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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-15
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE MINERS SIDE
To the Editor of the Telegyoph:


You published an article in your
paper on August 8, 1918, and also
August Z, 1918.
do not know If you are misin-
formed in those statements or not,
but l am. going to set the miners
straight before you. You may not
know, but I know that the state
ments are false and tend to poison
the public mind against the coal
miners at this critical time. Now
then, we admit that there are some
miners that make decent wage
per month, but you never hear of a
coal miner being classed as a mil
lionaire? If you did please publish
his name, that will be good news Cor
the mine workers. But isn't it a
common thing for a coal operator
to be a millionaire? You quote one
miner on August 5, 1918. Joseph
Malachick, who drew $15S.38 for two
weeks work. The man is 35 years
old, five feet six inches tall and
weighs 140 pounds. You didn't state
what that miner produced for the
coal operator; you forgot to give
both sides. Now, Mr.. Editor, will
ask you this question: If Joseph
Malachick would take the $15S.3S
cents how many tons of coal could
he buy from the operator back again
which the operator didn't do an
earthly thing for? And at the same
time this Joseph Malachick might,
as much I know, have a couple
of men working for him and they
might only get days wages from him
and he might get the lions share,
as is the case in the mines where I
am employed. Where I am employ
ed I believe I am safe in saying
there isn't single miner that will
receive in wages $500 a month as YOU
state in your August Z issue. In the
same issue you quote a mere slip of
a girl fifteen years old, Elda Winkel-
mann, when, her two brothers gone
to war, Elda boldly spoke to the
father If he would allow men wages
he would take the job ($5 day). If
the coal miner is the main factor in
our present crisis of the world war,
he is the lowest paid man in the
country. You will travel the whole
anthracite coal region and If the
company miner receives $5 a day I
am mistaken. The colliery where I
am employed has on it's payroll from
1000 to 1900 men and boys and
there isn't one miner that will re-
ceive as his pay in two weeks $3.50
or $500, as you stated; even the
foremen are far below the mark.
Now then, as secretary of local
connected with Lincoln colliery, op-
Grated under the Philadelphia and
Reading Coal and and Iron Com
pany, I will send you wage sheet
that the Cnited Mine Workers enter
ed in with the above coal company.
I hope you will publish same and tEy
to show the public that not every
thing that the miner touches is gold
just now.
(Signed) A MINER.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-15

IN considering the value of thrift,
it must not be looked at from the
standpoint of war alone. 1t will
be as necessary and as valuable in
America after the war as it is now
when it is playing so substantial a
part in Fastening the day of victory
for us.
Some one has estimated that the
war is costing America $41,4S2 a
minute. The human mind cannot
grasp the stupendous burden of the
war even if we brush aside all con-
siderations save financial ones alone.
If the war lasts until the end of next
June, it will have cost America ap-
proXimately S47,700, 100000. Thus
with the piling up of a prodigious
war debt, 1t is at once apparent that
the American people must be pre-
pared to practice rigid habits of
thrift long after the days of conflict
are over.
After the war is over, the process
of bringing home our millions of
troops from Europe will require at
least many months of time and addi-
tional millions of dollars. There is
possibility that 1t will take as long
to get the troops back as it has to
set them over. No one knows how
long they will be kept under arms
before being mustered out of service
and allowed to resume the pursuits
of peace. Opinions may vary as to
the economic conditions that will
prevail in America with the dawn of
peace. but no one can doubt the abb
solute need of continued thrift prac-
tices.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-15
WELL. KNOWN PEOPLE

