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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-19
Great Artillery Battles

Statistics compiled by the General
Staff of the Army show the extent to
which the expenditure of artillery
in the war against Germany was in
excess of that in great battles of
the past.
At the battle of Chickamauga in
two, days, the Union army fired 1926
rounds of artillery, while at Gettys-
burg the Union army fired 32,7s1
rounds. In one day at st. Privat,
in 1870, the German army fired
SO 900 rounds. In 1904 the japanese
in one day at Nan Shan, fired 34,O47
rounds, while in the same year. the
Russians in nine days fired $4,000
rounds of artillery at Lioa Yang, and
fired 274,300 rounds in the same
year at Sha Ho.
The high water mark in the use
of artillery in offensive battles was
reached in the war against Germany
at the Somme and Messines Ridge
before the effective use of tanks was
developed. In 1915, at Neuve Cha
pelle, the British fired 1877, 900 rounds
of artillery in three days. At. Souchez
in 1915. the French in four hours,
fired 100000 rounds.
In 1916, at the Somme, the British
in seven days of intermittent firing
used 1000. 900 rounds of artillery.
At Messines Ridge in 1917. the Brit
ish in seven days of intermittent
firing. used 2.753.000 rounds, while
in 1918. at st. Mihiel, the American
army in four hours of firing spread
over four days fired 1,093.217 rounds.
zone of the most striking devel-
opments of the present war has been
the great increase in the use of artil-
lery to precede infantry action in
battle" SAYS the General Staff an
nouncement. "This is illustrated by
a comparison of the expenditure of
artillery ammunition in characters
tic battles of recent wars with that
in important battles of the present
ar."-Exchange.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-19
DOCTOR KOO'S SPEECH
Patrick Gallagher in Asia Magazine,

(Patrick Gallagher in Asia Magazine)
Tuesday, January 2S. Doctor Wang
and Doctor Koo presented the case
for China. The splendid unity of the
Chinese delegation was illustrated by
the fact that Koo was given the
star" part and delivered one of the
greatest speeches, so far, of the con-
ference. His English, needless to
say, tickled the expert ear of our
President. 1t made a strong i'm
preston upon the veteran author,
philosopher and parliamentarian,
Arthur James Balfour. 1t amazed
Lloyd George. 1t charmed Sir Robert
Borden. Premier Hughes, L am told
deprecated his unfortunate deafness
for the first time in his life of the
conference. Business Manager Glenn
enceau patted China's represent
ative on the back-and began to
take China seriously.
How did the speech affect the
Japanese representatives? Baron
Maxine made the Japanese reply.
He speaks very good English, but
he answered Koo in French. While
400 spoke freely ana with scarcely
note before him, the Baron read
the greater part of his rejoinder
from n formidable foreign office VOL
ume of aide memories. In order to
meet the moral and legal arguments
presented by Doctor Koo, showing
cause why Japan should get off
China's chest in Kiaochau, Maxine
read some notes-a few, but by no
means all, of those secret notes
that form part of the unlovely Mo-
tono-Tuan Arrangement" China"
he said in substance, has a secret
understanding with Japan. She is
bound by these notes, which are sup
Elementary to the notes and treaties
OF 1915"
The extracts read by Baron Max
ino to the council of ten in Paris
were from the sheaf of notes ex-
tracted from Motono's tool, Tuan
Chi-jui. They are valueless in law,
but they are cast iron proofs of the
continuity of Japans application of
her Korean policy to China. Baron
Maxine rests his case upon them.
Koo's successful argument forced the
baron to read part of the notes.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-19
Soldiers and BOISheUiStS

Taken altogether it is a nasty
mess, but the sooner we roll up our
sleeves and get busy. the better it
will be for us. and the sooner will
the country resume it's normal status.
Bolshevists are not only those
who stand on soap-boxes waving red
flags and spreading sedition-that
kind are really not so dangerous be-
cause they work in the open and the
Government can take care of them:
they can be jailed or deported. 1t is
the Bolshevist who mixes with you,
sympathiZes with you in your
trouble, who poses as your friend
and then, under this guise of friend
ship, sows seeds of discomfort in
your heart. He asks you why your
troubles should exist and tells you
that you are being uniustly treated
by your Government. that capital is
prosecuting you-that IL the masses
took the law in their own hands,
every man would have an equal
share of the blessings of the land.
When everything seems black the
seeds of his propaganda will, unless
you use strong will-power. take root
in fertile soil.-From Treat EN-
Rough" Magazine.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-19
The Worm T'urneth

