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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-11

imperial government is fighting a
war of conquest and not of self-de-
fense.
Trotzky is gone and Kerensky is
gone. but it would not be surprising
If the latter appeared again, for of
all the figures that have had their
brief place in the Russian drama.
he was the sanest and most con-
vincing. He presented @ reasonable
program that could have been work
ed out. But he was ahead of his
time. The Russian people didn't
want reason just then. They. desired
promises. They wanted a magician
with a fairy wand to- wave them
into the enchanted land of a Utopia
where peasants wore the purple and
kings milked the cows and harvested
the grain. They didn't want to work
out their salvation. they wanted their
heaven on earth all ready-made for
them, and Kerensky was no wonder
worker. Then came Trotzky and his
crowd and the people believed their
nonsense. Now the pendulum has
begun to swing back and it may be
that at last reason is to have it's
inning at Moscow.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-11
ONLY A BEGINNING

~ ITY COMMISSIONER HASS-
LER is quite right in saying
that the cleanup now under
way is at best but a make-shift. The
relief from ash accumulations will
be but temporary. Not all cellars
and backyards will be cleaned by the
men now engaged in making the
rounds of the city. So many ashes
accumulated during the winter that
many families could not find recep-
tacles for them. The collectors can
take only what they find ready for
them. At least one more trip will
be required to fully relieve the con-
gestion. After that, as DR.. Hassler
says, regular collections of one kind
or another must be made.
Council has made a good begin
ming, but it is only beginning. To
stop now would be to repeat a con-
dition that has been well nigh in
tolerable for weeks. Doubtless the
councilmen are fully aware of this
and will take the necessary precau-
tions.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-11
CROWDED JAPAN

When we grasp the smallness of
Japan and the size of it's population
we readily understand why the land
is so crowded. Japan proper is a
narrow and diminutive country. Its
area of roughly 10000 square miles
is somewhat smaller than that of
California, while it's population is
twenty time as great.
Moreover, like Italy, Japan is
chiefly a country of mountains, and
its arabic land under cultivation
amounts to only some $4,000 square
miles, a farm area less than one
half of that of the single State of
Iowa. 1t follows that Japan is the
classic land of incentive agriculture.
Its dwarf Yarns are not really farms
at all in our sense of the word. but
gardens. There are no pastures, no
barnyards, but merely little squares
of land, now covered with water,
now filled with mud drying in the
sun, and now vividly green with the
beautiful rice plants. These little
patches of terraced and irrigated
| land have nothing in common with
with our 160-acre farms.
In Japan the average agricultural
family (and there are five and half
millions of them) occupy only tive
and three-quarters acres each. Only
one family in ten has as much as
five acres (two cho) and over one
third of all rural families have farms
| of less than one and one-quarter
acres. 1t is morcellement carried to
a tragic absurdity.-From Asia.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-11
YPRES

If where an Englishman is buried
on foreign soil is called "a little bit
of England" then we may call the
Ypres salient a mighty bit of Cam
ada. If anyone were to inquire what
is the most important city of Can
ada, we might answer unhesitating-
ly, The City of Ypres." The hosts
of our young men who have fallen
in battle round that city have hal
lowed the name for all Canadian
hearts, and rendered the place ours
in the deepest sense.
Montreal, and Halifax. and Van.
couver are among our lesser cities,
but Ypres. where so many of our
brave are buried, shall remain for us
the city of everlasting possessions.
In years to come, the touchstone for
the Maple Leaf will not be Queens
town Heights and Lundy's Lane"
but "Ypres and Lagemark."-
1 stood one night on a certain hill
that commands the firing line in ar
almost boundless panorama. Beside
me was an officer of the Second
Canadian Division, who had just
come out. There that night by its
white trail of iridescent light, we
could trace the course of the firing
line for many miles through France
and Flanders.
Just to our left the line of light
jutted far out, like a lone cape into
the sea, What is that putting out
placer my friend inquired.
That" / answered, 'is the Ypres
salient, the bloody angle of the
British line"
To mention the name of Ypres is
to have ones memory awakened
with q irritable kaleidoscope of pic
lures. That trail of light that jutted
out into the night looked like cape,
and an iron cape 1t has been through
months and years of war. But the
holding of that cape has been at an
awful cost and there was not an
inch along that trailing line of light
that had not cost it's trailing line of
blood.-Arthur Hunt Chute in the
North American Review.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-11
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

j. S. Cursler. Lawrence county
steel manufacturer, has started a
movement to buy tractors to rent
for community use.
The Revs. r. w. Veach, Phila-
delphia Presbyterian clergyman,
and D. e. Marsh, Pittsburgh Metho-
dist minister. will go to France on
religious work among the soldiers.
A. L. Sahm, former mayor of
Carbondale, thought his city needed
some food savings signs. He put
them up himself.
Fire Marshal c.. Chal Port, who
has gone to Florida, has not had a
vacation in ten years.
Alexander +. Smith, secretary
of the Reading city planning COM
mission, was the designer of the
Reading station in this city.
The Rev. J. Wilbur Chairman.
moderator of the general assem- blv
of the Presbyterian church, is MAX
Ing a series of addresses in Phila-
delphia.
W. j. Richards, one of the coal
distributors, has long been vics
president of the Reading coal inter-
ests in Schuylkill county.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-11
PEOPLE ARE SAVING

