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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-05-06
Popular Prince.

The bearing Of the Prince OF waies
.Il through the war has won him the
admiration, respect and affection OF tne
british peoples, here and overseas.
We need not enlarge upon this. Tor
every one knows that to say 80 u -, ~
courtiy. form Of words. The prince ~u'
r0 to the overseas countries OF M .ne
empire when the time comes WIN v.ss sns
unique advantage Of having seen W.
hia own eyes the shining euaiiussL
revealed during the ultimate test OF
character-of the races that make 9p
~ er.mpire. He win co. too. for nis
ovn ,iustruction and enlightenment. a
the tinr said frankly Of himself las'
ysof when be fofeshadowed nis v'nt'
London Times.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-05-06
Rare Visitors Recorded.

! The appearance Of. snowy owls, q
rare occurrence. Is reported. These re-
markably beautiful birds come from
the Arctic regions. Only four previous
valuations have been recorded IN the
pathological history Of the country. "a
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-05-06
THE NEW STATE GUARD.
Massachusetts, Veterans Of the 1eth
Division Urged to Enilst.

Camp Devens-In order to pre-
serve the continuity Of existence en-
1oyed by Massachusetts militia units
since the days Of the revolution and
earlier. soldiers Of this state in the
Yankee Division are now being urged
to enlist in the new state guard on
the date Of their discharge from the
United States army.
Brig. Gen. Charles H. Cole and
Brig. Gen. John H. Sherburne, have
been selected to guide the reorgan-
ization Of the state forces Massa-
chusetts officers In the YD held Q
conference at the headquarters Of
Brig. Gen. Cole. It was determined
that the soldiers should be acquainted
with the purposes Of the old national
guard leaders before they leave camp
ant. to push through a plan Of OBJ
tsining skeletonized formations OF
the famous regiments and organiza-
tions which brought honor to the
state. Until Congress acts upon the
plans for new army, 1t Is proposed
that the state units shall adopt the
designations by which they were
known in France.
It Is planned to have the enlist
ment periods for one year and to e1-
empt the YD veterans from drills or
requirements of any service except
under very great emergency. Practi-
cally all The old national suari IN
rcra are backing the plan.
Brig. Gen. John H. Sherburne and
Col. John r. Herbert represent this
state in the artillery. Col. William
II. Dolan, Lt.-Col. E. r. Tandy. L..
Col. John D. Murphy, Col Edward L.
Logan, Col. William ]. Kevflle Of the
I04th infantry, who Is on detached
service in command Of the 101st am
munition train, and Col. Warren q
Sweetser are others who are support
ing some general scheme which will
coincide with the plans Of Gov. Good
idge.
Gen. Peyton c. March, chief Of
stan, said recently that Nassachu-
setts would be allowed q oro rata
share of fund of $1.700, 900 which is
available for national guard organi-
zation. He also said that the neces-
sary inspector instructors from the
regular army would be assigned to
special duty with whatever bodies
are formed, whenever the war de-
rartment is asked to authorize and
accept units.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-05-06

Many good psitures have been ruined.
by turning the stock On them TOO eer!y
10 thSF spri1f. visit until the ground y, e
Arm and tkS. 3fsit F1tl AsAtted. 1afk
the stock hsSofo xusuing out 10 pasture
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-05-06

Correspondence on practical agricultural topic
% solicited. Address all communications IN
landed for this department 70 HENHr ID
HAAnoND. Agricultural Editor Oxford DEM
ocrat. Paris. He.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-05-06

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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-05-06

/! Rsmoyal Of the restrictions On the
mailing Of parcels To the ? AmericaA
expeditienary forces In Europe was
announced at the NORTHEASTERN deI
partment. The order reads IN part
ss follows: "In connection with the
foregoing order, postmastsrs are iaas
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-06
Where VIII the Germans Go?

