12 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A. NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded ISSI Published ovenlngs except Sunday by THE. TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager GUS. M. STSINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager • Executive Board J, P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Members of the Aseoclated Press— The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of ail news dispatches credited to It or not otherwiso credited in this fiaper and also the local news pub ished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. A Member American r] Newspaper Pub _JKVnaff lishers' Associa magjafciaSaa tion. the Audit Bureau of Circu- lation and Penn- HSjM.j cjSit'iM sylvan! a Associa jgl ffl Rss m nted Dailies. W Avenue Building a- 7r. New York City; Western office EzpSPfltnlw Story, Brooks & ,/ **——'' 'iu> Flnley, People's Gas Building, I 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 year in advance. THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, lfilil —Christopher Pcarsc Crauch. To-day Is all your own; To-morrow, God's alone. —Anon. OUR LAW BETTER PRESIDENT WILSON suggested to Congress last week that the United States pass a cold stor age law modeled after that of New Jersey. Possibly President Wilson is ac quainted with the New Jersey law and knows no other. Certainly otherwise he would have chosen either the New York or the Penn sylvania law as a model. As a matter of fact, the New Jer sey law has more holes in it than a Swiss cheese. It enables the food gougers to do just about as they please. For example, One provision is that goods other than foodstuffs may be stored indefinitely. This en ables the food merchant to put in storage poultry on the verge of spoiling and unmarketable in that condition. It is unfit for food when it goes in and, therefore, may be held any length of time, but it is frozen hard when it comes out, and as the charges for storage are so heavy that the stuff could not be sold profitably as tankage the presumption must be that it is intended to be slipped into the markets and sold as food. Another clause permits the State authorities to extend indefinitely the time goods may be held in storage. This enables the holding of easily kept articles for any length of time in order to keep prices up and per mit price-juggling on a large scale. The Pennsylvania law is a tightly drawn statute with no exceptions. If the United States adopts one of its type there will be no more prof iteering in* foodstuffs. The trouble now in this State is not with our law, but that goods may be taken out of storage when the law forces them out here and removed to an other State and put in storage there. James Foust, like the lamented Kalbfus, peace to his ashes, has been a faithful servant of the Common wealth ir. a trying and difficult posi tion. He has made enemies in the per formance of his duties, but he has likewise made many friends, and as the new head of the Bureau of Foods, he will continue to earn the good will of all who believe an impartial and sensible administration of the laws relating to foodstuffs. Now as never before is needed a courageous official on that job. NEW RESPONSIBILITIES IT USED to be that the average American knew little or noth ing of European politics and cable tolls cost the big press" asso ciations very little, for it required an item of extraordinary importance to get the reader beyond the mere headlines and provincial newspapers published cables only in the form "boiler plate," while their editors complained of the quality of ma terial they received along that line. But the war has changed all this. European news is almost local in its nature now from the standpoint of both the newspaper maker and reader, and if the new peace treaty is approved our added responsibil ities will make careful students of European affairs of all of us. For example, if we ratify it we become a full partner In every phase of the enterprise designed for other members of the Big Five. We must take part in the delimitation of the new frontier line between Belgium and Germany; in the renunciaUon of the privileges conferred upon Germany with relation to the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg; in the mat ters of controversy relating to the return of Alsace-Lorraine to French possession. We must enter into the wrangle of determining the fron tiers of the new Czecko-Slovak state, the frontiers of East Prussia, of Schleswig and of Danzig, and the boundaries of Poland. We must assist in conducting plebiscites in Upper Silesia, East Prussia, the Ereiso of Stuhm and Rosenberg, Bchlcswig, and the Saar Valley. We must lend our aid, military if THURSDAY EVENING, necessary, in protecting the rights of racial, linguistic, and religious minorities in Czecko-Slovakia and Poland. We accept a fee simple of one undivided fifth part of Memel, which we will not know how to dispose of, a partnership in all the property in