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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-17
END OF THE BATTLE
New York Times

The hardest fought battle of the
war has ended in a severe German
defeat. General Foch has justified
his appointment. When an attacking
party does not realize any of its OBJ
jectives, 1t Is defeated. When in so
falling it uses up great quantities
of men at time when men are of
value; when it loses a battle in cir
cumstances where time is precious,
the defeat is a disaster. The Ger
mans spent men prodigally; they
fought with eight men to the yard;
they threw in probably 100000 men;
when they were repulsed in one di-
rection they turned to another, and
everywhere their attack ran down
and stopped, with immense and ter
rible loss.
Foch's task was to hold them from
getting their obiectives; it was not
to make any brilliant plays, to ami
hilate them by cards suddenly pulled
out of his sleeve. That time may
come later, but his present task is
merely to checkmate them. And he
has done 1t. He has done 1t blood
ily, at their expense. Their earlier
movement did not cost them any
thing like the number of men this
has cost, and this failure is the most
complete of the whole war.
Whatever the future may hold,
hats off to Foch for what he has
done to-day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-17

legally acquired and legally held for
the conduct of business which the
Government itself legalized and from
which the Government (WHICH is
ALL THE PEOPLE) now takes ap-
proximately one billion dollars an
napy. Not one of these investments
would or could have been made had
the Government not first given its
authorization and encouragement to
the liquor traffic by law. Can any
honest citizen support such an UN-
AMERICAN PROPOSAL?"
The salesman cancelled his order
as follows:
Gentlemen: Kindly cancel reser-
vation for Sunday night, May 5th, for
which wrote you April 29th.
"On the card which wou enclosed
in your letter, you state, among other
things, that prohibition means that
hotel room rates will be advanced.
That means that the man who drinks
intoxicating liquors is helping to pay
for my room in your hotel.
"As do not indulge in intoxicants,
, certainly would not tolerate a sit
uation of this kind, whereby those
who do drink contribute to the pay
ment of my bills.
IT do not see how any honest
citizen can support such an unAmeri-
can proposition as to hinder the abo-
| lition of the liquor traffic, which has
been proven beyond any question I'd
| be one of the greatest curses of ouI
country and one of the strongest al
lies of the Kaiser"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-17
God toiH estimate success some day.
THE ITALIAN DRIVE

= T is too early to forecast the re-
suits of the Austrian drive on the
Italian front, but there is no rea-
son to believe that it will be any
more successful than that of the
Germans for Paris, and that, it is
finally admitted, has been stopped
with losses for the Germans out of
all proportion to the amount of
ground gained. This much is GER
tain, that there will be no repetition
of the Italian debacle of last year.
The opening attack, sustained alike
by the Italians, the French and the
English, while netting some gains
for the Austrians, has been met with
firmness and a terrific fire which has
blocked the assaulting armies on
their main objectives and has infiict-
ed immense losses.
Austria must win nightly on the
italian front or fail miserably. Moth
ing but victory of the first magni-
people of the dual empire, many of
whom already are on the verge OF
revolution. A decisive defeat by the
Italians might so far toward splitting
Austria wide open from within. The
results of the present campaign are
frought with even weightier result:
than the capture of Paris in the
north. and the Allies will do we'll il
they give Italy every ounce of aid
they can spare from the sorely be-
leagured western front.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-17
BUILT A REAL MONUMENT

