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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-25
THE AUTOMOBILE SHOW

rTARRISBURG automobile deal
RI ers will be prepared to-mor-
row to show us the very latest
designs in motor trucks and the
most advanced styles in passenger
cars-for, be it understood, there is
no longer any such thing as
"pleasure car" The big show that
will be opened tomorrow evening is
staged at great expense and the
motor merchants have brought to-
gether an assemblage of automo-
biles and power. vehicles that would
do credit even to a metropolitan ex-
hibit. 1t will be both interesting and
instructive. Whether or not you
own a car or contemplate the pur-
chase of one at an early date, you
can spend an hour there very profit
ably.
There were those who predicted
that the war would cause the bot
tom to drop out of the automobile
market, but just the opposite is apt
to happen. With the railroads con-
gested and only food and fuel being
shipped, men are looking as never
before to the motor truck as a solu-
tion of the local freight problem.
With passenger schedules all shot to
pieces and half the trains off the
road the public finds itself forced
to look to automobiles for trans
portation. and thousands of them
will be taking the places of accom-
mediation trains next spring and
summer.
The motor driven vehicle is just
coming into its own. 1t is no longer
toy, but an essential factor in
modern business. 1t commands your
attention. Go to the show and view
its latest developments.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-25
AVOID FACTIONALISM
ALTOONA Tribune /

The leaders of the Republican
party should be big enough and pa
triotic enough in this emergency to
abandon faction and unite upon a
candidate not prominently identified
with recent bitterness.
The party in Pennsylvania is rich
in statesmen. There are gentlemen
who have not, been intimately con-
nected with the recent factional de-
velopments and whose elevation to
the office of chief executive would
be an honor to the state. There is
former Governor Stuart, whose splen-
did record endeared him to the peo-
pie and whose administration was
absolutely impervious to criticism.
(Here the Tribune adds the names
OF u. S. Senator Knox, w. d. b,
Ainey and Charles E. Patton and says
farther):
Any one of these gentlemen-and
the list is not meant to be an ex-
haustive one-would harmonic and
consolidate the party, provided he
stood upon platform which com
mended the Republican party to the
confidence of a majority of the
voters. But the platform is going to
be an important matter and must not
be neglected. Let us have done with
the factional antagonisms, of Phila-
delphia and Allegheny counties, and
to that end let our candidate come
from some other section of the state
and be free from factional affilia-
tions.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-25

ing,' you are displaying an unpar-
donable ignorance of France and the
spirit of France to-day.
Here is an instance of what I
mean. You know the great artist,
Lemordant, he was before the war
like the god of the seas, a specimen
of manhood it was a joy to look
upon; well, he was shot blind, abso-
lutely blind; his work, his joy in
life taken in one moment away
from him.
After he came out from the hos
pital 1 went to see him in his fa-
nous studio. l forgot completely
that the man was blind, so gay he
erything, so indomitable and so con-
vinced that France would conquer,
and conquer soon. When 1 rose to
go I said: oh, now you will show
me those marvels,' waving my arms
toward the walls where cleaned the
pictures that have made him fa-
nous.
Not a shadow crossed his face.
GaylY he said to me: Not l now,
someone else will show YOU I was
miserable at my cruel thoughtless-
ness, but when / tried to tell him of
my grief he smiled and said: oh,
1T is only that the eyes of the artist
are closed, there is nothing to grieve
about, the beauty remains and for
ever will remain
II am the father of three SOL
diers; the youngest of them fell on
the battle field of Lorraine. He had
been blinded in one eye and as soon
as he got out of the hospital he
went back to the front again. One
night he crawled out to No Mans
Land to bring in the body of his
captain, and as he was doing it
they shot him. AS he was dying
and they asked him if he had any
message to send, he said:' Tell only
to my father that l am dying like a
Breton He was just 1S.
THAT is the spirit of France; that
is why 1 tell you that the concep-
ton of a bleeding France is an in
suit to my country"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-25
It Isn't BLEEDING France