Danzig, join in giv ing ultimate title to the Kreise of Stuhm and Rosenberg, take part in the occupation of Schleswig and help decide what portion of the deficit in the budget shall be paid by the inhabitants of East Prussia. On us, as a signatory of the treaty, will be thrust our portion of the responsibility of determining how best to place ill-governed col onies in the hands of governments { which are to act as trustee for the j people; as to the disposition of I sums of money in German posses j sion with reference to the Turkish ] debt, and pledges in gold held as collateral in connection with Ger i man loans to Austria-Hungary. The question of the adjustment of debts between the nationals of enemy powers, their property, rights and interests, their contracts, prescrip tions and judgments becomes one for us to bicker about. As a full-power member of the reparation commission, into which Mr. Wilson is trying to force us be fore ever the treaty has been con sidered, we would be concerned with the manner and sums which Ger many must pay in equivalent of the 20,000,000,000 gold marks indem nity; the supervision of Germany's scheme of taxation; the decision as I to the cancellation in whole or in | part of the German debt; the dis tribution of reconstruction materials I demanded from Germany; the con- I trol over, German shipyards, speci | Mentions for German ships, price per ton at which those ships are to be accounted for; the determination as to what portion of the German debt shall be borne by territories ceded by Germany. We would become a party to the Shantung outrage, or, if we dis avowed, we would be embarrassed by the disavowal. Wo would put the seal of our approval on the Flume disposition. These and others, but these are ample to make European students of all of us—if nothing more. The Sacramento. Bee declares that with the suggested percentage plan for restricting immigration once adopted, the United States will be a province of Japan within one hundred and fifty years. The publisher of the Bee makes the statement that under the proposed plan of immigration there will be an increase of the Jap anese population to STn.OOO In twenty five years and to 100,000,000 in one hundred and forty years. On the Pa cific coast there is an active propa ganda against the legislation pro posed in a bill before Congress and a demand for prompt and decisive ac tion on the score that America's in terests are first. VISITING ROYALTY THE United States will give the young Prince of Wales as cor dial a reception as it did Prince Albert when he sojourned in America in 1860. Prince Albert came as an inexperienced young man of eighteen years; his grand son, six years beyond that age, comes as a seasoned veteran of the Great War. Americans appreciate what Great Britain did in the con flict, and the young man, as a rep resentative of that empire, will be the recipient of our good will and neighborly feelings. But his com ing will not arouse the enthusiasm that will mark the visit of King Albert of Belgium. Here is a hero to appeal to the popular imagination—a man and a soldier, a statesman and a democrat, despite his royal trappings, a king who reigns by virtue of popular will and who has won his right to authority on the bloody fields of his own country and France. From the moment the German hordes pushed back his little army, fighting gallantly as it retired to the soil of France, until he marched home again in triumph, Albert conducted himself always "as every inch a king." King Albert has not only the re spect of America, but its admira tion. He will receive such an ova tion when he comes as will make his heart forever warm toward all Americans. Interviews with citizens of the Hardscrabble district published this week in the Telegraph, indicate that there is a strong civic spirit in that section of the city v Almost without exception those who discussed the matter declared that theynvere ready and anxious to seek homes elsewhere in order that the great improvement contemplated might be undertaken without further delay. There was no disposition to interpose unreasonable objections and the legal matters hav ing been sifted out, it is the opinion of practically all those interviewed that the city should make prompt set tlement and relieve Property owners in the district of the embarrassment and uncertainty which has followed the long postponement of actual opci ations. Options on homes elsewhere have been necessarily allowed to ex ptre and with existing housing condi tions the Hardscrabble people who must seek other locations, feel that they have just reason to urge prompt settlement of the whole matter. Robert M. Simmers, one of the offi cials connected with the Dairy and Food Department of the, State, has dis closed a condition in Philadelphia al most past belief. He stated a day or two ago that lamb, poultry, beef and pork, once worth $700,000, had been permitted to deteriorate in a cold storage warehouse until it was flnully disposed of at 1% cents a pound as