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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-18
THE RAILROADS

|DIsCUss1oN of the railroad ques-
- ton is having the effect of
clearing the transportation
question to some extent. An
authority on this subject says:
"One or two points have been
tacitly agreed upon. The first is.
that certain advantages developed
under Government control must not
be lost in. whatever plan is finally
adopted. The second is. that secur-
ity holders must be assured of re-
turns on their investments. Any
other procedure would be confisca-
tory, and further than that, would
make II utterly impossible to attract
new capital to the railroad business
of the country"
There were abuses under private
ownership of course, but these nev-
kr approached in their menace to all
concerned the colossal perils of
government control. Thoughtful
men Of all classes are beginning to
understand that political consider
ations must not be permitted to in
terfere with the development and
operation of our great transportation
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-18

mentioned as candidate for speaker
of the present House when the avail
able "drys" were being canvassed.
The organization men were thinking
seriously of naming him chairman
of the Law and Order Committee as
prominent dry" in Difference to
Governor-elect Sprouts desire that
a dry" man should head this COM
mittee. He was chosen as a repre-
sentative of that wing not as extreme
in his views as John w. Vickerman,
of Allegheny, leader of the dry"
movement in the House.
Senator Ware spent considerable
time at state headquarters yesterday
with the conferees. There was a
question whether he was urging the
appointment of John r. X. Scott as
chairman of the Judiciary, Special
Committee, for which the former
Congressman was supposed to be O
candidate. A man in the best posi-
ton to know Scott's mind said yes
terday, however, that he had notified
the state leaders he didn't care a rap
about being chairman of any COM
rnittee and had not accepted the invi-
tation Speaker Spangler gave each
Representative to name the COM
mittee he would like to serve on.
1t was said the state leaders
have practically finished stating the
committee memberships in the
House. Similar work for the Senate
was finished the day before. How
ever, some important chairmanships
in both chambers have not yet been
decided upon. According to the
plans of the leaders, these commit
tee memberships will not be. an
nounced until the Legislature re-
convenes. The matter of dispensing
the legislative patronage has not re-
ceived as much attention as the COM
mittees. 1t is said the decisions are
only tentative and will not be taken
up until the slate committees meet
next week and will probably not he
announced until "Wednesday. The
leaders meeting here will conclude
their business to-day.
John NJ. Nobre, formerly Phila-
delphia city surveyor and regula-
tor, was yesterday declared mot
guilty of libeling Senator Edwin III,
ware by the twenty eighth word of
an affidavit to the finance committee
of councils, in which he swore that
ware directed him to destroy evil
dence of payment by the city of
Philadelphia for his government
avenue fill. The jury also said mot
guilty" on the second Indictment for
handing the copies of said supposed
libel to reporters and to the finance
committee proceedings and getting
it published. Judge Audenried took
twenty minutes to charge the jury
and the jury one hour to deliberate
and render its verdict. Mr.. Nobre
was present in court to hear the
verdict and a demonstration in his
favor was suppressed. Senator Ware
and Congressman William S. Ware
and their attorneys were absent
from court when the jury said Nobre
was mot guilty"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-18

The election of DR.. Hugh Hamil-
ton as president of the PennsylvanIa
Federation of Historical Societies is
q fine tribute to a Harrisburg man,
who has devoted much of his time
TO careful study of the early his
tory of the State. and who has writ
ten numerous papers and pamphlets
on the subject. Succeeding such men
as Governor-elect William C. Sproul.
the office carries with it no little
honor. but it as far from being
merely honorary. in that the Fedora
tion is live. working organization
of men and women interested in see
ing to it that contemporary as well
as past history is properly recorded
and due credit given where it be-
longs. Governor-elect SprouI, who.
as head of the organization, did
much to bring 1t before the public
in favorable light. is deserving the
vote of confidence the Federation
gave him. 1t will be of vast assist
ance to him and the State History
Commission in the difficult work of
gathering and linking up records of
the multitudious activities of Penn
sylvania in the worlds war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-18
SATURDAY, JANUARY 1s, 1919
FOR A SHORT SESSION
"HERE is very general approval
of the suggestion that the Legis-

