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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-20
OUR FOREIGN-BORN

IN HAT the Americanization eff
fort which was emphasized in
the great patriotic parade of
the Fourth of July will have a tre-
mendous effect in winning the for
eign-born people to whole-hearted
support of our institutions, has been
frequently demonstrated during the
last two weeks.
Many of those born beyond seas
who have lived among us for years
have imbibed the notion that they
were not wanted and have had no
interest in our system of government
or in the things for which America
stands. This attitude has under
gone remarkable change. AS a
result of the Fourth of July parades
everywhere the alien population is
coming into line. They are realizing
now that their future prosperity and
happiness are bound up in the pre-
servation of our ideals and the per-
petuity of American institutions.
Harrisburg was more than pleas
ed with the showing of thousands
from other lands in our own great
parade and we believe that the inn
mediate future will show the benefit
of that remarkable display of loyal
ty. 1t is for the individual to carry
into effect the impulse of national
good feeling and to show in every
day contact an interest in these men
and women who have come to our
shores and who want to become a
real part of us.
Some one has wisely suggested
that oEing to his great number the
Immigrant enters vitally into all OF
our industries and defense move
ments. Secretary of the Interior
Lane has said that the subject might
be presented to those of foreign ex-
traction in some such way as this:
I'VE came to America to help in
the making of this new land-foI
our own good and for the good oi
our children.
THE gate was open; we gave
nothing 20 enter. The paths thai
other feet had beaten we followed
The lands others had found and
fought for were e-psn us If we would
make them into hines.
I'm the old land, the motherland
Se worked Coz a living; here VIC
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-20
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
CAMP HILL AND IT'S FIRE co.
To the Editor of the Telegraph:


Will you permit Camp Hill resi-
dent to correct certain errors con-
tanned in a statement apparently
emanating from Camp Hill which
appeared in Thursday evening S
paper?
After stating that the president
of the Camp Hill fire company had
appeared and asked a contribution
of twenty-five dollars from council,
the additional statement was made
THE fire company has never re-
ceived any support from the Camp
Hill council. ETC." The latter state
ment is maliciously false. The facts
are that the chemical engine, the
chemicals and hose were purchased
by the borough, and the borough
also pays fifty dollars annual rent
for the privilege of holding council
meetings in the firehouse.
The request for a donation to the
fire company was refused because
the borough budget for 1918 had
been made UP, and no new objects
of bounty could be included there
in without disarranging the entire
system. Then, too, the request for
a donation was coupled with the
announcement that the fire company
had arranged for a public band
concert the following saturday eve
ming, with the natural result that the
members of the council believed
that the money sought was to be
used to help defray the expenses
of the concert, although such use
was disclaimed by the petitioner.
For these reasons the quest of the
firemen was refused by the decisive
vote of five to one.
If the firemen of Camp Hill desire
an annual appropriation for the
maintenance of the organization,
and its equipment, the request should
be preferred when the annual bud
get is made up. Such request couch
ed in proper terms, unconnected
with threats of vengeance, prefer
red at suitable time, would no
doubt receive favorable considera-
ton.
Borough affairs in Camp Hill are
conducted under the annual budget
system which does not take into ac-
count extraordinary expenditures. 1t
certainly would not be right to use
borough funds to pay for band con-
certs and the like, particularly when
the expenditures of the year have
been mappd out to the very last
cent.
TRUTH.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-20
A LTHOUGH the end OF the war

A LTHOUGH the end of the war
~ may be far distant, plans
for demobilizing the British
Army, when the proper time ar
rives are we'll under way. The mill
taiy authorities, acting in conjunc-
tion with the Ministry of Labor, are
perfecting the scheme by which the
soldiers will be returned to civil life
with the utmost celerity, and at a
camp not far from London there has
already been a rehearsal of the
methods to be adopted for dispers-
ing the men.
Big as was the job to get men
into the army" said an officer en-
gagged in the work, 'it will be a
bigger job to get them out of it. But
the country may be sure that every
thing will be done to enable the SOL
diers to reach their homes and get
employment with the minimum of
friction"
The scheme is far-reaching. The
authorities have had to consider not
only the situation at home but also
how the plan will fit in with the
convenience of France, Italy and
the overseas dominions, and with
| transport facilities from Saloniki.
Mesopotamia, Palestine and from
other parts of the world. How long
it will take to demobilize the mill
lions of troops is question to which
even those occupied in the task are
not prepared to give definite reply.
Eighteen dispersal depots are to
be established in England, Scotland
and Wales. Every step has been
worked out in detail. Before the
men in France are ordered home
they will be assem- bled in the order
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-20