fertilizer. And all because the specu lators were holding this food for higher prices. There ought to be some punishment sufficient to fit the crime. Ik By the Kx-Oommittccman 1 Judge John M. Patterson last night announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for mayor of Philadelphia. He is the candidates of the Vares. He delay ed the announcement of his plat form until to-day. His formal statement follows: "I have decided to become a can didate for mayor of Philadelphia and to seek the nomination of the Republican party at the primary on September 16. I shall announce my platform to-morrow in a letter to Thomas Robins, who has volunteer ed to form a campaign committee of 1,000 to promote my nomination and election." A slate of candidates for city and county offices to follow Congress man Moore, the anti-contractor can didate for mayor, was tentatively agreed upon yesterday afternoon by the Committee of One Hundred. Af ter it has been ratified by the Re publican Alliance and Town Meet ing party, it is to be known as the "Moore ticket," the candidate for mayor insisting on this designation. Congressman Moore, after a day of many conferences with political dealers and businessmen, announced the appointment of a campaign committee. He declared 'that the contractors are suffering from "a real scare." Candidate Moore is to be in dorsed, according to program, by the Town Meeting party at a meet ing of its city committee this even ing. He will attend the meeting and accept the indorsement. He called upon the contractors in a statement last night to give some information regarding the North Penn Bank which would satisfy its depositors. | The slate of candidates agreed upon yesterday by the Committee of One Hundred includes: Sheriff—Robert E. Lamberton. Coroner—Magistrate William F. j Campbell. Clerk of the Quarter Sessions Court—Thomas W. Cunningham. I City Controller—John M. Walton. Recorder of Deeds Lieutenant Colonel Thomas F. Mcehan. No agreement was reached upon county candidates. A slgilit rift appears in the Re publican slate of Lancaster county. The Examiner commends the slated candidates generally, but thinks the assistant district attorney, Mr. Hos termnn, who performed the duties of county prosecutor while District Attorney Bertheizel was in the serv ice, should have been chosen as the Republican candidate for that office. Captain Rehni, a returned soldier, who has been acting city solicitor, is 011 the slate for district attorney. Lieutenant-Governor Beidleman has accepted an invitation to at tend a big demonstration by the Republicans of Lehigh county at Dorney Park. The date originally fixed was} August 30, but to suit the convenience of Senator Boies Pen rose and other speakers of national reputation the time has been changed to September 6. Among others who will accompany Senator Penrose are Will H. Hays, the Re publican National Chairman, and I'nited States Senator Watson, of Indiana. Lehigh county for years has always had at least one big Re publican demonstration annually. | —Congressman J. Hampton Moore has already injected a lot of ginger into the primary campaign for mayor in Philadelphia. His speeches are full of pep and his canvass promises to be of more than usual interest. Addressing a Republican alliance, he made it clear that he would be mayor in fact as well as name. "I shall go into this office as a Republican, as free from pledges to Senator Pen rose as lam to Senator Vare. Make no mistake about that. Party work ers need have no fear about the next mayor," exclaimed Mr. Moore, during the course of his remarks, and to emphasize his independence of political domination and his de termination to give every citizen a square deal he later on added: "The mayor will be the mayor in law; in fact, as well as in law, and his place will be at the head of the table in politics and in civic affairs. "What would you think of a mayor," continued Mr. Moore, "who admitted that he was not the mayor? What would you think of the mayor that was ticklish about his job that when large problems arose he left the office in order that other people might determine the tax rate and , questions of that kind without con sulting him? Would you have con fidence in such an administration? Have you had confidence in such an administration ?" —ln Dauphin county as elsewhere throughout Central Pennsylvania the Republican workers are looking after important details of registra tion so that all may be in readiness for the September primary. Since the repeal of the nonpartisan law party interest has largely increased and there is much energy displayed in the details of organization. —The Johnstown Tribune takes a couple of columns to congratulate its contemporary, the Johnstown Democrat, upon an editorial in the Democrat sharply criticising and holding responsible President Wil son for the mixup over the Peace Treaty as a result of his insistence upon the League of Nations cove nant. The Tribune accepts the Democrat's strong outburst as an