12 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1881 / Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Tdefnpk Building, Fcd-ral Square E. J. STACK POLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager OVS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board J. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Members 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 news pub lished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. i Member American Newspaper Pub- Associa- Bureau of Circu- PtpJJW lation and Penn gfiS*gu sylv^anhi^Associa ißs m Eastern office 111 iffl Story, Brooks & ■Si HP Finley, Fifth ISi wfr Venu ®. B "'lding, Western office', . Gas' Building, Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg. Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a week; by mail. $3.00 a ""AUtltas*- year in advance. TUESDAY, JUT A" 22. H>l A man is worth only as much as he is worth to his fellotcmen. —Anon. MOTORCYCLE CORPS MAYOR KRISTER and Cbtcfof Police Wetzel are doubtless In earnest in their desire to suppress the offenders against the cutout ordinance and all other un necessary noisemakers, hut they will never be able to do so until they mount on motorcycles six or eight courageous and level-headed officers. These would arrest offenders Vho go on their way regardless of lellce regulations, municipal ordi- S/tnees and the protests of an out raged public. It will probably astonish most poople of Harrisburg to learn that tl.ere are on duty In this city not more than two motorcycle officers —one during the day and (he other at night. Under such circumstances It Is practically impossible to make even a dent in the noisemnking area of the city. Mayor Keister should at once ask council to pro vide a half dozen or more motor cycles and, these provided, he should then select officers who will make the best use of the machines. One motorcycle officer is equivalent to several patrolmen on foot, and we suspect many a burglar who now escapes would be apprehended should a little more speed be in jected Into the force through the motorcycle route. Citizens of Harrisburg have a right to demand that every provi sion be made for the safeguarding of the community and the proper equipping of the police department to meet new conditions as they arise. A motorcycle corps would do much to remedy present evils and it is inconceivable that the City Council would refuse to provide what is so obviously necessary to overcome what has developed into a municipal outrage through failure to stop the Infernal din of unmuf fled motorcycles and automobiles, the screeching of hofns and the other racket for which noise-lovers on wheels are responsible. The Lykens-Wlconlsco celebration In honor of the returned soldiers this week will be a real demonstration of just what a patriotic community can do when it feels like it. THE AMERICAN LEGION HARRISBURG and ail of cen tral Pennsylvania will have a prominent place in the new patriotic organization—the Ameri can Legion. As the Grand Army of the Republic has united and held together through a long period of years the veterans of the Civil War so the American Legjpn will bring Into a single organization through out the country the men who served with unselfish devotion tho groat cause of human freedom in the World War. Harrisburg will see the actual welding together of the various units of the organization at a con vention to be held in this city in October. Preliminary steps aro now being taken and the.principles upon which the organization is being built are already attracting wide at tention and Interest. The Legion will stand not only for the rights of the men in all branches of the service, but will urge Congress from time to time to take such action as may be necessary to safeguard American institutions. Those aliens who re.fused to join the colors at the outbreak of the war and pleaded their citizenship in other countries to escape the draft will he deported to their own countries if this virile organization of fight ing men has its way. Standing shoulder to shoulder those who are now banding themselves together •will represent law and order and perpetuate a hundred per cent. Americanism. It is also set forth as among the fundamental principles of the as sociation the lnoulcatlng of a sense of individual obligation to the com , munity, State and Nation, the com- TUESDAY EVENING, batting of autocracy of both the classes and the masses, the making of right master of might, the pro motion of peace and good will on earth and the safeguarding and transmitting to posterity of the principles of justice, freedom and democracy. An organization of such men, con secrated sanctified in their comradeship'by devotion of mutual helpfulness, cannot be otherwise than a great asset to the Nation. Harrisburg will be more than glad to welcome the delegates to the forthcoming organization confer ence of the Legion and to