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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-11
|ENGLAND'S NOBLE WOMEN SHOWN IN
 GRIFFITH PICTURE
Many Engaged in War Work Take Part in Photoplay, "The
 Great Love"

To induce the first woman of Great
 Britain to do menial duties, such as
 scrubbing floors, washing windows and duction, was one of the tasks that de- volved upon David W. Griffith while pro ducing "The Great Love- for Aircraft which is to bep resented at the Strand theatre week of July 19.
 Chief among these women were Lads Diana Manners, the most beautiful wom an in England, Elizabeth Asquith an
 many others. who are called upon to per form these menial tasks in the course O their duties on behalf of the war relief Red Cross and other war activities brought into being by tha great conflict and they assumed the attire of serv ants and performed the tasks for Mr Griffths camera exactly as it is done il real life.
 In making The Great Love the frs of his new series for Aircraft, Mir. Grif l filth received the help and encouragement lof Queen Alexahdra and many of tn leaders of social activities of London rhe picture reveals beautiful love story
 but itsp rime purpose is to show how wa l has leveled all ranks and awakened tn
 so-calDd leisure classes of the Rritisl empire to the needs of their country. Tn various roles are in the hands of notabl
 screen players, including Robert Harron Henry Walthall and Lillian Gish.
 Sir Bernard Maliet. president of tn Royal Statistical society, has declare that the United Kingdom has lost py tn | fall in births during the war more tha 5Oo,0OO potential lives. During the sam l period he estimates that Germany ha lost 2,6O0,O0O and Hungary 15oo,00 l The greater decline in the birth rate l
 the central empires Is ascribed to tn fact that the poorer classes in thes
 countries have suffered greatly in healt
 and Yigor on account of the war, whil
 the dbrresponding classes in Great Brii
 ain have actually enjoyed more favor able conditions than In time of peace
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-11

have taught the same school In Jef- ferson county 24 years, and VIII ap- precite the support by my friends or Miles C. AIIgoOd, my brother, ior n patriotic and scientific ngricuitu- -ciist R. ALLGOOD.
 AyondaIe, Ala. (Paid Political Advertisement by M- Allgood, AlIgood, Ala.)
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-06-20
DO A Good Turn Daily

is the Boy Scout slogan, and every good
Scout lives up to it. Is your boy Scout?
If not, better have him join.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-14
Honoring an Absentee

(From the Cleveland Plain Dealer)
Fiorello H. La Guardia was elect
ed to Congress as a Republican
from the Fourteenth New York dis
trict two years ago. This week he
was renominated by the Republi-
cans and indorsed by the Democrats,
though the district in normal times
is overwhelmingly Democratic. And
La Guardia was 5000 miles from
New York during the entire cam
paign. 1t was an unusual compli-
ment to pay a man who has not yet
finished his first term in Congress.
La Guardia is a major in the
American aviation service on duty in
Italy. When the war came to Amer
ica he did not stand on his eXemp-
ton rights as a member of the
House; he volunteered for active
duty and accepted service in the
most dangerous arm of the service.
Though his district has not had the
benefit of his counsel or his vote in
Congress it has had the inspiration
of his example as a patriot and fighter
in the cause of liberty. The Four
teenth district has been highly dis
tinguished and honored by its rep
resentative.
1t is not supposed that La Guar
dia will return to America for the
fall campaign; there is, indeed, no
particular reason why he should.
1t is possible he will not be able to
sit in the next House. But his con-
stituents will be content. They are
furnishing an example of patriotic
devotion that might well be emu
lated elsewhere.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-14
OUR CHIEF BUSINESS

CAPTAIN HARRIS, four times
wounded in the great war and
~ hoping for another chance, told
members Of the Chamber of Com
merce yesterday that the chief busi-
ness of the American people at this
time is killing Germans"
1t isn't a pleasant thought; war is
never pleasant. But it is true.
War" the Secretary of War has
said, Should be our one thought
and purpose" and the whole object
of war-making in the present in
stance is to kill so many Germans
that the Kaiser will be forced TO
surrender and acknowledge his
dream of world dominion a vain
hone never to be realized. And
onlv by killing Germans" can this
he brought about.
Therefore, killing Germans" IS,
indeed, the chief business of the na-
ton: not only of it's soldiers in the
field. but of its people back home. The
soldier who missed shooting Ger
man when the chance offered would
be untrue 20 his oath. The American
businessman who delays a govern
ment contract is as guilty as the SOL
dier who fails to shoot. The Amer
lean workman who does less than a
full days work on any product that
is to go to the Army or the Navy
is falling in his task of killing Ger
mans" for if the artillery does not
get the guns or the shells or the
Navy does not get the ships our SOL
diers will be delayed in their great
work. Every one of us is devoted to
the task OF killing Germans" The
more we kill and the quicker we DO
it the fewer American boys will ole
and the sooner the war will end.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-14
Helping One Another

