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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-18
THE PEOPLES FORUM
COMMUNITY SONG
the Ediior "a thc TeIcgrafIl:

4 o the Editor Of the Telegraph:
Your hearty support of the idea
of a Community Chorus for this city
has the thanks of the music-loving
public.
1t is most unfortunate that such
an organization has not been FORM
ed before now, then we could cele-
brate Song Week which will be OBJ
served all over the United States.
IL q popular leader could be
found, say Mr.. Frank McCarrel,
whose ability has been proved in
the success of the Harrisburg Choral
Union, which he has directed for Il
number of years, there can be no
question of a live and enduring en-
thusiasm which will result in 4
Community Chorus of which Har-
risburg would be justly proud.
Places of meeting might be hard
to find but that seems hardly pos
sible when there are so many pub
lie spirited citizens who are inter-
ested in the common welfare. Then,
too, the School Board might lend Il
helping hand by permitting the use
of the Technical High School Au-
ditorium, or the Central High As
sembly Hall, or some large room in
sorHe other school buildings, easy
of access. If no larger room can be
found the Conservatory of Music
Hall is at the disposal of the Chorus
until it outgrows the seating capa-
city.
Some one may say, "why all this
effort to get people to sinG?" Mr..
Editor, the reason American music
has no distinctive national charac-
teristic, is because we have never
learned to express ourselves in song.
E,VnrV
cept our own-has a folk-song, Il
song that has grown out of the
emotions of the race. War time is
the time to give such expression a
chance when hearts are filed to
overfiowing with feelings that lie too
deep for words. Hoping some de-
cided action will be taken and pledg-
ing it unfailing interest and support,
I am,
Very truly yours,
ANNA NJ. p. DECEVEE.
Mrs E j.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-18
THE RACE QUESTION

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
wish to make a few remarks
to the public through your paper
about one of the most prejudiced
race motion pictures ever put on
the screen, The Birth of q Nation.
Could you be surprised if riots equal
to the hunger riots of Russia should
arise from such pictures. Why
should the black man always be
shown in a bad light? Why can
not the truth be told? Why is the
wrong doing of the colored man
painted so red? Why is it the black
man must always appear so black
in nature? Why is it so wrong for
the black man to join by marriage
the two races that the white man
Joined by blood? Did it seem so
wrong to a blooded southern white
gentleman in the dark days of slav-
cry, when he intermingled his
blood with the blood of the ne
gress held slave and forced
to receive his embraces? Was it
God who made all races or man?
God made all men free and equal,
what right has man to break the
will of God? / would have to show
a little picture that I can often in
my visions. see. Why not put on
the screen first, the negro brought
W lHlS COuHIIy ny the Wnlle man.
! Then continue and show the cruel
treatments imposed, children sold
from their mothers, husbands Joined
to their wives by broom sticks, sep
arated for gold and money. Their
/ backs cut and bruised for trying to
find and offer prayer to, the God
who made them. The little black
tots under the same shelter with her
mulatto sisters and brothers. The
little white child on the hill. heir of
| its aristocratic parents and brother
| to the little mulatto children in the
one-room cabin. The white child
born of a white mother is honored,
educated and worshiped, while the
little mulatto child born of a negro
mother, yet in whose blood flows the
blood of the same father, is i'll fed,
ragged and sold as slave that the
white child might be left rich and
mighty.
Then show these same children
now blossomed into man and wo-
men. The white heir attracted by
the face and form of his mulatto sis
ter. She must yield to his passion
or else be beaten worse than a
beast and then conquered. The ne
gro mother must stand by and look.
unable ITO save her offspring by
word or deed. Then is the aristo-
cratic gentlemen made grandfather
to the children of his own flesh and
blood. How then can they be stop
ped by forbiddance of marriage,
the Joining of two races the white
man of the south Joined by blood?
WHY does not some dramatic author
put to print or on the screen the
truth, entitled the origin of the mu-
latto and see if there would be such
thunderous applause as greeted the
lie about the negro entitled The
Birth of a Nation. I am not edu-
Gated and may not be able to eX-
press myself as I should. But as a
staunch and true friend OF the
colored race, originally the American
negro before intermingling of the
white man, l hope you will accept
my poor attempt to support his
| rights. ~
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-18

