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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-12
PROTECTING THE GROUSE

"HE prompt response of hunters
individually and sportsmen's as
sociations generally, in coming
to the rescue of the sorely belea-
guered ruffed grouse in Pennsylvania,
is gladdening to the heart of every
lover of game birds in the State. The
Game Commission should be graft
fed by the support it is receiving.
The ruffed grouse is next to the
wild turkey in the list of game birds.
That is not the opinion of any mere
tyro, but of the great naturalist
Audubon himself, who says in one
of his numerous works that this
specie of grouse, in my humble
opinion, far surpasses as an article
of food every other land bird which
we have in the United States, ex-
cept the wild turkey, when in good
condition" and this definition an
plies equally to the grouse as an OBJ
ject of the hunters search in the
woods.
There are few birds with so wide
n range of habitat-from Texas to
the seth degree North latitude and
clear across the continent. In former
years the woods of Pennsylvania
swarmed with them and there re-
main thousands of acres of good
cover and ample feeding ground for
great numbers of the birds. But in
recent years they have been shot off
in such large numbers that their
only apparent salvation lies in clos
ing whole counties to huntsmen for
a period of years to permit the
grouse to multiply unmolested. This
the sportsmen in many counties are
plpnning to do.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-12
ChdngeleSS Temperament

Mental temperament is Unborn.
and little susceptible of being alter
ed. A person is born with a GER
tain temperament for which he is
no more responsible than for the
shape, of his nose, and this inborn
temperament tends to remain fun
dameutally the same throughout
life, resisting almost completely all
attempts, educational or psyche
therapeutical, to modify it.
No doubt some of his emotional
disposition can be modified by train
ing-an artistic aptitude can be de-
veloped by constant exercise, bad
temper bettered by systematic con-
trol-yet the native temperament
remains fundamentally unchanged.
A persons temperament never in
fact, undergoes a decided change
except as the result of the normal
cyclical changes, such as puberty
and senility, or in consequence of
disease, such as Graves disease,
myxodema, or actual insanity.
We meet a man we have not seen
for years, and when we come to
sneak to him it is as If we were car
rying on a conversation of yester-
day, so conscious are we of his un-
altered temperament; and it is this
which constitutes the essence of the
man, or, as we say, his personality.
There are the same old gestures,
the same old tricks of speech, the
same old play of facial expression,
all indicative of the same tempera-
ment. Contact with the world, his
successes, his failures, his troubles,
have no doubt left their impress.
Youthful ardor may have been
damped; the optimist may have lost
some of his hopefulness; the shy
man may have grown bolder; the
genial man may have become some
what soured, the CHEEKY nature more
subdued; but all such changes are
on the surface only.
When we come to probe below
the surface we shall find that the
temperament remains fundamental
ly the same; the very sensitive, the
very shy, the very tlmid. the irre-
pressibly self confident, remain sem
sitive, shy, timid, self confident to
the end of the chapter.-Harry
Campbell in the Lancet Uondon) l..
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-12
WAR REORGANIZATION

L NNOUNCEMENT of radical re-
II organization of the antiquated
machinery of the War Depart
ment to meet the demands of Con-
gress for greater efficiency in the
prosecution of Americas part in the
war indicates that Secretary Baker
is at last awake to the deficiencies of
his administration. This is a good
sign. All patriotic Americans will
join in the hope that the proposed
concentration of authority and
coordination of activity will have
the desired effect of speeding up the
country's preparations, and result in
the elimination of red tape and the
errors both of commission and COM
mission that have retarded the ma
ton and held back our efforts to get
actively and effectively into the war.
But much will depend upon the
Caliber of the men to be placed in
charge of the various divisions about
to be created. The President has
not been any too successful in his
choice of assistants. Perhaps his
Secretary of War, il he consults
those best qualified to judge, will do
better.
At all events, the probing and de-
batting and criticising OF the House
and Senate the past few months are
bearing fruit, and the very fact that
reorganizations have been under
taken by Secretary Baker is proof
positive that his department needed
the attention it has received. 1t is
also an evidence of the value of
Congressional criticism, since with
out Chamberlain, Hitchcock, Lodge
and Wadsworth speaking their
minds clearly and forcefully, Secre-
tary Baker might have gone along
indefinitely in the self-satisfed man.
ner his optimistic speeches indi-
Gated. No further comment is need
ed on the folly of Congress surren-
dering its powers almost entirely to
the President, as it has been asked
to do.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-12

