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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-07
CLOSING FIRST CALL

"O-DAY begins the final chapter
in the first call made under the
seleUtive service law passed to
enable the United States to enter the
world war with an army numerically
on par with the forces of it's allies.
The first call came in the summer,
and while Harrisburg, thanks to the
patriotism of its sons, was not called
upon to send any young men to the
environments, it Joined in giving fare
well to its neighbors and since that
time has contributed many specially
qualified men under the voluntary
induction system whereby railroad
men, accountants, bricklayers and
others fitted to meet the needs of
various lines of the service were
placed in the army.
To-day from over thirty counties
of Pennsylvania, our own included,
young men are starting for Camp
Meade to make up the deficiencies
under previous quotas, due to the in
ability of boards to meet all require
ments or to replace those rejected.
The men for Camp Lee will start
next week. In the week almost s.
600 young men, the last of the first
class. will move.
We understand the camps are
ready for these extra men and that
arms and accoutrements and all else
needed are prepared. We sincerely
hope so. The young men who went
out under the first quotas probably
had some unpleasant experiences,
but most of them are none the worse
Tor that. The camps are now run
ming in strict routine; the food is
good, the discipline bracing, while
the exercise and regularity of habits
will make new men of those in train
ing.
so we will wave goodbye to lhe
men of February and turn about to
the problems that will confront us
when the second call comes in March
to take more men from mill, factory.
office, store and farm. For we have
got to win the war. and we at home
nave our work cut out for us as we'll
as the men in the camps, and we
must take it quite as seriously and
go at it just as bravely and as ener-
geticaliy as our friends and loved
ones who wear the uniform are do
ing.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-07
SOMEWHERE HE SLEEPS

They laid him in my weary arms,
My soul was filled with joy;
Forgot was pain and deaths alarms,
My own-my baby boy.
1 held him close against my breast,
felt that / indeed were blest
If he might there forever rest,
My precious baby boy.
1 led him through the mystic maze
or childhood's wondrous paths
and ways,
Through dawning youth to man.
hoods days,
My pride-my noble boy.
They sent him from my clinging
arms
'Gainst foes who would destroy,
To oceans perils, wars alarms,
My valiant soldier boy.
Somewhere he sleeps across the sea,
To wake, where, peace shall ever
be,
At heavens resounding reveille,
My martyred soldier boy.
Sarah Beekman Lorie.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-07
REGULATING CREDITS

" HERE is sound common sense
in the appeal of the Federal
Reserve Board for control Of
credits during the war. Goods,
credits and savings must be put at
the disposal of the government in
the largest possible measure during
the period of conflict. AS the board
says, unnecessary production or con-
sumption of goods, or any unneces-
sary use of credit saps and weakens
the fighting strength of the nation.
or these things the most serious is
the sale of bonds or other securities
to provide capital for nonessentlal
enterprises.
1t Is not to be thought for an in
slant that a man shall stop manu-
featuring because his product is not
going to the Army or Navy, or even
If 1t is classed among the luxuries.
The time may come when manu-
factures will be limited to bare
necessities, but that time is not at
hand. However, we are at the
place when every one of us must
make our business sacrifices for the
war and he will be required TO
sacrifice least who is able wisely and
profitably to adjust his business TO
the new conditions.
Business as usual" under un-
usual circumstances is as impossible
as high prices during periods of
financial depression. But business
as unusual" and highly profitable
business of large volume at that is
not only possible, but highly desir-
able. We must make our business
fit the new circumstances
While in peace times, government
permission to market stocks and
other securities would be warmly
resented, nobody can complain OF
it now. Indeed, it is highly desir-
able, II not essential. If we use our
spare millions in buying the securi-
tAes of private corporations they W
not be available for the purchase OF
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-07
Over tie Tots
cn PenNa.
BY BRIGGS

AT Camp Meade where there are
so many Pennsylvania boys the sur
geons find that the human ear
trusts out more quickly than 1t wears
out. City boys have better ears
than country boys. They account
Tor this by supposing that the quiet
OF the country tends to weaken,
through disuse, the nerves of the
ear, while the constant clamor of
the city really keeps the aural nerves
responsive.
He would eat his supper and
stick around the house until bed
time and then he'd go out and bed
down with the horse" complained
Mrs. Louise Chrissinger in a Cleve-
land divorce court. "I have slept
alone every night for two years" ."
The court gave her a writ of sepa-
ration.
Federal secret service men re-
Gently arrested q woman German
spy who had been active in and
around Pittsburgh and other parts
of this state. They were puzzled to
make out her papers until it was
found that the cipher key had been
written on her back in such a man.
ner that it became visible only when
lemon juice was applied to the skin
Here's a faithful clock. A few
days ago for the first time in 119
years the clock in the old tower of
ST. PauPs Church, New York, failed
to strike.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-07
"YeoUomen" Wear Uniforms