Evidences are accommodating that
the habit of saving among the
American people, especially among
the patrons of savings banks and
postal savings, is outstripping the fl
nancial demands made upon them
by the Government.
While no exact figures are avail
able at present, it is known that
postal savings deposits have steadily
gained during the year 1917. and
notably since the 1st of July of that
year, which was after the first issue
of the Liberty Loan.
The reports from savings banks
also show a steady gain, and the
same is true of cooperative building
and loan associations.
Nor have the people of small
means been the only savers. 1t Is
estimated that the savings of the
whole people of the United States,
ordinarily $4,000, 100000 to sc, ,O00,-
100000 annually, were increased to
.$14, 100000 to $4,000. 900, 900 in
1917.
The response of the people to the
national need of economy and saw
ing has been general and generous.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-11
SEND THEM HOME

lT\HE farm labor proposition in
l Pennsylvania is simply mat.
ter of mathematics. There are
approximately $4,000 farms in the
Keystone State. In the last few
years number of farms have been
| abandoned. To be frank about it,
it was because the farmers could
not make ends meet. Whether they
were poor business men, badly To-
Gated or got tired, does not matter.
This year more farms may be given
up. The reason assigned is that
they are too big a job for one man.
The women in the farming districts
of Pennsylvania have been doing
their share for years. 1t is not un-
common to see women working in
fields, and we respect them for it,
just as we welcome the women who
have gone into other lines of work
because of war. But the fact re-
mains that the farmers and their
families cannot do all of the work
on the farms.
Reports from Washington lndi-
cate that the next call under the
draft will be made for men accord
ing to occupations. That will pre-
vent further drain upon the men on
the farms, but not meet the diff
Guilty. There are several months in
the year when every hand that
can be secured is needed on Penn
sylvania farms, and they are needed
more than ever in 1918 because of
the demand for an increased food
production.
In the camps this summer
there will be many trained soldiers
whom the Government will not
be able to utilize in foreign fields or
on other duty. They can be fur
loughed for certain periods to work
in the fields. Probably much of
the demand for farm hands can be
met by leaves to farm-bred men.
In the industries and on the rail-
roads there are many men who can
farm, who come from farm, and
who like to farm. They can he
given leave at harvest or such other
time. These are unusual conditions,
and if Uncle Sam and the manufac-
turers act, the farmers should meet
them in the way of pay. There are
some people who think that farmers
have made mistakes in holding back
wheat and potatoes and in not buy
ing Liberty Bonds or Thrift Stamps.
To meet farming conditions it
will be necessary to play tag with
the law of supply and demand. But
the main point is to get the men.
The way to secure them for the
farms is to send them there.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-11
TAX IN INSTALMENTS

~ ENERAL support should be
Nr given by every Chamber of
Commerce, Board of Trade
and businessmen's organization in
Pennsylvania to the bill now pend
ing in Congress authorizing pay
ment of the "eXcess profit" war
tax in instalments. The average
businessman is just now waking up
to what the "excess profit" tax
means. Before long the business
world will be sitting up and yelling.
The State Chamber of Commerce,
which has taken the lead in warn
ing what the effect is going to be
in banking, remarks in a circular
issued a day or SO ago that the
burden can not be cared for with
out the calling of many loans under
the present plan. Industrial com.
munities such as ours will be hard hit
right at the beginning of summer
In suggesting that Congress pass an
act to make the tax payable in in
stalments in June, August, October
and December, the State Chamber
remarks very pertinently:
do you realize what it will mean
If most of the money to meet these
taxes be paid on one day, necessi.
tating disturbance of the banking
business of the country and an in.
convenience to the public because
great numbers of taxpayers must
necessarily seek for banking accom-.
modations at the same time, result.
ing in many being unable easily tc
secure such accommo odations on oil
before June Is, the last day fo,
payment of the taxes.
Realizing the impending strin.
gency. large concerns must com.
mence to withdraw working capita
and reduce the value of their bust.
ness and earnings.
THE effect of the payment of ex.
cess profits taxes at one time on the
banking community has been care.
fully estimated. A typical manufac.
turing city was selected. Bankins
deposits in this city on January 1
1918, were $50,OO0,0OO. The re-
serves on the same day were s12..
100000. The building and loan as
sociations were loaned up on tha
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-11
READY FOR A NEW SCENE

