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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-01
HORIZON BLUE
[From Golfers weeklyl

The swelling roar of cheers out
side made the Little Man drop a
paper weight on his ledger leaves
and bolt to the nearest window.
Down the street came the guard of
honor, mounted police preceding
some sunburnt regulars from our
Mexican border. and behind them
swung a half company of real French
poilus, the sort that turned back the
Boche from Verdun and the Chemin
des Danes. Short. quick stepping,
steel built men of France they were,
with keen dark faces under the lop-
ping tam-o-shanter headgear of the
Corps Alpin, rolling along with
their Noah's Ark packs and bayonets
set for action. The cheering ectu-
ally seemed to shove the buildings
back from the street Long ago the
Forum must have welcomed thus
the legionaries who had saved Ro-
man civilization from the barbarian
in those bitter struggles through
Gaul and Dacia. Every mans
sleeves showed the stripes that
meant wounds, and his breast the
decorations that meant valor.
"They did make one feel so old
and useless and out of it." as the
Little Man told his wife next morn
ing. So he ground out the days
work with his teeth set hard, bought
some more thrift stamps. took the
first car for home. spent the rest of
the daylight hours in caring for his
beans, potatoes and cabbage, got
through a war fare dinner, and put
in the evening selling $500 worth of
Mr.. McAdoo's pet bonds to some boss
metal workers whom he had met in
the lodge last winter. Getting home
at 1880 p. m, he routed out that
1917 model straw hat, cleaned 1t
up for another campaign, and some
time later fell into bed as ~ 1t had
been a dugout.
"If this gets. much worse. I'll learn
to knit" sas his last waking
thought. "and If they want to keep
me out of this war, they'll have to
put bolts on it,"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-01
MR.. KITCHIN'S TEMPER
New York Times |

Representative Kitchin did not
want the country to go to war with
Germany, and whenever since then
he has approached a piece of legis-
ton il has always been in the spirit,
We'll. you would shave it, and now
I'm going to make it just as un-
comfortable for you as 1 can" He
seems to speak in this spirit whether
he is addressing himself to the news
papers, to the people. or to the
President of the United States. The
speech with which he introduced his
last war tax bill might be summar-
lied as follows: You've got your
war, confound you, and now look at
the way I'm going to tax you for
it," That speech was aimed at the
people in general; the one he de-
livered on Tuesday was aimed chiefly
at the President of the United States.
1t. in turn. might be summarized as
follows: THE president makes us
stay here when wanted to go home.
Well, all right, but see what kind
of tax bill he'll get. and see how
long it will take U.S."
But the president of the United
States, commander in chief of the
army and navy OF the United States.
has declared otherwise. sThe
House will be in session, and we will
have to attend it's sessions. and are
subject to rollcalls: we must attend
to departmental duties. and our COR
respondence Is three or four times as
large when the House is in session.
We cannot work as many hours If
the whole day were given to us in
this hot, intolerable summer weather
of Washington"
And so on. Whatever subject Mr.
Kitchen takes up. he always speaks
in the same tone, tone of queru-
lous protest, the protest of the balky
horse forced to the trough and de-
termined to spill as much water as
possible over the driver. and make
him perspire as much as possible
over the Job. He tells his
hearers that the Secretary of the
Treasury was scared "unduly
alarmed" is his eXpression-by lob
byists, and plainly intimates that the
secretary in turn scared the presi-
dent into making his demand that
Congress shall so act as to enable
the people who are to pay the taxes
to know what taxes they are to pay
Now, If these mean insinuations
against the president of the United
States stood alone, one might be
tempted to suspect that Mr.
Ritchin's health had been affected
ahead of time by that "hot, intoler-
able summer weather" which he
breads so much. But they are quite
in harmony with all Mr.. Kitchin's
speeches; they reflect an unhappy,
discounted, querulous spirit, which
has been made manifest in all the
things he has said since he was
forced into supporting a war he dis
approved. They are merely a step
in advance of the other things he
has said. taken probably because
the other things did not call down
upon him that thunderous Febuke
from public sentiment which this
one undoubtedly will. Mr. Kitchin's
attitude has been from the first not
exactly that of a child who says,
'I'll play II you make me, but iii
make you sorry
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-01

