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SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1018 - The love of the beautiful is becom ing not only the possession of the rich, but the desire and possession of the very poor. — JOHN BURNS. THE FOURTH OF JULY MAYOR KEISTER should havo the support of the entire com munity In his purpose to ar range for the city a proper Fourth of July celebration. If ever In the History of the United States the spirit of the nation should find ex pression in a fitting observance of its birthday it is now, when we are fighting desperately against a pow erful and unscrupulous foe for the vtry existence of those principles upon which the country Is founded. In 1776 our forefathers took up the sword against a German mon arch sitting on the British throne, who forced them to fight or pay tribute to a government in which they had no voice. Our old school histories gave us very little light on how this war was regarded in Eng land, but if they had told the full truth, more Americans would know what more careful readers have ltarned —which is, that the course qt King George was almost aa un popular in his own country as It in America. And so our fight then, as now, was against an un scrupulous German robber, and as our first war was won under great handicap we may take heart from the hardihood and war-like quali ties of our ancestors and look for ward to the complete downfall of this archetype of the villainous and tyrannous old reprobate who was responsible for our first break with a European power. With this in mind, we may very appropriately twine the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes, and the standards of France and of Italy on the coming Fourth of July, and our prayer for success may be ad ' dressed to the God of Battles In be half of all our allies as well as for ■ Ourselves, marred by no harsh mem ories of the past. England and the United States stand to-day where the colonies of America stood on that fateful day in 1776, and the God who guided our sturdy little armies to victory on those early fields of contest will bless and guide the great hosts that now fight in His name and for His cause on the far-flung battle lines of the world. Divine invocation, services of prayer .end praise, should be part of the , celebration which the Mayor con templates. Washington prayed at Valley Forge, Lincoln sought heav enly intervention and guidance in the dark days of the Sixties, and we cart well profit by their .examples. A nation on its knees is a winning nation. > Mrs. O'Leary's son appears to be |l almost as inflammatory as Mrs. 1 O'Leary's cow. A MUNICIPAL LEADER DENVER has lost its guiding spirit through the death of Robert W. Speer, the master builder of the wonderful Rocky Mountain metropolis. Forty years ago he went to Denver from Penn sylvania to regain his health and he remained to devote his recovered energies to the upbuilding of. the city which he loved. Three tlfnes mayor of his city, Mr. Speer developed an I j aptitude for municipal detail and management which was the marvel j of all with whom he came into con - tact. His return to the executive chair after retirement to private life j a year or two ago was said to have I been the political triumph of his life. Like many another public official, he was cartooned and abused and criticised without limit by his po litical and personal enemies, but nothing ever swerved Mayor Speer from the objectives toward which h was constantly moving. Denver Is a living monument of his remark able vision and ability to accomplish .big things. ■ -After a "reform" administration which lasted one year, although It ■tad been elected for four, the people Hkanged the charter and installed ■pmmlsaion government. This lasted SATURDAY EVENING, BABIUBBURG TELEGRXPH three years, when the people signified ! unmistakably that they had had ! enough. Influential business men | urged Mr. Speer to again become a ' candidate for mayor, and through his I desire to see certain of his construe- > tlve plans carried out he consented ; to do so, provided the people would accept him on a charter amendment of his own making. He believed in a highly centralized form of govern ment as more efficient than diffused responsibility. Mayor Speer was an eminently practical man and combined rare qualities of vision with hard business sense. He knew his community In timately and gave to the service of the people the best that was In him. The amended charter vested in him wide powers, but he exercised these with regard only for the benefit of the people. Under the present sys tem of government in Denver there is a combination of the old mayor form, the commission form and the manager form, but, after all, the real success of the Speer~admlnlstratlon was due to the executive force and steadfast purpose of the mayor him self. The people showed their con fidence in his Integrity and ability by entrusting him with this extra ordinary power, and he conducted the administration on a purely non partisan basis, appointing Repub licans and Democrats according to their fitness to serve. Mayor Speer was a lover of chil dren and on a trip through Europe he was so impressed with the fa mous "Children's Fountain" In a park at Dusseldorf that he obtained the consent of the sculptor at Paris to reproduce a similar fountain at Denver. It would be a good thing for all American citizens could they have the genius and devotion