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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-10
INSIDE THE GERMAN EMPIRE
IN THE THIRD YEAR OF WAR

|NTANE articles and books have .e
NI been published in the last two
or more years by journalists of
more or less training and of more or
less discrimination claiming to have
enjoyed unusual opportunities to OBJ
serve the conditions of life and the
trend of national feeling and opinion
in the countries at war. Few of these
accounts, however, have even ap-
preached In judicial Judgment and abb
sence of sensational treatment the ex-
cellent report now presented to the
public in Herbert e. Swope's volume,
Inside the German Empire" just is
sued by the Century Company, New
York. In looking through its pages
the reader will feel that the author
primarily has in mind the giving of
clear, succinct report of what he saw,
and of such changes as he observed
the minds of the people had under
gone since at the opening of the war
he had visited Germany, rather than
to produce sensational effects. He
missed the eXultation of the early days
when, with all the pomp of war, the
armies marched out to what they felt
so sure must prove brilliant and swift
victory:
There is little or no blitheness in
Germany They have settled
down to the situation in the belief that
they are now undergoing the last
phases of the war, realizing that the
lines along which the war, both po-
litically and economically. is now be-
ing fought are the lines upon which
the end will come"
The Germans, however, do not be-
lieve that they are doomed to defeat;
If any one of them believes that. he
conceals the thought. But the con-
ditions Germany is now facing are
those which, without material change,
she will have to face when peace is
made. Germany to-day, says Mr..
Swope, calls herself "a beleaguered
country" and, as n fact, she is. IAN
iron ring engirdles her."
At the beginning of the war a civic
peace, "Burgfriede," was made such
as in olden, days was entered upon
when separate free cities and states
engaged in war, so that they could
present a united front against a COM
mon foe. In this war it was religiously
maintained until now. But the sup
porters of the chancellor are accusing
his opponents and the Conservatives
of having broken the truce. The So
cial Democrats, who have been loyal
in their support of the government,
say that the "Junkerthum' in its open
antagonism to the governmental poll
cies is guilty almost of treachery.
Moreover, the teaching that might is
right as an element of government is
wearing off. The question is asked
whether there is not a middle course
between world power and downfall.
"It is clear that the war has changed
the German idea and the national i'm
pulse. The fond dream of a great
world superstate. which was only an
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-10

distraction and they demand a respite
until such time at least as they can
recover normal equilibrium.
1t is too bad that there are so many
mischiefmakers busy within the Re-
publican fold. They are not all upon
one side. Both factions seem to have
annexed a considerable number of
these malcontents, who are most happy
when they are stirring up trouble and
inviting party defeat.
Neither Palmer nor Mccormick nor
Donnelly nor any other of the Demo-
cratic bosses can be censured for do
ing their utmost to accomplish Repub-
lican undoing nor for encouraging the
factional row that has been disgusting
thousands of good Republicans
through Pennsylvania. If those re-
sponsible for this party disturbance
Will get together before the recon-
vening of the Legislature and settle
their differences. they will be doing
what the average Republican expects
them to do. 1t is easy to break down
party; it is not so easy to build it up.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-10

L<EW organizations have done more
i in the way of stirring up senti-
ment for civic betterment than
the West Shore Firemens Union in
the single year of it's existence. The
firemen, following the publication of
a series of articles by the Telegraph
setting forth the needs of the West
Shore in that direction, added to their
name "and Municipal League" and
they have been living fully up to this
supplement to the title of their organ
ization.
The league has been doing much IN
bring about harmony of action for
municipal improvements and better
ments among the people of the towns
represented. 1t is pioneering along
lines that eventually will weave all the
West Shore towns into one municipal
government, or at least promote their
harmonious development, and the tasl,
is ever more important, perhaps, than
mary of the members themselves real
iZe.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-10
By BRIGGS

