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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-01
TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1918
DISCUSSION NOT WANTED

TT was scarcely to be expected that
the resolutions of the Harrisburg
Democratic Association calling
for "a free, Embossed, old-time Demo-
cratic gathering" in the form OF
State convention to discuss merits OF
candidates for the important State
offices to be filled this year would
be received with uproarious acclaim
at the headquarters of the regnant
faction of the Democratic party In
Pennsylvania. But the treatment
given to. the idea has been colder
than the weather. The men about
the headquarters say that they had
not heard of the proposition until 1t
was enunciated at the meeting of the
State Capital Democrats and that
they now have nothing TO say. Lead
ers have ignored the scheme entirely
and most of the Democratic news
papers give the action CT the meeting
inside page mention.
The truth of the matter is that the
Democratic bosses of Pennsylvania
do not want q discussion of the
merits of men suggested as candi-
dates in advance of the primary by
Aany convention or other assemblage
Which can be considered as in any
way representative of the minority
party of the Keystone State. All the
discussion necessary will be held at
the National Capital, where the
Democratic ticket for the second
largest State in the Union was framed
up just about four years ago, and
where it is the plan to have less than
half a dozen men sit around a table
to make it up for the men of Penn
sylvania this year. The fact that the
voters repudiated the slate made by
the Democratic bosses in 1914 by
over 125,00O votes does not seem to
have carried it's lesson to these
Bourbons. They are going to sit
down and parcel out the nominations
again and the result will be the same.
The Harrisburg Democrats might
as we'll have spared their thought,
time, paper and ink. No conventions
or other gatherings are wanted
this year or any other year
while the present clique runs the
Democracy of Pennsylvania. There
is NO need for discussion. The So
called leaders will meet, tag. each
other, run over to the White House
and then telegraph the news to wait
ing Pennsylvania.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-01
FARM LOAN BANKS
PHILADELPHIA Press.

When the farm loan bank expert
ment was formally launched by Con-
gress at the bidding of the Admins
tration, it was heralded as a need
that long existed and boon that
would work wonders. So far it has
decidedly failed to live up to the
glowing promises that were made for
it. It has now struck shallow water
and whirl in the money current,
and the Secretary of the Treasury
had to plead to Congress to help it
through the rapids. Congress was
asked to come to it's relief with one
hundred million dollars now, and a
similar amount next year. The Sem
ate has responded by granting the
first request, but refused to give any
assurance for next year.
This action makes it evident that
Congress has very decided doubts
about how the experiment Is working
out, also that there will be q very
watchful eye kept upon the farm
bank system. There were many pre-
dictions at the time the law was
passed that the proposed system was
too cumbersome and inelastic, and
that 1t would fail of carrying out it's
advertised purpose. At the outset,
the government advanced the capital
lOi tie llOSI part LOT many OF all OF
the farm loan banks. This was done
with the express provision that as
fast as convenient the government
would get out, by selling its stock.
This meant that the government
would take the early risks, showing
private capital the way and giving it
time to observe the project and be-
come satisfied that it is safe and
profitable.
This important fact has yet to be
shown. Some of the banks in which
government capital is invested are
understood to be losing money and
to a considerable amount The re-
turns have not met expenses. Conse-
quently there has been no demand
on the part of private capital to buy
out the interest of the governm ent
in these banks. The government can
not get out until the system proves
itself from business standpoint. So
Congress was asked to make good for
the government, and provide the
money for the purchase of farm loan
bonds that at present have no active
market. Unless the system makes
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-01
SONG OF THE NEW YEAR
heard the bells at midnight

