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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-08
Trying the Old Ideals

There is no new ideal imaginable
by the madness of modern sophists
which will be anything like so star
Ting as fulfilling any one of the old
ones. On the day that any copybook
maxim is carried out there will be
something like an earthquake on
the earth. There is only one new
thing that can be done under the
sun; and that is to look at the sun.
If you attempt it on a blue day in
June, you will know why men do
not look straight at their ideals.
There is only one really startling
thing to be done with the ideal. and
that is to do it. 1t is to face the
flaming logical fact, and its fright
terton.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-08
BONNIWELL PREDICTS
IPhiladelphia Press.

One is obliged to admit that
whatever faults Judge Bonniwell
may have, shrinking timidity is not
numbered among them. There has
been occasion to notice this before,
and now the Judge gives fresh proof
of it. In Pittsburgh the other day,
he gave utterance to the startling
statement: Il am satisfied Presi-
dent Wilson and the national admin
iGtration will support me for gov
ernor." The Judge may be satisfied
about it, but the chances are he
is about the only person in that
frame of mind.
The neatness and effectiveness of
Judge Bonniwelrs pronouncement
lies in the fact that there will be
nobody to dispute 1t. President
Wilson himself is not likely to. 1t
is hard to imagine him taking his
mind off war matters long enough
to say the Judge won't do as the
Democratic candidate for governor
CT Pennsylvania. Probably the
President has never heard of Judge
Bonniwell, unless there be indeed
truth in the tradition up Harris
burg and Stroudsburg way to the
effect that Vance Mccormick and
Mitchell Palmer sit out on the
White House steps every Sunday
night and talk things over with the
President. If the president has
heard of Judge Bonniwell in that
way. it is to be doubted that his
regard for the gubernatorial candi-
date would be distinguished for its
warmth and sympathy.
Nevertheless, Judge Bonniwell is
satisfied" He is to be congratu-
lated. So very few persons are sat-
isiied with anything nowadays.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-08
MUST BE ENFORCED

A this newspaper has previously
n said, there may be room for
difference of opinion as to the
twenty-four-mile speed limit set for
automobiles in Harrisburg, but the
regulation having been adopted, en-
forcement of the provisions of the
new ordinance is now the serious
consideration.
In the crowded sections twenty
four miles an hour is too fast. but
1t would be difficult to operate a car
at that speed on Market or any of
the downtown streets because of
traffic interference. so that disputed
point will, perhaps. take care of it,
self to a very large degree. But the
ordinance will fall fiat if it is not
more rigidly enforced than the old
traffic measure which it succeeds.
No matter how drastic a law may be
1t amounts to no more than scrap
of paper" if it is not vigorously en-
forced by a watchful and conscien-
tious police department.
Take, for example, the matter of
open cutouts on automobiles and
motorcycles and the parking of cars
en- crowded thoroughfares. Bith are
nuisances which the police can break
up under the ordinance, but these
things have been prohibited by law
for years and little or no attention
has been paid to them.
The motorcycle, in particular. has
been gross offender. The sleep of
thousands of working people has
been disturbed nightly by these noise
fends and the police department has
closed its ears to the racket. The old
twenty-four-mile limit has been
broken any time anybody desired to
break it and arrests for violations
have been few and far between.
Market street looks like Main street
in a rural community on market
day and nobody says the parking
automobile owners nay. All the ordi-
nances ever passed will not remedy
these conditions If the police are as
lax in their duty as they have. been
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-08
Let Others Sape, Too

