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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-01
WHERE ARE THE ALLIES?
IN. Y. Times1

IN 4. Times
1t is nonsense to talk about the
Russians not wanting the Allies to
intervene. They would welcome them
gladly. The people expect it and
nope for it. A few divisions of al
lied troops arriving in Russia this
summer would bring the nation to-
gether again and make her an i'm
portant factor in winning the
war; =
me question asked everywhere I
went IN Russia was: Where are the
AllesF Why don't they come here
to help us?"
Herman Bernstein, who arrives
from Russia with these words in his
mouth Went there favorably dis
posed, we believe, toward the nom
maj government; at any rate. he was
supporter of the Russian revoIution-
airy movement What he saws is
what all the genuine revolutionists
are saying. What has become of
those genuine revolutionists? They
are in prison or in exile. Where are
Peter Kropotkin, Vladimir Bourtsev.
Grandmother Breshkovskaya? Where
are all the real revolutionists. the
men and women who made the rev
olution? They were hurried aside bI
the horde of Trotzkys and Leniner,
who came pouring in from New
York, London, Paris, and Switzer-
land. as soon as the revolution was
over and the Czar disposed of; and
this horde seized the reins of gov.
ernment and squatted on the neck
of the Russian people and delivered
them over to Germany.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-01
GET AFTER THEM

T HE Federal Trade Commission's
charges of profiteering reveals
what many people who have
watched the constant ascendency of
prices have believed. The commits
sion provides proof of what the
country at large has suspected. Now
that the facts are known. what are
we going to do about it? That is
the question in which the people are
interested. If they are being robbed.
who is going to stop the crime and
punish the criminals? The admin
istration has before it now an op-
portunity for public service second
10 none since the election of Presi-
dent Wilson. 1t is to be hoped that
it will lose no time in taking such
measures as will bring the profiteers
TO their senses and prices down to
a living level.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-01

, There's a new sound there now.
1t is the Angelus of Strife. 1t calls
the people of Verbena not only TO
worship. but to deeds. Every after
noon at six o'clock the bell of the
Verbena church rings 1t continues
to ring for two minutes, and while
its brazen song is lifted the people
of Verbena stand and pray. When
the sound begins the observance of
its call is universal. Men halt in the
street. Wagons are pulled up on the
road. Women rise from their knit
ting or pause in their cookery-for
they have early suppers in Verbena.
The plowman halts his work and
each repeats the prayer. Verbena
calls it THE. Prayer of the Bell" and
1t is said that men who have never
been known to pray before, answer
its call dutifully, With heads un-
covered and bowed, each man. each
woman, each child, each saint and
each sinner repeat these words:
God bless our President, our SOL
diers. our nation and guide them to
victory"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-01
The Prayer Of The Bell
rHERN TOWN ADOPTED THE TWO MINUTES
FOR-PRAYER MOVEMENT

/" HERE'S little town about sixty
miles south of Birmingham on
the Louisville and Nashville
railroad called Verbena- The town
is well named. 1t iA redolent of the
old-fashioned southern flower. 1t is
peopled by simple farmer folk. Some
substantial citizens of Montgomery
keep summer homes there. There
are few sounds about the place. An
occasional mule team rattles down
red clay road dre2ing an empty
wagon to the general stores, or
bumps pleasantly back toward the
Chiffon county hills. Occasionally a
gentle wind causes the leaves of the
oak trees that shade the town to
sigh one of those sighs of content
that ben breathe after a good meal.
or good sermon. or a well-rerdered
piece of music. It's a peaceful place
as can be found in Alabama or any
other part of the world. 1t seems
modelled after Goldsmith's Sweet
Auburn"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-01
A SMILE FROM YOU

A smile from you is all I ask
To glorify my daily task.
The skies may weep, the winds may
wall,
All outward founts of joy may fail,
All ccstlier graces be denied
The morn for me is beautified.
For just a smile from you may brine
The birds and blossoms of the spring
Within my heart to sing and bloom;
May scatter sunbeams round my
room:
May touch the fringes of the mist
And turn its gray to amethyst.
Throughout the hours, 1t well MAY
be,
Your thoughts not oft will stray tC
me.
Not many words / ask of you
From morningshine till evening dew.
But as you pass me on your way,
Give me a sunny smile to-day.
Lillian Leveridge. in over ths
Hills of Home"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-01
MIR. HAYS ON FORD

