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girls. If you went to buy
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SPECIAL
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pQItefnS
Rogers fine plated silverware
seldom takes part in an event
of this kind. But this is COM
plete sale of house furnishings,
and to make it complete we in
clude this we'll known silver
ware in new and beautiful pat
terms.
Hollow handle knives,
regularly L 90, the
dozen 1880
Forks to match, regu-
larly 500, dozen 3.75
Solid handle knives
and forks, regularly
600 $50
Tablespoons, regularly
500, dozen 3.75
Dessert spoons, regu-
larly 4.5O, dozen $50
Soup spoons, regularly
500 dozen 400
Teaspoons, e g u larly
ESQ, dozen LIS
Ice tea spoons, regular
" $50, the dozen $50
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erday repeated again for today with the addition of
portant group of new ones scheduled below:
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FOURTH FLOOR TODAY
TRUNKS
Savings
in Trunks

Trunks are on the fourth
floor, under the same
management as the house
furnishings. They are,
therefore, included in the
fourth floor sale at splen-
did reductions.
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Only one day
more of
The
Gossard
Corset Sale


If this were a sale of
nameless, unknown cor
sets, or a sale of ordinary
back-lacing corsets, you
would be justified in
tr attn 6 it carelessly.
But this is a sale of Cos
sard corsets, the finest
and best known corsets
sold in America today.
And it is not alone be-
cause of the price saving,
but because of the beauti-
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vide and the good health
they produce, that we
urge every woman to take
advantage of this sale be-
fore it is too late.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-01
ALWAYS HURRY!
By BRIGGS
kansas City Timesl

The situation regarding troop
movements discloses at once both the
strength and the weakness of the
War Department. The strength lies
in the fact that we can get men to
France at great rate when we set
out to; the weakness in the tendency
to let down from our largest effort
with the comfortable feeling that it
won't be needed.
Since the German offensive started
in March the War Department has
done efficient work in transporting
troops. A few weeks ago the country
learned with disappointment that the
troop movement was not to be con-
tinued on its present scale after
August /, and consequently it
would not be necessary to follow
General Crowder's advice and at
once extend the draft ages Now we
hear from Washington that some
thing-presumablyw word from France
has changed the plans, and that
the troop movement is to continue
on it's present scale. 1t is expected
that this change in program will
force the draft oaicials to resort to
the deferred classification and take
men whom the government would
prefer not to send so long as there are
men of fighting age available who
have no dependents.
The trouble is due to that lack of
foresight on the part of Secretary
Baker which always has been his
besetting sin. Crowder had a clear
view of the requirements of the sit
uation last March and made his rec
concentrations accordingly. The Sec
retary underestimated the need.
Fortunately the mistake is not to
be permitted to retard the sending
of the men to France to meet Foch's S
needs. But it illustrates once more
the necessity of constant pressure to
keep Mr.. Baker awake to the size OF
the job. The more overwhelming the
force we put into the field and the
larger it's equipment, the sooner will
victory come.
There can be no let down. We
must hurry, hurry, hurry!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-01
TUO in q TOWer
New York Timesl

lN6w 1OTh IlIllSS
For too long a time the Kaiser
and Karl Rosner, his bard and trum-
peter, had ceased to be in the midst
of the film fight. July 10 they re-
appeared. With his usual benignity,
the Kaiser informed his soldiers that
they were to have the happiness Of
fighting while he looked on. The
wonted lyric order went forth: Let
the troops hear that, "in these grave
hours, I am near and my wishes go
with them" A General Staff officer
promulgated an order on an order,
communicating to the delighted
German tribesmen that the Kaiser
was going to do himself the pleas
ure of watching them and sent
them his regards. ''Eis Majesty calls
to them, With God for the Kaiser
and the Empire which is an anti
climax. The Kaiser should have been
final, not penultimate, in the pro-
cession OF deities. The Kaiser had
signed this order on "a shaky table,
no doubt with a firm hand, by a
pocket lanterns "flickering light.
Romantic Rosner must have been
thinking of THE Burial of Sir John
Moore"
The prelude is over. The epic be-
gins Rosner tells how he starts with
the Kaiser to see "the Kaiser's bat
4la
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-01
FIVE TOWNS IN CANADA

