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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-26

WOOD--WOOD-W
Fine wood, cut short, oak, specially
cut for fireplace. i. j. Marter, Bell
S9-J. Steelton.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-26

two STORY BRICK ROUSSEAU
imnroVements. front porch, bay win
dow. Z rooms. nice yard, drive aIlev.
room for garage: 500 down, pay a.
rent. Also several 3-stOry bricks
All Improvements.
Three small houses, suburbs of
steelton; 500 down. balance as rent.
or will exchange on small farm or
city property. Liberty Bonds accepted.
G. IL. CORDER,
1922 Green ST. Bell 560J,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-26

GET your bargains in heaters and
cooking stoves. We also sell general
household goods of all descriptions.
We pay highest cash prices. New
mark a. Cow n, sos Broad street.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-26
APARTMENTS FOR RENT
APARTMENTS WANTED

956 SOUTH TWENTY FIRST ST. is
vacant. Price, S1,600-s25O down =
s25 a month for 5 months-then So
, month Liberty Bonds accepted. Ii.
G PedIow, 3 South Thirteenth street
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-16

manufacture others to take their
place in the market, would require
materials and labor. In addition,
to get the article to him labor and
freight space would be required. BY
doing without the article, he has
left free a certain amount of ma
terial to be used for war purposes,
a certain amount of labor to be used
In the same way, and he has also
relieved to a certain extent the
transportation facilities of the coun-
try.
This may not be much in the indi-
vidual case, but when hundreds of
thousands and millions of Ameri-
cans pursue this course it means
millions and millions of dollars
loaned the Government. tremendous
quantities of materials left for uses
of the Nation in this war. millions
of hours of labor free to do war
work, and a vast amount of freight
space free for national uses.
These sacrifices are easy to make;
are small and trivial compared to
the sacrifices that our soldiers and
sailors make daily while they offer
constantly. their lives for their coun-
try, the greatest sacrifice of all.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-16
DO 1T NOW
New York Timesl

Subscribing to the Liberty Loan
should not be left to the last mo-
ment. What is wanted is not the
taking of the issue by a few, but by
the many. 1t is desired to have so
many million subscribers that the
mere recital of their numbers will
give confidence in us to our allies,
and be assurance of Americas de-
termination, not of the determination
OF a certain percentage of Ameri-
cans. AS many subscribers as pos
sible, not merely the subscription of
the whole amount that is the object
But the more subscribers the govern
'ment seeks the bigger and longer be-
comes the task, and therefore the
man who does most to help the gov
ernment is the man who shortens it
by getting his subscription in early.
The fate of the world is being
weighed in smaller scales every day.
The future depends, at this moment,
not on great number of campaigns
being fought in many quarters of the
globe, but on the narrow question
whether the troops now engaged in
Flanders and Picardy can hurl the
Germans back or must themselves
succumb. In such a terrific hour as
this the question is not whether a pa
triotic American should subscribe to
his country's war expenses or not,
for that question is not be argued. 1t
is whether he should give his answer
so quickly that it will be heard in
Flanders and in Picardy. This loan
will be taken, but it should be taken
with rush, and the sound of the
rush should be heard on the firing
line.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-16
CIVIC CLUBS WORK

" HE manifold activities of the
Civic Club are realized by few
rot closely identified with the
organization and a perusal of the
clubs annual report, as submitted
by the president, Mrs. Henderson,
is a revelation indeed to the un-
initiated. The club has had a large
part in the development and inn
provement of Harrisburg for the past
decade and more, but it was not un-
til it came into possession of its
beautiful and commodious clubhouse
at North and Front streets that its
efforts were centralized and it took
its place as one of the permanent
Institutions of the city, with its own
headquarters and it's well-defined
radius of effort.
The past year has been remark
able for the fact that the club, while
engaged in many war services, did
not for a moment lose sight of that
other large duty, which is to keep
up civic pride and a continuance of
civic improvement projects during
the period when publicI attention
through concentration upon the war
is apt to permit laXity oncerling
local matters. The club also has its
eye on the future and the program
so far as outlined by the presidents
reports is we'll worthy of study.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-16
Memorable Days in History

