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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-01
HIS LAST LETTER

Edwin A. Abbey, of Pennsylvania,
Lieutenant, Fourth Canadian Rifles
killed in action at Vimy Ridge
April 10, 1917, wrote this last letter
to his parents:
France, Good Friday, April 6, 1917.
Dearest Mother and Father:
I'VE are going up to an attack in
a short time, and l am going to
leave this note, to be sent to you, in
case, by Gods Will, this is to be my
final work.
II have made my Communion,
and go with light heart and a de-
termination to do all that / possibly
can to help in this fight against evil
for God and humanity.
Il do not think of death or eX-
pect it, but 1 am not afraid of il
and will give my life gladly if it is
asked.
1T is my greatest comfort that ]
know you, too, will gladly give al
that is asked. and live on happily
doing all that can be done, grateful
to God for His acceptance of oui
sacrifice.
To-day the news came to us here
that the United States has joined
the Allies. so 1 go with the happy
consciousness that l am and you
are fighting for our dear Flag as
thousands of Americans have before
us in the cause of Liberty.
1T may be a comfort to you tc
know that l have a great company
of comrades, men and officers, al
filled with determination and cheer
full courage.
my dearest love to Sue and
Howard and their dear children
Margie and Billy. My heart is full
of gratitude for such love as they
have given me. My dearest love &c
all my friends.
Now dearest Mother and dearest
Father 1 will say Good Bye for a
time. You have given me my faith
which makes this so easy for me
and a wonderful example and in
spiration of courage and usefulness
"All my love and God bless you
both.
your son,
EDWIN
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-01
Tired Being the Goat
(New York Times)

Austria, war-weary and worse, is
thus told plainly by her Foreign Min
lister what she already suspected
that every life she loses from now
on, all the money she spends from
now on, all the hardship she under
goes from now on, is lost, spent, and
undergone for Germany, not for her
self. Take this in connection with
his statement that he tried to get in
touch with the President and that
the differences between Austria and
America do not appear to be so
great" that they cannot be discussed.
and it seems possible that Count
Czernin may have meant for other
ears than those of the Socialists his
hint that "those who wish to under
stand must have understood" OF
course he could neither have intend
ed nor hoped for separate peace ne
gotiations with the United States.
He evidently felt that all the Allies
would see in his utterance a peace
overture, and that together with the
United States they might make some
encouraging response that would be
helpful to Austria
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-01
Over tie 1oh
IL Pe~~a.
BRIGGS

The war appears to inspire those
who go into service with poetic
fancy A big, husky policeman OF
Philadelphia, now in an engineer
corps, expresses himself thusly:
My name is Albert Bowman,
My age is twenty-eigh
A Reserve at Fourth and Chestnut
With Montgomery as my mate.
My heart was light, spirits gay,
Life seemed just like a dream
o! what a change this traffic
work.
To driving a heavy team!
Now 'conscription" it became a law
My number being called
With my six feet two and avoirdu-
pois
I thought they had me stalled.
To the exemption board" 1 sum-
moned was,
The doctor looked me Ger
He says, Young man, 1 wish like
you
That we had millions more!"
The anxiety of folks to know
when the winter will ease up re-
calls the story of the Kansas far
mer who dreamed that he visited
the Internal regions. AS he watched
the vat of boiling lava, supposed to
contain old friends and others, air
bubbles began to come to the top,
and finally the head of a man
emerged. AS he blew the boiling
lava from his mouth the man ex-
claimed: DC you think it's going
to rain in time to save the corn
crop?"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-01
OUT WITH THEM

~ R. RICHARD c. SCHEIDT has
resigned from the faculty of
Franklin and Marshall College,
a position he held with much credit
to himself and the school for many
years, rather than have a commit
tee inquire into his pro-German
leanings. DIR. Schiedt, if the evil
dence is to be believed, has merely
saved the trustees the trouble of
dismissing him. There is no place
in any American institution of learn
ing these days for the nan whose
heart is with the Kaiser, no matter
how able or renowned he may be.
The place for all pro-Germans is in
a detention camp for the period CT
the war, although there are those
among us who doubtless would like
to see them in the first line trenches
of France, where their much
vaunted belief in "kultur" might
be put to a real test. Out with, them
all.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-01
ORCHARD HOUSE

