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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-16
THE LIBERTY MOTOR
THE Literary Digest.1

The cheerful news that recent
tests of seaplane equipped with the
Liberty motor resulted in better
than similar airplanes equipped with
one of the best types of European
engines, is contained in adispatch to
Secretary Daniels from Admiral
Sims, who commands our naval
forces In European waters. This an
nouncement gives a fitting climax to
what we are assured is the whole
story of the Liberty motor as con-
tributed to the New York Tribune by
Theodore NJ. Knappen. 1t should be
of interest to timid souls. Accord
ing to Mr.. Knappen the much-be-
rated delay in motor-production was
due to necessary changes in the mo-
tor, made at the advice of an official
committee, who were unwilling that
we should turn out anything but the
very best work, program or no pro-
gram" Final tests were not made
until April last, and thereafter the
motors began to be turned out fif-
teen or twenty a day. At the date
of Mr.. Knappen's writing they were
being produced fifty per day, and he
assures us that the rate is rapidly
rising. The whole trouble has been.
he thanks, premature official pub
licity." We now have a good mo-
tor with delayed production, which
very properly gives that publicity
the lie; we might have made good
in the publicity program and lost the
lives of our aviators by thousands.
Who is sorry for what we actually
did?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-16
Says Trotzky Rides in
Nicholas IFS Motor Car
Herman Bernsteins Report Russia
Nobility Forced Menial While
shevd Indulge n Various

motor car of Nicholas II. The Boil
shevist leaders requisitioned food,
wines, chocolates and various deli
cacies for themselves, while the Rus
sian population, even the women and
the children of the proletariat, were
starving.
II have seen tyranny such as
Nicholas never dared impose upon
his people, graft such as even Rus
sia could not equal in the past. Co.
goPs masterpiece. The Inspector is
antiquated now. 1t is too mild a pic
ture of the art of grafting.'
All Russia needed, he declared,
was another master to produce a
new epic of graft under the regime
of the so-called liberators of the
Russian working people,"
In the second instalment Mr..
Bernstein declared that "the Boil
sheviki have removed their mask of
socialism and style themselves COM
munists now. But they are enslaving
Russia more thoroughly than the
kaiser could have done without their
aid, for they are posing as Russians
and as liberators of the proletarat."
He quoted a letter from vladimir
Bourtseff, "one of Russia's foremost
champions of liberty" in which ap-
peared this paragraph:
For Russia is actually helping
now the Germans against the allies,
and If nothing is done to Offset this
perhaps tomorrow Russian armies
under the command of Lenine and
Trotsky, Hindenburg and Hertling
may be forced to advance against the
allies"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-16
Banks and Certificates

LFrom the New York Sun.l
"The marvellous manner in which
the banks of the United States did
their allotted work in meeting Fed
eral tax requirements has relieved
public and banking anxiety as we'll
with reference to the ability of the
institutions to take care of the bill
lions of dollars worth of Treasury
certificates which must be sold prior
to the issue of the fourth Liberty
Loan in September or October" OBJ
serves the Financier. Whether we
figure the national income. at $780,
600, 100000 or a larger sum, it is
still true that the certificates to be
disposed of in the next four months
will take an uncomfortably large
percentage OF the national surplus.
The demand will be met willingly.
Probably If its meaning were bet
ter understood, people would app~a-
ciate just what must happen be-
tween now and October IL the GER
tificates are to be absorbed, as they
must be-"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-16
THEY ARE LOOKING TO US

