12 HARRLSBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TEI.VIIIAI'H PIUrrTING CtV. Telegraph Building, Federal Square E. J, STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief R. OYSTER, Business Manager GUB M. 6TEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. ft. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Boned J, P, McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGELSBY, F, R. OYSTfiR, GTJS. M. STEINMET2. ■Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local nAve published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved, y! Member American Newspaper Pub ran Bureau of Clrcu faraSlffwCjaA lation and Penn- R Assoc!- pli E te r n Entered at tho Post Office In Harris-: burg. Pa, as second class matter, -^O3S&v, carrier, ten cents a' week; by mail. <5,00 a year in advance, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 101$ Talent shapes itself in stillness} character in the tumult of the worlds •— GOETHE, THE HUNS' CHALLENGE IT seems to be generally accepted as a fact that Immediately on the conclusion of the war Ger many will endeavor to flood the markets of the world with prod ucts of the cheap labor of her people in the hope of rehabilitating her enormous losses and her greatly demoralized markets. One of our leading financial experts says Ger many must pay her debts and she will not be able to pay them with Indemnities extorted from conquered nations. She will try to pay them by exporting goods, and while Ger many Is preparing for the after-war period, we of the United States have done practically nothing. Are we again to be the victims of unpreparedness? As the world ac cepted Germany's challenge to arms, the United States must accept the Hun's challenge to industry and .commerce. • WHY THIS SILENCE? WHAT has become of the Washington Times Incident? After showing that Bris bane borrowed the money with which to buy the paper from a party of brewers —who did not expect he would repay the debt perhaps— Mitchell Palmer becomes suddenly silent. If the case has been dropped, why? Has it been discovered that the transaction is beyond the law, or is Brisbane such a staunch defender of certain influential members of the Democratic party that he is not to be further disturbed? "YOU TICKLE ME, ETC." AS THE Telegraph has frequently indicated in the discussion of the commission form of munici pal government, one of its funda mental weaknesses is the tendency of officials to shift responsibility by tho old system of log roiling and exchange of alleged courtesies in matters of. legislation. Instead of a highly developed sense of responsi bility there is a constant breaking down of efficiency through one com missioner doing for another com missioner what he ought not to do on tho basis of "you tickle me and I'll tickle you." Harrisburg is suffering to-day from just this sort of administration. When failures are brought to the at tention of| this or that official the almost invariable answer is: "That Isn't my department; you'll have to see Commissioner although the matter in question is of such a character as to invite and require the serious attention of the entire membership of the City Coun cil. Reading is having a fine Illustra tion of how the commission form of government does not work. At a special session a day or two ago of the council of that city a water loan bill was killed, after a wordy war. in which the head of the water department was attacked by all the other members. We quote from a news dispatch: "You're a dirty liar," shouted Coun cilman Kuth at his colleague, Mr. Ktautfer, and brandished his fist un der the latter's nose. "Call the Chief of Police," ordered the Mayor to City Clerk Mark 3. "If you can't conduct the Bureau of Water, one of the other three Coun cilmen can, and we will see to it that you are changed," said Mayor Filbert to Mr. Stauffer. All this was brought about by a statement which Mr. Stauffer made Thursday, in which he declared that he fathered the bill not* because he wanted it passed, but to bo courteous to his colleagues, and that to propose a big loan to the voters at this time was unpatriotic. So there you are. What is hap pening in Reading and other cities has happened here In a less violent form. We are not making the head way in Harrisburg that we should, simply because of this disposition to shift responsibility instead of as suming the manifest obligations that mmmAv wvmtm, rest upon every member of the City douncii; Harrisburg is going to get awake one bf thesd Hays S.nd Ihd four- Hushing of feertnirt gentlemen of Ibe Ci'iy Council trill btt Iheir iindoing; This newspaper Would prefer to com mend rather ttoart eritieise public officials, but IherC is how and then a case of indifference And ineffi ciency so flagrant thai only the turn ing on of the light will remedy the situation, Harrlsburg is a big municipal cor poration and the eonduei of Its af fairs demands head work