They met me at the quiet door,
They took my hand in theirs;
They led me through the rooms and
up
The silent stairs.
We peeped in that old attic where
Four chests stood in a row.
Where genius burned" where Pick
wick clubs
Met long ago.
And then we climbed the wooded hill
All dim with fragrant shade,
To which four little pilgrims cree
Their journey made.
We raced through the long meadow
grass
Which one small breezelet frets,
We picked bunch of buttercups
And violets.
We sat a while where one great tree
A dreamy shadow fiings--
Five little spirit girls-and talked
OF pleasant things.
And last. they led me to the path,
And kissed, and let me go.
Long, long 1 saw them standing
there
Meg, Amy, Beth and 10.
Ruth Suckow in the Youths Com
panion.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-01
AN IMPORTANT LINK
THE roadway between Harrisbu

" HE roadway between Harrisburg
and Lebanon is an important
link of great cross State high
way, in addition to being a section
OF proposed government post road,
and some means should be found
whereby the Dauphin county COM
missioners, the Lebanon county COM
missioners and the State Highway
Department may reach an under
standing as to its immediate i'm
provement. The State is willing to
meet the counties half way with
regard to expense and with the coun-
ty debt only q little more than $780,
coo Dauphin county should consider
we'll before it concludes to reject
the offer of the Commonwealth.
The local commissioners are said
TO entertain the belief that the
States first proposal was that if the
county purchased the turnpike the
State would improve it, and an ef-
fort should be, made to clear up this
point on both sides. But at all
events, the commissioners doubtless
understand that while it is all very
well to keep down the tax rate and
reduce expenses wherever possible,
records for progressive administra-
ticn are not made in that way. The
public servant who leaves behind
him a we'll constructed, permanent
public improvement is remembered
long after the official who shaved a
quarter mill off the tax rate is for
gotten. The Lebanon pike comes
under this heading.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-01
THEATERS NOT LUXURTES

Little by little it is being realized
that the theaters are something
more than idle luxury, especially
during war time. Some sort of
amusement and relaxation is neces-
sary for human effort. Men and
women are not machines. Whether
you like it or not, a huge number
of workers, of all classes, have
learned to find their relaxation and
amusement in the theaters. The
wel-to-do go to the opera and the
shows; the masses go to the
movies To cut off the theaters
ic not the act of eliminating luxury.
1t is eliminating a necessity. Men
and women need mental and spirit
ual food and good cheer. just as
much as they need material food.
Also, it is being realized that the
saving in fuel, through the closing
of the theaters, would not be so very
large. AS for the saving of light,
the people who are in the theaters
are not burning lights at home, ac-
tors and audience. Perhaps scien-
tific investigation would prove that
1t is cheaper to concentrate these
tens of thousands of people into a
few buildings each evening, all under
the same group of lights, than it
would be to have them turning on
their individual lights throughout
the city. AS for heating, there must
in any case be heat in theaters to
prevent damage from freezing and
good portion of the extra warmth
required for the comfort of the au-
dience is provided by the animal
heat of the audience itself.
1t was no doubt considerations of
this sort that killed the proposals
to stop the theaters entirely, and re-
strict them on Mondays alone. It
is not impossible that these consid-
erations would suffice to induce the
Fuel Administration to remove it's
ban on theaters even on Mondays
New York Evening Mail
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-01
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Edgar c. FELTON,, former head
of the Steelton plant, is now in
charge of labor distribution for the
whole eastern United States.
j. d. A. Morrow, just put in
charge of distribution of coal, was
for years at the head of the Pitts
burgh Coal Producers Association.
Clyde d. Wilcox, one of the new
lieutenant colonels of the Reserve
Militia, has been organizing the vo-
lunteer police in Erie county.
Col. Harry c. Trexler has
bought out the interests of his part
ners in the Lehigh game preserve
and is now the sole owner of the
largest preserve in the country.
William Findlay Brown. brother
of the Attorney General and as
sistant district attorney in Philadel-
phia, has been critically i'll.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-01
PUBLIC SPEAKING

