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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-19
PIES AND TARTS

1t has been told of Ralph Waldo
Emerson that when asked why he
ate pie for breakfast he replied:
What is pie for?" Now 1t appears
that the form of pastry so dear to
the philosopher and poet and to all
New Englanders of whatever de-
gree, must yield to the inexorable
demands of the hour. At least this
seems probable from a recent dis
cussion in the committee-room of
the Massachusetts Women's Section
of the Council of National Defense,
These Massachusetts women, and
Massachusetts is in the very heart
of the Great American Pie Belt,
have urged that pie be sacrificed as
an aid to public economy.
The New England pie, as the ex-
perts will tell you, is a creation of
two crusts with filling between. 1t
is a food staple in all well-regulated
New England families. To give 1t
up will wrench both New England
patriotism and the New England
palate.
In its place, which is a hollow
phrase. the tart is to be substituted.
The committee recommends the
tart as saver of wheat. 1t calls
attention to the fact that a tart is
now necessarily a mouthful of thin
pastry, with a dab of jam, accord
ing to n widespread conception, but
can be enlarged to the dimensions
of the displaced pastry, when 1t be-
comes, in fact, an open-face or one
crust pie.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-19
THE STATE PRESS

Germany may not believe much
In rights for women, but Germany
Is perfectly willing to accept the de-
Votion and sacrifices of its women
spies. All accounts agree that lots
OF them are on the job. The motive
is not always money Social favors
at home, and chance for advance
ment in rank or imperial notice, are
bait enough. 1t is the duty of wom-
en- spies to establish themselves in
important cities, and create social
relations with prominent people,
particularly with influential men. AS
to how far they are to go, the gov
ernment would not ask questions.
After the war If results had been
achieved, the greater the audacity,
even the shameiessness, the higher
the honors to be disqualification
Free Press.
1t is quite likely that Wilkes
Barre will be pushed out of its place
as the second third class city in the
state when the next census is taken,
two years hence. At present Read
ing is the first city of the third class,
sus will be over 100000 and it WILL
therefore, become a city of the sec
ond class. So if Wilkes Barre could
maintain its relative position it
would in a few years be the first
third class city in the Common
wealth. The city of Chester, which
had population of 3S,537 in the
last census, has grown so rapidly
that it expects to exceed 10000 in
1920 and will go ahead of Wilkes
Barre, Erie and Harrisburg, which
were only a few thousand below
Wilkes-Barre. had plenty of room in
which to grow, and Erie particular
ly has had a healthy industrial boost
wing to the war. Both cities are
likely to go ahead of Wilkes-Barre
in the next census. - Wilkes-Barre
Record.
Clifford Pinchot is making a bid
for the support of the state grange
as a candidate for governor. What
ticket he would run on is not stated
and 1t would be hard to imagine.
Pinchot is Independent in politics,
but that is about all that can be
said in his favor as a candidate
Carlisle Sentinel.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-19
Il Blow at the World

