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The Washington herald., 1918-07-30
Whisting Women.

Our women-many of them-are farmerettes
these days and yet, what women whose small
girlhood was robbed away twenty or more years
ago got by unscolded-for trying to copy her
brothers? Twenty years ago mothers had not been
taught that the young of the species are first of all
little animals, who if they grow into gentlemen and
womanhood must become physically strong through
exercise-little girls as we'll as little boys.
"Whistling girls and growing hens always come
to dreadful ends"
So you admonished-this after you had
spent many secret hours, tip-toe before looking
glass; serewing up your face into tuneless attempts
that finally resulted in fair imitation of boys
whistle.
But that was twenty years ago-today we are
war. The little girl hearts that then beat under
prim rufles are now woman hearts that throb under
the srnock Of war-garden jumpers and many a farm
er, all over the land. is chuckling to himself:
"Whistling girls and good fat sheep are the
very best stock farmer keep"
Our women are whistling all right not be-
fore looking glasses that reflect only themselves,
but by the side of outgoing trains that whrl away
their dearest and best, and later before casualty
lists.
1t takes just about all they have got. after one
of those white nights spent kneeling beside pillows,
to face the next days work with lips steady enough
to whistle, but they are doing it.
When the tears and fears must have their
way, it is in private. For the sake of the war win
ming working day, for the sake of the harvest of
field factory and kitchen. for the sake of each SOL
der we've sent and the strength of the army we
are backing. it's heads up, women of America. ewes
fronti Whistlel
We mere men on the side lines hear that
whistle every day. 1t should stir within us deter
mnation to get action at on bit of iustee d,.
these same whistlers.
The Anthony amendment waits in the Senate
Perhaps that august body does not hear whi,tinr.
The Washington herald., 1918-07-30

way Of saying that the strictly Pres
idential interference with the needs
of the hour will not be urged save
In legitimate Endorsement OF candi-
dates by the President without refer
ence to what they may not have done
in the past. The power of the Pres
ident to swing votes to men whom
he desires here is not questioned,
but some Of the shrewd politicians
can see where indiscreet use of the
Presidential function can harm the
Democratic candidate where the Re-
publican candidate is a loyalist
through and through.
People here realize this is not
| a Democratic war nor a Republican
war. and they realize that the party
out of war cannot wage a political
contest against the party in power
merely on account of their desire
to see the prevailing party embar-
! rassed and defeated. This is no
time for continuing the old politi-
cal animosities-the time will come
later. when peace is here, and the
Kaiser is downed. to bring up
strictly partisan politics. The war
is costing too much in money and
blood to make it a war in the in
terests Of any party or creed or fad.
There is one class of candidates
here likely to be found in other
States of the Union. which will be
tremendously disappointed when the
people have expressed themselves.
| This is the class of men claiming for
themselves all the patriotism to be
| had in their locality. and allocating
to their opponents an altogether in
sufficient supply. The patriotism
! of the candidates is the very issue
upon which the people propose to
| speak-and the mere lip service OF
| the candidates themselves will moi
suffice. This may hit hard in places
but the people seem so determined
to make it their business that II
would be futile to try to take the
| power out of their hands.
One can see traces here, just now
! of an unusual interest which the
voters of both parties will take in
other voters-in seeing that the
right of suffrage is not abused by
!. w. WIS and the like. We have
been making citizens at an almost
alarming rate in this country il
years gone by. and have been allow
/ ing many hundreds of thousands
and perhaps millions of foreigners
to come here without giving them
essential lessons in American citi-
zenship. The job must be done this
year with some force. and probably
at the risk of severely embar.
RAISING some of the voters. This
does not mean that anything Dor.
ed, but 1t does mean that person!
ed, but ii does mean that persons
out of sympathy with American
government are not to be given toe
easy access to our elections. Thii
is dangerous proceeding. naturally
but where men of GOODNESS and
brains dictate the course there i.
bound to come more good than evi
| from the affair.
| At Washington one hears the
frequent assertion that 1t is hare
to predict results in the politica
fields. This is true. But the thing,
set down here are so patent thai
If one will adhere to them quit,
closely he may pick out with som,
degree of certainty just who will
be named and why-and Just VIII,
| will not be named. Good Ameri
cans are on guard in both parties
and good Americans will be sen
from here to Washington and I,
State Offices.
| THE OBSERVER.
The Washington herald., 1918-07-30

Paper supply to German newspapers again is cut.
To save space, they might conhne news solely to
accounts of German victories!
The Washington herald., 1918-07-30
Isn't Thinking Of Himself.

