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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-02
\ NECESSARY SACRIFICE

"HE American people are MAX
ing their first great sacrifice of
comfort and convenience for the
prosecution of the way in the re-
striction of passenger traffic by the
government controlled railroads.
We have been so used to strolling
down to the depot at any hour and
taking a train for anywhere with
perfect assurance of arriving on time
at our destination that we will not
find it easy to face the new condi-
tions. 1t is a new story in American
railroading when freight is given
preference over passenger trains and
when coal cars receive more consid-
Grafton than Pullmans. But such are
the eXigencies of war and an adapt
able American public will not be
slow in getting used to the tenn
porary restrictions.
To hundreds of passenger train
men who must go back to the oper-
alton of freight trains the change
will come as a distinct hardship.
They will have to adjust themselves
to new conditions under difficult cir
cumstances. But they will have the
consolation CT knowing that their
sacrifice is necessary for the coun-
try's good and that they are per-
forming their patriotic duty Just as
much as though they had shouldered
arms and marched away with the
expeditionary forces.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-02
Irving to Save Militarism

Germany, through Count CZernin,
Austria's Foreign Minister, tells the
Russian agents of Trotzky that she is
willing to negotiate peace with all
of her enemies on the Russian basis
of no anneXations and no indemnities.
If we understand what she is driving
at, it is this: that the situation shall
revert to what it was before hostili-
ties began and that the Powers sit
around the green table and gamble
with the autocrats of Prussia.
There is just one feature of the
German proposition that is of strik-
ing interest. This is that the Kaiser
has abandoned for the present the
dream of the world conquest by
force; that he is trying to save his
own imperial authority; to maintain
his system of militarism intact in
order that he may hurl it again at
the opportune moment at the heads
of all nations that stand in the way
of his insatiate ambition. For it must
be remembered that he and his bar
barian advisers consider themselves
to be "the salt of the earth" with
the divinely-given mission of bring
ing all people under the domination
of German kultur. Such ambition
may be thwarted for the time being,
but it is not to be throttled short of
lilc lllOblhl6 VI ihiPSA ioliSii itSSiA'
And that is what the Allies are eX-
pecting to accomplish.
No anneXations and no indemni-
ties-it is a phrase that lends itself
to juggling. 1t has been twisted and
turned into meaningless expression
by Russia. And Russia is saddled
with the duty of passing it along to
the enemies of Germany. There is no
evidence that Germany has honest
intentions. Indeed, no anneXations
and no indemnities, as she probably
has them in mind, would deprive the
world of any benefits whatever as the
result of the long struggle; would
permit Germany to escape without
the slightest restitution for her
crimes; would refuse Alsace and
Lorraine to France; would restore
to the cruel domination of the Turks
the holy places of Palestine and
what there is left of the Armenian
people; would put no obstacle in the
way of the virtual sway of Germany
from the Baltic to the Persian Gulf
Mittel-europa would still be attain
able.
Germany is to-day the menace OF
the world. Germany under her prop
ositions advanced through the Rus
sian delegates to Brest-Litovsk would
continue to be a world menace. And
there can and will be no safety from
| that menace until Prussian despot-
ism and Prussian militarism are de-
stroyed.
Let us not be deceived by the Ger
man Emperor bearing gifts.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-02
WAR ADVERTISING

Whether or not wise advertisers
are planning to cut down the volume
of their advertising because of war
conditions has been a subject of
much speculation among sellers of
white space. In some quarters it has
been said, with a measure of con-
viction that seemed to argue direct
information. that the coming year
would see advertising greatly dimin-
ished Many advertising agencies
declared themselves ready for poor
business, taking it as one of the in
evitable consequences of the war.
To furnish to it's readers some
first-hand information on this sub
ject, The Editor and Publisher ask
ed a number of advertising man
ayers, who attended the convention
this week of the Association of Ma
tional Advertisers, what were their
plans for the coming year. Their re-
plies, so far as the inquiry extend
ed, leaves no room for any pessimism
on the part of the advertising agen-
cies nor of the publications carry
ing the copy of national advertisers
No effort was made to select any
particular concerns, nor any special
line of business endeavor, an effort
having been made to secure repre-
sentative opinion.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-02
YOUR SHARE

