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Evening star., 1918-10-30
Approved by the Government.

"The government has approved the
campaign, and it's high officials are
looking with interest to its success
1t must and will succeed, and we in
Washington must bear in mind that
tf enemy. who knows what is going
on, is watching the capital of the na-
tion to see how well this welfare
campaign goes. To make it q sue
cess every man and woman must get
behind 1T with every ounce of their
vim.''
Evening star., 1918-10-30
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY NOT.
OFFICERS TRAINING CAMP
Can't. T. r. Tracy Makes Announce
ment to Correct Existing impress
sion to the Contrary.

catholic University is not q central
omcers' training camp for artillery.
infantry and machine gun, although
Evening star., 1918-10-30

It matters little what 1t is that you
wsnt-whether q situation or q servant
"a want ad in The Star will reach the
person who win NIL your need.
Evening star., 1918-10-30
CAMPAIGN IS BEGUN
! FOR BIG WARFUND
Washington Office Is Opened
/ 10 Raise Local Portion
e, of s1m,5mym0.

Washington campaign headquarters
for the largest war fund the American
people have ever been asked to con-
tribute, with the exception Of the lib
erty loan, were opened yesterday at
1924 F street and are now running at
full speed. The event was the throw
ing open of the local central offices
of the united war work campaign for
s170,500,o00 for the care of Americas
fighting forces.
Seven great organizations have
united in the drive-the Y. ID. c. A,
Y. ". c. A. National Catholic War
Council and Knights Of Columbus,
Jewish Welfare Board, Salvation
Army, War Camp Community Service
and American Library Association.
Corcoran Thorn. vice president of the
American Security and Trust Com
pany, is chairman of the local COM
mittee, which has various subcommit-
tees covering every aspect OF the
campaign.
Follow Presidents Suggestion.
At President Wilson's suggestion.
the seven organizations. each con-
Quoting needed war work among the
men in uniform. merged in the joint
campaign. Within fifteen minutes
after the seven organizations had re-
ceived word that it was the Presi-
dents wish that they get together
telephone messages were being ex.
changed which resulted in joint con-
ference, at which all thought of sect
OF creed was cast aside.
John r. Mott. international secre-
tary of the Y. NJ. c. A.. was chosen as
director general of the campaign.
George W. Perkins, of international
note as a financier. was made chair
man of the joint financial committee.
The treasurer of the united campaign
is Cleveland H. Dodge. Others COM
posing the campaign committee are:
Mrs. Henry P. Dawson, John G. Agar.
James ]. Phelan. Mortimer L. Schin,
Myron T. Herrick, Frank A. Wander
lip. George Gordon Battle, John D.
Rockefeller, jr., and Raymond B. Fos-
dick -
Evening star., 1918-10-30

Rev. DR.. J. j. Muir, pastor Of Tenn
pie Baptist Church, announced today
that prayer meetings will be resumed
tomorrow night at the church.
Evening star., 1918-10-30

C. MeMullin. New York city, wa
knocked down by an automobile
owned and operated by Leo Seyster
Baltimore. at 18th and q streets yes.
terlay afternoon and slightly hurt
He was treated at Emergency Hos.
pitAl
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-02
Finding Our Place

The American people may be bit
deliberate in finding their place, full
armed, upon the battle front; unlike
the Germans, they have not made
war their chief business. But there
are one hundred millions of them,
and their national resources are the
greatest on earth. They are united,
they have taken their resolve, they
are in the war until it shall end in a
peace of justice and security for life
and liberty. Germany. at this mo-
ment seeing very red. or quite blind
ed by blood and passion, may now
take little note of what we do. But
her accounting with us will come.
1t might be better for Berlin to take
some thought about 1t even while
German armies are beating their
heads against the wall of British and
French resistance. General Perish
ing spoke for a hundred million
Americans when he promised Gen.
eral Foch that all the help in our
power to give was at his command
New York Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-02

