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WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1918
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37 \e earth is the Lord's and the ful
ness thereof;
The world and they that dwell j
therein. Ps. 24:1.
A GOOD EXAMPLE
THE Knights of Columbus in.
State convention here yesterday, |
by crowding three days' busi- j
ness into one and doing away with j
the usual social functions, set a good j
example for other organizations, j
This is no time for frivolity and it is i
a time for concentration of effort, j
The Knights of Columbus have dis
played their patriotism in many ways;
since the war began. They have j
raised hundreds of thousands of dol
lars among their members for the
care of soldiers in the field and the
centers of social activities they have
established in the camps have been j
a relief to the crowded Y. M. C. A. |
"huts," as well as greatly extending;
the war work of which the associa-!
tion was the pioneer. The breadth
and spirit of their effort is to be
judged by the fact that their camp
centers aire not for members only,
but are open to all soldiers.
Lithuania, no doubt, will be happy
to hear that the Kaiser has chosen
hr to bear part of Germany's war
burdens.
WHAT THE BRIDGE NEEDS
THE Mulberry street bridge is as ;
good as when it was built, ex-!
pert engineers who have in-j
spected it say. That was to have
ibeen expected. It would have been
a great disappointment if any de
fects of construction had been found ,
in the handsome structure. But with
all its strength and beauty the bridge j
needs some attention. A curb twelve
to sixteen inches high at least should i
be built between the roadways and
the sidewalks. Several fatalities have
occurred because of the failure of
the designers to provide this form of
protection and at its earliest oppor
tunity council should furnish money I
for the improvement. This fault has I
been pointed out so repeatedly that
some day the city will be saddled
with a suit for heavy damages if It
is not corrected.
i
Lots of color in last evening's meet
ing—the Blue Devils working for the i
Red Cross to give a black eye to the I
Kaiser.
PEDESTAL FOR P. M. G.
THE espionage bill having passed
let us recall that declaration' of
the repudiated Patron Saint of
the Democratic party, whose political
teachings, apparently, have become
heresies in these <tnys of the "New
Freedom's" enlightenment: "Error!
of opinion may be tolerated where
reason is left free to combat it." j
(Thomas Jefferson's Inaugural Ad-!
dress). With the passage of the'
espionage bill, the pedestal of Lib-1
erty has been reserved for Postmas
ter General Burleson, and the torch'
of enlightenment has given way to j
the spiked club.
Those Harrisburg high school boys
who went off the other day to join
the Boys' Working Reserve will come
home stronger, better and richer—
which is a pretty fair return for a
patriotic service.
BISHOP BERRY'S JOLT
IF there is one weakness in the 1
campaign for the ratification of
the proposed constitutional 1
amendment prohibiting the manu
facture and sale of intoxicating j
rJsuorß, it is the see-sawing and lack
of co-operation on the part of assa-i
ciations and individuals who ought!
to stand together as a solid unit in
favor of the amendment. Many of
the leaders of these various organi
zations are responsible for these con
ditions. They are the blind leading
the blind.
Notwithstanding the oft-repeated
injunction against a misdirected
campaign, these are still foolishly
advising their followers on the gu
bernatorial Issue—which has noth
ing whatever to do with the fight for
prohibition, inasmuch as all the can
didates have declared in favor of
the amendment—instead of concen
trating their efforts on the election
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WEDNESDAY EVENING, HARRJSBURG tifuMfrl TELEGRAPH MAY 15, 1918.
of members of the Senate and Housej
pledged to the support of the amend-j
ment. I
Bishop Berry, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, who is foremost
in the leadership movement for the
election of dry candidates for the
Legislature, realizes the danger of
wasting ammunition. In a recent
speech he said:
The sober citizens of Pennsyl-
vania have their opportunity now.
Public sentiment is overwhelm
ingly with them. They have the
votes. They can elect a sufficient
number of Senators and Assem
blymen to give John Barleycorn
his deathblow. But it cannot be
done if we persist in waging war
among ourselves. The chances
now are .that we are about to
throw away the most strategic
opportunity which has ever come
to our Keystone State by miser
able little factional bickerings
that are wholly unworthy ot
Americans and Christians.