TNVE Canadian cities show an
Il aggregate increase in the value
of manufactured products of
from 1852, 100000 in 1900 to $423,-
100000 in 1910 and $610, 100000 in
1915. They are: Montreal, $71 ,0OO,-
900 il 1900 to $243,O00, 900 in 1915;
Toronto, $50, 900, 900 to $219, 900, 900;
Hamilton, $17.OOG,OOO to $780,
900; Winnipeg, from sS,616,00O to
$47,6S6,0 900, and Vancouver, $1,000
900 to $34,000.000 That is some
nice little record for Canadian popu-
lation centers to chalk up, and it
shows what a protective tariff law
will do in keeping Canadian mills
humming. This growth in manufac-
turing industries has not slackened
with the war. On the contrary, it
has developed faster since 1915 than
it did the three years previous to
that year. The manufacturing out
put of these FIVE cities to-day, If set
at considerably in excess of 1,00O,-
100000, would not be far out of the
way.
In 1910 our imports from Canada
totaled 100000, with manufac-
tured articles not figuring very prom
inently in the list. Those were days
of protection. In 1915 they totaled
$3.50, 100000, with manufactured
goods cutting a large figure; in 1917
they totaled $204, 100000 and the
fiscal year just closed about $780,
100000. Say what you like. Canada
loves free trade-for the u. S. A. As
for herself, she keeps close watcI
of her protective tariff wall, laying
new course, now and then, fol
luck, and hitting Uncle Sam a wal.
lop in the way of embargoing hi,
exports to her. for commerce anC
altruism won't mix. even If stirred
with the sword.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-01
Deceitful Accounting Methods In The
Post office Department
Danger in Federal Telegraph and Telephone Manas
Must BE Closely Watched
II. @. Hopson. in New York Sun

, herent in anything conducted by the
goVernment-first, that they are
usually measured by the appropria-
ton bill without taking into account
generally the deficiency appropria-
ton bills which come along later
and are passed with much less pub
lie attention upon them, rather than
the actual expenditures which, due
! to the deficiencies of the govern
ment accounting, are not ascer-
tained until about a year after the
money has been actually expended
No board of directors would expect
to justify its management of the af-
fairs of property by exhibiting to
the stockholders it's oudget of pro
posed expenditures like an appro-
priation bill. instead of it's actual ex-
penditures as shown by it's books
in governmental affairs buried in the
tones of the Treasury Department.
Second, the accounting of the post
office has been severely condemned
! by numerous committees of account
\ ing and also the Railway Mail Com
| mlttee, headed by Charles E.
Hughes. No reckoning is made of a
! large amount of free service fur
nished by other government depart
ments, nor is any proper account
taken of the cost of accounting or
| buildings in which post offices are
! housed, owned by the government
and operated by and at the expense
of the Treasury Department.
| Last, of course, and most impor-
tant, when the Western Union or the
American Telephone and Telegraph
or the Postal Company renders a re-
port to its stockholders, the largest
stockholders of the company, at
least, give the matter careful con-
sideration, because it means money
out of their pocket if the affairs of
the company are not we'll regulated.
No one, | venture to sdy, except for
political reasons. ever gives any con-
sideration to whether or not the Post
Office Department, as it is now run
is carefully and economically con-
Quoted
With this fact staring us in the
face, how can we expect efficiency OIL
economy in the administration OF
the telephone and telegraph by the
Post Office Department, which, un.
der the plans of David J. Lewis. OF
Maryland, who has been advocating
this thing for years, are to be sc
merged into the post office affair.
that it will be absolutely impossible
ever to give them back without 9
complete revolution IN the manage.
ment of the affairs of not only the
telephone and telegraph companies
but the mail service proper as we'll
This may sound somewhat bitter
but ] cannot but feel that the takinf
over by the government of the tele
phone and telegraph services, the
one class of public utilities of ma
tional importance which has no
woefully failed in maintaining pre-
war time service (this, be 1t noted
with no increase in rates) must hav,
. been based on a positively wicked
misrepresentation to the President.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-01
ON EQUAL FOOTING

