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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-08
GomperS and the Germans
By BRIGGS

tFrom the Philadelphia Ledger.1
All the world dearly loves a fight
er for a good cause, as we'll as Il
lover, and most folk will take grim
satisfaction in the way that Samuel
Gompers is laying about him at the
International Trades Union Congress
III Amsterdam. There is no mealy
mouthed crawtishing on the part CT
Gompers in refusing to accept the
habby explanations of the German
trades union delegates that they
went along" with German militarism
during the war" And in his uncom-
promising attack on this effort of
the Germans to evade their full re-
sponsibility Mr.. Gompers not only
voiced the formal protest of the out
ragged Belgian workers, but he him
self represents more nearly than
anybody else the view of all work
ers of all the Allied countries, who
cannot forget or overlook the extra
ordinary sheeplike attitude of their
brethren in Germany, who like Bob
Toombs, loud mouthed and Irwin
chile in peace" were 'invincible in
war" and stood by while their COM
panions in Belgium were actually
many before their very eyes. That
they allowed this without protest
arms Mr.. Gompers with a case and
enables him to expose this type OF
German hypocrisy as we'll as the
amazing effort of the Holland ex-
tremists to save the face of the Ger
man delegates by blaming the wal
on Capitalism" and even American
militarism.' What the new group
of international trade unionists need
as they prepare to bury the old in
ternational is to take a candid, open
attitude toward facts and not to
spend the time in the mere ventil-
alton of disproved and discredited
theories. And it looks as if Mr.
Gompers. whether they like it or
not. is going to hold the delegates
to this task.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-08
$28,000 to $780, 900, 900

Boston - 1t is understood that the
actual cost to Henry Ford of the
6100 shares of minority stock of the
Ford Motor Company was $130,000,-
900, or $21,300 share. At this rate
the market valuation of the entire
10000 shares would be S426, 900, 900.
And the entire original investment
in the company was only $2S,000.
The sellers will have to pay an
income tax estimated at about $25,-
100000, which means that they will
receive a full $100,00O.000 net for
their less than one-third interest in
the Ford Company's capital.
Net earnings of the Ford Motor
Company in June, after taxes. are
understood to have approximated
S9,000,000. This is equal to $3.50 a
share for this 30-day period, or an
annual rate of s5400 a share.
The $75.000.000 borrowed by Mr..
Ford to finance the minority stock
purchase he expects to pay back by
the time the notes mature.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-08
Gerard and Germany

In letter to the New York Times
eX-Ambassador James w. Gerard
gives old Admiral Won Tirpitz
some hot shots. He says:
"A statement has been printed
(not in your newspaper) to the ef
feet that Very Much EX=Great Adj
miral Won Tirpitz writes in his book
that l stated before the Bremen
Chamber of Commerce that strong
opposition to a declaration of sub
marine warfare need not be expected
from America
"Of course, those Germans who,
in fear of trial and justice, already
feel the halter settling about their
necks, will endeavor to offer any ex-
cuse to save their thick skins or
their thin regulations.
There are many, very many, Ger
mans and pro-Germans who would
like to involve me in their excuses.
II never was in Bremen, l never
addressed the Chamber of Com
merce there, 1 never made such a
statement publicly or privately; but.
on the contrary, l constantly warned
the Germans that resumption of
what they themselves called ruth
less submarine war in my opinion
would rouse the people of America
against them.
II was right"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-08

