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Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-12-02

Those who are supervising the c0llec-
ton of materials and the destruction
Of agricultural. Industrial, commercial
and financial sources of wealth are
keeping accurate account of every
item. The survey Of vandalism is a
necessity preliminary to selling back
cheap substitutes for what Is taken.
By SO using these adjacent coun-
tries-and the scheme, according to its
exponents, will work almost equally
well, whether political ownership re-
mains with Germany or not-several
very vital purposes will be accom-
plished. The profits will be considern.
BILE. but not nearly SO important as will
be the securing of market for the
long future. II necessity can force
Belgium to buy from Germany. or Ser
bia from Austria, then time will allay
all commercial animosity. The war
and all its horrors will be memory
within decade. 'ss'
1t is expected that many neutral
countries will resume the commercial
relations with Germany that were IN,
terrupted BY the war. They viii do 50
because they like to do business wsth
Germany, or because they are dissutis
lied with the new relationships estah
llshed during the last few years. or lie
cause America. Great Britain. France
Italy aud Japan fail for one reason o,
another to continue fostering those re-
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-12-02
YOUNG COUPLE WE'D
ON MOTORING TRIP

Motoring TO Wilmington, Del, II
his car. Mr.. Omar H. Small, son OF
MI. w, Hill Small, and MISS Grace M.
Moag. daughter Of Mr.. Clarence Mong'
were married Thursday, Nov. IA, by
Rev. Carl Shenk. of the Baptist
Church. The young people had hoped
to keep the marriage quiet for a rev
days and then surprise their friends
but the news leaked out in some in
explicable manner and it was first
reported that mad been married in
Hagerstown. Mt. Small is employed
at Cufnbo. His bride is one Of the
towns most attractive girls.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-12-02

beiligerent country have been de-
stroyed aot oniy peca use ~ the danger
Of chsn moe'snuns SArmaD ships in
certain ~oasaa, ~ siss and more espe-
daily y sedySs ~ ~um uosaj o. world
soanaRs sn1 ,b-r~p3 increase the pro-
eossipoass mare - 9 ~hieh Germany
r4Q ~ ~ wssp rbe var ends.
The <ys.smaas syf.ppibg OF such OF
Asss s.1jsvenf oonsries as have
+eee 1000 ,ssrs ~ ~ Central Pow
IN ana th-p vili-s 10 the initial
step ~, s..es .ns srrefully device.
progress
IL ss.ssate Ot the Character and
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-12-02
CENTRAL OPERA HOUSE
THE SOURCE wallace Reid

THE SOURCE Wallace Reid has
end of the best parts of his career in
in Van Twiller Yard, the young man
who. comes back, in "The Source"
the latest Paramount Picture in
which hd is starred and which will
be shown at the Central tomorrow.
The role affords an interesting study
il psychology, but the develop
ment of the man, far from being
morbid, always shows the upward
trend, and the optimistic and cheer
full note is sounded throughout the
njcture
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-12-02
THE
PUBLIC SERVICE COMMITS SION
OF WEST VIRGINIA
CAPITOL BUILDING
CHARLESTON

A meeting of the PUBLIC SERV-
ICE COMMISSION OF WEST vIR,
GINA, held on the goth day of No
vember A. d., 1918.
Casa No. 1888.
Potomac Light and Power Company
Application to change electric
rates.
Whereas, application has this day
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-12-02
CAPT. ToNKla COMING.

For the. first time since he left
Martinsbmg a few weeks since to en-
tor upon his duties at the government
hospital in Hot Springs, S. G., Capt.
'lDr9 II. G. Tonltin Will tomorrow
visit the old home town to attend to
some business matters.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-12-02

can get back to a normal national life
Just a. quickly and with more profit to
herself than any other warning Euro
pean country, providing always that
her analysis Of the feelings and pur-
poses Of her neighbors is correct The
word necessity" is almost fetish
with the Teuton, and 1t has become
the basis Of his philosophy Of the fu-
ture as wen g bis excuse Tor the past,
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-12-02

Many of the s$sgs done by Cor
many during the var w.1ch -khas -
tons have denouneesd 4. W inasnin-
cant military importance .tlscioas dom
selves dnrina ear6fu >ssArA4i ~ csss
many's after was psspaxskssss =, <ssrs
~ part OF hp yspAxsy pkaN v -
tional rshabilitathA ~ < smpLA
there b reasOA p Asatyss ~ .~cc--7s!
lhspl not eugaaed Y S1ne - r. IT.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-12-02
UNABLE TO WALK.