The same note of reunion" is
struck by the London Daily Tele-
graph. which says:
THE march through London of
American troops with the comph-
ments paid to King George on the
one hand and the splendidly enthusi-
astic welcome given to the troops by
the people of London on the other,
signaliZes a final wiping out of the
old prejudices. an extinction of a
lingering memory of old quarrels, a
reunion of hearts among English
speaking peoples in the service of
the most just and most compelling
cause that ever ennobled the pursuit
of victory. Nothing can ever be the
same again as between the British
peoples and the great nation which
owns common ancestry, tradition,
and speech with them. For the first
time they feel and think and act
alike and offer together a supreme
sacrifice. 1t is indeed a great mo-
ment in history which sees the nag
of Washington borne through Lon
don by armed defenders of the honor
of the United States in token of
friendship and alliance"
Turning to practical questions, the
London Daily Mail says:
America mas nau immense anu
unlooked-for difficulties to contend
with. She hasn't overcome all of
them, but is fast getting the better
of them. There is very much to be
done before Americas weight is fully
felt. but the people of the United
States are sparing nothing that will
enable them to do it."
Writing in his organ, the London
British Weekly, Sir William Robert
son Nicoll says:
What we need supremely from
the United States is food and men.
The food is being supplied in COM
forting degree, and has done much
to relieve the situation. AS for men,
we want them now. We do not ask
that they shall be trained first in
America. They are more quickly
trained in France, where the actu-
alities of fighting are. Nor do we
ask that they should be equipped.
France and Britain between them
can arm, we believe, two million
American soldiers, besides providing
for the needs of their own"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-01

spect and cooperation of the thou
sands of employees who have made
the Pennsylvania the premier rail-
road of the world.
He is now -summarily removed
from his position as operating head
of his railroad by order of Director
General McAdoo. who has given no
reason for his drastic course.
Mr.. Rea is one of the best railroad
operators in the United States. or
in the world for that matter. He
particularly knows his own railroad
system-knows it, as one great rail-
road president in New ENGLAND once
said of the road which he managed,
"as a man knows his bedroom in
the dark"
Yet his road. his stockholders-
the country, even-are suddenly and
without warning deprived of his
services. 1t is intended, maybe, to
demonstrate Mr.. McAdoo's power.
Let us hope it will not also demon
strate his folly.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-01
EDITORIAL COr1r1ENT

However, the Kaiser won't get any
farther with his long-range olive
branch than he got with his long
range guns.-St. Joseph's News
Press.
II intend to stand by Russia as
well as France."-President Wilson.
Will Russia now please stand up so
she can be stood by?-New York
World.
"All Germany may be forced to
marry at neteen.'-Head-line
always understood that marriages
were made in the other place.-New
York Magazine Telegraph.
Is Germany still of opinion that
everybody who doesn't love her and
admire her can be converted by the
bomb and the torch Lowell Cour-
ier-C Citizen.
Secretary Bakers plans for an
army without limit make one won-
der how big an army he would plan
II he hadn't been raised pacifist.-
Nashville Southern Lumberman.
1t is understood that the aircraft
division is going in for more produc-
ton and less prediction.-New York
Sun.
In Petrograd a ham costs $500,
cheese and butter about $40 a pound,
and eggs rs cents apiece; and see
how applied socialism mitigates the
lot of the poor!-Wall Street Jour-
nal.
1T is time to abolish all that is
foreign" said the Kaiser. Which
would include the airplane, tele-
graph, telephone, submarine. quick
firing guns, automobile, anilin dyes,
loeom olives, gas and steam engines
and about everything connected with
Germany's military and Industrial
life. except poison-gas and treachery.
l-Wall Street Journal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-01
SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1918
To try things oft, and nerer to give
orer. doth o0nderS.-BAcoN.
THE BOOZE BUGABOO"

"HE cid playedout Booze Buga-
boo" is being poked up again
this year in an effort to frighten
ttimid political leaders and candi-
dates into compliance with the
wishes of the liquor interests. But
the Booze Bugaboo" has lost its
power to scare. Its graveyard clothes
are tattered and scant and the hand
that waves it in the faces of those
to be terrorized by its dreadful ap-
pearance is plainly discernable
through the frayed fabric of its
flimsy structure.
There never was a more cold
.blooded band OF buccaneers than
the men who used to throw a scare
into the political leaders of all
parties in Pennsylvania each year by
declaring that 'ff you don't support
our business we will throw the whole
liquor vote against you and your
candidates" and then in a tone de-
signed TO imply certain defeat-"you
know what that means" And the
strange part of it was that they used
to get away with it. Politicians ac-
tually catered to the wishes of the
men supposed to control the liquor
vote, whatever that may have
meant The whiskey crowd reward
Germans in Russia-turned non
partisan at the polls and worked for
the election OF purely liquor can
didates. The liquor lobby never has
cared for anything but itself; it has
been overrated for years. and it is
weaker at this moment than ever
before.
The whiskey crowd takes credit
for nominating Bonniwell. Nothing
of the sort. Bonniwelrs nomination
was not so much an endorsement of
a wet" candidate as a protest
against intolerable dictatorship by
the Palmer-McCormick faction
within the Democratic party. But
granted the liquor element did use
its best efforts for the Philadelphia
Judge. what does that prove in face
of the fact that Senator Sproul. a
distinctly dry" candidate, received
FIVE times as many votes as Bonni-
well?
The Booze Bugaboo" is being
waved again before the Republican
. organization just as it is before that
of the Democrats. But it no longer
: gives anybody the shivers. 1t has be-
come about as frightful as a last
years scarecrow to a flock of wise
old crows.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-01
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
From the Literary Digest

