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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-06

one must be so businesslike. Besides,
young girls can learn so quickly"
Are we fair to the women of So?
They are perhaps now and again
somewhat tiresome. They are some
times at pains to remind you that
they are parents themselves. But how
keen they are upon the work before
them, the determination to do the
best they can, their submissive
docility and frank openness when
they do not understand the intrica-
Ncies of a double cash entry in a led
ger. Their quiet 'ff you will explain
it to me little more, shall under
stand it then"
Their hearts are golden and their
loyalty priceless. Their willingness to
persevere in any work they are put
to, their punctuality and generosity!
Their obedience to younger women
who hold superior positions over
them! Their neat braided hair and
quiet attirement! No absurd low
neck blouse or orange jumper with
tartan kilt, or string of pearls fit for
a Red Cross charity
May generous hearted employers
who realize the valuable work per-
formed by the woman of SO come
forward and place her as a candi-
date on work of national import
ance.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-06
GOOD ENOUGH FOR US

OLLowING the example of
Pittsburgh, towns and cities in
all parts of the country, the
names of which end in burg" are
reported to be adding a final "h."
Pittsburgh is entitled to wear this
additional ornament because Andrew
Carnegie, when he was bossing af-
fairs in Allegheny county. wanted
the letter tackled on to the end of his
home towns cognomen and he had
added so many other things to Pitts
burgh that nobody could object
much to a little thing like silent
''h." So the thing was legalized and
the contagion spread.
But let nobody in Harrisburg at
tempt to foist another letter on us.
First place we like the spelling as It
is. Second place, it is difficult
enough now to have stenographers
and printers keep the letters in
proper order without adding more
trouble. Beside, think of the ink
and paper wasted by dropping in an
extra letter. If anybody has hank
ering for spelling revision in the
BIOGRAPHY hereabouts, let him begin
en- Conodoguinet
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-06
MILK AND ICE CREAM

r. RAUNLCK'S assertion that
milk and ice cream show
marked improvement in quail
ity this year over last Is very graft
flying. It testifies at once to the
activity of the Health Department
and the cooperation of a vast ma
jority of the dairymen, manufac-
turers and dealers.
Milk ought to be used freely. II
is perishable product and just now
Is very plentiful. To drink milk and
eat ice cream or other milk prod
ucts is at once wholesome and
patriotic. Every quart of milk con-
sumed saves almost an equal weight
Of beef or wheat.
But with the typhoid fever cpl
demio two years back a poignant
memory, hundreds of people have
refrained from partaking of milk or
ice cream. That their fears are
groundless and tlZlt ice cream made
by a reputable dealer may be eaten
with perfect security is indicated by
the health departments report that
there is not a case of typhoid caused
by milk in the whole city at this
time.
The Telegraph did not hesitate
to point out the dangers of contami-
mated milk and ice cream when they
existed. 1t is happy to note the
great improvement. 1t is but fail
that the facts be set forth.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-06
Where Bundy Held the Road

Where Bundy held the Paris road,
The morning battle famed and
flowed.
THE Marine is passed; the line is
bent!
Heaven speed our succor, heaven
sent!'
And Europe gazed with eyes that
glowed
Where Bundy held the Paris road.
The patient Frenchman counselled
wait!
The Hun but hurries to his fate,
1t was but now the battle broke
Tomorrow-and the counter stroke!"
But pale the star of patience showed
Where Bundy held the Paris road.
Said Bundy to the High Command:
None of our men would under
stand!
The Stars and Stripes are driven
back?
Impossible! We shall attack"
And forward line on line they strode
Where Bundy held the Paris road.
And when night brought the long
days end
The dead that filled the river bend
Were German dead. And Europe
knew!
And Freedom all her bugles blew.
And once more French the river
flowed
Where Bundy held the Paris road.
Willis o. Robb.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-06
The GratuitouS Insult