The eloquent Bishop has a clear
conception of the situation. It is
regrettable that the busybodies who
are opening themselves to the sus
picion of being interested in prolong
ing the fight against the liquor traffic
by this bone-headed and arbitrary
course do not appear to see the dan
ger as presented by Bishop Berry.
He is quoted as having admitted
there is doubt that the "drys ' will
elect enough members to control the
Legislature and to have urged all in
terested in the fight against John
Barleycorn to disregard factional
lines and support Republican candi
dates pledged to the prohibition
amendment, regardless whether they
are Penrose or Vare men. He point
ed out it was no time for the old
personal fued between leaders and
declared Pennsylvania would not
elect a Legislature that will ratify the
prohibition amendment unless "a lot
of citizens who believe that the rum
power should be dethroned, shall
rise above the petty partisanship
which seems now to sway them.
"Our one paramount objective," he
continued, "is to get a dry Legisla
ture. We must get that Legislature
from the Republican party."
Bishop Berry did not mince words
In advising against the waste of ef
forts through factionalism. "Why
allow ourselves to be so small," said
he, "when a great economic and
moral issue is trembling in the bal
ance? How can men claim to bo
patriotic in these tremendous days
and fail to recognize the fact that
rum is the arch enemy of our man
power, our industrial efficiency and
our nation-wide program of war pre
parations? Why cannot the good
citizens of Pennsylvania be large
enough just once to forget the little
bickerings of political bosses and
stand unitedly for men and meas
ures representing the highest pa
triotism?"
Next Tuesday the voters of Penn
sylvania will go to the polls and
nominate candidates of the several
parties for governor and other im
portant offices. Those who favor
the ratification of the prohibition
amendment will endeavor, If they
are really in earnest, to nominate
men favorable to the amendment. Of
course, there will be busy little men
who will continue to muddle the
situation by talking about this or
that candidate for governor who fa
vors the issue, when they should
know that all of the prominent can
didates for governor who have any
hope of nomination, have already
pledged themselves to favor the
amendment. This in face of the fact
that the next governor will have
nothing whatever to do with the
amendment —not even to approve or
disapprove it. The whole matter
rests with the Legislature, which
must either reject or ratify, and that
is all there is to it.
American shipyards having turned
out eight steel ships in seven days.
Admiral Sims knows whereof he
speaks when he says the U-boat peril
is on the wane.
HOPE DEFERRED
THE new German electoral re
form bill is one which keeps the
word of promise to the ear while
breaking it to the heart.
Manhood suffrage is nominally
proposed in the measure which the
Kaiser's ministers are trying to push
through the Reichstag, but as a mat
ter of fact it is so hedged about with
provisos that the Junker element
will be able ,to retain substantially
all of the advantage which they have
through the existing system of plural
voting. The one thing which all stu
dents of German politics know is
that genuine electoral reform in the
Empire means the overthrow of all
the tendencies in the government
which led to this war.
The present ruling group know
this better than anyone else; ani
they will delay and falter to the last
minute. They will seek, as in the
present instance, to make use of
half-way measures. But at the last
they must succumb.
The one sure thing in all the nel
ter in which Germany now finds it
self is that a new Germany will one
day be born.
The death of James Gordon Bennett,
proprietor of the New Tork Herald,
leaves only Colonel Henry Watterson
of the old school of editors, whose
names were linked closely with the
newspapers they edited, and here's
hoping the Colonel may have many
more birthdays.
OUTLAWING OUTLAWS
THE Senate having passed a bill
for the suppression of the I.
W. W., it is to be hoped the
House will do likewise and the Pres
ident lose no time In signing the
measure.
The bill outlaws a parcel of scoun
drels who have conspired for the
ruin of the nation. They are op
posed to all law except their own
wills, and wherever they have been
active they have left a trail of ruin
and blood. They are the enemies
of everybody, even themselves, and
they must be eliminated even If the
only way should prove to be the
nooae or tha tiring squad.