other name for a Germanized world
has dissipated, and with flew excep-
tions the leaders of thought in Ger
many are we'll contented with any plan
In which their present is assured and
their legitimate future expansion safe
guarded"
1t is through the southeast that lies
their hope OF expansion so long as
England holds the seas And there
are those who are wondering IL the
war could not have been avoided
These doubters point to the former
policy of pacific penetration to justify
their doubt.
Life in Germany is not pleasant
to-day. There is q hopeless, prison
atmosphere that causes men to crack
under the strain. Berlin has become
nest of intrigue and gossip.
"Germany's place in the sun may be
remote. and the sun may be growing
cloudy; but Germany's spirit does not
waVef. Her courage still answers every
test, her soldiers are still untouched
In their bravery and skill, and every
sacrifice that she asks is being met
willingly-almost gladly"
Germany, however, hates America
next to England. with magnificent
disregard" of the checks and reverses,
both military and economic, that she
has suffered at the hands of the Allies,
she claims that America is to blame
for the fact that she has not succeeded
and her chances are growing less. Her
loss of prestige, her fear of defeat,
are laid at our door. We are the
scapegoat of her Inundated self-glory.
Mr.. Swope quotes Zimmerman as an
exponent of the German feeling toward
u.s.
THE American neutrality toward
Germany is one of the head; toward
the Allies 1t is one of the heart What
America does for the Allies she does
for Germany she does because she
must"
Only the chancellor has stood
against the resumption of the U-boat
Warfare-only peace can prevent its
resumption.
The author recalls the threat made
by member of the imperial govern
ment that war with Germany would
reveal 500.000 trained Germans in the
United States ready to arm against the
American government, and Ambas-
sador Gerard's quick response:
There may be, but there are 500, 900
lampposts in America ready to string
them up on if they ever try it."
And DR.. Egan, American minister to
Denmark. aided Mr.. Gerard, through
the intelligent German minister in Co.
penhagen, to dispel the error that GER
tain overzealous Germans in this
country, such as the late Professor
Muensterberg, had created. Indeed,
the chapter entitled German Hatred
of America" is one of the most in
structive in the volume. which is
otherwise replete with the most valu-
able and interesting material the au-
thor recalls.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-10
WELL. KNOWN PEOPLE

DR. Edward S. Martin. noted Phil
adelphia surgeon, is an ardent advo-
cate of preparedness among military
men.
james A. Farrell, president Of the
United States Steel Corporation, has
been in western counties making in
spection trips and attending reunions
of the Carnegie men.
Hugh McKenna, the Hazleton
postmaster, who is we'll known here,
lis rejoicing in an increase of salary.
Eugene MacAleer, former legisla-
tor and Philadelphia councilman, is
hunting for his automobile which ap-
pears to have disappeared between two
days.
w. Harry Orr has been reelected
president of the Berks County Agricul-
tural Society.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-10
PeeticA tn
Pe~~oqeSo~ia
BY the Committeeman

With the State administration lead
ers sitting tight and Penrose men de-
claring that there should be some in
vestigation of charges made against
the Brumbaugh administration and
the naming of slate committee fol-
the House without a single Ware man
on it, indications are not considered
as showing much of tendency to get
harmony among Republicans in ad-
vance of the legislative session. The
Democrats are making the most of ii
and their speeches at the Jackson day
dinners, editorials in Democratic news
papers and statements by their coun-
ty leaders show that they hope to pick
up much from injection of the peren-
nial Philadelphia row into the legisla-
tive session.
Speaker Baldwin yesterday an
nounced the names of the six Phila-
delphians who are to be members of
the slate committee and all are Nc
Nichol men. The Ware men are
ignored. MUCH as were the McNicLol
men two years ago.
Much significance is attached to
the remarks of Speaker Baldwin at
Philadelphia yesterday on the subject
of the charges against tie Governor.
The Speaker said that he had heard
talk of impeachment, but he wanted
to go into other charges first.
Serious charges have been
preferred against the Governor"
said Speaker Baldwin last eve
ming. 81 have not heard these
charges testified to under OATH.
l believe no charges should be
made or action taken without
full investigation. When the
House swings into it's regular
routine and it shall be shown that
the evidence warrants it, of course,
] will be in favor of the proceed
ings that would seem proper in
accordance with the statutes.
THAT would be my duty as
legislator.
II do not feel, however, that it
is my duty to ferret out campaign
charges. I will, as Speaker, live
up to my promise to administer
the Office fairly and honestly. If
there is no more truth in the
charges than there was in those
hurled at me during the campaign
for the speakership, there need
be no investigation"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-10
MIR. THOMs ADDRESS

