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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-19
MINING BY STATUTE

nERSONS who have observed the
operation of the daylight saw
ing" law in Harrisburg have
come to the conclusion that you can
not legislate children to bed. We
are all so much in favor of the sum-
mer daylight utilization that we
would not go back to the old plan
IL we could. but the truth is that as
long as there is q sunbeam in the
western sky 1t is hard work to make
the kids" quiet down and turn
over and go to Sleep"
Cutting ooaT Is hard work and
conditions in the mining regions of
Pennsylvania. admittedly different
from those Of Alabama and Ar
kansas. have been such that miners
want all the recreation they can get,
while the foreign element has
brought with 1t various church days
with which some large cities and
governmental centers are not famil-
lar. And miners are also making
much money. Where there is money
there are always to be found means
of amusement
1t is proposed by the Fuel Admin
istration that agricultural fairs be
discouraged" SO that the miners
will not be attracted from their
work. This suggestion. We are
happy to say. does not come from
the level-headed, Woodworking Fuel
Administrator of Dauphin county
and some of the other men who are
cheerfully filling the same exacting
post of wartime duty in many eoun-
ties of our State.
The truth is that you can not make
men "cut COAL" run cars. man
pumps, load trains and do other
work about coal mines by statute
any more than you can legislate
children to sleep. When it comes
down To suspending fairs which last
two or three days year as a means
of keeping miners at work we
humbly suggest to the Wilson ad-
ministration. and the distinguished
Pennsylvania Democrats which are
a part, that a better way to keep
miners at work would be to study
conditions in the coal regions close
ly, even inspecting housing, or per-
chance scanning the list of saloons
in some copmunities.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-19
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Edward Thompson. the Will.
Transport librarian named to look af.
ter books for soldiers in Pennsylva.
mia, has long been active in library
work and has visited State Librarian
Montgomery here.
The Rev. Charles r. Lichte. oi
Philadelphia, will go to one of tn,
Army camps to be trained as q chap,
lain.
The Rev. DR.. ]. Frank Bucher,
of Milton, is home on a furlough
from China, where he has been en-
gagged in missionary work.
Auditor General Charles A. Sny.
der made speech when the Hol,
Family Church of New PhiladeAs
phia unveiled its service flag.
DIR. Charles Aumiller. of
Bloomsbury, has suspended his two
newspapers in that county. He says
that he desires to meet the Govern
ment policy of conservation for one
thing.
Francis H. Bohien, whose titla
to part of Hog Island has been up.
held by the Philadelphia courts. Is
connected with the state compensa-
ton board counsel.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-19
THEY WILL RESPOND

HE farmers of Dauphin and
surrounding counties have been
- asked to plant at least three
per cent. more of wheat the coming
season than they had in the ground
this year. Beyond doubt, they will
respond. No class has done better
in the food crisis than the farmer.
He has come forward with increased
crops at a time when farm labor is
scarcer than ever in the history of
the country and he is preparing TO
duplicate that worthy performance
under conditions that promise to be
even more adverse.
But the time has come when the
farmer cannot be expected to carry
his load alone He must look to the
towns and villages for aid during his
very busy seasons. He is receiving
high prices for his produce and he
will have to pay corresponding
wages for workers, who. If they do
not come forward voluntarily, will
have to be induced by patriotic COM
munity efforts to give few days
each to the work of garnering the
crops the farmers have put out. The
farmer cannot afford to be independ-
cnt in this crisis any more than can
other employers of help. He must
make his wants known and be con-
tent with the quality of labor the
condition of the market affords.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-19

