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New Britain herald., 1919-02-05
BLAMES AUSTRIA AS
WANTING GREAT WAR
Socialists at Borne Trying to
Settle POSt-BelIum Question

Berne, Feb 4--Responsibility for
the great war will be investigated by
a commission appointed by the social
list conference, in session here, it was
decided today. This commission will
comprise two British, two French, one
Hungarian, one Austrian and two Ger
man delegates, with President HAL
mar Branting acting as a member.
The personnel Of this commission has
not been announced.
Pictcr j. Troelstra the Dutch social
list leader and one Of the British dele
gates declared today that the prime
object of the conference was to influ-
ence the peace conference at Paris"
Following an attack on the German
majority socialists by Kurt Fisner,
the Bavarian premier. during the fore
noon, another German delegate. Herr
Mueller, q majority socialist. denied
that Germany was entirely to blame
for the war, and defended his party
lie said
1T was not Germany alone, but the
militari:stS of the whole of Europe who
were the. OrEinatOrS Of the war. Ger
man SOc1allSlS would nave IOSt forever
all their influence upon the people if
they had yentured to oppose the war.
We cannot accept the Judgment Of Our
enemies. but only that of neutrals.'
Carl i<autsl1y, q German delegate.
who has been mentioned as one of
Germany's delegation to the peace
conference at Paris, spoke at the eve
ming session, making a renewed at
tack against the German majority
socialist party. He concluded:
THE minority socialists. having
protested against the terms of the
Brest-Litovs1 and Bucharest treaties,
have today the right to claim just
treatmcn t for the German people.
Germany must be fed She must be
given an opportunity to get work and
to avoid troubles which will lead to a
recrudescenCe of Bolshevism.'
DR.. Friedrich Adler of Vienna, ac-
cused the former Austrian government
of having Systematically worked for
the war"
Frank BONN, an American socialist
arrived here today. There are now
90 delegates present representing 25
countries.
Ham and eggs for breakfast. Buy
VOur- ham where Won will h1It GET th O
New Britain herald., 1919-02-05
C0MMENDS WILSON'S POLICY
New American Czecho- Slovak Cham
Der of Commerce Praises Present
Observation-Disclosures stimulate Trade

Chicago, Feb. determination Of
the American Czecho- SlOvak cham
Der of merce, a national body to
promote trade especially between the
United States and the new republic or
Czccho- Slovakia, was announced to-
day at the conclusion of two day
meeting attended by 500 delegates
from nearly every state in the union.
John A Cervenka OF Chicago was
elected president.
The organization in resolutions
commended the administration OF
President Wilson and adopted condoi-
ences on the death Of Col. Theodore
Roosevelt
New Britain herald., 1919-02-05
Boston Store
NEW
SPRING,
NECKWE:A Ar
for
LADIES

We are showing the Latest and
Newest in Fancy NeCkwear:
COLLARS in Georgette Crepe,
Satin, Filet Lace, etc. . csc to $500
COLLAR AND CUFF SETS in
Filet Lace, Pique and Satin, also
Pleated Sets in all coIors, 25c to S1.oo
the yard, in Organize, Crepe, Chiffon
and Net, colors, Victory Red Belgian
Blue, Tan and White 2oc to $1.1O yd.
GEORGETTE CREPE in Black,
White and all desirable colors. Every
wanted shade can be found here.
New Britain herald., 1919-02-05
MASONIC DELEGATES
HEAR GOOD REPORTS
Grand Lodge Of Connecticut Holds
131St Annual Communication

Hartford. Feb. "a year of I'M
usual activity was reviewed by the
grand master. the Rev. DR.. William F.
to the Grand Lodge Of Connecticut,
F. and A. NJ. assembled for the hist
annual communication at Masonic
temple today.
Many Of the members of the III
constituent lodges of the state, SAID
the grand master, had served over
seas and i'm this country and many
had made the great sacrifice.
Speaks on Prohibition.
OF prohibition. the grand master
said ''the long-cOnsidered verdict
against John Bar1eycorn is being rem
dered with marvellous unanimity by
the SOVEREIGN states of our land. A
sa1oonIess nation in 1920; surely God
rcig1s."
The grand master unmarried the
reports of the nine district deputies
and said they each reported the lodges
in a prosperous condition.
In the case of those engaged in war
service, the grand master granted GA
dispense tons to confer two degrees in
one day and a like number to shorten
the time for the ballot
The drive to raise $3.50, 900 for the
building plan at the Masonic Home
had made good progress. the grand
master reported. He recommended
that the matter, including the CORES
pondence relative TO the drive be re-
ferred to special committee to re-
mort Thursday
New Britain herald., 1919-02-05
MOylc New Grand Master.

