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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-18
QUENTIN ROOSEVELT

VERY American worthy the
III name mourns most sincerely
with Colonel and Mrs. Roose-
Nelt the uptimely death OF their
youngest son. Quentin. The heroic
sacrifice ot this most worthy son Of
a worthy father comes to each one
of us in the sense Of a personal be-
reavement and brings home to us
most forcefully the horror OF the
great conflict in which We are en-
gaged.
Lieutenant Roosevelt died as his
father would have had him so. if
death were inevitable, fighting gall
lantly against odds the foes of his
country. The young mans name will
I'll another bright page in the his
tory of the Roosevelt family, but
that will not assuage the grief of
loving father who is denied. by an
ungrateful government, the privilege
of going TO France TO avenge the
death of his gallant son.
Young Roosevelt might have had
a eaptaincy of infantry had he so
desired. He had the training and
the qualifications for that. If not for
a majorship. But he chose more
hazardous service with the lowly
rank of lieutenant. He rocked not
OF personal danger, but went. like
thousands more OF his fellow Amer
leans. where duty called. All honor
TO him. II some other financially
independent gentlemen who sit
about Washington, camoufiaged by
high sounding titles and private Of
fees, were TO follow his example, the
cause of patriotism would profit and
public affairs would suffer little
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-18
"Belgian GadfIy" Stings Germans

The forts of Liege are smashed,
but La Libre Belgique, the Belgian
gadfiy," remains.
Material resistance, barriers of
steel ond concrete, the German in
vader could crush and pass. But the
spiritual, impalable, opposition
which flowers so perfectly in the lit
tie secret newspaper which the Bel
gians love and cherish, the German
mind is not constituted to overcome.
And so long as La Libre Belgique
continues to appear Belgium can
never be wholly conquered state.
Again and again the German au-
thorities have announced the sup
preston of the paper and the con-
fiscation of the plant. Fines and i'm
prisonment invariably follow these
announcements. And invariably La
Libre Belgique appears once more
perhaps with new editors and an
other staff, undoubtedly from a
freshly hidden plant tucked away
in some indomitable patriots clam
my cellar or dust-heaped garret.
1t Is still appearing, to-day it is
the most popular newspaper in Bel
gium.
With charming audacity the man
journal are extended to the governor
general. Whenever a new number is
printed he always finds two copies,
fresh from press. upon his desk. No
one knows how they get there-at
least no one with whom the secret
is not safe. And no one in the Ger
man organization has yet found a
way to prevent them getting there.
A general who is exposed to such
irritations long enough would rather
lose an army corps.
Cne famous number, smuggled as
usual to the official desk, displayed
a halftone portrait of his excellency,
the Baron Won Bissing, holding his
"favorite paper" The captisn ex-
planned that the dear Governor
General, weary of reading false
hoods in the censored press. was
seeking the truth in La Libre Bel
gique."
All journals from outside the
country which might carry matter
detrimental to German interests
were banned absolutely. Neverthe-
less these managed to circulate
through secret channels, sometimes
even copied out on typewriter
sheets. BY and by the Allies learned
to drop pamphlets from airplanes.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-18
DREAMER OF DREAMS

If would I could move mighty
mountains and hills.
Uproot them and build me keeT
in the air;
I could turn teeming river and black
turbid hills
To make me a lake plaisance, pla-
cidly fair,
If I would!
But to lie here and list to the wild
churning seas
Sweeter seems;
And I sail yellow leaves down the
swift autumn breeze
Dreaming dreams!
If I would 1 could grasp in my hand
half the earth,
Make them mirthful or sad as
laughed, as L cried;
1 could guess at the where of the
world before birth,
At the infinite whence, and the
whittier beside
If I would.
But I wonder and watch as the
small, busy world
Past me streams;
And I shepherd my woolly white
clouds, wind unfurled, dream
ing dreams!
Basil Stephenson of the British
Army, in Contemporary Verse.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-18
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

