8 HARRISBORG TELEGRAPH 'A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 18S1 Published evening* except Sunday by THE TEL&IRAI'H PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Square- El. J. STACKPOLB President and Editor-in-Chief V. R. OYSTER, Business Manager OVB M. BTBINMETZ, Managing Editor JL R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board J. p. McCULLOUQH, BOYD M. OGELSBY, F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. 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 nAvs published herein. AH rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Member American A. Newspaper Pub- AnHS® •Ushers' Assocla- VBSHESSsBmk tion, the Audit wBSSESnA Bureau of Circu- IfflßiifSSaEßjiW lation and Penn sylvanlft Assocl a ££B Sj East or n office, ' 521 Story, Brooks & 3SB Bjjß JEI Finley, Fifth ISBSlse iW Avenue Building. , SSIL£2fIOB 1® New York City; *■ Western office, jMßpgroaagig Story, Brooks & tM ir*wHC Finley, Peonle's ■W s Building, Wintered at the Post Office In Harrls burg. Pa., as second class matter. -efiEKarjv. Bv carrier, ten cents a week; by mall, $3.00 a year in advance. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1918 Nothing is impossible; there are ways which lead to everything; and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means.— La Rouc'iiefoucaui.d. CONGRATULATIONS THE United War Work Campaign directors are fortunate to have enlisted so excellent a county chairman as E. S. Gerberich, of Mid dletown. Mr. Gerberich is an enthu siastic and energetic supporter of all forms of war work and was chair man of the four Liberty Loan drives in Middictown and vicinity, all of which were highly successful. He is well known in business circles, fintil July 1 of this year having been gen eral manager of the big A. S. Kreid er Shoe Manufacturing Company's plant at Middletown and a director In the entire chain of Kreider fac tories. He is a director of the farmers' Bank, of Middletown, and superintendent of St. Peter's Luth eran Sunday school. He has taken hold of the campaign in a manner that has galvanized the wnole organ ization and will doubtless put the county "over the top." The fact that the war is nearly over does not diminish the need for this money. If anything it accen tuates it. When the fighting is over In France the soldiers cannot be brought home at once. Many of them will not be brought back for fa year or more. They have been go ing fop nearly a year and a half and it is reasonable to believe that at least that period will be required to bring them back. The Y. M. C. A., the Knights of Columbus, the Y. M. H- A., the Y. W. C. A., and the other agencies interested in this drive will be required to keep up their morale, to provide recreation and amusement for them of a wholesome sort. "Sa tan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do," is an old saying that applies to soldiers quite as much as to civilians. Our soldiers must have all the attention during the period after the war, before they can get back home, that they have during the fighting period. Give and give liberally. James J. McGraw, the Republican State Chairman of Oklahoma, in re plying to President Wilson's telegram urging him to get the Republican or ganization In line for the woman suf ferage amendment to the Oklahoma Constitution, declared the organlza •tlon of which he is head was already In line for the amendment and that -the President had better bring pres sure on the Democratic leaders of Oklahoma who were against the 'amendment Again whipping the wil ling horse! GERMANY NEXT THE complete surrender of Aus tria is a forerunner of uncon dltional surrender by Germany, The event may be delayed, but It is as absolute a certainty as though It were already a recorded fact, Germany, with Austria, Bulgaria and Turkey to help, has been fight. |ng a steadily losing battle ever since the American advent at Chateau Thierry, With all ■ the strength her Waning allies could give her, she was t>elng steadily pushed back toward the Rhine, constantly nearlng tho brink of a great military disaster. Unable longer to successfully 'defend ber west front, how can it be ex pected that she will be able to pro. tect Bavaria and the other German border states from invasion by the Italians left free by the defeat of Russia; of the Serbs, rushing up from Belgrade following the eurren. der of Bulgaria; of the British, geady for another campaign on the of the capitulation of Turkey, frad of the French, British and Americans with the victorious armies of Italy, The back door through Austria is ppen, TJia terms of surrender im,* posed upon the erstwhile Dual lsnarchy place the railroads and - other resources of that country at the disposal of the Alll'es, and they . - if TUESDAY EVENING. are to have not only free use of the Danube river, with control of the fortresses, but they are given a suf ficient number of river monitors for a campaign against Germany to the north. They can move up the Dan ube river, both In their own boats and those of the Austrians; they can begin their march from Flume along the Agram, through the ter ritory of the friendly Jugo-Slavs and the Czecho-Slavs; they can march byway of the valley of the Bosna, or go by all three routes, which Is probably the thing that will be done, if for no other reason than these three lines of approach would com pel the detachment of an unusually large force from the sorely be leagured western front. And with this perfectly evident and very real threat in their minds, officers of the German general staff, wrestling with the problem of fight ing on or of quitting, are faced by a disaster of great magnitude near