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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-02
CHAMBERLAIN WILSON

OF the two men, Senator Cham
beriain and President Wilson, which
has. the more accurately judged what
measures ara necessary to the Ma
tional secalityo From the time
when war broke out in 1914 Mr..
Chamberlain. has proclaimed the
need of preparedness and OF coz =
pulsory military service as the only
ADEQUATE means of supplying that
need. but in 1914 the President said
men who talked thus were 'nervoas
and excited
A year later the President admit
ted the need and the senator did his
utmcst to incorporate a broad, sounl
II iitary policy in legislation. but IN
President accepted the ms ,rably
lame substitute embodied in the Hay
Bill and got rid of the only man in
his Cabinet who had the courage L.
disc 2ree with him.
War requires exercise of large
measure of dictatorial power in n de-
mocIacy as ir an autocracy, but q
democratic dictator wields his au-
thanty in the open. Mr.. Wilson coutd
MT make a more monstrous error
than to believe that his criNcs wish
him to fail, fcr If he should fail tho
.Jation would fail. Senator Cham
berlain and his colleagues are trying
to force better tools into his unwil-
ling hands in the hope that with
them he will win.-F'rom the Pof.-
Iond Oregonian
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-02
REACHES OF SCIENCE

I 'tFrom the Electrical Experimental
Sir Isaac Newton shortly before
his death said: II do not know
what I may appear to the world, but
to myself l seem to have been only
like a boy playing on the seashore,
and diverting myself in now and
then finding a smoother pebble or a
prettier shell than ordinary, whilst
the great ocean of truth lay all un-
discovered before me"-yet Liebnitz
estimated that Newton had achieved
far more than all other mathema-
ticians put together from the begin
ming of history.
Lord Kelvin, at his jubilee, in re-
scientific world, said: "One word
characterizes the most strenuous of
the efforts for the advancement OF
science that have made persever-
ingly during fifty-five years; that
word is failure" Yet he lowered
above all his scientific contemporar-
les and was perhaps the greatest
saVant that the world has known.
1t is, in fact, a trait common to all
who have spent their lives in the
pursuit of knowledge and have ac-
quired profound acquaintance with
the hidden mysteries Of nature and
science, that they, more than all
others, realize the immensity of the
field that lies open before them
shrouded in mists. it is true, and be-
set with pitfalls, cul de sac, false
clews, but also holding treasure in
store of inconceivable richness for
the reward of those who patiently
grope amid its gloomy Businesses.
We have as yet but ventured over
the border of that illimitable ex-
panse; the further we penetrate into
it's depths the better we appreciate
the wealth that lies beyond, and the
greater becomes our strength to
overcome the difficulties that con-
front us.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-02
THE KICKER

Sez to Jim, "Well now, I'll vim!
If snow amt comm down aginl
This kind of weather makes me sick!
q tes' plumb wish that I could lick
The weather man! jest can't keep
me warm no more!"
Sez Jim to me. and threw some snow
from his front door
ooh, l don't know! 1t might be
worse,
We might be lynn in a hearse!
Jes' keep shovelin' as it comes
down,
And cleanin' up and workin' roun',
My blood keeps pretty warm, and so
L rather think l like the snow!"
Sez 1 to Jim This lack o. coal,
Has sort er shriveled up my soul!
I'm 'fraid real soon that we will
freeze;
An jest know Wen NEVER squeeze
This winter through. I'd like to lick
the hull blamed crowd"
Sez Jim to me Now 10, wouldn't
talk so loud,
It pears to me you amt quite dead
If you'd jest try'n get through
your head
That some day soon it will be
Spring,
And you Will see the blue birds
wing;
If you'd jest shovel away some
snow,
You wouldn't get so cold, you know.
Sez I to Jim, THE hull things
wrong!
The world would sing another song,
If / could run things jest awhile;
Things would work out in clock work
style.
The President, and all the rest who're
runnin' things"
Eez Jim to me-(and say, his tone
still smarts and stings }
'See here, 10 Kant, If YOU was
head
OF this here land we'd all be dead,
A man who only sits en- growls,
At snow and coal-jes growls and
scowls-
Don't even shovel away his snow,
Gee! But he'd run things well,
vowp'
EDNA CROFT DIEHL,
Paxtang, Pa
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-02
THE WINTER FIRE