extend the hospitality of a patriotic community on that occasion. Americans will not be greatly im pressed with the administration's ef forts to ridicule the opposition of Vnited States Senators to the T.eaguo of Nations* They are discharging their duty as they understand it and the presumption of supreme wisdom in the white House will not influence the public mind once the facts are fully exhibited. SALESMEN VISITORS THE gathering here of some 300 representatives of tho Elliott-Fisher Company serves to remind that, this industry is one of the few in Harrisburg with inter national connections and a trade as wide as the world. It is a big and growing concern of which any city may be proud and the meeting here this week is almost as important to tho community as it is to tho cor poration. Tho men gathered from all parts of the world will carry back with them impressions of Har risburg that, to say the least, will do us no harm. This is city adver tising of the highest order and the Elliott-Fisher people arc giving it to us for nothing. The salesman, if he is worthy the name, is a "live wire." Ho is the dynamo that makes the wheels turn back to the factory. If he goes off the road or is not "ion the job" the first man to feel the falling off of sales is the workman back home, who is laid off because there are no orders to fill. Rut if the sales force is on its toes everybody is happy, for the concern is prosperous and there is work and pay for all. Too often the importance of the salesman is overlooked. But not so with companies such as the Elliott- Fisher, which recognizes him for the vital factor he is, and treats him ac cordingly. Austria has received the completed Allied terms and as the people look hack over the Inst five years they must wonder how they could have been such fools as to follow their lead ers into chaos. Austrian* who are now returning to their own country to dis cover the whereabouts of their miss ing relatives will probably be glad to turn right around again and come back to America, which has been an asylum for thousands of them and a place of great opportunity. GERMAN CHARACTER READERS of Prof. Charles And ler's discourse on German character will better under-1 stand why Germany is making ■ haste so slowly toward true de-1 nio'cracy and why there are so many displays of reversion to the mon- j archival type so confusing to the' American mind. Professor Andler j is a French Alsatian, born in Stras- j burg, now a professor of the Ger man language and literature in the Sorbonne, and so has had ample opportunity for exhaustive study, concludes that the modern German ! "has neither the talent nor the] taste for liberty.'* Nor do they re- spect the feelings of others when they are confronted in other peo ples by evidences of devotion to de mocracy and independence of thought ami action—feelings smoth ered or undeveloped in themselves. "What should be changed in Ger many?" asks Professor Andler, and he finds the root of the difficulty in the German people, the same Ger man people with whom we an nounced, from time to time, that wo were i.-ot at war, as the Literary Di gest discussing the matter reminds us. It seems to be the moral of Professor Andlpr's study that we were at war with the German peo ple, and that we may be at war with them again unless they change their minds and habits. As an ex planation of the type of mentality that most of them have carried over inrto the present days of German humiliation—and that many of them, no matter what happens, will carry into their graves—Professor Andler shows them as tliey were in the years just previous to the war; If I picture to myself correctly the average Germans, both the common people and the bour geoisie, they are people without vision, men of a limited horizon, strictly specialized each in his own work, for whom the days pass tn methodical labor, without overwork, and strnngelv secure and regular. In the evenings they do not disdain a glass of beer, a game, of skittles, or choral sing ing. Some find leisure for com munal or corporate interests. Yet, excellent patriots almost ail of them, they feel no otb.er concern in the dlreetion of the destinies of this country which they love. Professor Andler's observation,, of course, apply to conditions before the war. Perhaps the slowly break ing light of democracy in Germany may penetrate the darkened minds of the German people under the new form of government. But, irr the meantime, we must guard against any great trust ir the good intentions of a people who value their liberties lightly and who do not understand people who would die rather than yield them up! The truth regarding conditions in Germany is beginning to Alter through more or less reliable channels, and while the noisy elements in the population are threatening all sorts of dire things to their enemies, the more intelligent people are at last realizing that they must make good and forget