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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-19

splendid men. in spite OF the wear and
tear~of war, The gunners were "in
the pink" and, looking at their bat
teries, all Furnished and bright. one was
thankful to think that they would never
go into action again IL nothing hap.
pened betwixt this and peace and that
they would become as obsolete as Long
BeSS"
The sound of all these horses hoofs
over the CobblestCnes through the VII
lagos of Leuze and Ath was like the
rushing of water over rocky boulders.
and It was long tide Of men and
horses that started for the Rhine. Their
breath rose before them like the smok"
of fires in the frosty air, Cavalrymen.
slapped their hands on their thighs as
they rode and gunners sat on limhers
like "Old Bill" with frozen mustaEhes.
1t was SO cold that ones fingers ana
feet became numb. Pity went with one
along the way because Of all those peo-
pie who were coming h"me in tnIs
weather, with not much shelter al night
because of the crowded estimanets ana
cottages, where as many as forty peopl'
sleep on bare floors, while others camp
in the woods, where they burn broken
telegraph poles and any litter 10 gtt
touch of warmth as the flames I''k up.
They came with oN"abo,H P' f,,t
with mattresses anu e''IN' ,,.D
tufe ana the ""eEae' " i., ,Lc,,
"hl'h they uraEs'u ANa' w., ,u, Of
Wheh the 'erHla"S ~ W. ,t, h,rg,ya
l''Ii N"9' an" p' w., wa ard,y, an,onc
,t we're NV ~, ,I .,',r ,,,,F'ers around
.,','' ,i,,, o,.ar choir sho,;l-
~, 49,, ea,. ,i,l, ,,,os, mar. they were
,,,it1,o,,, o,.orooats Their hands and
f,,,ae ,,.oro hjuo ,ri,b cold. bur their
I,norts yycrc warm enough as some OF
tbsr, ,rudr,d with heavy packs on tnelr
haclts like christian in "Thc Pilgrims
Progress" and others passed with
,vhoelbarrovs and still othcrs-thC lucky
ones-ppdaIcd on bicycles bought in
Brussels.
,,.no
ANU ''"h9
ThcY moved hnd'T h"ES. IH'' ''"H ,-
flags IN their huhuIeS ana l"ES III ,',!.
hats. Banners brpa"'u ""' ..
WAecIharfo"S an" "o"''| "'oIr ,,,5
oN"NE""S. an" .u' ..''''S ,S n,cs ~
on" 81" n"'S "t'',' -. ~. ,noso
"i 'I' N'..'T ~ Zoo, bor,c-
'''uS''S' u ''""E'"7
wa" T.a,,, ,,,d ,r,,.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-19
i. s. MAKING UP LOSS
ON R. R. OPERATION
Cut From $5OO,OOO,OOO to
S2OO,OOO,OOO by October l.
This Will Be Recouped

Mnshington. Nov. 10.

Prospective loss to the Government
through operation of railroads and guar
antccing nNrd returns to the companies
has been reduced to about $2OO.O0O,0 600
for the nine months period ending Oc-
tohcr from approximately 100000, 600,
tile threatened loss several months ago.
This was indicated today by the Inter
state Commerce Commissions report
that the net sum which the Government
will receive from operations of the lead
ing railroads for the nine months is
S51S,656. 600
Railroad administration officials pre-
dict that. 10y the end of the year, the
Governments loss will be reduced &c
less than 100000. 900, and this will be
rccouprd later as the increased earn
iugs from higher rates pour in.
For the nine months up to october
total railway revenues from leading
roads amounted to $3.54l. $4,000 and
operating expenses. $2,SG1,753,O0O. De
ductionS Of taxes left operating income
Of S539, $40, 900 of which $51S.656,00C
goes to the Government railroad fund.
The railroad administration. officials
declare. has no immediate intention
Of materially reducing freight rates, but
Director General MCAdoO has under con.
sidrration recommendation that he re-
move the half-Cent camille extra fare
charge for Pullman travel The effect
of this it is said. would be to increase
Pullman travel and decrease coach pat.
runage a result not considered entirely
desirable by the Government.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-19
PEACE WORK MEETING
CALLED BY RED CROSS
Organization in State viii
l. Take First Steps Thurs.
day Afternoon