The sullen sky is pouting behind its
drab spun veil,
The drowsy sun is mapping along a
misty trail;
Upon the brown -cloaked hilltop the
bare, black branches rise,
Outlined like long arms, empty,
against the winter skies;
Though Nature DER the landscape a
somber robe may throw,
Through all the cold, gray bleakness
the winter fire will glow.
When winter nights are dark'ning,
and wistfully l gaze
At fair and hallowed faces that peep
out from the blaze
When all the room is quiet and
dreams are in my eyes,
All, then my heart, aweary, Is filled
with sweet surprise;
For when across my hearthstone the
radiant visions walk,
The lonely night turns friendly-the
winter fire will talk.
Anne Porter Johnson, in the
Peoples Home Journal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-02
BRYAN WAS WRONG

[From the Kansas City Star1
Mr.. Bryan does not appear to be
in receipt of any advance informa-
ton from the Administration, in
which respect he is in the same
position that the rest of us occupy.
otherwise it is proper to assume he
would not have selected the time he
did to announce that the appoint
ment of a director of munitions was
unnecessary.
The appointment followed so
quickly upon the announcement as
almost to invite the belief that the
one was the effect of the other. But
probably this theory will have to be
rejected as implying an influence
with the Administration which Mr..
Bryan plainly does not enjoy. Grant
ing that he did not know what the
Administration was going to do, he
still should have reflected that prob
ably the Secretary of War didn't
know either. Mr.. Bryan, however,
probably is not alone in his surprise
and II he needs coincidence very
likely he can get it from Secretary
Baker.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-02
A B C. of KULTUR

V iss Valhalla-the Warriors Him
mel,
A Land that is Flowing Nit Lager
und Kimmel.
The Faithful shall Feast meath the
Frankfurter Trees,
Und Essen and Trinken as much as
they Please.
W stands for the World that we
want
With a Will for Possession that
Nothing can Daunt;
And you should Remember the Wise
Men all say
That Where there's a Will there is
always a Way.
Y stands for Cross. If you're Anx-
ious to Win 1t,
This is the way that you have to
begin it.:
Blow UP Schpolhouse and Brush
up on Arson,
Bomb a few Nurses and Murder q
Parson. Life.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-02
THE FUTURE CITY

TT ARRISBURG will emerge from
the turmoil and stress of the
war period a bigger, better,
more prosperous city The Harris
burg of ten years hence will be in
comparably superior in every way
as a city to the Harrisburg of to-
Gay. We look back over the period
since the awakening of the COM
munity in 1901 and 1902 and think
the progress and development dur
ing the interval worthy or remark.
Other cities have taken note of it
and our accomplishments have been
the subject of discussion in munich
pal circles the country over. What
we have done in the past and the
steady, healthy growth that has been
ours, will be As nothing in compari-
son with what we shall do and what
will come to us by reason of our
geographical situation.
Charles Schwab, speaking before
the Harrisburg Chamber of Com
merce just after his purchase of the
Steelton iron works, forecasted a
wonderful development for this Sec
ton of Pennsylvania, giving his rea-
sons at length and showing by O
careful business analysis why
Pennsylvania as a whole, and this
section of the State in particular,
is certain to become one of the rich
est and most prosperous manufac-
turing distrlc@ in the whole world.
1t was Allen L. Albert, the noted
civic expert, who told a Harrisburg
audience not so long ago that "cities
are not located by accident" and
that there was very evident eco
nomic reason why Harrisburg, for
example, had grown and prospered
while other settlements nearby, older
and with just as much promise at
the start, had Jagged behind in
population and wealth. He, too,
voiced the opinion that Harrisburg
had not nearly reached the limit of
its growth and that Harrisburgers
who lived another decade would be
themselves surprised at the rapidity
of local development. Mr.. Schwab
backed his judgment with his mil
lions and has himself helped to
make his own prediction come true.
Now comes the War Department
to select Harrisburg for one, IL not
more, OF its most important military
supply centers ,of concentration and
distribution. This assembling point
was mot located by accident" to
appropriate the language of Mr.. AL
bert, but as the result of a most
careful survey of the entire eastern
section of the country and upon the
decision of experts that there were
no better shipping facilities to be
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-02
EngliShnen Sell Old Estates

