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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-17
EDITORIAL COMMENT

Parliament might have got better
results by making it unlawful for
Irishmen to enlist.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
There is something queer about
these German victories" They al
ways have to be won over again.
Brooklyn Eagle.
With the spirit of '76" operating
a lot of French "75s" on the west
front we ought to get substantial
results.-Chicago Herald.
German safe conduct" for Swiss
grainships is not likely to lower the
Insurance risk much.-Wall Street
Journal.
Does the Kaiser remember this
anecdote of Napoleon? THE British
seldom win battles" said visitor.
But they always win the last one,
answered Napoleon.-Springfield Re-
publican.
If the U-boat were winning the
war Hindenburg would be fighting a
defensive campaign. - Wall Street
Journal.
The Bolsheviki are again warning
Germany that if she deprives them
of all power of resistance they Will
fght.-Philadelphi North American.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-17
WANTS CAR ADS
70 the Editor of the Telegraph:


Sir-Some one writing in your
Evening Chat column last night said
that the people boosting these War
Stamps, (of which am buyer and
so is my wife) had slipped a cog in
not getting the Traction Company
to put cards on the street cars. He's
right. And the same people have
been so busy fussing around and
talking that they've overlooked the
car ads. You'll find that Mr.. Hoover
hasn't overlooked the car ads and
neither have the Liberty Loaners.
They have worked them to the
queens taste. And the Red Cross
is doing the same thing. But when
thing like the War Stamps that
are the poor mans way of saving
comes along about all you get is
some incidental newspaper advertis-
ing and some news about when some
one is going to a luncheon to make
a report. Us poor people ride in
street cars and we like to look at
the car ads.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-17

which if worked out in flag or sign
form 1 believe would be an attrac-
tive advertisement of the kind you
suggest. I hope you will print it
in the paper and return the picture
which 1 value highly. I think your
idea is a good one. We all must
think of Uncle Sam these days and
two heads are apt to have more
ideas than one even though one is a
cabbage head, as the saying is.
(Signed),
w. S. S. OWNER.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-17
THE DOLLAR SIGN ONLY

"HE brewers and distillers, in an
"anti-prohibition textbook"
just issued, endeavor to debate
the prohibition issue on normal
grounds.
The notion is absurd. The brew
ers and distillers are interested in
the liquor business only for the dol
lars and cents to be made from it.
They are in it because there are
larger profits to be had from it
than from legitimite lines of trade.
Their moral arguments" are mere
camofauge and fool nobody.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-17
PUT IT ON LETrER HEADS

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Now ought we who sell w. S. S.
to advertise them? l for one am
puzzled. L would like to put some
attractive sign in front of my place
of business but 1 have found none
that suits me. A flag of proper de-
sign, l think, would be about the
right thing. We ought all to put
it on our letter heads. 1 do, but
notice others do not. Also, we
ought to have it on our wrapping
paper for parcels. This L have not
done but intend to do. Also on ouI
cash slips and wherever we car
remind the customer that we sell
stamps. Selling stamps is as much
my business now as selling goods on
which 1 get cash profit.
WIN-THE-WAR MERCHANT.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-17
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Frank A Vanderlip, who orig
mated the War Savings idea, used
to be a newspaperman in Chicago.
ID. l.. Gillespie will marshal the
Red Cross parade in Pittsburgh on
Saturday.
DIR. II. P. Haughton, president
of Waynesburg college, will become
president of a Wisconsin college.
Clifford Pinchot is drawing some
bills which he believes will simplify
distribution of foodstuffs.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-17
STATE PRESS