Tow the apple got into the
dumpling was always a mys-
terry to that thoroughgoing old
German, George III. who, was re-
sponsible for the little unpleasant
ness which occurred between our
selves and our British cousins in
1TT6. That monarch would be still
more puzzled had he seen American
troops marching through London to
be reviewed by George V. Yet this
has happened. and to-day America
is closer to England than she has
ever been at any previous period in
her existence. This moves the Lon
don Times-for the first time during
the war-to express sentiments of
gratitude to Wilhelm Won Hohenzol-
lern for what he has done to draw
the nations more closely together:
THE Kaiser and his advisers
brought together English-speaking
peoples more closely and more rap
idly than the fondest dreamers after
more intimate relations between
them had dared to hope. That, as
we ventured to point out when the
President called upon Congress to
declare that Germany had made war
upon the Republic, is an immense
event in the history of the Old World
and of the New-the greatest that
has happened. except the war itself,
since the French revolution. 1t is
having and will have complex and
far-reaching consequences both for
the British empire and for the Unit
ed States in many spheres of thought
and of activity. Its military results
upon the great conflict between
militarism and democracy promise
to turn the scale decisively when
once the Republic has placed her
armies in the field. -"
The lesson for England and
America is plain, and there is
abundant proof that both under
stand 1t. We have to stick it out and
the Americans have to hurry up, and
they are hurrying up splendidly.
Not one peace note has been
heard in Congress. The only criti-
cisms breathed against the govern
ment consist of occasional->com-
plants that it does not get on fast
enough with the war. That is the
right temper for both sides of the
Atlantic"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-01
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Clayton G.. Brenneman, secretary
of the Blain county fair, says that
he had found evidence of horse rae
ing back in the days of William
Penn.
Banking Commissioner Daniel
f. Lafean has been making speeches
in behalf of Thrift Stamps.
The Rev. w. P. Sherman, chap
lain with the Army in France, writ
ing to Bishop Hoban urges that
everyone economic.
District Attorney G. w. Maxey,
of Lackawanna county, is on fraud
hunt as the result of the recent pri-
mary.
Frank Foust, Johnstown teach
er, will go to Pittsburgh.
General c. M. Clement. new head
of the Templars, has been affiliated
with the order since boyhood.
e. T. Stotesbury, Philadelphia
banker, will make war savings
speeches in Cambria and other west
ern counties.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-01

With q total vote of three to one
over the Democratic candidates in the
primary election. the Republican
nominees for the Legislature in this
county have nothing to lose ana
everything to gain in prompt dec
laration in favor of the proposed pro-
hibition amendment. Most of the Re-
publican nominees for the House In
this section OF Pennsylvania have al
ready pledged themselves to vote LOT
the amendment in the event OF their
election. and the Dauphin county
candidates should rally to the ban
ner of senator Sproul. the. party stan
dard-bearer, who declared months ago
the time had come TO eliminate 'ne
liquor question as politlcai ISSUE
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-01

But the south had wounds 20 heal
and scars to hide and none too kindly
remembrance of the visitations of
northern troops The south has
hao the harder part. But slowly We
are all coming to understand that
ootn sides won in the Civil War;
that the result was a victory for
All Americans and we may count it
a blessing OF the present conflict
that our northern boys having had
their part in cementing new friend
Ships with the people of the south
ana binding us all together more
closely as one great. invincible ma
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-01
PdcifiSt Logic TriumphS

A young man in Kentucky who
was opposed to the draft has killed
three men to signify his disapproval
of the war and in resisting induction
into the Army. Particulars are lack
ing. but We wonder IL we may not
guess the sort of mental food that
produced this indigestion in his un-
ripe intelligence.
We should say he has been read
ing that this is a war of the
bourgeois to exploit the producers.
He probably did not know what the
bourgeois was or who the producers
are, but these are words having a
great vogue just now, and, having
been introduced by the horn spec
tacled non-producers chiefly engaged
in seeking martyrdom and publicity,
have great weight with his kind
Kansas City Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-01
ONE OF A THOUSAND

TTAVE you noticed that the
n Americans at Cantigny didn't
wait for the expected German
attack? Instead. they let the Germans
prepare and then played the "low
down" trick of themselves taking the
offensive-with disastrous results for
the Germans.
And have you noted that the
Americans have retained Cantigny
despite all the enemy's counterat-
tacks?
After a while there will be a thou
sand Cantigny's and the power of
the Kaiser will have been smashed.
Keep your eyes on the boys of the
United States.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-01
NOT PRACTICAL ENOUGH?