that the estate had been managed
for so many years by an agent who
recently had died. The parcels We're
so numerous and scattered that, al
though they lay in the same district,
it required a journey of more than
100 miles to VISIT all of them. Lord
Scarborough therefore decided to dis
pose of the land and issued instruc-
tions that in every case the tenant
occupying the land was to have pref
erence as purchaser.
War Makes, New MillionaireS
Whether one goes to Christie's in
London, where paintings, statuary,
furniture tapestries, rugs, all manner
OF art and household effects, are sold
under the hammer, or to the real
estate auctions where estates many
centuries old are dispersed in a few
hours, precisely the same phenome-
ma are to be observed. The inherit
ances of the old aristoeracy are pass
ing into the hands of persons who
better can afford to own them;
hands, indeed, that lately have been
calloused by real labor or soiled in
the process of trade. War taxes and
the high cost of living have brought
the aristocracy to the point where
it's easygoing, casual, comfortable
and inefficient method of manage
ment will not stand the strain.
England Is full of new million
aires, lively, enterprising, ambitious
people, who can afford the noble
old estates much better than the
noble old lords can afford them. So
they are getting the estates now and
little later on the degradation will
be wiped out. For there will be a
general election, the parties will need
| T1illinnnirnG
their newly acquired manor houses
and castles will exchange fat cam
paign checks for titles; whereupon
| the manor will resume it's role OF
eminent responsibility as the seat OF
q titled family.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-02

found elsewhere. The big plant
comes to Harrisburg for the same
reason that the Pennsylvania rail-
road located the biggest yards of
its system here, for the same rea-
son that this city has become q
vcritable hub of railroad lines, for
the same reason that scores of big
manufacturers and producers have
placed their shipping centers for the
cast, north and south at this point.
We are geographically so situated as
Ito command attention when great
industrial developments are under
way.
But we are by no means at the
end of our resources when our rail-
road possibilities are exhausted. With
the end of the war the country will
come to a new understanding of the
folly of trusting implicitly and en-
tirely to coal for fuel and generat-
ing power when other and less un-
certain facilities are at our very
doors almost wholly undeveloped.
We speak of electricity generated by
waterpower. 1t is obvious that the
day of cheap coal is past. Prices
may, and very likely will. retreat
somewhat from present unreason-
able heights, but they will never go
back to the old level. Wages, rail-
road rates and the increased depths
to which operators must go for their
coal veins all combine against that.
When men turn seriously to water
power, as they will very shortly, the
Susquehanna and the Juniata water
sheds will become studded with
power plants from the Chesapeake
to the New York 'line and when
that time comes Harrisburg, with its
railroad facilities and right on the
edge of a great power-giving stream
will become doubly attractive to in
dustrial promoters.
Within ten years, too, the Capitol
Park Extension developments will
be we'll under way and the whole
heart of the city will have been
transformed.
1t behooves us of the present to
keep these things in mind. Our
constant effort should be to build
to-day a city that will not have to
be torn down or radically remodeled
to suit the more particular and ex-
acting residents of a future day
We should plan and construct for
a half-century hence as well as for
to-day. Not by what bereaved
friends carve upon our tombstones'
but by what we leave behind us in
work we'll done will the coming gen.
erations judge us.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-02
NEARING THE CRISIS

