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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-20
GOVERNMENT FINANCING

TOMPARATIVELY little is being
| said in a public way concern
ing the proposed War Finance
Corporation, but it is nevertheless
one of the most important, as well
as one of the most revolutionary,
steps taken by the United States Gov
ernment since its entrance into the
war and bids fair to have very
lasting effect on the country long
after the'confiict ends.
If Congress enacts the bill as il
has been outlined this new corpora
ton will be one of the most power
full financial organizations in the
whole world and could be made a
mighty instrument for the benefit OF
American business during the hard
ships of the war period. 1t would
have a capital of $500, 900, 900 sub
scribed by the Government and
would be in control of the Secre-
tary of Treasury and four men to
be chosen by him.
The idea is to provide finances for
industries which may require Gov
ernment or other aid in turning out
work necessary to the prosecution
of the war or of importance to the
public interest. With federal re-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-20
Over he Iop
cn PeMNa.

The York County Republican
Club has adopted a resolution in
which it is announced that only
such candidates for the state legis-
lature who favor n local option law
and the adoption of the dry
amendment to the United States
constitution will be endorsed by this
organization. The resolution states
that it is the opinion of the club
that the best interests of all the
people demand that liquor traits
in this country be abolished. The
Republican Club controls the G. O.
p. interest in this county and it is
believed that only dry" candidates
for the legislature will be selected
by the party.
Hotel and restaurant men are
boasting that their establishments
are saving more food than the
homes. From our observation this
Is correct. Every time we eat in
a restaurant we wonder who mislaid
the food.
York county raised 53,165 hogs
last year, beating every county in
the state. Lancaster was next, with
5O,019. These statistics refer eX-
clusively to four-legged hogs; not
the biped- which oozes all over n
trolley car.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-20
RUSSIA

UGH is being written about
M the Russian situation" but
A'A the only fact that all of the
writer's make perfectly clear is that
not one of them knows more than the
other about conditions over there and
all are very much at sea. Life there
appears to be about as stable as mer-
curry on a marbletop table and buy
ing lottery tickets is a safe and pro-
fitable amusement as compared with
betting on how long the Russian
status quo, if there is such a thing,
can be maintained.
Nothing appears certain in Russia
to. day except uncertainty. The mar
of the hour" if he is to appear, is
not yet on the scene. Russia may
suddenly develop iron strength un-
der the German attack, or 1t may
literally go to pieces. There is no
telling, and anything that may be
written regarding conditions there at
this time is mere guess-work. The
news dispatches of the day reflect
the light there is and even they must
be taken with grain of salt and due
consideration for their origin and
the communicating channels through
which they are apt to flow before
reaching the American public.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-20
SOLDIERS MUCH SAFER
surgeon-General Gorgas says i

SUPERINTENDENT Gorgas says in
the March American Magazine:
General Gorgas's reply was
quick, clear and confident
There seems to be an impress
sion in this country that to fight in
the present war means almost sure
death to a soldier. AS a matter
of fact, both in the danger from dis
ease and in the deadliness of the
actual fighting there is no compari-
son between the war in Europe to-
day and our Civil War.
In the Civil War our mortality
was something over five per cent.
for the four years. 1t is true that
the French armies suffered almost
exactly the same death losses during
the first five months of this war.
But people must not forget that
those first five months were the
most disastrous period, especially
for the Allies, who We're unprepared
in every way.
by 1916 the French had re-
duced their mortality to only about
two per cent. for twelve months!
That is a rate of only twenty per
thousand. Even in civil life q rate
of thirteen to fifteen per thousand
is usual. Therefore it is evident
that the additional war risk is sur
prisingly low.
After a three days battle in
our Civil War-such q battle as Get
tysburg, for instance third of e..
men engaged were left on the field.
You cannot find in the present con-
fiict any three days as disastrous
as that"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-20
THE SUPREME LAW"