worked that we might really live.
Hope filled our hearts. =
"And we, the foreign born, are
here now to do our part in the max
ing of America All the thousands
of years of upward struggle, the
climb from serfdom up. has led to
the land of equal chance.
There was hope in our hearts
and that hope has blossomed into
bright-eyed boys and girls, into
homes where pianos play. into
schools and colleges and law courts
and legislatures. where our boys
work beside all other boys and win
ahead, into honors which come with
talent, into leadership that comes
with character, into fellowship that
knows no circle besides a common
taste. into a pride, compelling
pride. a squirting. life-giving pride
that we are of. that we are for-this
land of equal chance.
/. What has been gained and given
to us we hold for ourselves and our
sons"
A remarkable work is being done
by the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States in organizing Ameri-
canization movements. Great results
are bound to follow. Here, too, is an
opportunity for the local Chamber
in furthering in every way this i'm
portant service.
We must remember that the sturdy
alien who comes to our door is es-
sential to the enterprise of this
country. Scarcely an industry could
continue If alien labor were remov-
ed. His intelligence and patriotism
are therefore the measure of indus
trial efficiency. He may be either
an asset or a menace. and which he
shall be lies not primarily with him,
but with us. Americanization of the
alien is equally important to the
alien himself and to the community.
Herein is summed up the underlying
ideas of the California Commission
of immigration and Housing. Har-
risburg also is awakening to thel
importance of the housing problem,
which is a factor in the whole
Americanization movement.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-20
WHAT GERMANY FACES
MYTH ENORMOUS losses of
w men and changed conditions,

VTTITH ENORMOUS losses of
w men and changed conditions,
it is doubtful if Germany, ac-
cording to an expert authority, will
he able to be as serious competi-
tor on a price basis as she was for
merly, after the war. She may have
difficulties about obtaining raw ma
terials at a cost even with England
and the United States.
There is bound to be sharp COM
petition among the nations of the
world and this fact is urging COM
mercial and Industrial leaders of
vision to such action and co-opera-
ton as will protect the great inter-
ests of this country. Our increased
shipping will do much to enlarge
the business of the United States.
but it will be necessary to open
American markets in all parts of
the globe. From every corner of
The world comes the story of extern
sion and refinement of industries to
which little attention was given
before. 1t must also be kept con-
stantly in mind that returning from
the war, great force of disciplined
men will be ready to take up the
pursuits of peace with more energy
than ever before.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-20
German Morale Breaking
New York Times.1