their old theories regarding treaties and scraps of paper. "poitttci- tit feitKOiftautta By the Ex-Commltteeman Gifford Pinchot's call for the re maining antlered members of the | old Bull Moose herd in Pennsylvania to meet here next Tuesday has aroused all sorts of speculation among men who follow politics in the Keystone State and the fact that Senator Miles roindexter, of the State of Washington, is to be the speaker has added to the interest. Pinehot is careful to say that the purpose is to "strengthen and not divide the Republican party" and that the county needs a Republican administration and that "we earn estly desire Republican success." At the same time he has enough of [a warning in the call to make peo ple think. Some believe that T'inehot, who wants to be a delegate to the next national "Republican convention, de sires to assemble the herd and make such a noise that he will be given consideration and some of the old Bull Moosers be recognized when the delegation is elected. Others be lieve that it is a scheme of the old Roosevelt element to start something in the East for Poindexter, who is among the men mentioned as good timber by Senator Penrose recently. Still others .think that Pinehot i.i not satisfied with even the way Na tional Chairman Will H. Hays is doing and want to' keep the fires of insurgency and progressiveism alight so that they can be framed in ease of emergency. Pinehot has been very active in getting about the State lately as a progressive Granger and some ape unkind enough to re mark that he may be trying to round up the herd on behalf of the Re publican organization. The former forester is a close personal friend of the Governor, who named him to the Forestry Commission and time has dimmed his antipathy to Sena tor Penrose and other leaders. In any event the Democrats do not think it. The Philadelphia Record refers to Pinehot as a representative of the "copper-fastened" progress ives and the Harrisburg Patriot tries to make it appear as though a national revolt was being framed up. —People at the Democratic State windmill have not been disturbed by the Philadelphia Public Ledger's ex pose of their sending of letters to federal employes suggesting contri butions and not only admit that they liave sent thorn, but trust that they will bring forth fruit. One of the interesting things about it is that the MeCormick newspapers which used to style such things "assess ments" when the Republicans put them out have notjiing to say. —Democrats in southern Pennsyl vania counties refuse to be recon ciled to the abolition of tho historic Ninth International Revenue Dis trict with headquarters at Lancas ter, when the Scranton district still maintains its headquarters flag with reorganization Democrats not nearly as active in the critical days as Ben Davis, of Lancaster, in charge. Friends of Davis are sitting in their tent doors saying things about the Ingratitude of bosses when they get secure in power and predict that the Bonniwell people may get wel comes instead of brickbats when they come around to start the prelimi naries to the 1320 delegate elections. —Governor Sprout's approval of the repeal of (he nonpartisan law for third-class city mayoralty and councilmanic election does not meet the approval of the Philadelphia North American which takes two columns to say so. The North American says that the Governor is a partisan and that he never meant to veto the hill. The few third class city newspapers which opposed the Governor's action have long ceased to mourn and have been printing stories of the marked poli tical activity that has followed the repeal of the act, —The Heading Socialists have nominated a whole city ticket on a party platform with J. Henry Stump, recently candidate for the .Legis lature, as nominee for mayor. —Schuylkill enrollment is said to show a gain of 5,500 for Republi cans. Pottsville, the county's only city, will also show a gain. The North American remarks that this county was Democratic a decade ago. —John Williams, candidate for Sheriff in Chester county, has with drawn and will likely be named a mercantile appraiser. The Chester county Republican slate is said to be: For District Attorney. Raymond B. Reed, of Spring City; Register of Wills, Major John S. Groff, of West Chester; Prothonotary, Lieutenant Fred A. Talbot; Clerk of the Courts, Couneilman Fred Heed, of West Chester; County Commissioners. Harris Butler and Louis Klay; Re corder of Deeds, Warren Carson, of Coatesville; County Treasurer, Har vey Krauser, of Lionville; Sheriff, John Pechin, Oxford. —-Returned soldiers are figuring in the running in many of the Central Pennsylvania counties. Cumberland. Franklin, York, Lebanon and Berks all have service men candidates for nominations in both parties. —Governor Sproul's appointment of 11. Walton Mitchell as judge of the Allegheny county orphans' court is generally commended in Pitts burgh, especially by