In turning over the files of
Hearst's New York Evening Journal,
we find in the issue of August 6,
1917. the following:
THE ROOSEVELTS ARE LINED
UP'-COMFORTABLY
Roosevelt >said all his kin who
were eligible had lined up for mill
tary service, and 1t isn't my fault
that I'm not over there now
"A cable dispatch to the same
newspaper says:
Mr.. and Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt
have arrived here. They were met
by Joseph e. Willard, American am
bassador to Spain. Kermit
Roosevelt has accepted an offer ia
serve on the staff of General Maude
commander of the Mesopotamia
forces We have a great admira-
ton for the courage of Mr.. Roose-
velt and his kim But it makes
quite difference whether you line
up as an ordinary, unknown Sam
my, to be quickly shot and more
quickly forgotten, or as a member
of the staff of General Maude, trav-
cling with your wife and met by an
ambassador"
Quentin is dead.
Theodore, Jr., is wounded.
Archibald has been gassed.
Kermit has just transferred tc
active service with the American
expeditionary forces. - New York
Tribune.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-06
Americans Not Foolish

Berlin correspondents are telling
the public that the Americans are
good lighters and not to be under
rated, but that they are so impressed
with the fulsome flattery of the
French they are recklessly sacrific-
ing themselves and that their dead
are piled up. Very likely the wish
is father to the statement, as the
Americans have sense as we'll as
valor, and their commanders would
not allow them to sacrifice them
selves so foolishly. But, of course,
the German public could not be ex-
pected to take that into account
Baltimore American.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-06
louisville Courier-Journal1

louisville Courier-JournalJ
twenty years ago the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad was pointed out as
a corporation which advanced it's
men regularly, took care of them,
through the administration of a
benefit fund, during periods of ILL
ness or disablement, and retired
them upon pensions at the end of
their days of usefulness. Nowadays
the list of corporations which could
be so mentioned is fairly long, but it
Will be surprising to many newspa-
per readers to learn that the Asso-
ciated Press has taken it's place
among them as the offerer of none
tary inducements to employees to re-
main for life in its service. The
man. whose father directed his at
tention to certain advantages of en-
ployment in the service of the Penn
sylvania lines may advise his son to
consider the Associated Press. 1t
calls young men to interesting and
educatiVe service which may send
them anywhere in the world, the
ambassadors of readers of the news.
| The organization will not enrich
| them, but it will pay them respect
able salaries and retire them at go
upon pensions mot less than $40 a
month or more than $4,000 a year"
The modern newspaper is to all
classes a necessity, like a public util-
| ity, and to all desirable classes a
public servant. The future of the
press is the future of republican in
stitutions. Journalism is not, yet
though perhaps destined to become
a profession with exact requirement.
| for admission and it's code of prac-
tice, but as a calling 1t is upon a
more substantial base than formerly
with an outlook for an increase OF
| advantages.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-06
AMERICANS CAN FIGHT

The course of General Bullard
and his command at Chateau Thier-
ry makes ones heart beat high. He
was ordered by his French COM
mander to give ground. He de-
clined, on the ground that his troops
did not know how to retreat. He
ordered them forward. The check
of the German offensive on the
Marne began with this sharp coun-
ter of his men. His act savored of
insubordination. Only a brilliant
success could Justify it. He took
the chance, and report makes him a
lieutena9k general.
The Most interesting and amusing
evidence of the wonderful work our
men are doing on the battlefront In
France is to be found in the Ger
man military reports. They first
ignored the presence of American
troops. Then they bellttled their
numbers. Then they reported as
killed more than they have said
could cross the, seas. To be a sue
cessful liar a man must have some
sense of humor. The German is
without It, The sense of real hu-
man proportion 1t implies he lacks.
a German lie can only fool Ger
man.
The contest on the Ourcq has been
Utter. We are driving the Germans
back. The true fighting edge of the
Americans has stiffened the morale
of the whole allied army. The
French and British know what they
may count on In the five millions
to come IL the first two hundred
thousand thus stand the gaff and
WELD it.-Ex-Presldent Taft, in the
PsAiiL~ LAdgar.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-06
The Democratic Donkeu
philadelphia Inouirer1

