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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-09
THE LITTLE YANK

l haven't seen my Daddy yet,
In this great worlds commotion;
His mind and heart on peace were
set,
And he crossed the ocean.
He left Mama November morn,
A year ago tomorrow;
And since tnat time I've been born
To soothe away her sorrow.
His coming home will bring such
JOY,
And no one need remind him;
He's sailing home without convoy
To the girl he left behind him.
I'm glad that peace has been de-
clared,
For this my God 1 truly thank;
I'm glad my Daddie's life was spared
TO see his Little Yank.
He's coming home right now from
France,
Across the briny vapor;
He helped the Allied great advance
To get THAT Scrap OF Paper"
Our Stars and Stripes are still un-
furled
On every land and ocean;
And L shall help to lick the world
When next they take the notion
Kate Heaston Dunn, in n. Y. Her.
aid.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-09
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES

THE Kaiser as / Know Him." the
newly-published book by Arthur N
Davis, is very shortly to be given
to the Danish reading public by v.
Pios Boghandel, of Copenhagen.
This will make the fourth country in
which The Kaiser as I Know Him"
has been published, starting with
America, where Harper & Brothers
are the publishers. In this book
Doctor Davis tells in great detail
of his many interviews with the ex-
Kaiser, during the fourteen years
in which he was his personal dentist,
by no means confined to the ordinary
talks between patient and dentist.
How Motion Pictures are Made"
just published by the Harpers, is al
ready being read in several large
public libraries to explain movie
mysteries about which librarians are
constantly asked for information.
Homer Croy, the author, says "Of-
tentlmes a feat of daring when wit
messed in a studio becomes laughable
by it's utter remoteness from danger
Clever dressing and eX-
pert carpentry can arrange things
so as to be convincing to the most
demanding in the audience. There
was one firm that was the source of
many gaps of breathlessness
and few. IL any, suspected that the
chief with whom the white man was
shaking hands was q graduate OF
Oberlin CollegeP Oberlin, Ohio, or
that the rest of the warriors were
law-abiding natives of Honolulu,
drawing two dollars a day and go
ing home on a street car How
Notion. Pictures Are Made" has led
the reader far away from the Ozarks,
which Is the stage-set of Mr.. Croy's
novel Boone Stop" which the
Harpers published only few weeks
previous to the authors departure
for France In the late spring.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-09
LET THE ALLIES DECIDE

~ OLLAND expresses willingness
- to yield up the eX-Kaiser and
- the former Crown Prince If
the allied governments so demand,
but volunteers the hope that it may
be permissible TO Danish the worthy
pair to an island in the Dutch West
Indies, there to remain for life under
guard OF the Dutch fleet. Thus
would judgment be diverted from
the people of the allied nations to
those of a neutral power long sus-
pected of entertaining more than
a passing relation with the military
crew who wrought the horror of
war on Europe. The proposal is
not to be considered. 1t doubtless
originated with Wilhelm or one of
his retainers, who fear that an allied
court of justice might not be so
lenient.
No, Kaiser William committed the
outrage for which he must stand
trial and Wilhelm Hohenzollern
belief that he has lost any of his
guilt by a mere change of name
and residence. Holland has moth
ing to do but give the former mon
arch and his son to the allies when
they demand. The Dutch West
Indies are all too salubrious a CLINE
for the Beast of Berlin and his
mousefaced progeny. They must
stand a fair trial and submit to a
far harsher judgment when found
guilty, as they will be. How they
can escape the death penalty is the
only question that is troubling those
who fear to see their sufferings on
earth come to an untimely end be-
fore firing squad or on a galIows,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-09
The Veteran

Where are my comrades who joined
in the first of the fighting?
Where are they now In the smoke
of the conflict concealed?
Their rifles are dumb. and the 81
lence is grim and affrighting;
Night is at hand-and l am alone
in the field.
Some have gone home to rest awhile
from their labors,
And some have gone home to a
rest that Earth never has
known;
But none flinched or failed in their
trust to keep faith with their
neighbors-
God grant me their strength TO
keep faith in the darkness
alone.
THE BOOKMAN.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-09
Haze Improved Since 'G5
(New Orleans Times-Picayune)

