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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-03
For a Big NdDH
(From the Washington Post)

(From the Washington Post.)
There is no inconsistency in build
ing up great navy and at the same
time advocating disarmament. The
latter represents the ultimate aim
of civilization, which may or may
Pending it's attainment, is it the part
of wisdom for America to sit idle
and unprepared for a possible at
tack? President Wilson spoke frank
ly upon this point in his address to
Congress on December 2. Advocat-
ing the naval building program, he
said: "It would clearly be unwise
for us to attempt to adjust our pro-
grams to a future world policy as
yet undetermined"
1t is hoped that much good will
come out of the peace conference.
that dreams long harbored in the
interest of peace and progress will
be realized; that reforms will develop
and that In the conduct of nations
force will yield to reason. But these
are still hopes, and no one can tell
whether the time has yet arrived for
them to bloom into facts. They re-
main to be written into the treaty in
terms; and so writ, experience is the
only means of testing their practica-
bility.
Meantime, what is Americas duty?
To sit passive and unalert, dreaming
of a Utopia where men shall dwell
in peace and where justice shall pre-
vail? Clearly not. She must face the
stern facts, the realities of the world.
Hoping for permanent peace, striv-
ing for 1t, she must, nevertheless,
make provision to protect herself in
any eventuality.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-03
FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1919
RECORD OF SERVICE

With the return of the soldiers
Nv to the homeland the recent
w suggestion of citizen of Har-
risburg that there should be a daily
register in some official way of those
who are coming back to civil life is
worthy of serious attention.
Inasmuch as many of the men are
being mustered out at distant points,
singly or in groups, and not as mill
tary units, it is highly important that
some record be made of the terms of
their enlistment.
We believe this is a distinct and
important service which could be
rendered by the Chamber of Com
merce or some similar body. 1t ought
10 De an easy matter to set up a
system through which the returning
soldier could report to the head
quarters of the local business organ
ization, or other body, and record
his military service, which would in
clude the place of enlistment, the
unit with which he served, his mus
ter out and the date of his return to
civil life. This information would be
of great value when the time comes
for making up an accurate roll of
the soldiers of Dauphin county and
this section.
Unless some such plan is adopted
it is certain that men who served
for a brief time and were then mus
tered out will cease to have their
proper place in the rolls of the coun-
try's defenders. After the Civil War
there was much difficulty of this
sort and while the military enroll
nient for the present great struggle
was more carefully conducted there
is still likely to be omissions and er-
rors unless there is some definite
plan of recording the return of SOL
dters to private life.
Blanks could be prepared which
could be filled out and thus form the
basis of correct roll of all those
who served in any branch of the
country's defense during the war.
Whether the man served one day or
for years would make no difference.
There ought to be an accurate record
of this service from the start to the
finish of the war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-03
"STANDING TO HIS GUNS
IN. A. Reviews War Weekly.1

IN. A. Reviews War Weekly.1
There is one thing to be said of
Secretary Baker: He stande to his
guns, whether he has any to stand
to or not. Our machinery for war;"
he declared, by way of self eulogy,
at Atlantic City last week, was a
great product of genius of the Amer
lean people" 1t seemed like old
times. Here are a few of the things
said officially by Mr.. Baker upon
previous dates:
January 10.-Our initial needs
have been met. Every man in
France has full equipment. Every
man who goes will have full equip
ment.
January 28.-The American army
in France. now and to be there, is
provided with artillery of the types
they want as rapidly as they can use
1t. Our own manufacture is in proc
ess. Deliveries of some pieces are
already begun, with a rising and
steadily increasing stream of Ameri-
can production.
May IL (Official statement) The
! Ordnance Department has thus far
met every demand imposed by the
new program for overseas shipment
of ordnance. Tonnage is a limiting
| factor in the shipment of ordnance.
Sufficient supplies of artillery =
French 75-millimeter and 155-milli-
meter and American heavy railway
artillery-are already in France to
meet the present demand.
May 9.-There is no present short
age of light or heavy guns in either
France or America and there is no
shortage in prospect.
.Tnna 12-Tha arfiiIarV nrORran Is
now approaching point where
quantity production is approaching.
July 2 Unspired dispatch to the
! World). - American n-built 155-milli-
meter howItzers are moving to
France. One American firm is turn
ing out howitzers at the rate of ten
day.
What became of these products of
American genius nobody knows. They
certainly never reached the firing
line.
"Our entry into the war" says
General Pershing in his official re-
port, dated November 20. found u
with few of the auxiliaries neces-
sary for its conduct in the modern
sense. Among our most important
deficiencies in material were artil-
lery, aviation and tanks. In order
to meet our requirements as rapidly
as possible, we accepted the offer of
| the French Government to provide
us with the necessary artillery equip
ment of 75's 3-inch), 155-millimetre
(6-inch) howitzers. and 155-milli-
metre G p + guns from their own
factories. for thirty divisions.
THE wisdom of this course Is
fully demonstrated by the fact that.
although we soon began the manu-
facture of these classes of guns at
home, there were no guns of the
calibers mentioned, manufactured in
America, on our front, at the date
the armistice was signed
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-03
PRISON, NOT CONGRESS