We shall now see whether the
Germans, beaten back in the open,
can bend without breaking and re-
new the combat every day with un-
daunted spirit. A doubt is raised
by the physique and caliber of many
CT the prisoners who have fallen
lately into the hands of the allies.
With every thrust the German driv-
ing power seems to decline. At
Mount KENNEL, on the sad to Com
piegne, and very recently when the
enemy has faced the French and
the Americans on the Marne and
the troops of General Gouraud be-
tween Prunay and the Argonne hills
there has been a marked lack of
persistence in attack and a failure
of rallying power. The Germans
who are now opposed to Petain,
Liggett and Gouraud are not the i'm
petuous and confident troops who
broke from the base at Cambria on
March 21, and, with General Won
Hutier's Riga tactics and an un-
precedented use of poison gas, drove
ahead several miles a day. The
storm of Peace" as the fifth phase
of the offensive was called, early lost
it's violence, and it was no doubt an
appreciation of this fact that caused
General Foch to try a defensive
offensive movement on a wide front.
Counterattacks by the Germans
are to be expected, and there will
he a swaying of the battlelne at
widely distant points for several
days. The high command will keep
its head, even If the men in the
ranks lose heart and sometimes
break to the rear. They are now
dealing with unforeseen and unwel-
come conditions. For four months,
almost to a day, the Germans have
known, with rare exception, only
| forward movements and the capture
of prisoners, thousands of guns and
piles of equipment. Now the enemy
/ has turned upon them with light
ming quickness and a smiling power
Of attack that they cannot stand up
against. The offensive that was to
compel peace has become an often
sive of the allies, perhaps seeking a
decision in what the German rank
and file had been told was to be the
! last battle of the war The time
SCHEDULES of the General Staff have
so Sften gone wrong of late that
such a cruel and bitter disappoint-
nlent as General Foch is now inflict-
| ing upon the Germans may prove
their undoing. If they have forti-
tude and the never-say-die spirit,
now is the time for them to show it.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-20
LOST! 5000 POPULATION
OST! Five thousand workin;
population for Harrisburg!

population for Harrisburg!
Think of having let an op-
portunity 10 annex such a vast work
ing population, which does not in
clude the families of the workers
slip through our fingers because we
have been too stupid to provide suf-
flcient houses for the population we
already have.
That is what Commissioner Lew
r. Palmer tells us has just hap
pened. The government wanted to
place another great plant here, but
went elsewhere because we had no
houses.
SteeIton, until Schwab took hold,
seldom gave employment to 5000
men. The Pipe and Pine Bending
Works and the Central Iron and
Steel Company do not have nearly
that number. Yet we look upon them
as great industries essential to the
growth of the city. Think what
mercantile establishments of the city
lost through the turning away OF
this great enterprise.
And all because we have had not
had gumption to keep our housing
up in quantity and quality to the
Industrial growth of the city.
Is it any wonder that experts agree
with the Telegraph in asserting that
the housing problem must be met
and solved if Harrisburg is to take
her proper place among the grow
ing, progressive cities of the nation
Five thousand working population
lost because we have not, as a com
munity, attended to our business!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-20
Hun Restitution

ANY restitution Germany offers to
the Allies will be offered, you may
be sure. in the spirit of Griggs."
The speaker was Edward Hunger
ford. the advertising expert.
were kidnapped by bandits and shut
up in a cave.
They'll take every cent we've
got on u.s. moaned Miggs. Every
blessed cent
'Thev will, eh?' said Griggs,
thoughtfully.
They sure will
'Griggs peeled a ten-spot from his
roll.
"'Here. Miggs,' he said, here is
that $40 I've been owin' you for so
long. Pittsburgh Chronicle 'rele-
graph
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-20
EDITORIAL CONVENT

Cannon fodder is about the only
German ration that has not run low,
but there are certain indications that
this supply also is not unlimited
Philadelphia Inquirer.
There must be a feline strain in
Nicholas Romanof. - New York
Morning Telegraph.
They call it a bumper wheat crop
because of the bump it will give the
Kaiser.-Nashville Southern Lum-
herman.
A peace by understanding would
be all right. If Germany could only
be made to understand.-St. Louis
Globe Democrat.
We may not be fighting the Ger
man people, but they have a curious
way of getting between us and the
Observation-Disclosures Eagle.
The civilized world isn't likely to
register any vigorous protest of Ger
many's proposed antimigration
Southern Lumber
man.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-20

the admiration of all visitors? 1t
would seem to be the duty of City
Council to at once consider this
matter in a broad way and adopt
some specific regulation. 1t may be
expected that the careless and in
different users of the street for gen.
eral trAffic purposes will protest.
but unless Harrisburg is to drift
back into the village class some
thing must be done to save the river
driveway for it's proper use.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-20
LABOR NOTES

Textile workers at Toronto, Can
ada, demand union conditions.
Photographers at Seattle, Wash,
have formed a union.
Paris (TeXas) bookbinders have re-
ceived an increase of $3.50 and SO a
week.
Retail clerks at. Butte. Mon. have
secured an eight-hour day.
Toronto (Canada) granite cutters
have a minimum of IS for an eight
hour day.
Sheet metal workers at Whining
ton, n, C., have a 100 per cent
organization.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-20
Some Order!