(From the Portland Oregonian)
The movement to utilize crippled
soldiers in reconstruction work and
in aiding the recovery of wounded
men brought back from the front
recognizes the principle that this is
good for both parties to the trans
action. The cripple who has mas
tered his disability is S%nefited by
the knowledge that he is doing a
definite service to his fellowmen,
and the convalescent is certain to be
inspired by the example set for him.
OF all the factors operating against
recovery, the surgeons find that the
feeling of despair is the most seri-
Gus. When this is changed to hope,
the problem of the convalescent
hospital is much simplified.
There has not been as much diff
ficulty as might have been expected
in finding men equipped for the new
task. In no other army in the world.
perhaps, would it be possible to find
so many men who are unconquer-
able optimists. When such men as
these, who have made the sacrifice,
are employed in construction work,
their influence is almost infinitely
greater than that of those to whom
the great experience is still a closed
book.
Blind teachers of the blind" con-
veys a new meaning in the present
situation. 1t already has been shown
that no instructor of a disabled
man is so valuable as one who has
been himself disabled similarly and
has triumphed over circumstances.
The opportunity thus to perform
real service is not the least of those
which are being opened to the Grip
pied veterans.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-14
AMERICA
(From the Buffalo Express)

IIle EADTeSSD
Everyone has noticed the very
large number of names of foreign
character in our casualty lists. They
generally outnumber what may be
called native" names. Native
names of Americans are now the
names found in every country in the
world, though we still persist in
the odd discrimination. Now note
what the Treasury Department re-
ports regarding subscriptions to the
last Liberty Loan. Eighteen per cent.
of that loan was subscribed for by
people of thirty-eight foreign ma
tionalities. with the Germans show
ing in the largest numbers.
No one needs to be told that this
land is full of men of German birth
who could not be more thoroughly
American II they had been born
here. Just so with other thousands
of aliens. All are Americans; all be-
lieve in America; to them America
is everything.
Ours is a wonderful country.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-14
Hold Your Liberty Bonds

The effort to separate Liberty
Bond holders not familiar with stock
and bond values from their Liberty
Bonds has taken a new turn. The
manipulators instead of offering to
buy the bonds at inadequate prices
offer in exchange for them the
stocks and bonds of various wildcat
corporations. whose face value is
large but whose actual value is lit
tie or nothing.
The safest investment in the
world is a Liberty Bond. For a pa
triotic American, Liberty Bonds ara
the best investment in the world. 1t
is not only a wise thing to hold
them 1t is a patriotic thing to do.
The soldier that takes a trench and
then voluntarily gives it UP is not to
be compared with one who takes a
trench and holds it against the
enemy. An American who buys a
Liberty Bond and then sells it is not
so good an American as one who
buys a bond and holds it. This does
not apply, however. to one who sells
his bond because of real necessity;
there is legitimate trading in Lib
erty Bonds which the treasury rec
ognizes.
1t was a wise and patriotic old
colored American who refused to
sell his 800 Liberty Bond for SOC,
because he would not give up the
United States promise CHS bond) to
pay him 500 with interest for the
United States promise (currency)
to pay him $96, and who refused to
sell the same bond for $102, be-
cause, he said, that the $102 must
be counterfeit or else the would-be
purchaser would not be willing to
give it for only 500. 1t is safe to
say that there are no gold bricks or
wildcat securities among that Amer
leans assets.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-14

away, the most of us resumed our
occupations and dismissed the mat
ter from our minds. A few drops of
rain had fallen but the lightning hao
not struck. That we might be NOR
ally wrong in doing so did not oc-
cur to many; probably it is human
nature the world over to be senti-
mentally sorry, but not to the point
of sharing another's burden.
And this was our national attitude
of mind four years ago today.
Steadily, but with progress so in
sidious and slow as to be at times
unnoticed. the storm approached our
own shores and homes, until 1t
reached our very doors. Now that
an INSCRIPTIONS enemy lies in wait
to sink hospital ships bearing our
own nurses and wounded; drops
bombs on our own hospitals behind
the lines, and in it's effort to subju-
gate the nations of the world Is re-
sponsible for the casualty lists that
face us daily, do we slowly begin to
absorb and comprehend that feel
ing of indignation and hate which
permeates to the remotest corner OF
the lands of our Allies. We at las
begin slowly to realize the Colossal
Calamity of an Immature Peace.
Until the cancer has been cut out to
it's last fiber. until the Thing has
been utterly crushed, it were vain to
even think of peace.
For the present, then, civilization
has but one effort, one purpose, and
that is to win the war. but when
the day comes in which to consider
the terms of peace may we think
with deliberation and soberness, an6
not forget it's awful cost, and the
necessity and responsibility of right
and lasting settlement.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-14
HER ANSWER