newspapers, which carry editorial approval. —Stories of a new political line up aimed by Senator Max G. Leslie in Allegheny county are coming here. There will he a big fight over city and county nominations in Pittsburgh and the county this fall and the Senator may have a battfe for his slate. —The Philadelphia Record says editorially: "Governor Sproul's de cision not to mix in our Mayoralty Hght may have been prompted by a line sense of political expediency, but wo are quite prepared to believe that there was a higher quality in his thought. Our light is, indeed, not the affair of anv resident of Chester or of uny other city, town or hamplct in Pennsylvania. It is not the affair of the State, though it may be admitted that all decent I'ennsylvanians will he glad if every decent Thiladelphian decides to make it his fight. That's the big point. It is Philadelphia's fight and all good Philadelphians must see to it that it shall not prove a victory for any selfish individual, or group of such, who jlut personal in terest above civic duty." Cumulative Desires [From the Birmingham Age- Herald] "Glipping is thinking of buying a new motor car. He can't be happy it seems, with less than three ma chines." "Well, he has the money to in dulge in that kind of extravagance." "To be sure. I was just thinking about the days when Glipping was poor. He used to say the height of his ambition was to be able to own two pairs of suspenders at the same time HAHRISBURG T&SFCSB TELEGRXPH WONDER WHAT THE COOK THINKS ABOUT ByBRIGGS ______ FO' DE LAK' SAK6.' Fo' TSJJ O C£MTS " EE VUH VuH-VUH V^e L N MO' COMP'NV ! AH AL R>JT P S DEV . HAS AMOTHEH Pie- BUT NAIV/6H WUKKED AVI OCCIII MAU DE RTJN,VJ,E,S OL OGV AIN TA <GWAN So HAND IN MAH T,.. DISHES IN DISHVA TO GIT MO BISKITS LF6n - AH AIN'T *UH VICES. .DI.S HOUSE - f£ . VUH • TbwiCjHT- NO SUM - NO- ( SO STUCK ON S fUH-VUH-VUH AH , EP- MO IN-DEED. "DISPLACE AVWFUL FC -- FCR3 GOT BETTER MAH66 F AM JES SLAVE YES&UH- AH'LL "AH'LL GIT MAM ME FO D 6 SUAVE F'NV MOHNING Jes' <JOIT !' PETS PAT AN' BEAT IT- SEAS HO' TILL NIGHT - AN AH PLENTY Joes AN' J)ey A(N . T AIN'T PEELIN' WELL I J>ON'T HAVE To v/s(vjK A-TALL-- NOBODY 8E 'POSEP UPON 'ROUND pis House BT NOBODY Go IN' ON A VACATIFM Seems To CAFE *=—-> N. The Great Delusion' [From the New York Evening World! Why Is It that during this so- j called period of Reconstruction I whenever the question has arisen , what was to be done with accumu- j lated food supplies, the big pro- j ducers and handlers of food have j had first claim on the ear of the ; Government? Why are American consumers continually discovering instances in j which the Federal power has been I made an instrument in raising rather | than reducing the high cost of living? Two months ago it was 100,000,- 000 cans of beef and 50,000,000 pounds of bacon included in the sur plus food stocks of the Army which were to be sent out of the country and sold abroad in order that the packers might be protected from the consequences of marketing these foodstuffs in the United States. A few w'eeks later came the testimony j of the DirectQr of Sales of the War | Department that the Department had spoiling on its hands "5,000,000 | pounds of bacon, 580,000 pounds of i ham and $100,000,0(1.0 ,worth of I canned vegetables, I-iast week Gen. I March, Chief of Staff, told the House j committee . investigating war ex- j penditures that the War Department has been carrying ever since last February millions of dollars' worth of surplus food which it could have put on the market for the benefit of the public, that great quantities of Quartermaster's stores of ham and bacon have been allowed to spoil in Army storehouses, and that the De partment has now on hand $121,000,- 000 worth of food which it does not need. This week the public learns that the greater part of 4,000,000 pounds of roasting chickens which the Gov ernment has been holding since last April—when the purchase brought great relief to overstocked poultry speculators—is to be sold. The Gov ernment never bought roasting chickens for the Army during the war. Why did it buy this lot at a date long after the armistice unless again as a favor to the big poultry handlers whose chief concern was to keep a too plentiful supply from depressing market prices? It all comes back to the dominat ing economic, fact of these post-war days: Nobody—farmer, packer, specula tor, wholesaler, jobber or retailer.— no matter how much he may have profited by war—is now ready to take a loss. On the contrary, those who were most favored by war are I now the hardest fighters for retain- j ing every possible inch of the gain war brought them. And so far they j and their cling-to-the-advantage ; theory of reconstruction have had j the first attention and support of the I Government. Igibor itself, let us hasten to say i —those classes of labor to whieh ' war was one glorious boost after an- i other.