"HERE is very general approval
of the suggestion that the Legis-
lature shall have a short busi-
ness session. Owing to the read
justment period following the war
it is extremely important that all in
terests be disturbed as little as pos
sible by new law making or restric-
tions of any sort at this time. We
have been passing through a long
and trying period of regulation,
much of which was made necessary
by the war, but since hostilities have
ceased there ought to be as little as
possible to further disturb the COM
mercial and industrial life of the
Commonwealth.
Pennsylvania has had an impor-
tant part in winning the victory over
the Hun and Governor-elect Sproul
has indicated in recent addresses a
clear perception of the conditions
which now surround our normal life.
1t is no time to indulge in theories
and the people will be content with
mighty little in the way of new legis-
lation. The average citizen just
now wants to be let alone to think
over his own problems and work out
their solution.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-18
Out of Their OUn Mouths
Briggs

(From the N. A. Review Weekly
We have no special admiration
for Maximilian Harden, who at one
time was q champion of and apollo
| gist for the infamies of the Huns.
Because of that very fact, however,
his recent re-indictment of his fel-
low w-cohntrymen possesses additional
force. He knows the facts, from the
German side, and he not preju-
diced against Germany. We speak
of his indictment of the German
people. That is the significant fea-
ture of the case. He does not mere
ly rage against the government. The
German people themselves, he in
sists, are insensate to the infamy
which has been committed by Ger
many, and to the actual plight in
which they themselves now stand
before the world. SO he reminds
them of the account which has been
made up against them, the validity
of a single item in which he does
not challenge:
"Fifty-one months of brutal rule
in Belgium, where administrative
unity was broken and raw mater
ials, machinery, goods of every
kind, and three milliards in cash
and banknotes alone were carried
away. All law was broken, forced
labor imposed, civilians were de-
ported, and at the eleventh hour in
dustries were still destroyed and
towns plundered.
THE devastation of Northern
France and the destruction of
cathedrals, monuments, mines, fac
tories and orchards.
L., Il atrtc oil 1or nd oil
customs;
The sinking of passenger ships
and hospital ships;
Secret agreements with Irish and
the Flemish;
%The smuggling of explosives, ba-
cilli and incendiary instruments
into neutral countries;
Everywhere bribery, fraud and
theft; ..
"A cloud of witnesses brought to
answer every accusation;.
"a country fertilized with the
| blood of the Armenian people, and
all over the earth hardly a voice
| for Germany"
These are some of the things for
which, according to this eminent
German authority, Germany will
have to answer 1t is we'll that he
gives his llow-countrymen that
reminder. 1t is well. too, that he
gives it to us; so that our jubilation
/ over the prospect of peace will not
| cause us to forget the things which,
when they occurred, shocked us to
utter abhorrence. Save in so far
las some of these crimes were direct
ed Immediately against us, it is not
| for us to prescribe the penalty.
! There are other nations immeasur-
ably more concerned than we. But
since we have Joined those other ma
/ tions in the war to bring the Hun
nish criminals to justice, it is for
us now to stand behind them and to
say that whatever they demand in
reparation and guarantees, that do
, we approve and upon that do we in
sist.
Out of their own mouths. out of
/ the mouths of their own authorita-
tive exponents, are the Huns con-
! victed. We shall see to what extent
| it is possible to rouse them to that
realization of their guilt which is
the first prerequisite TO repentance
and reform.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-18
DRY" BENEFITS

WYE may expect to hear great
w deal during the next few
weeks about the loss of rev.
enue as a result of the country go
ing on a prohibition basis. This is
the stock argument which has been
dinned into our ears for many years.
OF course, there will be a reduction
of revenue from liquor licenses. but
there will, also be large reduction
of expenses in the courts and the
criminal processes.
In many states where liquor has
been banned for years it has been
demonstrated that the reduction of
criminal expense has more than
equaled the loss in liquor revenues
to say nothing of the happier condi-
ton of the people as a result of the
suspension of the liquor business.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-18
Extending the Arn,istice

