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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-25
Good Advice to Britain
[Chicago News.l

In urging the British people and
their government to show q greater
degree of respect for the rights of
neutrals the London Chronicle gives
wise counsel at q critical moment.
The newspaper particularly dwells
upon the need of giving consideration
to the sea rights of the United States.
1t says truly that on this point Ameri-
can opinion has always been very SEN
sitive, and it might have added that
there is a historical reason for this
sensitiveness.
The Chronicle points out that il is
not polite for Britain and it's allies to
irritate the, United States by pedantic
procedure having no justification in
naval or military necessity. The
blacklisting methods employed by the
British government are mentioned as
constituting another special policy
which has been oveYplayed.
In advising the British foreign Of
fee to act upon the various matters
of difference with the United States
in broad and not in a pettifogKins
spirit the Chronicle says that the mat
ters in question are not vital to Bri-
tain and that they cause irritation to
the United States without countervail-
ing benefits. These assertions are
founded on truth and they ought to
be weighed carefully by the British
authorities.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-25
A FIELD FOR EDUCATION

n CORRESPONDENT of the New
n York World suggests that it
would be far better to take the
money proposed for public buildings
in the Southern States and spend 1t
for schools in the same communities.
He points out that in the five States
of Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia and Florida, with a
combined population five times as
great as that of Minnesota, the total
amount of school money raised each
year is only s1S,OO0,O0o, whereas Min
nesota raises 100000.
Federal aid to the public schools is
no new idea. Henry W. Blair, while a
senator from New Hampshire, more
than twenty-five years ago, tried to in
terest Congress in this subject. His
and was as often rejected or never
acted upon by the House. Finally the
Senate voted against it, also, and the
project died.
Mr.. Blair was ahead of his times.
In those days the paternalistic idea of
dependence upon the Federal govern
ment for everything had not been de-
veloped as it now is. In those days
there were States rights, with their
defenders, and States freedom. I'm
der the latter head, the States of the
South have felt at liberty to neglect
the education of their children to an
abominable degree. as the writer in
the New York World points out.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-25

it accumulated during the past forty
man. He was aged 73 and died while
at work.
Yesterday Martin L. Henry, a New
York letter carrier, killed himself after
having seriously injured his brain by a
fall on the ice, leaving an estate of
nearly 100000. all saved and made
during his occupation as letter carrier
at salary never exceeding $1,000 a
year.
Torborg went to Chicago a young
man and saved a hundred dollars from
his pay as street car driver. He in
vested wisely in real estate. He kept
on saving and kept on investing until
he reached the half-million mark.
Maybe he carried his passion for
money accumulation to an extreme.
Perhaps he didn't get anything out of
life but money. Doubtless the same
may be said of the New York mail
carrier. But, just the same, they illus
trate the point that it is not always
the big salary that leads to riches.
any ilSh aiS Oh pAtSVV d
year and others are on the verge of
bankruptcy who receive $4,000.
Good spenders may be good fell
lows" Torborg used to tell his friends,
but bank account needs no friends"
Others of his sayings were: Never
pay for having work done that you can
do YOURSELF" make your vacations
pile up your dividends" and THAT
man who stops work is like the idle
mill: he falls to pieces
If you want money, you can get it,
no matter how you are situated; only
you must pay the price. But remem-
Der, there is more to life than gold,
and fortune does not bring happiness.
Probably the happiest men on earth,
other things being equal, are those
who are congenially employed, who
are living a little below their income
and who feel secure against approach
ing old age.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-25
STILL DODGING