tFrom Life.
The day he discovered the fire in
the lumber yards and turned in the
alarm.
The day he sat on the seat next
to the driver and was allowed 20
exercise the fire horses for a whole
block.
The day Uncle Alfred treated him
to a box seat at the ball game.
The day he made home run
the ball he hit having landed on
the nose of a policeman.
The day he was introduced to
beautiful little girl from Belgium,
and went right up and kissed her.
The day the minister and his w:fL
who were invited to dinner, didp t
come-and he was told to eat their
desert.
The day he found S5 gold piece
while shoveling the snow.
The day he explained to company
that his parents were inclined to
quarrel at times.
The day he took first prize at
school for selling Liberty Bonds.
The day Aunt Prudence caught
him hitching onto a brewery truck.
The day he tried out his fathers
corncob.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-16
Over he Iofs
s~ Penxa.

Except the war itself no one
topic so concerns a great bulk
of Pennsylvania's citizens as the
Americanization Conference now in
session at Washington. Ex-senator
Lafayette Young, of Iowa, represents
the faction demanding total sup
preston not only OF foreign language
newspapers but use of German
language, German music and every
thing Teutonic." IF 1 were Presi-
dent 1 should tomorrow suppress
every German newspaper in Amer
ica," Young. said. Ninety per cent
of the German language teachers in
elementary schools are traitors" He
qualified this by saying it referred
to the Northwest-chiefly Mime
sofa.
One of the German big guns with
a range of eighty miles killed eight
chickens in Paris. No, Rastus, this
would not pay; better keep to the old
style; off the roost by hand
There seems to be something in
name after all. Baltimore papers
report the case of a taxicab driver,
IRA Hogg, thirty -five-years old, who
has been committed to Jail for goug-
ing soldier passenger, who had
wandered into Baltimore's redlight
district.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-16
Bryan q Joke as Leader"

[From the New York Worldl
William II. Anderson, state super
intendent of the Anti-Saloon League,
has issued for publication an article
written by him for the forthcom-
ing number of the American Issue,
official organ of the league, in which
the Dry Federation, William Jen-
nings Bryan, it's president, and Pro-
fessor Charles Scanlon, one of its
founders. are attacked.
In this article Mr.. Anderson con-
tends that the Dry Federation was
organized in a moment of sore
headedness" and as a partisan body.
which facts, he asserts, make it i'm
possible for it to aid in the downfall
of the liquor traffic.
"As a leader" Mr.. Anderson writes
"Mr. Bryan is frankly a joke, so far
as the prohibition movement is con-
cerned, though as an eloquent speak
er in behalf of the prohibition move
ment he is most highly desirable
addition to the temperance ranks. y
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-16
A PLEA

Believe me, Mr.. Hoover, I've been
doing as you ask.
Though cutting down the meat and
wheat has been a painful task
love a juicy porterhouse and pork
chops give to me
A gastronomic happiness akin to &C.
stacy:
Yet still I'll heed your least request
and bark to every warning,
But, leave, oh leave my sausage in
the morning.
I'm cutting down on sugar and on
milk and cream as well,
always take my lunches at Hoov-
erized hotel,
But in this frosty weather when the
tempest howls outside
There's so much warmth and COM
fort in a sausage crisply fried
1t has scent ambrosial L cannot
think of scorning,
prithee, leave my sausage in the
morning.
With buckwheat cakes and sirup it's
q gorgeous combination
Which fills the inner mortal with a
sense of vast elation;
I've never learned to breakfast on
some coffee and roll,
And so | make my plea to you in
humbleness of soul;
Take, take my wheat and meat and
such the dinner board adorning,
But leave. on leave, my sausage in
the morning!
BY Berton Braley, Judge.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-16

