10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded JSSI Published evenings except Sunday by THE TKI,%CJRAI*H PRINTING CO. Telegraph Bullying, Vederal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Biuiiicrs Manager GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board J. P. McCULLOUGH. EOYD M. OGELSBY, P. 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 t.o it or not otherwise credited in this paper ar.d also the local ntfcvs published herein. . . All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Member American r \ Newspaper Pub fishers' Assochi- Bureau of Circu- FfeWicf.EESja lation and Penn >j(ji jj' Assocl- LIEIIIL ra r Finley, ''"I'TI th 808 Sin Avenue Building Western office, Story, Brooks & ' r Finley. People's Chicago, "l'l! ng ' Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg. Pa., as second class matter. _ By carrier, ten cents a > week: by mall, $3.00 a year in advance. When 1 see about me, in the fields of intellectual attainment and cul ture, in the walks*of business and in family life, so many disasters and tragedies, long drawn out, of failing health and collapse of nerve, brain, and muscle, I feel that health is the only bulwark upon which every thing we prize in intellectual culture anil religious perfection can ever be reared. —G. STANLEY HALL. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14. 118 LET'S SEND 'EM HOME AND now, th;-' the way is open, why not invite all pro-Germans in the United States to gb back home—and provide them with free passage in trans-Atlantic cattleboats. We wonder what these yellowbacks think of their beloved Kaiser now. We wonder if they are still kow towing before hidden pictures of the "All-Highest." We wonder what they think of "kultur" and the "invincible German armies." Let these go back, now, and tell the folks at home how much they love Wilhelm and his ways. There nre still many vacant lampposts in Germany and we have no doubt some of the German revolutionists would take great pleasure in dec orating them with Kaiser-lovers from America. At any rate, let's send them back home. The United States is no place for them.' Down Georgia way they are now blaming Chairman Baruch, of the War Industries Board, for the drop in the price of cotton. It appears that he made, a statement some time ago an nouncing that his board would shortly fix the price of cotton, and the bottom dropped out of the skyrocket price of the chief Southern product. The farmers of Georgia and elsewhere in the South are holding Baruch person ally responsible for the tumble in the price. Other cotton-growers declare that they bad got themselves into this mess "because we objected to the price of cotton being fixed, as the price of wheat and other commodities have been fixed, as war emergency meas ures." All of which goes to prove that the cotton-growers overreached themselves to overrule the old axiom that what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander in price-Axing. THE LOAD IS LIFTED THE load of anxiety and glooni which has rested heavily on each one of us during the long years of the war, and which became heavier with our own participation in it, 'is lifted by the signing of the armistice terms. The skies are brighter, becuuse no more 'there ■arises to darken them the smoke from millions of guns and from hun dreds of burning homes in France: and the sunshine is golden, because it is no longer shaded by the red of sacrificial blood. Even the birds sing more sweetly, because music has returned to the souls of women, and the lifeblood tingles and the heart is thrilled by thoughts of re union with returning loved ones. And above all is pride in our coun try and its people, and thankful ness to the good God under whose guidance we have been led from the desert of war to the pleasant plains of peace. There is a better appreciation of the conditions in Russia since the Cham ber of (Bommeree luncheon and the comprehensive and Illuminating ad dress of Mr. Colton, whose intimate study of the situation in that dis tressed country has made him an au thority on what is needed. We have misjudged the Russian people ter ribly. and it is now time to get awake to the fact that no people have suf fered greater hardships and more In justice than those of the vast Russian Empire. We must continue to be the Big Brother to these needy nations, who are struggling upwgfsd toward THURSDAY EVENING, liberty and self-government. It's a big job, but it is not too big for a big country. THE NEXT PRESIDENT THE Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia Press, writ ing of presldental possibilities in 1920, a subject of growing interest to Republicans since the turnover