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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-20
Former Resident Here
From Medford, Oregon

Mr.. and Mrs. W. II. MCGOWAN of
Medford, Ore, have been greeting old
friends in the city and visiting their
relatives, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Crane
at Perdix. Mr.. MCGOWAN, a former
Harrisburger, and son of the late
James MCGOWAN left here 26 years ago
for the West. He represented the
Medford Lodge of Elks at the recent
convention in Baltimore.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-20
ANNouNCE NIARRIAGE

Miss Ruth Blackwell. of 100 Hoer-
ner street, and George Thurman, of
22S South Fifteenth street, were mar
ried at the parsonage of the Memorial
Lutheran Church on May 29 by the
Rev. DR.. Lewis c. Manages. The cere-
mony was kept secret until last even
ing, when the families and friends of
the Young couple We're notified.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-20
FLUKE-RITCHEY WEDDING

The marriage of Miss Grace Viola
Ritchey and George Raymond Fluke,
both of this city, took place Wednes-
sonage of Camp Curtin Memorial
Methodist Church with the pastor, the
Rev. A. S. Williams, officiating.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-21
The Fall of Australia

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Z Sir: Permit me, as an Australian, to re-
fute the statements made by DR.. James j.
Walsh, of the Catholic University of Wash
ington, in his speech on birth control appear
ing in this mornings Tribune.
Either his geography is very much mixed
or he is msrepresenting the facts. He states,
that the fall Of Rome and the dying nations
Of Australia were the result of birth con-
troll and that in the year 1000 there would
not be a single Australian on earth"
In Australia large families are the rule
and not the exception. Also as the govern
ment pays baby bonus" of $25 to the
mother of each child born in wedlock, birth
control clinics would do a poor business.
Maybe in the year 1000 there will not be
a single Australian left, for they may all be
married and raising large families
RAY JOHNSON.
Hoboken, n. j., Nov. Is, 1916
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-21
The Woman Who Flew

Miss Ruth Law, fair, small and twenty
five, shattered the long distance air record
Of America when she landed on the
Hornell fair grounds, 500 miles east OF
Chicago. She also crossed another Item
off the once long list Of things no woman
can do. On both counts, we applaud and
congratulate her.
II has been a bad century for that his
toric list Of -womanly occupations.
The few years thus far run have done
more TO upset the established facts about
women than the whole century preceding.
The war did it. But for the episode
touching an Archduke and its varied con-
sequences, we should still be listening TO
cur conservative friends, contendlng not
only that woman's place is in the home,
but that she is utterly incapable OF de-
lending that home, and that therefore she
is of obligation a helpless ward OF man.
How these helpless wards have left their
homes to make shells and run railroads
and generally do a good half of the work
Of defending their homes is now history
The beautiful assumption Of woman's
hopeless inferiority to man has beauti-
fully glimmered.
With this new record has come the dis
covery that woman can do an amazing
array Of things and still be a woman.
Miss Ruth Law, for example. Without
laying too much stress on the fact that
she carried a skirt with her all the way
from Chicago to New York and donned
it over her boomers as soon as she struck
land, the point is significant. Unques-
tionably, it is possible to hold the nonstop
air record of America and remain distinct
" feninine-even agreeably and charm
ingly so. All things considered, we should
be inclined to rate this detail as a very
important part of Miss Laws very i'm
portant achievement
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-21

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In your editorial Tangled Up -, a.
morning you say: EFF the Adamson :.
means anything, IL means that Consfe" -.
declared its power and intention to rss', -.
railroad traffic, not on the rate side on''' y,
on the side Of wages as well.' Ana NOS :
the other newspapers prefer to 'heor'' .
this manner rather than face the unp.eA'.-
facts. If Congress had passed the n'AA' :.
law without compulsion the implieau.'' o.,
pressed in your editorial might n'la :.
we all know that the Adamson Dill wa
passed without compulsion. -,
II a highwayman holds pi'to' - ~,
head and invites you 70 STAND sne ,.-
you don't tell your friends later toa. a voul
plying with his request you expresses
belief in the communal enjoyment OF 4
and your intention TO practise tna' ,a.
the Adamson bill means anything y ~.
that Congress, In September ias', va mo
rorized By the brotherhood thres" .,,,,,
obeying their orders, and that II naa s,,.,f
power nor intention OF any kiha .~<,s
enough to enable it 20 resist 80
0"'sa ." any ~ c. N. MEERsS'
New York. Nov. rs, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-21
"The Mark of the Beast"