The man who takes a gun
And goes out to fight the Hun,
Isn't thinking Of himself.
The man who gives his life
For his mother, child, or wife
Isn't thinking of himself.
If man will really try,
Even suffer and deny
To help folks like you and /,
He's not thinking of himself.
| know a man, don't you.
Who has gone whole life through,
Just thinking of himself.
And before the war came on,
Why he couldn't see the wrong
In just thinking of himself; !
But when men began to die
This same fellow wondered why
He should live; he couldn't lie;
He'd been thinking of himself.
The man who takes the train
Into snow and mud and rain,
Isn't thinking of himself.
II he journey on and on
Just to sing the bows a song,
He's not thinking of. himself.
And if when reaching camp
He can set glowing lamp
In the corners dark and damp
He's not thinking of himself.
He who, gives his life for me,
Since that Man Of Galilee,
Isn't thinking Of himself.
And the man that's "over there"
And is going, God knows where,
Isn't thinking of himself.
Whether over here or there,
Some place else, or anywhere,
The man who fully does his share
Won't be thinking of himself.
-sALEB w. o,ceNN!
The Washington herald., 1918-07-30
LINE o. CHEER
EACH DAY O. THE YEAR.
By John Kendriek Bangs.
TEMPERED JUSTICE.

TEMPERED JUSTICE.
To be in all things Just unto my
kind,
And view the world with free and
open mind
That were a consummation full Of
worth
To help maintain a nicely balanced
earth,
But II we'd keep IL full OF vibrant
life.
And moving forward thro' the cos
mic strife.
Mere Justice will not serve-cold
Equity
Must be transfused with love and
clemency.
And by Compassion wooed from
out the stress
OF frigid probity to fruitfulnesa
Copyright. lslsl
The Washington herald., 1918-07-30
Cooks Kiss the Kitchen
Good-by-Effect Of War

Macon, Ga.-Cooks and servants are
becoming almost obsolete in Macon as
q result Of the war; Housewives are
doing their own cooking for the first
time. Many have rigged up clothes
lines and installed tubs for the family
washing. Negro women whose hus-
bands are in the army receive month
ly allotments from the government.
With the first installmert Of govern
ment money the cooks generally
"kiGzs1 the kitchen sood-hxs.
The Washington herald., 1918-07-30
NOON PRAYER IN OHIO.

steubenville. ohio.-Every day at
noon bells and whistles sound. call
ing the 4citizens to pause in their ac-
God n behalf Of the allies and their
armies
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-05
Registration of Deeds
of City Property Begins

Registration of deeds of all city
properties in the city, showing the
present owners, has been started,
City Engineer NJ B. Cowden an
nounced. A few months ago, when
council first passed an ordinance au-
thorizing this work, it was decided
to register deeds showing transfers
made after April 1. Since then,
however, the necessary office equip
ment and registration books and
blanks have been purchased and the
task of registering all other deeds
dated prior to April l has been
started. Each ward will be called
for in turn, Mr.. Cowden said. The
Fourteenth ward property owners
were the first ones to be asked to
bring in deeds for registration and
this work is now going on. To date
more than 1000 deeds have been pre-
sented, stamped and the descriptions
of. the property and the names of
the present owner and former own
er all entered on the record.
Mr.. Cowden said the system used
in Harrisburg is probably as COM
plete as any in use in the state, and
when the work is finished will fur
nish the City Assessor and City
Treasurer with an accurate record
of the present owners of all prop
erty in Harrisburg, whether i'm
proved or vacant lots.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-05
Tickers in Trenches
Give u. S. Boys the News