and en ergy, It can't he considered as a side issue to any other business, DOWN KINO ALCOHOL THE other day a Harrlsburg correspondent of one of the Boldlers at the fighting front received a letter from the very heart of the heil of war, and among other things the fighter expressed the hope that the people at home would put down King Alcohol while the boys on the other side are get ting away with Kaiser Bill, From Reading comes the story of another soldier, who sa.yS in a letter home that he has potted six iftius and expects to get some more, observing; It pleases the fellows im mensely to hear of the progress tho Liberty Loane make. I am glp.d every one in our family is a bondholder, The States are go ing dry, I hear, and I am glad of it. I am oft the stuff and expect to stay off. Thus it goes everywhere, and thus tho soldiers appeal to the home folks to wipe out the drink menace here j against the time of their return, j The barbarians from across the Rhine are destroying in their retreat as they pillaged in their Invasion of 1914, There is only one thing to do, the Prussian military machine must be crushed. Their power to repeat the tragedy of the ages must be for ever removed in the smashing of their army and navy. As Frank H, Simonds concludes in his latest analysis of the situation, "to compromise now is to betray our dead, desert our prin ciples, abandon our faith, and to ne gotiate Is to compromise," SUSPICIOUS WOMEN THOSE Miss Nancys and mis guided women who are con stantly fussing about the moral ity of our soldiers overseas may be Interested in what Lieutenant Con tngsby Dawson says concerning them in the preface of his latest book, "Out to Win," He discusses tho various kinds of fools who are mak ing the war harder for those who are really doing the fighting at the front and back of the lines, and re garding the particular group to which we have referred, he says: At the end of the war the men who . still live will acknowledge no kinship save the kinship of courage. To have answered the call of duty and to have played the man will make a closer bond than having been born of the same mother. There is one type of fool, exclu sively American, whoso stupidity arises from love and tenderness. Very often she is a woman. She has been responsible for the ar rival in France of a number of narrow-minded and well-inten tioned persons; their errand is to investigate vice conditions in the United States Army. This suspi cion of tho women at home con cerning the conduct of their men in the field is directly traceable to reports of the debasing influence of war set in circulation by tho antimilitarists. 1 want to say em phatically that cleaner, more earnest, better protected troops than those from the United States are not to be found in Europe. Both in Great Britain and on the Continent, their puritanism has created a deep impression. By their idealism they have made their power felt; they are men with a vision in their eyes, who have traveled three thousand miles to keep a rendezvous with death. That those for whom they are prepared to die should suspect them Is a degrading disloyalty. That trackers shouid be sent after them from home to pick up clues to their unworthiness is clearly damnable. To disparage the heroism of other nations Is bad enough; to distrust the heroes of your own flesh and blood, at tributing to them lower than civilian moral standards is to be guilty of the meanest treachery and ingratitude. When our soldiers come back after the winning of the greatest war in the history of the world they will take the reins of leadership in_ their trained hands and teach those who ha\'e spent their time at home in fussing and painting halos about their own heads a lesson or two re garding real sacrifice and real man hood and womanhood. With respect to Germany's "peace" proposal, the President is manifestly from Missouri. So are his country men. No "made-in-Germany" peace for your Uncle Sam. PLAN OF A STATESMAN WHAT this country needs and desires is the leadership of men who possess the qualities of true statesmanship foresight, sound judgment, and readiness to act promptly and courageously. "We have had too much of waiting for public opinion to lead. "We have had too much of preparedness after the emergency is upon us. We have had too much of a type of states manship that shouts righteous prin ciples only after the mass of the people will tolerate delay no longer. We have had too much of states manship that follows instead of lead ing. It is a relief to the country, therefore, to read the plan of Sen ator Johhn W. Weeks, of Massachu setts, for the creation of a joint Con gressional committee on reconstruc tion—a committee to be composed of an equal number of members of each of the political parties, and an equal number of members of each house of Congress. There is need for immediate and thorough study of problems of reconstruction. The war has brought unusual