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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-25
AFTER THE BATTLE

We have all had our little scrap.
Now let us all be good Republicans
and support the whole ticket in No
yember.-Huntingdo Globe.
All obstetrics will feel Chester"
by reason of the big brother the fam
ily elects to manage the household
up at observation-disclosures Times.
The Pennsylvania Democracy is
not "constitutionally wet" Penrose
to the contrary, Notwithstanding,
and the added evidence of Judge
Bonniwells nomination, running
openly as a wet" candidate. But
the Pennsylvania Democracy is far
from enthusiastic. The hocuspocus
ARRANGEMENT by which Democrats
were entirely ignored, not only in
Lancaster county, but throughout
the state, in all patriotic activities
and for that matter, all other reason
able activities that were rightly
theirs by reason of there being a
Democratic president, is responsible
for the lack of enthusiasm.-Lan-
caster Intelligencer.
At the outset of the State CAM
paign Mr.. Palmer announced that
Pennsylvania must elect Demo-
cratic Governor, else 1t would be
notice that the great State was not
standing by the President. Then
came orders to make Guffey the
Democratic nominee. and these or
ders were rejected by the party
Messrs. Palmer and Mccormick are
supposed to control. Pennsylvanians
of all parties will take note of the
incongruous conditions in the Demo-
cratic party in Pennsylvania and will
give a vote of confidence in the
country, in the President. and. in the
great cause for which we are waging
war, by making William c. Sproul
the next Governor by practically
unanimous vote.-Johnstown TIL
hune
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-25
PITY THEIR PLIGHT

nAUSE for a moment in your re-
jolcing over the nomination of a
strong, clean, dry" candidate
for Governor by the Republican
party and consider the plight of Ma
tional Chairman Vance C. McCor-
mick and his fellow Democratic boss
A. Mitchell Palmer. Theirs is a sad
condition. From the heights of die
tatorship that for supreme power
might make the Kaiser himself green
the position of section gang bosses
whose hands have quit the job with
one rail torn up on the main track
and the limited express a mile down
the line.
But really, it's no joke. Here is
Mr.. Mccormick called upon either to
support Judge Bonniwell, n candi-
date of the wettest sort, whom he mas
called all manner of hard names
through his subsidized newspaper
mouthpieces, or as National Chair
-man to bolt his regularly nominated
party ticket. Either one is a bitter
pill for the National Chairman and
a sad blow to his much vaunted lead
ership. With the unlimited prestige
of national patronage and the Presi-
dents personal endorsement, he and
Palmer have been licked off the map
by candidate without money, in
fluence or organization. Bonniwell
alone and single-handed trimmed
the whole Democratic outfit and
tossed the extensively built Palmer
Mccormick machine into the discard.
What under the circumstances, is
the National Chairman going to tell
the President? How is he going to
support Bonniwell and maintain his
reputation as champion of pro-
hibition? How is he going to main
tain his prestige as National Chair
man if he declines to stand by the
results of regular party primary
and leads a mug-wump ticket? OF
all the sorry figures in Pennsylvania
politics, those of Mccormick and
Palmer are the sorriest. Republicans
will please refrain from laughter.
This is a funeral notice.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-25
ANTT-LOAFING LAW

Now that New York. following
the example of Maryland and New
Jersey, has passed law aimed at
idlers and loafers by requiring that
all men between the ages of 1S and
so shall be habitually and regularly
engaged in some lawful. useful and
recognized business, profession, oc-
cupation, trade or employment until
the termination Of the war;" Penn
sylvania finds itself almost sur
rounded by states that have put up
the bars against this too numerous
class. A probable consequence will
be the arrival in our midst of large
numbers of able-bodied males who
will seek a temporary asylum here
from their own unappreciative COM
munities. If the war promises to be
protracted the next Legislature
should pass a drastic law of thi.
kind. 1t is proper war legislation,
as its approval by other Common
wealths shows.-Philadelph Rec
ord.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-25
WORK FOR WOMEN

|" HE possibilities the war are
opening for women workers are
limitless. An an illustration,
yesterday the Telegraph carried this
advertisement over the signature of
a well know Harrisburg nursery
company:
wanted Women for easy
wedding and light work among
flowers. Good wages, hours to
suit, apply ready. for work.
1t is strange that women have not
been attracted to this kind of work
previously in large numbers. Most
women love flowers and are success
full in their cultivation. The ex-
pertinent has been tried in hothouses
elsewhere and ought to be success
full here. Pioneer work in the train
ing of women for this line of ac-
tivity is being done at a few schools
near Philadelphia and elsewhere and
there is big field for the skilled
worker.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-25
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

w. F. Stadtlander, one of the
Pittsburgh legislators, we'll known
here, was nominated.
Senator T. l.. Eyre, OF Chester
county, who won the Berry libel
suit said that he was entirely salts
fed with the verdict.
j. L. Replogle, the Sseel man,
has had a town named for him in
Bedford county.
Provost E. r. Smith, of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, says that
military training should be estao-
lished not only in high schools, but
in every school in the country.
Judge George Henderson or
Philadelphia, was formerly student
in the Office of M. Hampton Todd
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-25
JUDGMENT OF A SOLOMON
Philadelphia Record)