Systematic training in any line OF
work brings wonderful results. we
have had evidences of this in the
transformation of the boys in the
military training camps. Now an
effort is being made to train the
other and younger boys for work on
the farms during the summer
months. There is a halo of ro-
nance about the life of a soldier
and a sailor. That of a farmer boy
may seem proSaic by comparison.
Yet we know that the raising of
food during this war is quite as i'm
portant as fighting in the trenches.
When this is made clear to the boy
who has not yet reached military
age he is usually filled with a desire
to do his part in the great struggle.
Hence the growing popularity of
the training camps for farm work.
ers.-Philadelphia Inquirer.
To scheme for the marshalling of
flVe million men under arms for
service in the war zone; to push
this scheme without hitch or DELAY:
and to give the practical evidence
that this force can and shall be sup
ported at full strength, with a still
vaster force if needed, would be it.
self a definite and complete message
to the Kaiser that his defeat is GER
tain.-Chester Times.
The victory of Lloyd George over
his political enemies is a victory for
the United States. 1t was the United
States that insisted upon co-ordi-
nation on the battlefront; that urged
in strenuous manner that concen-
tration of military authority, so that
the armies could be used inter-
.changeably, was absolutely neces-
sary. To this view the British gov
ernment came in the end. Because
1t did SO, military CLIQUE has
sought its downfall There has been
quite enough of this nagging. Per-
maps, now that the government has
neeh oVerWhelmingly sustained, there
will be less of it.-Pfttsburgb Sn,,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-17
Over tie 1oFs
c~ Pe~xa.
BY BRIGGS

Liquor makes some men brave.
others meek, a few eloquent and
many gallant. One of the last sur
vivors of saloon patronage in Har-
risourS gave up his seat the other
evening to pretty woman carrying
some packages home. Striving to
get his sea legs, he clung to the fare
rope instead of a strap and rang
up for himself enough coin to set up
Red Cross chapter. Good-by,
booze.
Her husband thrust into jail on
his confession of bigamy, the mar
riage romance Of Lille I. Fogel,
only support of her widowed mother,
was shattered the other day in AL
lentown. While on her wedding
trip from Catasauqua she was in
formed that her husband, Clinton
Long. 35 years old, had been married
before and never divorced. The
bride collapsed; told later how her
trustful nature had been at fault,
and went back to work as a book
keeper to support herself and her
mother.
Pennsylvania is buying the fireless
cooker in great quantities since the
food conservation powers recon-
mended it. The latest improved
models are built with an automatic
escapes, being the food free from
safety valve through which the steam
all unpleasant odors. Some are
equipped with an arrangement by
which the cooker is rendered abso-
lutely alright by an automatic hot
water seal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-17
READING RAILROADEF
IN THE LODGEROOMS

To The Editor Of The TeIegrdPh:
Does any member at this time
desire to buy Thrift Stamp?"
That is the question that ought to
form a regular part of every secret
society's business during the war.
Put a sign in every lodgeroom
explaining that this is a w. S. S.
sales agency and then give every
body a chance to buy. You will find
that where a few buy at first many
will follow. 1t is not hard to get
a quarter or more week from any
lodge man in this way and he will
be glad to help.
LODGE MAN.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-17
HARRISBURGER.
GET A BELL AND A DRUM
o the Editor of the Telegraph:

10 Me EoIor OF me IeIegfdPH'
Mr.. Editor-Maybe I've been
asleep at the switch, but if / have
some of those who have been process
sioning around as our leading citi-
zens have had their heads in the
clouds. You ask how to advertise
the War Savings Stamps in your
editorial. In old times when they
wanted to do anything they went
around ringing a bell or got a fife
and drum corps. If some of the
people who have been posing on
committees and telling everyone
how hard they are working for the
Liberty Loan, the Red Cross and
other war matters would go out and
ring doorbells or stamp around at
a corner and beat a drum to get
people to crowd up, 1t would make
our fair city's total pledges run away
up. You can't get people buying by
looking out the front windows.
OLD ROCK THROWER.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-17
DEPENDABLE MEN

iRY EWS comes from France that
N the railroads of that country
are being brought to a higher
state of efficiency during the war by
American railroad men than they
were even in times of peace. Men
who could qualify only as fremen
on this side have proved them
selves as good as the French engi-
neers and many OF them have been
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-17
WORTH THE PRICE