stood about calmly chatting or
smoking" But they must have
done more than that. for II Is re-
corded, also. that soldiers suffering
with typhoid and pneumonia were
landed none the worse for their OK
perience."
Can you imagine what is going to
happen when this party of American
soldiers gets a chance at the Ger
mans? They have had a taste OF
German ruthlessness and they may
be expected to give the Hun a taste
of the American variety that will
cause him to sit up and take notice.
Fritz set a torpedo off under hor-
nets nest that time.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-12
NeW Words to Old Tune

The lad who eats fine wheaton bread,
And will not have corn muffin,
Resembles far too much the pig,
That's in the trough a-puffin'.
Take another model, lad,
Nor waste your time in stuffin'!
The lass that spends her idle day,
In eating sugar candy.
And while she reads, declares that
she
Must have a package handy
Such q lass should banished be
To any desert sandy!
The children who lament for meat
And frown at beans and fishes,
Are like to have much less to eat
Before they have their wishes.
Skip their supper now and then,
And serve them empty dishes
For the orphan child across the sea
Has need of all of saving.
While dress he lacks and food he
lacks
And hunger he is Drawing,
Hold, to him a helping hand,
Like brothers true behaving!
BY Nora Archibald Smith of the
Vigilantes.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-12
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Ex-senator Ernest L. Tustin, of
Philadelphia, is about to begin a
second tour of the state in the move
ment to slam sedition."
j. Henry Scattergood, formerly
Philadelphia registration commits
sioner and lately Y. M. c. A. COM
missioner to France, will give u
series of talks on the conditions.
DIR. Charles NJ. Wharton, the
former University of Pennsylvania
football star, is in charge of i'm
portant work among medical men in
Delaware.
james Henry, prominent Ches-
ter man, has been elected head Of
the citizens corps in that city.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-12
TWO-CENTPAPERS RSBESTMEDIUMS

newspaper a
a
basis is the of its
is on a
he
which
whom it
of homes Harrisburg
Harrisburg
they get it than other in its field
confidence is the best
which the advertiser print his That
the to advertisers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-12
SeDen Sentences By Abraham
Lincoln

Faith in God is indispensable to sue
cessful craftsmanship.
This Nation should be on the Lords s
side.
With firmness in the right, as God
gives us to see the right.
Gold is good in it's place, but low
ing, brave, patriotic men are bet
ter than gold.
God bless my mother. and all I am
or hope to be I owe to her.
1 want it said of me that 1 plucked
a thistle and planted a flower.
With malice toward none, with
charity for ALL
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-12
LABOR NOTES

It is predicted that at the close
of the war women will replace men
as stewards on the large ocean lin
ers.
A record production of Portland
cement was established last year, the
production being 9,544, 900 barrels.
Women are to be employed as
rush hour" streetcar conductors by
the trolley company in st. Louis, Mo.
Telegraphers and station agents
employed by the Chicago and North
western Railroad have secured short
er hours and wage increases of 1914
per cent.
Organized labor will ask the Wash
ington State Legislature to pass a
law permitting picketing, which has
been denied by the courts of that
state.
The new war insurance system for
soldiers. sailors and members of the
nurses corps has been extended to
1.1OO officers and employees of the
Federal lighthouse service.
Rochester. n. Y. organized paint
ers and paperhangers have prepared
a new wage scale to take effect
April !, 1918. Rates are $500 day
with a work week OF forty-four
hours.
On March II. at Tacoma, Wash,
international Union Timber Work.
ers will convene.
Commissions as second lleuten-
ants in the Massachusetts Guard
will be given to 100 nurses in that
state.
English women have undertaken
work in every industry which has
any bearing on munitions.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-12
ON THE TUSCANIA