to the pub lis service which were the strong points in Mayor Speer's public career. He demonstrated beyond any question that it Is not so much the form of government which counts as it is ability and vision and con secration to the interests of the peo ple by the chosen public servant. While he has passed on. Mayor Speer has left his impress upon the municipal life of the United States and his example will be followed by scores of cities which are now grop ing along in the hope of finding the light. Necessity for trimming aiyl other wise protecting the shade trees of the city is" obvious in nearly every street. Low-hanffing branches frequently knock oft the hats of pedestrians and there Is danger to occupants of pass ing automobiles. In order to escape the ravages of the "tree butcher" the City Council ought to make some pro vision for* the care and treatment of our trees. Let's do it NOW. DEFYING GERMANY PRESIDENT WILSON, speaking through Secretary Lansing, has taken a bold and very commend able stand in defying Germany to proceed with reprisals against Amer ican prisoners in Germany as a re sult of the President's very proper refusal to release the notorious and murderous Captain-Lieutenant Fritz von Rintelen, who spent millions of dollars in this country in fomenting bomb plots which were responsible for the loss of much property and many lives. Von Rintelen came to the United States a's the personal representative of the Kaiser and he is being pun ished —very mildly, we think —for the frightful crimes of which he was guilty. The judge who sentenced him voiced American sentiment when he said that prison for life or death was more deserved than the meager prison term prescribed by the law. To the insolent demand of Ger many, doubtless prompted by the personal interest of the Emperor, the American government has replied that if the few American prisoners held by Germany are mistreated, the responsibility of reprisals upon Ger man subjects in the United States must rest entirely upon the heads of the German government, and the in ference is clearly made that, -while such a course would be extremely disagreeable to the people of this country, it will be adopted without hesitancy should Germany make good her threat. We in America have been lenient in the extreme with German subjects. They have had more freedom than many of them deserve. We have in prison here far more Germans than there are Americans in Germany. If the Kaiser harps one American he will by so doing seal the death-warrant of von Rintelen and start a series of bloody incidents that would result in a number of other Germans in the United States getting their just deserts. A dozen Germans for every American is not too big a price. The spirit and thought of the American people are behind Presi dent Wilson and Secretary in this decision. It may cost us precious American lives, but it will cost Germany far more dearly and would give the Kaiser a lesson in frightfulness that may hang crepe on the doors of the imperial house hold itself. Let Wilhelm start that sort of thing with America and America will take the last toll when it hangs this imperial murderer on the final day of his reckoning with us. The price of ne American life in a war of reprisals must be that of the Kaiser himself, if not those of all his fellow conspirators in ad dition. America has no desire to in stitute reprisals, but we are a through-going people and we may be expected to have the last word in anything we undertake. The O'Nell declaration for Sproul Is the final note in the new Republican harmony chorus. Our answer to the U-boat raid is that we launched seventy-one ships during May. If \Mr. Burbank desires real fame, let him develop a vegetable that will grow faster than a weed. "pO&ttC* CK By . Prominent Democrats living in all parts of the state have already an nounced that a state chairman should be selected who is accepta ble to the gubernatorial nominee. Judge Bonniwell has announced that either Jonathan Frederick or Mal colm R. Gross, both of Lehigh coun ty, would meet his requirements for the position." —The meeting of the Republican state committee will be a love feast from all accounts. Men allied with all factions will attend and unite with Sproul. * —Members of the Prohibition state committee are commencing to find out that they were elected as the late returns are coming. —No change of any consequence occurred in the Porter-Huselton vote to-day. The comment of newspapers about the voters of the state casting ballots by thousands for a man who withdrew will prob ably have some effect "on the next Legislature, because the non-parti san act is not considered perfect. —From all accounts meetings of Republican ward committees in Pittsburgh were a bit rough. The city administration and the "out" faction had some differences which required police. Senator Frank P. Graff, who will be buried to-morrow from his home in Worthington, Armstrong county, is the third member of the State senate ol 1917 to die during his term and there will be three special elec tions of senators to fill vacancies caused by deaths. These elections will be for the terms of Senators James P. McNichol, Philadelphia, and Charles J. Magee, Allegheny, and Senator Graff. In addition a fourth special election has been called because of the resignation of Auditor General Charles A. Snyder, Schuylkill. They will form the largest number of such elections to be known at