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DEMAND MADE
FOR 'IRON FIST'
TO CURB I.W.W.
Northwest May Deal Harshly
With Agitators, Sen
ate Is Told
Washington, March 22.—Warnings
that the people of the Pacific North
west, tired of I. W. W. activities,
might take the law into their own
hands to suppress traitorous con
duct; charges that the government
itself had "coddled" the leaders, and
predictions that sabotage and other
hampering action to embarrass the
government's aircraft program ore
likely to break out in the spring and
summer, featured the Senate debate
yesterday on the administration's bill
to empower the government to com
mandeer timber and conduct logging
operations.
The debate flared up so suddenly
and lasted so long that time allotted
For Constipation! Physic
Purge or Laxative? =,
! •
! now and then becomes constipated, and
mill-ins are ciirooicajly in that condition. Ilie perplexing
question tir'es —vi.it to ur.
Purgatives and cctjiertics are drastic and usually cause
a reaction. Saline waiters are rapid in action but do no moio
than empty the bowels.
Just as certain an effect; and certainly a much more
pleasant one; can be obtained by the use of a combination of
simple laxative herbe with pepsin sold by druggists under the
name of Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. It acta gently, without
griping. It is an especially ideal medicine for children,
women, old people and others who find purges too powerful. <*
Only a teaspoonful is required; and by morning the move
ment is free and complete. A bottle in the house is insurance
for the whole family against constipation, indigestion, head
aches, flatulency and other digestive ills.
The druggist will refund your money if it faila
to do aa promised.
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cot due to the War
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FRIDAY EVENI.VG,
for considering the bill was used up,
and Senator Chamberlain, chairman
of the Military Committee, let it go
over for action later.
Senators were not sparing in their
declarations that the government
should act swiftly and drastically to
meet what they characterized as a
menace to the people. Senator Cham
berlain particularly declared it might
be necessary to send troops into the
spruce forests to protect workers
getting out the precious timbers for
the airplanes.
"Not until men with guns are sent
In can we get the necessary spruce,"
he said. "The X. W. W. will not al
low men to work in the forests."
Senator Borah, of Idaho, declared
the government could deal adequate
ly with the I. W. W. without resort
to force and by orderly lawful ac
tion.
Mississippi "Bone Dry"
Law Is Finally Passed
Jackson, Miss., March 22.J—The low
er house of the Mississippi Legisla
ture has passed the "bone dry" pro
hibition bill. The bill - already has
passed the Senate and now gorfs to
the Governor for signature.
The measure repeals the present
piohibition laws with regard to the
receipt of a certain quantity of li
quor per month.
An Eight-Club Circuit
For Munition Makers;
"Pi" Way Is Organizer
"Pi" Way ,the ex-Giant pitcher
and noted Yale athlete is now em
ployed in the Welfare Department,
United States of America Explosives
Plant "C" Nitro, West Virginia.
When in full operation. 25,000 men
will be engaged in the construction
of the plant, out of which. Way will
organize a league composed of eight
ball teams and a regular schedule of
games will be played. There are a
number of men employed at Nitro,
in various capacities who have play
ed big league ball; Way win develop
many of the stars now in embryo
and it is expected that the cham
pionship team will render a fair ac
count with the American and Na
tional League teams that will visit
Nitro from time to time to give ex
hibition games.
The ball park will be complete in
every detail, having a seating capa
city of 10,000, together with two
club-houses thoroughly equipped.
There will be many other athletic
events under Way's direction, and
the employes are promised very in
teresting and highly exciting sport
ing entertainments.
May Run New Trolley Cars
Here Under Own Power
The freight embargo will not inter
fere with the delivery here of the
five new cars for the Harrisburg
Hallways Company if all of the neces
sary parts can be gotten tlirough to
Philadelphia. President Frank B.
Iftisser, of the Railways Company, litis
returned from Philadelphia where he
went in an effort to have work
hastened on the cars. He found that
the cars are nearing completion but
that some gears and motors are need
ed to finish them. Under ordinary
circumstances ears are shipped here
by freight and the motors are in
stalled here. Officials have now got
ten in touch with the West.inghousc
Company, in Pittsburgh, and made a
request (hat the motors be shipped
to Philadelphia instead of this city.
If the freight, embargo still holds
when the cars are completed, then
they will be run here under their
own power. They will be run from
Philadelphia to Pottstown and then
to Norristown, Heading, Ephrata,
Lebanon, Hershey and Hummelstown.
The new cars may be here within a
month.
Spanish Liner Held
Up by U-Boat and
Forced Back Home
By Associated Press
Cadiz, Spain, Thursday, March 21.
The Spanish trans-Atlantic liner
Montevideo, which sailed for New
York Monday, was held up by a Ger
man submarine Tuesday and forced
to return here. After tiring a warn
ing shot, the submarine came along
side the liner and made the captain
pvomise not to use the wireless. The
captain was then taken aboard the
submarine while German sailors
searched the Montevideo.
