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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-19

answer the purpose, and so the
holes were resorted to, and, while
observation involves an unnatural
straining of the neck, it is effec-
tive.
While bullets do not penetrate the
armor, but only ruffle it up a bit
at the point where they are de-
tiected, great deal of bullet
splash" does come in. This is
more annoying than serious, and
after an action one could pick out
any number of these tiny splinters
from ones face. So, as a means of
protection against splash" face ar
NOR was invented. This looks much
like a bandits mask, with a steel
mesh chain hanging from it. The
mask itself is of thin steel, with
Sits for the eyes, the whole padded
for the face and adjustable to it.
The greatest danger, however,
whether in or out of action, is that
of fire. Smoking inside a tank is
forbidden. Usually smoking is not
permitted within twenty yards of
one. This is because of the great
amount of petrol, or gasoline, car
ried, and because of the fumes.
Thus, an armor piercing shell enter
ing the tank, not only eXplodes in
confined area, but usually sets the
machine on fire. When that hap
pens, men have to escape the best
they can, tumbling out of the doors
usually to be greeted by the ene-
my's machine gun fire. Often, how
ever, so much damage was done by
the shell itself, that only those near
est the doors ever escaped. The
rest perished in the flames, and
those who have ever had TO go back
to a tank and see their comrades
burned almost beyond recognition,
will bear testimony that death by
fire was feared more than anything
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-19
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Governor elect William G.
Sproul is an authority upon history
of southeastern Pennsylvania.
George p. Donehoo, of Potter
county, a member of the State His
torical Commission, has given years
to study of the Indians of Pennsyl-
vania.
Robert w. Chambers, the novel
ist, has delved deep into Indian his
tory in Pennsylvania.
RABBI Joseph Krauskopf, of
philadelphia, says the new Jewish
State in Palestine Is to be a great
moral force among the nations.
-Bainbridge Colby, prominent in
national shipping matters, is to
make addresses in this state upon
what are the plans for the future.
Judge Peter A. O'Boyle, of the
Iuzerne courts, will make the speech
at the big knights of Columbus gath
ering next week.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-19

The most artistic and elaborate
holiday edition that has reached the
Telegraph this season is the Christ
mas number of the Mount Union
Times. Not only does it abound in
Christmas features. poems. pictures
and stories, but it is a good news
paper as well, and the amount of adver-
tising it carries indicates that the end
of the war has had no effect on the
prosperity of the wonderful little city
that is the home of the publication.
The paper is made up of twenty
pages, filled with the holiday spirit
from first page to last.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-19
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1918
KNOX STRIKES KEYNOTE

TN TWO snort paragraphs oeh"toi
Knox, speaking before the SEN
ate yesterday, explained why
many Americans hesitate about en-
dorsing the Presidents proposal for
a League of Nations as a part of
the peace conference program. The
former Secretary of State, who has
had as wide an experience in foreign
relations as any man in the country,
said:
After all. why such hurry@ If
League of Nations is q good thlnS,
surely its merit will be the better
appreciated after careful study.
If League of Nations may not
be a good thing, certainly the agl-
tated days following great war
should not be seized upon to sad
die the country with a policy II
has not examined and which is no
necessary part of the making OF
reace.
Senator Knox belives that the
League of Nations idea should be
divorced from the peace program.
lie withholds his opinion as to the
wisdom of eventually adopting some
such plan, until he knows just what
the President proposes. That is the
great difficulty. Nobody knows what
Mr.. Wilson means by his League Of
Nations" He has taken nobody into
hs confidence. The idea at first
thought appears good, but the more
it is studied the more complex it
becomes. 1t is not without merit, but
it involves so many possibilities for
both good and evil that it might
well be separated from the peace
conference. to be taken up imme-
diately after the delegates complete
the final draft of the peace agree
ment
Mr.. Taft has proposd a League
to Enforce Peace" That, also, may
be Mr.. Wilson's purpose, or it may
not. He has told nobody and asks
the Senate and the people of the
country as a whole to accept his
pig in a poke" without question or
debate. II he had taken them into
his confidence he might have had
them solidly behind him, instead of
doubtful and divided.
Senator Knox is right when he
concludes that Americans will re-
fuse to be led blindly into what
may turn out to be "entangling alli-
ances" of 4 very embarrassing ma
ture. They are not trusting their
consciences and the peace for which
they fought to the majority vote of
European diplomats intent upon
furthering their own selfish pur-
poses. They have seen too much of
that in the cases of Austria, Bull
garia and Turkey. They have been
llistrustful of tying themselves up
with foreign governments ever since
the far-sighted Washington pointed
out the danger that lies that way.
FREQ and independent" has been
their proudest boast, and they are
not ready to surrender one iota of
that independence until they are
convinced it is for our own good and
that of the world at large. As Sem
ator Knox said: 81 think the Ameri-
can people believe in Americanism.
I do not for one moment believe they
would be willing to see this country
ordered about by a heterogeneous
world league of all nations"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-19
FOR A CLEAN CITY