the war is the one and supreme duty
OF every American, regardless of
birth, of sSmpathies, and of political
views.
There came upon the German peo-
pie whole train of new and bane-
ful influences and impulses, formida-
bly, stimulating as a powerful drug.
There came, among other evils, ma
terlalism and covetousness and ire
llglon; oVerweening arrogance, an i'm
patient contempt for the rights of
the weak, mania for world domin-
ion, and veritable lunacy of power
worship.
Truly. history affords no parallel
to the spiritual poisoning and the re-
sulting horrible transmutation of a
whole people such as Prussianism
wrought in the incredibly short period
of one generation. Nor would L be-
lieve that such a dreadful phenome-
non could possibly take place were it
not for the evidence of my own eyes
and my own ears.
ITO deceive the German people and
steel them to patriotic determination
and sacrifice, the Prussian rulers and
their spokesmen affirmed at the be-
ginning of the war. and have kept
reaffirming ever since with nauseat-
ing reiteration and disgusting hypoc-
risy, that theirs was defensive war,
forced upon them by wicked and en-
vious neighbors. A defensive war
indeed"
Not the Germany of Old
There are some of you. probably,
who will still find it hard to believe
that the Germany you knew can be
guilty of the crimes which have made
it an outlaw among the nations. ,
But do you know modern Ger
many Unless you have been there
within the last twenty-five years, not
once or twice, but at regular inter-
vals; unless you have looked below
the glittering surface of the marvel
Gus material progress and achieve
ment and seen how the soul of Ger
many was being eaten away by the
virulent poison of Prussianism unless
you have watched and followed the
appalling transformation of German
mentality and morality under the ne
farious and puissant influence of the
priesthood of power worship, you
do not know the Germans of this day
and generation. 1t is not the Ger
many of old, the land of our affec-
tionate remembrance.
"The Germany which brought upon
the world the immeasurable disaster
of this war, and at whose monstrous
deeds and doctrines the civilized ma
tions of the earth stand aghast, start
ed into definite being less than thirty
years ago. 1 can almost lay my fin
gger upon the date and circumstance
of its ill-omened advent.
The spirit of Prussianism and the
spirit of Americanism cannot live in
the same world. One or the other
must conquer. In the mad pride of
it's contempt for democracy, Prus-
sianism has thrown down the gaunt-
let to us.
1--WE have taken up the challenge
and now stand arrayed by the side of
the other freedom-loving nations of
the world, giving fresh strength and
our boundless resources to them who,
heroically striving, have borne the
heat and burden of a dreadfully long
and exhausting struggle, yet stand
unwearied. erect and resolute."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-19

~ OF forgetting that the admin
Il M istration is face to face witt
the biggest task in the worlr
and that 1t is making some head
way in 1t, the time has come whel
Congress must take a hand in tn,
conduct of the war. The progress
that has been made has been marrec
| by grievous errors The game ha:
been played too much from the
! partisan standpoint. The President
has not looked beyond the limited
confines. of his own party.
The country has supported him
loyalty. 1t has gone stolidly along,
plodding and determined. 1t has no
thought other than to see the thing
through. But there is a woeful lack
of popular enthusiasm. We are very
much in earnest, but in a cold
blooded, businesslike way. We lack
fire, spirit and eagerness. What is
needed more than any other one
thing is a red-blooded leadership at
Washington of the come on boys,
up and at 'em" type that would lead
us to our tasks with a cheer and
get the work on hand done to the
enlivening tune of the Star Spangled
Banner" or stirring notes of Tramp,
Tramp, the Boys Are Marching" We
need a man of the. cheerleader
stamp. A man of fire and personal
magnetism. We need a Roosevelt.
The Senate is at work on n bill
creating war council. The chair
man should be the Colonel. Say what
you will of him, he inspires conf
dence and typifies action. He knows
how to get things done in a hurry
and how to do them himself. He
would be an outstanding figure in
the war-probably too outstanding
to suit those who are conducting
the war with one hand and build
ing big Democratic machine with
the other.
The President is fearsome of the
erect OF coalition cabinet on the
voters of the country, not realizlng
that nothing would strengthen him
more in the opinion of the people as
prompt recognition of both Roose-
welt and Taft.
But whether the President feels
that way or not, eventually he will
come to the place where the need
will be so urgent as to cause him
to throw party interests to the winds
! and to surround himself with really
big men regardless OF party.
Isn't it strange he insists on being
forced into that state of mind? Here
| is where Congress has it's innings
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-19
Over he TOP
c~ Pewna.