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By the Kx-Committee man j|
—The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times
has completed a poll of candidates
for Senatorial anil legislative nom
inations in Western Pennsylvania in
which 105 of 119 men addressed
pledge themselves to vote for the
prohibition amendment if nominat
ed and elected, seven candidates are
against it and seven are evasive.
Ninety-five aspirants refused to make
answers. The newspaper says:
"There were 214 inquiries sent out,
2t> going to the candidates of 12 Sen
atorial districts and 188 to candidates
running in representative districts
which will this fall elect 78 members
of the House. With the exception of
Greene county and Senator W. W.
Hindmap ,of Clarion, the letters were
addressed to candidates who are
seeking Republican nominations in
the primaries of May 21. There are
no Republican representative candi
dates in Greene county and Senator
Hiodman was included in the list
because the Twenty-sixth district has
been Democratic for many years.
Tne two Republicans from the dis
trict, as well as Mr. Hindman, have
declared in favor of the amendment."
—The way Congressman A. G. De
walt is tearing up the sod in the
Berks-Lehigh district is worth no
ting. Mr. Dewalt i 3 not paying much
attention to Charles B. Spatz, the
Boyei'town sage, as a rival for the
Democratic nomination, but he is at
tacking W. M. Croll, the Palmer-Mc-
Cormick machine boss, who was
forced to resign a presidential office
to enter politics. Dewalt's friends say
that he is going to "trim" Croll, who
is worried over the strenuous char
acter of the Sight he has been forced
to make.
—Judge William D. Porter, of the
j Pennsylvania Supeiior Court, be
comes unopposed candidate for that
tribunal by ihe withdrawal of
Stephen H. Huselton. of Pittsburgh,
last night. Judge Porter was en
dorsed for renomination and re
election by the bars of almost every
county of the state and there was
a genera'ly-expressed hope '.hat the
re-elec'iot. of a juris*, of the type of
the Pittsburgher would not be
dragged into a contest. There are
similar hopes now being heard re
garding the election of tw6 Supreme
Court just'ees this fall.
Governor 3iumbaugh left last
night for Pittsburgh, where he will
appear with Highway Commissioner
O'N'eil in a final appeal to the Re
publicans of that end of tne state
lor Mr. O'Neil's nomination, and to
morrow will speak with him at
Reading. There is general curiosity
to see if John R. K. Scott speaks
with O'Neil to any extent the re
mainder of the campaign. Before
leaving, the Goveinor again declined
to discuss the Supreme Coutt va
cancies or his probable course, but
it is known that he is indignant at
the action of the court in adjourning
until he makes appointments, and
his friends are chagrined at the re
fusal of the court to come here for
the usual May session when the
Governor had issued invitations for
a dinner.
There is much talk about the va
cancies and it is believed that if
the Governor's faction loses at the
primary that he will name men
whom he bel ; eves can he elected in
November without a contest. Other
wise he may name men who will be
carried along by an O'Neil wave.
—Mr. Huselton's action was con
tained in the following letter:
"To the Voters of Pennsylvania:
"This is to advise you that to be
consistent with the laws regulating
nonpartisan nominations as well as
custom, it is not my desire to fur
ther contest for supremacy at the
May primaries. 1918, for the office
of Judge of the Superior Court. ,
(Signed)
"STEPHEN H. HUSELTON."
—The retirement of Mr. Huselton
doeg not relieve the situation as to
that office in respect to tne names
on the ballot, says the Philadelphia
Inquirer. The last day to officially
withdiaw having passed, under the
law. Mr. Huselton's name must still
appear upon the nonpartisan ballot,
with the result that many, no doubt,
will mistakenly vote for him, as
though he had not withdrawn. In a
statement issued by the Judge Por
ter's headquarters here, the friends
of Judge Porter are especially urged
to be active in securing fo" him as
ir.rge a vote as possible, so a3 to
avoid any doubt as to the result
They hope to have him receive
enough votes at the primaries to
insure his election.
