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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-02-05
APPROACHING THE CRISIS
President Wilson Says War viii be
Settled In 1918.
PLAIN TALK TO AMERICAN FARMERS

The Issue in This War is the Same as
the Issue in the American Revolution
1T is a Question Of Liberty, the
Right Of the People to Govern Them
selves.
Washington. Jan. 3l.-ln mes
sage to the nations farmers delivered
today to an agricultural conference
at I'rbana, Ill.,. President Wilson said
he thought statesmen on both sides
Of the water realized that the cul-
minating crisis Of the war had come
and this years achievements would
decide 1t.
The message. which the president
intended to present personally unli.
attacked by a cold several days ago.
was delivered by President James OF
the University of Illinois. Recountihg
the aggressions of Germany. the pres
ident said
We are fighting, therefore. as truly
for the liberty and self-government
Of the United states as II the war
of our own revolution had 10 ne
fought over again: and every man III
every business in the United states
must know by this time that ms
whole future fortune lies in the bal
ance.
cur national life and our whole
future development will pass under
the sinister influences of foreign con-
troll il we do not win. We must win'
therefore, and we shall win. neeu
not ask you to pledge your lives anu
fortunes with those OF the rest or tn"
nation TO the accomplishment of this
great end.
You will realize, as think states
men on both sides OF the water real
iZc. that the eliminating crisis OF the
struggle has come and that the
achievements of this year ON one side
or the other must determine this Is
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-02-05

Mayor Carson Of South Bend. Ind.
has given orders that all poplar trees
In the city be cut for fuel.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-02-05
eliminating Crisis Here.

You will realize. as l think states
men on both sides Of the water rea-
lize. that the eliminating crisis Of
the struggle has come and that the
achievements Of this year on the one
side or the other must determine the
issue II has turned out that the
forces that fight for freedom
depend upon US in an extraordinary
and unexpected degree for susten-
ance for the supply Of the materials
by which men are to live and to fight
and it will be our glory when the
war Is over that we have supplied
those materials and supplied them
abundantly. and it will be all the
more glory because in supplying
them we have made our supreme ef-
fort and sacrifice.
In the field of agriculture we have
agencies and instrumentalities. fortu-
nately. such as no other government
in the world can show. The depart
ment Of agriculture is undoubtedly
the greatest practical and scientific
agricultural organization in the world.
- The banking legislation OF
the last two or three years has given
the farmers access to the great lend
able capital Of the country.
Both by direct purchase Of nitrates
and BY the establishment Of plsnts
to produce nitrates. the government
is doing Its utmost to assist In the
problem Of fertilization. The depart
ment Of agriculture and other agen-
cies are actively assisting the farm
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-02-05
Farmers at Lexington.

sue.
Farmers at Lexington.
The president recalled that farm
crs fired the first shots at Lexington
that set ailame the American revolu-
ton for liberty, and expressed the
hone and belief that American farm-
ers now will willingly and conspicu-
said the farmers did not want them
selves exempted from military service
as a class, but that the attention ol
the war department was ccntered up
ON the task Of interfering with farm
Labor as little AZ possible. and he be-
lieved that in the next draft the
farmers would find their labor much
less seriously drawn upon than In the
first
The presidents message said, in
part:
IL y,,eeIs act .ts4 .stl yalas stor~tiia s',ss,
YOU realize as keenly as ! do, that we
are. as Il nation. in the presence OF
great task which demands supreme
sacrifice and endeavor Of every one
of us. We can give everything that
is needed with the greater willing
ness, and even satisfaction. because
the object of che war in which We
are now engaged is the greatest that
free men have ever undertaken. IL
is To prevent in the life Of the world
being determined and the fortunes OF
men everywhere affected by small
groups Of military masters who seek
their own interest and the selfish do
minion throughout the world OF the
governments they unhappily for the
moment control. You will not need
to be convinced that IL was necessary
for us as free people to take part
i'm this war. The rulers OF
Germany had sought to exercise their
power in such a way as to shut OIL
our economic life so far as our inter-
course with Europe was concerned,
and to confine our people within the
western hemisphere while they ac-
complished purposes which would
have permanently impaired and i'm
peded every process Of our national
life and have put the fortunes oil
America at the mercy Of the imperial
government Of Germany. This was no
threat. II had become reality.
Their hand Of violence had been
laid upon our own people and our
own property in ilagrant violation.
not only Of justice, but OF the well re-
cogniZcd and long standing covenants
OF international law and treaty. We
are lighting. therefore. as truly for
the liberty and government OF
the United States as II the war OF our
own revolution had to be fought over
again: and every man in every busi-
ness in the United States must know
by this time that his whole future
fortune lies in the balance. Our ma
tional life and our whole economic
development will pass under the sin
istcr influences of foreign control II
we do not win. We must win. there
fore. and we shall win. l need not
ask you tn pledge your lives and for
tunes with those of the rest Of the na-
ton to the accomplishment OF that
great end.
eliminating Crisis Here.
You will realize. as | think states
men on both sides of the water rea-
lize, that the eliminating crisis Of
the struggle has come and that the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-03
Utah Wants q Gun Factory