tooth paste in paper and tie it with
string. Proprietary articles and
toilet articles in cartons are wrap
ped before being delivered.
"One-half the goods we buy from
department stores need not be wrap
ped.
What is the use of wrapping a
can of salmon, or even using a paper
sack, II one has an automobile in
which to deliver the parcel of can
ned goods?
Just run through your own mind
the amount of paper that is wasted
and then see how you can contrib
ute in stopping the waste; and while
we are on this, do not be ashamed
to carry home a small bundle of
goods If you purchase the same at
a department store or any other
store uptown.
do not feel that you will there
fore throw some delivery boy out
of job. There are more jobs in
this country than there are people,
and the jobs ara near home.
do not have your yard moved
twice a week, have it moved once
every two weeks.
Just sit down some day and an
alyze your twenty-four hours of
eating. sleeping, breathing and work
ing.
DO not begin this work in a hap
hazard way.
Take a pencil and piece of pa
per, but put down everything you
have done in the past twenty-foul
hours; see how much time you have
wasted and how much time you de.
voted to worthy things; then see
how much of this wasted energy you
can convert into a channel in e
small amount that will contribute tc
the winning of the war"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-08
lightning Trained" Yankees
[Phiiadelphia Record.

In the efforts of the Crown Prince
to drive out khe Americans, the
village of Sergy changed hands nine
times in twenty-four hours. Nothing
could give a more impressive idea
of the severity of the fight. But
the net result was that the Ameri-
cans hold Sergy and are further ad-
vanced to the north of the Ourcq
than they were when the Crown
Prince told them to go back to
the south side of the river. The
'lightning-trained" Americans natu-
rally struck like lightning. and they
routed the best troops in the Kaiser's
army with the bayonet
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-08
The Need For Nurses
(From the Pittsburgh Dispatch)

The rapid growth of our new
armies has compelled a correspond
ing increase in the provision for
army nurses, early estimates being
far below the present requirements.
The national campaign being con-
Quoted by the women's committee
of the Council of National Defense
for recruiting young women to en-
ter the training schools of the Army
Medical Department, is being press
ed locally with the cooperation of
the nursing service committee of
Pittsburgh Chapter of the Red
Cross. The plan is extremely prac-
teal, combining patriotic and hu-
name service with the opportunity
either to acquire a profession or in
struction that will much more than
repay the labor and time spent in OBJ
tanning it.
der the Army Medical Department,
has provided branch training quar-
ters in various military hospitals
throughout the country. Young
women between 81 and 35 are eligi-
BILE if physically fitted and with the
equivalent of a high school educa-
tion. They will be given credit for
whatever training they secure so
that should the war end before their
course and they wish to take up
nursing as a profession, they will be
entitled to recognition in civil hos
pital courses.
The double opportunity thus offer
ed of patriotic service and personal
advantage needs only to- be brought
to the attention to assure sufficient
applicants. The nursing service
committee of the Pittsburgh Chap
ter of the Red Cross will welcome
inquiries from the young women OF
the Pittsburgh district who have
so zealously assisted in all move
ments for the care and comfort OF
our boys across the seas.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-08

VTY HILE great numbers of peo-
w pie have been recommending
various economies in the
matter of newsprint paper con-
sumption, the newspapers have not
others could help in the conserva-
ton of paper and paper material in
general.
The Memphis Commercial
however, has seen fit to touch upon
this important subject in a manner
that may inspire others to discuss
it, as follows:
Our soft-bosom shirts came. home
the other day from the laundry
with a big piece of cardboard stuck
under the bosom of every one of
them and with a paper band
around the middle. The shirts and
collars also were placed in a large
box. The box might have been taken
back by the laundryman, but it is
now helping other boxes to clutter
up the room.
The law requires tariff sheets to
be publicly displayed in every rail-
road station. Hundreds of thousands
of tons of paper have been used in
the last five years in printing tariff
sheets.
There are not fifty men in Mem
phis, outside of the traffic men and
heads of shipping departments of
the larger houses, who from a tar
iff sheet can find the amount OF
freight on a box of household goods
from Memphis to Dover, or from
Memphis to Mobile, after an hours
search. The average railroad tariff
sheet is so intricate that tariff
clerks only become expert after sew
eral years hard work and only in
telligible after several months hard
work.
THE druggists wrap a bottle o
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-08
Punishment For Spies
kansas City Star. ]