Sedan, where the American forces under General Pershing are sweep ing the Germans before them, while the British and French to the north are developing a pocket that may bag a great portion of the retreating armies. The case of Germany is des perate, even hopeless. These conditions doubtless will have their effect both on the Ger man populace and upon the German military authorities when the dras tic terms 'frartted by the Allies as a basis for an armistice are submitted. The folly of trying to continue the war in the face of unsurmountable difficulties will be forced upon the masses and should make easier the bowing of stiff necked German mili tary prido to the inevitable. Nothing in the Allied demands can be as had as what is coming to Germany if she elects to continue the fighting. The Austrian terms, we are semi officially informed, bear a close re semblance to those wljjch it is pro posed shall be imposed upon Ger many. Doubtless, if anything, Ger many will be more severely dealt with than was Austria. If that be true, acceptance of the armistice by Germany would be equivalent to un conditional surrender, for it would leave the empire with nothing to do but accept whatever peace require ments the Allies choose to dictate. The end of the war is in sight. There is to be no "inconclusive peace." Germany must, now or a little later, bow the knee and admit her utter defeat. Democracy has beaten autoeracy. Right is victor ious over wrong. A new era for man kind the world around is dawning. If anybody has a job which will fit one William Hohenzollern he would do well to communicate at once with Berlin. Bill indicated his willingness a day or two ago to take any old job t':at might be handed to him, but as he is likely to have something else' handed to him shortly, the outlook for anything permanent for the "all highest" is not rosy. ' FORD THE STATESMAN SECRETA'RT DANIELS, who as head of the Navy has been making an excellent reputation since the declaration of war, slipped a cog in his mental machinery the other day when he made a fool state ment relative to the candidacy of Henry Ford for the United States Senate, that— In war he knows how to pro duce weapons to win peace, and in the? problems to be settled after the war his practical judgment as Senator would be of the highest value. This is the same Henry Ford who took a personally conducted "peace ship" to Europe to "get the boys out of the trenches by Christmas,'' 1915. We presume Secretary Daniels ex pects from Mr. Ford as Senator the same weighty statesmanship and depth of judgment that character ized his wildgoose chase to Europe. President Wilson certainly did spill the beans when he let out that yell for more Democrats In Congress to support "me and my policies." This little old country Is owned by some hundred million people and the gov ernment is based on the solid theory of the rule of the people—for, by and of the people—and the job of bossing is not going to be turned over to any imaginary superman. REVERSING HISTORY IT is an old saying that "history repeats itself," and there are in dications that history also may reverse itself. Take Sedan, for ex ample, where the French lost their war to the Germans, and Versailles, where William the rtrst had himself crowned as Emperor of Germany in the place where the French had crowned their kings for generations. It Is Sedan that the American troops are now approaching and It Is at Versailles where the allied war council Is now planning the fate of William's grandson, the present Kaiser, Tho Sedan has been, ever since the disaster which brought the house of Napoleon to its Inglorious end, a sore point with the French, It has been the symbol of complete and utter military defeat. And now comes the American army, crash ing, smashing through the German lines, rushing down on the Sedan railroad, that vital link of the Ger man communications, with the Brit ish and French to the North rap idly converging and driving the Ger mans Into a pocket which threatens them with a catastrophe beside which tho first Sedan would be but a skirmish. At Versailles William the First reaped the rewards of tho German victory, anl it is at Versailles that the Allies are sitting in Judgment over the future not only of his grandson, but of the whole empire over which he reigned with iron hand through the mailed fist of Bismarck, These are happy days for the French, who are seeing Jong delayed vengeance meted out to the royal house and the nation at large which twice conspired to ruin their neighbor, France. We quote from a Parts cable mes sage: Colonel House, returning from the conference, smiled and had an assured air. When his happy ap pearance was commented upon. Colonel House said jocularly: "I always have a happy appear ance. You can't tell what I am thinking by my smile." A sort of Sphynx and Mona Lisa and Sherlock Holmes all rolled Into one In this mysterious Texan personality. Let's hope we may all be able to smile when he tells us the reason. We don't hear much nowadays of the paciflstlc Ideas of the early days of the war and which were expressed in 'tl Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier," "Peace Without Victory," "Too Proud to Fight" and other catch phrases without tlie virility of Amer ican red-blooded patriotism; nor have the people forgotten those respons!"