—Senator William C. Sproul, who
toured Lebanon county yesterday
afternoon and last night, was well
satisfied with the prospects and the
welcome be received. The Senator
met '.be workers and there are pie
dictious that he will casry
in spue of the Weimer candidacy
utid the activity of the staie admin
istration. Senator Beidleman was
in Lackawanna county after a day
in the Hacleton district and found
that section of the state entnusiastic
for him m spite of Scott activities.
—Mr. O'Neil was in Fayette coun
ty, where he addressed some meet
ings and indulged in some predic
tions. while John R. K. Scott con
tinued tl\e output of his publicity
mill.
—The gubernatorial situation was
summed up last r.ight in Philadel
phia by Congressman B. K. Focht.
Sproul and Beidleman will be nomi
nited for governor and lieutenant
governor respectively by majorities
ranging from 150,000 to 200,000, was
Mr. Focht's prediction. Whiie deeply
engrossed as the consequence of war
business. continued Congressman
Focht, the people are fully alive to
the importance of the nomlnatioii
of candidates for governor and lieu
tenant governor whose experience
and broad-mindedness will ade
quately Supply the demand which
will fall upon them lo their respec
tive positions. As the primary elec
tion day approaches. I find evidence
of rapid crystallization of sentiment
strongly favoring the candidacies of
Sproul and Beidleman.
—Gifford Pinchot, who is making
O'Neil speeches rays that O'Neil will
go to Philadelphia with a majority
and that if he only breaks even in
that city he will be nominated. He
says that Sproul will not carry Phil
adelphia.
—More Vare ward leaders have
come out for Sproul and there are
signs that men active in politics in
that city are getting ready to line up
for the Delaware man.
—Congressman Stephen G. Porter
has sued a Pittsburgh minister vf.no
attacked his loyalty. Porter is fac
ing a strenuous contest for renomina
tion.
—The Fifth ward cases in Phila
delphia will he tried in West Chester
in August. Meanwhile the battle for
local strategic advantages in Phila
delphia is going merrily on.
Sad and Solemn Fact
So far our air program seems to
have been of the hot variety.—
Brooklyn Eagle.
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They are telling the story of an
old negro named Zeno, who lost his
savings in a bank failure, "The fust
bank that evah busted right squah
in mah face." The receiver an
nounced that depositors would be
paid in alphabetical order, but the
money gave out before Zena was
reached. Not entirely disheartened
he started an account in another
bank some months later. "Alright,
Zeno, we'll be glad to open <m ac
count with you," welcomed the
cashier. "Zeno nuthin'" was the
protest. "Mah name aint Zeno no
moh; mah name's Aaron."
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A north county paper has a society
reporter who must be popular. Of
a recent wedding he says: "The
bride and groom, presented a regal
spectacle, never equaled since the
proud Cleopatra sailed down the
perfumed, lotus-bearing Nile. To de
scribe the bride's costume beggars
the English language and imagina
tion falls faint and feeble before
the Herculean task."
Out in Colorado they make it
worth while for a man to enlist by
giving him a thoroughbred cow and
calf, and a wealthy rancher has
agreed to care for the animals until
the soldier owner returns.
The Blair county committee of
public s;tfety has gone on record as
opposed to the teaching of German
in the High schools of the county.
One Stump Speech Too Many
[From the New York World]
When Speaker Clark In his speech
at Fort Wayne appealed for the elec
tion of a Democratic Congress next
November, he d'd what he could vo
make party the foremost issue of the
campaign. Ke did this, furthermore,
in face o! his own statement that
"ln the House there has been little
evidence of part'san politics since
the beginning of the war. Democrats,
Republicans and independents fra
ternize so thoroughly on war meas
ures that strangers sitting in the gal
lery find it difficult to distinguish be
tween them."
Having testified in this way to the j
harmony existing in the present
House of Representatives, in which
the two great parties are so evenly
balanced as to offer the greatest
temptation to political manipulation,
Mr. Clark seems to have given the
best possible refutation of his own
argument, but it is to be feared,
nevertheless, that his challenge will
be only too readily accepted on both
sides of the party line. In that c#se
the distinguished Democrat who j
points out the evils of discord and the !
vital importance in war-time of j
teamwork can hardly escape respon-!
sibility for promoting the one and j
endangering the other.