To that the people of this country
have made up their minds. Nobody
in the army. and few outside, have
any other thought. We are devoted
to that principle and we are ready
to stake ourselves, to the last man,
and our all In material possessions
to that end.
It is pointed out by fearful ones
that President Wilson has reversed
himself on other issues and might
under some conditions agree to dis
cuss terms of peace before a military
decision has been reached, but 1t is
unthinkable that there should be
such q change of front at Washing
ton. II the President has one virtue
above another, 1t is singleness OF
purpose and once as fully committed
to a course as he is to the present
war may be depended upon to stick
until his purpose has been accom-
plished. He will have ali true
Americans back of him in this. Ger
many must be punished and this is
no time to talk peace.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-19
PICNIC DINNERS
TPennsvlvania. Farmer1

| We are getting many suggestions
on wholesome conservation in picnic
dinners, club meeting lunches, feed
ing the threshing crews. etc. All of
these indicate a conscientious effort
on the part of farm men and women
ITO live up to every letter of the Food
Administration regulations, and sup
ply many commonsense local regu-
latons to the same end. OF course,
the picnic dinner is the soul of the
picnic gathering and has been from
time immemorial This is true with
all people, city as well as country,
except, of course, that country pic
MICS always have better food and
more of it, But there is no reason
why we cannot sacrifice just a little
in our picnics in these war times
just as we do in our everyday liV-
ing. The real inspiration. rest and
diversion in picnic occasions come
from meeting and visiting with
neighbors and friends. Real neigh
bors and real friends can make
merry over a real wartime lunch
con as well as over an ante-bellum
banquet if the good ladies preparing
the luncheon only think so. There
is considerable voluntary autocracy
in the present phases of our democ-
racy, and If the ladies will exercise
just a bit more autocratic power in
debating what shall and what shall
not be eaten on picnic occasions
they may be trusted to save food
without serious interference with the
success of the occasion.
Threshing is not exastly a picnic
diversion, but we well remember our
boyhood days when we would a lit
tie rather help thresh than do the
other work on the farmland that
heavily-loaded threshers dinner
table was the chief inducement
Numerous suggestions are being
made on how the threshers can be
more economically and more SEN
sibly fed. Every farm woman can
draw helpful hints from these sug-
gestions, but from the Washington
County Farm Bureau comes a plan
that will require a community un-
derstanding. The plan is for farm
ers to carry their midday meal to
the threshing jobs. This plan will
avoid waste Of much food and will
save lot of work for farm women,
which is no small item in these days
of scarcity of help. Agan, a little
farm woman autocraey can readily
put 1t into force.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-19
AFTER THE NEXT DRAFT

" HE business of the country has
been seriously affected by the
transfer OF manpower under
the first draft act from industry to
the military service, but the hard
ships of the present are as nothing
by comparison with those of the fu-
ture. The new draft, from eighteen
to forty-hve. will hit every line of
endeavor from farming to munitions
at a time when all branches of in
dustry are crying for workers. The
situation we face is serious. War in
dustries and essentials" must be
kept up. There can be no letting
down there. Farming must not be
neglected, If we are to win the war.
Shipbuilding must go ahead. Mine
production must be kept at top
notch. Railroad traffic must not be
permitted to lag. There Is but one
answer II men must fight. women
must work.
the total number of women in the
United States at that time was 49,
2S9.671. OF this number there were
employed in the industrial world
s,647,S65. including clerks and sales
women. but not domestic help, leav-
ing a total of 41,s41,S06. These
figures have. been considerably
changed, both as to totals and the
numbers employed, but they are suf-
fciently accurate to serve as exam
pies. Using them as basis, II only
one of every eight of the unemployed
would take the place of man, II
would mean that we can put an
army of 100000 men under arms,
replacing them with women, and If
one of every four of the unemployed
would volunteer for work, the prob
lem of filling the jobs vacated by
men would be we'll nigh solved,
This, of course, presumes that
every woman now at work remain
at work, for that Is their duty, and
especially those who are trained
along any particular line. While
brother, or husband, or father may
be earning enough to keep the erst-
while working woman In ease at
home, the call of country should
keep her on the job. Victory or de-
feat may hinge on whether or not
our girls and women will answer the
call of factory and mill as their sis
ters in France and England have
done.
This Is the condition we are about
to face and women in every walk of
life will be called upon to do far
more next year than knit for the
Red Cross. worthy and necessary
though that be. They must take
the places OF the men who are going
away. They must become the wage
earners--the producers of the coun-
try.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-19