Rev. ana Mrs. Chas. S. Trump are
in receipt Of letter from their son,
Lieut.. Charles S. Trump, who was
wounded in France. Lieut.. Trump is
still unable to walk.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-12-02

Mr.. Louis Lipsic, of The Leader,
left for New York to purchase new
goods.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-12-02

Master Paul Melintza who was bad
" shot in the hip while out hunting,
is able to walk about with the assist
ance of crutches ~ 50
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-12-02

Mrs. Luther Keesecker and daugh-
ter, Thelma, Of Cherry Rum, were
herd shopping.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-12-02

Mrs Henry Kastle, daughter, Miss
Esther; Miss Ruth Oliver and Miss
Stella Hollis have returned from q
visit to Lancaster Pa.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-12-02

Nj. and Mrs. II. J. Wintermoyer
rave returned to Wheeling after Wis
iting relatives here.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-12-02

FAITH JUSTIFIED
BY EVENTS.

+ I do not believe that drastic I
force need be applied to main !
tain economic distribution and
sane use Of supplies by the !
great majority Of American peo- !
Die, and have learned a deep I
and abiding faith In the intelli-
/, eence OF the average American
business man, whose aid we an
! ucipate and depend on to rene
J, dy the evils developed by the
VI war.-Herbert Hoover, August
10. 1917.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-27
A LAME EXCUSE

~ ECRBTARY BAKERS lame
~ testimony before the Senate
~ committee investigating the
lamentable failure of the airplane
program is further discouraging evil
dence of his temperamental indif-
ference 10 public opinion. He ad-
mitted that he was acquainted with
the couutry's aircraft program lin
a general way" that with regard to
progress being made sit is not such
progress as the country desires to
see made, but it is the best that we
have been able to do" And when
asked whether this country had pro-
duced any combat planes that are
now in use with our forces abroad
he replied, Il can't answer that; l
do not know"
This in spite of the fact that 1t
has been publicly stated an appro-
priation of s64O,0O0,0O0 for aero
planes had been practically frittered
away without substantial result.
This on top of Secretary Bakers s
ipconceivable attitude with respect
to the extended draft act a few
weeks ago and his sudden fiip-fiop in
favor of tins new draft measure
makes ono wonder whether in the
face of our countrys obligation &c
end the war such an individual
should be permitted to continue in
the important post he occupies.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-27
WELL. KNOWN PEOPLE

General S. J. B. Shindel. ono
of the new brigadier generals, is Il
relative of Adjutant General Frank
d. Beary and comes from Allen
town. His father was a general be-
fore him.
General J. e. Mahoney. one of
the new marine corps brigadiers. is
well known in this state as he was
long stationed in Philadelphia.
Col. Asher Miner commander of
the old Ninth Pennsylvania, has sent
word home that stories of losses of
the Luzerne county regiment are ex-
aggerated.
General Richard Coulter, Jr.,.
the old commander of the Tenth
Pennsylvania. is in charge of affairs
at the port of Bordeaux.
General Charles e. Kutz, the
Reading man who commands Camp
Meade is arranging for daily paradcs
of men.
General L. T. w. Waller. of the
Marines, who has been active in the
war work. is in New York state for
a brief vacation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-27
SEN. SPROUTS SPEECH

