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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-24
BAKER MUST ANSWER

CECRETARY BAKER dismisses
y Major Fosters charges that the
head of the War Department
Intentionally or unintentionally
aided those who conspired against
conscription during the war" with a
wave of his hand and a brusque Il
have no interest in them"
But the public has, and it is en-
titled to know whether they are true
or false.
Here we have a subordinate in
the Army publicly alleging that his
chief conspired or was the tool of
those who took sides with Germany
and against the United States. The
Secretary owes it to himself and the
people he represents to require
Major Foster to prove his charges
or suffer the penalty. He cannot
wave them aside as of no conse-
quence. The more he tries to ig-
more them the more truth many will
see in them.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-24
Germany Thinks II ODer
[From the New York Tribune. ]

From the New York Tribune
Those Germans who are not just
now preoccupied with setting up
separate republics in their home
villages are Transforming idyllic beer
gardens into riotous soviet head
quarters find it Il fascinating pastime
to figure out why Germany has lost
the war.
Thus Count Monts de Mazin
sometime German ambassador in
Rome, publishes an article in the
Berliner Tageblatt, tabulating. with
praiseworthy Candor, the series of
errors which in his opinion caused
the collapse of the German imperial
machine. The greatest mistake, ac-
cording to the count. was no other
than the invasion of Belgium.
But it was not the only one. The
German diplomatist enumerates
them all as follows:
Error about Russia: The Ger
man general staff thought it had
several months at it's disposal be-
fore the bulk of the Russian forces
could reach the PruSSian border. 1t
did not know that the armies of
Siberia, the Caucasus and Turkes-
tan were already on heir way west
ward. This unexpected rapidity of
the Russian mobilization shattered
the German plan of campaign, which
consisted in finishing France with
one blow and then throw the whole
combined strength OF the Central
Powers against Russia.
Error about Italy, Until the
last moment the German general
stan counted upon the active sup
port of Italy. The assumption was
that Italy woul6 .,ia io,t,.,,,
hundred thousand Frenchmen on
the Alpine frontier. A German
military mission actually arrived nj
fIorence, but was told there to "beat
II home" At Freiburg every ar
fangement was made for the recep-
tioh OIL an italian cavalry division
the supposed vanguard of the Fourtb
Italian Army. ''' III
-, Error about England: In Ber-
I'M the admonitions of the British
government were called 'EneIiSh
DluH. Nobody believed that tbe
INVASION of Belgium would servo
as u casus belli for England. More
over the German admiralty nnder-
lTu lhe strength of the British
navy ana oYerestimated its own
error about France: Accordins
~ 1ouht Monte, Moltke's original
nutice' as quoted by Bismarck was
-. ~ me case of war on two fronts
q daca 'tack itussla first, maintaining
d uelehslNe against the Trennb
erad eastern rontier was consid.
-ereu impregnable. In 1910 ~
Gefman general staff lost M tin,o iS
taxing the alternative course
oeihptlnS to invade France via Rei
sIuin, IN order to get aroma r.
ioTtlHcatlonS in Lorraine 'S
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-24
FAVORABLE Factors
From The Bache Review
~