—is .the strongest adherent of ' the hold-on-to-tt-all-and-demand- I more policy of peace. These fav- j ored classes of labor now refrain j from clamoring too loudly against i present prices until they have got | all they can for themselves. But j they are always ready to use high j prices ns a stock argument for I higher wages. Where is it all to eqd? Tt takes | only a little while for a rise in wages | to produce a further rise in prices, which in turn becomes a plea for still higher wages. Ts reconstruction to be merely an Insenate process in which wages and prices shove each other upward in alternate boosts, with favored work ers holding their own while the less favored slip down to lower and low er living standards? Are we to pretend that this is sound, lasting, well-distributed pros perity? And is the Government to go for ward with an encouraging hand on the shoulder of those whom war has pushed to the front of the proees slon. while those forced to the rear stumble along as best thev may? The idea that everybody can be n great better off materially hc- I cause of the war. beginning with those who profited most by It, is a foolish and dangerous one. Tt is becoming the great national delu sion. Nothing does more to strengthen that delusion than the spectacle of the Government diligently further ing the schemes of those whose chief concern is to keep up food prices. Senatorial Courtesy [From the Washington Star] "What is senatorial courtesy?" "Senatorial courtesy," replied Senator Sorghum, "consists largely in remaining silent so ostentatiously that anybody can guess what un pleasant things you must be think ing about." A Dethroned King Who Lives in a Mud House Visit of on Abyssinian Official Mission to America Revives Interest in the African Monarch Who Surrendered His Government to His Daughter Three Years Ago THOUGH he made frantic ef forts to keep up with the pro cession, Menelek, former King of Abyssinia, fell by the side of the road. He was too far away from modern civUization to keep abreast of the rulers of other lands, so about three years ago he stepped down from his throne and sur rendered the reins of government to his dnughter. And now Menelek, in old a,gie, sits back in his mud plastered hut an<J watches his daughter reign over the people who once made obeisance to him. No one can charge the former ruler of Abyssinia with not trying to modernize his country. Though he was compelled by the nature of his subjects to rule with the sword and rifle, still he augmented these with such modern appliances that came from the distance to aid him. Telephones connected him with the remote places of his empire. He en tertained his court with phonograph music and even issued royal edicts on the little cylinders, which were transported to the of his empire by messengers, and there reproduced that the populace might hear the orders of its king in his own voice. A Hard Working Monarch King Menelek was a hard work ing monarch. He arose at 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning to receive couriers from distant parts. And, though he formed a cabinet model ed after those of European coun tries, he assumed most of the re sponsibilities of government himself. But he worked under a tremendous handicap. It is said he could not write, and there were no words in his language to convey a definite idea of great distance, so he could have but little conception of the im mense world which existed outside his own small empire. Though he failed in his attempt to bring Abyssinia to the high level of its distant European neighbors, he laid a substantial foundation for the efforts of the daughter, who suc ceeded him. Now Abyssinia, the Tthiopia of Bible times, where Biblical and modern civilization clasp hands over the centuries, is rapidly assuming the ways of the Occident. Its history and its former ruler become of particular interest at this time by reason of the recent arrival in this country of an official mission from Abyssinia's ruler. Oscar T. Crosby, until recently assistant secretary of the treasury of the United States, who visited King Menelek in his mud-plastered palace years ago, has described the mon arch as he then found him in a bulletin of the National Geographic Society. Mr. Crosby says: Claims Solomon as an Ancestor Menelek was emperor of the Abyssinians by virture of having conquered a great many difficulties, most of which yielded only to the sword or rifle. His father was of a kingly family that professes to trace its ancestry to a union between Solomon and the Queen of Shebn. Our accepted authorities in respect to Solomon do not mention this particular amour, but that may have been merely overlooked by time. "Following the well established custom, I had with me a few gifts to present to his majesty, who had sent me goats, bread and tej. Two large volumes, with illustrations of scenes of our own country, of its cities, mountains, waterfalls, etc., I offered in the hope of