"a reply to "A Letter Home" by
Grantland Rice. Lieutenant 115th
Field Artillery, A. E. F.)
Loved One, when you come back to
me,
The sun will shine and soft winds
blow,
And we will link the days of Then
With broken threads of Long Ago.
Then ours will be a sun-kissed sky
Without a cloud or tinge of gray
To mar the perfectness of it
When you come back-to me
some day.
The hours will hold no dread-no
fear
Just waiting, with a Joy filled
heart
And welcome for each coming day
For Time will tear dark clouds
apart
And turn them into golden dreams
That later merge to twilight gray,
And Now will be a curtained Past
When you come back-to me
some day.
The fiame-shot blackness that en-
CULTS
Shall disappear like silv'ry mist,
And paths-o'er which you slip and
slide
Will bloom with fiowers-rare-
beauty kissed.
For clotted gore and stench-clothed
forms
Shall breathe to life Earth's fair
est flowers
And Vict'ry sweet will Danish night
Behind the hills and morn-bathed
hours.
And when you do return to me.
AS true as when you marched
away,
With naught but mem'ry left-oi
Now
Life will be one long, perfect day
Fear,
For vict'ry flashlights all the
world,
And recompense for that which is
Will be our flag-unstained-u
furled.
And then, with all the struggle past
Through loyalty to flag and home
Through bitterness and sacrifice,
I know-My Loved one-you will
come,
And dreams that were shall be full
filed
Dreams worth the parting, wait
ing, pain,
And we will walk the old, loved
! paths
When you come back-to me
| again.
Mrs. Albert ]. schubring.
| South Milwaukee, Wis.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-14
DEMORALIZED

TIME Donnybrook Fair at the
Board of Trade this afternoon
will have the effect of complet-
ing the decentralization of Democ-
racy in Pennsylvania. The spectacle
of two factions of petty politicians
cal machine. while they should be
standing shoulder to shoulder in
support of the war aims of the ad-
ministration each claims to repre-
zens.
Nothing is involved in to-day's
scrap" save who shall control the
Democratic party machinery in
Pennsylvania on the eve of the next
presidential election. Palmer and
Mccormick were ready enough to
link their political fortunes with
Bonniwell so long as they thought
Bonniwell could be made their will
ing tool. Bonniwell has no hope of
election, and he is contending
with the mer-McCormick faction
solely with the thought of wrestling
away from them the party leader
ship in Pennsylvania. Neither is
better than the other, and both are
bad. Each places party above pa
triotism. 1t is time that an entirely
new group of Democratic leaders is
developed in this State if even the
remnants of the minority party are
to be saved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-14
Immature Peace Colossal Calamity

TOR every day the war is pro-
II longed some advantage is lost

TOR every day the war is pro-
II longed some advantage is lost
to Germany when the time ar
rives to write the terms of settle
ment. Not long ago a large portion
of our people were rather indiffer-
ent to what those terms might be
so long as the sacrifice of life. the
| devastation of property, and the un-
settled condition of the world at
large were brought to an end. This
feeling was not due so much to a
| careless indifference of what the
struggle for world freedom had cost
those countries who are now our al
lies, as 1t was to a lack of apprecia-
ton of what they had suffered and
a proper realization of the enormity
of the offense against civilization.
Busy as usual, even more so, in our
accustomed occupations, we did not
take the time we should to think the
matter out, each for himself.
We read with horror and repug-
nance of one event after another in
which acts of torture and barbarism
had been resorted to by the enemy,
but absorbed in our own personal
ambitions we failed to comprehend
that these offensesj were in reality
as much directed against each one
of us individually as they were
against the immediate and direct
victims of those efforts. Nor was
it through any intentional disregard
of the great wrong being enacted
| that we listened to the clang of
bells and scream of sirens as the fire
department rushed past our offices
and homes to battle with the confia-
l.gration in a distant part of the city
so distant we could see neither the
smoke nor flame; and a moment
| later, when the alarms had died
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-14

event to Imprisonment. Harrisburg
is not going to stand for the break
ing down of its decency and morale
during the war period any more
than it would have done in peace
times. We have no doubt that the
courts and the police authorities and
all others charged with enforcement
of the laws will cooperate with the
Department of Parks and all NUM-
cipal officials in preserving order un-
der all circumstances.
So, again we say to Alderman
Lands, and to all other charged
with the administration of law: Soak
them and soak them again!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-14
CONFIDENT OVER THERE