" HE conduct of the men on the
Tuscania after the torpedoing
of that vessel is in full accord
with the best traditions of the Amer
lean Army and Navy. With death
staring them in the face and the icy
sea threatening to engulf them any
moment. 1t is reported that they
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-12
A DOUBLE BLOW

before Congress yesterday struck
a double blow at the aspirations
OF Germany. With one powerful
stroke the President drove a wedge
between Austria and Germany and
with another he drove a second be-
tween the Socialists of Germany and
the ruling imperial powers. He made
it clear that America has no quarrel
with the peace aims of Austria. but
that this nation stands ready TO
spend it's last dollar and it's last drop
OF blood defending itself from the
despoiling hand of the blonde beast
of Berlin.
The President rises to no great
heights of emotionalism. He is calm
and incisive in all his arguments.
He talks boldly to Austria IN reply
to Czernin, the Austrian foreign
minister, bidding for her friend
ship and assuring the people of the
dual monarchy that our quarrel is
not with them, but with the imperial
istic, military party of Germany. Al
most in the same breath he speaks
to the reasonable, liberal elements in
Germany itself, letting them know
that the United States stands for
precisely the same ideals as they
themselves; that they have nothing
but our heartfelt sympathy and
support in their efforts to set up a
democracy In Germany. or at least
rob the present government of it's
autocratic powers.
The President talks freely end
openly in language scarcely, if ever,
before used between hostile powers.
But that he is playing the game
with all the cards on the table and
with the whole world as an audience
robs his. method of any OF the
weaknesses it might have had if
conducted under the rules Of secret
diplomacy, now happily dead for all
time so far as majority of the
great nations of the earth are con-
cerned. He has served notice on
Germany that peace may be brought
about now, or soon, by means that
would save countless lives and bill
lions of wealth, or that if delayed
will be wrought on American terms
by the unmeasured resources Of this
continent which the people stand
ready to pour out in behalf ct their
great ideal.
In this it is well the whole world
should understand that Americans
as a whole are solidly behind the
President. They will go willingly
down deep into the valley of
blood sacrifice with them, that in the
end they may stand on the mount
of TRANSPORTATION when the deadly
damps shall have rolled away to
reveal the sun of a new day shining
in all its splendor upon a purged
and liberated world. They have
fought many wars. each for some
large humanitarian ideal. They have
never faltered. They will not do so
now. Germany Rey profess to be-
lieve that America will not count
for much in this conflict, but soon
she will begin to understand that
we can fight as we'll as talk and that
in the last analysis we shall throw
the deciding weight into the scales.
The Presidents address was as
timely as it was forceful. Coming
at the moment of the utter collapse
of Russia it was designed to have a
SOLDERING effect on the ruling class in
Germany. 1t is at once an appeal
for popular sympathy within the
Central Powers and bold defiance of
the Kaiser and his fellow 2lotters.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-12
Speeding UP

Worthy companion to the cele-
brated painter who, when the paint
got low, hastened to finish the floor
before the paint gave out, has been
found in the woman knitter who sat
up late to finish scarf because she
had so little yarn.-From the Chi
cago News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-12
Not So Bad

OF course there are exceptions,
but as a general thing girls are not
as red as they are painted.-BTom
the Galveston News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-12
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg is sending
Socks to half the states in the
Union?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-12
uTcTORIC HARRTSRTR(

The first railroad bridge over the
Susquehanna here cost only fifth
OF the last to be built.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-12
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY IL, 1918

Keep your face t0ith sunshine lit,
Laugh q little bit.
Gloomy ShddotoS oft t1iIl fit
II you hare the tCit and grit
Just to laugh q little bit.
j. E. V. Cook.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-12

Stock answer to peace terms while
the present German Government
continues in power: Isaiah 49:22-
unto the wicked.-Kansas City Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-12
EDITORIAL CONVENT