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your editorial entitled "The Mark
Of the Beast" is excellent. 1t would be diff
hcult to sum up the case against Germany
more succinctly or more dramatically.
| very much fear that we Americans do not
sufficiently realize what is at stake in this
world war 1t was begun by government
whose only object is TO win. The Prussian
army was rushed into Belgium with orders TO
win and no questions would be asked The
same policy has been pursued ever since.
Germany's statesmen, her diplomatists, like
her military officers, have persstently acted
upon this principle in every case. II q lie
seems TO accomplish the object best, lie. II
the truth for the time being promises to
bring the quickest results, tell the truth. That
you gave "A promise or a pledge yesterday
is no reason why you should keep il to-day.
This is in accordance with the Treitschkean
dictum that international treaties hold only
rebus sic stantibus If such a policy should
win even n moderate triumph ii would be
the greatest calamity that has befallen the
world since the dawn of history.
When | was boy we used to read in our
biographies that mankind is divided into five
classes: the savage. the barbarous, the half
civilized, the civilized, and the enlightened.
This definition or division will now have to
be supplemented with another which reads
There is sixth class called the Teutonic,
which has some of the virtues Of these five
and all their vices. If there is anything that
will make an honest man sneer IL is to hear
the German chancellery talk of violations of
international law. The hypocrisy or the soph-
istry that prompts such accusations can
be explained only on the assumption that
the whole German nation and its allies are
suffering from moral strabismus of such
severity that there is no cure for il except
virtual determination.
CHARLES W. SUPER.
| Athens, Ohio, Nov Is, 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-21
SubaIterns.
strain.
A SONG OF OXFORD.
From The Spectator ,

froW me Spectator
They had so much to lose; their radiant
laughter
Shook my old walls-how short a time ago.
hold the echoes of their song hereafter
Among the precious things used TO know
Their cup of life was full TO overlooking,
All earth had laid its tribute at their feet.
What harvest might we hope from such a
sowing7
What MONDAY from . dawning so COM
plete?
And II watched them working, dreaming,
playing,
Saw their young bodies fit the minds de-
sire,
Felt them reach outward, upward, still obey
The passionate dictates Of their hidden
fire.
Yet here and there some greybeard breathed
derison,
"Too much OF luxury, too soft an agei
Your careless Galshads will see no vision,
Your knights will make no mark on
honor's page"
No mark!-Go ask the broken fields In Flan-
ders,
Ask the great dead who watched in ancient
Troy,
Ask the old moon as round the world she
wanders
What Of the men who were my hope and
joy.
They are but fragments Of Imperial splen-
dor,
Handouts Of might amid a mighty host,
Yet !, who saw them 60 with proud surren-
der,
May surely claim to love them first and
most.
They who had all gave all. Their half-writ
story
Lies in the empty halls they knew so we'll,
But they, the knights Of God, shall see His
glory
And find the Gail ev'n in the fire Of hell
MILDRED HUXLEY.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-21
Democracy Ueber Allies
lRrom rhe II Pnso HeraldD