We is dead-is Frank H. Buhl,
- of Sharon-but he will live for
- generations to come in the
grateful memory of the people of the
big industrial community on the
Shenango river.
Mr.. Buhl died the other day leav-
ing some millions of dollars, and
most of his large estate goes for use
full purposes at Sharon, but not all.
Two millions are definitely set aside
for the relief of the suffering people
of France and Belgium. He didn't
appear to have much sentiment dur
ing his life, but two or three years
ago this Sharon steel magnate gave,
in addition to previous gifts to his
community, a splendid athletic field
and country club. with lakes and
beautiful parks and everything that
is attractive for the men and women
and children.
Then came an awakening of the
community to the fact that Mr.. Buh
had a lot of sentiment concealed
about his person and they gave a
great public demonstration in his
honor. Now he is dead and the bes
monument to his memory is this gift
of his money for the use of those
who were his neighbors and friends
Other communities have rich mer
and women who should emulate the
example of the Sharon millionaire
but it is not always necessary to wal
until the grim reaper appears t.
carry into effect the good intentions
of those who are able to do the biz
things of life. The war is teach
ing people everywhere how to give
and to give while they live.
Harrisburg has reached the stag,
in it's development when private
funds must provide the utilitariaI
and artistic things which cannot al
ways be secured through publi
grants.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-17
PENROSE'S BIG MAIL

George ]. Brennan, of the Phila-
delphia Inquirer, who isNwriting some
mighty interesting stories about peo-
pie under his special heading of
Who's Who in Pennsylvania" has
this to say about Senator Penrose's
service at Washington:
Senator Penrose has the heaviest
mail of any member of Congress;
that is a matter of record in the
Post Office Department. This is ac-
counted for in a measure by the fact
that he gets practically all the politi-
cal mail from his home state, his
colleague, Senator Philander Chase
Knox, giving little or no attention
to local political matters. AS the
ranking Republican member of the
Finance committee, of the commit
tee on Post Offices and Post Roads,
and of committee on Naval Affairs,
Penrose has a large correspondence
of a national character affecting gen.
eral legislation, and as a member Of
the Republican National Committee
and of the Advisory Committee to
National Chairman Hays and as the
recognized head of the Republican
National Committee of the Republi-
can party organization in the Key
stone state, he is called upon to an
SWeF MANY QucTlcS anu " SOiliPiS
with many requests for assistance in
various forms. His mail has almost
doubled since the war broke out.
The senior senator from Pennsyl-
vania is fortunate in the possession
at the head of his office staff of a
secretary of exceptionable ability,
Leighton c. Taylor, who has filled
that role for more than ten years.
Taylor has remarkable administra-
tive ability, is a compendium of in
formation of legislation at Washing
ton and knows every Republican OF
prominence in his home state and,
in fact, in practically every state in
the Union. He has travelled all over
the United States with Senator Pen
rose and has the advantage of per-
sonal contact and mountaineering
with all of the party leaders. He is
an expert stenographer and has re-
ported the debates in the United
| States Senate. He held an impor-
tant position with the Westinghouse
interests before he became associated
with Senator Penrose. Taylor is a
native of Adams county, Pa. Hi:
mother baked bread for the Unior
lsoldiers during the battle of Gettys'
Iburg. For two years he was a schoo
teacher in Cumberland county. He
is said to be the highest paid secre'
tary in the government service. no
excepting Joseph P. Tumulty, secre
ltary to President Wilson.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-17
A CITY AT PRAYER

ORE things are wrought BY
M prayer than .Al. world dream.
Of" Tennyson tells us. and surel.
there never was a time when We a.
a people and as a nation needed the
help OF God more than at this mo-
ment
We have placed ourselves In har-
mony with divine teaching by offer.
ing upon the altar of sacrifice all we
hold dear for the suppression of a
great evil. 1t remains for US to pub
licly acknowledge our dependence
upon the mercy of God and his guild
ing and upholding hand. Like the
Maccabees of old, we should be
lighting with our hands and praying
unto God with our hearts"
What more appropriate. then, than
that our Fourth of July observance
include a period especially set aside
for prayer. The Telegraph suggests
that at some hour during the holiday
the whole city pause in its celebra-
ton for two minutes to offer prayer
for divine guidance and help.
Two minutes for prayer! The time
is short, to be sure, but a mighty
prayer may be offered in that time.
Two minutes for prayer! By all
means let's have it. .
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-17
PENROSE IN POLITICS