That noise is Washington in 1920
trying out its Brooklyn
Eagle.
Thrift! She wants but little fur
below, nor wants that little long
Wall Street Journal.
Remember, If you are careless
about observing meatless day now,
every day'll be Tuesday by and by.
Kansas City Star.
BolsheviK are so terribly in earn
est about liberty that whoever differs
from the Bolsheviki gets supprest.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Hon. Joe Caillaux, of France, ap-
pears to have done so much travel
ing he is suspected of having been a
commercial traveler.-Dallas News.
Carson has quit the British Cabi-
net He must have heard of the pur-
pose of the lady from Montana to
free reland.-Brooklyn Eagle.
Pershing Overcomes Great Diff
culties to Make Our Troops Effec-
tve-Newspaper headline. Not
mentioning any names.-Pittsburg
Gazette-Times.
The various war-industries of the
country are now busily engaged in
composing a fitting reply to the
latest German peace terms.-Chic-
ago Herald.
Stock answer to peace terms while
the present German Government
continues in power: Isaiah 49:22-
There is no peace saith tho Lord
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-12

Harrisburg people who recall the
activities of r. Nelson Bennett, one
of Wilkes Barre's councilmen, at
the third class city conventions ami
in legislative hearings in recent
years will be interested to know that
he is the controlling factor in the
councils of that city just now. There
are two factions and Benefits vote
seems to have decided some things.
He is the type of the well-to-do
man in municipal affairs and the
way he works out the problems in
his city will be noted in many parts
of the state.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-12

1t is predicted that at the close
of the war women will replace men
as stewards on the large ocean lin
ers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-12

Ell. .STACKPoLE, PrsSt s. Edtorin-C Chief
+. r. OYSTER. BHsinsss Mdnagsr.
GUS NJ. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-12

photographers and station agent
employed by the Chicago and North
western Railroad have secured short
er hours and wage increases of 131
per cent.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-12

Women are to be employed as
rush hour" streetcar conductors by
the trolley company in st. Louis, Mo
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-12

A record production of Portland
cement was established last year, the
production being 9,544,00O barrels.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-12

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.,
Telegraph Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-12

That noise is Washington in 1920
trying out its SIEGE -guns.-Brooll
Eagle.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-12

Organized labor will ask the Wash
ington State Legislature to pass a
law permitting picketing. which has
been denied by the courts of that
state.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-12

The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times
says that nuch attention has been
attracted in western Pennsylvania to
the coming visit of Senator Sproul
and Chairman Mackey to that city
to speak at the Native Sons dinner
Scranton has dropped its coal
inspector because that work can
hereafter be taken charge of by
the. Federal Fuel Administration.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-12

Thrift! She wants but little fur
below, nor wants that little long
Wall Street Journal.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-04-04

in the Ukraine as O'Brien and
O'Rourke tend to prove that people
came from much farther to settle in
the happy land.
Great Cereal Country.
The famous black soil of Ukraine
covers three-Quarters of the country.
To the north as we'll as in the Carpa-
THAN mountains are some 10000
square kilometers of forest. The agri-
cultural soil covers So per cent of the
aggregate territory of Ukraine and 81
per cent, if we take in the whole Of
European Russia, which is, however,
six times greater than Ukraine itself.
The annual production Of cereals in
Ukraine is two-thirds of the whole pro-
ductiOn in the recent Russian empire.
It is greater than that Of Germany or
France. The expectation of grains
from Ukraine amounts to q per cent
Of the production, and of all the wheat
exported from Russia nine-tenths
comes from Ukra1nian lands. AS q
matter Of fact, the trade of Ukraine is
more developed than that Of any part
Of all Russia.
Ukraine ranks highest among all the
countries that compose the vast Rus
sian empire as to the annual agricul-
tural production. Wheat, barley and
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-04-04

