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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-16
A PROPER DECISION

NOUNCIL took a correct position
l in determining that Ed. C. First,
William s. Tunis and Harry
F. Owes be given opportunity to face
City Commissioner 1. u. Gross before
all the Councilmen in open session to
repeat just what they told Mr.. Gross,
who accuses them of having gone
too far" in soliciting his support for
the City Treasurship.
Either these men have said some
thing that truly disqualifies them, or
Mr.. Gross has placed them in false
position before the public. In either
case the conversations, which the
three say were harmless and without
evil intent, and which the Commits
sioner himself declines to repeat,
should be given widest publicity. The
men in question express Willingness
to face Mr.. Gross and council has
very properly agreed that they shall
have this opportunity of clearing
themselves. All the more is this to be
desired from the fact that Mr.. Gross
has said that he believed none of
them had any criminal intent"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-16
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Henry X. Boyers, former state
treasurer, is helping the food ad-
ministrator by acting in Montgom-
cry county.
The Rev. DR.. George w. Shell
ton. Pittsburgh minister, wants the
government fuel heads to shut down
the breweries.
Reed B. Keck, Clarion fuel ad-
ministrator, is meeting his emer-
gency by getting owners of small
mines to start mining again.
William II. Griffith, prominent
Lock Haven man. has been named
food administrator for Clinton
county.
-Brua C. Keefer, Lycoming food
administrator, personally conducted
the sale of a car of lake fish and he
made a big hit because of bargain
prices.
Food Director Howard Heinz
says he is too busy to make
speeches.
Edward G. Stricken, elected
jury commissioner of Franklin
county while in the army. has re-
signed as he is too busy with Uncle
SANS work.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-16
ARE YOU READY?

From Autocar Cos. Adj
If in the operation of your busi-
ness during the first five and a half
months of 1918 you should lose the
profits you made in 1917, you will
pay your taxes due the government
out of your capital.
Get busy now. Do more business
and then more business Make more
profits and more profits each month.
The President of the United States
took over the railroads not only to
assure the stockholders the safety
of their investment and the income
thereon, but for the great big broad
purpose of making it possible that
the railroads be operated in such q
way that no legitimate business be
hampered for lack of transportation,
either over the railroads themselves
or over the waterways and highway
as adiuncts
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-16
Solitude is as needtul for the i'm
ugindtion as society is tohoIesome for
the chdrdcter.-LowELL
ONE MORAL EQUIVALENT

r T has been said by some one that
the American people needed this
war. 1t is rather hard to think
Rather it is a welter of woe. But
possibly we can find some good
points after all. Men are quickened
spiritually; their love of country is
aroused; a sense of discipline is in
culcated generally; a desire to work
and work hard to back UP the men
in the armies and in the navy is
noticed and we are seeing signs of
turn from that condition which an
eminent foreign observer has called
"wasteful unto reproach."
But if we shall have learned to
eat sparingly and to clean our plates
it will be something gained. If we
shall have been tried by the de-
mands to finance the war to save the
money will be a compensation. When
the war ends we will be a united,
strong and enterprising nation. In
decd, it looks as though we would
only the religious fervor which has
come from the trials of war will
prevent us from being an.aggressive
: nation.
We are now being asked to save
our money. We have wasted what
nature has given us; we have scarce
ly learned to economize in food and
we scatter dimes and quarters where
a few years ago we were throwing
away nickles and forgetting the days
when our forefathers saved the pen
nies. The government is asking for
money to win the war. 1t has pro-
vided bonds for those who can in
vest $50; baby" bonds for the 81
investors who can get SIS in five
years by adding twelve cents to the
four dollars, and twenty-five cent
thrift stamps for the dimes and
nickles and coppers. What we need
to do is to go back to the days when
we let the dollars take care of them
selves by saving the pennies.
If we can learn to abhor waste
to save and to be thrifty again ii
will be one compensation out OF
dreadful war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-16
LABOR NOTES