.. (Rhlladelpnla RecOrul
Women have done and are doing
so much to make the world safe for
democracy that it will never be
humanity possible to compute their
proper reward. There's one way in
which the men may repay them, and
the payments should begin at once:
Let's quit calling them chickens"
In this connection there is story
of wise New York judge, whose
name, fortunately, doesn't appear,
although it should be emblazoned in
letters of light. Two men were
hailed before the bar of Justice in
his court by two reputable young
women who complained that the
defendants had addressed them upon
the streets and called them
chickens, The judge asked the
c0mplainants how much they
weighed approximately. and upon
being told turned to the defendants
and said: ''The fine. which you may
divide between you, may be arrived
at by multiplying the combined
weight of these two young women
by the market price of chickens
prevailing this morning." A few
more Solomon judgments like that
and this democracy of ours will be
made safer for the women
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-25
The BlaSphen1ouS Kaiser

dressed to his army in the east in
December, 1914, and illustrates the
blasphemous philosophy of the Ger
man ruler. 1t was as follows:
THE hour has come to draw the
sword. The enemy attacks us wan
tonly in time of peace. Rise: To
arms; We will defend ourselves to
the last breath and to the last man
even If we have got to have the
world as our enemy.
Germany has never been beaten,
when she has been wise enough to
stay united. Forward, with God:
For God will be with us, as He was
with our fathers.
1T is my imperial and royal COM
mand for the present that you con-
centrate your energies on the pur-
suit of single aim, i. e.-that you
put in operation all your resources
and the whole valor of my soldiers,
to exterminate the perfdious Eng
lish at once and overthrow and an
nihilate the contemplate little army
of General French"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-25

1.-TWO proclamations issued by the
Kaiser at the beginning of the
war serve to illustrate the OBJ
session of the Prussian autocracy.
The first of these proclamations was
posted throughout Belgium in Au-
gust, 1914, and was as follows:
Remember that you are the
chosen people: The spirit of Goa
Himself has descended on me, be-
cause l am the Emperor of the Ger
mans. L am the instrument of the
Most High. ! am His Chosen one
His representative,
Destruction and death to all
those who resist my will: Death
and destruction to all those who do
not believe in my mission: Destruc-
ton to the obstinate: (lasches).
May they perish; all the enemies
of the German people: God de-
crees their destruction. God who
by my mouth, commands you to
execute His will"
The second proclamation was ad-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-25
EDITORIAL COMMENT

Isn't that our luck to have COM
ing the biggest rye crop ever heard
of just as the whole country is go
ing prohibition?-New York Morn
ing Telegraph.
If they are both alive when the
war is over John Barleycorn and the
Kaiser will be in the proper frame
of mind to sympathize with each
other.-Kansas City Star.
German bombs have again been
dropped on London schools. After a
while that will be the only way to
get anything German into the Amer
lean schools.-Newark News.
"Mr. Creel is not alone in his
thankfulness that we were unpre-
pared for this war" says the Holton
Recorder. mo doubt the Kaiser
is just as thankful as Mr.. Creel."
The Germans shot a priest and a
nun in Belgium on the same day
this week that priests in Dublin were
procuring signers to a pledge against
being conscripted to fight the Ger
mans.-Dallas News.
British opponents of Lloyd George
argued that a French generalissimo
last stand of the French regiment
sent to hold Mt. KENNEL is the an
swer.-Springfield Republican.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-25
Your Cross and My Cross

BY Emma Finty Cox
dedicated to the American Red
Cross)
Your boy and my boy.
And how they go to-day
From your home and my home
To the trenches far away!
Brave lads and true lads
They never think of fear;
Young men and strong men
We hold them all so dear;
And the one cross, the Red Cross,
the cross for me and you
Will succor them in every land
meath the red and white and
blue.
Your heart and my heart
Throb as though to break,
While your hands and my hands
Garments of comfort make.
Your though and my thoughts
Follow them each day;
To your God and my God
For them we fondly pray;
And the one cross. the Red Cross,
the cross for me and you
Will succor them in every land
meath the red and white and
blue.
Your food and my food
We now must guard and save,
That your Flag and my Flag"
May ever proudly wave.
Your Gold and my Gold,
OF 1t we freely give,
That your son and my son
In foreign climes may live;
And the one cross. the Red Cross,
the cross for me and you
Will succor them in every land,
meath the red and white and
blue.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-25
SUGGESTION FOR CUTLER