sible to the assembly for his actions.
If he offended he was incOntinently de-
prived of his Office. ..
The assembly, called rada, was Pc
riodical and comprised representatives
of all classes of the community, who
often criticized freely the policy of the
hetman. In the interval between radas
the hetman ruled the country by a Sc
ries of DEGREES. When any section of
the Ukrainian community was. dissatfs-
fed with the person or the policy Of
the hetman it was entitled to call to-
gether q rada, which in such cases was
called q black rada. IF the black rada
happened to be representative enough,
and the complaint met with the ap-
prevail of the majority, the hetman
might be compelled to resign.
While the Muscovites lived under an
absolute monarchy, while the Poles
were ruled by naughty and exclusive
aristocracy, in Ukraine all were free I'M"
der the Lithuanian kings, and repub-
Iican institutions were gradually tax.
ing root. Many people would leave
the surrounding country and go to set
tie in Ukraine. Such names preserved
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-04-04
His Apparent Yearn.

81. expect to remain at least two
weeks if your accommodations prove
satisfs ctory,"> said the horse-faced
gent 81 wish a room with southern
and western exposure. I observe that
the railroad runs within half a block
of the hotel-you will kindly request
the company to refrain from blowing
their engine whistles in this vicinity.
Persons in adjoining rooms should be
cautioned about making unnecessary
noises. I wish prompt service at
meals, and am especially DESTROYS of
having strictly fresh peanut butter,
Eata-Bitta health food, distilled water,
and"
"Uh-huh!' nonchalantly returned
the landlord of the Petunia Tavern.
"What you want, podner, pears to be
Ouija board, not plain village, board.
Well, the-yaw-w-w-wn! - house is
full, and I can't accommodate you."-
Kansas City Star.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-04-04

STA, in Galicia and in Bukowina, for
they inhabit the compact territory
which is only axtificially-Or shall we
say politically ?-divided between Rus
STA, Austria and Hungary. Leaving out
the Rusniaks, or Ukrainians of Hun
gary, who express no desire to work
politically with the other members of
their nation, and who insist, even in
America, upon societies of their own,
we have population of over 100000
stretched between the Caucasus, the
Black sea, the Carpathian mountains
and the San river.
The Ukrainian Governments.
The purely Ukrainian governments
iOf Russia are:
: 1. Ukraine Of the right bank (of the
Dnieper), Podolia, Volhynia, Kief and
Kholm.
2. Ukraine of the left bank (of the
Dnieper), Tchernihov, Poltava, Khar-
kov, southwest Khursk, VOrOnezh and
the region Of the Don Cossacks 50 the
Sea Of Azov.
8. On both sides of the Dnieper lies
the Steppe Ukraine, comprising Ekate-
rinOslav, Kherson and the eastern
parts of Bessarabia and Tauris.
4. North Caucasus, adjacent to the
region of the Don Cossacks, cOmpris-
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-04-04

rye are the staple crops of Russian ag-
riculture, and the annual production in
Ukraine Of these grains amounts to
one-third of Russia's output. AS to
other farm products, Ukraine's position
is also conspicuous.
Beet root, for instance, is especially
cultivated in the Ukrainian provinces
of Podolia, Volhynia, Kieff and Kher-
son; those provinces together yield
five-sixths of the sugar beet produc-
ton of all Russia. Ukraine produces
almost all the tobacco of the old en-
pire, and she has the largest and finest
orchards and vineyards of Russia.
The immense natural resources Of
Ukraine furnish splendid opportunity
for the development of manufacturing
Industries. AS matter of fact, 62 per
cent of Russia's annual production Of
pig iron and So per cent of Russia's
production Of steel come from Ukraine.
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ing K9ban and the eastern parts of
the Stavropolslzoi and Therska govern
ments.
In all these districts the Ukrainians
form from 76 to so per cent of the
total population, the rest being Jews,
Poles and, lastly, Russians.
The Rurik dynasty founded Ukraine.
When it disappeared, as all monarchies
must, the next organization that kept
the Ukraine lands together was the re-
public of the Cossacks, whose domain
Overlapped Lithuania and Poland, who
occupied much of the Ukraine soil.
The Cossacks were organized some
thing on the lines of the chivalry of
western Europe. Their precepts were
obedience, piety, chastity and equal
ity.
The assembly was the only authority
they recognized. The hetman (head-
mani was elected by and was respon-