Although Utah boasts the greatest
inventor of firearms in the world,
we have no firearms factory in the
state. Why is it that, with the
mightiest of wars in progress. a
government factory has not been es-
tablished here The light and
heavy Browning machine guns have
been pronounced by experts far and
away ahead of any similar weapons
in existence. And not only the
Browning machine guns. but other
Browning weapons could be made
in the Utah factory. 1t is, perhaps,
not out of place to suggest that the
commercial clubs of Salt Lake and
Ogden, which is Mr.. Browning S
home town, should investigate the
feasibility of such a factory. Few
of the machine guns have yet been
made. Let the Commercial clubs
begin an active inquiry, for there
is no time to spare if we are to OBJ
tain a factory.-From Salt Lake
City Tribune.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-03
ZEEBRUGGE AND AMIENS

Behind the British attempt
against Zeebrugge and Ostend lie
considerations, military and moral,
which relate themselves intimately
to the war in it's latest and broadest
aspect. For the attainment of a
decision on the western front 1T has
now become a race of re-enforce-
mcnts Germany is piling in divi-
sions from the eastern front and
from her new classes, and in case OF
need will borrow men from her al
lies. The Entente is looking, prin-
cipally to America. Vital as the
command of the sea has at all times
been to the Allies. today every de-
gree of improvement in the security
of the ocean link with America will
count on the western battlefield.
It is not enough now to think Of
the U-boat problem as being ulti-
mately mastered. Every U-boat put
out of commission today means so
many foot-pounds of additional AL
lied force in front of Amiens or
Ypres. The permanent blockading OF
a U-boat harbor by such means as
were employed in the Zeebrugge en-
terprise may not be attainable, but
even a fortnight's handicap on sub
marine operations may be translat-
ed into tens of thousands of tonnage
rendered more secure for the trans
portation of our troops. This is the
point to be kept in mind when we
read of the heavy losses suffered
by the British raiders against the
Belgian ports. British tonnage sunk
in Zeebrugge harbor and British
lives lost may be more than COM
pensated by tonnage and lives saved
on the Atlantic-From the New
York Eevening Post.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-03
Two Boys in a Dug-Out