: n LFRED p. THOM'S address be-
"A fore the Chamber of Commerce
Friday should be of great in
terest to Harrisburg business men, who
depend so largely upon the railroads
for their prosperity.
Mr.. Thom has been entrusted by the
Railroad Executives Advisory Com
mittee to present the claims of the
railroads for United States regulation
to Congress and the country at large
1t was not so many years back that
railroad executives objected to federal
control in any form, and now that
they come asking the government to
extend it's regulative powers to almost
every branch of the service, including
the fixing of freight rates and the issue
of securities, they ought to have a fair
hearing.
1t is true, as the railroads contend,
that our present interstate commerce
laws are inadequate. They were de-
signed years ago to meet conditions
which long since have been outgrown.
1T is likewise beyond debate that State
regulation and Federal regulation are
not infrequently in open conflict, and
1t is likely that Federal incorporation
for interstate railroad lines, as the
executives suggest, would help nightly
toward a solution of this difficulty.
Changes of rates, traffic rulings and
other matters of the kind having to do
with important relations between the
shipper and the railroads not only
affect those two important branches of
industry, but the public as well. Mil
lions Of dollars and an active or a dull
market for certain commodities fire.
quently hang upon some decision of
the Interstate Commerce Commission
which that overworked body as at
present constituted is unable to render
promptly. This should be remedied.
The public, the shipper and the rail-
road all demand that their interests be
protected by the settlement of all such
disputes or differences without delay.
and the law must be changed to that
end.
Mr.. Thorn has made q careful study
of these and other subjects having to
do with interstate commerce regu-
lation and his address will be not alone
important, but it will be interesting.
for he has the faculty of dressing drv
business facts in the clothing OF
oratory.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-10
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Why?

TO the Editor of the TeIegrdPh:
l am a stranger in strange land.
I have walked your streets and have
-pondered at the things l have seen
and heard. Can" you and will" you
answer Why
The public library is not open be-
fore IL o'clock a. M?
Some of the churches do not extend
a more cordial invitation to all their
meetings?
There is such speeding OF cars on
North Second and Front streets al
lowed? Twenty-Five miles per seems
slow.
Gangs Of young fellows are allowed
to loaf in alleys and annoy passers- by
with obscene words?
A basketball referee is not more
impartial in his calling of fouls?
Ice is not removed from the pave
ments in front of vacant buildings? ]
fell yesterday on North Second street
The street smiled.
The night police force did not flag
that bill posting squad a few nights
ago?
Why
A STRANGER
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-10
Must Make The Best of It

The war must go on. The people of
the United States must assume what
ever responsibilities it's further prose-
cution thrusts on them. We cannot
expect either side to make peace to its
own disadvantage merely in order to
spare US vexation and trouble. 1t is
not for us to urge peace on powers
which are not ready to make 1t merely
because we may fear that Germany
will repudiate promises made to us
with regard to her conduct of SUBJ
marine warfare.--New York Tribune.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-10
Thrift in the Schools
kansas City Star.l

