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The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-12-21
CONTROL OF THE WIRES


Representative Moon, chairman Of the
House .Postoffice committee, has intro
duced Postmaster Generals bill, submit
ted as an administration measure, for
the continuance Of governmet control
and operation Of wires.
The fear that attaches to this govern
ment proposal is atleast worth congress
sional consideration. The control Of
wires raises an issue which is not so strik-
ingly and conspicuously raised in the
question Of government control and oper
alton Of any other utility and therefore
the control Of wires must be considered
from the viewpoint Of its peculiar rela-
ton to the democracy.
It means, in possibility, the control OF
opinion. It means that partisan use OF
the means of transmitting intelligence
can be made. 1t means that suppression
1of opinion and information is possible
and that such suppression can be under
taken by an administration for political
effect.
There is no means Of transmission Of
information and intelligence so sensitive
to covert governmental interruption and
interference as the wire service. 1t is the
wire service which brings-American cit-
,zens nearly all their news and informa-
tions upon which their opinions are bas-
ed. Upon their political decisions their
government end its acts are based.
To tamper with the method by which
their information arrives to them is to
tamper directly with the means by which
they arrive at their decisions. There
fore the control Of wires is in possibility
I, control Of opinion and control OF deci-
sions and q control Of government
The worst seldom happens In the Am
erisan republic. What is most menacing
in possibility usually is avoided. But it !
is not safe to count upon this avoidance.
We cannot increase constantly the dis.
ease germs in the American system OF
political being and rely constantly upon
The effective work Of the white blood cor
puscles, the cleansers, in the American
corporation.
No intelligent democracy weakens its
protectives and increases the strength OF
the attack upon them. This consideration
Il submitted for the thought Of congress-
men who win be called upon to deal with
the administration proposition to take ov-
er the control Of the wires.
A government control Of the wires
needs the safeguards which will insure
the fair transmission Of news, inf0rma-
ton and opinio in order that there may
not be in q thousand ways open to Q par
tison controller Of the wires, an Interrupt
tion Of the fair play and transmission Of
intelligence upon which American deci-1
sions are based.
If we 20 to government control and OPP
Grafton Of this utility it must be, for the
safety Of the United States, upon basis
which insures and guarantees absolute
non interference with the wires for poll
tical purposes.
WHAT OF GREAT LAKES
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-12-21

the most generous, not more than few
dollars.
Your contributions to America in war
were duty. Your Good Fellow action
should be pleasure. For the results of
Good Fellowship are double edged-they
make the children feel fine and they
make you feel finer. You are not asked
to give much money in this enterprise of
love-it is simply giving you the opportun
ity to meet your neighbors who need
cheer.
How many children for your kindness
this year, Mr.. Good Fellow?
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-12-21

ued. many would be idle. There are
many undertakings that will not be
possible II war time wages are to be
exacted. Every reasonable man will
desire that wages be kept as high
as continuance Of industry will per-
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-12-21

init. but it is both uhsound and un-
wise to declare that any class Of peo-
pie, whether laborers or capitalists,
whether employers or employees win
resist to the uttermost" and rever-
zion from war time conditions.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-22
DON'T BE SENSITIVE

In an article called How 1 Cured
Myself of Being Sensitive" a writer
says in the March American Maga-
zine:
Wagner, you've got ability he
cried, but you'll never get anywhere
in this world until you quit tearing
ourself to pieces! I've watched you
for the past three years; twice I've
had it in mind to push you up a
notch in the office, and every time
I've passed you and picked some
one else, because 1 know you aren't
fit to handle other men. No man
is fit to handle other men until he
has learned to control himself. You
can't, you're too blamed sensitive.
Little setbacks break your
heart. A letter of complaint comes
in from some customers and you
take it as a personal criticism, and
lose a days work brooding over it.
You see me in conference with some
of the other men, and you stab your
self wondering why you weren't in
vited, and imagine that 1 have turn
ed against you. You hear about
someone who is making more money
than you, and Immediately all far
fields look greener. You're a fairly
useful cog in your present job, and
it might put me to some annoyance
to lose you. But you'll never hold
big job until you can forget your
own petty self and learn to laugh
when the world takes a crack at
you. Hanged If l don't think some
times it might be better. if you were
to get out and try your hand some
where else"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-22
WHY WOMEN FOUGHT