serts that Russia's army might bs in
the war to-day if it hadn't been de-
prived of it's beloved vodka. 1T was
too great n shock to the war-weary
Russian army to deprive 1t entirely
of stimulants. 1t could not stand
such a radical change in its diet
and mode of living. Prohibition
doubtless did much to crush the mo-
rale of the Russian troops"
The inference from the American
Army GaZette's remarks is that,
given plenty of booze, our soldiers
morale would be preserved and
strengthened and they would put up
a kind of lighting worth while. The
American Army Gazette can't have
been reading the news from Europe
of the last few weeks. 1t couldn't
have chosen a worse time for urging
the need of stimulants by our SOL
-diers. Instead of giving them stimu-
lants, their officers are more con.
cerned about restraining their i'm
petuosity. The American fightine
man doesn't require any Dutch
courage" thank you. He's going tc
show the world that booze ISM
needed to send the Germans goose.
stepping back to Berlin.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-19
INFORMATION WANTED

tFrom the Kansas City Times1
Pan-German and Liberal factions
in Germany are now engaged In a
controversy as to which Is respon-
ssble for bringing America into the
war. Neither side. 1t appears. is
willing to be II.
The question is one that may be
left to Germans to settle for them
selves. There will be q number of
such questions waiting adjustment,
we imagine. as soon as the German
people get a little more time to be-
stow on them. 1t Is conceivable that
when the war is over and they find
themselves without n job. without
markets, without neighbor who will
speak to them, when they find them
selves thus cut off from the world
with nothing to show for their spree
but a broken head and a war debt,
1t is conceivable they may want to
know number Of things. 1t Is even
possible they may apply for the in
formation to the right quarter. Hav-
ing been taught that all wisdom re-
sides in the Kaiser they may ask
him. in case he is still to be found
at the old address, who 1t was that
started the quest for a place in the
sun. They may want to know where
liS tidulllOn OL tHo tlldlleu iSt OTl6-
mated, who is responsible for the
shining sword theory of national
progress, who gave his personal
word that Gott had approved the
teaching that the German was the
elect of the earth.
Perhaps the Kaiser. II he Is not
too much shaken. can think of
soothing and convincing answers
quickly enough. But we imagine he
may be put to 1t. We imagine the
old recitation about his ancestor
placing the crown on his own head
and daring anybody to knock it off.
the old tall talk about 1t being a
Germans highest pleasure and duty
to shoot his father II his emperor
tells him to. will hardly fill the bill.
The Kaiser would do we'll to be
thinking up something new. for he
is going to need it, His faithful sub
jects are going to be of an inquiring
turn of mind after they get through
seeing stars, and the question of
who brought America into the war
will only be the opening of the dance.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-19
NOT partisan, PATRIOTIC

~ EMOCRATIC organs are angry
because Washington newspa-
per correspondents have COM
planned that while Southern rice and
cotton 30 scot free under the rulings
OF the War Board. rice from abroad
is banned, and accuses them of stir
ring up factionalism during war
times. If anybody is stirring up fac
tionalism it is the biased mem bers
OF this same War Board. who have
ruled out of the country vast guam
titles of rice at a time when rice is
of the utmost importance as a wheat
substitute. II the supply from over
seas il depleted what will happen?
Nothing more or less than that our
own Southern planters,who have been
getting rich because the War Board
refuses to place a restrictive price on
their cotton. as has been done with
Northern wheat, will put up the
price of rice also in the United
States and the people will pay the
bill.
If there is any sectionalism, any
playing of one part of the country
against another. the fault does not
lie with newspaper writers who set
forth the facts as they exist. but
with those who are responsible for
the conditions set forth. and no
axoou1$ 81 nap,1nrakto duet tk.~1r,tu ..
or mud-tossing will explain away the
truth that the War Boards conduct
is regarded by many people as botL
injurious to the people as a whole
and discriminatory 50 far as the
farmers OF the North are concerned.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-19
FIRST TO FIGHT"
He's lusty and lightsome,

