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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-29
BEGIN DISARMAMENT
OF NAVAL RESERVE
Bureau of Navigation Takes
Stems Toward Demobiliza-
ton of Officers ,

Steps looking to the demobilizatoh
of officers of the Naval Reserve Force
were taken today by the Bureau OF NaVi-
CATION which sent to all commahoahts
and force commanders instructions gov
erning action on application from olllcers
for return to inactive service
All officers who can be spared from
their present duties will be returned
to civil life as quickly as the exigencies
of the service permit, but attentloh was
called to the fact that legisla'lon If
being considered which will allow olll-
GERS who hold temporary appointments
in the regular navy or commissioned OF
warrant rank in the Naval Reserve
Force on active duty to become per
manent officers line or staff, in the reg
ular navy.
The bureau said it was very desirable
that officers serving on ships for pur'
poses of training or graduates OF ON
GERS material schools on shore await
ing training, atloat should finish thel'
courses. Except for urgent reasons theiG
release from active duty will not be
favorably considered until their train
ing period is completed.
Instructions covering the release o
the first quota are:
First TO return to schools or col
legeS to complete unhnlSheu education
Second. To resume an essential indus
trial occupation. Third. on account o
urgent business. Fourth. on account o
dependency of family.
Men enrolled in the naval reserv
| force for special technical duties o,
shore shall be released when their ser\
! ices are not longer required
Retired men of the navy on acttv
duty may be released from active dut
| upon their own request.
Aviation personnel will not be in
cluded in the quota OF men to be release
at this time, but will be covered by sepa
rate instructions.
Men in naval units of the studen
army training corps will not be include
in the quota of men to be released a
this time.
owing to the present shortage i
certain ratings. releases from active dut
or discharges as provided herein will nc
be authorized for the present in the 70
lowing ratings:
"Gunners mates (torpedo). Machir
lists mates (tOrpedo). Electrician
(radio). Machinists' mates (eXcept gas
oline machinists' mates). Enginemel
Water tenders. Bolermakers and COZ
persmiths. Hospital corps men,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-29
POOL ROOM BANDITS
KNOWN TO POLICE
Son of Municipal Employe
Said to Have Removed
Gamblers Valuables

The police say they know all i've OF
the bandits who Yesterday held up
Charlie" Kelker's poolroom, % North
Thirteenth street, and that one of the
gang is the son OF municipal job
holder.
who deftly removed the valuables of
the ten sports" in the room while his
four companions in western style, train
ed automatics on the sheared flock
According to Captain Souder of the
detective bureau. one of the gang mem
bers was Mike Duffy, who two weeks
ago escaped from detectives at Fifth
street and Susquehanna avenue.
Detectives at roll-call today scanned
the photographs of the FIVE men said
| to have engineered the hod-up. Several
of the suspects are known as gun
toters," quick on the trigger Captain
Souder advised the plain clothes men to
be ready for some rapid shooting If the
men are cornered and fight back.
The police are using every effort to
shield the victims from publicity. Kel-
ker's place has been raided by the
police several times, but those present
at Yesterdays entertainment are deemed
of such Importance as to warrant the
best protection the police bureaus ''se-
cret diplomacy" can afford
Four of the victims have been reveal.
ed. Two were vice squad detectives
said to have visited the place "on police
| business" All they lost was their guns
They are Thomas F. Leo and william
Palmer.
a third victim was Kelker himself
Tho bandits relieved him of a diamond
ring said to be worth $500 and a rol
of $500. The latter is said to have beer
the bank Of the ''house."
Other victims are said to have includ
ed at least one well-known politician
three wealthy men-about-town. and
"spender" prominently identified will
the liquor interests.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-29