N. S. Grubbs, the county farm
agent of Allegheny, secured 143
sheep for one of the Pittsburgh golf
clubs which will have its links kept
short by sheep and at the same time
help along the food supply.
John Glass, treasurer of North
cumberland county, was a visitor here
yesterday on an automobile trip.
r. ]. Alderdice, superintendent
of the Pittsburgh police. has under
taken a crusade to round up the
slackers in that city.
Seward L. Button. state chief
of mines. has been given leave from
his duties as LuZerne draft board
member, while he is working to
speed up production.
The Rev. Edward G. IEnnkel.
West Chester minister. will become
a chaplain in the army.
Provost Edgar F. Smith. of the
University of Pennsylvania, received
a letter from the commandant at
Plattsburg complimenting him upon
the spirit of the university boys in
camp.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-18
Shall 1t Be Booze" or Coal?
philadelphia Public Ledger.l


1t is now up to Congress to make
a clear-cut choice between booze for
the mining communities and coal
for the war and the public.-Na-
tional Coal Association.
There Will be no disposition on the
part of thoughtful patriots to min
imize the significance of the delib-
crate decla ration of the National
Coal Associat ton that nationwide
prohibition of the liquor traffic is the
sole condition under which the coun-
try can hope for the necessary coal
production for next winter. These
men, after a careful survey of the
subject, have arrived at the con-
clusion that the country cannot
have both booze and sufficient COAL"
If their conclusion is correct there
ought to be no hesitation about the
choice that must be made. And
the Issue ought to be presented to
Congress by the President and the
fuel administration in such a form
that there will ne no excuse for the
covert friends of booze" to hide be-
hiud techDicaiities of legislative pro
cedure. The country as whole will
not hesitate for moment about the
sacrifice of that personal liberty
which figureg so largely in the pro-
hibition discussion. once it is con-
vinced that the necessity is gen.
uine, and that the alternative pointed
out by the coal operators is newt
able. There can be only one answer
to the question, Shall it be booze
or coal?"
Prohibition as war measure
stands on a different footing from
prohibition as a permanent social
and political policy or the nation.
Perhaps the experience of the war
may be a determining influence In
the final decision of one of the grav-
est questions confronting humanity,
but the discussion of the one ought
not to be permitted to divert atten-
ton from the other. If it is now q
question of booze or coal. the
choice of the nation will be decisive
Is for coal!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-18

| Though the Germans devised a
shrapnel she'll which broke only
when near the ground and made it
extremely dangerous for any one
to be in the vicinity, the journals
from the skies were eagerly searched
for and passed from hand to hand.
And 1t was not long before un-
censored papers, printed in Belgium
itself, began to appear. OF all the
clandestine journals the most vigor-
Gus and defiant was La Libre Bel
gique.
No one knows where it is printed.
Its habitat is fantastically referred
to as 'une cave automobile" which
might perhaps be translated as a
migratory cellar or cellar on wheels,
and its telegraph address is THE
Governorship, Brussels" The price
is indefinite, varying from zero to
infinity," and there is no regular
time of issue, but an average of
three or four editions a month has
been maintained.
Not even the carriers know where
the paper is published. If, there
fore. the police captures a carrier
with these verboten papers in his
! hands, they may visit the direst pen
alties upon him, but the printing and
distribution of the paper goes on just
the same.
The German authorities. in their
rage at the defiance of this plucky
little newspaper operating under
their very noses, have made the most
savage and elaborate efforts to hunt
down the offenders. To handle the
paper or even to have it in posses
sion is made a serious offense, and
huge reward-originally $4,000
francs but later raised to $1,000
has been offered for information
leading to the apprehension of the
editors and proprietors.
The tone of the paper is delight
full. 1t always keeps its security of
temper, and it's spirit is irrepressible.
The Belgians enjoy 1t, and all the
copies are carefully treasured. The
usual circulation is about 10000,
but the paper proved so popular that
the first five numbers were reprint
ed three or four times after their
original publication.
One of the most interesting fea-
lures of La Libre Belgique is its
monthly air supplement, giving in
Flemish and French the news of the
war 1t is published abroad and
| sea ttered in Belgium by aviators.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-18
MOTHERS IN WAR TIME