In the midst of war we are in
Democratic politics. Just when it
was beginning to look as if his ex-
istence was going to be entirely
ignored, Judge Eugene Bonniwell.
the self-made and self-nominated
Democratic candidate for Governor
Of Pennsylvania, comes to the fore
ground with an appeal to his col
league. J. Washington Logue, the
candidate Of the same party for Lieu
tenant Governor, to withdraw from
the ticket. For fear that this ex-
traordinary request may puzzle the
uninitiated, we hasten to explain
that Eugene and Washington, while
running on the same ticket, persist
and insist upon running in opposite
directions. One is wet and the
other is dry" One is headed for
the river of unrestricted delight,
while the other aims for the desert
where certain animal is said to be
able to go without liquid refresh
ment for nine days. One sings,
Landlord. fill the flowing bowl"
and the other recites, The lips that
touch wine shall never touch mine"
All might be well If each could
go his own way, but unfortunately
both are mounted upon the same
jackass, and thus we are presented
with the spectacle of the greatest
geological wonder of the age, the
two-headed Democratic donkey,
compared with which Barnum's s
Woolly Horse and Forepaugh's White
Elephant were mere Dime Museum
exhibits.
The learned Judge, in his appeal
to his unwelcome colleague, seems to
be laboring under unusual mental
stress He realizes that the animal
upon which they propose to make the
| journey cannot go in two directions
at one and the same time, and that
# they do not come to an agreement
they will never get started. 1t is a
long way to Harrisburg, and If
Eugene and Washington ever expect
to get there the donkey must be
given a cue. Eugene's method OF
solving the troublesome problem is
simplicity itself. He wants Wash
ington to get down and walk. But
the candidate for Lieutenant Gov
ernor merely gives him a dry smile
and says nothing. The request is
enough to make the donkey indulge
in a sly grin, and IL the situation
continues much longer the animal is
like to break out in a succession oi
those loud and unmelodious brays
which sometimes break the silence oi
the countryside.
There are really several ways OF
making the donkey move. One is the
old expedient of building fire un'
der the animal. Another would bt
for the candidate for Governor tc
alight and make way for his col
league. Evidently he has never
thought of that. But IL they botf
persist in holding their places anC
the animal starts in two directions
at the same time there is likely to b'
. a catastrophe, and we shudder Il
think of the consequences. In thu
meantime it would be well to re
mind the two men that it is might!
DANGEROUS business to fool with th'
rear end of a perfectly health!
donkey. It has been tried before an'
always with disastrous results.
The situation is not only anus
ing, but instructive as well. 1t illus
trates in clear.-cut fashion one o
the absurdities of the popular pri
mary election system which has beer
evolved by well-meaning politica
reformerS.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-06
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

General Charles w. Kutz, who
will have charge of Camp Humph-
reys. where the engineers are sta
toned, is a native of Reading.
GCaptain II. III. Lynn has taken
charge of the drilling of drafted men
at Williamsport by an arrangement
made in that city.
Dean Josiah IT. Pennisan, OF
the University of Pennsylvania, is
thinking up some new ideas at the
seashore during August.
William Wayne, former legis-
lator and prominent Chester coun-
tian, who has been in France on Y,
M. c. A. work is spending a short
time at his home on furlough.
Ira r. Freeman, the coroner OF
Carbon county, has gone into the
service as a captain and gets leave
of absence.
Captain L. A. Tafel, one of the
Guard officers for yoars, is now in
France with a pioneer regiment.
Captain Ellsworth Gregory, OF
Pcttsville. who has been at the front
in France for months, is home on
special duty.
Major David B. Simpson, former
Philadelphia newspaperman, is now
postmaster at Camp Wadsworth
where Pennsylvania boys are goinA
this week.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-06
SiIver Haired Nurses
With Golden Hearts
v E. Whish in the Continental Edition London Ma
WY HAT should we do without
wv our white haired nurses?" the
cnna lrar. nrrao O nrnt,nnr enldiar.

VTT HAT should we do without
wv our white haired nurses?" the
speaker was young soldier,
who had been "convalescing" some
weeks in the cottage hospital.
''They do not tire like the young
'ones," he said eagerly to me. You
don't know the grit they've got. Why,
Nurse Emma is a grandmother. At 4
o'clock in the morning she makes tea
for us all. You don't know what a
cup of tea means to chap that has
been lying awake all night in pain.
II think" and wistful note crept
into the boys voice, "silvery haired
nurses like to mother us. The young
ones look upon us as patients. To the
older women we are sons"
How true this was!
Are we just to the woman of so?
She who has borne the burden of her
day and in this war is bearing ours.
Our silvery haired women! II
awoke an echo of pain. These women
who apologize so sweetly for delaying
the omnibus in getting in and out,
who are so anxious to do work of
some national Importance. "I quite
understand" said one of the women,
"age is such a bar, and in an office
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-06
Don't Be q Fool