~ ATIONAL CHAIRMAN HAYS
" advises the Republicans OF
Michigan to make a fight
against the election of Henry Ford
TO the United States Senate.
Mr.. Ford is a good citizen and a
Republican, but his candidacy is not
his own. He is the hand-picked
candidate of President Wilson, who
knew that there is no chance of
electing a Democrat in Michigan
this Fall and so tried to maintain
control of the seat in the Senate by
nominating and electing a Repub-
lican OF his own choosing. The
country has never witnessed a
holder political play from the
White House than this and Repub-
licans, who certainly are entitled to
choose their own candidates, are
right in resenting interference by
the President.
Mr.. Hays attitude is very similar
to that of Senator Penrose in his in
terview of last week, in which he
maintained that politics is not "ad-
tourned;" that while the President
has so decreed, the Democrats
themselves are doing everything
in their power to control the
political machinery of the country
and that by the very nature
Of our government, which is founded
on the idea of party preferences, IL
Is impossible to eliminate political
differences. AS Senator Penrose has
said. no other country in the war
has been able or even has attempted
to set aside politics. The whole
question hinges not on party poll
tics, but loyalty to the country.
Where two loyal citizens are candi-
dates for the same office. party poll
tics may be injected into the con-
test without harm. Michigan is a
loyal State and there is no question
of sustaining the government there:
any senatorial candidate who may
come forward, Republican or DEM
ocrat, can be relied upon to do that.
Therefore, the State may indulge in
its party preferences to suit the will
of a majority of its voters, and
neither President Wilson nor any
other citizen has any right to at
tempt to dictate to the voters.
Senator Penrose pointed out in the
interview quoted that the war is not
the Presidents war. nor the Demo-
cratic party's war, but the war. of all
the people and all of them should
have a part in choosing candidates
who will be best able to carry out
the will of the majority. This is SO
evident that the wonder is anybody
has contested it. much less the
learned and able resident of the
White House. The people want to
stand back of the President and they
win do it in every proper measure.
ut they will not have him or any
] other man tell them who shall be
elected to the House and Senate.
That is their business and they mean
to attend to it
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-01
LABOR NOTES

Clarksburg (w. va.) has a labor
union mayor.
Toronto (Can.) building laborers
ask 40 cents an hour.
Policemen at Ottawa, Can, have
dissolved their union.
Jewelry workers at Toronto have
secured an eight-hour day.
Vancouver (B. c. bricklayers ask
an increase in pay.
Painters at Rock Island, ILL.,, have
secured So cents an hour.
Twenty-Five women are delivering
mail in Detroit
wages in Bordeaux, France, have
increased 43 per cent. since 1918.
There are approximately 725,000
wage-earners in Massachusetts.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-01
WHEN I'll BE BACK

When the Huns have finished run
ming
From our bayonets and cunning
I'll be back.
When we teach that bunch a lesson,
And they make a peace confession,
I'll be back.
When We fill them full OF shell.
And the sensible rebel.
And the others run like hell.
I'll be back.
When we push that pack of swine,
Back against the river Rhine,
I'll be back.
When the Kaiser does the trick,
And he joins old ex-Czar Nick.
I'll be back.
When he learns the situation
And he gets his abdication,
And there's peace throughout the
nation,
Ill be back
Corporal Harry Phillips.
The Stars and Stripes. .
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-01
NEWSPAPERS HELP

TT nth the progress of the war
| Wv and the importance of bring
ing to the attention of the peo-
pie important activities having to do
with a victorious triumph of Ameri-
can ideals, the newspaper is coming
to be more and more recognized as
as absolutely necessary medium for
the transmission of information and
the building up of the morale of the
people.
In a recent speech by James
Wright Brown before the Interna-
tional Association of Circulation
Managers at Washington he de-
scribed the newspaper as "the SER
want of ALL" He told of its great
service to the government in further
ing the aims of the nation through
the selling of Liberty Bonds and
War Savings Stamps. the furthering
of Red Cross and Y. NJ. C. A. activ-
tiles and other lines of cooperation
with the government.
Mr.. Brown referred to the old
theories of newspaper publication
which have been largely discarded in
these latter days and suggested that
the newspaper which has adopted
the proper policies finds the local
water muddied and the minds of the
people upset by the policies of a COM
petitor who is buying experience at
a high price" He mentioned also
the waste involved in methods which
have long since been eliminated in
many places and predicted that the
government would reach out its long
arm and strong hand to stop this
sort of thing wherever it still ex-
lists. On this point he said:
The fires Of war. my friends.
will refine the dross of this old
generation. This will be found
true in business and in society,
as well as in newspaper publish
ing, and in the reconstruction
period this rare jewel. co-opera-
tion, will be polished and en-
shrined
Cooperation will solve many
Of our business office problems,
if not all. Cooperation will be
employed because of necessity,
my friends. and not because of
any real change of heart on the
part of mankind; but there will
be that, too. Necessity will prove
to be the mother of invention.
firmly believe that the wastes of
to-day, in our field. will represent
the profits of tomorrow.
Don't you hear the tramp
of thousands. brother helping
brother. each holding out a help
ing hand to the other? This Is
the spirit of the men in Flanders
and Picardy; and this is the spirit,
men, that will dominate our lives
in the very near future. and in
that day we will come to realize
that great fundamental truth
the truth that shall last through
all time-the truth uttered by the
Saviour OF mankind when he said:
"He who would be greatest
amongst you must be the servant
of ALL"
Mr.. Brown has sensed the situa-
ton and his vision of the readjust-
ment period which must follow the
war is so clear and so vital that it
must impress all who realize the
importance of getting together and
building up instead of tearing down.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-01