HE Harrisburg Young Mems
Christian Association has or
ganized a class in public speak
and it is becoming one of the
1t popular branches of the. or
|izatiou. This is by no means
|nge. Nothing is more helpful
these days Of community effort,
b to be able to appear to good
kntage before an assem- mblage of
Is fellows. Public speaking
|ity is sometimes a gift, but more
Iuently it is the result of careful
ovation. The man with a mes
: is trebly forceful If he can. de-
Il it we'll. The man suddenly
ed upon to speak is at a loss and
|xes an appearance often greatly
his own disadvantage il he is
a ready talker. The Young Mems
|istian Association class will offer
ny the opportunity for which
y have been seeking.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-01
BEEFSTEAK

IFE is no longer just one dis
agreeable thing after another;
it's come to be a whole lot of
greeable things all jumbled up
ether. For example, last winter
bin steak and French fried po-
les were impossible because po-
les were worth on market about
each. Now, with potatoes
htiful, along comes Mr.. Hoover to
DO" us away from the butcher
b with the cry of beef famine.
) time it is not the "crool, crool
It trust" that has the supply
hered. The Kaiser aud winter
ther are Jointly to blame. and
don't know which we hate most.
nyvay, friend beeksteak threat
soon to be about as plentiful as
IN dodo eggs and nobody has
brash enough to suggest a sub
ute. That is the sad part OF
Not even the renowned food
eialists who garner fame-and
kels-at Battle Creek have been
) to make a "mock beefsteak."
Ire is mock turtle soup, coffeeless
ZEE, nut turkey Git should be
He'd. with an o., meatless mince
lt and sugarless candy, all more
less palatable (most OF them a
d deal less than more). but no
tx beefsteak. The reason is sim
1t can't be done. Beefsteak is in
lass by itself. Tender, juicy and
perly broiled as a delicacy it has
st turkey penned in the oven and
zbf9ing. for mercy. Tough, pounded
fried, 1t has wrecked the for
es of many a prosperous board
house and shattered many a
sting brides fond faith in her
bands temper and religion.
sut nothing like that is apt to
ur for some time. IL the usually
|urate Mr.. Hoover is to be be-
ed. Beefsteaks, it would seem,
rapidly getting into the class
b terrapin and lobster, and the
E appears at hand when we shall
reading of the gay young
rox who squanders his fathers
|liohs on chorus girls. diamonds
beefsteak." That's how bad this
Is getting to be. And at the bot
of it all is the Kaiser. Serve
! jolly well, right II he had to
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-01
A TOAST

When you turn hell loose on the
earth you are apt to feel the fire.
BY way of comforting the Kaiser
we offer him three verses, written
by George Morrow Mayo, a young
Kentuckian, formerly resident in
Washington, now a gunner's mate
in the United States Navy:
Here's to the Blue of the wind
swept North,
When we meet on the fields OF
France,
May the spirit of Grant be with
you all
AS the Sons of the North ad-
vance.
And here's to the Gray of the sun
kissed South,
When we meet on the fields OF
France,
May the spirit of Lee be with you
all
AS the Sons of the South advance.
And here's to the Blue and Gray
as one,
When we meet on the fields OF
France,
May the spirit of God be with us
all
AS the Sons of the Flag advance.
George Morrow Mayo.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-01
BurOn, Too

The Russians now were ready to
attack;
But, o ye goddesses of love and
glory,
How shall spell the name of each
Cossacque,
Who were immortal, could one
tell their storyi
Alas! What to their memory can
lack?
Achille' self was not more grim
and CORY
Than thousands of this new and
polish'd nation
Whose names want nothing but
pronunciation.
Don Juan, Canto VII.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-01
SMILEAGE BOOKS
BY WALT MASON.