one time in years. In the event that Senator William C. Sproul is elected governor and Sena tor Edward E. Beidleman, lieuten ant-governor, special elections to select their successors will be held next winter after inauguration day in all probability. This is the first time the-two leading candidates on a. Republican ticket have been sen ators and it is also interesting that the nominee for secretary of in ternal affairs on the same ticket Is also a legislator, being James F. Woodward, member of the House from Allegheny and chairman of the appropriations committee for sev eral sessions. Expense accounts filed at the State Capitol by candidates who ran at the recent primaries have less than usual of the number of unusual items. Often the-e are payments stated which are so out of the or dinary as to cause comment and some have furnished amusement. This year "dissemination of in formation" appears to be the chief way of camouflaging expenditures. In the expense account of Con gressman John R. K. Scott appears an item of twenty pounds of tacks, presumably to' put up the placards of the candidate for lieutenant gover nor, although he seems to have been liberal with payments to advertising and poster companies. Judge Eu gene C. Bonniwell has returned the cost of five padlocks for use at head quarters and $5 for a dictionary* —Governor Brumbaugh's curt re fusal to discuss possible appointees to the Public Service Commission or the Supreme bench are taton to mean here that he has not Settled on any candidates. The Governor Is anxious to name men who can bo confirmed or elected, as the case may be, and since he has decided not to consult the Vare leaders there is much Intefest as to whom ha will choose as guide. The appoint ment of William A. Magce a.s pub lic service commissioner has long been forecast. There is speculation as to whether he will be confirmed in January. The suggestion that the situation of Brumbaugh appointees In January, 1919, will be much like that of the Toner men In January. 191 G. is annoying to people at the Capitol. THE TRIALS OF A HANDICAPPER ' v .... ✓ T " I - / THAT woutW' • / yntsi vij- fve A- AS ISLIST irrz i/ —*,—_ />st6 U A ?; i%'%d ?co^ B Be 7e e 7 O&V ( Uo NT ' ao r I Wwetc scoßEttu / JS / as4SS? V , I AMY Moae \ Ev/eR MAS>E/ IWERJ -IT V SCORE / X — L YYNIY BEST XJUSSASAME / WOUCDNT V / HAVE, A ll 1 SCOR6 < V r~" 3£ FAR I FAIR AWO^OARt | - * R- - I, ~ / . \ BUT USTCM BILL 1 / .\ _ r I I AlhJ'T SHOOTIM' \ fiive - ME) ' f\tiY -' I Lle THAT AMY VOUR / r * WU ITH ,t ' 1 / MORIS - Voo OUGHT M'T BP ST /f ° ? / TO HAWDICAP e sroRB // \ WHAT 15 IT J I ou THAT scdße- SCORE // weu _- | / X -THAT A.WT fa (R T LETTERS TO THE EDITOR A NEGRO SPEAKS To the Editor of the Telegraph: Seeing the article from Lieutenant O. E. McKain in your real Ameri can paper reminded me of a few things that procrastination alone is responsible for the non-communica tion to you concerning them before; however, "better late than never." Flag Raising Day here on the Government grounds in New Cum berland was a great day. Sev eral happenings that day put me to thinking, as it did mony others, I hope. ' One and the first, was: How little do my race as a whole know of the thorough democracy of the real peo ple ot this country who stand for something and are fearless In speech and action? The great Major Morava first spoke with his whole soul of this country and its actions to free all classes of people; how in '6l it shed its own people's blood for the black man's freedom, and how now not any power great or small will be exempted that will further the cause of a successful termination of the greatest of struggles to free all man kind from the tyrranical power of autocracy. Next was one of Harrisburg's prominent men who has been active in the Liberty Loan drives, J. E. B. Cunningham. His eloquence was appreciated by all. The next was the owner of paper, whose appearance alone gave all who know anything of human nature from personal bearing that a man faced them who was all that the name American implies. Then last but not least came the Blue Devils. Mr. Editor, I believe those were great men and real fighters. They were interesting to look upon, but did you ever see any Black Devils? Well, I could hardly resist asking Major Morava to per mit me to pick out a few of the men erasing there upon the Blue Devils. They would be "Black Devils," but no devils of any caste whatever would bring home more bacon "a la Kaiser" than this brand. Just give them a show. Respectfully, J. I. GREENHOW. Employe Rates & Rogers Con. Co. New Cumberland, May 30, 1918. Mr. O'Neil Supports Sproul J. Denny O'Neil's public announce ment that he will support Senator William C. Sproul, in the election campaign for Governor of Pennsyl vania, "and will ask all my friends to do likewise," fulfills the moral ob ligation that rested on him to ac cept the result of the Republican primary. The Gazette Times is glad that Mr. O'Neil has made this hon orable decision, and trusts that, as the campaign proceeds he will give emphatic adherence to Republican principles and politics and the ad mirable platform of constructive aims on which Senator Sproul made his successful appeal to the party voters. We agree with all that Mr. O'Neil says about the duty of the hour being the winning of the war, and we share his hope that Penn sylvania shall be one of the 36 states which will ratify the Federal pro hibition amendment, but, as none