= EON TROTZKY, having acted
his brief part on the stage of
world events, has disappeared
in the wings, much to the relief of
everybody, and the likelihood is we
shall hear of him no more. Trotzky
essayed a role entirely untitled for
him. In the topsyturvy of a nation
turned upside down he suddenly
found himself cast for a heroic part
and he snatched eagerly at the op-
portunity. 1t was as though the
spear-carrying super of a Shake
Bpearian play had, without warning,
attempted the part of chief ira
gedian.
Trotzky-his real name is Leber
Braunstein-was either a foolish
idealist or a tool of Germany, and
1T is not just now apparent which.
AS the former, he offered the child
like peasants of Russia anything
and everything they asked, and more
all to be realized by the Bolshe-
vik government of which he was the
head, within the year. None but an
ignorant man or a knave would have
attempted any such program as that
with which Tratzky endeavored to
appease the liberty land
hungry Russian peasantry. A school
boy student of political economy
could have foresesn it's failure. So
much for Trotzky as a patriot. If,
on the other hand, he was hireling
of the Kaiser he overplayed his part,
for, strange as it may seem, it was
Trotzky's diplomacy which fomented
the recent great strikes in the Ger
man munition factories and which
revealed to the German people the
sruth of the allied charge that the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-11
FRIENDS KNEW HIM

Speaking at political gathering
Senator Jacob II. Gallinger, of New
Hampshire, referred to the bad
breaks we sometimes unthinkingly
make, and told the following story:
Recently noted physician was a
guest at social affair. At the din
ner he was placed beside an elderly
lady whom he had not previously
met. Almost at once the lady be-
gan to talk.
"By the way, DOCTOR" she smil-
ingly remarked, "I am undecided
whether 1 should call you doctor or
professor
"You may call me what you wish.
madame" replied the physician. /
am frank enough to admit, how
ever, that some of my friends call
me an old fossil"
II see. DOCTOR" was the rather
startling response of the woman,
''but, of course, they must be people
who know you, intimately"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-11
wILHELMs SONS AS KINGS

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
This horrible war should not be
arise to the issue, yes the paramount
issue, of winning it from our ruth
less, naughty, imperial enemy.
Fellow citizens, how do you like
the idea of Wilhelm's sons as kings
each respectively of Europe, Asia
Africa, North America and South
America, the five continents, with
the father lord over all?
The thought is quite inspiring
isn't it? Well if you don't want it
you must get to work with determi-
nation and enthusiasm to prevent it
Respectfully,
10. w. MILLER.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-11
EDITORIAL COr1r1ENT

= A war-eXpert is a man who knows
as little about the Russian situation
as you do and admits it.-Brooklyn
Eagle.
Well, anyway, we don't believe
many babies were named for Trotz-
ky.-New York Sun.
Russia gets a crimson light on
peace without a yictory.-Boston
Herald.
Germany is willing to swallow four
of the Presidents peace. terms. The
other ten will be rubbed in.-Pitts-
burgh Post.
A casket for the Bolsheviki in Rus
sia may as we'll be ordered. 1t has
tackled the Church question.-Atchi-
son Weekly Globe.
After some of our blowhards have
talked for an hour of the big things
they would do to can the kaiser if
they were younger, it is appropriate
for them to walk up to the post
office and buy a War Savings stamp.
-Reading New-Times.
A six-hour working day is pre-
dicted by a labor leader. Some
owners of plants now work ] 8 hours
a day and no doubt soon will either
have to work the entire "a or get
job somewhere and work for some
other person.-Newcastle News.
The death of Dr.. Dixon, the state
health and water authority, is the
greatest blow that could be given
to Pennsylvania at this time. He
never allowed politics to be used in
his department, and his work was
always in the interests of the people
as against the labor and capitalistic
interference. He did many great
things for Schuylkill county that
were never made public. Now the
position will very likely be filled by
a political schemer instead of an
unpolitical philanthropist. Here was
wealthy man who killed himself
in laboring for the good of man.
kind.-Pottsville Republican.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-11
THE PEOPLES FORUM
FAN1NEs AND FASuNEs

10 the Editor of the Telegraph:
Dear Sir-Of all the famines that
we have passed through the past nine
months, the worst one is yet to come
and will come before this war is over.
Amos 1-12-13-"Behold the
Gays come saith the Lord God, that
l Will send a famine in the land"
Not famine of bread, nor a thirst
for water but of hearing the words
OF the Lord and they shall wander
from sea to sea and from the north
even to the east they shall run to
and fro to seek the Word of the Lord
and shall not. find it, in that day
shall the fair virgins and young men
faint for thirst
Respectfully yours.
SHORTY MUMMA,
A Reader.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-11
ONLY ONE SOLUTION

n ERRY county is again entirely
dry" and there is none to OBJ
ject save only those who are
financially interested. Prohibition
by judicial decree is the Joker in
the Brooks high license law, which
leaves the question of saloon or no
saloon entirely within the discre-
tionary powers of the judiciary. But
it is scarcely a fair statute that
would permit a dry" judge in a
"wet" county to override popular
sentiment by ruling out the liquor
selling privilege, or for a wet
judge in a county where a prepon-
derance of temperance sentiment
exists to flaunt the barroom in the
face of an opposing public.
There is only one way to correct
the evil of drink, and that is by
national prohibition.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-11
Soedier So~q4
TENTING TONIGHT