teaching its application to military
work, and at the same time be a
better mind trainer, and a better
education.
Why should not every boy and
slrl De taught at least first aid? Why
shouldn't every boy be taught to
shoot rifle, it is one of the tools
wherewith we carved a nation out
OF a wilderness. Why shouldn't
every boy be taught how armies
move and are fed and trained? and
something about those weapons of
war that have borne an important
part in human history, signals,
wlgwagging, compass. Scout lore
that teaches self-control of muscles,
OFTEN man has saved his life by
his knowledge of how to rise from
prone to upright so slowly as to take
half an hour to the job; how to OBJ
serve things without having to have
someone hit him on the head with
mallet to make him see them
now to gauge distances, and heights.
Physical fitness ought to be made a
part of every school curriculum
from the first grade to the univer-
sity graduate and physical fitness in
cludeS mental tests and exercises
which teach the youth alertness, in
-
and this should be augmented and
applied by system of universal
military training including stand
ardized general exercises and sports.
! This training might be scheduled
during the vacation period for school
and college boys and some conven-
lent season chosen for older men
until every boy and man in the
country should have acquired a
practical knowledge of every branch
of service. Thus if the time should
come, none need be sacrificed
through ignorance of the rudiments
of warfare as I saw them sacrificed
in those dreadful days when l real
lied how powerless was my one
sided education.
In fact with just a little change
of curriculum our whole educational
system would get point and purpose
and practically and real educative
value, so that when a crisis came,
no one need be a stop-gap if he
were able bodied and clear minded
but could do a mans job first for
the old flag and then for humanity
everywhere.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-08
A FATAL POLICY

A .CCORDING to press dis
u patches, one of the results of
the watchful-waiting policy
in Mexico is that American investors
are becoming discouraged and SELL
ing their oil and mining properties
to German and British capitalists,
with the result that soon the re-
sources of that country will be DOM
mated largely by European owners.
whose governments guarantee them
protection under treaty agreements.
1t is estimated by biologists that
within the next ten years the present
oil fields of the United States will
be exhausted. If their judgment is
correct, this country will be in the
position OF being compelled to buy
fuel oil for its industries, gasoline
for its autos, fuel for its battleships
and merchant marine, from British
and German owners of oil deposits.
Not a very encouraging outlook.
TO be sure.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-08
Our Russian Policu
IHarvey's Weekly.1

AS We understand it, the conflict in
Siberia has been between large
faction led by Admiral kolchak and
another directed by Lenine and
Trotsky, neither of which has been
recognized by our Government
While our troops have been in
regions controlled by the Kolchak
Government and therefore osten-
sibly on terms of friendship Ii not
of cooperation with that organic
alton, we have at times been trying
10 hobnob with Lenine and Trotsky
and actually sent the one-time Rev
erend George Heron to enter into
frindly diplomatic relations with
them. 1t was a sheer case of Good
Lord. Good Devil"
Finally, we are said by the Prcsi-
dent to be keeping our troops there
at the request of Japan-to guard
the railroads which are under the
management of an American en-
gineer. who went thither under
commission from the Russian
Government. But the Russian Gov
ernment which commissioned MI.
Stevens long ago went out of ex-
istence, and we are not informed
that he has been recommissioned
by either Admiral Kolchak or Len
inc and Trotzky; so that his stand
ing would seem to be officially un-
certain.
1t is a pity that the President had
not pursued a logical. courageous
policy toward Russia which would
have enabled him to reply to Senator
Johnson's inquiry in a convincing
and satisfactory manner, and in tho
only manner worthy of a great Ma.
ton which processes to be striving
for justice. righteousness and de.
mocracy among the nations of the
world.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-08

according to his own view. but when
he gets the hot end of the stick
and the situation becomes more Or
less dangerous from political
standpoint, he attempts the old
method of involving a coordinate
branch of the Government in some
sort of investigation through which
the attention of the people may be
diverted from the main issue and
their eyes blinded to those clothed
with responsibility under the law.
Administration Democrats were
as firmly opposed to the investiga-
ton suggested by the President As
were Republicans. Indeed, it was
common comment among members 5
of the Senate that the administra-
ton was endeavoring Ito pass the
buck" to Congress in handling the
railroad wage situation; that the
President hoped to convey the inn
preston that the responsibility for
working out a solution rested with
the legislative body.
Under the circumstances and as
a result of the constant recurrence
of partisan by-play on the part of
the administration. there is little
wonder that the union labor leader
and all others capable of interpret
ing political moves sharply criticise
the President for his unfortunate
tendency to lose sight of the inter-
ests of all the people in his trans
parent desire to further the inter-
ests of the Democratic party.
It's a good thing. however, that
the American people are at heart
safe and sound. They will not be
swept from their moorings by any
hysterical or socialistic propaganda
from Washington or elsewhere. Too
many millions of patriotic citizens
have learned what liberty means, as
contrasted with license, to follow the
dangerous leadership OF those who
would precipitate an era of Bolshev-
ism upon an intelligent and thrifty
and prosperous people.
Public sentiment may be tested
out in any community and the re-
suits are certain to be indicative
OF the general sentiment of the
country. Here in Harrisburg one
may hear at every turn common
sense observations on the political
him- -famming of partisans and de-
nunciation OF efforts to upset Amer
lean institutions for the silly phil
osophy of the degenerate malcon-
tents overseas.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-08