From Washington comes the news
that women connected with the gov
ernment, especially the Navy, must
don the conventional blue and brass
buttons of the service. AS they are
yeomen of the Navy they must
dress their part. The winter uni
forms will consist of a blue skirt,
coat, waist and blue felt hat, and
the summer of a similar white uni
form. with white straw hat.
Specifications call for Norfolk
style coats slightly shaped to the
figure, with plain seams and rolling
collar, and tailored skirts, full at the
bottom and reaching to four inches
above the ankles.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-07
The War Menu

Sing q song of johnny cake, graham
bread and rye,
Fish and eggs and fowl and fruit,
less of cake and pie
Wheatless, meatlesS, sweelessmeals
the kaisers strength will
puncture;
Isn't that the proper thing at Just
this present juncture?
Roy Temple House.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-07
The FOrehdnded Bard

But yesrteday I wrote of flowers, of
lilies and of violets,
And then 1 waded through the snow
to go and mail my triolets.
And now I'm pouring forth my soul
in a supernal sonnet
With which to purchase, If I've
luck, my wife an Easter bon
net.
Kansas City Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-07
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

General f. w. Stillwell, who re-
signed at Camp Hancock, will re-
sumo his place IN a Scranton bank.
C. w. Kiser, treasurer of the
O'Neil campaign, has been connect
ed with one Pittsburgh bank for
over twenty years and is well known
here.
Harry B. Tyson, Montgomery
fuel administrator, has been so busy
seizing coal to keep that county
going that he let his own supply run
out.
-"Bin" Adams, former legisla-
tor is an instructor IN machine gun
squads at one of the Massachusetts
camps.
Col. Asher Miner, commanding
the LuZerne county artillery, has
been sent to Fort Sill for instruction
in artillery firing.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-07
WE ARE STRONGER

HE torpedoing of the transport
| 'Tuscania, carrying more than
two thousand American troops
to France, brings home to the nation
in forceful and sorrowful manner the
fact-which many of us have not
fully appreciated-that the nation
is at war with a powerful and un-
scrupulous enemy. The wonder is
( not that one transport has been
sunk, but that so many have es-
capped. 1t reflects nothing on the
skill and bravery of the ships offi-
GERS and the escorting war vessels
that they were British, for the Brit
ish navy has record second to none
in the world for the safe transport
of ships bearing troops and supplies
1t is a great qualification to the
American public, as we'll as tribute
to the efficiency of the life-saving
forces, that so few lives were lost.
We rejoice immeasurably in that,
but we bow our heads sadly when we
think of the brave boys who have
gone to a watery death, laid low by
cowardly assassin of the sea, afraid
to show his head above the surface
of the waves, before they had oppor-
tunity to show the Hun their worth
as open field fighters. With the wom-
en- and children of the Lusitania
they. join their call for vengeance
and their fellows in France and all
loyal Americans in this country will
reply with bullets and shell along the
battle-line and redoubled efforts at
home to sweep forever from the
earth the internal powers of dark
ness now calling upon innocent peo-
pie the world over for their toll OF
blood and treasure.
So far from discouraging the Brit
ish and American navies, this incl
dent will redouble their activities
and intensity their efforts to guard
the soldiers and supplies entrusted
to their care. So far from intimidat-
ing the men of the training camps
in the United States, it will but give
them new incentive to get abroad as
quickly as possible to take crack"
at the Kaiser and his hosts. AS for
the American troops in France, it
is to be imagined that their temper
will not be improved by the news
they will get to-day. And who of
us at home does not feel desire to
do more, to sacrifice more for the
cause in which the brave men who
went down with the Tuscania gave
their lives?
There will come more and longer
lists of casualties. By and by Har-
risburg boys will be coming back
from the front wounded-perhaps
manned for life. Others of them
may never return. But through it
all we shall maintain brave spirit
and a will to win that will keep us
at work with all our energies toward
that end. Just as family is often
brought more closely together and
it's bonds of affection deepened by
the loss of a loved one, so do our
national losses and bereavements
weld us more closely as a people.
This and the good fortune that pre-
served the lives of so many of the
ill-fated ships passengers are the
only bright spots in our first serious
tragedy of the sea in this war.
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-07

Liberty Bonds of the next issue. The
Federal Reserve Board. rather than
the Secretary of the Treasury. is best
qualified to pass upon all private,
semi-public and public issues bid
ding for the investment of capital
during the war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-07
SIGHING MUSES.