So far as the mighty task now con- I
fronting the people of the United j
States is concerned, it matters little |
what political label a
Congress may wear if there are no
sinister streaks in his Americanism.
With a Congress made up of depend
able men, party would conn*, for no
more in Washington tliah it does
when Oeneral Pershing's army is or
dered into action in France. Except
for a few mischiefmakers in both
Houses, that is the situation to-day,
end on no plea should it be disturb
ed unless for betterment.
Instead of asking the election of
Democrats and Republicans as such,
the only rivalry between candidates
should be in devotion to the cause
and the promise of helpfulness in
! the national.service. There are Dem
ocratic as well as Republican, mem
bers of the present Congress who
would make a poor showing in a [
competition of that kind, and every
one of them should be left at home. !
Aside from all such obstructionists
land selfseekers. who deserve the
fiercest wrath of their constituents,
| the leaders of both parties have no
higher duty than, by united action
in the few districts where pro-Ger
man and pacifist elements are pow
erful, to make impossible the elec
tion of a single representative of
those interests. If the Speaker's ad
vice is to be followed, there will be
no hope of such combinations, and
many a blatant partisan, perhaps
even some notorious public enemies,
will displace patriotic members.
Although Mr. Clark has fittingly
recognized the value of nonpartisan
ship. his program is thoroushiy and
shockingly partisan. There not
to be another stump speech like his
while the war is in progress.
Why German Drives Don't Alarm Us
THE optimistic tone of the
French and English papers in
the face of the terrific and at
first sight successful drives of the
Germans requires, say the American
correspondents at the front, some
explanation to be intelligible to
Americans at home. They tell us
that as long as the allied line holds
it does not matter, from a purely
military point of view, how far it
hends. It can even bend back into
Western France, Paris and the Chan
nel ports can be given up, and all
are agreed that if at the end of
these tremendous and costly opera
tions the Germans are still faced by
an unbroken line, then they will
have suffered, in effect, a crushing
defeat. They tell us that the only
thing we have to fear during the
present operation is a break in the
line, for it is only through a break
that the Germans can obtain their
object. This object, we learn. Is not
the capture of Paris, nor the occu
pation of the Channel ports, but a
"military decision" which will end
the war. In fact, the Germans
themselves tell us auite frankly that
this is their aim, and incidentally
General Von Ardenne admits in the
Berliner Tageblatt that a speedy
decision is imperative, as the Ger
man soldiers in the trenches are at
last getting restive. He writes:
"The necessity for fighting it out
was absolute. The unbroken battle
•wtll of England," which had prom
ised France its own and America's
help for the attainment of unmeas
ured war- ends, compelled us to enter
upon a decisive bout against the
prolongers of the war. Peace is
only attainable if England is made
to feel the superiority of German
arms, and so sees that she cannot
conquer Germany. The sooner this
p;oof could be produced, the better.
Moreover, we were urged to this by
the impatience of our own army,
which rightly felt that we can see
i the road to peace only in a decision
i by arms."
The Frankfurter Zeltung, too, in
sists that, the Germans must break
through if they wish to claim any
complete success. It points out that
no decision can ever be arrived at in
trench warfare, and one side or the
other must be forced into open bat
tle before the final and victorious
thrust can be given. It says:
"Hindenburg and Ludendorff are I
now epgaged in breaking the chains
to open up an area of operations for
open warfare. Not by alerrific on
slaught for months on end and of
an army of millions against the steel
wall of the enemy, not in a long j
and searching battle in which the
strength of the enemy is gradually
exhausted, but the decision is to be
sought in open fighting by the forces
released from trench operations.
"This of course presupposes a
local break-through.
"We all feel that this will be ob
tained, and that the real task of
German strategy will only begin at
the point which the enemy have oc
casionally reached but have never
succeeded in passing. . . .
"It Is not the attainment of this
or that sensational objective that
decides success or failtfre, or the
capture of some booty, but only the
destruction of the enemy's will to
fight."