II. Simons. chairman of local board
No. 1 of that county, has telegraph
ed to the State Draft Headquarters
permission for the board to con-
tinue to pay it's own expenses. For
tunate, indeed, is Mexican county to
have men available who can give
of their time and services and re-
fuse even remuneration for eX-
penses. We have complimented the
men of the draft boards of our part
of the State upon their work, every
whit as important as that of men
in higher station, and we are glad
to know that they are about to be
paid the long, long delayed bills for
services and expenses. We wish all
counties were as favorably situated
as Mexican, whose men can afford to
give their time and services and
thank Uncle Sam for the oppor-
tunity.
But in rising to salute Mexican
county in behalf of its board we
wish it's spirit of self-sacrifice could
be heralded to some places in this
broad land of ours where various
things are being done for the Ma
ton and profit not patriotism, seems
to be the guiding thought. We are
on the eve of congressional investi-
cations, but in the sadness which
comes from such unpleasant pros
poets we are cheered by the knowl-
edge that the draft boards have
done their duty, although they have
gotten mighty little credit, and that
all circumstances being equal many
of them would have stood up with
Mexican as an example to liners of
pockets when the call of the hour
is to back up the Government even
ii it hurts in heart or bank account.
While the backbone of winter may
not be broken, at least the old villain
appears to be suffering from a severe
attack of lumbago.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-18
LABOR NOTES

United Mine Workers have almost
20, 900 members in the service.
Madras. India, has 46o factories
employing 91,415 operatives.
Labor unions in Australia have a
membership of 546,556.
over $4,000 women are now en-
ployed in England's banks.
Austria has total of 2,S46 local
labor unions.
OF the international labor unions,
ninety-one have branches in Canada.
Cigarmakers' International Union
has a strong organization in Porto
Rico.
All miners may be conscripted, to-
gether with the mines, by Federal
authorities.
for the children of women employed
in British munitions works.
Women in Germany are doing the
work formerly done by horses-being
harnessed to a plow.
1t will take s35,000.00O to provide
temporary housing for the Emergency
Fleet Corporations employees.
Female operatives in the shirt and
collar industry at Derby, England,
are demanding a war bonus.
Under the new wage scale for an
thracite miners in the Pennsylvania
fields men can make $40 a week.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-18
FOR DRY" MEMBERS

"HE York County Republican
Club has the distinction of
- being the first political club in
PENNSYLVANIA to go on record as
refusing to support any candidate
for House or Senate who does not
pledge himself to vote in favor of
local option and the adoption of the
prohibition amendment. This, doubt
less, will be an example to others
throughout the State. The York
club is as large and as influential
as any outside of Philadelphia or
Pittsburgh. Four years ago it en-
tertained the State League of Re-
publican Clubs during that organi-
Zation's annual convention and it
has made itself felt in many cam
paigns. The growth of the tenn
perance sentiment may be judged
when a purely party organization
takes such an advanced stand.
The York clubs resolutions throw
a very clear light on the situation
in that district. In full they follow:
Whereas, The York County Re-
publican Club is desirous OF see
ing nominated for these positions
by the Republican party only
such candidates as will reflect
the real feeling of the community
on the impending legislation
dealing with the liquor interests
that is certain to come before the
next session of the Legislature
Tor consideration; and,
Whereas. We confidently be-
lieve the best interest of all the
people demand the passage of
local option measure and the
adoption by the Legislature of
Pennsylvania of the dry amend
ment to the Constitution of the
United States,
Therefore, be it Resolved, That
this club indorse the candidacy of
only those aspirants for the Re-
publican nomination for the State
Senate and the General Assembly
who favor the passage of a local
option law and the adoption by
the state Legislature of the dry
amendment to the Constitution of
the United States.
This is precisely the position the
Telegraph has taken in Dauphin
county.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-18
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Hampton L.. Carson, former at.
torney general and an authority on
Washington, spoke on the first pre-
sident at Woodland Church, Phila-
delphia, yesterday.
Daniel M. Clemson, the Pitts
burgher who married Christine Mil
Ter, the singer, is a director of the
Carnegie Steel Co., and head of big
gas enterprises.
The Rev. II. ConwelI received
$4,000 in gifts for his church on
his recent birthday.
The Rev. DR.. William ]. Lal-
lou, the first of the Catholic, chan
lains at Camp Hancock, has been
named to a reetorate at Phoenix
vile.
Archbishop Prendergast. who
has been ill., is improving rapidly.
Charles w. Kiser, of wilkins
burg, treasurer of the O'Neil cam
paign committee. is active in reli-
gious affairs in Allegheny county.
Augustus X. Oliver has been
elected head OF the Pittsburgh Red
Cross.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-18
MONDAY, FEBRUARY IS, 1918
CLEAN THEM UP