~ RISON at hard labor and not
r Congress is tht place for Repre-
sentative-elect Berger who, yes
terday, admitted in court that he ad-
vocated a "bloody revolution" in the
United States and justified the sink
ing of Lusitania with its cargo of
women and children. Samuel Com
pers is poor weakling" in the eyes
of Berger.
There is no place in the United
States government for the Lenines,
the Bergers and their ilk. The people
of the United States don't make their
governmental changes by bloody
revolutions" They have the ballot
and whenever enough of them are
sufficiently interested they can get
anything they demand.
There is no power on earth great
enough to prevent the people of the
United States getting precisely what
they want in the way of laws if they
use their ballots properly. Nor are
the people of this country accus-
toned to taking orders from anarch-
lists and other enemies of the Berger
type. They have provided nice,
strong prisons and plenty of good
hard work for such as he and if he
gets his just desserts Berger will go
to Atlanta instead of to Washington
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-03
Millions Lost in War

The total casualties of the RUS
sian army amount to more than o.
100000 and those of Austria more
than 100000 The more results are
becoming known the more this war;
unprovoked and needless in the de-
fense of any nation or principle, is
shown as the greatest crime of civil
liZed times. Even now its authors
realizing the condemnation of his.
tory, are feverishly denying their
responsibility, each trying to should
er 1T upon the other.-Baltimo
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-03

We can't help wondering whether
docks at the principal Atlantic ports
are still crowded with the pathetic
figures of those members of Washing
ton commissions and boards, who were
told by the President to hold them
selves in readiness for a call to Eu-
rope during the peace sessions. Each
outgoing boat carries a few more of
the "watchful walters" but until the
transportation facilities shall have
been increased we can hardly EXPECT
that the last of these extraordinary
plenipotentiaries will get to Europe
before those who first went across
have started home.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-03
Old Timber For NeU ShiDs

According to the rings on the
stumps of big oaks cut at Winnie
gance. Me-, this season for ship
building. a number of the trees were
from one hundred to one hundred
and twenty-five years old, and some
had been growing for one hundred
and fifty years. The Morse saw
mill. at Winnegance has been oper-
ated for more than one hundred
years. The original frame of the
milf is still there, as sound as ever,
some of the hewn sticks of timb ber
being eighty feet in length.--Bos-
ton Globe.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-03
Greek Meets Greek

What coming off out in front
there?" aske the proprietor of the
Tote Fair store in Tumlinville, Ark.
"a couple of fellers from Straddle
Ridge snapped mules" replied the
clerk, ''anG now each is accusing
the other of skinning him."
We'll, then, why don't they trade
back
II reckon they are both afraid
of getting skinned gain."-From
the Kansas City Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-03
'Poetsca s~
Pe'.~Ayesanio
BY the Ex-Committccman