(F'rom the Cleveland Plaindealer.) }
When the armistice commissioners
assemble at Treves to extend the
truce Germany will be emphatically
informed that the terms imposed by
the Allies were intended for abso-
lutely literal acceptance. In many
details Germany has failed t.
up to the agreement. This remiss-
ness must be Immediately remedied
or new and harder conditions will
be imposed and the Allies will be in
position to execute these conditions.
The chief German remissness has
been in the matter of turning over
railway rolling stock. In the deliv-
cry of artillery and airplanes there
has also been deficiency. The. Ger
mans seem to have assumed that
Foch did not mean just what he said
in November. and that a partial
compliance would be acceptable to
the Allies.
There has been no diminution Of
the necessity for safest safeguards
against German perfidy. The down
fall of the imperial regime and the
partial bolshevizing of the army has
removed the immediate military
danger, but the unsettled conditions
throughout Germany make it need
ful for the Allies to be ina position
from which Intervention would be
least difficult. Intervention is by no
means contemplated for the present
but no one cen read the future, least
of all the Germans themselves. A
/ state. of war still exists between Ger
many and the Allies, and as long
as it exists the victorious Allies must
take every precaution not only to
guard against present danger, but
also to provide for future emergen-
- ge.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-18
ABANDONED RAILROADS

(From the Baltimore American)
Officially prepared railroad statis-
tics covering 1918 furnish some
items of Information that are of
speculative interest. One disclosure
is that the constructed railroad
abandoned during 1918 more than
equals the new mileage built. There
was abandoned 1888 miles of rail-
road, and on 446 miles the track
age was actually taken up. Only
6S1 miles of new road was built
the least in any year of record, the
records extending back to 1893. The
new mileage consisted almost en-
tirely of extensions of established
lines to new coal fields.
The year 1918 will be remembered
as the year of comprehensive gov
ernment control of railroads, mines
and other things, but IL will also be
remembered as the stressful war
year for the United States. Not
withstanding the urgent need for
more cars and more engines on all
lines engaged in moving foods, mu-
nitions. soldiers, war materials and
government supplies. there was a
great decrease in the construction
of both passenger and freight cars
as compared with the 1917 record
OF the 6,249 locomotives constructed
last year a very large proportion
went to France.
1t is difficult to draw definite con-
clusions about railroading from the
1918 figures, except as to this, that
1918 was certainly not in any re-
spect year of dazzling progress
in railroading. Government control
as a war eXlgency has brought about
complex situation and the way out
of this complex situation, which has
been compared to unscrambling
scrambled eggs, is not apparent to
the wisest OF railroad prophets.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-18

responsible for delays in our war
program.
At the present moment the most
crying need of our soldiers is pay
ment for the months of toll, danger
and sacrifice in France. Congress,
at the beginning of hostilities.
doubled the compensation OF enlisted
men of the Army and liked $40 per
month as the basic pay of a private.
But in spite of the far-sighted gen.
erosity of our lawmakers most dis
tressing stories are coming to light
every day of the nom payment of our
men, arA consequent suffering to
them and their dependents at home.
The worst conditions prevail in the
case of the wounded who have been
in French, hospitals. In some in
stances men who have been brought
home on hospital ships and placed
i'm hospitals in the United States
have not received a cent from the
Government for eight months. In
at least one case n public beneat
was held by sympathetic friends to
raise funds for ordinary comforts
for soldiers wounded in the defense
of a country whose Secretary of
War was unable to devise way to
pay them the money they had
earned in the trenches.
AS a sample of the generous way
in which Congress has placed huge
lump sums in the hand of the Sec
rotary for the payment of the Army
we quote from two typical appro-
priation acts. The Army Act of last
July,reads in part as follows.
"Officers of the line: For pay of
s7,1ss officers, $2o1,654,27s."
Enlisted men of the line: For
pay Of 1.s64,376 enlisted men of the
line. $776,45S,721.04."
The deficiency appropriation Act
of November 4th reads:
For pay OF officers and enlisted
men of the line and of the staff de-
partments, nurses and enlisted men
of the Philippine Scouts. as author
lied by law, $696,327,159."
In those two laws alone Mr..
Baker has had given to him without
over n billion and a half
for pay alone. which has been sup
plemented by additional millions in
other acts. 1t has been up to Baker
to distribute the money, duty that
he has shamefully neglected. In the
light of the facts 1t is puerile and
disgusting for the Secretary of War
to shunt responsibility for the finan-
cial plight of our soldiers on to Con-
gress.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-18
A Prophecy of brotherhood