An American woman who spent
over a fortnight with the Women 5
Battalion of Death in Russia tells
in the March Womans Home Com
panion what led them to volunteer.
She says:
Many had joined the regiment
because they sincerely believed that
the honor, and even the existence,
of Russia were at stake and that
nothing but a great human sacri-
flee could save her.
Some, like Bachkarova, in the
days of the Siberian village, had
simply come to the point where
anything was better than the dreary
drudgery and the drearier waiting
of life as they lived it.
Personal troubles had driven
some of them out of their homes
and on to the battleline. One girl,
asked her reason for joining, My
reasons are so many that 1 would
rather not tell them
There was a Cossack girl from
the Ural Mountain, fifteen years old,
with soft, brown, questioning eyes
and deep, rich color tinting her dark
cheeks. Her father and two bro
theirs had been killed early in the
war. Soon after, her mother, who
was ii lSIu ulSu Ii Olil NllC
effects of a German bomb thrown
upon the hospital where she r:as
working. She was absolutely alone
in the world.
"'What else is left for me" she
asked with a pathetic droop to her
strong young shoulders.
Two girls, Red Cross nurses, who
had already been decorated four or
five times for service to their coun-
try, said they had seen too many
brave men suffer and die for Rus
sia to be willing to see her sacri-
feed now on the Kaiser's altar.
"One serious-looking woman who
took no part in any of our frivoli-
ties carried a photograph in her
kit-bag. 1t was the picture of her
husband-who is a prisoner in Aus
tria-holding a small boy on his lap.
The child had died the week be-
fore the regiment was formed, and
there were other things that rob-
bed danger of all its sting for her.
ION a cord around each girls
neck was a collection of sacred
medals and tiny cloth pouch, whose
contents 1 had speculated upon.
What will you do If you are
taken prisoner 1 asked Skridlova
one day.
"'No one of us will ever be taken
alive she answered, and pulled out
the little gray pouch. 1t is the
strongest and surest kind there is,
she said"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-22
LABOR IN UNIFORM

Sometimes, as / sit at my window
at this cantonment, l think of the
psychology of clothes. Put me into
the rough-and-ready riding things
of my Western trips, and 1 am a
vagabond. Put almost any frivolous
girl into nurses uniform and watch
her very thoughts sober and change.
And so 1 wonder about an army
uniform. o.
1t makes a difference in a man.
He develops the esprit de corps of
the army. We have excellent ex-
amples of this in our police force
and among our postal carriers. They
wear the badges of great organiza-
tions. They are marked men. And
they carry well the dignity of their
positions.
What of uniforming labor? Sure
ly the man at home, in munition
and shipbuilding plants, in all the
other industries which are fighting
this war as certainly as the soldiers
at the front-surely that man de-
serves to wear a uniform showing
what he is doing.
And I venture to go further. Put
labor into uniform, and many of our
labor troubles will cease. 1t need
not be the army uniform. 1t should
not be. But by doing this the man
himself will develop an esprit de
corps-the conviction that he is OF
those chosen to help. He is, wher-
ever he goes. a marked man, a man
given, as truly as any soldier, to
the country's service. Think IL over
employers of labor, lying awake
nights to hold your organizations
ogether.-Mary Roberts Rinehart
in the Saturday Evening Post,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-22
ASH REMOVALS

"HE condition in which Harris
burg Councilmen on their in
spection trip yesterday found
the streets of the city shows the ut
ter folly of putting the matter of ash
removals up to the private citizen.
The highways of town were never
so dirty and bedraggled as they are
at this time. The householder is not
to blame so much as the system, or
lack of it. If there is nobody to COL
lect the ashes when they accumu-
late and no place to dump them ex-
cept the streets, why into the streets
they will go, regulation or no regu-
lation. This is by no means an
apology or an excuse for those who
litter the highways with filth. but it
is a plea and reason for the in
auguration of a city-controlled sys-
tenn of ash collections. These con-
ditions are bound to continue, to
greater or less degree, until some
such method is devised and enforced.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-22
Over hs Toh
tN Pemna.