The muses. sigh and bow their heads,
The sun stands still as stout hearts
quail,
For DER the world a deep fear
spreads
Lest cruise of oil or meal should
fail.
I look beyond. no help draws nigh,
My eyes are yelled. see no goal;
A star shoots upward but to die,
But not, great Scott, the price of
coal.
-WILLIAM GRANT.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-07
Boil 1t DOWn

Have you had a thought that's
happy?
Boil it down.
Make it short and crisp and snap
py-
Boil it down.
When your mind its gold has minted,
rown the page your pen has sprint
&c,
If you want your effort printed,
Boil it down. Tho Survey.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-07
Exhibit A

The fellow seen riding in a cut
ter with a landscape painted on the
back and sides will please commun-
icate with the director of Carnegie
Museum.-From the Pittsburgh Ga
zette-Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-07
Two Bites of a Cherry

A breakfast question we expect
soon to hear: "A little of the yolk or
little of the white, dear" ?"-From
the London Opinion.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-07
Fortunate Thing

Washington announces that rope
manufacturers of the country have
agreed to drop the use of labels. This
refers to hemp, not to tobacco ropes.
From the Minneapolis Tribune.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-07

No alien in England may be en-
gagged in any form of auxiliary war
work without the express permission
Of the army council.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-07
In the Riqht Place

The new Victory Bread" it is
perhaps needless to state. will be but
tered on the side of justice and hui
manity.-From the Springfield I'm
ion
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-07

The superintendent of New York
State Prisons suggests the utiliza-
ton of convict labor in munitions
making by enlarging prison shops.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-07
Khaki CO[Ored Sunar

There used to be the khaki
colored sugar. Would it be more
patriotic to call for that kind p
From st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-07

England has issued a call for
women in the navy, not as fighting
sailors, but to replace men doing
clerical and repair work on land.
The British War Cabinet, with an
eve on the shortage of beer as a
cause of industrial unrest and the
consequent increased demand for
spirits, has decided to allow the re-
lease from bond of wine up to the
full amount released in 1916.
Official announcement will shortly
be made regarding a scheme for
largely increasing the cultivation of
flax in Ireland, the proposal being
to secure lands in the Midlands and
South and subsidize the farmers to
the extent of 100000 pounds ster-
ling.
The Women's Trade Union League
declares that no shortage of man
power exists as yet in the states, and
that the substitution of female help
by manufacturers is in most cases
actuated by desire for cheap labor.
There are three great sources
whence the bulk of the British new
soldiers must come-namely, the
miners, the railway men and the en-
gineers. The first two are not ex-
pected to place obstacles in the way
of the government, but the engineers
insist that the government deal with
them separately.
Workers q England, France, italy
and the affiliated Allied governments
engaged in the great war aims, eco
nomic demands. political views and
the determination to "give of their
best" to establish a greater freedom
for the peoples of the earth before
the peace terms can push aside the
terrors of combat.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-07
The RiGht Place

Sometimes 1t looks as If Senator
ieed's pugnacity might better he
employed on the firing line than in
she oting OFF his mouth.-Fr0m the
Dallas News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-07
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg is making
steel used for army wagons?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-07

HISTORIC HARRISBURG
The first great flood occurred here
a few years after the town was laid
out and water backed up into
Market Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-07

Two ounces of bread for diningcar
patrons? Why, dear Mr.. Hoover
don't you know they're only getting
one ounce now?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-07

Increases in wages during the IL
months ended November were the
greatest in iron and steel. amount
ing to 49.3 per cent.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-07
LABOR NOTES

en- are engaged in essential war ln-
dustries in fifteen states of the Union.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-07

England has issued a call for
women in the navy not as fighting
sailors, but to replace men doing
clerical and repair work on land.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-07

THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-07

accidents of the Public Service
Commission, used to be a news
paperman, but still has influence.
The other day Mr.. Dohoney was in
Philadelphia and wanted to get to
a train. He left a group of friends
and as the man at the gate knew
him he let him through. Mr..
Dohoney got into the train and
sat there two mortal hours before
it left. And the car was cold and
Mr.. Dohoney did not want to leave
it for fear the train would start.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-07
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY Z, 1918

Virtue is like rich stone, best
plain Set.-BAcoN.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-06-01
AMERICAN TROOPS
ON T0RPEDOEOSH|P
British Transport Sunk Between
England and France.
SIS ARE UNACCOUNTED FOR
All Died At Once, Admiralty Fears
Are Thought To Have Been Killed
In One Compartment BY
Explosion.

Loadon.-The British armed ner-
chant troop ship Moldavia, with Amer
lean troops on board, has been tor
pedoed and sunk, according to an Off
cial bulletin issued by the Admiralty.
The text of the Admiralty statement
follows:
THE armed mercantile cruiser Mol
davia was torpedoed and sunk.
There were no casualties among
the crew, but OF the American troops
on board Sc, up to the present, have
not been accounted for. 1t is feared
they were killed in one compartment
by the explosion"
The Moldavia was torpedoed with
out warning. 1t was moonlight
night, and although good lookout
was kept the attacking submarine was
not sighted before the torpedo struck.
Most of the men aboard were in
their hammocks when the explosion
occurred amidships. The sailors and
soldiers alike showed no panic.
They fell calmly into line and await.
ed orders. When it was seen that the
McIdayia was settling down, all on
board were taken off by the escorting
ships.
The men lost all of their belongings,
but were supplied with new clothing
at the different naval ports where they
were taken.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-06-01
ALL RAILROAD PRESIDENTS OUT
They Are Relieved From Active Duty
As Executives.

