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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-08-08
Mothers Cook Book

No talent will enable us to do any work
without drudgery, but no childishness
must tempt us to give it up because 1t
is hard. No work can be we'll done by
anyone who is unwilling to sacrifice ease
to it's accomplishment.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-26
SHOULD HAVE IT

~ IPLOMATIC officers of the gov
ernment will receive addi-
= tional compensation if pro-
posals included in appropriations
now before the House committee on
foreign affairs are approved. The
pay of ambassadors would be ad-
vanced from $17,5OO to $4,000 a
year and that of ministers from
$4,000 to $4,000, and $4,000 to
$4,000. For the different grades
of secretary of embassy or legation
increases are also provided, while
the appropriation available for post
allowances would be increased from
100000 to 100000.
These advances are worthy of ap-
proval. American diplomats abroad
must live Well and entertain Law
ishly. There is no avoidance of this,
no matter how simple their tastes
or democratic their natures. Here
tofore only very wealthy men could
be appointed, because the expenses
were greater than the salaries paid.
This is not right. Every man ought
to be able to aspire to an ambassa-
dorship, If he has the ability and
the training. The salaries ought to
meet expenses, and more.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-26
GOvernOr-Elect Sprouts
Art Suggestion Popular

a committee of the index prohibi-
torius that would restrain the
vagaries of the senseless marbles
and GRANTEES and bronze that spoil
the vistas. But in this issue Penn
jylvania is no worse than other
states, though, of course, the con-
centration of soldiers monuments at
Gettysburg gives a cumulative effect
that the demerits of single monu-
ment on a village green cannot hope
to equal or surpass. For this issue
of bad taste in monuments is q ma
tional one and New England is quite
as full of monstrosities as the Mid
die States while the west and south
follow on equally unable apparently
to resist the appeal of the marble
and granite tooters or even the con-
crete mixers who have designs to
sell.as well as the materials in which
to execute them.
at is this mail-order type of mon
uments that must not be a factor in
the coming memorials to the SOL
diers and sailors and the civilians
who fought and wrought in the
world war. Pennsylvania will be
well served if the Governor secures
against our own weaknesses and the
mediocrity that dares to perpetuate
it's ideas in imperishable materials.
We do know better and have known
better for a generation; but, unfor-
tunately, those who do know better
are not always consulted and those
who don't have had their day with
out let or hindrance. But all are
agreed that that all-too-long day
must be over, and it is fortunate
thing for Pennsylvania that a volun-
teer organization of specialists is
now being formed which will act
voluntarily as a consultant body in
order to see to it that the public art
OF Pennsylvania represents that SEEM
illness that is possible to the artiiicers
Of the day. Such q committee or
commission G. j do a great deal of
good and CO il put brake on imma-
ture and ill-considered plans for
public monuments and can act, as a
sort of locum tenens until this Leg
islature has taken action and Gre
ated an official body which will do
for the state what the art jury has
done for Philadelphia.
'In the broader issue of artistic
and economic municipal planning in
general, there is no reason why a
tcmporary commission should not be
appointed to study all possible
phases of a problem that the amaz-
ing muddlement of the Federal
housing authorities shows cannot be
settled offhand in a doetrinaire man.
ner. For this question of commun-
ity planning involves questions OF
bridges. monuments, streets and
highways, as we'll as housing. In
other words, it is time the twentieth
century spirit of technical and artis-
tic knowledge was put at the COM
mand of the state, and if the new
Governor secures this, he will have
won a great civic victory and make
a great name for himself in Held
which most public men leave severe
ly alone"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-26
The Watch on the Rhine

rElis Abeth Rex in the Columbus
Dispatch.L
CA New Version.)
A voice resounds like thunder peal
Mid .dashing waves and clang Of
"The Rhine! The Rhine! The Ger
man Rhine!
Who'll cross today that stream di-
Firm tread the Yanks to cross the
Rhine!
They come! A million Yankees
Quick to avenge their country's
wrong;
With filial love their bosoms swell;
They'll guard that long known land
mark well.
oh, Vaterland, the dangers thine,
Firm tread the Yanks to cross the
Rhine!
And though in death our hopes de-
The Rhine shall know no German
sway,
For rich with water as its flood
Is our America with her blood.
oh. Vaterland, the dangers thine,
Firm tread the Yanks to cross the
Rhine!
The yon blue skies are bending now,
With hero dead, who hear our VOW
AS long as Allied ranks are free
They'll keep the Rhine from Ger
= many.
oh. Vaterland, the dangers thine,
Firm tread the Yanks to cross the
Rhinei
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-26
In FdDOr of Military Training