The special order of business this
afternoon was the election of officers.
The following were chosen:
Grand master, Wallace S. Moyle,
New Haven; deputy grand master,
Charles c. Perkins, New London;
grand senior warden, Charles w.
Cramer, Hartford; grand junior war
den, Frank l.. Wilder, Bridgeport;
grand treasurer, Joseph Buths Hart
ford; grand secretary, George A. Kies,
Hartford; grand senior deacon,
Charles M. Beach, New Milford;
grand junior deacon, Arthur NJ.
Brown, Jewett City; grand trustees,
Willis L. Mix New Haven: Isaiah
Baker, Jr., Hartford; Albert S. Com
stack, Norwich.
The annual meeting of the Masonic
Charity foundation will be held this
evening at 7:30 o'clock. The closing
session of the grand lodge will be held
Thursday evening.
Wallace S. Moyle, the grand master
elect, Is a native of England, a grad
uate of Yale, class of 81, and a lawyer
practiciny in New Haven.
New Britain herald., 1919-02-05
.941 Candidates Raised.

Grand Secretary George A. Kies re-
ported that for the year ending De-
cember 81, 1918, there were 1,941
candidates raised 70 affiliations and
SO reinstatements. There were $50
deaths and 100 members were de-
mitted. The membership December
81, 1918, was 29,416, a net gain of
1,244 for the year The four largest
lodges are: Hiram, New Haven, 1,161;
Hartford, Hartford. 1,OS3; st. Johns,
Hartford, 1919; Wooster, New Haven,
957.
The receipts of the grand secretary's
office were Sal, 373.30. For the build
ing fund he received $45.748.49.
One of the chief matters of interest
to come before the grand lodge was
the petition, presented early in the
session. signed by Leonard NJ Tarr
and others, for q new lodge in New
Haven to be called Cosmopolitan,
No. 124"
New Britain herald., 1919-02-05
Gets Two Decorations.

4 dispatch from London August 81,
last, said that the then Lieut.. Cham
berlain, who is 81 graduate of Prince
ton and the University of Texas had
received simultaneous recommends
tons for the Victoria Cross and the
Congressional Medal of Honor for an
exploit July 20 over the British front
in a battle with IL German machines.
Lieut.. Chamberlain it was reported,
destroyed five of the enemy planes
and damaged two others, and, sweep
ing earthward with his own plano
damaged by the German fire, scat
tered a detachment of enemy soldiers.
Fools Three Germans.
The dispatch added that Chamber
lain after landing successfully fooled
three German soldiers whom he en-
countered believing his compass was
a bomb, forced two of them to fee,
and captured the other. Then, still
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-24
Chorus
DaU of The Motor Truck

When the pink primordial pride and
joy
OF our antediluvian hoi polloi
Had ichtryosaurian steak to tote
He dragged it along on an old stone
boat;
Or when his congenial mate and he
Would lug their luggage along the
lea
Or down to a gloomy and glacial
shore,
They found their burden consider
oh, tough was Nheir lot and sad
their luck,
For they had no Gazimp1kus motor
truck.
When Hannibal scampered across an
Alp
The rollicking Romans hollered
"halp."
For they had been told that 1t
couldn't be done
And Hannibal fooled them, the SON.
Some stunt for those Carthasinian
geeks -.
Was peregrinatink across the peaks,
For all of their baggage rode all
the way
Upon their cervical vetebrae
And into the ruck poor carthage
Snucll
For she had no Galumpical motor
truck.
And 'tis unfortunate, too, the fate
OF Alexander. the so-called great,
OF Kid Vespasian, Brain Boru,
Napoleon Bone and Stonewall, too,
Copernicus. Newton and Peter and
Paul,
Solomon, Satan. Salome and Saul,
They limped along in their feeble
way
Without the aid of the benzine shay,
While you and / have superlative
luck.
We have the Gazootical motor truck.
Then hail to the cam and the cog
and wheel.
The brass and copper, the wood and
steel!
And hail the dominant speed and
style.
And super service of gas and lie!
No more need the proletariat pine
That the load must lean on the sag
ging spine,
For now it can lope o'er the loamy
lea
On Rackard, Fierce. or a Noon
stone r;
Gosh almighty, we're all in luck;
We have the Gazzamikus motol
truck.
j. p. McAvoy in the Chicago Tri-
bune.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-24
POSITION OF FRANCE