How much chance they have of
that is clear when we turn to the
English papers, where we find a note
of cheery optimism pervading the en
tire press. Notwithstanding the re
treats before the Germans, complete
confidence reigns, and all are sure
that the allied armies will stand —to
use the words of the Germans—like
"a wall of steel." and that the much
hoped-for decision, whm it comes,
will be through a counter-attack by
i General Foch which will tear a gap
ing hole in an exhausted German
line. In an article entitled "What
the Germans Are After," the London
Daily Mail says:
"In the fresh blow which the
| Germans are now preparing with so
j much effort it Is safe to conclude
I that their aim is the same. It is
!to break through the allied line
I German strategy proceeds on com-
I monsense lines. It does not aim at
j the capture of towns, such as
I Amiens, except in so far as their
| capture may serve some further
I purpose. Its object is the destruc
| tion of the armed forces Of the
I enemy.
"The break-through has been dis
cussed very thoroughly by German
military writers, and especially by
the late Major Morahi. His conclu
sion Is that a break-through is very
difficult to effect against good-troops,
if these are backed by good material
und in anything like equal numbers.
"Now the allied troops in France
are certainly not Inferior to the
Germans in spirit and fighting pow
er. They are known to be about
equal in numbers, even now when
Russia has abandoned the fight and
the United States armies have not
arrived in any force. They are not
inferior in material, for there is
practically nothing to choose be
tween the allied and the German
artillery and equipment, though
here again the American Army has
not appeared on the field in any
force.
"One element Major Moraht omit
ted in his past studies—namely, the
air service. This is of great im
portance to-day. Here, before the
late battle, the allies were markedly
superior, despite the disastrous
strikes in the winter which affected
our program, as Mr. Lloyd George
stated some time ago. With the loss
of so many aerodromes, owing to the
distance the allies retreated, the
Germans have recovered some
ground. They are able to fly over
our lines, photograph, bomb, and
use the machine gun against our
men, much as we do, though we do
all this to a greater degree."
Even in unexpected circles the
quiet confidence of the nation is re
flected. For example, that brilliant
and normally pessimistic London
weekly, the Nation, which has many
a time during the war come out with
what its enemies have called "rank
pacifism," has these very lucid re>-
marks on the present series of Ger
man offensives:
"We can sea with perfect clear
ness that out of the struggle a fun
damentally changed situation will
emerge. It is ncc land or cities
which are the German objective,
but simply a decision; and either the
enemy will succeed in his immediate
military purpose or ho will be so
weakened that the end of the war
will he fina'ly sure. The plans cf
the military who urged and planned
Ibis offensive are ambitious enough.
Tliey set for each day's advance a
depth of penetration which would
have entailed such enormous losses
that, in fact, the German infantry,
.n spite of their extraordinary num
bers. courage and persistence, were
unable to achieve it. The staff
knew how terribie would be the
price of any appreciable advance in
the present stage of defensive war
fare. But minds like there are lit
tle troubled with scruples. They
must, however, be liberally burdened
with apprehensions. If they should
not secure a decision, if they should
not wreck our 'means of continuing
the war,' the very plans which
should have brought them success
will prove their ruin. Thev will not
abandon the hope of a decision while
they still possess any mass of re
serves. They will throw into the
struggle all the men they can dis
pose of; but in the end, failing vio
tory, they will have shot their bolt."