He's lusty and lightsome,
And say-he can fight somel
At home, on the foam, or in far
tropic scenes
Just watch for that helmet
They can't overwhelm it
The globe-eagle-anchor that marks
the Marines!
Though dusty, not crusty-
He's tried, true and trusty--
He'll sleep on a plank, can the
Kaiser on beans;
A sea-boy, an air-boy-
You're certainly there, boy!-
The Huns on the run when his
scouts say,
'Marines!'
Their story of glory
Is gorgeous and CORY
Too proud not to fight, they'll show
Fritz what flight" means!
Not theirs to be waiting
At home, hesitating-
Undrafted, undaunted--the unlocked
Marines!
-Luella Stewart in N. Y. Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-19
THE WORLDS COAL AREA

A good authority gives the coal
area of the world in square miles as
follows: United States, 10000;
British America, $4,000; Great Brit
ain, 10000; Spain, 1000; France,
1000; Germany, 1900; Belgium,
SIS; rest of Europe 100000; China,
1000; Japan, 5000. Coal is found
in commercial quantities in twenty
seven OF the states and territories of
the United States and Alaska
From the Pittsburgh Dispatch.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-19
NOT TO BE BLUFFED

" HERE has arisen the fear in
the minds of some that back
of the War Departments an
nouncement of an army of 6.o00,000
there may be the hope that this news
may induce German leaders to sue
for peace at an early date. It IL to
be hoped that no such thought is IN
the minds of those at the head of
the government. Germany is not to
be bluffed. That has been very well
demonstrated. Force. and force
alone, will bring a decision in Eu-
rope and the big army proposed
must turn the trick.
At gil events. the country IL In no
mood to liscen to talk Of peace In
which the present German govern
ment would have a voice. Germany
must be brought to her knees. Ger
many, to paraphrase the Kaiser's
own words in referring to America.
"must be punished for her actions"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-19

lFrom the Pittsburgh Chronicle
Telegraph
VTTHILE the friends of booze
w must realize they are hghting
a losing battle, they are rot
disposed TO throw up their hands
and surrender They are not going
to quit until they receive the knock
out blow which, from present indi-
catioAs, is likely to take the form
of the Federal constitutional amend
ment SO steadily gathering its neces-
sary Endorsements from the states.
Organized renewal of the agitation
for the restoration of liquor to our
fighting forces is seen in the starting
of a new publication at Washington
entitled the American Army Gazette.
In its first issue it declares that mo
military reasons exist for the dry
law and the stringent prohibition
regulations which have been clamped
upon the Army"
The General Staff, it says, does not
approve the abolition of booze. On
the contrary, 1T would, IL consulted,
probably have restored "the old, we'll
regulated canteen, with its light
wines and beer"
The American Army Gazette as
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-19

II the War Board has reasonable
explanation the people will be happy
to hear it and all newspapers will be
pleased to set the members right be-
fore the public. Until that time the
yapping of a pack of subsidized
Democratic political publicity pur-
veyors masquerading under the guise
of newspapers will only increase the
suspicion that rests In the minds of
those who are accused of being par
tisan when they are only patriotic.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-19
Country General Store"

The 1900 Y. NJ. C. A. huts in
France. where our soldiers buy many
things not furnished by the Govern
ment, are like the old-time country
store in the variety of things carried,
aside from clothing and meats and
groceries. Besides cigars, cigarets,
smoking and chewing tobacco, the
soldier may obtain at these huts
soap, safety razors and blades. shoe
laces, candles. all kinds of brushes.
shoe polish, canned jams, jellies and
fruits. chocolate. sweet crackers and
many other articles.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-19
IN NO HURRY

"All the little boys and girls who
wish to go to heaven" said a Sun
day school superintendent, will
please rise"
Whereupon all. with the excep-
ton of Sammy Scruggs, rose.
And doesn't this little boy want
to go to heaven?" asked the super
intendent in surprise.
mot yeti" said Sammy.
From Harper's Magazine.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-19
A Peculiar Habit