There are two interesting societies
represented in Columbus, known as
the Woodmen of tho World and the
Modern Woodmen of America. OF
course, an innocent barbarian like
ourself cannot be supposed to know
the distinction between them, and
so in a short editorial concerning the
flu, we stated that it had made such
ravages in the Woodmen of the
World that their surplus of $lO,-
100000 had been reduced to $780,
600. We had simply mistaken the
society. We should have said it was
the Modern Woodmen of America
that suffered. OF course, we will
be excused for making the mis-
take, since we will make another
just like it, as long as they maintain
the similarity of names.
Either should change it's name. Sc
as to maintain an unbroken identity
before the world, for if we make a
similar mistake again, we sure will
not correct it, but permit the error
to float down the stagnant river OF
time.-Ohio State Journal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-19
A HAPPY EASTER

-HIS will be happy Easter for
the men of the Twenty-Eighth
Division. Good Friday brought
them word to leave for the point OF
emharkation, Brest, and tomorrow
will find them in that city.
Last year all was doubt and un-
certainty. The Twenty Eighth, made
up largely of the old National Guard
regiments of Pennsylvania, was an
untried unit in the then rapidly
gathering United States army. The
year which looked so gloomy at
Eastertide, blossomed into bright
hopefulness in June and came into
the full glory of an assured victory
in November. And it was the Twen-
ty-Eighth Division at Chateau Thier-
ry which made the other victories
possible.
So the Twenty Eighth starts back
to-day flushed with victory and
covered with glory, but not more
anxious to be home than the folks
are to have it home.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-19
Seek-NO-Furfher Land
By BRIGGS

Prince and pauper and lord and lout
must travel asunder far;
For each must follow his journey out
through the Land of Things
That Are:
And one shall follow a beaten track
and one shall follow a star,
But each must follow his journey
back, however so far he roam,
For no read leads to a journeys end
but the road that reaches home
So prince and pauper and lord and
lout turn back at the set of sun
And the song L sing, and the SONGS
that ring in each of their hearts
are one.
40, whether the night be bright with
stars or black with the rack OF
cloud,
Something there is in my soul that
leaps and quickens and sings
aloud;
For whether / travel a moonlit road
or pavements that CLEAN with
rain,
There at the end are the lamps
aglow, and faces against the
pane,
And the smell of wood from an open
fire, and the welcoming lips and
hand:
The Queen of ultimate hearts desire,
the ones who will understands;
And walls that bar the Things That
Are from the Seek-No-Further
Land"
john French Wilson,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-19
HIS CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
New York Times1

ishment, which is the best that men
have been able to devise for the
greater crimes of common expert
ence, seems miserably inadequate in
his case. That would end his suf-
ferlngs at once. Remorse, the tor
lures and torments that will prey
upon his mind and soul, would seem
to be q penalty more nearly COM
mensurate with his crimes; so long
as he holds his former greatness in
memory he must be the most miser-
able an on earth. That he must be
under restraint prisoner, that he
must never be a free man, is indi-
Gated by common prudence. There
the Conference will be upon solid
ground, with a multitude of prece-
dents to justify the process against
the ex-Kaiser, with the whole body
of international law for the guild
ance of the court. There will be no
difficulty in drawing up the indict-
ment against him for many and
flagrant violations of international
law; and the supreme law of self
defense and safety gives abundant
sanction, after conviction, for a SEN
tence imposing restraint or impris-
onment. The decision of the Coun-
Gil that he must be placed on trial
may be expected to lead to that end
Wilhelm HohenZollern is no Napo-
leon. Since his fight to Holland he
has been a pitiful figure, less an OBJ
ject of fear than of contempt. But
he should not go at large. While
his execution, through some strange
perversion of popular feeling, might
make him something like a martyr
in the land he formerly ruled, the
Germans can never complain of his
being put in safe keeping. If they
have the good fortune and good
sense to deliver themselves from the
counsels and practice of socialism
and worse delusions, they will be
well content that during all of the
life that remains to him he shall be
made powerless to do further harm.
They share with him the response
bility for the war, for its ravages
and its inhumanity. Their share in
the reparation of that part which is
reparable will be assessed against
them. They must and will be made
to pay in money and goods to the
full limit of their ability and during
long period of years for the ruin
they have wrought in other lands.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-19
HOLLOW, HOLLOW

