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TUESDAY. OCTOBER 15. 1918
\ There are moments in the life both j
of men and nations, both of the j
world and of the church, tchen razf
blessings are gained, vast dangers
averted, through our otcn exertions —
by the stcord of the conqueror, by the
genius of the statesman, by the holi
ness of the saint.— ARTHUR PESRHYR
STARLET.
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BORROWING TO BUY
THE Harrisburg Railways Com
pany set a very excellent exam
ple for other corporations yes
terday when it went into bank and
borrowed $25,000 with which to in
crease its Liberty Loan purchases. j
"Borrowing to buy" is a healthy way
to obtain Liberty Bonds. The Gov
ernment does not desire the pur
chases to be made out of current
revenues. It has provided a means (
of term payment whereby the sub- j
scriber is to pay for his bonds on ,
the instalment plan. Thus the cor- ;
poration or the individual has oppor
tunity of buying now and paying ;
later —even of borrowing the first j
instalment and of paying off the
debt out of earnings of the next
six months.
It is not a matter now of per
sonal sacrifice or willingness to in
vest. The Liberty Loan must be put
over. The honor of the city and i
the good faith of the nation are at
stake. We must not fail.
It behooves every man to search
first his own conscience and to
hearken to the promptings of that
still, small voice, and then to use
his Influence with his friends and
neighbors to increase their bond
purchases. And It is the duty of
every representative of a corpora
tion with credit in bank to see tj>
it that his company puts every dol
lar into Liberty Bonds its resources
will stand.
No settlement with the cutthroats !
of Germany will be satisfactory to the I
American people which does not "in- j
elude indemnities for the destruction j
which has followed in the wake of the ;
Hun armies and her submarine devil
fish. Butchery of old men and chil
dren, the outraging of women and the
pillaging and burning of towns, all
these, and more, must be compensated
for by the outlaw government of Ger
many.
GOOD WORK
THE members of the Emergency '
Aid of Camp Hill deserves the |
thanks of the community for!
their prompt and efficient service in !
the influenza epidemic. The ladies
of the organization have made dozens
of pneumonia jackets and have dis
tributed them and other medical
supplies where they are most need
ed. They have cooked gallons upon
gallons of nourishing beef broth for i
families unable to prepare it for !
themselves and they have taken j
turns in nursing the sick, while their 1
husbands have acted as drivers for
physicians too fatigued to keep go- |
ing without help. This is service I
that dollars cannot buy and it re- j
fleets a community spirit of which j
any town might be justly proud.
The doctors ought to be able to buy i
more Liberty Bonds.
DID YOU DO IT ?
WHOEVER started this "clean
the-furnace" idea, anyway?
Lead the villlan forth and j
let him be roast in his own flrepot. j
"Clean your furnace —a patriotic '
duty." is the way the sign read, but i
the artist made a mistake. "Duty"
is too mild a word; sacrifice, it
should have been.
The way the thing was worded if
sounded just like buying Liberty
Bonds, or giving to the Red Cross—
this "clean the furnace" business—
and just as pleasant and easy. And
with respect to furnaces in general,
this may all be true. But there is one
particular furnace in this old burg
that has a temper like a man in the
first stages of Spanish influenza and
a disposition like the Kaiser at an
October war .conference. It has a
grate that evidently was at one time
champion of the gentle art of high
and lofty tumbling, a pipe that ma-
TUESDAY EVENING,
lldously conceals tons of soot to,
dump down the collars of unwary
pedestrians, doors that are as hard
to keep in place as a unit of
Infantry on the Hindenburg line and
a draft that ought to go up when It
insists or* going down, and always
down when it should be up.
Fooling with that furnace has cost
one man in Harrisburg the love of
his wife and the respect of his chll
drn, made him break his pledge
against swearing, caused him to loose
a half yard of bark oft one shin,
wear his left thumb in a sling and
has made him ashamed to face hiß
pastor. He took the coal commis
sion's advice to clean his furnace and
he did it—but he soiled his char
acter.
