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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-17
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-17
Bits O'SpOrf

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Chicago, Sept Jimmy Han
lon was given the decision over
Red Dolan in the eighth round at
New Orleans.
Benny Leonard outfOught Harry
Pierce in six rounds at Philadel-
phia.
Charles Dean Of Chicago was
elected president Of the central
branch Of the Amateur Athletic
union at its annual meeting in Chi
cago. The sectional boxing cham
pionships set for Sept 27-2S were
formally awarded to Milwaukee.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-13

upon all who are endeavoring to
keep the home fires burning.
President Wilson must appreciate
the earnest desire of his fellow
countrymen to uphold his hands In
the demand for proper settle
ment of the war when the time
comes to talk peace. This is not the
time. When the German horde are
on their knees will be time enough
to discuss how they shall be treated
and not before. and the quicker they
get into their heads an adequate
conception of the spirit of the
American people and the determi-
nation of this country to use force
and still more force, to the end thai
there may be no recurrence of the
untold horrors of the last four years
it would be folly to talk about peace.
Germany has invited all that is
coming to her, and, twist and squlrm
as she may, the rod in pickle will De
used effectively when the Stars and
Stripes wave from the imperial pal
ace in Berlin or the roosting place
of the Hohenzollerns at Potsdam.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-13
AN APPLE STATE
PENNSYLVANIA Farmer1

According to figures put out by
the Bureau of Statistics, Pennsylva-
MIA ranked fourth among the States
of the Union in 1917 in production
of apples, with a total yield of 49,
10000 bushels. Washington. rank
ed first, with New York second, Mis-
souri, third and Virginia fifth. Ev-
eryone accompanying the Pennsylva-
MIA State Horticultural Society on its
automobile tour last week is con-
vinced that the next ten years will
see important revision in figures and
rank, with Pennsylvania moving
rapidly to the front. The tour took
the visitors through two counties of
this State, one in Virginia and one
in West Virginia. The acreages
viewed in the first three counties
visited were roughly as follows:
Franklin county, Pa, 1,006 acres;
Adams county, Pa, 1920 acres;
Frederick county, Va, 2,620 acres.
These figures signify little in them
selves, but when it is considered
that less than thirty per cent. of the
acreages viewed in the two Penn
sylvania counties named is yet in
full bearing, and perhaps less than
sixty per cent. has come into first
bearing, it becomes evident that the
twelve million bushels produced last
year are but start on a record as
an apple center. Det;(led report of
the tour will be published next week.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-13
Germany on the Defensive
By BRIGGS
(From the Pittsburgh SUM

(trom the Pittsburgh SUM
Victorious defense to tinish," is
the latest catch phrase with which
the junkers hope to lull the growing
unrest of the German civil popula-
ton. General Won Freytag Loring
hoven is the author. In a speech
the purpose of which was to gain
unanimous support for the continua-
ton of the war he also said that
War is an uncertain business" The
truth of this latter statement will
not be doubted, but it is interesting
because the Germans have never
admitted it before. For them vic
tory has always been a certainty.
Four years ago their motto was
paris in six weeks" and every
phase of the war since has had it's
slogan. All of them assumed that
German victory was inevitable. Now
the Germans are beginning to doubt
and as their doubt increases so will
their decentralization at the front.
For a time it seemed as though
Lincoln's saying that You could
not fool all of the people all of the
time" did not apply to the Germans,
but there are indications that they
are questioning the truthfulness of
their leaders. The Teutonic papers
are said to contain little these days
in the way of reference to the sub
marine. Perhaps this is because
more than a year has elapsed since
England was to be on her knees cry
ing for bread. The failure of the
submarine Is another evidence of the
uncertainty of war to which Won
Freytag Loringhoven refers
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-13
IF the Indian KneW