n EPUBLICANS will rejoice in
X, Senator Sprouts keynote speech
at tho opening of the fall cam
paign in LehIgh county on Satur-
day. 1t was the kind of address Re-
publicans wanted to hear from their
standard-bearer. It's text is in full
harmony with Republican thought,
not only in Pennsylvania, but the
country over. 1t places patriotism
before party. but makes no effort to
disguise the fact that Republicans
are proud OF their organization and
are determined that it shall do its
full share in the winning of the war,
som etimes acting as a spur to
slothful Democrats, sometimes as a
brake to ar opposing political ma
chine inclined upon occasion to use
its powers for its own aggrandizement
rather than for the best interests of
the people as a whole.
Senator Sproul knows that Repub-
licans in Congress and out will sup
port the administration in every
proper move for the prosecution of
the war, but like the farsighted
statesman he is, he is looking far
beyond the present toward the period
of reconstruction to follow the com
ing of peace, and his policies are
those best designed to protect the
industrial and labor interests of the
country at large, and Pennsylvania
especially when we shall be again
face to face with the fierce competi-
ton of European peoples intent
upon building anew their shattered
markets. The keystone State will
be happy IN having for it's next
governor man of Senator Sprouts
knowledge of affairs, breadth of Wis.,
ion and courage of conviction.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-27
LODGE ON A JUST PEACE
New York Times1

Senator Lodge is now formally,
what his intellect, his experience, and
his large knowledge of foreign af-
fairs had made him actually, the
Republican leader of the Senate. His
speech of Friday was made after
consultation with his Republican
colleagues. 1t is to be taken as ex-
pressing the purpose of the Senate
Republicans, all save the narrow
sect of pacifists and wellwishers to
Germany.
In his resolute insistence upon a
peace dictated by the Allies, in his
appreciation of the fatal results of q
patched-up barter and negotiation
such as Germany hopes for. and of
the danger of a German propaganda
for a false peace, such a propaganda
as is going on in Washington now
under astute direction, assisted by
excellent blind innocents; in his
moderate\ statement of "the irredu-
cible minimum" of just peace terms,
Mr.. Lodge has spoken not merely the
voice of Il party, but of all Americans
of all the allied peoples who under
stand at last what Germany is, and
that there is only one way to OBJ
tain this security of the nations, this
ton, and that is by reducing Ger
many to q condition where by no
possibility can she precipitate an
other war of conquest.
Victory must be won inside of Ger
many. Once won, we must not be
duped by pacifist sentimentalities or
German propaganda. Our tremen-
dous sacrifices must not have been in
vain. Let the Germans stick to
their Government if they choose,
just as they have supported all its
savageries ond its plans of conquest.
But let us sec to it that this highway
robber among the nations doesn't
carry off the spoil, or, by a peace
of negotiation, be in position to
resume its old occupation. Germany
must be reduced Ito a condition
where she can by no possibility pre-
cipitate another war for universal
conquest"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-27

baked beans-sweet smelling and
pink of meat with cloves stuck all
over its brown coat-the more
picked eggs and red beets. and
cream slaw-ah! that cream slaw-
and applesauce. and pie. and dough-
nuts. and fruit, etc., etc.. ETC., ETC.,
indefinitely-the more of all these
and many other daitnies the family
picnic table boasted. the higher
ones social status and mark of pros
perity in the community the ensuing
year. 1t was great game. espe-
cially for the small boy, whose
"helpings" were limited only on
such occasions to the size of his
stomach extended to the point of
bursting. Lucullus was a poor piker
when it came to comparison with
mother and her picnic spread.
And now. to think that the mighty
feast has dwindled to one poor sand
wich and few "fxin's." And all
on account of the war! Doubtless
Sherman was a great soldier. but
when it came to definitions he was
woefully deficient. He was q man
of mild and temperate language.
War is all he said 1t was. and more.
far more, than due consideration for
sensitive readers permits one to put
into words.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-27
For Ford or the FLAG

