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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-07
DAY OF REVOLUTIONS

1t is astonishing how easily we
take our revolutions. political and
industrial and economic, these days.
Saturday at noon one of the most
remarkable changes on record in
this country went into effect with
out a stir. 1t was announced that
the thing would be done, it was
done, people saw 1t done, and that
was all there was TO 1t.
Does this attitude mean that we
Americans have grown blase, that
we are so familiar with change that
even a thing of this importance can
hardly interest us. Far from 1t. 1t
Is, perhaps, the best proof that could
be found of the national realization
that nothing that can possibly con-
tribute to victory must be neglect
ed. Once establish that fact to the
public's satisfaction and practically
anything, no matter how revolution
airy, will meet with prompt accept
ance.
No people in the world yield pow
er more readily, with less fear that
it will be abused, that it will crys-
tallize into some permanent disad-
vantage to popular rule, than Amer
leans. All they demand is that it be
properly employed for the purposes
they understand. Willingly, without
even much discussion, they yield the
authority demanded. The noise and
| tumult will only come if it is not
exc, cised so as to bring the neces-
sary results.-Chicago Herald.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-07
WAR "GODMOTHERS"

[From the Philadelphia Bulletinl
General Pershing has found 1t
necessary to use such efforts as are
at his command to suppress the GUS
toms so rapidly growing in this
country, of young women adopting
soldiers abroad and writing them
letters. Originally the custom had
much to commend it. There were
many French and Belgian soldiers
abroad who were in hospitals or
trenches without friends, and there
were good many Americans who
had etrayed into the Foreign Legion,
or other branches of the service,
who needed cheering words. So far
so good.
What General Pershing objects
to Is the creation of artificial senti-
ment between soldiers at the front
and emotional girls in America, who,
instead of writing for the purpose
of cheering the brave. are led into
romances likely to have no good
end. Women are often susceptible to
hyper-sentiment toward unknown
men, as shown by the success of all
who advertise for wives. The mar
ital instinct in women is the funda-
mental of their existence. but needs
to be trained properly. Marriage is
more than sentiment; It is a busi-
ness for life, in which partnerships
should be made on due consldera-
ton.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-07
CURE FOR COAL SHORTAGE

THE end of the cold snap, with
its consequently reduced CO.
mestic demands for coal and
the ability of the railroads to speed
up traffic will bring relief. beyond
doubt, but the need for economy in
the use of fuel will continue. Not
even springtime will justify the old
time recklessness or carelessness in
either industrial or household con-
sumption.
Which brings up the thought that
full bins next spring. and summer
would go a long way toward pre-
venting a repetition CT this VIM
ter's trouble. Last year thousands
of persons. accustomed TO purchas-
ing years supply in the early
months of Spring or Summer, were
deferred from so doing by advice
OF the federal authorities. They
were assured that there would be
coal aplenty and that to buy in large
quantities would only tend to run
up the price. Now it happens that
when August passes and the coal
dealers have not delivered a large
percentage of their yearly sales
they are unable to make prompt de-
liveries later. even though their
yards are full to overfiowing, and
the hardship is multiplied when the
supply itself is short and labor hard
TO get
Hence, it would appear only good
sense to throw off the embargo on
coal with the coming of warm
weather, speed up the production at
the mines and let all who can stow
away as much coal against next
Winter as their bins will hold. This
would be of great benefit also TO
the man OF small means who pur.
chases in ton lots because the entire
supply next winter would be then
almost exclusively at his disposal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-07
PREVENTING TROUBLE

TUDGING from the plans made
i for the nominating petitions &c
be fled in advance of the May
primary the principle of definite time
limits for entering official papers, as
provided in ordinary business and
approved by the Dauphin county
court in the Hulings mandamus opin-
ion, is to prevail on Capitol Hill. In
other words, the State government
will have hours for business inst like
a bank and the nuisance of men run
ming in at five minutes of midnight
with papers to be filed on a &c e'ta'n
day will be avoided
1t is a habit Of men in politics to
hold back until they see what the
other fellow is going to do. The re-
suit OF this has been under Pennsyl-
vania's uniform primary law that the
Department of the Secretary of the
Commonwealth has received hun
dreds of petitions to be candidates
last day for filing, most of .hem in
the last half day. In the last ten years
there have been dozens of petitions
which were found defective and
which could not be cured n time.
The suggestion is to be made that
all petitions be filed a week before
the limit expires. This will permit all
papers to be examined in time TO
have any mistakes or shortages put
to rights and the aspirants for office
to have a show. 1t will save trouble
for candidates and endless annoy
ance at the Capitol.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-07
CARLISLE ACTIVITIES