conditions into every phase of industrial or ganization and enterprise. Labor, manufactures, agriculture, banking, transportation, communication by wire, shipping, foreign trade, hous ing—In fact, every form of activ ity is under abnormal conditions. Adjustment of all these component parts pf our industrial system to i the conditions of peace is a vitally Important problemi and Senator Weeks has proposed the best agency for the fortnuiation of plana The joint committee uhettid be created without delay and fcheuld begirt its work at oneO; folittct- IK f&KKtiflt&Kia, By the Ex-Commltteemaa Philadelphia's slump In registra tion of voters amounts to about 30,- 000 men, but this may be made up by voters who were sick or kept at home by the influenza outbreak on Saturday and who will apply within the next ten days to the commis sioners to have their names put on the lists, People li Philadelphia, however, are contrasting the decline In their city with that In Pittsburgh where the registration fell off more than 31,000 and they point out that, proportionately, the drop in regis tration in the Quaker City Is con siderably less than that in the Alle gheny metropolis, Following the official tabulation by the Board of Registration Com missioners of tho electors who en i rolled last Saturday, last of the three fall registration days, announcement was made last night In Philadelphia that between 243,000 and 243,000 voters were eligible to participate In the election of November 6. During the last registration days last year | more than 3T6,000 citizens enrolled, while the total enrollment of 1816, Presidential year, was 316,000. The figures for this year were an nounced by the Republican City Committee and throe reasons are given by the leaders for the big fall ing oft. First, absence from the city of thousands of men who are In the Army, Navy or Marine Corps, lack of Interest in the present guberna torial contest and the Influenza epi demic. ! Many ward leaders reported yes terday that hundreds of their con stituents were unable to enroll Sat urday because of Illness. It was de clared, however, that, many of these will appear before the Board of Reg istration Commissioners and request that their names be added to the lists. —Lackawanna county's protract ed contest over the Republican Sen atorial nomination was settled by the Supreme Court at Pittsburgh yesterday when Representative Al bert J. Davis was declared the win ner. The opinion was handed down by Justice Edward J. Fox, of the Supreme Court. The decision was in the appeal of D. W. Phillips, who, upon the official returns, was de clared the victor, but who Davis al leged obtained the nomination by fraud. The official returns gave Phillips a majority of 23 4 votes over Davis, who asked for a recount, charging fraud. The County Com missioners opened the ballotboxes In the district and the recount gave Phillips a majority of 12 more votes than were counted in the original count. Davis then filed an appeal to the Common Pleas Court, despite the finding of the County Commis sioners, and asked for an Inquisition. —Speaking of the promotions in the Insurance Department the Phil adelphia Inquirer says: "The ap pointment of Albert G. Costello, youngest son of Congressman Peter E. Costello, as examiner-ln-chlef In tho State Insurance Commissioner's office at a yearly salary of $4,000 was announced yesterday. Mr. Cos tello has been an examiner in the Insurance Department for several years. His brother, Captain E. G. Costello, Is in France with the Fif teenth Field Artillery, Regular Army. Immediately after graduat ing from the Wharton School, Uni versity of Pennsylvania, seven years ago, Mr. Costello became connected with the Insurance Department." —A very interesting contrast in cities is furnished by Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. While the Pitts burgh officials arc hustling to clean streets because of the influenza epi demic, there is a storm of piovcst against the "ondition of Philadelphia highways and men like T. DeWitt Ouylcr me asking wheiher it is tho intention io clean tho streets. —Scrantort city councilmen have not lost any time about lighting in fluenza. Then thousand dollars was voted for the fight and questions as to right to do it wero left l'or dis cussion later. —Much comment has been caused in Philadelphia by the criticism of United States District Attorney Francis Fisher Kane by the Demo cratic Philadelphia Record. This is the Record's latest comment upon the way Federal court matters are being handled in that city: "An other example of the loose and un certain methods of the local United States District Attorney's office in dealing with alleged draft offenders was disclosed yesterday, when Fed eral Judge Thompson, of the United States District Court, quashed the indictment against members of Local Board No. 10. It was the first attack nrade on the thirty-three in dictments returned last