statement has not even pleased the
tunkers of Germany. who are now
expressing disgust with his conclu-
sion that the war cannot be won
with force of arms. but would have
to be settled by negotiations. This
is so radically different from any
previous declaration that 1t exposes
the present worries and uncertainty
of the rulers OF Germany.
| Too many cooks spoil the broth,
and 1t is evident that there is trouble
at Berlin. The German pocket is
being hurt and the industrial and
| commercial leaders of the empire
are manifestly out of joint with the
military bosses. Their tricky efforts
to deceive the world have failed in
every direction and they are now re-
turning to the propaganda idea as
the only escape from their present
difficulties.
Americans have been warned
against listening to the pacifist talk
of Germans and their sympathizers
and anything made in Germany"
is now regarded with suspicion. Won
Kuehlmann complains that all their
alleged efforts for peace excite only
distrust, overlooking the fact that
the whole course of German intrigue
has been marked with insincerity.
hypocrisy and downright lying.
1t is hardly reasonable to expect in
telligent people to continue listening
to peace talk that means nothing
save the absolute supremacy of the
German highwaymen.
Showing that the Germans are
fearful of the situation after the war
one of their rulers says:
For peace Will come. yet hate
viii remain in the hearts of those
who have conjured up this bloody
it, morally. physically and eco
nomically." And these pitiable
interiors will do their little worst
to undermine German industry by
attacking. even at the eXpensUe
of their own personal discomfort,
Germany's export trade; for that
is in some measure exposed to
their blows. Driven by their
despicable hate, they may go to
the extent of stopping all pur-
chases of German supplies, "by
denying themselves. at least for
the time being, even the most
indispensable articles" And If
finally they must have such ar
ticles. they will order what they
must have, "even perhaps at ruinI
Gus prices, from any other pro-
ducer except the German"
This war will be won by hard
blows and in no other way. We
shall talk terms when the Hun is
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-01
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Public Service Commissioner
John S. Killing and James AlcorH
have birthdays two days apart this
month.
Harry Burns, active in tbs
hygiene work of the Pittsburgh
school district, will be speaker al
the National Educational Associa.
ton convention.
james l. Blakslee, assistant
postmaster general, is at the session
of concrete engineers at Atlantic
City to discuss the Improvement
post roads.
walter Goodenough, prominent
in the shipbuilding, has been elected
a vice-president of the lnternatiop
corporation. He is well known her
President E. E. Sparks is work~
ing for establishment of a bigger OF
ficers training camp at State College
than ever.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-01
WHAT IS THE ANSWER?

- OsTPoNEMENT of the civil
r service examinations for city
= policemen because only four
applications have been made for
seven vacancies on the force shows
a surprising change of viewpoint on
the part of scores of Harrisburgers
who used to contend for appointment
as patrolmen. 1t is within the mem
ory of the writer when a Mayor of
Harrisburg sat up all night the day
before his inauguration trying to
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-01
Not Ashamed of His Reliqion

The woolly-headed Uncle Rasmus
was accused of disturbing the peace
Officer Mort Rudolph explained it as
follows:
your Honor, this man was run
ming up and down the Mill River
road, waving his arms and yelling at
the top of his voice, and otherwise
raising the mischief. at half-past
one in the morning. The people of
that district complained, and they
had a perfect right to-" The Judge
frowned at Rasmus, who didn't seem
to be particularly worried.
"What do you mean by such un-
becoming conduct" his Honor de-
manded.
Religion, Jedge," was the re-
sponse.
Religion! Are you a Holy Roller,
or something like that? have re-
ligion Rasmus, but 1 don't get up
at midnight and tell everybody about
It,"
Oats des' de diffunce, Jedge. I
amt ershamed OBJ mine."-Case and
Comment.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-01
MORE PROCRASTTNATTON
IN. Y. Tribune ]

N. 7. Tribune1
Secretary Bakers conversion to the
hight or work" theory was short
lived. He was quickly reconverted.
And his reconversion has set back
for months all plans for putting the
country on a genuine war basis.
Mr.. Baker could not overcome his
temperament. To a super-ingenious
and sophisticated mind like his fixed
and far-reaching programs are irk-
some. They leave no play for i'm
provisation. They exclude the color
full element of dramatic suspense.
Our greatest military need to-day is
a thorough mobilization of our man
power for service in the armies and
in the war industries. Such a mob
ilization is impossible so long as the
present age limits of conscription are
retained. With exemption for every
man over thirty-one years of age, the
nation cannot begin to live up to
the wartime Injunction; Fight or
work"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-01