years Of age, was struck by an auto
mobile last night at Columbia avenue
and Gratz street and sustained n frac-
tured rib and possible internal Injuries.
She was taken to ST. 1oseph's Eosp'tal
and Charles Barr, Nicholas street near
Twenty fourth, the driver Of the car.
was arrested.
Two more reports of persons Killed
by automobiles were received today,
making n total of seven motor fatalities
since Sunday
Isaac Pennell, twenty-four, 2315 North
Fifteenth street was struck by ma
chine at Fifteenth street and Mont
gomery avenue late last night. He was
removed to the St. Joseph's Hospital
and died this morning. The driver of
the automobile, william Herbert, $3.50
Haverford avenue is being detained by
the police of the Nineteenth and oxford
streets station.
The other victim Is an unidentified
woman, about sixty years of age, who
! was struck by machine driven by
Herbert Klee. 320S Chestnut street. The
| woman was crossing Market street at
Forty-first street when she was hit by
the automobile. Her body was taken to
the mOrgue.
Klee vas arrested by the police Of
the Thirty-ninth street and Lancaster
avenue station and will be given hear
ing today.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-29
Mrs. F. S. Edmonds to Sail

Mrs. Franklin Spencer Edmonds, wife
of the Philadelphia lawyer, will leave
for F'rahce to join her husband as soon
as she can obtain passport. Mr..
Fdmonds. who has been active in pro-
noting recreation camps for the men
in France, has been over there nearly
a year and will probably remain for six
months or so.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-29

Miss Anna Retzler. thirty years old.
Of Randolph street, above Oxford, is in
a critical condition at the Episcopal Hos
pital as the result of taking carbolic
acid, late yesterday. The young woman
had suffered a nervous breakdown and
was Respondent.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-29
Major Straight, U. S. A., Has Pneumonia

Paris, Nov. 29.-(By A. PD-The con-
dition Of Major Willard d. Straight of
the American Expeditionary Forces was
reported today as still dangerous. Major
Straight is i'll with pneumonia.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-02
Books For Soldiers
By THOMAS LYNCH MONTGOMERY, State Librarian.

thought that the soldier had no time
to read. That this is fallacy has been
proved by the results. Not only do
the camp libraries distribute as many
books as the public libraries in town
of the same size, but the reading
matter is of the highest type.
Six hundred thousand books, most
ly of a technical nature, have been
purchased and distributed for the
soldiers use. Every transport has
it's collection which is left on the
other side. The rooms provided by
all these various services are crowd
ed with those off duty for the mo-
ment at all hours-but meal times.
All these interests must be gener-
ously supported. The contributor
will receive no bond at Az per cent,
but he will be conscious of a very
much higher premium in the di-
version, instruction and entertain
ment of these wonderful lads who
are teaching the Hun how to fight
for a principle without expecting
reward.
Be sure thatyou do your best for
this noble work.
BOOKS FOR SOLDIERS
in the C's, on4the seas, and over the
"a
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-02
VIEW OF IT

tFrom a speech in London by
Premier Hughes of Australia, re-
ported in the London Times.l
Germany, baked of victory by the
sword, is %frantically striving not only
to void paying the penalties of her
crimes, but to win by craft that
which she failed to win by force.
With infinite cunning she is trying
to persuade the people of the earth
that she has repented of her crimes
in sackcloth and ashes. The Hohen-
zollerns. seeing fearful visions, speak
about the characterization of Ger
many. Hertling resigns. The
Socialists of Germany, their hands
red with the blood of the protelariat
of Europe, who have been and are
the servile instruments of the kaiser,
are pushed forward to strut the stage
in a new part.
The scene has changed. The
kaiser in 1914 stood in the forefront
of the stage, clad in shining armor,
and brandishing his sword on high,
with blasphemous tongue said, THE
Holy Spirit has descended upon me
because l am the emperor of the
Germans. l am the instrument of
the Most High. Woe and death to
those who resent my will" Now he
discreetly retires into the back
ground and pushes his tool, Scheide-
mann, or some other Socialist, into
the forefront. But all this hypocriti-
cal maneuvering will avail nothing.
1t will deceive no one who does not
wish to be deceived Not by such
/ devices, or by any, can the Hun
escape the penalty of his dreadful
crime. Before the bar of the civil
lized world he has been a%djudged,
found guilty, and must drink the
/ cup to its dregs. Only in this way
can justice be done and civilization
be ensured against u repetition of
his crime.
That is the view, l hope, that the
people of the earth are taking OF
this hypocritical maneuvering in
Germany to-day. 1t may be that
there will be a change. 1t may be
that the Hun will grant constitu-
tional reform. but not one of these
things will put France back where
she was and restore her ruins and
her industries; will put Belgium
where she was. or bring the hap
less men and women who have been
butchered . Let them pay the price.
(Cheers.) And when they have done
/ that, so far as 1 am concerned, they
shall be welcomed into the family OF
the nations, just as any other Grim
inal who has served his sentence is
received into the community of the
people. But until then-No. ]
hope that the Allies are firmly de-
termined to push this war to the
end, and that they will not be by
any means cowed out of their
august rights.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-02
The Hund of Judas