IENIING TONIGHT
were tenting tonight on the old
camp grounds,
Give us a song to cheer
Our weary hearts, song of home,
And friends we love so dear.
CHORUS.
Many are the hearts that are weary
tonight,
Wishing for the war to cease:
Many are the hearts looking for the
right,
To see the dawn of peace.
Tenting tonight, tenting tonight
Tenting on the old camp grounds.
We've been tenting tonight on the
old camp ground,
Thinking of days gone by,
OF the loved ones at home that gave
the hand, -
And the tear that said "good-by!'
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-11
Blessing Upon Church

And it shall come to pass in that
day, that the mountains shall drop
down new wine, and the hills shall
flow with milk, and the rivers of
Judah shall flow with waters, and
fountain shall come forth of the
house Of the Lord.-Joel iii, IS.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-11
Where Did He Get IT?

Trotzxy is now said to be worth
S500,0 900. Probably 1t is meant that
he has picked UP that amount some
where. However, we take back the
mplication-Trotzky is probably
worth 100000 to the Kaiser.-Chi-
cago Daily News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-11

date. The total estimated local tax.
individual and corporate. which this
city wifi have to pay to the Govern
ment on or before June Is. 1913,
10 from s1s,oo0,ooo to s2o,o0o,ooo."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-11
LABOR NOTES

The Brotherhood of American Lo-
comotive Engineers has been asked
to furnish so men for service on
United States tanks"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-11

During January 10000 applied for
work to the New York State Bureau
and posts were found for 5000 of
them.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-11

Women workers in New York are
combining to resist low war wages
which they claim will be forced up
on them.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-11

New York magistrates are urging
that chauffeurs be forced to pass a
competency test before being Ii
censed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-11

The average wage increase of
S3 1-3 per cent. asked by railroad
men in this country would amount
to $50, 100000 annually.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-11
Hodrding in the Zoo

A careful survey of the local ele-
phant convinces one that it is hoard
ing more hide than it can possibly
use.-From the Chicago News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-11

BY and by we are going to discover
that three severe slaps on the wrist
must be supplemented by a moose or
a bullet in dealing with pro-Germans
in this country.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-11

A Senate bill proposes that each
Government employe to whom a
child is born should automatically
have his pay increased.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-11

The price of some of the new spring
hats is enough to make a silver dollar
feel like a plugged dime.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-11

Following Maryland's example,
the State of New Jersey has passed
law compelling male idlers to turn
their hand to useful work.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-11

New York women object to voting
in barbershops and saloons, and if
they are patient a little while they
will have only the barbershops to
rave about.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-11

The Adler bill. forcing employers
to allow employees two hours at all
elections, has been passed by the
New York State Assembly.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-11

Few poker players will worry over
the decision recently rendered in New
York that gamblers must pay an in
come tax on their winnings.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-11
THE INCOME TAX

SALARY, COMMISSIONS. ALLOWANCES ETC. MUST ALI BE
REPORTED
rem
addition thereto
plus value
to sue of the allowances,
A n the
EQUALS
exceeds $500 for the tax
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-11
MONDAY MARCH ii, 1918

One, hdrboring ambition, goes
To tasks the lazy man toould Sbun
And If he goVerns men or hoes,
The days are all too short: he knotoS
No peace until his toork is done,
Until the goal he seeks is a1on.
S. e. KIsER.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-11

A mass-meeting of Ulster farm
ers has been held in Belfast, Ire
land, for the purpose of consolidat-
ing the agriculturists of the northern
provinces.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-11
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg has become
great center for men to be
especially inducted into the
United States Army?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
Governor Curtin used to make re-
cruiting speeches in this city's
square early in the Civil War.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-11
OUR DAILY LAUGH

did your daughter learn much at
the cooking school,"
"Weti. she learned how to make a
lot of dishes we can't afford to eat"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-11
ADRIFT.

"I see Newpop at the club quite
often since his baby came. l thought
he was anchored to q home life."
HE was, but at the first squall he
began to drag his anchor"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-11

Timothy Shea, acting president of
the Brotherhood of Firemen, claims
that colored members of his organi-
cation. are paid less than white men.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-11

published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING Co.
Telegraph Building, Federal Square.