IRON
The fact that Luna County, New Mexico,
in which Columbus is situated, returned a
vote Of almost two TO one in favor Of Presi-
dent Wilson does not prove the voters are
in sympathy with the Presidents policies
with respect TO Mexico, as result of which,
the Republican party has argued. the raid Of
Villa on Columbus was made possible. Luna
County people undoubtedly deplore the at
tack on Columbus as deeply as ever, and they
may feel that a more vigorous course with
respect to Mexico, pursued from the begin
ming, would have prevented such an attack
being made.
But, as with Democrats in the Southern
States, they feel bound to vote the Demo
cratic ticket straight from top to bottom, in
GLIDING President Wilson with the rest, as n
matter of Democratic principle. IL Is very
hard TO win some men away from party ira
ditions, even by killing their relatives and
burning their homes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-21
THE STRATEGY OF THE KINGDOM
Spending Money to Win Young People to
God Is Defended
10 the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In a recent issue of The Tribune APP
peared letter from David G. Wylie. in TO-
days issue, the 14th, find letter from
George Weeks which takes exception to Mr.
Wylie's letter. The last two paragraphs in
Mr.. Wylie's letter are the two which he
takes exception to:
winning young people for God is the
strategy of the Kingdom. 1t is prepared
ness in this life and for the life to come
Mr.. Weeks states that: "The strategy Of the
Kingdom is not the winning of young peo-
ple.'" He states that this kind OF strategy
has been tried and found wanting, especially
in the last fifty years. Evidently Mr.. Weeks
believes that up to fifty years ago no definite
effort was made TO interest young people In
Christianity. | do not believe it will be
necessary to go further on this question than
to call attention to Sunday as observed by
our Puritan forefathers. Mr.. Weeks would
have been more accurate in his statement
had he said that up to fifty years ago it was
the strategy of the Kingdom to win young
people to God, but that now it has been
given up and we are reaping the fruits of il
in our lack Of religious sincerity in our
everyday life and even in our churches.
He goes on to state that "the strategy OF
the Kingdom Is the earnest determination
Of Christian men and women to establish a
kingdom of righteousness, justice and
brotherhood upon this earth by applying the
Christianity of Jesus Christ to its everyday
problems and evils" Does Mr.. Weeks think
that these men and women by INSTINCT arrive
at this state of Christianity? He will be
obliged to admit that they must arrive at il
by stages of education.
The second paragraph which Mr.. Weeks
takes exception to is this; Every denomina.
ton needs large endowment in the form OF
legacies to establish and maintain the work,
that is the work of religious education in
our colleges. A rather unhappy way of stat
ing the case, will admit IL is always awk-
ward to connect religion with money. but
nevertheless money is necessary. There is
never question about giving money to repu.
table charitable organizations. Money has
simply poured in for the recent political
campaign. For both Of these activities the
people who gave the money thought it was
for the betterment Of conditions, and no one
criticised them.
Now Mr.. Weeks has condemned one plan
for increasing intelligence on religious sub
jects among our young people ! trust he has
some better plan to set forth, and also hope
that it does not involve the money question
DANIEL S. SMART.
New Brunswick, N. j., Nov. Is, 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-21
Boy Officers
(From The SPECTATOR


have seen boys almost fresh from pub
lie school in whose faces there were two
personalities expressed; the one full Of the
light hearted, reckless, irresponsible vitality
Of boyhood, and the other SCARED with the
anxious lines OF one to whom a couple of
hundred exhausted and nerve shattered men
have looked, and not looked in vain, for lead
ership and strength in their grim extremity.
From boy in such a position is required
something far more difficult than personal
courage. II we praise the boy soldier for
his smile in the face Of shells and machine
guns, don't let US forget to praise still more
the boy officer who, in addition to facing
death on his own account, has to bear the
responsibility Of the lives of hundred other
men. There is many a man Of undoubted
courage whose nerve would fail to bear that
strain.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-21
The Belgian Ordeal

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The terrible ordeal through which
the Germans are now putting the Belgians
should bring forth sincere and vhole-hearted
condemnation from this country. Germany
has cursed Belgium with ideness and now
pretends TO relieve her of it by breaking the
last binding ties-severing the men from
their women and children and their country
Thinking people Of this land will readily
respond TO a harsh protest To raise our
voice is not, many foolishly think, ster
toward war; it merely shows that our per-
ception still has range enough to discrimi-
nate between right and wrong.
THEODORE MICHEL.
Brooklyn, Nov. 1s, 1916
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-21
For a Foodstufs Embargo
nr Of The Tribune.