knows better than he does, it is not within 'the power of Sproul and his associates" to bring about ratification at Harrjsburg. That is the province of the Legislature, and of It alone. However, Sehator Sproul is earnestly In favor of ratification and Pennsylvanians may be sure he will do all possible in furtherance of It. , In this connection Mr. O'Neil says very truly, "to win the war we must conserve food, fuel, labor, money and tonnage now used by the liquor Industry." Pennsylvania legislators should have no difficulty in reaching the same conclusion and acting ac cordingly. Some of them, no doubt, will seize upon the example of President Wilson as sufficient excuse for regarding liquor as a war neces sity and voting against ratification. Senator Sheppard, author of the pro hibition amendment resolution, yes terday declared the president's ap position had killed the Randall amendment to the emergency food bill, which was designed to prevent the use of foods in the manufacture of alcoholic beverages. The coun try, as usual, must rely upon Repub licans for the enactment of progres sive measures of great public bene fit. Consideration of ' this should constrain Pennsylvania Republicans to unite In the coming campaign In support of ratification.— Pittsburgh Gazette-Times. Allied Conf From the Literary Digest GERMAN apathy at home over the new drive, and the calm confidence of the Allied peo ples in the face of this reverse, both have one explanation. In the race between Hindenburg and President Wilson —to use Lloyd George's crisp characterization of the battle of the western front—the odds are running every day increasingly against the German. When the British premier adds that "those who know best what the prospects are feel most con fident about the results," he can only mean, notes the Omaha World-1 Herald, that "the United States is winning the race." Allied shipyards are launching ships faster than Ger man U-boats can destroy them; Al lied navies are sinking U-boats faster than Germany can build them; Al lied crops are promising record har vests in France and England that will release further tonnage to carry American men and munitions to the battlefield. At the same time, for Germany, many observers believe, another year of war will spell bank-1 ruptcy alike as to her food supply, > her finances and her man-power. Hence the German thrust against the I Aisne front is interpreted in Wash ington as another attempt to smash' through the Allied armies to victory I before American troops arrive in such force as to make a German vic tory impossible. When, after a comparative lull of nearly a month, the CJermans on May 27 launched another major drive in their great spring offensive on the western front, they duplicated on a smaller scale much of the success that crowned the early days of their thrust in Picardy. Striking toward Paris between Soissons and Reims, the armies of the German crown prince drove a third great wedge into the Allied line, its point pene trating to the Marne in four days, a depth of over twenty miles. By hurl ing into this -attack upon a strong but thinly held position some 400,000 men supported by artillery, tanks and machine guns, the Ger mans captured the famous ridge of the Chemin des Dames, crossed the Aisne and Vesle rivers in force and occupied Soissons before the Allied reinfprcements could impede their furious onrush. During these first four days, according to Berlin re ports, the Germans took 35,000 prisoners, and "tremendous" booty in war materials, including "guns of every description, up to railway guns of the heaviest caliber." The kaiser, after watching a section of the battle from a neighboring hill, telegraphed the empress the blasphemous mes sage that "God has granted us a LABOR NOTES As long ago as 1858 a farmers' convention at Centralla, 111., advo cated wholesale buying and selling agencies for farmers. Memphis (Tenn.) contractors have accepted the new wage scale of Elec trical Workers' Union, which raises rates 50 cents a day. In one of the largest British mu nition factories where 35,000 work ers are employed more than 33,000 are women. Th Seamen's International Union of America is again advocating gov ernment operation of all shipyards. Herts (England) War Agricultural Committee has started a library of fiction for girls working on the farms. Half a million dollars is being spent on a scheme for employing dis abled soldiers and sailors in the Brit ish diamond cutting industry. The United Club, with 600 mem*- bera, all self-supporting girls, hus opened a fine big clubhouse in New York. A retirement law for superannu ated Federal employes ( seepis to be reasonably within Bight. The largest .garage In Washington, D. C., has replaced its male cleaners of automobiles with colored women help. Women of England virtually have assumed charge of public utilities and have invaded the police arid fire department. A threatened strike of miners and steel workers of the Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Company has been averted. splendid victory and will help fur ther." But the damage inflicted by Ger man arms on the Allied Hire has not dented the Allied morale, according to all the evidence available; nor is the rejoicing of the German press, if Amsterdam dispatches report cor rectly, as exuberant as after the March advance in Picardy. In the British papers, correspondents tell us, there is no note of despondency, but everywhere