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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
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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."
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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.