Hundreds of women of the British
Army Auxiliary Corps are working in
France, some in the bases and 9TH
ers in country quarters near base
towns. For ordinary clerical work
23s. to 27s. a week is paid; for su-
periors and shorthand typists, 2Ss.
to 92s., with overtime paid I'd. to
cd. an hour. A bonus OF 70 is paid
for IL months service. Uniforms,
Khaki coat-frock, with stockings and
shoes, are provided free. The maxi
mum for board and lodging is 14s.
a week.
England and France have gone
even further than the restoration
of old labor standards and are plan
ming new systems of continuation
schools and additional opportuni-
ties for industrial education. Part
time school attendance of boys and
girls now exempt from compulsory
attendance laws will be required.
In England it is recommended that
the school-leaving age be raised to
IA years without exemptions and
that all other young people under
1S be enrolled in part-time classes.
France proposes to require part
time attendance of girls under IS
and boys under 20, after they finish
the prescribed number of years of
full attendance.
A new scale and working agree
ment has been negotiated between
the Sacramento (Cal.) Bookbinders'
Union and. the Franklin Printing
Trades Association, which provides
for union shop, an eight-hour day
and an increase in wages of SO per
week for both men and women.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-16
Indians Bun Bonds,

A number of Hopi Indians. living
in Keams, Canyon, Navajo County,
Arizona, bought S2.iu0 of the Sec
ond Liberty Loan. Wapa, a very old
and very poor warrior, cut the coin
buttons from his coat to make the
first payment. The young men ot
this tribe also are enlisting for the
war Forty joined the cavalry re-
Gently. and twelve the navy.-From
the Earth.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-16
POET FINDS FRIENDS

The little fun making of last Sun
day in the Register at the expense of
a Greenville, Fla, paper that SEEM
ed disposed to endow the poet Gray
with a Florida habitation, went over
the heads of some of our readers;
for no fewer than four have writ
ten to tell us that Gray (spelled
Grey" by one of the correspond
ents) was famous British writer
who died some time since, after as
tonishing the world by composing
the "Elegy Written in a Country
Churchyard" Gone correspondent
writes it "Eligy"). The four letters
hail from Crichton and Vinegar
Bend. Ala, Pascagoula, Miss and
Port Arthur, Tex, respectively
From the New York Evening Post.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-16
Lead Dollars in st. Paul

The st. Paul police have issued a
general warning to businessplaces to
guard against the taking of lead dol
lars, which, they say, are being cir
culated numerously in the city.
whether band of counterfeiters is
at work in st. Paul or whether the
lead money is being circulated from
outside sources the police hope to
ascertain in an investigation now un--
der way. - From the st. Paul
Pioneer Press.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-16
CHANGES AT STEELTON