r rom Inc bdCHe REVIEW
The favorable factors are, first of
all, that the last three or four years
have been ones of unprecedented
prosperity for America, and peoT "a
and corporations have reaped ah
enormous harvest of profits and high
wages, widely distributing new
wealth in large and small holdings.
to an extent never before eXampled
in any nation.
Thus fortified. the country is pre-
pared to wait almost with inditfer-
ence. certainly with fortitude, for
readjuStm ent, no matter how long ii
takes. That is one reason for op
timism. 1t is the reason for the re-
markably small number of failures
and for the sound banking situation,
for facing heavy taxes and large
Government loans imperturbably
our resources, practically unlimit-
ed both in raw materials and in
manufacturing facilities. must be de-
pended upon. for a long time, TO
build up the peoples of Europe and
repair the great wastes: for a long
time we will be the storehouse from
which a vast need in food. cloth
ing, manufactures, and raw materials
must draw.
Taxes and loans We can stand un-
moved. bulkwarked by already ac-
cumulated holdings. With our help.
which must be given in loans and
credit, we will aid in rapid re-
storation of Europe for their good
and for our own.
If. with an alliance of internat-
ional forces, and war made an in
ternational crime. the whole world
becomes a brotherhood. the bless
ings of a definitely settled, long last
ing peace. will give opportunity for
indefinitely continued prosperity.
The opinion of experts headed by
Professor Irving Fisher, of Yale,
was that no decrease in labor wages
may be expected for some time to
come. Professor Fisher states: I'VE
are on a permanently higher price
level, and the sooner the business
men of the country take this view
and adapt themselves to it, the soon
er will they save themselves and the
Nation from the misfortune which
will come if we persist in our pres
ent false hope.
Business men should find the
facts. To talk reverently about
1894 prices is to speak a dead
language to-day. The buyers of the
country. since the armistice, have
made an unexampled attack upon
prices through their waiting atti-
tude, and vet price recessions have
been insignificant. The reason is
that we are on a new high price
level. which will be found a stub
born reality. Business men are
going to find out that the clever man
is not the man who waits. but the
one who finds out the new price
facts and acts accordingly
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-24
Voices Across the Sea
(From the Philadelphia Press)

(F'rom the Philadelphia Press)
Though the experiments of the
Navy Department have made the
public more more or less familiar
with the marvels to be expected of
wireless telephony the actual per-
formanCe of the feat of talkinS
from coast to coast across the At
lantic has had the effect of dra-
matte surprise. Even in this age
of mechanical marvels there is the
spice of miracle in the traversing
of the broad Atlantic by the human
voice.
An engineer at Clfden. Ireland,
spoke with another engineer at
Glace Bay, Nova Scotia. 2150 miles
away at seven o'clock in the morn
ing of Thursday, March 19. Com
munication. according to the en-
nouncement of the Maroon COM
pany, was instantaneous ana abso-
lutely clear. Throughout the day
the trans-oC eanic conversation con-
tinued.
Looking forward % ne time
when wireless telephony viii Oe an
ordinary commercial service and
voices across the sea an Utter COM
monplace of daily life 1t will be
seen that another great conquest of
time and space has been made and
another great bond forged between
the civilized peoples of the world.
When the broad Atlantic can be
spanned by telephone within a few
minutes and crossed by airp.ane
within comparatively few hours,
our splendid isola tion" VII indeed
be a figure of speech. None who
has in mind the mechanical genius
of our times can DOUBT that the day
is near at hand.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-24
HANDS OFF

(From the Phila. Public Ledger
Officials of the Building Associa-
ton League of Pennsylvania have
made earnest protest against two
identical bills now pending in the
Legislature and framed ostensibly
to 'reorganize" the State Banking
Department. These measures, how
ever, go a great deal further than
their title would indicate: and aside
from the other objections to which
they may be justly open. they sub"
ject the building associations to a
taxation and to an onerous system
of examination" against which they
properly protest. These benehcient
institutions, which render u service
of incalculable value in aiding per-
sons of moderate means to own
their homes, and which have dur
ing the war been conspicuously use
ful, in that they enabled the COM
munity 10 meet the abnormal Situ-
alton created by the cessation of
building operations and the un-
wonted demand for dwellings for
war workers, have been long the
especial subject of fostering care by
the state and national governments.
Ihey nave been exempted from tax
alton, and while they have properly
been subjected to official supervision
as a safeguard against mismanage-
ment and abuses, they have enjoy
ed measure ofsself-determinatio ton
in the conduct of their affairs which
has contributed greatly to their
prosperity. Considering the great
number of the associations, the null
titude of their members and the
enormous aggregate of their receipts,
etc, these associations compare fa-
vorably in their successful results
with any like undertaking in the
country. And the Pennsylvania
system has been the model on which
every sound and successful building
association scheme has been built
and carried to success. 1t would
be Il fatal mistake, therefore, to
hamper it by unwise and ill-digested
legislation such as that embodied in
the bills in question. They are both
unwise and unnecessary and ought
to be negatived.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-24
Ihe Economy Cal