month by a Federal grand jury which probed draft scandals here. The prosecu tion broke down because the indict ment in this case was flagrantly de fective. As if dealing . with a Veritable neophyte in matters of law. Judge Thompson patiently pointed out to Assistant District At torney "Walnut, who drew up the in dictment, just what was the matter with that document." —F. B. Row has become deputy prothonotary of Clearfield county, and J. A. Durling, long connected with the Carbon county commission ers' office, has resigned. Ex-Pro thonotary James F. Corkill has suc ceeded him. —Senator Sproul has refused to make any statements on campaign matters until the Loan is concluded. Judge Bonniwell, who had some "tours" under way, has decided to stay home. —Chester city registration was slaughtered by influenza. The Ches ter Times gives the total registration for the city at less than 5,300. Potts vllle newspapers tell of a sharp drop in that city's registration. —The Philadelphia Press also shows dislike of the present ballot. It says: "We get notice from Har risburg that the ballot to be voted at the coming November election is another big unwieldy thing, sim ilar to many that we have hvtd experience with in the past. It is striking evidence of incapacity some where that different kinds of bal lots must be used for the primary and the general election. The pri mary ballot is much the simplest, and as there is only one way in which it can be marked—each can didate voted for being separately designated—there is less confusion and fewer void ballots. There Is no public reason why such a ballot should not be provided for the gen eral election, nnd the voter required to familiarize himself with only one style of ballot instead of two, as is now the case." tlAtUtlSStmc# ♦r££g(3t&P£r AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEELIN'? By BRIGGS j (j, £TS OWT p ? A I^A*— 7. ' ■ - " ~ r °' F " /""* & - ?ja '"^ CROJ jded WITH PLfckic.<; AMIT umum , WHEn*Yh Ij''tau--Wa 1 j''tau--Wa „ .1!" —;. if\ IP You oooce THerw all * TRALIMIKI/C DUAL j|/ fe] RE-SI6N/E.D "to YfoUPv FATE VcXJ ANB INSTRUCTOR ,| M , -|Ztf' ' fT - ! Give HER THe GUN AMD 3oorJ ARE TCr TMe A?R T E,<3H " r HOORS T IN THC AIR ALONG AND , fh " .- -"But You Get around The fCc — ■= —± C o.^jic- t aSSDfI rn fieu) WITHOUT HITTING - AMD MAKE A <aOo"D ' Landing OH-H-H-BOY!! J v AiN'T IT A CR-R-RAND _/ __ r / ~ x -> AND GIOR-R-rious FeetinJ'/ J 'o#V -AMD You IMAeine You CAPO _ - " See TVie. -SoßSeoMj Toving -■ ~ TOO 6E£ THE ArvvSOLANCB ALL. VAJITh A CHOICE SCT OF ToolS, r ~ -=~= vA.J- '-IT cranked UP AND FEEL THAT ' ~ Tnev ARC waiting FOR VOU To DROP I * o F,eLD TWO IDEALS OF WAR President Wilson to the National Army September 3, 1017 You are undertaking a great duty. The heart of tho whole country is with you. The eyes of all the world will bo upon you, because you are in some special sense the soldiers of freedom. Let it be your pride, there fore, to show all men, everywhere, not only what good soldiers you are, but also what good men you are, keeping yourselves lit and straight in everything and pure and clean through and through. Let us set for ourselves a standard so high that it will be glory to live up to it, and then let us live up to it and add a new laurel to the crown of America. My affectionate confidence goes with you in every battle and every test. God help and guide you! Tho Kaiser to His Troops Embarking For China July 27, lUOM. • | "When you faoe the enemy he will be beaten! No quarter will be given! No prisoners will be taken! Who ever falls into your hands, let him be at your mercy! Just as the Huns i thousand years ago, under their j king, Attila, gained a reputation in virtue of which they still appear mighty in tradition and story, so may tho name German be established by you in China in such manner that for a thousand years no Chinaman will ever again even dare to look askance at a German.— (Berliner Tageblatt, July 28, 1900). "NO" William of Germany, Palace of Pots dam, Seeker of peace in a second-hand way; Robber and rapist and untried as sassin, The Allies unitedly answer you "Nay!" William of Germany, Wrecker of Nations, We, of America, over the seas. Launch at your legions an army of Freedom, Weighted to worry you down to your knees. William of Germany, Curse of Cre ation. Maker of Sorrow and Father of Woe! France undefeated and Belgium stricken, Lift up their voices and answer you "No!" —G. HERB PALIN, in Washing ton Post. REPRISALS [Kansas City Star] In every retreat the German armies always have methodically devastated the country. It has been their cal culated purpose to use frightfulness as a weapon against thei- enemies. They have-destroyed furniture, razed houses and public buildings, cut down orchards. It would not be strange if the Ger man government should now try to take advantage of this system to bar gain for peace. "Do you wish peace?" it might say, "or will you see North ern