IT HE TELEGRAPH is in receipt
of the annual report of the
Chamber of Commerce of Car
Isle. This report is full of interest,
not only to the people of the imme-
diate community which this organ
ization serves SO well, but contains
much in the way OF information for
the wider circle influenced by the
activities Of a considerable number
of men interested in the development
OF the Cumberland Valley.
It is organizations of this sort
which are welding together into a
homogeneous and progressive COM
munity many of the cities and towns
Of Central Pennsylvania. With the
splendid report of 1917 as an in
spiration for still bigger things dur
ing the present year, the Carlisle or
ganization ought to achieve much in
the way of constructive develop
ment in its several lines of activity.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-07
The Miners Harvest
By FRANK HALL


TT IS a good time for the mine
worker to take count of his op-
portunities and to give heed to
the future. Fortune does not wear
a continuous smile for anyone, and
II is the wise man who in the lay
of plenty makes provision for the
proverbial wet days of business stag
nation and enforced idleness that arc
sure TO come.
Never before in the history of the
ooi.l-lnining industry has the max
lmum wege o. the workers reached
re + eh ievci u today. Tt T.. their
golden farvesr Will the harvest be
garnered or lost? As COMP. @; with
the wages of ten years ago. or even
two years ago, the presen. prinueiy
sums u.at find their way into the
eekly pay en> elope are beyond the
most "nSrine expectations # the
most visionary of dreanlers. From
two dollars day to five dollars. and
i'll some cases eight, ten or twelve
dollars, is a m ghty stride IN the Up
ward scale. Reports of Individual
eases OF extraordinarily high daily
pay come from every section of the
nIining fields and they are typical
of what is true of the grea. ariny
of workers.
The advance, it is gratifying to
state, has been general, AMI all
classes of workers are enjoying a
prosperity such as they never before
experienced The consciousness of
adequate compensation for their
labcr. the extreme pleasure of Os-
seSsing a fat pocketbook, is theirs.
Comforts, conveniences and q host If
the tere cable indulgences that make
life worth living have become pos
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-07

sible in very brief period under the
tiercely active and urgent demands
of the unprecedented business con-
ditions that now exist.
1t is pertinent to ask in this con-
nection. Are these men, who at
present are receiving a good deal
more than living wage, accumulat-
ing and resources for days to come
that may not be so prosperous? 1t
would seem that this is the time
when every possible influence in the
mining communities should be eX-
erted to encourage a spirit of thrift
and economy among the workers.
Wise counsel and kindly suggestion
would do much to aid in checking
the very natural inclination to in
dulge in extravaganza, to the detrt'
ment of the future. The priest the
pastor, the Y. M. 9. a, in fact all
agencies that come in touch with
the mine workers, should use their
kindly and beneficent efforts to
check the reckless expenditure of in
comes and the great inroads that are
being made upon the earnings of
the workers by the drink habit.
Liquor is the curse of the mining
communities. Its excessive use robs
the wives and children of comforts
and necessities and renders the work
ers unfit for their hazardous occu-
patton. All strong drink should be
banished, and at this very critical
period when the production of coal
is essential to the conduct of the
war, as we'll as to the comfort of the
people, stern, restrictive measures
should be adopted to put a check on
any agency that interferes with OPP
Grafton.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-07
EDITORIAL COMMENT