n UR good wishes go with the
churchmen who have at
tempted through a perma-
nent association to make the CITY
clean and keep it so. But it is a
shame that private citizens must
band themselves together to do
what our paid public servants will
not do. To be sdre, vice is not al
ways tho easiest evil to run down,
but honesty and vigilance can do
much 10 prevent It from showing
lts aRly head in the community and
there are cities where the regularly
constituted authorities find it pos
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-19
NODember DuSk-d Portrait

The drama of it! The poetry of
it, The glorified justice and human
satisfaction of it! The bully and
braggart begging for peace and his
ENJOYS waiting by the wayside for
their poems to mend the roads them
selves had shattered. When the
Shakespeare of this war gets down
to Act Y. Scene III. he will head it:
'"The Chimay- -Fourmies-La Capelle
Road on a November Duski."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-19
Ldfdyette'S Ashes

\ proposal has been laid before
the French government by M. Le-
hey, Socialist deputy of Seine-et-
Disc, that the ashes of Lafayette be
removed from the Picpus Cemetery,
where he was buried, to the PAN
theon. 1t is suggested that the cere-
mony should take place during Pres
ident Wilson'S visit to Paris.-Con-
tinental Edition of the London Mail.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-19

sible to enforce the laws on the sub
ject. That not being true here. as
witness the recent federal raid.
let us hope that the association
formed to correct conditions will be
highly successful in its important
and disagreeable undertaking.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-19
Youth and Aqe

Verify. "eryy, I say unto thee,
when thou vast young, thou girdest
thyself. and walkest whittier thou
wouldest; but when thou shalt be
old. thou shalt stretch forth thy
hands, and another shall grid thee.
and carry tn ee whittier thou wouIdest
moist John xxi 12.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-19

President Wilson. having been made
a citizen of Paris. might decide to run
for the French presidency before re-
turning. Maybe that was why he sent
for his political cabinet.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-19

President Wilson will not increase
the good will of the nations allied
with us by an arbitrary insistence up
on any preconceived notions of his
own. We are not the only pebble on
the beach.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-19
ThOuqht For the Day

Life is not to be bought with heaps
of gold
Not all Apollo's Pythian treasures
hold,
Or Troy once held, in peace and
pride of sway,
Can bribe the poor possession OF a
day.
-Homer's Had.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-19
Chateau Thierry

o God how vast
The distance seems to loom
'Twixt these heroic men and me,
High Priests of Liberty!
Unarmed, but unafraid,
Alasi / have no part,
But thrust aside fei II
With lacerated heart, Mi ~
l watch the tide, ~
Undaunted, undismayed, Nv b
Go rushing past, B't
Amid volcanic gloom.
Unto their crimson Calvary.
To set their brothers free.
Chaplain Thomas f. Coakley In
tha Stars and Stripes, France.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-19

Vlce-President Marshall presiding
over the Cabinet meeting. doubtless
afforded a delightful conversational
occasion without undue mental exer-
tIoa for those present.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-19
Chi[dren's S CurioSiiU

Curiosity in children's nature was
provided to remove that ignorance
they were born with; which, without
this busy inquisitiveness, will make
them dull.-Locke.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-19
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg has hand
led more car repairs this year
than ever before?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-19
Where Is He?