Americans detailed to the rear to
work have been borrowing uniforms
from Australian soldiers and going
into the thick of the fight. The
German generals. convinced with
the Kaiser that the Americans
wouldn't fight, might take notice
that deserting to the front is a Pc
culiarly American military fault
Baltimore American.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-19

Nish you not feto cares, but cdpd-
city for many; not easy tasks, but
strength to master oil Of them; not
freedom from temptations, but grace
sufficient to toreStIe totth them; not
absence Of Sorroto, but faith tchere-
Nth to see beyond IT.; not exemption
from perplerfttes, but confidence IN
God to tcork them out.-ANoN.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-19
HOW Many For You?>

A number of prominent and near
prominent men will write "ads" for
the next Liberty Loan campaign.
Every citizen should do likewise.
Here's a sample: sNanted-(So
many bonds OF the Fourth Liberty
Loan of the United States Govern
ment. (Name and address. ~
Pittsburgh Sun.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-19
Watch the Nert Loan

The Kaiser remarked, once upon
a time, that There can be nothing
stable in a nation that changes its
leaders every four years" Maybe
so, but just now we'll back our gov
ernmental stability against his with
every cent we've got in our jeans
Erie Dispatch.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-19
And That Isn't the Worst

The Crown Prince and Prince
Rupprecht are now on equal terms.
Each has suffered defeat But they
are not on the best of terms of
friendship. and what they are saying
about the Allies they may soon be
saying about each other.-Wilkes-
Rarre Record
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-19
A National Game

Mrs. Kicker-Do you approve of
your husbands poker games?
Mrs. Bocker-Yes; he gives me
thrift stamps when he loses and war
stamps when he wins.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-19
Feel Like Doing Something

No doubt the kaiser will soon think
of exempting the crown prince from
military service on the ground that
he has a dependent wife and chill
dren.-From the Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-19
Still, They Don't Seem Happy

Whenever the Germans are badly
defeated in battle they have happy
way of explaining 1t to the people at
home by saying that the retreat was
a complete cess."-F'rom the New
Orleans States.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-19

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
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, 1918-08-19
May Just Let 1t Wear off

Paper underwear il a new inven-
ton said to be serviceable. Is 1t re-
moved with a hose each evening
From the st. Louis Globs- Democrat
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-19
Useless Arqunlent

What is the use of all this argu-
ment over the kind of histories we
shall have in our schools? We're
making history these days, not read
| ing it-Rochester Post Express.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-19
Poor Weak Womdnhood

Some married women are so weak
that they allow their husbands to
keep part of their salaries-From
the Idaho Statesman.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-19
Wait Until 3,OOO,OOO Are Ouer

"The smile has almost vanished
from German faces" says a Stock
holm newspaper. And it'll be an
cient history in Germany before
long.-Altoona Mirror.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-19
LABOR NOTES


England's National Union of Rail
way men has 400. 900 members.
Kansas has succeeded in recruit
ing over $4,000 harvesters.
Cramps shipyards at Philadelphis
are 100 per cent. organized.
Increased pay has been granted
York (Pa.) school teachers.
Practically every woman In Italy
from 16 to 60 years Of age Is a wal
nurse of a volunteer war worker.
Trade union organisations Al
Bielefeld. Germany, have refused to
Join a local patriotic committee In
the collection of money for the
"Ludendorff Fund for wounded SOL
diers.
Baltimore, Nd. has one woman
barber.
In England all private employment
agencies have been discontinued since
the outbreak of war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-19
OUR DAILY LAUGH
HELP!

HELP
Domino-Oh,
dear, what shall
1 do! Here
comes that fell
low who said he
was going to
knock the spots
out of mel
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-19

Increased pay has been granted
York (Pa.) school teachers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-19
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg has spc-
ciaI rniIroad cars assigned to It
to haul munitions it manufac-
turos?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-19
JUST LIKE US.

JUST LIKE US.
Papa Cent?
pede: No use
talking. at the
present price of
shoes, W h e n
these are gone,
I'll have to go
barefoot.