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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-05
sour Flag Is the Red of BlOOd?"
By DIR. THOMAS G. MAsARYK

Prime minister of the De THOC @dosov"k Nation and chairman of the Democratic NiE@aean Union
"Red and white are the col@s of I'll new flag, but the red is Of a certain
unvarying shade. 1t is the red of blood"
with our new confederation we will see that Germany and Austria will not
be permitted to play one small nation against the other and absorb them all by
these tactics"
German armies"
"Miteeuropa is a chmGial dream that has disappeared. But this confed-
Grafton will keep Mitteeuropa forever tut of the hands of the Hohenzol
lerns and Hapsburgs and will circle those empires with nations of free peoples,
so that if the Teutonic allies seek another place in the sun they will have to 90
straight Up in the air; for there will be NJ place in Europe for them"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-05
SOHdify Republican Vote
[From the Kansas city Start

tFrom the Kansas City start
What will be the effect of the
Presidents appeal from the stand
point of practical politics? His
political advisers, of course, hope
the prestige of his office will per-
suade Republican voters. Here is
the other side:
For many years, until the Repub-
lican split of 1912, the Republican
voters of the country outnumbered
the Democratic. In 1904 Roosevelt
had a plurality of 100000 over
Parker; in 1908 Taft had 100000
over Bryan; in 1912 the combined
Roosevelt-Taft vote was 100000
above Wilson's. Abnormal condi-
tions existed in 1916 on account of
the Representations" issue, re-
Elected in Kansas, for instance,
which gave Capper a plurality of
10000 and Wilson a plurality, of
$4,000; Minnesota, which gave KEEL
logg, Republican senatorial candi-
date, $4,000 plurality. and Hughes
only 1872; and California, which gave
Johnson, Republican, 10000. and
Wilson 1000. Wilson's plurality in
the Nation was 500, 600.
1t is a fair inference that in recent
years, under ordinary conditions,
there have been more Republican
voters than Democratic.
Will not the partisan appeal Of
the President have the result of
solidifying the Republican party,
and thus of bringing to the polls
more Republican voters than Dem
ocratic?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-05
GERMANY NEXT

|" HE complete surrender of AUS
tria is a forerunner of uncon-
ditionai surrender by Germany,
The event may be delayed, but it is
as absolute a certainty as though
1t were already a recorded fact,
Germany, with Austria, Bulgaria
and Turkey to help. has been fight
fng a steadily losing battle eYer since
the American advent at Chateau
Thiefry, With all the strength her
waning allies could give her, she was
being steadily pushed back toward
the Rhine. constantly nearing the
brink of a great military disaster.
Unable longer to successfully defend
her west front, how can 1t be ex-
pscted that she will be able to pro-
feet Bavaria and the other German
border states from invasion by the
Italians left free by the defeat of
RussiaS of the Serbs, rushing up
from Belgrade following the surren-
der of Bulgaria. of the British,
ready for another campaign on the
heels of the capitulation of Turkey.
and of the French, British and
Americans with the victorious
armies of Italy,
The back door through Austria is
open, The terms of surrender im|
posed upon the srstwhiIe Dual
Monarchy place the railroads and
other Of that country at
the disposal of the Allies, and they
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-05
WELL. KNOWN PEOPLE

Governor Brumbaugh is the
guest of friends in suburban Phil
adelphia over election day.
Secretary of Internal Affairs
Houck is voting at his home in
Shenandoah to-day. He has voted
there for years.
State Treasurer H. M. Kephart
is touring Fayette county for his
brothers election to the supreme
court to-day.
Insurance Commissioner Charles
A. Amber says Montgomery is 60
ing to turn in a big Republican
majority.
Highway Commissioner j.
Denny O'Neil plans to inspect the
western end of the Lincoln highway
and the new link in Beaver county
the remainder of this week.
Forestry Commissioner Robert S.
Conklin has been on a our of some
of the new state forestry tracts. He
mas seen the reserve area treble in
size and many times in value.
Chairman w. d. B. Ainey, OF
the Public Service Commission, is
back among the home folks in Sus-
quehanna county for the election.
Speaker r. j. Baldwin, of the
House, says this is the first election
in which he has not been a candi-
date for some years.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-05
MEETING THE ISSUE