l heard the bells at midnight
Ring in the dawning year;
And above the changing chorus
OF the song, / seemed to hear
A choir of mystic voices
Flinging echoes, ringing clear,
From a band of angels winging
Through the haunted atmosphere:
Ring out the shame and sorrow,
And the misery and sin,
That the dawning of the morrow
May in peace be ushered in"
And the thought of all the trials
The departed years had cost,
And the blooming hopes and pleas
ureS
That are withered now and lost
And with joy l drank the music
Stealing Ger the feeling there
AS the spirit song came pealing
On the silence everywhere:
Ring out the shame and sorrow,
And the misery and sin,
That the dawning of the morrow
May in peace be ushered in"
And I listened as a lover
To an utterance that flows
In syllables like dewdrops
From the red lips of rose,
Till the anthem, fainter growing,
Climbing higher, climbing on
Slowly vanished in the dawn:
Ring out the shame and sorrow,
And the misery and sin,
That the dawning of the morrow
May in peace be ushered in"
Then raised my eyes to Heaven,
And with trembling lips 1 plead
For a blessing for the living
And a pardon for the dead;
And like ghost of music
Slowly whispered-slowly sung
Came the echo pure and holy
In the happy angel tongues:
Ring out the shame and sorrow,
And the misery and sin,
That the dawning of the morrow
May in peace be ushered in"
james Whitcomb Riley.
Written January 1, 1877, and pub
lished in the Indianapolis Journal
January 10, 1877. Published in book
form only in Riley's Biographical
Edition.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-01

on, the odds still all against the Prus-
slams. At the close of 1861, worse
became worst when England, certain
now of victory in America and India
and sure of the mastery of the seas
against France and Spain, withdrew
its financial support from Prussia
through the decision of the new king,
George III, to seek peace. The end
to Prussia again seemed imminent.
Then the tide turned with the
death of Elizabeth of Russia, jan
uary S, 1852. Her nephew, Peter, of
Duke of Holstein- G ottorp, assembled
the Russian throne, and as he was a
poor silly creature of coarse and
brutal manners" thoroughly imbued
with high admiration for Frederick
the Great, his first act was to con-
clude peace with Prussia, and his
next to place the Russian troops at
Frederick's disposal for use against
their erstwhile allies, the Austrians.
Soon Sweden followed Russia's lead
and signed a treaty of peace with
Frederick, Aust as Rumania has fol-
lowed the Russian Republics lead
in making peace with Germany in
the war now raging.
Established AS Empire Builder
Only once after that was the ul-
innate triumph of Frederick threat
ened. That was in July, when Cath
crime, consort of Peter of Russia,
deposed her spouse, locked him in a
castle and seized the throne, becom-
ing Czarina Catherine II. A few
days later Peter was strangled by
her admirer, AleXus Orloff, and his
death was announced by Catherine
in a decree in which she said:
God finally permitted him to de-
part this life"
But if her first impulse was to
turn against Frederick, she thought
better of it, and confirmed the peace
with Prussia. And while she with
drew her troops from the front, they
were permitted to remain for time
as noncombatants to make show
ing at Burkersdorf which convinced
the Austrjans that they were hope
lessly outnumbered. Winning that
battle, Frederick permitted the Rus
sian army to retire. 1t was bit of
Eighteenth Century camouflage of
which the Prussian ruler was mas
ter.
A truce with Austria came when
winter threatened, and Frederick,
having added to his dominions, es-
tablished Prussia as the ruling Ger
man kingdom, and himself as an en-
pire builder.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-01
PARTY HARMONY

