Harrisburg telegraph. (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, May 21, 1919, Page 8, Image 8
8 GERMAN CABINET EXCORIATES PACT IN ITS ANSWER Says Signing of Treaty Spells , Destruction, Dishonor and Degradation Bv Associated Press. Berlin, May 21.—Germany declines te sifn the peace terms laid before 'it because they spell the economic destruction, political dishonor and moral degradation of the entire Ger man nation, not only for the present but also for still unborn generations, was a statement authorized by the cabinet this morning through the Associated Press. Says Demands Are Unjustified "That these consequences must logically follow acceptance of the : peace conditions the American press itself has recognized without ques tion," the statement continues. "To ward them Germany took the stand i point that acceptance of such con i ditions could not be demanded and ; that the Entente was unjustified in imposing such demands." "Germany has not only a moral right to compliance with the general promises made it, but a firmly grounded, definite, clearly defined claim, according to the basic rules of international law, on all the Entente powers and especially on the United States. A specific recogni tion of the right of Germany and of the German peoples to a peace of right, justice and reconciliation, instead of the Paragraphed song of hate which was written at Versailles, is contained in the not# of the American Secretary of State Lansing of November 5, 1918. Quotes Lansing Note "In It the Secretary of State notified the Swiss minister in Washington un conditionally that the established basis of President Wilson's 14 points should be authoritative for the peace conditions. Secretary Lansing announced further that the Entente governments after careful consideration were also prepared to recognize the conditions set up by President Wilson as the basis for the conclusion of peace. "The declaration of rights emanating from these specific declarations of all the Entente powers and the United States constitutes Germany's sole asset in the general moral breakdown of all International politics and which has found unsurpassable expression in the Versailles terms. All Individuals Responsible "Germany answers them with its clearly Juristic right In International law. Toward the politico-moral bankruptcy of Versailles the German nation stands as a creditor with undeniable rights, and It is not In a position to yield on thia chief point. Germany concluded peace on the basis of President Wilson's fourteen points, which all America had made its own, and all America, every individual. Is responsible for the ful fillment of Its claims. "It Is not the German people's busi ness to Indicate how Its rights shall be realized by the fourteen points, or especially by the note of Secretary Lan sing. That, rather, is the task of those who constructed the fourteen point and brought them to acceptance, thereby inducing Germany to lay down her weapons. "We do not believe that President Wilson, Secretary Lansing and the American people can take other than this German standpoint if they do not wish to do that which President Wilson in his message of December 4, 1917, condemned categorically when he said: 'We would dishonor our own cause if wc treated Germahy any other than Jqbtly and in a nonpartisan manner and did' not insist upon Justice towards all, no fatter how the war ended. We de mand nothing which we are not ready ourselves to admit.' Wants 14 Points to Hold "And the German people demand j nothing more than that which President I Wilson announced in this declaration. We demand nothing more than that I Americans place the 14 points opposite the peace terms. We do not believe that any one in the United States will then have the courage to claim that there can be found in the peace conditions one single trace left of President Wilson's program. "And here begins America's definite duty to step in. America either must put its fourteen points through or it must declare that it is unable to do so or that it does not want to do so, so j that in no case may the world be led to believe that America desires to have the peace conditions count as President Wilson's fourteen points. "That is our demand, to which we cling, and we cannot imagine what ar gument from the American side would be effective against it." In President Wilson's message to Con gress of December 4. 1917. no passage can be found in textual agreement with : the quotation in the cabinet statement. I The quotation appears to be a conden- j nation from the following passages In' the message in question: "We can do this (concentrate on the | prosecution of the task of winning the war) with all the greater zeal and en-] thusiasm because we know that for us j this is a war of high principle, debased by no selfish ambition of conquest or spoliation. • * • It is because it Is for us a war of high, disinterested purpose, in which all the free peoples of the world are banded together for the vindication of right, a war for the preservation of our nation and of ail that It has held dear of principle and of purpose, that we feel ourselves doubly constrained to propose for its outcome only that which is righteous