in Congress, suggests General Per shing for the Republican nomina tion. He suys: In this discussion going the rounds chiefly In Republican cir cles the name of General Per shing is most frequently heard. They say that with the armistice signed, and peace probably Anally concluded by the Spring of 1919 Pershing will assume greater strength as a political figure than at present. "There must be a soldier on the ticket," said one leader. "Every war has furnished a President and this war will not fail unless historical precedent is' reversed." It is a lengthy and momentous period, politically considered, until the next national conventions meet and much may happen in that time to discouruge the Pershing boom, but viewing the present in the light of the past it is not surprising that the leaders are turning to Pershing. The American people have been fond of honoring their successful field marshals with the Presidency. We are a nation of hero worshippers, and no man more nearly corresponds with what the average man regards as the ideal American than does General Pershing. Brave, resource ful, honest, trained as an executive, magnetic of personality, modest of demeanor, a man of few words and of much initiative, he looks like good presidential material. And best of all he entertains no White House ambitions. If he should be Miosen to represent his party at Washington it would be doubtless over his own vigorous protest Pershing has made a wonderful record in Prance ' and has shown himself to be p. man of extraordi nary capacity in many directions. He is not only a splendid soldier, but a great organizer and executive as well. The immensity of his achievements abroad are in sjrong contrast with the simplicity of his character, which is illustrated by his brief but historic statement at the tomb of Lafayette: "Lafayette, we are here." He knows foreign con ditions from the inside and would inspire confidence abroad and at home. The Pershing boom looks like the real thing. Now that there has been a general rescinding of the. war han on build ing projects, it may be expected that many suspended enterprises will go forward, giving necessary impetus to the building trades and the expansion of facilities for the business that must develop in the after-war period. Thou sands of men, who have been engaged on war building operations, will be released, and there will be a resump tion of normal activities. Harrisburg is greatly in need of more dwellings and better housing conditions, and it may be hoped that with a gradual dropping back to the normal situation individual initiative will find a way to provide what is so greatly needed. GOOD WORK, SCOUTS PEDESTRIANS and automobile, drivers who were in the down town throngs during the cele bration of the end of the war on Monday had reason to thank the Boy Scouts of Harrisburg for their splendid work in directing traffic. The boys carried themselves like veteran officers and never for a mo ment lost their heads. Furthermore, without a particle of authority to support them, the crowds obeyed the Scouts' directions without question and showed by their respectful at tion the confidence reposed in the boys. It was a fine piece of service to the community and is on a par with the many good works of the Scouts in Harrisburg since the outbreak of the war. > NO ONE-MAN POWER PRESIDENT WILSON has not learned a lesson from the re sults of the election. Ho in sists upon bossing the country with out permitting Congress to have a voice in the proceedings. A re sentful electorate overturned the Democratic Congress because it is opposed'to one-man rule, but the President goes right along his auto cratic wuy, regardless of the recent "repudiation of his policies," to quote his own words. His latest proposal is to assume sole responsibility for guiding the nation through the perilous transi tional period from war to peace. He wants to name a commission of his own personal selection —with no representation from Congress—to outline the plans und to execute them. Congress is to be made sim ply a "me too" for .the Pcsident and his commission. If Mr. Wilson is bent on ruining his party he hus chosen an excel lent way. The people of the United States have just spent some billions of dollars and many precious lives in pushing one-man power out of Ger many and they are in no temper to have that obnoxious principle of government thrust upon them at home, no matter how benevolent the autocrat. Mr. Wilson's appointments in the past have not been such as to •nspire confidence in his future se lections. The few really big men he has about him were thrust upon him after the fuilure of his own favorites, and many of them are out