IF 1 DON'T buy a Liberty Bond
what may happen?
- l may be taxed double or treble
as much to pay the Kaiser.
Is this joke?
1t is not a joke but fact based
upon historic precedents.
How is 1t fact?
If America does not win this war
Germany will win the war.
If Germany wins the war what
will the Kaiser do?
He will do precisely as his grand
father did in 1871 after he had de-
feated France.
What did old Kaiser William do
to France?
He made a cash profit of more
than 100 per cent. out of that war.
Anything else?
Yes, the old Kaiser stole from
France two valuable provinces,
which we would call states in Amer
ica.
How much were those provinces
of Alsace and Lorraine worth?
More than a billion dollars.
What then was the Kaiser's total
profit on the war of 1871?
over 100 per cent. in cash and
200 per cent. more in real estate.
How did he get 100 per cent. profit
in cash?
That war cost Germany, as its
own official report shows, about
$4SO,000,O00, and the indemnity col
lected from France was $1,000,0OO,-
900.
So the Kaiser paid for his war
and had over $500,000,00O cash left
Exactly.
And the stolen provinces?
They were worth more than dou-
Bile Germany's cost of war or over
200 per cent. on the military invest
ment.
How much has the present war
"a All told, over $4,000, 900, 900 to
date.
If Germany won the war from
America in another year, how much
would the total cost to Germany be
At least $45,000. 100000.
If the living Kaiser did to his
enemies what his grandfather did
to France, how much indemnity will
he collect from them?
over 100000. 100000 in cash and
as much more in real estate.
What would Americas share OF
this s9O,OOo,O0O,OOo cash indemnity
be?
AS the United States is the rich
est of the Kaiser's foes. he could and
would impose the greatest portion
upon us.
How much?
He could not very we'll use ouI
real estate, so that he should un-
doubtedly take it all out in money.
How much money?
Not less than $40, 900, 900.
BY what means would he collect
this money?
The same method the old Kaiser
used against France.
What was that method?
Kept an army in France until the
very last dollar was paid.
How long a time did the old Kaiser
give the people of France to pay that
billion dollar war tax?
! Only three years.
But IL I don't buy Liberty Bond
and help win this war, and Germany
does win it, how could Germany
reach me personally and force me tc
pay?
Through the United States Gov
ernment.
How would the United States raise
$40, 900, 100000 of indemnity to pay
| the Kaiser?
AS France raised it-by taxes and
bond issues.
Would our country be forced tC
pay2
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-16
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

w. C. McEldowney, the big Pitts
burgh banker, has been elected
director of the Chicago and North
western.
Bishop Garvey, of Altoona, Is
taking vacation at the seashore-
Ernest T. Trigg, president of the
Philadelphia chamber of commerce.
does not consider that the study or
German is important from a COM
mercial standpoint.
Thomas Dewitt Cuyler, promi-
nent Philadelphia financier, has been
elected a director of the Western
Union.
Harry K. Boyer, who resigned
as food administrator of Mont
gomery county because he found
that he had to pay all expenses him.
self, was formerly State Treasurer.
The Rev. John Baer Stoudy, who
organized the Pennsylvania Hugue-
not Society, has been reelected pre-
sident.
Reed Knox, son of the senator
has enlisted in the United States
cavalry.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-16
If You Don't Buy Bonds

1t would
Would I ever get any of that
money back?
Never one cent of it.
Would no part of, that $4,000
100000 ever come back to the
United States?
Not a dollar.
How then does buying a Liberty
Bond differ from buying a bond to
pay Germany or paying a tax to Ger
many?
When buy a Liberty Bond 1 do
not give my money to Uncle Sam.
merely lend it to him, and l can
get it back any hour of any day 1
wish to.
What is a war indemnity like?
1t is like the purse stolen from
you by a pickpocket.
Is the money lost for all time?
Absolutely.
So if l don't buy a Liberty Bond,
which is simply lending my money
to my country to win the war, the
German pickpocket may take fully
double as much and never give it
back?
That is correct.
Is it better then to put all my
savings in a Liberty Bond rather
than run the risk of losing those
savings and as much more?
1t is far better.
Please illustrate.
1t costs nothing to invest in n
bond. because Uncle Sam will pay
me interest on my money and give
I u
The indemnity is a 100 per cent
loss without any hope of recovery.
How will Germany levy an indem-
nifty if. it wins the war?
. BY blockading all our ports and
seizing cities as the United States
seized Vera Cruz.
| Would that bring us to our
| knees?
| 1t would.
Why so?
Because a blockade would cost us
even more than the indemnity. Even
n self-imposed embargo laid by
President Thomas jefferson cost the
| United States almost as much as the
subsequent War of 1912.
A Liberty Bond fights for Amer
lea. An indefnity bond would pay
Ifor Germany's victory over us.
A Liberty Bond adds to our own
safety. An indemnity bond would
ensure Germanys dominance over
us.
A Liberty Bonds feeds and arms
ian American soldier. An indemnity
bond would pay for the gun and
food of a German soldier.
A Liberty Bond means upholding
the glories of our Union handed
down to us by Washington and Lin
coin. An indemnity bond would
fasten upon the world an everlast-
| ing reign of Prussian tyranny from
which the ancestors of millions of
Americans were once forced to flee
in terror.
Take your choice. Lend your
dollars temporarily to Uncle Sam or
give them away outright to Kaiser
William.
| GIRARD
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-16
SAVING DOES 1T