Women members of the Red Cross
In Pennsylvania have been assigned to
the first step in the work of turning the
great organization from war to a
peace basis.
This step will be taken at the Acad-
emy of Music Thursday afternoon in a
convention of delegates from more than
300 auxiliaries. branches and affiliated
organizations of the Southeastern Penn
sylvania Chapter.
The convention, which will be pre-
sided over by E. r. Stotesbury, chairman
OF the Southeastern Chapter. has been
specifically called to perfect plans for the
participation of the chapter in the
| nationwide Red Cross Christmas roll
| call, to take place during the week OF
December 16.
The roll call as outlined yesterday by
| DR. Charles y. Hart, chairman of the
| roll call committee, Is to be an in
| tensive campaign for members Uni
versal membership will be the goal
and 1t is hoped to enroll under the Red
Cross flag nearly every one of the up.
ward of 100000 persons living in the
| five counties.
THE fact must be kept in mind" said
| Doctor Hart. that although the war
| may be over the work of the Red Cross
must go on. In fact the scope of the
usefulness of the organization is now
approaching the peak because the
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-19
PLEA BY AUSTRIA'S TEUTONS
Wilson Asked to Support Union
With GERMANY

BnsIe. Switzerland Nov. l9.-tBy n.
PD-Foreign Minister Bauer of the
Gcrman-Austrian Government, has sent
an address to President Wilson con-
frming the proclamation Of tn" German
Austrian Republic and expressing :
the hope that IrrSidcnt wilson;
in accordance with his principles, VIII
s,Ipport the efforts Of Germans in Aus
trta to effect a union with Germany.
lie points out that this is the same as
supporting the rights Of the Pole3' lthi-
ians and JugO-SlavS to unite WIN
netherlands outside Of Austria Hungary.
The Foreign Minister also beGs Mr..
Wilson to bring about a discussion OF
peace prclimnaries and conCiuueS hH
saving that his Government IS constl-
tuted of representatives from all parties
and has succeeded up to the present III
preserving order. This task. however
has been difficult because of the TACK
Of food, the blockade being said to
threaten famine.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-19
KAISER KARL'S FAMILY
ON SHORTEST RATIONS
Former Royal Household I'm
able to Obtain Needed Food
or Have Washing Done
BY the Associated Press


Vienna, Via Geneva, Nov. 10.
The situation in Vienna, where the
hrst American correspondent, that of
The Associated Press, arrived last week.
appears to be that there ia more talk
than disorder, with urgent need for
bread, especially for the poor of Aus
tria. The correspondent was accom-
panied to Vienna by one French and
one British army officer.
Former Emperor Charles. who has re-
tired for the present TO his castle at
Eckartsau, II is asserted by the So
cialist Arbeiter Zeitung, is living on the
shortest rations and possibly may be
starving with his wife and family. The
former royal family has been unable to
obtain meat milk and bread in the
neighboring village, or even to have it's
washing done. They have been obliged
to send away almost all their fifty ser
wants
An official of the Austrian court who
was sent to the Schoenbrunn palace to
get some clothing for the former EN-
perOr, according to Austrian newspapers
was refused, on the preteXt that all
crown property had been ConfScated by
the state.
The formation of new republic here
apparently has been an easy task. It
now is merely a question of holding the
b'pi'At bObtlIltI ulllll d SldDlt govern
ment can be established.
There has been little boodshed in
Vienna. 1t is declared that two persons
were killed accidentally during a great
demonstration by Socialists and mem
bers of other parties last Tuesday, when
the republic was formed
Order is being maintained by Field
Marshal Adolf Won Boog, who has reor-
ganized the old police force. A national
army militia also has been formed, the
soldiers wearing the new colors of red.
white and red. instead of the black and
yellow of the empire. In each municipal
district there is A force of guards who
wear the socIaliStiC red brassards.
1t is declared that when the empire
was overturned in the last days of Oc-
tober there was no violence in Vienna.
one of the most notable political
changes has been the granting of cquai
franchise to women. In the republic all
the forms of the old empire have been
zone away with. No passports are re-
Quircd to travel nor must one have Il
residence permit.
Will order prevail in the new Ger
man-Austrian republic, of which Vienna
is at once the wheel and the hub. or
will there be an outbreak of Bolshevism ?
This question is. on every tongue The
air Is full of rumors printed by news
papers or spread about by the thou
sands of soldiers travelling to and fro.
On the streets one hears reports of
revolution in France, that Italy is to
be made a republic and that American
and Allied troops are occupying Aus
trian cities here and there.
There is no censorship OF the press
When the correspondent went to obtain
- va T'-nn to send kilograms abroad DR..
Otto Rauer the Foreign Secretary, and a
Soc,alist. gave his consent on the spot,
saying:
Under the old Government it would
have taken Won two months"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-19
$4,000 Fire in Germantown Mill