tFrom the Philadelphia Inquirer]
The National Security League re-
ports a gratifying growth of senti-
ment favorable to the institution of
universal military training among
members of the incoming Congress.
Since its last previous canvass seven
more Representative and one Sen
ator have avowed their advocacy of
it and as the roll now stands 152 Re
presentativeS and 40 Senators are
committed to it's support. 1t is a
reasonable surmise that if the sub
ject were better understood, if the
advantages of a military training
more intelligently appreciated, those
who object to it would be reduced
to an inconsiderable minority The
| chief argument against it is that
we don't need and don't want to
establish anything that smacks of
the militaristic system in this country
but the training proposed has no
necessary connection with the mill
itarist idea or with the organization
and maintenance of a big army.
If it We're absolutely certain that
this country would never again be
engaged in war, the project which
the National Security League is pro-
noting would lose nothing of its i'm
portance or desirability. Our young
men should be required to undergo
certain amount of military training
not merely because they may at some
time in the uncertain future be called
upon to defend their country, but
for the sake of the moral and physi-
cal advantages which they would
derive from the fulfilment of that
obligation. How greatly those who
passed a few months or weeks in the
training camps were benefited Dy
their experience nearly every one can
testify from n personal observation.
The reader has undoubtedly noticed
the salutary effect of camp life upon
some young man or other of his ac-
quaintan5e.
When that young fellow left his
home for the Cantonment to which
he had been assigned the chances
are that his bodily condition was
none of the best and that his bearing
was the reverse of soldierly, but
what a transformation in his ap-
pearance was effected by the mini
stration of the drill sergeant.
! by the time his military education
had been completed he didn't look
| like the same man. With his bright
eye, his ruddy complexion and his
| erect carriage, he was the picture of
health and strength, and those who
advocate military training do so be-
cause these are the results which it
| produces.
| 1t also inculcates invaluable habits
CT cleanliness, order and discipline
which might not otherwise have been
acquired and in which our youth
are unfortunately too likely to be
lacking, and these habits will cling
to the training camp graduates to
their own great advantage through
out their whole after-life.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-26

Governor-elect William C. Sprouts
declaration that he thinks the state
should supervise the art of public
buildings, memorials and monu-
ments seems to have struck the
popular idea.
The Philadelphia Press says:
! Every community in the state
which expects to eXpend money in
the erection of public memorial to
its war heroes-and every commun-
ity expects to do that-should well
come the suggestion of Governor
elect Sproul for q State Art Com
mission to supervise such construc-
ton. Much money will be wasted
on Inappropriate if not actually
grotesque designs, unless something
of the kind Mr.. Sproul suggests is
adopted. The subject is worth all
the many thousands that will be eX-
pended and every community will
be proud to do its best, and be most
generous, in perpetuating the mem
ory of those who have fallen in the
great war, but it will be all the
prouder, and the testimonial will be
the more sincere, if at the same time
the memorial is marked with good
taste and artistic finish. Such
commission as the Governor-e r-elect
suggests would be able to secure the
best results"
The Philadelphia Inquirer has
this to say: "It is manifest that
Governor-elect Sproul is not favor
able to the expenditure of taxpayers
money upon "old-fashioned" SOL
diers' and sailors monuments, and
that he prefers to promote the good
roads projects or to erect memorial
buildings in which could be housed
state officials and their subordinates
who are now occupying offices in
privately-owned buildings and
which it is claimed, do not properly
represent the dignity of the Com
monwealth. Auditor General Charles
A. Snyder has pronounced views
upon this subject. In an official
communication he will shortly place
himself upon record against the
maintenance of offices of state de-
partments in Philadelphia and else
where, which, in his opinion, should
be located in the state capital. Ills
idea is that the personal convenience
of momentary occupants OF depart
ment offices, shall not be permitted
to incur unnecessary expense upon
the administration of the state gov
ernment."
The Public Ledger storms against
what it calls mail order monu-
ments" and says: Governor Sproul
will do nothing more signal for the
spirit of Pennsylvania and Pennsyl-
vanians than by giving the right
hand of encouragement to not in
considerable group of specialists,
, artists and architects, who for
years, in season and out of season,
have deplored the bad taste exhibit
ed in public and private monuments.
After one has shuddered over the
horrors of the battlefield of Gettys-
burg, not in recalling the incidents
of the war but in viewing at first
hand the arts of peace, he longs for
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-26
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