A German arrested in New Jer-
sey had a wireless outfit on his farm
and is suspected of communicating
with submarines. The offense, If
proved, is of the gravest sort. 1t
would be perfectly possible for a
message to be sent by wireless that
would result in the death of hun
dreds of persons.
If the Government has the evil
dcnce the man ought to be put to
death. There is no doubt the Ger
mans regard our humanitarian with
derision. The Earl of Denbigh Is
quoted in the Atlantic Monthly as
repeating to the House of Lords a
statement from the German ex-
chancellor. Prince Hohenlohe; Your
people think we admire you with
your principles of humanity. We
don't. We think you are a lot of
damned FOOLS"
The shooting of a few German
spies in America would be a salu-
tary warning to people who regard
mercy as a sign of contemplate
weakness.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-08
PRESCIENCE
By BRIGGS

The new moon hung in the sky,
The sun was low in the west,
And my betrothed and /
In the church yard paused to
Happy maiden and lover,
Dreaming the old dream
over:
The light winds wandered by,
The robins c4lirped from the
nest.
And 10! in the meadow-sweet
Was the grave of little child,
With crumbling stone at the
feet.
And the ivy running wild
Tangled ivy and clover
Folding it over and over:
Close to my sweetheart's feet
Was the little mound up-piled.
Stricken with nameless fears,
She shrank and clung to me,
And her eyes were filled with
tears
For a sorrow I did not see. &.
Lightly the winds were
blowing,
Softly her tears were flow
Tears for the unknown years
And a sorrow that was to be!
Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-08

In view of all the praise that has
been given in the last few years to
Government-owned telegraph systems
in foreign countries, whose superior
service and incredibly low rates won
so much commendation among Ameri-
can advocates of Government owner
ship. we shall await with impatience
the orders of the new Director of Tele-
graphs lowering the charges for wire
service and improving the service
given. Let's see what the new rates
look like.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-08
Newspaper Curtdilment
(From the New York Times

(trom the New York TlmeS)
Why should the War Industries
Board attempt to dictate to the
newspapers how they should reduce
their size, the class of matter they
must omit in order to reduce their
consumption of white paper to meet
the Government requirement? The
end sought, we understand it. is to
cut down white paper consumption
in order that overburdened railroads
may have some relief. Would not
that end have been attained had
the order gone forth that tonnage
consumed must be reduced by 15
per cent. or 20 per cent, or what
ever the requirement might be,
leaving each newspaper to deter
mine in its own way how the saving
should be accomplished? We are
sure that the ends of impartial JUS
tice and the interests alike of the
public and the newspapers would
have been better served by such an
order than by the regulations just
issued by the Pulp and Paper sec
ton of the Board.
The board has gone too far in
ruling that during the war no news
paper shall be established" The
Government has no such power, not
even under the utmost stretching of
authority in time of war. Every
citizen, subject to his responsible
ties under the law, has the constitu-
tional right to speak his mind,
through newspaper or otherwise.
in time of war or peace. 1t is rea-
, sonably certain that. the establish
ment of a newspaper in these times
would be a business imprudence; no
new publications are Vikely to be put
forth. The War Industries Board
might with perfect security have
left that matter to take care of itself.
There has been quite enough of
stretching and expansion of law un-
der the excuse of war necessity. The
Constitution as II is written confers
all needed power. II will be better
not to meddle with its safeguards.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-08
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

-Ex- Governor John K. Tener will
devote his time to his highway con-
struction enterprises, it is under
stood by friends here.
DIR. Richard H. Harte. Philadel-
phia physician well known here, has
been promoted to be a lieutenant
colonel in the medical service.
jay Cooke, Philadelphia food
administrator, had some doubt about
the ice supply in that city. and went
out and personally Investigated it.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-08
ODereStimdted Gold Brick