NE ONSIEUR Anatole lie Braz
WI finds that in America .o-day
there exists a certain miscon-
ceptlon of France; monsieur regrets
that so often when he picks up an
American newspaper or an American
magazine he should find in :he
countless articles devoted to a wholly
iaudatory appreciation of his coun-
Try the unfortunate words bleeding
France"
Monsieur insists that that unhappy
adjective is misfit and that every
conception it gives of his native land
Is erroneous and exceptionally mis-
leading.
And monsieur has a peculiar right
TO speak for France, and a peculiar
right to be heard in America.
Anatoie LIE Braz is to-day the
french representative of the old
Celtic literature, whose more than
twenty volumes of poetry and prose
nave only one theme, his own land
OF Brittany; several of his books
nave that last distinction of French
literature, the crowning of the
French Academy; he is known
throughout the world as one of the
great writer's of the France of the
twentieth Century.
cannot tell YOU" monsieur says,
how repellent is to me that phrase
l meet with constantly here-'bleed- =
ing france. Now, an individual who
is bleeding is generally an object of
commiseration, an unpleasant object
to look upon and one that suggests
exhaustion and a certain lowering of
Vigor. To-day France is the exact
antithesis of that.
France is upright; she is alert in
every fiber; she is indomitab BILE. New
er has she been more vigorous. She
is the epitome of valor and the ex-
preston of uncomfortable will: she
is untiinching and she is girt with
strength.
She has lost during these last
three years her brightest and her
best, but those who are left, if you
picture them as broken and bleed
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-25
DROP THE LITTLE MEN

Senator Chamberlain, a Democrat
and Chairman of the Senate Com
mittee on Military Affairs, said this
on Saturday:
THE military establishment of the
United States has fallen down.
There is no use to be optimistic
about thing that does not exist. 1T
has almost stopped functioning, my
friends. Why? Because of ineffi-
cheney in every bureau, in every de-
partment of the Government of the
United States"
This is alarming testimony, and it
is authoritative. There is corrobor-
alton from many sources. Coal
shortage is but one item, and a
minor one, of the general collapse.
Curtailment of industry is but a To-
cal application, it will not cure grave
constitutional ills. The cause of the
breakdown is plain. President Will
son has chosen for the performance
of these great tasks inferior and in
competent men who must trust far
too much to his constant direction
and guidance. They are helpless
without him, and as he cannot mas
ter all the enormous detail of the
administrative business, failure and
collapse are inevitable.
There is but one remedy, it is in
the PreSldenIS nands. III we are
not to fail miserably in the great
war work we have undertaken he
must replace the incompetents by
men equal to their tasks, able to
bear and willing to assume respon-
sibility, leaving the President free
for his higher duties. We cannot
win the war with staff of clerks
all the time running to their chief
for instructions. The President
needs big men about him.-New
York Times
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-25
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

William Potter, State Fuel Ad-
ministrator, says that his present
job is one of the kind he used to
read about other people having.
C. T. Davies, Reading food ad-
ministrator, is effective in dealing
with violators. He made a man who
sold on Monday put a card in his
window apologizing for his action.
&C. w. Koons, head of the Ly-
coming Supervisors for another year,
has been one of the road boomers of
that section.
Congressman Thomas S. Butler,
chairman of the Republican dele
cation from this state in Congress,
has been a member for almost twen-
ty years.
Judge w. d. Porter, of the Su-
perior Court appears to have lined
up half the counties of the state for
his denomination.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-25