Irwin e. Seaman, former Read
ing guard officer. who recently re-
turned from one of the southern
camps, is in charge of labor work
for Berks county.
DR.. ]. T. Rothrock. the veteran
state forestry commissioner, is out
with a statement in which he says
that Germany must be taught to rec
ognize common morality.
Charles N. Seitzinger, promi-
nent Reading man, is in charge of
the labor bureau for that city.
William Potter. state fuel ad-
ministrator, has gone to York Har-
Dor, Maine, for rest.
Judge N. Sergeant Ross, of
York, is serving as a director of the
Boy Scout council for. his county.
Captain J. S. Waite, the new
Second Regiment rifle practice in
spector, lives in Scranton and his
hobby is firearms.
DR.. Arthur Holmes, who goes
from State College to be head of
Drake University. spent six years at
State.
Edgar Scott, son of Thomas A.
Scott, is serving on the staff of one
of the generals in France. He is
man of great wealth and wide travel.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-15
SENATOR'S TO ORDER
Pittsburgh Gazette-Times. ]


While the record of Senator Var
daman on matters relating to the
war is not enviable, President Will
sons letter to a Mississippian in
which ne states that he would ac-
cept Vardanlan's reelection as q
condemnation of his administration
| is an interference with the right OF
the electors of a state to choose
their own Representatives that would
be surprising were 1t not for the
precedent established by the Presi-
dent in selecting Henry Ford to be
Senator from Michigan and in CIV
ing the people of Birmingham, Ala,
to understand that George Huddle-
ston had better be dropped as q
member of the House. The Wis
consin case is also fresh in the pub
lie mind.
The stand of Senator Vardaman
and others who have been wrong in
their position toward war measures
has been severely condemned in
these columns. But we believe that
the people of Mississippi are quite
competent to pass upon the conduct
of their Senators and Representa-
tives without suggestion from the
Executive. 1t is as their represent
atives they must consider them, not
merely in the light of their attitude
toward Mr.. Wilson's administration
and that, we believe, is the proper
conception of our Republican sys-
tenn.
If we are to accept the theory that
the President may select for Sena-
tors and Representatives men pleas
ing to him by the indirect method of
influencing electors to reject those
who have displeased him, we shall
be setting up new form of govern
ment, form essentially different
from the one we have learned to
revere.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-15
DOING A.GOOD WORK

A ENCOURAGEMENT by the Burea1
u of Municipalities that Harris.
burg leads all the third-class
cities of the State in number of miles
of streets paved will be a spur for
even greater efforts in this directioh
when the time is ripe for resump-
ton of street improvements. Ordt-
narily. statistics form dry reading,
but when they come in the form of
comparison of our own achievements
with those of our municipal neigh
bors they are both instructive and
interesting.
The Bureau of Municipalities is
doing a good work very quietly, but
very effectively, and seeing the re.
suits of it's efforts. one wonders why
this branch of the government was
not brought into being years ago. II
is at once stimulus to those at the
head OF municipal governments
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-15
REAL JAP SENTIMENT

II EPORTS from Japan are to the
n, effect that the Japanese people
are enthusiastic over the sue
cess of American troops in France
and wildly cheer every American
triumph over the Germans.
This is in strange contrast with
the stories of Japanese antagonism
to America with which we have been
RECALLED these many years.
This delight of the Japs in Ameri-
can victories must be taken at face
value. Crowds do not cheer unless
they feel like it. Newspapers con-
trolled by a government may be bent
in the direction of that governments
policies, but the people before the
bulletin boards voice their true SEN
timents and the japanese mean 1t
when they hurrah for the Yankee
soldiers along the Marne.
1t begins to look as though much
of the yellow peril" had been made
in Germany, for Germanys own
foul purposes.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-15
LAUDER FOR NJ. p.