"HERE is in this country an an
cient document known as the
Constitution of the United
States. 1t is in full force and vigor.
In it, in it's Fifth Amendment, are
to be found these words: NO per-
son shall be deprived of life, liber-
ty or property without due process
of law, nor shall private property
be taken for public use without just
compensation"
The steel makers of the country
undoubtedly had these words in mind
when they agreed to the program
which is to release the entire steel
production of America for the use
of the government; and President
Wilson undoubtedly was thinking
of the same words when he proclaim
cd to the country that "a just price
shall be paid for everything which
the government will buy during the
war.
They are reassuring words for
every manufacturer and for every
workingman in the United States.
They make it certain that wages and
profits shall be maintained at an
equitable level, no matter what may
happen. They make capital and
labor partners in our industrial en-
terprise to a greater extent than ever
before. They establish the doctrine
that must share in the burden of
war.
Prices, profits and wages will rise
and fall all together while the war
is in progress.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-20
PASS THE LIBERTY BONDS

Bruce Barton, popular editor and
author, says in an editorial in the
March Woman's Home Companion:
"They say this war is not popular.
And they are right. 1t is not popu-
lar with me. Not any more popu-
lar than life insurance; not any more
popular than fire insurance on my
home.
II hate to pay out money for any
of these things. But I go right on
paying it out. Because my insur-
ance policies, unpopular with me as
they are stand between me and
something far more unpopular.
And the Liberty Loan and the
British fleet, and our own fleet, and
our boys in brown are standing now
between my little home and what to
me is just now the most unpopular
thing in the world-a powerful, bit
ter old man who intends to stand
no nonsense from America after the
war
mo amount of waving the flag or
urging on the band is going to fill
me chuck full of enthusiasm. I just
don't seem to be built tnat way. But
quietly, doggedly, l go along putting
all I can gather together into Lib
erty bonds.
mot because the war is popular
with me. Not because / expect to
make any money doing it. Not be-
cause the pretty girl at the counter
asked me to, nor because Pm afraid
of being called a Stacker If I don't
mo, the real underground reason,
If you want to know it, is found in
the person of a man whose mail ad-
dress is Lock Box. 1, Berlin.
"A man who sinks hospital ships
and lies about it, who sends a ship
like the Iusitania to the bottom
loaded with women and children
and gives his own children a half
holiday in celebration; a man who
speaks of treaties as scraps of pa
per-
"'He showed great bitterness
against the United States Mr.. Ger
ard reports.
ave had a pretty good chance
the past three years to see what his
bitterness means, and if Liberty
bonds can protect me against that
bitterness, and my home and wife
and my boy and girl, then PLEASE
PASS THE LIBERTY BONDS"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-20
COMMUNITY SONG
Editor Of the Telegraph:

"S Edf" or fHe Telegraph:
The movement for community
singing is a praiseworthy one. Har-
risburg, the states capital city,
should follow Philadelphia lead
and enlist her citizens in the move
ment
Fahnestock Hall would be a suit
able place for the community sing
ing. There is also Grace Methodist
Church, or the Market Square Pres
byterian Church. Both would be
splendid places for the singing. In
the summer, municipal bandstand
should be erected in Capitol Park,
where all might sing to their hearts S
content while our own good band
would accompany them.
The reasons for advocating the
community songs, are not entirely
idealistic. There is nothing which
stirs the people to greater patriot
ism, to higher ambitions, and to
better work, than the simple power
OF music. If anyone ever doubts
this, let him hear the great New
Y ork chorus, or the Philadelphia
songsters. Young and old, rich and
poor, gather for an hour or two
and sing. 1t gives us a more cheer
full outlook on life, and helps ma
terially to better the next days
work.
May your movement be reward
ed with the greatest success, and
may we have the pleasure of joining
with the thousands of others in a
great community singing festival up
in Capitol Park. or down along the
place.
AN HUMBLE LOVER OF MUSIC.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-20
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Roger w. Babson, the statisti-
clan, we'll known here, has been
named to an important committee of
defence work at Washington.
Major G. w. Coke. of Wilkes
Barre. who has been i'll, has returned
to his home from the southern
camps.
Judge w. B. Broomall, of the
Delaware courts, has gone to Flori-
da for n vacation.
Judge j. b. Woodward. of
Wilkes Barre, a class mate of eX-
President Taft, will welcome him
at the Hazleton demonstration.
w. S. Pilling, iron manufactur-
er, has gone to Palm Beach for Feb
ruary and March.
Elk Burgess J. Elmer Saul, OF
got into trouble because
he had coal bought for his residence
put into his business place.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-20