~! Lo,h the Philadelphia Pressl
S llepuDllcan leaders of fhe neyt
= less are already taking a ve,,v
nlih @ stand upon the matter of COW
oIly' Ihey are determined that c.,
,,; inIlleht expenditure shall be neithe,
esaruIS nor eXtravagant and tbat
naitS, uenlahd for funds be accom-
paoasu: ny proof that such is a real
,iot 90 Ihere has been such a
tbor Vi unions during the war that
is now a mental indifference
10 large figures preceded h,, all :
Signs that has been very evident T.,
1onsress The ultimate cost of tho
,.,,. m@n Is now estimated at about sivtv
pihIois' sum that can only he
NlSudllzed to the citizen bv +bo
amount or his taxes that will ba re0
uuired even to pay the interest unon
tenth OF the estimated wealth of
me country has been appropriated
at single session of Congress-
nIth . OF the income of the average
Si aIiHeh OF the country will be taken
from MN this year in taxes hotb
direct and indirect. The Treasnre,
OF the United States figures that -
wiz cost American taxpayers over
pllloh dollars year for the neyt
dudfter OF century to pay off o,,r
war debt, the combined amount tha
VIII be needed for interest payments
ana the establishing of a sinking
Iund to take care of the debt ITSELF
And this does not include the bilIions
tnat we have loaned to the Allies
Ihe Nation has certainly been
princely in its spending for the MIR
pose of war. And not a dollar that
has been wisely spent is begrudred
by the American people.
But the war is now over. We
must think again in terms of mill
ions, not of billions. We must realize
that we have no money to spend ON
any type of national experiment or
extravaganza. We have our worl,
cut out for us to pay off our war
debt without making the taxes more
burdensome than American business
can stand. The time is ripe for
genuine economy, for thorough in
quiry before money is appropriated
for any purpose that is not patent
upon its face. The Republicans in
Congress will have the country
solidly behind them in real efforts
to economize. and it is encouraging
to see that their leaders are awake
to the condition and to the necessity.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-24
PUBLIC APPROVES

THE Grand Jury, fairly represen-
tative of popular thought in
- both city and county, makes two
recommendation of primary import
ance.
First-that the city and county
join in the erection of city hall
and courthouse.
Secondhand the county Jail be re-
moved from its present site to a
farm in The country.
This reflection of the thought of
the County Commissioners by the
Grand Jury indicates that both city
and county officials have the support
of the public in their efforts to
government and TO remove, the pris-
on from its present costly and un-
suitable site to a place in the coun-
try where prisoners might earn their
keep amid surroundings and in a way
that would make better and more
healthful men and women of them
This ought to be most encouraging
to them and stimulate them to
prompt consideration of the details
necessary to getting the projects
under way.
No objection whatsoever having
been raised to the joint courthouse
and municipal hall development. It
is to be assumed that the need has
been so impressed upon taxpayers
in general that nothing remains to
be decided but the matter of site.
design and method of financing the
improvement, and any difficulty that
might have arisen as to money has
been obviated by the wisdom of the
County Commissioners in reassessing
the coal lands of the county. which
will add sufficiently to the revenues
to care for all manner of public i'm
provements without adding to the
burdens of property owners in gem
eral.
But it is just possible that the Jail
problem is not so widely understood.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-24
\ TWO-FOLD BLESSING