France and Belgium made into a desert?" There is only one way to meet such a proposal. That is the way the Allies have proposed to Washington. Frightfulness must be fought with frightfulness. There must be re prisals. There is only one language the German understands, and that is force. Germany should receive a solemn warning that a strict account will be kept. For every town, for every building, wantonly destroyed, there should be exacted a double toll. The German government should be formally notified of the sort of retribution it will bring upon itself. It, will have an enormous bill to pay for the destructive work al ready done in Belgium and France. It can invite absolute financial ruin if it chooses. It can insure the lay ing waste of Cologne, of Frankfort,' of Munich, of Dresden, even of Ber lin itself, if it continues the course it seems to haye adopted. Such reprisals would be fearful. But they' might be necessary if the world is to be protected from a repe tition of Germany's present crimes. Kaiser's Bird of Peace dt seemed I saw a Hohenzollern Eagle cross the deep. He clutched in one huge talon "Scraps of paper," grimed and . cheap. "Let's talk of Peace,' the dark fiend screamed Concealing hate with calm — And -from the other talon Dropped the Influenza bomb! Lois Kammerlln Booker. ' For the Telegraph. A DAY OFJUDGMEN T After the War the Foreign-Born Who Have Cher ished Foreign Ideals Will Be Brought to the Bar of the Republic i I Philadelphia Public Ledger.] ]ln sentencing a German preacher, convicted of utteGng seditious, re marks and, interfering with the mili tary activities of the Government, Charles F. Amidon, Federal District Judge for North Dakota, delivered an address on the duty of the foreign born in the United States and the duty of the United States to the for eign-born. The accused was the Rev. J. Fontana. of the German Evangeli cal Church of New Salem, N. D. Fol lowing is what Judge Amidon said:] YOU received your final papers as a citizen in 1898. By the oath which you then took you renounced and adjured all allegiance to Germany and to the Emperor of Germuny, and swore that you would bear true faith and allegiance to the United States. What did that mean? That you would set about earnestly growing an American soul and put away your German soul. That is what your oath of allegiance meant. Have you done that? I do not think you have. You have cher ished everything German and stifled everything American. You have preached German, prayed German, read German, sung German. Every thought of your mind and every emotion of your heart through all these years has been German. Your body has been in America, but your life has been in Germany. If you were set down in Prussia to-day you would be in harmony with your en vironment. It would fit you just as a flower fits the leaf and stem of the plant on which it grows. You have influenced others who have been under your ministry to do the same thing. You said you would cease to cherish your German soul and that you would begin To build up inside of you an American soul. That meant that you would begin the study of American life and his tory; that you would open your mind and heart to al.l of its influences; that you would try to understand its ideals and purposes, and love them; that you would try to build up inside of yourself a whole group of feel ings, for the United Slates, the same as you felt toward the Fatherland when you left Germany. There have been a good many Ger mans beford me in the last month. They have lived in this country, like yourself, ten, twenty, thirty, forty years, and they had to give their evi dence through an interpreter. It has been an impressive part of the trial. As I looked at them and tried, as best I could, to understand them, there was written all over every one of them, "Made in Germany." Amer ican life had not dimmed that mark in the least. It stood there as bright and fresh as the inscription upon a new coin. I do not blame you and these men alone. I blame myself. I blame my country. We urged you to come; we welcomed you; we gave you oppor tunity; we gave you land; we con ferred upon you the diadem of American citizenship—and then we left you. Wo paid no attention to what you have been doing. And now the world war has thrown a searchlight upon our na tional life and what have we discov ered? We find all over these United States, in groups, flttle Gormanys, little Italys, little Austria, little Norways, little Russias. TWese for eign people have thrown a circle about themselves, and instead of keeping the oath they took that they would try to grow American souls inside of them they have studiously striven to exclude everything Amer ican, and to cherish everything for eign. A clever gentleman wrote a ro mance called "America, the Melting Pot." It appealed to our vanity, and ■through all these years we have been seeing romance instead of fact. That is the awful truth. The