The Philadelphia delegation to the
House of Representatives will hold
a caucus at the headquarters of the
Republican City Committee late to-
day when slate committee will be
selected. AS each of the Congress
sional districts are entitled to repre-
sentation on this committee, six
members will be appointed.
William S. Leib, resident clerk of
the House, will attend the meeting
and will ask the forty-one Phila-
delphia members to select their
seats. In this connection it was learn
ed that efforts will be made to have
! Senator William McNichol seated at
the desk occupied by his father, the
late Senator James p. McNichol.
Regarding this meeting the
Philadelphia Press says: The Ware
organization has invited the opposi-
tion Republicans elected as state
representatives into the fold with
their own followers for q meeting to-
day at the City Committee head
quarters. William S. Leib, resident
clerk of the House of Representa-
tiVes, will be on hand with q dia-
gram of the seats in the House
chamber at Harrisburg and the Phil
adelphia legislators will be given an
opportunity to pick the desks they
would like to occupy.
THE other important business of
the meeting will be the selecting of
candidates for the Endorsement of
the organization as members of the
slate committee, which decides on
the personnel of the House employees.
h IL.
mlttee from each Congressional dis
trict, which will mean thatSthe Ware
men will pick six of their representa-
tives for Endorsement. Although the
anti-Vare Representatives will be in
vited to attend, it is not considered
likely that they will fill important
roles in making the selections.
The organization this year has
violated a precedent of several ses-
sion in not holding a caucus as to
w;:om they will support for Speak
er. The attitude of the leaders this
year has been that they had no can
didate and therefore there was no
need of binding their men to support
any particular aspirant. Robert S.
Spangler, of York, has been agreed
upon by the different Republican in
terests as the man to be elected
Speaker of the new House and there
is little disposition TO think the Ware
meeting will upset the proceedings
by bringing forward a candidate of
it's own.
1T has been customary for the
Ware men to get an opportunity of
selecting their seats in advance, but
it has generally been done in Senator
Vare's office informally. Not in re-
cent years have they held meeting
for the purpose and invited their op-
ponents to take part.
The seats for Philadelphia men,
bers of the State Senate already have
been assigned. An effort has been
made to have the newly elected SEN
ator, William ]. McNichol, occupy
the same desk his father, James p.
McNichol, held during his last term
in the Senate. 1t is believed this will
be done"
Bitter attack upon the public
spirited citizens named as a COM
mittee to draw up a new charter for
the city of Philadelphia was made
yesterday by Common Councilman
Clinton A. Sower, of the Twentieth
ward, who resigned his seat in the
body at the session on account of his
election tO the T,apiclntiIra
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-03

City Commissioner Lynch is prop
erly arranging a program of street
improvement for next year which con-
templates maintaining at it's high
point the reputation of the city as a
well-paved municipality. May we not
hope that. similar attention will be
given the park system, including the
appointment of Shade Tree Commits
sion that will in truth give Harris
burg the shade trees which it must
have to prevent a treeless desert.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-03
Coalition Us. Pdrty

[From New York Evening World
We wonder If President Wilson
being right on the spot when the re.
suits of the British elections came
in. saw anything worth setting dowf
in his notebook as to the value OF
the coalition rather than the party
idea when appealing to electors fol
support in an era of transcendem
issue.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-03

President Reinoehl made hit with
his little speech at the Penn Harris
opening. and his suggestion that Mrs
John Harris. in the pioneer days, in
sisted that Harrisburg should have
as good a tavern as Lebanon and
Lancaster, caused broad smile among
those who recall that the new head
of the Chamber of Commerce Is a ma.
tive of Lebanon.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-03

Governor Brumbaugh will have the
satisfaction of having contributed
largely during his administration in
the furtherance of the Capitol Park
improvement project. He has been
particularly anxious to have PennsyI-
vania trees planted in the park zone
and the plan which has been adopted
by the Board of Public Grounds and
Buildings contemplates an avenue OF
red oaks.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-03
Sortorial Progress in Okla

MIN Cars orchestra furnished the
music. The grand march was led by
Mr.. and Mrs. w. N. Sumner. and a
notable feature of it was the in
creased number of dress suits
From the Antlers Times-Reco<d.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-03