The Government demand for meat
less days has so increased the con-
sumption of chicken and oysters that
a Cleveland bard has been moved to
tell the following sad story: "Said
the chicken to the oyster, 1 am feel
ing mighty blue: all my folks are
disappearing and 1 fear that yours
are too. Now, 1 lay the blame en-
tirely upon Hoover, who, they say
started all this fearful bloodshed
with his doggone meatless day.
In the days before the Kaiser
took the Allies by the throat. Sunday
was the only day they could get a
chickens goat; now that Tuesday has
peen added, every feather friend I've
got is victim of conscription-cold
in death, they serve him hot"
believe you," sobbed the bivalve,
we are dying by the score, 14,00O,-
600 lovely oysters beckon from the
other shore. Moral fiber in us weak
ems, Chanticleer, l get the blues
when think how many comrades
on their dying day were stews.
Soon I'll go to join my fellows"
meatless day, this Hoover gives so
kinds of misfortune. He's the author
of our troubles-man's his german
dizinS dupe-they may serve you
baked or roasted; chances are that
I'll be soup"
A man named Solomon Jones,
Maine woodsman, came down into
the settlement last week and for the
first time heard that America was
at war. AS a namesake of The Sol
onion Woodsman Jones casts little
luster. He failed to get by the
Army eXactions for enlistment.
That funerals are a waste of
time" was the contention recently
of an Allentown man whose wife is
suing him for divorce. He objected
to his wife attending the funeral of
her grandmother and upon return
ing from the obsequies he threaten
ed to "knock her block off" accord
ing to the woman's testimony.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-19
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

L. N. Spencer, postmaster at
Lancaster, has been reappointed af-
ter serving a four-year term.
j. Denny O'Neil, the state high
way commissioner, is just fifty-one
years old and runs a newspaper, a
store and a bank in addition to the
state roads.
Charles T. Davies, the new
Reading food administrators, is
hosiery manufacturer and promi-
nent in business affairs.
j. Harry Brown, Lebanon's new
assistant treasurer, is a retired busi-
nessman who does not need the job,
but likes to work.
III. G. Hinkle, Altoona's city
manager, says he is going to stir
up some of the people who think a
days work should be done by look
ing on.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-19
BACK TO THE PEOPLE

TN he war bids fair to return to the
masses of the people much of
the land of Europe that has
been held for generations in great
estates by the nobility and titled
gentry of those countries. What is
happening inside Germany in this
respect cannot 'be told, but in Rus
sia the aim of the whole revolu-
tionary movement is toward the re-
turn of the lands to the people. Each
peasant wants his share Of the great
acreage of the empire. To own for
himself a farm sufficient to meet his
needs is the ambition of millions of
Russians. The common ownership
of the radical Socialists has no place
in the doctrines of the simple Rus
sian ruralite. What he wants is a
piece of land for his very own. The
Bolsheviki owe their hold upon the
people to this fundamental of party
principle.
But extreme Russia differs little
from conservative England in this
respect, although the red flag is less
in evidence there and the miracle is
being wrought by other means. The
immense landed estates of England
have been looked upon for centuries
as part and parcel of the empire, an
unchanging and Interchangeable con-
dition. But the war has brought a
vast difference. The nobility has been
impoverished and many old families
have been blotted out completely.
New millionaires have sprung up and
the old aristocracy is losing its pow-
er and influence. Some Of the large
estates that have been sacrificed by
families that have owned them for
generations have fallen into the
hands of the new rich, it is true, but
the vast majority have been broken
up and sold off into small farms to
be titled as American farms are cul-
tivated, by the owners themselves.
This should make for a more pros
porous country, bigger crops and a
more contented populace. The great
Nob LOV A9ONAeilIoill has 10 lllC WHO
owns his own bit of soil.
The tenant farm is not good for
any country or community. The ten
dency of the tenant farmer in many
cases is to get as much off the place
as possible. Absentee ownership
makes for discontentment. 1t places
a premium on inefficiency and en-
courages solvenly and wasteful meth
DDS on the farm. The thing has fail
ed in Russia and in England. 1t is
rapidly gaining a foothold in some
sections of the United States, but it
will never become popular here. The
farmer who tills his own farm, or al
least oversees its cultivation, will al
ways be an outstanding factor in
American life. The spirit of Ameri-
can independence is too strong for
anything else.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-19