ULSTER, what are you going to
do?" Two little boys just home
~ from school stood in the door
way of their sisters room.
The sister, a beautiful girl with
dark, wavy hair, and deep brown
eyes, knelt before chest beneath
the window. 1t was a handsomely
carved chest, with curious figures ell
over it. The open lid disclosed heap
of delicately embroidered linens,
dainty squares and oblongs, tilmY
lace work, handsomely colored
pieces of silk-the work and the
saving of many years. The chest it
self had been the girls great grand
mothers dover chest, used next by
the grandmother and mother and
now ever since the sister of the boys
could sew daintely, had been her
dover chest" in which she deposit
ed things for her future home as
every girl in Turkey does.
The boys had never seen inside
the chest before and now they stood
in the doorway, awe stricken as they
saw their sister lift the things out
enc by one, and sorting out six. wrap
them in a paper parcel.
1t was the sisters first sale-the
beginning of the raids upon the
dover chest that shortly left it
empty.
The two little boys who watched
her, tiptoed into the next room
where the mother lay i'll, then down.
stairs for something to satisfy their
appetites before they went out into
the yard to play ball.
AS yet the pressing need at home
meant little to them. They knew that
a message had come for their father
weeks before and that he had closed
his office and bid them a solemn
good-by, with many admonitions to
care for their mother who was ill.
What had happened to the father
they never knew. Two weeks after
the day in which the sister sold her
trousseau the boys came home from
school another afternoon to find the
streets full of many people, hastily
tied bundles of clothing, women with
little children in their arms, and in
the doorway of their own home they
found their mother, leaning on their
sisters arm.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-03
STATE POLICE MODELS

While there is a fair presumption
that the State police had full legal
justification for shooting the muir
derer whom they had very efficient
ly hunted to his hiding place in
Warren county, this week, such an
ending of their chase hardly comes
up to the high standards set by the
members of the like force in Penn
sylvania, and, though not basis for
something like disappointment
among their friends.
For it is the expectation that the
State Constabulary shall rise to
heights of skill and prowess unat-
tainable by common, or even by un-
common, policemen-that in deal
ing with the criminal classes they
shall overcome all odds as a matter
of course and custom, and that al
ways, when they go after an Offend
er of any grade, they shall scorn
to do anything else or less than to
get him and turn him over to the
courts, alive-not to the undertake
er, dead. That the culprit resists
arrest or attempts to escape when
cornered is a good excuse for shoot
ing. but not one quite good enough
for State Police.
Perhaps these expectations are
easonable-perhaps they are
founded on too faithful reading of
magazine chronicles of exploits
achieved by the Pennsylvania mar
vels of perfection. Nevertheless,
they exist and are firmly fixed in
most minds, and it will be hard to
give them UP! 1t will be necessary
at least to mitigate them If our
constables fail to cow even the most
desperate villain by a glance of the
eye and a few quietly spoken words.
Their mission in life is to arrest,
not to kill or even to wound. in any
case.-From the New York Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-03
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Attorney General Brown, who
is going to make some political
speeches, is looking for the day
when he can go back to his law
practice.
Senator William c. Sproul is to
be given degree by Gettysburg Col
lege.
Col. Harry C. Trexler, the Ma
tional Guard quartermaster general,
who retired the other day, says he
has to get used to the title of gen.
eral.
General w. G. Price, Jr., who Is
In command of the Pennsylvania di-
vision at present, used to command
the company of infantry at Chester.
General Willis j. Hulings, who
served in the Porto Rican campaign
and then in the Senate, wants to go
back to Congress and is making a
strenuous fight.
John r. K. Scott. candidate for
lieutenant governor, owns farm
in Montgomery county, and says lie
likes to work on it. Scott comes
from Columbia county.
Mayor e. V. Babcock, of Pitts
burgh, has been visiting the War
gardens in his city.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-03
A Call to the Hyphendte

When you were poor and friendless
Uncle Sammy took you in.
He met you with a friendly hand,
a broad and genial grin.
He didn't question what you were
out there across the foam.
He simply said, Come in, old top
just make yourself at home" :"
You liked that homely greeting.
You liked its artless style.
You said, This chap is warm of
heart; he's free from cant
and guile"
His land you found productive, his
laws you found were just.
You learned to live his simple life
to labor, love and trust.
And year by year you prospered and
year by year you grew
To sense the holy meaning of that
banner starry-blue,
You lost that haunted look acquired
where monarchs made COM
mand,
And felt your soul begin to glow and
blossom and expand.
You learned the pride a freeman
knows where every man is
king,
You learned the sturdy sef-respect
the freeman's stride and
swing.
You learned to know life's better
side, to ponder, love and
dream,
To lift your eyes to greet the blue
and sense its glow and CLEAN.
And now-well, now-the chance is
yours to show just where you
stand.
The chance is yours to meet the test
to extend a helping hand.
Your Uncle Sam is battling might in
freedoms name beyond.
He needs your help. He was your
- friend, He asks you-buy a
bond.
Oh, we that sought this land of light
to escape a tyrants greed,
Can you refuse to do your bit to
crush that odious creed
I'll not believe 1t. It's lie. 'Twould
scar your soul and damn.
Get out your savings. Show your
faith. Stand true to Uncle
IRVING DILLON.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-03