TIELD MARSHAL HAIG, the
II commander-in-ch of the
British forces in France, has
issued an order to his armies in
which he declares that the enemy
has spent his effort" Like every
great commander he thanks all
ranks of the fighting forces for their
splendid efforts and assures his
troops that I'VE have passed through
many dark days together. Please
God these never will return" This
message of assurance and confidence
will also hearten the allied forces on
every field.
There appears to be no doubt in
the minds of the leaders overseas
that the German machine is break
ing down. 1t is now the duty of
the men and women back of the
lines to throw into all their activi-
ties their best endeavors, to the end
that the men who are doing the
fighting may feel the strength which
comes from the invisible force that
will reach them from the united
energies of those at home.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-14
WELL. KNOWN PEOPLE

DIR. Wilmer Krusen, Philadcl
phia health director, does not see an,
danger in the Spanish influenza a
present.
COL e. j. Lewis, of the retire,
list of the Army, has been reealle,
to duty in the inspector generali
office.
Fullerton L. Waldo, PhilSdel
phia newspaperman, is home from 1
visit to the front in France.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-14
A Word From F. p. A.
(From the Philadelphia Evening
Ledger

(From the Philadelphia Evening
Ledger
49, Speaking of humorists, Captain
Franklin P. Adams, the well-known
wit. is now doing confidential work
in Department G-2-B at Pershing's S
headquarters in France. G-2-B. we
presume, stands for Giving it to
the Boches. The American Press
Humorists at their recent conven-
ton sent a message of friendliness
to F. P. A., to which he replies:
ITS a grand game to be in, and
it is worth the privation of bathing
in split of Marne water to know,
at first hand, that nothing in the
world can keep us from walloping
the Boche; or, as we uncouth war;
riors, in our slangy way. call him,
the enemy"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-14

So many interesting papers are be-
ing read before the Dauphin County
Historical Society that it's a pity
some arrangement has not been made
for issuing these papers in some form
that will give them wider considera-
ton. OF course. the society is treas
uring this important historical mat
ter. but a monthly or annual bulletin
containing important papers would
add greatly to the interest and i'm
portance of the work of the organiza-
ton.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-14
ReDdrd of Brains
(From the Pittsburgh Post)

(From the Pittsburgh Post)
While some of the railroad execu-
tives who formerly received salaries
in the neighborhood of 100000 a
year from private companies are
now paid between 100000 and $50,-
900 by the Government, a cut of so
per cent. in their mpensation,
nevertheless a great tribute has been
paid to the brains in the business.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-14
SOAK EN- HARD!

lore power to the Department
MI of Parks in it's effort to squelch
A'A the rowdies who have taken
advantage of the absence of many
of the men at the front to override
the authorities here and there. AL
derman Lands, before whom a num-
ber of these culprits have been
heard. has imposed some stiff fines
and he would be justified in soaking
these Ioafers much more heavily.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-14
The Prohibition party is still insist

The Prohibition party is still insist
ing, through its leaders. that a sepa-
rate ticket shall be supported, not
withstanding the clear and unequivo-
cal position of Senator Sproul. the
Republican nominee for governor, on
the prohibition amendment. or
course. it is immaterial this year,
owing to the fact that thousands of
members of the cold water party will
refuse to follow their leaders in this
matter, but how would these leaders
explain the election of an outspoken
liquor candidate should their votes
and those of men who adopt their
third party suggestion happen to
achieve that result?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-14

journment OF politics during the war.
but the chairman of the Democratic
National Committee was not permitted
to indicate a similar attitude. In fact
while pretending to favor an adjourn
ment OF politics, the Democratic
leaders at Washington have plunged
into the most active partisanship
throughout the country.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-14
A Vocational War Report

A battalion of lawyers charged
traditionally followed closely by a
company of ball players who scored
heavily. These were backed UP by
platoon of swimmers diving reck-
lessly into the fray, only to have
n squad of engravers rout the en-
emy!-R. D. Washburn. in Cartoons
Maya zine
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-14
OUR DALYLAUGH
NO DECISION.

NO DECISION.
WHEY How
late you are,
dearest. w h O t
was the scorer
Hubby-1t was
a tie game.
N e 1 t h 9 r side
scored In nineteen
innings.
Wifey - What
q shame7 Did
they give you
20 ur m o n Q y
back7
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-14

Employment of prisoners in county
Jails on county farms and highways
is having widespread approval. There
is no reason in the world why a lot of
able e-bodied men should be living at
the expense of the taxpayers while
the revenues of the same taxpayers
are being consumed in public work.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-14

In his reply to President Wilson's
inquiry as to a statement that he had
indicted the Democratic Administra-
tion for favoring an inconclusive
peace settlement. Chairman Hays, of
the Republican National Committee,
makes it clear that he said nothing
of the kind. but did urge joining of
hands by all parties in the prosecu-
ton of the war. 1t has not been for
gotten that Mr.. Hays agreed to a
proposition looking to a practical .ad-