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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-11
FAITH

Faith IL the rite bower ov Hope.
If it want for faith, thare would be
no living in this world. We couldn't
even eat hash with emmy safety, if
it want for faith. Human knowl-
edge IL very short and don't reach
but q little ways, and even that
little ways liz twilite; but faith
lengthens out the road and makes it
light, so that we kan see tew read
the letterings on the mile stuns.
Faith haz won more viktorys than
all the other pashuns or sentiments
ov the heart and head put together.
Faith IL one ov them warriors who
don't kno when she liz whipped. But
Faith is no milksop, but q live
fighter. She don't set down and
gro stupirt with resignashun and git
weak with the buty ov her attri-
butes; but she IL the heroine of for
lorn Hope-she feathers her. arrows
with reazon and fires rite at the
bulls eye ov fate.-Josh Billings.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-11
NEW YORK TRIB,rN,
EDITORIAL COMMENT

But when Pershing's men come
out of Germany, they will know
their way back if anything happens.
Anaconda Standard.
The Kaiser with his 500-odd uni
forms seems to be all drest up with
no place to go-New York Tele-
graph. aA
When we think of the inexpres-
sibly glorious achievements of the
British Army and Navy in the war
for the preservation of the liberties
and civilization of mankind, it
makes us inexpressibly proud to
have been able to put out such q
gallant foe in the days we used to
scrap. And when we think of the
matchless gallantry of the Yankee
boys who have fought so wonder
fully side by side with Dixie's sons,
it makes us proud that we were able
to lick their fathers until we were
exhausted that we couldn't proceed
with the job.-Houston Post.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-11
The Sensible PROGRAM

And the strongest possible guaran-
tees of Germany's future good be-
havior should be eXacted.
All these things belong to the Sec
ond part of the peace making pro-
gram which should first of all come
before the peace conference, and
which should be disposed of before
the third part is taken up. These
things, too. should be decided upon
by the Allies without giving Ger
many any voice in the discussion.
They are the proper terms of die
tated peace. All that Germany would
have TO do should be to listen and
to acquiesce. That is logical. That
is just. For Germany stands before
the conference as a convicted GRIM
inal stands at the bar of the court.
She is convicted by the testimony
and judgment of the world, and by
her own confession. Nothing re-
mains but for sentence to be pro-
nounced, and that is the function of
the court and not of the criminal.
To permit Germany to discuss these
matters with the powers would be
equivalent to letting the convicted
murderer discuss with the judge
whether he was to be hanged or
imprisoned for life.
1t is only after this second part lof
the program has been disposed of
that the third and final part is in
| order. That third part will natu-
rally comprise those readjustments
of relationship among the Allies and
the neutral powers which seem
necessary or desirable because of
the changes effected by the war,
or because of the lessons taught
ample, those proposals for a League
Nof Nations, for the freedom of
the seas, for the abolition of eco
nomic barriers, and what not, which
some have been and are prema-
turely exploiting as though they
were the be-all and the end-all of
the conference. We have no doubt
that these topics will be taken up
for consideration by the conference,
and that they will in some way be
disposed of, though we should doubt
IL in all cases that end would be fully
attained by the conference itself. II
would be quite fitting, and far more
convenient and business-like, to re-
nit some of them, at least, to inter-
national commissions, for inveStiga-
ton and study, and for subsequent
report TO the signatory powers for
such treaty action as they might then
desire. Some of these matters are
so complex and require so much
consideration that they could not be
satisfactorily disposed of in a brief
conferences; and 1t would be an in
tolerable hardship to require such a
body as this is to be, including the
chief administrators of the nations,
to remain in indefinitely prolonged
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-11
THE HERITAGE

IOLONEL ROOSEVELT has
l 4 passed on, but no one can
doubt that his virile person
ality and his robust Americanism
will continue to be felt in this coun-
try for years to come. His passing
is great and almost irretrievable
loss to the country at this time, but
the fact that he has dropped out of
the activities of life imposes upon all
who remain in the public service a
great obligation of unself1sh devo-
ton to the public welfare.
Colonel Roosevelt believed in a
higher type of American citizen and
his constant effort to arouse his
countrymen will bear fruit in an
immediate awakening to individual
responsibility and the beating down
of those things which have threat
ened the perpetuity of our institu-
tons.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-11
To Get Back Home