tFrom the Editor and Publisher1
The publishers of the United
States are no more daunted by eco
nomic difficulties than are the SOL
diers of our country by military ones.
To an American a difficult problem
merely represents a thing to be
solved-not something to be evaded
or even 10 be bargained with.
Our brief war years have brought
about a new order, sweeping away
the dead wood Of presidents and
traditions. But, to this new order,
without long and painful processes
of mental readjustments, the pub
fishers of the country are conform
ing.
Under the new order of things
we have an era of higher costs. All
commodities are subject to this eco
nomic condition. News print is not
exempt; nor are labor costs. No
item of overhead expense in publish
ing a newspaper remains at the old
level.
Among all of our businessmen the
publishers have been most reluctant
" dhlllll NIlIAf "AASh u
product costs moro to produce, the
selling price must be increased pro-
, portionateIy. This assumes that the
previous selling price was just and
fair. The truth of this proposition
is so obvious, however, that a ma
iority of publishers have accepted
it as the only possible solution of
the riddle of how to. meet the new
difficulties.
Advertising rates have not yet
kept pace with the rising costs of
production. The difficulties here are
well understood by newspaper MAX
ers. They are concerned chiefly with
existing contracts, at low rates,
which have many months to run.
These may not be repudiated. But
the new rates may be made to APP
ply to all space not already Sold.
Advertisers are. not, as a rule, men
of contracted vision or of limited
practical sense. They deal with reali-
ties. Manufacturers of nationally ad-
vertised commodities have had to
raise their selling prices. They know
why. They know why a publisher
must increase his advertising rates.
They are not in a mood to ask him
to sell space at a loss for they do
not believe it either wise or ece
sary to sell their own products at a
loss.
National advertisers realize, too,
that, under the new order in the
publishing business, waste is being
eliminated; that. when they pay for
circulation, they get it-not merely
the Circulation" which is partly
represented by covers" and returns
and free copies, but net paid circula-
ton. every part of it productive.
The same considerations appeal to
the local merchant. He has learned
the lesson of rising costs. He adjusts
his selling prices to his increased
overhead and commodity costs. He
knows that a publisher must do the
same thing, or go out of business. In
his innermost mind he is already
sold" on a higher Advertising rate.
This fundamental problem of adj
justing advertising and subscription
rates to cost conditions offers no diff
hculties which may not be met by a
policy of commonsense-but it can
not be met by evasion.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-05
DIVINE JUSTICE

The moving finger is writing 81
swiftly at Vienna, at Budapest, and
probably at Berlin, that the y can
scarcely follow the sequence OF
epoch making events or grasp their
full significance to the world or h
future. The awful drama that began
with the i~nsolent ultimatum to Ser
bia, intended both by it's Hapsburg
authors and it's Hohenzollern insti-
gators to pEecipitate the war that
has now gone against them, is end
ing with the doom of empires and
the crash of thrones. Victorious
Civilization is watching daily the
most majestic manifestation of d.
vine Justice, effected through m
agencies, that history has ever re-
corded or perhaps ever will record.
From the New York Sun.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-05
CONGRATULATIONS