What has become of the old-fash
ioned sick man who argued that 1t
was cheaper to get drunk than to
send for a doctor?-From the Dallas
A~~-+=
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-19
UIsTORIC HARRISBURG

-Conestoga wagons used to be
parked along the river front below
Harris Ferry in the olden days.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-19

A board of conciliation appointed
by the Canadian Minister of Labor
mas granted an increase OF cents
an hour to carpenters and mill
wrights. making the new scale 65
cents for carpenters and 20 cents
an hour for nniiiwriGhts.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-19
WORK OF TUSKEGEE

TINE recent report of the Tuske-
gee school shows how largely
that institute participated in
the war activities. Major Motion,
successor to Booker T. Washington,
says, in conclusion, that it may not
be immodest to quote from an edi-
torial which appeared in the Char
lotte, n. c., Observer, regarding the
work at Tuskegee:
So long as the Booker T. Wash
ington ideals prevail at Tuske-
gee, that institution will continue
to perform a valuable service to
the negroes of the South. and
under the management of DIR.
Motion, these ideals have been
lived up to in an admirable man
ner.
Throughout the war the colored
men have maintained a record of
patriotic devotion to the country
which was manifested not only on
the fighting line but in the impor-
tant work at home. Many trained
workers went out from Tuskegee
and what they did during the war
will constitute a fine chapter when
the history of war activities shall be
made up.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-19

You can't celebrate Christmas prop
erly without Red Cross button
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-19

Unless assurance is given that a
recent award of the Federal War
Labor Board providing for an in
crease of approximately 62 per cent.
in wages will be put into effect at
once/ Memphis (Tenn.) street car
workers will enforce their deman is
by a walkout.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-19

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELAGRAPH PRINTING co.
Telegraph Building, Federal Square
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-19

The port of Santa Rosalla, Lower
California, owes its Importance to
group of copper mines nearby and
to the smelters, which support pop
ulation of about 10000, composed
chiefly of the working classes.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-19
LABOR NOTES

Wages for men workers in the
shoe trade in the United States have
increased from 81 to Sc week sincA
1916, while women workers have been
advanced from 50 to 81 a week in the
same period.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1918-07-12
HUNS MAY MOBILIZE
RUSS MAN-POWER
REPORTED GERMANY Is PER.
FEcTlNG AGREEMENT WITH
5oLsHEvIK COVE RNMENT.
win Demand Passage for Troops o.
the Kaiser BY Way Of Petronrad
TO the Thurman Coast In Order
70 Punish Inhabitants.

ParIs.-The Bolsheyik government
at Moscow, according to reliable dis
patches on Tuesday, Is threatening to
conclude an alliance with Germany
and mobilize Russia's man power
against the entente.
AS the result OF the assassination of
the German ambassador to Russia,
Count Won Mirbach, Germany, 1t is re-
ported, will demand passage for her
troops by way Of Petrograd to the
Thurman coast, the inhabitants Of
which the Bolshevlki are denouncing as
friendly to the allies.
Germany, 1t Is said, will demand fur
Their control OF Petrograd and Moscow.
The Bolsheviki claim to have gained
full supremacy over the Social Reyo-
lutionary movement, which was un-
loosed In Moscow by the Mirbaeh MUIR
der. The revolutionaries are, however,
still intrenched in the municipal thea
tire.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1918-07-12
KEEP HIM REASONABLY BUSY
Preacher Serving In ". M. c. A. "Hut"
In Training Camp Finds His
Duties Many and Varied.