And it may get so that a patch on
your trousers will be regarded as
thrift stamp.-Dallas News.
II thirteen states hold out for rum,
the nations drought will never come,
New York Sun.
These are indeed dark hours for the
world, but let us not forget our most
familiar proverb. - Chicago Daily
News.
Expelled from the old Jerusalem. the
Germans are by no means certain oil
ever reaching the New. - Anaconda
Standard.
ONLY in cartoons does the crown
stay in position when the monarch has
been turned upside down.-kansas
City Star.
Congress persists in it's policy OF
cruel and unusual punishment toward
LaFollette by refusing to put him on
trial.-New York Evening Post.
But wouldn't our governmental red
tape make fine defensive entangle-
ments II 1t could be placed about the
front-line trenches?-Chicago Daily
News.
The report from the Western front
that Hindenburg and Ludendorn look
cheerfully upon the prospective often
sive indicates that they do not expect
to go in with the poor devils who are
not expected to come back.-Dallas
News.
The Army has no machine guns be-
cause the ordnance experts have beer
apart for years on the type to be used
which recalls the man who died OF
sleeplessness sitting on the edge of his
bed with a nightshirt in each hand
but unable to make up his mind which
to put on.-Kansas City Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-07
OUR MOUNTAINEERS
Rolin Lynde Hartt in the Centur,
MagaZinel

Rolin Lynde HART in the Century
Magazine)
A mountain woman, getting her
first glimpse of our much vaunted
civilization, cried fervently, I'D
rather be a knot in a log on Peril
ous," When you have seen Perilous
and felt it's charm, you will under
stand.
Prosperous farmers lack the in
centive to migrate; poverty stricken
farmers lack the means. Where the
barter prevails, and the least" child
carries an egg to the store for an
eggs worth of candy. a family may
go year without handling $40 in
money. Move? Start afresh else
where? 1t is out of the question.
Given chance at education,
young mountaineers will deign to
rise above their raisin'." They make
Unsuitable students. The youthful
Lincoln. doing sums on snow
shovel in log cabin. was not more
determined, though it disgusts a
mountain lad to be everlastingly
sentimentalized over as an Abraham
Lincoln in embryo. Like Lincoln,
he has the saving grace of humor.
Around me the snow decked W ID
erness agleam with enchanting sun
shine. Below me the clouds. Among
the laurel swift, darting flames that
were redbirds. Everywhere a still
ness broken only by our horses foot
falls. Then at a turn of the trail,
laughter andsmerry greetings from
half a dozen blue uniformed school
girls on their way home, suitcases
in hand, for the Christmas holidays.
Forth they go, these young mountain
GERS, and back they come for vaca-
tion. AS n rule, that is all. Too
often the schools drain the noun
tains of the brightest sons and daugh
ters of the most ambitious families.
Fitted definitely for success in Die
big world outside. and given no defi-
mite equipment whatever for success
in the highlands. they drift to the
cities.
There are mountains in Appala-
CHA that can safely be let slide.
There are regions enviably prosper
Gus. But on the other hand, there
are regions that Shrek to high hea-
ven for uplift. Think of a broken
Ileg, and three days in a makeshift
ambulance. Think of typhoid and
tuberculosis, with no one to hint at
prevention or cure. Think of dist
rict schools closed seven months in
the year. If district schools there
be, and pupils unable to read after
several terms of so-called instruc-
ton. Think of squalor and misery
and aching deprivation. Three hun
dred thousand mountaineers, adding
one luckless neighborhood to an
other, live in wretchedness unspeak-
able. Our kinsmen. mind you; not
hyphenates. but descendants of the
original Americans. Appalachia fur
nished the rear guard of the Revo-
luton. 1t is through no fault OF
theirs that the three hundred thous-
! and have fallen on evil days. 1t is
the work OF isolation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-07
THE ALLIES STAND FIRM

= LLOYD GEORGES speech, out
lining Great Britains terms of
peace leaves Germany with
but one thing to do-make a su-
preme effort for a military decision
on the West front The French have
spoken and President Wilson's an
swer to the German peace proposals
was the publication of Colonel
Houses recommendation that Amer
lean troops be rushed to France in
never-ending stream. Even the
Bolsheviki have declined to be
fooled by the Establishments of the
willy Prussians. Another German
effort to snatch victory from defeat
has been frustrated.
The next move, probably. will be
German offensive in the West
the long heralded drive to win the
war before the much derided
but much feared American force
begins to make its tremendous
weight felt. We may expect a
smashing blow when 1t comes
Allied losses may be heavy and
some ground may be lost, fol
it has been found that Withdrawals
OF troops under heavy pressure tc
more advantageous positions is oft.
times better than to hold on In the
face of great losses. But in the END
it will be another Verdun. 1t will
be the last big effort of the Germans
on the West front, and great as II
will be it will not reach the magni.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-07
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