"He that loseth his life-shall fine
it,"
I wasted a moment My work un
done,
1 stopped a bit and had some fun
With the little ones waiting outside
my door.
l played for a moment; and tha
moments store.
OF pleasure still lives in the hearts
of three
The lad and the lassie, the heart o
me.
! wasted an hour! I shut my desk
left undone a momentous task
To tell sweet story to old ladies
three
The old ladies hobbled away in their
glee;
Hobbled and chartered with joy in
each eye.
My work lies unfinished-yet-
happy am /.
I wasted $. d week. There was much
To advance myself; but some wind
A linely orphan right into my home;
l stopped to give comfort to this sad
one.
The task I wanted to do still lies,
But the JOY is back in the little ones
eyes.
I'm wasting my life! 1t seems to
me
7 never shall get where want to be;
never shall be accomplished mol
/. great,
l never shall sit in a chair of state
So many things / must stop to do
I've no time for great things when ]
am through
I'm wasting my life! But the chill
dren smile,
And the old ladies drop in once IL
awhile,
And the poor lonely orphan goe
smiling by,
With the light of joy shining from
his eye.
I'm wasting my lifel My talents lii
| dead,
But l live in the joy of Others in
! stead.
Edna Croft DsihL
Paxtang, Pa.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-02
AUSTRIAN AIMS

In the course of a recent debate
in the Vienna Reichsrat the Czech
Socialist leader. Stransky. violently
attacked Germany and sharply
criticized Count Czernin's peace pro-
gram. Referring to Germany, Stran-
sky said it was the fatal desire for
the predominance of the German
nationality in Austria which had
brought on war.
But for that the concessions Of
fered by Serbia would have been
considered sufficient. Europe would
stand a strong Germany, but not
two strong German empires side by
side. governed from Berlin. Perhaps
after all, Great Britain, France ana
America are not so simple as TO nght
merely for the freedom of the Poles,
Bohemians and southern Slavs, but
fight rather for political reasons, Tor
securing the guaranty of an Austria
independent of Germany and not
ruled from Berlin. 1t has been as
serted that the alliance with Ger
many is indissoluble, but nothing on
earth is indissoluble. Even If the
union is so firm, circumstances may
arise to render it's continuance i'm
possible, because they affect not only
the policy but the actual existence of
the country. Referring to Count
CZernin. he called the counts peace
conditions nothing but phrases. They
were no conditions at all, but only a
designation of the situation which
should prevail after peace. They
were not even, as the count modest
" claimed, his own ideas, but were
''made in America" that is. they
were President Wilson's ideas put
forth at time when America was
OF naaoa
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-02

"Of what use is a debate on the
existence of the Deity? The invis-
ible can assume no earthly obliga-
tion, can bear no mortal burdens.
one might as reasonably say that
the ether bore a message; that there
was divine ordination in the sough-
ing of the night wind over the bat
tie field: that God was a mere road
to some desired end; that peace
could be found only at the te~min-
alton of that road. There is only
one God-fear. There is another
God--annihilation. EXpediency is
the intercessor and completes the
Trinity. Germany's one hope lies in
that Trinity.
"All hope in invisible intercession
must be put away. Fear of the
doom that awaits them must be in
spired in the breast of all who op-
pose Germany. In that lies her sal
vation. She must trust in no other
The struggle for unity would be its
own compensation. When that il
accomplished, Germany can dis.
pense her favors and can defy hel
enemies-and the invisible God"
And what has been the result oi
this religious relapse?
The terrible record of suicides
which appeared daily in the newspa-
pers, especially of women. Accord
ing to statistics, secretly passed about
in medical circles for fear of repres-
sion by the governm suicides
have increased 40.2 per 100000 in.
SaXeny alone; and throughout the
empire to 24.5 per 100000, an in.
crease of from 15 to IS per cent
Adele n. and Russell Phillips in the
Atlantic Monthly.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-02

is going to return to the protective
policy in the near future. Prior to
the war he was in Germany buying
toys for his concern. Certainly. his
experience in that line of work must
have taught him the possibilities OF
German competition under low rates
of duty. AS far back as November,
1908, when the last Republican tar
iff law was being framed, the Weed
en- Manufacturing Company said:
The toy business is n large indus
try, and with proper protection
country, but we are all held back
by the cheap German labor and the
low price of all raw materials IN
European countries" The war has
given the toy industry a degree of
protection of which it never
dreamed.
The greatest growth of our toy
industry was during the period 1899
1912, under Republican policies,
when there was an increase of 125
per cent. in the value of the products,
or from $4,0O0,000 to s9,000,000.
During this time there was grad
ual growth from q seasonal to Il per-
ennial industry. The treasurer of
Bridgeport, Conn, firm declared:
"Our business has been built up un-
der the present tariff rate" and the
president of New York concern
said: 1T could only have been done
under the shield of protective tar
iff."
A little over month ago it was
announced that cargo of German
toys valued at S4,000,000, bought by
American importers and paid for
before the beginning of the war, but
held up on the other side of the At
lantic by British embargo, had been
released for sale in this country. a
resumption of German trade is to be
expected when the war is over, and
German soldiers, incapacitated for
other work, will make toys at home,
True enough, the present tariff law
uOcS not carry lCuuSCu SbNo OAA ~ -
except those made of china. But
tariff law which gives foreign COM
petitors free sway in our market is
bound to react on every industry of
the country. An index of the coun-
try's prosperity is the amount spent
for toys for the youngsters. The de-
pressed year of 1914 was a bad one
for the toy trade, while 1917 has
proved an excellent one.
Whatever prosperity the toy man
ufacturers are now enjoying should
not close their eyes to the competi-
ton of the future, which reports,
without exception, indicate is going
to be the keenest ever experienced
in the history of the world. We must
meet it with adequate protective
tariffs, and the party to draft such
legislation is the party of business
experience and national breadth of
vision.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-02
GOOD RESOLUTIONS