A certain Irish sergeant was ex-
ceedingly wroth when he discovered
that one of his men had paid visit
to the regimental barber and was
minus his mustache.
Private JONES'" he roared, who
on earth gave yez permission to get
that mustache off,"
Nobody" answered Jones, uncon-
cernedly; "only l thought it would
improve my appearance"
Improve your, appearance with a
face like yours!" bawled the enraged
sergeant ''If yez don't hiv it on
again at the afternoon parade to-day
there'u be trouble. - London Tit
Bits
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-20
Feminine Diplomdcy

Yes. finally got rid of him." she
said without having to tell him in
so many words that | never could
learn to love him. 1 didn't want TO
do that, because he's an awfully nicc
fellow, and / should have been very
sorry to cause him pain"
How did you mahage it?" her
friend asked.
why you see, he's subject to hay
fever. so / decorated the house with
golden rod whenever he sent word
that he was coming" - Brooklyn
Citizen.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-20

Colonel Roosevelt has electrified
the country with his appeal to the
people to stand together until Ger
many is beaten to her knees. He
makes clear that this is not the
Presidents war. but war of the peo-
pie and that our whole-hearted and
undivided loyalty is due to the coun-
try as awhole. AS a father grateful
that his son was able to get to the
front before his fate befell him, -
Colonel Roosevelt has also further en-
trenched himself in the hearts of the
American people,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-20

President Patterson and his asso-
riates of the Chamber of Commerce
may rest assured that the people of
Harrisburg will approve every rea-
sorable effort to improve the housing
conditions here. This newspaper has
already demonstrated the need of an
active. constructive campaign with a
view to overcoming a serious situa-
lion.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-20
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

ID. A. Harman, superintendent
of Hazleton schools. has caused
some comment in his city by recon-
mending that medical inspection be
extended Mt cnce in the city schools.
Meredith Jones, head of the
Scranton Protective Association, has
started out on a campaign to get
first-hand information about every
mine cave In that municipality.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-20

Wonder If Kaiser Bill still thinks
the Americans can't fight. When one
American sergeant and a corporal can
round up and bring into camp 155
prisoners. it would seem to indicate
that there is some fighting ability
in the average Yank
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-20
Speaking of Mr.. Garfield

Speaking of Mr.. Garfield - as
some one occasionally does-E. w.
NJ. remarks that he can fuel all the
people some of the time, and some
of the people all of the time, but
and so forth-Pittsburgh Post.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-20
One of the Good Trusts

[From the Kansas City star.1
A Cherryvale refinery Is doing its
bit this month by offering free gaso-
line to persons hauling supplies to
the harvest fields.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-20
No Christian Significance

The Turks accused of sacking hos
pitals may accept the Iron Cross
without embarrassm ent.- Washing
ton Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-20
Ask the ProOfredder

Is beer approaching its bier?-
Troy Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-20
khaki -

Miss Frog (coyly): Suppose I re-
fuse you?
Mr.. Frog desperately: Then
there Is nothing left for me to do
but "croak."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-20

Man is not the creature of circum-
stances; circumstances are the cred-
lures of men.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-20

E.J. STACKPoLE,P PrsTs s. Editer-in-C Chisf
r. r. OYSTER. B.sinsJs MaHagr.
GUS NJ. STEINAIETZ, Masogi1g Editer.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-20

Published evenings except Sunday BY
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING Co..
telegraph Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-20
Poe;t;c4 in
Pe~~oqeSo~io
BY the Ex-Committeeman

William H. Irwin. so, former
member of the State Legislature and
Register and Recorder OF Blair coun-
ty, died at his Altoona home yester-
DAY afternoon after prolonged ILL
ness from a complication of diseases.
He served as Register and Recorder
for six years and later two terms in
the Legislature of 1905-1907 from
the Altoona district.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-20