(From the Boston Transcript.)
Evidence accumulates that some
body in the American delegation
at Paris is deliberately seeking to in
timidate the French nation by threat
ening it with American displeasure-
with an American menace of I'VE
won't play" unless the French modify
their attitude toward Germany. The
French government and the French
press are reproached with a "propa-
ganda" against the pure idealism of
of the American delegation. But
what is this French 'propaganda"
Is it not, merely a plain insistence
upon the right of France-a right
herself secure against German ag-
gression or invasion?
The situation of France in this mat
ter is mple--m enacingly and terrib-
ly simple. The country has been per-
iodically raided and ravaged by a
neighboring nation of greatly superior
material strength. A nation of less
than 100000 people and one which
does increase in numbers, is con-
,stantly menaced by one of 10000. 900
which even now Is being reinforced
by the 100000 or 100000 of Ger
man Austria. 1t will take France
many years. with the best fortune in
the world. to recover from the awful
ravage which has Just been inflicted
her by the last German invasion.
Can any one in the American peace
delegation or elsewhere wonder IL
France proposes measurably to equal
iZe the conditions between herself
and Germany before she once more
assumes, alone, the burden of stand
ing in the gap between an unfor-
forgiving and insolent Germany and
the rest of the world?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-24
JUSTICE AND BUSINESS

n NE can hardly read the facts
set out in the annual report of
the State Police by Captain
Lumb, the acting superintendent, in
regard to the work and pay of the
troopers and consider conditions in
various parts of the world without
coming to the conclusion that Penn
sylvania has something worth having.
and that 1t would be simple justice
for the services rendered and good
business as well to overhaul the
salary and living provisions for the
men and put them on basis more in
accord with other police organiza-
tions. Every city in this State has
given its guardians advances in pay
and while there are some municipali-
ties whose police forces have enviable
regulations 1t is generally admitted.
inside and outside Pennsylvania, that
the State Police are in a class by
themselves.
In ordinary times record of TO-
600 arrests, double the figures of
the year before, with a force short
of authorized strength and lacking
many of the earlier trained men,
would be sufficient for commenda-
tion. but in two other particulars the
State Police, in the language of the
lhour, "were there" When this State,
with its diverse population, was agi-
tated by rumors of dangerous talk
among foreigners the State Police
took over Investigations and af-
fected results of beneficial nature
by methods vastly different from
those of ioud-sounding deputy fed
eral marshals, for instance. When in
huenza prostrated its thousands and
death stalked in rregions where the
people were dazed by calamity and
disturbed by health orders which
they did not grasp it was the State
Policeman who Strengthened them
out, kept lawlessness down, took sick
To the hospitals established by the
State and even looked after mother.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-24
FLOTSAM

[From the Philadelphia Inquirer. ]
Above the seas was poised butter
fly.
Beguiled from shore by sheen of
sunlit wave;
In frantic stress, / saw 1t vainly try,
On fragile wing, its threatened life
to save;
When, struggling near the foam, a
floating spar
The fragment of some bark in
mortal throe--
Gave rest and strength for airy
flight afar
To safety where the honey-dowers
blow.
In days to come. If or a stormy sea
or doubt and bitter grief, I lose
my way,
And, sorely pressed. only seem to
be
Descending nearer to the numb
ing spray,
Chance f1otsam from another's NOR
tai plight
A lesson from the wreckage OF
his dream
May give me courage for buoy
ant fight
To safety where the peaceful up.
lands gieam.
HOWARD MARKLE HOKE.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-24
To Erplore British Guiana
[From the New York World