ATOW that the Highway and the
N Park Departments have united
in putting n stop to the crazy
practice of dumping filthy snow and
winter street accumulations in the
public parks, we suppose the Park
Department will begin an early cam
paign for the cleaning up of the park
areas. There are indications that
spring may be in the immediate
prospect and the people will want
is possible, after having been cooped
up in houses the whole of long,
hard winter The fact that much
added expense will be necessary this
spring by reason of the use of the
River Front as a public dump should
not deter the Park Department from
spending the necessary money, al
though if justice we're done this
added sum should come from the
appropriation for street cleaning.
And while he is about the matter,
Mr.. Gross might see to it that the
unsightly poles which he has per-
mitted to be erected along the river
near Seneca street be transferred to
the east side of the street, where
they belong. The river curb of that
thoroughfare has been kept free
from poles, as it should be, until the
erection of three up town, and the
danger is that these will be used as
a precedent for further encroach-
ments. They should be removed as
soon as possible.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-18
JUST LYING

When talk in my sleep and good
wife overhears
And arises to query: Whats
that?
Some secret you're hiding from me,
is appears
The worst let us quickly get at?"
/ scothingly answer: Have never a
fear.
MY sleep talk in mind you should
keep.
It's not hidden truths reveal then,
my dear
Instead, I just lie here asleep"
- Joshua Lott.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-18
HATS OFF TO McKEAN

wy ITHOUT in any way detract-
wv ing from the splendid service
rendered to the Nation by
the members of the local draft
boards and the district appeal boards
of Pennsylvania in assembling
the Nations selected army in it's
hour of need, and bearing in mind
the sacrifice of time, disorder of
personal affairs, interference with
business. the abuse endured and the
inconveniences suffered by these de-
voted men. we nevertheless desire to
compliment Mexican county. Lester
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-18
JOKING OR SERIOUS?

Tc tie Editor Of Tie Telegraph:
At least one use that "Hardscrab-
bIe' might be put to not named at
the trial for damages recently, is
one that would give to our city
great commercial importance. 1t has
had and I believe still has some po-
litical significance. 1t did not ma
terialize during the lifetime of our
late lamented congressman, Mar
lin L. OTmsted, but its use for
Piers might yet obtain when
"Hampy' Moore succeeds in having
the Susquehanna river made navi-
gable, so that our great Atlantic
ocean transports can dock at Har-
risburg.
]. w. MILLER.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-18
Complete Reuersal of Feeling

When it came to the ninth inning
with the score TIED President Wilson
didn't call on some one to do the
batting for Baker. He let Newt go
in and bat for himself and Newt re-
paid the confidence of his manager
by hitting out home run. We have
about concluded that Mr. Baker
makes about as good a secretary of
war as we would have made ourself'
Liberty Press.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-18
TREATIES