indication that many Americans who call themselves Democrats are re pudiating the leadership of the President. —Many former Democrats are openly declaring their purpose this year to enroll as Republicans. They feel that the time has come to re turn the. government to the people and get away from one-man dicta torship in this country. LABOR NOTES Over 700 men, largely shop em ployes, have Been dropped from the payrolls by the Louisville and Nash ville Railroad Company. Over 600,000 wage-earning wo men are now members of the Na tional Women's Trade Union. All the tobacco factories in Porto Rico have been closed since Janu ary owing to the suspension of work by over 15,000 employes. Workers in the various building trades in Paterson, N. J., have been successful in their fight for in creased wages. United States clgarmakers rolled 9,060,960 cigars in 1917, while in 1918 they made over 40,000,000,000 cigarets. Labor costs in France have mul tiplied two and seven-tenths times, and material costs are multiplied by three. HAHRISBURG TELEGRAPH OH, MAN! By BRIGGS s "N * LADIESA , f " \ /ITS SOIV\E I \ EXCUSE US- / N VUHATS TNT ? \ MADE MVS6LF / VAE'RB. JUST / | \ I • IOKE I A CJOLRJG IN TRIE ) VU.-LL. -HL TILL\ ) HO*/ BOOT ' (JO <A PANTRV L VJAMT / \ HI" TIE - , / I ANOTHER? / CjOOD WALLOP Y 0 ,SKOIO I / "J "\ IM IT Too— SOM£THLMG -J-T V6AT I C (To CRIME/ C / HA-HAHFT IHOIAJ'BOUT IT?/- V JUST FOR. A / \ I HANK- \WMAT BRACE UP- SET / GETS OUT IM I I NEOCR 1 5 °J~ / P * E J TY SPECTACLE-) J A HOLD OF . — ' ) THE AIR I'M P/KWEW HIM \ CERIALWLY / 0 YOURSELF- "/ f 11. \L VOURSCLL- - / . ( SURE- 600 D Y To HAOL: A \ CIOT IN ITS SO SM_LY .IF \\ CUT !T OUT Y) I SPELL UKF J 1 FOR HAHAHA \ V —-Y (: J \./ —IOCS* \THIS - GOOD/ DION T<T TEU'EM T O U / //\ MT I HAHA"A , R W V HL'&IZ?'"/ /HEKERTT-.L F&SJFT ' 0 <RY !^\ No Wonder Germany Quit MM BKK FORTY-TH KEE. "The camps immediately behind the trenches in France were queer combinations of shacks and build ings" said Major Frank C. Mahin, of the Army Recruiting' Station, 325 Market street, Harrisburg. "Al though tliese camps were frequently within the trench area, they were so carefully hidden in the woods that they were invisible from enemy aeroplanes. The camps consisted of wooden shacks, elephant . iron huts (big pieces of heavy corrigated iron bent into a quarter circle, two making a section) and shallow dug outs. None of these were shell proof, so at each camp there would be big, deep dugouts into which the men would go in case of a bom bardment, that is, if they didn't get hit before they reached the dugout. Many of these camps were most at tractive. The shacks were covered with vines, had llower beds around them, with rustic porches and rail ings to the paths. The paths of gravel and lined with white shells, or pieces of white stone. You see the French had been occupying those camps for four years and they wanted to be homelike. Inside the buildings were bunks in tiers, filled with straw; there were also shelves, tables and chairs or stools in each shack and usually they were lighted by electric light. Instead of having pillows in the bunks one end was raised about six inches to give the effect of a pillow. When things were quiet these camps were de lightful summer resorts. Every body had a chance to keep clean, wash clothes, "shave, get a com fortable nights sleep and plenty of rest during the day too. Contrary to our old method there were no guards at these camps, except one man who stood by the gas alarm day and night. The gas ularm was a boll, an iron triangle or a klaxon, and day and night every man wore his gas mask in the 'alert' position ready to slip into it when the alarm went. At first it seemed very queer to us to be within a couple of miles of the enemy and not have sentries patroling the outskirts of the camp, but we soon realized they were ab solutely unnecessary as the troops in the trenches on in front did all the required guard duty to prevent enemy patrols slipping through and disturbing our slumbers sweet. But every once in a while our slumbers would be most un-pleasantly dis turbed by a wild whoosh! and the stunning crash of an exploding shell. Instantly fragments would go tear ing through the inch planks of the shack walls, perhaps killing or wounding half a dozen men. .Before the reverberation of the explosion had ceased everybody in the camp would be on his way to a dugout, in whatever state of dishahile ho happened to be in, but overv man had one thing und that thing was his gas mask. Perhaps yo i would make the dugout before the next shell would arrive and perhaps you wouldn't, but if that shell didn't get you it gave you added speed to hasten on your way. Once in safe ty everyone sat or stood around in the damp, dimly lighted sub-ter ranean chamber until the shelling ceased and then group by group the men would disappear up the stair way on their way back to bed. If the shells had wounded anyone, a first aid station would be establish ed near the stairs and as soon as the bombardment