No. 5.
These are plain facts. Put the
two pictures together if you have
doubts about the wisdom of uni
versal military education now the
war is over. At the very hour when
those boys in Flanders went against
that CHASTITY trap, necessarily not
fully trained and taught, you were
sending rockies to be trained by a
boy who had seen machine gun
put together just once and scarcely
an officer of them all had seen one
in all its many phases of action. And
at that-the fellow who had just
one squint at Il machine gun knew
more about it than you and l and
the likes of us, who We're so abso-
lutely ignorant of military matters
that we couldn't be made to see the
value of even watching once when
such a gun was exhibited.
And it is so simple all this matter
of military education-so valuable
too, for peace as we'll as for war;
so valuable just for general educa-
tional purposes.
The setting up exercises are far
more valuable than our half-heart-
ed, pointless fooling with dumbells
and chest weights in a college gym
nasium. The military subjects are
far better mind trainers than are
Greek ablatives. Any boy will study
algebra and trigonometry and high
er mathematics all the better for
seeing them put to use on the mill
tary training ground. I studied
plane sailing in a book at college
and never was taught even to navi-
gate a canal boat in fog. studied
geography and geology yet never
was taught to go out and draw a
correct map of even the cow field
or to get through a swamp in the
dark by means of a compass, or lay
a ditch so that the water would
drain properly, thousands of things
which are just the logical cap and
end of classroom studies were never
taught us. And all history of wars
was made simle jargon to US because
we didn't understand enough of
military tactics to see the why of
the moves.
And here is tke gist of the whole
matter: l cannot see a single line
of education which could not easily
be pointed I'D and drowned by
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-08
Hays Cheers Republicans

Will H. Hays, Chairman of the
Republican National Committee,
who returned yesterday from a two
weeks visit in the West, said that
the Republican victory in the Eighth
Congressional District of Kentucky,
could not be regarded except as a
good omen for the Republicans.
This district" Mr.. Hays said.
was carried by the Democratic
candidate last November by 1897.
1t has long been Democratic. The
Republican candidate was elected
last Saturday, at a special election,
by about 100. Think it over"
The successful Republican candi-
date last Saturday, was Captain
King Swope, who ran on an anti
league and soldiers bonus platform.
His opponent was Circuit Judge
Charles A. Hardin, of Harrodsburg,
who is Chairman of the Democratic
State Committee.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-08
A TREE CAMPAIGN

"HE President of the American
Forestry Association. in an ad-
dress before the Springlake
Garden Club, declared it was the
forests OF France that saved that
country from the Boche invac:on
and stemmed the tides of many a
battle for the French and Allied
troops. Mr.. Pack urged the inst-
tuition OF a National forestry policy
in this country and the planting Of
valuable trees as memorials to the
National war heroes.
Everywhere interest in tree plant
ing and forestation OF our bare hill
sides is growing apace and where
once was indifference is now investi-
cation and enthusiastic develop
ment of tree policies. Here in Har-
risburg there has been a supineness
in official circles regarding the plant
ing and care of our trees which is
almost inconceivable. but there are
glimmers now and then of a grow
ing interest in the subject which
may presage something Ike den-
mite program.
With the joint efforts of the
Chamber of Commerce, the Civic
Club and other bodies devoted to
the welfare OF the Community, it is
hoped that a real tree-planting cam
paign may be inaugurated during
the coming autumn. We have 4
City Forester who ought to be able
long before the tree planting period
arrives to make a definite and COM
prehensive report on the conditions
throughout the city. With this re-
port as a basis the campaign can
then be organized along intelligent
lines and thousands of trees may
then be planted through volunteer
efforts of the civic organizations
and individual citizens.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-08
BdIlade Against Critics