I" HE United War Work Campaign
directors are fortunate to have
enlisted so excellent a county
chairman as E. S. Gerberich, of Mid
dletown. Mr.. Gerberich is an enthu-
siastic and energetic supporter of all
forms of war work and was chair
man of the four Liberty Loan drives
in Middletown and vicinity, all of
which were highly successful. He is
well known in business circles, until
July l of this year having been gen.
eral manager of the big A. S. Kreid-
err Shoe Manufacturing Company's
plant at Middletown and a director
in the entire chain of Kreider fac
tories. He is a director of the
Farmers Bank, of Middletown, and
superintendent of st. Peters Luth-
a Sunday school. He has taken
hold Of the campaign in a manner
that has galvanized the whole organ
ization and will doubtless put the
county lover the top"
The fact that the war is nearly
yer does not diminish the need for
this money. If anything it accen-
tuates it. When the fighting is over
in France the soldiers cannot be
brought home at once. Many of
them will not be brought back for
fH year or more They have been go
ing for nearly a year and a half and
1T is reasonable to believe that at
least that period will be required
to bring them back. The Y. NJ. C. A.,
the Knights of Columbus, the Y. NJ.
II. A, the Y. w. c. A, and the other
agencies interested in this drive will
be required to keep up their morale,
to provide recreation and amusement
for them of a wholesome sort. "Sa-
tan finds some mischief still for idle
hands to do" is an old saying that
applies to soldiers quite as much as
to civilians. Our soldiers must have
all the attention during the period
after the war. before they can get
back home, that they have during
the fighting period. Give and give
literally.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-05
REVERSING HISTORY

I is an old saying that history
repeats ITSELF" and there are in
dications that history also may
reverse itself. Take Sedan, for ex-
ample, where the French lost their
wal to the Germans. and Versailles,
where William the First had himself
crowned as Emperor of Germany in
the place where the French had
crowned their kings for generations.
1t is Sedan that the American troops
are now approaching and 1t is at
Versailles where the allied wal
council is now planning the fate of
williams grandson, the present
Kaiser.
The Sedan has been, ever since the
disaster which brought the house
of Napoleon to It's inglorious end, a
sore point with the French. 1t has
been the symbol of complete and
utter military defeat. And now
comes the American army, crash
ing. smashing through the German
lines, rushing down on the Sedan
railroad, that vital link of the Ger
man communications, with the Brit
ish and French to the North rap
idly ~converging and driving the Ger
mans into a pocket which threatens
them with a catastrophe beside
which the first Sedan would be but
a skirmish.
At Versailles William the First
reaped the rewards Of the German
victory, anil it is at Versailles that
the Allies are sitting in Judgment
over the future not. only of his
grandson, but of the whole empire
over which he reigned with iron
hand through the mailed fist of
Bismarck.
These are happy days for the
French, vine are seeing long delayed
vengeance meted out to the royal
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-05
Mr.. Hughes Aviation Report

Incompetence, maladministration'
ignorance, favoritism, bad judgment
and criminal conduct by a few chlefs
are the strong points in the Aviation
report made by Mr. Hughes to the
President. Perhaps the primary
cause of all these evils was in en-
trusting such an enormous task to an
incompetent man in the person or
the chief of the Signal Service, who
knew little of the subject hlmselr
and was not astute enough to secure
expert assistance to repair his own
deficiencies. AS a consequence her
was nearly a years delay during
which there was a perfect riot OF X
travagance, changes of plan, vast
age of good material, financial back
ing of ignorant manufacturers, dis
carding of types only to be restored
and changes in such great numbers
as to make almost inextricable con-
fusion.-From the Philadelphia In
quirer.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-05

James ]. McGraw, the Republican
State Chairman Of Oklahoma, in re-
plying to President Wilson's telegram
urging him to get the Republican or
%ganization in line for the woman suf-
ferage amendment to the Oklahoma
Constitution. declared the organiza-
.tion of which he is head was already
in line for the amendment and that
the President had better bring pres
sure on the Democratic leaders Of
Oklahoma who were against the
amendment Again whipping the will
ling horsel
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-05

Let 1t be understood that the pres
ent administration is a free-trade ad-
ministration and let 1t also not be
forgotten that the United States was
rapidly drifting upon the industrial
rocks when the outbreak Of the war
diverted to this country-over all
barriers of trade which were broken
down-the business of the belligerent
nations. President Wilson is natur-
ally a free trader and the working
men of the United States should o
permit themselves to be soft-soldered
by any pretense of great interest in
their welfare.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-05