tFrom a sermon by the Rev. S..
Parkes Cadman, delivered in Brook
Ign, n. Y, October 20.l
Some ignominious correspondent
from Washington hints, in a local
sheet, that we have no desire to
punish Germany. AS to that, some
sins are punishable here, others go
forward to heavens tribunal for
their punishment. But what do
you think of the general situation?
Are we prepared to take the hand
of this Judas and begin to huckster
with him? 1t has been suggested
that the Socialist party in Germany
will be the means of contact. Yet,
with some exceptions, and these in
dividual ones, no party has been
more r%ecreant to its own teachings
than the Socialists of that empire.
They are foresworn themselves and
split their propaganda. l speak
under restraint, since none know
what a day or an hour will bring
forth.
But this much 1 say, Germany
must make an unconditional sur
render and the Allied Powers must
dictate the terms of peace. If this
adjustment comes tomorrow, well
and good. But come when it may,
it is the only adjustment that can
satisfy the justice with Which we
set out and with which we must
keep step. When Belgium, Serbia,
the Slavonic peoples, Armenia, Po-
land, the South American states,
Japan, and the four great powers
of the Entente have agreed what
to do, that will be done. The pro-
cedure, the forms observed, are
secondary.
Lord Reading said during the last
week hat Justice is merciful when
there are e~Xtenuating circumstances,
! but where there are none it be-
hooves Justice to be stern. l take
1t that you are ready to extend
clemency if any one will find the
eXtenuating circumstances. | con-
fess | find few, except for the misled
and ignorant peasants of Austria
and Germany.
And if we propose to make guilt
personal, how can the houses of
HohenzolIern and Hapsburg escape?
1t is presumable that they will shift
their sails to the changing winds,
if possible. to save their dynastic
hopes by immolating those of the
peoples cursed by their sway. But
it seems clear that when we have
won the war, which we have yet to
win, the kaisers and their families,
the sultan and his harem, and their
counselors and agents, must be
brought to the bar of an outraged
C~hristendom. We have no need to
demand more than that. Give them
an open and impartial trial, and
then let Justice, always Justice, pre-
vail.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-02
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Justice Alexander Simpson, Jr.,
started in life as a carpenters ap-
prentice and studied law in spare
time.
Congressman Henry J.. Steele. of
Easton, is a banker and active in
business in the Delaware and Lee
high Valleys.
Senator Marshal Phipps, of
Venago, is a former National Guard
officer.
General G. d. Dougherty, one of
the election commissioners, has serv-
ed in that capacity the last three
years.
Walter McNichols, the acting
Commission of Labor and Industry,
began his business career in a store
in Scranton.
Congressman Thomas s. Crago
is one of the men most consulted by
War Department officials in regard
to army legislation for the val
Representative John M. Flynn,
of Elk, who is unopposed, is a big
manufacturer who likes public life
for the fun he gets out of 1t at leg
islative sessions.
Henry X. Boyer, Montgomery
food administrator and former
State Treasurer has resigned office
owing to his health.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-02

and conducted so as not to inter
fere with work at the camps. Thus
far NJ refusals have come from
camp commanders and It is believed
that the Influenza ban will not pre-
vent votes being taken.
Commissioners will be sent to
every place where there are 25 or
more nen. They will be expected to
return as soon as opssible.
"A sensation was created In
Lackawanna political circles yester-
day when Joseph Brennan, Demo
cratic county chairman, sent a mes
sage to Governor Brumbaugh ask
ing him to permit an overseer to
accompany to camp James Cook,
one of the commissioners named to
take the vote of soldiers from that
county. The Democratic county
committee offered to pay the ex-
penses of such an %overseer, but to
date the Governor has not replied to
the telegram. Mr.. Brennan's rea-
sons for suggesting the appointment
of an overseer were due to the fact
that Democrats were d~ispleased with
the manner in which Mr.. Cook per-
formed his duties as a vote commits
sioner at Camp Hancock a year ago.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-02
BURNING UP N