As between cleaning the furnace
and renouncing all his claims for
exemption, he has decided, if the
war lasts that long, that next year
about the 9th of October, rather
than tackle the job again, he'll ask
to be inducted, with the understand
ing that he be sent to France at
once. He has made up his mind that
as he has but one life to give for his
country he might as well die in a
trench as in an ashpit.
ON WITH THE WAR
PRESIDENT WILSON'S reply to
the latest German peace note is
everything the allied people could
desire. It meets public opinion in
every respect and justifies those who
saw in the President's first note
merely a diplomatic Instrument de-
I signed to set the German govern
| ment before its own people as well I
as before the world as accepting
terms, from the imposition of which j
it hoped to squirm by the trickery j
of diplomatic interchange. •
The President's communication 1
shuts the door to peace by negotia-,
tion. If the war is not to be car
ried to German soil, German com-':
manders must quit fighting on what- L
ever terms Foch. Pershing and Haig
may decide, and there can be no/
'
doubt the guarantees they demand
will be ample and sufficient. It is (
no longer possible for Germany to
dicker with the Allied governments)
by the mere expedient of dethroning,
the Kaiser. The President stipulates
that he and the whole German!
I
autocracy must go, but even after
that terms of armlst'ce will be die- f
tated by the Allied military authori- ;
ties.
Summed up, the message means I
simply this: That the Allies will not
deal with the German people—ex
cept as a completely conquered na
tion —until the military government
has been overthrown, and then only
after sufficient' guarantees have been
given General Foch end his subor
dinate commanders to make it cer- j
tain tffat Germany will not be able I
to resume the war. In other words,:
nothing but what amounts to uncon-f
ditional surrender will meet the j
terms of the President's note.
This Is what the world expected.
Nothing else would have been ac
ceptable. Of course, Germany will
refuse to accede. The Kaiser will
throw off his sheepskin and appear
again as the wolf he Is. The note, I
when it reaches the Allied armies,'
will give tremendous encouragement
to the fighters. They will drive:
ahead with renewed vigor. They,
are out to conquer Germany. We
must match their efforts at home, j
On with the war—both in the;
1 trenches and here at home. Down;
I with the Kaiser nnd all he repre-;
, sents! Everybody is enlisted In the ,
[great cause. For *he sake of our
selves and our children, wc devote!
our whole thought and effort te
! translating the President's terms into;
actualities.
LIBERTY BONDS AS CASH
[ A MAN who would refuse to take
, a Federal Reserve banknote or
! a National Bank greenback In
j payment for a day's labor, a bushel
| of potatoes, or any commodity, or any
, transaction wherein money figures,
j would be counted "oft his trolley,"
Ito use a slang term. Paper money,
j with Uncle Sam's authority on it,
! Is demanded by men instead of metal
money and the bank tellerwho would
i shove over a bag of coin instead of
a packet of notes in cashing a check
for $lOO, for Instance, would be apt
to Irritate.
Warrants of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, which has an in
come of 135.000.000 a year and does
not owe anybody anything, are not
only accepted at face value, but very
much desired. And rightly so.
Paychecks of the Pennsylvania,
Reading or any of the railroads
around here are taken at face value
and cashed by anyone who is asked
in the ordinary course of business.
And it is good business.
And so, why, in the name of com
monsense, a Liberty Bond should not
be legal tender in fact and cash in
business It Is hard to see. The only
difference Is that It is a little larger
In sfze than a banknote and Just
now on stock exhanges Is a cent or
! so down, with chances that as soon
I as this war ends it will go kiting to
a premium.
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7>UIUC* IK
*Pen-it44jttfaiua>
By the Ex-Conunltteeman | ,
Plans to name one election com
missioner to conduct the electiops
on November S for each 1.500 sol
diers from Pennsylvania in the camps
and cantonments of the United States
may be changed and one man be
named for each 1,000 in the camps
.where there are many men from
the Ke.vstolie State and ' to detail
commissioners for camps # where
there are small numbers. This is
the day whereon camp commanders
were asked to report to the Adju
tant General the number of Penn
sylvanians in their camps. The re
ports are expected to be completed
.by the end of the week and the
j commissioners will then be named
and likely be called to meet here
next week for instructions by the
; Secretary of the Commonwealth, the
officer in charge.