F all public men in the United
States none has been more fire.
~ quently pilloried by his political
enemies than United States Senator
Boies Penrose. He has not always
done what some of his friends have
wished that he might have done. but
he has always had the courage of his
convictions, never hesitating to de-
clare his views upon all public mat
ters, without regard to the effect upon
his political fortunes. Also. he has
no use for political Hypocrisy.
At the great harmony conference
of the Republican State Committee
q day or two ago Senator Penrose
made clear his attitude with respect
10 the suggestion of President Wilson
that politics should be adjourned"
during the war. He is not in favor
of any suc.. idea It Is his judgment
that now more than any other time
political parties should discuss the
great problems which confront the
country and not permit a one-man
government to be developed when all
the strong forces and the most able
statesmen should be modified for
achievement of the great ends that
are at gtake in the world struggle.
Senator Penross believes. with
thousands of his eountrymsn. that
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-17
EDITORIAL COr1r1ENT

Cantigny was Yanked away from
the Germans.-New York Evening
Sun.
Why not get to the bat before Bill
does s?-Los Angeles Times.
One enemy alien in a war garden is
worth two on the tennis-court.-
Wall Street Journal.
The American boys took the
Can't out of Cantigny.-NewY York
Morning Telegraph.
The Rhine cities no longer hold
public jubilee over the booming OF
London and Paris.-Boston Herald
Any railroad president can tell you
that Mr.. McAdoo is a first class rail-
Lumberman.
There is a general disposition tc
doubt the reports of Won Hinden-
burg's death, but no doubt as &c
where he went If he did die.-Dallas
News.
Coincident with the increase Of
tanks at the front is an unmistak.
able tendency of the times to re,
duce the number at home. - New
York World.
That Kansas man who says hC
would rather be shot than salute the
flag should be permitted to exercise
his preference.-Nashville Southern
Lumberman.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-17
GERMAN OFFICERS VIEW
[From N. Y. Times Cable1

GFrom N. Y. Times Cablel
1T is impossible for the war to last
much longer. They told US we would
win by Christmas. then by Easter.
Christmas and Easter went by. When
the present offensive began they told
us we would win Immediately. We
are further from winning now then
ever before.
I'VE must have peace. and that
quickly. Our losses are frightful.
My company has lost 80 per cent. in
killed, and I am it's last officer alive.
The territory back of our lines is
hideous. 1t is all a hospital and
cemetery.
You will save Paris despite our
attacks in mass, and we will obtain
nothing, for there is only one thing
to count-the-finish Germany can
suffer no more. All our. material
cracks and our people are at the ex-
haustion point. 1t is Germany that
must have peace soon, and at any
price. We have not been quick
enough. French tenacity has post
poned too long the German victory,
and now it is too late for u.s."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-17
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

The Rev. Robert MacGowan,
prominent clergyman and former
Lancaster man, arrested on train
through some German propaganda
work, has commended Johnstown
police for their vigilance. He would
like to get the Hun sympathizer VINO
caused his arrest because of his anti
Prussian lectures.
Chairman w. H. Stevenson. OF
the Allegheny safety committee. is
out in a letter urging that German
publications be eliminated.
w. H.. Chapman, Cambria county
clergyman, will engage in welfare
work in France.
Mayor w. S. Mcdowell, OF
Chester, is taking vigorous steps to
clear up some sections of his city.
Harry K Boyer, Montgomery
county food administrator. has d.
vided his county into four districts
and is endeavoring to get prices we'll
adjusted.
w. Fl. Keller, deputy attorney
general is representing Lancaster
citizens at the inquiry into prison
affairs in that city.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-17

President Wilson has given eloquent
expression to the spirit of the Ameri-
can people in his assurance to France
that we will not cease fighting until
the Hun shall have been put into his
proper place in the family of nations.
1t must be evident to the Kaiser and
his gang OF high-binders that der tag
was g boomerang that has returned
with terrific force to smite the am
bitions of the most impossible group
of cut-throats that ever lived &c
plague q world.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-17

there has been too much of an ef-
fort to throw aside the fundamental
things in our system of government.
permitting doctrinaires to expert
ment along untrodden paths which
lead to lack Of public interest and
inefhciency.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-17
Let Georqe Do II