KARRISBURG CHfftt TELEGRAPH
CAPITAL CALM AS
FIRST NEWS COMES
[Continued from First Page.]
really is the forerunner of some
other movement.
There is a marked tendency among
American Army officers here not to
accept the present movement as the
real offensive until it is more fully
demonstrated.
Suspicious of Object
Despite announcement from Lon
don that the German war machine
is attacking on a wider front than
ever before attempted in the west,
there is a distinct feeling here that
the move may not prove more than a
gigantic deni9nstration to overawe
European neutrals or cloak some
other purpose.
American observers think the mil
itary situation in France is against
the probability of a real German of
fensive at this time. The views pre
vail that Germany now would hard
ly stake- the issue of the war on a
desperate drive against the all but
impregnable allied line in the west.
Reports from Holland that Ger
many semiofficially has made a peace
offer to the Entente, coming at the
same time as the attack, engaged
immediate attention. Although there
was nothing 'to confirm the reports,
it was pointe # d out that the threat of
German gun's may be for its effect
on the people of England and
France. Some see significance in the
fact that the drive follows closely
on the seizure of Dutch ships in
American and British waters.
Confidence in Allies
Supreme confidence is expressed
on every hand, however, in the allies'
ability to arrest the Germans even
should the attack now reported un
der way from I-a Fere to the Scarpe
prove to be the grand offensive.
Members of the House Military
Committee heard the first meager
details of yesterday's German at
tack as received by the War Depart
ment when they met to-day with the
War Council under the new policy
adopted by Actfng Secretary Crowell,
ot taking Congress into the confi
dence of the government. The mili
tary authorities pointed out to the
representatives that nothing had
come from the fighting front as yet
to indicate the scope of the German
n;o\ ement.
The committee members again
were informed in detail of the prog
ress made in all branches of Ameri
can war preparations. They appear
ed satisfied that every possible effort
is being made by the War Depart
ment to hasten the war program.
Members of the Senate Committee
will meet the War Council again to
morrow. Arrangements for joint ses
sions have not been completed.
Developments in the fighting were
awaited last night with a calmness
born of the assurance that the Brit
ish armies were braced for the blow
and that the western line cannot be
broken. It may be bent or crushed
here and there on local sectors, but
the Alli*>s know only too well the
fruitlessness of attempting a strate
gic break through the fixed posi-
tions stretching: northward from
Switzerland to the sea.
The Italian lines were brozen last
fall, but the positions in that the
ater of war are not to be compared
with those on the western front. The
massing of troops in the west has
been suck ever since the battle of
the Marne that all attempts to
make a breach that would throw the
war into open fighting have proved
of no avail. Several times in 1916
and 1917 the British felt they were
near the goal of open warfare. Sev
eral times the long idle British cav
alry was ready to gallop through
the broken lines in a dashing attack
on gun positions and enemy com
munications, but on every occasion
the difficulties of the long-fought -
over battlefields proved ,soo great to
be overcome. '*•
Believe Offensive Is On
There was a disposition and yet a
reluctance in army circles to believe
that yesterday's attack from Lagin
court to Gouzeacourt was really the
beginning of the much-discuased
German offensive. The War De
partment announced on Monday
tjbat was every reason to be
lieve the proposed offensive had been
abandoned, but the departmental re
view has taken such conflicting views
of the situation during the last two
months that its conclusions were re
garded more as the result of specu
lation than of known fact. It has
been expected, however, that the
main German assault would be pre
ceded by more of an artillery pre
paration than was suggested in the
meager dispatches that came
through from the battlefront yes
terday. More direct information was
wanted before any one would haz
ard a guess as to whether the attack
upon the British was to be the main
thrust of the German offensive or
whether it was a feint to draw all
possible mobile reserves in that di
rection so that the principal assault
might be delivered In an entirely
different sector.
Several reasons to doubt the at
tack south of Arras as the main arm
of any offensive the Germans ma>
have planned suggested themselves
to military critics. In the first place
it has been taken for granted that
the greatest drive would be directed
against the French, for the general
belief prevails that the French lines,
long drawn out, are not so heavily
held as the British. Secondly, the
strategists here have figured for a
long time that if the main trust was
to be against the British it would be
undertaken somewhere north of
Ypres in an attempt to carry out
the frustrated German plans of
1914, which contemplated the cap
ture of Calais and possibly Boulogne,
the ports through which most of the
stalwart British army has poured so
easily into France.