Certainly the subject of thrift is one
that needs emphasizing i'm the training
of young America. If the school board
can work out way for havingsthe i'm
portance of the matter brought system
atically to the attention of the school
children 1t will be doing a service to
the next generation. the effects of which
will be apparent even at once The
saving of waste paper is merely an in
cident to the general scheme. But when
that incident involves a waste of sew
eral hundred dollars a day in paper dis
tributed by the Star alone. to say moth
ing of the waste of wrapping paper, the
necessity of this new conservation
movement is apparent. Only a very
rich country can AFFORD to be as waste
full as America has been-and Amer
lea isn't rich enough to stand the loss.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-10
THAW AGAIN

n RE we to have another chapter
"A of Thaw? 1t would seem so.
Tiresome though the ordeal may
be. perhaps it is just as we'll if the
result shall be the placing of this
irresponsible where he ought to be-
behind the bars of an insane asylum.
If he be convicted on the charge
against him, the verdict of the New
York jury in the Stanford White case
will have been sustained and the
juggling Of the law in his behalf after
his escape" from the insane asylum
at Matteawan will have been demon
strated. No sane man would do what
Thaw is accused of having done in the
case now pending.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-10
TEN MILLIONS FOR ROADS

TIME current issue of the Penn
sylvania Highway News. the
bulletin of the State Highway
Department. gives notice that Commits
sioner Frank B. Black will ask the
Legislature for $5.OOO,OO0 a year for
the next two years for road purposes
in Pennsylvania. Whether or not the
Legislature will vote this large sum,
the fact remains that it is needed. The
State Highway Departments great
est difficulty is lack of funds. From,
tho very beginning it. has been trying
to keep up 10000 miles of roads with
an appropriation scarcely Iarg,
enough for two thousand.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-10
EDITORIAL COMMENT

A dividend of but 12 per cent. for
the krupp Company seems moderate for
what must have been a rather busy
year.-Springfield Republican.
Germans say the enslaved Belgians
are happy, and they can get similar
arguments from the South before the
Civil War.-Wall Street Journal
Chicago is to have a society for the
prevention of murders. That 1920 CEN
sus is beginning to loom up on the
horizon.-Pittsburgh Chronicle Tele-
graph.
AS things are now drifting. the next
Hague Conference will draft regulations
to prevent neutrals from annoying the
belligerent nations.-Washing Post
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-10

The Democratic Philadelphia
Record says that the Penrose policy
will be to ignore the Ware men in
every possible way and attaches much
significance to the selection of Robert
Grier, Penrose man in Senator David
Martins ward, to be real estate
assessor in place of recently deceased
Ware man. 1t means fight against
Martin and John Virdin. The Record
says: "Grier, who received $4,000 q
year as q special clerk in the Revision
of Taxes office, will get SO, 900 annually
as real estate assessor. His post in
the tax office will be given to Robert
in the Thirty-third ward, who Is at
present a clerk in the Register of
Wills office. Patton's place will be
taken by John Monaghan, also a Pen
rose McNichol follower in the Thirty
third ward, who was ousted as a fac
tory inspector some time ago by John
Price Jackson, head of the State De-
partment of Labor and Industry"
Prominent Republicans from up-
State will meet Speaker Baldwin at
Philadelphia to-day and discuss the
patronage of the House and the COM
mittees and much will be determined
regarding the course of the lower
branch. Tomorrow the leaders will
go to Atlantic City. Saturday they will
attend the Terrapin club dinner in
Philadelphia and complete the pro-
gram by Monday.
Ira B. CriIly has been elected
sanitary engineer for Altoona, the first
man to fill new post.
Proportional representation as the
proper method of electing a city coun
ell or other representative body was
advocated by Clarence G.. Hoag last
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-10

.NOUNCIL acted hastily, to say the
~ least. when it confirmed Abe
Rote, Jr., as patrolman on the
mere say-so of his friends. The Police
Department has been under fire too
often in the past year to loaden the
force with men whose records are to
any degree in doubt. If q court case
is still hanging over Roat. then he is
certainly not qualified for the office Of
policeman. A full investigation of the
Roat case should be made at the very
earliest moment, both for the sake of
the city and the man himself.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-10
THAT INCOME TAX