New York-News tickers in the
trenches are the latest thing for the
American soldiers in France. Every
trench is linked up with General
Pershing's headquarters and his
headquarters and his quarters are in
instant touch with Paris, London,
Rome and the rest of the world
Wonders that American electricians
have worked are mentioned in a
private dispatch just received in this
country which states:
"All of Americas achievements in
France during its first year abroad
have not been told by a long shot.
Our electricians who enrolled as
Signal Corps men knocked European
electricians silly with their efficiency.
THE moment trench is begun
that moment its wiring for telephone
service is begun. Pershing's head
quarters is connected with each
American generals headquarters by
a printing telegraph like the news
tickers so that the general orders
are wired and delivered in plain
English in page form over a circuit
that cannot be tapped or listened
in on.
General Pershing's headquarters
has the Western Union multiple sys-
tenn operating to London, to Brest
and to Italy, so that he is in imme-
diate touch with Washington and
Italy. Lots of other facilities have
been provided. The American camp
Is up-to-date and ahead of it,"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-05
Crew Deprived of Water
by German Submarine

London.-Typical brutality was
displayed by the Germans in sinking
the Glasgow steamship Ellaston in
the Atlantic recently.
The vessel, which was laden with
coal, was shelled by a U-boat for
three and half hours. The British
captain returned the fire until the
ammunition was spent, and then
abandoned the vessel, which was
boarded by the submarines crew
and sunk with bombs. The master
was taken prisoner.
The drinking water in the port
lifeboat was destroyed by the Ger
mans, who also removed the mast,
sails, and all the oars except two,
leaving the British sailors to find
land as best they could. The star
board boat was allowed to get away
unmolested and was picked up by
a schooner when near Las Palmas.
The crew of the port lifeboat, aft
er great hardship, also succeeded in
making Las Palmas nine days after
abandoning the Ellaston.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-05
Persistent French-C Canadian
Gets Into Kings Army

"I am going to get over there if
l have to SWIM" said Arthur Anctif
a strapping young French-Canadian,
heaved great sigh of relief and con-
tentment. Twice has Anctil. who is
a native OF Quebec, tried to enlist
with the British and Canadian re-
cruiting mission and both times he
has been rejected but at last he has
managed to get by the doctors and
has donned the khaki of his native
land He is going overseas with the
Canadian Engineers as a skilled
mechanic.
That a persistent man always
wins has been ably demonstrated by
Anctil. Owing to slight curvature
of the spine the medical ofncers
would not pass him for the Infant
ry and on two occasions Anctil went
away sorrowfully but not disheart-
ened. He visited one of the Mis-
sion depots regularly and each time
he pleaded for a chance to go ana
fight
Infantry, his chosen branch of the
service was closed to him, but he
was told that he would probably be
accepted for the engineers owing
to his being a skilled engineer. He
tried and his joy was passed by the
doctors.
II was going to get over there
If 1 had to SWIM" said Anctil. But
l would like to have gone as an In
fantryman. However 1 have read
several times that the American
engineers had been given opport-
unities to throw down their working
tools and get busy with the guns,
and probably the same opportuni.
ty will come to me. I hope it will
because l am anxious to kill a few
Huns
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-05
Hog Starts Fusilade
in Illinois Garage

Danville, Ill.-The efficiency of a
combination of bulldog, alarm bell
and trap gun for preventing auto
thefts has been demonstrated, but
the combination almost resulted in
riot, Henry Millman, truck gar
dener, has lost two motorcars. When
the third was purchased by him a
few weeks ago, he rugged up a trap
gun, later adding an alarm bell and
tying a vicious bulldog in his garage.
Shortly after midnight, the other
night, some one attempted to force
an entrance. simultaneously with
the sounding of the alarm bell, the
trap gun was discharged. The dog
started to bark. Henry fired an
other gun from his bedroom win
dow. Neighbors also fired several
shots. Police, notified by other
neighbors, hustled out in a motorcar
with the reserves, believing a riot
was in progress. Even at that the
burglar was a hog, which had rooted
under the door and sprung the cleo
trical trap.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-05
PLEASING BILL
AT THE MAJESTIC
Continuous Vaudeville Enter
tainment to Accommodate
Holiday Crowds

