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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-06-25
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-01
Hoto active springs the mind that
IedUeS the load of yesterday behind
Pore.
GOOD LUCK BOYS

"1IS week Harrisburg will send
the first of its really drafted
men to the National Army.
There will not be many sent, but
they will be the first Offering of the
States Capital under the selective
service law. With them will go
men from the rest of Dauphin coun-
ty and from Cumberland, Perry and
other neighbor counties.
Thanks to Harrisburg's many en-
listments prior to the first call for
drafted men, even before registration
day, this city was not called upon
to furnish men. 1t has since main
tanned it's reputation as the best re-
cruiting district in the country, by
sending hundreds of men to the
Regular Army and it has contrib
uted under every call for men
with special qualifications. These
men have been inducted into a score
of lines of military service.
Now, for the first time, Harris
burg men go out under the draft.
They will join their neighbors at
Camp Meade, and the rest of us will
stay here and work harder to back
them up.
The best of luck, boys! Harrisburg
has proud record and we know you
will help make it one of the finest
in the land.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-01
Congressman FOchPS VieIU
[Lewisburg News1

The truth of the matter is Con-
gress took the Prohibitionists and
the conservative temperance people
at their word, and that word had
been proclaimed against rum. In
Washington and elsewhere we have
found a variety of views expressed
regarding old king booze. For long
years we knew q few men who never
compromised with the enemy. These
are what are called old line Pro-
hibitionists. They have consistently
demanded that the whole business
be wiped out. No trifiing or tenn
porizing with anything so unsatis-
factory, exasperating and hopeless
of permanent results as Local Op-
ton. which could mean little more
than a temporary drouth in spots
and the politicians forever juggling
the question. These old time Pro-
hibitionists stuck and stuck hard for
the cleaner on the whole business.
The preachers were mostly willing
to gain q little at a time. but their
hearts were really set on hitting the
thing to real killing. just as Lin
coin said he would hit slavery IL he
ever got the chance. Congress has
given the chance to nail rum. and it
came somewhat as a surprise. and
the vote of many a Congressman
opened the eyes Of some people who
are too easily misguided as to mems
morals and what actuates and guides
them.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-01
THE STATE PRESS

Go to church Sunday and thus
imbibe the spirit which will help the
nation win the war. AS this is q
fight for christianity it behooves us
to improve ourselves in Christian
living and thinking and we can do
this in no way more effectively than
becoming steady attendants at
church and living during the other
six days according to the teachings
we get on the seventh.-Potsville
Daily Republican.
Germany's invitation to neutral
nations to send representatives to
watch the great offensive" is about
on a par with a man who goes to
the lobby of a crowded hotel and in
vites the crowd to watch him COM
nit suicide.-Columbia Spy.
+
The Prohibitionists have been pa
tiently persistent for so long that
seven years will not seem a great
while to wait for state ratification
of the federal Observation-Disclosures
town Chronicle-News.
The offer of fifty American col
leges to furnish scholarship, board
and, in some cases, other expenses to
girls sent by French colleges and
schools is one of the fine evidences
of our friendship for France, which
honors us even more than it can
benefit France. Happy indeed must
the school or college be esteemed
which enjoys the privilege of sup
plying the young women what the
heroism of their countrymen has
been unable to preserve for them
PHILADELPHIA Record,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-01
SHIPS, SHIPS, AND MORE SHIPS

Long the towns that flank the riv-
ers they are molding guns
and shells,
And the skies of night are lighted
with host of flamming hells
Down the rocky Cascade ranges
they are hewing mighty lanes.
And they're combing out the spruce
trees for the bones of aero
planes.
we've plowed and sown our prairies
ana we've reaped the sheaves
of gold,
we've garnered and we've hus-
banded our grain in sacks un-
told.
We've gouged our earthen vitals out
by damp and dusky hole,
we've clawed and clutched and
brought to light our moiety of
coal,
And the most of us have striven by
what means we've had at
hand
To help the conservation of the
food throughout our land.
We've got our men in training and
lot OF them we've sent,
And endless droves are coming still
TO fill each cantonment.
Our mills a-whir with contracts are
stepping double-quick
10 turn out duds for rockies and
they're going to do the trick.
our Women-follS are knitting and
for the Red Cross one and ali
Are working 'gainst those grueson,e
days that surely will befall
We've braced our shoulders 'gainst
the wheels of our machine of
war.
We've pushed along right Justify
but say! We've reached the
shorei
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-01
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