No human mind can estimate the
various incidents and emotions of
this war. What instinct, for eX-
ample, prompted the Scotch flyer,
Tam, to risk his life by carrying q
wreath to the grave of the German
aviator, Won Zeidlitz, whom he
brought down. The account says:
The wreath in a tin box, firmly
corded and attached to a little para
chute, was placed in the fusilage of
q small Morane-his own machine
being in the hands of the mechanics
and Tam climbed into the seat
In five minutes he was pushing up
at the steep angle which represent
ed the extreme angle at which a
man can fly. Tam never employed
a lesser one.
Evidently the enemy scout real
lied the business of this lone British
flyer and must have signaled his
views to the earth for the anti-air-
craft batteries suddenly ceased fire
and when approaching Ludezeel
Tam sighted an enemy squadron en-
gagged in practice fight, they op-
ened out and made way for him,
offering no molestation.
Tam began to plane down. He
spotted the big white speckled ceme-
terry and saw a little procession
making its way to the grounds. He
came down to a thousand feet and
dropped his parachute. He saw it
open and sail earthward and then
someone on the ground waved a
white handkerchief.
"Guid," said Tam
Great Britain is to have stand
ard s12 suit of clothes for all men.
Zowie! If Pennsylvania follows the
example We'll be sure that Sherman
had the correct idea.
A contributor to the Zenda Citizen
so confidently believes in optimism
and cheerfulness that he takes the
measure of the sourfaced in these
lines:
The dog gazed at the big round moon
That was sailing through the sky,
And he chewed on the bones of the
big raccoon
And winked his evil eye.
Said the dog: That moon thinks he
is big.
But he really makes me smile,
So I guess I'll howl awhile.
So he howled and he yowled,
And he barked and he yelled,
But the moon still stayed serene,
And he sailed right on, till the break
of dawn
Brought the light and he couldn't
be seen.
And that's just the way with lot of
folks.
When they see that others can
smile,
They say: He's a fright
To be happy's not right,
So 1 guess I'll howl a while"
So they howl and they yell,
And they start raisenell.
But the guy with the smile doesn't t
mind
They can argue and fuss,
But he doesn't give a cuss
From opinions from folks of that
kind.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-22

comforts and conveniences and
cheering, uplifting surroundings
that would be- impossible were its
ministering services absent. 1t
keeps the home fires burning in
the soldiers heart. 1t makes a bet
ter fighting man of him and a better
citizen.
Not many soldiers were members
of the Y. NJ. c. A, possibly, when
they enlisted, but all of them Will
be Y. NJ. c. A. boosters" when they
come home and the livest kind of
prospects" for the associations in
their respective towns. The return
ing soldiers will look upon the Y.
NJ. c. A. building as something pc
culiarly their own. The Y. NJ. Z. A.
must stand ready to do for the
homecoming soldier as much as 1t
has done for the soldier in the held.
1t can be especially helpful in MS
period of readjustment to peacefui
pursuits and domestic surroundings.
1t can be made to WELD a tremend-
Gus influence for good IN all MS
after life.
To that end, those who are at the
head of the organization work and
the local secretaries and their boards
of directors must work night and
day to make the association in each
town ready for the influx OF new
members that is bound to follow the
war. They must be up and doing.
They must see to it that their plants
are sufficient in capacity to care for
increased memberships. They must
organize themselves for this new
tvpe of service. They must be as
ready in peace as they have showed
themselves in war. ..I
Very likely these matters VIII
come before the State convention
now in session here. 1t would not
be like the Y. NJ. c. a. executives
to miss such a splendid opportunity
as is about to be presented to them.
They must reverse the old adage and
in time of war prepare for peace
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-22
The Freight Truck

Army freight trucks travelling on
their own power from Detroit to the
Atlantic seaboard in midwinter,
demonstrate the possibility of using
the motor vehicle on the public
highway as an adjunct to rail trans
portation. But the first essential
is a hard surfaced road. In winter,
freezing temperature supply the
hard surface, but in summer only a
we'll improved highway can be de-
pended upon. Just now, when we
have such large quantities of army
supplies to transport and so many
soldiers to be moved, the desirability
of permanently improved highways
is impressed upon the country.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-22
Defeat Will Benefit the Germans