CUFFRAGISTS find it harder than
~ ever to get satisfactory re-
sponses from Mr.. Wilson. His
heart is in the cause, he says; but he
stays his hand because he is the lead
er of party.
This is just as he used to falkland
act. He was party leader last June,
when his party was renominating him
in defiance of its old platform and was
drawing new platform at his behest.
He took no pains then to have the
suffrage plank so worded that his
hand would be free to follow his
heart; and the probability is that he
purposely held to vagueness so that
he could meet the exigency of to-day
and of any other day when eager suf-
fragists would wait upon him.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-25
No More One-Cent Newspapers
IPhiladelphia Inauirer.1

lPnlladelpnla lnqulrer.I
Beginning with Monday next, the
price of the Inquirer will be cents.
In fact, that will be the price of all
Philadelphia newspapers, as it already
is in most sections of the country. The
reason for the advance is just this:
the high cost of everything necessary
to the making of a newspaper has
rendered 1t impossible to publish sat
isfactorily 1-cent journal in this city,
as elsewhere.
The advance in the price of white
paper severely affects the newspapers
of the United States. The Inquirer,
like most of the strong papers of the
country, might continue on the 1-cent
basis If 1t were q charitable institution
and its readers were objects of charity.
But they are not. This journal is not
willing to resort to mediocrity. Its
readers are not willing that it should.
They demand an up-to-date news
paper, complete in every detail.
Nothing less would satisfy them and
nothing less would satisfy the In
quirer. And so the price of the daily
issues will be cents.
The intelligent newspaper reader
can afford the increase. 1t means little
to him, but great deal to the news
paper. To print a modern newspaper
requires a manufacturing plant. That
plant needs to purchase many things
in the market. There is nothing that
1t purchases that has not increased in
price from 90 to 200 per cent 1t
would be uninteresting to give q de-
tailed list of these things. Ink is one
of them, and the amount of ink that
the Inquirer uses in the course of a
year would astonish the uninformed
But it is paper that is the great item,
the item that everyone can readily
understand. This journal uses more
than $4,000 tons of 1t in the course of
twelve months. Add many dollars a
ton to the cost of paper and 1t is easily
figured out by anyone what is staring
most newspapers in the face. The
alternative is 2 cents to the public in
stead of / cent.
There is nothing inferior about the
Inquirer. It does not intend that there
shall be. 1t believes that it's readers
will prefer the additional cent rather
than receive paper of poor quality
and reduced news. That extra cent
will make it possible not only to print
a good newspaper, but better one.
1t will be stronger in news, stronger in
features, stronger in every way. In
stead of decreasing expenses. 1t will
increase them for the benefit of it's
readers We feel, therefore. that we
have no apology to make, for the pur-
chaser of the Inquirer's daily issues
will gain by the change in price.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-25
THE ANGLO-SAXON SOUL AS
REVEALED BY ITS BARDS
Collection of Eloquent Verse by Notable Modern
Poets Inspired by Various Phases of the War 1o1416

TT is truly a goodly company that
Mr.. Cunliffe has gathered together
- into his new volume of selected
Poems of the Great War"-Robert
Bridges, John Masefield, Edgar Lee
Masters, William Watson, Harold Beg
bic, Tagore and a long roll of other
wooers of the muse. AS there are
many men, so there are many moods.
There Is the song of glory. and the
dirge of death. There is the hymn
of duty, and the cynical question "Cui
bono?" Here the Christian note of
fortitude is struck, and there the bitter
note of righteous Christian indigna-
ton. This is the note of Chesterton.
1t is also that of Harold Begbie, as in
the following, entitled "Neutral?" and
dedicated ito the humanity of Amer
ica," which. as it is intended for us
especially, may be quoted in full:
when men are told in years ahead
And ravished maids, struck children
dead
And fred the houses of the poor,
Will not. IL still that nation lives.
Our sires with blood and sweat
Ask with the pride your greatness
What said America to that?'
Your children-taught how Belgium
stood,
In flames that once were called
Louvain,
And dashing from her eyes the blood
Struck at her foe and struck
again
Shall feel their hearts within them
burn
To know what righteous word you
said
God; When the silent truth they
learn,
Surely your sons will hang the
head.
I'VE ask not that of all your hosts
One man, one sword be sacrificed;
Your cousins guard these ancient
coasts,
Your kinsmen charge this Anti
christ,
But we expect your mighty voice
With judgment through the world
to run,
o land of freedom, make your choice,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-25
ANIAsSING MONEY
} matter how small your