So confident are some of the ob
servers that they believe that this
series °f offensives is Germany's
last throw, and that one craKhinir
counter-offensive by General Foch
will mean the end of things, and
that peace, a victorious allied peace,
is now in sight. For example, the
i.ondon Morning Post draws atten
h. or t 1° the significant statement
offensives are confessedly
.i®^t' 3e < ba ' f,e " and that the
A,l-Highest has &'aked It's dynasty
upon the result. The,efo?e, a.rgues
the Post, the Kaiser will g0 on until
h>s moil aie completely exhausted,
when they wi'l fa.,] an easy prey to
counter-attack. It says:
failure does not mean simply as
you were. It means luin. And par
ticularly does it mean the disappear
ance of tns HohenvoUetoH. That the
German Emperor and his gene.als
now clearly pe>ce!ve that they may
be defeated ts obvious. Pen:e the
Kaiser s battle,' and a reckless de
teminatlon to win it unexampled in
history. It is somet.'mes glibly re
peated that Germany 'mus' have
peace.' What Germany, which is
the German Emperor and his army,
must have Is victory. For If they
do not win they may, from the
dynastic point of view, as well per
ish in the endeavor. And that '.s
exactly what Is "happening. Tha
dynasty is -lesperato and the Ger
man Emperor is per;°sctly prepared
to sacriPce. and will sacrifice, his
entire army in the las>t effort to
achieve victory in 'his' battle." •
Much the same point of view is
taken by the military critic of the
Zuricher Post, one of the Swiss pa
pers which has been up to the pres
ent consistently pro-German. He
considers that after the failure of
the first two attacks. General Foch
is in a position where he can choose
his own time to strike:
"The German attackers are un
able to hinder the carefully planned
deployment of enemy reserves. The
first two violent attacks of the Gert
man army in the west have exhaust
jed themselves, and their continu
ance on the present lines demands
immense sacrifices.
"General Foch can repeat his
famous counter-offensive with great
er forces, but might just, as well wait
the new attacks. General Foch
will employ his reserves when a
particular campaign has begun
against one or both of the entente
armies."—From the Literary Digest.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ]
TEACHERS' SALARIES
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
We are hearing a great deal, and
properly so. about "making the world
safe for democracy," and in that
task we each must take a proper
■ share if we wish to be worthy sons
of our sires. But there is anpther
and equally la r se task looming up
in the near future and that is "to
make democracy safe for the world."
The bulwark of democracy, and our
free institutions, is our public school
system. Without schools democracy
would be a dire failure. Without
good schools the same would be true.
vVithout good teachers we cannot
have good schools.
If the teachers' salaries are not
raised commensurately with the in
creased cost of living, we will lose
: the best of our teachers. That can
not be a matter tor argument. Men
and women with the training of our
public school teachers can get em
ployment now, without trouble, at
decidedly increased salaries as com
pared with those which they are now
getting. In many cases nothing but
loyalty to their profession and their
work is holding them in their posi
tions. At such a time as this we can
not risk weakening our public school
system and the necessity of prevent
ing such weakening, by the loss of
high class teachers because of low
I salaries, is evident. Teachers' salaries
j ought to be raised to meet the in
creased cost of living.
As I have said before we cannot
I have good schools without good
teachers and we cannot keep good
teachers if they are not well paid. I
am writing this for the ( eachers as a
profession, for whom and for which,
I have the highest esteem and re
gard.
Signed,
(DK.) C. R. PHILLIPS.
In Mass Formation
We've never had time yet to go up
and ask that eminent biologist at
Ohio S'a'.e University how often un
der natural laws neighbors' cats are
supposed to have kittens and can
only say in a. general way that they
spem to be coming In mass forma
tion.—Ohio Sta'e Journal.
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Men connected with the state AJM*
township maintenance forces declare
'that it is a greater effort to get the
roads which radiate from the State
Capital like the spokes of a wheel
put into good shape this year than
ever known bfore. Repairmen are
at work on the highways in Dauphin
county, but not much progress has
been made either by state or town
ship authorities because of the
scarcity of materials, the difficulties
of transportation and the lack of
labor. The same condition prevails
in Cumberland and Perry counties
and old men and youths hardly
| more than boys can get jobs on the
roads where a year ago only the
most able-bodied men could land.
Naturally the progress made has not
been startling and there are places
on roads which show that the men
have not reached that section. In
some sections of the county it is not
difficult to obtain teams to haul
stone, but in the Harrisburg dis
trict with all of the military con
struction under way trucks and
wagohs are as hard to get as stone.
The roads to the two big military
operations are In poor condition, in
townships as well as boroughs. Tt
commences to look as though the
maintenance was going to be an
arduous task this year. Many of
the roads were subjected to unusual
strain during the winter by trucks
and the effort to relieve railroad
transportation and the damage done
by such vehicles In addition to the
effec's of winter will combine to
moke the repairs not only extensive,
but cojjtly.