The Turks continue to behave as
though the Kaiser were still on hand
to approve. The place for the Turks
one and all, is the bottom of the Black
Sea. and If the Allies don't drive them
into it one of the blessings of the war
will have been missed.
missed
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-03

The Bolsheviki want everything for
themselves. even If they have to blow
everything up to get what they want.
Many other burglars feel the same
way.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-03

Lewis Charges G. o. P. Leaders
Conspire to Discredit President" =
Newspaper headline. If we're not
careful we may get some Of those me
und Gott" ideas in the United States.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-03

Mayor Keister spoke with pride. the
other night, of the achievements of
Harrisburg since 1901, and there
should never arise an occasion for de-
ploring any reaction which would in
volve a letting down in our municipal
activities as a progressive and up to-
date city.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-03
No More Dominant Powers

[From st. Louis Globe Democrat
Physical boundaries will he nee
essary element in peace making, but
they will be fixed for the good of
the inhabitants and not chiefly in the
interest of the dominant Powers
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-03
Cdpdble of Anuthin0

Almost everything has been laid
to diseased teeth. except murder,
and one never can tell what might
be the outcome of Jumping tooth
ache. st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-03

Member of the Associated Press-The
Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled to the use for republication OF
all news dispatches credited to 1T or
and also the local news published
herein.
Ali rights of republication of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-03
Playing Gerndny's Game

Insinuations that Great Britain
stands in the way of freedom of the
seas is playing Germany's game,
even though the fighting is over
Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-03

From the silence on the part of Ger
many's two food commissioners. we
Judge they understood perfectly what
Herbert Hoover meant when he said it.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-03

During the last six months the
Amalgamated Association of Street
and Electric Railway Employees has
paid s179.590.37 in death benefits and
81, 500 in old-age pensions.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-03

Less than five per cent. of the work.
ing force employed at the United
States Arsenal In Rock Island, ILL.,,
have left the Government service
since the signing of the armistice.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-03

Miss Emily Tarr has been elected
chairman of the chapel" in one of the
large printing houses in New York
City. She is the first woman ever
elected to this important pdsition.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-03

The iron and steel industry, of Swift
zerland employs thousands of work
men and furnishes the means of n
livelihood to a large and influential
part of the Swiss population.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-03

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELNGRAPH PRINTING co.
Telegraph Building, Federal Square
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-03
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President and Editor-in-Chief
e. r. OYSTER, Business Manager
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-03
LABOR NOTES

Washlngton's army of war worke RS
is being demobiliZed, and by July l
next it is expected that $4,000 clerks
alone will have been discharged by
the War Department.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-03

Bitter attack upon the public
spirited citizens named as a COM
mittee to draw up a new charter for
the city of Philadelphia was made
yesterday by Common Councilman
Clinton A. Sower, of the Twentieth
ward, who resigned his seat in the
body at the session on account of his
election to the Legislature.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-03

with the return of the soldiers
Nv to the homeland the recent
w suggestion of a citizen of Har-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-03

Entered al the Post Office in Harris
burg. Pa, as second class matter.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1919-05-15


misunderstanding, for the avowed
purpose Of defeating 1ndepsndent ,vot-
ers' association plans Aps the early
iniation Of seven proposed new laws
designed to replace certain portions Of
the ,Nonpartisan- leagues program leg
Governor frazier last week
called special election for June 70
to vote upon laws for which referen-
dun petitions have already besn re
eeivsd. The sisnifieanee Of the gov
ern9r's action lies 10 the fact that
petitions for the limitation ~of the pro-
posed new laws have NOT yet been filed
with the secretary Of state and would
now. be too late to be properly certi-
fed TO be voted upon at an election to
be held at that time. The governor
contends that voters would only be
confused by the complexities Of initia-
tory legislation drawn along lines simi-
lar TO that already in force.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1919-05-15
srRA.sBURG Correspondence