A 1RPLANE mail service between
~ Washington and New York will
be "a cents an ounce. 1t ought
to ny high at that price, but when the
present service is considered, per-
haps 1t will be worth the charge.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-17

President McAndrews. of the To-
bacco Workers International Union,
suggests that tobacco users in the
trade union movement may do a
patriotic work by contributing to the
union label fund of the Tobacco
Workers Union.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-17

OF course, you have observed how
the Prussian exponents of the real
thing in culture carefully avoid doing
anything which might be interpreted
as even technical violation of the
consent of the governed" principle of
government For example, Russia.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-17
advertising Thrift Stamps
WHY NOT A BALLOON?
the Edilor II the TeIegrafh:

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
1t strikes me that your whole
War Savings campaign is up in the
air. So why not get a balloon here
to advertise it? Or maybe you
could get that Frenchman who flew
around here for the Liberty Loan
to come to town again and drop
some Thrift Stamp posters. Or If
you can't get that what's wrong with
some of Bowman's kites? There are
whole lot of people who are not
being reached in this War Stamp
drive and the newspapers are not
giving any too much space to it.
I'm going to give to the Red Cross
but I'm going to save through
Thrifties.
pEAnTNc pATTR0ADER
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-17
POOR PUBLICITY

THE Committee on Public In
formation, which is one of
our most prolific war emergency
producers. passes out the following
warning of a rainy day" to come
as reason for the purchase of War
Savings Stamps and Liberty Bonds:
Some day peace will come.
into civil life. Consider the
vastness of the readjustment that
will be necessary. Look back at
our own Civil War. Prepare for
this new period of reconstruction
The day of reckoning is bound
to come. Begin, to save now.
Thrift is the need of the present,
the hope of the future.
Liberty Loan Bonds, War Saw
ings, the safest securities in the
world, are a wise provision for
the day peace comes.
We can think of many better
reasons for buying war securities.
There is no present sign of a pam
icky readjustment period following
the war. The outlook is precisely
the opposite. Many serious prob
lens will arise for consideration, but
unemployment shows no indication
of being among them. The Com
mittee on Public Information might
revise its advice and stimulate. pub
lie confidence at the same time by
suggesting that thrifty citizens in
vest in Government stamps and
bonds now in order to be able to
reinvest in the many profitable en-
terprises that will follow the war.
Speaker Clark is in entire accord
with the; Washington Administration.
He strongly favors non-partisanism
for the other party and team work in
which Republicans shall do ali the
pulling. It's sorry and inconsistent
spectacle many prominent Democrats
are making Of themselves in these
- - --s----
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-17

We are tempted, not In order to be
ruined, out In order to be made.
Temptation Is Just mans chance of
flying his coIorS.-THoMAs PHILLIPS.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-17

At New London, Conn, new
agreement of Journeymen Tailors'
Union provides for a wage increase
of Is per cent, a nine-hour day, time
and one-half for overtime and an
annual one weeks vacation with pay.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-17

With the object of encouraging
city dwellers to spend their summer
on the farms, the Ontario (Canada)
government has undertaken to pro-
vide the railway fares of legitimate
workers on their outward journey.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-17

Suspension of laws throughout the
country prohibiting married womer
from teaching school has been re.
quested by P. P. Claxton, United
States Commissioner of Education
in order to replace the large number
of teachers who have entered fol
war work.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-17
WHY NOT THIS?
To the Editor of The Tclcgrdbh:

You ask in your editorial column
of yesterday for suggestions, as 1
understand it, for designs for War
Saving Stamp advertising flag to be
displayed at places where stamps
are sold. 1 take the liberty of en-
closing a picture from a photograph
in my possession Ono names used)
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-17
LABOR NOTES

A recent 121h per cent. bonus to
British munition workers is costing
the country 500, 100000 a year.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-17

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.,
telegraph Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-17

Philadelphia methods will not go
among the Republicans of Dauphin
county a sharp rebuke is likely to
be administered next Tuesday.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-17

