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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-12
Major Beth Has to Stand

Major Ian Hay Beth. author of
'The First Hundred Thousand" and
"All In It." who has returned to
England. had ain amusing experience
on his war lecture tour last winter
when he entered a barber's shop in
a small town to have his hair cut.
Stranger in town. sir?" the barber
asked. The Major replied that he
was, and asked. rs there anything
going on here tonight" The bar
Der replied, There's a war lecture
by an English fighter named Hay.
but If you go, you'll have to stand.
for every seat in the hall is sold
out" Really now" said Major
Beth, provoking. isn't it? It's al
ways my beastly luck to have to
stand when that chap Hay lectures!"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-12
WELL. KNOWN PEOPLE

Captain e. r. Mackey, of Will
Transport. cited for bravery. was
long Interested in military matters in
that city
here, is in charge of the big housing
investigation in Pittsburgh.
The Rev. Dr. w. H. Roberts,
stated clerk Of the Presbyterian gen.
eral assembly, is spending a short
vacation at the seashore.
e. M. DUPONT. general manager
of the Johnstown Railways, says it
is only a question of short time
until women are employed on trolley
cars in that city.
Samuel W. Gault, well-known
Pittsburger, was here on his way
home after three-months' stay in
New Jersey.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-12
PATRIOTS REGISTER

* ELECTIVE Service is the own
ID offspring of the American Vol
unteer. 1t has neither exiled
its sire nor silenced his voice.
Selective Service has but shifted
the burden of the whole task of
fighting for our country from volun-
teer shoulders, and guided enthu-
siastic patriotism in the right chan
nels towards the quickest and best
results.
No, The day of the American
Volunteer is not past; for volunteer
service is a matter of spirit-the
willingness to do.
1t can still speak; it is acting to-
day-the Day of Selective Service
Registration.
The man. who, being between IS
and As years, rose early to-day and
fastened to place his name on the
Selective Service Roll, is an Ameri-
can Volunteer.
He is as much an American Vol
unteer as the men who shouldered
musket in 1776. or answered the
first call in 1861.
A man volunteers in his heart.
Selective Service opens the way for
him to serve where he is best
needed, and when. 1t safeguards
an over-zealous spirit from trying to
serve where it is of little use.
Our nation has set for itself to-
day the task of registering thirteen
millions of men between the ages of
so and 46, and Is and 81 years.
1t will register them only if
Americas volunteer spirit speaks
and acts.
The need of the hour is a double
quick response. Our country must
add more than two million soldiers
to the American Army of to-day to
beat the Hun back into his den.
1t will pick these soldiers from
the 100000 men who register. If
you have not already done so. do
not delay.
Go prepared to give the vital facts
about yourself. Answer the ques-
tions of the registering board. Don't
ask questions.
That will show a true volunteer
spirit.
Patriots will register promptly.
Others must, or pay the penalty.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-12

seconds was about the time allowed
for gas wave to arrive, and if that
mask wasn't adjusted properly by
the time [ had counted fifteen, then
Soodby to Tommy Kehoe.
l had got up to ten and was still
fumbling, when along came a fellow
we call Welshie, who grabbed me and
put the thing in place in my head.
Then we both jumped for the firing
step.
Not one hundred feet away a long,
low fog bank was creeping toward us
close to the ground. 1t was the gas
wave. Our rockets were shooting up
through the dark, and in their glare
the wave turned yellow and red and
green as It rolled on. Behind it all
was pitch black. BY the light of the
rockets l could look along our line
of trench and see our lads in helmets
and masks. stiff as statues, with their
rifles pointing over the parapet.
My mask was warm and sitting,
and | felt like pulling it off for a big
breath of fresh air before the wave
should reach us, but L didn't dare.
1 had heard of men who had taken
such a chance and who hadn't lived
to tell of it.
One moment the wave was spark
ing Wnlte, llke phoSpnoreScent SURF
on a sandbar. the next it cleaned
green and red, like the deadly thing
it was. And it crept toward us, oh,
so slowly! Perhaps it was only ten
seconds before it rolled over the
sand-bags, but it seemed like ten
times as long.
Then it swept over us. ! gasped
for air. I thought 1 was suffocating.
/ was sure there was hole in my
mask somewhere and that it was all
over with me But it wasn't as bad
as that. I was half stihed, but there
was a lot of life left in me, though
the gas did get few fellows-knoci5-
ad theno far
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-12
UP TO THE PRESIDENT
Colonel Iarvey's War Weekly