I Holding of the elections is not
going to be an easy Job this year
las the men are scattered through
'many units in various camps and it
;is estimated that there are well over
160,000 in the big camps of the
country and hundreds scattered
'through aviation and other stations
where men are being given special
ized training, being organized into
United States Guards or for special
service. Over 10,000 more men will
[go out before the end of the month,
j Men will be given honorary' com
| missions for foreign service in event
ithat it is possible they may be al-
Ilowed to have supervision of elec
tions abroad, but that hope is very
'dim.
Scores of men would like the
places and it is expected that the
selections this year will be different
In personnel from those of 1917.
! —Democratic State Executive
i Committeemen who will meet in
Philadelphia Saturday to fill vacancies
and decide upon how far the Dem
jocratic state organization shall go
'into the campaign have been sound
jing sentiment as to whether the
("State Headquarters should confine
;itself to Congressional elections or
the Palmer-McCormick regime go
on the stump. Some of the Demo
cratic leaders, scenting a demand
for reorganization when the returns )
are in, think the statq organization '
should not emphasize the split in !
the party. No candidates are in
sight as yet for the vacancy in the ;
15th Congressional district.
—State officials are arranging to :
ask early argument in the escheat
act test in which President Judge
George Kunkel, of the Dauphin
county court, upheld the constitu- I
tionality of the law, and lnferent
ially, the act of 1917, supplementing
the statute of 1915, which it is ex
ipected will'be immediately appeal
ad to the Supreme Court. The Kun
kel decision was given after the case
had been sent back for an opinion
on constitutional questions and pre
parations have been made by state
officials to defend it. Frank M. Eas
jirian of this city, is the special coun
sel in charge of the proceedings. The
Auditor General's office has been
getting ready to enforce the law
against which Pittsburgh banks and
attorneys have been fighting for
'three years. Many thousands of dol
lars will be involved it is believed
here.
—A Harrisburg dispatch to the
Philadelphia Inquirer says: "Of
more than 32,000 men registered or
enrolled as qualified to vote at the'
November election In Dauphin
county, over 21,000 arc Republicans,
according to the official lists. These
figures, are taken directly from the
personal declarations of the voters
themselves and are the most strik
ing commentary upon the manner in
which the Republican organization
in the home county of Democratic
National Chairman Vance C Mc-
Cormick has ""keen at work. ' It ia
the greatest preponderance of Re
publicans known In the enrollment
in the districts in the county out
side of the city and one of the most
remarkable ever known in Harris
burg since the enactment of the
personal registration law for cities."
—Registration in Pottsville shows
that there are 3.764 Republicans
registered and 1,306 Democrats, a
ratio of nearly three Republicans to
one Democrat. There are but three
registered as Washington Party, sev
en Prohibitioirists Kid eleven So
cialists. The Democratic candidates
can take no comfort from those fig
ures. It is believed .that the reg
istration throughout Schuylkill coun
ty will also show big gains by the
Republicans.
—"Senators Sproul andßeidleman.
the Republican candidates for Gov
ernor and Lieutenant-Governor, and
Representative James F. Woodward,
nominee for Secretary of Internal
Affairs, will sweep the county with
the largest pluralities in the history
of the party for state candidates.
They will more than repeat the vote
cast for Colonel Roosevelt for Presi
dent," is a Schuylkill prediction.
"For Congress, John Reber, .of
Pottsville, the Republican, is gain
ing In popularity every day. He is
making a campaign without any
bombast."
i ONLY BY SURRENDER
[From the New York Times]
! No armistice can be granted to
Germany on the terms she proposes.
