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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-04-02


FOR sALE-HOUsES-EARLY POSSESSION
BY JESSE l.. HEISKELL,
i03 street NV
Columbia Heights-Columbia road, west of
18th St, 9 rooms bath; hot water heat; first
floor kitchen. $1,000.
Columbia Heights-Fairmont st. west of 11th
9 rooms reception hall. bath; hotrwater heat.
Columbia Heights-Grard st. west of 18TH
0 rooms and bath. $1,000.
Columbia Heights--13th st. near Irving. 10
rooms and BATH. $1,000
Washington Heights-Calsfrt st. west Of 18th.
10 rooms and bath; hot-water heat. 81 1850
Washington Heights-Rltmore st. west of
10th. 10 rooms baths; hot-water heat. Ex-
cellent condition. 3d. 7UJ
N st. west OF I4th 3 rooms modern i'm
provements. Only $500
Corner property. 9th st NV, desirable Sec
ton; q bargain at $S2a
Ingleside, 18th St. desirable frame dwelling;
over $500 feet Of ground; bargain at $500.
BioominEdale, st. NV; brick and stone
dwclitng. rooms. bath. cellar: garage. Only
18th IT.. Sc. modern two-story. Groom and
bath dwelling; hot water heat. Only s., 800.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-04-02

EIGHT ROOM AND BATH BRICK, DOWN.
town; newly papered and painted: hot-water
heat: yard TO alley; space for garage; worth
81 oOO price, s., 900: possession in thirty days.
". r. MARSHALL. 9l3 n. 7. ave.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-15

iiciously conceals tons Of SCOT to
dump down the collars of unwary
pedestrians. doors that are as hard
to keep in place as a unit OF German
infantry on the Hindenburg line and
9 draft that ought to go up when 1t
insists on going down. and always
down when it should be up.
Fooling with that furnace has cost
one man in Harrisburg the love of
his wife and the respect of his chill
drn. made him break his pledge
against swearing. caused him to loose
half yard of bark of one shin,
wear his left thumb In a sling and
has made him ashamed to face his
pastor. He took the coal commits
sion's advice to clean his furnace and
he did it-but he soiled his char
acter.
As between cleaning the furnace
and renouncing all his claims for
exemption, he has decided. IL the
war lasts that long, that next year
about the 9th OF October, rather
than tackle the job again, he'll ask
to be inducted. with the understand
ing that he be sent to France at
once. He has made up his mind that
as he has but one life to give for his
country he might as well die in a
trench as in an ashpit.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-15
THE COMiNG ELECTION
philadelphia Inquirerl

We are coming close to
the November election and we
have had comparatively little
campaigning so far as the Re-
publican candidates are conern-
ed. War conditions are chiefly re-
sponsible for this state of affairs.
Senator Sproul set the pace when
he deliberately ceased to work for
his election in order to give all of
his time and labor to the promot-
ing of the Fourth Liberty Loan.
II was the proper and the patri-
otto thing to do, but this does not
mean that we are not to pay any
attention to the political campaign.
On the contrary. the moment the
bond campaign is ended il will be
test with vigor. Indeed. good citi-
zens must make up their minds
that the issues of the day are of su-
preme importance and that it is es-
sential for the good of the people
that a Republican Governor in the
person of Mr.. Sproul shall be
elected.
1T is estimated that the registra-
ton of voters in Philadelphia this
fall will show a decrease of about
$4,000 as compared with the fig
ures of last year. It is not hard
to understand this falling off. be-
cause thero have been, approx
mately. $4,000 drafted men sent
from this city into the camps and
over there in the last twelve
months. None of the men abroad
will be given the opportunity of
voting. and for that reason the duty
of those who are still back home
becomes all the more imperative.
This means hard work for all of
the county committees, because it is
essential that the full vote be gotten
out on election day. With the re-
duced registration every voter is GO
ing TO count. There is no doubt
about the feeling of the vast major
ity of the voters in Pennsylvania
but it will not do to let the election
go by default"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-15
General Woods Birthday
IFrom the Kansas City starl
Fifty-eight and fit to fight!