figure of my country stands beside you to-day. It says to me: "Do not blame this man alone. lam partly to blame. Pun ish him for his offense, but let him know that I see things in a new light; that a new era has come here. Punish him to teach him and the like of him, and all those who have been misled by him and his life, that a change has come; that there must be an interpretation anew of the oath of allegiance. It has been in the past nothing but a formula of words. From this time on it must be translated into living characters Incarnate in the life of every for eiffnor who has his dwelling place within our midst. If they haye been cherishing foreign history, foreign Ideals, foreign loyalty, it must be stopped, and they must begin at once, all 'over again, to cherish American thought, American his <ory, American ideals. I am not so simple as to entertain the idea that racial habits and qual ities can be put aside by the will in a day, in a year, in a generation; but because that is difficult is all the more reason why you should go about it and quit cherishing a for eign life. If half the effort had been put forth in these foreign communi ties to. build up American life in the hearts of these foreign-born citizens that has been put forth to perpetuate there a foreign life our situation would have been entirely different from what it is to-day. You have violated your oath of allegiance in this, that you have cherished foreign ideals and tried to make them ever lasting. That is the basic wrong of these thousands of little islands of foreigners that have been formed through our whole limits, that in stead of trying to remove the for eign life out of their souls and to build up an American life in them they have striven studiously, from „vear to year, to stifle American life and to make foreignness perpetual. I That is disloyalty; and the object, | one of the big objects of this serious ■ proceeding in this court, and other , like proceedings in other courts, is i to give notice that that must be i stopped. I have seen before my eyes an other day of judgment. When we get through with this war and civil liberty is made safe once more upon this earth there is going to be a day of judgment in these United States. Foreign-born citizens and the insti tutions which have cherished for eignness are going to be brought to the Judgment bar of this republic. That dnv of judgment looks more to me to-day like the .great Day of Judgment than anything that I have thought of for many years. There is going to be a separation 011 that day of the sheep from the goats. Every institution that has been en gaged in ihis business of making foreignness perpetual in the United States will have to change or cease. That is going to cut deep, but it is coming. I recognize the right of foreign-born citizens to hear their religion if they cannot understand it in English, spoken to them in the tongue that they can understand. If they have not yet acquired enough English to read, they are entitled to have a paper that shall speak 10' them the language that they can understand. I cannot go further than that. And this is the capital thing that is going to be settled on that day of judgment, namely, that the right to those things is temporary, and it cannot be enjoyed by anybody who is-not willing to regard it as tempo rary and to set about earnestly mak ing the lime of that enjoyment as short as possible. That means a fundamental revision of these for eign churches. No freedom of the press will protect a perpetual for eign press in these United States. It won't protect any press or any church who, while it is trying to meet a temporary need, does not set itself earnestly about the business of making that temporary situation Just as temporary as possible, and not making it, as has been true in the past, just as near perpetual as possible. Men who are not willing to do that will have to choose- If they prefer to cherish foreign ideals they will have to go to their own. If it is necessary we will cancel every certificate of citizenship in these United States. The Federal Govern ment has power to deal with that subject and it is going to deal with it. Nothing else than that surely can be possible. And the object of the sentence which I pronounce upon you to-day is not Rlone to punish you for the disloyalty of which you have been guilty, but to serve notice 1 upon you, and the like of you, and all of the groups of people in this district who have been cherishing foreignness, that the end of that regime has come. It is a call to every one of you to set about ear nestly the growing of an American soul inside of you. The court finds and adjudges that you are guilty under each count of the indictment, and as a punishment therefor it is further adjudged that you be Imprisoned in the Federal Penitentiary at Leavenworth for the term of three years. The sentences under the three counts of the in dictment are