They would allow her to extricate
her armies from positions growing
every day more perilous, where ini
jmense losses or actual destruction
i confronts them. They would permit
| her to withdraw in safety her men
,and material of war to .new and
much shorter lines of defense, where,
•employing every moment of the re
jspite in reorganization, her dimlnish
'ed man-power could be much more
• effectively employed to resist the
'enemy's advance. Incalculable mili
tary advantage would accrue to her
ifrom the cessation of arms at this
! time.
I Surrender, not an armistice, must
!be the condition precedent to any
Italk about peace. Let Germany give
'guarantees that by withdrawal from
invaded territory she means with
drawal from the war, disarmament,
demobilisation, that she confesses
defeat, has no purpose to resume
hostilities. Let her give up Metz and
Strassburg to be occupied by allied
garrison forces. Metz is in Lorraine,
Strassburg in Alsace. There can be
no peace, there should be no arm
istice, until the two provinces, both
! fortresses, have been restored to
France. But It must be an armistice
on land and sea. Let Germany give
her navy, with all her submarines,
into the keeping of the United
States and the nations associated
with us in the war, to be held in
trust subject to the decree of inter
national disarmament and to the re
quirements of the League of Nations
for a naval police force.
Bulgaria Got Awake
[Kansas City Star.]
The Dusseldorfer Nachrlchten de
clares that Germany's alliance with
Bulgaria "was a mistake.'' That's
what Bulgaria discovered.
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THE COM'ING ELECTION
[Philadelphia Inquirer]
"We are coming close to
the November election and we
have had comparatively little
campaigning so far as the Re
publican candidates are conern
ed. War conditions are chiefly re
sponsible for this state of affairs,
i Senator Sproul set the pace when
ihe deliberately ceased to work for
his election in order to give all of
his time and labor to .the promot
ing of the Fourth Liberty Loan.
It was the proper and the patri
otic thing to do, but this does not
mean that we are not to pay any
attention to the political campaign.
On the contrary, the moment the i
! bond campaign is ended it will be
necessary *o go into* the state con
gest with vigor. Indeed, good citi
i zens must make up their minds'
I that the issues of the day are of su
' preme importance and that it is es
; sential for the good of the people
: that a Republican Governor in the I
j person of Mr. Sproul shall be
ielected.
i "It is estimated that the registra
l tlon of voters in Philadelphia this
1 fall will show a decrease of about
; 35,000 as compared with the fig
i ures of last year. It is not hard
|to understand this falling off, be-
I cause there have been, approxi
mately, 35.000 drafted men sent
from this city into the camps and
•over there' in the last twelve
months. None of the men abroad
will be given the opportunity of
voting, and for that reason the duty
of those who are still "back home'
becomes all the more imperative.
"This means hard work for 11 of j
the county committees, because it is j
essential that the full vote be gotten ,
out on election day. With the re- j
duced registration every voter is go-1
ing to count. There is no doubt
about the feeling of the vast major
ity of the voters in Pennsylvania
but it will not do to let the election
|go by default."
A MAD WORLD
[From Christian Science Monthly]
Fear is the most prolific source of
evil. Of course if fear were under
stood in its full metaphysical signi
ficance. it would be understood to
be the provoking cause of all evil i
of every sort. But even from the '
. ordinary point of view of the world. I
fear, when it communicates itself
to numbers, is capable of causing i
greater disaster than any other
phase of the human consciousness.
The pagan philosophers realized
that there was such a thing as the
fear of fear, in other words, as they
stated it, the fear of death was
worse than death itself. Centuries
later Shakespeare appropriated the
idea, and put precisely the same
sentiment into the mouth of Isa
bella, in "Measure For Measure." and
indeed, anyone who knows anything
at all of history knows disease was
i spread upon the wings of fear in
the case of that awful visitation of
the fourteenth century known as the
Black Death, and again when a pes
tilence of a similar nature swept
London, in the seventeenth century.
Some day the world will come to
see that what it calls contagion is
a mental contagion, and that what
it calls infection is the infection of
one mind from another. Orthodox
medical practice to-day largely rec
ognizes this, but it draws back from
the logical consequences of its own
admission, and endeavors to shelter
itself in a halfway-house, which is
built partially out of mind and par
tially out of matter.