of sym pathy with him. Congress has the constitutional right to participation in treaty-mak ing and the reshaping of our gov ernmental machinery to meet the needs of peace. The President may ride over the constitution and the rights of the legislative bodies for a few .more months, but if he does so he must expect the next Republican Congress to be as vigorous in re storing them as he has been ruth | less in taking them IK KI&, By the Ex-Committccman The name of Representative George W. Williams, of Wellsboro. one of the members of, tha lower branch of the Legislature from Tioga county for several years and a former Senator, is commencing to be men tioned as a possible candidate for Speaker of the next House. Mr. Williams is a prominent "dry" mem ber and was sponsor for the local option bill in the session of 1915. • Representative Auron B. Hess, of Lancaster, is also being groomed and so is Representative William T. Ram sey, floor leader and chairman of the rules committee in the last House. Both of these men are eastern mem bers and of considerable experience. The western c-nd of the state has not been heard from, but the name of Representative John W. Vicker man, the "dry" leader last session, is talked of. The belief is that since the Re publican leaders have determined to have no contest that an up-state man w.'ll be selected. —Senator Edwin H. Vare was the man who let it be known that there would be no contest pver the speak ership and that the desires of the new Governor would be accepted by everyone. This news, which was discounted at the Capitol the day after election by some of the wise ones, is given considerable promi nence in the Philadelphia newspa pers and there is a general sense of relief expressed. —"Senator Clarence J. Buekman, of, Bucks, will be elected president pro tem and the man to be decided upon at a party council will be speaker, which means that the new Governor is going to have a legis lative program and that it will go through," said a well-versed man to-day. "You will find that the ses sion will be short as it was in Stuart's time." •—lt is interesting to note that Senator Vare also declared to the Public Ledger yesterday that he fa vored a short session. —People at the State Capitol in timate that the biggest thing that looms up in arranging the program for the coming Legislature, now that it hus been decided that there shall be no light over the organization of the two houses except what the Democrats may make in a formal way, is when the prohibition amend ment shall be laid before the Gen eral Assembly. Some of the "dry" leaders are urging that it be made the business for the first day or two. The Legislature will meet the first Tuesday of January and the prac tice hus been to organize and after routine matters to listen to the mes sage of the Governor and then ad journ for two -weeks to allow the committees Ao be made up. The plan of the "drys" is said to be to have a two-day session the first week and act on the prohibition amend ment. This problem is going to be the largest to handle in the list. —Election contests by two Repub lican candidates for Congress who were defeated were promised /ester day by up-state political leaders w ho conferred in Philadelphia, sa>s the North American* John R. Farr, of Scranton, who was defeated by Patrick. for Congress in the Lackawanna county district, came here from Washington, lie talked with politicians, Including Senator Vare, and intimated that he would contest the election of McLane, a Democrat. Friends of Farr claim that he was counted out in several precincts of Lackawanna county. McLane's plurality was only 259. —Election of John J. Casey, of Wilkes-Rarre, in the Lackawanna county district, likely will be" con tested by Edmund N. Carpenter, Re publican, who was defeated by only a few votes. —Congressman Edgar R. Keiss, of the Wlltiamsport district, who was here yesterday on his way to Wash ington, was givbn congratulations by his friends at the Capitol upon breaking the record of the district in getting four consecutive terms. People here expect him to be the chairman of the printing committee, of which he is the senior Republican member. Congressman Keiss, who will be recalled as an active legis lator some ten years ago, was the man who settled questions about how long the session of 1909 should be by presenting a resolution fixing A|)ril 15 as the date of adjournment on the 'day the session met. iAnd the? session adjourned on .April 15 to the great relief of everyone and with a l\pe record of work accomplished. The Congressman had beaten the records of Ellas Deemer and William B. Wilson, each of whom had three terms. lie defeated Wilson, now