Continuous vaudeville was offered
at the Majestic Theater yesterday to
accommodate the holiday crowds A
pleasing bill is offered for the week
end with Miss Bessie Wynn retained
as the star. Miss Wynn has just re-
turned from the war zone and is such
pleasing entertainer that the man
agement will be sure to please the
patrons by having her stay the entire
week.
Bill Strothers. - Bill" the human
spider, gave his best vaudeville
stunt" at the Penn-Harris Hotel early
in the afternoon. His pictures of
other famous climbs are interesting.
Lane and Plant. - A bit of nom
sense now and then-these two start
the comedy end of the program and
have good songs.
"a Regular Business Man." This
sketch is presented well, but the plot
is an old one, but not too old for
good comedy results.
BESSIE Wynn. - Miss Wynn has an
entirely new program with good pa
| triotic numbers, all of them sure to
please.
The Treemans. - Tumbling, hand
| springs and similar feats with clown
falls for comedy, feature the closing
| offering.
| MAX ROBERTSON,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-05
London Telegraph Sends
Greeting to American Press

The following is a message from
Lord Burnham, the proprietor. and
Sir John LeSage, editor. of the Lon
don Daily Telegraph, to the editors
and staffs of American newspapers
on the "momentous anniversary of
your great national festival:.'
The editor and members of the
staff of the London Daily Telegraph
desire to send to the American press
fraternal greetings of thorough cor
diality and friendship. There could
be no better opportunity for such an
interchange of sincere sympathy
than is afforded by Independence
Day, which all members of the
Anglo-Saxon race on both sides of
the Atlantic can now celebrate in
common. owing to our complete ac-
cord in aim and interest.
In real communion of spirit, with
unfeigned and whole-hearted sin
cerity, we welcome Americas par
ticipation in war and recall with
gratitude all that she has done ma
terially, as we'll as ideally, to help
the cause of the Entente Powers.
We are grateful to America for her
inspiring help and unfailing SYM
pathy, for the clear-voiced leader
ship of her president and above all
for her championship of those high
principles which can best SECURE
the new era of freedom and justice.
English and American journalists
can clasp hands as friends and
brothers in arms and devote all their
energies, not only to securing those
liberties which we both hold to be
the birthright of self-governing COM
munities, but to the establishment
on the broad basis of mutual re-
spect and self-respect of a lating
league of friendship between Wash
ington and London.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-05
WANTS TO KNOW If
HE WAS BORN HERE

C. w. Townson. of the United
States Navy, has written to Mayor
sible, any relatives in the city. Mr..
Townson in his letter says he has not
heard from a relative for eighteen
years, and the last time he received
word was from Harrisburg where he
thinks his mother lived for years
and where he believes he was born.
Townson's address is care the First
Regiment Pelham Bay, New York,
L S N r e
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-05
Couple Forfeit Savings of
Lifetime to Government
San Erancisco=The sa

San Francisco-The savings of a
,liteulne or sailor and his wife have
been seized by federal officials be-
cause the couple did not know of
President Wilson's order forbidding
the taking of gold out of the coun-
try.
Because Mrs. Ricardo Rodriguez
feared banks, she persuaded her hus-
band to carry their entire fortune,
1855 with him on a trip to Central
America. The officers found it and
took possession. Because of the ma
ture of the case, permission is to be
rod ~ Secretary McAdoo to return
the money.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-05
Kerensky Hid in Moscow
Under Noses of Bolsheviki

Paris, July 8. - Alexander X. ker-
ensky, the former Russian Premier
Yesterday said that between NoVem-
and MAY, 1918 he was in hiding in
various cities of Central Russia. At
frst he was in Petrograd and later in
MOSCOW and did not leave MOSCOW un,
~ Nav 25, The Russian leader said
that at ali times he was in contact
With political leaders of the parties
onnosed to the Bolshevik regime.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-05
SCHOOL PRINCIPAL RESIGNS

Marietta, Pa, July 5.-Professor j.
w. Bucher, for a number of years su-
pervising principal of the Marietta
public schools, and who was re-
elected for the coming tetrm. has re-
signed. to accept the principalship of
the Red Lion schools, at a higher SAL
airy and more months of schoolwork
His successor will be Miss Esther
Mueller. of Lancaster who was first
assistant theh past two years.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-05

audience forgets all troubles and
proclaimed the very best bet in the
amusement line in town, and the big,
open air theater at Paxtang is one of
the most comfortable playhouses in
the state when the weather starts in
to get real hot.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-05
DRAFT MEN REJECTED

Liverpool, July Out of the last
draft of Perry county's quota of
forty-one recently sent to Camp Lee,
John Trimmer and ]. E. Zellers, both
of Liverpool, were rejected physi-
cally and will be sent home.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-05
TWO KILLED IN AUTO CRASH

