8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH id NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded ISSI Published evenings except Sunday by •THE TEI,*SRAIH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief • F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager GUB M. BTEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager.- Executive Board S. P. McCULLOUGH. V BOYD M. OGELSBY, F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. w—. 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 published herein. UUI rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion, the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Ea stern office, Story. Brooks & Finley, Fifth Building Western office, Finley, People's Oa s Building, Entered at the Post Office in Harrls burg. Pa., as second class matter. By. carrier, ten cents a week; by mall, J3.00 a year In advance. 0 Truth is easy, and the tight shines clear In hearts kept open, honest and sin cere. ABRAHAM COLES. WEDNESDAY, NOV. 13, 1918 • Remember the Fallen forth and bid the land rejoice, Yet not too gladly, O my song! Breathe softly, as If mirth would wrong The solemn rnptnre of thy voice. Be nothing done or snid This hnppy day! Our joy should flow Accordant with the lofty woe That walls above the noble dead. q.et him, whose brow and breast were ealm While yet the battle say with GOD, I.ook down npon the erlmaon sod And gravely wear his mournful palm. And him, whose heart still wenk from fear, Bents all too gayly for the time. Know thnt Intemperate glee Is crime While one dead hero claims a tear. —HENRY TIMROD. PROPERLY SUSPICIOUS WASHINGTON Is very properly suspicious of the cry of dis tress let out by Dr. Solf, that Germany must have early relief from the Allied blockade If her people are not to starve. The Allies are not go ing to see German women and chil dren die in want, if they can help it, but our first duty lies in making cer tain that Germany is not permitted to place herself in position to cause more trouble if the peace terms about to be dictated do not please the new government. \lso, we must tbink of the people of France, and Belgium, and England, aud Italy, and Serbia before we do of those •within the German empire .whose Jong subservience to autocratic li'le has brought them and the world out- Bide of Germany to its present sad condition. Dr. Solf and the German people In general aro not above suspicion. We have every reason to believe that they have their eyes on the main chance and will endeavor to lessen by whatever means possible the hardships they have brought upon themselves. They have been so long schooled in the ways of crime that they will not suddenly be converted to lives of extreme rectitude. "The way of the transgressor is hard," and Germany cannot hope to escape the penalties of her own acts. If the new government is strong enough to lead tho people back to peace and prosperity, it will be aftej the peo ple have put on sackcloth and hum bled themselves. The German people have a debt to pay to the rest of the world. They gave their billions in a vain effort to enslave their neighbors. They must give more billions to repair the damage they caused, insofar as repa ration Is possible. All tho pleas for leniency of all will not deafen the ears of the Allies to ihe demands of justice for Bel gium, France and Serbia. The place to observe Thanksgiving Day is in the churches, not at a car nival celebration. A HELPLESS NAVY THERE is small cause for worry In the threat of the mutineers controlling the German navy to give battle to the Allied sea forces. There Is nothing more complicated than the modern battleship. Its complex organism demands expert direction and all manner of sup. plies. It la the most helpless thing WEDNESDAY EVENING in the world in hands that do not understand it and without replen ishment of its coal and other essen tials of operation it becomes a dere lict upon the waters, a floating topib for those who man it. So the Ger man' navy, without the intensified organization required to maintain fighting fleets, will be reduced to so much junk in a week or two, pow erless either to attack or resist. Left alone it will destroy itself. Nothing war weary about those Yanks, who kept up firing to the very last second. "HYMNS OF HATE" HYMNS of hate" are going out of style in Europe. Their authors are in dis gracfe, their sponsors are in exile and the people who once sang them arc uttering prayers of supplication to those against whom their evil pas sions were directed. Hate engenders a poison that has no antidote. It is like a fever in the blood that feeds on the body of its victim. For a time hate pays dividends of sordid satisfaction for those who entertain it. It breeds falsehood, dishonesty and brutality. It pauses not at crime and it will ruin if.it can. But the man obsessed by hate loses his balance. His judg ment is warped by his own evil .thoughts and desires. And even tually he falls into the ditch he has digged for another. Temporarily* the hater may do untold harm in the world, but he is his own worst enemy and the more victims his h'ate the worse his state when fate