-HE promotion of Quincy Bent
to be vice president of the Beth
lehem Steel Company in charge
of operations removes from Steelton
the most popular general manager
the big plant has had in all its his
tory, one who has thoroughly under
stood the community and who has
been as efficient and as energetic in
public work as in the service of the
great corporation which has so hon
ored him. He has been keenly ap-
preciated by all Steelton and Harris
burg as we'll He and Mrs. Bent
have been unceasng in their labors
for community betterment and in all
of the various war activities have
taken a leading part. Their leaving
will be received with no surprise by
those who heard Charles M. Schwab's
high praise of Mr.. Bent when he
addressed the Harrisburg Chamber
of Commerce soon after the trans
fer of the Pennsylvania Steel prop
critics here some two years ago, and
predicted for him brilliant future
in the steel business.
Mr.. Bent's removal from Steelton
will be keenly regretted both here
and in that town, but there is one
point of qualification in the transfer
which will be approved by every one
of the thousands of employees of the
great plants, and that is the eleva-
ton of Mr.. Bent's chief assistant
Frank A. Robbins, to be general
manager of the steelton properties,
This is in line with the policies laid
down by Mr.. Schwab and President
Grace when they took over the
plants, which was to the effect that
merit would be recognized at Steel
ton and that no outsiders would be
brought into the local organization
| so long as men were developed with
in it competent to fill vacancies as
they occur.
| The elevation of Mr.. Robbins to
the general managership will be
mighty incentive to other men who
have labored for years in the SER
vice of the Pennsylvania Steel Com
pany and now under the Schwab
management at Steelton. Mr.. Rob-
bins entered the employ of the plant
in very humble capacity and work
ed his way to the top through thir-
teen years of constant effort. His
promotion means that the Bethlehem
Steel Company management plays
no favorites and that the mantle of
preferment falls upon the shoulders
only of those who have proved them
|
changes many other men will step
each rung up the ladder and the
service will be all the better for pro-
motions of the kind.
Mr.. Bent will take with him from
steelton the best wishes of a host of
friends and admirers, who will hope
to see him one day the head of all
the great Schwab interests, a senti-
ment which will have an echo in
Harrisburg where his successor, as
in Steelton, will find the heartiest
kind of cooperation in the direction
of the big industry and its multitude
of allied activities.
Uncle Sam is thinking of closing
"non-essential industries" but he
p1usn't forpet that ha'I1 ha xua >, . ,y, ~
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-16
HOME NOT LIKE THIS

HVHE British government plans to
make of Palestine--if it contin-
ues to hold the Holy Land--a
home for the Jews. The administra-
ton at Washington is reported to
have given an informal assent to the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-16
1918

Z thing we hope in you to find,
A year be g. devoid of hate;
May victories of a drous kind
Make all our foes capitul q
Life.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-16

The one absolutely certain thing in
the German-Russian negotiations ap-
pears to be that If peace negotiations
cannot be successfully concluded the
war is going to go on.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-16
DO YOU KNOW

THAT LyISens Valleys coal
output last year was ono of the
best I'm n long time? But none
OF IL worth speaking of stopped
here.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-16
Hdig and Hague

The Germans wouldn't have any.
thing to do with The Hague in Hol.
land, so now they have to deal with
Antonio Express.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-16

Things are looking up in Germany
when the independent Socialists throw
the members of the Fatherland party
out of meeting.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-16

why don't you give him the nit
tenn"
at isn't cold hands he has, It's
cold feetv
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-16
HISTORIC HARRIsBUURG

In years gone by Harrisburg peo-
pie used to send teams to the noun
tains above Rockville and gather
fuel for winter.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-16

Reports from the West Shore say
that the school boards are embar-
rassed by lack of fuel" but we can as
81 the directors that it's all right
so lar as the pupils are concerned.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-16
THE USUAL WAY.

What became OF that friend ol
yours who was always looking for
light? Did he enlist?"
mo, and when the draft came he
claimed exemntion" :"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-16

Uncle Sam is thinking of closing
"non-essential industries" but he
mustn't forget that he'll be wanting
'em to be able to buy Liberty Bonds
the coming spring.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-16

Casey Is me pertickeler frlenc,
oil have We know"
"G'wan! IL he was pertickeler,
he wouldn't be yer frind."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-16
OUR DAILY LAUGH

He (in khakD-I love the smell
Of powder.
She-Do you really? And cont
YOU think the violet is the best.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-16

THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.,
Telegraph Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-16

e. J. sTACKPoLE.P Prss't s. Ediior.in-C Chief
r. r. OYSTER. Business Manager.
GUS NJ. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-16

-HE promotion of Quincy Bent
to be vice president of the Beth
lehem Steel Company in charge
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-09