The average oklahoma Indian is
more interested in oil royalties than
in current events. Recently a To-
cally well-known Indian came into
Ardmore to cash his quarterly check,
and on being approached for Red
Cross contribution asked:
What for, Red Crosse
Red Cross work was briefly eX-
planned, and the Indian came back
with another query, What war;"
"Why. the war with the Ger
mans" was the answer. Didn't you
know America is at war with the
Germans?"
No" replied the Indian. How
long?"
The situation was explained at
length and after studying over the
matter the Indian said:
TOO bad Know um. yesterday
could help heap. Two Germans by
nv place, hauling well-rig. Could
xiii 'em easy."-Everybody Maya
zine.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-13
PROF. DELBRUECK AGAIN
New York Timesl

Professor Hans Delbrueck, of the
University of Berlin. an old scourge
of the Pan-Germaps, is after them
again. In the Preussische Jahr-
bucher he puts on them part of the
responsibility for the war, the main
responsibility for it's prolongation.
THE world demands, and has a right
to demand, that the German people
give a guarantee that the Pan-Ger-
man spirit of superiority, of might,
of heathenism, isn't the German
spirit"
What guarantee can be given of
such a denial of plain facts? The
spirit of the German people is spir-
1t of arrogant superiority. of utter
disregard of the rights of others. 1t
seeks and worships power, con-
quest, military and economic. . To
the fantastic eXcesses, to the eXhi-
bitions of bad taste, or Pan-Ger-
manism Professor Delbrueck has
long been opposed. He wants the
practical realities and achievements
of the politics of power. Mere Pan
German megalomaniacal believing
disgusts him. Not only is there no
use In IL, DuL IL eNClteS an uilHSCeo-
sary fear and hatred among Ger
manys rivals. He is not whit less
Pan German In reality than the Pan
German rhetoricians and extremists
whom he assails. But why be i'm
moderate? Take what you can get,
keep what you can get, and throw
in all the fine moralosentimen that
occur to you. Professor Del
brueck rolls as a sweet morsel under
the tongue the beautiful words of a
Reichstag Deputy, Mr.. Hausmann:~
"a nation which has astounded
the world by its vast power, as we
have done, can only reconcile the
peoples to German might by show
ing that the motive behind it all
comes from conscience"
And Professor Delbrueck consci-
entiously plays with pacifism and ar
bitration and disarmament! The
weakened Entente Powers might
have to accept these first fruits OF
the German conscience. Besides
Germany could rearm more quick
| ly than her adversaries.
Most of US will prefer the rabidest
Pan-German to the unctuous Profes-
: Anr DelbruecE.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-13
CAN SUCH THINGS BE?

INT it awful, Mabel, the way
n Judge Bonniwell fiayS the
4 heavenly twins who boss his
party and who have repudiated him
because he first repudiated them ?
He actually accuses Vance c. Nc
Cormick, the National Chairman, and
A. Mitchell Palmer, the Pennsylva-
MIA member of the National Demo
cratic Committee, of many intoler.
able and awful things. including in
competency, party wrecking, selfish
ness, office broking, political crook
edness and corruption and a lot
more of the same sort.
And yet we have been told over
and over again that these gentle
men were the very paragons of vir-
tue and that they were only inter
ested in the regeneration of Penn
sylvania.
Doesn't Judge Bonniwell know
that politics is adjourned?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-13

~UR answer to the untimely peace
proposals of the Kaiser is
bat over the nose administered
by the American Army under Gen.
eral Pershing to the German forces
at St. Mihiel.
The plea for a German peace
which would leave most of the spolls
of the war in the East to Germany
and her great military machine stlll
more or less intact, came as Will
helm believed his armies safe oehlhd
the Hindenburg line and in positioh
to stand off further advance ny
the enemy with some degree OF sue
cess. This had been looked Tor by
the allied diplomats, and we had
been forewarned and were pre-
pared. The peace talk went in one
ear and out the other, and if it made
any impression at all it was that
the Kaiser knows he is beaten and
is trying to save himself and his
armies from utter annihilation.
But what the Kaiser and his mill
tary leaders did not expect was yes
terday's smash by Pershing. Ihat
puts another face on the matter
Instead of settling down before the
Hindenburg line for winter OF
waiting, the Americans have hit the
German forces in a sector long
quiet, but where success Will give
Foch his supreme opportunity to the
north, while Pershing is knocking at
the gates of Metz, the great German
stronghold, the capture of which
would be the first step toward open
ing a new and short road to the in
dustrial provinces of Germany.
The Pershing drive is in its early
stages. It's net result cannot be
forecast at this time. But it is big
with possibilities and it has knocked
the Kaiser's peace drive off the first
pages of the newspapers and rele-
gated it to the discard of stale and
unimportant developments.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-13
Purge Our Population