William Finn has arranged to
take up active work on the State
Health Commission, which will meet
in Philadelphia this week. He is
just home from Florida.
james A. German, the Hazleton
food administrator, smashed one of
the traditional Easter customs of
that section by his suggestion that
the saloons and hotels cut out egg
nogs and use the eggs for food. Cor
man took hold of the food admini-
stration after much urging and has
been on the job ever since.
&C. II. Stroup, one of the Johns
town councilmen, was uncertain
about curb markets. So he sum-
moned all the market producers
from the country round about, TO a
talkfest and soon decided on what
was in sight.
General c. T. O'Neill was given
a great reception when he returned
to his home at Allentown. He has
declined to talk about the causes
which led to him leaving the Army,
but there is much guessing.
"A. G. Howell, Sewickley rector.
will do chaplain duty with troops in
France. He has been at Camp Sher-
man. %
Melville e. Stone, general man
ager of The Associated Press, will he
one of the speakers at the Pitts
burgh Press Club dinner on April IS.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-01
THE CONSUMER

= SN'T it about time for some one
to ask some concessions for that
curiously disregarded individual,
the Ultimate Consumer? We are
reading of advances in prices for
this. that and the other thing; we
hear OF figures being fixed for coal,
bread, grain and other essentials OF
life; we are glad to hear that our
railroad men. our miners, our steel
workers and our other neighbors are
getting raises and that the new
wage agreements for the building
trades are very advantageous to the
men who earn their living that way.
Various trades and occupations are
participating in the general advance
in returns for work and next thing
the professions will be sharing. In
short, the advance is general.
1t reminds us, oddly enough, OF
what was said when some timid citi-
zen arose in a hearing on Capitol
Hill and asked who was going to pay
the cost of workmen's compensation,
Men in high station and men in low
lawyers and lawmakers. all united
in sayiny, THE consumer!" The
consumer is paying pretty nearly
everything, and the funny part about
it is that the increases in cost oi
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-01
Over tie Tofs
tx PenxA.

A Berlin dispatch says, that when
Kaiser wilhelm motors to Potsdam
he sits in one of three motors"
And when the first Yankee gunner
gets sight on Bill, he'll ride back
in all three-if they can find the
pieces.
Asked whether he believed that
love is the most powerful force. Life
has a man. evidently of sentiment
and experience, reply in italics:
You bet! 1t makes the world go
round; brings heaven to earth and
raises He'll"
"I am the busiest man in our
country" claimed a registrant ask
ond Division draft board" and it will
be a hardship on me and the whole
community if you send me to camp.
whats your business?" asked the
board. I'm the grave digger at
Prospect Hill cemetery, near York;
replied the other man, but 1T did not
save him from going to camp,
United States Army truck trains,
mercantile delivery trucks, trucks
and automobiles in transit to east
ern agencies, tourists, etc, day and
night on the Lincoln Highway has
caused the highway to become a liv-
ing stream of travel that requires the
attention of the Somerset county
division, to the limit. The road was
we'll built, but is being used for traf-
fic not dreamed of when constructed
and daily repairs are necessary to
keep it in first-class condition. This
is being done with the best results.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-01
I'm Going Across for Mother