Archibald Campbell before audience which pack ed the auditorium of Washington Park M E. Church, last night denounced the idea that President Wilson may visit the Pope Benedict XIV.
 MT. Campbes views rendered with dramatic vigor, and accompanied by equally emphatic appreciation of Theodore Roosevelt
 The occasion in celebration of British Day, part of the evening worship There present almost the pee membership the Daughters and Sons of St. George and large representation from the Scottish order Clan Campbell
 MT. Campbell breaking from the main theme of his dis sad And they that President Wilson will visit the Pope of Rome."
 Leaning with emphasis across the pulpit he continued:
 "Would do that? No I would not. would go to the American Embassy and there would to the pope If you wish to see me- here Iam"
 Mr. Campbell went to consider what Col Roose- welt would take in similar situaon and concluded that under circumstances would the Colonel pay visit to the Pope
 Mr Campbell is eloquent pulpit orator. He chosen in place of Banbrdge Colby to deliver the British Day address at the Amory Saturday night He is American born of Scotch ancestry and has been in the ministry for many years
 The created much interest and difference of Iopinion. Some thought the minister right Others o the opinion that since Pope Benedict is not permitted leave the Vatican that the ruler of another nation may and if in Rome ought to, visit the Pope where he and where must remain
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-09
CROWDER MAKES
 ANNUAL REPORT
 TO SEC'Y BAKER
No Soldier Put to Death For Purely Military
 Offence.

Washington, Dec. 9.---Not single member of the American army has been put to death since the beginning of the war because of the commission of purely military offense, Major Gen. Crowder, judge advocate gen. eral, declared in his annual report to- day to Secretary Baker.
 Very few death sentences have been imposed" he said, and none of those imposed por purely military of- lenses has been carried into execu- tion."
 Records of the judge advocate gen. erals office show that 12,357 officers and men were broufht before general courts martial, of whom 10,S73 were convicted. More than half the charges against officers were listed under three heads: Absent without leave; 'rGrunkenness" and Conduct unbe- coming an officer"
 Convictions of enlisted men for de- sertion, tie general said, were actually less than in the previous year, all though the strength of the army had increased many fold
 The report shows that one enlisted man was tried and convicted of being spy and that 773 men were convicted 1 of sleeping on post.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-09
ELABORATE PLANS MADE BY FRENCH FOR PRESIDENT Include State Dinners, Or ficial Calls and Probably Gala Night at Opera. TO CONFER WITH
 COLONEL HOUSE Arrival on Monday Will Be Occasion for Considerable
 Ceremony.

Paris, Sunday, Dec. S.-Elaborate plans are being made by the French government for the entertainment of President Wilson. These include var ious state dinners and official calls and probably a gala night at the opera.
 Upon his arrival at the Bois de Bou- longe station Saturday morning the President will be met by President Poincaire and other members of the French government. He will go i'm mediately to the Murat mansion, which will be his home while in Paris. No decision has been reached as to what the President will do on Sunday, but it is probable he will drive about Paris
 It is possible other plans may be made before that time. MT. Wilson's arrival on Monday to the Hotel de Vile will be an occasion of consider able ceremony.
 As soon as possible after his ar rival, MT. Wilson will confer with Colonel E. M. House, probably at the Maison Blanche de Paris. Colonel House has been busily engaged quite recently and is in position to furnish the president with considerable in formation which may be of value in the task lying before him.
 The school children of Paris will be out in force when the president arrives. Thursday is usually school holiday in Paris, as Saturday is in the United States. King George of ' England and King Albert of Belgium arrived in Paris on Thursday so that the children did not have an extra holiday, which the arrival of Presf- dent Wilson will give them. Virtually all the mercantile establishments in 1 Paris have notified their employees that next Saturday will be a full holi- day. It is expected to be a larger | celebration than any before seen in | Paris. The streets near the station i where the president will arrive will
 be filled with people. The socialists
 are taking a great interest in the
 occasion of Wilson's visit.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-09
TWO SAVINGS BANKS CONTEMPLATE CHANGE
 TO TRUST COMP PANIES
Keen Competition of Existing Trust Companies is Reason Given-National Banks Also Enter ing This Field Statements Published By City and Bridgeport Savings Banks.