= IL buy a dozen Smileage Books,
and then a dozen more, gad-
cooks! and send them to some
soldier chaps, and help to brighten
up their maps. oh, anything that
can do to keep the boys from get
ting blue, to keep them cheerful,
bright and sane, and drive the fan
toms from the brain, I'll do with
forty kinds of glee; so you can al
ways count on me. 1 am too fat to
scrap, myself: old age has placed me
on the shelf; I'm welded to my easy
chair, 1 couldn't whip a Belgian
hare. The younger men must fight
for me, and see that 1 have liberty
and all the blessings 1 desire, while
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-01

sit doing by the fire. For me
they've left their homes and friends,
to go where bloodshed never ends
for me they march on soggy moor,
and pains and weariness endure; for
me to France they will repair, per-
haps to fall and perish there. For
me the brave young men go forth,
from east and west, from south and
north, with buoyant hearts that must
not tire, while 1 sit drea ming by the
fire. And am l such a tinhorn skate
that 1 won't help to ease the weight
of dreary hours the boys must know?
He is a fake who tells you so. Bring
on your Smileage Books, my friend ;
I'll buy till my resources end.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-01
Thoughts of the Wise

The Lord knoweth the thoughts
of the, wise, that they are vain.
Therefore let no man glory in lnen.
For all things are yours: whether
Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the
world, or life, or death. or things
II esent, or things to come; all are
yours; and we are Christ's: and Christ
is Gods.-I Corinthians, iii, 20 to
23
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-01
|OOK OUT FOR FLOOD

|TITH twenty-five inches of
W snow on the ground and al
/ most that thickness of ice
Ehe river the chances are that We
p add to the hardships of winter
|ood of some proportions before
bluebirds come north again. The
|ditions are much the same all
r the Juniata and the Susque-
ina watersheds and sudden
/ may add another burden to the
Ply tried transportation systems
the State. The only hope OF
|iding what threatens to be a
ster lies in long period OF clear,
m weather, with melting tenn
Ptures during the day and slight
below freezing at night.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-01
PRACTICAL SUGGESTION

AYoR KEISTER's snow re-
N moval proclamation is a prac-
teal measure and doubtless
will meet with hearty response on
the part of the public. Everybody
is Inconvenience by the snow on
the streets, from the merchant who
operates a delivery wagon TO the
man or woman who has occasion
to use the tralley cars. The city is
like train on single track road
running behind time. stopping at
switches and with no Immediate
prospect of catching up to schedule.
Remove the snow and we get back
to normal. The result in sight is
well worth the effort the mayor
would have US make.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-01

The American forces having taken
over section of the line in France,
We may expect any day the sad news
of numerous casualties. That is the
reason we are so anxious to have war
preparations at home speeded up. We
want to get it all over with as soon
as possible
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-01

spend eternity broiling steaks for
other folks and getting none for
himself. If you can think of any
worse punishment let's hear about
IL
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-01
His AdUdntdqe

(From the Pittsburgh Dispatch)
The chief trouble the German No.
gotiators are having with Trotzky
is that he has seen their hand. and
is frankly taking every advantage
of the fact.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-01

There's one fine thing about this
kind of winter-we have a perfectly
good excuse for not getting UP early
to attend markets Saturday mornings.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-01

The President doubtless felt the
farmer needed a little advice. but he
shouldn't forget that he also needs
labor
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-01

it possible that closing the brew
5 has been the means of bringing
German population to its sober
IesZ More power to the strikers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-01