(New Orleans Times-P Picayune)
Steps were taken early in the
great war by most of the countries
engaged in it to keep an accurate
record of the losses, the killed, dead,
missing and wounded. Such records
have been defective in past wars.
The casualty lists of the Confeder-
acy during the Civil War covered
barely half the dead and missing,
and although the federal government
was in a position to do better, the
death list, was far from complete.
Because of similar experience in
other wars special efforts were taken
toward collecting the complete lists
of the dead, then killed in battle and
died of wounds and disease. The
promptness with which the record
of killed and wounded was publish
ed after the armistice was signed
and the war was over holds out en-
couragement that we will have near
ly complete record of the total
casualties.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-09
RESTRICTION REMOVAL
kkTT is in the public interest that
all war regulations of industry

kETT is in the public interest that
all war regulations of industry
should be revoked and all war
restrictions on industry should be
removed as speedily as practicable,
save such industries as are engaged
in the production, preparation or
distribution of foods, feeds and fuel,
and such last-named group of in
dustries should be freed from war
regulations and restrictions as early
as consistent with the welfare of
this nation and of the Allies" is the
gist of one of the resolutions adopt
ed by the Atlantic City convention
of businessmen last week, and there
are indications that the Government
means to take the hint, the War
Industries Board, the Federal Fuel
Commission ard similar restrictive
agencies being in the process of dis
solution.
Throughout the country there is
an increasing demand from many
quarters for a reconstruction plan
of resumption of normal conditions.
Partisanship Is having little to do
with it under the circumstances.
Business and industrial interests are
insisting that there shall be quickly
brought about something like the
normal situation. Incidental to this
plan there is likewise a demand for
immediate rehabilitation of the
armed forces which are not needed
for the further defense of the
country and also for the abrupt ces-
sation of all building and construc-
tion work in cantonments and else
where. These involve enormous ex-
penditures, and it is the opinion of
those who are capable of judging
that no justification exists for pur-
suing some programs of certain de-
partments which were outlined dur
ing active hostilities.
Nobody questions that there should
be retained in Europe'a large army
until the peace treaty is signed and
ratified, but there is no difference
of opinion among those who are
able to judge that all our soldiers
should be brought. home with the
utmost speed commensurate with the
safety of the nations to whom
America stands under obligations as
allies in the great war.
But the particular thing to which
statesmen in Washington of both
parties are looking forward is the
elimination of the one-man Govern
ment which has prevailed to a large
extent during the preparations for
prosecution of the war. This
applies also to special war commits
sions and boards which have been
so thick in Washington as to inn
pede the real work of the Govern
ment In most cases the powers of
these war bodies terminate with the
conclusion of peace and there is little
sympathy for the individuals who
have been striving during the last
ten days to perpetuate their swivel
chair domination.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-09
MONDAY, DECEMBER ., 1918
COMMUNITY SPIRIT

PPARENTLY the men of Har'
u risburg will do anything the!
- are asked TO do in the way ol
community service-even to chop-
ping wood, as witness the cutting
bee in wildwood Park Saturday for
the benefit of the y. NJ. c. AS open
fireplace. The association needed
the wood; it's officials plainly said so;
they asked for it-and they got It,
truckload after truckload. of it, be-
cause the community spirit is high
and men were willing.
A few years back and a party
like that of Saturday would have
been hard to organize in Harrisburg
The war, with its necessary cam
paigns, has brought us more closely
together. We have come to clear
er understanding of our duties as
citizens. We have lost something of
selishness and gained something of
a desire to serve. This is a good
thing for the individual and VAL
liable asset for the community. 1t
should not be lost with the coming
of peace. Rather it should be en-
couraged and fostered and devel-
oped. If every man and women in
Harrisburg can be brought to a
realization that each owes more to
the community than the commun-
ity does to the individual, We shall
be on fair way to become a model
city. We get no more out of town
than is put into it, and If each of
us learns to put in his mite there
shall be an ample reservoir from
which TO draw those public benefits
to which we feel we are entitled,
but which are not forthcoming to
the degree some of US would like.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-09
A. SERMON ON DUTY

.(From the n. Y. Times.)
Each man mustered out at Cam
Funston receives this letter fror
the commanding officer:
I'm the performance of mill
itary duty to ones country in
time of war 1t is not for the Cit
izen called to the colors to Sc
lect the kind of service to be
done by him. One who has
willingly and Loyalty responded
to the call to arms, and who
has put his best efforts, mental
and physical, into the training,
and performed all military du-
ties required of him to the best
of his ability, standing ready
always to make the supreme
sacrifice of life itself, ii need
be, has done all that IL good
citizen and soldier could do to
insure the successful prosecu-
ton of the war.
Although l appreciate how
keenly you feel the disappoint-
ment of your failure to secure
duty overseas in the actual bat
tie area, l know you rejoice
together with all Americans in
the prospect of righteous and
just peace imposed upon the
enemy and the termination of
the terrible conflict which has
involved the whole civilized
world. you have done your
best. You have cheerfully and
loyalty discharged the clear
duty of every citizen in time
of war and your work has been
a part of the great national ef-
fort which has aided in secur-
ing a victorious peace.
You are discharged from
the army because your services
are no longer required in the
present emergency. You will
return to your place in civil
life all the better for the train
ing you have had, and l feel
sure you will take with you a
better and higher appreciation
of the obligations of citizenship,
including the obligation of
every man to be trained, pre-
pared and ready to render SER
vice to the nation in war as
we'll as in peace"
Signed, LEONARD WOOD,
Major Gen
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-09