T asst month we considered the
advantage of sending back bod
lily to Germany those willful
spirits whose actions and utterances
We're so fragrant our government has
been forced to intern them for the
duration of the war. 1t might be
added that failing to do so. and
turning them loose again in our
midst, they, impenitent, will still
cherish those same un-American
ambitions, with a resentment added
by reason of their imprisonment.
But why should we single out or
restrict ourselves to these few hun
dreds who have been found guilty in
our courts of justice? For each one
so convicted there are a thousand
whose hearts are bitter against
American principles and ideas of
freedom and individual privilege.
The very fact that any man or wom-
an could live, say even five years in
this country and still be loyal to the
kaiser and disloyal to the United
States, is sufficient evidence that he
lacks the materials which come out
gold from the melting pot. He is
dross, the pure gold is not in him;
nor is it likely the alchemy of free
dom, even such as ours, can ever
make him over. And if after a few
years of opportunity he has failed to
respond, then it is evident he is a
menace, and not worth. nor deserv-
ing, any further effort. He is a clog
and drag on our civic progress, even
though he may do an honest day S
work and keep out of Jail.
Now is our opportunity to empha-
size what American citizenship
means, and to declare Enthusiastically
that any who do not and will not
become one of us in our ideals OF
national citizenship, and share con-
scientiously our ideals and our free
dom, is misfit and does not belong
| here. Such men and women are {
menace as long as they remain
Their absence, therefore, not theil
company, becomes desirable.
! The founders of this country never
intended 1t as a home for aliens; il
was to be the home of Americans
whatever their nationality of birth
1t was never intended as a sanctu.
ary for those who wished to escape
the severity of other governments
without accepting the easy obliga,
tions of ours. 1t was not simply tC
provide a place where jobs could be-
! had. at better wages than at some
| foreign home, that the Declaration
! of independence was fought for ant
signed America was conceived fol
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-13
ADJOURNING POLITICS
(From the Philadelphia Press)

VI IOll Tie L FHlLduelpflld IeSS)
1t is very apparent that the state
ment that politics is adjourned" al
ready needs revision. Disloyalty and
indifference are adjourned, and pa
triotism is stronger than any party
line. The first thought of the ma
ton and it's people is the triumph of
America. Minority hampering OF
the Government in the prosecution
of the war has not been adjourned,
because there was none to adjourn.
The few obstructionists, now rele-
gated to the background, bore no
party credentials, spoke for no
party, and have been disavowed by
the party to which they previously
adhered. No part worthy of the
name to-day invites or accepts the
allegiance of any citizen who is not
all American in, mind and act
Politics is adjourned" can never
be true of a nation that is govern
ed by the people through the me-
dium of political parties. These par
ties are inseparable from the life of
the nation and from its steps. To
abolish them is but to substitute the
rule of personal government and
of the absolute variety, which vio-
lates every principle and precedent
of representative government. Any
strife for partisan advantage amid
the anxieties of war or any opposi-
ton designed to delay and hinder
has been discountenanced by the
Republican minority since the strug-
gle began. Party lines were sub
merged, both in Congress and with
out, for the united defense of ma
tional rights.
In the settling of domestic poll
cies there will be and there must be
politics, unless popular rule is to be
abandoned. Democratic party poll
tics have not been adjourned dur
ing the war period. The Democratic
organizations are working evith the
industry and the fervor of Presi-
Dental year, together with the army
of Democratic office-holders. There
should be equal activity on the Re-
publican side. There is no call to
cast aside party organization, or di-
minish party endeavor.
No party has had a monopoly on
patriotism or loyalty since the ma
ton began, else the Republic had
failed long ago. The Presidency is
not an issue this year. But the con-
troll of the next Congress is the is
sue, and the Republican party is
the best fitted to solve the problems
| to come. because the errors are
| not theirs, and they are called upon
neither to apologize nor defend.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-13