NEARLY every bank stands ready
v to sell you a Liberty Bond on
the dollar-down-d n-dollar-a-week
plan. Surely you can save enough
out of your earnings to make that
sacrifice for the Government You
don't want the boys to come home
from the front, where they are fight
ing and risking their lives for wages
less than mere lads receive at home,
and have to tell them that you
thought so little of them over in
France that you declined to help
them even $50 worth. They'll ask
about it, never fear. These boys
who are fighting for us are going to
find out who stood by them in the
crisis and they are not going to feel
very kindly toward those who went
on spending their money recklessly
and carelessly instead of putting it
where it would help keep the army
in munitions and food.
The way to get a dollar week,
il you have trouble saving that sum,
is to deny yourself and your family
one dollars worth of the things
they can do without.
When an American citizen, in
stead of spending 81 a week or $50
a year for something he wants. de-
nies himself and lends the money
to the Government he performs a
double service.
First, he furnishes the Govern
ment with $50 to use in the prose-
cution of the war.
Second, he has relieved to the ex-
tent of $50 the drain on our goods
and services;" that is, materials and
labor. TO make the article or arti-
Giles he would have bought or to
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-16
TwO-cent Papers the Rule

All of the five daily newspapers of
ST.. Louis are now on n two-cent
basis. The three afternoon newspa-
pers-Post-D Dispatch, Star, and Times
increased their price from one TO
two cents April 1, simultaneous an
nouncements of the increase having
been made March 20. The Globe
Democrat and the Republic. the
morning papers. advanced from one
to two cents on August / and Au-
gust 2. 1916, resp sctively.
The greatly increased cost of pro-
ducing newspaper was given as the
reason for. the new price.-Exchange.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-16
AFTER-WAR TRADE
n RESIDENT WILSON having

n RESIDENT WILSON having de-
clared that force without stint
or limit must now be used to
suppress the Hun, every ounce of
strength should be exercised to
bring about righteous peace. It is
strongly intimated that outside the
military power that is now being
utilized on the part of the United
States economical resources are be-
ing modified so that even after the
war, Germany must suffer for her
horrible crime. There is a wide
spread sentiment in favor of dis
elimination against after-war Ger
man trade. Already the business
men of the United States, through
the national Chamber of Commerce,
have voted almost unanimously in
favor of discrimination against Ger
man trade so long as the military
autocracy exists.
In short, unless the German peo-
pie come out of their obession and
overturn the war lords they must
expect to be outside the pale of CIV
ilized nations.
There is confidence in the final
outcome of the great struggle, but
we must be patient through an or
deal such as has never before con-
fronted the people of this country.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-16
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