and of ir reproachable intention, for our foes as well as for our friends. The cause be ing Just and holy the settlement must be of like motive and quality. For this we san fight, but for nothing less noble r less worthy of our traditions." CUTICURA HEALS PIMPLES OB {ace. Took form of blackheads. Face became disfigured. Pimples bard, red, and came to a head and burst. In blotches on center of face, chin, forehead and around nose. Saw an advertisement for Cuticura and sent for. a sample. Purchased one cake Soap and one box Oint ment which healed me. From signed statement of Miss Mario Esther Elm, Box SS, Ship pfngpoit, Pa., Sept. 10, 1918. You may rely on Cuticura to care for your skin, scalp, hair and hands. Catieura Tal'om Is detlests. delightful, 4is* ttngoe. It imparts to the person s efasrm incom parable sad peculiar to its*if. WEDNESDAY EVENING, Plan For Greater Steelton CHARLES M. SCHWAB EUGENE G. GRACE SCHWAB PLANS GREATER STEELTON [Continued from First Pago.] He is a quite capable manager, they emphatically declared. Relative to the physical condition of the Steelton plant, both officials declared with emphasis that it is excellent. Everything is moving along well at the plant. None of the plants are in better physical shape than is the one in Steelton. Stcclton's Reward "And the reward to Mr. Robbins and Steelton for the excellent con dition in which the tour of inspec tion revealed things to be. will come In the shape of an extended plant," it was promised by Mr. Schwab. That an unusual period of pros perity is due to follow in the steel business was the emphatic decla ration of Mr. Schwab and Mr. Grace. Already, they declared the steel trade is beginning to pick up. al though the trade is not what St had been before the war. The agree ment, Mr. Grace interjected, of the Federal Railroad administration on the price of rails, will do much to stabilize the steel trade and will hasten considerably the period of prosperity in the business which is approaching. Finn Big Plant Mr. Schwab and the party came to Steelton to-day after visiting the Sparrows Point plant yesterday. Fol lowing the tour of inspection there, Mr. Schwab announced that he would spend between $25,000,000 and $40,000,000 in improvements at the plant. This will be in addition to the $50,000,000 improvements now being completed. New tin mills, new open hearth fur nace and the adding of ten ships to the present ore fleet of the corpora tion are among the improvements for which the appropriation will be made. Mr. Schwab said the Spar rows Point plant will be made one of the largest in the world. Mr. Schwab and the entire party started their tour of inspection of the local plant early this morning and spent the greater part of the morning there. They did not ar rive at the Pennsylvania railroad un til about five minutes before leaving time of the train to which Mr. Schwab's special car, the Loretto, was attached. The train, scheduled to leave the station at 12.55 p. m. left several minutes late for New York, to which place the Schwab party is moving. When encountered, both Mr. Schwab and Mr. Grace were found seated on a Pennsylvania railroad baggage truck, deeply absorbed in reading newspapers while the car Loretto was being shunted from one track to that on which was standing the train to which it was to be at tached. The news of the early morn ing edition of the Harrisburg Tele graph engaged Mr. Schwab's atten tion while Mr. Grace was rapidly gathering in the information con tained in a copy of the New York Sun. Both appeared to be altogether oblivious to the fact that they were on a mission which intimately con cerns all Harrisburg. Steelton and a great portion of Central Pennsyl vania. "Have you any news of Hawker," queried Mr. Schwab as soon as he had related his plans for the exten sion of Steelton; "Poor fellow," he commented when told that news to day was quite discouraging for Hawker's safety. A tribute to the encouragement given by the Harrisburg newspapers to the Bethlehem Steel interests and officials, was paid by both Mr. Schwab and Mr. Grace. "You have always treated us fairly and we ap preciate it, we assure you," they flung out as they rose from the bag gage truck to go to the private car. FINE WEATHER, BUT ENGINES GO BAD [Continued from First Page.] to tune up the motors. After mak ing three unsuccessful attempts to take oft with one engine functioning improperly. Lieutenant Commander A. C. Read decided that it was too late to remedy the trouble this morning in time to make the flight ; to Lisbon in daylight hours, i Commander Read is confident the j engine trouble is not important and that It will be remedied in time to begin the flight to Lisbon at day break to-morrow, weather permit ting. Crowds of souvenir hunters who tried to get pieces of the NC-3, the flagship of the flight which is moored in the harbor here, made it necessary to-day for the naval au thorities to issue orders that the ship be guarded day and night. To Guide Finances of Big Fleet Corporation Washington, May 11.