You blame some one else for the
harm you have done
A fool can do thatl
You crouch when yourself is the butt
of the fun
A fool can do that!
You criticise others who try things
and fail;
You say Had I tried, 'twere a DIFF
ferent tale;"
You sit down and rest by the side of
the trail
A fool can do that!
You say you'll get even" for In
juries done
A fool can do that!
You say you are envied your place
in the sum
A fool can do thatl
You always are scenting an enemy
plot,
If there should be any foundation. or
not;
Full half you suspect is the veriest
A fool can do that!
You listen in silence when slander is
A fool can do that!
See friends robbed of that which is
dearer than life
A fool can do that!
You wait till your personal rights
are disturbed
Before you are anxious or even per-
turbed;
You think for no other the wrong
should be curbed-
A fool can do thatI
Try thinking of others instead oi
yourself
No fool would do that!
Think more about service and less
about pelf-
No fool would do that!
Just don't do q thing either night
time or day, -
For pleasure or some kind of prac.
tical pay,
OF which any person can truthfullS
say:
"a fool can do that!
Strickland Gillian, in The Ro.
Iarla0,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-06
THIS is TOO MUCH

ITHE Philadelphia Evening Public
Ledger reports the latest mid
summer horror in the Quaker
City. It is a recurrence of that
awful affliction of our early boyhood
the homemade haircut. The war
prices of Philadelphia BARRIERS have
driven many households back to this
iniquity of the days of barbarity,
when men paid much attention to
the curl of their whiskers, but very
little to the hicks in their hair.
The pies that mother used to make
are sweet memories to be cherished
even beyond the pearly gates, but We
trust when we pass over kindly
Providence will somehow arrange
it that we may shed forever all
recollection of those tortures we used
to undergo every time mother de-
cided that our hair was too long"
We didn't go like lambs to the
slaughter. Far from it. We re-
sisted valiantly as the sons of free
men should-to say nothing of rails
ing our voices in protest for the
benefit of the neighbors a half block
down the, street. All in vain! We
were caught dragged into the baby's
high chair, towel swathed about
the neck and the orgy was on. The
family comb and a dun pair of
scissors were the only tools thought
necessary. and when they had pulled
out and chopped off a quantity of
hair sufficient to satisfy the de-
prayed tastes of our tormentors we
were turned loose to admire the
hicks and irregularities left in the
wake of the improvised moving ma
chimes. and to sQuirm for days in
vain efforts to search out the va
grant hairs that. escaping the towel,
had found lodgment at inconvenient
spots between shoulders and hips.
In some families there was q
handy man whose specially was
mending shoes and cutting hair
and he did both Jobs with vigor and
enthusiasm. He 1t was who per-
formed the tonsorial horrors for the
elder members of the household and
beyond question he was a bad influ-
ence in the community. Even the
most pious citizens used TO break out
in lurid language under his ministra.
tions.
Harrisburg is a thrifty town, but
it's going to take moro than a FIVE.
cent advance in the price of haircut'
to drive it back to savagery. How.
ever, we can think of no better way
of working up fine. hot little hate
for the Kaiser than to have this
, economy forced upon us. with the
5 full knowledge that he is respon
sible.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-06
SAVE NOW
TTTE may now order two sand
wv wiches and a piece OF pie. OF

HTE may now order two sand
Wv wiches and a piece OF pie, or
one sandwich and two pieces
of pie for lunch without running
afou1 of Mr.. Hoover and his food
conservation regulations and we may
eat hot biscuits for supper without
our prodding consciences calling us
slackers. The wheat crop is assured
and it is large enough here and
abroad to warrant a slight letting
down on bread and grain product
restrictions. But, merely because
VIC have enough to tide us over the
winter is no reason why we should
not save Just as carefully and as
scrupulously as we have been doing.
Nobody knows what next years
wheat crop will be. 1t might be a
failure. Then what?
We ought to carry over a sufficient
reserve to see us through any period
ot short production with which we
may be confronted. The grasshop-
per dimes sumptuously on the plenty
Of to-day and dies with the first kill
ing of frost. The ant conserves
saves and stores and meets winter
with a full larder.
The Allies must save wheat in this
moment of unexcelled plenty or per
laps go hungry a year or two hence
If the war continues so long.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-06
Light Is light, tohoepeT holds the
cGndleStick.-E. e. HALE.
WHY NOT A BERRY DAY?''