no real justification for their use
Smaller trucks will accomplish the
same purpose and ought to be in
sisted upon by the Commissioner of
Highways through an ordinance of
the City Council.
1t is quite easy for any city to fall
into error in it's attitude toward cor
porations and it is as serious a mat
ter to harrass these corporations as
it is to permit them to do an OBJ
viously unfair thing. Destroying
the paved highways of the city is not
defensible on any theory of public
service.
Nor is it reasonable that the
city should maintain street-cleaning
forces to remedy the misuse of
large sections of highways. Some
stiff fines for the littering of the
streets by coal operators, garbage
collectors and others would be salu-
tory in it's effect and entirely proper
at this time.
Mayor Keister, some time ago, is
sued proclamation appealing to the
citizens for cooperation in these
matters. and while many of our citi-
zens have undoubtedly needed his
appeal, others are Indifferent and
careless to the point of personal re-
sponsibility for maintaing a nuis-
ance,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-02
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Charlton Yarnall, prominent
Philadelphian, is on visit to Texas
where his son is in the Army.
The Rev. William B. Cooke, of
Lewistown, who will take a charge
at Falls of Schuylkill, was formerly
at Steelton and later in the Philip
pines.
Major Joseph H. Thompson. of
New Castle, who was here yesterday,
is a former state senator and native
of Ireland, too. He is hoping for
service in France soon.
Thomas ]. Ross. who resigned
as lieutenant colonel of the old Sec
ond Pennsylvania artillery. served
for a long time in one of the Phila-
delphia regiments of the National
Guard.
DIR. F. E. Hoskins, for years ac-
tive in American church work. in
Syria, is visiting friends in Pitts
burgh.
x-Senator D. s. Walton, has
retired as president of the Waynes-
burg Board of Trade.
-Adjutant General Beary hopes
to open the first boys training camp.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-02
Beidleman Announcement

The renewed statement of Senator
Beidleman, of Dauphin county, that
he is in the field Ito stay" as a
candidate for the Republican nomi-
nation for Lieutenant Governor at
the primary election on the goth of
next month, is of interest to all
members of his party who wish to
see named for that office man over
whose record they will not be con-
strained to hold their noses.
In the State Sc ate the service of
Mr.. Beidleman hS been marked by
sense and capacity; he bears a good
reputation at the bar in his part of
the state, and he is a fair type of
the public man of Pennsylvania
whose nomination for office is al
ways likely to command general
good will or respect.
At any rate there Is no sign that
1t would, be necessary in his case
for his party to go into a defensive
campaign next summer and autumn,
to apologize for him either person
ally or professionally. to face the
possibility of a serious disaffection,
and to fear whether they might not
be making a present of the Lieu
tenant Governorship to a first-rate
Democratic candidate. - Philadel-
pl1ia Bulletin.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-02
THE BERKS TURNPIKE

= NASMUCH as the Berks and Leb-
anon county commissioners are
proceeding in a public-spirited
way to place the Berks and Dauphin
turnpike in permanent shape, it
would seem to be the duty of the
Dauphon county commissioners to
also cooperate to the fullest extent.
This county has not manifested the
interest in good roads which its i'm
portance as the seat of government
the desire of the commissioners to
practice economy, but the people of
the county do not favor any policy
which may smack of niggardliness
in matters affecting the public in
terest.
Some of the worst specimens of
highways in Pennsylvania lead to
the State Capital, and there ought to
be constructive cooperation look
ing to an improvement of these con-
ditions 1t will not do to say that
Dauphin county is too poor to do
it's share. Financially, the county
is in fine shape and as the use of the
automobile is becoming more and
more general the need of improved
and substantial highways is no long
er matter of argument.
Our commissioners are to be COM
mended for safe and conservative
handling of the public funds. but we
believe they will be justified in TAX
ing a broad and even generous at
titude in meeting half way the neigh
boring counties in placing these
roads in the best possible shape.
During the war and thereafter the
highways are going to be more and
more used and their importance as
affecting the prosperity of the towns
and country districts cannot be over
estimated. The time when the MAX
ing of good roads was merely a sub
ject for academic discussion has
passed and it is now up to the coun-
ties to cooperate with the State in
constructing such roads as will be
permanent and make accessible the
towns and rural communities.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-02
OUR HIGHWAYS