7 Asst year the United States lost
- through the burning of prop
erty, $3.50, 900, 600. This year
the damage may be larger.
This is a frightful loss, all the
more to be regretted because it is
estimated that more than $40, 000,-
600 of the damage was preventable.
That means the fires should not have
occurred. 1t means that somebody
was careless.
The problem comes right home to
each one of us. The next fire may
take place in your home or your
place of business or the factory,
office or store in which you work.
No matter how we'll covered by i'm
surance the property may be, you
would lose money by a fire, either
directly or through loss of employ
ment. Each of IFS has something
to lose by fire, so it becomes the
duty, If only for selfish reasons, for
every of us to do what we can
to prevent fire. Rubbish and litter
mean fire risk. Clean yards, base
ments and attics are safeguards any
Of us may take.
Careful people seldom have
fires" says an authority writing on
the subject. If that is rue we must
have many careless persons in Har-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-02
HISTORIC HARRISBURC
Gipina 'Eneru Is Due

[From the Tid-Bits, London1
COW are you terday, Mrs. Jones?'
said Mrs, Muggins from the corner
house. I'm very sorry to ear of
the death Of your husband"
Eyes, dead and buried Q is, too
said the widow, drying her eyea
with the corner of her apron. "Eh!
bless i'm, / gev i'm a good funeral;
e 'ad sixty followers"
low did yer manage to feed
all them?" gasped Mrs. Muggins.
well, ter tell yer the 'onest
truth, Mrs. Muggins, / couldn't gel
food no 'ow, an / didn't like to
seem mean, COS Emery, bless i'm,
was well insured. Wen we come
back from the cemetery 1 ups an
tell 'em to go home for their tea.
an then come back ere. So to
show 'em it wasn't meanness, I
took 'em all to the 'Ippedrome and
paid for EN-. Poor Emery. 1t was
a grand funeral, but none too good
for i'm, bless lint"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-02
MIR. KREIDER UNOPPOSED

~ MALL wonder that Democrats at
Washington learned with aston
ishment that National Chairman
Vance c., Mccormick is content to
lose his Congressional district to the
Republicans without a struggle at a
time when the President himself is
begging every Democrat to strain
every effort to elect Democratic Con-
Rressmen. How can MI. Wilson hope
to arouse the interest Of Republican
voters in Democratic candidates
when the man who should be his
chief lieutenant in this time of stress
for the administration has been at
no pains to see that his party is rep
resented by a nominee in his own
home district?
OF course it would be impossible
to elect a Mccormick candidate to
Congress in Dauphin, Lebanon and
Cumberland counties. The very
brand of Mccormick politics would
defeat him, for the voters here know
Mccormick and what he stands for
and have defeated him and his cam
didates repeatedly ever since he and
Palmer took over the wreck of
the poor old Democratic machine
in Pennsylvania. But Democrats
throughout the country, however,
are not acquainted with these facts,
and 1t is but NATURAL they cannot I'M
derstand the National Chairman's
apparent indifference to his party's
interests.
There is also another prime reason
why Mccormick did not think it
worth while to enter the Congress-
ional lists this fall and that lies in
the splendid record and personal
popularity of Congressman A. S.
Kreider, who has represented the
district so we'll since the memorable
campaign of 1912 when he was
elected in a hot three-cornered fight.
Mr.. Kreider is not only a staunch
Republican but he is a thoroughgo-
ing American and his war plat
form is summed up in the words
Unconditional Surrender"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-02
Vote For Good Roads