William Potter, State Fuel Ad-
ministrator, who used to be an am
bassador, says that the fuel situation
strains diplomatic customs.
C. b. Pritchard, the new direc-
tor of safety under Mayor Babcock.
of Pittsburgh, is only SO.
John Barclay, the Greensburg
banker. has accepted the place of
food administrator for westmore-
land county.
-Congressman George W. Ed
monds, of Philadelphia. who has
been looking into the fuel Shortage
says camp commanders are making
trouble by ordering coal from Penn,
sylvania sent to far away states,
Col. Edgar Jadwin, formerly
engineer officer In charge of the Army
work in Western Pennsylvania. has
been made brigadier general.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-07

Clerks of the Atlantic Coast Line
have secured union recognition.
An official report of the British
Labor Alliance just issued shows
that the 21S delegates present at the
conference represented 1886, 900 MEM
bers.
At meeting of the Ancient Order
of Hibernians at Groom, ireland. n res
olution was passed requesting the
Wages Board to fix the standard
wages for Ireland at once.
San Francisco theater managers
have accepted the new wage scale of
the. janitors' union. These workers
are now paid $3.50 for an eight-hour
day.
Vancouver (B. c. Teamsters' I'm
ion has secured a union shop agree
ment which provides for 9k hour
workday and wage increases of 10 to
20 per cent.
One hundred and fifty locals of the
International Hod Carriers. Building
and Common Laborers' Union have
raised wages $,414.O95 during the pc
riod between October 1863 Octo-
Der, 1917.
Four thousand Crank Trunk Rail-
road conductors, trainmen and other
employees will get the eight-hour day
and an increase in pay as a result
of an agreement between the officials
of the trainmen's organizations and
the company.
Ohio State Industrial Commission
reports that there were 1928 acct
dents in Ohio last year, against 1885,
600 the year before.
Boot repairers are so scarce in
Nuneaton. England, that the Board of
Guardians has decided to establish a
boot repairing department in the
workhouse.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-07

again. Colonel Frank G. Darte, Sem
ator Asa X. Dewitt and Congressman
c. c. Bowman are spoken of as can
didates, while John J. Casey, of the
auburn hair, will be a Dem ocrauc
candidate, of course.
CONGRESSMAN Lewis p. McFad-
den, of the northern tier district, has
no intention of retiring. He will be a
candidate for another term and his
friends say that he will win hand
somely.
Capitol Hill rumors are that
John p. Stouch, one of Altoona's re-
firing councilmen, will become con-
nected with the Auditor Generals
Department.
This is the grand change around
day in county and municipal AFFAIRS
and there will be many heartburnlngs
tonight. In a number of counties
the induction of judges will be very
formal affairs which will turn into
receptions Most of the third cass
CITY changes will result in new faces
in office.
Mayor Babcock is having quite
an elaborate inauguration at Pitts
burgh to-day and it is said that his
appointments, while they caused
some pickering at the start. are now
accepted by all leaders.
-Bethlehems entrance into the
third class city list to-day is the sec
ond. The first attempt was knocked
out in the courts. The new city starts
off with a business administrator
and its course will be closely watched
as it was the first city to ask state
departmental advice.
While Altoona and Bethlehem
are starting big changes, Butler and
Duquesne become third class cities.
There are signs of some big changes
in systems of borough management
in a number of counties and in
Beaver and Westmoreland some or
the boroughs win reduce councils
commencing to-day.
Philip Schwartz is out as a can
didate for the Legislature in the
sixth Lackawanna district.
&C. NJ. Bollinger, Yorks only
Democratic councilman, will have
charpa of streets. The last act or
York's retiring council was to put po-
licemen's salaries up to sS5.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-07