FAITHLESS
TFrom the Kansas City Times]
When the German Chancellor's
rejfly shall have been received, con
veying In some way or other, as
It must, the Information that he
represents the German government,
the President could find no better
words for his answer than are In
his speech of September 27. when
he said:
"We are all agreed that there can
be no peace obtained by any kind
of bargain or compromise with the
governments of the Central Empires,
because we have dealt with them
already and have seen them deal
with other governments that were
parties to this struggle, at Brest.
Lltovsk and Bucharest. They have
convinced us that they are without
honor and do not Intend Justice.
They observe no covenants, accept
no principle but force and their In
terest. We cannot "come to terms"
with them. They have made It Im
possible. The German people, must
by this time be fully aware that we
cannot accept the word of those
who forced this war upon us. We
do not think the aame thoughts or
I speak the same language of. agree
ment."
KAISER SPEAKS AGAIN
("Our navy is holding its own
against the united enemy naval
forces and is unwaveringly support
ing the army."—Wllhelm Hohen
zollern.)
Though here and there by tempest
blown,
The Allied warships sail the sea;
My gallant navy holds its own
And that's enough for it and me.
We scorn the foreign boasts banal.
We hold our own—the Kiel Canal.
Britannia the waves may plow
And move her ships in manner
grand,
But let me ask George here and now
Whose navy is it rules the land?
We fear no foemen's loud effront'ry
Unless he sends his ships 'cross
country.
While Allied warcraft soil their
paint
Through being out in nasty weather,
I keep mine clean and free from
taint
All in their little ditch together.
No blows of wave or foe we feel
From River Elbe up to Kiel.
We give the army great support.
Our Interest in it does not lag.
Exultantly in every port
Our seamen loudly toast "der Tag."
This custom they must soon forego.
Our Wine supply is getlng low.
The Allies loudly claim they are
The lions of the ocean wide;
They send their warships near and
far,,
I keep mine new and safe inside.
This name I claim for them and me.
We are the Groundhogs of the Sea!
—Exchange.
FOOD FROM THE EAST
(George McPherson Hunter, in New
York Times.)
Much is being made, and quite
naturally, about the military effects
on the war by the collapse of the
Bulgarian offensive powers, and the
submission to the terms of the Allies.
Its political effect on and
I the Balkan problem is so great and
fraught with so many issues, all
of them of immediate Importance,
that its effect on the food situation,
is nearly forgotten.
In the Near East, cultivation can
be resumed in Palestine. Already
iin Mesopotamia, as the result of
British occupation, by employing In
dian farmers, foodstuffs enough to
support the soldiers in the cam
paign are being raised.
Along the boilers of the Black
Sea, especially in the Crimean Pen
insula, and from the land around
the Sea of Azov, the grain trade is
immense.
In peace times whole fleets of
vessels were engaged in transport
ing grain to Northern Europe. It
is no exaggeration to coll the Black
Sea region, with its outlet through
i the Dardanelles, the bread basket of
! Northern Europe.
The Black Sea grain carriers took
their cargoes to Antwerp, Rotter
dam, Hamburg, and other ports in
the north. How much these regions
have suffered from the closing of
that trade, and how deep the dis
tress it caused In Bulgaria, Rumania.
Turkey, and Russia, we know by
the reports of th millions who have
died of sheer starvation.
Bulgaria's collapse and surrender
mean hope for a harvest next sum
mer. Turkey out of the war means
the lands dominated by her begin
ning again to cultivate the soil and
feed themselves. To be sure, seed
and Implements mav be scarce, and
the export trade will not be revived
for several years. But the hearten
ing thing about it is the relief it
promises in the world's food situa
tion. It is not only the beginning
of the end of the war but of war's
ugliest concomitant famine.
Expecting to Be Thanked
[From the Phlla. Public ledger]
A good deal of time Is wasted In
sitting around expecting thanks.
Those who pay least attention to
applause and praise get most of It.