world, nor one whose ideals are
higher or whose deeds are worth
ier.
Wherever there is sorrow or suf-
fering. there is the Red Cross.
Wherever humanity is crushed by
great catastrophe. there is the relief
of the Red Cross. On the battle
field and in the hospitals, among
the broken peoples in the wake of
war. wherever death stalks or star
walton threatens, there are the min
istering angels OF the Red Cross.
But they are there only because
we at home provide the means. II
we cut off their supplies they are
helpless. If We fail to back them
up we put ourselves in the class
with the Hun, who cares only for
his own welfare and would let the
rest of the world suffer and die
without a qualm. In these days OF
world suffering sympathy can be
expressed only in dollars. Put
yours into the Red Cross.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-09
BE A VOLUNTEER

E a volunteer in the Red Cross
X drive. Don't wait until some
- body more interested than
yourself hunts you up to ask for
your membership fee. The Red
Cross is worthy of your support and,
after all it has done the past year,
it ought not to have to beg for mem
berships. Rather. 1t ought to be
the proud boast of every man.
woman and child In the country to
claim membership in 1t. for there is
no finer organization in the whole
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-09
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Mayor e. V. Babcock has been
cutting hundreds of thousands of
dollars from estimates for the Pitts.
burgh city government.
-R. NJ. Foster, the State College
postmaster, has achieved his am
bition and is allowed to ask bids
for new post Office.
Col. Charles A. Rook, Pitts.
burgh publisher, is home from a Wis
It to France, where he observed
war conditions.
John Williams, head of the
Amalgamated Association, will go
from Western Pennsylvania to Sc
attic TO be labor commissioner for
a large steel concern.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-09
Value of Military Training

The Post has consistently argued
for military training In all the
schools OF the country for many
years.
Universal military training means
universal physical perfection-as
near as human agencies can bring
about perfection In the human
species.
always have ready for orders an
army of trained men who will be
inspired with love of country and
a love of home; and who will be
ready to fight and to die. for that
country and that home.-Houston
Post.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-09

hast destroyed thy land and slain
thy people; the seed of evil-doers
shall never be renowned.
21. Prepare slaughter for his
children for the iniquity of their
fathers; that they do not rise nor
possess the land, nor all the face of
the world with cities.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-09
PoGitic4 S~
Ps~~AyGo~io
BY the Ex-CommIttccman

! The very small showing made
| by the Fair Play party, the wet"
annex to the Bonniwell campaign,
devised to coax Republicans who
would not vote a Democratic ticket
to cast a vote for the Philadelphia
judge for Governor, is one of the
things much commented upon since
the official compilation of the vote
of all counties but Luzerne was
made. The vote polled by the noisy
Fair Play party is officially COM
puted as s,S0S with a chance of
$500 more from Luzerne. The
] total Fair Play strength will not be
one twenty-eighth of the Bonniwell
Democratic vote, maybe not one
thirtieth.
The jump of several thousand
votes for the Prohibition candi-
date is not taken as any indication
OF permanent strength here. For
years the Prohibition party has
been polling along with less than
10000 votes and the 26,500 polled
by +. j. Fithian represented a good
ly number OF Democrats who would
not vote for Bonniwell and
"bucked" on voting for Sproul. The
Prohibition total will probably be
about one tenth of Sprouts plu-
rality.
The Bonniwell Democratic vote
runs about 10000 ahead of the vote
for the other two state candidates,
who were not in sympathy with him
and were backed by the Democratic
state organization.
The fact that Stephen II. Huselton.
OF Pittsburgh, polled 10000 votes
against Judge William David Porter,
who got over 400, 900, is one of the
matters which will be referred to the
objections to the nonpartisan ball
lot act during the next Legislature.
The big majority for the two con-
stitutional amendments was not
looked for here. The road loan was
expected to pass, but not by a ma
Jority as great as that for Sproul.
The official count when completed
Will make the stay of some parties
which have figured in the past and
which are struggling now lose ballot
places.
Senator Penrose will attend the
conference dinner of the Philadel-
phia Committee on Revision of the
City Charter Tuesday night and
will fire the first gun in the mayor
atty campaign with an attack upon
contractor government and con-
tractor Nominations in municipal
affairs. Senator Penrose will be the
guest of honor. He is in hearty
accord with the committees charter
revision ideas and it is expected his
address will be an echo of his de-
liverance at a similar dinner on
May =, 1915 when he launched a
sensational attack on the Vare-
Brumbaugh-Smith alliance.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-09
TAINTED NEWSPAPERS