MO matter how small your wages
lN\ or your pay. there is always the
possibility of amassing a fortune
If you are willing to sacrifice the pres
ent for the future and are wise enough
to invest your savings profitably. The
hardest and most persistent worker in
the world is the dollar, but its efforts
must be properly directed. The dollar
knows no eight-hour day. Sunshine
and nighttime are all the same to II.
The weIl-invested dollar never grows
old. is never tired, and the harder it
IS worked the more valuable it be-
comes. All the other inventions of
man go eventually to the scrap heap.
but the dollar that is kept constantly
at work in profitable BUSINESS or other
investment never needs any new bear
ings, it's tires are milled and puncture
proof and it never gets into the used
car" class; it is the sole device of
human kind that improves with age
and against which no depreciation
charges need be made.
The other day Henry Torborg died
ut hts home in Chicago leaving a for
tune of g half-million dollars, most of
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-25

Are You for Belgium or the Hun?
I'VE ask not that your shells should
shrek
Above the flaming hills we climb,
But speak, o sons of Lincoln, speak!
~ Sllence IN such an hour is crime.
Aour children judge you if you stand
In hearing of the Belgian cry,
Not only with the folded hand.
But with the cold, averted eve!
THE soul has got it's piercing steel.
The heart its fierce consuming fire,
On, make your voice like thunder
peal,
All nations of the earth inspire!
We know your heart for Belgium
bleeds,
But speak your soul, declare your
mind,
Speak till the sin-red tyrant heeds
The voice of God and all mankind"
There is the extolling of the heroic
who died to hold Mons for England
by Philip Byard Clayton's "We Held
Their Ground" and there is a hymn of
praise to France by Edgar Lee Mas
ters.
Then there is 1.-THE Debt" by E. V.
Lucas, the debt of gratitude those at
nome owe to those who are saving
anu oOlhCIIllll6 IHc same
strain from Maurice Hewlett remind
ing the sorrowing girl whose sweet
heart is at the front that
But if he live or die
The English flag must fly,
And England take care of his sweet
heart"
And there are paeanS to "Englands s
Dead" such as Frank Taylor's lines
or Alan Seeger, the young American,
Il Have Rendezvous With Death
he who was killed in battle at BelIoy-
en-Santerre. July. 1915.
If there is the resolve of the hero,
there is the courageous resignation of
the father when stricken in his eldest
son. The whole gamut of human feel
ing at its most exalted pitch is ex-
pressed in poignant, exalted or exult-
ing words. An epitome of the modern
soul in the proud days of its sorest
trial. flung at the world by men whose
head is bloody but unbowed"!- Sc
lected by j. w. Cunliffe. New York,
the Macmillan Company.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-25
JAPAN AND THE U. s.

TINE prevalence of wars and ru-
mors of wars, together with the
frequent snatches of reports
which come to us that the American
Navy shortly again will be the second
largest in the world, and the unfor-
tunate Misunderstanding which have
spread over the country concerning
strained relations between this coun-
try and Japan; all these elements
combine to engage the timorous and
tie uniformed in the unhappy pro-
cess of concluding that war between
the United States and Japan is in
evitable.
Public Service Commissioner Ainey,
in a recent address before the Uni
versity Club of Harrisburg, took a fall
out of those newspapers and indi-
viduals who are constantly harping
on the possibility of war with our
brothers of the Far East. Mr. Ainey's
experience as a member of the Inter-
national Parliamentary Union, an or
ganization which unoffcially endeavors
to create and maintain harmony
with authority and from personal ac-
quaintance with leading citizens and
government officials in Toxic. He be-
lieves that the American attitude of
suspicion and uncertainty toward the
Japanese people, following upon the
heels of discriminatory legislation in
California that had no reasonable
hs,e sic 90 foo
allowed to continue, tend to create be-
tween the two nations the very strain
ed relations which all want to avoid.
1t is very probable that Americans
as individuals are not properly in
formed as to the Japanese attitude
toward this country; it is very prob
able that they are sufficiently inter-
ested in the advancement of tLeir own
welfare to keep their surplus popula-
tion at home; it is very conceivable
they they are anxious merely to main
tain on their side of the ocean the
prestige which we enjoy on our side,
and that a Monroe Doctrine for Japan
is all they want; self-interest based on
a proper appreciation of and respect
for the rights and privileges of other
nations is not unlike the American
international policy as conceived and
expressed by President Monroe. If all
this be so, AND Japan does not have
any ambitions on this side of the globe.
it would be well for sensation mon
gers to stir up the believing only when
they have authority for their state
ments and for this country, through
its speakers and writer's, to guard it's
| utterances to the end that situation
be not created that may generate mu-
tual mistrust and dissatisfaction be-
tween two powerful nations.
The discussion which Commissioner
Ainey's analysis of the Japanese situa-
| tion aroused among the members of
the University Club who heard his
address in their club rooms the other
evening is indicative of the possibili
ties which the club holds for profitable
and helpful meetings on matters that
are of vital importance in the world.
The university man, above all else, is
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-25
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