ready to cheer a Democrat Rs
Republican, and just as quick to
censure. This war is not going ia
be won either by Democrats or Re-
publicans. If it is to be won at I'll
IT must be won by all of us of all
creeds and all parties.
This is so self-evidenI that II re-
quires no demonstration, put IL PROOF
be asked we need only to turn TO
England or to France, "here
coalition cabinets and governments
were found to be necessities very
early in the war. Sooner or later we
shall be forced to a similar COURSE
in America. Woe be to him WHO
thinks that this is one-mah ooh-
flict who believes that the reins OF
novver can he concentrated in q
single pair of hands.
In the language of President VIII
son, SO aptly quoted by Colonel
Roosevelt yesterday, it is the duty OF
Congress to sift the purposes and ac-
tivities of all government officials and
to keep the public informed concern
ing its practices and purposes In or
der that the country may intelhgeht-
lv support the government in every
proper move. This is the practice oil
"pitiless publicity" which the Presi-
dent advocated when he entered the
White House, but it is not In keeping
with his present-day effort to hold
down the lid on administration IN
efficiency and error by squelchlns
Senators and Congressman VINO dare
tell the public of conditions as tney
exist.
This war can be successfully con-
aucted only by the intelligent sup
mort and cooperation of all the peo-
nile. and to the end that they may
know the extent of the effort ana
required of them they must
have the truth, the whole truth anu
nothing but the truth. If reputauons
must be shattered and men IN hisil
nIaces denoted for the winning Oh
the war, that is too bad, but never
theless off with the heads of any VINO
stand between us and success. Ihat
is war. We will use to the extent Oh
their abilities and cast aside scores
of good men before this conflict enos'
That also is war. We must suffer, ana
bleed. and die; and that too is war
But by efficiency in high place, by
speeding up our preparations and by
substituting patriotism for politics
at washington we shall greatly re-
suce our suffering and our sacrihces
and get this awful business over the
more quickly. That is all Colonel
and Senator Chamberlain
and others of their kind desire. so
.ong as they can support the Presi-
dent and be true to those principles
80 long they will support him whole
neartedly. But when Presidential
oolicv and the convictions of men as
bile TO Judge the truth as he, ana
IN full possession of the facts, come
nto collision, the President must be
to concede at least the pos
sibilitv of error on his own part ana
IN act accordingly in cooperation
with those every whit as patriotic
as he.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-25
JUST SHOES
washington Times1

All life is tied up more or less
with thought of shoes.
The happiest face is that of a
mother trying on the first pair of
tiny, foolish blue kid shoes, with
white buttons. on her new baby.
The saddest face is the mothers S
putting away forever the pair of lit
tie shoes, worn at the toes, the last
that her baby ever wore.
Long and strange are the walks
that human beings take in their
shoes.
The condemned man puts on
shoes and laces them-to walk a
few steps to the scaffold.
How did Woodrow Wilson feel
when he said for the first time:
Here 1 am taking off my shoes in
the White House?"
Friends throw an old shoe at the
happy bride.
The undertaken puts new shoes
on the man in his coffin, never to
walk again.
Nature working over a million
years succeeded in giving a shoe of
horn to the horse.
And mans brain working five
minutes gives to that horse a better
shoe made of STEEL
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-25
THE TRUTH

"HEODORE ROOSEVELT voiced
the sentiment of the whole
American people, regardless of
party, when, speaking in Washington
yesterday, he said he opposed the in
lection of party politics into the war;
that he desires the people to know
the whole truth concerning the
progress of our preparations and
that he means to expose every
official he finds lacking in efficiency
and to support any one. regardless
of party, who is devoting himself
solely to speeding up Americas part
in the great conflict.
This is the same Roosevelt who
flayed Republican shortcomings in
the Spanish-Am erican war and he is
therefore qualified to pass censure
in this war, let the blame fall where
ii will. That he is sincere in his
non-partisan attitude needs no other
proof than that he has taken up the
cudgels for Democrats and Republi-
cans alike in the Senate Military
Committee, which has been fearless
in its exposures of inefficiency in
the War Department, and that he
was just as ready to accord praise
to Secretary Daniels for recent
marked improvements in the Navy
Department as he was to censure the
Secretary of War for delinquencies
in the administration of the army.
AS Colonel Roosevelt said, true
Americans have small consideration
just now for party politics. With
their sons dying by hundreds in the
training camps by reason of the
failure of those in charge to properly
provide for them, with their millions
invested in Liberty Bonds, this Is
not the war of the Government, but
of all American citizens and their
sole. desire is that 1t be prosecuted
successfully. Americans are just as
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-25
THE Y. NJ. C. A. CAMPAIGN