You mourn for your hopes decay?
Ambition and Fame are cheats ?
Some Critic has deigned to fay
Your work in the public sheets.
Come, don't be a lamb that bleats!
The battle is gay and long.
Remember Ooh, sweet OF sweets)
The Critics are mostly wrong.
The Critics who are they?
Usurpers that hold their seats
An hour of passing day;
And what are their noble feats?
Why, see what they did to Keats
And Byron, that Lord of Song.
Apollo himself repeats.
THE Critics are mostly wrong!'
Aware of their feet of clay,
When Critic with Critic meets
They wink as they go their way
To plot in their foul retreats.
Then shout in the open streets.
o ardent but inky throng,
The truth that each heart Sc
cretes;
The Critics are mostly wrong!"
Though skilled with the last that
beats,
And deft with the prodding
prong,
AS sure as their moment fleets,
The Critics are mostly wrong!
Arthur Guiterman in Harper's S
Magazine for August.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-08
CARDS ON THE TABLE

X o LONG as the Washington ad-
ministration plays the political
game without regard to the
real interests of the American peo-
pie. little progress will be made IN
solving the grave problems which
President Wilson may imagine he is
successfully camouiaging his partl-
ran activities, but the transparency
of certain recent moves is obvious
to any intelligent person.
The President seizes the first op-
portunity to utilize the high cost OF
living developments to throw upon
the Republican Congress the onus
of responsibility for present condi-
tions. But he is not going to be
permitted to get away with it. His
own indifference regarding prompC
action on important domestic ques
tons last winter, when he sailed
away to Europe after refusing 20
summon Congress in special session
to deal with these matters, is still
vividly remembered by his country
men without regard to political az
citations.
Now comes another effort on his
part to shift responsibility by urs-
ing Congress to conduct an inquiry
into the railroad wage situation az
related to the high cost of living.
Again a palpable effort to pass the
buck from the White House 20 the
Capitol! But by unanimous vote
the Senate Interstate Commerce
Committee voted to decline to carr
out the suggestions made by Pres,-
dent Wilson, the chairman of taa,
committee, Senator Cummins. beng
instructed to write a letter to the
man in the White House informing
him that it was the opinion of the
committee that he and the Directo;
of Railroads have ample authority
to adjust the wage problem with
out further power being vested
through act of Congress.
When the President wants to exc.
cute arbitrary power he manages
TO construe the laws pretty much
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-08
Sea FeUer

l must go down to the seas again, to
the lonely sea and the sky,
And all ask is tall ship and star
to steer her by;
And the wheels kick, and the winds
song and the white sails shak-
ing,
And the gray mist on the seas face,
and a gray dawn breaking.
must go down to the seas again,
for the call of the running tide
Is wild call and a clear call that
may not be denied;
And all l ask is windy day with
the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown
spume, and the sea gulls cry
ing.
must go down to the seas again,
to the vagrant gypsy life,
To the gull's way and the whales
way where the winds like a
whetted knife;
And all l ask is a merry yarn from
a laughing fellow-rov
And quiet sleep and sweet dream
when the long tricks over.
John Mansfieid
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-08
NolD We Need Our Pipe
[From the Kansas City Star.