A NNOUNCEMENT that sub-des-
n ignations-such as N. G. fol
- ~ National Guard and n. A. for
National Army-are to be abandoned
and all soldiers given badges bearing
the letters U. S. A.. for United States
Army, was bound to come and good
Americans will be pleased to learn
that Secretary Baker has approved
General March's recommendations to
that effect.
Equally fair and just is the order
that all officers in the army shall be
eligible to promotion as the call for
more officers comes with the creation
of new military. units and the en-
largment Of the military establish
ment.
All our soldiers are fighting for one
object. They are sharing common
dangers and showing equal bravery.
And so with the officers.
Men are made by war. Civilians
become great military leaders, and
trained soldiers sometimes fail and
break under the stress. We have no
military caste in this country. We
rely on citizen soldiers rather than
trained professionals, and promotions
should go to those who deserve them
If the new order will put everybody
on an equal footing where it will be
up to the best man to win, 1t is good
ruling. The Regular cannot then
complain and the new man will have
his opportunity. Our experience in
the Civil War was that many mer
who enlisted as privates with no mil.
itary experience became first-clas.
officers. The incentive to promotion
is a great help in the development OF
a military organization.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-01
The FdlSeneSS of the Hun
IN. A. Reviews War Weekly

IN. A. Reviews War Weekly
Is there a limit to German lying ?
The question is asked in all serious
ness. The world has hitherto OBJ
served and remarked upon the pro-
fuse, variegated and gratuitous false
hoods of the German government,
and of the Kaiser himself, concern
ing the causes and circumstances of
the outbreak of the war. There were
lies about the designs of Russia, lies
about a French invasion of Germany,
lies. about the duplicity of Belgium,
lies about the attitude and course of
Great Britain. OF all these false
hoods, Germany is selfconvicted. Are
they not all written in the confess
sion of Prince Lichnowsky and other
eminent and indisputable German
authorities?
AS for the later falsehoods, about
German prohibition of munitions
trade in 1898, about the guns on the
Lusitania, and what not else. our
own diplomatic records TEEN and
reek with their shameless dishon-
esty.
But still each day seems to bring
new confessions disclosures or rec
ognition of Hohenzollern mendaclty
The German press itself has now
taken to questioning the Kaiser's
veracity, IL not actually to imputine
wanton falsehood to his charge. II
reproaches him with having hidden
or at least withheld from the Cor
man people at its beginning the real
aims and purposes of the war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-01
IN FLANDERS FIELD

IAN answer to the beautiful poem
CT the same title by Lieut.. Col. John
McCrae.1
In. Flanders fields the cannon boom
And fitful flashes light the gloom,
While up above. like eagles, fly
The fierce destroyers of the sky;
With stains the earth wherein you
lie
Is redder than the poppy bloom
In Flanders fields
Sleep on. ye brave. The shrieking
shell,
The ouaking trench, the startled yell,
The fury of the battle hell
Shall wake you not, for all Is we'll,
Sleep peacefully, for all is we'll.
Your flaming torch aloft we bear,
With burning heart an oath we
swear
To keep the faith. to fight 1t through,
To crush the foe or sleep with you
In Flanders fields
&C. B. Galbreath.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-01
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

William ]. Bremen, the Pitts
burgh lawyer has been taking a
prominent part in the state conven-
ton of the Eagles at Pittsburgh.
Col. Henry c. Trexler has sue
ceeded in having wild ducks hatched
on his game preserve near Allen
town.
The Rev. c. H. Williamson,
Pottsville clergyman, has gone ON an
overland trip to his former home in
West Virginia
Major f. e. Humphreys. United.
States aviation authority is visiting
eastern Pennsylvania cities. He WIS
the first army officer to make
flights with the Wright Brothers.
Paul Littlefield, secretary of the
State Chamber of Commerce, Is in
Washington making a study of taxa
ton legislation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-01