making known the land of the free. Through the excellent interpretation of a young Abyssinian attached to the British agency, I endeavored to ex plain the geographical relations of the United States to the rest of the world, but I am quite sure that I did not make a brilliant success. The difference in time between New York, which I mentioned as being our biggest city, and Addis Abeba seemed to- interest his majesty very much. Palace a Mud Plastered Hut "Menelek seemed to have some appreciation of the magnitude of the Brooklyn Bridge and of the Capitol, yet the absence in his own language of any defined measure of distance left me doubtful as to whether, In spite of his unceasing efforts to understand things Ameri can, he was really able to mentally interpret such great dimensions. He never saw a house larger than his own, unless possibly the neglected ruins of a considerable building erected by the Portuguese about three hundred years ago in Gondar, once Abyssinia's capital, "As the Abyssinian is unable to make anything save the round hut, the royal residence was built by East Indian carpenters of rails wattled together and more or less heavily covered with mud, the roof being straw and mud thatch. This palace or gebi might pass for a fairly comfortabe country house, shabby for want of paint. Nor had Menelek ever seen a boat, save the sections of one of poor Marchand's little flotilla lying covered up in front of the gebi hundreds of miles from any navigable water. "The emperor was clad in modest, even severe, garb, the chief vest ment being a black silk burnous. "He wore stockings, but no shoes. A tightly drawn turban covered what was said to be a well developed baldness. Dress Suits at Ilis Audiences "Till 9 o'clock every morning he was busy with his dispatches, and conducted business with Harar, his most important town, about 200 miles away, by a telephone. "After 9 o'clock Menelek was ready to receive those of his sub jects, great or small, who claimed access to him, and also the occasional European who traveled to this strange mud hut capital. He had learned that there are some costumes appropriate to ceremonial occasions, and out of respect of this knowledge 1 had been advised by Sir Rennell Rodd to take a dress suit for presentation to the court, and this 1 donned at 9 in the morn ing and in it rode the mile and a half or two miles separating the British compound from the gebi. "When these visits were completed Menelek gave much detailed atten tion to the buildings and the meager workshops, which his East Indian employes set up for him. "His capital city contained huts, large and small, which might, lodge a population of about ten thousand. A considerable part of this city was still of canvas." May Still Woodman'"s Ax Ever since the settlers along the Atlantic seaboard pushed westward through North Carolina, Tennessee, and Kentucky; ever since Daniel Boone felled the trees that went into the first log house in the blue grass country, the smack of the wood man's ax and the crashing monarchs of the forests have made an almost ceaseless refrain In these States en dowed by nature with woodlands of an expanse that seemed limitless. But they only seemed limitless. The woodmen are nearing the end of the trail The forests of North Carolina, Tennessee, and Kentucky, along with the forests of all other States in the East, are rapidly being exhausted. If the cutting of the forests goes on as it has gone on, and without any provision for preservation of part of them or for the growing of new forests, in a surprisingly few years there will be no lumber-pro ducing forests left in the East, say officials of the Federal Forest Ser vice. They realize that the situation will not be met by quoting the his toric poem, "Woodman, Spare That Tree." They believe that a compre hensive program of forest preserva tion and renewal must be worked out co-operatively by the Federal Government and the States. Washington Left One-half Million Dollars [From the Detroit News! At the time of his death George Washington was probably the rich est man in the United States. A schedule attached to his will indi cated that his wealth was more than one-half million dollars, an enorm ous fortune for those times. When a young man he Inherited a fortune from his brother Lawrence. Hia wife, the former Mrs. Custis, was rich, and in those days a woman's property went to her husband at marriage. Lands on the Ohio, that Congress granted to Washington, were estimated at the time of his death to be worth $200,000, but that was at only $6 an acre. JULY 22, 1919. No Wonder Germany Quit NUMBER TWENTY-SEY EN. "Poor old Germany! Self-satis fled, arrogant, absurdly confident in their own might, they too frequent ly placed their reliance on what to them, because it was German, was a masterpiece of strength and intelli gence and then turned out to be nothing but a broken reed," said Major Frank C. Mahln, of the Army