All of the people-the boys, their
mother and sister and neighbors,
were driven out of the city along the
country road. The mother too weak
to walk far, soon tainted in her
daughters arms and the little fam
lily group stopped, dropping behind
the others.
Move on" came the immediate
order from an officer in charge.
I'VE cannot. The mother is too
weak" the sister answered.
Leave her behind. She won't live
long" the man responded harshly,
"and you come with me-" he added,
coming up closer.
The sister jerked away from him
and lifted the mothers head upon
her lap again. Run, brothers, do
not wait for us. Go with the others
and make your escape as soon as you
can. Flee to the north and into Rus
sia. 1t is long way. God bless you.
Go now"
The two little boys of ten and
twelve did as their sister bid them,
running with the crowd until night
fell. Then in the darkness they crept
away from the others, hiding be-
hind a rock the next day, and run
ming again by night.
They kept this up for many days
living upon roots and berries and
even dried grasses, sleeping at night
under the stars with a rock for a
pillow.
The weather grew colder as they
climbed up through the Caucasus
Mountains. All danger from pursuit
was now passed. The boys did not
know where they were going. Two
missionaries found the boys one day
living in a dug-out on the mountain
side where they had lived alone for
many weeks. Both of them were
badly hurt and torn from their
rough journey. and neither of them
had touched cooked food since they
left home. They were taken to the
mission station and then sent to an
orphanage to join five hundred other
refugees.
(From stories told to the American
Committee for Armenian and Syrian
Relief, No. 1, Madison avenue, by a
missionary who has just returned
from the field.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-03
O'NEIL'S DUTY
Pittsburgh Gazette-Times1
Times.)

]. Denny O'Neil, a candidate for
the Republican nomination for
governor, should consider carefully
the implications of his hesitancy to
declare whether or not he will abide
b. the decision of the party voters
lister. He should not be content to
rest under them. Republican voters
assuredly will not be satisfied with
a state of uncertainty as to the
intentions of one who asks for their
suffrages in so important a connec-
ton as the election of an executive
of Pennsylvania.
The personal honor of the candi-
date is involved. There can be no
questioning that man who submits
his candidacy to a party primary is
in honor bound to abide by the de-
cision there made. That is not de-
batable at all. 1t is matter of per-
sonal honor, not something to be de-
termined by a campaign committee,
despite Mr.. O'NeiPs statement to
the contrary. But, If it were, who
constitute this committee which is
the keeper of the conscience of Can
didate O'Neil? And are the gov
erumental policies which he has au-
nounced the campaign committees
or his own Further, If Mr.. O'Neil
is nominated and elected will his
campaign committee be governor or
will he These are fair questions.
Republican voters have a right to
straightforward answers. They have
a right to inquire IL a candidate Is
equally as honorable as themselves.
Tor practically every man who has
enrolled as Republican assumes
the obligation of supporting In the
election the party choice as deter
mined in the primary. 1t is a point
of honor with them. They need no
coaching on so elemental a question
of honesty. They would disdain to
take orders from a committee. Nat
urally they expect the candidate of
their selection to be as sorupulous as
themselves. And they are absolute
ly right in that attitude.
If Mr.. O'Neil does not propose to
abide by the result of the primary
election. should he fail of nomina-
ton, he should not have becbme a
candidate. He owes it to the party
and to himself to make his posi-
ton clear without delay.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-03
On Historic Ground