—Election of Waldo 8. Read, formerly a New York banker as vice-president of the Emerg ency Fleet Corporation In charge of finance, was announced to-day by the Shipping Board. Mr. Read will continue *to discharge his duties as treasurer of •w oocnocaUon, THEY DIDN'T EVEN RAP WHEN THEY CAME FOR THE ENGINE So Camp Hill Fire Laddies Come Right Out and Say Mean Councilinen Swiped Their Apparatus To have a regular, honest-to-good ness tire engine to protect the com munity of Camp Hill, or to have one which requires two stalwart Perche eron horses or ninety citizens to haul it—this is the vital question which consumes the well-to-do bor ough. It appears that the borough council "swiped" the present me dieval lire extinguisher from its snug home where it comfortably reposed for, 10, these many years and now have it imprisoned in a local garage. On the part of the fire company there Is tremendous agitation in Camp Hill following the open charges that members of the fire company have crippled this ancient and well-beloved fire-extinguishing machine. "Somebody, we ain't ready to identify them, tightened the wheels," was the vague charge made to-day against the fire company. Precisely who filched the engine the other day from the home of Camp Hill Fire Engine Company No. 1 nobody seems to know, but suspicions are vivid. Among those who have fairly definite notions about the tragedy is Robert E. Ca hiil. of the Harrisburg Shoe Manu facturing Company, who takes an active in Camp Hill civic mat ters and is a leading light in the fire organization. "Council did not even rap at the fire company door," he related to day in tense tones. "They took our apparatus away secretly and we hear it is now in Heikes' garage. The council claims they it will put it In shape so our town will not be threatened with tire destruction. But all the firemen know that the the council is betting on a dead one. The council is to blame for RAIN SLOWS CAMPAIGN FOR SALVATION ARMY [Continued from First Page.] boxing during the war and, a Uni versity of Pennsylvania man him self. he urged co-operation with Uncle Sam on the part of all col leges and schools. I Every one approached concerning this, the closing event in the Sal vation Army drive, has been liberal. I Chestnut street hall lessees threaten 'to charge the regular price, but Mercer Tate got on the phone with headquarters and maybe the Army will escape all expense. Draak, the valiant Belgian-Netherlands cham pion. who was given a tremendous ovation last evening, although floor ed by Dr. Roller, aims to return here in tine for Saturday night and will be pitted against a good man, prob ably Jack Ozar, Tech High, Tarsus A. A., the Motive Power club and many strong athletic organizations, will contribute stars. The Order of Moose promise a high class brass band. Reports to-day from the soldier canvassers who kept to their work steadily yesterday show good re sponse from industries and the pub lic generally. In only one instance did a canvasser find objection and the argument was very brief, for the officer had been one who received marked benefit from a Salvation Army squad near the Mt. Sec sector in April of 1918. "We were fairly busy driving back the Prus sian Guards and we had had noth ing to eat for twelve hours." he told briefly. "Those Army girls came along just then and kept open a booth with shells flying thick enough, and kept furnishing us with hot chocolate and doughnuts during eight hours." The doughnut sale committee has set the following places for selling to the city: Nineteenth and Derry, Thirteenth and Derry, Thirteenth and Market. P. R. R. station, (one at Market street entrance and one in station), Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart's store. Metropolitan Hotel, Colonial The ater, Kochenour Cigar Store, Third and Market, Chamber of Commerce, Knisely Cigar Store, Second and Market streets, Chestnut Street Market (bridge entrance when mar ket is closed), Majestic Theater, Capitol, entrance Third and Wal nut, Harry's Cigar Btore, Third and Walnut: Rose's, Second and Wal nut: Kreidler Brothers, Second and Walnut: Sixth and Maclay, Verbeke Stret Market (girls operate baskets through market), Penn-Harris Hotel lobby. Commander Booth Thanks Public Commander Evangeline Booth Is sued this statement of thanks: "I have no words to express the profound gratitude and appreciation of the Salvation Army in the United States for the overwhelming re sponse we are receiving from the public in this Home Service Cam paign. It seems to all of us who have been in the movement for many years that it is a rare privi lege to receive this unparalleled ex. ipreasloa of public confidence, par- tomiußßmtttdflßk'^rKnEGrocPH Camp Hill's awful plight. It appointed a committee to consult with the Are company which knows its business but no meeting took place for six months. And now. the council have swiped the machine and they even accuse the fire company of tightening the wheels to make the machine useless. It takes a brace of strong horses to move this antiquated machine, or half the town's man-power. To show you what a jqke it is we had our most diastrous fire a short time ago and though it was only one block away from the firehouse we never got the engine there until the blaze had burned out, doing a lot of destruction." "Why can't the borough council and Are company get together," was vent ured from