n ISCUSSION of the situation in
IL Russia gives emphasis to the
Importance of reorganizing
the east as a condition precedent TO
the winning OF the war on the west
ern front A few days ago the Chris
tan Science Monitor went into the
matter rather fully and concludes
that Intervention in Russia will in
evitably have to come. 1T may be
peaceable Intervention or 1t may be
military intervention" says the Mon
itor, but 1t is inevitable in one form
or the other"
More and more the thoughtful
minds of the world are being led to
the conviction that Russia is largely
the key to world peace and that un-
less this great chaotic nation is re-
stored to something like order and
its proper relation to other nations
the war which we are now fighting
may be lost in the end.
The editorial in question argues
that the United States is the only
country with sufficient surplus man
power to undertake the task of re-
storing Russia to it's proper place in
the family of nations. This must be
done through an alliance with the
allies on the east so that in the final
settlement of the myriad problems
growing out of the war there NAV
be left no place where a fresh as
sault upon the peace of the world
can be inaugurated.
Out of the chaos of to-day NAV
emerge sensible and practical solu-
ton OF the difficulties in the east,
Germany realizes the menace to her
own ambitions and is to-day striving
quite as hard to overwhelm and
take possession of Russia as she is
to defeat the allies on the western
front. All the cunning of the Pots
dam oligarchy is being exercised to
deceive and defeat the Russian peo-
pie. to the end that Germany may be
in a position to demand her place
in the sun" in the eastern zone
rather than the north of Europe.
While we are awaiting with all the
patience that great people can
summon for something to turn up
that will show US the way out of the
Russian muddle. things are happen
ing which may yet result in a per-
manent adjustment of the rights of
the millions OF people now occupying
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-16
REAL YANKEE LANGUAGE
From the London Opinionl

[From the London Opinion1
A French soldier who came proud
ly up to an American in a certain
headquarters town the other day
asked:
You spik French?"
Nope" answered the American.
mot yet.
The Frenchman smiled compla-
Gently.
AYE spik Eengleesh," he said.
The American grinned and the
Frenchman looked about for some
means to show his prowess in the
tongue. At that moment a
French girl, very neat and trim in
her peaked hat, long coat, and high
laced boots, came along. The
Frenchman 1erked his head toward
her, looked knowingly at the Amer
lean, and said triumphantly:
Chicken"
The American roared.
Shake" he said, extending his
hand.
You don't speak English; you
speak American"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-16
IT HEN Herman Bernstein ar
w rived in America after spend

Wv llNSO III AlueElCd dIleT SpSnu-
ing six months in Russia for
the New York Herald, that newspa-
per devoted nearly its entire front
page to the first instalment of Mr..
Bernstein's vivid report.
Mr.. Bernstein, who said that
chaos under the sway of the Boil
sheviki grew steadily, found Russia
practically transformed into a Ger
man colony, the people betrayed,
Inundated, disheartened, the coun-
try dismembered-a smaller Russia
than Ivan the Terrible left behind"
He went on:
"Petrograd was filled with wild,
fantastic rumors, with fears and
forebodings. Strange legends were
circulated freely. The people in the
streets looked ghastly, palefaced
both from hunger and from fear,
haunted by the horrors of German
invasion.
II have seen the equality imposed
by the dictatorship of the proletar-
lat. Student girls and cultured, once
wealthy, women were cleaning the
streets or selling newspapers; officers
of high rank, professors and teach
ers, to keep from starving, also sold
newspapers or carried bundles at
railroad stations. Anarchists and
Bolsheviki were riding about in mo-
tor cars, dining in fashionable res
taurants, feasting and amusing them
selves, while Russia was experience
ing her most tragic period in his
tory. Trotzky was riding about in the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-16
THE LATEST DRIVE

WTHILE it is too early to fOresee
w the end of the latest German
drive, there is every indication
that it has met with little success.
Most interesting OF all the news that
has been cabled concerning it is the
terrific drubbing the Americans gave
the Germans at Vaux and at every
other point where American infan-
try clashed with the Hun forces.
From all accounts the Americans
in most sectors played the old Bun
ker Hill game all over again on a
massive scale-waiting until they
could see the whites of the German
eyes before firing. Dispatches in
dicate that they punished the on
rushing enemy severely and then let
them come up close enough to make
good targets. After that they coun-
terattacked and what was left of
the enemy went back whence it had
come even more quickly than it had
advanced
All America thrills with the news.
We have met and defeated the
Hun in its most tremendous effort.
Americans are better than Germans.
man for man. Even green troops
have displayed their superiority over
German veterans. We know now
beyond peradventure OF a doubt that
all we need in France to beat the
Kaiser back across the Rhine is
men. and still more men. The allies
have not looked to us in vain. Our
armies are the cream OF the earth.
Crossing swords with our adversary.
we have forced him to his knees at
every point of contact, and men who
have not yet been to the front will
now go into battle firm in the con-
viction that the best Hun brigade
in the whole of Europe would have
a difficult time with a single Amer
lean regiment. We have taken the
enemy's measure and he is not
shoulder high to our boys.
Whatever shall come of the big
drive, this much we know-that
American troops are all we thought
them and much more. The whole
nation rejoices.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-16
MOBILIZING GIRLS