- ble for such sentiment, albeit they were disposed to overlook the stream of such stuff constantly floating out of Washington until the President toyed with the buzzsaw of public Opinion. Let it be understood that the pres ent administration Is a free-trade ad ministration and let It also not be forgotten that the United States was rapidly drifting upon the Industrial rocks when the outbreak of the war i diverted to this country—over all barriers of trado which were broken down—the business of the belligerent nations. President Wilson Is natur ally a free trader and tho working men of the United States should not permit themselves to be soft-soldered by any pretense of great interest In their welfare. Republicans and thousands of Democrats everywhere are to-day sending back to Washington their answer to President Wilson's partisan appeal to support him as a Democrat and not as the head of a great Gov ernment. He and all other men in high places who seek hereafter to pro mote their ambitions through parti san appeal will learn. the useful les son that patriotism knows no party and that camouflage Is never useful In dealing with an Intelligent people. The people of-the United States are making clear to-day their determina tion to maintain a constitutional di vision of aulhority In their govern ment. They do not propose that the legislative branch shall relinquish its powers to the executive. Let's see, Colonel House, of Texas, Is the President's interpreter over there. Wonder what's become of the big Democrats who have given luster to the party in a long period of years? A vote for the Good Roads loan will mean work for thousands In the re construction period after the war. No terms can be too "humiliating and unreasonable" for the Prussian ban dits. Let Foch do It! " fditlw U J n.Kavttra>vta. By the Ex-Coinmlttccman Men familiar with the Democratic party in Pennsylvania the last quar ter 'of a century were wondering whether history Is going to repeat itself and the men who used the re sult in the gubernatorial election of 1910 to "reorganize'' the party in the Keystone State in 1911 und put themselves into power will not face a demand for an accounting them selves in 1919. Eight years is a long time for one faction to be in control of the works of the Demo cratic machine. It is generally believed that when the figures are all in hand that there will be appeals to the Democratic voters of Pennsylvania to clean house. That this has been feared by National Committeeman A. Mit chell Palmer and his pals was dem onstrated by tho Palmer charges j made in this city on the eve of the repudiation of the nominee at a direct primary with Democratic Na tional Chairman Vance C. . McCor mlck sitting in. The coming winter is going to be an interesting one for the titu lar heads of the Democracy in Penn sylvania. They to account to the President for some things and to the voters of the state for others. —Regarding the situation in Phil adelphia as its relates to the Bon nlwell cries and the federal govern- i ment activities the Philadelphia Press to-day says: "The vote-secur ing powers of leading members of President Wilson's Cabinet has been thrown to the support of Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell, Pemocratic nominee for Governor of• nia. This was made known last night at the Bonniwell headquarters.Judge Bonniwell announced that he has re- \ eelved the assurance of Attorney General Gregory, at Washington, that the complete force of the local Department of Justice office will be sent into the Vare wards to guard against fraudulent voting. This fol lowed the charge made by Judge Bonniwell to the effect that approxi mately 50,000 illegal ballots are cast in the downtown wards at a general election. The charge is too foolish to warrant an answer,' said Congress man Vare." ■—Mayor E. V. Babeock, of Pitts burgh, who has been critical of the course of the state administration in the influenza quarantine, seems to have become very Indignant over the developments of yesterday in Pitts burgh. In answer to some of the statements of Dr. B. F. Royer, the acting State Commissioner of Health, he is quoted as saying: "Commis sioner Royer is drunk with power. I am convinced that there is in the ac tions of the State Health Depart ment some 'ulterior purpose, some thing other than a desire to preserve public health. Unless forced by law I will not provide police service to make arrests for alleged violations of the influenza ban placed on this city by Acting Commissioner of Health Royer. In case arrests are made I will be responsible to the magistrates or Judges." —Men in Philadelphia, Lancaster and other places who have been in close touch with the Influenza situa tion and the state's steps to qombat the plague, say there is no doubt whatever that every move made by Acting Commissioner B. F. Royer was with the knowledge and ap proval of Governor Brumbaugh and Attorney General Brown. —Here are the final predictions from the opposing camps in regard to the election in Pennsylvania, One is from a rock-ribbed Republican ■ M ' .. ', ; ' j ! ■ ' I HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH ' j SOMEBODY IS ALWAYS TAKING THE JO? OUT OF LIFE Byßriggs * f~HER6 IAM A REGULAR 1 fHO I TA . ARE Too MUCH AT MtDN , GHT _ St enough ~~iLLTPJ it I to klll an y b( ? dy - HIS GROUCH. I suppose you'll be In the gay so- Ott Ok &£, y clal while this YV, ik Who? Me? NotiSai a chance. The ... further my wife iBQH gets into, society BMP lift'' tho more she realizes that I jII \ don't belong. rul-i] \ WE HAVE OUR DOUBTS. co closely to hor " 1 ' side you stlck When on her m s °" stroke C : 'mr she's Intent; Itijt That when she ■6oft knocks your 2fjK\ dome so Wo can't bo lievo It acci dent. A BREACH. I Slightly Is cer- p|S| J® f ! tainly a man of U understand Miss )ft I k i Butterfly is suing Sj H him for fifty | |X4S MIGHT HELP. V 5 1 have a plan to fe, \S relieve the paper |sj shortage at a \-.i Ji N 0 rat lroad * W \-i