the reporter. m "There's too many people butting in," was the answer. "The advisers of the council would quibble about the Ten Commandents or the American Cons/- tution. They claim there are no funds to buy a new up-to-date engine. They say the citizens should turn out with their automobiles when there is a fire and drag the fire engine to where the blaze is going on. There's plenty of money in Camp Hill. It Is asseajed only for $800,000: less than one-third what it's orth. We are all gummed up with too much law quibbling; what we need la action. The town may catch fire and burn down some of these n'Shts If the council does not wake up and get a new apparatus. Horses are d >' n K out and we can't depend on t setting a couple strong enough to haul th'® machine, and the citizens *' on t tU "J out with their automobiles to drag it into action. If they'd get rld of all this law stuff and co-operate, Camp Hill could easily be protected from a whol ®' sale conflagration. Money can be log ically and justly raised by an lnc rease In assessment which is uncommonly slight in this community." ticularly when we remember the try ing days in which we started oup work and when we were but little understood. With every dollar that comes to our hands in this great drive, there comes also a measure of great responsibility, and I offer the pledge of the Salvation Army I that one year hence we will render an accounting to the people and ask their judgment on the use we have made of the fund. "I had little dreamed that the day would ever come when I might find myself at a loss to express any senti ment of the Salvation Army, but I am free to confess that I do not [know how to thank the splendid mea and wonderful women who have thronged to our aid and who are rolling up the millions of dollars which attest to their belief in our motives and efficiency. I can only say that the use we make of this money is serving the man who is down, but who is never out, will have to be the answer and will con stitute our thanks to the American public." Doughnuts were selling as high as SSO each in the streets of New York yesterday. The big city is re sponding generously. WILSON'S BOOZE STAND FLAYED [Continued from First Page.] traffic. The present law will stand, I am sure." Ministers Disappointed The Rev. J. Bradley Markward, pastor of Bethlehem Lutheran Church, and president of the Har risburg Ministerial Association, has this to say about the recommenda tion: "It was a great disappoint ment to me. I do not know just what Congress will do, but certainly hope it will not repeal the law. There is nothing in President Wilson's mes sage to show the motive or necessity for such a move. I am not surpris ed at the "widespread criticism of the President for making such a recommendation. It is an unusual situation." Bishop Joseph F. Berry, Phila delphia, of the Methodist Episcopal l Church, who has frequently appear ed in this city to make addresses at important church meetings, voiced an attack on Wilson's liquor attitude and is quoted as saying "I never did have the slightest confidence in President Wilson's sincerity in rela tion to prohibition. The President never has been a temperance man." But the joy in the booze ranks is unbounded. Coming within a little more than a month of the time fixed for the end of all liquor sales, the breweries and dealers were overjoyed when they read Wilson's recommen dation. In the saloons It was the only toplo discussed and the boose men beamed with pleasure at the mention of the President's name. , LIGHT BILL POSTPONED' The Senate bill requiring lights on all vehicles was postponed when reached In the House to-day, There is some opposition to it, built la be llevod the bill will pita* DR. STRAYER AND DR. FINEGAN ARE SPEAKERS HERE Noted Educators Address the Chamber of Commerce Noon-Day Luncheon "It every State had contributed its best men and the best of all of them had been chosen to be the State Su perintendent of Public Instruction for Pennsylvania. Dr. Thomas E. Finegan would have been that man," Dr. George Drayton Straycr, of New York City, president of the National Educational Association, told the members of the Harrlsburg Chamber of Commerce at luncheon In the Fenn-Harrls at noon to-day. He congratulated Pennsylvania on pro curing his services. Dr. Strayer, who was Introduced by Dr. F. E. Downes, city superinten dent of schools and president of the Pennsylvania State Educational Asso ciation, was the special guest of the Chamber and by rare good fortune. Dr. Downes was able to have present also Dr. Finegan himself, he having come to Harrisburg unexpectedly to day to go over educational matters with the Governor, Dr. Strayer in a brief address said he had decided to come to Pennsylvania from a very congenial position as deputy commis sioner of the New York school de partment, because he is convinced that there is opportunity here for tho rendering of greater service to the people. Emergency In Bdsestlss "Dr. Strayer npoke on the "Emer gency in Education," saying that the country is backward in many re spects, and that the investigations of the army during the war have em phasized the needs of radical revis ions and developments. One-fifth of