finally overtakes him. Hate is the antithesis of love, and love rules the world. The amount you give to the War Work fund, in proportion to your means, is the register of your thank fulness that the war is over. THE RUSSIAN TRAGEDY THOSE fortunate enough to have heard E. T. Colton, the inter national Y. M. C. A. worker just out of Russia after long experi ence there, tell the story of the Rus sian tragedy will not soon forget the picture of frightfulness he painted, Nor win the >' fail to re " member that thq Bolsheviki have proved worse rulers than the tyran ical czar himself. To own a house and lot, a little shop, a factory (no matter how small), to possess a horse, or a cow, or a pig, or even a Liberty Bond, exposes one to the wrath of the authorities in the town or country side where the Bolsheviki are in control. When the "law" as laid down by these extremists will not fit, a flimsy excuse is made to rob the possessor of his coveted goods and they are turned over to some body favored by the "government." A little later, when some more in fluential resident lays covetous eyes on the new owner's possessions, they are likely to be transferred again. When the new Bolshevik govern ment came into control, the fac tories were turned over to the em ployes and all superintendents, man agers and owners thrown out. Of course the business soon went to pot and now not only the owners but the employes themselves are penni less apd starving. The peasants who have been able to guard their lands by use of the rifles they have brought home from the war have nobody to whom they -can sell their grain, so they have raised only enough for themselves and the peo ple of the cities and towns are on the verge of starvation. The Bolshevik is an utter fail ure. The lesson of Russia has been a sore experience for that country, but it has been wholesome for the rest of the world. If Germany and Austria can save themselves from this red terror they will be fortu nate, indeed. Germany has the ad vantage of an intelligent popula tion, educated even anipng the poor est classes far beyond that of Rus sia, where eighty-five per cent, of the people can neither read nor write, and these, wth the strongly l organized Central Democratic party, may be able to work out some plan whereby the government of -the country shall remain under some re sponsible constituted authority. For the welfare of all mankind it is ( to be hoped this will be accom plished. As a last extremity Ger many may have to call on the Allies to save her from the Bolsheviki forces within, and much as the world detests Germany, it may have to go to its assistance, even as it has to that of Russia. It is worthy of the present Board of County Commissioners that they have recognized God in their formal resolution on the winning of the war through participation of American armies. THE "COAL CLAUSE" ANNOUNCEMENT that electric interests of the State propose to appear before the Public Service Commission to defend the legality and propriety of what is known as the "coal clause'" in con tracts for current will be heard with interest by manufacturing Arms and municipalities all over the State. This clause was established so that current could be charged for in ac cordance with the price of coal. Similar arrangements have been made in some contracts dependent upon the rates paid for labor. Now that the war is ended there is no telling what coal is going to cost and if any one is going to get tlie benefit it would not be a bad plan to have boroughs or cities or man ufactures get it. From all accounts the chief difll. cutly is the matter of notice. It is possible that this may be ar. ranged by an of the per iod to be-governed. In any event, it is one of the problems which Is bound to arise out of the war and which may as well be settled so that when -the others con'*' along we may know what is legal and what Is not. ♦ - The "All Highest" 1b now th~"all lowest." y littic* u y&KKwioOR-B£LL- ive A I L= E ,T..^ CK " 1 v " t>Nl " r j l little MAP y \ J I NOTIOM not TO I V GGLOMS = - V .r-< V_ / I ANKSUJER IT-' BUT I j j* —auesi i [> ,LL Itgn (."Ves- ves- OM N ?ls*T e H x% M 6 c7 ( "k'&Tr WSf V. Hr !! —?? minutes Vyw -TT/- f^-' Later t—^ LETTERS TO THE EDITOR BRITISH APPRECIATION To the Editor of the Telegraph: The following extract torn a let ter of an English cousin may he of interest in this great day of jubilee: "We are much struck over here by the way you as a nation have gone into this war, with full acknowl edgement of your absolute depend- | ence in God as the only giver of j victory. There was little or none of | that spirit in Britain until lately, or the war would have been at an end , ere now. I think the United States' j splendid, courageous men, strong in : faith, and humble in spirit, will act as a leading example, and with you, j I do feel proud to be kin to them. | indeed. On July Fourth X happened \ to be coming in a bus from Cater- t ham, where many soldiers are camp- j ed. with a lovely bouquet of roses in j my hand. Opposte to me sat a huge j United States soldier, looking the j picture of homesickness, and a great j crowd of our own soldiers filled the j rest of the vehicle. It was very hot and a dead, stolid English silence | prevailed.' 