Republicans and thousands of
Democrats everywhere are to-day
sending back to Washington their
answer to President Wilson's partisan
appeal to support him as a Democrat
and not as the head of a great Gov
eminent. He and all other men in
high places who seek hereafter to pro-
mote their ambitions through parti-
san appeal will learn the useful les
son that patriotism knows no party
and that camouflage is never useful in
dealing with an intelligent people.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-05

We don't hear much nowadays of
the pacifstic ideas of the early days
of the war and which were expressed
in u Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a
Soldier" Peace without Victory"
Too Proud to Fight" and other catch
phrases without the virility of Amer
lean red-blooded patriotism; nor have
the people forgotten those responsf-
BILE for such sentiment. albeit they
were disposed to overlook the stream
OF such stuff constantly floating out
or Washington until the President
toyed with the buzzsaw of public
opinion.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-05

are to have not only free use of the
Danube river. with control of the
~fortresses, but they are given a suf-
ficient number of river monitors for
a campaign against Germany to the
north. They a nov up the Dan
ube river, both in their own boats
and those of the Austrians; they
can begin their march from Ffume
along the Agram, through the ter
ritory of the friendly Jugo-Slavs and
the Czecho-Slavs; they can march
by way of the valley of the Bosnia,
or go by all three routes, which is
probably the thing that will be done,
IL for no other reason than these
three lines of approach would COM
pei the detachment of an unusually
large force from the sorely be-
leagured western front.
And with this perfectly evident
and very real threat in their minds,
officers of the German general staff,
wrestling with the problem of fight
ing OF or of quitting, are faced by
a disaster of great magnitude near
Sedan, where the American forces
under General Pershing r sweep
ing the Germans before them, while
the British and French to the north
are developing a pocket that may
bag a great portion of the retreating
armies. The case of Germany is des-
perate, eve hopeless.
These conditions doubtless will
have their effect both on the Ger
man populace and upon the German
military authorities when the dras-
tic terms framed by the Allies as a
basis for an armistice are submitted.
The folly of trying to continue the
war in the face of unsurmountable
difficulties will be forced upon the
masses and should make easier the
bowling of stiff necked German mill
tary pride to the inevitable. Nothing
in the Allied demands "a be as bad
as what is coming to Germany If she
elects to continue the fighting.
IIS <AuSlIldIl lSflliSi VIC dAO 20
officially informed, bear a close re-
semblance to those which it is pro-
posed shall be imposed upon Ger
many. Doubtless, if anything, Ger
many will be more severely dealt
with than was Austria. If that be
true, acceptance of the armistice by
Germany would be equivalent to I'M
conditional surrender, for it would
leave the empire with nothing to do
but accept whatever peace require
ments the Allies choose to dictate.
The end of the war is in sight.
There is to be no "inconclusive
peace" Germany must, now or a
little later, bow the knee and admit
her utter defeat. Democracy has
beaten a%utoeracy. Right is victor
ious over wrong. A new era for man.
kind the world around is dawning.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-05
GERMAN-MADE TOYS

Was ever anything more yn-
ically, stupidity, brutally Hunnish
than the sending hitler of a ship
load of German-made toys for the
Christmas gifts of American chill
dren? We wonder if it was sent
in token of the children murdered
on the Lusitania, or of the BelgiaS
babies bayoneted in their cradles
and borne about the streets thus
impaled as trophies of German valoa,
or yet Of the children of other lands
to whom poisoned candies were DIS
tributed by the same gentle and
child loving Huns? The shop
keeper who would sell or the par
ent who would purchase a German
made toy should be scourged with
whips of scorpions by all the chill
dren of the land.-Col Harvey's War
Weekly.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-05

If anybody has a job which will fit
one William Hohenzollern he would
do well to communicate at once with
Berlin. Bill indicated his willingness
a day or two ago to take any old job
tat might be handed to him, but as
he is likely to have something else
handed to him shortly. the outlook
for anything permanent for the all
highest" is not rosy.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-05