A beautiful preface by Maurice
Maeterlinck to a series of powerful
French war pictures by S. Levy
Dhurmer. contains the folio wing:
Their sons are taken from them
at life's fairest moment. when their
own lives are on the decline. And
yet, our mothers do not weep as
have the mothers of other wars.
We know not what sustains them
and gives them the strength to bear
the remainder of their life. Some
among them have other children,
and we can understand how they
lavish upon them the love and the
future which death has cut short.
Many have never lost, or else they
try to recover their faith in the
eternal promises. But so many
others. whose dwelling is forever
desolate. seem to entertain the same
hope as those in whom hope has al
ways been alive.-In The Red Cross
Magazine for August.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-18
BLOOD MONEY

THE Washington report that
President Wilson means to take
a stand against wartime pro-
hibition because of the loss in taxes
involved is unbelievable.
Surely the President does not deem
it necessary to traffic in the bodies
and souls of countless men and
women to find money with which to
win the war. This is a conflict OF
right against wrong, of humanity
against inhumanity, and liquor is as
debasing to the individual as Prus-
sian Kultur is to a nation.
But IL the moral issue does not
appeal TO the leaders of the admin
istraton, surely the economic side of
the question should, especially among
officials who breakfast, dine, sup
and sleep on war economies" To
be sure. we may be taxed in some
other way to take the place OF what
has been collected from the drinking
element, but having spent nothing
for booze we shall have all the more
money for taxes. Besides. there is
the matter of fuel, food and trans
portation involved in the making
and sale of drinks, to say nothing of
the labor now so badly needed in
other lines of trade, which Mr..
Hoover says must be diverted to
legitimate uses If disaster is to be
averted. And OF what use to save
taxes If we are to go cold and hungry
next winter in order to put grain
and coal into taxable beer?
The answer to the demand for
greater revenues lies in the tariff.
Republicans would have turned to it
long ago. Democrats will have to
come to It sooner or later. There are
already signs that their leaders in
Congress recognize this.
It is now proposed to increase the
sugar tariff for revenue" albeit
there will be large measure of the
heretofore "damnable protection"
in the bill, and this time one item
will raise a huge sum for war pur-
purposes. The Democrats also are
trifling with tea and coffee, which
Republicans always kept on the free
list because they did not compete
with homemade products-and the
Democratic hand-picked tariff COM
mission has committed heresy by
urging a tariff bill higher in its levies
than provided by the much-abused
Payne-Aldrich act. They will find
the country far reader to accept
such a means of raising war revenues
than by the collection of blood
money from saloons.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-18
MEN WHO WOULD SERVE

TN every community there are
young men of service age who
have been rejected for physical
disability and these are frequently
misunderstood in their several COM
munities. inasmuch as no provision
has been made for the wearing of
any insignia which would indicate
that they are willing to serve, but
have not been accepted by the gov
ernment
Harrisburg is not an exception in
this matter. some of our well-known
young men having been refused op-
portunity to enlist in one branch Of
the service or another. It has been
suggested from time to time that
some sort of badge should be given
to men of this class that they may
not be regarded as slackers when
they are willing and anxious to
serve. This would also differentiate
men of this type from those who
are doing their level best in one way
or another to avoid serving their
country in the fighting forces.
The young man who makes a real
effort to enlist, as many have done
repeatedly. and is told that he does
not meet the requirements. should
have some way of demonstrating to
everybody that he is not Indifferent
to his duty. Under the circumstances
It would seem to be only just thai
msn of this class should be given
q button or other insignia that
would indicate how they stand with
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-18
ON FLANDERS FIELDS