-HE Harrisburg Y. NJ. c. A. is
out for 500 new members and
- should have no difficulty in run
ming beyond that number.
The association membership
should be so big it literally would
push out the walls of the structure
IT calls home and force the erection
of a larger building.
Unless all signs fail that is what
is going to happen when the boys
come home" The Y. NJ. c. A. is
the club of the soldier In camp, and
IT will be his headquarters when he
returns to private life. One of the
biggest influences for good in the
war is the Army "Y," and it will be
one of the most popular and potent
organizations in the world after
neace is declared. There will be no
need for membership campaigns
then. Indeed, there should be no
such Necessity now, for whatever
the local association may have been,
or may not have been, in the past,
it certainly does not overstep when
it advertises itself to-day as the
"Iivest Mems Club in Town"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-25
WARNING LIGHTS

"HE coroner's inquest and the
Public Service Commissions in
vestigation will be required to
fix responsibility for the accident at
Paxtang yesterday morning, but
whatever facts may be thus disclosed
it seems reasonably certain that
there would have been no collision
had the sleigh carried a light.
BY law trolley cars and automo-
biles are compelled to show lights at
night, but owners and drivers of
horse-drawn vehicles persist in run
ming dark" as railroad men say.
Frequently the Legislature has been
asked to pass a law making the
carrying of lights mandatory for all
classes of vehicles, but each time the
influence of antagonistic farmers has
prevented the adoption of such a
measure.
The time has come when wise
farmers realize that they are taking
their lives in their hands every time
they go driving at night without a
light to warn off approaching street
cars and autos. Is it too much to
hope that at the next Legislature
they will force the enactment of the
necessary restrictions?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-25
LEWIS AND HARMONY

" HOUSANDS of Republicans in
Pennsylvania will say amen to
- the sentiments of William
Draper Lewis, emphasizing the nee
essity of harmony in Pennsylvania
this year if the party is to elect a
governor next November. What
boots it if this or that faction win
at the primaries if the Democrats
are victorious at the general
election? Pennsylvania is a Re-
publican State, and as Mr.. Lewis
says. ought to be given opportunity
to vote for a big, broad, outstanding
citizen of high ideals and unques-
toned integrity for governor next
time. This is the desire of Repub-
licans; this they will insist upon,
and woe be to any man or group
of men attempting to lead the party
in any other direction.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-25
Over tie Toh
IN Pen~a.
OH, MAN!

Talk about hard times in Pennsyl-
vania! Over in Sweden at a fash
ionable wedding, recently, the invi-
tations begged: please bring your
bread cards" This meant that even
rich hosts dare not provide guests
with bread except in restricted
amounts and in the manner ordain-
ed by law.
Nine hundred employees of the
Adelaide Silk Mills, Allentown, ga
ther each noon for community sing
ing. They do this after lunch. Is
Allentown becoming Americanized?
Well, rather! Other cities would do
well to give this recreation to their
workers. A rousing song helps d.
gestion more than a schooner of
beer.
Those two young school teachers
at York Haven who stole two hum
dred chickens in Conewago, Dover
and Manchester townships in a cou-
pie weeks have made a good start
to be a Jesse James or Lewis the
Robber. The vicious young peda-
gogues made a practise of hiring IL
team and diving along, and if they
found the farmer not home they
looted his chicken coop to the last
fowl. Both have been caught
Why the Headline Writer Left Town
(From the Rossville Press.)
Aaron Fitzwater Is Called to Final
Rest.
Hundred and Fifty People Enjoy
Event at Woodman Hall.
In Pittsburgh forty women have
been taken on to the postal service
as letter carriers
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-25
DELUDED GERMANS

Gentlemen, it is quite true that
a considerable number even of our
artisans, our small tradesmen, our
officials-of our middle classes, in
short have been affected with this
imperialistic mania. They have
either been intoxicated by the ma
tionalistic claptrap or they are suf-
fering from the delusion that they
will share the benefits accruing to
them from a policy of conquest.
There is, no doubt that there is a
terrible awakening in store for them;
some of them will soon come to sne
matters in their true light. and then
they will sigh and groan on ac-
count of the increasing burdens
Deputy Haase (Social Democrat) in
the Reichstag, April %, 1912.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-25
Flirting
THO Cent Papers Make Biggest Gains