What they never sought gravitates
toward them. Fortune, tha], fickle
Jade, makes eyes at those who never
wooed her. The cat, a fascinatingly
capricious animal, comes to your
chair and purrs because you have
not notloed It. An audience has Its
own way of rebuking the enter
tainer who makes the direct bid
for approval. It bestows Its suf
frages where It pleasea It likes
best what appears artless and un
studied. The Ingenuous and the
spontaneous carry Hfelr own appeal.
The devices that draw laughter must
not obtrude. Sophistication must
i put on a disguise and pretend a
I charming pagan Innocence,
General Wood's Birthday
[From the Kansas City Star]
Fifty-eight and fit to fight!
That typifies the spirit of Maj.
Gen. Leonard Wood, "the prophet
of preparedness," who to-day is cele.
brating his fifty-eighth birthday.
Born October 9. in the little village
of Winchester, N. H., the future
commandant of Camp Funston early
was setzed with a desire to lead a
seafaring life and at an early age
is said to have made several short
voyages along the Atlantic Coast.
Now, despite the disappointment
of last spring, when he was refused
permission to accompany the 89th
Division overseas, he is training an
other division of the United States
Army, the 10th, and his greatest
reward would be to see service in
France at the head of troops that
he has changed from raw material
into the finished product in record
breaking time.
General Wood instilled his fight
ing spirit into the men and officers
of the 89th, now near the battle
line in France, and the men of the
10th, of which he is the acting com
mander. have imbibed the same vim
and desire for service that charac
terized the earllpr unit.
General Wood has no Illusions re
garding the war and his program for
bringing it to a victorious conclu
sion, as set forth in one of his
speeches, reads something like this:
"The war will last until Germany
is beaten.
"To accomplish this America may
have to send five million men to Eu
rope.
"For nearly four years England
and France bore the burden of sav
ing the world from German domina
tion and now America must become
the dominant factor.
"This county is now engaged in
raising a Liberty Loan. It must
100k forward to raising still more
Liberty Loans and to do this every
person must save and work to pro
vide funds and to release men for
war purposes.
"Every one at home must serve
while the arfny is going abroad to do
the fighting."
That is General Wood's program,
typical of the man and the soldier,
on whom Kansas, in recognition of
I the abilities of the senior major gen
eral of the army. conferred the title
of "Citizen Extraordinary" by guber
natorial proclamation.
The tievelation of the Hun
[From the North American Review's
War Weekly]
The Hun now stands revealed. So
likewise stands that assistant Hun
whom w-e commonly call Bolshevik.
It would be Impossible to exaggerate
the significance of the disclosures
which our Government is making of
the results of Its agents' efficient ac
tivities in Russia. It may be that
there is little that Is new in them.
Practically all the essential facts
have been stated, and believed, be
fore. But the important thing is
that we before saw through a glass,
darkly, we now see face to face In
the ipslssima verba of German and
Russian ofllcial documents. It Is
such a of almost every
conceivable national and Interna
tional vice and crime as horrified
humanity has never known before.
Ry the side of. its appalling details,
Marat and Robespierre seem humane :
and Benedict Arnold loyal and hon
orable.
These are what they show:
That as far back as 1887, under
Moltke, Caprivl and Waldersee. a
war for world-conquest by Germany
was planned; so definitely that when
In 1914 the war wea actually be
gun, it was begun on the identical
plans of twenty-seven years befofe.
The war of 1914 simply executed
the consplraoy Of 1887.
That in the early summer of 1914,
before the assassinations at Sarajevo,
preparations were made for immedi
ately begtnning a great European
and world-wide war: for which the
quickly-following assassinations serv
ed as a convenient pretext. This
throws a fearful reflection of plausi
bility upon the charge, which has
been explicitly made by writers of
Information and character, that
those assassinations were officially
arranged for at Vienna and Berlin
for the purpose which they served.