Sec retary of Labor. when he aspired to a fourth term and the Wilson major ity on his third election of 8,000 has been turned upside down by Mr. Keiss, who came near beating all the tickets at the recent election. B. K. Focht, of Liewisburg, who was here a day or so ago, hasvbeen congratulated upon the manner in which he swept up his district in the face of a tremendous tight made by partisans of National Democratic Chairman Vance C. Me- Cormick, who, unable to get any Democrat to run in his own district, concentrated on Focht, who carried almost every county in consequence. —According to the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times Mayor Babcock is said to have "in mind Pittsburgh's duty In connection with state road im provement in giving notice of his in tention to submit to the people a $10,000,000 bond issue p'roposition within a few months. Details of his p>n remain to be disclosed." —The anthracite regions seem to be once more the center Of political storms. The chances are that they will furnish contests for the next Congress to settle. Badge of Honor For Posterity [From the Grand Rapids Press] It looks less and less now as if we would be able to hand a sword I down to • our descendants and we I suppose we shall have to be eon- I tent with hanging those unused paper trousers up in the front hall and labeling them our Victory pants. Another Great Name [From the Scranton Republican] A new name has been added to the list of the world's great men. It Is that of MUrshal Foch, the com mander-in-chief of the Allied and United States Armies on the fron tiers pf Freedom. Treat Him as a Criminal [Front the Altoonu Tribune] There is a strong disposition to re gard William II us a criminal who should be arrested, tried, convicted lutd punished) • - • • • HARRISBTTRG TELEGRAPH SOMEBODY IS ALWAYS TAKING THE JOY OUT OF LIFE Byßrigg* WMB(0 YOU AND SEV/ERAL OFFICE TRIE© FOR A f MRS. SNMTM'T N MOMTHS GO *£.*€* S -r COMMI-SSIOM IW /■ / HUSBAND HAA | *BY AND YOU 6V6ND A LOT OF T" S AR f]£l • I HEAR NOTMF*J& F (JOOD '| "A™* W.DD.ROGVOO J / {F 0 ** 6 J* \ " ,HV OON-T YOO I OP (T 1 MORNING FAVORABLY I G ST A V. <S E T YOURS I CPMERAL / VASSE6 VJPON 'AND THEM ONE ~~AND , •• 1"\ PAY YOU GET THEN * U— N THE . ANOTHER FANORABLE P HE - HUNS A<;CCFT TEW IVA.CL FT O ' " LETTER FROM THE VMAR , " ,FTS\ R\RM V)*— > • VAJAR. DEPT. CAVG.O * GERMW,Y MRZZI T ' BUYING XiIAS CARDS If it were not a war year, it might seem a little queer to have Christ mas curds crowding out those ap propriate to Hallowe'en on the dis play counters in late October. Hoover has inspired the designer of new curds, und one rather clever card, printed on homely wrapping puper, is tied with a cord camou flaging ribbon. The lirst page of the folder is labeled, "My Hooverized Christmas Greeting," and the verse on the inside pages reads: I've Hooverized on pork and beans, aifd butter, cake and bread; I've cut out auto riding and now I walk insteud; I've Hooverized on sugar, on coal undflight and lard, And here's my Xrnas greeting on a Hoover Xmas card. Card designers have realized just how proud people are of their men in service, for many of the new cards have at the top of the en graved greeting 'one or more tiny service stars. Such cards are tied with patriotic colored ribbons, in stead of the familiar holiday red and green. One little card comes boldly out and tells that ordinary holiday throughts are crowded out by the explanation: "It's Christ mas, and my thoughts are over there." Innumerable are the cards with tender greetings to the boy "over there." A favorite successor to the Santa Claus motif is a group of flags of the Allies, in colors. Another card simulates a mes senger boy with a scarf of red flan nel around his neck and his arms louded with gifts. Ahother popu lur one depicts a target in flaming red, with old Kaiser Bill's head in the bull's-eye. This is for the man not yet enlisted and beurs the hint, "Get your gun." t A frivolous little card beurs a picture of Mother Goose characters and explains: Juck. and Jill went up the hill to shop, but soon they said: "The things we'd buy are so darned high, we'll send this card in stead." Patriotic people are already se lecting their holiday greeting cards and they will be rewarded by ob taining the choicest of the selec tions. —Exchange. THE STATE PRESS Economy is the watchword in England, and as a result, they are considering seriously a plan to pay the poet laureate by piece work in stead of a straight salary.—Erie Dis patch. Florida negroes have organized to sell 10,000,000 Thrift Stamps to their race. The mun who put the can in American also included African and was determined to tie a can to the kaiser! —Erie Evening Herald. Germany's cup of wormwood is sufficiently full to make every subject of her doomed empire a bitter ender. —Philadelphia Evening Ledger. The town of Point Marion, Pa., has decided to take a holiday. A two-day suspension of all ordinary occupa tions has been declared that the population may devote this time to cracking 75 bushels of black wal nuts. The nutshells will be shipped to the gas carbon plant of the Gas Division of the United States Army on Long Island. —Philadelphia Rec ord. "The boots of the German army aid excellent," says a report. Per haps, but they haven't prevented cold feet. —Erie Dispatch. A German editor predicts a heavy falling off of German emigrants to America after the war. Is this to be looked upon as a threat or a prom ise? —Erie Evening Hbruld. LABOR NOTES The Maryland State Industrial Ac cident Commission has ruled that where minors ure employed in vio lation of the child labor law, and are injured, the,? cannot recover compensation. # • Russian rudicalsdcmand the pro hibition of child lubor during school age up to the sixteenth year and the limitation of the working hours or minors (16 to 18 years) to six hours a day. , Since April 1 eight unions of paint ers. decorators and paperhangers have been organized In Canada, all of them affiliated with their inter national organization. • The Great War Veterans of Can ada have called on the government to control the prices of necessities of life, as the high cost of living is re .nnnsible for numerous strikes. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR COLORED MAN'S HOPE To the Hditor of the Telegraph: It is the fondest hope of the colored race, that with this cruel war end ed, that our people shall be given their full rights and privileges as American citizens, and that all forms of race discrimination will have dis appeared. We further trust that men will be measured rather by their ability <o do than by their color. The black man is courageously bearing his share of.the burden of this world war and is justly proud to do his duty in support of the Stars and Stripes. Sometimes we think in the strain of our great W. E. B. Dußois, who on one occasion in speaking of our race said, "a case not altogether hopeless, but unhopeful," and ho further states our sentiments when he says, "There shall dawn a day when it shall not be asked of the artist, is he black, but can he draw?" When it shall not be asked of the workman is he white, but does he know? And we trust that that day is not in the far dis tant future. Fervently do we pray that the spirit of democracy wil have so per meated the minds of the citizenry of America, that when the back vet eruns of this war, tattered and torn by shot and shell and exposure on the battletields of Europe, shall re turn to this country, that they shall find race prejudice blotted out for ever, and that they shull be greeted by a grateful nation and accorded all the glory and honor due the heroes of this war without regard to color or nationality. In every war in which America has been engaged, the black man ha& gallantly played his purt. We can trace his work frotn Old Crispus Attucks and Nick Biddle to their heroic stand in Cuba in the battles of San Juun and El t'aney, and in the present war, their memorable battle at the bend of the Marne, where no German was able to cross. And when all is o'er and when the dove of peace shall sour unmolest ed over the recently turbulent fields of battle, may we not be forgotten I in the reckoning. , HARRY ELMER JAMES, A. 8., 312 Lincoln Street, Steelton. THE GREAT QUESTION To the Editor of the telegraph : t The great question that confronts the Americun public is not how much of a success I am, or how much' of a success is my neighbor. It is a question of what does my success amount to. how much bet ter is the world for my having lived in it, and what does the Golden Rule signify in my life. We are Ilvi/ig in an age of recon struction, and in a world where the motto should be: "Do what is right, because it is right." A Rhine monster tried to sow the world with dragon's teeth to sink his jnonster fan&B in the jaws of detnocrkcy. Democracy was menaced by glut tony und Germany, und we refused to permit the Hun to crucify civili zation on the cross of autocracy. When this war is over it will have Soldier's Hardest Work [From the New York Sun] More than two million American | soldiers are in jSurope. It will be I months before the first hulf of the [ armies is home. It may be a year,j two years, before the lyit Yankee; tighter comes within sight of the i Statue of Liberty. The greatest work of the soldier is j done, but the hardest is aheud. This ; is the work of waiting. The soldier | knows I hat peace has come to the; world, but he must stay until the I security, the permanence of that j peace is absolute. Compared with.; the excitement of battle, the antlci- j pation of actual conflict, the task • uhead lacks glory. The fever of war burns out and impallence succeeds, Impatience to be home and about the Jobs of peace. # From now until the day of his re turn the American soldier, with a wide sea between him and his home, will be in greater need 6f comforts than ho wus when the guns flamed in front of him. He will not be idle along the Rhine, but his mind will not be possessed by the absorbing thoughts of war. The country looks to the govern- | ment to speed the soldier home whenever the safety of the world will permit. Meanwhile, for those com forts and pleasures which will light en the waiting, the soldier, looks to been won by co-operation, not con quest. We are pulling together with one aim, one view, an ununimity of pur pose—victory. Would you exchange your present living conditions for those under the autocracy of Eu rope? Can there be anything but shame on the wealth that docs not fund a cause so great as the United War Campaign? The hour of sacrifice reassays every citizen and correctly marks their quality. The supreme test is the sacrifice made by the people who remain at home while our sons are lighting to insure our children the freedom of to-morrow. Opportunity is knocking at your door. Opportunity for the American public to lend their assistance in a great cause. You will answer to your God by the deeds of sacrifice and de votion in this hour of duty. You will be measured by what you have done to help keep your flag out of the dirt. The only way you can help is by giving your dollurs in this most wortny cause. Your Hag out front signifies nothing unless backed up by your dollars. Will you answer judgment on the great day, the home coming of our loyal sons, with a clear conscience, and a feeling that you did your share, with a feel ing that you owed it to your God, your country and yourself. When asked for your subscrip | tion be ready, for it is your privi lege as a true American to be with those who are giving their all in spirit as well as in thought. Let Berlin know that you will empty your poeketbook to avenge a great injustice. Do your best. P. It. E. V. PEACE To the Editor of the Telegraph: The mighty .armies of the U. S. A. and her Allies have saved hu manity. Let us all rejoice and thank God for this peace. We should now per mit importations und exportations of foods and materials to puss the cus toms free of duties for a period of •oy twelve months between the United States and our Allied coun tries. Stop the terrible profiteering and cornering with our daily foods, the necessaries of life and subject those doing it to heavy penalties and punishment. Now the' war is over. Give us our just liberties and freedom and remove the wurtlme restrictions. Let those who desire whisky and beer have it and permit its manufac ture. Deal harshly with the small percentage that abuse these rights. Convert our magniHcent Susque hanna into a great navigable river for freight cargoes, passenger and pleasure. Also it will solve the coal trouble. Use the river current for the manufacture of electricity, fos power, lighting and heating, etc. Thank God for this peace. God bless the United States and its Allies with every prosperity. BRUCE GREEN. 1814 Green Street. his people. This week is their op portunity to give, through the Unit ed War Work campaign, the money that will help tp make the soldier I patient and happy. I What is a day's pay to give when i the man who gets it has lifted a load !of indescribable dread from the i heart of the world? THE ARMY'S HEALTH [From the N. Y. Times] A vaccine prepared as a preventive of pneumonia by the Rockefeller In stitute at the request of the Surgeon General of the Army was recently administered to 12,000 volunteers at one of the camps at a time when pneumonia (not including the in fluenza type) was more prevalent than usual. These men were to go overseas in ten'weeks. Durng that period they were all immune. Now, the ordinary typo of pneumonia have caused more deaths in the Army in the last two yeurs than any other diease. As the inoculation of the 12,000 soldiers who placed them selves at the disposal of the surgeon for the test proved to be completely successful, the new vucclne takes its place by the side of the pro-phylactic which has conquered typhoid In the ranks of the Army. Typhoid form erly lead to the death list. The Army surgeons now defy It, , NOVEMBER 14, 1918. THE PARASITE No matter what the end may be Thy fate is sealed, by God and man; Thou can's not from His agents flee To save thy hide—nor can thy clan. Thou and all thy welps art doomed Thy throne is rotted, and shall fall. And thy gross carcass be entombed Where loathsome vermin crawl and brawl. For years, thy subjects toiled and tilled To feed and clothe thy gangrened line— I'*or what? Just to be maimed and killed To glut thy impious "right divine." Think'st thou to profit by shed blood Of virgin, widow, orphan, "clod"? To float to glory on its flood Beneath the great star eyes of God? Thou Oorsican, in times of peace; Thou craven, whpn war's bugles blow; Thou gander of Germanic geese; Thou barnyard cock, all comb and crow. Why art thou slinking in the rear. And sleeping in thy well-made bed, Impervious to sneer and Jeer Unlike King Albert with his dead? A king—an Emperor? What, thou? Thou comic opera, medalled king, With CAIN red Jjranded on thy brow. Thou foolish, barbered, strutting thing! Thou hideous monster of conceit. Ten thousand years thy shriveled soul Shall moan in darkness, whine, and bleat. Out there, unshrlved, 'twixt Pole and Pole. —John Ernest Warren, in North American Review War Weekly. Black Mountain Sense Post-war difficulties of remarking the map of Europe might be per ceptibly smoothed >out were the wis dom of King Nicholas of Montenegro taken as a cue for action. "I sol emnly declare," says this practical" and discerning monarch, "that Mon tenegro must become a constituent part of Jugo-Sluvla." Thus partner ship in the new nation yet unformed rather than mastery of it is set forth as the aim of the valiant little state which can point to centuries of soli darity. A policy more un-German is scarcely conceivable. Hud the Mark of Brandenburg us it expunded into modern Prussia followed such a principle of co-operation with regard to new- territorial accessions, its growth would perhaps .never have been menaced b# civilization. But Prussia was bent on hegemony. Mon tenegro, through its stalwart old spokesman, senses the equitable vir tues of the Joint stock concern. Before his fair daughter became Queen of Italy and he hud not yet assumed the kingly title. Prince Nicholas was wont to take the air of Cettinje from the front steps of his modest palace. He was an accessi ble, a loquacious and a inceptive pa triarch, in touch with his subjects and with realities. Intimacy with his brave Black Mountain folk may profitably have convinced him that though Monte negro was free, it was small and that oppressed Jugo-Slavia.was large. In any event, his action on thut sound basis gives to his little nation a dig nified constructive poiidy in the res toration of justice to Europe.—Ex change. The Boy Orator of the Platte! [N. A. Review's War Weekly] The gayety of nations is enhanced by the proposal, which appears to be seriously put forward by various prohibitionist clergymen, that one Wllllait Jennings Bryan be exhumed from th\ dust pile and placed at the head of oxtr Peace Commission. This is understood to be the same Mr. Bryan who negotiated a lot of futilo treaties calculated to restrain the <-/>untry from preparing for a war which it saw coming, who played ducks and drakes with our foreign service for the benefit of "deserving Democrats," and who practically sent word to Germany that the Presi i dent wus just talking for buncombe in one of the piost serious, Importunt I and momentous of all his diplomatic utterances. We would be willing to give a largo red apple for the priv ilege of seeing hia name sent to the Senate for confirmation Mi • peace plenipotentiary,- ( J * A. > . . iEurntttg (El|at Reference in this column a night or two ago tjo the firing of salutes on Capitol Hill to celebrate the overthrow of the Confederacy has brought from one of the older resi dents of Harrisburg some interest ing reminiscences that method of expressing joy, which went out of vogue in this city about the time of Pattison's second inauguration when a cannon placed near the present site of the Mexican monument was fired with such charges that the con cussion smashed windows in the Grand Opera House, which occupied the Penn-Harris corner, cracked a pane in the old Park hotel and made residents of Walnut street and Third street replace glass for a week. Since that year the salutes have been fired at the State Arsenal, which being higher up gives a chance for the sounds to reverberate in the valley of the Susquehanna and to fitly de scribe popular sentiments without glaziers' bills. "When the state ar senal was in the Capitol Park there were a number of cannon in the building which were used for firing salutes on all occasions, not only when the Union forces won, but on holidays and high days and X can well remember the banging that bunch of guns made," said my in formant. "I think some of the can non dated from the Mexican War and some were used in early days of the Civil War. In the lot was one known as a brass "Napoleon" whtfh used to make a splendid crash. Trie powder was fired in leather hags and there were some serious accidents. 'Billy' Longnecker, well known as a watchman in later years, was one of the officiating gunners and helped in many a celebration. One time the gun was prematurely discharged and the hands of two men were blown off. The rammer was found stick ing in the street below where the Columbus now stands." • • * A friend who read the account of the old Telegraph in Civil War times and the way the "devils" had to "chase copy" from the Telegraph offices In Third street in 1865 says that during the war George Bergner was the publisher and Wein Forney editorial writer with James M. Mil ler, the lamented "Squire" Miller of later days of the Harrisburg Tele graph business office, as local editor. The "Rev. Jackson," referred to in the account of the celebration of the victory over Lee, was the Rev. J. Walker Jackson, who was pastor of the locust Street Methodist congre gation, which worshiped in I-ocust street almost opposite to the site of the present building of the Harris burg Telegraph. Mr. Jackson was a noted pulpit orator and at his best in war-time sermons, as many of the older residents will recall. • • Apparently there are still some pro-Germans hereabouts, as the following conversation over the tele phone from the Telegraph office early Monday morning when the whistles began to blow as a notifica tion that the armistice had been signed would seem to indicate: Voice from afar: "Vat, please, is all dis noise apout?" Voice of reporter replying: "Why, Germany has surrendered." Voice from afar: "Oh, it can't be; dere must be some mistake apout dot." * Voice of reporter: "No, no mis take. Germany has quit and the Kaiser has fled to Holland." Voice from afar: "Veil, if he has gone, I guess you'll find he had some business ofer dere." Vojce of reporter: "Yes, he had very important business." Conversation closes. • • High school boys who were drilled yesterday by the members of the Harrisburg Reserves resumed their marching with the greatest ginger and are all planning to show the town a thing or two when the jubi lee parade is held. The Technical boys marched over Capitol Park ex tension, while the Central students took the highways around that high school with Captain W. H. Moore showing them how. The drills will be held once a week and will be con ducted by the details from Major Stine's organization. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Edwin Wolf, re-elected presi dent of the Phiadelphia Board of Education, has been prominently identified with financial affairs in that qity for a long time. —J S. Avery, the new operating head of the Reading Transit and Light, has over 200 miles of lino to look after. —Major W. C. Miller, formerly in the State Department of Health, is here from Camp Johnston, where he is medical officer. —Ex-Governor Edwin S. Stuart may be elected president of the Unlon-League of Philadelphia again. —Col. S. H. Church, of Pitts burgh, has presented a banner to the Carnegie Institute regiment. S J. Grenet has taken charge of the labor survey in the Pittsburgh district. Harmon Yerkes, former Judge of Bucks, spent much time studying the history of that section of the state. State Librarian Thomas Lynch Montgomery has delved deeper into the bibliography of Pennsylvania than probably any one now connect ed with the state government. r DO YOU KNOW That Harrisburg has been a depot for munitions in every war sinoc the French and In dian? HISTORIC HARRISBURG A gun factory was one of fhe in dustries here during the War of 1812. TRADE BRIEFS • The exports from Matamoros, Mexico, to the United States for the first half of the calendar year 1918 show an increase of over last year. High house rents have affected the prices of lots in the vicinity of Copenhagen, Denmark, and one farm after another is being divided out and sold for building lots. As an il lustration of the increased prices the villa and gardens of "Ordruphoj." which some years ago cost $150,000, now cannot be bought for $200,000. According to the Canadian Bureau of Statistics the figures complied show that the output of the paper industry amounted to $96,248,824 for 1917. There'are eighty concerns, of which thirty-one were employed in the manufacture of pulp only, twen ty-six In the manufacture of paper only and twenty-three manufactur ing both paper and pul£-
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