T HAVE been much interested in
reading your editorial article in
The Sun recently, The Govern
ment Again Putting Itself to the
Test"
l suggest that you watch this
matter very closely. You will note
in the article recently printed in
your paper that the Post Office De-
partmant proposes to put all the ac-
counting in the office of the post Of
flee accounting department and to
permit kilograms to be paid for with
stamps. This is exactly what hap
pened when the government went
into the parcel post business. For
brief time separate parcel post
stamps were used. Then this was
found to be too much trouble, ac-
cording to the Post Office Depart
ment, and patrons were allowed to
use any kind of stamps.
Even with the separate stamps
there has been no method of telling
what the disbursements of the gov
ernment were for operating and
maintaining the parcel post service.
With the discontinuance of separate
stamps there was also no method of
ascertaining the revenue, so now in
order to tell anything about parcel
post we are compelled to estimate.
When the estimate disagrees with
what the other man believes. he can
always, with a considerable degree
of success, denounce the estimators
and disbelieve the estimate.
If you watch the telegraph and
telephone operation carefully, the
way it is now developing, you will
note that in no time there will be
no separation whatever of the eX-
penses of the telephone and tele-
graph and of the Post Office Depart
ment. My prophecy is that within
about a year after the government
has taken over the telegraph lines
and operates them the use of sepa.
rate telegraph stamps will likewise
| be discontinued.
Then we shall have the Post Office
, Department, the telegraph and prob
ably the telephone all wrapped up il
: one huge ball. 1t will be Impossible
/ to determine separately the revenues
or expenses of any particular de
| partment and all of the revenue al
whole will be subject to the errors
due to the extensive use of th'
| franking privilege and free use b,
other government departments. anC
! by the senator's and representatives
which will doubtless begin righ
away.
Likewise it will be impossible t.
show any separation of the expense
of running the particular depart
ments due to the lack of any prope
accounting system in the Post OF
flee Department, Notwithstanding tn
high praise thereof which appear
in some Washington correspondents
articles on the subject. perhaps pre-
| pared by the able publicity bureau
in the Post Office Department.; an,
the total expenses will be subjec
to the two difficulties which are in
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-01
RECEIVER OF TAXES

A GAIN we hear of an effort on
~ the part of the county commits
sioners of Pennsylvania to i'm
prove the system of tax collection.
Let us hope that something definite
may come out of their conference
next month. The archaic system
which has been in operation many
years outlived it's usefulness long ago
and only the mistaken idea that the
appointment of few county tax col
lectors means the salvation of the
average political organization has
been responsible for continuing the
inconvenient and expensive scheme
of tax collection through ward and
township appointees.
Senator Beidleman tried a few
years ago to have a law passed
creating the Office of receiver OF
taxes, but the political bosses swept
down upon the Capitol and sue
ceeded in having the measure smoth-
cred. But the taxpayers are coins
to have something to say on thi:
question and it ought to be the earn.
est effort of the State organization
of county commissioners to further
a proper bill at the next session OF
the Legislature.
A receiver of taxes empowered tc
collect all taxes-municipal. county
school and State-would be a rea
reform. Such an official would rem.
der to each taxpayer a complete bill
covering all his taxes, thus saving
intolerable vexation and inconveni
ence every year.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-01
Newspaper Prices Up
Editor and Publisher]

L
AS the forerunner of a general
price-raising step, in which it seems
newspapers everywhere in the United
States must join in the near future,
the Southern Newspaper Publishers
Association as the final act of its six
teenth annual convention in Ashe-
vile, n. c., accepted the recommen-
dation of it's paper conservation COM
mittee to adopt approximately the
following subscription rates, effec-
tive as early as possible:
Carrier circulation six week days,
Is cents per week.
Carrier circulation seven days, in
Guiding Sunday, Is cents per week.
Single copy sales not less than 3
cents daily, nor less than cents
Sunday.
Mail rates-six week days, not less
than Sc per year.
Mail rateS-SeVen days per week,
not less than 50 per year.
Mail rates for Sunday paper, not
less than SO per year.
Wholesale rates, single copy sales,
week days not less than l 2-3 cents
per copy net; Sunday not less than
Az cents per copy net.
Parkersburg, w. Va.-The pub
fishers of the Sentinel have raised
the price of their paper on street
sales from to cents. Weekly car
riers will receive Is cents instead of
IL cents, and the mail rates will be
s5 instead of 81 per year.
New Haven, Conn.-The Union,
the Times-Leader and the Register
have increased their price to 2 cents
a"copy. AS the Journal-Courier has
been a 2-cent paper, all the dailies
now sell at the same figure.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-01
Jack of All Trades
Berton Braley