Americans, in the full and right
sense of the word, and not for dis
senters and traitors. 1t was not
opened to Germans that they might
come over here and be Huns. either
in word, spirit or deed.
And yet they are here, by thou
sands, and we permit them to re-
main. How long do you think a pa
triotic American in Germany would
be allowed to denounce Germany
and ascribe all the virtues to Amer
lea? He would not be shipped, he
would be shot, and that before sun
down. We need not stoop to the
cruelty of Huns. nor would we ever
do the atrocious and uncivilized
things they have done and are do
ing. We never would or could. But
why should we tolerate, a day longer
than the ships can be built in which
to deport them, the presence here of
those who, by their own emphatic
utterances are not now and want
never to be one of us?
The transition from Imperialism to
democracy has been so extreme.
these people have despised us and
our government. They have trans
lated liberty into license and have
scorned us for our generosity.
1t would not require so very many
of the 5000 ships now building. and
to be built in the next thirty months,
to bring a great light to some peo-
pie. Many would then awaken from
their sleep of Hunnish centuries
and begin to grasp the immeasur-
able benefaction of being permitted
to live here. And as for the others
they are irredeemable and hopeless
and the sooner we rid ourselves oi
them, the better.
When one thinks of the hundreds
of thousands of loyal Americans, as
! loyal as your or l or anyone, who
born, in Germany or of German de-
! scent. are gladly sending their sons
/ to fight the battle for freedom, ant
with voice and purse doing their ut
most, one regrets to have to raise
/ pen, or act, against some of theil
race. But no one more than tn,
! loyal American of German blood
will approve a thorough purging
not only of disloyal Germans, bu
disloyal anybody, regardless of thei
nationality
Send them all away, no matter
who or what they are, if they ar,
anything but Simon-pure Ameri
cans now. And having sent then
away, make it impossible for them
or their. children. ever to enter ou
gates again.-By H. H. Windsor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-13
WELL. KNOWN PEOPLE

General John J. Pershing,
whose birthday is to-day, comes of a
Pennsylvania family.
William T. Ellis, the religious
writer, says that Pennsylvania SOL
diers are astonishing the French by
their fighting qualities.
e. T. Stotesbury, the Philadel-
phia banker. is on a motor trip to
New England.
The Rev. A. s. Gaffney. of win
Transport, will go into Y. M. c. A
work.
General w. W. Atterbury, of the
army transportation department and
former vice. president of the Penn
sylvania, has an office in Tours,
France, but it contains very little
furniture and many maps.
Jury Commissioner M. L. Nc.
Cartney, of Blair county, is helping
out in the shortage of teachers by
holding down desk in the school
house where he taught fifty years
ago.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-13
PRESENT.!

"HE registration yesterday of the
military strength of the United
States between the ages of IS
to 81 and 81 to As was accompanied
by patriotic enthusiasm throughout
the country. When the Kaiser and
his blood-thirsty associates hear of
the mobilization of the strength of
the United States for the final crush
ing of the German menace they will
cease their yawping about a ne
gotiated" peace and begin to think
more in terms of unconditional sur
ish. whether they realize it now or
later.
From President Wilson down, the
American people are determined
that the licking shall be thorough
and that there may be no doubt on
this point such representations are
bound to be made as will be under
stood even in the stolid minds of
the Hun.
From every quarter overseas
COllleS lllS uclllduu VI lHe men VINO
are doing the fighting that there
shall be no compromise. now or
hereafter; that the authors of this
war and their dupes as we'll shall be
punished adequately for their
crimes. General approval has fol-
lowed the suggestion that there shall
be an international court-martial be-
fore which shall be tried every brute
responsible for the nameless atroci-
ties that have startled the world and
made the German a hated name
wherever decency and righteousness
and sense of justice prevail.
After this war women and chill
dren will be respected as never be-
fore and men will have a higher ap-
probation of their responsibility and
obligation to society. Our own men
are bound to come back stronger
and more outstanding than ever and
their minds will have been divested
of many of the puerile things with
which, perhaps, they went away
But those who remain at home must
also realize their own obligations
and the responsibilities which rest
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-13
TECHNICALLY CORRECT