stood beneath a hollow tree,
The blast it hollow blew
l thought upon the hollow world,
And all its hollow crew.
Ambition and it's hollow schemes,
The hollow hopes we follow;
Imagination's hollow dreams,
All hollow, hollow, hollow!
A crown. 1T is a hollow thing,
And hollow heads oft wear it;
The hollow title of q king,
What hollow hearts oft bear it?
No hollow wiles, nor honey'd sweet,
OF ladies fair / follow;
For beauty sweet, still hides deceit
'Tis hollow, hollow, hollow!
The hollow leader but betrays
The hollow dupes who heed him
The hollow critic vends his praise
To hollow fools who feed him;
The hollow friend who takes your
hand
Is but a summer swallow;
Whate'er I see is like this tree.
All hollow, hollow. hollow!
Anonymous.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-19
NeID Liaht on The Race

Harry Leon Wilson in Saturday
Evening Postl
Really the vast languid majority
OF us care too little for drink to go
to the trouble of making it. There
are scared tipplers who think to
whistle past the graveyard, but they
can't whistle forever, and this par
ucular graveyard is endless. | guess
that within so few as ten years any
one suggesting our return to the
open sale of alcoholic drink will
merely be studied, amid suitable
surroundings, by one or more alien
lists. Probably more. Lots of them
will be intrigued by the case, as we
novelists like to put it. 1t may seem
hard. old scouts; unbelievable and
outrageous; but in a way of speak
ing you are up against it. And, per-
sonally ] am delighted. AS q stu
dent of human beings I like to OBJ
serve them under novel stresses. We
are in way to have new light on
the race.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-19
BACK HOME

Gee. amt they grand! just watch
them step
There's brother Jim, ] know,
An ev'ry ones so full of pep,
An kick, an snap, an go
1t makes me want to get in line,
A suit is all l lack"
Said little Bobby, "ain't IL fine
My brother Jim is back"
"Ah, there's our boy" say ma and
dad,
"It seems but yesterday
Since he was just a little lad
And fond of soldier play,
But now there's firmness in his eye
That's business all through,
He helped to make the Germans fly
We're proud of him, we two"
Then there's another-sh-h a girl
Though not a sister, yet
'Tis Jim's return that sets awhirl
Her heart that can't forget.
She's somewhat more reserved, it's
true,
In what she says OF him,
But don't think things she says to
you
Are what she says TO jim!
II. Benjamin Faucet in Leslies
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-19
SOLDIER AND THE JOB

T VERY day groups of Harris
n burg soldiers are returning
home quietly and without os-
tentation. Outside the family circle
and their immediate friends and ac-
quaintances no special reception is
being rendered these warriors. But
they must not feel that the COM
munity lacks in appreciation of what
they have done. When the time
comes for the official welcome, there
is bound to be such a reception and
demonstration in their honor as will
satisfy them of the real sentiment
of our patriotic people.
Aside from the personal side of
it, however, we must not lose sight
Of the fact that these returning SOL
diers are entitled to every considera-
ton in the matter of employment.
Most employers are earnestly try
ing to install their former employees
back from the war in their old posi-
tions or others equally as good. This
is the proper course and the only
one that can be justified under the
circumstances.
Our boys went out in response to
the call to the colors bravely, un-
selfshly and with a determination to
do their part in suppressing the
menace of Germany. They went
away without demonstrations to their
I, IN. IN IA 10
tions of the war period, but they are
coming back with the consciousness
of job we'll done and the job that
they left ought to be open for them
that they may not feel that the Ma
ton is ungrateful.
1t is for this reason that the Tele-
graph has consistently and earnestly
urged the undertaking of public
work wherever possible and without
delay. Pennsylvania has set fine
example in this respect in it's great
highway program and Governor
Sproul has sounded the keynote OF
patriotic public service in his elo-
quent appeals to all communities
and private as we'll as public or
ganizations, to engage in all manner
of public enterprises as a means of
EN- mployment for the returning SOL
diers and those who have been
made idle through the sudden ces-
sation of war work.
Harrisburg is showing a commend
able interest in this program of
public activity for the benefit OF
those who need employment, and
with the cooperation of the State
and the city in the memorial viaduot
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-19
TO PREVENT LYNCHING