Fire caused $4,000 damage last night
in the thrce-story building occupied by
the Anstey Knitting Mill in the rear
Of 4911 Wakefield street Bruce String
thorpe. one of the owners of the mill,
said the fire was of suspicious origin
An investigation is being made. The
plant was making leggings for the Gov
Crnncnt.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-19

fundamental idea OF the Red Cross r.
and has been since It's inception allcvi-
alton OF suffering wherever 1t may be.
The suffering following the war calls
for as generous, IL not more generous,
outpouring of American sympathy than
the actual work entailed by the clash
of arms. The effects of the war are
cumulative and we are approaching a
period when every possible resource of
the Red Cross will be taxed to the ut
most"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-19
CARRYING OUT ARMISTICE
Germans Reported Executing
Terms Quietly and Efficiently
BY CHARLES H. GRASTY
Special Cable 10 Euening Public Ledger

Copyrfght, I9IS, By Ncw Norh Times Co.
Paris Nov. l?.--It is reported that
the carving out of the armiStiCe by the
Germans is proceeding quietly and efii-
GENTLY. The soldiers are eVacuatlng
territory and the fleet Is being turned
over without a hitch.
The reports from Berlin are more en-
Couragng today.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-19
Hard and Splendid Men

They did look well. The cavalry
squadrons. coming along at hard gal
lcp, looked as fine a body of knights as
ever rode out this way when My Lord Of
Chandos and Sir Walter Nanny went
by with the black prnce-hard and
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-19

BeIiefonte, Pa, Nov. 19.-Frank Res
sler, of Lehigh County. and John Bap-
tiste Dantine. of Westmoreland County
have been electrocuted at Rockview
pcnitcntary. Robbery was the incentive
that led both men to commit murder.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-08
A Good Roads Victory

[From the Philadelphia Inquirer. ]
Apparently the good roads loan
amendment to the constitution has
carried the state, Philadelphia gives
it more than 100000 majority, and
scattering returns from the counties
indicate that this cannot be over
come. Even some of the rural
counties have supported the amend
ment, where naturally it was sup
posed that opposition by the Grange
element would succeed.
A quiet campaign by the nearly
100000 owners of various kinds of
automobiles seems to have been sue
cessful. Each of the holders of a
license tag was expected to vote and
secure outside support. This may
be the cause of the victory which
is now apparent. If so, it is a just
one, since these are the very ones
who are going to pay the principal
and interest on the fifty millions of
dollars in bonds authorized. No one
else will have to contribute a dol
lar.
1t seems likely also that farm
ers by this time have found how
essential is the automobile in their
own business. They also know that
they will not be taxed a dollar, out
side their normal licenses, for Sc
curing the great highways which
this Commonwealth so badly needs
The result as entirely satisfactory.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-08
TRADE BRIEFS

One of the greatest obstacles to
commerce in China is the "likin, "
the internal tax on goods in transit,
originating as a war tax during the
TAPPING rebellion. The "likin" was
originally tax on one-tenth of one
per cent. of the value of the goods
when it was first imposed, about
1853, but to-day its amount is ap-
parently determined arbitrarily by
the collector.
Experiments in Norway with a
view to extracting salt from ocean
water by means of electricity have
been successful, and two salt fac
tories will be started for this pur-
pose in the near future. Each fac
tory is calculated to produce $4,000
tons of salt year.
Great interest in American ready
built houses has been expressed in
both France and England, accord
ing to L lumber Trade Commissioner
John r. Walker. Manufacturers of
such houses who are interested in
the European market are requested
to send their catalogs to the
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce for transmission to Mr..
Walker, so that the latter may be
in better position to answer in
quiries.
Before the war Russia's need of
scythes was estimated at 100000
annually, of which about half were
required in Siberia. To fill these re-
quirements about 100000 scythes
were imported annually and the re-
mainder manufactured in Russia.
According to latest information
there are hardly any scythes to be
found, Russian industry being at a
standstill and the importation closed
The present stocks of cigars in
Germany will not last beyond the
end of the present year, according
to the Berlin Tageblatt. Not only
has there been a considerable in
crease in the prices of cigars, but
the quality has deteriorated.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-08