[F'rom the New York World
Eighteen men apd women, ma
turalists, scientists and artists, will
sail for British Guiana soon for ex-
ploration work in the jungles out
lying Kalacoon, the station estab-
lished by the New York Geological
Society in 1915. to enable william
Beebe, curator Of birds in the Bronx
Zoo, to obtain complete collec-
tion from the American tropics.
Beebe will lead the new party, and
his associate for several years, John
Tee Van, will accompany him. 9th
ers in the party will include Miss
Mabel Satterlee, granddaughter of
the late J. p. Morgan, assisted by
Miss Sarah Sturges, who will study
bird life; Prof. William H. Wheeler
of Harvard, who will study ants;
Prof. Uric Dahlgren of Princeton.
and Prof. Albert Reese of the Uni
yersity of West Virginia, whose spe-
cialties will be cells and crocodiles,
and Miss Carita Spencer, who won
decorations for Belgian war work.
and Mrs. Gussie Garvin, students of
Jungle birds.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-24
A BIG PROBLEM
HATsoEvER shall he the

hAAoO6N6R SNAIL Do the out
M come of the present high
w school discussion, the solving
of that dificulty will by no means
let us out of the woods with respect
to our school problem as a whole.
We have been building many fine
new school houses to take, care of
the growth of the city. Most of
them are up to the minute with re-
spect to modern thought in school
construction. They have auditoriums.
and all those features
in the way Of light. heat, ventilation.
ETC., which progressive school ON
cials have insisted upon.
Generally speaking. with regard to
our newer buildings. we are on a
mar with most cities of our size and
ahead of many. The public does not
fully understand just how excellently
DIR. Downes and the school board
have done in this respect.
But there remain to be considered
friEhtful relics of antiquity in the
very heart of the city, such as the
Reilly building. for example, which
long since outliyed their usefulness.
II is not fair to the boys and girls
who are required to attend them that
their opportunities should not be as
many and as great as those of the
pupils who are. housed in modern
structures. Nor is it fair to the tax
payer who is assessed that the new
buildings may be erected to put his
child into an undesirable school
house. Every pupil is entitled to
fresh air, sunlight and wholesome
surroundings.
The financial burden entailed by q
wholesale demolition of these older
buildings and their replacement by
modern structures would be heavy
heavier, very likely, than the school
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-24
Increase in RdiitDdy Expenses
[From the williamsport Gazette and
Rnllafin /

Bulletin.
In its current issue the Railway
Age, which is admitted to be one
of the best authorities with regard
to transportation matters in this
country, says that statistics for De-
cember disclose that the downward
thru that month.
As a matter of fact, the net op-
Grating income of the railroads per
month, under government control.
steadily declined from $12S,0OO,000
in August to $57,000,000 in Novem-
ber. In December it was $23,O0O,-
600.
The poor showing of this latter
month was almost entirely due to
an increase in operating expenses.
The weather was favorable, yet the
expenses were much greater than
in the corresponding month of the
previous year, when the weather
conditions were as bad as ever were
known in the history of railroading.
The Age fears that when all the
necessary adjustments are made 1t
will be found that for handling a
corresponding amount of traffic, op-
Grating expenses are running at the
rate of one million five hundred mill
lion dollars a year more than they
were in 1917.
Made in the face of efforts econo-
mics, this enormous increase in ex-
penses constitutes a very poor show
ing for government control.
Certainly it is far more expensive
than private operating, and there is
bound to be revolt on the part,
especially of people who, making
little use of the railroads, receive
no benefits from the increase in tax
alton necessary to meet appropria-
tons required to make up the de-
ficits.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-24
FRANK HALL WR'IES
PENNSYLVANlI SONG

Frank Hall. deputy ief OF the
state Department Of 'Ii-ss, author
of several songs whci attracted
much attention during IT,; war, has
just issued a song to j. lnsyIvania.
1t is dedicated to the khaki-clad
heroes who added to t.., glory OF
the Keystone State In France and the
words and music were 10Th written
by the authors The sc 8 is filled
with patriotic spirit and the air Is
inspiring. MIR. Hall also wrote In
olden Days" Good bye. I'm going
over" and Dear Old L. ;. A" which
have been published locally. the latter
having a spirited chorus which made
a big hit.
The words of the new .ong are:
We love thee Pennsylvai.ia,
Thy rocks and hills and dells,
The smiling, verdant vallf rs.
Where sweet contentment dwells.
We breathe the air of Freedom,
And pray God it may last,
And nothing mar the greatness
Or the glory of the past.
Dear Pennsylvania, grand old Key
stone State,
Steadfast and loyal to all that's truly
great.
When duty calls thee, thou hast led
the way.
We love thee and we'd die for thee,
Dear Old nn-syl-va-n
lao 10
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-24
HOME RULE