Harry Lauder, the famous come
dian, is to be a candidate for
seat in Parliament, according TO
reports that have reached TINS
himself, however, is rather non
committal on the subject, as is
shown by the following, printed
recently in the Manchester GUAR
dian:
TT is rumored," Mr.. Lauder re-
piled, with a smile, when the ques-
ton of his candidacy was put TO
him in his dressingroom at the
Southport Palladium In his speeches
at Southport each night he had at
tackled pacifists with much vigor,
and this may have lent color to the
statement that he will oppose either
Philip Snowden at Blackburn or
Ramsey Macdonald at Leicester. or
the two constituencies, Mr.. Lauder
told our reporter that he would pre-
fer Blackburn, as this, he believed,
has the biggest workingman popula-
ton. But it would be immaterial
to him whom he went up against.
IIe thought that If all the people OF
Britain heard his views they would
not hesitate in deciding who was right
in this horrible struggle. If there
was to be any kid glove business in
any quarter given to the enemy we
were going to drag on the end to
exhaustion.
Mr.. Lauder does not intend to
bring his stage career to an end
even if his political ambition is sat
isfied and he is elected to Parlia-
ment. When this was mentioned to
him. he replied:
mo, not necessarily. / can reach
a far greater audience from my the
atrical standpoint.of view than any
man in Great Britain can get"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-15
WORSE THAN EVER

NEW traffic ordinance has beer
"A. enacted and the only apparent
result is that conditions are
worse than ever.
Cut-outs are still in use, motor
cycles run wildly through the streets
and automobilists regulate their
speed by their own Desires
What are the police going to do
about it?
Nothing, we suspect, for they have
had ample opportunity in the past
and have made little or no attempt
to break up these unlawful prac-
tices.
But there is one remedy that even
a careless police force cannot dodge,
and that is the personally lodged
complaint of the man or woman
whose sleep has been disturbed or
whose life has been endangered. No
such neasures should ,he uecessary
but where the paid servants of the
people neglect their duties the only
thing to be done is for the people
to step in and act for themselves.
There seems no other way out, of the
present dilemma.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-15
SHOULD RIDE FREE

"HE government is talking of
taking from the soldier the cut
rate railroad ticket he has been
allowed on short furloughs home to
see the folks"
Instead of making him pay more,
he should he given free pass. The
United States should take a leaf
from the methods of Great Bri-
tain in this respect. In England not
only English, Irish, Canadian and
Australian soldiers on leave are per-
mitted to ride free to and from their
homes, but Americans also are al
lowed the free use of the railroad
trains.
Certainly, it would be small favor
for the government to extend to
home-going soldiers, sailors and
marines tho courtesy of free travel.
The men are poorly paid and many
of them are prevented from visiting
home because of the expense at
tached, of which railroad fare is the
largest item.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-15
KNOWS NO FAVOR

~ ENERAL CROWDER has forced
= the twenty ty-eight-year-old son
of the late Senator Jeff Davis
into the first class of the draft.
Young Davis had the full force
of the Democratic machine in his
State behind him, even the Governor
appealing to the draft board for de-
ferred classification. The local board
yielded under protest and the case
went to Washington.
General Crowder, however, knows
no politics. Keeping the draft clean
and honest Is his life-work.
So young Davis will go to war.
All honor to General Crowder.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-15
GOOD WORK

THE Harrisburg Civic Club has
done a commendable bit of
work in throwing open it's build
ing at North and Front streets to be
used as recreation place for visit
ing soldiers. The clubhouse is one
of the haudsomest and most beauti-
fully located structures in the city
and ideally adapted for the purposes
designed. The members are Justly
proud. of it and they have done a
generous thing in sharing it with the
men in uniform.
1t is to be hoped that means will
be found whereby soldiers coming
in at the Reading and Pennsylvania
stations may be made aware of the
facilities offered. Properly dis
played signs might be used as
guides.
Harrisburg will have more soldiers
than ever when the garrisons for the
Middletown and New Cumberland
depots arrive and the clubhouse bids
fair to become popular with them.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-15
BY THE SOMME RIVER
BY j. HOWARD VERT