while the Republicans OF the country
will give the government their steada
fast and loyal support in the prose-
cution of the war they will not be
refused when 1t comes to actual
participation In the government Nor
will they permit the individuals who
have been 30 politically active to
continue in places of power for
partisan advantage.
The President invited tho political
disaster which has overwhelmed him
and he has lost forever that conf
dence which Is merlted by an Inn
partial attitude OF one ut the head of
O great nation and the chief magls-
trate Of all the people without re-
gard to party considerations.
We strongly suspect that the Con-
gress after March first will have q
much more constructive part in the
conduct of the government, Chair
man Baruch and his associates may
confer all they have a mind to with
a view to holding their jobs, but they
now, as in the future, realize that
the political game at Washington is
going to take on a different color
henceforth.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-08
THE TURNOVER
the New York Times.

[From the New York Times.l
The Democrats, we think, have
lost control of the House chiefly be-
cause they have not forgotten
enough. They did not make the
wisest use of their power, they were
inclined to arbitrariness, they had
not forgotten the supine nature of
Northern Democrats seventy years
ago, and behaved accordingly. A
craftsmanship given to a Northern
Democrat here and there would
have done no harm. 1t may be said
that these are matters of politeness,
of minor morals, but they are, never
theless. worth bearing In mind. One
great cause of the Democratic over
throw In tho House was, we imagine
the taxes. That party must be power
full indeed that could withstand the
dissatisfactions necessarily flowing
from the imposition of such gigantic
levies. Still, ii may be Mr., Claude
Kitchin's talk rather than his taxes
prompted the rebuke, Laying taxes
in billions, the author of the bill
would be wise TO temper his budget
speeches with a note of sorrows Mr.,
Gladstone often did that, The pres
ent chairman of the ways and means
committee always exalted, He had
a fierce JOY in taxing wealth, not
merely wealth as commonly under
stood, but wealth in the most mod
est degrees, represented, for exam-
pie, by the ability to own a shirt
costing more than $3.50, He openly
expressed his purpose to put his
taxes chiefly upon the North, be-
cause the North had wanted us to
go into the wan That was more
resented, perhaps, than the taxes
themselves. 1t was an amazing
blunder, and we think the regret
most prevalent in the country to-
day is that MT. Kitehin could not
pay the penalty for 1t by defeat In
Scotland Neck.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-08
BE NOT DECEIVED

~ R. GARFIELD, head of the
National Fuel Administration,
- announces that there is no
danger of a domestic coal famine
the coming winter.
But he is the same DR.. Garfield,
who misled us in similar manner
little over year ago with regard
to last winter.
The fact is there are many Gel
lars in Harrisburg that have little
if any coal and the West Shore is
generally in worse shape than last
year this time.
The indications are that some of
us will have to keep warm on Wash
ington hot air" the coming winter
and others of us who have some
coal will have to husband it to the
last lump. 1t is obvious, notwith-
standing the hopeful views of the
ever optimistic DR.. Garfield, that
the fuel situation is still serious
enough to give all of us pause for
thought.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-08
A BLOW AT THE PRESS

TN HE poorly edited, careless, mac
curate newspaper is a pernicious
influence in the community. 1t
not only leads public thought and
opinion astray, but it damages the
confidence of the reading public in
even the reliable newspaper. The cir
culation of lies in the public prints
cheats the people of the truth for
which they pay and makes them
doubtful of even the most truthful
journals.
Harrisburg got a dose of this kind
of yellow journalism yesterday at
the hands of the Mccormick even
ing newspaper, which, with other
papers of the sensational Hearst
type throughout the country, printed
the outrageous peace fake sent out
by the United Press. The dose was
repeated when the same paper, with
.denials in its office by International
News Service reports from Secretary
Daniels, Secretary Baker, the Lon
don foreign office and Paris, con-
tinued to run off edition after edi-
ton, piling lie on lie for the sole
purpose of selling papers to a de-
ceived public.
There ought to be court punish
ment for newspapers of this type. 1t
is a shame that on such grave mat
ters the people of the country should
have no redress for the money they
spend and for the injury done them.
Yesterday thousands of men left
their work, factories were closed,
stores lost hundreds of dollars
worth of business and the whole city
was upset in order that a few more
pennies might be-garnered for the
pockets of millionaire. 1t is out
rageous.
The Telegraph gave it's readers a
carefully edited report of the days
developments. 1t gave attention to
the rumors flying, but qualified them
with the denials of the authorities.
1t published only the truth. 1t will
continue to do so as it has in the
past. 1t is served by the Associated
Press, the oldest, most reliable and
largest newsgathering association in
the world. 1t is not bidding for cir
culation at the expense of truth.
"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-08
Fine Provinces or Districts Into Which
ASiatic Turkey May Be Roughly Divided