LChristian Science Monitor.J
Just casual glance over the ac-
counts now. being printed regarding
the monSSl which Germany spent so
lavishly on propaganda in the Unit
ed States, before the latter country
entered the war and ,afterward.
proves beyond, question that her
wonderful educational system, about
which the world heard so much for
merly and for so many years, failed
to enlighten those of her officials
and representatives intrusted with
the handling of her funds as to the
value of the American gold brick.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-08

DR. ERNEST V. CLAYPOOL, the
head of the Harrisburg district
of the Anti-Saloon League, in
a summer message to the league,
says:
The fight for the Governorship
now looks like a sharply-drawn
battle between Senator Sproul, as
candidate pledged to assist in
securing ratification of national
prohibition. and Judge. Eugene
Bonniwell. as an unqualified wet
instrument of the liquor people.
In this condition 1t seems that the
support of Senator Sproul for
Governor is the necessary attitude
OF every dry voter.
This is the only attitude for an
friends of prohibition in Pennsylva-
MIA to take. Too often in previous
campaigns the temperance forces
have been divided and as a result of
:hese tactics victory has been
matched from them when they
should have won. OF course, Sen
ltor Sproul is the only logical can
iidate for those who favor the ratifi-
.ation of the prohibition amend
nent. He believes. with other strong
men, that this question should be
eliminated for all times as a political
question.
1t would be a good thing, also, for
he Republican State Committee to
accept the gage of battle as thrown
iown by Judge Bonniwell and his
supporters to the end that the issue
nay be squarely met at the polls in
November. A platform committee
having been appointed by the State
Committee the Republican campaign
would be given a great impetus in
he Fall by an out-and-out declara-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-08
A War Industry
Fourth Estate.1

Newspaper making is war in
dustry-in time of war. The news
papers will bear their share of the
war burdens in the same spirit in
which they perform their share of
war service. The Government and
the Congress must see to it that
these burdens are not inequitable-
that is all that publishers demand.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-08
BATHING FACILITIES

" lE Park Department, under
the active direction of Assistant
Superintendent V. Grant For
rer, is doing everything possible to
give the people of Harrisburg facili-
ties for bathing in the river during
the heated period through which we
are passing, but under very discour-
aging circumstances. Council should
recognize this feature of summer
life in Harrisburg with a substantial
appropriation. The need is appar-
ent and should be met The candi-
date for council who makes bathing
facilities a plank in his platform
will have thousands of supporters.
The conditions under which men
and women use the river are unin-
viting, but hundreds overlook the
and go into the water nightly. Lock-
er facilities intended for less than
100 people are used by 1900. This
is bad from many viewpoints. Bath
ers who do not care to use these
overcrowded quarters must go to and
from their homes in their bathing
suits, which is embarrassing and un-
comfortable, particularly the return
trip in water-soaked clothing.
The city provides Fairgrounds for
the children, baseball and football
fields, tennis and basketball courts,
golf in the summer and skating in
the winter; all kinds of sports. in
short, except bathing. the most pop
ular of all Bathing requires little
leisure and no equipment. A bath
ing suit made from cast-off clothing
will serve quite as we'll as the most
costly costume. Bathing can be en-
joyed by old and young. rich and
poor, persons of leisure and those
who have time for recreation only
in the evenings, and whole families
could go into the water together, and
would if the proper facilities were
provided.
Harrisburg might have a river
front almost as attractive in hot
weather as a seashore beach. if the
city authorities would but open
their eyes to the possibilities and
provide the necessary funds. Nor
need the amount be very large.
Bathing floats. equipped to provide
showers, lockers and dressing rooms
could be built at small cost and the
only expense thereafter would be
that of operation. We are missing
a great opportunity not only to pro-
vide wholesome fun and exercise for
our people, but for advertising the
city as a desirable place in which
to live during the summer months.
If council set about it in the right
spirit the evening bathing period
could oe made a feature of warm
weather life in the city that would
make the lot of hundreds of per-
sons easier during periods of ex-
treme heat and attract many people
from nearby towns. The matter has
reached a stage where it demands
immediate attention. The next
budget should contain the necessary
appropriation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-08
No EHgibIeS
(From die Commonerl