Then France will suddenly arouse
herself. She will become formid-
able, She will regain Alsace and
Lorraine. Is it enough? No! No!
She will capture-listen-T
Mainz. Cologne, -Coblenz. And YOU
shall hear France cry: THE clock
strikes my hour! Germany. hear
me! Am I thine enemy? No, 1 am
thy sister! / have taken all from
thee. ! return all to thee upon one
condition: That we shall no longer
be a divided people; that we shall
be oneIunited family, one republic. /
will demolish my fortresses. thou
thine-my vendetta is brotherhood. |.
No more frontier. The Rhine, mine
and hine."-Victor Hugo.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-18
BAKER PASSES THE BUCK

n r. Baker complacently passes
Wl the buck to Congress by de.
elaring that additional legis-
lation will be necessary before he
can pay any money to men in hos
pitals. In letter to Speaker Clark
of the House he asks legislative ALL
thority to prepare rolls for payment
of soldiers who have returned for
treatment in government hospitals.
He whines that bitter criticism Of
the War Department has resulted
from the loss by many of the men of
their papers and records, with con-
seqaent delays in their payment.
If there has been an instance dur
ing the prosecution of the war when
Secretary Baker has admitted the
inefficiency of his department or anv
branch of 1t 1t has not come to our
attention. In every case where SUD-
plies OF the most vital nature have
failed to reach our armies at the
front he has either skillfulIy side
stepped responsibility or brazonlv
asserted that everything was going
according to schedule. When the
French came to our rescue with Of
fsSs OF airplanes. cannon and tanks
nr. Baker allowed. the inference m
be drawn that such a course wa
part of the War Department pro-
granh On occasions he has not
hesitated to resort to seemingly de-
iiberate. misstatements of fact, as
witness the notorious history of air
craft production. One of the Sec
retary's most frequent subterfuges
In escaping criticism has been to de-
clare that further legislation from
Congress was necessary to meet
diflcult situations, thus leading the
country to believe that Congress was
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-18
Mdzzini'S Prophecy
(From the New York Times)

(From the New York Times)
Mr.. Wilson has visited the BIRTH
place of Columbus and the tomb OF
MaZzini in Genoa. t
Giuseppe MazZini. the father OF
Italian unity, of European republic
anism. was the great idealist to
whom Duty was the common col
lective faith" These words of his,
long regarded as dreams. come to
the ear as prophecies realizable and
soon to be realized:
"The map of Europe will be re-
made. The countries. of the peoples
will arise. defined by the voice OF
the free, upon the ruins of. the coun-
tries of kings and privileged castles.
Between these countries there will
be harmony and brotherhood"
The new free nations. the fall of
absolute kings and privileged castes,
the remAking of the map of Europe,
we all accept az facts.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-18
Where Bond Money Went

Not all the money invested in Lib
erty Bonds by the people of the
United States was spent for war ma
terial or the wages of the fighters
sent across the ocean. Some eight
billion dollars was loaned to the
Allied nations and will came back
to this country in the course of time
1t did not take England, France or
Italy very long to find out where the
worlds pocketbook was located. and
they were prompt In availing them
selves of the facilities offered heHe in
the way of financing their part of the
big war enterprise. A good part of
the interest paid to American inves-
tors in national securities will come
from the treasures of our European
borrowers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-18