to run concurrently and not successively. OCTOBER 10, 1918. THE ACCURSED From the earth, and sky, and sea, Blood cries out on There's no way to silence when Once the blood-cry is on men. High, or deep, or far, or wide. There's no place where they may hide. Now where shall they look for mercy, And what shall they say to pride— When they stand to face the mur dered slaves, And the children who have died, And women come from the sea to say The tale of their guilt on the judg ment day? _ The boys who died before Liege fell, The girls in the Market Place — Will they forget in eternity The mark on the Prussian face? And is there a spot where they may hide From the eyes of the boys they crucified? Are there any tears that can wash them clean? Is there any word that can heal? Whore shall the weight of their lies be laid? To whom shall they appeal, When babies cry from the bayonet At the face where the brand of Cain is set' They shall read their broken treat ies then To the God who has cursed a lie- They shall look at the unblessed mothers when Their sorrows are carried by. The pain, and the fear, and the mad ness stand Like a wall to encircle the Father land. Youth grown old In an hour or two! Hope that crumbled from a blow! I Hell turned loose in the village street j Wherever their armies go! Fire dropped down from the sky! Tae sea Red like a shambles! —Germany. In all blue heaven there is no star. There is no refuge, near nor far. There is not any mercy, when Once the blood-cry is on men. Four winds carry the long curse, Searching through the universe; There's no' way to escape it, when Once the blood-cry is on men. LOUISE DRISCOLL. COST OF THE WAR (From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.) At a time when we are raising the largest loan in the history of the world, it is interesting to get offi cial- figures as to what the war has cost us so far. In eighteen months we have paid out a little less than $19,000,000,000, of which a trifle i more than one-third has been in j loans to our Allies. For .our own purposes we have expended slightly over $12,000,000,000, and our fund ed debt, plus certificates of the Treasury and Thrift Stamps, out standing, amounts to almost exactly $15,000,000,000. Deducting the amount of loans to the Allies, we have increased our debt by only $9,500,000,000, and that is less than the favorable balance of trade since the great war began. In other words, we have paid out for the war only what we have made out of it, not counting an Increase of domestic wealth. The latter has been very great. Time and again in the Senate, in the last few days, it has been stated that the increase in wealth of the country is now at the rate of forty billions a year. We are richer than when the war be gan, and we shall be richer when it closes, no matter how much we shall spend, for we cannot catch up with our Income. These figures are impressive, and indicate clearly that every person can subscribe to the lrv>r> with contl .■nee that there is to be no loss in his investment. Chairs at a Premium The question, "Do soldiers like to read?" was answered in a letter written by the American Library As- I sociatlon's representative at Camp Jackson. "There Is one continual rush from 5.45 a. m. till 11.30 or so at night," he writes. "The new commanding general dropped in to-day and sug gested that we add a front porch to be used as a summer reading room." The situation is as interesting at Camp Greene. The librarian at Camp Greene writes: "Last Thurs day there were 320 men in here looking for books at 7 o'clock. I guess we handled a thousand men that night. There were 53 sitting on the floor reading at one time." Emtitto Gtyat The "side door," appears to be giving more concern to men who are telegraphing to Dr. B. F. Royer, the Slate Commissioner of Health, slnco the Influenza closing order went into effect than the church door. In the last week, the first seven days of the closed period, Dr. Royer has re ceived scores of telegrams regarding phases of the closing order, many of. which are of a character which have been left to discretion of local authorities to settle. Some of them have been insistent and some criti cising. A number of those received have come from owners of saloons who want to know whether the clos ing order will prevent them from leaving the "family entrance" open or whether they can serve customers who come with pails to the side door. Still others declare that they are in danger *of losing customers who eat at their places and who are resentful of their refusal to sell liquors with the viands. Some, of the telegrams have questioned au thority and demanded reference to statutes on the subject. "The bulk of these inquiries" said Dr. Royer, "should never have been made. The authority of the department in such cases is ample. It was enacted into a law in 1905 and has been upheld by the courts. As to the points raised nine tenths of them are