HERE is every indication that
President Wilson spoke cd
- visedly, and with full thought
as to the import of his words, when
he told Illinois farmers the other
day that the tissues of the war" will
be decided during the present year
and that the farmer will play as i'm
rortant a part as the man with the
rifle.
Signs are not wanting that Aus
trla may go the way of Russia at
any time, and even in Germany a
pronounced allied success on the
west front might force a condition
ar home requiring the government
to sue for peace. This might take
the form of a German failure, in
case of the long g-expected offensive,
or Of a fresh allied drive.
At all events, the allies are near
ing the point where Germany will
be able to do nothing with them in
q military way, and then the end
will be in sight. But even though
peace should come within the year,
the farmer must keep pegging away,
for the end of the war will tend to
unsettle conditions almost as greatly
as did the opening of hostilities.
Several years must pass even after
the fighting ceases before the peo-
pies of European countries will be
able to feed themselves, and in the
interval United States production
must be continued at top-notch.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-02

A LONDON newspaper in sin
~ gle issue few days ago car
ried advertisements of more
than fifty square miles of farms for
sale, virtually all in England.
1t is only necessary to observe the
real estate advertising 70 understand
in a general way what is going on.
Here is a single column of announce
ments from which one gathers that
the Duke of Buccleugh is selling
$500 acres of his land in Warwick
shire; that Lord Scarborough is put
ting thirteen square miles of his
Lincolnshire land on the market in
parcels of various sizes; that Lord
Shrewsbury and Talbot will sell 500
acres of his Chesire estate; that Lord
de Saumerez will sell Lawshall Hall
and 1000 acres of land near Bury
st. Edmunds, together with a lot of
adjoining property; that Lord Win
chelsea has directed his agents to
dispose of a large area in freehold
parcels at Harlech, which over
looked the royal st. David's golf
course:" that Lord Holden's seat,
Nun-appleton Hall, near York, with
$500 acres, will be sold in one par
eel, while a number of smaller par
cells later will be sold separately.
Tenants Get Chance tor Buy =
Lord Combermere is selling 5000
acres of his estate on the Shropshire
border of Cheshire, and an immense
area of lands owned by the Marquis
of Crewe went under the hammer.
The Crewe lands were offered in 1877
parcels, each parcel being a farm,
residence or pasture area; while a
large share of the Sandbach village
was also included in the offer.
The disposal of these great Eng
lish estates results from many curl
Gus causes. Thus. when the Earl OF
Scarboroughs Lincolnshire proper
ties were offered it was explained
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-02
Constructive Criticism

Discussing the recent showdown
in the War Department, Ex-Presi-
dent w. II. Taft says:-
"Mr. Bakers second statement
was much more satisfactory than
his first. His manner was much bet
ter. He had been chastened by
public criticism. His appeal to tho
committee for helpful suggestion and
cooperation was in far different
vein from that of his first statement
He made a much better case in de-
tailed explanation of the size and
difficulty of his task"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-02
EDITORIAL COMMENT

By stopping all eating for week,
food conservation might become as
effective as this conservation OF coal
by the Fuel Administrator.-NeN
York World.
If the Government finds it can run
the railroads as n unified system per
haps it will be encouraged to try the
same methods in the War Depart
ment.-Kansas City Star.
The Ordnance Bureau seems to
take the position that if it had the
Browning machine gun it would have
the best machine gun in the, world.
Kansas City Times.
One thing, though, you can say
for the Germans, when they make
war they mean business. You don't
hear of any Allied spies walking
around Berlin under bond.-Macop
Telegraph.
Why not prevent the troops in
France from shooting at tA Ger
mans? That would conserve am
munition and enable the Army to ac-
cumulate a large reserve supply
New York World.
Those more or less excellent peo-
pie who want. an inconcluslVe peace
are the exact mental replicas or the
fellow who cut off the pups tail an
inch at a time in order to be hu-
mane-Chicago Daily News.
Indignantly we demand to know
If the Louisville Courier-Journal was
looking toward Missouri when 1t said
this: II you have a feeble-minded
citizen in your community, put him
in the proper institution and pay
taxes cheerfully for his support
Don't dodge the issue by sending him
to Neutrality-suspicious. City Times
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-02
NO TINE TO HALT