ants of the Cardushi, who gave
Xenophon and his 10000 so much
difficulty on their march across these
same hills on their way to the sea.
"Nominally, they are Moslem in
religion, but they have retained
many elements of heather worship.
Some of their tribes are 'Yesdi,' or
devil worshipers. They are home
loving, frugal and capable of endur-
ing great hardships. They prac-
tice strict monogamy and their wo-
men occupy an equal place with
their men in the family life.
"The Kurds have furnished at
least one great man to history, for
Saladin, the chivalrous leader of the
Saracen hosts, the compeer of Rich
ard Occur de Lion, was from this
people.
"Mesopotamia, Upper and Lower,
vies with Egypt in claiming the hon
or of being the home of ancient
civilization. 1t comprises the val
leys of the Tigris and Euphrates
rivers. Here flourished the Chal-
dean, Babylonian and Assyrian en-
pires. The city of Bagdad, with all
its glamour of mystery and magic,
is in the heart of Mesopotamia.
This was the richest land in the
world, the granary of the ancients;
yet, in spite of all that-it has been,
it to-day lies largely waste, the de-
sert sands have encroached upon
the fertile fields, while the clogged
canals have turned other portions
into swamps and marshes.
what population there is - not
more than 100000, is of Arab
10 Sa
spoken throughout. There is, in
fact, very distinct dividingS line
between the Arabic and the Turkish
speaking portions of the Ottoman
empire. This boundry corresponds
with the line of the Bagdad railway
from the Mediterranean to the Per-
sian gulf. 1t is for the exploitation
of this rich land of Mesopotamia
that the famous Bagdad line was
built.
Syria, the region extending from
the Taurus mountains to Egypt, and
from the desert to the great sea,
needs no identification. 1t is the
land of the patriarchs and prophets
and apostles - the Holy Land Its
population numbers about S,500,000
of Semitic origin, speaking the Ara
bic language, and yet with so man!
races intermingled through the cen
turies of the various conquests ant
occupations that the people canno
claim any one race as their own
| Greek, Roman and European cru
sader have all blended with the an
cient Semitic stock to produce th'
Syrians of to-day, whom Lord Gro
mer, in his Memoirs, termed th'
cream of the east.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-08
Gen. TOWnSend'S Triumph
(FroY11 tho NeW York HaraId

Like a palm tree in the arid
stretches through which he fought
stands out the selection of General
Charles V. F. Townsend to bear to
the agents of the Allies the Turk
ish offer of surrender. Two years
and a half ago, almost to a day,
General Townsend and 5000 men,
the remnant of his army of 10000,
ran up the white flag in Kut-el-
Amara after a siege of 143 days and
surrendered to the Turks, while 40,-
600 other British soldiers sixteen
miles away battled Intellectually to
break through the Turkish ring to
the beleaguered foe.
Now General Townsend has OBJ
tanned his satisfaction. That he, a
prisoner of war, should have been
selected to carry this fateful mes
sage, fateful to all Christendom, as
we'll as to what remains of the Turk
ish empire, Is an unique tribute to a
gallant soldier from the government
he and those under his command
served SO faithfully.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-08
ALL FOR ONE

" HERE is a sentiment in one of
the new war songs that applies
particularly to the War Work
campaign now under way. 1t is:
"One for all,
And all for one;
And God be with us ALL"
That sums up the thought of the
noble men and women who have
merged their own personal interests
and feelings in the great cause of
keeping up the morale of the Amer
lean fighting man.
zone for all, and all for one" is
the sentiment that brought the Y.
NJ. C. A, the knights of Columbus,
the Y. NJ. H. A, the Y. w. c. A. and
the other recreational agencies to-
gether in this campaign. They have
forgotten everything but their
Americanism, just as the soldiers in
the field have flung class creed and
prejudice to the winds in their great
drive against autocracy And so must
we, all of us, look at the big move
ment now so we'll under way. We
have but one object, the welfare of
the American soldier, and to that we
must contribute both of our effort
and literally of our money.
zone for all, and all for one, and
God be with us an"