" HE Bureau of Foreign and Do
mestic Commerce asks for sug-
gestions with regard to a pro-
posed revision ana extension of the
| statistical classification of imports
and exports" Two suggestions come
readily to mind with respect to sta
tistics appearing In what is known as
the Monthly Summary of Foreign
Commerce of the United States"
The first has to do with the express
sion "other countries" appearing in
our import and export columns. Cer-
tain of our leading imports and ex-
ports are given by countries, several
being named, with amounts from
those countries given, and the list
closing with "other countries" so
much.
For instance, having before us the
statistics for the last calendar year,
(191O 10 per cent. of our colors and
| dyes, by value, nearly IL per cent.
of our laces, nearly % per cent. of
| our copra, 80 per cent. of our hats,
| ~ pei NVuls VI Jul Odlllt ~
per cent. of our lead, almost half
our betting and sole leather, over
80 per cent. of our cigar wrapper to-
bacco, 1S per cent. of our leaf, 90
per cent. of our wool clothes, etc,
are shown as imported from "other
countries" not specially mentioned.
While an extension of the lists
would mean a more voluminous sum-
mary, it is believed that the radical
changes which have been effected
in our trade, by development and by
war, would justify such extension.
Furthermore, the volume of certain
commodities, previously not shown
as to countries, has grown so great
that their sources should be indicat-
ed. We want to know not only the
amount of, but the source from. or
destination, concerning our import
and export trade.
Another factor which has become
of prime importance in the study of
our foreign trade, which, if not
shown in the monthly summaries,
should certainly appear in the an
nual publication, called Commerce
and Navigation of the United States"
If one desires to know in just what
commodities our trade with, say
Japan consists, it becomes necessary
to go over the entire volume of some
1000 pages, picking out each item
imported from or exported to japan.
1t would be an exceedingly helpful
thing if a division of the publication
was assigned to our trade with the
various countries by items. This
would make the volume much great.
er, or it could be done by way of A
supplementary volume. The addi.
tional labor and expense would be
justified by the convenience afforded
to students of trade.
To-day, If the student wants tc
find out the items of manufactured
goods comprising our trade with
Great Britain he must pick them
out one by one from the list of
countries to which each particular
item has reference. This involves q
tremendous loss of time which might
be obviated by Mr.. Cutters bureau
| AS an offset to the labor, expense
and consumption of paper involved
in these suggestions, the burea,
might well cut down its tremendous
output of printed matter not havint
to do with trade. Trade is the rea
son for the bureaus existence.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-25
MUNICIPAL EFFICIENCY

NOTWITHSTANDING the pres
N sure of war activities in this
community the people are not
unmindful of what is going on under
municipal direction and control.
There has been some failure here
and there and considerable ineffi-
cheney, but it is still the hope of all
good citizens who are interested in
the welfare of Harrisburg that these
shortcomings and failures will be
overcome through a proper attitude
on the part of officials. Any dis
position to resent reasonable sug-
gestion is bound to react upon those
who lack in appreciation of such
public interest as may be manifested
in proffers of help for the public
good.
No newspaper relishes the role of
critic, but officials who will not see
or hear should be made to realize
that the voice of a community will
be heard in one way or another.
Large increases in the expendi-
ture of public funds have been due
to war conditions, of course; but
all of the increase of the cost of ad-
ministration is not chargeable to
these conditions. Considerable of
the outlay is believed to have re-
suited from an augmenting of forces
without resulting benefits. Every
department must stand on it's record
and the people will demand faith
full stewardship on the part of every
official.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-25
THE GROWTH OF TAFT
vTY ILLIAM HOWARD TAFT is
wv far bigger man in the eyes
of millions of Americans to-

of millions of Americans to-
day than when he was President.
This comeback of an unsuccessful
candidate for the Presidency is one
of the marvels of the war, and causes
,one to think of the defeat of Grover
Cleveland and what happened some
years later.
Since the nation took arms against
Germany there has been no more
far-seeing observer of public affairs
nor saner adviser on matters per-
tanning to the country's welfare than
Mr.. Taft. He has been a steadfaSt
supporter of the government and has
done everything for President Wilson
that he could have asked from any
man in similar position when he
occupied the White House.
William Howard Taft has demon
strated as never before that he is
real presidential material Accept
ing the verdict of the people which
placed Mr.. Wilson at the head of the
government as the voice of the ma
ton, he retired gracefully to private
life and has since devoted his talents
to the solving of great humanitarian
problems and to the promotion of the
public interest and national welfare.
He has grown immeasurably in the
estimation of his countrymen and 1t
would not be surprising if they
turned their eyes toward him when
casting about for a successor to
President Wilson.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-25
ROAD WORK