[From the N. A. Reviews War
Weekly1
MY infallible test of an Ameri-
can," said President Wilson on May
16, 1914, "is that when he votes or
when he acts or when he fights, his
heart and his thought are centered
nowhere but in the emotions and the
purposes and the policies of the
United States"
And upon another occasion:
THE way to be patriotic is not
only to love America, but to love the
duty that lies nearest to our hand
and know that in performing 1T we
are serving our country"
It was John A. Dix who said:
"If anyone tries to haul down the
American flag. shoot him on the
spot"
1t was Woodrow Wilson who said:
when l look at that flag 1t seems
to me as If the white stripes were
strips of parchment upon which are
written the rights of man, and the
red stripes the streams of blood by
which those rights have been made
good"
1t was Henry Ford who said in
1916 and reiterated less than three
nlOHtHS ago. WheIi thS stA CaihS VI
blood of gallant American boys were
pouring into the sacred soil OF
France:
81 don't believe in the flag; it is
only something to rally around;
when the war is over, those flags
shall come down, never to go up
again."
Does President Wilson still urgent
ly insist" that this man become a
member of the Senate of the United
States?
Again we ask: What is he going
to do?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-27

submission to Russia and the de-
struction of their old organization.
The Ukrainian problem, which must
have already caused more than one
sleepless night to William II and
his advisers, cannot be fully under
stood without a knowledge of the, it
is true, somewhat complicated Cos
sack situation.
Few people, for instance, are
aware that the Cossack regiments,
even as early as Peter the Great
and Catherine II. were more depend
ent upon the Department of the In
terror than upon the War Depart
ment.
At the time of Gear Alexander I
(1S01-'25) the Cossacks of Siberia
formed two distinctly separated
groups: the town Cossacks, a kind of
police force, and the border CossaclSs
(Lineynyiel. Some of the national
traditions OF the European Cossacks,
which are now to be found among
the Siberian Cossacks, were brought
to them by the Dnieper and Ukrain-
ian Cossacks, many thousands of
whom were sent into Siberian exile
in 1867, after the rising of Rasin, and
in 1887, after the Ukrainian revolt.
There were about 100000 Cos
sacks in Asiatic Russia at the begin
ming of the present war, each family
owning about 100 acres of land, of
which, however, hardly 10 per cent.
was under cultivation in 1910.
One of the consequences of the
Russian Revolution was the unison
of the Asiatic and European Cos
sack regiments (voiska) under the
leadership of the Don Cossacks.
r. = oil S.x,tA -
a role in the internal affairs of the
country, forming very respected
social class, kind of bourgeois
farmer
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-27
The COSSQck
(From the New York fribune)

N ECENT events in Siberia and
x other sections of the gradually
evolving new eastern front
again call the worlds attention to
the Cossacks, who, under the Czars
formed a curious kind of democratic
military Junkerthum, from the
Amur River on the extreme north
east of the empire through Central
Asia to Orenburg and the Black Sea-
They certainly possess one trait
which wins in advance our sympathy
for them: they hate and detest the
Germans. The Cossack officers often
refused even to eat at the same table
with the German officers who per-
meated the whole Russian army un-
der the old regime.
The popular idea that Siberia was
subjugated TO Russia by q handful
of Volga Cossacks whose hetman,
Yermak, is represented as having Of
fered the immense Tartar Khanate
to Ivan the Terrible in 1929. is
losing ground under a closer study
of the facts. The truth is that
Western Siberia was voluntarily col
onized by the people of Eastern and
Northern Russia before and after
that period. To these free co1onists
we must add involuntary colonial
ton by political exiles, started in the
year 1893, the date of the murder
of the Czarowitch Dimitri. and by
criminal exiles whose first caravan
started on its melancholy trip in
1854.
The original Cossack communities
on the Dnieper and Don We're formed
as a protest against the complicated
Russian state machinery and the
economic condition connected there
with. The Cossacks are a racial
unit with strongly developed ma
tional sentiment which has persisted
to this day. in spite of their ultimate
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-27
A NeW Merican Hill Song