tColone1 f1arNeyS war Weekly)
Out of the welter of incompetence,
waste of hundreds of millions of dol
lars and months of precious time,
wanton sacrifice of priceless lives,
intrigues without number, graft
without limit, and crimes without
the pale of eXculpation, emerges one
luminous and overwhelming fact:
1t is up to the President to re-
trieve the shortcomings and wrong
doings Of his subordinates, to re
solve order out of chaos and 70 gel
for America equality at least and su-
premacy If possible as a fighter in
the air. Nobody else can do it. lie
can and he must. or his administra-
ton will be discredited irrepara ply
the country will be disgraced and a
million lives may be lost through
prolongation of the war.
Bowed though our heads be in
shame and disgust, except for the
lessons sake, not a day, not an hour,
not a moment should be spared in
bewailing the past. The money is
gone. the gallant lads who have
perished to no purpose cannot Ue
brought back to life; those chi e1y
responsible are already writhing IN
llIC oSOI IL VI Olll puIlliC ODlIiOllp >
punishment-swift and relentless, let
us hope and pray-awaits the evil
doers.
But we cannot stop for that. We
must go on. All eyes should turn to
the future. Every ounce of energy
should be applied in the present We
cannot wait for the Hughes report
we cannot wait for ANYTHING. With
in year the great crisis will come
and America must furnish prepon-
derancc of force in the air no less
than on the land if complete victory
is to be won.
There are two essential things to
be done, one at home. the other
abroad. Day in and day out we have
urged the President to find man,
the man who can get results, as
Schwab is getting results, and who,
like Schwab. shall have absolute au-
thority and he responsible to nobody
but the President himself There is
every reason to believe that he has
found the man needed in Mr.. Ryan.
Good! Now full speed ahead!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-12
In Front of PruSsian Guards

MOT long after, the Prussian
~ guard was put opposite us and
we got ourselves ready for most
anything. And sure enough story
spread that the German miners were
digging underneath us. Our miners
were busy investigating. For long
time they couldn't findanything. Then
one evening came a sudden order to
withdraw to trench in the rear, and
fifteen minutes after we had filed out
through the communication trench
came crash and a roar and body
was tossed a hundred feet into the
air-one of our men who had stayed
behind too long. A great black smoke
cloud rose up. Our trenches had been
blown to nothing, says Tommy ke-
hoe, England's veteran of the trench
es at 16, telling his war experiences
in Boys Life.
That cloud of smoke had scarcely
disappeared when the Germans
opened up on us with everything they
had. Bullets and shells were flying
everywhere. The whiz-bangs tore
gaps in our wire fences and in our
sand-bag parapet. Showers of sand,
earth and pebbles fell over us and
half blinded us. We lost some men,
how many / do not know, but l
saw two blown to pieces by a shell
that dropped right into the trench.
We four pals-Billy Clegg, Billy
Matchett, Bonesey and I-were
squatting IN the trench in the dark,
glad it wasn't our turn on the firing
step in all that fuss.
Just then came the gas mask sig
nal. 1 grabbed for mine. My hands
were shaking so I could hardly hold
it, but there wasn't any time to lose
if I wanted to live. AS 1 fumbled
with it l kept mumbling to myself,
Fifteen seconds! Fifteen seconds!
One, two, three, four"
According to instructions, fifteen
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-12
A SILENT TRIBUTE