1 looked and looked over at the poor fello.W, and decided in my own mnd that though I couldn t j give roses all round, I should give j him one. So just as I was getting | out, I went up to him, and putting ; the best .into his hand, said: 'Here's j to the Unted States! Cheer up, and | don't be downhearted on the | Fourth.' Then I just wish you could have seen his face, how it lit up with ; intense pleasure, and what a salute j he gave me. Surely 'tis the little touch of sympathy that the j whole world kin." . C. S. M. PRAYERS AND PRAYERS To the Editor of the Telegraph: * .1 Having reasonable assurance as to ; where this will be assigned, wish to j state that I aspreciate the oppor- j tunity of contributing to your wastgr j pap v basket. ... i Since an honest conviction is no | longer considered a felony, or at least the penalty no longer exists, I take j libertv of speaking for a consider-1 able "bunch of people who possess j the integrity of their conviction and | do not lack the courage to express! it. It Is the very least of my mten- i tion "to attack the motive of G. F. i Hawes, in a recent newspaper con tribution, as his every word ex- j presses the sincerity of purpose, but! I cannot help but feel that it implies an inconsistency almost defying ex planation. * Where are wo "To congregate to offer prayers to cause the scourge to cease", when the church, lho | institution of prayer" has been j locked up to keep germs out. lam not a Christian Scientist, but from what I have heen told their edifice is hardly ample to accommodate their own congregation. Is the Declaration of Indepen-1 dence, the grandest, noblest and pro- I foundest embodiment of moral cour-; age and political wisdom to be chal-: lenged? This grand document di- , vorced the church from the state. , It gave man the right to pray as he j pleased, when he pleased and for! what he pleased. The signers of this grand docu ment did not believe that a forced! prayer, prescribed by man or any: body of men, had any good influ ence upon a free people. They believed In, advocattvl and wrote; Religious Liberty into that docu- j ment. * J * . . , There are many good people to-day | who do not believe that wars, fam ines and pestilence represent the acts of Divine Wisdom. They do not believe that flattery will over influence the Creator of Man. These I men believe more in fresh air, exer cise, the right kind of food and the proper use of it, together with regu lar applications of soap and water, than In prayers prompted through the desire of the individual to ac complish his needs through a series of short cuts. These people believe that lr supplying the bounties of this earth God has done His part and Is not expected to help a glut ton digest his overload. They do not believe in prayers prescribed by any law other than the laws of nature. They do not offer their thanks from house tops and public squares. They have no use for a prayer paraded in front of cannons and accompanied by brass bands. Instead of telling their Creator what they want, what thev tailed to do end what they know they should have done, they be lieve in keping busy at the things they ought to be doing. Instead of serving with their tongue, thev be lieve In a serving from the heart, put Into practical result producing effect with the hands and feet. They I Y.M.C.A.Week of Prayer THE Week of Prayer for Young Men for the year 1918 falls within a spacious, momentous and fateful time. Truly we are liv ing in great days; great in upheaval and overturning, for literally old things' are passing awajr and all things are becoming new; great in adventure and constructive achieve ment, great in sacrifice and suffer ing, for see the millions of war filled graves and other millions of mutilated and maimed, and the countless-stricken and anxious homes; grea-t in the discovery and releasing of men's latent capacities for heroism and unselfish devotion; great in the challenges summoning men to enter with wide plans and God-touched spirits into new and better days. Such days call for men, and call for men at their best. They must be men of comprehension, that they may have understanding of their times. They must be men of the finest loyalties—loyalty to undying principles and loyalty to our Lord and His undying cause—that they may not miss the way, and that they may indeed be true leaders. They must be men of contagious characters and with a passion for helpfulness. To furnish such inde spensable men, and likewise to se cure foundation for such manhood— Chrlstlike Uoyhood, Is the high mission Of the Young Men's Chris tian Association. Times like these not only demand all that is best in men but also call us to prayer that the power of the Living God may be manifested. The j Association Movement, like every- j thing else in these days, is being j tried by fire. Our dangers are so! many and so grave, our tasks so; greatly exceed our powers, and our j opportunities so far transcend our| visible resources, that nothing short j of a fresh and wonderful accession j of superhuman wisdom and might j will suffice. Therefore, let us dur-1 ing the days of November 10th to I give ourselves to prayer and believe in the individual prayer be-1 tween man and his Creator. Since no other person can stn for us, it is up to the individual to work out | his own end. They do not believe in a prayer i that imitates the supplication of a! Heathen slave to a fiendish mustor. Have not the Germans been pray ing for the war to end? "To hell with the kaiser". Respectfully yours, E. T. CR ITCH FIELD, 2415 N. Fifth street. STRIKING ~ABALANCE To the Editor of the Telegraph: "How the mighty have fallen"! Two once mighty monarchs now pleading at the Bar of Justice. Bill Hohenzollern and the liquor traffic, Humanity's two greatest curses at least at bay. True the ex-kaiser has not yet asked for justice but it will not be long until our ears will be sickened with his yellow whine. Meanwhile T. M. Gilniore. moutpiece of the beaten liquor forces, is trying our patience with his silly whine for justice for thfe liquor forces. What both those beaten forces had better plead for is mercy, not justice. He wants congress to appoint a com mission to settle with brewers and i distilleries for the loss that will be caused by National Prohibition! All right. Let us settle accounts with them. Let us appoint a com mission to investigate both sides. Find out, how much the liquor busi ness has cost the people in cost, cost, etc., and then square accounts with their loss. If we find that we otyo them, by all means pay them, and if we find that the balance is in favor of the people of course the liquor people will be willing to pay."—C. A. L. LABOR NOTES The National War Labor Board, disapproves of the direct or Indirect employment on government con tracts of prisoners who have been sentenced to hard labor. During the year ended June 30, 1916, wages amounting to $30,576,- 623,42 were paid to 48,588 employes' on both railways and tramways In New South Wales, Australia. Farmers of Barmouth and Har lech, England, refuse to employ Ger man prisoners as a protest against calling up fafmhands before the harvest. likewise cull on our entire Brother- 1 hood and its multitude of friends •to pray. Among the objects of prayer on which you are asked to concentrate your intercession are the following: 1. For the men of our Army and Navy and the Allied Forces, that they may win the War, and that they may do so without losing their own souls. 2. For all who suffer in hos pitals cr who languish in prisoner-of-war camps that they may be given patience to en dure and that they may be restored to their homes. 3. For the work of the Asso ciation on behalf of the soldiers and sailors that it may become increasingly efficient and fruit ful in spiritual results. 4. That the Home Work and the Foreign Work of the Amer ican and Canadian Associations may not only meet the present war demands but also be pre pared. for the far greater re sponsibilities of the periods of demobilization and reconstruc tion. 5. That leaders may be raised up capable of meeting the un paralleled opportunities which are to crowd the coming days. 6. For the United War Work Campaign, that it may call forth the United, generous and sacri ficial support of the entire Amer ican people. Without sacrificing convictions and without compromising our dis tinctive character, let every mem ■ ber of the Y. M. C. A. for the sake | of the boys in uniform at home and | abroad, on land or on sea or in the I air, and for the sake of our Lord : and Master, use the countless new I contacts and the wider fellowship | into which the President has called | us, as an unprecedent opportunity j to witness, to co-operate and to | serve. Sincerely and affectionately, | ARTHUR D. BACON, Pres., Central Y. M. C. A. THE COLLAPSE They built a castle, menacing the skies. Mid clouds that-dared not kiss. And all the panes were devil lishcs'.eyes And when its doors were opened by the unwise How would the hinges hiss! And all its stones were frozen oaths and lies, . x Piled on a precipice. But a youth gave cry From a far sea-swell To the towers high. And the towers fell! ' Lust was its arch and hate its cor nerstone And all its sills were red, And the rank vines by which 'twas overgrown Were writhing serpents of a breed unknown. Forever difrting head, Ajid ever came a muffled monotone, As from unsleeping dead. But a lithe lad came. With his hand out-thrust, And the towers were flame And the towers were dust! A something all of steel, gigantic, ' grim, Stood at the gateway barred. And half the world slunk through the twilliglit dim. And knelt in worship at the feet of him, Whining for his regard, And.at his blast there fled the sera "*■ phim , Across the heavens jarred. But a youth leaped in From the western bank, Crying, "Die, O Sin!" And the towers sank! Lo! a swift flaming far _in Freed dom's sky! An eagle's reveille! And the light lances, darting from on high, Strike downward, like the glances of an Eye, Almighty In its ray. And lo! the golden-arrowed, never die Battalions of the Day! And a youth aglow \ Gives the glad, new cajl, "Black towers, go!" And the towers fall! JOHN O'KEEFE. *Bi6T 'n H3era"AoM THE CALL TO DUTY [From the New York World.] The World did not agree with President Wilson last month in his opinion that the election of a Re publican Congress would be in any sense a repudiation of his Adminis tration, and of course we do not ac cept that view to-day. The present Democratic Congress, acquitting Itself admirably in many ways, is chargeable with grievous sins of omission and commission. As The World said more than a week ago, this Congress has yielded too often to narrow sectional and sectar ian influences. Some of its leaders have made themselves the obedient and humble servants of Republican marplots. A few of its members have carried their pacifism and pro- Oerman demagogy of neutral days into the fierce strife of war. Con demnation was invited. It is the Sixty-fifth Congress and not the President, therefore, that is in disfavor, and there can be no question of the recognition of this fact abroad as well as at home when, in spite of many misrepre sentations and misconceptions, everybody is made to understand that on this occasion the people were electing a Congress and not a President- More regrettable, in our estima tion, than any political changes that have taken place is the spirit of par tisanship which has been awakened, and for this the President cannot be held blumeless. The World said at the time, and it says now, that his Interference with the nomination, and election of members of Congress in various states was unwise and calculated to defeat the very pur pose that he wished to promote. Americans have always responded to true White House leadership, but they have ]ust as consistenly re sented White House intrusion upon their local affairs. There never should be a repetition of this error. As we can imagine nothing much worse for the country in its present situation than a continuation of the venomous partisanship recently in evidence, we must entreat Democrats as well as JJepublicans to remember that the interests at stake transcend in importance the welfare of any political organisation or the future of any politician. . The call to-day is to duty. Those who give closest heed to that summons will hnve the fewest reasons for regret and apology hereafter. West Accepts the Penny Anaconda, where copper is handled by the thousands of tons, but the last place in the Old West where the copper penny was excluded from the pockets and the tills of men has at last surrendered to the humble coin. "Never, we imagine," says the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, "was there greater sacrifice of imbred irra tional prejudice than this; no severer test of community patriot ism." The West long held an antipathy to the penny, a distaste bred of brag and economic delusion, but bit by bit the west has had to bow down before the inevitable. The Post- Intelligencer further says: "In the mountain country. In the two-bit land where men were bred to spend largely, the penny has found the way Jong and hard. Enterprising merchants with cut price sales and marked-doyen at tractions tn view often imported pennies into the smaller Montana towns, only to find them refused by their customers; even post offices declined to handle them, though il legally. If a found himself in the pdpession of pennies, he called his fellows to witness while he threw them into the air. "But just as the two-bit piece suc cumbed to the dime, and the dime to the nickel, so the 5-cent piece gave way in the face of economic necessity, and the copper penny came into circulation. Possibly no political economist could be made to understand that men In certain sections of the world would rather pay five or ten times as much' for an article than contam inate their purses with a certain coin. Yet that has been the history of the West. Men in the West have always believed that high prices and high wages ' mean prosperity and that pennies stood for the reverse. Coupled with this economic fal- Jacy was a certain recklessness, bred of mountain and plam, that scorned small change. A land where a man found gold and silver was not a land where man would re spect copper; to him, copper was a base metal indeed. j jEnptrittg Fifty three and a half years ago Harrisburg must have been In pretty much the same slate of mind as it is to-day. Then the news of Lee's surrender was the big topic just as the victory over Germany is upper most in our thoughts to-day. The files of the Harrisburg Telegraph of April, 1565. when the most momen tous newd in American history up to that time waS coming over the wires, tell in an entertaining way how it kept informed the city and its environs and of the disposition of the people , to celebrate. The mayor then, A. L. Roumfort, was In the head and front of the celebration i>lans, just us is Mayor Daniel L. Keister to-day. There was lots of excitement and just aw much leaving of work to gather about bulletin boards and to buy all the extra editions that the Harrisburg Telegraph could put out. Considering population Har risburg had more men in the army then than now. War was almost at the gates of the Capitol a couplo of times and the battlefields that de cided the .contest were a day and night distant. The city was filled with the soldiers and equipment of a base camp, Its schools and churches and buildings were hospi tals; its warehouses tilled with mu nitions of war and its State Capitol often the place of bivouac of troops, while the great mobilization camp of this part of the country was in the northern end of the town. This city was the headquarters of a de partment of army administration and its people were engaged in relief work under the Christian Sanitary Commission and other agencies just as they are laboring under the Red Cross supervision to-day and giving of their funds for the United War Work Campaign, while there was scarcely a house where government bonds were not owned. Hence the spirit of celebration was pretty keen and it was determined by those in authority and those consulted by them to have what they called a "demonstration". These dusty old newspaper iiles tell many an inter esting story, but when it is stated that the orders for the demonstra ion took up two columns, or as much as we gave for the Fourth of July parade this year, it can be seen that Harrisburg was "spreading itself." • • * Just byway of stating the con trast between ways of getting news • in those half century ago days and now jt may be stated that there were no cables and very few through wires and the news of Lee's surren der coming fron\ Washington and other big pieces oB news which were featured in the Harrisburg Tele graph under pictures of flags, can non and Liberty caps was sometimes as long in getting here as the word of the signing of the armistice. The Harrisburg Telegraph was published in those days where the Security Trust building now stands and the office of the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company was in a build ing which occupied the site of the barber shop next to the law offices of Eugene Hnyder. the nestor of the Dauphin county bar. In 1865 it was the duty of the apprentice boys or "devils" to "chase copy." The oper ators took the news in "long hand" on yellow sheets of paper and every now and then the editor would send a boy down the street for news. The office was on the third floor of the publishing house and the chances are that the people in the street, who could waylay the boy often had the real hot stuff before the editor sitting in his aerie got to see it. There are stories of "devils" of those days fighting people who tried to get the sheets away from them. That was tho way the Harrisburg Tele graph received the news of surren der of the rebel general. • • These days when there is any big news after 4 o'clock, when the Har risburg Telegraph's telegraphic serv ice through the Associated Press ends for the day, the operator stays right on the job. The wire is right | in the editorial rooms, close to the , desk of the man who edits it and a I few paces from the linotypes. A few days ago when it seemed as though the news of the signing of the armis tice would come any minute tho operator remained at the key. He stayed there Saturday night, nil day, Sunday and Sunday night and clear into Monday evening. The operator was on a cot beside the key. The picture of the apprentice boy hust ling a block or so to get a single sheet of telegraphic news and then taking it to a third floor and of an operator on a cot beside his key and leaping up to lake down the "flash" that tells the armistice is signed on a typewriter and the editor, rising from another cot to push it into the hands of an operator picking away at "time copy" on a linotype tells its own story. • , ♦ In the service of the Harrisburg Telegraph to-day is Augustus F. Blacksmith, who was a printer in the composing room of the Harrisburg /Telegraph in those stirring days of the early sixties. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ■—Governor-elect Sproul has writ ten considerably of the history of Delaware county. —Congressman E. E. Robhins, of Greensburg, is much interested in the marking of early battlefields in his section of the state. —A. E. Sisson, ex-Auditor General, is one of the authorities on Erie county history. —L. A. Watrcs, former Eloutenant Governor, is taking considerable in terest in the collation of history of Lackawanna county and its men. DO YQU~KNQW —That llarrisburg is a bit slow in getting started on its plans to aid Capitol Park exten sion and realignment? 'HISTORIC HARRISBURG In early days the military com panies here each had a band and used to engage in shotting matches to see which had the bestjnarksmen. And Now the Bolshcviki t [From the Pliila [nquire] Even, war has its comical side. The Bolshcviki. leaders have become comedians. They are asking, if you please, that the Allied Powers make peace with them. They would dear ly love to open negotiations. Any muderer would Jlke to negotiate. But it happens that the Bolshevik desperadoes do not compose a gov ation. They arc just a band of ernment except in their own estlm highvaymen. But there is a gov ernment in Russia which has the of ficial recognition of the Alies. It is the one that is backed by the forcces of the United States and England., Bolshevik chieftains must make ap- This is the government .to which the plication, /]