calm faith in Gen eral Foch. And In France, says a dispatch to the New York Times, the confident watchword la, "We must hold on until the Americans come." British and French papers alike see a hapy omen in the American vic tory at Cantigny, west of Montdidler on the Picardy front, where our troops with the dash and precision of veterans flattened out a small German salient, took over 200 pris oners, inflicted heavy losses in killed and wounded, and consolidated and held their gains against many vio lent counter-attacks. German gen erals £.nd statesmen know the sig nificance of this as well as do Amer ica's allies, remarks the London Times, which goes on to say: "It means that the last great fac tor between autocracy and freedom is coming into effective play on the battlefield. It means that they have hut to hold the gap a little longer be fore their comrades from across the ocean come in armies pledged never to sheathe the sword until it has swept Prussian militarism from the earth and established the reign of justice and peace. There could be no reflection more heartening for the Allies or more dismaying to their ad versaries." "We must hold on until October and stand up under other hard blows which we still have to face until then," writes Marcel Hutin, military critic of the Echo de Paris and one of tTx few French writers who fore told the possibility of the Alsne at tack. And he adds: . " "Next October the Americans will have more than a million and a half men on the western front, from flow until then, as Clemenceau has verv frankly explained, we and our allies must stand up to all the Germaji at tacks. To economize our men "until then and to keep the enemy is check, even at the price of yielding ground —we must resign ourselves to that." Meanwhile Secretary of the Navy Daniels, in a Decoration Day speech in Wilkes-Barre, announces that our movement of troops to Europe will reach the . million mark in a few weeks; that in a few months the two million mark will have been reached, and that ten million or more men will be sent, if need be. Make Ballot Foolproof The working of the non-partisan ballot reveals it as a source of dan ger Instead of safety. It has a ca pacity for defeating the wishes of the people who have any intelligent wishes on the subject by giving the nomination and perhaps election to some one wholly unfit who revives votes not because the voters want him but because of the tendency of voters to mark a cross opposed the first candidate on the list. In this way the alphabet and not the will of the people determine the result. Ben Adhem's name will leacf all the rest not because he has been blest but by the accident of nomen clature his name stands first on the alphabetical list of candidates. Two years agfe we almost elected in this way an abseure atiorney to the Su preme bench for no other reason than the initial letter of his name placed it on the ballot before bis highly competent competitor. This year a man named Huselton whose name was on the judiciary ticket against his wishes received 117,463 votes for Superior* Court Judge be cause his name preceded that of Judge Porter whom, every rational voter wished to have re-elected. The lack of attention, observation and reflection of so many thousand voters is a strong argument against the direct primary and particularly the non-partisan ballot. Voters need guidance else they flounder and blun der in seeking to record their will in a matter for which they care little. Party lines when maintained on the ballot offer some guidance. Conven tions at least gave us candidates whose character and antecedents were known and whose election or non-election was not left to chance. It an impeachment of a system that gives to Mr. Aaron a decided advantage over Mr. Zigler in secur ing a majority of the votes. The bal lot should be short, simple and fool proof. At present It is none of these, i—Philadelphia Press. r \ Over tfwc IK *~pe-)v)uu "We do not need the German lan guage in America to-day, and to morrow, by the grace of God, it will be a dead language," declared Dr. Robert McElroy, head of the department of history at Princeton, in his recent address at Philadelphia before the League to Enforce Peace. "The great task of the civilian in this war is to flefeat German propa n^ a if nd , Jt of its intended prey, the soul of this nation. For forty years the mind of every Ger man child, through a well thought r.rV kU, £ Ul * Planned scheme i*"'. , M been concentrated upon the destiny of Germany to rule w "" lcw When, grandma was young, with her beauty in bloom, A damsel was taught how to enter a room; It pains her to-day when a girl with a grin, ' Says: "Here I am, folks; I thought I d blow in?" Any comfortable place where there are free seats and I cai enjov the society of my fellow human d °'" says Mr ' Buck Whiffington, as a result of closins poolrooms and bars in a western Pennsylvania town. "Lately. I had to RO home before midnight.*' OUR DAILY LAUCH PUZZLE GAME. l|s- My wife gives mo a section of E&L "< her mind now and jjfwgrt Well? '' < And It Is as in- _Ja|-7 ■ terestlng as a pic- . ffl/\ V N ture puzzle trying to put them to- A REBELLIOUS i £% ANOEL - But 1 can ' l -// >' | spare SSO for an other new sum- I mcr £° wn > J ust I WSftlSrffililS® now ' my angel, i ni jij I'm tired of be llT ln S an angel and -j \£j ■mi I demand a new JwJ IJHB gown now. The JBJI 'V styles in halos never change. THE IMPOSSI-