WYE wonder what Mr.. Gompers.
wv who so enthusiastically en-
dorsed the reelection of Pres
ident Wilson and the return of the
Democratic party to power. win have
to say to the Democratic proposal to
tax all incomes of more than $1,000 n
year. Mr.. Gompers was so positive
that Mr.. Wilson and his colleagues
represented the interests of labor"
that he urged all members of the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-10
MIR. LYNCH's GOOD RECORD

COMMISSIONER WILLIAM H
" LYNCHS annual report, show
ing that he repaired 4S,451.53
yards of sheet asphalt last year at a
cost of rs cents a square yard is a
record of work we'll done. Not only
has the asphalt repair plant justified
itself, but Mr.. Lynch has put the
streets into very much better condi-
ton than they were at the end of the
repair contract and at great saw
ing to the people. Mr.. Lynch has been
always at his best when in charge of
any kind of highway improvements or
upkeep, and his operation of the new
asphalt repair plant last year is not
the least OF his achievements along
this line.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-10

American Federation of Labor to vote
the Democratic ticket. The first re-
turn labor receives for this support is
the recommendation that Congress
place an additional tax on everybody
earning $40 a week. Comment is un-
necessary.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-10

notwithstanding the bringing up OF
the heavy artillery for continuance OF
the warfare between the Philadelphia
factions of the Republican party, there
is still an insistent demand throughout
the state for cessation of hostilities.
1t must be evident to all level-headed
Republicans that a persistence of this
factional controversy must infllct in
calculable injury upon the Republican
party. Surely there is no reason or
excuse for further conflict. Things
have been said and done on both sides
which are neither creditable nor ex-
cusable from the party standpoint and
if those responsible stop long enough
to see the activity in the Democratic
ranks they ought to come to their
senses.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-10
KEEP THEM AT THEIR POSTS

IF the coming home of American
/ ambassadors from the belligerent
countries and their return to their
posts results in the same difficulties
which seem to have beset Ambassador
Gerard at Berlin, then it would seem
to be the part of wisdom to keep these
official representatives at their posts
until the war shall have come to an
end. Every word has a double mean
ing so far as the Interpretation of the
belligerents is concerned. The sit
uation of this country with respect to
other nations is already sufficiently
embarrassing without adding to our
difficulties through incautious speech
of official representatives.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-10

The strangest bit of news that has
filtered into the newspaper Offices
lately is that the administration in
tends to probe the sudden death of an
American in Mexico.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-10
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg will have a
notable display of fruit and corn
and similar products here the
week of the twenty-third?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-10

1t is usual for leak to follow
"freeze-up," but the opposite appears to
be true in the Washington incident.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-10

Shark skin for shoe leather; why not
use some of the leather from the con-
sumers who are being skinned?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-10
THE WEST SHORE FIRE,rEN

1t begins to look as though Harris
burg will have to wait for Waite.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-10

Wonder IL the prospect of "dry
party" will have any effect on the in
auguration crowds?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-10
THE CASE OF RoAT

Get ready to give the Governors
Troop a rousing welcome home.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-10

Speaking of the annual January
Thaw!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-10
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JAN. 10

oh, fear not in a aVorld like this,
And thou shalt knoaV ere long,
Kno10 hoaV sublime a thing it is
To suffer and be strong.
-LongfellozO.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-10
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
Mother Carey's Chickens"

Religious services used to be held
n Market Square 110 years ago.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-10

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.,
Telegraph Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-10

70. ]. STACKPOLE.P Pres't ano EditoriH- Chief
=. r. OYSTER, Business Mdndger.
GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-10

The organization of the committee
to give a home coming to the Harris
burg soldiers recalls the days when the
men came home from the Spanish
war. The Governors Troop and Com
pany ] returned from Porto Rico, but
the greetings to them was no less
hearty than to Company d.