Russia has signed. treaty agree
ing not to make a separate peace.
Yet one was made this week by a
government which did not recognize
the pledges of it's predecessor.
Greece had a treaty pledging it to
go to Serbia's aid in the event of an
attack. 1t didn't go. Prussia's
treaty guaranteeing Belgium became
q scrap of paper.
Events of the last few years have
been a warning to nations to eXer-
else caution not to enter upon en-
gagements which they may not
carry out.-Kansas City Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-18
WE MUST HELP

i has arranged a mass meet
ing to be held at the Orpheum
Theater this evening. at which DR..
Nathan Krass, a noted authority,
will tell of the war work of the Jews
and the suffering of those of that
faith caught between the upper
and the neither millstones of the
contestants in the war zone.
YOU are invited to this meeting
and it is YOUR DUTY to attend.
The Jews of Harrisburg are ask
ing for $500 with which to pro-
vide places of entertainment for
Jewish boys in the training camps
and at the front and for Jewish VIC
tins of the war who must have re-
lief from this country or perish
miserably of privation and starva-
ton. This is part of great ma
tional campaign. Those who are at
the head of the movement here are
being assisted by men Of all creeds
and faiths. This is as it should be,
for the Jewish people of Harrisburg
have taken foremost part in every
campaign that has preceded this
since the United States entered the
war. They have sold-and bought
as well-Liberty Bonds of both is
sues. they have solicited and given
literally toward the Red Cross, Y.
NJ. c. A, knights OF Columbus and
other funds raised here for war serv-
ice purposes. They have sent their
own boys to the front. For ex-
ample, with one exception, all of
the lads of Ohev Sholom congre-
cation voluteered for army service
long before the draft went into eff
feet, and the sole remaining one is
exempt. In the armies of the Unit
ed States, there are more than CO.,
900 Jewish youths, representing all
branches of the service.
The Jews have done everything
that patriotic citizens could be ask
ed to do. They have won their right
to seek popular support in the very
proper and necessary work they
have now undertaken to finance.
They should find the men and wo-
men of other faiths just as ready
to respond to this call as they them
selves have been to every demand
that has been made upon them.
Particularly does the plea for as
sistance of the sufferers of the war
zone appeal to tender-hearted
Americans. Millions-so many that
the human mind can scarcely grasp
the magnitude of the tragedy-have
been done to death by German and
Turk in the war zone or have starved
to death in the wake of devastating
armies. At this moment countless
little ones are sobbing out their last
sad moments, moaning in vain for
the few mouthfuls of food that
would stave off the grim reaper;
myriads of aged persons have fallen
by the wayside in their efforts to
reach places where food and shelter
might be had, and thousands upon
thousands of men and women are
wandering about searching in vain
for a means of livelihood. The
frightful conditions are beyond des-
cription. There is but one ray of
hope for this suffering, famishing
throng-and that is America. Help
must come from here or they will
die. Shall we sit by and see the
tragedy enacted to it's last grue-
some scene? The Jews of this coun-
try say not. 1t is for the remainder
of us to second their motion and
back up our sympathy with our
gifts.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-18
To Advertise Is to Make KnOwn

about in advertising
NOW. What made known a week month the
of
store now. advertising KNOWN
People fully Informed
unle the LATEST
know wha HAPPENED-but want TO
The same principle applies advertingl
he OF
four Centrale Pennsylvania,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-18
NoDel Buying

How many readers buy novels and
buy them to keep? How many mo-
dern novels does one find well
bound, and placed on the shelves
devoted to standard reading?" In
these Olympian fields a mediocre BIZ
ography, a volume of second rate
poems. n rehash of history. will find
their way before the novels that in
the last decade have equaled, if not
outranked the rest of our creative
literature.-Henry Seidel Candy in
the Century MaEazina
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-18

Member of the Associated Press-The
Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled 70 the use for republication of
all news dispatches credited to it 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, 1918-02-18

THE German offensive may be
started April l." The Kaiser never
did have any humor. You know what
day the first Of April is.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-18

With 100000 soldiers in the field
that story of France having been
"bled white" may be safely attributed
to German propaganda.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-18
HISTORIC HARRISBTRC

Back in the days of Washing
toms army Harrisburg was a depot
for assembling supplies.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-18

THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.,
Telegraph Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-18
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg contributes
considerable amounts to the
food supply of the navy?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-18

Ell. .STACKPoLE,P Prsst s. Ediier-iH. c hief
+. r. OYSTER. Business Manager.
GUS II. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-18
OUR DAILY LAUGH
HOW DOCTOR PILLS LOST A
WEALTHY PATIENT.