Miss Jessie Rittenhouse, author of
The Door of Dreams" a collection
of poems, has just received a touch
ing letter from a nurse with the
American Expeditionary Force in
France. The nurse found pasted
over the bed of soldier who died,
one of Miss Rittenhouse's poems.
"The Wage" and sent it to the au-
thor with a note of explanation.
cover one of our hospital cots 1
found this poem of yours pasted" 9"
she says. After the man who loved
it so much went away 1 took it
down and am sending it on to you.
feeling that this bit of paper will
have a special value to you now
Isn't it strange that these soldiers
who have ceased to bargain with life
fail to realize that they who ask
nothing receive the most? have an
idea that this is one of the first
things the good God tells them
afterward."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-12

Cleave then to the SUMMER side OF
doubt,
And cling to Faith beyond the forms
of Faith:
She reels not in the storm of toarring
qcords,
She brightenS at TIE claSt of "Yes"
and "No."
she sees the Best that g1immers
Through the Worst,
she feels the sun is hid but for a
night,
She spies the summer through the
tCinter bud,
She tastes the fruit before the bios
som fcHS,
She hears the lcrb ,oithin the song
less egg,
she finds the fountain ,ohere they
,~ tediled mirage"
-TENNYsoN.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-12
CIVIC CLUBS GLAD HAND

WTHAT a fine thing the Civic
wv Club is doing in the entertain
ment of the soldiers on duty
in this section. Harrisburg has met
every expectation in all the activities
growing out of the war, but might
have done, perhaps. little more in
the way of providing the home at
mosphere for the soldier boys who
happen to be in our midst. The
Civic Club is now supplying this
need. Many of these men have re-
sponded to the call to the colors at
great sacrifice, and it is only right
and proper that the good women of
Harrisburg, through the Civic Club
and other organizations, should show
them every proper attention. Time
was when the man in uniform in
the United States was not shown
the courtesy which should with en-
tire propriety have been extended to
one serving unselfishly his country;
but since our entrance into the great
war all this is changed and those
who had the narrow view of the
national service have in most cases
changed their minds and now appre-
ciate the Importance of honoring the
uniform as well as the flag
Here and there, of course, some
thimble-brained individual will pro-
test against social attentions which
are bestowed upon the soldiers, but
these persons are in such an insig-
nif1cant minority that they are soon
dropped into the little niche to
which they naturally gravitate.
Harrisburg is a patriotic city and
its fame has gone abroad even be-
yond the seas. In other wars it did
its part admirably in looking after
the comfort of the soldiers, so that
again we say the community is back
of the Civic Club in its determine
ton to still further bring the home
to the soldier who has left loved
ones to do his best in the suppress
sion of the Beast now 'ravagine
Europe and destroying the peace OF
the world.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-12
THOSE GERMAN KNIVES

TIHE body of an American boy was
found in No Mans Land tho
other day hacked almost 70
pieces by German knives.
Before the war we bought nearly
two million dollars worth of Ger
man pocket cutlery each year.
A captured British officer was re.
Gently found with his throat slit from
ear to ear-by G. razor.
We used to import a half million
dollars worth of razors from Ger
many annually.
Are we going to continue TO
patronize these barbarians and their
murder-tool factories after the war {?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-12
JUDICIOUS CRITICISM

SO far as candidates for Federal
place are concerned, the Maine cleo
ton is a victory for Mr.. Wilson and
the war 1t is not a Republican or
a Democratic war. 1t is an Ameri-
can war. The men who have held
up the Presidents hands, no matter
what their party names, deserve to
be, returned to Congress. A lot of
Democrats in Congress. Laodiceans
or pacifists, might we'll be spared.
From his political enemies Mr.. Will
son not infrequently gets judfcious
criticism and indispensable help
New York Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-12
Victory ODer Booze

1t has been officially determined
that a nation engaged in a great wal
cannot demoralize itself and dissi-
pate it's lighting power with booze
A nation that has once experienced
the advantages of being rid of this
source of economic, social and DO.
litical disorganization will never re.
turn to it when peeace comes.-ISan-
sas City Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-12
CHRISTMAS SHOPPING

q INCE the agreement at the
~ headquarters of the Committee
on National Defense with the
mercantile heads there will be no
interference with the usual holiday
business so long as it does not in
volve any increase of the working
forces, the merchants of Harrisburg
and elsewhere are preparing for a
longer holiday season. instead of
confning the gift buying to the last
month of the year. When 1t was
stated that the holiday purchases OF
the average merchant were made
months ago and that the mer-
ehandise had already been deliv-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-12