The biggest in the volume of advertising
ing 1917 all the United States
What true of other country
Harrisburg.
The Harrisburg Harrisburg's only twocent
gained practically
1915 its nearest competitor.
When three of four homes community n
mo matter how published a penny
this twocent is the WE WANT what
the advertiser?
Harrisburg Telegraph
for and It costs less
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-25
Caesar and Wilson
storv renents itself

History repeats itself.
When Caesar wanted to get the
people on his side in his fight against
the Senate, he advertised on the
walls of Rome.
To-day, when Woodrow Wilson
wants to make the people of Rus
sia know the real attitude of the
United States, and how 1t compares
with the treachery of Germany. he
ADVERTISES with huge billboards
all over Russia. - Washington
Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-25


meters so that they can replace male
inspectors.
An advance of 1915 a month is
the main item of a settlement of the
demands of Illinois Central railroad
telegraphers. Hours are adjusted
and the men will be paid for Sunday
work.
An increase of twenty-five cents a
day for machine operators and fifty
a day for floor men and ad men
employed on newspapers has been
secured by the Eugene, Ore, Typo
graphical Union.
Chambermaids in Denver, COL,
hotels and boarding houses are or
ganizing union. The girls say they
are going after SO per week, with
half day off each week and pay for
overtime.
After lapse of thirteen years,
window glass workmen are to re-
celVe wages which will compare fa-
Vorably with the high wages received
under the old Philadelphia wage
scale in 1901-02.
Organized bookbinders at Atlanta,
Ga. have adjusted differences with
their employers, both parties sign
ing contract which provides for
improved working conditions.
Galway Oreland) dockers have
gone on strike because the Employ
ers' Federation refused their request
to begin the working day at Z in
stead of 6 in the morning.
State Senator Robert Wagner, of
New York, will lose no time in pre-
senting in Albany legislation look
ing to municipal purchase and sale
of food necessities as the best and
quickest means of regulating prices.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-25
FRIDAY. JANUARY 25, 1918

The pIeaSdnteSt things in the
t0orld are pleasant thoughts, and the
great art in life is to haze as many
of them as poSSibIe.-BovEE.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-25
DO YOU KNOW
Harrisburg

That Harrisburg paved
street area was secured at a less
cost than most of the cities of
the same size of the country?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-25

1--WE will set our teeth and see this
through" says the Phlladelphla EN
ing Ledger. les, but let's remember
to set 'em in the Kaiser and not IN
ourselves.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-25

SugaIless. wheatless, beefless, pork
less. coalless and waterless, but thank
the good Lord not yet quite hopeless.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-25
OUR DAILY LAUGH
ALL FIXED
UP.

10000
UP.
Well. there is
one thing 1 can
say.
What's that?
1 finished his
sweater, his
wristlets and his
helmet, a n d
when Tom does
finally go into
t h g trenches
he'll be as we'll
dressed as any
of them.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-25
HISTORIC HARRIsBURG

At one time there were ten tav-
erns in Market Square alone. Now
there is but one hotel.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-25
LABOR NOTES

The Laclede Gas Company, of st.
Louis, is training women to read gas
meters so that they can replace male
inspectors.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-25

Mr.. McAdoo is against Government
ownership of railroads. What! Got
enough of it already?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-25

Here's hoping the Austrians are
better revolutionists than the Rus
slams.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-25
Reeds in Nodh's Day

[From the Chicago News1
Very likely Noah was grilled By
the Vardamans and Reeds OF bill
day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-25

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so ROMANTIC.

so ROMANTIC.
Tomorrow Is
my wedding an
niversary.
A time of
romantic mem
ories.
Yes, 1t is the
third annivers-
ary of my fifth
wedding.
oh, fudge.
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