General c. T. Menover, COM
mander of the Rainbow division,
has been elected an honorary men,
Der of he Rotary club of Johns
town, where he used to live.
The Rev. DR.. w. E. McCulloch,
Pittsburgh minister just home from
France, says the American troops
were unbeatable and the Huns soon
gathered the thought.
--Ex-Judge w. e. Porter, of New
Castle, is in charge of the plans for
the big dry federation meeting here
next month.
Col. John c. Groome, head of
military police in France, served in
the National Guard for over twenty
years.
Col. Lewis T.. Beitler, who will
be in charge of details for the in
augural parade, has had hand in
arrangements of most of the big
state pageants.
The Rev. c. II. Rust, prominent
Rochester clergyman, has been
called to Scranton.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-26

and banking the difference. If we
ell got together and said, NO. thank
you, nothing doing in $40 Shirts"
$40 shirts would soon come down in
price or go off the market, They
have no place In the average mans
wardrobe anyway.
Wages and salaries have been
high for several years. They may
remain high indefinitely. Too many
Of us have taken 1t for granted they
are here to stay and that 80 far as
we, personally, arc concerned the
proverbial 'rainy day. never will
come. Nevertheless, tho homely old
fable of the grasshopper who wasted
his effort in days of plenty only to
find himself cold and hungry in the
autumn still holds good. The honey
bee gets q lot more out of life than
the grasshopper or his gaudy friend,
the butterfly, and he lives longer
and better. There is no "$10 shirt"
item in his catalog of personal ne
cesslties, but he looks pretty well
at that, and has the respect of all
who know him, to boot.
Once we get over the $40 shirt,
the $12 shoes and the rest of such
tomfoolery the better off we shall
be financially and the more COM
Portable in our minds. Clothes don't
make a man. They don't, always
even tell you what he is. But very
often they offer a strong hint as to
what he is not. And not infre-
quently the louder the talk the less
they say worth hearing.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-26
The Sugar Lid is off

This noon when we came home fer
lunch,
Ez soon as school had quit. The
bunch
OF us just stood plumb still
Es soon as we touched our door sill!
There 'uz somethin' doin! Hully
Geel
The place was as hot as hot could
be,
En- Ma was redder'n any beet,
En- on the cupboard there to eat
Lay bout q million cookies! Gee!
You see twas just the first we'd had
Since Kaiser Bill had got so bad
Say, Nal! sez Bill, you made
enuff!"
Says Ma, "The sugar lid is Off"
Last night when got in from play
in
The bestest smell came sort er
strayin
Right in to the front room! An Pa
Laid down his paper. SO did Ma!
There uz somethin' doin'! Landy
Gee!
The place was choclatey's could be!
Sez Pa, Cant be as 1 smelled
fudge"
scz Ma, well, now, you're some
good judge!
"Annie's made a pan-fulll"-Gee!
Pa and me acted ez FOOLS could bel
You see twas just the first we'd
had
Since darned old Bill had kicked
up badl
Sez Pa, You're sure she's made
enuff?"
Sez Ma. Lands, vest Tho lid is OFT"
EDNA CROFT DEIHL.
Paxtang, Pa,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-26
From Gilbert and SuIIiDdn
[The New York Tribune