Killing Germans seems 20 be re-
garded somewhat in the light of sport
by many of the young soldiers in
France. who insist that shooting the
Hun is about the same as shooting
rabbits
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-12

Captain Walter Kilroy Harris. a dis
tinguished Australian soldier, journal
ist and author, will be the luncheon
speaker before the Chamber of Com
merce tomorrow. He has had a large
experience in the actual fighting and
the c. of C. is fortunate in having him
for Fridays luncheon.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-12
E. ]. STACKPOLE

Member of the Associated Press-The
Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled to the use for republication of
all news dispatches credited to 1T or
not otherwise credited in this paper
and also the local news published
herein.
All rights of republication of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-12

The Swiss Federal Council has de-
creed the adoption of 24-hour time
for railroads and other institutions
under government control at date
yet to be determined.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-12

Register to-day and be glad YOU
are young enough to do so. Many a
man would be glad to trade his
chances at the front to be again with
in draft age.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-12
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg soldiers
have won places as noncom-
missioned officers I'm every camp
into which they have been sent?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-12

In Germany in certain industries
the proportion of work done by wo-
men has risen from slightly under IS
per cent. in 1914 to practically 60 per
cent. at the present time.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-12
A NERVY
SUITOR.


You just un-
derstand, sir, that
l want my daugh-
ter to have as
good a home
after marriage as
before.
w e IL, you're
not going t o
break up house
keeping, are you?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-12
LABOR NOTES

Youngstown (Ohio) Typographical
Union has signed a fve-year agree
ment with publishers granting IS
a week increase.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-12

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING co.
Telegraph Building, Federal Square
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-12

In regard TO old-time papers it
would be very valuable contribution
TO the history Of this county il the
Dauphin County Historical Society
should be able to print the letters
and papers of the Rev. John Elder,
the fighting parson," of Paxton
church. MIR. Elder was one of the
two men who loomed up in the CO.
lonial history of what is now Dau-
phin county and his descendants not
only reside here still, but are giving
their lives for the country which he
helped establish.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-12

More than sixteen municipal tram
way undertakings throughout .he
United Kingdom employ women
drivers. Glasgow alone having 220 of
them.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-12
HISTORIC HA,RRIsBURG

John Harris stockade is dec,ar.
ed to have been the first fort erected
on the Susquehanna.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-12
OUR DAILY LAUGH

PEACE AND
PROSPERITY.
Mrs. K.-Think
there will be
prosperity after
peace?
Mrs. W.-Cer-
tainly; I never
make up without
o handsome pres
ent
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-12

State Librarian Thomas Lynch
Montgomery, who is to be speaker
at the September meeting of the
Dauphin County Historical Society
tonight, will present some of the
matters he has discovered in a sum-
mer vacation study of original doc
uments pertaining to the early his
tory of Dauphin county. Mr.. Mont
gomery, who is q Harrisburger ny
brevet and inclination, has been Civ
ing much attention to the study OF
the early days in this county, hcving
been fortunate to discover a num-
Der of letters and papers of those
times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-12

* ELECTIVE Service is the own
- offspring of the American Vol
unteer 1t has neither eXiled
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SUMMARY OF WAR EVENTS
By United Press

f.sssth day Of tho war: end day
OF the big offensive.
AMERICAN FftoNT--The official
communiquc. issued from American
headquarters reports nothing new on
any OF the American sectors except
mutual oannonadlng.
Fred y. Ferguson. on the Picnrdy
front. cables that an American patrol
penetrated the German wires nci,r
cantlgny. defeated a large German
patrol and returned without "a caHu'
atty.
Frank J. Taylor cables from the
Lorraine front that Capt. David Pc.
terson Of iionesdale. Pa. brought
down German bipianc northeast OF
Nancy. lilo also reported that Capt.
James Norman Han. who was
brought down behind tho German
lines May 7. Ii In IA German hospital
only slightly wounded.
THE UNITED sTATES-Ameri.
cas- first field army. consisting of
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