ticket to be over N nrm/ |?a one yard in L length. lining (Efrat .. —_ i If there Is such a thing: as reck oning the value of lives lost through! sickness, the potential value as ex perts call it, Ilarrlsburg stands in a fair way to lose two and a hai* million dollars as a result of tb inflejiza epidemic. First and la** it is feared by medical men that the death rate in Harrisburg and in the districts immediately adjacent to it, but not including Steelton, will run close to 500. The generally ac cepted value of a life is $5,000. Of course, many of those who died in our midst were children, but on the other hand lives of greater serv ice to the community and to fam ilies were taken and the sad average is more than maintained. This is one of the most melancholy facts about the epidemic which is offi cially held to have passed its worst phases in llarrisburg to-day. The disturbance in business is hard to reckon. No ono seems to want to figure out monetary loss when the terrible death rate is considered. Ar.d yet, Harrisburg, according to people at the Capito.l is fortunate, compared to some communities. It will be a work of weeks to collect the data on cases and deaths, which the medical men will assemble for study, but enough is known to war rant the assumption that deaths were about 1,000 a day in the Key stone state in October. Cases of In fluenza, many of which turned into pneumonia are known to have gone well on the way to a quarter of a million. Just what this has meant ' to a state like Pennsylvania, which is bearing so much of the burden of production for the war and given over 325,000 men to the army and navy is appalling to consider. Th% prayer in Harrisburg is that such t. thing as influenza will never come again. • • • In regard to influenza the Phila delphia Evening Bulletin makes this trite observation: "At least there should be rigid enforcement of the regulation requiring physicians to report promptly every case of influ enza to which they are called. With full allowance for the common ex aggeration of numbers in any pub lic report or estimate, and for the distinction of the medical profes sions between bad colds and actual influenza, the number of cases re ported seemß inadequate as a meas ure of the spread of the disease. It may easily be understood that the sudden stride of the plague which taxed the doctors f the city almost b'eyond their physical ability, pre vented the full and prompt report of cases which otherwise would have been made. But, as in the case of the quarantine, if we turn back to the beginning of the scourge, an immediate report of each case would • have been possible. It would have been made, had the first case been one of smallpox. Why should it not be if this disease show itself in this city again, whether it be next spring, or another fall?" • • • Samuel Hobb, a Pennsylvania railroad nyxn residing at Dauphin,' nas givep the people at the State Department of Agriculture some thing to think about in the way of turnips and the people at that office who are up to date on the produce of Pennsylvania say that they are thinking of bestowing flrst honors. Mr. Hobb sent to the department a few days ago a turnip which they thought was two turnips. It weighs something over eleven pounds and the people "on the Hill want to pre serve it. •• • * The Are on Blue Mountain which has been giving the people above Enola some uneasiness is the first to occur on that section of tho ridge that forms the big gap in a long time. Some of the people liv ing in ttie railroad town have gone out to fight it but say that it is a hard job. Tho firoWarted late Sat urday. \ V> | -WELL. KNOWN PEOPLE —Governor Brumbaugh is the guest of friends in suburban Phil adelphia over election day. —Secretary of Internal Affairs Houck is voting at his home in Shenandoah to-day. He has voted there for years. —State Treasurer H. M. Kephart is touring Fayette county for his brother's election to the supreme court to-day. —lnsurance Commissioner Charles A. Ambler says Montgomery is go ing to turn in a big Itepublican majority. —Highway Commissioner J. Denny O'Neil plans to inspect the western end of the Lincoln highway and the new link in Beaver dounty the remainder of this week. ' Forestry Commissioner Robert S. Conklin has been on a tour of some of the new state forestry tracts. He nas seen the reserve area treble in size and many times in value. —Chairman W. D. B. Ainey, of the Public Service Commission, is back among the home folks in Sus quehanna county for the election. —Speaker R. J. Baldwin, of the House, says this is the flrst election in which Jie has not been a candi date for some years. [ DO YOU KNOW 1 —Tlint oil tills election day over 1,500 Hnrrlsburgcrs are away from home on national sendee ? HISTORIC HARRISBURG John Harris' house was the vot ing place for this end of Lancaster county before the town was estab lished. GERMAN-MADE TOYS Was ever anything more cyn ically, stupidly, brutally Hunnish than the sending hither of a ship load of Germam-made toys for tho Christmas gifts of American chil dren? We wonder if it was sent in token of the children murdered on the Lusitania, or of the Belgian babies bayoneted in their cradle* and borne about the streets thus impaled as trophies of German valors or yet of the children of other lands to whom poisoned caridies were dis tributed by the same gentle and child-loving Huns? • Tho shop keeper who would sell or the par ent who would purchase a German made toy should be scourged with whips of scorpions by all the chil dren of the land.—Col Harvey's War Weekly. Shopping For the A. E. F. Do your Christmas packing early for the boys in France