That pillar of finance, the Harris
burg Bank, declares in a paid ad-
vertisement, a dividend of four per
cent. for six months, while Pro-
thonotary Obed! Fahnestock an
nounces two weeks of civil court
with about fifty cases, many of the
names being those of families which
are still prominent in the townships
of Dauphin county. John Fox, in a
legal advertisement, called upon
persons indebted to ain estate to pay
up and facilitate administration,
just as is done in our day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-20

A singular coincidence with af-
fairs which are uppermost in our
midst in this war is this resolution:
Resolved That the Committee on
Domestic Manufactures be directed
to inquire into the expediency of ex-
of peace, all such persons as are ac-
tually employed in manufacturing
establishments" In the debate sew
oral legislators opposed "exempting
one-third of the citizens from mill
tary duty and affording the agricul-
tural class good cause to ask, too,
for exemption.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-20

American
Newspa Pub
fishers Associa-
tion. the Audit
Bureau of Circu-'
lation and Penn
sylvania Assoc!-
ated Dailies.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-20

UHIoH CaHaI LOttery, I4th CLASS
Imagine Frank Sites, who is now
mobilizing our quarters for War
Stamps, advertising as postmaster a
lottery in which the capital prize
was $50,000 and which altogether
contained 1890 prizes and 23,100
blanks!
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-01-30

And smash the Kaiser's dream.
No 26.
Little savings stamps of green,
Saved by every one,
Make mighty war machine
and victory won.
Home Boys and Girls to
Get Additional Prize.
Hon. William R. Bowen, of the
Ben Hill Thrift campaign committee,
is offering an additional prize to the
boy or girl from the Ben Hill county
and Fitzgerald schools, who may Sc
cure one of these prizes offered by
Governor Dorsey. Write your jingle,
bring it or send it to the Leader-En-
terprise and we will print it in our
War Savings Jingle Column" and
have Postmaster Adams forward
your copy to the proper committee.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-01-30
AGRICULTURAL WORKERS
WILL MEET IN ATLANTA

Atlanta, Ga, Jan. 27-The nine
teenth annual meeting of the Asso-
citation of Southern Agricultural
Workers will begin here on Wednes-
day and continue for three days. Di-
rectors and field agents of agricul-
tural experiment stations in the South
as we'll as representatives of a num-
Der of Southern agricultural and me-
chanical colleges are among the dele
gates expected to address the con-
vention.
Field crops and fertilizers, animal
husbandry and live stock problems
are among the subjects to be dis
cussed, according to the program.
The officers of the association are:
w. R. Dodson, Baton Rouge, La;
president; c. c. Thach, Auburn, Ala,
vice president, and Dan T. Gray, Ra-
leigh, N. c., secretary.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-01-30
WAR RELIEF WORK OF THE
AMERICAN RED CROSS
UNDER WAY

Atlanta, Ga, Jan. 30-That war re-
lief work of the American Red Cross
is already under way in France is an
'nounced in Atlanta by the headquar-
tiers of the Southern Division of the
organization, which division en-
braces the states of Tennessee, North
Carolina South Carolina, Georgia
and Florida.
The American Red Cross has ap-
propriated $30,5l9,259, to carry on re-
lief work from the time of Americas
entrance into the war through the
month of April, 1918. Of this amount
$l4,Olo.88o is apportioned to military
relief. which: includes everything per-
tanning to hospitals and hospital sup
plies, tanteen service, and arrange
inents Tor the comfort and recreation
CT American soldiers while off duty.
For civilian relief, which includes
the aid being rendered to refugees,
care and prevention of tuberculosis,
care of children and re-education of
blinded and mutilated soldiers, the
Red Cross has appropriated 1885,
482.
The Red Cross is open to persons
desiring to become members
throughout the year. You can join
one day as we'll as another. Mem
bership costs you 81 year, or you
can pay more if you want to. In the
recent Christmas drive for 100000
lew members, the Southern Division
made a splendid showing, and local
chapters throughout the division are
Systematically continuing the can
vass for new members as part of
their permanent work.