TO the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The cost OF living is becoming SO higf
that IL seems as if the United States govern
ment should step in and try, if possible, tt
remedy the situation.
This country has produced less wheat thar
usual during the last year, yet our ships &c
out daily laden with this commodity while
our people suffer at home. Bread is s cents
a loaf, eggs so cents dozen, and the end is
rot yet in sight.
II the United States would put an embargo
on all foodstuffs leaving this country it would
greatly tend TO alleviate the situation.
Why sendsout products, many Of which &c
10 the bottom of the ocean, when our peopl,
are suffering at home!
A few individuals are making fortunes al
the expense of the majority
The government should interfere for the
protection of its people.
FRANCES BEADED BROOKS.
Mountainhome, Penn, Nov. IL, 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-21

peculiarly intense since October 70, the
day following the German defeat at YER
dun. 1t was continued deliberately for
three days after and renewed on November
4. The one conclusion for the inhabitants
on such occasions is the assurance that
the enemy has been beaten somewhere
else. for it has been established by careful
observation that a reverse Of any sort Is
reflected at Rheims, the Germans invariably
taking their revenge on the cathedral In
no other way is it possible to account for
the deliberate destruction Of q thing
which has no military value and which IS
hateful to the German only in so far as II
is a thing of beauty.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-21
Rheims Cathedral To-day

II is recorded by correspondent of The
Associated Press at Rheims that the Ger
mans celebrated All Saints Day by drop
ping the thousandth shell on the well-bat-
tered cathedral German efforts in other
directions have of late diverted popular
attention from this quarter, but it would
be mistake 20 suppose that the interest
ing enterprise begun so promisingly two
years ago had been abandoned. Indeed, it
appears from the accounts Of discerning
visitors who have followed the work of
the destroyers inteligently that they con-
unue TO prosecute their design slowly, it is
true, but with characteristic thoroughness
and method.
lies BOches ne sont pas oussi m6chants
qx'autrcfois," said a French officer to Mr..
Edmund Gosse on his visit to Rheims three
months ago. But he was speaking rela-
lively, and Mr.. Gosse learned that only
four days after he left forty bombs were
dropped in the city. The latest accounts
leave little doubt but in time they will &C
complish their purpose, supposing their
purpose to be the complete demolition of
the ancient edihce. Great progress has
been made in the last half year, notwith-
standing the general impression abroad
that the Germans had given up their at
tempt. A correspondent of THE Morning
Post" of London, who was In the cathe-
dral about six months ago, and has seen
it again within the last three weeks, dc.
scribes its condition as entirely changed"
il is clear. he says. that IL the lombard
ment continues the whole building will
soon come down.
The bombardment seems to have been
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-21
Birth Control as a Vast Peril