Berton Braley
Uncle Sam reached out and took us,
so of course we went and
came
To his school of preparation for the
military game;
We laid down the tools of labor for
our rifles and our packs,
Wrapped our clothing into bundles
and put khaki on our backs;
Yes, we left the farm and office and
the counter and the mill,
And the time clock all behind us,
but we. hadn't left our skill;
And while fighting in the trenches is
the work we have in view,
Any other job you mention is the
kind that we can do.
For the farmers and the plumbers
And the agents and the drummers
And the miners from the tunnel and
the shaft,
And the puddlers and the tailors
And the lumbermen and sailors
Have their quota in the Army of the
Draft.
(From I'm Camp and Trench:
Songs of the Fighting Forces" by
Berton Braley. George H. Doran
Company.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-01

production districts of the country.
We do consume immense quantities
of our own farm produce and it
would be foolish to limit ourselves
voluntarily to a restricted diet, nut
much might be done toward confin-
ing ourselves more closely to the
things our local growers produce.
We eat too many vegetables and
fruits "out of season." thereby dis
heartenins the local farmer and con-
gesting the railroads. Wartime
economy bids us give more thought
to our food purchases.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-01
NO COMPROMISE

.THE German army's order to fire
on Red Cross stretcher bearers
is on a par with the bombing
OF hospitals and the sinking of hos
pital ships 1t is the very keynote
of the Prussian idea-kill all who
are not Germans, unless they bow to
the yoke of. German slavery. Kill,
kill, kill, is the Prussian order.
Mercy and weakness are synonymous
in the German language. Love is
dead in the German heart Murder
is the German equivalent of virtue.
The Germans have become worse
than beasts.
Yet we hear talk of a peace hy
understanding. of a peace by ne
collation." Make peace with a peo-
pie who kill our boys when they lie
helpless? Make peace with a people
who slay Red Cross angels of
mercy? No, a hundred times, no!
A writer for THE Bache Review"
summed up the case in a nutshell
when he said it must be borne in
mind that any peace acceptable to
Germany will be a German victory.
So Kuehlmann, Won Hertllng,
Burian, German and Austrian
spokesmen for the Junkers, are be-
ginning, as was to be expected, to
pour into the peace sewers nauseat-
ing statements of what Germany will
accept from the allies. Such ex-
pressions should be treated like any
other refuse. To patriots to whom
American soldier boys are dear,
these deceitful feelers are a stencil
in the nostrils, as are the reasonable
appeals of yellow, f1ighty-brained
writers like Arnold Bennett. asking
to have them considered.
The blood of that great army of
allied martyrs. including our own
brave men, who have died for the
cause of Liberty since 1914, cries out
against such treason. Shall their
sacrifices, indeed, have been made in
vain?
The effrontery and insolence of at
titude OF these peace mongers is best
answered by ignoring them. What
right has the murderer who has en-
tered the home and been CUR
rounded, to make terms on which
the intended victims shall go about
their business and he be allowed TO
carry off his plunder, and without
expiation for the cold -blooded mur-
ders he has committed?
Germany. the most abominated
criminal in history, must be SEN
tenced-not allowed to negotiate for
peace. There must be no confer
ence, no peace table. There must be
only unconditional surrender, and,
after that, terms of punishment die
tated by the Allies.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-01
HOMEGROWN PRODUCE

HN HE El Paso, Chamber of Com
merce recently gave a home
products dinner" at which only
foodstuffs grown in the Ell Paso val
ley were served. This was done to
encourage the consumption of ar
ticles grown in the Ell Paso district
in order to tighten the freight bur-
dens of the railroads.
Something like that might be a
good thing for Harrisburg. We are
situated in one of the richest food