Able Wetterle, the Alsatian priest,
whose book, Behind the Scenes in
the Reichstag" has just been pub
lished by Doran Company, writes re-
vealingly of the German Colonial
League. its hopes and it's activities.
'If the enterprise of 1914 had sue
ceeded. as it's organizers hoped It
would" he says. "the whole world
would have been in servitude. The
League provided all articles required
by colonists, even housekeepers. 1t
assumed, in fact, the mission of
mobilizing a large number of big,
strong girls of Brandenburg, and
sent them, carriage paid, to the Cam
eroons and East Africa 70 rthe Ger
man farmers. who were requested to
choose their Legitimate 'coIIaborators'
from among them. The lordly race
must not, indeed. prostitute itself by
cross s-breeding. German blood in the
colonies. as in -Enrope, must remain
free from - -~-==-zzuTe.~
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-16
NOT BURLESON. PLEASE

TINE President is said to be hesi-
/ tating about making Postmaster
General Burleson chief Of the
telegraph and telephone lines about
TO be taken over by the Govern
ment, and we'll he may. II the Post
master General makes as lamenta-
BILE a showing with the wire lines
as he has with the mail service,
Heaven help the country. There
was no finer organization in the
world than the postal department
when Burleson took charge. To-day
1t is a wreck OF its former self, and
efficiency means no more to the
Postmaster General than does fair
treatment OF employees.
Organized labor has Burleson
sized up correctly. and il the Presi-
dent listens to his advisers among
the labor leaders he will save him
self from one Of the worst blunders
of his administration.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-16
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Major w. w. Babcock, well
known Philadelphian, has been pro-
NOTED to be lieutenant colonel.
Ralph A. zimmerman, of Scran-
ton, who went to France with the Y.
NJ. c. A. couple of years ago, has
been given charge of district of the
American sector.
Major r. F. Campbell, the new
camp adjutant at Camp Lee, comes
from Jenkintown and has lately been
stationed at Charleston.
u. G.. Lyons, former guardsman
and oil refiner, who figured in re-
cent congressional contest, has gone
into the Army as a lieutenant colonel
in charge of oil matters.
Altoona people gave a reception
few nights ago in honor of ex-Con-i
gressman J. d. Hicks. commander of
the State G. A. r.
". M. Stevenson, noted Penn
football player, has become Y. NJ.
G. A. military secretary.
The Rev. Luther LeYoe, for
merly of this city, will be one of the
daily speakers at the Mt. Airy Lu-
theran conference of ministers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-16
THE ALBANIAN FRONT

MO WONDER the allied troops
IN are being welcomed by the
Albanians with open arms"
as the press reports put it. Albania
understands as we'll as any other
country in Europe what Prussianism
means to a free people. Manhan-
died by the Turks and the constant
prey of Hohenzollern and Hapsburg
plotters, the Albanians have clung
desperately to their own customs
and to a measure of independence.
Living in a wild. rough country and
under conditions that date back un-
changed for centuries, they never
theless hold the key to control of
the Adriatic and an opening to the
Balkans that, in possession of the
French and Italians, will prove a
constant and increasing menace to
the Bulgarians, who are reported to
be pretty we'll tired with the war
and. for once in their tempestuous
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-16
HELPING WIN THE. WAR