was over a code telephone message would be sent for an ambulance to come up for the wounded. In the morning if anyone had been killed, the dead would be buried and things would drop back into the normal rut. Frequently the cemetery would be right alongside of the camp—in one case I know of, within ten yards of a shack. Many of the French graves in these little military ceme teries would have regular head stones, while others would have the simple wooden crosses customairly used. One night in that camp the first shell of a bombardment landed right square in the cemetery and proceeded to tear it up beautifully. It ripped up a head stone and hurl ed it through the side of the neigh boring shack and deposited the hundred and fifty pound stone fair and square on the chest of a sleep ing soldier. Fortunately, all that happened to him was a badly brusi ed body, but mentally he was very miserable. He announced to his company commander that it was high time he was sent out of there, for the shells had started bringing their own head stones with them and it was no place for his Mother's son." "Ratification With Reservations" [From the Literary Digest] TIIE CONVICTION of a large 1 number of editors that the! Treaty and Covenant will ] eventually bo ratified with "amend- j tnents" or "reservations" or "inter pretations" has been greatly ' strengthened by the series of mes- \ sages front Republican leaders call- ; ing for "ratification with reserva- j tions." A month ago Mr. Root came J forward with his reservations. Ex- i President Taft who lias been stump- j ing the country for the League, and who has been considered its strongest ; champion except the President him- | self, has asked League opponents \ anil supporters to get together by i agreeing to ratify with certain "in- j terpretations." Mr. llughes follows i suit with his own list of reserva- j tions. Thus the "Big Three" of the i Republican party outside of Con- j gross have indicated a path in which j it would be easy for Republican Sen- I ators to walk. And Chairman Hays, i of the Republican National Com- j mittee, with an eye to party unity and party success in 1920, lalso ad- j vised Republican Senators to accept j the Treaty with certain reservations j to "safeguard the sovereignty of the i United States in every particular." ; Republican Senators have allowed themselves to be quoted us favor- j ing ratification with certain reset'- I vations, and influential Republican | papers from one end of the coun try to the other echo this demand until the Philadelphia North Amer- I ican is willing to stake its journal- I istic reputation on the prophecy, | "There Will Be Reservations," which | appears in an editorial headline. Re- j publican Senators are said to have ' told the President that the liepub- I licans have votes enough to force | reservations through, and a New ; York Times correspondent reports ' that the confidence of the reserva- ] tionists is bolstered up by word ] which Senator Lodge is said to have j had from England "that both Great ' Britain and France would agree to the reservations proposed pertain ing to Article X, guaranteeing ter ritorial integrity; the Monroe Doc trine; purely domestic questions, such as immigration, the tariff, and racial equality; and America's right to withdraw from the League upon two years' notice, America to deter mine for herself if her obligations to the League have been fulfilled." While some predict ratification without reservation it is worth not ing that even among fighters for un diluted ratification there are doubts about their own success. A New York World correspondent says that President Wilson may "ultimately consent to make easy the way out for the statesmen-politicians and ac cept qualifications that do not change the effect of the document. [So some reservations may be ex pected." Senator Hitchcock (Dcm., Neb), who is leading the fight for the Treaty on the floor of the Sen ate, is quoted by the Philadelphia Public Ledger as saying: "The President wants the Treaty ratified without a single change. But he also wants to get the Treaty through. Whether he would agree to having reservations made if he could not secure its ratification otherwise I do not know." Seldom, says the New York Tii bune, the leading organ of Repub lican opinion, has an idea made its way forward more steadily than the reservation doctrine. This, it holds, is because "it seemed to offer the only workable plan by which the good in the Covenant might be re tained and its evil eliminated, and at the same time took the Peace Treaty proper out of peril." As the Tribune notes, "Mr. Root came oi.t in favor of it, and quickly the plan more than any other became that of the majority of the Senate; then Mr. Taft fell in line, and now Mr. Hughes adds the weight of his au thority." This Republican papei even hears that President Wilson is seriously thinking of "agreeing to it as offering him an avenue of escape from an embarrassing predica ment," and it believes that "if all