strictions in force as to private in
vestment of bank funds and the re-
quest of the Secretary of the Treas
ury to hold up bond issues for pri-
yate purposes. some such step as
that proposed is necessary If the
business of the country essential to
war activity is to be carried on along
the lines desired by the Government,
and while financiers are slow to
adopt new methods and Government
dabbling in private affairs is not in
ordinary times to be advocated, in
the present instance business will
not want to stand in the way OF the
creation of such corporation as is
proposed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-20
LABOR NOTES

Increases of 10 to 40 per cent. in
compensation for workmen, less
trouble in conciliation, doing away
with all litigation and the appoint
ment of a board to administer the
proposed act are the chief recon-
mendations of committee to the
Alberta, Canada, government.
Washington ranks first in the pro-
duction of lumber, which is it's chief
industry. In 1915 the total produc-
ton was 3,S01,S21 board feet
and for the period of October. 1918,
to July, 1915, the number employed
in the saw. planning and single mills,
sash and door factories. cabinet and
woodworking shops and kindred in
dustries was 20,1S3 males and "A
females. These figures do not include
thousands engaged in the logging in
dustry and shipbuilding plants over
which the Bureau of Labor has no
jurisdiction.
England contemplates the estab-
lishment of Industrial councils rep
resenting the trade unions and en-
ployers' associations in each indus
try. The councils will deal among
other things, with the means of
procuring for the workmen a greater
share in controlling the conditions
of labor, and with readjustment of
wages so that the workers will OBJ
tain q share in the increased pros
perity of industry. The establishment
of regular methods of settling diff
ferences and other means of insur-
ing closer cooperation between en-
ployers and employees. with a view
to obtaining better conditions of en-
ployment and a higher standard of
comfort for the workers, are also
aimed at.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-20
ASHES NEGLECTED

1c the Editor of the Telegraph:
A few days ago I saw a number
of the Pennsylvania Reduction ash
carts hauling away the snow from
our city streets where it was easily
seen it was not impeding traffic and
where in a few days time the rising
temperature would soon melt it
away.
Don't you think the property own
ers and renters should be given n
little more consideration than city
streets and have these carts haul
away the ashes, which condition is
assuming disgraceful shape /?
Council refuses to do its duty and
it is next to impossible to get an
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-20
Might Get Impatient

A placard hung in German railway
stations now bears this notice, all.
of course, in German:
Speak German! Do not use enc
my language!
"Adieu" is French, say instead
Gof deschutze Dich.
Gott segne Dich.
Auf weidersehen.
Auf baldigeswiedersehe
Auf Observation-Disclosures.
Auf Elm Rechtherzigesfrohesbaldi-
geswiedersehen.
But how long will the conductor
wait?-From the Boston Globe.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-20
A Meat EcOnOnlV

A cooking g-school pupil in the
March Woman's Home Companion
writes:
"Paradoxical as it sounds. a fillet
of beef. larded, at sixty cents a
pound is a cheaper roast of beef
than sirloin at thirty-five cents for
a family of two or three. They
weigh generally not over three
pounds. but there is no waste"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-20
HOIU 1t Happened