HARRISBURG has been justly
n proud of its paved highways
I'D = - to the credit of Com
missioner Lynch that he is pursuing
a policy of careful maintenance, to
the end that the reputation of the
city in this respect shall not suffer.
Even in these war times he is talk
ing every possible precaution to
maintain the streets so that there
may not be serious deterioration at
the expense of the taxpayers.
In this connection-and with no
thought of unreasonable criticism
it may be we'll for the city officials
to consider promptly whether there
is anything in the present conditions
to justify the crushing of paved
highways by the enormous trucks of
public utility corporations, which
have no consideration for the in
terests of taxpayers in their use OF
the streets.
1t is said that one of the local cor
porations is now running trucks
which weigh when loaded not less
than fourteen tons. New York City
and other cities have already discov-
cred that the use of these enormous
trucks soon disposes of the paved
streets and there would seem to be
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-02
4 Trumpet Call
By GEORGE ADE

The United States Boys Working
Reserve is not being organized for
lads who have to work for a living.
Nearly every soldier now wearing
uniform could make more money
at home.
You are not asked to work be-
cause you need the money. You are
asked to work because your country
needs your help and relies upon you
to chuck aside false pride and join
in the team work.
If your big brother can dig
trenches surely you can plow corn.
Go to the recruiting officer and
enlist for the Boys Working Re-
serve. Then, when you are called
upon, go and make good in the job
assigned to you and vim your medal
and wear it and be proud of it.
When the government began to or
ganize this volunteer service among
boys, so as to meet the inevitable
shortage of manpower, the skeptics
and fault-iinders got busy. They said
that boys living in cities and towns
never could be induced to work on
farms, that farmers didn't want to
have the town boys around because
they would prove to be green or lazy
or Indifferent, and the whole thing
| was a fool contraption.
Doesn'S your commonsense and
your knowledge of addition and sub
traction tell you that if we sudden
ly take 100000 or more men right
| out of the productive industries of
this country, we must either find a
million men to take their places or
! else go short on production?
Are we going to do as they have
done in England-dress the women
| and girls in mems garments and put
them to cleaning the streets and
making explosives and wiping up To-
| comotives in roundhouses and do
ing all the hard menial tasks? We
mustn't come to that-not while we
have on hand whole army of young
| fellows between 16 and 81, nearly
| every one of whom has gone in Cor
! some kind of athletic sport and is
| physically able and would be as mad
as hornet if you told him he was
a mama's pet and not able to do n
mans work.
The boys between 16 and 21 can
and will supply the shortage of man.
power
! There will be a loud call for them
in 1918 and they must answer the
| call.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-02
Over tie 1oh
~ Penxo.

Here's one in Pennsylvania, back
to the good old days of Lewis the
Robber and Chief Bald Eagle, when
the bear, the wolf and the mountain
lion ran free: willie Hackensch-
midi. fifteen years old, of Salmon
Creek came to Warren. Pa, the
other day with a 250-pound black
bear in his farm wagon.
1 couldn't have got him If it
hadn't been for fathers pigs he eX-
planned. L was out in the woods
after rabbits when L heard one of
the pigs squeal. 1 ran toward the
sound and when l got there a big
black bear had one of the little
squealers in his paws. The others
were crazy. They We're paving the
bear all over. He dropped the pig
and started to run when he saw me,
but the pigs held him until could
get close enough to give him both
barrels "
Fat folks should read this. Henry
w. Swallow, a constable in Chester
county weighed 800 pounds, when he
had an attack of nose bleed. 1t has
been a tough treatment, but he only
weighs $50 now. Perhaps he was
somewhat handicapped by his last
name, but all over-fed folks cannot
claim this alibi. Thin down for eff
cheney.
Great year for trout fishing, this
should be. The State Department of
Fisheries planted hundreds of Penn
sylvania streams with trout, fur
nished by the Bellefonte hatchery,
and more distribution will be made
right up to April 15 when the season
opens. 1t ends July 81, and a trout
fisher should have the time of his
life.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-02
Tribute to Americans