propensities of the aforementioned
starched collars to grow crops of
saw teeth about their business edges
or to tear out at the front button
holes. Nobody likes linen collars
but, on the other hand, nobody cares
to appear without one of the hor-
rors about his neck. The collar is
the yoke Dame Fashion has wrought
to confound mere man wont to
laugh at his better half's abject
obedience to the dictates of style.
1t marks him for the rank hypocrite
he is, for down in his heart he
yearns for a flannel shirt AID a
windsor tie, but because some Troy
manufacturer has induced the
haberdasher to believe that men will
buy the stiff linen bands that mas
querade as collars, and because the
haberdashery clerk appears horri-
fed when he mildly suggests that
he might take an attached collar
this time" he buys half dozen
more of the little whitewashed
fences and goes on with his self-tor-
ture. Linen collars are cold in win
ter and hot in summer. They are
comfortable nor pleasing to
the eye. If a "collarless" Sunday
were the only evil of the "coalless"
order and as result man were
from the slavery of the
collar we venture the guess that DIR.
Garfield could be elected President
in 1920 by the flannel shirt vote
alone and nobody ask his politics.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-19
A "COLLARLESS" SUNDAY

THE laundries are closed, thanks
to the kindly Intervention of DR..
Garfield, and "collarless" Sun
day is about to be added to our
"meatless" Tuesdays and wheat
less" Wednesdays" Here is a catas-
trophe not unmixed with blessing.
Tor though the linen collar stands
high-in more ways than one
among the articles of polite dress. If
stands low in the estimation of most
men, who would rejoice to see il
relegated to the limbo of discarded
styles. along with Spring bottom
pants" knee trousers, powdered
wigs and calfskin boots.
Nobody knows the why of the
starched linen collar. There is a
rumor afioat that a man up in TROY.
n. Y. invented it. If so, he must
have been a member of the German
hate squad, with a deep and abiding
abomination for the peace of mind
of his fellow man. But be that as
it may, the only present excuse for
the starched collar is that it pro-
vides large dividends for sundry cor
porations and fat pay envelopes for
other sundry workers who reside in
and about the aforesaid Troy and
who wax prosperous through the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-19
By OTTO H. KAHN

" HE world has been hurt within
these last three years as it was
never hurt before. In the gloomy
ana accusing procession of infinite
sorrow and pain which has started on
tnat thrice accursed day of July,
lsl4, the hurt inflicted on Americans
or German descent takes it's trag-
lCally rightful place. The iron has
entered our souls.
we have been wantonky robbed
OF invaluable possessions which have
come down to us through the centu-
rles; we have been rendered ashamed
OF that in which we took pride; we
nave been made the enemies of those
or our own blood; our very names
carry the sound of n challenge to the
world. Surely we have all too valid
title to rank amongst those most
bitterly aggrieved by Prussianism,
and to align ourselves in the very
FOREFRONT of those who in word and
deed are lighting to rid the world
forever of that malignant growth.
heaven knows 1 do not want, by
anything 1 may be saying or doing,
10 add one ounce to the burden of
the worlds eXecration which rests
already with crushing weight upon
the rulers of Germany and their mis-
guided people. Nor do 1 seek for
giveness for my German birth by de-
monstrative zeal in action or speech.
| was and am proud of the great in
heritance which came to me as a
birthright, and of the illustrious con-
tributions which the German people
nave made to the imperishable assets
of the world.
Until the outbreak of the war, in
1914, L maintained close and active
personal and business relations with
Germany. was well acquainted with
some OF the leading personages of the
country. l SERVED in the German
army thirty years ago. 1 took an
active interest in furthering German
art in America.
Poison of PrussIanism
Il do not apologize for, nor am !
ashamed of, my German birth. But
am ashamed-bitterly and previously
ashamed-of the Germany which
stands convicted before the high
tribunal of the worlds public opinion
OF having planned and willed war, of
the revolving deeds committed i'm Bel
gium and northern France, of the in
fanny of the Lusitania murders, of in
Vulnerable violations of The Hague
conventions and the law of nations.
of abominable and perfldious abuse OF
their hospitality, of crime heaped
upon crime in hideous defiance of the
laws of God and men.
Il cherish the memories of nv
youth, but these very memories make
me cry out in pain and wrath against
those who have befouled and discred-
tied the spiritual soil of the old Ger
many in which they were rooted.
Long before the war l had come
to look upon Prussianism as among
the deadliest poison growths that
n ha AL-z
spirit of man.
Now, America. the never-defeated
has thrown her sword into the scale
because to do so was indispensable
for our honor and our safety, the
preservation of our institutions and
our very destiny. To cooperate to-
wards the successful conclusion OF
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-19
WHEN THE BOYS RETURN