Z Mrs. Martin Wald left for Dodge,
N. Oak, the latter part, nf last wsek
where she win visit indefinitely with;
relatives.
<. Miss Atty Greve ,wsnt to Linton on
Thursday. Of last week; to take the
teachers' examination, She sreturnsd
Saturday.
& Miss Isabel .Rightmsn returned
Friday from lava, s. Oak. + where
she has recently completed 2 seven
months term Of school.
H DR.. J. H. Shoemaker and A. R.
Rudow, Of Linton, were in town on
Friday Of last week transacting busi-
ness.
Mrs. A. c. schwegman iiourneysd
to- Aberdeen, Monday, where she will
have some dental work, dons. Miss
Mary Keller took her place keeping
house until her return.
NJ. Van Soest is now located in his
new place which he purchased from
John Keller. He has, rented his old
place to G. Fisher, our new cream
buyer.
r Anton Moszer and John Bossert
motored to the county sea-. Friday Of
last week to take in the dance at that
place.
81 Raw Father sa;ler If I,intnn wa.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1919-05-15
wml Koenix. Road work. Dis

wmj Koenfg. Road Work Dis 49,
trltt No. . ................. 8 so
Geo. Frood, Road Work, Dis
triSt No. 46s.......,... ..... IA 90
Bert Yeater. Road Work: Dis. "a
triSt No. ( s. ~ so
F. q. Carpenter Co.. Lum-
be9 District No. Fl s. ........ ~ 30
John RASTER. Road Work Dis
tritt No. % ~ 90
Henry wittinayer. Road Work
District No. % ............ ~ 90
H. 3 Mayer, Road Work Dis }a
trldt No. 81 ............... 20 90
John Bartu. Road Work. Dis,
trtdt No. - observation-disclosures. so on
Felix Zacher. Road Work Dis
trict No. 81 .i..,.-........... IS so
George Knoll road work Dis
trict No. 80 ............... 30 90
George Knoll road work Dis
tricf, No. % ...i............ IS
Anton Hulm road work Dis
trict No. 80 ............... 20 90
John iGisinger road work Co.
Road ........... J 90
F. j. .McConville >demurrage -
and labor unloading culverts "a 90
T. b. Meinhover posting no.
tices for Road. Co. Road. ). . 90
q. Norman. dragging roads:
Motor Vehicle fund ........ 10 20
Johu Bartu. Road Work. Auto ~.
Fund 10 20
Linton Bridge e. Const. Co.
" contract bridge located
swA OF. Sec, .2s T.131-R.77 1882 SO
Linton Bridge & Const. Co.
Y contract bridge located
between Sec. SO and s34-131-
II ..:.... ........ $500 90
Linton Bridge 6 5const. Co., ,i
" contract 3. bridge located
between Sec. IL and 22-132-
L 70 ........ ....... ......... 1887 30
W. D., Tracy road work; .Coun-
ty Bridge .........f ........ 10 20
H. H. Nieland road work; coun
ty Bridge ........ 10 80
e. n. Brant. freight and ex-
press sac. 3 Sa
e. r. -Atha ONCE supplies !. ...4.7 Is "a.
H. n. Hanson mileage to May
8, 1919 ........... ........ S3f46
H. n. Hanson postage, express
telegraph s..... ............ 81 80
c. F. WAGNER stamps and ex-
press ........ 2 ss
A. L. Cell recording officers
bonds 80. -. ............ 3 IS
State Bonding Fund. Treasure
ers bond premium \. ........ 400 90,
Linton Bazaar. merchandise to
Mrs, Margaret Scott 1870. II -
Linton Baxar: merchandise to
Mrs. Carrie Wittmayer ....s ~ 90
occident Elevator CO. Coal for
Mrs Scott ......... ....... 845
st. James Hospital. Perham.S
MINI. care OF Bridget Stats
from Sept. % to Mar. %.
1913 ....... $3.50. 1880. lSV W
w. CT wolyerton. N. b. SER
vices TO County Board Of
Health ......s. ....... - 90
Geo. b. Newcomb. Juvenile ..s
y Oficer 9Th Jud. Dist. cxpen-
SEES re the Alva Bnrge family 1s e01
Grand Forks Herald ONCE sup
! plies .........s $3.50. 90
The Globe Gazette Printing y
Co. ONCE supplies $1,000. 4 so
Knight Printing Co. ONCE sup
plies ........ 1885,. 80. III So