Steamers running out of Tacoma,
Wash, are employing women as
oilers.
The average rate or pay paid
women time workers in England is
S6.0S per week.
Over l 900 women are now at work
on the surface and subway systems
in New York City.
Several women are employed as
craftsmen by the Iowa State High
way Department.
The further drafting of clergymen
in England makes women preachers
possibility.
The Quartermaster's Department
in Milwaukee has four passenger
automobiles operated by women.
A unit of Stanford University girls
are going to France to care for faith
erless babies.
Among the possibilities of the fu-
ture is the employment of women
as railway mail clerks.
Only women with men folks in the
service are allowed to make gas
masks for the American Army.
1t is estimated that during the
present year over 100000 women will
act as farm managers.
Unlike our women, the women in
Germany are kept at home and are
not allowed to do any work near the
war front.
The Baltimore division of the
Pennsylvania railroad has 247 wom-
en- doing work exclusively done by
men year ago.
The latest field for women's work
in England is helping to provide eyes
| for the army and navy by making
lenses and prisms.
The large estate in Ireland owned
by the Countess of Drogheada is be-
| ing farmed by her and her young
son. She does all the plowing.
When her brother was called away
Ito war, Miss Eunice Maloney, OF
Ladysmith, Wis, took his job as a
| linotype operator in newspaper
| office.
The women members of the Sioux
| Indian tribe, located in the Stand
| ing Rock reservation in North Da-
kota, have organized a Red Cross
auxiliary
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-16
SOMEHOW

Schehow I never thought that YOU
would go,
Not even when red war swept
through the land
I somehow thought, because I loved
you so.
That you would stay. I did not
understand
That something stronger than NV
love could come,
To draw you, half-reluctant, from
my heart;
I never thought the call of fife and
drum
Would rend our cloak of happi-
ness apart!
And yet. you went. And II
did not weep
smiled. instead. and brushed the
tears aside.
And yet. when nighttime comes. I
cannot sleep
But silent lie. while longing fights
with pride
You are my man, the foe you fight
my foe,
And yeti never thought that YOU
would gol
By r~------t e SazS=tar = craG
housekeeping,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-16

the great areas covered by Russia
and the adjoining countries. AS the
Monitor suggests. Germany cannot
be permitted to become the arbiter
of the fate of Russian commerce and
industry, as she is now proposing to
do, unless the democracies OF the
world are prepared to fight another
tremendous war in the future with
the advantage more than ever on the
side of autocracy.
Our government is being forced
every day into the place where we
must intervene for the salvation of
Russia in one way or another.
Russians. Bohemians. Rumanians,
Slavonians and thousands of Aus
trians are looking to us and we must
not fail them in this crucial hour.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-16
A VITAL FACTOR

~ DIRECTION of the housing
conditions in Harrisburg goes
beyond mere increase in the
number of good houses to rent at
reasonable figures. That is essen
tial. and should be attended to as
soon as possible to meet the exist
ing emergency. But the problem
is bigger than that. To reach q
solution we must have a State law
backed UP by city ordinance. 1t
will be easy. comparatively, to pro-
cure such legislation at this time.
The moment is ripe for it.
We should have State regulations
establishing definite minimum
standards for lot occupancy, together
with enforced requirements for open
space. and fixing regulations for
light and ventilation, water supply,
sanitary accommodations, privacy,
protection against fires, maintenance
OF dwellings and the use of the
same. And il should be made COM
pulsory that each city adopt a hous-
ing ordinance in conformity with this
law in general outline and elaborat-
ed to meet local conditions. Part
and parcel CT these regulations, of
course, would be a zoning system,
such as is being worked out in many
progressive cities.
Zoning is now very properly re-
garded as a prime requisite to good
housing. "Zoning" is the term town
planners use for laying the city out
into districts for the protection of
the residents against obnoxious in
dustries. Zoning is designed to give
stability to property values, to pre-
vent deterioration of neighborhoods.
allow for necessary changes and pre-
vent conditions of a Shifting char
acter. 1t is intended to prevent the
intrusion of obnoxious trades, pre-
serve the character of residential
areas and stimulate the use of ma
tural advantages for the purposes for
which they are best adapted.
Zoning also is useful in simplify
ing traffic regulations and expediting
traffic, and by scientific distribu ton
OF homes tend to the eventual eIimi-
nation of congestion.
Likewise, it segregates factories
along natural or artificial traffic
lines, and while providing for the
general well-being of the public it
also improves the living conditions
of workers and aids in reducing the
cost Of living. 1t reduces insanita-
ton to a minimum and establishes
more equitable housing standards.
while contributing to the beauty of
the community and aiding in the ad-
ministration of municipal problems.
Harrisburg is far behind other
cities in respect to these regulations.
just as Pennsylvania is in its general
housing laws. But public sentiment
is awake to the needs of the hour
and the Chamber of Commerce
should add housing legislation to its
program.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-16
A WAR-LULLABY
[By Emile Cammaerts.
Sleep, sleep, baby. sleep,
Baby will soon be asleep.