Fifty-eight and fit to fight!
That typifies the spirit of Maj.
Gen. Leonard Wood. "the prophet
OF preparedness" who to-day is cele-
brating his flfty-eighth birthday.
Born October 9. in the little village
OF winchester, n. H., the future
commandant of Camp Funston early
was seized with a desire to lead a
seafaring life and at an early age
is said to have made several short
voyages along the Atlantic Coast.
Now, despite the disappointment
OF last spring, when he was refused
permission to accompany the, seth
Division overseas, he is training an
other division of the United States
Army, the 10th, and his greatest
reward would be to see service in
France at the head of troops that
he has changed from raw material
into the finished product in record
breaking time.
General Wood instilIed his fight
Ing spirit into the men, and officers
of the S9th. now near the battle
line in France, and the men of the
10th, of which he is the acting COM
mander, have imbibed the same vim
ana desire Tor service that charac-
terized the earlier unit.
General Wood has no illusions re-
garding the war and his program for
bringing it to a victorious conclu-
sion. as set forth in one of his
speeches, reads something like this:
The war will last until Germany
is beaten.
ITO accomplish this America may
have to send five million men to Eu-
rope.
For nearly four years England
and France bore the burden of saw
ing the world from German domina-
tion and now America must become
the dominant factor.
This county is now engaged In
raising a Liberty Loan. 1t must
look forward to raising still more
Liberty Loans and to do this every
person must save and work to pro-
vide funds and to release men for
war purposes.
Every one at home must serve
while the army is going abroad to do
the fighting"
That is General Woods program,
typical of the man and the soldier,
! on whom Kansas, in recognition OF
! the abilities of the senior major gen.
eral of the army, conferred the title
of Citizen Extraordinary" by guber-
material proclamation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-15
FOOD FROM THE EAST

George Mcpherson Hunter, in New
York Times.)
Much is being made, and quite
naturally. about the military effects
on the war by the collapse of the
Bulgarian offensive powers. and the
submission to the terms of the Allies.
It's political effect on Turkey and
the Balkan problem is so great and
trauyht with so many issues, all
of them of immediate importance.
that its effect on the food situation
is nearly forgotten.
In the Near East, cultivation can
be resumed in Palestine. Already
in Mesopotamia. as the result of
British occupation, by employing In
dian farmers, foodstuffs enough to
support the soldiers in the cam
paign are being raised.
Along the bopders of the Black
Sea, especially in the Crimean Pen
insula, and from the land around
the Sea of Azov, the grain trade is
immense.
In peace times whole fleets of
vessels were engaged in transport
ing grain to Northern Europe. II
is no exaggeration to call the Black
Sea reRlOn, with llS Ouliet IHTOusH
the Dardanelles. the bread basket OF
Northern Europe.
The Black Sea grain carriers took
their cargoes to Antwerp, Rotter.
dam, Hamburg, and other ports ir
| the north. How much these region:
have suffered from the closing oi
! that trade, and how deep the dis.
| tress it caused in Bulgaria. Rumania
Turkey, and Russia. we. know b,
the reports of the millions who have
died of sheer starvation.
Bulgaria's collapse and surrender
mean hope for a harvest next sum
mer. Turkey out of the war meanI
the lands dominated by her begin
ming again to cultivate the soil an,
feed themselves. To be sure, seeG
and implements NAV be scarce. anC
the export trade will not be revive'
for several years. But the hearten
ing thing about 1t Is the relief |
promises in the worlds food situa
tion. 1t is not only the beginnini
of the end of the war but of war
lugliest concomitant famine.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-15
A MAD WORLD

[From Christian Science Monthly1
Fear is the most prolific source of
evil. OF course if fear were under
stood in its full metaphysical signi-
ficance, IL would be understood to
be the provoking cause of all evil
of every sort. But even from the
ordinary point OF view of the world.
fear. when IL communicates itself
to numbers. is capable of causing
greater disaster than any other
phase of the human consciousness.
The pagan philosophers realized
that there was such a thing as the
fear OF fear, in other words, as they
stated 1t. the fear of death was
worse than death itself. Centuries
later Shakespeare appropriated the
idea, and put precisely the same
sentiment into the mouth of Isa-
bella. in "MeasureFor Measure" and
indeed, anyone who knows anything
at all of history knows disease was
spread upon the wings of fear in
the case of that awful visitation of
the fourteenth century known as the
Black Death, and again when a pes
thence OF a similar nature swept
London, in the seventeenth century.
Some day the world will come to
see that what II calls contagion is
! mental contagion, and that what
it calls infection is the infection OF
one mind from another. Orthodox
medical practice to-day largely rec
ognizes this, but 1t draws back from
the logical consequences of its own
admission, and endeavors to shelter
itself in a halfway-house. which IL
built partially out of mind and par
tally out of matter.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-15
The Revelation of the Hun
[From the North American Reviews
War WeeklyJ