Washington.-Every railroad presi-
dent in the United States was relieved
from active duty as executive man.
ager of his road today by Director
General McAdoo, who will appoint a
Federal director for each road, respon-
sib!e only to the Railroad Administra-
ton. In many cases the president OF
the road may be named Federal direc.
tor.
To safeguard the interests of stock
holders and maintain the individuality
of each railway Federal directors,
whenever possible, will be appointed
from among the operating officers Of
the property, the director general an
nounced. This will avoid disrupting
any roads working organization I'M
necessarily.
AS another step in the reorganiza-
ton of railroad management the di.
rector general ordered the creation
Of two new operating districts-the
Allegheny region, consisting of the
principal trunk lines east of Pitts.
burgh, excluding the New York Gen.
trail. managed by c. H. Markham, now
regional director for the South, and
the Pocohontas district. consisting OF
the east and west trunk lines termi.
mating at Hampton Roads.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-06-01
BREAK WITH
U. S. POSSIBLE.
:abeIa Incident Regarded As
Underlying Cause.
;ERMANSATTHEB OTTOM0FIT
Germany's Hand Seen In Action
Holding Up Of Minister To
Argentina The Under
lying Cause.

Washington.-In Mcxico's sudden
breaking off of diplomatic relations
with Cuba, is seen an indirect action
,ga;ns.. the United States. Those
lere most familiar with Latin-Amer-
can affairs profess to see in it the
'crerunner of more direct action, pos
.ibly an interruption of intercourse
between the United States and Mex
CO.
Although without official Informal
Jon of detailed character, it is un-
ierstood here that Mexico's real
grievance against Cuba is the recent
Incident in which the Mexican Min
ster to Argentina, Senior Fabela, was
delayed in Havana, while some Off
.ial, ostensibly a Cuban customs in
s2ector, searched his baggage, and
probably removed some papers said
20 have been of an international char
icter.
No announcements of this feature
ire being made here, and no official
secrets, if there be any, are being
disclosed. But it is known that at
he same time some sort of a negotia-
ion was going On between Mexico,
Argentina and possibly one other
Lat;n-American country, having for
IS purpose a common attitude toward
his war. 1t is presumed that any
papers found in Senior Fabela's lug
gage had to do with it.
This incident is believed here to be
he real cause of the break. and those
who entertain this belief are firm in
The conviction that Mexico was con-
v:cced that the United States was
responsible for the incident
A break between Cuba and Mexico,
I is felt, disrupts practically nothing
out long standing friendly relation.
IN the opinion of those in close touch
with the subject, it may actually give
Cuba free nand, as the Mexican
foreign minister says in his announce
clent, but perhaps not in the manner
suggested. American agents for some
time have been reporting German
agents operating in Cuba, some OF
them crossing frequently to the Unit
ed States as Cuban citizens or Mexi-
car citizens. A severence of diplo-
matte relations probably would leave
the Cuban Government feeling more
At liberty to investigate their activi-
ties.
When first class powers are con-
cerned. break in diplomatic rela-
tioEs inevitably has been followed by
war. Between lesser powers this rule
often fails to hold good.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-06-01
War Department In Dark.

Washington.-Sink of the British
armed merchant cruiser Moldavia,
with a probable loss of Sc American
soldiers. was announced in cable
gram from the British Admiralty to
the war Department. No details were
given, but the understanding here is
that the ship was moving between
England and France:
The war Department authorized this
statement:
Information has been received form
London that the British armed mer-
chant cruiser Moldavia has been sunk
and that Sc of the American soldiers
aboard are missing.
1.-THE announcement was made by
the British Admiralty"
The Moldavia was of 5000 tons
gross and owned by the Pen:nsular
and Oriental Steam Navigation Com
pany. She was built at Greenock in
1903 and was $50 feet long.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-06-01
Sunk With Loss Of 81.

Queenstown.-The Cork steamer In
niscarra, bound from Fishguard to
Cork, has been torpedoed and sunk.
Thirty members of the crew are
missing and are supposed to have
been lost.
Five survivors of the disaster have
been landed They are the captain.
the chief officer, one steward and two
sailors.
The Inniscarra was struck amid
ships. She listed Immediately and
foundered in four minutes.
The Innisca,ra was a vessel Of
1.412 tons. She was built in 1903
and belonged to the City of Cork
Steam Packet Company.