TYNTIL the war came along Good
Roads" Day was a very i'm
portant anniversary In many
parts of Pennsylvania and was on
fair way to become an occasion of
Statewide observance. Since that
time there have been a number of
days designated and this year what
would have been Good Roads" day
was turned into Garden Day." The
idea is a fine one and it would not
be bad plan to extend 1t.
This year there were literally
thousands Of dollars worth of berries
and small fruits lost to the farmer
and the public simply because there
were no hands to pick them. In
some sections of the State cherries
rotted on the trees for the same rea-
son. There are instances known
right near home where choice rasp-
berries and blackberries were lost
owing to the fact that there were
Food values have been lost because
of lack of organized effort in COM
munities. There may be serious loss
to the peach growers of Cumberland
and to the apple growers of Adams
If the labor supply cannot be i'm
proved and 1t seems hard to do so.
The point is that the idea of GER
tain days to be given to certain
things by way of useful diversion
might be extended next year to the
small fruits. There are many farm
ers who would be glad to give people
small fruits, berries. cherries and
other things as their share of the
picking" Let the places be listed
in which the farmers and the tree
or bush owners have got to have
help, and the cities and towns will
supply the men and women, boys
and girls to help out
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-06

life of the individual has been ma
terially heightened thereby. always
supposing that he escapes the perils
of the battlefeldf And If service
with the colors increases the span
of life one or two years. why isn't
it good for the manhood of the ma
ton in peace times as well as war 4?
Look about you and notice who
are the sturdy men. of seventy and
over among your acquaintances
Civil War veterans, almost to a man
The men who stayed at home during
the Civil War are nearly all dead
The veterans of four years cam.
paigning are the men who march to.
day in the Grand Army parades. And
they didn't have the scientific mill.
tary training of to-day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-06
THE ''Y" AND ITS FUTURE

N HE decision of Secretary Rob-
ert B. Reeves of the Y. M. G. A.
to follow the very successful
boys camp with an outing for the
boys and men OF the association is
indicative, of the place the Harrisburg
."Y'' is making for itself in the cam
munity. Not so long since a Y. M
G. A. picnic would have been impos-
sible.. There was little spirit of fra
ternity or fellowship in the organiza-
ton But all that is changed. The
association has come into its own
and the proposed outing was assured
= Of success the moment Sit was an
nounced.
The Harrisburg association is do
ing a good work now, but it is also
preparing for the greater duty to be
demanded of 1t when "the boys
come home" 1t is making itself in
dispensable as an institution 5a, tba
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-06
ADDING TO STATURE

THE men of the National Army
have gained from half inch
to two inches in height as a
result of military training, and their
physique in general has been
greatly improved, according to camp
statistics just made public.
If this isn't a plea for universal
training, what is it?
II few months in the Army will
add two inches to a mans stature
and turn his flabby muscles hard as
nails. isn't 1t fair - b-la>aa~ that tlA4
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-06

lives of hundreds of men. but Is
merely laying the groundwork for
service after the war. when its mem
bership will grow until 1t bursts the
walls of the building of to-day and
spreads itself half block farther
down the street. Such gatherings as
Mr.. Reeves proposes help pave the
WAY
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-06
LABOR NOTES

There are more than 10000 war
workers at Washington, D. c., in va
rious Government departments. Be
fore the war began the total number
of Government employees there was
about 10000.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-06

A resolution recommending a uni
form wage scale for all crafts MAX
ing up the metal trades department
of the American Federation of La
Dor was adopted at meeting OF the
metal branch.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-06

Eager to take advantage of the
Supreme Courts invalidation of the
child labor law, hundreds of mill,
mine and factory owners are prepar-
ing to recruit minor children where
UNPROTECTED by state laws