[From the North American Reviews
War Weekly
The Hun now stands revealed. So
likewise stands that assistant Hun
whom we commonly call Bolshevik.
1t would be impossible to exaggerate
the significance of the disclosures
which our Government is making of
the results of its agents efficient ac-
tivities in Russia. 1t may be that
! there is little that is new in them.
Practically all the essential facts
have been stated, and believed. be-
lfore. But the important thing is
that we before saw through glass,
darkly, we now see face to face In
! the ipsissima verba of German and
Russian official documents. 1t is
such a revelation of almost every
kconceivable national and interna-
tional vice and crime as Mortified
huma nifty has never known before.
BY the side of. its appalling details,
Marat and Robespierre seem humane
and Benedict Arnold loyal and hon.
orable.
These are what they show:
That as far back as 1887. under
Moltke, Caprivi and Waldersee. a
was planned; so definitely that when
in 1914 the war wss actually be-
gun, 1t was begun on the identical
plans of twenty-seven years before
The war of 1914 simply executed
the conspiracy of 1887.
That in the early summer OF 1919
before the assassinations atSarajevo
preparations were made for immedi-
ateiy beginning great European
and worldwide war: for which the
auickly-following assassinations serv-
ed as a convenient pretext. This
throws a fearful reflection of plausi-
bility upon the charge. which hat
been explicitly made by writer's Of
information and character. thai
those assassinations were ofilciallS
arranged for at Vienna and Berlin
for the purpose which they served
That early in the war and Ions
before our entry into 1t the German
Government directed the "hirinf
J and bribing" of anarchists and es
capped criminals' and others. u
J cause fires, explosions. riots ant
other like occurrences throughou
tho United States; at time wher
the United States was scrupulousl,
. neutral ana was on friendly termi
with Germany.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-15
Firing a Date in History
New York rimes.1

SenatonLodge thinks that to raise
the question whether the Germans
warned the passengers of the Lusi-
tania,' as a publishing house did in
an advertising circular, "by indirec-
ton or by implication a defense of
Germany in one of the very most
villainous things she has ever done" "
it may be, but it is a most unsuccess-
full defense. If at this late date any
body is trying. as Senator Lodge
says, to defend Germany on the
ground that she warned her intend
ed victims, it is lost labor.
We all remember that warning;
on May /, 1915, an advertisement
signed Imperial German Embassy"
warned all travellers, without men,
tioning those going on any one ship,
that vessels flying any allied flag
were liable to destruction. "and that
travellers sailing in the war zone on
ships of Great Britain or her allies
do so at their own risk That ad-
lvertisement fixes date in the minds
of human beings the world over. For
we can all remember that .at that
time we thought of Germany as a
civilized country. Despite her afro
cities in Belgium, we still supposed
that she was, If on q lower plane
than other countries, still far re-
moved from barbarism. And no
human being who read that adver-
| itisement believed , word of it.
Every one knew that England would
not commit such a CRIME, nor
France, nor Italy, nor Russia under
the Gear; and, knowing tiis. no one
q opposed for u moment trat Ger
many would commit IL. Il was 81
sui cct for gossip and gcp'1 mir.h
on the Lusitania herself: an anus
ing piece of bus: everybody said.
E~w far w3 have trav?Ied since
that time! No matter what ioath-
some crime Germany nigh now I'D e.
vertise that she vas going to COM
NIT, every one in the world would
believe her completely and instantly
1t was on May l. 1915, that the gen.
eral reception of that advertisement
| proved that the world believed Ger
many to be civilized. Six days later
the belief was shattered, never MOI e
to enter the mind of man.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-15
KAISER SPEAKS AGAIN

