10 COUNT CZERNIN FORESAW END OF CHARLES'RULE Former Austrian Foreign Min ister Was Prophet in Recent War Berlin, Sept. 2. Count Ottokar Von Chudenitz Czernin, formerly Austrian foreign minister, is shown as a prophet who foreshadowed com ing events and the collapse of the Central Powers with almost uncanny correctness according to his now famous letter to the Emperor Charles, written early in April, 1917, In which he urged that monarch to "make peace at all hazards or suf fer the loss of your throne." Parts of the text of Count Czer nin's historic missive have been published but the complete text, as presented to the Assembly at Weimar by Finance Minister Erzberger, has now appeared for the first time in the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, the official German organ. It shows among other things, that Czernin, alone of all Austrian states men, prophecied the entrance, two years before, of Rumania into the war on the side of the Allies and predicted "almost the day of its outbreak.' The letter also said the Count "expected" immediate French, British and Italian offensives and his forecast was borne out by what happened. Within a fortnight after the note to the ruler had been drafted, on April 16, 1917, the French began the great Soissons-Rheims "drive" along a 25-mile front, and the British had started the battle of Aras on a front extending to Lens. The Italians, a few weeks later, plunged across the Isonzo in the Carso sector for a distance of 37 miles, crushing the Austrians in their mad rush. In view of the reverses to the armies of the Central Powers and on the eve pf America's entry into the war, Czernin urged the Emperor to "make another detailed peace pro posal and not be afraid to make (treat, even heavy, sacrifices." Four Perish When Car Goes Over Embankment By Associated Press. Syracuse, N. Y., Sept. 2.—Four women were killed and two men seriously injured late last night at Adams, Jefferson county, when an automobile in which they were driv ing ran off the road and dropped down an embankment. The victims were all from this city. Sweetheart Soap A Special Coupon Will Appear in the Harrisburg Telegraph Friday, Sept. 12 Take this Coupon to any dealer, purchase three cakes of sweetheart Soap at the special price of 3 for 23 cents and get one cake free POUR CAKES FOR THE PRICE OF THREE / Regular Price of Sweetheart Soap is 8 Gents a Cake ONLY ONE SALE TO A CUSTOMER ' TUESDAY EVENING, PRICES REMAIN HIGH IN JAPAN Cost of Living Has Increased Ten-fold Since 1887, It Is Said Toldo, Sept. 2. Soaring prices for food and clothing as well as house-rent show no diminution in Japan. The cost of living, accord ing to the Yorodzu, has increased ten-fold since 1887, while wages have advanced bnly four-fold. As against 36 yen a koku, for instance during the rice riots of August, last year, the price of rice has now risen to 56 yen a koku (five bushels) and a grave food crisis has resulted. Japan is a country of large fam ilies and with rise costing about S2B for every five bushels the head of a family has to do some hard think ing. Other food necessities, espe cially sugar, which Japanese use considerably, have risen in propor tion to rice. It is the great middle class of Japan, the people working on small salaries, which is raising the greatest cry. Although wealth has increased as a result of the war the real wealth of the masses has decreased and the people of Japan are relatively poor. At the same time national tastes have changed and the Spartan sim plicity of olden times is no longer en dured. Low salaries in public services have so depleted the personnel that government institutions like the post office, telegraphs, police force and schools ai;e all undermanned. Industrial companies, however, are paying dividends of from 50 to 100 per cent, and distributing big bonuses, lands and rents are rising in value and the farmer is hoarding his rice until he has pushed the market to its highest notch. Citizenship oi Miner Killed by Bandits Not Clearly Known' Bp Associated Press. El Paso, Tex., Sept. 2.—Whether Adam Schaefer, a mining man who was killed by bandits at Pinos, Zacatecas, Mexico, August 28, was of American. English or Mexican citizenship remained a question last night after a day of investigation. He is said to have been in Mexico twenty-two years. News of the killing of Schaefer, who was general manager of the Cinco Estrellas mine near Pinos, was received yesterday. Mining men disagree as to his citizenship. PRODUCTIONS CUT HIGH COSTS Defense Council Says ji Mills Idle While Suffer Washington, Sept. 2. Unless reduction in wholesale food prices resulting from sharp breaj ts on the produce markets are pasi ted on to the consumer, vigorous punitive action will be taken by th a De- I partment of Justice, it was i said. ! Since most dealers now are co [ operating in the campaign lo re j duce living costs, officials sa:W the I lower wholesale prices shoudd be reflected on the retail marl cet in the near future. Profiteering in sugar virtually has ceased, according to Judge Ames, assistant attorney genetral in charge of administering thiel food control law. Eleven cents, bunsaid, now is accepted as the Jus* • price by dealers throughout thei fcoun try. Washington, .Sept. .2. 