T NGLAND is witnessing the or
n ganization of a society to be
known as the Comrades of the
Great War, made up of those who
have served in the Army and Navy
since Germany tried to over-run the
earth. A similar organization, no
doubt, will be formed in America
when the boys come home" and it
will be as influential in the affairs
of the nation as the Grand Army of
the Republic has been since the
Civil War. Also, it will cherish as
dearly as has the Grand Army those
ideals of loyalty and patriotism
which have called so many of our
young men to the colors in the pres
ent crisis. The Grand Army has set
a fine example which the younger
warriors no doubt will not be slow
to follow. There is in the experience
of a common danger a tie of fellow
ship that time cannot dissolve.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-19
"When Do We LeaDe?"

when are we to leave?" is :.
question that Is often asked in this
soldiers camps. One of the camp
papers, the "Wadsworth Gas At
tack" treats this ever recurring
question humorously. After a coll
umn of bogus interviews and rumoSs
1t prints this summary:
Number of persons interviewed
9.7S1 number who know exactly
when we are going to leave, 9,7S1;.
number of persons who agreed on
the date of departure. From the
Outlook
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-19
Playing Safe

GF'rom the Minneapolis Tribunel
While there has been a good deal
of guesswork on the subject, 1t is
pretty well agreed that unless peace
is declared sooner or later the war
will be continued.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-19

The Kaiser will no doubt be tickled
to learn that Mrs. Won Bernstorff is
the proud possessor of $S50OoO worth
of Liberty Bonds.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-19

High heels on women's shoes to
CO." says a Washington dispatch.
That's the trouble with most high
heels; they go too much.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-19

The proposal to have each Monday
a legal holiday during the coal short
age will have the solid support of the
school boy vote.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-19

1t does not always follow that a
perfectly good college president
knows a coal wharf from a culm bank.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-19

Senator Stone is said to be prepar-
ing to attack Colonel Roosevelt, and
we arise to ask the Senator If he has
his cyclone cellar all ready.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-19
LABOR NOTES

At the convention of the Interna-
tional Union of United Brewery
Workmen 1t was voted to change the
name of that organization to the In
ternational Union of the United
Brewery and Soft Drink Workers or
America.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-19

1t begins to seem that the worst
thing about the Bolsheviki is theil
name.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-19

DR.. Garfield said he expected public
criticism, and, we judge, he has not
been disappointed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-19

The Legislative Committee of the
Seattle Central Labor Council re-
ports that the women's wage law, in
Washington, is used by employers to
hold these workers to a bare mini
mum, while living costs have in
creased over thirty per cent, ac-
cording to government figures.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-19

Something not to worry about-a
shortage of fly paper next summer.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-19
SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1918

Bettoeen the great things that Toe
cannot do and the small things zoe
tCiH not do, the danger Is that zoe
shall do nothing.-ADoLPH MoNoD.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-19

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING co.
Telegraph Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-19

Ell. .sTACKPOLE,P PreSt s. Editerin- Chief
F. r. OYSTER. Business MdnaRer.
GUS NJ. STEINMETZ. MdnGging Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-19

Canal boats used to bring coal
here back in the forties and the
fifties.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-19

In eight cities investigated by the
Federal Children's bureau, 2S per
cent. of the fathers earned less than
$3.50 year and the death rate for
their babies was 1925, or one in
every six. Only about one-eighth.
or 1871 per cent, of all the fathers
earned $3.50 or more, and the
death rate for their babies was g.
or / in 16.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-19
DO YOU KNOW
HISTORIC HARRISBURG

That Harrisburg is making
leggings for the Army?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-19

Member of the Associated Press-The
Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled to 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, 1918-01-19

At least, nobody can accuse DIR.
Garfield of being "crazy with the
heat"