party pressure were lifted and per sonal feuds and animosities laid aside, it is by no means impossible that ratification with reservations would go through by practically a unanimous vote." The Tribune adds: "The idea that the other nations would reject the whole Treaty if we appended reservations was preached for a few days, but did not have vitality enough to live long. The other Powers so much want our signature to any sort of international agreement that they will not cavil. Business can go for ward on the assuniptiop that the others Powers will tac'tly or ex pressly accept our reservations." The Philadelphia North Ameri can (Rep.) thinks that the fear that reservations would throw the whole Treaty back to the Peace Confer ence, "with calamitous consequences of confusion and delay," was dis posed of once for all "by the au thoritative declaration of Elihu Root:" "This reservation and these ex pressions of understanding are in accordance with long-established precedent in the making of treaties. They will not require a reopening of negotiations, but if none of the other signatories expressly objects to the ratification with such limita tions, the Treaty stands as limited between the United States and the other Powers." In the Middle West the Indian apolis News (Ind.) notes the trend toward "ratification with protective exceptions," the Chicago Evening Post (Rep.) sees "strong likelihood that resolutions embodying reserva tions of an interpretative character will receive support from both Re publicans and Democrats constitut ing a majority of the Senate," and the Grant Rapids Herald (Rep ) "believes that when the Covenant is ratified, America's signature will oo accompanied by candid American reservations which will see to it that, beyond dispute, our 'rights as a free people' remain unimpaired and that 'our honor ""a sovereign government' is not left to the vagaries of fortune." Napoleon an Editor [New York Times] It is some times forgotten that Napoleon was an assiduous journal ist, and that he long attempted to manufacture and guide public opin ion. In the journal of the Royal United Service Institution Major Compton reviews and studies Na poleon's connection with the press. While only a lieutenant he wrote a pamphlet which won him the notice of the Jacobins. As Commander-in- Chief of the Army of Italy he was not too busy to establish, keep a watchful eye on, and even write po litical leaders for a couple of news papers. Ho started a couple more in Egypt. This was his apprentice ship at journalism. As First Con sul he bought the Moniteur and sot to work in earnest to form public sentiment. He let the publisher and business manager have the profits. There was a titular editor, who "did" the theaters. The First Consul was editor-in-chief. He was man ager-in-chief, too. He wrote ar ticles. He criticised articles by his collaborators. He even con trolled, Major Compton tells us, "the copy add paging of the paper." He looked carefully after its expen ditures and its circulation. Natur ally, he was an excellent circulation manager, as he suppressed every dangerous competition. Every French paper was censored except two that appeared on the sly, one of them in manuscript. Napoleon was as active, energetic, and thorough in the newspaper business as he was in every other into which he entered. In many re spects ho anticipated the Germans. He advocated his own measures in "powerful," enthusiastic editorials. He fought bitterly the hireling sheets of perfidious Albion. He or dered some news to be printed without change, some not to be printed at all, some to be discreet ly edited. It is characteristic of him, or characteristic of the French genius, that he scrutinized articles on literature and science as care fully as political articles, including his own. THE REMEDY Hang the high cost of living On the sour apple tree, Or higher still than Haman, All the common folk agree; As the Profiteering group Go marching by. Hang the high cost of living On the old persimmon tree. Leave it shrivel up to nothing As it shriveled you and me: While the Profiteering sort For cover fly. Hang the high cost of living On the Legislator's nose, In Washington, D. C. Where the Profiteering grows; Sure, the President himself May take a sniff. Hang the high cost of living On the Statute Book of Law, Thrust it down the Big Fives' gullet Even fill each greedy maw, Till they feel as if they'd croak, From the Law's enforcing stroke. Knocking down the cost of living With a biff. GEO. R. PRITCHARD. AUGUST 14, 1919. He Can Be Punished [From the New York Herald.] There is ample sanction for the trial of the fugitive Kaiser not withstanding assertions to the con trary. In the face of facts it is difficult to sjee how any candid per son, especially any American whose memory goes back to the sinking of the Lusitania and the deeds done in Belgium and France, can for a mo ment think otherwise. It is an undisputed fact that na tions have for centuries agreed that non-combatants shall be