One of the Y. NJ C. A. workers in
France, in a letter to a friend here
in Los Angeles, tells of an auto truck
driver connected with the red tri-
angle who was never seen without
box conspicuously labeled tools. :"
Finally one day an inspection off,
Ger halted the truck and asked
Whats in that box. It's labeled
tools but every time you have to
make repairs you get tools from un-
der the drivers seat"
The young man opened the box
and took from it several tin plates,
knives, forks, skillet and a coffee
pot. Cooking TOOLS" he remarked.
| laconically, and threw his lever into
! the high.-Los Angeles Times
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-13

-UEL ADMINISTRATORS NECK
II now admits what was apparent
to all fair-minded citizens from
the very first, that William Jennings
was without blame in the matter of
his purchase of No. 2 buckwheat
coal last spring for his home at
Duncannoh.
Mr.. Jennings has been vindicated,
but he has suffered injury at the
hands of a careless administrator
and a vicious newspaper. 1t seems
clear that Mr.. Meek was simply an
unconscious tool in the hands of the
newspaper; that he unintentionally
and unwittingly was led into the
trap set for him. The humiliation to
which he has been subjected should
be a lesson to him and to fuel and
food administrators everywhere. The
oath the administrators take upon
assuming Office provides that they
shall not make public any of their
investigations until the individual or
firm in question has been proved
either guilty or innocent of suspected
Violations. Had the Perry county
man observed this rule and declined
to discuss the Jennings case with
representatives of a newspaper bent
upon assailing Mr.. Jennings. he
would not now be in the embar-
RAISING position in which he finds
himself.
Mr.. Neck, no doubt, will be more
careful in the future. but the Patriot
will continue it's old. old game.
Who will be the next victim?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-13
"A Country Without a Man

1t is said the Kaiser never liked
Edward Everett Hale's "a Man
without a Country" and proposes to
change it's title in the present war.
He is proposing the. title shall be
"A Country Without a Man." and
that it shall apply to the Father
land. The Kaiser is doing all right.
He is sure to win in this little artis-
tic affair If he can keep the pawns
standing by their guns long enough
Ell Paso Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-13
A DOWn-South VieU

''Sammies" has, as was natural.
taken only slight hold upon the peo-
pie and there is still time to change
Down with it! If "Yanks" is good
enough for the lad over there. it
ought to be good enough for the
people at home.-Charlesto IS. CO.
Post,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-13

There are a few preachers here and
there who have the foolish habit OF
insisting that their particular ideas
of pastoral activities back onto the
siding the war work of the COM
munity. We shall not be surprised to
hear of a little talking back from
the pews as in the days agone.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-13

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
not otherwise credited in this paper
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, 1918-09-13
Good Example

A Pittsburgh German killed HIM
self when he heard the German
Army was being beaten. Here's
hoping others who feel the same
way about it will follow his exam
n1e.-Detroit Free Press.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-13

Auditor General Snyder is one of
the old-fashioned Americans who
doesn't believe in doing a lot of pa
ternalistic things because some bu-
reaucrat imagines that every hunch
is a chunk of wisdom. He also be-
lieves that there are a few rights
which still belong to the people, and
while these will stand for a lot of
half-digested government theories
during the war; they will insist upon
showdown after the struggle.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-13

That the Lord will provide Is as
true as it ever was, but the Food Ad-
ministrator is now on the job to regu-
late the size of the provision.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-13

Congratulations, General PershinG.
and here's wishing you many more of
'em-both birthdays and drives.