That early in the war and long
before our entry it*to it the German
Government directed the "hiring
and bribing" of "anarchists and es
! coped criminals" and others, to
cause fires, explosions, riots and
other like occurrences throughout
the United States; at a time when
the United Btates was scrupulously
neutral and was on friendly terms
with Germany.
OCTOBER 15, 1918.
Fixing a Date in History
[New York Times.] '
SenatoijJLodge thinks that to raise
the question whether the Germans
"warned the passengers of the Lusi
tania,' as a publishing house did in
an advertising circular, "by indirec
tion or by implication a defense of
Germany in one of the very most
villainous things she has ever done,"
it may be, but it is a most unsuccess
ful defense. If at this late date any
body is trying, as Senator Lodge
[says, to defend Germany on the
[ground that she warned her intend
ed victims, it is lost labor.
.We all remember that warning;
on May 1, 1915, an advertisement J
signed "Imperial German Embassy,"
warned all travelers, without men
tioning those going on any one ship,
that vessels flying any allied 'flag
were liable to destruction, "and that
travelers sailing in the war zone on
ships of Great Britain or her allies
do so at their own risk.' That ad- !
vertisement fixes a date in the minds
of human beings the world over. For
we can all remember that .at that
time we thought of Germany as a
civilized country. Despite her atro
cities in Belgium, we still supposed
that she was, if on a lower plane
than other countries, still far re-
I moved from barbarism. And no
human being who read that adver
tisement believed a word of it.
Every one knew that England would
not commit such a crime, nor
France, nor Italy, nor Uussia under
the Czar; and, knowing this, no one
eapposed for a moment 'rat Ger
many would commit It. It was it
f-uVict for gc.isip and gen ii mlr:lt
on the Lusitania herself: au :unus
ing piece of b'ti'f. everybody raid.
l\w far v/-> have travned since
that time! No matter what loath
some crime Germany migh 1 IJOW ad
vertlse that she >as going to com
mit, every one in the world would
believe her completely and instantly.
It was on May 1, 1915, that the gen
eral receplon of that advertisement
proved that the world believed Ger
many to be civilized. Six days later
the belief was shattered, nev±r moie
to enter the mind of man.
LABOR NOTES
A few ago there were C#,-
000 men working on ships. To-dc.y
there are 350,000 working on ships
and 360,000 more on accessories,
making about 700,000 men at work
on ships or on parts of ships.
Standard wage scale, representing
about $l6 a month increase per-man,
is announced by the Federal Ship
ping Board for members of the dock
and engine departments of Atlantic
ships.
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It record and tradition are any
thing to steer by HArisburg should
meet the call made upon Its people
by the national government for
funds. Readers of this column are
familiar with the part that the ham
let which grew up about John Har
ris' Ferry and developed into the
Capitol city of the second state In
the Union has played In American
history and how its sons not only
fought the Indians and the French
In western Pennsylvania and left
their bones from Quebec to Savan
nah In the Revolution, but have
given of their lives in every war II
and in every country wherein the
Stars and Stripes have been lifted
In battle. And the men who have
stayed at home have pledged their
money in equally patriotic fashion.
The residents of this district loaned
their money to the Congress at a
time when such an act was classed
as treason by the British govern
ment and to be caught meant the
noose. In the Civil War they loaned
money when Lee's army was almost
In sight of the Capitol and confis
cation of property would have been
the result had the' Southern army
crossed the Susquehanna. They
have met the call in times more
fiery thnn those of to-day and when
the demand was almost as great in
proportion to wealth here as at
present.
Just as an illustration of the spirit
which animated the Founder of Har
rlsburg this well-authenticated story
mfiy be told from the memoirs of
George Washington Harris, who lived
until a comparatively few years ago
and whose recollections of his dis
tinguished forefather were first
hand. "When Independence was
first agitated," wrote Mr. Harris,
"John Harris thought the Declaration
premature, but when Independence
was declared he promptly espoused
the cause." Just what this meant
may be understood when it is stated
that Harris was the richest man in
this neighborhood. He was the
leading man and looked up to by
settlers and Indians alike. When
he made his decision there were
no Tories left in the neighborhood.