Recruiting Station, 325 Market street, Harrisburg. "First, they were sure England couldn't build up an* ay my, but they were wrong. Then they were going to end the war by surprising the Allies with gas and instead they started something they couldn't stop. Then they thought that aerial raids would so terrify the English and French that they would quit fighting and instead it made them fight all the harder and start ad the Allies to raiding German cit ies till the Germans tried to call off such raids. Then the submarine was to end the war and it did add to the Allied troubles, but it didn't end the war. And at the very start on land. Austria was to lick Russia while Germany licked France, but Austria proved to be a very broken reed that had to be constantly propped up with German troops. German mopey, and German sup plies, also Austria didn't lick Russia. Then Germany's ally, Italy, instead of helping, went in against them and they had to help Austria some more. The Roche had counted on Austria as a great power, second only to Germany, but they failed to consider Austria's internal troubles and also its past history. Never since Wal lenstein lead her armies during the Thirty Years War, 300 years ago, had Austria produced even a medi ocre genoral and they didn't belie their past history during the pres ent war. Furthermore, the Aus trians soon got very tired of the war and wanted to quit. An example of how hard they fought, towards the end, was the Austrian division that was sent in to stop the Ameri can advance in the St. Mihiel offen sive. The American division that encountered the Austrians had S men killed and 41 wounded, a total of 49, and they took 2.596 Austrians prisoner. That seems and is utterly preposterous, but to add to the ab surdity of the affair the Roche high command cited this Austrian divi sion for its valorous and determined fighting and the great part it play ed in stopping the American ad vance, when actually they hadn't fought at all but surrendered by companies as soon as they got a chance. Another broken reed was the German population of the United States who were to keep us out of the war. Instead of doing what was expected of them many of our best fighting men were of Ger man birth or German extraction, Germans who had seen something besides Germany. Then, too. the espionage campaign of terrorism and industrial destruction was to prevent America from producing munitions, but from the amount of stuff we pro duced in spite of spies and bombs that campaign can hardly be called a howling success. Of course the Roche have always known that their secret service system was unsur passed. in fact the systems of all other countries were quite laughable, but strange as it may seem the Al lies got very accurate information of what the Roche were doing which was not always frue of the wonder ful Roche system. For Instance, days beforehand we knew the day, hour and minute of the Boche of fensive of July 15, but I happen to know the Boche knew little about the St. Mihiel drive. AJiout 7 o'clock the morning September 12 we cap tured a Boche special intelligence report dated, Metz. 5 p. m., Sep tember 11, the evening before, which v. went on to say that the Americans were preparing for an attack on the salient; this attack would take place probably on Sep tember 26, but could under no cir cumstances take place before Sep tember 24. and here we were with the attack entirely successful and the worst of it over with on the morning of September 12. "Poor old Germany! In a couple of years they will be explaining to the world that they did not fail in the great war but were betrayed, and that other countries had been false and ungrateful in not doing what Germany had thought and ex pected them to do." At the Peace Table [Col. Harvey's Weekly.] One of the most Irritating features of the whole business is that they put It all over him lEbftttttg (Sljal Medical men, who have noted the health of Harrisburg for a genera tion, are frank to say that they be lieve the plans of Dr. J. M. J. Raunick for eradicating the mosquito nuisance in this city can not fail to produce good results and also will demonstrate to any doubter that control of the sources of the mos quito plague is feasible. Harrisburg has been a sufferer from mosquitoes for years. There have been perio dical invasions of them every sum mer and no section of the city has I been free from them. Steelton has also suffered. This year, because of the unusual weather conditions and the collecting of water in low places, there have been more than usual. Recently, some people who were familiar with the plans of the ' State Department of Health for eliminating plague spots under the act-approved a short time ago, iden tified a dozen places in and about Harrisburg where Dr. Raunick'3 workers could find material for ex periments. Some of these are in the northern end of the city, but the Hill section and down town