QunkertOwn, Pa, July 1.-TWO per-
sons were killed and five others seri-
ously injured in a triple automobile
| and trolley accident several hundred
feet below Headman's tollgaet near
here, yesterday.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-05

That THE Firef1y of France" star
ring wallace Reid and Ann Little,
should have
"F1reny of France" scored so heav-
at the Regent lily on the pre-
miere presenta-
tion of that photoplay in this city at
the Regent Theater yesterday, is
quite understandable. First, the pic
ture, because of the spirit of patriot
ism which .animates it, is one of the
pest seen here in many weeks, and
second. these two stars never appear
ed in more congenial roles, as the fire.
quent manifestations of the large au-
dience amply testified.
To-morrow-A douNle program is
scheduled. Margarita Fisher will ap-
pear in "The Primitive Woman" and
Charlie Chaplin will be seen in "a
Night Out" THE Primitive Woman"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-05

The large crowds at Paxtang Park
seem to Thoroughly enjoy the Harry p
krivit Company in their
PaxtanE latest musical comedy
Park success I'm Cured !"
Theater After A. Seymour Brown
comedian, song writer
and Broadway star, gets to work, the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-05

is based on the idea that even a young
old fogy of a college professor has to
give up whe he matches wits against
that scintillating product of the
American finishing school, whose type
is so cleverly portrayed by Miss
Fisher.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-05

The Human Spider" who scaled
the walls of the new Penn-Harris
Hotel building
"The Human Spider" yesterday, is
and Vaudeville featured at the
Majestic Theat-
ter. Wilmer and Vincent announced
that if The Spider did what he claim
ed he could do. in going to the roof
of the new hotel via the outside
route, he would deserve a vaudeville
booking, and now that The Spider
has made good he is in vaudeville.
He gives a very interesting talk on
climbing, along with some pictures
of his work in other cities. During
the latter three days of this week,
Bessie Wynn is singing a new set of
songs, having changed her act COM
pletely from the first half of the
week. She Is still the talk of the
town, not only through her very good
work at the Majestic, but through
her excellent talks that she has given
outside on topics connected with the
war. The other acts on the bill are
all good comedy numbers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-05

Tom Mix. master cowboy and sterl-
ing screen. star. will be seen at the
Victoria Theater to-
Tom MIX In day and tomorrow in
"Ace High" Ace High" This is
a stirring story of the
Canadian Northwest, and has as a
background that wild, beautiful coun-
try. and in 1t are those rugged men,
both bad and good, of that sparsely
inhabited land. And. remember,
when those men are good, they are
very good, and when they are bad,
they are awful. There is a remark
ably interesting plot that portrays a
thrilling and enhancing story.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-05
IMzEN7ss

MAJESTIC
The Human Spider" and Other
High Glass Vaudeville.
49,. COLONIAL
To- -day-"The Whip"
Saturday only--Viola Dana in "The
Only Road"
Monday and Tuesday - Mae Marsh in
"All Woman"
REGENT
To-day = Wallace Reid in "The Fire
fly of France" and Charlie Chaplin
in "A Night Out"
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday =
George M. Cohan in Hit-the-Trail
Holiday"
Thursday and Friday - Pauline Fred
erick in Her Final Reckoning"
VICTORIA
To-day and tomorrow = Tom Mix in
Ace High" and Pathe Government
War Films. Also. added attraction.
Marie Dressler in Fired"
First three days of next week -
Theda Bara in Under the Yoke"
PAXTANG PARK THEATER
Musical Comedy
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-05
VICTORIA

PAXTANG PARK THEATER
Musical Comedy.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-05

This is the last opportunity to see
The Whip" showing at the Colonial
Theater for the last
THE Whip" at times to-day. 1t is
the Colonial a story of the race
track, and of the in
trigue revolving around the famous
raceshorse, The Whip. Big race
scenes, wonderful hunting scenes, the
best train wreck, and most thrilling
automobile accident ever seen in pic
lures, and a powerful and attention.
riveting story makes this the world s
biggest screen play.
Saturday only winsome Viola Dana
in THE Only Road" will be the spec
ial attraction at the Colonial Theater,
story of a rich youth who went west
to make good and brought back a
bride of surprising ancestry.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-05

The Human Spider" and other
High Glass XaudeYille