sun goes
down, and I think it is nearly half
past four for the Kaiser" observed
Captain Vint
Yes, that's it; half past four for
the Kaiser.
But we must keep right on buy
ing bonds until the sun goes down.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-03
WE DO NOT NEED HIM

[From the New York Evening Sun1
The truth of the pertinent and
keen observation by correspondent,
whose letter we published the other
day. that tho experience of the past
four years has proved that America
does not need anything the German
makes. is well illustrated by the
glass. porcelain and fire brick indus
tries. Formerly we imported most
of these things. but. as it was shown
at the Chemical Industries Exhibit
ton. we now make. them here. OF as
good quality as any the German once
sold us. The same thing is true of
dyes and a score of minor accessities.
There is nothing made in Germany"
that we cannot make ourselves pr
buy from our friends. We do not
need the Bcche.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-03
MEMORIAL TREES
By BRIGGS
[From the Philadelphia Evening
I,edpar1

Narberth has adopted in a modified
form the plan of houoring its SOL
diers suggested by a correspondent
of this newspaper, who proposes that
a memorial tree be planted in Broad
street for every Philadelphia soldier
who falls in the war.
Narberth has set out planting a
tree for every man who has gone into
the army, the navy of the marine
corps from the borough. A begin
ming has been made with four trees,
for the first man to enlist in each
of the three branches of the service
and one for the first man to be
killed.
The plan is good. 1t keeps green
the memory of worthy Americans.
1t also keeps before each of those
who return the example of tree,
which grows with the years and
extends Its protecting shade over
the weary in the heat of the day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-03

to bark back TO the days of the
Roman republic for a rule. He
could have found it in the mouth
of any plain citizen. In time Of
national peril it does not matter
whether Pennsylvania has the right
to send commissioners over seas to
take the votes of soldiers in trench
and camp. The cargo space is far
more Important. and as for the men
in khaki they are out TO win the
war. not an election.
II the War Department ruling
that sending commissioners to
France is "impracticable" that ends
it, even if some favored individual
does not get hoped-for free trip to
the battlefelds of France. Mr..
Keller not only interprets. the law,
but states the thought of the people.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-03
LABOR NOTES

Arizona's governor vetoed a pro-
posed work-cr-fght law.
Job printers at Winnipeg, Can,
now get s2s a week.
Peoria Ull.) carpenters have been
increased to as cents an hour.
Steam and operating engineers at
Eureka. Cal, have organized.
A number of expert French girl
ammunition workers have been
Metal fathers at Vancouver, B. c.,
get 81 u cents an hour.
The New York State Industrial
Commission corrects the claim that
employers on government work in
that state are not subject to New
Yorks labor laws. The commission
has instructed its legal department
aBd its inspectors to enforce the
state law where women are employ
ed by private contractors or ~ovArD-
ment work
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-03
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5. 1918

All thoughts OF iH;-dH eril deeds.
That hare their roots in thoughts
OF ILL.,
Whdtever hiuders or impedeS
The action Of the nobIer riN;-
All these must first be trdmpled dotcn
Beneath our feet, IL tee could gain
In the bright feldS Of Tdir reno,rn
The right of eminent domain!
-LoHofellou.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-03
Got to Beg for Them

The kaiser has the wrong idea.
The war will end when he asks for
peace terms. not when he proposes
them.-From the Chicago News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-03
A Strong Argument

When we consider what we have
done with the money already spent
on the war, aren't we glad to invest
more? We are.-From the st. Louis
Globe Democrat.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-03
Not Much Difference
[Fron the Dal.

[From the Dallas News.1
AS a general thing. it takes a mar
ried man a long time to get over
the idea that buying rugs isn't about
the same as wasting money.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-03
Room For Ben DdUiS

And we often wonder IL the time
will come when apples are sold the
same as -four and we have to take
Ben Davis as substitute.-From the
Chula, Kan, News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-03
Royalty Recognized

When representatives of labor hob
mob with kings and queens, then is
democracy lifting up it's head in the
world.-From the Baltimore Amer
lean.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-03

An apple costs almost as much these
days as a whole crock Of applebutter
did tn years ago.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-03
E. ]. STACKPOLE

Member of the Associated Press-The
Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled TO the use for republication OF
all news dispatches credited TO il or
and also the local neAvs published
herein.
All rights of republication of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-03
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Dauphin County pota-
toes are being bought for the
army camps?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-03

The Sick Man of Europe now be-
comes the Dead Man.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-03
HISTORIC HARRISBURG

When it was proposed to estab-
lish water works here many people
who owned pumps along the river
objected strenuously to the expense.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-03

One victory won't win this war;
neither Will one Liberty Bond.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-03
WHAT DID HE
MEAN F.?

Monk If I
/ h o u g h t I
wouldn't drown,
I take a dip.
Alligator
Come on in,
y o u W o n t
drown!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-03
4 number of expert French cir
ammunition workers have bee

Metal fathers at Vancouver, B. C.
get S1A cents an hour.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-03

Steam and operating engineers &
Eureka. Cal, have organized.
The Irish standard., 1918-07-06
Ramsey County Div.
No. l, A. 0. n.
Dedicates Service Flag in Honor OF
the Boys lover There" Fighting
For Their Country and
Humanity.

In response to a notice sent out by
the officers of Division No. l, A. o. H.,
Ramsey County, the members and
many visiting brothers gathered at
Division No. hall, Thursday evening"
June 9th, where they dedicated a
Service Flag which symbolized the
members of that Division who have
responded to their country's call and
are, fighting now in unison with
thousands of Hibernians throughout
the land.
State President T. j. Doyle delivered
the address and Jno. Fitzpatrick re-
cited an original poem in honor of the
dedication. An excellent program was
rendered consisting of vocal and in
trumental numbers. The affair was a
thorough success and the efforts of
T. +. Kelleher, president of the Divis-
ion. and j. b. Mccarthy, secretary,
We're we'll repaid by the excellent
response of the members to this spec
ial occasion