all the children who attended school last year, he said, were under the care of untrained teachers. The greatest need Is for trained and adequately paid teach ers. "You must be willing to pay the bill," Dr. Strayer said and went into a comparison of salaries here and In New York State. Another great op portunity for service lies in an ade quate program for physical educa tion and health inspection in the schools, giving as the basis of his ar guments the physical unfitness de veloped by the army examinations. "Physical fitness is as necessary to the extension of commerce as to the conduct of a war," he said. The Army also discovered, Dr. Strayer pointed out, that one out of five men examined were illiterates, and from this uneducated class are recruited the ultra-radicals, the an archists, the Bolshevists and the I. W. W,, led away from proper paths by the demagoguery of their leaders Remove illiteracy is his prescription for the cure of dangerous develop ments of the kind mentioned. Americanization for old as well as the young of foreign birth is another school problem the speaker said must be taken up seriously, to the end that many persons now ignored and kept down may be permitted to become the good American citizens they desire to be. He praised Penn sylvaoia's continuation school sys tem, and said that there is opportu nity here for an advancement along this line, citing England as an ex ample. Dr. Strayer argued strongly In fa vor of the co-ordination of the na tion's educational bureaus under the head of a National Department of Public Education, a bill for the cre ation of which is now in progress, on the ground that it would hasten the program of education he outlined in his address and make for equality of education for every child in the Dnited States. Dr. Finegan will be invited to ad dress the Chamber at a later date. Married Women Barred as Regular Pittsburgh Teachers Pittsburgh, May 21.—The Pitts burgh Board of Public Education voted to bar married women from regular positions as teachers, ef fective with the opening of the 1919-20 school term, September 2 next. The question of employing married women as teachers had been before the board for two years. Nineteen married women will be af fected by the action. SPANGLER BUCKS BUCKMAN Speaker Spangler, who is at odds with President Pro Tern. Buckman, of the Senate, over legislation, last night refused to refer a Senate bill. Later on the skies were cleared. FLOWER BOXES TO BE PLACED ON BRIDGE [Continued from First Page.] rlnes who died in the war. The exercises will be held the evening before Memorial Day so as not to Interfere in any way with the regu lar ceremonies of the occasion. Colonel James B. Kemper also an nounced plans for the ride which the club will give 150 soldiers of the Carlisle Army Hospial next Sunday afternoon. The cars will assemble at the hospital at Carlisle and the run will be to Gettysburg via Mt. Holly. The club will provide smokes and light refreshments, J. William Bowman agreeing to donate candy. Dinner and Prizes The annual election last evening was preceded by dinner for mem bers only and an automobile secret time run from Market Square to the clubhouse, which was won by John F. Schmink, the prise being a Fisk cord automobile tire, donated by; Frank A. Mosher, manager for the Flske Rubber Company. Bowling prizes were won by J. Harris Bell, Haywood M. Butler and James W. Barker. Officers for the year were elected as follows: President, G. M. Stein metz; vice-president, Preston C. Crowell; secretary, W. M. Robison: directors, R. H. Lyon, Frank B. Mus ser and C. Llnford Scott; sergeant at-arms, Millard B. King; clubhouse correspondent. Captain George F. Lumb. President Steinmetz was elected club representative to the In ternational convention of Rotary clubs to be held In Salt Lake City In June. Other delegates will be How ard C. Fry and Dr. C. E. L. Keen. Committees Named The new president, who will take office In June, announced the fol lowing committees for the year; Membership . John 8. Musser, chairman; Ralph W, Dowdell, How ard C, Fry, Dr, Frank B, Kann, Captain George F, Lumb, Entertainment —Frank F, Daven port, ohatrman) Norris 8, Longaker, C, Floyd Hopkins, Lee Moss, Shir ley B. Watts. Education John T, Olmsted, chairman | D, D, Hammelbaugh, < Bertram W, Saul, M, B, King, D, L, I M, Raker, . Fhlbwipliy fif Hatozm-H V --- shey, chairman; S. 8. Rutherford, William 8. Esstck, William Rufua McCord, E. 8. Herman. IVaternal —F. J. Consylman, chair man; Wallace G. Starry, Richard C. Jobe, C. M. Forney. Public Affairs Rudolph K. Spicer, chairman; J. William Bow man, George 8. Relnoehl, Frank B. Musser, V. Grant Forrer. Grievance Elmer E. Lawton, chairman; George G. McFarland, L. M. Melius. John F. O'Neill, Dr. H. M. Kirkpatrick. Music—Robert E. Cahtll, chair man; I. B. Dickinson, John H. Phil lips. A. L. Hall, A. W. Holman. Vigilance—James P. McCullough, chairman; Ed. F. Weaver, Samuel H. Hughes, Ed. J. Lewis, E. Fred Rowe. Every Kind That Is Desirable Every Co lor an Every Will Be Found in Burns' Stoekof TN order to make the summer home comfortable and attractive the proper kind of rugs are necessary. 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