Wild bursts the storm
Dense ranks are riven,
Swift as they form,
Fierce pressed, fierce driven.
And bark! above the battles swell
OF sound, the shrill, spontaneous yell
OF charging men for whom no bell,
In. death, shall ring parting knell
By the Somme river.
Still on they sweep;
Bugle and fife
Rouse not from sleep
Those reft of life:
Swells high in air the challenge note;
An answer comes from the cannon'S
throat;
Dire death and hideous ruin gloat
Till darkness wells the flags that float
BY the Somme river.
Again the light;
But RACES yet
The battles blight,
While bayonet
That oozes through the heel-pressed
That dyes the waters dark with
blood:
Must such things be, o Righteous
God,
By the Somme river!
With shrieks and groans:-
Borne on the air,
In mingled tones,-
Revenge, despair
Teutonic hosts are driven back
Before our batteries scathing rack;
Death lines the wide cyclonic track
That marked the Allied stern attack,
By the Somme river.
All! the guilt, the shame
OF the Kaiser's greed!
On it the blame
OF this evil deed
That mars Gods earth with cruel
woe,
That hurls death in wars red glow
Whose master stroke; whose awe
some blow
Has tinged with ruddier hue the flow
OF the Somme river.
Penna.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-15
To the Bitten
[From the New York Tribune.

[From the New York Tribune.1
= 1t is hot weather, and any pest is
irritating. The suffragets who are
picketing the White House are easily
the most irritating pests of a sum-
mer rich in humidity, mosquitoes and
every other small annoyance. The
most the women of the country can
expect of their Senators is that they
shall retain enough of their sense
of humor and perspective to see how
very microscopic are these parading
pickets. They represent nobody ex-
cept themselves. They grossly mis-
represent the great body of patri-
otic American women who wish the
vote to help their country-not to
peck at it in it's hour of need.
We don't blame-apy Senator for
getting hot and angry at the parad-
ers. We only ask him to cool off
when the weather moderates, and
not visit the sins of few dozen
add1eheads upon one-half of the
nation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-15
WHY WE FIGHT

T VEN at this late day we oe-
n caslonally hear a disconsolate
parent, bewailing the absence
of a son, ask why 1t was necessary
that we so to France to fight the
Germans.
The other day at Mount Notre
Dame. along the Vesle, American
troops found under a hill and out
of the line of direct fire the charred
remains of what was once a 5000
bed hospital of the French Army
previous to the German drive of last
Spring, which the Boche burned to
the ground after killing most of the
doctors and nurses and the 500 pa
tients with their machine guns.
which they brought up and pointed
through the very windows of the
one-story wards.
That is why our boys are going to
France-to keep these hospital as
sassins from coming here and to
make a repetition of their dastardly
crimes impossible anywhere in the
future.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-15
MORE SURPRISES

~ ENERAL Won HUTIER. when
IT he was running the Russians
off their feet along the Riga,
came to be known as General of
Surprises"
And now, down along the Somme,
he is demonstrating that a General
of Surprises" may also be Sur
prised General.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-15
An Old-Tinle Garden

l know a garden full of old-time
bloom,
Like stately portraits in a stately
room.
The little winds run softly from a
daisy-sprinkled slope
Down upon the. asters and the quiet
heliotrope.
There are many gardens built most
gallantly,
A-glitter with orchids and with
fleur- -de-lis; e
But my heart is in the garden of the
quiet heliotrope,
Where Love ran down to meet
me from the daisy-sprinkled
slope.
Nelson Antrim Crawford.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-15
Goinq the Limit

Pittsburgh Chronicle-T Telegraph
A garrulous lawyer waS arguing a
case. He had rambled on in such a
desultory way that 1t became very
difficult to follow his train of
thought and the judge had yawned
ominously.
Whereupon the long -winded law
yer, with a trace of sarcasm, said:
II hope, your honor, I am not
unduly trespassing upon the time
of the court"
MY friend" observed the judge,
there is a considerable difference
between trespassing on time and
encroaching on eternity"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-15

of business and reduce the number
of cars in use by making it impossi-
BILE for owners to operate them and
keep out of the bankruptcy courts.
But it is not probable that any
thing like the drastic provisions
thrown out by the tax bill trainers
at Washington in the nature of feel
acted. The men who are putting
the revenue bill together know as
we'll as anybody the important place
the autom obile has in the life and
industry of the country and while,
will be taxed to some extent the as
sessment will not be beyond reason
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-15
Willed Her Smoking Kit