It is presumed that the Harvard
professor who wants to put 25-
cent tax on gasoline, a $50 a month
tax on chauffeurs. big tax on talk
ing machines and none on buffers
and house servants, has no motorcar,
doesn't care for music. and is a
helpless old bachelor.-Kansas City
Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-17
CHRIST HEIR OF ALL

God, who at sundry times and in
divers manners spake in time past
unto the fathers by the prophets,
bath in these last days spoken unto
pointed heir OF all things.-HehzArs
Il and 2.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-17
LABOR NOTES

A bill is now in Congress to au-
thorize a bureau of farm risk insur-
ance.
OF $4,000 members in the mines
of South Africa only $4,000 are
white.
Total number of sales of Swiss CO.
operative societies reach almost
SIS, 100000.
In 1897, membership of Molders'
International was 10000. 1t is now
$4,000.
Day laborers in the Dominican Re-
public are paid 60 cents a day.
A shipbuilding yard is to be start.
ed in Drogheda, ireland.
Messengers in India ara only paid
about Q cents = day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-17

We're going to have a real. old
time Fourth OF July celebration. with
out noise. but with patriotism de-
veloped to the nth degree. The peo-
pie of Harrisburg have met the issues
of the war squarely and with courage
Gus hearts. but there is still much to
do and with faces to the foe we must
set our hands to the doing of every
duty that presents itself.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-17

Senator William z. Crow. the
chairman OF the Republican State
Committee. Is q great harmonizer. In
the troublous years since 1919 he has
frequently poured oil on the disturbed
waters, but the climax OF his powers
in this direction was reached at the
harmony session of the State Commit
tee in Philadelphia.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-17

1t had to come. The dollar-a-year
patriots at Washington were in many
cases holding down jobs which should
be under the care Of efficient and COM
petent persons. So the nominal pay
will give place to real compensation
and real service.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-17

Thesre-election of W. Harry Baker
as secretary of the Republican State
Committee is a tribute to his popu-
larity and ; reward for devotion to
datx.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-17
UNDOUBTEDLY.
telling me7.

Hes rich and yet he never
spends any more than he has to-"
That's probably the reason he's
rich"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-17
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg does big busi-
ness in shipping apples to foreign
countries and could do more with
cold storage plants?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-17

Secretary Daniels emphasizes a po
sition which has been frequently
stated by the Telegraph on the prope,
attitude toward patriotic American
citizens born in alien lands when. il
a Flag Day speech, he said:
Let us on this day honor the
men who. born under other skies,
share with us love of the flag,
but let us not by unjust suspicion
wrong the true patriots who came
from the Central Empires whose
loyalty and devotion to America
is as whole-hearted as is that of
those who have known no other
land. Call the roll of the nations
defenders on land and on sea and
YOU will find some names of those
born on the Rhine and on the
Danube who are holding places of
trust and honor. These patriots
have been humiliated by the
treachery of men of their blood,
they have been shocked at such
ingratitude, as we'll as outraged at
the sabotage and conspiracies OF
the spies.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-17

HISTORIC HARRISBURG
1T is 200 years this summer since
John Harris built his first house on
The Susquehanna.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-17

No. Maggie. nothing has yet been
done about the planting and care of
trees in Harrisburg. but when the
wholesome shade and comfort of the
trees shall have finally disappeared,
through neglect or indifference. the
people will wake up-maybe.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-17
AL1TTLE SUGGESTION

mo those who may be contem-
plating some mention in their
last wills and testaments in
favor of the Public Library of Har-
risburg, one of our most useful in
stitutions, it may be suggested that
such provisions must be made before
the passing of the testator in order
to be valid. Good intentions, unsup-
ported by documentary evidence, are
valueless in law.
ST pay and bequeath to the Board
of Trustees of the Harrisburg Public
Library Association, their successors
or assigns (here state the amount of
legacy and describe the property in
trust''-either for the general pur-
poses of the institution or for a spe-
cial purpose, as the case may be.
That is all that is necessary to
convey to the library uses such por-
tions of an estate as one may feel
disposed to give, but better than any
such provision is a gift right now.
''Give while you live" should be
the Harrisburg slogan.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-17
OUR DAILY LAUGH

sOld-fashioned Street Lamp-You
may give q brighter light than I do.
but don't look like q Chinese laun-
dryman, anyway
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-17