(From the Commoner)
James Gordon Bennett left a large
part of his fortune to found a home
for newspaper men in New York.
One of the conditions of entrance is
that a man shall have worked ten
years on a New York newspaper.
No one has ever yet accomplished
that fact. but Mr.. Bennett evidently
believed 1t could be done.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-08

tion in favor Of the proposed amend
ment
In the statement issued by the
Anti-Saloon League for this district
1t is clearly set forth that no candi-
date will be opposed for any reason
except that he is wet
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-08

With the Republican protective
tariff policy restored in this country,
incomes on which the Federal Govern
n1ent must depend for tax sources to
pay postwar Indebtedness will be as
sured. To persist in free trade after
the. war would mean to dry up those
sources. impoverish the people and
ultimately result in a reputation OF
the national debt. You can't draw
blood from a stone.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-08
THE DUST

[From The Grass in the Pavement.
] am the dust, and creep and crawl
In at the window and over the wall;
over the pictures and over the books
And gather to rest in the unswept
hooks.
/ am part of all that has been,
Living or dead, the world within,
Dissolved by time and freed by rust
To a million million fragments of
dust
Dust of the monarch and dust of
his crown;
Dust of the cap and bells and the
clown;
Dust of the warrior and dust of his
sword,
And dust of all of the hosts of the
Lord.
Dust of the slayer and dust of the
slain,
Dissolved in the whirling void again;
Dust of the women who gave them
birth.
And dust of all living and dead of
the earth.
Out in the farest atmosphere
1 float and drift as I drift in here;
Shining in rays of the uttermost
stars
AS shine in the beams of the case
ment bars.
M. e. BUTLER.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-08
Must Take Their Medicine
(From the Detroit News

(From the Detroit News)
Among other demands made by
Germany on Holland is one for a
certain quantity of quinine, although
one would think the people of the
empire had enough bitter piiis to
swallow without importation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-08
The Sons of Noah

And the sons of Noah, that went
forth of the Ark, were Shem. and
Ham, and Japheth: and of them was
the whole earth overspread.-Gene-
sis ix, Is and 1871
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-08
Who's ItP

The Food Administration has an
nounced an increase of five cents per
hundred in the price of sugar. due to
increased transportation charges. We
are a little rusty on the technique of
bookkeeping, so will some expert ad-
wise us how this should be entered
on the ledger-debit McAdoo and
credit Hoover. or debit Hoover and
credit McAdoo. or debit them both?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-08
Breaches That Fail

(From the Brooklyn Times)
Since wool disappeared from Ger
many efficiency makes breeches out
OF propaganda
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-08
Won't Exactly Win the War

(From the Dallas News)
Our idea of a nonessential indus
try Is tracing the pedigree Of q dog.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-08
IF TT ONLY LASTS.

Hubby-For heavens sake, wha,
kind of rig is that?
Wifey (haughtily): That's q
muffier.
Hubby: Good. You should have
WORN one years age.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-08

The need always produces the
uvention."
Seems to me though the puncture
,roof tire is little slow in comma
long"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-08
DO YOU KNOW

THAT other cities are watch
ing what Harrisburg does in re-
gard to It's housing conditions?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-08

Fitch your t0dgon to a star" but
don't forget the drIe gredSe.-ANoN.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-08

Joseph N. Mackrell, for years
connected with newspaper work in
Pittsburgh, who was in the city
yesterday on a brief visit. says that
the movement of trucks and auto
mobiles of every sort over Pennsyl-
vania roads from factories to sea-
board is far and away greater than
anything of the kind ever known.
Mr.. Mackrell came over the Lincoln
Highway, after visiting various sec
tions of the state, and says he found
truck trains and machines in almost
continuous procession.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-08
HISTORIC HARRIsRIrRc

A year after John Harris an
nounced his plan of lots Front street
was lined for what are now blocks
with buildings
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-08
E. ]. STACKPOLE

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