We quote from a Paris cable mes
sage:
Colonel House, returning from
the conference. smiled and mad an
assured air. When his happy ap-
p~earance was commented upon,
Colonel House said jocularly:
L always nave a happy appear
ance. You can't tell what l am
thinking by my smile"
A sort of Sphynx and Mona Lisa and
Sherlock Holmes all rolled into n in
this mysterious Texan personality.
Let's hope we may all be able to smile
when he tells us the reason.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-05
DO YOU KNOW

THAT OIL this election day
over 1900 Harrisburgers are
away from home ON national
service?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-05

Nothing is impossible; there are
Wdys t0hich lead to everything; and
If zoe had sufficient WiH We should
dlt0ayS haze. sufficient mednS.-LA
RoUcHEToUcAULD. .
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-05

The people of~the United States are
making clear to-day their determina-
ton to maintain a constitutional di-
vision of authority in their govern
ment. They do not propose that the
legislative branch shall relinquish it's
powers to the executive.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-05

Let's see, Colonel House. OF Texas,
is the Presidents interpreter over
there. Wonder what's become of the
big Democrats who have given luster
to the party in a long period of years?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-05

Member of the Associated Press-The
Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled to the use for republication OF
all news dispatches credited to 1t or
and also the local news published
herein,
All rights of republication of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-05
Proportion

Our romance is ended?
I fear 1t must be,
Or. she'd write me one letter
At least to my three.
Great Lakes Bulletin.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-05

A vote for the Good Roads loan will
mean work for thousands in the re-
construction period after the war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-05
HISTORIC HARRISBURG

John Harris house was the vot-
ing place for this end of Lancaster
county before the town was estab-
lished.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-05

unreasonable" for the Prussian ban
dts. Let Foch do 1t!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-05

house and the nation at large which
twice conspired to ruin their
neighbor, France.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-05
OUR DAILY LAUGH
HIS CROUCH.

1 suppose you'll
be in the gay So
cial while this
winter?
Who? Me? Not
a chance. The
further my wife
gets into. society
the o she
realizes that ]
don't belong.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-05

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING co.
Telegraph Building Federal Square
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-05

The fire on Blue Mountain which
has been giving the people above
Enola some uneasiness is the first
to occur on that section of the
ridge that forms the big gap in q
long time. Some of the people liv-
ing in the railroad town have gone
out to fight it but say that it is Il
hard job. The fire started late Sat-
urday.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-05
FORD THE

NECRETARY DANIELS, who as
- head of the Navy has been
~ making an excellent reputation
since the declaration of war, slipped
a cog in his mental machinery the
other day when he made a fool state
ment relative to the candidacy of
Henry Ford for the United States
Senate, that
In war he knows how to pro-
duce weapons to win peace, and in
the problems to be settled after
the wal his practical judgment as
Senator would be of the highest
value.
This is the same Henry Ford who
took a personally conducted peace
ship to Europe to get the boys out
of the trenches by Christmas" 1915.
We presume Secretary Daniels eX-
poets from Mr.. Ford as Senator the
same weighty craftsmanship and
depth of judgment that character
lied his wildgoose chase to Europe.
President Wilson certainly did
spill the beans when he let out that
yell for more Democrats in Congress
to support me and my policies" This
little old country is owned by some
hundred million people and the gov
eminent is based on the solid theory
of the rule of the people-for, by and
Of the people-and the job of bossing
is not going to be turned over to any
imaginary superman.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-05

Here are the final predictions
from the opposing camps In regard
to the election in Pennsylvania. One
is from a rock=ribbed Republican
New Britain herald., 1918-11-25
FRATERNAL NEWS
w. l.. Morgan Lodge,

WI. Morgan Lodge, No. T, K. of F., will celebrate it's thirteenth anni- Versary on Tuesday evening in Vega hall. The grand lodge officers have been invited and are expected to at tend. P. c. c. Harlan P Knight of Massachusetts, head of the Culver school for boys, has been secured f1t the principal speaker of the evening, and all who heard him on the occa- sion of his previous visit to this lodge will realize the treat that is in store for them. Vocal and musical selcc- tions will make up tho balance Of en- tertainment. This is to be an open meeting for members, their families and friends. and it is to be hoped that large attendance will ne pres ent.