I'm going across for you, Mother,
I'm going across for you
You never thought when I was
kid
And played at soldiers. too,
And drew my little saber out
To capture a pirate crew,
That l would ever soldier be
SO far away from you.
But I'm going across for you,
Mother,
I'm going across for you.
I'm going across for you, Mother,
I'm going across for you
The Germans talk of their Father
land,
love my Father, too,
But Motherland it is to me
Whenever / think of you;
You gave me life, you gave me
heart
And I give them both for you,
For I'm going across for you,
Mother.
I'm going across for you.
I'm going across for you, Mother,
I'm going across for you
To you the Hun shall never come
To do what he can do.
I think of Belgium, think of
France,
OF submarine, Zeppelin. too,
OF the women and children who
went to death
With the Lusitania's crew.
SO I'm going across for you. Mother,
I'm going across for you.
I'm going across for you, Mother,
I'm going across for you
And day and night I'll dream of
Until my dreams come true.
And in my heart meath the midday
And under the starlit dew
There'll be an echo of your prayers.
For I'll be praying for you.
I'm going across for you, Mother.
I'm going across for you.
I'm going across for you, Mother,
I'm going across for you
And won't we laugh at my little tin
sword
And the things used to do?
And your baby, just think, n veteran
with maybe a medal or two)
And tire Prince of Peace. yes, Christ
Himself
Will bless the earth anew.
And I'm coming back to Won.
Mother.
I'm coming back to YOU.
&C. c. p.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-01
A REASONABLE ORDER

-HE recent order of the War
Trade Beard limiting imports
= of unessentials and luxuries is
entirely reasonable, and while
working no hardship on anybody,
will save much-needed shipping
space, some times in two directions.
For example. American grocers
offer for sale various brands OF Eng
lish preserves. The fruit for these
is grown in England and is needed
there, and the sugar, in great de-
mand there, is brought into that
country in ships. We don't need
these preserves. We can make all
we need. 1t is not right that ship
space should be given them at this
critical juncture and it is folly to
export foodstuffs from Britain while
a food embargo is in force there.
Another instance that may be
cited relates to tobacco. A favorite
brand of the smoking variety is
grown in Virginia, transported to
London. where it is cured by a
secret process and then reshipped
to America. Here is a double tax on
shipping halted by the new order.
The wonder is that the board did
not eliminate this folly months ago.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-01

Beyond us is an ocean and it's broad
and deep and wide,
And only ships will float our guns
unto the other side,
And only ships will tote our men
and only ships will bear
Our Uncle's pile of luggage for the
big push over there,
And as long as were without EN-
though we sweat and swear
and pray,
We can take it out in whistling till
our ships have crossed the
bay.
So fall to, lads! Get busy-and
whosoevers. fit
Will find a shipyard waiting for a
lad to do his bit
Two hundred and yet fifty thousand
men to give a lift
For ev'ry twent-four-hour day
eight hours to eV'ry shift!
They want you, men! They want
you! For our freight-it's S
all a jam
Don't you hear the husky callin'?
'Tis the voice of Uncle Sam!
He's calm to employers and he's
askin' them each one
To lend him all the men he needs
until the task is done
He's calm men who've got the skill
to come and show their
stuff q
He's offered goodly wages and his
word is pledge enough!
For we all have been invited to a
function DER the sea
BY our good old friend-the Kaiser,
and it's signed r. S. V. p.
We've sent him our acceptance and
we want to go in state.
And We've got to have the ships, my
lads. before IL is too late
From Leslie's Weekly.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-01
AMERICANS GOING IN

TIVE shall soon be able to judge
wv how fresh American troops
show up against the veteran
Germans, and there is not an Amer
lean who is in doubt that the ad-
vantage will lie with our own brave
men. The Germans are fighting for
perpetuation of a dynasty. the Amer
leans for liberty, independence and
democracy The Germans are in the
fight because they were forced into
it. The Americans are there-near-
~ all in France now being volun-
teers or Guardsmen-of their own
free will and because they want to
have share in putting down auto
cracy in the world.
Will such troops make their pres
ence felt on the battle line? Can
anybody doubt they will give the
Germans something new in the way
of war sensation?
Our boys are not superhuman,
but they have the same pep" and
punch as marked the Australians and
Canadians and they may be expect
ed to give as good account of them
selves.
In every American heart to-day
there is prayer that they NAV
acquit themselves we'll and that they
may be protected from the death
dealing devices they are about to
face.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-01
BUY COAL
NY coal now.