EANY a good resolution made
N yesterday was frozen stiff and
showed under to-day Good
resolutions on New Years Day are
easy to make and hard to keep. But
there is one that each of us. if he
is to do his full duty by his country
the coming year. must make and
keep. 1t is this-that during 1918
we shall do everything in our power
to help the United States and our
allies win the war. and to refrain
from anything that may tend to
the effectiveness of our men in the
field.
That means not only meatless and
wheatless days, but rigid economy
in the use of coal-even next sum-
mer when the supply will be plenti-
ful: and in the use OF the railroads,
which must haul freight to the eX-
clusion of passengers, and in a hun
dred other ways that the govern
ment may prescribe. There is on the
one hand the necessity of keeping
business going full tilt in so far as
it will not hamper the prosecution
OF the war. in order that our income
as a nation may not suffer to an ex-
tent that will reflect upon the ma
tional credit and on the other hand.
a ready compliance with rules laid
down for the furtherance Of the
efficiency of war machinery the gov
eminent has set in motion. 1t is a
resolution that will require much
thought and care in the observance.
but one nightly worth while from
the standpoint of patriotism.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-02
LABOR NOTES
By Briggs

Portland, Ore, BARRIERS have Sc
cured a new union shop agreement.
Civic employees at Toronto, Canada,
have organized.
Montreal, Canada textile workers
will form a union.
Fifteen local unions have recently
been organized at Aberdeen, Wash.
Cleveland, Ohio, has two women on
its police force.
Carpenters at Sault Ste. Marie, Can
ada, have secured nine-hour day.
New Haven, Conn, silver workers
have organized under direct jurisdic-
tion of the American Federation OF
Labor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-02
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Sheriff elect Haddock, of ALLIE
gheny, was formerly city official
of Pittsburgh.
DR.. J. Elmer Porter has been
elected chairman of the Pottstown
Board of Health.
-EX-Sheriff Sanders, of Easton,
was badly hurt by an automobile ac-
cident.
Ex-senator Ernest L. Tustln, OF
Philadelphia, is to make a tour of
the state to further the organization
of the "sedition slammers."
Morgan Thomas, Lackawanna
commissioner, is developing congress
sional aspirations.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-02
LET THE PRESIDENT DO 1T

7 f it is necessary, in the face Of
persistent and insidious German
peace propaganda, for the allies to
make a new statement of their peace
aims, let President Wilson be the
spokesman. No statesman of the en-
tente has such a clear conception Of
the only terms upon which we can
make peace as has the President.
and none can set them to paper so
well. If there is to be any peace
talk to be indulged in at this time
President Wilson should do the talk
ing. Germany has been able to put
all manner of construction upon
some of the utterances of allied
diplomats, but the Kaiser never has
been able to make a convincing re-
ply to one of the Presidents mes
sages, letters or statements. That is
because he plays his game in the
open, with his sleeves rolled up and
all the cards on the table.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-02
CUPID COMES CRoPpER

Ida incidentally indicates interest
in ices. Irving. impressionable. in
fatuated, injudiciously invests. Ida's
indulgence in ices is inordinate. in
satiable. Irving, impecunious, in
eptly introduces inexpensive innova-
tions. Ida instantly irate indignant
ly impeaches Irving's iterated infat-
uation, insinuating indifference. in
urbanity. Ida's infantile invective
illuminates Irving's innermost in
telligence. inhibiting infatuation. in
tercepting intentions. - From the
Christian Register.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-02
ON THE OTHER FOOT