have a few. All that is needed, say these people, is the digging of some ditches and use of oil. Furthermore, they predict'that once the steps are taken to get rid of the pests in the early stages there will be enough people benefited to volunteer for work. * • 4 V. Grant Forrer, who looks after the blades of grass and the trees in the city's park system, has some fine corn growing along portions of the river front. The corn came from grains thrown over the bank and the rains have caused it to flourish and show signs of being glad to be an ornament to the horticultural features of the municipal landscape. • * • This is the story of a hurry call for policemen. The hens on a prop erty in an outlying section of the city were heard squawking. Three policemen responded and visited the place. They tapped the doors and they went over the porch trying the windows. Then they looked into the cellar windows, tramping down the hollyhocks in their ardor. Then they approached the rear of the Jot and found —One large rat which had killed a hen and was having sup per. • • • Roderick Random, of the Scran ton Times, has written this appre ciation of a man well known to many Harrisburgers: "X like the way Highway Commissioner Sadler is go ing about building the Lackawanna 'Trail' and his interest in the Drink er turnpike that is now a State highway. Mr. Sadler comes in per son with his chief engineer. Be fore he lets the 'Trail' contract definitely he is going to look into the ability and the responsibility of the contractors. That is what a good businessman would do before putting up an industrial plant. The people of this State have been put ting up a good many millions of dollars since the State highways de partment was established. On its part the department, in several ad ministrations, has given scandal and very often inefficiency. If the Gov ernor can put it on a business basis and Commissioner Sadler gives the people good roads, as they certainly have a right to have for what they are paying into the department, it will bo a welcome satisfaction. The two roads I have referred to are among the biggest of State highways jobs in this part of the Common wealth. The 'Trnil' alone involves $500,000 to $1,000,000 before it is finished. Such a job is worth the personal attention of Commissioner Sadler. The tribute that Commis sioner Sadler pays to the Motor Club of Laekawanna county for put ting the 'Trail' through, was well deserved. Here is an instance where an association of automobile owners has demonstrated that it can be of the greatest benefit to an entire sec tion. The push of the Motor Club of I Lackawanna county is the thing that j brings this great benefit to the peo ple between Scranton and the State line." • * • George H. Biles, the assistant State highway commissioner, is tak ing a personal interest in the con struction of the Dauphin-Clark's Ferry section of State road route No. 1. The original improvement to that section, which involved the relocation of the road was made under his supervision and he is anx ious to get a model road entering Harrisburg. r WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —John Carruthcrs, chaplain in the navy, has been named as a pro fessor at Lafayette College. —Professor Charles S. Hotten stein, of Lebanon, well known here, has been named as principal of the Conchohocken schools. —Senator P. W. Snyder, of Blair county, was here yesterday for a visit. —The Rev. Dr. George Edward Hawes i sto speak at the Pen Mar reunion this year. —James S. Seibert is the new business manager of Bellefonte bor ough. —W. T. Creasy, former legisla tor, was a visitor here on State Grange business. He says he is busy on the farm these days. \ [ DO YOU KNOW, —That Tlarrlsburg steel is fr* destroyers on thc"*way to the Pacific? HISTORIC HARRISBURG —The first sanitary improvement was destruction of a mill dam a few years after the place was founded. Judge Advises Women "Be Americans first, Republicans second, and individuals third," is the advice Magistrate George Gen ung, of New York, gave a group of women who had invited htm to talk to them about politics. Judge Genung doesn't believe in nonparti san alliances or third —use your influence to make the party you belong to keep to high ideals, then you have Its strength and its organ ization to get results. "And. because somebody does something you don't like," he added "don't leave the Republican fold for the Democratic and expect them to reward you with any political plums. Those are for the women who have always been Democrats, and you will be left out in the cold. Don't let I personal pique make you renounce I your party and its principles!" 1 David Prays For Deliverance Deliver me, 0 Lord, from the evil man; preserve me from the violent man; which imagine mischiefs In their heart; continually are they gathered together for war.—Psalms Cxi, 1, 2.
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