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The absolute failure to recognize
the danger Of this popular sympathy with a
woman like Mrs. Sanger is beyond all com
prehension.
Have the mothers and fathers and brothers
In this city lost their senses? have the
fundamental principles involved been for
gotten entirely? Can they not see that such
propaganda as this will undo all the safe
guards of society and that the result will
be an immortality that is unspeakable?
And there are those who write letters 10
the papers and sign their names in utter
dlsregar d Of the decent laws of society, and
paw tribute to the advertising value of the
opposition of respectable or more properly
decent people to such scheme Of enlight-
eminent.
II we want our public schools. our col
leges and particularly our co-educational in
stitutons TO become impossible to handle
on account of immortality and passion, which
are the strongest things that most individuals
have to struggle with, let us advocate this
propaganda
But Of all things, let us curb misguided
woman, and may all with any sense of pub
lie propriety or of common decency refuse
to tolerate such talk delivered under the
guise so utterly false.
1t is beyond understanding how respectable
newspapers whose editors must be more or
less familiar with the conditions so OPP
pressive in parts Of any congested COM
munity can support such propaganda.
Perhaps IL will be more tolerable for them
In the day of judgment than the inhabitants
of Sodom and Gomorrah. +. c. j.
New York, Nov. IS, 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-21
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor OF The IrlDuhe'
Sir: There Is something unworthy in the
way that those of us who are dissaushed
with the election have taken it. We hnd fault
with things that were done by the Republican
Campaign Committee and with things that
were not done. with what Mr.. Hughes SAID
and what Mr.. Hughes lid not say, win rae
tional quarrels in California, with the brute
vote of the South and the selfish vote OF the
West. We turn to blame every one ano
everything but ourselves and ascribe mo-
mentous national failure to trivial circuh-
stances. A nation does not make momen'
tous failure unless it has some moral weak
ness at the core In this election the reason
WHY America chose the less noble part is not
because of any miscalculation or mismanage
ment by politicians, but because we ourselves
have not been what we ought to be. 10 thnH
otherwise, to think that great issues are de-
cided. that the character of a nation goes
down. that even the ideals Of our children
may be influenced for i'll because of errors
Of politicians would be, indeed, to thlns
meanly of life. We are punished because We
have made moral failure of our daily lives
ave have transgressed against thee, we have
rebelled against thee, and thou hast not Tor
given u.s."
The mass Of men are eager to be led; they
have somewhere (no matter how coarse thel'
fhre) romantic strain, and IL they see ideal
ism they will rise up as one man and strug
gle toward it. No saying is more true thar
this, that ten righteous men will save city
II the opposition to Mr. Wilson had stood OF
the high ground Of human justice, OF willing
ness, if need be, to fight and suffer for the
right, the country would have followed witt
hurrah, but the Republican politicians pre-
ferred to appeal to the same material inter
ests that Mr.. Wilson appealed to, and ne wa'
far cleverer than they. We must take com
fort from this. Bad as it is TO have the igno
Bile prevail in one election, it would be Ia
worse if an elementary principle OF morality
were to bend and break under us.
A great nation must not sit still and folc
its hands while it sees committed before 1t:
face what it believes 10 be great wrong. 4
nation need not go to war even when It's owr
skin is touched, but nation must not shu
its mouth and stife its conscience for real
of war. Fear is a benumbing thing, and teal
Of war is the most subtle and dangerous o.
fears. See what it has done to US. Our ma
ton had always professed ana more than pro
tossed. it had felt, admiration for resistance
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-21
AMERICAS MOMENTOUS FAILURE
Have OnIv Ourselves BameNona Moral Weakness and NOT
Politicians Bunders, Responsible for an gnobe Election

TO oppression IL had taken George Wasnlng-
ton as the great type of hero resisting tyran-
ny, it had believed that by resistance 70 TYR
amy men serve the god OF righteousness
Oppression had seemed to US odious, whether
il tyrant state attacks small state or the
rich directors Of a corporation matreat their
-employes, or big boy DULLES little boy
In old times when America saw oppression
she was wont 20 speak out. And when the war
broke out, excepting for men born IN Germany
the nation felt its old feelings and was Writ
ually unanimous in believing that one slde
OF the European war represented military op-
preston and the other side resistance to OPP
preston. But America did not act. she did
not speak, she was hidden stife her con-
science. And what has the inevitable effect
Of inaction and silence been? A man who
first sees clearly that right and wrong are
contending for mastery, and then plays the
neutral in act word and thought, is forced
BIZ the logic Of his neutrality TO lie to himself.
II he does not declare for one side or the
other, he can only justify himself by pro-
claiming that there is no more right on one
side than on the other, for IL there is right
upon one side manhood requires every man to
uyuoid the ugnt. We have been compelled oy
the logic Of neutrality to shrug our shoulders
and say: what are these mad fellows fight
ing about, anyway? Since we are not on one
side or the other, neither is righteousness,
nor is justice; there is no conflict between
oppressor and oppressed, none between mill
tary aggression and self-defence, there is
merely an nexplicable confusion Of greedy,
selfish, fighting men; and just as well, for
we are therefore quite free to enjoy the COM
forts of ease and peace"
/ Such a neutrality OF act, word and thought
is the spirit that denies. What except our
selfshness, our own love OF ease, our self
surrender TO comfort, has enabled this spirit
to sit in our high places and render America
Indifferent TO right, Indifferent to wrong
Luxury, comfort, ease-we salve our con-
science by calling these things peace. These
are the things we fear to lose, and that being
so, how was it possible that We could hope
to put heart into the mass of voters? The
mass of voters see US all sacrificing every
thing or almost everything, to comfort and
luxury in our private lives. How can they pay
heed to US if we demand something differ
ent from the nation? I'VE have transgressed
against thee, and rebelled against thee, and
thou hast not forgiven US. Behold, thy judg-
ments are righteous altogether"
HENRY DWIGHT SEDGWICK.
New York, Nov. 49, 1916.