"The stage drivers in Yellowstone
Park" says Denver man, "are
bothered by many foolish questions
from their passengers, and often re-
sort to satirical replies. Once a
lady tourist who seemed deeply in
terested in the hot springs inquired;
Driver, do these springs freeze
over in winter
"'Yes, ma'am,' was the response.
A lady was skating here last winter
and broke through and got her foot
scalded.' From Harpers Mage
zine.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-20
THE PEOPLES FORUM

individual to haul the ashes away
a little editorial by way of en-
lightment on this very disgraceful
situation to This Fair City of Har-
risburg" might serve to do some
good.
Very truly yours.
A Resident of this city for 81
years. A property owner and there
fore taxpayer who deserves bet
ter consideration, also u Reader for
% years of The Harrisburg Tele-
graph.
JUNIOR RED CROSS SONG
1e the Editor of the Telegraph:
l enclose Junior Red Cross
song which I have written for the
campaign now on. Through the
many schools and be used by them.
Hoping that you may deem it
worthy place in the columns of
your publication:
CTune-Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, The
Boys Are Marching)
Here we come-a million strong
And, you know, we all belong
To the Red Cross of our dear Ameri-
ca;
We're the Juniors, and with might,
Well uphold the red and white
Till the sufferings of this war shall
have an end.
CHORUS
Let us help the Belgian children,
Help the little Trenches, too;
Let us do out bit to save,
Those who make Old Glory wave,
Ger the. countries fighting hard for
freedom, true.
Now we bring our little bit,
Will you please accept of it
Tho tbs given from very tiny hand; I;
1t may help our Boys in France
AS so nobly they advance
To defend with life the honor OF
our land.
Brothers. dear, are over there,
And for these we say a prayer,
May God bless and guide and guard
you every day;
Make your cause victorious,
Speed n peace all glorious,
That DER all the world shall reign
with fullest sway.
When the fighting all is DER.
And you reach the homeland shore
Well be there to greet you with q
hearty cheer.
We will bear your standards high,
Those for which you dared to die,
While we march and sing your
praises loud and clear.
MYRTLE MAYBERRY,
Dillsburg, Pa.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-20
HEADING FOR IT

! TINE lack of cooperation between
! departments that resulted in
the recent disagreement of the
parks by the dumping of snow and
! filth on them and the careless de-
! struction of shrubbery along the
river are heading the municipal gov
ernment straight toward municipal
managership. No city manager
would permit one department of the
city to encroach upon another. NO
manager worth the name would al
low filth from one part of town
to be dumped in another, from which
it would have to be carted again
at the expense of the taxpayers.
Something like the river park in
cident occurred last summer when
for the lack of a road roller, that
could have been spared for one day,
a valuable piece of new road con-
struction was almost obliterated be-
cause the head of one department
would not loan it to the head of an
other. These are examples of de-
partmental friction that cost the peo-
pie dearly.
J. William Bowman, upon his re-
tirement after a very brief term as
mayor. expressed the belief that gov
ernment by city management is
highly desirable, and recommended
that the taxpayers give the matter
careful study in order to be prepared
to consider it at the municipal cleo
tions next year. Since that time
Altoona has successfully inaugural
ed the plan, and. while it has been
in force too brief a period to analyze
results for the year, indications are
that it will prove so desirable that
tine city will never go back to the
old hit-or-miss plan.
Here is opportunity for the Cham
Der of Commerce to do a big work.
If a special committee Of that body
were created for the purpose of
studying the situation and planning
ahead with the idea of placing a
program before the voters next
spring, when candidates for council
come before the people and when
the Legislature is perhaps in a re-
ceptive mood, we. might get some
where with Mr.. Bowman's idea.
otherwise, there is no telling how
long we may continue to blunder
along with five heads instead of one
in the city government. Not that
the present councilmen are not doing
what they believe to be for the best
interests of the city, but that the
whole system is wrong. AS things
stand, it is perhaps too much to
hope that the head of the park de-
partment, for example, should not
take advantage of an opportunity to
benefit his own branch of the gov
ernment at the expense of the water
department, or that the head of the
highway department should not
look to his own interests before those
of the park or some other depart
ment But with city manager in
charge all departments would look
alike to him; each would get a
square deal and the whole govern
ment would be operated on a busi-
ness basis.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-20
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES
THE JOLLY EARTHQUAKE, Dl