officers of the American forces en-
gagged in policing occupied German
territory complain that the regu-
lar mess is almost deserted, the SOL
diers preferring to slip away and ac-
cept the hospitality of the German
inhabitants, who take the Americans
to their homes and entertain them
lavishly. These being the same Ger
mans who lately were wearing med
ais struck in celebration of the sink
ing of the Lusitania, their conduct
is strongly reminiscent of the plain
tive song of the policemen in "The
Pirates of Penzance," which runs:
when a felon's not engaged in his
employment,
Or maturing his felonious little
plans,
His capacity for innocent enjoyment
Is just as great as any honest
mans"
The picture of our boys enjoying
all the comforts of home is a pleas
ant one, of course, but we charge
them not to forget that evil COM
munications corrupt good manners.
This sudden recrudescence of the
kindly German nature" only serves
to recall that:
when the coster's finished Jumping
on his mother, :.
He loves to lie a-basking in the sun"
Taking zone consideration with an
other" the boys who are walking
beat along the Rhine are going to
find out Gilbert and Sullivan were
right when they sang:
THE policeman's life is not happy
one"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-26
TEN-DOLLAR SHIRTS

WY e note in New York news
wv paper the first indication OF
a reduction in the high cost
of living-rather, perhaps, in the
cost of high living, for the item has
to do with silk shirts. Regular S12
shirts" we are told, "are now to be
had for So" No, not per dozen
per piece. Ten dollars for one sin
gle, lonely, solitary shirt! Shade of
our homespun ancestors, think of
itI And the advertiser naively isug-
gests that by the dozen twelve may
be had for the price of ten. It's a
grand bargain, fellows, but please
don't rush the clerks.
Some times we suspect that I'VE,
the people," are responsible for not
a little of the high cost Of living of
which we complain. Too many of
us with cambria salaries have silk
shirt tastes. and try to indulge them.
Or, as soon as our salaries reach
the silk shirt stage we buy silk
shirts. instead of sticking to cotton.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-26
CONSTRUCTIVE DOCTRINE

NJ ISIS CHRISTABEL PANK-
WI HURST, erstwhile militant
suffragist and more re-
Gently advanced thinker along
many lines, is credited with having
been the first to suggest unity of
command for the allied armies, and
now is quoted as having given voice
to as fine bit of constructive doc
trine as has come out of conserva-
tive England for many a day. Speak
ing of the folly of the Bolshevik
movement and its remedy, she says:
1t is not the bourgeoisie that
must be abolished. On the con-
trary, it is the proletariat that
must be abolished. What we
mean by that is that the condi-
tions under which the proletariat
live at present must be brought
to an end, and it must enjoy the
same advantages as the bour-
geoisie, so that the two become
indistinguishable.
There is no fine line of demarka-
ton between the various classes of
American people, as there is in
England. One class merges into
another so gradually that it is diff
ficult to say where one stops and
another begins. The poverty-strick-
en- American of to-day may be the
prosperous citizen of tomorrow. Op-
portunities grow more thickly in
America than abroad. American
people generally live better than
their European neighbors, but there
is enough of poverty and more than
enough of bad housing and bad liv-
ing conditions in this country to
give us pause for consideration of
Miss Pankhursts proposed remedy
for Bolshevikism.
The Bolshevik has no place in the
community where work is plentiful,
wages fair and living conditions
good. Miss Pankhurst would put
an end to the propaganda by de-
stroying the seed bed and removing
those elements in which it germi-
mates, springs up and fiourishes. AL
ways there will be poverty, because
there always will be those who will
take no thought of tomorrow and
who are too shiftless to share in the
prosperity of their more ambitious
and more industrious neighbors. But
poverty, with it's resultant Bolshevill
| leanings, may be reduced to a mini
mum, and will be, in these United
States in the next generation or two.
The change which Miss Pankhurst
urges cannot be wrought in a day,
or a week, or q year. But the ten
dency should be in that direction.
Indeed, If for selfish reasons only,
the more prosperous must see to it
that the "proletariat" is abolished,
for it is q self-evident fact that
where the people as a whole are
earning good wages and are able
to meet their wants and satisfy some
of their desires for luXuries, there
business fourishes and trade is
good. The more wage-earners, the
more buyers; the more money in the
pay envelopes, within the ability oi
the employer to pay, the greater the
volume of business.
Miss Pankhurst's. doctrine is not
only reasonable, but it is very, dis.
tinctly in line with popular thought
and very much at variance with
what one might have expected OF
this militant apostle of suffrage IL
the days before the war. -
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-26
Britain and Spies