To get back home again-and there
to see
Old friends and faces of long van
ished days.
To hear some friendly voice call out
to me
From street or corner of remem-
bered ways.
Where rain or shine or wind-blown
winter snow
The lights of home hold up their
golden shield.
With soft, warm arms from out the
long ago
In waiting welcome from the ST.
lent field.
To get back home again-to know
at last
The guns are still from Flanders
to Lorraine;
The day of slogging through the mud
is past,
The night of terror in the driving
rain
Lies hidden in the midst of Argonne
drifts,
A grim, yet holy specter of the
years,
That wait ahead, where every shad-
ow lifts
Before the smile that welcomes
through its tears.
To get back home again-zoh, dream
of dreams
Too radiant to last but for a
breath!
The drift of purple nights and sing
ing streams
Beyond black dawns still rife with
ghosts and death.
Beyond the dreamless sleep of those
who wait
To hold the line they fought for
to the end,
Eternal sentinels at Freedoms Gate,
Where none shall pass save those
whose whisper-"Friend."
To get back home again-yes, that is
all;
The rest is less than nothing down
the world;
To hear no more the bugle's waking
call
The tramp of marching feet-all
standards furled-
And only silent thoughts of those
who stay
To hold the guard across the end
less years,
Who will not come again the ancient
way
Nor know the "smile that well
comes through it's tears"
LIEUT.. GRANTLAND RICE,
Third Army, A. e. f.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-11
SATURDAY, JANUARY IL, 1919
PROHIBITION INEVITABLE

NToTWITHsTAND1NG the pub
IN lie statement of Representa-
tive John W. Vickerman, the
dry" leader in the Legislature, that
the friends of the prohibition
amendment favor the resolution
taking its usual course and without
any effort to force a conclusion, the
remnant of the reorganization De-
mocracy" in Pennsylvania is now in
sisting that the Republican leaders
are back of a scheme to delay the
measure while the other States are
proceeding with the ratification of
the amendment.
: These pinhead critics declare that
Republican organizations are play
ing the opportunist game of defer
ring action in the hope that IL the
amendment should be ratified by
the required number of states the
Legislature of Pennsylvania can fol-
low suit without fear of hurting the
feelings of the liquor interests. This
in face of the fact that the real
friends of the amendment are fav-
oring policy of the sane treatment
on the resolution to the end that
there may be no failure by reason Of
premature action or forced discus
zion.
These little Democratic puppets
are so saturated with the ingrown
suspicion that all others act as they
themselves would act, that they cam
not treat with decency men who
, have given prohibition a fair chance
and who are doing their utmost TO
bring about the adoption of the
amendment in Pennsylvania. In
short, they are paving the way for
the puny explanation after the vote
that in the event of ratification the
Republican party is given no credit
and in the event of failure it is to
assume all the blame.
Representative Vickerman and
Governor-elect Sproul are honestly
of the opinion that The ratification of
the prohibition amendment in this
State looks more promising every
day. 1t is the consensus of opinion
on this question that prohibition is
inevitable, and that Pennsylvania
must line up with the other COM
monwealths in support of the
amendment But nothing is 20 be
gained by misrepresenting the pur-
pose or motives of men on this non-
partisan issue.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-11
[From n. A. Review's WeekIv1

lFrom n. a. Reviews Weekly.1
ITNHE way to make peace is to
make peace. That would seem
to be q truism. Yet, strange to
say, 1t seems to be ignored in most
OF the discussions and forecasts of
the approaching peace conference.
Judging from a large part of current
discussion, even in high places, one
might suppose that the principal
function of that body would be to do
almost anything else rather than
make peace, and that the latter duty
was to be relegated to the last place
on the program.
Logically. nationally, profitably, the
processes of peace are threefold, in
succession.
First come cessation of hostilities
and tentative surrender; which have
in this case already been achieved in
the armistice.
Second comes settlement with the
conquered enemy, including the fix
ing of terms under which the tenn
porary cessation of fighting will be-
come permanent, the eXaction of
suitable indemnity, and the securing
of guarantees against a renewal of
hostilities. That, we take it, is the
proper work of the peace conference,
and is the work to which it should
first of all address itself, to the eX-
clusion of everything which would
delay or compromise that achieve
ment.
There should be the formal decla-
ration and pledge of peace. There
should be complete restoration of
Belgium-territorially, economically
and politically, without reservation
or demur; without even the right of
"A leo set ~ haf
hold to be the primary sine qua non.
There should be similar restoration
of the ravaged provinces of France,
followed by the return of Alsace and
Lorraine and the repayment with in
terest of the billion dollars tribute
eXacted in 1871. There should be
surrender of Italia Irredenta, and
restoration of Serbia. There should
be indemnity to Great Britain for
losses inflicted, and to the United
States, and all other nations which
have suffered from Hunnish ravages.
There should be, at least to the full
est possible extent, naturalization
of the Allies and America for the
expenses of the war.
There should be assurance of the
right of self-determination for the
peoples of the former German and
Austro- Hungarian empires and of
the Turkish empire; including the
Danes, Poles, Czecho-Si ovaks, Jugo-
Slavs, Serbs, Humanians, Greeks and
ArmeniansI There should be suita-
BILE disposition of the former colonies
of Germany. The individuals re-
sponsible for the crimes which have
been committed against the laws of
nations should be surrendered, to be
dealt with by the criminal courts.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-11
RUNS Russian Resurrection
philadelphia Record.