spared in time of war. The Kaiser spared no non-combatants. In its note of May 15, laiti, the United States government said to the German government that "the lives of non combatants cannot lawfully or rightfully be put in jeopardy by the capture or destruction of merchant men. In speaking of submarine warfare this government said "the objection to their present method of attack lies in the practical im possibility of employing submarines in the destruction of commerce without disregarding those rules of fairness, reason, justice and human ity which all modern opinion re gards as imperative." Germany dis regarded all rules of war concern ing non-combatants. What the Ger mans did was murder. The use of poison gas, floating mines, explosive bullets, fulminating and inflammable projectiles, and bombs, cruelties visited upon pris oners, unnecessary injury to the wounded—all these things are against the rules of civilized war fare. They are crimes that can be punished under the accepted rules governing warfare in existence for many years. Even in the time of Grotius the poisoning of wells made the perpetrators of such deeds "enemies to the human race to be excluded from civilized society." In those far-off days of budding civilization violence to women or to the dead, making slaves of pris oners and the ruthless destruction of buildings and public monuments were forbidden in time of war. Did the Kaiser's officers and men fail to do any of these things? Were there any of these crimes these fiends, acting under the orders of their officers, failed to commit? It is impossible for any person, no matter how much tinctured with pacifism or Germanism, to fail to admit that the Germans, with not only the knowledge and consent but the connivance of the head of the German empire, employed these devilish means in an attempt to ad vance the power and brutal pres tige of the Fatherland. Secretary Lansing says that the trial of the Kaiser was not pressed for fear he might be acquitted. But this does not relieve the Allies from demanding his trial in order to es tablish history and a precedent. Neither Secretary Lansing nor any body else is justified in evading a clear duty and responsibility, no matter what the verdict. Russia Deserted [New York Times] So Kolchak, without ammunition, food, or other supplies, and with a patriotic mob which he cannot disci pline by himself without aid, has done wonders and finally has been I routed, just as the Grand Duke Nicholas was in Galicia, and for ! the same reason shortage of arms ] and munitions. The great retreat of j Nicholas was conducted by soldiers I who had little more than their bare ! hands to resist the well-equipped I and organized German armies. The same thing is being duplicated in Siberia. If the Allies had adopted any policy, even a bad policy, the peo ple of Siberia would have known where they stood. But the Allies have had no policy at all. In the beginning the British showed a dis position to help any democratic movement against the Bolshevist au tooracy, but the pressure of the So cialists at home made them hesi tate, falter, and finally drift into the same Micawber policy that the United States adopted almost from the first. The French have no men to waste. The Japanese have been held back by the distrust of their comrades, whether well or ill founded it is profitless now to in quire. The United States alone has been in a position to render help, because the United States alone can transport aid quickly to Vladivostok, the only place through which it can be sent but the United States has given Kolchak only a shadowy and belated moral support. It is not moral support that Omsk needs; it is guns, tanks, airplanes, food, and at least an occasional noncommis sioned officer such as the Germans ! supply to the Bolsheviki. We, all of us, have paltered with a con flagration. That U the story of Kolchak's defeat. r~ — ij Eupttittg (Miat ! The coming visit of the young Prince of Wales re-calls that his distinguished grand father, King Albert, then Prince Albert, spent parts of two days and a night in Harrisburg during his tour of tho United States in October, 1860. Al bert Edward was accorded a great reception here. Ho stopped at the old Jones House, afterwp.rd famous as the Commonwealth and now the Dauphin Building, at the corner of Market street and Market Square, and the rooms reserved for him were the best in the house and re decorated in honor of their no*""" guest. The Prince, then very popu:*- throughout the nation, was little more than 18 years old and he w accompanied to this country I> L,ord Lyons, the British ambassadw at Washington, and the Duke of New Castle, who looked after his welfare during the tour. Tho party was met at the Penna. depot by a party of prominent citizens appoint ed by the Mayor and driven in open carriages to the Jones House. The day following a great reception was held at the capitol, the Governor and State officials extending the freedom of the State to the visitors. The re