mat ters with which local authorities can deal. As far as liquor dispensing is concerned there is nothing doing as long as the order lasts. We have made provision for sales on pre scriptions if there is need of stimu lants in cases." • • It takes the great seals of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of Minnesota 'to enable two American missionaries away over in the eastern part of the Bel gian Congo to get married. One of the missionaries is the daughter of Mrs. Laura Poling, of South Fork, Cambria county, and the difficulties of the affianced pair came to light through a request she made at the Capitol. The mlssionairies decided to marry last winter and in May ap plied to the Belgian authorities. They were told that they would have to comply with the laws on •the subject in their home states. Indications are that it will be De cember before they can wed. It was necessary for the clerk of the Orphans Court of Cambria to take a sheet containing the questions asked in applying for a marriage license and'to certify that it was so used under his hand and seal. Then he had to send it to the Secretary of the Commonwealth for the proper certification from that officer and this was given for one dollar, which the law stipulates must be paid when the great seal, in gilt, is affixed. Now the papers are all ready to start to the Congo as soon as the same set of documents is received from St. Paul, Minnesota beirtg the home state of the prospective groom. The pair .are in a remote part of East Africa. ' a • State Game officials are awaiting the fourth conviction of a Somerset county Austrian to take some dras tic steps against him. This man has been three times arrested and fined • this year for having firearms in his possession. Incidentally, he has violated the game laws. Each time his gun had been confiscated, but he turns up with another one and pays the fine each time. The war dens and State Police are trying to ftnd out where he gets the fire arms and why he is so persistent. The state authorities want to see that he gets the limit of the fine next time. • • * People who attended the funeral of Fire Marshal G. Chal Port at Huntingdon on Tuesday tell of the remarkable proofs of affection shown by the people of that place tp the marshal. Mr. Fort was for years one of the active men of the com munity, a borough and county offi cial and was known to everyone. Men left business and work to at tend the public services in spite of the influenza order and the mes sages received at his home came from many prominent citizens of the state. • • * Almost any evening there are men to be seen out along the River Front above Maclay street with field glasses watching the river and studying var ious localities. They are men who are after ducks. Often the ducks drop down during the late after noon and make themselves comfort able and the duck hunters "spot" them and go out before dayligh't. Half a dozen big flocks have been located by these men in the last week and the sound of guns heard early in the morning shows that they are on the hunt. • • • The excess fare slips about which so much fuss was made a week ago are losing their novelty and con ductors say that people are refusing to take them. The conductors have all been pretty well instructed to offer them when the six-cent fare is paid and they are commencing to' laugh at the way people pass them up. The conductors call them "rain checks" and "pay some days". About half a dozen of the people who get on the cars take the checks and some of them tear them up. • • * Here's another angle on the six cent fare. A conductor said that he wished it had never been put on because it makes so much work for change. "But I'm not in it with the fellows at the office; they're the ones that have to suffer. They have more work and they swear at the pennies more than we do. What we want is a six-cent piece." 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~ —Mayor A. T. Connell, of Scranton, is personally arranging for opening of new wards in hospitals in his city to care for influenza. —Col. "Bill" Fairman, well known to Democrats all over the state, is making real Liberty Loan speeches in his county of Jefferson. —Rollin H. Wilbur, the Lehigh coal chief, is in Canada on a short trip. —Captain Thomas McCormack, i Camp Gordon bayonet instructor, is ill at his home in Pittsburgh. —Dr. Clarence S. Fisher, called to rebuild the mosque on Mount Zion, is curator of the Egyptian section of the University of Penn sylvania museum. —Marcus Rauh has 'feeen elected first vice-president of the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce. 1 DO YOU KNOW —That 'Harrisburg steel Is going Into gun making In several parts of the state? HISTORIC HARRISBURG The old Black Horse tavern which stood at Front and Paxton streets was an army headquartT. during part of the Whisky insur rection.
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