General Leonard Wood will
speak in several Pennsylvania cities
on military training this month.
"A. C. Gumbert Allegheny county
commissioner is in charge of arrange
ments for the big Republican club
dinner in celebration of Mckinley
day.
r. B. Ringler, of Reading, has
been elected secretary of the State So
cialist party for his sixteenth term.
--R. ID. Forsythe. State highway SUI
perintendent in Bradford county, has
resigned to go to the Pacific coast
Captain S. r. Meigs has started a
movement in Philadelphia TO preserve
Grants cabin in Farmont park.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-25
Passing of one-Cent Papers
tWilliamsport Sun.1

The Philadelphia daily newspapers
are announcing that beginning on next
Monday. January 29. their subscription
or so cents per month, and two cents a
copy. They have been forced to the
step, just as nearly every other news
paper has, by circumstances over
which they had no control; but the
Philadelphia papers held their control
several months longer than some other
papers. This action by Philadelphia
nearly eliminates the one-cent newspa-
per from Pennsylvania, most of the
others having been already forced up
by the large increase in white paper
coming on the heels of previous ad-
vances all along the line.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-25
"PEACE WITHOUT VICTORY


i tive genius for coming phrases
that come back to haunt him.
"Peace without victory" is his latest,
and the New York World takes great
pains to explain that the President
did not mean that literally; what he
did intend to say, according to the
World, was peace with just consider
alton of the claims of the vanquished.
Tho World does not quote it's au-
thority, but granting that it speaks
the mind of the President, the country
may be excused for resenting such
careless use of language on the part of
an executive whose proudest boast has
been his ability to express himself in
telligently and forcefully in the writ
ten word. If the President meant
what the World says he did why, one
may be permitted to ask, did he not
say it?
AS forecast in these columns, the
warning nations are bent upon inter-
preting the speech each to meet it's
own especial views and their leaders
are not above using it as an instru-
ment with which to strengthen their
positions with their own peoples.
That being apparent, the President
should have been most careful in the
selection of his words and no room
for double meaning should have been
left. Obscure passages should have
no place in the diplomatic documents
and communications of the United
States, noted as this government has
been for its openness and frankness.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-25
REWARD FOR THE FAITHFUL
.HE resignation of Chairman HUI

NtE resignation of Chairman Hur-
ley of the Federal Trade Com
mission is taken to mean the
promotion of Commissioner Harris
to the head of the board. Mr.. Harris
halls from Georgia. where he used
to be in the insurance business. He
was once chairman of the Democratic
State committee down there, and he
was for time director of the census
at the same time trying to get him
self elected Governor of Georgia. He
would now like to be a senator from
that State. We have no doubt that
Mr.. Harris is a good politician, but as
an executive, either in the Census Bu-
reau or in the Trade Commission, he
has displayed no burning genius.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-25
PoeHcA IT,
Pe~~eqeOo"ia
By the Committeeman