Mt oTHING can be kept long con-
IN cealed in America" was the
complaint Of the German
propagandists. who despaired Of
deceiving the American people with
respect to German guilt in the war.
And now even the paid agents of
she Kaiser here are being brought
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-09

Member of the Associated. Press-The
Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled to the use for republication OF
all news dispatches credited to II or
and also the local news published
hel Gin.
kN rights of republication of special
dispatch IS herein are also reserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-09
Grent ErpecLations

He (to taxi driver) Hey you!
You haven't given me enough
change!
Driver-Well, you can't expect to
hire a taxi driver, and an expert
accountant all for Quarter!-
Burr"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-09
Then Ma Sent Her to Bed

PA, did you fall in love with ma
at first sight?"
"Yes, my dear. But it was a year
or 70 after we were married that
the doctors discovered that / should
have worn glasses much sooner than
i did."-Detroit Free Press.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-09
MnthematicalIu, WIN Not2

II there is work for 100000 Ger
mans for twenty years in restoring
deva stated France, why not put on
a million Germans and finish up the
Job in two years s?-Boston Globe.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-09

What the Red Cross does for the
soldier is shown by the fact that 1,sss
Christmas parcels left Harrisburg
alone for the boys in the Army.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-09

II it's just the same 10 you, Mr..
Demain. well take our share of
winter after to-day's pattern.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-09

1t is noticed that when the German
authorities are in trouble they send
hurry calls for American soldiers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-09

Be a regular" fellow. and volun-
teer for the Red Cross.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-09
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg manufac-
tured products shipped this
year will probably break the
record?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-09

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELSGRAPH PRINTING co.
Telegraph Building, Federal Square
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-09

HISTORIC HARRISBURG. s
This city has been making the
iron needed for its industries foz
more than seventy years
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-09
E. ]. STACKPoLE

z. ]. STACKPoLE
President and Editor-in.Chief
7. R. OYSTER, Business Manager
GUS N. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor
Z. II. MICHENER, Circulation Manager
Executive Board
J. p. MCCULLOUGH
EOYD NJ. OGELSBY.
+. Il. OYSTER,
GUS. NJ. STEINMETZ.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-09

hatered al the Post Office in Harris
bsrg. Pa. as second class matter
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-09

~ OLLAND expresses willingness
n to yield up the eX-Kaiser and
- the former Crown Prince If
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-09

A PPARENTLY the men OF Har-
~ risburg will do anything they
- are asked TO do in the way OF
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-10-31

of the civilized world against the
barbarism of Germany.
I'm this great burden and respon-
sibility the republican party, repre-
senting more than half the citizen
ship of the country, demands its
rightful share
IF the republican party is in
trusted with power in either, or both
houses. they will do everything pos
sible to drive forward the war and
hasten the day OF victory.
THE president speaks of the ne
cessity of telling The plain truth.
That the republican p1fty in control
of congress would do Tor they have
no friends 10 shield. And they will
do more. they VIII give all the money
TO the last dollar necessary to sus-
tain our armies and our fleets; but
they will check tha waste now going
on of the money given by the most
generous people on the face OF the
earth.
The president speaks Of the ef-
feet Of the election abroad. He says
that there they understand the mean
ing of elections.
They do and thoy will know that
if the republicans have a majority
in congress the war viii be pressed
with greater vigor than ever before.
They are quite aware that the
power of the senate is equal to that
OF the president in the contamination
of peace by treaty.
"They will know that the repub-
lioan party stands for victorious
peace and ,he overthrow Of PTussian
militarism. That knowledge will not
depress the spirit of allies or en-
courage the government of Germany.
THE republican party believes
! that the question OF surrender should
should be left to Marshal Foch, to
the generals and to the armies in
the field.
when they report that Germany
has laid down her arms the United
! States and the allies should then inn
pose their terms. VIII that knowl-
edge cause detection to those who
are fighting with us?
"All the world knows that the re-
publican party is opposed to nego-
/ tiations and discussion carried on in
! diplomatic notes addressed to the
German government. The republic
an party stands for 'unconsidtional
surrender. There is no republican
creed 50 short that there is not room
IN il for those two words.
"tSignedj
''Hcury Cabot Lodge,
Reed Smoot.
Chairman Republican Senatorial
COMMITTEES;
"Frederick II. Gillett.
Simeon ID. Fess.
Chairman Republican Congressional
Committee"