Tf there is notion that Y. NJ. g. a.
work in the camps consists in selling
stamps and handing out pocket testa-
ments, let 1t be dissipated at once.
One preacher. serving In a hut In a
New Jersey camp, reports that he has
done almost everything under the sun
except preach.
He has built fires, swept floors,
looked after hundreds Of packages OF
laundry, umpires basketball games, or
ganlzed glee club, stage-managed a
circus. sold ice cream ut the canteen,
and driven a fiyver ten miles and
back three times a week TO provide
said cream. He has written letters
home for boys who could not write,
and he has taught those same boys
their first lessons in the English Lam
guage. He has been q repository for
hundreds of heart secrets, and he has
served as trustee for the care of as
many as thirty Liberty bonds at
time.
Perhaps oldest OF his many tasks
was one that came his way on wild
and stormy night In April. when the
master of arms at the military station
entered the ayr hut after taps, carry
ing red box under his arm.
Say" said the master OF arms,
''we'ye got lot of I. N. 4. mines
stored at the station. Here's the det-
orators. in this box There's consld-
cradle lightning around. and 1t Isn't
safe to leave these things close to the
minns Wo,1Id vav inst % .1nx Knl5g
care of the box over night2"
The Red Triangle man slept that
night Tor tried to sleep) with enough
high explosive under his cot to blow
him half way to heaven.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1918-07-12
LEARNING WHITE MANS WAYS
Eslsimos Said to ne Making Crafty.
ing Progress as Result Of Nils
sIcnarieas Teachings.

On Herschei island. where the sun
shines continuously for eight weeks In
summer, the Eskimos had sun dance,
not always clothed in the garments of
prOpriety, writer In an exchange says.
They had an idea that when the sun
came back It's movements were direct
ed by an invisible power. but they had
no tangible conception of God. They
had no belief in a future life, either
OF reward or punishment. Today they
are religious, truthful, kind to their
children and to the aged. They are
ambitious to learn; they are practical.
extremely industrious, sanitary In
their habits, well clothed and well
housed. Insanity Is unknown, but tu-
berculosis is common.
They whale In summer and trap in
winter. They are clever in trading,
good workers on land. water and Ice.
and take excellent care of their house
hold effects. Tools, IL broken. are
neatly repaired. When on Herschel
island or at Fort Mcpherson, they eat
the white mans food with great rel
ish. In summer they eat their fish and
bIubber raw and In winter frozen. They
like food cooked, but 1t is a matter OF
Indifference to them. They win bar
ter for the white mans food, eat a
hearty meal Of 1t, and then go out and
eat bIubber and raw fish as dessert.
The contents of deer's stomach they
consider great delicacy.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1918-07-12
HUN HAS PLANS FOR PEACE.
Conditions Published by Political
Writer OF German Newspaper.

Conditions Published BY Political
Writer OF German Newspaper.
Copenhagen While claiming no Of
ficlul sanction and even admitting that
their realization would encounter
strong opposition from the German
government and people, George Bern
hard, political editor of the Vossische
Zeitung Of Berlin, submits the follow
ing peace conditions:
France and Italy to discuss with
Germany and Austria their future from
tiers without the Intervention OF third
parties.
All the German colonies to be re-
turned
Belgium to be restored completely as
an independent state.
All merchants of the central powers
who have been deprived of their prop
erty overseas to be restored to their
former rights of possession.
Great Britain to evacuate uncondi-
tionally all parts Of the Turkish em-
pire and Persia.
The situation before the war to be
restored In Egypt.
The Dardanelles, on the basis of a
treaty applying to the states bordering
the Black sea, to be free for the pass
age of Russian ships.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1918-07-12
War Prisoners to FORM Club.

A dozen British prisoners OF war
who had escaped from Germany met
at dinner recently given In London
to celebrate their escape. At this DIM
ner 1t was decided TO form club
membership Of which was to be com
fined to those who have succeeded in
making their way out of prisoners
Of var or internment camp In Ger
many. The site of the club premises
has not yet been settled, but the club
win certainly be the most novel thing
Of its kind in London.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1918-07-12
DousLE TRAGEDY IN IDAHO.

Bachelor Rancher Murders Brother
and Kills Self.
Boise, Idaho.-A double tragedy oe-
Cured Sunday ON q ranch near the
town of Alpha In an isolated section
of western Idaho. Edward Dunn MUIR
dering his brother, Tom, and then kill
ing himself. The murderer left note
addressed to the cashier Of the Cas-
eade bank, admitting that he did the
killing, but failed to give the cause.
1t il believed the two men quarreled
over property. Between them they
owned farms valued Mt $4,000. Both
were bachelors and lived for years
together.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1918-07-12
Reduction In Wheat cron.