When the late Nicholas Romanoff
put the imperial ban on vodka,
about four and half years ago,
and, by a simple sweep of the pen
placed all of Russia and Siberia on
the, water wagon. this great reform
adopted as a war measure, was
hailed as one of the wonders of the
world. From one of the drunkenest
countries on the globe Russia be-
came one of the soberest. Never
had the Demon Rum received such
knockout. But now he is stag
gering to his feet again. The Pro-
visional Government that controls
Siberia had a considerable part of
Russia has removed the ukase
against vodka, and the peasant can
again drink himself into sodden for
getfulness of his woe. The Boil
sheviki have been doing so for a
year past, with eminently disas-
trous results. The great reform
has come to an inglorious end.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-11
PUBLIC WORK

PENNSYLVANIA is going to take
her proper place in the mat
ter of improved highway con-
struction. No State is in better po-
sition to take leading part in road
construction.
All public work should proceed
with vigor and at the earliest pos
sible moment. For this reason and
in order that thsre may be no un-
employment OF returning soldiers
or others made idle through the can
collation. OF war contracts, tho State
should, through the Legislature.
make early provision for the monu-
mental viaduct as part of the Cap
itoi Park extension project, and for
every ether public improvement, in
eiuding road building, that has been
deferred duFinR the war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-11
CdntonmentS to Make Jobs
(From the Ohio State Journal)

(From the Ohio state Journai)
Now there is a scheme worked
out at Washington to buy up all the
cantonments as sort of training
grounds that might be needed in
futr,re emergencies. The project as
sumes that this nation is always to
be military, and yet it is the very
idea that the great war crushed.
Think of the cost of those canton
ments from the purchase of them
and the expense they would con-
stantly require in the maintenance
of them. Here would be hundreds
of jobs thrown into the political CAL
dron. and for no use except for the
vaguest possibilities.
This nation need not devote itself
to militarism. There is no need of
it. There is no foe to face for at
least a generation, and il there were,
before that Toe got ready this coun-
try would be in battle array. Let
the cantonments be leveled to the
ground and that ground be used in
raising wheat, corn, potatoes and
apples. These would make the
country stronger than all the can
tonments could possibly make it,
even IL filled with soldiers and NUM-
tiOns .-st
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-11
Colonel HdrDey Sez, See He

Among the pictures of the great
war which the world will long cher
ish with unctous delight is that of
the Kaiser of the Huns disporting
himself in camouflaged trenches for
the benefit of the movies" and
then lodging into deep funk
hole" the moment an electric an
nunciator reported the peeping of
an Allied airplane above the re-
mote horizon. Presumably the lat
ter movement was effected to the
accompaniment of the once-familiar
strains from Olivette: Now is the
time for disappearing! Just take a
header and down you go!" And
what n brandishing of the Shining
sword" and what communions with
the 'Old German Gott' there must
have been in the subterranean re-
treat!
What becomes of the vaunted
equal rights of small nations
when "a single overwhelming pow
erfull group Of nations assume the
trusteeship of the world? 1
"He wanted peace without victory
and now he has victory without
peace" is the way Uncle Joe Can
non puts it.
The Herald says what is in many
minds:
THE President says he is trying
to act in England as George Wash
ington would act if he were in his
place.
George Washington was a far
seeing man, and he may have pict
tured one of his successors in the
Presidency, the Queen of England
on his arm, entering the banquet
hall of the royal pa ace in London
with court functionaries ahead
walking backward and doing obei-
sance, but we doubt it.
Still more do we doubt that any
manager of a Presidential election
campaign ever pictured his candi-
date in such a scene"
No doubt, if it was necessary to
go at all, it would have been more
American like and more business
like to have left the women folks
at home and gone quietly to the
Embassy in Paris and stayed there
when the conference was not in
session. Technically, then, he would
have been on American soil and
would have had better legal war;
rant, for the signing of bills from
Congress, etc. But when one be-
comes the guest of a nation, he must
accept hospitality in the form ten
dered, and blame cannot attach to
host for doing 1t up brown. There
is no point in the reference to a
Presidential election. Mr.. Wilson
will not be a candidate. He has
outgrown the United States.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-11
The Railroad Puzzle
From the Kansas City Times I

tFrom the Kansas City Times.l
Government control of railroads
has developed advantages and equal
ly obvious faults. Freight is no long,
er hauled all around the country In
order to give various lines a share
in the haul, and useless trains have
been cut off. But the service has
been badly demoralized.
What Senator Cummins is trying
to do in his new railroad plan is to
combine the evident advantages of
government wnership-unified op-
GRAFTON. standardized equipment and
public acquisition of the unearned
increment-wth the advantages of
private operation-initiative energy
and good service.
To get the right combination is O
real Job. The senator's plan seems
to offer a possible basis for discus
sion.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-11