Bridgeport Savings Bank by its directors voted to assemble the corporation if the institution will seek incorporation name Union Savings and Trust Company The proposed capital is $5O0O0O
 The City Savings Bank proposes to seek like powers the full privileges accorded to Trust Companies in Connecticut without formulating program for the immediate of the powers.
 under the mutual system. If they turned into trust companies the surplus they have created might be divided pro rata among the deposto to the credit of each individual account
 The given for the proposed changes is the keen competition of existing trust companies and the extensive trance of national banks into the trust company field
 The statement for Bridgeport Savings Bank is the of A. w. Burr its president head of the A. w. Burritt Lumber Company The board of directors includes Walter ashar and others of Bridgepors leading financial group
 The views of the City Bank expressed by R. w. Coggs we'll, it's treasurer.
 (Contnued Page Four)
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-09
GERMANS BECOME '. MORE CORDIAL TO BRITISH TROOPS. Revolutionary Movement Real But Not Much on
 Surface, Says Cor
 respondent. REACHED RIVER
 RHINE SUNDAY German Soldiers in Uni. forms Shorn of Insignia,
 No Civilian Clothes.

London, Dec. 9.---British advanced troops reached the river Rhine yes terday, between Godesberg and O. logne, Field Marshal Haig announced today in reporting the progress of the British army of oocupatfoi.
 (Godesberg is about 20 miles south east of Cologne, near the Rhine, above Bonn)
 The German population west of the Rhine becomes more cordial in it's at tftude toward the British as Field Marshal Haig's troops move eastward, says the correspondent of the Daily Mail with the British army.
 AS we approach the Rhine," the correspondent says, 'our reception be- comes more surprising. The authori- ties in such places as Duren say un- disguisedly that they rejoice at our arrival. They give two reasons for this, that they are afraid of their own people and are afraid of starvation. Many men confess that the end of the war brought such relief the stigma of defeat weighs little. Children some times cheer our arrival.
 "The revolutionary movement is real, but not. much on the surface. The outbreaks during the first days were suppressed by the retreating army, which is much less Bolshevik than the soldiers in reserve and at the bases. I have seen many German soldiers in uniforms shorn Of badges. They are demobilized but they have no civilian clothes to take the place of their uniforms.
 '"The armed men guarding the arms in the barracks talk without rancor of their experiences in the war against both the British and French. An overwhelming desire for peace makes of these soldiers a strong in- strument of social soltdity, at any rate for the time being.
 Danger signals are received at times and on occasion cavalry and machine gunners are called for by the Germans for fear-generally I think, ! exaggerated fear-of Bolshevik out breaks of Russian character. The mayors and their staffs act with ad- mirable dignity. but much Ct the population is almost obsequious and servile for our men"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-09
FINE SHOWMAN;TOOL
 OF MILITARISTS
Maximilian Harden Says Junkers Regarded Him
 As Great Coward.

London, Dec. 9-Maximilian Har- den, editor of the Zukunft of Berlin, said to the correspondent of the Ex- press, according to a dispatch from the German capital, that the impress sion spread concerning former Elm peror William is false. He said that he, himself, had suffered too much through the former emperor to incur a charge of partiality, but that it was a fact that William -HohenZollern had no personal part in willing the war. but was mere tool in the hands of the military party, by which he was regarded as a coward.
 When the moment for declaring war came the militarists were afraid he would refuse to sign the declara- tion," said Harden "The former eIn- peror missed his vocation. He never was happier than when posing in the limeIight. He ought to have managed a cabaret or taken show on tour. He was a great snowman"
 Declaring he knew when America came into the war that Germany would be beaten, Harden said:
 "I fought with the censors to tell the people this, and when President Wilson published his 14 points I adl vocated their acceptance because knew we could not get better or more favorable conditions"