S o M C rascal
has stolen my
door mat!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-18

While the backbone of winter may
not be broken, at least the old villain
appears to be suffering from a severe
attack of lumbago.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-18

I'll open the
door and let him
right in.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-18

United Mine Workers have almost
0,OOO members in the service.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-18

~ SUMNER T-e cool oe An GAetr MORNING START
GOOD GeNeRous CoanPA nIlonI
Evening journal., 1918-10-18
Kaiser Never TO Use New Somme Cottage

n. Z. A. Special to The Evening Journal
PARIS, France. Oct. IS.
For Rent: Summer home. spac-
ious, luxurious: brick flrepeace
paneled ceilings, artistic decora-
tlons; never occupied. Can be had
cheap. Apply W. Hohenzollern,
Berlin, Germany.
Want ad columns ought TO contain
that liner For Kaiser Bill has no use
for the elaborate cottage built for him
on the banks Of the SOmme river.
The conquerlng British found the cot
t3ge, newly erected and never occupied
but obviously intended as a permanent
summer home for the "all highest" II
stands as proof that the Huns meant
TO keep a tight flst on the land they had
invaded.
The cottage is OF elaborate architec-
ture. II has a dining hall that Will seal
40 persons. There is a hugeNbrick fire
place. surmounted By a mantlepiecs
above which are carved wood inches fol
ornaments. Windows are double glazed
and equipped with fly screens. Room:
are paneled with valuable wood. Tn,
ceilings are Of square wooden panels
with neatly beyelled diamonds OF WOOD
az each corner.
Throughout the furnishings are
magnificent and the cottage was fully
equipped as II Just ready-when the
British rudely interrupted-for the re-
ceptiOn OF the Kaiser.
\ Even the grounds surrounding the
cottage had been beautifled. a double
Evening journal., 1918-10-18
SALARY RAISES
+. Fur OFFICIALS
Tax Collector, Milk and Oil
Inspectors and City Physi-
clan Benefited
MR.. HOPKINS WOULD
QUARANTINE HOMES

City Council was in session three
quarters Of an hour last night, only
eight members being present. illness
and death preventing the others from
tbelng present. City Councilman Har-
ringtons brother was reported as dead
The session proved TO be an interest
ing one, half hundred bills being ap-
proved and the ordinance granting
swaee Increases TO a number Of en-
ployees being given the third and flnal
reading and referred to the Mayor for
bG consideration. This ordinance al
lows the deputy collectors OF taxes
$50 additional, or total OF $500 a
wear. The milk and the oil inspectors
were allowed increases Of from $1,000
20 silOO. while the city physicians sal
srv was increased from $500 10 si5OO.
The Street and Sewer Department
was allowed $4,000 on account OF the
Quarterly budget and $1,000 on ac-
count Of new street paving in Delea-
ware avenue.
City Councilman Robertson intro
duced a motion which was passed,
transferring S25,OOO from the miscel-
laneous account TO the garbage a c.
count. In speaking on this motion,
Mr.. Robertson stated that this action
as well as other actions Of q like char
acter to be taken, would relieve the
congestion on some peoples minds as
20 why Council, in making I'D the
budget, had provided for the large sum
10 the miscellaneous account. lie
added that at the time the budget was
made UP the Health Department had
not entered into any contract for the
collection Of garbage.
The report Of City Treasurer Banks
showed the bank balances to be SOL
s57.70 Communications were read from
the Board, of Water Commissioners ami
The Diamond Ice and Coal Company
stating that the smoke nuisance COM
plained Of as coming from their plants
along the Brandywine Greek were in
vestigated and 70 was found that the
poor grade Of coal, together with in
experienced flremen, was responsible
The trouble, Il was stated would be
.smedied.
City Councilman Hopkins stated that
be- thought the Health Department
should quarantine the homes OF innu-
anza victims now that saloons and
other public places are closed. No ac-
gon was taken In this matter, however.
City Councilman Cathcart also spoke
or the crews OF the trolley cars allow
5ng people TO crowd into the cars. The
crowding Of the cars, he said. was
criminal, and while he did not hold the
Company responsible he thought that
the crowding should be stopped. The
matter was dropped none OF the other
members speaking on the subject
This Loan need YOUl
Il needs every dollar you can lend.