Sleep, sleep, baby. sleep,
Baby will soon be asleep.
The fire dwindles and the wind
means,
The rain lashes the window-panes.
Is it blowing and raining there?
Hailing or laundering. perhaps?
Sleep, sleep. baby. Sleep.
Is he we'll?
Is he warm
Is he lacking naught?
Has he all he wants?
His coat, his matches, and his gloves,
And. in his pocket, next his heart,
My last letter
And all its love?
Baby soon will be asleep.
The lamp burns low, the fire
dwindles.
We shall have to go to bed.
The child is clasping it's wee fists. &.
Is my big child sleeping, too?
Sleeping peacefully before the
battle?
Is he running madly
Through the shells?
Or is he lying in some hole,
With open mouth and with closed
eyes?
Sleep. sleep. baby. sleep.
The child means and the wind swells
the curtains,
The wick spltters,
The child turns in it's cot,
The rain ceases, the night shivers,
The sadness of it is fearful. -.
Baby soon will be asleep.
From the Germans fury
Deliver us. o God!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-16
LABOR NOTES


New Brunswick, Canada, has pass
ed workmen's compensation law.
Street railway employees at Mon
treal have a union with $500 men,
bers.
Casper (WyoO painters have Sc
cured wage scale of 80 cents an
hour.
Union membership in Manitowoc,
Mich, has increased from 600 to l.
700 in year.
Clarksburg, w. Va, has elected a
union man as mayor of that city.
A daily labor paper is now pub
lished by labor unions at Seattle,
Washington.
A union plumbing inspector has
been appointed by the city at Allen
town, Pa.
There are now SO organizations af
filiated with the Dayton (Ohio) Cen
trail Labor Union.
All factories and building trades at
Coffeyville, Kan, have the eight-hour
day.
Des Moines Uowa) Trades Assem-
bly, is now managing a local labor
paper.
Plasterers at Richmond, Cal, are
now getting 81 an hour.
Molders' International Union has a
membership of over $4,000 in 422
locals.
Virginia City (Nev.) Miners
Union. organized in 1867, has never
gone out on strike.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-16
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
a PTRLIC PARK PASTURE

To fHf Editor or Tie IeIegFdfh'
Dear Sfr-When, Mr.. Editor, did
the people of Harrisburg consent to
the pasturing of cattle in the parks
of the city? My inquiry is prompted
by the presence of eight or ten. cows
on the city property along the Jones'
town Road at the northeast corner
of Reservoir Park. We've had
some peculiar things happen under
this Don't Blame Me" administra-
ton but somebody must be respon-
sible for this latest bid for votes.
AN OBSERVER
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-16
OUR DAILY LAUGH
NOT BEING
CONSULTED.

H o W d o e s
your boy like
army life 4?
Fairly well.
He has one crit
icism to make
though. T h 9
officers d o n t
take him into
their confidence.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-16
1T COMES OFF

This is a grouchy world. All, mel
A fellow seldom laughs.
Why don't we wear the smile that we
Use in our photographs?
Cincinnati Enquiries.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-16
DO YOU KNOW

-TTzat this city is one of the
points where meat is prepared
to be shipped to men on the
fighting front?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-16

@ - OfeAC OOCAN LII.
Have you Mendelssohn's brook
song?"
"Do you mean his spring song?"
That's it. I knew 1T was some
thing with running water mixed up
In it,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-16

When is the
proper time to
congratulate a
bride and BRIDE
groom.
After { h ey
have lived to-
gether for at
least a year and
are still happy.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-16

HISTORIC HARRISBURG
The first Dauphin county court is
believed to have been held in Front
street near Washington.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-16

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO..
Telegraph Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-16

Ell. .STACKPoLE,P Press s EStsriS- c Chi<f
F. r. OYSTER. BHJinssf Manager.
GUS II. STEINAfETZ, MSHogiag ESifef.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-16

From the Germans fury
Deliver us, o Godl