("Our navy is holding it's own
against the united enemy naval
forces and is unwaveringly support
ing the army.'-Wilhelm Hohen-
zollern.)
Though here and there by tempest
blown,
The Allied warships sail the sea;
My gallant navy holds its own
And that's enough for 1t and me.
We scorn the foreign boasts banal.
We hold our own-the Kiel Canal.
Britannia the waves may plow
And move her ships in manner
grand,
But let me ask George here and now
Whose navy is it rules the land?
We fear no foemen's loud effrontry
Unless he sends his ships cross
country.
While Allied warcraft soil their
paint
Through being out in. nasty weather.
1 keep mine clean and free from
taint
All in their little ditch together.
No blows of wave or foe we feel
From River Elbe UP to Kiel.
We give the army great support,
Our interest in 1t does not lag.
EXultantly in every port
Our seamen loudly toast der Tag."
This custom they must soon forego,
Our wine supply is getting low.
The Allies loudly claim they are
The lions of the ocean wide;
They send their warships near and
far.
I keep mine new and safe inside.
This name I claim for them and me,
We are the Groundhogs of the Sea!
-Exchange.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-15
ONLY BY SURRENDER
tFrom the New York Timesl


No armistice can be granted to
Germany on the terms she proposes.
They would allow her to extricate
her armies from positions growing
every day more perilous, where i'm
mense losses or actual destruction
|confronts them. They would permit
her to withdraw in safety her men
and material of war TO new and
much shorter lines of defense, where,
employing every moment of the re-
spite in reorganization, her diminish
ed man-power could be much more
effectively employed to resist the
,tary advantage would accrue to her
from the cessation of arms at this
time.
Surrender, not an armistice, must
be the condition precedent to any
! talk about peace. Let Germany give
guarantees that by withdrawal from
invaded territory she means with
drawal from the war, disarmament,
rehabilitation, that she confesses
defeat, has no purpose to resume
! ihostilities. Let her give up Metz and
/ IStrassburg to be occupied by allied
garrison forces. Metz is in Lorraine,
Strassburg in Alsace. There can be
no peace. there should be no arm
istice, until the two provinces, both
fortresses, have been restored to
France. But 10 must be an armistice
on land and sea. Let Germany give
her navy, with all her submarines,
into the keeping of the United
States and the nations associated
with us in the war, to be held in
trust subject to the decree of inter-
national disarmament and to the re-
lquirements of the League of Nations
for a naval police force.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-15
FAITHLESS

IFrom the Kansas City Times1
When the German Chancellor's
reply shall have been received, con-
veying in some way or other, as
It must, the information that he
represents the German government,
the President could find no better
words for his answer than are in
his speech of September 81. when
he said:
I'VE are all agreed that there can
be no peace obtained by any kind
of bargain or compromise with the
governments of the Central Empires.
because we have dealt with them
already and have seen them deal
with other governments that were
parties to this struggle. at Brest-
Litovsk and Bucharest. They have
convinced us that they are without
honor and do not intend Justice.
They observe no covenants. accept
no principle but force and their in
terest. We cannot come to terms
with them. They have made 1t i'm
POSSIBLE. The German people. must
by this time be fully aware that we
cannot accept the word of those
who forced this war upon US, We
do not think the same thoughts or
speak the same language of agree
ment."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-15
Expecting to Be Thanked

[From the Phila. Public LEDGER
A good deal of time is wasted in
sitting around expecting thanks.
Those who pay least attention to
applause and praise get most of It.
What they never sought gravitates
toward them. Fortune, that, tickle
Jade, makes eyes at those who never
wooed her. The cat, a fascinatingly
capricious animal, comes to your
chair and purrs because you have
not noticed 1t. An audience has it's
own way of rebuking the enter
tainer who makes the direct bid
for approval. It bestows Its suf-
frages where 1t pleases. 1t likes
best what appears artless and un-
studied. The ingenious and the
spontaneous carry Meir own appeal.
The devices that draw laughter must
not obtrude, capitalization must
put on a disguise and pretend q
charming pagan innocence.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-15
BORROWING TO BUY