When the Philadelphia newspapers
containing the Declaration of 1776
arrived at the Ferry Mr. Harris
writes that John Harris took his
mother aside and in the presence
of one of his sons read that docu
ment to her. His mother was the
wife of the man who had estab
lished the Ferry and the son was
the first white child born on the
banks of the Susquehanna. "When
he concluded the reading" wrote
George Washington Harris upon
whom the recital of this family scene
(made a great impression, "he ob
j served that the 'act was now done'
land that the war 'in which we are
I about to- engage can not be carried
on without money.' Addressing his
mother he said 'Now, we have 3,000
(pounds in the house, and if you are
agreed, I will take the money to
Philadelphia and put it into the pub
lic treasury to carry on the war.' "
Mr. Harris writes that when the
mother agreed Harris took the
money to Philadelphia where "he
deposited it in the Treasury and took
certificates." After the war and
when the debts were funded these
certificates rose to be worth 25 shill
ings the pound.
Not only did Harris reap, the bene
fit of his patriotism just as we are
going to get ours in Liberty Bonds,
but he had three sons in the Revol
♦ion, wherein he had the rank of
captain and quartermaster himself.
David Harris was a colonel and
William and John were captains.
His son-in-law, William Maclay,
later a United States Senator, was
a captain. In 1778 when the situ
ation in Northumberland county was
critical Harris wrote to the Execu
tive Council and voluntered his as
sistance- in transporting supplies to
the afflicted region. When the peo
ple from the Wyoming massacre fled
down the river Harris cared for
many of them here. One of the
families whom he then befriended
was that of Conner, whose son David
Conner, later commodore and the
man who took Vera Cruz, was born
here. Harris gave freely of his
means and loaned more money to
the government in these trying times
and in 1779 helped to establish an
grmy supply depot at the Ferry and
advanced money to buy flour, while
it is well known that supplies for
Sullivan's punitive expedition against
the Indians were gathered here and
that Founder Harris helped in the
work.
• • •
The presence of Major William
B. Gray in town yesterday recalled
his speech before the Harrisburg
Rotary Club a few weeks ago in
which he told the Rotarlans that one
of the chief reasons for locating the
big ordnance and quartermaster's
plants at this place was the well
known loyalty of the people of this
section. "Those familiar with the
unsurpassed railroad facilities of
Harrisburg urged that the depots be
located here for that reason." said
Major Gray. "At the conference
which chose the sites for these de
velopments were many of the noted
engineers and traffic men of the
country, including high representa
tives of the army. When the ques
tion of Harrisburg was under dis
cussion one of the most influential
and experienced 'of the army offi
cers said that Harrisburg should be
selected for the reason that there
never was any question about the
loyalty of the people. This officer
told his fellows that a careful study
of the history of Central Pennsyl
vania showed the citizens to be in
tensely patriotic and ready to lay
down their lives for their country.
Jde said if the depots were located
here there never would be any ques
tion of defense in case of invasion,
that the people would defend them
with their life-blopd."
• •
| State Commissioner ot Fisheries
[Nathan Ft. Buller is doing yeoman
service at the Pleasant Mount Hatch
ery. When the Commissioner went
home to spend the weekend he
found that Influenza had hit the
establishment and yesterday he
turned In and spent the day work
ing with the young fish and arrang
ing the work. The Fisheries De- .
partment has been hard hit, Chief
Warden Albert being among the men
laid up.
| WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—General C. T. Cresswell. com
mandant of the Reserve Militia,
is assisting in the Influenza cam
paign In the eastern part of the
state.
—E. Lowry Humes, former United
States district attorney, Is In Wash
ington in connection with the brew
ers case. /
F DO YOU"KNOW [
—That thousands of the dollars
subscribed here for Liberty
Bonds come back again In the
fonp of wages and materials?
HISTORIC KARRISBURG
This was one of tho first towns
on what Is now the Pennsylvania
main line to come forward with
cash for building of the line Just
as it had been a subscriber for the
building of turnpikes.