Wind in the lap of great waste
places,
Sweeping the cliffs and the sands,
Daring the deserts hot white spaces,
Give me your ghostly hands.
would dance with joy across the
hilltops,
Over the depts and heights,
Along the crest where the swollen
sun drops
Scattering rainbow lights.
I know the touch of the harsh rock
fingers,
The breath of the oak and pine.
| know the peaks where the rose
light fingers.
Wind, they are mine, are mine.
Once where the yellow trail went
winding,
I heard yoNr whispered call.
Why are you dumb to me,
When will you come to me,
Mad with your spirit thrall?
The tough hill grasses are gray and
golden?
The yuccas are white with blooms,
The still, hot sunbeams the lizards
embolden
Around the old Indian tombs.
The barren mesas are wanly kneel1ns
Under the desert blue.
High in the hills comes presence
stealing,
Wind, is it you?
Rose Henderson in the Dial
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-27
THE PICNIC LUNCH

WITH what panied amazement
wv the playground youngsters
must have read that the Fed
eral Food Administrator has ap-
proved the application of the Romp-
er Day committee for permission to
serve 5000 sandwiches on the oc-
casion of the annual celebration.
Not that 1000 do not constitute a
lot of sandwiches. We suppose a
good-sized wagon would be required
to transport that number. But
5000 sandwiches among 5000
hungry boys and girls won't provide
very "fllin'" meal. Nor is this
reflection upon the Administrator
or the committee; far from either.
1t is plain statement of unpleasant
truth. Score up another against the
Kaiser, and let it go at that. for If
it hadn't been for Bill the Beasts
porcine desire to boss the whole
world, picnic lunches would be as
large and attractive as ever.
Lunch, did we say? Dinner,
feast, banquet. perhaps; but lunch!
Never! Lunch is a small. weak
word that would have perished mis-
erably under the immensity of an
old-time clothes basket loaded to
the gunnels with substantials and
dainties. You remember 1t. of
course. In these days of self-denial
and governmental restriction. a
whole family could be shot before a
wall at sunrise for having in its pos
session at one time half the food
stuffs that used to be packed away
in one picnic hamper.
1t was a matter of family pride,
that picnic basket. Tho more fried
chicken, the larger the number of
cakes. the greater the quantity of
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-27
OUT WITH ALL SUCH

T EFT the Republican leaders at
Washington and elsewhere
purge the party of every sus-
picion of disloyalty in individuals or
groups of individuals. Representa-
tive Frank p. Woods, of Iowa, chair
man of the Republican Congress
sional Committee. should be the first
to go. His record as pacifst alb
solutely disqualifies him for any
place OF responsibility In the Re-
publican organization.
The Republican party is in this
war to win and it is not going to
permit any weak-kneed or pacifistic
theories to interfere with its i'm
portant work. Nor will it submit
to any coercion through Democratic
sources anywhere. The time has
come for clear speech and unafraid
action, especially at Washington.
We have had enough of pussyfoot-
ing and henceforth men of blood and
action must lead.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-27
Reconstruction Speech Neat

Senator Lodge, within the next
few weeks. will follow his statement
of conditions which he considers
essential to peace with a declaration
strongly advocating industrial pre-
paredness. The Republican party
leaders will take advantage of every
opportunity to point out the neces-
sity for taking steps now for ''un-
scrambling the eggs" after the war,
and will explain to the people of the
United States the work England and
France are now doing along this line,
In both countries departments of re-
construction have been established.
with members of the cabinets of tho
respective countries at their heads.
The leading business and financial
men I'm each country are members of
the reconstruction committees, and
they are working-and have been
working for months-on plans for
obtaining and maintaining after the
war the economic advantages won
in the war.-Washington Dispatch.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-27
MUST BE SMASHED

= UST when the war will end no
man can tell, but there has been
large invasion of the field of
prophecy during recent days and it
is quite the common thing to hear
predictions regarding the close. Of
the war. OF course. it is comforting
to think of the end of the greatest
struggle of the ages, but what is
concerning most thoughtful people
is the kind of peace that will come
with the cessation of fighting.
United States Senator Lodge has
crystallized public sentiment in a
remarkable way by his statement
that there should be no peace until
Germany is completely defeated and
that there can be no settlement out
side the German frontier. In this
declaration he embodies the wish,