THE Harrisburg Railways Com
pany set a very excellent exam
pie for other corporations yes
terday when it went into bank and
borrowed $4,000 with which to in
crease its Liberty Loan purchases.
borrowing to buy" is healthy way
10 obtain Liberty Bonds. The Gov
eminent does not desire the pur-
chases TO be made out Of current
revenues. 1t has provided a means
OF term payment whereby the sub
scriber is to pay for his bonds on
the instalment plan. Thus the cor
poration or the individual has oppor-
tunity of buying now and paying
later-even of borrowing the first
instalment and OF paying of the
debt out of earnings OF the next
six months.
II Is not a matter now Of per-
sonal sacrifice or Willingness TO in
vest. The Liberty Loan must be put
over. The honor OF the city and
the good faith OF the nation are at
stake. We must not fail.
It behooves every man to search
first his own conscience and TO
hearken to the promptings of that
still, small voice, and then to use
his influence with his friends and
neighbors to increase their bond
purchases. And 1t is the duty OF
every representative of a corpora
ton with credit in bank to see to
it that his company puts every dol
lar into Liberty Bonds its resources
will stand.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-15
LIBERTY BONDS AS CASH

A MAN who would refuse to take
~ a Federal Reserve banknote or
a National Bank greenback in
payment for a days labor. a bushel
OF potatoes. or any commodity, or any
transaction wherein money figures,
would be counted "off his trolley"
to use slang term. Paper money,
with Uncle Sans authority on IT,
is demanded by men instead of metal
money and the bank teller who would
shove over a bag OF coin instead OF
packet of notes in cashing a check
for 800. for instance. would be apt
to irrftate.
Warrants Of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, which has an in
come of s35. 100000 a year and doe.
not owe anybody anything. are no;
| only accepted at face value. but very
much desired. And rightly 60.
Paychecks of the Pennsylvania
| Reading or any OF the railroads
around here are taken at face value
and cashed by anyone who Is asked
in the ordinary course of business
And 1t is good business.
And 50. why, in the name OF com.
nonsense. a Liberty Bond should not
be legal tender in fact and cash ir
business 1t is hard to see. The only
difference is that 1t is a little larger
In size than a banknote and JUS
now on stock exhanges is a cent oil
so down. with chances that as soor
as this war ends 1t will go kiting Il
Q premium.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-15
ON WITH THE WAR

DRESIDENT WILSON'S reply tC
= the latest German peace note il
everything the allied people coult
desire. 1t meets public opinion ir
every respect and justifies .hose who
saw in the Presidents first note
merely q diplomats instrument de.
signed TO set the German govern
ment before its own people as well
as before the world as accepting
terms. from the imposition OF which
it hoped to souirra by the trickery
of diplomatic interchange.
The Presidents communication
shuts the door TO peace by negotia-
ton. II the war Is not 70 be car
ried TO German soil. German COM
manders must quit fighting on what
ever terms Foch. Pershiug and Haig
may decide. and there can be no
doubt the guarantees they demand
wilI-be ample and sufficient. 1t is
no longer possible for Germany TO
dicker with the Allied governments
by the mere expedient of dethronipg
the Kaiser. The President stipuiates
that he and the whole German
autocracy must go. but even after
that terms OF armistice will be die
tated by the Allied military authori-
ties.
Summed up. the message means
simply this: That the Allies will not
deal with the German people-ex-
cept as a completely conquered na-
tion-until the military government
has been overthrown. and then only
otter sufficient guarantees have been
given General Foch pnd his subor-
dinate commanders to make it GER
tain tAat Germany will not be able
to resume the war. In other words,
nothing but what amounts to uncon-
ditional surrender will meet the
terms of the Presidents note!
This is what the world expected.
Nothing else would have been ac-
ceptable. OF course, Germany will
refuse to accede. The Kaiser will
throw off his sheepskin and appear
again as the wolf he is. The note.
when it reaches the Allied armies,
will give tremendous encouragement
to the fighters. They will! drive
ahead with removed vigor. They
are out to conquer Germany. We
must match their efforts at home.
On with the war--hoth in the
trenches and here at home. Down
with the Kaiser and all he repre-
sents! Everybody Ia enlisted in the
great cause. For the sake Of our
selves and our children, we devote
our whole thought and effort to
translating the Presidents terms into
actualities.