Did you ever notice" inquiries
Mrs. Tom Thompson, that q news
paper always boosting for it's home
merchants, is all the same, mighty
glad to report when people from an
other town come there to trade
Now. to be consistent, we ought to
say that the people who come here
to trade ought to be ashamed OF
themselves for not trading at home
w ought to revile them. Consistency
is a jewel, all right. But we dom
care, much for jewelry anyway
Kansas City Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-02
WAR BRED TOY INDUSTRY

a MEXICAN manufacturers art
n making 80 per cent. of the toys
being sold in this country to-
Gay, and they are never going to let
this wonderful and profitable indus
try, which has been developed since
the war. slip out of their hands," de-
clares William G. Whittemore, man.
ager of the stationery and novelty
department of the American News
Company. Evidently Mr.. White
more is optimistic that the country
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-02
FOOTBALL IN HOLY LAND

There is a desert football league
now and its season is in full swing
There is also a Sinai team-I regret
to say at the bottom of the list. In
towns with quite famous Biblical
names you can hear now shouts of
We'll Played" and "Of side!" |
wonder what the Jebusites and the
Perezzites, the Invites and the Hit
tites and the Amorites would think
of it all. if they could hear it
From the London Daily News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-02
SIX POINTS OF THE LONE STAR

"iE Lone star OF Texas looms
high in the Democratic firma-
ment. From Texas comes Col
onel House, the Presidents person
al friend" from Texas comes Post
master General Burleson, the polit-
ical agent of the administration;
from Texas comes Attorney General
Gregory; from Texas comes-once
removed-Secretary Houston; from
Texas, in like manner, came Attor-
ney General McReynolds, now trans
lated to the Supreme Court. And
now, from Texas, comes Thomas 3.
Love, to be one of the new assistant
secretaries of the Treasury. 1t is
Thomas B. Love from Beloved Texas.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-02
SIMPLE SOLUTION

According to the Nebraska Food
Congress, the observance of meat
less days" has caused a surplus of
beef and mutton. Then why not re-
duce the prices From the Pitts
burgh Chronicle-Telegraph
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-02
EDITORIAL COMMENT

New Russia's first donation to the
cause of worldwide democracy may
be the release of about a million OF
German prisoners whom German
autocracy can use in beating up
democracy.-St. Louis Star.
So far as treaties are concerned.
one signed by Trotzly is just as good
as one of the Kaiser s.-New@ York
Morning Telegraph.
1t must be consoling to Roumania
TO know that she has the Teutons in
front of her and the Bolsheviki be-
hind her.-St. Louis Star.
Siberia might get good and even
for generations of oppression by eX-
ling political prisoners to Petrograd.
New York Morning Telegraph.
have abolished all church weddings.
This, is carrying their peace cam
paign altogether too far.-St. Louis
Star.
We don't know when Germany
will strike on the west front, but IL
is our business to see that what she
does strike will make large dent in
her ambitions.-Chicago Herald.
Germany makes a raft of singles,
doubles, and three-baggers, but
somehow most of her men are left
out there on the bases.-Honolulu
Star Bulletin.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-02
WEDNESDAY,. JANUARY ., 1918

We seek many changes aad RENE
dies; the most important change.
the most necessary remedy, trouId
be general conversion to Cod
KING OF SWEDEN.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-02
LESS" DAYS

My Tuesdays are meatless.
My Wednesdays are wheatless,
l am getting more eatless each
day.
My home it is heatless,
My bed it is sheetless,
They are all sent to the Y. NJ. C. A.
The bar-rooms are treatless,
My coffee is sweetless-
Each day get poorer and wiser.
My stockings are feetless,
My trousers are .seatless-
My Gosh, how do hate the Kaiser
Baltimore Sun.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-02
THE SIAMESE TWINS

says Hindenburg to Ludendorff:
Shall we retreat again?
we can announce the British lost
About million men,"
Says Ludendorff to Hindenburg:
Another victory!
Just go on winning backwards
leave
The bulletins to mel" Life
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-02
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg meat prod
ucts are being used by Persh-
ing's army?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-02
HISTORIC HARRISBUR,

NO less than five big councils Of
Indian chiefs were held here after
the French and Indian war. Conrad
Weiser came to attend one OF them
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-02
OUR DAILY LAUGH

REFLECTION ON HIS WISDOM.
Wifey-A word to the wise is suffi-
cient.
Hubby-That's we'll understood.
Such being the case, why do you keep
jawing at me.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-02
army await,

A DIFFERENT ANSWER.
"Am the first girl you have
loved ?"
"Oh, no. You are about the tenth.
and my taste has improved right
slong."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-02

E.J.STACKPOLE,P Prest s. Editor-iH- Chief
+. r. OYSTER, Business Manager.
GUS NJ, STEINMETZ. Mdndging Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-02

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.,
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