II ScSIllS llhely lildI the nuSSldllS
will decide they are not as badly
whipped as German propaganda has
led them to believe.-Newark News.
The Bolshevik government has
adopted phonetic spelling. Now if
you know how a Russian name
sounds you can spell it.-New York
Morning Telegraph.
The Bolsheviki seem panied to find
that an ark of the covenant built
from such trusted planks as class
hatred should insist upon leaking.
Philadelphia North American.
Bolsheviki have seized banks and
factories, and they can keep or spend
the banks money; but what will
they do with the factories s?-Wan
Street Journal.
The Russian idea is to discuss
plans for a new stable while some
body is making off with the horse.
Hence the expression, lack of horse
sense.-Chicago Tribune.
A member of the Bolshevik re-
gime tells what the real aims of
Germany are. Wonder if he would
be kind enough to tell what the
real aims of the Bolsheviki are?-
Columbia Record.
Germany Immediately offers evil
dence of the sincerity of its peace
proposals to the Bolsheviki by ar
resting the Independent Socialists
who are trying to carry out Bolshe-
Wiki ideas in Germany.-New York
World.
The Russian Reds are said to have
arrested the United States railroad
commission at Irkutsk, Siberia
They don't want them to begin their
labors by improving the transporta-
ton to Siberia, which. when you
think it over, is natural enough
Dayton Journal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-01

We're glad to hear that the biggest
corn crop in history is moving east,
just at the time the fried mush sea-
son is at its height.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-01
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg is sending
large amounts OF grain to the
seaboard?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-01

Universal enforcement of a ma
tional minimum wage, democratic
control of industry, a revolution in
national finances and the surplus
wealth for the common good-these
are the four cardinal points of Bri-
tish labor reconstruction after the
war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-01

Only slackers will present the ex-
cuse of mo snow shovel"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-01

During a recent strike of mechan-
les in the aeroplane engine factories
at Coventry, England, fleet of army
aeroplanes circled over the town,
scattering through the strets thou
sands of leaflets appealing to the
strikers to return to work.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-01

bly, two more chances to see the
pmobile Show, and, of course, you
It miss both of them.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-01
blished evenings except Sunday by
III TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.,
hegr.ph Building, Federal Square.

Enber OF the Associated Press-Ths
associated Press is exclusively en-
Htled TO the use for republication of
Hl news dispatches credited to 1t or
|ot otherwise credited In this paper
nd also the local news published
|erein.
rights of republication of special
Rspatches herein are also reserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-01
LABOR NOTES

To-day there are some 100000
British women engaged in war in
dustries, carrying on" the work of
men at the front, and of this num-
Der more than 100000 are engaged
in the manufacture of munitions.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-01
EDITORIAL COMMENT

1t seems likely that the Russians
will decide they are not as badly
whipped as German propaganda has
ed them to believe.-Newark News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-01

We reserve our opinion OF the
Grounding until tomorrow evening.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-01

HISTORIC HARRISBURG
When the first Capitol was dedi-
Gated here the workmen made up
most of the parade.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-01

Estimates, based on an army of
10000 men. are that $1,000 nurses
will be needed in the United States
Army Nurse Corps. This means an
enrolment increase of nearly 1000
per cent. over the present member
ship of $500.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-01

Our last census shows 522 diff
ferent vocations, but there are really
900 occupations. In America 100
occupations are beyond the reach Of
the man without a high school and
technical training. There are fif-
teen different types of engineering.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-01
POOR FTDO

IN THE WRONG PLACE.
do you think our paper has
lnough nonsense in it?"
"CertainlS. the editorials are full
II IT,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-01

Haldeman, of the Louisville
Times, says these verses are the
masterpiece of the war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-01
friday, FEBRUARY 4, 1918

|or none Of US Iiue to himself, and
|e dieth to himSelJ.-RoM 14:7.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-01

The Bolsheviki seem panied to find
that an ark of the covenant built
from such trusted planks as class
hatred should insist upon leaking.
Philadelphia North American.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-01

The Bolshevik government has
adopted phonetic spelling. Now if
you know how a Russian name
sounds you can spell it.-New York
Morning Telegraph.