tFrom the Kansas City Star.l
Here's distressing news. The w.
c. T. u. has tucked up its skirts and
taken after Lady Nicotine with in
tent to scratch the hussy's eyes out.
An active campaign is to be made
with slogans and posters and field
workers and legislative agents and
lecturers and literature and other
propa ganda to drive tobacco into
outlawry in the United States and
all territory subject TO the jurisdic-
tion thereof.
We wish the w. c. T. u. wouldn't
do that. Somehow it seems like car
rying regulation a little too close to
the theory of Torquemada and per-
sons like him who wanted every
body to think and do according to
rules made for them-and used
rather hateful means to make them
do il. We've got troubles enough
as it is and we need a pipe to help
keep us IN the mood of philosophy
that seems TO be necessary if we
are TO make the best of things.
Probably the W. c. I. L. has no idea
OF the modifying effects of a nose
full of tobacco smoke when a mans
up against the knotty problems of
these post war days.
Anyway, regulation when carried
beyond the point at which public
welfare is actually and manifestly
involved is impolite and mischiev-
ious. It's been tried before and had
the worst results. When the Round
heads were running England they
went to just such extremes and we
know the reaction that followed.
Parliament passed a law making it
u crime to eat plum pudding. In
tolerance prohibited dancing round
a Maypole, the playing of musical
instruments, the gayeties of Christ
mas and half the field sports of
England.
Probably Americans are not ready
for that sort of a yoke. If tobacco
isn't good for them, neither is too
much telling by Government what
they mustn't do. Somebody might
get the Government to tell them
they mustn't use coffee, or put lemon
in iced tea, or chew gum, or go to
picture shows. These are not reg
ulations for Government to make
according to American democracy's 5
theory. The war took us a little
out of democracy's regular track
but the wars over now-let's light
the pipe of peace.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-08
Eagle on Coin and Ensiorl

[From the Nyack N. Y. Journal
The first American gold coinage
of eagles, half eagles and quarter
eagles of the value of $40, SIS and
$3.50. respectively. was pIG.ed in
circulation December 6, 1892. One
and three-dollar gold pieces were
formerly coined, but they were dis
continued in 1890. The first coin
called an eagle was used in Ireland
in the Thirteenth Century and was
so called from the figure of an eagle
impressed upon 1t, but 1t was made
of base metal. The standard of the
eagle was borne by the ancient Per-
slams, and the Romans also carried
gold and silver eagles as ensiRns
and sometimes represented them
with a thunderbolt in their talons.
Charlemagne adopted the double
headed eagle as the standard of the
Holy Roman Empire. The eagle
was the standard of Napoleon I and
Napoleon III, as well as of Austria.
Prussia and Russia
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-08
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Governor William c. Sproul,
who has been in the west, plans
to leave the middle of next week
for Salt Lake City to attend the
governors conference.
Secretary of the Common
wealth Cyrus E. Woods has been
enjoying his vacation on automobile
tours.
Mayor E. V. Babcock, of Pitts
burgh, has given up ideas of vaca-
ton until the primary is over.
Adjutant General Beary plans to
make some visits to various parts
of the State to look up prospects
for National Guard units.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-08
Ddnzig to WARSAW

In the following effusion from the
Philadelphia Ledger, Danzing is
speaking to Warsaw:
If Warsaw saw far more of war
Than Warsaw sought to see.
Another town more sore war saw
Than Warsaw saw-that's mel
For Warsaw saw the war seesaw.
But Warsaw saw no sea;
l saw war soar by sea and shore.
So Warsaw's sore at me.
The sore war Warsaw saw seesaw
Was a worse sore war for me;
I saw more war than Warsaw saw.
For the war wore Warsaw free.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-08
EnglishWomen Buy Farms
From the New York Times

From the New York Times
Women in England are buying
their own farms or their own truck
and garden spaces in rather con-
spicuous numbers. And this is all
an outcome of the tremendous work
done by women on the land during
the war. The general feeling is that
there will not be much room for the
common female farm laborer who
has little money and who looks
upon farming as her profession and
her life work there is excellent OPP
portunity in this direction. In the
first place. on account of the COM
pact location of the garden spaces
and the cities in England. Transport
tation of foodstuffs is easy. Then
garden truck and flowers do grow SO
.abundantly and profusely there.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-08
Nut Shells

[From the Columbus Dispatch.]
A Methodist Centenary speaker at
Ohio State University began an ad-
dress to the students the other
morning in this way: Now, I'm not
going to talk very long, but if you
get what I'm going to say in your
heads you'll have the whole thing in
nutshell
And he looked surprised when a
roar of laughter followed his unin-
territorial slam.