HROM all quarters of the Stat,
come insistent demands of Re.
publicans for harmony in the
party. County and district leaders
and workers are practically a unit il
urging that steps be taken to place
the party organization in first clas
fighting shape for the impending
campaign. The Republican press il
also a unit in pointing the way t
efficient organization and co-opera
ton.
In his TunlShannock speech w. D
B. Ainey, chairman of the Public
Service Commission, made this decla
ration:
Political chickering's and mean
ingless factional quarrelings have
no proper place in the future of
the Republican party in this
State. There are so many oppor-
tunities for service that for us to
spend our time in contentious
over nonesscntials is TO betray
our State.
If we are to make a worthwhile
contribution to our country we
must take stock of ourselves. The
economic problems which con-
front us call for the largest vision.
If we have disagreements-an
doubtless we must disagree some
times-these disagreements should
relate to fundamentals. We must
recognize that the Commonwealth
was not created, nor is it main
tained, to serve political parties,
or foment factionalism. Political
parties may be separated by di-
Vergent views as to great prin-
nrti ing
important as they serve the State.
Factionalism that serves only
personal ambition is lost effort.
We must devote ourselves to
the task of celebrating a program
designated to meet the needs of
the new problems that are facing
us. 1t is upon the basis of our
ability to subordinate the nom
essentials and emphasize the es-
sentiais in our political affairs
that we must rest our claim for
continued recognition at the hands
of the people.
Mr.. Ainey has clearly set forth TIL
vital need of the Republican part,
at this time in Pennsylvania. W.
cannot go on inviting disaste
through factionalism and the promo
ton of personal animosities. Now /
the time to get together, to forget tn,
past so far as it relates to part,
differences, and to combine for con
structive and vigorous party action
Mr.. Ainey has voiced the genera
sentiment of the Republicans of tn
State and it should not be Difficult
under the circumstances to start tn
new year with a clean party slat
and determination to pull togethe
for victory in 1918.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-01

of thinking and discussion" he re-
piled.
The era of thought and discus
sion at Washington is not yet over.
After nine months of war, after our
troops have been six months in
France, the ratio of thinking and dis
cussing to doing is almost at the sa-
cred figure of sixteen to one for
which Mr.. Bryan once fought so
valiantly in the fiscal world. 1t Will
be "some time next summer" Gen.
Crozier admits, before our army will
have measurably made up its def
cheney in cannon-and even then we
shall have no calibers larger than
six-inch. To-day we are dependant
wholly upon the French and the
English for the guns which our men
are using against the Germans. and
even after next summer we shall be
dependent for the heavy guns, If we
use any of them.
OF course, cannon are not to be
bought in the market like shingle
ndllSi anu lHe ullllCultleS eApeIleiiCeu
in suddenly expanding our tiny mill
tary establishment to wartime di-
mensions are not to be underestimate
ed. But thinking, discussion and the
making of card catalogues will not
win this war; and when one has to
contemplate fifteen months of prec-
ious time passed before our troops
can be only partly equipped with
guns, it is evident that Congress has
begun none too soon to make dill
gent inquiry into the conduct of the
| war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-01
Over tie 1os
;~ Pex~a.

A tale of extremely hard luck
comes from Erie where the chief of
the fire department killed a twenty
five pound turkey with kindness.
Keeping him at a fire engine house
the turkey was so completely fed that
when they were about to assassinate
him for New Years Day he wabbled
around a few moments and dropped
dead.
If the moving picture censors of
Pennsylvania want to do the public
q good turn let them provide muzzles
for those who insist on reading out
loud the explanatory text on the
screen.
"Our gunners got the range at last
and dropped a shell right in among
EN-; when 1 looked again they was
gone!"
For good?"
We'll, miss, they went in that di-
rection!"
Harrisburg might take a hint. In
Allentown prisoners sentenced al
police court and transients are to be
put to work chopping kindling wood
which will be given to the Associated
Charities for distribution to the poor
John Wesley, the great founder OF
Methodism, once said: Make all you
can; save all you can; give all you
can"
He is mans best friend. "Clinging
desperately to cakes of ice in the
Conestoga creek, near Peoples
bridge, for more than one-half hour
on Christmas afternoon, August
Ellis, aged so years, of Sunnyside
was rescued from his plight by
neighbors, who were attracted to his
predicament by the sharp, prolonged
barks of a faithful dog"
Hostility of the younger members
to German led to an epoch making
step by the Reformed Church con-
sistory at Leesport, made up chiefly
of Pennsylvania Germans, when il
announced that there will be no more
German preaching at services. Al
one time all the services were in
German.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-01