We'll. this nation sings no hymn
of hate. The spirit of those who
Will carry the Stars and Stripes to
Berlin is not the spirit of hatred.
When the well-loved and faithful
dog of the household goes mad and
menaces the lives of friends and
neighbors. it is not hatred that fires
the bullet to end it's madness. Be-
cause this mad dog of Europe must
be stopped in his career of death
does not mean that hatred has rails
ed the army that will accomplish
that necessary end.
Bless them that curse you. Do
good to them that hate you,' said
Jesus.
We'll. the blessings of our cause
in victory will be to those men
who face our soldiers in battle, as
well as to those brave ones in whose
support our men are fighting. The
good of liberty will be for the Ger
man people as well as truly as for
all other peoples of earth. No great
er good could come to the people of
Germany who are fighting now the
battles of their kaiser than the de-
feat and utter annihilation of the
spirit of that ruler who drives them
to the battlefield"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-22
CLEARING THE WAY

~ ROCEDURE of the Public Ser
Commission in calling for argu-
ment on the proposition
whether it has jurisdiction in de-
Gliding complaints against increases
of trolley fare to six cents where
there are franchise ordinances stipu-
laing five cents is a step in the
right direction, Notwithstanding crit-
cisms leveled at it. The question
whether the Commission or the
courts, or either, can decide con-
tractual propositions such as fran
chise ordinances has been looming
up for some time. Because the
Commission passes upon such mat
ters as municipal contracts some
people have held that it has au-
thority to construe them and that
under the general regulatory powers
sfSan to the Legislature the Com
nasssion, created by the General AS
sembly, can decide contract prob
lens. Others hold that it is for
the courts to determine contracts.
Counsel for municipalities at the
hearing here Tuesday declined to
surrender the idea that the cities
and boroughs are supreme.
Thg argument brought together
some Of the best legal talent special
izing in municipal and street rail-
way matters and the Commission
will soon have the benefit of the
pleadings and can then determine
upon its course. Many communities
oppose six cent fares as unreason-
able. These complaints, like those
involving service, are distinct from
fare questions where ordinances es-
tablish five cents. BY settling the
question of jurisdiction the Com
mission will clear the way for try
ing the biggest question in public
service that has arisen this winter
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-22
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Commends Telegraph
70 the Editor of the Telegraph:


| want to congratulate you on
your leading editorial of last Satur-
day on the subject of the prohibition
amendment, reiterating the attitude
taken by the Telegraph some time
ago. Your editorial was fearless.
clear and strong. There is no good
reason why the sentiment of the
state should not prevail in having
PENNSYLVANIA in the foremost rank
of the states ratifying the amend
ment. This is not a political ques-
uon, and we are not political pro-
hibitionists" but it is a great moral,
economic question concerning the
welfare of the people. and the first
chance we have had to settle it
nationally-and finally, l am glad to
note the attitude of the Telegraph
in fearlessly presenting the issue and
opportunity to the people of Dauphin
County. Sincerely yours,
E. H.. WALLOWER.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-22
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Judge TT. A. Fuller has stirred
up Luzerne county by intimating
that II p. m. may be the closing hour
for saloons in that county.
IT. II. Given, the Pittsburgh pub
Usher banker, is taking a hand in
the Democratic state politics these
days.
General Charles T. Cresswell
has been busy in the western part
of the state working up the Reserve
Militia.
"A. A. Vosburg, active in the
movement for a reclassification of
state cities, is former Lackawanna
Judge.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-22
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY -, 1918
WASHINGTON