Herbert Adams Gibbons in Every
body's Magazine.l
The parliaments of Great Britain
and the British Dominions are as
keenly alive as we are to the neces-
sity of being ready for a strong
migratory current from continental
Europe. London has gone farther
than Washington, and seems in
clined to follow a path that will
lead to tremendous consequences
for Europe. 1t is proposed at West
minister to forbid enemy aliens to
enter British territory for an in
definite period and to deport Ger
mans, Austrians and Hungarians
who are settled in the British EN-
pfre.
If this proposal is carried out,
other nations, notably Brazil, may
follow the precedent set by the
British. Deportation of Germans
from British territory would create
a forced migratory current as great
as that which is already flowing out
of AlSace-Lorraine and PruSSian
Poland. 1t is unlikely that the
ousted Germans will find it possible
to settle in their country of origin.
Where will they go, and in what
direction will the migratory current
from Germany flow? VIII puDHc
sentiment in America bar Germans
and influence Central and South
American countries to adopt the
same policy?
Upon the answer to these ques-
tions depends. in a very large meas
ure, the influence of the war of
1914-191S upon Twentieth Century
Europe. Nothing is more certain
than that we cannot bottle up, un-
der adverse economic conditions,
the so million Germans of Central
Europe in a German state narrowed
down to it's ethnographiCal limits.
Even if we gave back to Germany
her colonies, they would not support
a large white population. Do we
not have to choose, then, between
sharing with the German race the
development of Africa, the two
Americas and Australia, and seeing
the Germans overflow into Eastern
Europe and Asia?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-06
No Mercy For Human BruteS
[Wilkes-Barre Record. ]

Wilkes Barre leCOrd.
Evidence of amazing brutality to-
wards American soldiers in prison
camps in France is only too au-
thentic. 1t brings to light acts even
more discreditable than instances of
excessive severity in courts martial
The treatment of prisoners is char
acterized as passing beyond the limit
of ordinary cruelty-am ounting in
many cases to torture. The prison.
ers were guilty of violating discipline
and some of them of crime, but the
military statutes provide for moth
ing more than Imprisonment and
work and disgrace. Any other form
of punishment is the result of
brutality on the part of officers in
authority, and the honor of the army
demands that those who ordered it
and those who committed it be
made to bear the consequences.
The congressional subcommittee
now engaged in an investigation of
the reports will be expected to un-
cover one of the foulest of blots
upon the army in connection with
its service abroad.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-06
General EdIUdrdS' VielU

Sir: Against the flood of oratory
let loose on the American people in
the past six months about the League
of Nations and making the world
safe for democracy" the following
twenty-siX words by General Ed
wards, u. S. A., are worth some
thing:
"Thcy say the boys went over to
make the world safe for democracy.
| don't believe it. / went over to
save my country, not democracy.
General Edwards was addressing
the boys and girls at the Good Will
Farm, an educational school located
at Hinckley, Maine, and the limited
circulation of the Good Will Record,
in which the above quotation ap-
peared, led me to send it to you so
the readers of Harvey's Weekly
could see what a soldier thought of
the slush about making the world
safe for Democracy"
n. NEWTON PLUMBER.
New York City.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-06
AN ENGINEERS DREAM

TO the Editor of the Telegraph:
The Eighteen. Hour Train from
chicago was speeding through the
LeWistown Narrows on it's way to
the great city, where life teens with
every known vice and virtue; moth
ing unusual from many other trips,
other than that the engineer was in
the land of nod. Although a dream
is of short duration in minutes,
nevertheless it covered the trip to
the greatest store arch bridge in the
world, where it suddenly ended
over fifty miles of rails:
"As the train came crashing along
the rails, the iron horse emitting
great volumes of fire and smoke,
Port Royal and Newport was passed,
Duncannon was fast asleep as the
train went through and later came
into Marysville or schedule. One
minute and the train was on the
western end of the great Rockville
bridge.
Suddenly from out the mountain
side appeared an apparition two hun
dred feet in height, with great arms
hanging on a headless body, legs
thirty feet in length, dressed in a
robe of red, and with bare feet.
1T picked up the train and carried
it safely across the river.
Thunder arose and voice shout
ed: Harrisburg next stop The en-
gineer rubbed his eyes and looked
at the fireman, exclaiming: Altoona
sells the best stuff between Chicago
ard New York
"Giddap! The train is through
the Narrows now and the engineer
is awake"
B. f. n.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-06
FACING THE PROBLEMS

IN r. FINEGAN, as head of the
school system of Pennsylvania,
lis going to have at his elbow
in DR.. Becht one of the most prac-
teal and lcvel-headed of the educa-
tors of the State. With two such
men. recognizing the grave prob
lens which confront our people we
may confidently look forward to
such changes in our educational
program as will overcome in large
measure the serious conditions
which threaten the prosperity and
even the liberties of the people.
DR.. Finegan and his associates
in all the school districts have not
failed to realize the Importance of
definite and practical methods for
solving the so-called race problems
and seeking the Americanization
needs of the alien population. School
training from the very entrance of
the girls and boys is necessary to
overcome the false theories of Gov
ernment and the tenets of rabid
socialism and anarchy which are
being taught in the ghettos and con-
gested centers of our herded com
munities.
Surveys ofthe population of Penn
sylvania have demonstrated that
there is real need of practical edu-
cation to the end that the children
of the immigrant may learn. the
meaning of our system of Govern
ment and the American ideals. We
have been too selfish in our attitude
toward the men and women who
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-06
Theodore Roosevelt
tBy Charles Hanson Town,

lBy Charles Hanson Towne1
Charles Hanson Townes poem,
published in the New York Tribune,
gives the last word of Cecil Rhodes
that there was still so much for
him to do-as typffying the tireless-
ness and eagerneSS of Roosevelt
That he must pass on to some "di-
vine adventure" the poet is certain.
On what divine adventure has he
gone?
Beyond what peaks of dawn
Is he now faring? On what errand
blest
Has his impulsive heart now turn
ed? No rest
Could be the portion of his tireless
soul.
He seeks some frcnzied goal
Where he can labor on till Time is
not
And earth is nothing but a thing
forgot.
Pilot and Prophet! as the years in
crease
The sorrow of your passing will not
cease.
We love to think of you still moving
on
From sun to blazing sun,
From planet to far planet, to some
height
Of clear perfection in the Infinite
Where with the wise Immortals you
can find
The Peace you fought for with your
heart and mind.
Yet from that bourne where you are
journeying
Som etimes We think we hear you
whispering,
Il went away, o world, so false and
true,
I went away-with still so much to
do"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-06
Wise Cardinal Gibbons
tHarvey's Weekly. ]

lN.l
Cardinal Gibbons, on his s5th
birthday, said:
I'VE are now afflicted with a war
of races in the national capital
where much blood has been shed
and lives sacrificed. Alas, it is a
proof that legislative suppression of
Intoxicating drinks is not, as If was
said it would be, panacea against
all social and moral evils. There are
many other kinds of intemperance-
intemperance by eating, by gluttony:
intemperance in speech, by slander
and defamation of character. in
temperance of liberty itself. by law
less license; intemperance in our in
satiable search for wealth, which
dries up in many hearts the founda-
tions of benevolence and STILES the
gentler feelings of sympathy for suf-
fering humanity"
True as gospel. May His Fnni-
nence live forever.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-06

have come to our shores to escape
from intolerable oppression in other
lands and to-day much of the un-
rest which rises as menace to
our own contentment and peace is
due to the indifference of the aver
age citizen to his personal obliga-
ton with respect to aiding the alien
in his desire to become one of us.
Governor Sproul and the recent
Legislature have increased the
school appropriations and these
grants will doubtless encourage DR..
Finegan and his army of educators
to take advanced positions in meet
ing the problems which now con-
front Pennsylvania particularly and
the Nation as whole.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-06
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Francis Fisher Kane, United
States District Attorney for Phila-
delphia, is taking his vacation and
meanwhile the liquor prosecutions
are taking a rest.
Joseph l.. Kun, former Deputy
Attorney General, is acting as spe-
cial counsel for the State in insur-
ance suits in Philadelphia.
DR.. Richard III. Harte, who was
colonel in the medical department
in France, has been given a foreign
decoration for his services.
Clarence l.. Harper Philadel-
phia banker, is in Maine on a vaca-
ton trip.
Judge E. C. Newcomb, who will
act as umpire in count of votes in
the Scranton mine dispute, is one of
the Lackawanna bench.
The Rev. A. NJ. Huntsberger,
Bucks county minister, is heading a
movement to get after automobile
speeders.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-06
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
ITALY'S ECONOMICAL CONDI-
TION
Va thc Editnr nf thc reIenrnn

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
AS the political system allows the
Italian government the power to
take in its hands the matter of
prices of life's necessities, Italian
people looked to Orlando the last
days of his ministry for the settle
ment of economical conditions fa-
vorable to the needs of the people.
Failure to settle rightly that mat
ter was the principal cause of the
overthrow of Orlando's ministry at
so short a distance from that day
when he, quitting the Peace Con-
ference on account of Wilson man
ifesto, returned to Colome. The
present cabinet, headed by Nitti,
found the way TO arrest opposition
from political foes by handling the
matter of foodstuffs.
In accord with Chambers of Labor,
which are institutions similar to
American Federation of Labor, the
Italian government stopped at once
the profiteering of producers. AS
Italians in America, and locally Mr..
Orsini,, the barber of 7O3 North
Third street, are hearing from the
letters of their relatives, all condi-
tions are highly improved. Mr..
Orsini's father, who lives in the
Abruzzi district, writes that their
prices of foodstuff are regulated by
the calmiere (Which Italian word
in English means governments price
lisO; the shoe prices are reduced
80 per cent. and so is everything
necessary for personal apparel. SO
that the people are gratified after so
many sufferings caused by the war.
1t is hoped that with elimination
of those who seem to be interested
in maintaining the misunderstand
lngs between Italy and America, the
question OF the coal will be settled
according to the necessities of Italy.
and so the many industries will
flourish again, bringing full prosper
ity to the Italian nation, which so
gallantly stood by the common cause
of liberty A READER
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-06
WEDNESDAY, Ev ENING,

is given or some other satisfactory
solution is offered, the Germans VIII
destroy the airships rather than al
low the French and British to take
possession of them.
Having sent to the bottom of the
sea the interned German warships
at Scapa Flow, it would not surprise
the world to hear that the Zeppelins
had been burned by their German
custodians. But notwithstanding all
the evidences of their treachery and
inherent dishonesty we are con-
stantly being advised to go easy
with the Germans and show kindly
and benevolent spirit toward them.
There are still some people alive
who refuse to forget the unspeak-
able brutality and destruction of
towns and hamlets in the invaded
sections of Europe. And until the
Hun manfests a change of heart
and a real purpose to become
member of civilized society it is
foolish to accept his word or even
his written promise as anything
binding in the way of contract.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-06

fighters in the field in a month, and
his applauding audience under fire
OF his own anti-aircraft guns, not
out of malice but just for a lesson
IN the difference between theory and
fact. Raw soldiers firing rapid salvos
of shrapnel after one months train
ing, while you sit under the drop
ping fragments and the raider sails
away untouched! One learns very
quickly and thoroughly when put in
that sort of a school.
ITO BE Continucd)
Copyright by National Service
with the International Military
Digest.")
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-06
THE HUN SPIRIT

THE gentle Germans in charge of
twenty-four Zeppelins near
Berlin have threatened to burn
them rather than deliver them to
the Allies, as required by the Peace
Treaty. These Zeppelins are each
of twenty-five tons capacity and can
ny from Berlin to San Francisco.
Several can carry forty persons
The German custodians of tbeso
fine machines are said to be seeking
permission to fly them to the United
States, hoping to find buyers here
1t is further stated, in a cable from
CobIenz. that unless this permission
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-06
CUTTING COSTS

NONGRESS should act at once on
the proposal to reduce living
costs by purchasing wheat
from. the farmers at the guaranteed
price of $2.26 and selling it in the
open market at $1.50, or less. 1t
is right that the farmer should have
the price which the Government of
fered to encourage the growth of
a bumper crop of grain. 1t was
right that the Government should
offer this extraordinary price to in
duce production, for the whole
world was on the verge of starva-
ton and wheat was the basic COM
modify in demand. Wheat we had
to have if the war was to be won,
and nobody at the time when prices
for this years crops were fixed
could foresee that Germany would
go to pieces so soon. But the emer-
gency being past it is right, also,
that there should be a return to
normal conditions as soon as pos
sible- The Warmer would receive his
subsidy under the plan of Govern
ment purchase and sale and the con-
sumer would get back in lower
prices for bread some of the money
he put up in Liberty Bonds and
taxes for the purpose of creating the
billion dollar wheat fund.
But there are other benefits beside
those apparent on the surface from
the working out of the plan pro-
posed. Lower prices for wheat
would bring at once a break in the
corn market, oats would take
sharp tumble and 'all other grains
would follow. Wheat is a basic
food. All other food values to some
degree depend upon it. Feed which
goes into the making of cattle af-
tects the price of meats and leath-
ers. Ii feedstuffs come down meats
and feathers will follow. lard and
lard substitutes, milk and almost
every other form OF food Will feel
the downward pressure.
However, the wheat price reduc-
tion would have to be accompanied
by radical action against the prof
iteers, else we would see greedy pro-
ducers and dealers trying to absorb
the benefits of the new price levels,
leaving the consumer, who is the man
to be benefited, no better off than
lie Is at present. We must start
with wheat, but we must, through
Congress, go on down entirely
through the list of causes that have
added artiticially to the imitation of
food prices. Even so, we shall not
get living costs down to a pre-war
level unless we are to take away
the wage increases that have come
about through the war conditions
and nobody wants to do that. Wages
must remain up. We are all agreed
to that, unless unexpectedly largo
reductions are made in living costs.
IN which case natural readjustments
are to be expected along some lines
But the public is less concerned
with wages than with high prices
GIVE the country relief in bread
costs through the sale of wheat a+
reasonable prices, together with reg
ulation of food barons and profiteers
ana we shall be well on the road
toward the smoothing out of mucb
OF the discomfort SO manifas+
throughout the country.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-06
Sitting Missouri Industries
[From the Morley Banner.

A rather prolific crop of black
berries is reported in this section
which sell for so cents gallon. But
it looks as If most of the crop was
doomed to go to waste since our able
and proficient berry pickers simply
refuse to venture out with their
stock of snake bite remedy exhaust
ed and no way to replenish it. 1t is
now predicted, also. that farmers
living along water courses will have
to resort to the use of dynamite to
keep the fish from overrunning their
farms since fishing has about lost
all it's popularity.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-06

1t is denied in official quarters that
million dollars worth of airplanes
were burned in France to avoid con-
gestion in the transportation of sur
plus equipment. 1t is admitted. how
ever. that there was considerable de-
struction of airplane materials after
certain parts were saivaged. BY and
by the people will learn the truth
Of the wasteful and eXtravagant
handling of war materials.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-06
Would Use Mail Tubes Again
TFrom the Philadelphia Public Led


ger.l
Action has been taken by the
PHILADELPHIA Bourse, the Board of
Trade, the Chamber of Commerce
and other organizations to obtain a
hearing before the House postoftice
committee in pursuance of their
fight to have pneumatic mail tubes
again placed in operation in this
city.
The Postoffice Department is said
to be anxious to construct tunnel
to facilitate mail service between
the central postoftice and big rail-
road terminals in New York. Local
business men take this as an in
dication that the department will
listen with favor to arguments for
the restoration of the tubes, which
were abandoned in this city on June
80, 1918.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-06
Alabama Takes The Plunqe

tFrom the Birmingham Age-Heraldl
For the first time in it's history,
Alabama has convicted white men.
who took part in a lynching. We
may eventually reach the high state
of civilization where murderers of
that sort are hanged.