This is good advice for all of us
and it comes from a man entitled to
speak. 1t is the reason why Harris
burg has over-subscribed every Lib
orty Loan, Red Cross and other cam
paign inaugurated since the begin
ming of the war, and why it will not
fail in the knights of Columbus
drive now under way.
We think we have given literally,
and in all truth we have not stinted.
But we have scarcely scratched the
surface. We may as we'll steel our
selves to sacrifices that will make
those we have made appear to be
mere trifies by comparison. We
must give until it hurts" There
will be campaign after campaign. AL
ready there is talk of Liberty Loan
drive for early Spring, and certain
1t is that another Red Cross am
paign will be staged in the summer
and a Y. NJ. C. A. request will be
made not later than early Fall
Month after month, year after year,
perhaps, If the war continues so long,
we shall find ourselves giving, giving,
giving. 1t can be done and il must
be done. Luxury must give place
to necessity; our savings, perhaps
will all have to go into Liberty
Eonds, as indeed they should for the
most part, and money that we have
frittered away in satisfying our own
longings must go to help win the
war.
We long have been a self-centered
people. We were prosperous. Most
everybody had money enough tc
meet his needs. Certain charities
existed and had to be supported
They found the means. But most OF
us lived within ourselves and thought
little about the other fellow. We
were not wilfully selfish; only there
seemed no reason to do other than
''look out for No. 1" and that Is
about all we did. But the war has
made a great difference. We must
row live largely for the "other fel.
low in order that we may be able
to hand down to posterity the bless.
ings that have been ours. We have
had to learn to give. Some of u.
have done so. Others are just begin.
ming to learn. But all of us will
have acquired the habit before the
war is over. and. incidentally, will be
the better for It.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-07
FRENCH PHONETICS

(From the Detroit News.)
This is the way it would have to
be written in French, If the French
are to sing it:
o sal came lou CT, bal thi daunze
urli lefte
Huatte so praudn oui heide atte thi
tueileitsse Taste glimingue
Houze braude streipse ande breite
starse throu thi perilouse feite
Aur thi ramparz oui ouatchde ouev
SO gallanti strimingue.
Ande thi rocquettes redde CLAIR, TIL
bombs birstingue inne air.
Gaive pruf throu thi neite that oueT
flagge ouas stille THAR;
o sal, dusse thatte star-spangl'de
banner yette oueve
Aur thi Iande ov thi fri ande thi
home ov thi brewer
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-07

tude desired by the German high
command If the Russians hold to
their present attitude of no peace
with loss of territory.
If Germany could not reach Paris
in 1914. when faced by only thin
line of green troops and scarcely
any artillery. how much less able
is she to do so to-day, with the
greatest military machine the world
has ever seen blocking her path?
The business of the Allied troops is
to kill Germans and they may be
able to perform that work better
from a defensive position than with
themselves on the offensive. Just as
Verdun marked the beginning of the
end for Germany on French soil, so
the offensive now in project very
likely will prove n frightful blunder
and very possibly may use up so
many German divisions as to mate
rally weaken the western line for
the Allied drives that are sure to
como with warm weather.
The German cause was never so
hopeless as now, with her armies in
Italy having fallen just short OF
their goal and the Russian bear
again showing his teeth. The firm
ness of England, France and Amer
lea in spurning the proposal to let
the war end in a draw is evidence
that they are confident of their pow
er to win, just as the Kaiser's re-
peated efforts for peace. while he
still holds an advantageous position,
are evidence that he foresees the
dismal fate in store for him IL the
war is fought to a knockout.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-07
NOT DEMOCRACY

(From the Springfield Republican,
A dispatch from London says Am
erican officers have forbidden our
private soldiers riding with officers
on British railways, to accord with
the British custom. This may be
making the world safe for democ-
racy. but it isn't democracy.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-07

You speak of the three cent
stamp on your letter. This is
one of the WAYS in which YOU
are helping win this war. You
ought TO be happy to put three
cents on each letter, knowing
that the extra penny goes for
the purchase of war supplies.
You ought to support every Lib
erty Loan, Y. NJ. c. A., Red Cross
that is inaugurated. Thus you
stand by the soldier in the field
and help save him from death or
injury by helping bring the war
to an early and successful con-
clusion. You ought to give your
dollars as cheerfully as the SOL
diers are giving their time and
their services at the risk a SOL
uier always takes.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-07
DO YOUR PART

THE following is an extract from
the letter of a Harrisburg SOL
dier in France to his father. in
which he replies to his fathers ref
erence to the three cent stamp on the
letter he had written to the son: