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The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1918-02-28
DINII

The primary department is crowd
ed and new chairs will have to be
purchased to accommodate the little
ones.
The Epworth League room was fill
ed and extra seats provided for the
enthusiastic young people led by Roy
T. Johnson The Christian Endeavor
united in this patriotic service. The
league room proved that the stars
and stripes are the most beautiful of
all decorations.
At the morning service the audi
ence was an inspiration to the pas
tor. Not only was the main room
filled but both side rooms as well.
The pastor counts on his loyal peo-
pie and wants to see every member
present every Sunday unless the ex-
cuse is one that could be given to the
Master.
We cordially invite strangers to
worship with US also to place Their
membership in the church while here.
No one can afford to stand without
the ranks.
Our president has urged that the
church shall push the religious work
to the front as never before. Let
us be loyal and keep the Home Fires
Burning"
w. T. galley, Pastor.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1918-02-28

tions from the supervisor from Denver
on Tuesday afternoon.
The Misses Altvater, Seeley, Basf-
essen and Mrs. Bowman, teachers Of
Sedgwick, were down Tuesday after
noon to get instructions in regard to
their Junior Red Cross work for the
Sedgwick schools.
Sedgwick branch of our chapter has
sent down 30 pieces of hospital gar
ments for our shipment. They have
been working little more than
month only.
Two boxes of hospital garments and
bandages are ready to 20 to head
quarters.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1918-02-28

ID. NJ. Stamm arrived in Julesburg
last Thursday morning from his home
in Geneseo, ILL.,, and spent few days
in this section looking after his land
interests near Sedgwick.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1918-02-28

Mr.. and Mrs. F. H. Gibson of Chap
pell, were Julesburg visitors last Sat-
urday
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-13
Alcohol flinders War Makinq

tF'rom the New York American]
We shall be delighted when the
government decides that making and
selling booze is not a proper war in
dustry and that alcohol as a bever-
age is not any more necessary nor
any less harmful to civilians than
to soldiers and sailors. The verdict
of those in command is that the
health and morale of the Army and
Navy are greatly improved by en-
forced abstinence from alcoholic
beverages. Then why not improve
the health and morale of the whole
people by doing away with the rum
sellers business entirely? We shall
then have a healthier people, a bet
ter people, brighter homes, cleaner
politics and happier conditions of slI
sorts. Alcohol does not help to win
the war. Alcohol delays winning the
war. The booze makers and the
booze sellers are doing nothing to
aid the nation in this terrible strug-
gle. They are not fighting or work
ing. Make them work or fight!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-13
FIGHTING EACH OTHER
William Franklin Sands in Asia

[William Franklin Sands in Asia1
All these months past 1t has been
the educated classes of Russia who
have suffered; the masses are only
now being touched. Such privations
as the people suffered in the begin
ming were attributed to the machi-
nations of the bourgeois and
counter r-revolutionaries," - to the
Reaction. 1t is only beginning to
filter down to the masses that even
now, when they, the Real People"
hampered, conditions are no better.
The peasant has been told by the
Bolsheviki to take the land he re-
quires from his wealthier neighbors.
He has attempted to do so, and has
come into conflict with the people
of the next village, or has been dis
possessed by wandering soldiers from
less fertile districts. When he has
been able to retain a greater portion
of land than he possessed before, he
has had neither implements and ma
chinery to cultivate it nor seed to
sow. The factory workmen are be-
ginning to find themselves in the
same predicament. The people are
commencing to feel, and their Boil
shevist masters admit, that Russia
must pass through an era of intensive
development before their political
theories can be perfected.
Bolshevist leaders admit that in
order to start again the machine
which the laborer will ultimately
control, it is necessary to draw upon
foreign capital; that to obtain ior-
eign capital 1t Is necessary to make
its investment in the country both
safe and attractive. Could Russia
therefore rid herself overnight of
her hordes of marauding soldiers Ind
professional criminals operating un-
der some political mask, she would
at once begin to trade with anyone
who had goods to offer or money to
invest.
She has not the strength. however.
to throw off these hordes. Isolated
individuals, small communities, vii
lagos or towns, or even unorganized
city dwellers cannot meet this situa-
ton. 1t is a matter for centralized
effort, for government.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-13
Aliens In American Industries

of doubtful loyalty, and second by
the strategic points to be guarded.
Both systems are necessary-one for
men, the other for places. They
check each other and insure safety.
With only the one method there will
at various times be exposed points.
One agent may be diverted but two
or more are more difficult to divert
simultaneously.
Take a personal interest in the
alien. If it is necessary, set up an
information bureau to help him un-
derstand drafts and regulations and
registration. If he wants to learn
English and become a citizen, help
him to do so. See that he gets
American information on bulletin
boards, in pay envelopes and other
wise, to offset the anti-American
material sent him or told him.
(Over 100000 sets of civic lessons
in foreign languages have already
been handled by industries through
pay envelopes.)
When this intelligent handling of
alien enemy and those of doubtful
loyalty is in operation, the plant Is
ready for another step-the sys-
tematic removal of every possible
SduoS lOi uAlSSty oioo1IioAdSIiohs oAo-
loyalty and disturbance. This will
require a close contact with the
workmen, and another analysis of
the plant, If not map. Is it wages.
or hours, or foremen or the en-
pIoying and dismissal method, hous-
ing substitution of women? What
ever it is, it constitutes the medium
through which the German agents
work, and it is their chief stock in
trade next to the love for the father
land. In dealing with German spies,
a plant has to be fool proof as we'll
as bomb proof. The man who
strikes may think It is bad housing
or treatment; the German propa-
gandist knows it's German efficiency
playing through American negli-
gence and carelessness. - From
American Industries.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-13
POLICE INCOMPETENCE

T + Harrisburg Is placed within a
five-mile dry zone as a result of
the sale of liquor to soldiers and
to persons who became disorderly
upon government work in this vicin-
ity, law-abiding liquor dealers will
have nobody to blame but the COM
paratively few saloon men and
others who are understood to have
been selling whisky illegally and to
the police who have countenanced
the practice. Early in the season,
Major Murdock, in charge of draft
headquarters here, had to interfere
3 because of the uninterrupted opera
tions of "bootleggers" who disposed
of liquor at high prices to drafted
men on their way through the city.
The police were at fault at that time
and they have done very little to i'm
prove conditions since then. So far
as Harrisburg hotelmen are con-
cerped, it must be said that~evidence
points to most of them as having
lived strictly in accord with the law
The Army officers, in charge of
operations at Midd1etown and New
Cumberland. have been most con-
siderate. At the very beginning they
might have regulated the sale of
liquor in this whole district They
might have closed scores of drinking
places and they had authority to
place the local police department to
all intents and purposes under their
own direction. so far as liquor and
vice control is concerned. But thew
did not choose to disturb local con-
ditions. They tried to live in har-
mony with the civil authorities. The
manner in which this proffer of good
will was met may be judged by the
occurrence of Saturday night, when
a local city detective beat up with a
blackjack a Federal officer who was
bringing two prisoners to the county
jail and would have allowed the pris-
oners their liberty had not they had
more sense than their would-be lib
orator and decided to remain.
This is not the first complaint
against the police department. It is
generally inefficient and has been. 1t
is larger than ever and more costly
than ever, bat it is not so effective as
1t was when it was smaller and there
was less red tape in its conduct.
Civil service does not appear to have
wrought any reform. Instead, con-
ditions grow worse. There are able
and conscientious officers on the
force-men who would be a credit
to any police department-but they
are not in the majority; neither are
they intelligently or ably directed.
No matter what the War Depart
ment may do in the matter now at
issue, city council owes 1t to the pub
lie to go thoroughly into the faults
of the police department and cor
rect them.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-13
Republican Conventions
IPhiladelphia Pressl

At the different conventions OF the
Republican party that are now being
held in many states the same key
note is very much in evidence. The
members of them meet together as
representatives of the minority party
nationally, not to find fault, not to
hinder the wheels of progress, but to
bring that stability and poise in this
dark hour that party of construc-
tion and progress can bring in times
like the present. They meet in
thoughtful, helpful. mood, because
the history of achievement in this
country since the days of 1861 is the
history of the Republican party. The
Republican party is a war party, a
lighting party, a party that always
has and always will strike in the
open.
The representatives of the Repub-
lican party can in good conscience
meet at this time to discuss and con-
slider matters with a view to per-
petuating the party in its usefulness.
Republican votes and leadership in
Congress are entitled to full credit
for'the more than million men that
are to-day in France. Men of the
Republican faith in Congress have in
spite of Democratic handicap. weak
ness and indecision, insisted upon an
adequate army, properly equipped.
determined to fight for final and un-
conditional surrender of the common
enemy. When the administration
faltered, obsessed with the idea that
the war was three thousand miles
away, the Republicans stood firm.
Republican leadership insisted
that we raise and equip an army
competent TO do the American part
along with France and England. 1t
was in response to this insistence of
Republican leadership that the pre-
paration we now have was brought
about. The Republicans have in
sisted since the war started upon
preparing to aid the Allies with the
greatest speed possible. In all of
our war activity, Republicans in Con-
gress have not been critical or fault
finding in partisan way. But they
have insisted as patriots that the
greatest possible efforts be put forth
to enable the soldiers of America to
sell their lives as dearly as possible
in the atmosphere of the Republican
conventions. There is no disagree
ment as to the Republican attitude.
There is no belittling either of men
or of the task before us But there
is the firm opinion that no one man
nor no one political party is big
enough to carry the whole burden of
this war or to solve all of the intri-
cate problems that will arise in con-
nection with the great world con-
hict
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-13
AN AMAZING REVELATION

THE report of the sub-commit-
tee named to investigate the
delay in aircraft production to
be made public this week. 1t is to be
hoped, will clear up the beclouded
situation and place the blame where
it properly belongs. The announce
ment that members of the commit
tee quarreled because Secretary
Baker declined to answer their ques-
tons is most amazing revelation.
Mr.. Baker should have been the last
man to hold anything back from
the Investigators. In the last analy-
sis failure of the air program must
rest on his shoulders as the RESPONSE
BILE head of the War Department
and 1t might have been supposed
that he would have been extremely
desirous of doing anything possible
to assist those whose purpose 1t is
to speed up the construction of aero
planes.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-13
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Francis J. Torrance, reappofntcd
to the State Board of Public Chari-
ties, has given years to the service
of that Board and is a recognized au-
thorfty all over the country.
James Robinson, the Phifadef-
phia superintendent of police. who
becomes an officer in the United
States Guards, used to be in the Ma
tiona1 Guard.
Postmaster Percy Faust. of
Weatheriy, has sent his third son
into the service and is proud of IT. 4
Senator Bofes Penrose and Dis
trict Attorney Samuel P. Rotan. of
Philadelphia, are on a fishing trip
off Atlantic City.
Major William P. Clarke, will
Transport guardsman. rs the post
adjutant at the rife matches camp.
The major is a newspaperman and
has been in militia affairs for many
years.
Fred 9. Newell, the Canton edi-
tor. who had been i'll, is back at his
desk.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-13
E<IRST of all, take a census of all
employees and divide them into

4 NRST OF all, take census OF all
i employees and divide them into
four classes: native born, natu-
ralized citizens, friendly aliens, alien
enemies. If they are naturalized
had better be classed industrially
with alien enemies until something
of their history and record Is
known. Let us insist frankly tina;
a man born OH another soil has to
prove :iImself for America. A ccr-
,iflcate of natuI alization granted un-
der our inadequate requirements,
where cften a job is the goal. is
not enough to class him with q ma
tive American.
Secold-make an analysis or a
map OF your plant showing its vu!.
r cradle spots. Where will a Are do
the greatest damage, where is was e
accumulated, what hydrant is most
vital IN cXtinguishiog a fiio. where
is the control OF Your lightin sys-
tom; and how ac: sSsible is your sur
tax bone; where will an eXp,osj on
cnusc The most ; mage; what ma
chimes are most ;:t..l or difficult To
repla,e, where can goods lii transit
be tanlpered with easiest? A dozen
other tnlngs havr already suggested
them Gl> es to you.
Now find out what kind of work
men are in charge of these vulnera-
BILE points. If they are enemy aliens,
transfer them at once. Don't wait
to have them prove their loyalty.
Some other point in the shop will
not decrease their efficiency and 1t
may increase your safety. The fire
brigade and the man who can reach
the hydrant the quickest ought to be
loyal American workmen-just as
men in the boilerroom and at deli
cate engines should also be. What
are you paying men at these points.
and what do you know about them ?
Surveillance and guards and sem
tinels are the next most important
The number and To-
cation of alien enemies and persons
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-13
JUST IN TIME

I'VE are just in time in Russia.
wv President Wilson did not act
a moment too soon in ap-
proving allied Intervention for the
protection of that sorely beset coun-
try from further German invasion.
Trotzky and Lenine have fled to
Krondstadt from their capital at
Moscow, in order to escape the -is-
ing wrath of their deceived fellow
countrymen. Perhaps the coming
of the allies from the north and
east fastened their downfall and will
percipitate the new revolution that
has been brewing ever since the
Bolsheviki leaders sold out the ma
ton to Germany.
At all events, momentous changes
are about to occur in Russia. The
moment cannot be long postponed, If
1t is not already here. and 1T is we'll
that American troops are on their
way to stretch hand of Fellowship
to the millions of Russians who for
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-13
SONG

must make my mourning
Over into song;
To the one who left me
Mourning would be wrong,
Mourning would be wrong,
Work must be my grieving,
Smiles the only sign;
Weeping were unworthy
Such a loss as mine.
Such loss as mine.
Work must be my worship,
Cheerfulness my prayers;
Less would be unfaithful
To the one who dares,
To the one who dares.
Spirit his to chide me
We're my laughter fled.
Though found his body
Lying with the dead,
Lying with the dead.
Work must be my grieving.
Love must hide my loss.
Still my lips be smiling
When they kiss the Cross,
When-they kiss--the Cross.
Claudia Cranston in Good House
keeping.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-13
PRAYER OF A SISTER

It's worse for mothers, God. oh. help
them first.
But after you have comforted each
mother
In all the land, then heari I dread
the worst
oh, send me news, good news from
him, my brother!
The little boy with whom. not long
ago,
I played at soldiers on our kitchen
floor;
And walked on stills; and cut and
bent a bow,
And whitfield arrows-shau I see
him more?
He has his mother and his sweet
heart praying.
I'm just his sister-But care, 1
care.
Cts hard, this new game he and
are playing.)
After the others, God. oh. hear
my prayer.
Carolyn Davies In Good
Housekeeping.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-13

If you want to know why the Tele-
graph thinks something ought to be
done about housing. go to Ann alley,
,or Seventh street. or Marion street, or
Wallace street. some sections, and
take one good look.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-13
An Inder

Since patches have become honor
able, says Old Man Doodle. you can
tell by a mans patches whether ne
is addicted to praying much or Just
sitting around.-From the Chicago
News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-13
OUR DAILY LAUGH
BEHIND THE
DROP.

Idloo 66iSo
Amt you a
little too heavy
TO draw down
big money for a
trick bicycle act
Miss Pondero-
sa-Oh, l don't
get much from
the show shops
but I'm bein'
we'll paid for
advertisin' a
strong wheel.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-13

. century or more have been looking
to the United States as the land of
liberty where dreams of freedom for
the masses have come true.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-13
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg's roll of honor
in this war deserves some perma-
nent memorial and it should be
started now?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-13
AS TO HOUSING

III
persons who do not fully un-
derstand the Harrisburg hous-
/ ing problem, that materials are so
high now and labor so scarce that
houses cannot be built and rented
with profit It is also contended
that We should advertise the advan-
tages of the town as a shipping and
manufacturing center and let the
housing situation take care of 1T
self
The answers to these arguments
are obvious. To the first it may be
pointed out that If we are to await
"a period of low prices for building
materials we shall doubtless refrain
from construction for a period of at
least five years after the war. for
all builders and dealers In supplies
agree that the demand will be in
creased rather than diminished by
the recopstruction that will take
place in Europe Immediately follow
ing declaration of peace. Ameri-
can engineers. architectural and
building firms are being organized
for this work abroad and billions of
dollars will be expended, which will
reflect upon the American market In
a way tending to keep prices high
and the demand constant
Secondly, we have already lost one
industry which would have employed
some 5000 hands because we have
no houses to offer. and this months
before any public mention was made
of the house famine here.
No. we cannot wait until the man
ufacturer or the shippers comes to
Harrisburg to build, for the simple
reason that the time is past when
business men select locations for
branch houses without first making
a complete survey of local condi-
tions. Labor is too difficult to hold
under any circumstances to risk los
ing it by placing an industry depend
ing upon mappower in a locality
which does not provide sufficiently
for its working classes. Housing
has ceased to be a mere matter of
supply and demand. where any
thing with a roof between earth and
sky can be classed as a house and
rented as such. Working men de-
mand good homes. They are en-
titled to them and they will have
them-if not in Harrisburg, then in
some more enterprising city.
AS to the inadvisability of adver-
tising Harrisburg as town in which
houses are scarce, that appears to be
the only way the present trouble
can be removed. You cannot pass a |
life insurance examination by as
suring the physician that there is
nothing the matter with you, nor
can you cure cancer by hiding the
sore. The same may be said of try
ing to make the outside world be-
lieve what is not true with respect
to housing.
Beside, the housing problem is not
one of merely building more houses.
We might possibly worry along in
a fashion with the houses we al
ready have, If all of them were put
into proper condition for human
habitation. But all authorities tes-
tify to the fact that hundreds of our
dwellings are not fit for stables, and
way must be found to correct
these conditions.
The Telegraph entered upon this
campaign after due consideration of
the entire situation. It did not SUD-
pose for an instant that the move
ment would receive universal an
proval. 1t proposes to continue along
the lines laid down until some i'm
provement has been wrought.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-13

NJ. G.. Scott of New York has been
president of the Interna-
tional Typographical Union.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-13
The Lord Is With Thee

Be strong and of good courage; be
not afraid, neither be thou dis
for the Lord thy God is with
thee whithersoever thou goest-
Joshua La,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-13

In making your vacation plans. do
not forget there Is another Liberty
Loan coming.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-13

Texas is to import Mexican labor
until the end of the war to overcome
the existing shortage.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-13

A Democratic correspondent writes
that the Republicans have made a
target of the President. In public
life targets are not made; they make
themselves.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-13

Work in Victoria (B. CO. shipyardi
will be carried on by returned sol
diers till the end of the war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-13

A. G. Babcock. aged 81. has re-
turned to his old trade, shipbuilding
at Tacoma, Wash.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-13

'Lenine may go to Germany" says
a dispatch. That ought to be punish
ment enough
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-13
HIsToRIo HARR1sBURa

Dauphln and Lebanon county milf
tiamen in the War of 1912 mobi-
lized on the Harrisburg river 'front.'
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-13

The Kaiser's personal press agent
is very silent these days; probably
trying to think up a few new excuses.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-13

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, 1918-08-13

American Wire Weavers' Protective
Association will convene at New York
city on July 20.