The division headquarters at Camp
Lee is within stones throw of the
spot where the house stood that
housed Grant and his staff during the
seige of Petersburg. Last fall there
was Confederate reunion at Peters
burg, and the old soldiers visited the
cantonment. The man who had
served as General Lees cook during
the siege was there; and in that
camp, so appropriately named for
the gneat military leader of the
South, he met the grandson of the
famous general, an officer in the
American Army, training Americans
to fight for William Slav-
ems McNutt in Golfers Weekly.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-03
Our Help Is Needed

We must help. England has call
ed to arms her last men. Men of
the age of SO are now being con-
scripted. This tells the truth of
what the need of Europe is today.
Why try console ourselves with
fragments of hope that because a
German drive is repulsed or because
the Germans rest a day or two that
the tide has changed and at last we
are on the eve of the great offensive
that will decide this war in the in
terest of humanity. Such hopes
are false. The grim fact remains
We are not winning. We are doing
miraculously well to keep our enemy
at bay and we must lose and will
lose unless we send the timely aid
for which England and France are
praying.-From Memphis Appeal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-03
WINNING ITS WAY

(From Christian Science Monitor)
Prohibition. like any other good
thing, is winning it's own way. New
York newspapers have recently pub
lished figures showing the great de-
crease in crimes in that city during
the five winter Mondays on which
the saloons were closed; 1t begins
to look as If Great Britain had at
last partially awakened to the reali-
zation, that barley IS more needed
for food than for drink; and now
comes news from Yucatan, Mexico,
that the StaterLegislature has invit-
ed the rest of the Mexican republic
to a congress which is to discuss and
adopt laws toward the total prohi-
bition of the sale of alcoholic and
Intoxicating beverages throughout
the entire country" Yucatan is en-
thusiastic over the improvement of
her people since she adopted prohi-
bition.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-03
FOolhdrdy, AnyhoW

A Joe Millerism about the dan
ger of long whiskers and lighted
candles in combination has just
come true in England. AS a re-
spectacle stonemason of the London
neigh borhood was going upstairs
with a lighted candle. the fame
caught his whiskers and he was
burned to death. The coroner's jury
decided that it was an accidental
death, but we should call it suicide.
From the Hartford Courant.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-03

American soldiers shall be made pub
lie with their names. No good and
much harm is caused by Withholding
information which may cause friends
at home needless worry.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-03

The dry" campaigners are going
about the thing in a proper way They
are planning whirlwind campaign
in favor of the nomination of legisla-
tive candidates who are pledged to
vote for the prohibition amendment.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-03
Probably Munchdusen

The Lewistown (Me.) Journal
tells of farmer of that section who
has had the points of his lightning
rods on the roof of his barn boxed
In so the crows won't get hurt on
them when they are out of exer-
else" From which we surmise
Maine has had an awful snow or
has an awful liar.-From the Macon
Daily Telegraph.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-03
RedLtu Preferred

He-I would give lots to make
you happy, dear.
She-That sounds good to me.
Are the lots vacant or improved
Baltimore American.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-03
They Face Mtern1ent

Internment of all the alien enc
mics may become necessary to their
own safety.-From the st. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-03

With wages. materials and taxes all
advanced. rents are bound to go up,
but there is no reason for increasing
rents four or five dollars a month to
cover expenditures OF half that
amount
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-03

"PlsAe your coal order now" is
very commendable bit of advice. sbut
to induce the dealer to induce the
railroad to induce the mine operator
to fill 1t is quite another matter.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-03

The Government plans to put a
curb on hide hoarders," and then why
not hide the hoarders7
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-03

Our idea of the Popes peace proffers
is that they will be politely but
firmly declined"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-03

The War Department has reached
the opinion that everybody else enter
tanned long ago. which is that the list
of addresses Of killed and wounded
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-03

The best rent regulator Harrisburg
could devise is a larger number of
houses built at reasonable figures,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-03

When the Hun fails to beat his ad-
versaries by the sword he tries the
pen; thereby admitting that the pen
really is mightier than the sword. But
the sword has not been cast nor the
pen made that will make a German
peace while an America lives.