d
n No matter what you think of
prices. They are high. but they
are not going lower. The biggest and
best storage reservoir in the country
is the private coal bin of the house
hold consumer. A ton in the bin is
worth ten in the yard.
If we buy now, as much as pos
sible week by week and month by
month, we shall not have to face
such scarcity next winter cJ we did
in January and February of the
present year.
If the mines can be kept giving a
steady stream to the railroads, the
railroads delivering steadily to the
dealers, and the dealers emptying
their yards and turning over their
money, day after day, and week
after week, next fall will find us with
a fair supply of coal on hand and
our yards we'll stocked.
1t was the man who laid in his
winter supply of fuel in summer last
year who saved the city from freez-
ing the past winter, for there would
have been no. possible means of
meeting the coal demand if cold
weather had found all the bins
empty.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-01
WHY WAIT?

T HE cable advises us that Secre-
tary Baker, having conferred
with the allied commanding Of
ficers and statesmen, desires to re-
turn to the United States as soon as
possible and make available the in
formation he has procured from his
observations and conferences. He
has completed the inspection of men
and material, which he found very
inspiring task"
Many patriotic Americans are
wondering why President Wilson has
declined to make available the in
formation" which Major General
Leonard Wood is ready to impart
after months spent in an inspection
of conditions in France.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-01
GOOD WORK

IN HE Chamber of Commerce
Home Garden Committee is
not to be outgeneraled by sd-
verse circumstances. When it was
discovered that there would be diff
ficulty in finding horses and labor
to prepare the ground for the city's
garden plots this spring. Shirley
b. Watts, in charge of that branch
of the work, did a fine stroke OF
work. He procured the services OF
a farm tractor, attached a gang
plow to it and began to turn uu
the ground far faster than three OF
four double-horse teams could have
done.
Not only that, but he offered 10
teach State Agricultural Department
agents, who will have charge of trac-
tors the coming spring and summer
how to use the machines, and thus
he got much of the local work done
at very small expense. The city got
the benefit and the State much
needed experience; thus both prof
tied.
The Chamber of Commerce also
will foot the bill for large quantities
of fertilizer. Altogether, the people
who are fortunate enough to pro-
cure garden plots will find ground
ready prepared and fertilized. that
ought to be made by faithful atten-
ton to yield vast quantities of pro-
duce the coming summer and fall.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-01
THE KAISER

Most interesting of all. when
the story is told, will be that fig
ure of the Kaiser. watching the
bloody work of his ambition and
telegraphing his wife that God is
helping him in the task of killing.
His sincerity is the most dam
gerous power about him. He sin
cerely believes that the Ruler of
millions of suns and planets is ac-
tually concentrating His attention
on the murderous enterprise of
one miserable little mongrel on
this planet.
powerful.
And because he believes it he
and his brood will be swept away
in time. like others who have be-
lieved the same thing in the past
-Exchange.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-01
PROHIBITION SURE

The sentiment throughout the en-
tire nation in favor of the suppress
sion of the liquor traffic. by Federal
power is gaining as never before.
Whether this is due more to the war
situation, with it's impressive lessons
of the necessity of eliminating every
factor that wastes material and i'm
pairs efficiency, or to the swiftly in
creasing political importance of the
women vote, is a matter for curiou:
debate; but of the immense and
swift growth of the sentiment there
can no longer be the slightest doubt.
The Sun believes that it will prove
resiStless.-The New York Sun.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-01
LABOR NOTES
By Briggs