From the London Times we quote
the words spoken by French Major
General at the burial of the three
American soldiers who were the first
to be killed upon the battlefield:
Men! These graves, the first to
be dug in our soil of France at but
a short distance from the enemy,
are as a mark of the mighty hand of
our Allies, firmly clinging to the
common task, confirming the will of
the people and the Army of the
United States to fight with us to a
finish, ready to sacrifice so long as
it will be necessary, until final vic
tory, for the noblest of causes
that of the liberty of nations, of the
weak as we'll as the mighty. There
fore the death of this humble COR
poral and these two private soldiers
appears to us in extraordinary gran
deur.
I'VE ask therefore that the mortal
remains of these young men be left
here,ahezleft forever to France. We
Will, III I1e lullIlSSS VI PSdISt
scribe indelibly upon their tombs:-
Here lie the first soldiers of the Re-
public of the United States to fall
upon the soil of France in the cause
of justice and liberty" And the
passer-by will stop and uncover his
head. Travellers through France
and from France, from every Allied
nation, from the United States, those
who, in reverence and heart, will
come to visit these battletields of
France, will deliberately go out of
their way to visit these graves, and
bring to them tribute of respect and
gratitude.
Corporal Greshman, Private En-
right, Private Hay, in the name of
France l thank you. God receive
your souls. Adieu."
Could anything be more beautiful,
more touching or more inspiring
than this simple and eloquent tri-
butte? 1t ought to be read in every
public school in the United States
Col HarVey's War Weekly.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-02

THIS is to the fortunate ones who,
ten years from now, will be en-
joying the benefits of what all
future histories will call the GREAT
WAR.
You boys who are getting ready TO
vote will know more about this war
when you are plump and middle
aged than any one can possibly
know this year.
When the dust has cleared away
and the large events of the war can
be seen from a distance, then you
will understand that the issues in
volved had to be fought out, that
the United States had to take part,
that the task we are now under
taking had to be accomplished.
Let us hope that each of you can
say, twenty years from now, Il was
young at the time, but 1 knew what
the war meant, and 1 helped"
Not all of the heroes are in the
trenches.
Perhaps you have heard about the
Working Reserve.
1t has been carefully organized
under government supervision. 1t
has received the official endorsement
VI lIe 1TeSluenl. Inc WnOl6 pldIl is
working out successfully wherever it
is understood.
The trouble is that some of the
boys and some of the parents are
still little doubtful regarding en-
listment, because they don't know
how much of an obligation is assum-
ed.
Here is the plan in a nut shell:
Thousands of enlisted and selected
men have gone to the training
camps. 1t may be that thousands
more will go next year. These men
are being called from factories and
workshops and farms. Every fac
tory and every farm must continue
production if we are to render full
service to our faithful allies during
the war. How can we fill the places
of the young men who have gone
away to fight? We must rely upon
the boys who are old enough and
husky enough to work, but who are
still too young for military service
So here is a trumpet call for al
city boys and town boys between the
ages of 16 and 81.
Prove your patriotism and helI
! your country by jumping in and do.
| ing the work of a soldier who has
gone to the front.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-02
A VACATION OUTDOORS

MOT so many years ago it was
~ the dearest desire of the city
boy to "spend his vacation
on a farm" Work in the country,
following a plow, pitching hay or
helping get in the grain, was an oc-
cupation that carried with it long
evenings in the old swimming hole,
or driving through the cool moon
light to church festivals" or other
gatherings. Living on a farm, where
skim milk at home and the fresh
fruit egg, chicken and fried ham
supplies were ineXhaustible, was not
without its compensations, even
though the work at times was a bit
hard and the head of the house had
carried the old adage concerning the
virtues of early risings to most un-
usual extremes.
Many a man, with gray streaks at
his temples, wishes he might live his
vacations on the farm" over again,
And now, to the younger generation,
the appeal comes as a patriotic duty.
Not only that, but two, or three or
a half-dozen young men from city
school or college, who are chums in
the classroom, may procure Jobs"
together for the summer and so en-
joy a novel experience in happy
companionship while doing their
bit" for Uncle Sam. 1t is a pros
pect that ought to be attractive to
every red-blooded lad of working
age.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-02
LIE CHEMIN DES DANES
with acknowledgment to Sergt
Marshall des Logis Dumont, SOL
dier of France.)