'e.urtail ment of production of nearly all com modities,. except food product: I, since the signing of the armistice b:ps been a powerful collaborator with> hoard ing and profiteering and inflation of circulating credit in advancing the cost of living, the Council pf Na tional Defense has concluded tffeom an investigation conducted by itsUrecon struction research division. , A summary of the council's ..report addressed by Secretary of Wairj) Baker to the President and to G wigress, made public to-day, stated that dur ing the first half of 1919 reports from the principal industries engslged in the production of commodities re garded as daily necessaries showed diminished production of ravt mate rials and subnormal construe Hon of new capital, and "thus indical es fail ure to utilize an adequate proportion of our productive forces in t! le pre liminary processes of provisfion to meet future requirements." Blundering Officials Make Bureau Rtilure Washington, Sept. 2.—The t gravity of the failure of the War RTtek In surance Bureau to function is roperly and to provide for the milHtons of men who served their country through the war an adequatei System of cheap insurance which they would desire to convert into permani ant in surance is being demonstrate* I anew by some of the responses whilch are coming to members of Congress who in line with the White House; Thus have been sending out requKsts to fiKiraiaßUßa TELEGRXPfI returned soldiers not to drop their government policies. It is stated by members who have .given this subject careful attention that the prevailing disposition of re turned soldiers who have dropped their insurance is to pay no attention to these appeals. Some communica tions are being received from men who have been in the service stating why it is about 75 per cent, have .dropped their government Insurance. It is made plain that the utterly in efficient conduct of the War Risk In surance Bureau is a factor. It also appear* there is dissatisfaction with .the rates for permanent insurance which the government is offering which are not as liberal as the men were led to anticipate. It is a seri ous fact, the reasons for which are not disclosed, but which investiga tion may illumine, that the govern ment rates for permanent life in surance are surprisingly little lower than the rates of a number of the insurance companies. Members of Congress are impressed with the idea that the blundering of respon sible officials in war risk Insurance matters has been worse than gen erally realized. Burleson's Blunders Reflect on Wilson Washington, Sept. 2. Adminis tration newspapers are now saying that Postmaster General Albert Syd ney Burleson will be retained. It is explained that in their excess of zeal to get rid of Mr. Burleson in order to help the party some of the Administration newspapers over played the game. They attacked Mr. Burleson for all sorts of things as to many of which he was squarely they made it practically impossible for the President to "fire" the Post master General without condemning himself. So it is now said by newspapers whose utterances are usually in spired by the White House that there will be early change in the office of Postmaster General. This is taken to mean that there will be no change whatever. This is embarrassing for those Democratic organs that, lining up with the anti-Burleson elements in the Administration and on the Na tional Committee, hammered away at Mr. Burleson and succeeded in printing large amounts of truth about him. Apologies are now in order. It Is being explained that Mr. Burleson after all has done little wrong. About all that he has done, it is explained, is to alienate labor by his hostility to it, to make a failure of the administration of the telephones and telegraphs, to help in the break down of the overseas mail service at home, to inflict al most irreparable damage on the civil service and to perform a few other similar services. Having such a distinguished record and being a faithful believer in the Chief Execu tive, Mr. Burleson will continue to, draw his salary. BRITISH JURIST TO VISIT HERE Lord Finlay Will Attend Convention of American Bar Association Baltimore, Sept. 2. Lawyers in every section of the country are in terested in the plans for the annual meeting of the American Bar Asso ciation, which ?vill be held at Bos ton, Mass., this week. The