Gait (Canada) policemen want in
creased pay. 4
Municipal firemen at Cedar Rap
Ids, Iowa. have secured wage in
creases of SIS a month.
War and war work has deprived
New York state farms of $4,000 la
borers in the last year.
Girls have replaced all the candy
butchers on the Oakland, Antioch
and Eastern railroad.
Washington reports a surplus of
labor all over the states, with the
exception of the Gulf coast.
Dallas, Tex, inside electricians
have secured wage increases of 10
cents an hour or 80 cents a day.
Each member of the London, Eng.
city police force was recently pre-
sented with a pipe and quarter
pound of tobacco by Lord Roths-
child.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-01
ReIdtiDe EDils

A burglar entered q house AT
Poughkeepsie. n. Y. and found $500
in bureau drawer. The money had
been collected by girl for the Red
Cross, and this fact subsequently,
was published. The burglar returned
the money. He. was n burglar. but
not war profiteer.-From the Mon
treal Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-01
APRIL FOOLi

THIs is April first-An-Foo
Day.
The worst fooled man in the
world is Won Hindenburg.
The biggest fool in the world is
the Kaiser.
Hindenburg because he thought
he was going to be in Paris by April
1; the Kaiser because he believes
that it is possible for one man to
control the whole world.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-01

production, in handling, in selling
are all coming out of the pocket of
the man who is getting the raises.
for he is the consumer. Some one of
these days the folks who have been
trying to play ducks and brakes with
the law of supply and demand, and
some eminent governmental theor-
lists. are going to learn the mex
orableness of nature. and then the
consumer is going to get his inning.
And we are all going to have front
seats.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-01
Dead Weiqht

One fact cannot be erased, ripped,
raveled or burnt out of existence.
and it is this: Any able bodied man
or woman who does not perform
useful service every day fails of
duty and is a burden upon a war
ridden country.-From the Houston
Post
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-01
Patriots and Gentlemen

1t is our business carefully to cul-
tlvate, to rear to the utmost vigor
and maturity every sort of generous
and honest feeling that belongs to
our nature; to bring the DISPOSE
tions that are lovely in private life
into the service and conduct of the
Commonwealth; so to be patriots as
not to forget that we are gentle
men.-Edmund Burke.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-01
Slack Not in Thu You

When thou shalt VOW u vow unto
the Lord thy God, thou shalt not
slack to pay it; for the Lord thy
God will surely require it of thee;
and it would be sin in thee.-Deute-
ronomy, xxi, 81.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-01

Now that the dream of a century
has been realized by the action of
Congress, it is up to the people to
do the rest. Rum must go and for
ever if they say so.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-01

The Director General has cancelled
all railroad passes in Arkansas. Pretty
hard on the Arkansaw Traveler.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-01

Many a man who wore low shoes
for the first time yesterday has a
high temperature to-day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-01

There is something in the air that
smells suspiciously like the approach
of the trout season.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-01
THE INCOME TAX
Life Insurance Policy-When Taxed

An a
subj 10
when
in The
decedent
by he administrator. 80
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-01
OUR DAILY LAUGH
GIVE HIM
CREDIT.

She You
never wrote an
original thing in
your life-you
are a plagiarist.
He Well,
you'll have to
admit that, as a
plagiarist, I'm
an artist.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-01

March went out like a spring lamb
and was not nearly so expensive.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-01

What are you going to do with thai
extra hour OF daylight?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-01
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg has given n
number of butchers and provi-
sion men to the national scry--
ice? Harrisburg men arc In
every line of war work.
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
Some of the first steel stean mars
had boilers made out of Harrisburg
rolled iron. - "a .
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-01

1t appears to be pretty well con
firmed that Muck is a mucker.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-01

Gait (Canada) policemen want in
creased pay.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-01
ONLY o., -IE
SURFACE.

She -- It's q
curse TO lie 81
beautiful.
lie Wen Il
ought to be
some consola-
tion TO know it's
only skin deep.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-01

Ell. STACKPoLE,P Pres't s. EditOr.in-C hisf
y. r. OYSTER. Business Manager.
GUS NJ. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor.