GOVERNOR TALKS OF PA. PROBLEMS Savs .He Has Confidence in Ability of Senator Sproul to Meet Difficulties A staff corre i\\ f //J spondont of tho VvW Philadelphia Pub- ll/ lie 1-edffer writes f that Governor Brumbaugh sees two problems of Bre a t difficulty II JfalWnNWtf which will pass HUSjaL to *2° v ertior-elect By " Sproul for solu- Bon. He said he has not been lone some in office the last year of his term, as most governors have been, but has been "busy continuously," the war and the influensa having kept him in close touch with the people. The Governor took up sep arately for consideration each of the problems which lie %aid must enguge the attention of the new administra tion. He talked first of economic ad justments and the re-establishment of a competitive basis of industrial and commercial relations. "This," ho said, "is undoubtedly a matter of the gravest importance, because it is not as easy to do a thing in times of peace as it is to do a similar thing in times of war, when the nation as a whole is tired with patriotism and all considerations, opinions and ambitions are subservi ent to the great thought of success and to unity of effort for victory. "Thus, during the war, his nation, with the Government the chief cus tomer of the manufacturers and leaders of industry, quickly adjusted itself to a monopolistic system. The old fahiiliar laws or rules of trade and business were set aside In order that die war might be won. Now that we have won the war it is nec essary to go back to tlie familiar paths of peace. This economic readjustment in volves many grave questions. If consumption is reduced, production of course must be reduced. How is this problem to be solved so that no one—producer, consumer or laborer, —-will needlessly suffer? The ancient teachings of political economy would advise us to distribute the burden." POLES SEEK RECOGNITION Paris, Jan. 2.—An official Polish delegation has arrived in Switzer land and is expected to reach Paris Friday to lay Polish interests be fore the peace conference. Efforts again will be made to obtain com plete recognition for Poland and as sistance to combat the Bolsheviki. The Poles are especially hopeful of obtaining immediate recognition from the United States. JEAN CIIONES IS IN CUSTODY Norfolk, Va., Jan. 2.—Norfolk county authorities last night con firmed reports that they have in custody a man arrested oil the theory that lie may be Jean Crones, who is wanted in Chicago for attempting to poison 200 guests at a banquet at the University Club on February 10, 1916. Kidney Trouble Not Easily Recognized Applicants for Insurance Often Rejected. An examining physician for one of tho prominent Life Insurance Companies, in an interview of tho subject, made the astonishing state ment that one reason why so many applicants for insurance are re jected is because kidney trouble is so common to the American people, and the large majority of those whose applications are declined do not even suspect that they have the disease. Judging from reports from drug gists who are constantly in direct touch with the public, there is one preparation that has been very suc cessful in overcoming these condi tions. The mild and healing in fluence of Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Hoot is soon realized. It stands the highest for its remarkable record of success. We find that Swamp-Root is strictly an herbal compound and we would advise our readers who feel in need of such a remedy to give it a trial. It is on sale at all drug stores in bottles of two sizes, me dium and large. However, if you wish first to test this great preparation send ten cents to Dr. Kilmer & Co.,"Bing hamton, N. Y., for a sample bottle. When writing be sure and mention the Harrisburg Daily Telegraph. THE GLOBE THE GLOBE A Word o£ Thanks To Our Firemen— Only the highest words of praise are due to our brave firemen for the commendable way in which they fought the stubborn fire at THE GLOBE early yesterday morn ing. In reckless and inexperienced hands the damages from water alone would have been enormous —but the firemen "were on to their job," saved the building and extinguish ed the flames with the least possible damage. None' could have done better. With sincere gratefulness for the faithful services ren dered this appreciation is made public. % THURSDAY EVENING, , CHAIN OF EVENTS THAT UPSET WORLD Review of War That Coat Ten Million Lives and Fifty Bil lion Dollars in Property; Begun by a Pistol Shot THE pistol shot which put an and to ths Ufa of Archduke Francis Josaph, hair presumptive to tho Auatro-Hungarlar. throne, at Sarajevo, June IS, ISI4, turned Europe into a battlefield six weeks later. Tho Serbians were blamed for the assassination, and on July 23, Vienna sent an ultimatum to Bel grade demanding the punishment of tho offenders and Austria's partlcl patlon In their trial in Serbia. Russia supported Serbia In reject ing the last demand; Germany sup ported Austria. England, France, and even Italy, then the ally of Aus tria and Germany, suggested arbi tration by the Great Powers. By treaty Germany was obliged to sup port Austria If attacked by two or more powers. By treaty France was obliged to support Russia for a simi lar reason. By treaty Italy was obliged to support her allies in case of a defensive war. Germany deemed Russia's mobili zation tantamount to a declaration of war against her and declared war on August 1. Alleging that France had already begun hostile action against her, Germany declared war on France on August 3. Germany invaded Belgium in order to attack France, thereby turning into a "scrap of paper" Belgium's covenant of neutrality to which Germany was a partner. Great Britain declared war on Germany on August 4. Italy, deeming Austria the aggressor, pro claimed her neutrality. But these were merely the surface expressions of a long standing con spiracy on the part of Germany, and Austria-Hungary soon to be revealed by German propaganda. .Germany wished to render France impotent and absorb the Germanic provinces of Russia: she would then be in a position to fight or coerce the power Great Britain enjoyed by reason of the latter's predominance at sea. Austria-Hungary wished to absorb the Balkan Slavs and make her way to the Aegean. For Germany there was a corollary to the success of the AUstro-Hungarian scheme, which, by the bribery of Turkey, would es tablish German dominion from the North Sea to the Persian Gulf. In November Turkey entered the war on the side of the Central Empires. All this was arranged, even to the minutest detail, at the German kaiser's Potsdam conference on July 5. There It was believed that If the corollary did not come iiito evidence too soon both Great Britain and Italy would remain neutral. That Japan would enter the war on ac count of her treaty with Great Brit ain was thus discounted. Vnited States Turned Sealo Germany attempted to defend her position morally on the ground that she had been attacked by Russia on account of the Pan Slavonic ambi tions of that empire, and by Great Britain on account of the latter's jealousy of her world trade and in dustry. She was, therefore, "fight ing for her existence." Her enemies in defending them selves entered into treaties for mu tual advantages after the war, in case of the defeat of the Central Empires. There was co-operation, but no great unity of action or pur pose among them. This gave Ger many a great advantage until the spring of 1917, when the United States entered the war. That event, besides bringing the material decid ing factor to the Allies' cause, es tablished their war aims upon a world basis of a fight for humanity— of republicanism against absolutism, for tlie rights of small nations, and "to make the world safe for de mocracy." All this was to he done by annihilating Prussian militarism and llolienzollern absolutism. On these humane principles twen ty-nine nations arrayed themselves against Germany, of which twenty four declared war. The war. which has now brought to the stage of practical application the principles for which the enemies of Germany have been fighting, has been prodigious in geographic and social extent and unprecedented in expenditure of lives and treasure. Through battle, atrocities, and mas sacres it is estimated that 10,000.000 lives have been sacrificed; that $50,- 000,000,000 of property, not includ ing the wastage of war material, has been destroyed in various ways; that the productive wealth of the bel ligerents, which in 1914 was esti mated at $600,000,000,000, has now been mortgaged for over $200,000,- 000,000, much of which now seems unrecoverable. Germany's initial plan was to place France horn do combat and then obtain a victorious peaca over Russia. Austria-Hungary, mean while, would attend to tho Balkans. The Intervention' of Great Britain brought this to nought. Germany thon directed Turkey to attack Egypt and the Sues Canal, and so strangle Great Brttuln In the East. 1014-1015 The first act of Greut Britain waa to Isolate the German fleet; her sec ond to'send an expeditionary force under the command of Sir John French to Belgium and France. The Germans advanced Into France to within fifteen miles of Pails, and were then driven back to tho Alsne at the battle of the klarne, Septem ber 5-12, 1314. Russian armies ad vanced Into East Prussia, were held In the center east of Posen, and overran Austrian Galteia. The Turks were defeated at the Suez Canal on February 2-4, 1915. In the follow ing April the Auatro-Germans began a drive in Galicia, which by the fol lowing November had carried them eastward to a 450-mito perpendicu lar extending from near Riga to the Russian ffontier. From March until October the Al lies attempted to gain Constanti nople from the Peninsula of Galli poli, and then withdrew to Kaloniki in an atteriipt to defend Serbia. Bul garia having joined the Central Em pires on September 22. Bulgaria overran Serbia and established com munication between Berlin and Con stantinople via the < irient Railway. Meanwhile Italy had declared war on Austria on May 23, and had in vaded Austrian territory, isolating the Trentlno and advancing to the River lsonzo, The Russians, ad vancing through the Caucasus, were defeating the Turks in Armenia. The sinking of lite l.usilania on May 7 and the atrocities of the Ger mans in Belgium, the Ausrrians and Bulgars in Serbia, the Turks in Ar menia and the criminal propaganda in the Vnited States to prevent sup plies from going to the Allies all tend to lower Germany's moral standard in the war. By the naval battle off the Falkland Islands on December 3, 1914, Germany's only fleet on the high seas had been put out of existence; a similar fate soon followed her commerce destroyers. Japan had taken the German leased territory of Kiao-Chau in China, and out of Germany's oversea possessions of 1,027,820 square miles area only German East Africa, with an area of 384,180 square miles, remained, and has been fighting down io the end of the war. 1915-10 Hi The second year of the war, 1913- 191(1, saw the Germans completing their occupation of the Balkans down to the Sulonikl line held by the Allies: there was a British defeat on,the Tigris, with the surrender of Kirt-el-A mara, on April 28. There also the battle of Verdun, which began on February 21 and cost the Germans half a million cas ualties; the sea tight off Jutland on May 31, which left the British navy in control of the. sea; the battle of tlie Somme in France, July 1-Novem ber 13, which regained 170 square miles of territory and secured sev eral strategic positions which five months Inter forced the great Ger man retreat: General Brusiloli's campaign on the eastern front, which regained 7,300 square miles of territory and captured 3 58,000 pris oners from June 4 till December, 1916. 1916-1917 On August 27, 1916, -Rumania en tered the war on the side of Ger many's enemies and by the dawn of 1917 had been crushed. In March and April, 1917, took place the Ger man retreat to the Hindenburg line, which surrendered to France nearly 1,500 square miles of territory. There were British victories at the bridges of Vimy and Messines, re spectively April 19 and June 7, and the great attack of the French from Soissons to liheims, which secured 100,000 prisoners. In Mesopotamia the British recovered Kut-el-Amara and on March 11 occupied Bagdad; the Arab kingdom of lledjaz joined the Allies. But the most important events of the third year of the wnr were po litical. however —the Russian revolu tion, March 15, and the entrance of the United States into the war, April 6. The former was brought about without any premeditation by the Corsacks refusing to fire on the Pet rograd mob and the Duma taking advantage of the situation and es tablishing a Vnild Provisional Gov- &LRIUBBURQ TEXfiORAPtf LEADERS MEETING FOR PEACE CONFERENCE MMMWaa—MB'MBCTCTtadWiIMt"I'.' 'g. .: iß' lil'lHill II Hi* ' ' ' -"> ■*'" -5. %K-.:z?irs?i*. J^n:r:T. T i-rcj'"roJ3r^F>EXcE;""cro>rivCissHJsrcE^ With President Wilson in Paris, peace delegates of all Allied nations a re gathering for the great peace con ference at Versailles. Informal sesslo ns have been held, and the leaders o f the nations have laid premature plans for conducting the final conference. The photo shows a group of th ese leaders in one of the rest salons at Versailles. No. I is Lloyd George, Premier of Britain, conversing with No. 2, Colonel K< M. House, personal emissary of President Wilson. In the background No. 3 is Premier Clemen ceau, of France. ernment. which opened the coun try to destructive German propagan da and the rise of the anarchy known as Bolshevism. The moral and material grievances of the United States against Germany cul minated in a series of revelations showing the latter's criminality. On' January 31 she proclaimed her in tensified 17-boat campaign, repudiat ing the promise of Slay 4. 1916, and on February 28 came the revelation of the Zimmerman not? to Mexico i and Japan. Up to the time the i United States declared war this 1 country had lost by the illegal opera- J tion of U-boats twenty-two ships, L amounting to more than 70,000 tons,' together with hundreds of lives, j most of which, however, had met j their death on other neutral ships i or on the passenger ships of Ger- | many's enemies. ICI7-1918 Early in the fourth year of the | war, November 7, 1917, saw the col lapse f the Russian Provisional | Government and the dominance of 1 the Bolsheviki. They finally drove ! Russia from the war by the betrayal , at Brest-Litovsk, which culminated ! in the treaty of peace of March 3. i 1918. Rumania was forced to make peace on May 6, at Bucharest. Other events which occupied the I closing months of 1917 were equally! discouraging for the Allies, whose j morale, however, was kept firm ! through the rapidly augmenting evi- j denc.es of American aid, which j would be decisive. Even here there ■ was fear that this aid could not be | brought overseas, due to the intensi- j tied action of the U-boatg, whose toll I of merchant shipping for 1917 had j been in the first quarter 1,819,373 j tons; in the second, 236,934; in the third, 1,494,473: and in the fourth, 2,272,843. And as yet" there were no sure grounds to believe in the great victories which came to the Allies a year hence. \ On the western front the battle of Flanders, which had been begun by the British on July 31. ended with the capture of Passchendaele Ridge on the sixth of the following Novem ber. There was the abortive battle of Cambrai, November 20-December 5. In October Petain secured the Chemin des Dames on the Aisne front. Italy advanced over the Bain sizza to within thirty-five miles of j Laibach, between August 20 and Oc tober 1, only to be defeated at Ca-j poretto and driven back to the Piave, . losing a large part of the ltegione j of Veneto. The allied front in Macedonia con tinued to remain inactive save for I ,the excursions of Greek troops, | 'whose new government had entered i the Vvar on the side of the Allies on . July 2. The war against the Turk, j however, showed encouraging signs, I in Palestine General Allenby cap- j tured Jesusalem on December 22; in , Mesopotamia General Marshall, who | had succeeded to the command on the -death of Maude on November 18, extended his advance to the Euphrates, and was still ascending the Tigris toward Mosul. It was known before 1917 closed that Germany, released from war with Russia, was preparing a great offensive. The Austro-German reply to the Pope's peace note of August 1 revealed merely a readiness to j talk peace on the basis of the mili tary status quo. President Wilson, in his reply to the Pope on Septem- | her 27, reaffirmed tfie great moral j issues at stake, but in the Chancel leries of the Allies in Europe men like the Marquis of l.ansdowne low ered the morale by constantly ask ing for the war aims of the bel ligerents, and there was defeatlbt propaganda abroad. France had hei Caillaux and 8010 Pasha, Italy her Giolitti, and England her Sinn Fein. With these distracting and dis couraging influences only ! by the hope placed in the United | States and the faith that the U-boat J campaign was being neutralized, the | combat was carried for three months j into the present year with forebod- j ings for a long war. The Closing Scenes Then Germany on March 21 began her great offensive on the western front with the object of separating I the British and French armies by i reaching: the Channel ports at the I month of the Somrne and then Jo- , feating each army in turn and oc cupying Paris. Between March 21 and July 15 her offensive had passed through four v phases, giving her l.ys, the Ptcardy, and the Marne salients. She had strelched a 195-nyle front to one.of 250. However, the Allies held the sectors which bound the salients and also strategic positions on their perimeters. Germany s huge losses prevented her from pro ceeding further Sinless at a given point she could break the Allies line. This in a desperate effort she at tempted to.do on July la by driving across the Marne. She failed and began a highly organized strategic retreat to save her armies Meanwhile the Allies had decided in April, on unity of command and had placed the conduct of the war In the hands of General X'och. The arrival of nearly 1.000.000 American bayoiets in France ga\ e him the opportunity to organize an army of manoeuver. llis attacks begun be tween Soissons and Chateau-Thierry against the Marne salient on July have been unceasing down time of the armistice, steadily push lng the German armies east thiough Belgium and north to the I< frontier, u series of battles which the First American Army played Its full part west of the Meuse. The series of sledge-hummer blows administered by Foclfs army began to have their effect not only on the buttlefront, out In Berlin and V hen na in Sella and Constantinople. The enemy was not reaping the ma terial he had expected to derive from a Bolshevist Russia. There the Czechoslovak armies— former prisoners of war released by the Provisional Government —were fighting against the Germans and Bolshevikl and were soon joined .by contingents of the Allies and Rus sians of the educated class. The Al lies recognized the belligerency of the Czechoslovaks' country Bo hemia—and the national aspirations of the Slavonic subjects of Austria- Hungary. On September 14 the allied armies in Macedonia under Franchet d'Es perey made an attack which on the last day of the month drove Bul garia to seek unconditional surren der. On September 19 the forces under General Allenby in Palestine anni hilated three Turkish armies, which forced the Turks out of the war, on the same terms, October 31. On November 4, Austria-ungary, whose note to President Wilson on October 5, asked for a peace parley, had been rejected on October 19, and who was being severely punished by an Italian offensive begun on Oc tober 27, accepted an armistice which"left her helpless, with revolu tionary movements in Vienna, Prague, and elsewhere tending to ward the complete dissolution of the Dual Monarchy of the Hapsburs. As far back as September 14, Austria- Hungary had attempted to have all the belligerents meet in conference and the President had rejected the proposal September 17. On October 6 the new German Chancellor, Prince Max of Baden, prepared a peace parley on the basis of the President's fourteen articles of January 8, and subsequent ut terances of formulae for permanent peace. On October 8 President Wilson asked for the chancellor's mandate — did it come from the authorities who had begun and carried on the war or from the people? Germany on Otober 12 pointed out the reforms that were going on in the empire and asked for a mixed commission on the evacuation of the occupied territory in Belgium and France. To this note President Wilson re plied the next day, defining the pro cess by which Germany might re ceive terms for an armistice, but In sisting that the mandate must come from the German people and be pre ceded by an evacuation of the oc cupied territories. Other notes were exchanged. Ger many answering on October 21 and the President on October 23; and, respectively, on the 27tli and No vember 5 when the President sent to Germany a memorandum saying that military advisers of the asso ciated governments were prepared to submit to Germany the terms on which an armistice might be secured. On November 8 the German com missioners received the terms of the armistice at General Foch's head quarters and seventy-two hours were allowed them to which to make an swer. NEWS FLASHES OFF THE OCEAN CABLES By Associated Press Uuxel. Thirty British soldiers were injured when a locomotive in charge of German railway men, ran into a train of British troops on a line in Belgium. London. Russian affairs are (mus ing the British Foreign Office con siderable anxiety. The Russian ques tion will be the first to be discussed at the peace conference. Cohlenx. A rise of three feet in the waters of the Rhine and Moselle rivers has flooded the lower strets of Coblenz and villages along both rivers. The cellars of two hotels in Coblenz, occupied by officers of the American Third Army, were inundat ed. Cohirnn. Lieutenant Aruthur Sut ton and three men of the American Signal Corps, have left here for Ber lin with instructions to report to Major General Harries, of the Ameri can Army. DRIVE AWAY HEADACHE Rub Musterole on Forehead and Temples A headache remedy without the dan gers of "headache medicine." Relieves headache and that miserable feeling from cold 9 or congestion. And it acts at once! Musterole is a clean, white oint ment, made with oil of mustard. Better than a mustard plaster and does not , blister. Used only externally, and in ! no way can it affect stomach and heart, as come internal medicines do. Excellent for -ore throat, bronchitis, croup, stiff neck, asthma, neuralgia, ! congestion, pleurisy, rheumatism, lum bago, all pains and aches of the back ! or joints, sprains, sore muscles, bruises, chilblains, frosted feet, folds of the chest (it often prevents pneumonia). 30c and 60c jars; hospital size $2.50. BRIGC.S AT HEAD OF COLLIERS New York, Jan. 2.— T. L. Briggs, chairman of the executive commit tee of the Association of National Advertisers and a, member of the executive staff of the Remington Arms-Union Metallic Cartridge Com pany, Inc., has been elected presi dent of P. F. Collier and S6ns, Inc., to fill the vacancy caused by the re cpnt death of Robert J. Collier, it was announced last night. HELD FOR CAR THEFT Cbamhcrsburg, Pa., Jan. 2. Joseph G. Gile, Medical Corps, and William G. Seward, First Company, Tenth Marines, are held here by the police for stealing a Packard car, license No. 9907, listed to E. J. Flan igan. Fishers avenue, Philadelphia. Gile claims his father, Dr. Benjamin C. Gile, Bryn-Mawr, owns the car. "The Live Store" "Always Reliable" Doutrichs Shirt-Sale - \Begins Saturdayj I January 4th | This is the> first important event of the New Year. Don't miss it—every shirt in our entire stock will be reduced full details will be given in Friday papers. All our high grade "silk ,7 shirts" "madras" "percale" "mercerized shirts" and all work shirts, / including, p "Signal Shirts" Black Sateen and , Blue Chambray Sale Begins Saturday 304 MARKET STREET HARRISBURG, PA. JANUARY 2, 1919. * Rev. William C. Spicer Tells ofY.M. C. A. Work on French battlefields A large audlenoo filled Market Square Presbyterian Church, last night, to hear tho Hev. William C. Spicer, pastor of the Prfcabyterian Church, of Qloveravllle, N. Y„ an#a native of thle city, who spoke on "The dted Triangle In France." The Rev. Mr. Spicer, who Is a son of the late Charles A. Spicer, was among the first to volunteer for Y. M. C. A. work after the entrance of this country Into the war, and hl^-address last night con veyed an account of his experiences for the past year. Mr. Spicer left for the European field of work December 22, 1917, and was first located In the city of Nantes, France. During the summer of 1918 he was connected with the Eighty ninth Division, which was first placed in the Toul sector and was later in the St. Mihlel drive. The Y. M. C. A. men were among the very first to ar- rive at the front there and were on duty before the company kitchens. 'I his division, which was largely com posed of men from the Middle West, was later sent to the Argonne Forest with less thHii twenty-four hours of rest after their fighting near St. Mihlel. He praised the work of the Salva Shell Rim Glasses Wc Make ii Specialty of Tliese Frames—Tliey Arc Stylish and/! 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