Member of the Associated Press-The
Associated Press Is exclusively en-
titled TO the use for republication of
4 all news dispatches credited to 1t or
not otherwise credited in this paper
and also the local news published
herein.
lAll rights OF republication of special
/ dispatches herein are also reserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-17

A man got on a street car a day
or SO ago with IS bill and of course
the conductor could not change it.
But the man and the conductor were
businessmen. The man wanted to
ride and the conductor wanted the
fare. The man had nothing small
ler." Then the conductor said Got
any Thrifties?" The man had and
the conductor bought two. The man
had carfare and money for a cigar.
Speaking of the way churches
have taken hold of the Thrift Stamp
campaign it is interesting to note
that st. Matthew's Lutheran Church
gave a "Baby Bond" as a prize to
the member of the congregation
securing the most contributions to-
ward eXtinguishing the church debt.
Its a remarkable fact to me-"
said one of the men who has been
interested in the War Savings. that
farmers have not become more inter
ested in the stamp saving plan. The
criticism has been made that farm
ers are not liberal bond buyers, but
think that is on a fair way to be-
ing overcome. But the stamps have
an appeal and a farmer can buy
every Wednesday or Saturday, as the
ease may ne WIltIl ne tOlhto W lOWil.
And he can get his stamps register
ed. They are an ideal form of invest
ment of small sums. The foreigners
are pretty smooth in getting after
the stamps. They have the system
sized up just as they pile away their
cash in money orders. The fact that
Uncle Sam is behind it appeals to
them. And If you can beat the alien
in calculating interest show me-
That is what the green stamps
have a call at post offices after pay
days.
If there is one thing which appears
to be difficult to get through peoples
heads it is that once stamps are reg
istered they are uncashable, If there
is such a word, by anyone except
the owner whose name is signed on
the Baby Bond card. 1t takes the
familiar sign of $4.16 equals SIS to
get people to realize this. When you
have your card full of twenty-five
cent Thrift Stamps you turn it in
with 16 cents during the month of
May and you get big stamp, known
as Baby Bond, which will be worth
S5 on January 1, 1923. This big stamp
can be registered at the post Office
without cost and once registered It
is yours. You can lose it, but the
finder cannot cash 1t, because If he
does he may get arrested. This is one
of the beauties of the system and If
better understood would mean many
sales.
Among visitors to the city this
week and one much impressed by
the manner in which Harrisburg has
been working for Uncle Sam and
the Red Cross was Ira II. Shoemaker,
sales manager of the Norton Stone
and Lime Co., Albany. Mr.. Shoe
maker was formerly connected with
the Pennsylvania railroad and was
later with the Delaware and Hudson
Company at Albany.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-17

A national labor memorial of
freedom and peace" is being organ
lied and will be considered by a
special conference between the Brit
ish Trade Union congress and the
Labor party shortly. The idea is to
raise $1,500,000 to build national
headquarters for labor at London as
a memorial to trade unionists who
have fallen during the war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-17
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg has been a
stronghold of protective tariff
forces for over seventy-five
years?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-17

! e. ]. .sTACKPoLE,P PrsJ't s. Editor-in- C Chisf
#. r. OYSTER. BHsinssJ Monogsr.
EUS NJ. STEINMBTZ, Managing Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-17

HISTORIC HARRISBURG
Iron and railroads are what have
made Harrisburg from an Industrial
standpoint
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-17
BONE CONSo.
LATION.

I suppose we
will be eating
ell kinds of food
substitutes be-
fore long.
G h G er up,
Germany Is eat
ing substitutes
for food substi-
tutes.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-17

-Guffey Democrats yesterday en-
gineered an endorsement of the
Pittsburgh man by meeting of
Democrats from sll wards of Phila-
delphia and claim that it represents
sentiment as much as the action of
a city committee. Whether the
Eares will tiny that is a matter of in
teresting speculation.
John r. K. Scott seems to have
been worried by the Beidleman in
roads In Allegheny county, as he is
out there again.
Clifford Pinchot is on the stump
again. .-'- '-.ss =. ~
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-17