TROM the headquarters of the
| II committee in charge, 20 Fifth
Avenue, New York, announce
ment is made of the call for a Ma
/ tional Conference on Lynching ito
take concerted action against lynch
| ing and lawlessness wherever found,
to be held in New York city May
and 6, by a group OF 120 leading
men and women of the country.
| The call for the conference, which
is being sent out extensively, is wide
ily representative of the country,
twenty y-eight States and the District
of Columbia being represented by
| signers. A remarkable fact is that
States. Among the signers are At
! torney General A. Mitchell Palmer,
former Attorney Generals Charles j.
Bonaparte and Judson Harmon and
| five Governors: Hugh NJ. Dorsey, OF
Georgia; ID. w. Davis, of Idaho;
James P. Goodrich. of Indiana;
Henry ]. Allen, of Kansas, and
Emerson c. Harrington, of Maryland.
In announcing the call, the COM
mittee representing the signers says
that 3,216 lynchings, exclusive of the
East st. Louis and other mob riots,
have occurred in the United States
in the last thirty years, 702 of which
have been lynchings of white people
and 2,514 lynchings of negroes; that
GS negroes and 4 white persons were
lynched in 1918; that some of the
recent lynchings have been particu-
larly atrocious, involving burning at
the stake and torture of the victims.
The prevalence in many States of
the spirit which tolerates lynching,
accompanied too often with inhuman
cruelty, and the inability or unwil-
lngness of the public authorities to
of this crime, threaten the future
peace of the Nation. Not only is
lynchinS a denial of the right Sc
cured by law to every man of fair
trial before an established court in
case he is charged with crime, not
only does it brutalize the communi-
ties which suffer it by breeding a
spirit of lawlessness and cruelty in
the young people who see barbarities
unpunished and uncondemned, not
only does it terrorize important
bodies of our citizens, but it inevit-
ably leads the people whose rights
are thus trampled upon to leave the
regions where their lives, their fam
lilies and their property are in dan
ger, and move to others where they
can find peace and protection, thus
disturbing the labor situation all
over the country. 1t also blots our
fair fame as a Nation, for we cannot
claim to be civilized until our laws
are respected and enforced and our
citizens secured against the hideous
cruelties of which we are constantly
furnishing fresh examples.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-19
PEACE PUBLICITY

DR L NJ L r LLOYD GEORGE
gave a real reason to the House
of Commons for keeping secret
the terms of the peace treaty until
after the Germans had opportunity
to consider what was going to hap
that any premature publication of
the terms might result in garbling
the various provisions by critics and
that this misinterpretation would
people as evidence of hack of har-
mony among the Allies. making the
final settlement more difficult
1t is probable that there would
Conference if reasonable cXplana-
tions of what has been transpirins
had been made from time to time.
Lloyd George has won parliament
because of his frankness and his evil
dent earnestness in explaining some
of the things which have given rise
to criticism during the sessions OF
the peace body at Paris.
There has been no real opposition
to a proper alliance of the nations
which combined against Germany,
but the character of the alliance has
been a matter of serious concern.
Because President Wilson maintain
ed silence when he might have
cleared the atmosphere, his country
men have been out of joint with his
proposals and out of sympathy with
his general attitude of an all-wise
self-sufficiency. In the last analysis,
the people of the United States will
insist upon a clear understanding of
just what the League of Nations
means, insofar as it relates to this
country. They have a right 10 know
and they will insist on knowing be-
fore the final approval of any pact
by the Senate at Washington.
President Wilson may we'll take a
leaf out of the public policy of
Premier Lloyd George in the matter
of plain speaking to his countrymen.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-19
Fifth DiDiSion