[From the New York World.1
Mrs. Henrietta S. Doherty in her
will filed few days ago makes dis
position of her smoking things"
To son she leaves her silver mono
grammed cigaret case. To a friend
now serving in Italy she bequeaths
all the rest of her smoking kit.
Keepsakes were disposed of which
she received in the Civil War.
To another son Mrs. Doherty left
except a red shawl. This she said
was crocheted for her by her son,
Francis Henrietta Doherty, now
dead. In this she asked to be
wrapped for burial
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-15
AUTOMOBILE TAXES

A UTOMOBILE owners and deal
~ ers have been much disturbed
over reports from Washington
regarding the possibility of exces-
sive taxes on gasoline and passenger
cars, and very properly so. for legis-
lation of the kind under considera-
.fion would put many of them out
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-15
present dilemma

The Germans who cut down the
beautiful trees of France so that the
French would have no place in which
to hide, are now wishing for those
trees as the allied airplane bombers
skim close over their shelterless col
umns.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-15
Another World Series

tFrom the Dallas Morning News. j
OF course it is all right for the
major leagues to finish their season
on September 1, but they must re-
alize that the world series is even
now being played off in France.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-15

Prohteering by retailers by advanc-
ing prices to cover war taxes they do
not pay is the latest scheme unearthed
in New York. but in some other towns
we know about they merely put on
the prices and let 1t go at that.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-15
On Reading the Readers

Voltaire said, in speaking of So
cial revolution: There is no danger
in the 9-volume philosophical ency-
clopedia, but watch out for the
pamphlet that fits into the side coat
pocket and sells for a few sous.',-
Cottrell's Magazine.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-15

throughout Pennsylvania and a
guiding hand for the weak. The
next Legislature would do well to
enlarge Its powers for usefulness.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-15
Experience

[Form Cottrell's Magazine.
To some experience is a head
light; to others it is merely a stern
light, illuminating only the waters
of the past
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-15
OUR DAILY LAUGH
HIS EXCUSE.

'Is your husband a regular at.
tendant at lodge?"
II wouldn't say that exactly, but
he takes a night away from homt
regularly every week for that pur.
pose."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-15
Heat Lyric

[From the New York Tribune ]
1 know guy
Whose head I'll splinter.
He says. We'll want
This heat next winter"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-15

Every report from France indicates
that the late General Stewart was
justified in pronouncing the National
Guard Of Pennsylvania the finest in
the country.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-15

The latest German name for Ameri-
cans in France is "Satans," and every
body in this country knows who is
going to get the Germans in the end,
so maybe the name is appropriate
after all.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-15

If only the Germans had another
Crown Prince of some sort up around
ostend we'd feel more confident about
the next allied attack.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-15
e. J. STACKPOLE

Member of the Associated Press-The
Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled to the use for republication of
all news dispatches credited to 1t or
not otherwise credited in this paper
and also the local news published
herein.
All rights of republication of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-15

Women in England number 121 to
every 100 men. And Brigham Young
but a memory.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-15

After a while we shall be able to
match up William the Conqueror with
William the Conquered.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-15
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg is rolling
tin plate for much government
construction work?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-15

Published evenings except Sunday by
Telegraph Building, Federal Square
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-15

'1f we live it will be something to
tell our children about?"
"What?"
THAT we can remember when the
world was war-crazy."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-15
Occasionally

| Occasionally truthful man goes
ifishing.-Chicago Daily News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-15

Better q dinner Of herbs tohere lone
is, than a stalled or and hatred there
a1ith.-PRovERBs Is: II.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-15

Structural Iron workers at Chicago
have received a new scale of SIN
cents an hour.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-15

New Brunswick (Can.) has passed
an act to provide for vocational edu-
cation
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-15
HISTORIC HARRIsBURG

One of the first schools in the In
fant town of Harrisburg was in one
of the Harris warehouses on the
river 'front.'
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-15

A colored union of railroad shop
men has been formed at Palestine,
Texas.