DOLITICAL activity tnat oiSre-
! CARDS and is Indifferent to the
serious thought of the people in the
present world crisis will react upon
those who fail to understand the
temper of the average American cit
iZen. Those so obsessed with their
own ambitions that they do not
grasp the strong undercurrent Of
protest against purely partisan or
'actional activity are riding for a
hard fall. 1t is as certain as that
day follows night the people are
soing 10 resent the overplaying OF
the political game at this time
When the heart of the nation is
overseas with the boys who are
fighting for humanity and our own
Liberties, it ought to be apparent
10 noisy and selfish political groups
that they are out of join; with the
spirit and purpose of the people.
OF course, we must observe our
civic obligations and discharge to
the utmost our civic duties, but it
does not follow that we shall be
so engrossed in these things as to
fail IN the performance of those
higher obligations growing out of
the struggle in which we as a people
are engaged.
In the nomination of candidates
for public service. partisanship and
factional controversy have mighty
little place under the circumstances
Thousands of our people arc think
ing II the outcome of the titanic
ronflI@: fer the preservation c! our
civilLtt'on; thev re little corlernac
with The bicke"i1s and the ha,h-
strinsi'.g and the II sincerity OF men
who refuse to visualize the vital fac
tors involved in the world war.
So far as the Republican party is
concerned in Pennsylvania-who
traditions justify the hope that oul
political lea3crs and the men OF all
parties will adjust their activities to
present-day conditions-it ought to
be understood here and now that
any aspirant for public preferment
who so far forgets the obligations
of citizenship as to place his per-
sonal ambitions ahead of his duty
as a patriotic citizen is undeserving
the consideration of the people
without regard to party or any affll-
alton whatsoever.
1t is now our country first, and It
is reasonable to expect that all DO
litical activities will be conformed
to the unprecedented conditions
which now affect all thoughtful
citizens. Away with all bitter con-
troversy, personalities and factional
or partisan machination!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-16
Into the Ranks

You will find at the present mo-
ment that whenever an understand
ing of the war penetrates the brain
of any man, whether he be laborer,
Socialist, banker, reformer, priest or
poet, from that moment he steps,
willy-nilly. out of his own rank and
class and into the fighting ranks of
the Republic.-John Jay Chapman
in the Outlook.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-16
WHAT WILL 1T BUY?
TTT HAT will the money from one
wv $50 Liberty Bond do?
Well, here are few

WV SOO LlbSIlS bOlu 40
Well, here are few
things:
1t will protect 1000 soldiers from
smallpox and 666 from typhoid. 1t
will assure the safety of 139 wound
ed soldiers from lockjaw, the germs
of which swarm in Belgian soil.
ut will render painless 400 opera
tions, supply ? miles of bandages-
enough to bandage 555 wounds.
1t will care for 100 injuries in the
way of "first-aid packets"
1t will furnish adhesive plaster
and surgical gauze enough to bene-
fit thousands of wounded soldiers.
Every purchaser of a Liberty Loan
Bond performs a distinct individual
service to his country and to our
boys fighting in France.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-16

Count Czernin has been forced to
resign because he told the wrong va
riety of lie.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-16

Russia appealing to Germany to
rescue the Armenians puts one in
mind of a sheep begging a wolf to
save lamb from a bear.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-16

Drug clerks at Woodstock, Canada,
stop work at p. m. every evening
except Saturday.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-16

When Germans meet Americans
some few of the Germans manage to
get back to their trenches.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-16

1t must be fine to be n son of the
Kaiser and have somebody else fight
all your battles for you.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-16

A Berlin housewife now has to use
Sc different cards when she goes
shopping.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-16

Canadian Flaxgrowers' Association,
in convention at London, Ontario,
deplored the scarcity of labor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-16

On May at Joliet, ILL.,, Amalga-
mated Association of Iron, Steel and
Tin Workers will convene.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-16
LABOR NOTES

Montreal (Canada) local union of
street railway men has 1900 mem
bers.
Surgeon-General Gorgas has ap-
pealed to American women to begin
training as nurses.
Drug clerks at Woodstock. Canada,
stop work at s p. m. every evening
except Saturday.
A Berlin housewife now has to use
Sc different cards when she goes
shopping.
On May at Joliet, ILL.,, Amalga-
mated Association of Iron, Steel and
Tin Workers will convene.
Canadian FlaXgrowers' Association,
in convention at London, Ontario,
deplored the scarcity of labor.
Returned Canadian soldiers will
constitute a small colony of farm ers
in Northern Ontario.
Commissioner of Education Clax-
ton urges that married women be
called to fill the dearth of teachers.
In eight cities classes in banking
have been provided for women who
have been employed as bank clerks.
Many of the United States airplane
plants are employing women as fore
women. and their efficiency is claim
ed to be far better than the men.
Experimenters in New Zealand
have succeeded in producing pig iron
on q commercial scale from iron
sands found in that country,