It is interesting to recall that the
lust French soldiers here was about
225 years ago. English were by no
means the first white men the
banks of the Susquehanna. Years
before John Harris ever saw thu
ford where he later established his
ferry and dreamed of a city there
were French traders in this section
and more than cnce French soldiers
moved up and down the river to the
great annoyance of the English at
Upland and Philadelphia. One of the
most noted French traders, Peter
Chartler, who later became active
about Fort Duquesne, had a settle
ment on the hills near New Cumber
land and French soldiers went with
him to straighten out some Indians.
Presence of the French soldiers
caused many an argument in Har
risburg yesterday. One colored man
was liiinly of the opinion that the
"Blue Devils" were Hungarians and
got his ethnology and war stuff all
mixed up. F.ut that did not prevent
him from cheering the visitors. He
said he saw "Cap" Stine at the head
and knew it was all right.
It will not be long until the school
children of the city will insist on
parading again. With true Harris
burg spirit the youngsters, instead
of passing up the parade idea be
cause of the terrible storm through
which they marched, have been
talking about having that parade
over again. There is a keen rivalry
between the schools for best ap
pearance and it is not going to be
satistied with the memories of what
things were like before the storm
came along.
• • •
The painting of the Susquehanna
Water Gap and the upper end of
Harrisburg in 1881 painted by the
late J. Aug. Beck and presented by
his children to the Harrisburg Pub
lic Library haa attracted consid
erable attention. It portrays one of -A
the finest views along the river and ™
will form a nucleus for old Harrls
iburg views which it is hoped to se
cure for the Library.
The Philadelphia North American
contains this interesting note in one
of its Cumberland Valley life re
views: "The Rev. Dr. Henry Van
Dyke, Princeton's noted teacher and
poet and former minister to Holland,
was able to whip Franklin county's
trout streams last week for the first
time in several years. Doctor Van
Dyke, Dr. William Mann Irvine and
a party of friends tried their luck,
with but fair results, this year, in
the headwaters of the east branch of
the Conococheasue. In former years
Doctor Van Dyke has fished in the
streams forming the west branch of
the creek, and one of his poems is
dedicated to the Conococheague."
• •
The controversy over the appoint
ments to the Supreme Court and the
fact no May session will be held
here calls to mind the history of the
court, which used to have its head
quarters in Harrisburg. In early
days the cour.t was pre-eminently a
branch of the state government, but
for years It has been sitting about
two days in Harrisburg, the Superior
Court occasionally meeting here for
three or four days. The arrange
ments for the court here are the
most elaborate in the state and tho
least used.
It was interesting yesterday to
see how the drafted men on leave
took to the French soldiers here for
the demonstration. The men who
have just left civilian pursuits to
take up arms for the nation were
pretty keen about the veterans of
war, especially as they had been
"shock" troops, and more than one
man in khaki regretted that he had
not studied French so that he might
talk about things in general and
fighting in particular.
[_ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ]
WELL-KNOWN PEOPLE
C. C. Green, new head of
Clarion State Normal School, used
to be superintendent of schools in
Beaver and Westmoreland towns.
—Bishop Berry is to preside at the
sessions of the Clarion Methodist
Conference next week.
Dr. w. E. Matthews, Cambria
medical officer, shut up a whole hos
pital when he found a nurse had
smallpox.
Dr. E. P. Davis, of Philadelphia,
heads the board to secure medical
reserve officers. ...
--The Rev. Dr. Maltland Alex
ander, Pittsburgh clergyman, Is giv
ing a series of addresses on news
papers and the war.
[ DO YOU KNOW
—That Harrisburg furnishes val
uable purts for the machinery
for making munitions?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
The Supreme Court used to meet
in the Courthouse here during tho
building of the first Capitol.
Exchanging Bonds
"We accept Liberty Bonds at their
full value for goods."
Thus reads a placard in the win
dow of a wholesale liquor house. We \
have often wondered what the
height, of damphoolishness might be,
having tried various things, but
there it is: Exchanging a Liberty
Bond for booze.—Detroit Times.