Harrisburg will not be able to en-
tertain ell the guests of the city next
Tuesday. but the hospitality of our
people will be stretched to the ut
most limit to accommodate all who
come to participate in the inaugu-
ration of the Governor-elect. 1t will
not be a question of a real welcome
so much as a problem of providing a
place at the table for all who come.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-18

agencies. and the public utilities.
The fog of readjustment is bound
to lift and sanity will set enthronsd
in high places.
There were few failures in 1918,
and long period of prosperity is
ahead providing common sense pre-
walls
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-18
MODERN JOURNALISM

Fifty special correspondents of
American newspapers attending the
Peace Conference and preliminaries
are having desperately hard work
trying to tell precisely the same
facts in fifty different special ways.
Times Dispatch.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-18
Bolshepikisn,s Propaganda

M. Radels, chief. of the RSlshevils
propagandas says: THE money sent
to Berlin to finance the revolution
was as nothing as compared to the
funds transmitted to New York for
the purpose of spreading Bolshe-
vikism in the United States" And
yet there are people who say that
anarchy thrives only in poverty and
starvation.--San Francisco Chroni-
Gle
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-18
Professional. jealousy.

1t is also suspected that more than
one eminent statesman in this coun-
try feels that he is good deal more
deserving of all that limelight than
Mr.. Wilson is.-Indianapolis News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-18
From General to Specific

Maximilian' Harden says the Kali
ser was a mere tool i1 the war. He
might have added that the Crown
Prince was a sort of a monkey
wrench.-From the Chicago News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-18

Members of the Associated Press-The
e Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled to- the use for republication
of all news, dispatches credited to
paper and also the local news pub
lished herein. 't
Allsrights of republication of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-18
Must Be Hard Boiled

Wanted-Two rough carpenters.
Advertisement in the Springfield
Republican.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-18
GOOD CITIZENSHIP

VTTOULD you be a good citizen
wv Then study well this defni-
ton as given by Theodore
Roosevelt at the DR.. Nicholas Muir
ray Butler dinner:
In the unending strife for civic
betterment small is the use of
those people who mean well but
who mean well feebly. The man
who counts is the man who is
decent and who makes himself felt
as force for decency, for cleanli-
ness, for civic Righteousness. He
must have several qualities: first
and foremost, of course, he must
be honest, he must have theeroot
of right thinking in. him. That
is not enough. In the next place
he must have courage; the timid
man counts but little in the rough
business of trying to do well the
worlds work. And finally. in ad-
dition to being honest and brave,
he must have common sense. II
he does not have IL, no matter
what other qualities he may have.
he will find himself at the mercy
of those who, without possessing
4 his desire to do right, know only
too well how to make the wrong
effective.
Common@ense! What has not the
world lost through lack of 1t! What
wonders might have been wrought
by countless brilliant minds hat
they possessed it, Common sense
The world will be a better world
when schools teach it, when govern
ment is framed by it, when its hant
is on the throttle of all our multitu'
dirfous activities.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-18

British employers who are paying
less than the minimum wages have
been warned that they will be pro-
ceeded against by the governmnt.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-18

The Federation of British Indus
tries, composed of over 5000 firms in
every kind of. trade and industry, em-
ploy nearly 100000 workmen.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-18

Labor at Tacoma, Wash. has elect
ed one commissioner out Of five in the
City Council.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-18

His action was something Of
surprise, as he has been identified
for years with the cause of the
"drys." He had been prominently
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-18
LABOR NOTES

Agricultural workers have formed a
branch of the Workers Union on the
remote Foulness Island. on the Essex
coast.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-18

Day laborers in Japan receive onl,
2S cents q day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-18

Fifty cents an hour is being paid
for common labor in Pomeroy, Ohio.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-18

Santa Barbara (Cal.) plumbers arc
earning 81 a day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-18

The hair net trade in Shantung,
emma, employs over 100000 peo-
pie.