Association has just been ad vised that Lord Finlay, the distin guished British jurist, formerly Lord Chancellor of England, has accepted an invitation to attend the meeting. Lord Finlay's presence will doubt less attract muqh attention, because of the fact that it has been reported that he may preside at the proposed trial of the former Kaiser of Ger man. The report of the Association's special committee to investigate courts-martial is expected to arouse nation-wide comment, because of the widespread interest in that subject. The report will be made the subject of discussian at one of the sessions. The latest addition to the list of prominent speakers who will ad dress the lawyers is Judge Elbert H. Gary, head of the Steel Corpora tion, whose subject will be "Recon struction and Readjustment." Among others who will speak are Secretary of State Robert Lansing, on "Some Questions of the Peace Conference"; Dr. David Jayne Hill, former Am bassador to Germany; Judge Robert Lynn Batts, of Texas, and Albert C. Ritchie. Attorney-General of Mary land, and former counsel to the War Industries Board. Governor Calvin Coolidge, of Mas sachusetts, and Judge George T. Page, President of the- Association, will address the first session of the meeting. —.— Londoners Demand Punishment of the the Profiteers There London, Sept. 2. Demand foi* the punishment of profiteers continues throughout the country, and the Lon don newspapers are filled daily with letters complaining of the operations of merchants who insist, as one ct r respondent expressed It "on having their pound of flesh." One despairing man details that he recently received a bill from his tailor for SIOO, of which S2O was for a pair of dress trousers, and the re maining for a plain blue serge suit, the cloth in which could have been bought at wholesale for $17.60. HUGE FLEET OF NAVAL JUNK IS AT LAST ANCHOR Surviving Ships of the War • Are Today Resting in the River Medway London, Sept. 2. A spectre fleet of more than one hundred war ships, a nondescript miscellany of large and small craft, some worn out through long years of prosaic patrol duty, others prematurely aged by encounters with enemy sub marines or participation in such en gagements as Jutland or the Dar danelles, is today anchored in the river Medway. This jetsam of the war, a float ing museum of naval junk, swings at its last mooring abandoned, unwanted. Ships that were heroes amid ships that never did anything but "dog work" ride the tidal river currents side by side miles of for lorn rusty ghosts. Some were built in feverish l\aste to meet emergen cies during the war; some were con structed in peace-time leisure, but now they are all superfluous. There is the Sappho whose ma chinery balked and cheated her of a glorious victory and alongside the Vindicative, sunk as a submarine barrier at the Zeebrugge mole; there are "blistered" cruisers, samples of British naval constructors' ingenuity, built to stay afloat and in fighting trim despite torpedoes and mines; battleships mastless, gunless, use less shorn of their fittings for service as isolation hospitals; the Inflexible, which fought at the Falklands, was mined at the Dar danelles and survived the battle off Jutland. This specter fleet, slated for the salvage heap, still rides salt "fight ing" water, but its days of blue water are past. An ebbing tide of war has left it as a marker in a graveyard of the sea. New Labor Laws Enacted in 1919 New York, Sept 2. Protective labor standards in the first year after the armistice have made substantial progress in new legislation providing still further safeguards for workers and strengthening existing statutes, particularly in the field of social in surance, according to the summary of labor laws enacted during 1819 in more than 40 states and by Congress, just issued by the American Asso ciation for Labor Legislation. "Especially important is the enact ment of workmen's compensation laws In four additional states, mak- j Ing a total of 45 states and territories | now having this form of social in surance, in addition to the model act' I WHEAT IS KING | | Hie war settled the question 1 8 as to the supremacy I U of wheat among the | I products of the soil. | But be sure you eat the S whole wheat prepared H in a digestible form. B In making Shredded 8 Wheat Biscuit we H | cook the whole wheat | in steam, shred it and j!j a bake it in coal ovens. It is the most real food a for the least money. It is deliriously nourishing j| for any meal with milk a or cream.with sliced |J bananas, sliced peaches j| or other fruits. It is ready- jjj cooked and ready-to-eat. of the Federal government for It* million civilian employes and the sol diers' and sailors' insurance act," says the secretary. Dr. John B. Andrews.
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