Russell Conwell (Temple Review,
Philadelphia.)
In the latest volume from the pen
the possibilities of the smile ar en-
phasized DIR. Conwell tells of an
earthquake which buried barren
tableldnd and changed the country
to n fertile land. He compares this
with the trials of life and says that
our earthquakes are like the Jolly
Earthquake" Each trial is for the
best; each cloud has silver lining.
A vein of cheerfulness and helpful
ness runs through the entire vol
ume. written in DIR. Conwell's ini-
mitable style. 1t is a book which
will bring joy to many a gloom
Laden soul.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-20
The Average Test

A shell shipped off
A soldiers head
Where shrapnel was
A-splatter.
But still he fought
Most bravely on
Amid the fiendish
Chatter.
He was a Teuton
Soldier. so
1t really didn't
Matterl
st, Louis ST
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-20

Wisconsin processes ne: to know
exactly what to do about LaFollette,
and we arise to suggest that Wiscon-
sin has a very long lake frontage
with very deep water just off shore.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-20
The Mother

Many a mother is like a candle,
lighting the whole house, but con-
suming herself.-From the Youths
Companion.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-20
OUR DAILY LAUGH
SAFER.

It is customary
to seal q pro-
posal with a kiss
is it not?
1t used to be,
but nowadays it
is considered best
to have a witness.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-20
Get the Message to the People

the things Spring
the advertisements of local merchants miady
ton is being made for her wants.
The that has Spring
eeonomca and effectively will find the advertising columns of
four homes in Central Pennsylvania
less.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-20

II Government ownership of rail
roads should work out as well as Gov
ernment coal control, we'd be back to
OK carts in about one year.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-20

The pacifsts continue to lecture
three hours at a time on what they
term the Governments denial of free
speech.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-20

The Crown Prince is happy over the
Tooth attack on London. The Crown
Prince does we'll to take his happi-
ness now.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-20

HISTORIC HARRISBURG
The first canal boats came here
in the early thirties,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-20

Germans ready for surprise drive
in the West" and she'll get the sur
prise, all right.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-20
What Hath God Wrought!

According to this time 1t shall be
said of Jacob and of Israel, What
hath God wrought!-Numbers, xiii,
%.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-20
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg has many
sons I'm the aviation training
camps?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-20

SOME ARE
LIKE THAT.
I don't believe
in automobiles.
They discourage
walking.
Mine don't. I've
done more walk
ing since I bought
t h q t machine
than / ever did in
my life before.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-20

Ell. .STACKPoLE,P Prest s Ediior-in- Chief
F. r. OYSTER, Business Mdndgsr.
GUS NJ. STEINMETZ, MGrdging Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-20

telegraph Building, Federal Square.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-06-28
WRITING TO SOLDIERS

Those who write to soldier friends
in the environments or on the French
front find themselves very agreeably
surprised at the early response and
the genuine appreciation of the letter
The stressing Of this duty is becoming
more important at home. The home
people are due the soldier a regular
letter full Of cheering news and no
home boy should be permitted to go
along without this.
General Pershing has called the at
tention of his men to the duty of writ
ing home often and acquainting the
people OF real conditions at the front
Keeping in touch is a matter of suf-
ficient Importance for the soldiers
mind to be directed to it. Doubtless
the letter writing will become more
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-06-28
ARMY CONSTRUCTION

Construction work for Uncle Sans
army has been going on at a rapid
clip itself and a stock taking would
reveal that other departments than
the ship building have pushed for
ward rapidly. Likewise much money
has been expended
The total cost for National Army
environments was $140,72G,473. accord
ing to statement by the War De-
partment. The National Guard camps
cost $SS,S75,272.
Emergency work to provide for sol
diers in this country and provide
buildings for the manufacture and
storage of material both here and
aboard undertaken by the construc-
ton division of the Army, which has
been executed or is under way and in
prospect up to June /, will cost about
$1,170,619000. This total is exclusive
of three operations costing 100000
900, under the direct control of the