Regular Army: Arrived in France
May 1. 1918. Activities: Anould Sec
tor, June Is to July 16; st. Die sec
tor, July 16 to August %; st. Mihie.
operation, September IL to II; Ar
gonne-Meuse offensive, October 12 to
90; Argonne-Meuse offensive (sec
ond time in), October % to Novem-
Der IA.
Prisoners captured As. officers
2,357 men. Guns captured: 9S
pieces of artillery, S02 machine
guns. Total advance on front line
29 kilometers.
Insignia: Red diamond. Selected
at suggestion of Colonel Charles A
Meals-"the ace of diamonds"
Sometimes seen represented by q
red figure 50" on white diamond
the whole superimposed upon a
diamond of red.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-19
TH HE charges against Wilhelm
HohenZollern are of q very

THE charges against Wilhelm
Hohenzollern are of q very
different nature. There is no
question of religion, none of trea-
son against his own country. His
offenses transcend all written law.
lie broke the laws of civilization,
ne TOOK up arms against peaceful
sister nations, he trampled upon all
the principles of justice and right;
the Divine law and the laws of hu-
putting him on trial with view of
imposing the penalty of death must
nave become apparent to the jurists
when they considered how the in
dictment should be drawn. Statu-
tory forms that suffice for common
transgressors fail altogether against
a criminal who bears the burden of
guilt so monstrous.
He had a sovereign's right to go
to, war; by the Constitution of his
country he and his advisers could
judge the occasion of war. The de-
struction of innocent lives by sub
marine attack, the murder of civil
lians and of women and children,
the plundering of occupied territory
and the destruction of property
therein, all these are crimes de-
manding terrible eXpiation, but the
5urists would see the difficulty of
fastening the guilt personally upon
the eX-Kaiser. All would be easy
before tribunal already convinced
of his guilt, and it is not easy to see
how anywhere on earth a court not
morally convinced of it could be
constituted. The Conference, called
together to conclude a peace of
righteousness, would be bound in
conscience and in honor to give him
a fair trial. But in court candidly
listening to evidence there would be
a flood of testim ony produced in the
effort to show that the responsible
ity rested elsewhere and, of course,
the jurisdiction of any court would
be denied. 1t is not the former high
station and great power of the ex-
Kaiser that would make his convic-
ton on a capital charge difficult by
orderly process of law; it is the ma
ture and magnitude of his crimes
which remove them beyond the do
main of formal punitive proceed
ings.
For that very reason capital pun
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-19
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Richard ]. Beamish and Gordon
Mackay, Philadelphia newspaper
men, debated newspaper ethics re-
Gently before the New Century club.
DR.. Leighton Wilmer, of the
University of Pennsylvania. Gays the
place for mental detectives among
children is the street, where they
can learn to fight and take care of
themselves as their native wit allows.
Admiral w. S. Sims has been in
vited to attend the class reunion at
Airy View Academy at Port Royal,
where he was a classmate of Con-
gresham b. X. Focht and ex-Sena-
tor William HertZler.
Major General c. S. Farnsworth.
recently returned from France SsA
formerly stationed here, will coISsA
mand the United States post at CaneA
Benning, Ga.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-19
"RUINING HIS PARTY"

rHE Telegraph does not agree
with the Massachusetts Demo-
Gratis who wired President Will
son: Remove Burleson; he is ruin
ing his party" although it sympa-
thizes with them. First place, the
Democratic party is now we'll nigh
ruined, and Mr.. Burleson has not
been wholly to blame, although his
little hammer has never missed an
opportunity to make itself felt on
the wreck of the Wilsonian machine.
But as to getting rid of the wild
man from Texas, that is. indeed. a
consummation devoutly to be wished.
There is no man in the Govern
ment service so cordially detested
as Burleson. Even the most radi-
cal of Democratic newspapers con-
denim him and his foolish policies.
However. there is little chance that
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-19
WHAT THEY WANT

IkVTYE WANT the Soviet" cried
w two women in the gallery
of the British House of
Commons the other day.
We wonder if these women know
what the Soviet has done for Russia
The Soviet has made the women
of Russia public playthings. No
woman may resist any man. Women
under Soviet rule are taken from
their husbands and given to all
Corners. Girls are turned over to
the tender mercies of every drunken
beast they chance to meet.
Is this what these foolish English
women want?
We think not.