n N the evening of August 12,
1853. Frederick II of Prussia,
soldier, statesman and first
Germany, gave way to despair for
the first and only time in his career.
For five years, with the financial
aid of England. he had been lighting
the allied armies of Austria, Russia,
SaXony and Sweden-the first five
years of the Seven Years War which
changed the course of history on
three continents and the high seas.
His army utterly routed at Kuners-
dorf in the afternoon, after uppar-
emily winning the victory in the
morning, Frederick's grasp on mill
tary science showed him that the war
was over-that the following up of
the days battle meant an end TO all
his dreams, a partition of his domi-
mons among the enemy allies and
the wiping out forever of the Prus-
sian nation,
No wonder, then, that he wrote to
F1nckenstein, his minister. that
night:
Il have no resources left, and to
tell the truth. 1 hold all for lost. 1
shall not survive the ruin of my
country. Farewell forever"
NO WOnder tnaC ne turned the
command of his army over to Gen.
eral Finck and departed with the
vial of poison he had kept in readi-
ness to end his own life rather than
submit to capture. That he fully in
tended to commit suicide that fate
full night nearly all historians are
agreed.
History's Course Changed Over Night
Had Frederick drunk the poison,
the entire course of the world would
have been changed. There would
have been no German Empire to
threaten Christian civilization with
domination one hundred and fifty
years later in war eclipsing all
previous conceptions of human con-
tiict. And, of immediate conse-
quence, there would have been no
Frederick the Great, for Frederick
II gained this title as a result of the
Seven Years War.
Destiny had other plans for the
chief actor in the drama, however.
The Austrians and Russian armies
which at Kunersdorf had killed,
wounded and captured 1S,500 of
Frederick's men, leaving him only a
bare 3,000, failed to follow up their
advantage the next day. Frederick
took new hope and the war dragged
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-01
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Mayor Elect A. T. Connell, of
Scranton, likes to tell of the days he
spent in the Klondike.
d. w. Kuhn, the fuel admins
traitor in Allegheny county, threat
ems to bring suits If people do not
shut off the lights which they are
ordered to extinguish at night.
DIR. r. V. Mattison, the Ambls<
magnate, has retired from the eles1s
trio business to give his time to as
bestos manufacture for the GovernN
ment.
"A. NJ. Masonheimer, Carbon
county clergyman, has been chos
as chaplain of the Laurytown aims
house in the Middle Coal field poor
district.
John e. Hepburn, who will ne
tire soon as sheriff of Delaware,
plans to go to France.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-01
IN A NUTSHELL

"HE Saturday Evening Post OF
current issue sums up in a sim
gle paragraph the cause of news
paper and congressional criticism OF
the administrations conduct of the
war, when, speaking of the cabinet
it says:
That organization is doing an
enormous work; in many respects
doing it very efficiently; and. on
the whole broad view getting
steadily forward with it. On the
other hand, it is absurd to claim
that the Government is organized
as it would have been IL anyone
had deliberately and disinterest-
edly organized IL to undertake the
vast task of this war, or that 1t
has not blundered and wasted
time. 1t contains some very in
conspicuous abilities, while some
of the most conspicuous abilities
in the nation are excluded from il.
People don't like that.
That is precisely the situation
There are little men in big places
while really big men are left with
nothing to do, as in the case OF
former Presidents Taft and Roose.
velt, or side-tracked, as was Genera
Wood. All this for the sake of poll.
tics. while the life of the nation il
at stake.
AS the Post intimates, Lore
Northcliffe's view of Lloyd George
might apply to President Wilson, t.
wit, that he is an able man will
two or three able men about hin
and the remainder mostly shirt
fronts and rubber stamps"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-01
SHOES. SHIPS. SEALING WAX

~ EN-. CROzIER, Chief of Ord
= nance, was the first witness
heard by the Senate Committed
which, is making an inquiry into the
war activities of the Administration
He was asked what his branch of
the service did in the way of prepar-
ing for the inevitable war in the in
terval between the departure of Won
Bernstorff and the actual declara-
SION Of war. There was great deal
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-01