From the Philadelphia Inquirer
The State Grange-supposed to
represent the farmers of Pennsyl-
vania-in sending broadcast a poster
urging the voters to cast their bal
lots against the proposed amend
ment to the Constitution authorized
a $4,000, 900 bond issue for new
and improved highways, is guilty of
a narrow, selfish and reactionary
movement which deserves the on
demnation of all thinking citizens.
No class of citizens have been treat
ed with greater consideration than
the farmers; no class have had more
special legislation enacted in their
interest, and the reason for this is
based on the theory that they are
producers who deserve generous
treatment. That is as it should be,
but no one will deny the present
prosperity of the farmers; house
keepers and consumers generally can
testify that they have been paying
wartime prices for their supplies,
and yet in the face of all this we
have the State Grange making this
narrow plea for the defeat of a sore
ly needed public improvement on the
ground, perchance, that 1t may in
volve increased taxes for the farm
er,
As z matter of fact, it will not in
volve anything of the kind. The bond
issue, il authorized, will carry itself,
because the fees for licenses for au-
tomobiles in Pennsylvania already
amount to something like four mil
lion dollars a year, and with new
and improved roads they will con-
stantly grow larger. 1t has been
said, and it can be repeated with
confidence, that every individual and
home in Pennsylvania will be bene-
flied by the proposed bond issue. BY
a curious irony of fate, no class OF
persons in the state will derive SO
much benefit from the improved
roads which are to be the outcome
of the bond issue as the farmers. II
will mean the saving of time and
large sums of money in hauling pro-
duce from the farm to the table; il
will result in great economy in car
| rying fertilizers and supplies TO the
farm, and il will give the agriculture,
list an opportunity for better mar
kets for his products.
Those who are responsible for this
penny-wise and pound-foolish policy
of the State Grange should be
ashamed of themselves. 1t is only
fair to SUI that the real farm
ers are not in sympathy with this
| agitation of the political farmers
and that they are in harmony with
other progressive Pennsylvanians in
the movement for the establishment
of up-to-date and modern roads in
every part of the Commonwealth
Unfortunately. epidemic condition:
have~made it impossible to make the
right kind of an educational cam.
paign for the good roads amend
ment throughout the state, and the
responsibility for the amendment
now depends upon the citizen wher
he goes to the polls on Tuesday.
Look for the square designated as
Amendment No. 1 on the officia'
ballot, and be sure, to put a eros:
opposite the word yes" In thai
way you will vote to put Pennsyl.
vania in the forefront of the good
roads movement. 1t is q good bust.
ness proposition, and it is the per-
Torrance of a civic duty at the
same time. Don't be a clam! DOM
be a reactionaryt Cast your vote
for progress and good roads.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-02
THE TRUTH
By BRIGG
tFrom the New York SUM

In his address at Carnegie Hall
last evening Theodore Roosevelt de-
fined with absolute precision the
meaning of Presidents Wilson's
phrase 1.-The leaders of the minority,
although unquestionably pro-war,
have been anti-Administration," as
used in Mr.. Wilson's letter of last
Friday. Colonel Roosevelt said:
Now, what does Mr.. Wilson mean
when he speaks of these leaders as
being, although 'pro-war,' yet anti
Administration?
He means that when the War
Department was administered with
utter inetficiency they investigated
the matter and insisted upon eff
cheney.
HE means that when they found
that nothing effective was being done
in shipbuilding they insisted that the
work be speeded up.
He means that when they found
that 5000, 600, 900 had been spent for
~airplanes and yet that not an air.
plane had reached our soldiers at
the front they insisted that our
soldiers should get the airplanes for
which the people paid.
THE entire offence of the Repub-
licap leaders in Mr.. Wilson's eyes
is that they have demanded that
inefficiency, waste and extravaganza
be remedied. Such a demand he
treats as NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. In
other words, the attitude which pa
triotic people regard as prohibited
States he regards as anti-Adminis-
tration."
Nobody else has exposed with
greater clearness or more convinc-
ing particularly the exact signifi-
canoe of Woodrow Wilson's words
than did Theodore Roosevelt in
these unimpeachable sentences; and
few Americans, tortured though
thousands of them are by their con-
sciences, have the courage Theodore
Roosevelt displayed at this time in
uttering these unassailable truths.