GOOD CAANCES.
Were bound to win. There's
victory in the air"
.I don't dispute that II we build
Airplanes"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-17

Day laborers in the Dominican Re
public are paid 60 cents day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-17

FL. Press E EdiserIs-C hisf
=. r. OYSTER, BHsfnsss Mo1dgsr.
GUS NJ. STEINMETZ. Managing EdiseT.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-17

Messengers in India are only paid
about cents = day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-17

A shipbuilding yard is to be start
ed in Drogheda, ireland.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-17

Published evenings except Sunday BY
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING Co..
Telegraph Building, Federal Square
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-17

WILLING TO LISTEN.
He-You would never know how
much I love you.
she-What is your objection to
telling me7
The evening current., 1918-08-28

whom he was going for one German the
Boche yelled: 'Kamerad, I've q wife
and ten children In Berlin and the
marine said: IL you went back 60
Berlin there'd be ten more children
10 r. with you,' and rammed him
with his bayonet."
"what happened after you cleared
out the HunT asked.
"By that time we were reduced to
about half our company, and were or
dered 10 dig ourselves In. You should
have seen me dig Some OF us had lost
our picks and we dug with our hands,
our cups, or anything we could make
use OF. What In nm ordinary way I
should have considered good half
days work I did In half nm hour. They
were not proper trenches. just shall
low bitches. deepened shell holes.
"Men were falling all around and
two bullets went through my pack
as crouched as near the ground as
possible digging like h---. So took
my pack Off and put II on the parnpet
60 the sLle of me. and the Germans
kere on popping nj II. While I was
digging every time I looked up 10
throw the dirt out could see n flower
moving 10 and fro In the wind just
In front Of me, and then once glnnced
up Just In time to see that flower
nlpped of rs II by nm invisible hand
and lie on the gound. Somehow that
made me realize almost more than any
thing how near death was"
The evening current., 1918-08-28

Major T.. 4. BuJac leaves to-
night for Albuquerque. where he
Will attend the State Bar associa-
ton meeting, which convenes there
the 29th instant and continues In
session thru the 3lst. Major Bu-
Jac viii address that body and will
also deliver an address. before the
United Labor organizations, OF Al
buquerque. on Labor Day.
The evening current., 1918-08-28

John o. McKeen and son, Gun
tor LEFT this morning for their
home In the lower valley, after a
few days spent In town. MIR. Me-
Keen has two sons In the service:
John L., who IN In France. and
Gardner, who is In on route across
the seas,
The evening current., 1918-08-28

The Women's Auxiliary OF the
Baptist church. will have knit
ting" social at the church parlors.
tomorrow, Thursday afternoon, at
, o'clock. Light refreshments will
be served and the attendance OF
every member In requested.
The evening current., 1918-08-28

Mesdames Suggs and Kirkpat-
rick, OF Otis. and Miss Lillian
Kirkpatrick are In town today and
subscribed for the Current while
here.
The evening current., 1918-08-28

For Rent:-Five room house
on Alameda street. Vacated this
week, See the owner.
y. r. DAUGHERTY.
The evening current., 1918-08-28

WANTED;--To purchase 16
gage pump shot gun.
w. 4. MOORE.
The evening current., 1918-08-28

Fearing that the German hordei
would come within range of their vii
lage on the western front the inhabi
tants gathered what belongings the,
could and. escorted by British mill
tary police, evacuated their homes ant
were taken TO places OF safety.
The women and the little children
were the last ones TO leave the village
The picture shows n child wearing
the steel helmet of the military police
man who ls assisting In their escape.
The evening current., 1918-08-28

Wanted Clean cotton rags at
Current office.
The evening current., 1918-08-28

When city people help farmers
they help themselves and the
Nation.