On the other hand, the attack be
tween Arras and St. Quentin was not
unexpected. As a matter of fact, the
British announced some time ago that
they had information leading them
to expect a blow in that sector. The
thing that puzzles is that the coun
try lying back of the front attacked
yesterday offers very poor compen
sation for the losses that must be
entailed in taking it. The British
had a purpose in attacking in the
Cambria sector last fall. The city of
Cambrai, lying a few miles behind
the German lines, was a prize worth
capturing. The German counterat
tack which drove the British back
to their original positions was a bril
liant stroke and easily understood.
But back of the British lines at
tacked yesterday lies a barren coun
try. Stretching before the plunging
Germans, blindly driven against the.
massed British guns, are the dead
battlefields of the Rcwnnie and the
devastated country laid waste during
the German retreat of just a year
ago. The thrust between Lagnioourt
and Gouzeaucourt, if carried home,
would lead the Germans in the di
rection of tho ruined city of Ba
paume which was the goal of the
British armies during the battle of
the Somme in 1916, when every inch
of ground was contested with a bit
terness that took an appalling toll of
German, French and British lives.
Bapaume was not taken by as
sault. It was occupied only when the
Germans abandoned it on St. Pat
rick's Day a year ago. The ghastly
story the German trenches flanking
this fleld Gibraltar told will never
be forgotten by those who had to
cross them in the wake of the re
treating enemy. They were long,
open graves, choked in places with
the piled-up dead of months of fight
ing. British artillery had never
ceased to pound the German posi
tions day and night. It Sjas easy to
see how the German troops had
been plagued by their own dead. The
incessant tire made decent burials
impossible.
It was apparent the German sol
diers would simply fling a fallen
comrade over the rear wall of the
forward trenches and there let him
lie until an exploding shell would
blow fragments of him- back upon
them.
The Germans In retreating from
Bapaume to the Hindenburg line,
stretching from Queant to St. Quen
tin. declared at the time that in de
stroying every bit of shelter In the
evacuated country they were pre
paring a battlefield for their own
operations in the future. Not a tree
was left standing that might screen
a squad of defending soldiers. Now
the Germans appear to be attempt
ing to make good their boast of con
ing back over this terrain, but what
a price they must pay for land so
freely yielded twelve short months
ago!
The report that Austro-Hungarian
guns were participating in the bom
bardments on the western front yes
terday was received with marked in
terest in Washington. This is the first
time that Austrian units have ap
peared in the west. The Austrian
military authorities have protested
often against the proposition that
they should lend aid to the Germans
in France and Flanders, but at last
they seem to have yielded to the
pressure that constantly has been
brought upon them. Whether Aus
trian infantry regiments are to par
ticipate in the German campaign re
mains to be seen. It is evident, how
ever, the Germans felt the need of
tho Austrian guns released from the
Russian front.
In view of the German attack yes
terday the report from Amsterdam
that Germany had ,- on foot" semi
official peace noKotiatlons with the
Entente was received here with
much skepticism. If Germany has
any peace ideas and hopes to force
them upon tlie Entente through a
display of military pressure, such as
that begun at dawn yesterday morn
ing, it was declared here last night
that its statesmen had shown re
newed ignorance of the psychology
of.the peoples with whom they are
dealing.
WOUK ON NKW CURVE '
Work on the construction of a curve
track at Cameron and Market streets,
was started this morning bv a force
of men employed by the Harrishurg
Hallways Company. When the curve
Is completed, special cars carrying
workmen from Hteelton morning und
evening and bound for the Hill dis
trict. will be run from Campion
street directly onto the eastbound
tracks In Market street, thus elimin
ating the necessity of running the
ears onto the westbound tracks and
then switching them back to the east,
bound line. The curve was recom
mended by r>im .1. Arnold, the Chi
cago traffic expert, who made a sur
vey here last summer.
TO HIKH ix COUNTRY
Members of the Harrlsburg Natural
History Society will leave Market
Square at 1 o'clock to-morrow after
noon for Hummelstown, where they
will start on a hike in the surround
ing country. The purpose of the
outing is to make a study of birds
of the county.
OK3ISTORE OPENS 8:30 A. M.—CLOSES SATURDAY AT 9:00 P. M.ESOj
| BOYS' SPRING CLOTHING j
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SCSI STORE OPENS 8:30 A. M.—CLOSES SATURDAY AT 9:00 P. M.BO
MARCH 22, 1918
MRS. BOYD TO SI'EAK
The fourth of a Series of lectures
on "Sidelights on Genesis" will •be
given by Mrs. John Y. Boyd at the
Boyd Memorial Building this evening
at 8 o'clock. The subject will be
"Abraham, Or the Spirit of Faith."
Use McNeil's Cold Tablets. Adv.
I>K. GRKGU TO LKAI)
Rev. Harris Gregg, w.-U-know ri
Biblical authority and lecturer, will
conduct the annual Bible institute
in Fahnestock Hall, it was announc
ed to-day. Dr. Gregg is a widely
known minister. The institute in
under the auspices of the Central
Y. M. C. A.