In view of the experience Of Walter
Shafrer's parents and other Harris
burgers, who have endeavored to sup
ply their sons in France with needed
funds. the enthusiasm in some quar-
ters for government ownership of the
cables and wire systems is likely to
ooze out rapidly. 1t is inconceivable
that any great public utility should
so soon break down under the inef-
ficiency OF men who manifestly are
more Interested in their political flu
ture than they are in the public SER
vice.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-11

City Commissioner Lynch is giving
much attention to the plans of his de-
partment for the year and expects
with the opening of outdoor work to
prosecute a vigorous program of
street improvement. OF course, the
widening of Third street between
Walnut and North will be one of the
conspicuous undertakings and like
wise the resurfacing of Walnut street
between Third and Fourth after the
removal of the sidewalk on the Capt.
tol Park side. With the ending of the
war, there will not be so great a
shortage OF labor as during the last
year. and all the activities of the city
are likely to go forward with more
vim,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-11

Real estate in Harrisburg is going
to come into it's own this year. and
Notwithstanding the high cost of
building materials and labor 1t is
probable many enterprises checked by
the war will go forward. There is a
general disposition among individuals
and corporations to provide all the
work possible to the end that return
ing soldiers and others made idle
may be given employment.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-11
COAL MEN ARE BUSY

~OAL men report. rush of Nor-
ders to-day. For weekssthey
~ have been begging consumers
to stock up" but the weather has
been so mild that half-ton of coal
looked as big as a mountain to
most householders and the order
was delayed. Now, we suppose,
there will be complaints of empty
cellars and pleas to the fuel ad-
ministrator for relief. We never
did think much of DR.. Garfield's
system of distribution. but If there
is suffering this winter in Harris
burg the national fuel administra-
ton will be not much more to blame
than many dilatory consumers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-11
The Universal Language

Money speakers all languages dis
tinctly. The more the Yankee SOL
dier develops his natural character
as O spender in the occupied terri
tory of the enemy the better he is
understood and the more reconciled
to his presence the natives become.
From the Richmond Times-Dis-
patch,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-11
ernment is going to be pretty wei
scattered.

When Governor Brumbaugh re-
moves from Harrisburg next week
he will take with him a collection
of early Pennsylvania prints of ex-
ceeding interest and considerable
value. Throughout his term the Gov
ernor has been adding every now
and then to his books dealing with
earll" Pennsylvania and the religious
denominations that settled in this
state. His finds" relative to the
church with which his family has
been identified for generations. is
said to be very complete aud val
liable. Few knew of this collection
or-of the Governors interest in such
works
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-11

One after another the panels of the
iron railing OF the Court avenue side
of he Federal building disappear.
Boxes of shrubbery next summer
would be quite as much OF protec-
tion to the mail trucks as the flimsy
rail that has been disappearing in
sections and decidedly more artistic.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-11

of employers. but the brains also of
those whom they employ. It must
be a cooperative and mutual period
if we are to emerge from the var
on higher ground and with clearer
vision of the future.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-11
Framing

tits said that the government is
now framing a defense of its policy
in seizing the cables after the war
was really over" Framing is prob
ably a good word to use In that con-
nection.-From the Cincinnati Com
mercia1 Tribune.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-11
LABOR NOTES

Owing to the scarcity of agricul-
tural labor this autumn it is reported
that in the fields near Fargo S. D.,
women composed nearly 10 per cent.
of the workers who shocked grain.
The quarterly report of the Farm
ington (Ill.) Cooperative Society
shows that each member received q
dividend OF 10 per cent. based on the
amount OF purchases made.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-11

OF course. the Harrisburg Academy
Cadets will have a place in the in
augural parade. They are a hand
some lot OF boys. and Harrisburg is
proud of them. We shall hope to see
before another inauguration a fine
battalion comprising cadets from all
the leading schools here.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-11

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Associated Press Is exclusively en-
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all news dispatches credited to 1t or
not otherwise credited in this paper
and also the local news published
herein.
All rights of republication of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-11
No Wild Oats For Edsel

Elevation of Edsel Ford. aged
twenty-four, to the head of the Ford
Motor Company, on the other hand.
shows how money also can deprive5
a youth of his carefree boyhood
days.-From the Indianapolis Newsl
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-11
No Longer Dollar Chasers

One momentous feature of the re-
construction period relates to re-
construction of Europe's mental pic
ture of Americans as dollar chasers.
From the Chicago News