1t is now revealed that twelve
spies were shot in the Tower of Lon
don during the war; Two women
spies sentenced to death were re-
prieved. There was no Edith Cavell
case to dishonor Great Britain's rec
ord. but the Germans did not even
need to accuse the Engllshwoman of
spying In order to excuse her muF-
,der.-New York World,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-26
Life SdDing Criticism
[From the Lawrence (Kan) Jour
nal World.l

nal w Orla,l
The constant fault-finding of
Roosevelt has in q way minimized
his influence for good, and yet the
nation has saved millions in money
and thousands of lives through just
that sort of criticism. The President
objected to criticism, fought to the
last against having any limit set to
his actions, and yet he again and
again guided himself by the very
criticisms he opposed. Perhaps all
of the criticism may not have been
merited, but it is probable that
much more might well have been
directed against other extravagan-
ces, delays, inefficiency and gratis.
This criticism came from Demo-
Gratis brave enough to face the Pres
ident's wrath as well as from Re-
publicans. 1t has been the saliva
ton of the country, as 1T has speed
ed up supplies, has fastened the
sending of troops abroad, has cor
rected evils in the cantonments at
home and saved the aircraft pro-
gram from utter failure.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-26
Our Potato Consumption

About three and three-quarters
bushels of potatoes for each person
were consumed yearly for all pur-
poses in this country during the ten
years preceding the war. About ten
per cent, of the consumption is for
seed and starch, mostly for seed
From the Indianapolis NaEA y
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-26
Moses Crowd Fairly Decent

Moses proclaimed only ten COM
mandments as against President
Wilson's fourteen-but, then, Moses
didn't have the Germans to deal with.
Montgomery Advertiser.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-26
She's Catching 1t Now

The Bolsheviki are gaining con-
troll of Germany and those who won
dered how she ever could be pun-
ished sufficiently are answered.
New York Tribune,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-26
DO YOU KNOW

That the soldiers who stop
off here on their way home all
praise the way Harrisburg took
care of the river front?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-26
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1918
THE UNREPENTANT HUN

- VIDENCES of the unregenerate
II and wholly obsessed character
- of the Hun, in spite of his aw-
full walloping by the Allies, are con-
tained in a speech of Premier Ebert,
TO the Prussian Guard, which has
Just returned to Berlin. Hear him:
Your deeds and sacrifices are
unexampled. No enemy over
came you. Only when the pre-
ponderance of our opponents in
men and material grew ever
struggle. You endured indescrib-
able sufferings, accomplished
deeds and gave, year after year.
proofs of your mistaken courage.
You protected the homeland from
invasion, sheltered your wives,
children and parents from flames
and slaughter and preserved the
nations workshops and fields from
devastation. With deepest emo
tion the homeland thanks you.
- You can return with heads erect.
Never have men done or suffered
more than you.
Yet there are people in the United
States who constantly eXude sickly
sentimentality regarding soft treat
ment for the German government
and a deceived German people. All
the signs point to the fact that there
has been no change in the Hun
makeup. He is the same arrogant
and overbearing and brutal propo-
sition with which the world has had
to deal during more than four years
and who will continue to be a thorn
in the side of humanity until he is
completely squelched.
mo enemy overcame you" and
''you can return with heads erect"
are simply straws showing the di-
rection of the wind and the real
feeling of people who were told
their Shining sword" and ''invin-
chile navy" would conquer the
world.
We still believe that the victor
ious army of humanity and justice
and righteousness should march
through Germany and give the advo-
Gates of might over right an object
lesson that they will not soon for
get. Out with the pacifist arguments
that consider only the Germans and
their self-imposed troubles and have
no thought for their outraged and
impoverished victims.
Don't let us forget that the perpe-
traitors of the greatest crime of the
ages are all at large and come of
them in power. Won Tirpitz, the
head and front of the submarine
horror, has shaved his whiskers and
found an asylum in Switzerland.
Ludendorff, the bully of the group,
has fed to Sweden. The Kaiser is
holding forth in Holland, and Hin
denburg and Mackenson are still
leading the "unbeaten" armies.
Thumbs down!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-26

When you pay your 1920 taxes just
remember they were framed by Demo-
Gratis over the protest of Republicans.