The blind hope of peace tends in
evitably to slacken preparation. Men
in charge of camps and canton
ments, of supply purchases, of the
ordering of guns and munitions will
be cramped and restrained by the
fear that they may be reproached
for reckless prodigality. If the war
is to end within a few months, why
commit the Government to this vast
expenditure? This is not time for
such talk or for such thought. Re-
straint upon our war preparations
will be fatal. Prodigality in expen-
diture, large ideas and the utmost
speed in preparation are the only
possible assurance of peace-New
York Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-02
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

j. c. Frazee, who is active
the State Public Safety Labor B
reau work, is Philadelphian W,
has made q study of that line.
&C. w. Colewell, head of t
state marble men, is presiding at C.
convention at Reading this week.
Judge Eugene c. Bonniwe
head of the State Firemen's Ass
citation, is suspected of having G
bernatorial ambition.
Director c. b. Pritchard,
Pittsburgh, who ordered a cleanu
made some Investigations of his oN
before starting. o.
Samuel A. Rim, placed
charge of the coal routing up {
state, is a PunXsutawney busint
man.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-02
Make 1t Diamonds

Tyrus Raymond Cobb, of Detroit,
and Walter Johnson, of Washington,
have been put into a deferreddraft
classification, which means that they
will not have to bat or pitch hand
grenades this year. Therefore-play
ball!-From the New York Sun.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-02
BENyEATH
HIM.

BENEATH
HIM.
B ut didn't
opportunity ever
knock at your
door.
Probably.
A n d yo u
didn't answer
It?
II OF course
not. What do
you think the
servants q T e
for.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-02
Why Not?

-He-I have half a mind to !
you.
She-I have half mind to let y
Cupid-go to it, you boob
halves make a whole.-From
Florida Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-02
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1918

Genuine greatness is marked BY
simplicity, unoStentdtiousneSs self
forgetfUlneSs, a hearty interest in
others, feeling Of brotherhood
,eith the human fdmily.-CHANNINe.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-02
PLAYING
SAFE.

1 won't be
home tonight.
George, u n TIL
late-if there
are any tele-
ph one C alls
please take the
message like a
good hubby.
Don't worry.
dear. I always
have the receiv-
er down when
you're out
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-02
OUR DAILY LAUGH
THE SUBSTI.
TUTE.

Musical Di-
rector: -t:stic
temperaL mt is
a delicate timing
to handle.
Art Director:
Y es, because
p G ople that
have it have 80
little talent,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-02
DO YOU KNOW

THAT the Harrisburg district
is growing I'm importance as n
car repair center?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-02

"wnl use bayonet and hunger to
put end to German strikes That Is
the only way the Car proceeded.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-02

If you can't go TO war you may be
able to do a good service as a Scout
master.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-02

Published evenings except Sunday by
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Telegraph building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-02
HISTORIC uARRTsRTrRc

General John Sullivan cohside
Harris Ferry an ideal base of $,
plies in warfare against the
dians.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-02

Hungary is ready for peace" sayl
Premier Wekerle. Well?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-02

Was January an exceptionally long
month, or did it only seem so?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-02

Member of the Associated Press-The
Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled to the use for republication of
all news dispatches credited to 1t or
not otherwise credited in this paper
and also the local news published
herein.
All rights of republication of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-02

Ell. J.sTACKPoLE,P Pres's s. EdaoT-in-C hisf
r. r. OYSTER. Business Manager.
GUS NJ. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-02
THE LIMIT.

THE LIMIT.
How do you
like your sol
diering?
I haven't time
to find out. I'm
as busy as a
Yank at a
spring drive.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-02

State Commissioner of Heal
Samuel G. Dixon, although al, h
as close a grip upon the affairs
his department as when he is her
The Commissioner calls up the Car
tol on the long distance telephol
and each evening knows what h
been done during the day.