FUDGE GARY'S remarks on steel
price revision are most inter
estiug. Outlining the reduc-
tious agreed upon by leading iron
makers of the country at a confer
ence last week in washington. the
Spokesman for the United States
steel Corporation said that the
prices fixed, while enough lower
than those previously quoted to give
the consumer a marked advantage,
would still permit fair return on
Investments and allow wages TO re-
main at their present high level.
If that can be accomplished.
much will have been done TO re-
store the country to normal condi-
tons. Indeed, if steel prices can
bn brought down without wage cut
ing. we shall see an era of pros
perity the like of which we have
never known.
, High wages mean trade in large
volume along all lines as a result of
increased purchasing capacity and
lower prices in the iron markets
would result in 4 resumption of
building on Il vast scale. There are
those who have doubted the posi-
bility of the two-fold blessing of
top-notch WAGES and materially low
cred prices. but Judge Gary is an
authority whose word will go a long
way toward general belief that the
steelmakers will find way 70 work
the miracle.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-24
\ REAL NEWS ITEM

"HE Telegraph's Gettysburg cor.
! respondent is a good reporter
He digs up a lot of news and
detail is one of his strong points
ON Saturday. for example, his week
! ly letter contained the following
item:
David Thomas, Vert MALONE
! and Cletus Culp. of Arendtsville,
on a days fishing trip to the
Conewago creek caught with
hook and line eighteen suckers
that measured from twelve to SIN
teen and One-halt inches in
length.
Now it must he admitted that
there was both interest and detail
in this news, down to the last half
inch on the tail OF the largest fish.
Indeed. it was far too interesting.
which is not generally the complaint
that editors make concerning the
daily grist that comes TO their
mill. 1t upset the discipline of
the entire office and heaven
only knows what damage re-
suited in other centers of industry.
When the State editor ran across
it in copy he rushed over to the
news editor and after hurried con-
sultatiou they applied for day
off. Soon the news spread 10 the
composing room and circulation de-
partment and for time it looked
as though there would be no Tele-
Nrin
of fishing fever resulted.
The word that suckers are run
ming" is music to the ear of those
who love the open. 1t means long
afternoons and pleasant evenings far
from the grind and care of office
and mill. 1t is as soothing to the
winter-weary mind, that phrase,
suckers are running" as the Groom
ing of a mother to a tired child. 1t
turns the face toward the window
toward the sunshine, the green
meadows, the bursting buds, the
singing birds, the gentle, whispering
winds OF spring and the gurgle and
swish of the bank-full creek, as it
SurgeS along toward the river. II
speaks of peace and quiet and rest.
1t lures the fisherman with thoughts
like these and pictures for him a
pan of fine. fresh, black suckers
browning odoriferously over bed
of drift-wood Goals and recalls the
lip-smacking process with which
they are sent to abate the cravings
of the man-size appetite that only
the sportsman acquires.
oh. yes, our Gettysburg cores
pondent knows a news item when he
sees it, no doubt about il. But if
he sends many more like that we
very much fear the foreman will
have to use filler in this particu-
lar corner of the Telegraph the next
day or two.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-24
PUBLIC UTILITIES

A MOTHER important public
~ utility corporation has gone
into the hands of a receiver.
the United States court having ap-
pointed Job T.. Hedges, once a can
didate for Governor of New York.
receiver of the New York Railways
company.
This action follows a series of diff
ficulties which have beset the trans
portation utilities of New York City.
President Shonts. commenting on
the appointement of the receiver of
his company, says they had been try
ing for months to educate the public
and the public authorities as to the
necessity for increased revenue be-
cause of increased costs of main
tenance and operation which had
to be faced as a result of the war.
He declared that the company had
lived through several months of
strain in the hope of relief, but when
the creditors began to press for
payment of obligations there was
only one thing to do and the re-
ceivership was agreed upon by the
directors.
The head of the company declared
that if authority to charge an eight
cent fare had been granted it would
have been possible to weather the
storm, but that the company had
been receiving a fraction over three
cents as revenue for each passenger
carried, because of transfers. This
development in New York City and
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-24
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