CAMUEL REA left school forty
~ eight years ago and began to
earn his liying-as a minor en-
ploye in the engineering department
Fof the Pennsylvania Railroad. He
worked up through various positions
until. five years ago. he became pres
ident of the road. post in which
he has been continued by the conf
dence of the more than 100, 900
stockholders who own the property
and in which he has had the re-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-01
Colonel Roosevelt Says

When you go to war you want
to go to war. Don't hit a man If
you can honestly avoid 1t; but when
you hit him. put him to sleep. 1 ask
for preparedness, not so that we can
go to war, but so we may keep out
Of it. l hope to see a system of uni
versal military training for our
young men. Americanism and pre-
paredness are the immediate lessons
Of to-day. Stand back of the men
at the front
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-01

Disloyal citizens who continue to
weaken the fabric of American pa
triotism by circulating impossible
lies and lessening the morale of the
people by suggestions of failure in our
forces abroad. are going to learn.
without much delay. that they are
traitors to their country and deserve
mighty little consideration at the
hands OF the authorities. Uncle Sam
has been patient to the last degree in
dealing with this class of individuals.
and drastic methods must be intro
duced to free the country of German
propaganda of this sort.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-01
Ang Old ObjectiUe

Military opinion differs as to
whether the Germans are trying for
Paris this time or mean to make
their real strike at another objective.
Inasmuch as the Crown Prince is in
command of the attacking armies,
we venture the guess that anything
gained anywhere in the attack will
prove to be the objective aimed at.
KANSAS City Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-01
The Better World

What lightens labor. sanctifies toll
and makes a man good and strong.
wise and patient, just and benevo-
lent, both lowly and great, as well
as worthy of intelligence and free
dom, is the perpetual vision before
him of a better world beaming
through life's shadows. - Victor
Hugo.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-01

senator Befdleman's large primary
Note Is an index OF the big majority
wh'ch awaits him in November. As a
FORMER President pro tenn. of the Sem
ate, the Senator will have little to
learn when he comes to preside in
the same body as Lieutenant Governor
next winter.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-01

At a labor meeting at Athlone, in
ireland. 1t was resolved to oppose i'm
dustrial as we'll as military conscrip-
ton. Women workers pledged them
selves to undertake no work pre-
viously done by men.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-01

Street car men of London, Ontario,
who are seeking an increase in
wages. have decided to accept arbi-
tration. They want an increase in
wages from 10 to IL cents, with i'm
proved conditions.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-01

In addressing local labor men in
Ottawa, Mr.. Gompers advised against
the formation of a Canadian labor
party. holding that the workers
should be free to vote for whom they
pleased.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-01

Inc upstate buckwheat crop is re-
ported to be above the average; and
now we await with anxiety only to
hear about the sausage production.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-01
LABOR NOTES

Wage increases and a signed
agreement for its members employed
in sausage making have been secur-
ed by Frisco Butchers Union.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-01
OUR DAILY LAUGH
GIVE HIM A
START.

Did she really
call her chap
eron when you
began kissing
her?
Yes, but her
chaperon was a
pretty g o o d
sport. She was
a long time
showing up.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-01

II Doc Garfield could only bottle
up a little of this heat for distribu-
tion next winter. all would be for
given.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-01

Officers of the Amalgamated
Sheet Metal Workers International
Alliance report that forty local
unions have been chartered within
the last sixty days. OF this number
twenty-five are railroad shopmen.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-01
An Idle Coal Mine

In a good many ways an Idle coal
mine Is more disastrous than an idle
American gun just at this time.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-01

HISTORIC HARRISBURG
Fifty years ago Harrisburg had
several savings banks.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-01

Government control of factories
and output and concurrently there
with conscription and allotment of
labor are advocated in a report of a
special committee OF the British Co
lumbia Manufacturers Association.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-01

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO..
Telegraph Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-01

Ell. Prsst s Edisorta-c cki<f
+. r. OYSTER. BnsissSs Aaneesr.
GUS II. STEINMETZ. MaHogiHg Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-01

The Massachusetts, House of Rep
resentatives has passed a bill au-
thorizing cities and towns to provide
the common necessaries of life and
shelter during the time of war, pub
lie exigency, emergency or distress.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-01

Painters decorators and paper
hangers of Winnipeg. Canada, have
reached an agreement with the
Builders Exchange whereby they
will get 56 cents an hour. an advance
of cents an hour over the old scale.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-01
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg's War Saw
ings record is growing better?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-01

Bricklayers, Masons and Plaster
ers' international Union has signed a
nxe-yea[ sIeeILlent WIN tne ille ana
bitration will supplant strikes during
this period. For two years wages
will be $5.75 for an eight-hour day
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-01

French electrical works have ar
ranged to employ men who have
been blinded in the war to wind
armatures after the system of
Schuyler Wheeler of New York. 1t
is also understood the system will be
introduced in England.