ROW that the primary campaign
IN is over doubtless State High
way Commissioner ]. Denny
O'Neil will turn his unquestloned
talents as a road builder to the de-
velopment of the highways of the
state. Mr.. O'Neil has a big problem
before him. With the war demand
ing labor to the exclusion of all else
he must determine just how far he
can go in the building of new roads.
1t may come to the point where he
must either decide upon u policy of
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-25
Primary Defects
tWilkes-Barre Record

AS one primary campaign follows
another there is increasing evidence
that the law does not come up to eX-
pectations. Tho principle is most
praiseworthy, out the application of
it is in many Instances a grievous
disappointment. This fact is strik-
ingly apparent in the scramble for
the legislative nominations. Very few
of the voters knew the candidates. cr
had interest in them. A few more
trials of the primary system will re-
suit in an overwhelming demand for
its appeal or radical modification.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-25
True Story of the Trenches

Two men who are resting in a
dugout to escape the heavy shelling
of the enemy for a few minutes can
not see each other in the blackness,
but with that spirit of "camaraderie"
so common out there. although they
are total strangers, begin to chat.
After exchanging the numbers of
their battalions, which happen to be
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-25

up-keep without much new con-
struction or enter upon great cam
paign of military highway building
under the advice of the War De-
partment
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-25
SOMEWHAT SHY.

"You ought to be able to sell
some brick ice cream around here"
Drusgust-Mebbe so; but our peo-
pie havo bought so many gold bricks
that they shy at anything in the
brick form.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-25
SARCASTIC.

George knows human nature ali
right"
'Why?"
Yesterday he said to me; has
your wife planned your vacation
yetl"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-25
HISTORIC HARRISBURG

Every man in Harrisburg 100
years ago was a rifleman and many
of the women were good shots, too.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-25
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg's vote in the
primaries attracted attention in
every county in the State?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-25

Manifsetly, a lot of voters last
Tuesday did not think that the war
was to make everything safe for
the Democratic party"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-25

Sign writers az Seattle, Wash.
have increased wages 81 day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-25

Toronto (Can.) ship carpenters
ask a minimum of 55 cents an hour.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-25
roo LONG.
A DIFFERENCE.

A DIFFERENCE.
your boys are making great gar
deners."
"Sh! They are not gardeners.
They are soldiers doing patrol duty
against potato bugs"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-25

virginia's workmen's compensate
bill was vetoed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-25

Bricklayers at Ottawa, Can, now
get 65 cents an hour.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-25
LABOR NOTES

Port Arthur (Can.) phone girls de-
mand better pay.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-25

London (Can.) street car men
have been refused an increase in
wages.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-25

An interesting thing connected with
the parade last night was that the
flag carried by Mayor Daniel u.
Keister, an italian ensign, came from
the Italian battlefront 1t was sent to
Meade d. Detweiler, Jr., of this city,
TO his mother direct from the battle
lires where he has been doing such
splendid service.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-25

Ell. .sTACKPoLE,P Prest s. Ediiorin- Chief
T. r. OYSTER, Business Manager.
GUS NJ. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-03
HOG ISLAND

Hog Island, when the contract for the
biggest shipyard in the world was
signed. on September I3 last, was a
9O0-aore tract of marsh. sand dune
and tangled underground, reached from
Philadelphia by single soft dirt road
traversing two miles of marshy main
land and an sniquated ferry. Since
work was started. about October |.
1917. three roads across the meadows.
converglng INTO a great causcway 10
the island. have been built necessi
.asing the use of thousands Of tons of
hll; two railroad extensions more than
a mile long also have been built across
the meadows. seventy five miles of track
have been laid in the yard for the i'm
mense storage plants. hundreds of thou
sands of piles have been driven through
frozen earth, thirty-,wo shipways with
concrete bases have been completed
and eighteen others will be ready in less
than ninety days. a complete drainage
water supply and electric power dis
,ributon system have been installed. all
underground; barracks for 5000 men
have been put up, with two mess halls,
an administration building. twenty-four
subdivision Office builI,ngs and in
closed .hipbuildins school, power
plant and dozen smaller distributing
plants. more than twenty miles Of tim
Der plank roads capable of supporting
any loads of any weight. more than one
hundred shops and storerooms a we,
basin capable Of accommodating thirty
ships has been dredeed out Of the shal-
low river front. To protec, it from
filling in . semiercular dixie a mile
and half long was built The en-
tire river front, facing fifty shipways.
has been dredsed deep enough for
launching big freishts and a channel
has been cut two hundred fee, out into
the main thirty-hve-foo, channel Of the
Delaware. In addition. the Penro.e
Ferry Bridge over the Schuylkil River
has been rebuilt so that it will sustain
heavy loads All this ha. been accom-
pllshed in the face Of weather Difficult
ties ranging from thaws, when hundred.
OF motor trucks stalled in the mud, to
zero weather. when the island wa.
lighted day and night by huge bon1res.
Men worked fifteen minutes and took
thirty minutes to thaw out.