Democratic members of the Legis-
lature seem to hold an important stra-
tegic position in the proposed investi-
cation of the State government and
according to newspaper comment the
Governors friends are looking to the
minority members to insist upon a
widening of the probe. The first fight
will be made in the Senate on Monday
night, when an attempt will be started
to amend the Sproul resolution, and
If it fails the administration forces will
exert pressure to defeat it in the upper
house. If that fails, the fight will be
transferred to the floor of the House.
That the State administration will
fight the resolution in it's present shape
to the last ditch is a foregone con-
clusion.
The Philadelphia North American,
which reflects the administration view
In pretty much everything nowadays,
says that the Governor has inspired
criticism" of the resolution in its pres
ent form and that objections were
made by administration spokesman,
who were Joined by Democrats in q
tactics of Senator Penrose in the
fight" The North American does not
say who the spokesman or Democrats
were and does not quote anybody. The
Philadelphia Bulletin says Penrose will
have trouble lining up men to make a
drastic probe, and the Philadelphia
Inquirer says there will be a fight, a
view in which the Pittsburgh Dispatch
joins. The Philadelphia Ledger de-
mands an inquiry and says that the
administration Is working to get new
angles of attack on the resolution. 1t
quotes Senator Penrose as saying that
he looks for quick action, together
with some caustic comments upon the
Governors expense accounts.
The Democratic Philadelphia Rec
ord rather intimates that the Demo-
Gratis will not rush to the aid of the
embarrassed State administration and
that the wish inspired the thought
that the Democrats would put in a
new resolution of investigation. The
Record says in it's summary: THE
true significance of the plight con-
fronting the Governor and members
OF his official family was not realized
by the political coalitions allied with
the Governor until Tuesday, when de-
cisive action on the Sproul resolution
was taken in the Senate appropriations
committee. Up to that time the Gov
ernor's allies had labored under the
supposition that Senator Penrose was
'bluffing' in his threats of an investi-
cation"
Postmaster appointments an
nounced yesterday will not make
things any easier among the fighting
Democracy of Pennsylvania. In
Shenandoah the selection of John j.
Coughlin for the job after four years
of pickering will start moro trouble.
Coughlin was superintendent of the
borough water works and is a friend
of Marshal #. J. Noonan. The ap-
pointment of Margaret b. Berneker
as postmistress of Camp Hill will also
start something among Cumberland
Democrats.
1t is understood that the Anti
] Saloon League leaders are not inclined
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-25

to view the proposed Ross amendment
to the local option bill to make it a
statewide affair with much favor. The
tention as usual this season.
George Sullivan, well-known Mont
gomery county official, died yesterday
at Norristown after long illness. He
league is not attracting as much at
was we'll known to many here.
--Wilkes-Barre's council is all torn
up over garbage. Altoona and New
Castle have had the same experiences.
In Wilkes-Barre it is charged that the
city is governed in the interest of
families and that councilmen are in
terested in deals.
Mayor Smith has started out to
get information as to the necessity for
many matters connected with the pro-
posed improvements in Philadelphia.
The mayor will probably demand some
hearings
Congressman B. K. Focht is being
commended in his district for the COM
nonsense view he took in his speech
on the leak probe" The congress-
mans remarks were snappy as usual
and he held that the country had more
important things than Tom Lawson to
fuss about.
M. Harvey Taylor, of this city, the
secretary to the President pro tenn. of
the Senate, assumed his duties yester-
day afternoon and was congratulated
by many of his friends.
b. 7. Hale, of Towanda, who is
aligned with the Progressive wing in
Bradford county, is an applicant for
superintendent of highways of Brad
ford and an effort is being made to
have him named at once. Many of
the Governors appointments lately
have been of Progressives.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-25

trained in his four years at college to
think, and any and all opportunities
that are thus afforded for the stimuIa-
ton of thought and development of
ideas in the individual are to be en-
couraged.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-25

The course of President Wilson in
Withholding information from Secre-
tary Tumulty which might cause him
embarrassment Is considerate. In pre-
vious administrations taking the
blame has been a part of the private
secretary'a regular Washing
ton Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-25

Used to be you could tell a farmer
because he didn't look quite as pros
porous as town folks. Now you can
tell him because every time he comes
to town he looks like q millionaire
among lot of pikers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-25

The Monroe Doctrine is rumored
to be little anxious about its future
Philadelphia Record.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-25
EDITORIAL COMMENT

The chief characteristic of peace
continues to be low visfbility.-New
York Evening Sun.