THE failure of the Austrian drive
in Veneta, or. more properly
speaking. the success of the
Italian resistance and counterattack.
have given rise once more to the
hope that Triest may be taken and
the road to Berlin opened from the
east and via Vienna.
This is an old dream. Napoleon
once had it; probably every advo-
cate of the restoration of Italia IRE
denta has thought to push his le-
gions beyond the Trentino and to
take deserved revenge upon the Aus
trian and the German.
But we doubt If it will come to
pass. even now. Flanders has been
too often the theater of war to be
pushed out of the limelight now.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-18
A JUST VETO

IFrom the Kansas City Star.]
The farmers of America. as The
Star has had previous occasion to
say in approving the announcement
that President Wilson would veto
the S2.40 price for wheat, are not
profiteers. AS he has pointed out in
his veto message, they have worked
in patriotic spirit to meet the food
requirements of this country and its
allies. The price fixed is generally
felt to be adequate. To increase it
would be to lay heavy burden on
the consumer and on the Allied ma
tiops. The President has acted
wisely and justly in disapprovins
the advance.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-18
SAFE FAIRGROUNDS

TINE police department should
support as vigorously as its
means command the campaign
the Park Department has begun
AGAINST disorder and vandalism on
the public Fairgrounds. If boys and
men refuse to obey the rules and
regulations they must be punished
These publ'~ recreation places must
be kept safe at all times for the
girls and boys who use them. Some
of the boys arrested a day or two
ago are old enough to be at work.
But If they won't work at least they
must be forced to behave.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-18
THEY COST 25 CENTS
[From Collier'sl

On War Savings Stamp Day" an
editorial In M, Hearst's New York
Evening journal exhorted its read
eIs as follows:
Buy your thrift stamps, show
them to the family. Point out
the picture of George Washing-
ton in the middle OF the stamp.
If the gifted author of those lines
had only stopped writing about
thrift stamps long enough to buy
one-or at least to borrow some
one else's-he would have found
that il might puzzle even the own
er of THE Journal to discover a
portrait of George Washington in
the middle or anywhere else. It is
risky business, this describing OBJ
jects we have never seen.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-18
All Waste Must Be Stopped

[From the Liberty Press
Were it not for looking forward
to something brighter" said the man
who can take a drink or let it alone,
man would die of despair. Person
ally I long for the day when this
cruel war will be over and the couu-
try can get back to Seating the grain
now sacrificed to making the world
safe for democracy into something
to drink"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-18

off the wire and the biggest type In
the office would have been necessary
to herald the disaster. The incident
would have been a nine days sensa-
ton.
But life has been cheapened and
the appetite for gruesome detail sa-
tiRted by the frightful happenings
in Europe. What, we wonder. will
the yellow press do when peace re-
turns and news events of first mag
nitude happen only once or twice a
Year,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-18
NEWS VALUES SHRINK

n NE of the interesting effects of
~ the war is the shrinking of
news values. Before Germany
went stark mad and started to run
amuck an accident like the sinking
of an excursion steamer in the Illi-
nois river Saturday with great loss
of life would have been the occasion
for tremendous display even in con-
servative newspapers. Columns upon
columns of descriptive matter would
have crowded almost everything else
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-18

williamstown is going to keep the
home fires burning in the most prac-
teal way. A Board of Trade has been
organized. and the gool people of the
mining town are going to see to it
that their community is a good place
in which to live and a fit place TO
WHICH the boys will return after the
war. Every town should follow the
example of .wlliamstown in this re-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-18
What a Sad Waste

[F'rom the Grand Rapids Press
Speaking of. the futility of wealth,
Andrew Carnegie has given away
his seven thousandth pipe organ and
not one OF them can play ragtlme.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-18
Safeguarding Mother

LFrom the London Answers.
Daisy (10) to Dolly (11) -W We
must be more careful what we say
before mamma. She picks up our
slang so readily"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-18
HEARKEN, o EARTH

Hear all ye people; hearken, o
earth. and all that therein is; and
let the Lord God be witness against
you.-Micah |, 2.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-18
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg loses industries
because of the lack of homes for
worIxmen?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-18
SHE PAVED
THE WAY.