ception was preceded by a parade that ended in the capitol grounds be fore the largest of the three buildings that constituted the old capitol group and the P-rince made an ad- I dress to what a writer of the times calles the "assembled multitude." Captain Charles P. Meek is ono of those who heard the Prince speak. "He stood on a large brown stone slab at the side of the main entrance to the capitol," said he, "where he could overlook the great crowd gathered around and looked out upon the sea of upturned faces, evidently greatly pleased with the enthusiasm displayed, as he well might have been. I was only a small boy at the time and I do not remember anything the Prince said, but I do re-call that he was a very young man and that ho wore a pair of white trousers. Those were tho first white pants I had ever seen and they stick in my memory be yond anything cls I saw that day. They were a marvel to me and I could not forget them. Another kind of a story of a visit ing Prince, who driven from his home, fled for his life, and sought refuge in free America, is revealed in the announcement made by Colonel J. B. Kemper, the Army Recruiting Officer for this district that Alex andre Rukhtomsky, a Russian prince descended from the house of Rurik, which ruled Russia from the ninth to the sixteenth century and gave way to the Romanoffs, parked his automobile in front of the San Francisco Recruiting Office, a few days ago, and one of our energetic recruiters got him interested in the Army. He had three years of service in the Russian Army as a Lieutenant and Captain in campaigns against the Germans, and is a graduate of the Russian Army Cavalry School in Petrograd. He is 28 years of age. "In Europe we often heard of the great American Army and we have admired its efficiency," said the young Russian. "I have heard it is a great sport-loving Army and that is why I want to enlist. Further more. I do not know what the Bol sheviki have done with my estate in Russia. Too many of my fellow officers are imprisoned in Siberian mines and many others have been killed." . . He says it cost him 10.000 rubles in bribes and fares to get across Siberia. He then passed a few months in Japan and has been in San Francisco since February, 1919. ' "Ambassador Fletcher knows more about Mexico and can handle the Mexican situation better than any one other man in the United States." declared a United States Government official fresh from a conference on the subject at Wash ington. Fletcher is well known in Harrisburg. being a brother of for mer Sheriff J. Rowe Fletcher and a member of the famous Roosevelt Rough Riders. "Fletcher knows the Latin character," continued this of ficial, "and he knows also the situa tion in Mexico and has the confi dence of many of the most influen tial Mexicans on both sides the po ! - itical fence. He has a reputation not only for sagacity but for fair dealing that stands the United States Government in mighty good stead at this time. T believe that if the Government would turn its Mexican troubles over to Fletcher he would be able to evolve a policy highly beneficial to both this country and to Mexico as well. According to this same official the United States formerly controll ed, through the ownership of its citizens, more than half the oil out put. of the Mexican republic. Slowly but surely it has been losing its grip and Great Br'tain and Ger many now control more than 50 per cent and the loss to America is steadily increasing. "Wo are build ing oil-burning ships and our own domestic oil supply is running low. How long will it be, I wonder, if the Government does not turn Fletcher or some other good man loose on the job. before we will be dependent upon the capital of some other nation for our naval oil sup ply?" Tree Tributes at the Memorial [From Washington (D. C.) Star.] It is proposed to surround the Lincoln Memorial, now approaching completion, with trees in memory of Jhe sons of America who lost their lives during the Great War. These trees will be individual trib utes. each to he furnished and planted by the family of some man who died in action or from wounds. This association of the memory of the men who fell in the cause of this country with the National trib ute to the great American who guided the Nation through the trials of civil war is most appropriate. Lincoln's name is identified with the supreme crisis of the Union. His example has inspired the citizens of all the generations that have fol lowed him and his name is now held in respect and reverence by Americans of all sections. During the great trial of 1917-18 it was a guiding star. The men who fell in France were of the same high quality of American manhood as Lincoln. To surround the National monument to the martyred Presi dent with beautiful and enduring tributes to the young Americans who lost tbeir lives more than half a century later will make the mem orial in Potomac Park a link be tween f rioo tn th National iife.
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