Don't put the if in thrift.-Boston
Herald.
These young chaps who feel that
they must wear one of those swagger
belted trench-overcoats might be re-
minded that they can get one, free of
charge, from their Uncle Samuel
Nashville Southern Lumberman,
Trotzky is now said to be worth
100000. Probably it is meant that
he has picked up that amount some
where. However, we take back the
implication - Trotzky is probably
worth 100000 to the Kaiser-Chi-
cago Daily News.
Dernburg gives good advice to the
German diplomatic staff when telling
1t to show some respect for the prob
abilities in telling a lie. "Our lies"
he complains, ARE clumsy and i'm
probable" which statement may be
taken as expert testimony.-San
Francisco Chronicle.
Russia's reds appear to be giving
the people the blues.-Nashville
Southern Lumberman.
The German hope of changing the
name-spelling to Palestein is gone
forever.-New York Morning Tele-
graph.
The British will soon fix 1t so that
a man can go from Jerusalem to
Jericho without falling among
thieves.-Erie' Dispatch.
The trouble with The Masses was
that its editors tried to camouflage
fnnt CnlN NKYff1 I,A l1kA
Philadelphia Inquirer.
AS an opportunity for the German
Crown Prince to show his ability, the
war may already be said to be a
failure.-Columbus Dispatch.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-01
OUR DAILYLAUGH
A GOOD PLAN.

Her husband
let's her have
her own way in
everything.
It's a good
idea.
1t Is. She
cont want to do
half as many
things she used
to when she
thought he was
going to object
to her doing
some of tEeyn.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-01

good in another year, it must face a
very insistent demand for it's elimina-
tion or a very radical change in its
provisions.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-01

Female operatives in the shirt and
collar industries of Derry. Ireland
will make a demand for a war bonus
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-01

The eight-hour day is being estab-
lished in New Bedford. Mass, cotton
yarn mills by Stationary Firemens
Union.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-01
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg site was vis-
tied by Penn's agents as early
as 1908?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-01
THE CHANGE.
EXCEPTION
WE ALL
MAKE.

THE CHANGE.
How's your
coal bin?
8 ay. IT. 3
queer q b o u {
that. A little
pile a few years
ago that used to
hide in the
corner and re-
mind me to or
der more Is COM
sidered q full
bin nowadayz
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-01

Montreal, Quebec, fur workers have
improved conditions, securing an in
crease in wages, 4S-hour week and
full recognition of their union.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-01
I,AROR NOTES

Twenty-Five per cent. of the total
number of munition workers in Eng
land are women.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-01
The State Press

One of the most amazing develop
ments of the war is the recovery of
Belgium. Let us not pity her. A
nation that rises above overwhelm-
ing woes is not nation to pity. She
should rather be admired for her
virile strength. Man for man, Bel
GUMS soldiers are the biggest, ply
spirit is beyond praise. To-day af-
ter holding Germany for three years
their army is vastly larger" than
when flung back into the last re-
naming corner of their territory
Altoona Mirror.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-01

Belfast Qreland) Corporation has
decided to grant a war bonus of $12E
to each employe receiving a salary
of $4,000 and less.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-01
HIsTORIC HARRIsBURC

Every Harrisburg church was Of
fered for the use of the Legislature
when this place was chosen as the
capital. ~
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-01
REST ATTAINED BY FAITH

For we which have believed do en-
ter into rest.-Hebrews iv. 8.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-01

st. Louis, Mo-, metal polishers have
had wages increased from 40 to so
cents an hour; work week reduced
from fifty-four to forty-nine and a
half hours.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-01

We haven't of course been living
under a perfect form of government.
no people ever has or ever will, but
we firmly believe that our form of
government has been the most near
ly perfect, with all its imperfections,
that any people have yet had the
privilege of enjoying.-York Ga
Zette.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-01

AS an opportunity for the German
Crown Prince to show his ability, the
war may already be said to be a
failure.-Columbus Dispatch.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-01

Women convicts in Alabama are
sold to contractors for 15 cents a day
and housed in filthy stockades.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-01

The trouble with The Masses was
that its editors tried to camoufiage
themselves with the letter "M."-
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-01

A city ordinance has been passed
at Orange, Tex, which provides that
all contract work for the city shall
be done by union labor.