George Wharton Pepper has
been chosen head of the new consti
tutional league.
Col. T. j. keenan,, prominent
Pittsburgh man, is active in the
movement for a permanent body of
draft officials.
DR.. II. w. Temple, Washington
congressman, believes that haste
would imperil the League of Ma
tions idea.
DR.. A. A. Hamm erschlag. prom
inent Pittsburgh educator, is against
the plan for ripping" out the first
class school boards.
Friends of DR.. Emory r. John
son, former public service commits
sioner, congratulated him upon his
birthday on Saturday.
Powell Evans, of Philadelphia.
has gone to White Sulphur for Eas
ter.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-24
A Garden

Go and plant lilac tree
With water and with sun,
Gardens are a surety,
Gardening's never done.
Shut the gateway and let pass
The windy throng of war,
See the sky in the water glass
Ripple as before
A rosebud bendiAg at a cloud,
A mountain and tree.
A shadow telling what a shroud
Rain can be.
Would you bring unduly folk
To ruly land?
Would you plant the poison oak
For the sake of a poisoned hand ?
Shut them out and have no ruth,
Bid them all good-by,
All who have not learned the truth
That beauty dares to die.
And If ruin seems TO come awhile,
In your grave renew
The gradual beauty, mile by mile.
Which is always you.
-Witter Bynner in Contemp porary
Verse.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-24

Whether a life is noble or igHOble
depends, not or tac calling rhicH is
adoptcd. but OF the spirit in lchich
il is f0Uotrcd.-SIR JOHN LUBBOCK.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-24

Members OF the Associated Press-The
Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled TO the use for republication
of all news dispatches credited to
ii or not otherwise credited in this
paper and also the local news pub
lished herein.
All rights OF republication of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-24

The jewelry factories in Attleboro
Mass, are to be converted into in,
stitutions where returned soldiers
may obtain employment.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-24
The mternationaIi-ed Orb

Old Sol-According to the League
of Nations. shall L rise in. the east
or the wes''
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-24
TwentV-SeUenth DiDisi0n

National Guard
i. i 4. /. !. T. {. !.
of New York: Ar [
rived in France
May 10: 1918. Ac- /A~N
tivities: East Pope
ringhe line. Bel ,S
GUM four battal- NJ HA
lions at time) NJ
July to Septem-
Der 3; Dickebush
sector, Belgium, August "a to Sep
tember Operation of Vierstrast
Ridge, August 81 to September p;
Hinderburg line, France. September
"a to October l (operation at Canal
tunnel. Bellicourt and east, Septem-
ber 27 to 30) st. Souplet sector.
October II to 20 (Selle river, Oc-
tober 10; Jonc de Mer Bridge. Oc-
tober IS; st. Maurice River, Octo-
Der 19 to 21.
Prisoners captured: 65 officers.
2.292 men. Total advance on front
line, IL kilometers.
Insignia: Black circle with red
border, with monogram y. Y. D.,
super-imposed-Ne York Division
and seven red stars. The stars
represent the constellation Orion
and were chosen in honor. of Major
General Organ, who has command
ed the division during the last seven
years.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-24

Railroads are paying women less
than men despite the McAdoo order
is the claim of the Brotherhood Of
Railway Clerks.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-24
LABOR NOTES

Irish theatrical artists have decid-
ed TO form an Irish Theatrical Ar
lists Union and affiliate with the
Variety Artists Federation,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-24

Flax pulling is now i'm full swing
in the Ballymena district, and one
woman earned as much as 29 shill-
ings in one day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-24
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg has add
cd 4 ward a decade lately.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-24

HISTORIC HARRISBURG
John Harris originally planned
Market Square for farmers curb
nakets.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-24

TIME Telegraph's Gettysburg cor
respondent is a good reporter
He digs up lot of news and
detail is one of his strong points.
ON Saturday. for example, his week
ly letter contained the following
item:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-18
ron aAI1 HoulisHal

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