TT oWEVER his military fame may
IL excite the wonder of mankind.
1T is chiefly by his civil maEtstracx
that Washington's example will in
struct them. .. Such n chief
magistrate as Washington appear.
like the pole star in n clear sky, to
direct the skillfuI statesman. His
presidency will form an epoch md he
distinguished as the age of washing
ton. Already IL assumes its high
place in the political region. Like the
Milky Way, it whitens along its al
Iotted portion of the hemisphere. The
latest generations of men will survey.
through the telescope of history, the
space whence so many virtues blend
their rays and delight to separate
them into groups and distinct vir-
tues. As the best Illustration of
them, the living monument TO which
the first of patriots would have chosen
to cOnsign his fame, 1T is my earnest
prayer to heaven that our country
may subsist, even In that late day,
in the pIenItude of its liberty and
happiness and mingIe its mild glory
with wnshington's.-Fish Ames.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-22
HEAR THESE MEN

ONT fail to attend the great
patriotic rally at Chestnut
IL Street auditorium Monday eve
ming to hear George Wharton Pep
per. chairman of the State Public
Safety Committee; Howard Heinz
Federal Food Administrator for
PENNSYLVANIA, and Lieutenant Sutton,
a veteran Of the Galipoli campaign
and later of Flanders, tell US what
we must do to help win the war.
Each one at home must be a
soldier for Uncle Sam, serving as
truly and as courageously as the man
in the front line trenches. To many
of us the war has not been brought
home with the seriousness with
which we must come to regard it.
Our own part in it is not well de-
fined. We know that it is the duty
of each of US to buy Liberty Bonds
and Thrift Stamps and to give gen.
erously to the Red Cross, the Y. NJ.
c. A. and the other war service
funds. These things we have done.
We have not withheld our money
and many of US have worked in the
various campaigns and are doing
wonderfully good work in the Red
Cross. We have been told that it is
necessary to save -four and meats
and to conserve all manner of food
stuffs and fuel. But for some rea-
son or another this message has not
reached us with full force. 1t has
not been as personal as it ought to
be. We have thought too much of
it as applying to the other fellow
rather than to ourselves.
1t is for the purpose OF bringing
the war service message home to
each one of US that the meeting of
Monday evening is to be held, and
no speakers are better qualified for
that duty than Mr.. Pepper and Mr..
Heinz, both of whom have given up
practically all of their own affairs to
work without salary to help win the
war by making the home offensive
against the Germans just as effective
as we know the Army's will be when
it hurls itself against the Huns in
France. Mr.. Pepper is a noted law
yer and one of the best orators and
patriotic speakers in America, while
the name of Heinz is a household
word in the land and he is an un-
questioned authority on food. To
back up their message will be Lieu
tenant Sutton, whose word picture
of conditions abroad as he knows
them will add the final and clinch-
ing argument to the need of saving,
conserving and in every way back
ing up at home our men on the
firing line and helping keep the
wolf from the doors of our Allies in
England, France and Italy.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-22
TT AROLD BELL WRIGHT, theI
famous author. says in thel

IamOuS auInor, says In the
February American Magazine:
From our shores this gospel of
the man of Galilee and this gospel
of our national freedom have gone
forth to every land. To our shores
have come lives from every nation
TO be here fused into one national
life and to add thus to our ever
growing strength against this day
when, for all the peoples of earth,
the divine cause of humanity is to
be won or lost.
In the ranks of those who carry
our country's flag are men of every
land and blood-English and French
and German and Dutch and Spanish
and Armenians and Chinese and
Japanese and Africans and Indians.
There is scarce race on earth that
is not represented in this army of
liberty.
"Our army is the army of this
nation, but it is more: 1t is the
army of the liberty-loving world.
Its blood is the blood of humanity,
the humanity of Jesus, the humanity
for which Jesus lived and died.
But Jesus said, Love your enc
mics
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-22
Y. M. C. AS OPPORTUNITY

" HE Y. NJ. C. A. has justified
itself as an institution worthy
of popular support since the
war started, in the eyes of thousands
of people who thought little or moth
ing about the organizations previous
to the entry of the United States
into the conflict. The "Y" is the
biggest influence for good in the
soldiers life between the home and
the trenches. 1t carries to him
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-22
Compromise

A life of action If it is to be use
full must be a life of compromise.
A public man is often under the
necessity of consenting to measures
which he dislikes, lest he should
endanger the success of measures
which he thinks of vital Importance.
-Macaulay.