Speaking of the way churches
have taken hold of the Thrift Stamp
campaign it is interesting to note
that ST. Matthew's Lutheran Church
gave a Baby Bond" as a prize to
the member of the congregation
securing the most contributions to-
ward eXtinguishing the church debt.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-02-26
DOUGLAS CITY DOCK CONTINUES AS SEAT
 OF MUCH BUSINESS

DOUGLAS, Feb. 26.-In the matter of municipal enterprises the City Dock continues to maintain it's rec ord as the busiest enterprise in the town, the report of the wharf com mittee at last nights meeting of the council showing the business of the wharf for the preceding week-sales ( of coal and oil, wharfage and dock age-to have reached the sum of $84515.
 All the members of the council an swered to roll call last night and the usual routine business was dis posed of Considerable time was devoted to the discussion of the case of Victor Von Arx against the city the same having been in existence for several years. No definite ac ton was taken concerning it last night as the members decided it best to secure legal advice before doing anything.
 The Wharf Committee reported as having compiled with instructions relative to the protection of the wharf It also reported coal on hands to the amount of 342 tons.
 Bills amounting to $50.60 were passed and ordered paid and bal
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-02-26
BOWLING INTEREST AWAKENED

DOUGLAS, Feb. 26-ln the hale yon past when sporting blood cour5ed rampant through the systems of Isl anders, there were number of bowl CTS in Douglas who were wont to use such expression as 200 or no count" At a meeting of Hose Com pany No 1 held last night it came out that there are faint traces of that same old sporting blood still lurking in a number of systems and, on invitation from the Treadwell teams composed of selections from the various departments of the fire fighters of that town, it was decid- ed that the Douglas firemen would
 select a team and enter the contest now under way at Treadwell where a splendid set of alleys are main tained. About a dozen of former players volunteered to enter a trying out contest, team to be selected of the five making the best showing.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-02-26
TRAIL WORK FROM
 VALDEZ WILL NOT
 BE ABANDONED YET

Sidney l.. Carter, a member of the Road Commission, stationed at Ju- neau, and well known to all Valdez ans, writing to Eli Larsen, of this city, in response to a query as to whether work would be continued on the government road from Valdez to Willow Creek, states that this road will probably be the last piece of road work abandoned by the govern ment Continuing, MT. Carter writes: Any story to the effect that the Road Commission intends to abandon the road work from Valdez to Will low Creek is purely bunk" In my opinion that will be the last piece of work to be relinquished by the War Department. We expect to expend the same amount on that section the coming year as heretofore pro vided, of course, that we get an ap- propriation from Congress. Another thing, I am not head of the Road Commission. 1 am a member of the board and secretary and disbursinB officer Last summer when General Richardson Was making his plans preparatory to leaving Alaska, he appointed me his assistant, giving me authority to represent him during his absence After the General reached Washington he was relieved from his duties with the board and placed Tn command of the 155th Brigade, Camp Lee, Virginia l was then given q commission in the reserve corps in order that l might be detailed as a member of the board. The General writes me that he intends to appear before the military affairs commit tee this winter and do his annual boosting for funds to carry on the road work in Alaska. At the present time Capt. Waugh is president of the board and also engineer officer. Capt. Waugh is very capable en- gineer and has been in charge of public road work for number of years. Of course, whether he will be able to please Alaskans remains to be seen. A highway engineer who comes well recommended will have charge of the work on the Val dez-Chitina-F Fairbanks road"
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-02-26
ANNUAL REUNION OF WAR VETERANS IN
 LONDON EVENTFUL

LONDON, Feb. 26.-The annual reunion of the American Civil War veterans in London this year was marked by a remarkable display of historic flags, a war ration dinner, and a long program of speeches.
 Colonel Ambrose Pomeroy, and the principal speakers were the representatives of the American Ambassador and the Consul General. Colonel Pomeroy gave san account of his experiences during 1000 nights with the British troops at one of the great London terminals. The expenses of the reunion were met through a special fund pro- vided by American women in Lon don.