with acknowledgment to Sergt.
Marshall des Logis Dumont, SOL
dier of France.)
Margot of Parma built it in line
To bridge the reach from France to
Rhine
Across the plains where the soil is
deep
And nowadays the wagons creep
In slow procession, making way
With cargoes fat of coal and hay
Dullest of roads in country drear,
Yet when twas laid and for many a
year
The ladies rode in a glittering throng
With gallant gay and minstrePs
song;
High and naughty, these lovely
DANES
OF lofty lineage and noble names
Through Picardy and fair Cham
payne
Descended some from Charlemagne.
Now it's all changed. Where the
ladies gay
Rode with gallants, the cannon play;
No minstrels song but bugle's blare
Awakes the echoes in the air
over the fields where violets grew
And petals drank the morning
dew
Fields now damp with a purple flood
Moistened each dawn with drops of
blood
From the veins of men, more gal
liant they
Than the riders who rode in the dis
tant day
OF silks and satins, and jewels and
gold,
Who stand to the death the road to
hold
In. the land that once was fair
"A q . Champagne .s. .f4. -
Each worthy to be a Charlemagne!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-02
The great man is he t0ho does not
lose his chfId'S hedrt.-CoNFUcIUs.
DIR. FREUND'S VISIT

HARRISBURG is making much
of the visit of DR.. Freund this
week, and very properly So
DR.. Freund is the father of a great
progressive movement that during
the war and afterward is designed to
turn the minds of the people from
the drab and gray of everyday rou-
tine to higher and better things.
Music for the masses is his theme
and he comes with a message that
the community does we'll to pause
and hear.
No argument need be made for the
beneficent effect of music. The
presence of musical instruments in
nearly every home, the popularity
of the talking machine and use of
music at public gatherings and en-
tertainments of all sorts, would prove
the point, if proof were needed. The
jaded spirit and the tired body
alike react to the tonic effects OF
spirited music or may be lulled to
relaxation and rest by the dulcet
strains of a minor key. In time of
great stress, when the heart is bow
ed down by the terrible actualities
of war and when the need for en-
thusiastic and continuous action is
of tremendous Importance, music can
be made to play a great part in
speeding up the military machine
and in keeping the morale of men
and soldiers high. The army heads
realize this and have organized sing
ing exercises in every camp. We in
Harrisburg began to think a little
of its possibilities when we observed
the wonderfully inspiring result of
supplementing instrumental music by
community singing at a recent big
patriotic meeting here. So DR.
Freund's visit comes at an extremely
opportune moment.
But 1t has a much broader scope
than mere wartime results. After
the war is over the elevating effects
of music upon community and indi-
vidual life should have larger con-
sideration than ever before. DIR.
Freund brings to us a message of
importance for the present anc
tidings of what other cities are do
ing to promote the study and use Of
music both in war and peace, and the
story of his great campaign for a ma
tion-wide movement looking toward
popular education along musical
lines.
DR.. Freund is a big national fig
ure: He is a wonderful speaker
He is an enthusiast in his work and
Harrisburg is indeed fortunate to be
included among the limited number
of cities he has consented to visit
1t does well, indeed, to plan an en-
thusiastic reception for him.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-02

No argument.remains for those who
have imagined that the people are not
fully aroused on the question of pro-
hibition of the liquor traffic. For a
time there was a disposition to side
step the issue here and there, but any
candidate who has the temerity to go
before the people on a wet" plat
form will probably need nothing to
convince him after the votes shall
have been counted that he failed to
sense public sentiment.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-02

There is said to be a definite pur-
pose on the part of the government to
avoid general disorganization of the
working forces of manufacturing and
other plants. This would seem to be
the only proper policy, If we are to
avoid decentralization during the
period of the war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-02
Just Wells

Some of the stockings
The girls are wearing
This spring
Are so thin
They are not even
Camoufiage.-Joshua Lott.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-02

Commissioner Gross and his forces
are quite properly giving attention to
a general cleanup of the parks and
Fairgrounds of Harrisburg. AS the
Telegraph has suggested. it is the
duty of those who remain at home to
maintain a city which win not be a
disappointment to the boys when they
come back from the war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-02

Governor Brumbaugh's appeal for a
general observance of the two Arbor
Days, which he has designated by
public proclamation, should have
widespread response. Let us set out
thousands of trees and name them for
the soldier boys who are represent
ing us on the firing line and in the
camps.