The owners OF the Tacoma Tribune
have just purchased the News and
Ledger of that city and combined the
News with the &Eibune. thus consoli-
dating the two evening papers and
eliminating, through the absorption of
the Ledger. one Sunday paper. We
trust this creation of another mo
nopoly" will not disturb the rest of
the subsidized organs of the repudi-
ated Democratic machine. Here is a
fine chance to drop another quarter
million.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-01
PENNSYLVANIA

Frank A Hall, of the State Depart
ment of Mines. has written patrio-
tic song entitled, pennsylvania" II
has been set to music and promises
to become one of the inspiring songs
of the war. 1t is as follows:
We love thee Pennsylvania
Thy rocks and hills and dells,
The smiling verdant valleys,
Where sweet contentment dwells.
We breathe the air of freedom,
And prav God, it may last.
And nothing mar the greatness
Or the glory of the past.
Chorus
Dear Pennsylvania.
Grand old Keystone State
Steadfast and loyal to all that's truly
When duty calls thee thou hast led
the way
We love thee and we'd die for thee
Dear old Pennsylvania.
We love thee, Pennsylvania
We gladly sing thy praise,
We pledge to thee devotion,
Through all the coming days.
Thy fame we proudly cherish
Thy honor We'll uphold.
Well play our part with courage
AS our fathers did of old.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-01
GERMAN FEARS

n ERMANY has overshot. the
1T mark in her frequent declara-
tions as to peace terms ac-
ceptable to the Hun gang. Foreign
Secretary Won Kuehlmann's formula
is SO preposterous as to have excited
only ridiculs where he hoped to be
taken ssrlouslx Bis hllndering
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-01

pick force of forty eight men from
among more than SOP candidates for
four-year terms. And now. with life
jobs in sight for those who qualify,
the examining board is not able to
get much more than half as many
applicants as there are places to fill.
What is the answer?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-01
Flight of Two Crows

immediately after being Joined in
marriage Mr.. and Mrs Crow flew
from the church and haven't been
seen since. 1t is believed they will
go to Lynchburg. Va, Mrs. Crows
former home. - MerceyvilIe (Iowa)
Banner.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-01

Greet men are they t1ho see that
spiritual is stronger than any mate
ridl force; that thoughts rule the
tCorid.-EMERsoN.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-01

The submarines off our coast are
so welcome that we are making
every effort to keep them here per-
manently.-St. Louis Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-01
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg has young
men studying to be officers in
FIVE training camps?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-01

I'VE kings must stick together" !"
the Austrian Emperor is said to
have written to the King of
Roumania. The moral is that the
people must stick together, too
Republican.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-01

Speaking of reactionaries how
about Professor Sprague, who pro-
poses taxing pajamas and exempting
the old-fashioned night-shirts =
Newark News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-01
WORKS TWO
WAYS.

Agernonssays
he never knew
what happiness
was until he
married m e..
Z Now. what does
he mean by
that?
All depends.
Does he say .t
with a smile or
with a grunt.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-01
EDITORIAL COMMENT

King George announces that he is
not having any new clothes made
TINS summer. That gives us some
distinguished company. - Detroit
Free Press.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-01

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING co.
TELEGRAPH Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-01

HISTORIC CIHARRIsBURG
Fifty-five yeals ago all of Harris
burg's schools we're turned into hos
pitfalls for woutded men from thi
battles attendins Lees invasion.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-01

Member of the Associated Press-The
Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled TO the use for republication of
all news dispatches credited to IL 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, 1918-07-01

E.J. .sTACKPoLE,Pr PrsS's s ESasris-c chisf
r. r. OYSTER. BHsiHsSs As1sEsr.
GUS NJ STEINMETZ. MeHegiHg Edifer.
The Republican journal., 1918-02-21
:MOkRlLL.

Ralph hayward of Waterbury, Conn.,,
passed last week with his family at Mr..
Allan Daggett's.
One of Fred Bryant's horses was very
badly cut last Thursday, requiring the
services of veterinary.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Paul of Belfast,
and Mr.. and Mrs Roy Paul and children
were Sunday guests of their parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Delbert Paul, in honor of their
mothers birthday.
There was a quiet wedding at the par
sonage recently. The bride has large
circle of friends who are very dependent
upon her kind attentions and she can be
assured they all extend heartiest congrat-
ulations to Mrs. Central and her hus-
band-Mr. and Mrs. Willie Mehuren.
Some thirty young people gathered at
the pleasant home of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Berry Saturday evening, Feb. 10th. The
party was given by Stella Berry in honor
of Almon Adams and Avon Blood, two
soldier boys, who are leaving this week.
q efreshments of ice cream and cake were
served, and long and happy evening en-
joyed.