- w -
How did Pa
act when you
asked him for
my hand?
Very gentle
and courteous.
1t took me COM
pletely by sur
prise.
I told him
you used to be
a pugilist.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-18
Lucky if Not Half a Dozen

TFrom the Memphis Commercial
News.
Everybody is not perfect; every
Family tree bears %sst one le<><a-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-18

BY 1920 it is expected that there
will be 100000 men working on
our ships and equipment.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-18

High school boys have been given
employment in the Pennsylvania
railroad car repair depot at Sunbury
Pennsylvania.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-18

City scavengers at Edmonton. Can
ada, ask for an increase to 40 cents
an hour.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-18

The German people is destined
for great things" says the kaiser. In
Guiding the greatest licking in his
tory.-Wall Street Journal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-18
EDITORIAL COMMENT

The Austrian offensive indicates
that a drive by driven men is not
likely to prove success.-Louisville
Post.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-18

To truveI hopefully is q better thing
than to arrive, and the true success Is
to IdboT.-SEvESsoS.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-18

The shortage of wool in Germany
is fast approaching the stage when
the kaiser will no longer be able to
pull it over the peoples eyes.-New
York World.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-18

respect to the national defense and
the service.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-18

K great number of Danish farmers
and farm workers are securing en-
ployment in England.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-18

Equal pay for men and women on
similar. work is advocated by the
American Federation OF Labor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-18
LABOR NOTES

Union bakers of Los Angeles, Cal,
ask increased wages and recognition
of the union.
Berlin, Germany, had 100000
union workers in 1913. 1t now has
but 10000.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-18
HISTORIC HARRISBURG

The first businessmen's organiza-
ton was formed here about 100
years ago to urge on the improve
ment of the Susquehanna.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-18
OUR DAILY LAUGH
GONE UP.

GONE UP.
NJ a m ie: 1
wonder W b a t
has become of
t h 9 old-fash-
ioned dim g
novel?
Edwin: It's
gone up to a
dollar and a
half.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-18

Although they are not of the
slightest importance any more, Ger
man peace terms are always inter
esting, particularly to newspaper
paragraphers.-Kan City Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-18

Representatives of the British Sea-
mems Union are endeavoring to Sorm
a new international federation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-18
NO USE.

NO USE.
F a t h err: I
think you would
be afraid of be-
| n g arrested
with that cos
tune on.
Son: Say Dad,
8 n c e yo u
stopped my al
lowance nobody
notices mel
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-18

Burglary is increasing at an ap-
palling rate in Germany, according
to the Frankfurter Zeitung. The ma
tional policy is being individualized,
as it were.-Minneapol Journal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-18
HELP.

Drum Stick
See here, you
quit your fool
ing or I'll beat
your head OIL
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-18

THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO..
telegraph Building, Federal Square.
The Sentinel=record., 1918-06-12

who carried out the maneuver, am
they succeeded IN advancing their line
lam mile over a mile and a hall
front, and took nearly SEQ prisoners
including five officers In addition -
ma, hine guns and a trench mortar
were captured.
On the Italian front there has been
no infantry fighting of importance but
numerous small affairs between patrol
parties continue OF daily occurrence
Likewise the artilleries Of both sides
are keeping up mutu7l Commandments
Another peace offensive by Ger
many and Austria Hungary apparent
ly is in the air II is asserted that in
Berlin the government and Tho hiqh
army command are 9'sc"sst~1 p doc
laratiOn of war aims Wlie frod
Vienna comes he news the Austria
Hungarian FOREIGN minister in an in
terview has reiterated that he sill
adheres to the policy Of peace by un-
derstanding and that the dual mon
archy seek no annexations.