~ ton to our problems of city
government lies in home rule,
as City Solicitor Hare. of AL
toona, said in an address before the
Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce
on municipal law last week. But
"home rule" is not % be accom-
plished in a. single session of the
Legislature and it will not be
brought to pass in many years un-
less the Third Class City League.
which persists in holding to the
poor old Clark Act as the ne plus
ultra of all municipal legislation,
sees a light. The league, of course,
hesitates to endorse any plan that
might seriously disturb present ar
rangements, because most of its
members are job holders whose in
terests, lie primarily along the lines
of salaries, much as they would have
us believe otherwise.
So, being unable to get home
rule" for Harrisburg at this time,
we may turn our attention as to
how otherwise we escape from the
strangling regulations of the Clark
law. Most of us are convinced that
we in Harrisburg are not getting
the best results possible for the
money We are spending. This is no
reflection upon any one of the COM
Some of them at least
are doing as well as possible under
the circumstances, but the method is
wrong. There is no concentration of
power anywhere. There is no CEN
traIization of executive authority, and
administration therefore becomes ne
cessarily more or less haphazard, and
a business run in -haphazard man
ner never can be efficient.
There is just one way cut of the
difficulty - Aoona's way. Altoona
has four councilmen who contribute
the bulk of their salaries to the en-
p1oyment of a city manager. The
city manager is responsible to the
four commissioners sitting in session
once or twice week. He, through
them as board of directors, runs the
city government. If there is a fail
ure there is no difficulty in ascer-
tanning where the blame lies. II
too much money is spent, the voter
knows who is doing it, and the city
with no salary to hang
to and no job to perpetuate, is in
terested only in seeing to it that the
best possible results are obtained
for the city.
The experiment. is certainly worth
while.
The question then is, are we big
enough and broad enough to pick
out four men who will pledge them
selves to such an administration and
after they are in the field elect them
to office? 1t is question that must
be answered soon or 1t will be too
late to do any good during the COM
ing two-year period.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-24


tomorrow.
The senatorship of Dauphin coun-
ty is an important office. 1t is Sec
ond to none in the Legislature.
From it as a stepping stone have
come presidents pro tenn. of the
Senate, one Lieutenant Governor and
at least one judge of the courts.
The filling of the vacancy should
command the attention of the peo-
pie.
The certainty of the election of
Frank A. Smith, the Republican can
didate, does not relieve the Repub-
lican voter of any responsibility. The
time is here when every Republican
should make his party sentiments
felt at the polls on every possible
occasion. Every election previous to
that at which the next President of
the United States is chosen will have
some bearing on that contest. 1t is
important that we in Dauphin coun-
ty renew our allegiance to the prin-
ciples of Republicanism and regis
ter our protest against the high
handed conduct of federal affairs at
Washington by the present admins
tration.
BY all means go to the polls to-
morrow. Mr.. Smith is candidate
whom any voter can support with
good conscience. He should have a
big majority both for his own sake
and because of the reflection of pub
lie sentiment which it is so import
ant the Democratic machine man
ayers should have at this time.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-24
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Judge A. w. Johnson, of Lewis
burg, was speaker at the p. o. 81
of A. mass meeting in Philadelphia
-Ex-Speaker Richard ]. Baldwin,
who will be elected a senator tomorl
row, is a native of Delaware county,
John II. Penniman. PhiladeIl
phian, suggests that Broad and Mar
ket streets in that city be named
for Washington and Lafayette.
Charles f. Hires is on a fish
ing trip along the Florida coast.
Marcus Aaron. Pittsburgh mem,
ber of the State Board OF Education
Is taking a prominent part in tn.
movement for readjustment OF
teachers salaries.
Thomas G. Parrish. former bro
baton officer of Philadelphia, saw.
people are foolish to try to preven
boys from fighting.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-24

district would be able to stand at this,
time. But the topic is timely and
should be considered. Let us not fool
ourselves into the belief that all our
troubles will be at an end with the
erection of new school or high
schools,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-24

less children. sacrificing sleep and
rest hours to do 1T. -"
The time has come to consider
the services of the State Police fairly
and squarely.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-24
Man For Congress

IL we we're in Congress we would
now and then remind our colleagues
that many economies are possible
and the schedule Of billion and a
half . month is not making any hit
among the peopie.--Houston Pest.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-24

Go to the polls tomorrow and
vote for Frank A. Smith, for State
Senator. The bigger the Republican
majority now, the more the Demo-
Gratis will be discouraged when it
comes to the election of a President.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-24

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