New York. Government hopes for a
blflion-bushel wheat crop received a
setback Tuesday, when the department
of agriculture's July forecast showed
reduction of 100000 bushels in
the prospective crop, Unfavorable
weather conditions during June cut
the estimated harvest to sol .000, 900
bushels from the o31 100000 bushels
forecast In June. Production estl-
mates on other crops also We're slight
~ reduced.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1918-07-12
HUNDRED KILLED
IN TRAIN WRECK
EXPRESS PLuNeEs THROUGH
COACHES OF LOCAL, KILLING
MANY WoRkMEN.
Engineer Said to Have DIsrssardsd
Signals and Thus Placed Lives OF
Passengers In Perif.-crews OF
Both Trains Lost

Nashville, Tenn.-At least 400 per-
sons, most of them negroes, were
killed and many more injured In
head-on collision Tuesday between two
passenger trains ON the Nashville,
Chattanooga x ST. Louis railway at
Adtciimanis Bond, five miles from this
city.
Most Of the killed and injured were
on local train from Nashville, which
carried several coaches full of work.
men going to nearby powder plant.
The other train was an express from
Memphis and the west, and, after the
two engines had reared and fallen be-
side the track, the heavy coaches of
the express ploughed through the bag
gage car ON the accommodation train
and demolished two other coaches.
As the crews Of both locomotives
We're killed, the cause Of the collision
may never be established. The express
train was running late and one theory
advanced was that the engineer of the
accommodation train may have dlsre-
garded signals and tried to make a
switch just beyond where the wreck
rived. There also was the possibility
thar he may have been given wrong
Instructions.
Three Investigations of the wreck
were expected, one by officials of the
road, another by state officials, and a
third by the railroad administration.
Only few women were among the
killed. Most OF the white persons
killed were In tire teiescoped smoking
car Of the accommodation train.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1918-07-12
lltaln Town Flooded.

Mt. Pleasant, Tuesday night
this city was swept by one of the
worst floods IN its history-the second
one within three weeks. Added TO the
general discomfort. the electric power
plant in the canyon to the east, which
supplies the city with light and power,
was disabled, and the city was mantled
In darkness for the remainder Of the
night.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1918-07-12
warns Germans Against Americans.

Berne, Switzerland. = Independent
socialist deputy strobel IN a violent
speech In the Prusslan landstag recent
", condemned the German government
for its efforts to secure peace by force.
He warned the German people that
unless they rid themselves of their
government and "send their politicians
Of war and rapine to the devil" Amer
ica's millions of soldiers will prove too
strong force to combat.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1918-07-12
lapan 70 lncreasa ArrnY.

London.-Measures for perfecting
che national lefenses of japan were
decided upon and n plan for co-opera-
tlon between the army aud navy was
adopted by the council of field mar
shais and admlrals recently in japan.
The new measure viii double the
strength Of the army.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1918-07-12
Storm Damages island Of Guam.

WashIngton.-The island of Guam
was devastated by typhoon on July 9.
Captain Roy Smith, governor Of the
island and commandment of the naval
station, reported Tuesday to the navy
department. He said half the Inhab-
itants are destitute, crops have been
destroyed and much material damage
done. Steps have been taken to feed
the destitute.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1918-07-12
HUNGRY IN GERMANY.
Food Situation Becoming UnbearabIe
Declares Socialist Delegate.

Amstertlam.-In the relchstag on
Saturday,. Deputy Matzlnger, a member
Of the Center party, protested against
any further supplies Of grain being
sent to Austria.
Deputy Wills, a Socialist, declared
that further reduction In rations was
unbearabIe. Many people, he said,
had no idea of the misery prevailing
among the masses. Unemployment
was increasing in Berlin, and the
wages We're insufficient to procure the
necessary food. TO terminate the war
the speaker added, would be greater
economic gain than would be the con-
quest Of province.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1918-07-12
Forent Elraa h HAontana.

Mlssoula, Mont.-Fires which are
threatening to sweep the entire forest
tracts of the inland northwest elear of
their timber are raging In the Selway,
Clearwater Pend 0reille and Kanik-
su forests. according to reports re-
ceiyed at the ATissoula district offices
early this morning.