Reading Times from Reading, Pennsylvania • Page 12

NEWS TIMES Morning TELEGRAM Evening THE CITY IS STILL WITHOUT GARBAGE PLANT Time Limit is up But no Sign i of the Reducing Works LITTLE GARBAGE COLLECTED A good deal of Inquiry has been made, lately as to what has become of the proposed garbage reduction plant that was to be erected under the, contract awarded by the old council last fall. On September 25, council awarded the contract for the collection and disposal of garbage to Bader, of Atlantic City, at $29,000 per annum. The agreement provded that within 120 days the contractor was to erect a plant for the disposal of garbage by the reduction process, in a manner not prejudicial to the public health. The 120 days have expired, but to this time there is sign of a reduction plant, and ho indication on the part of council to enforce the terms of the contract. And very little garbage has or is being collected.

The small amount that is collected is being dumped in piles in the vicinity of the lately deceased incinerating plant, where it is likely to become a public nuisance and menace to health upon the advent of warm weather. Some time ago the contractor assigned his rights to a Delaware corporation, and asked that the bond be reduced from $10,000 to $5,000. 1 The matter was referred to council, and by council to the city solicitor for an opinion. It is still there. Just who the shareholders of the Delaware corporation are1 is not clear.

It is intimated in some quarters that the real backers are three or four Reading men, who prefer not to be publicly identified with the project. Meantime the contractor is drawing his $29,900 a year from the city treasury, without building a reduction plant, and doing little garbage collecting. ACTIVITY IN WAR THEATRES Germans Begin Intensive Bom bardmsnt cjf British i Positions The military activity in the major theatres of tbte war da.il5r continues to increase. From the North Sea all along the line in Belgium find France and on the northern Italian front from the region of Ijake Garda eastward toward the Piave river there have been plashes between opposing infantrymen at various points and bombardments of extremely violent proportions on numerous sectors. The German artillery again has begun an intensive bombardment of British positions in the neighborhood of the Houtholst forest, north of Tpres, and southwest of Cambrai, while violent duels are in progress between the Germans and the French around Nieuport, in the Champagne, on the Verdun sector and in the Vosges mountains.

The German official communication says there has been increased ac tivity against the Germans on both sides of the Moselle river, which would indicate that on the western side of the stream the Americans are engaging them. Front Except for several attempted raids by the Germans and Austrians on the northern Italian front the big guns on both sides are doing all of the work. The duels on the Asiago plateau and to the west of Monte Grappa are reported by the Rome War office as lively. Much pleasure is being evinced in both Austria and Germany over the success of the Central Powers in effecting a separate peace with the Ukraine Rada. While "the exact terms of the peace have not yet been announced, it is expected that the Central Powers will lend their aid to the Ukrainians in suppressing the Bolsheviki and that in return Germany and Austria will receive much of the wheat and other food supplies in the Ukraine, on which it has been known for a long time they had set their hearts.

Peace wilh the Ukrainians hav "ing been settled, the Central Powers now are bent upon a cessation of hostilities with Rumania. The time limit of the ultimatum sent by them to the little kingdom demanding hat peace negotiations be begun has expired, but it is not known whether Rumania, gave a favorable reply or declined to treat with the enemy. William (Two Hits) BierhaJter, veteran umpire who became trainer for the Columbus American Association team after he gave up the indicator in 1015, has been signed to act. as trainer for the St. Louis Browns this year, succeeding Doc Ijawler, who goesto the Boston Red Sox.

Bierhalter was an umpire for ten years before he got'enough of it. He started out in the New York State league, advanced to the American Association and International, and then to the National, where he had a bit of experience in 1913. He dropped back to the minors and quit In 1915. taking the easier job of trying to convince ball players there was nothing the matter with their arms and legs, instead of trying to convince them the ball was or was not over the plate. a THREE WOMEN PAY BIG FINES AT POLICE COURT Three women arrested Saturday night in a raid on a Cherry street resort were each fined $50 and costs by Alderman Mayer in police court yesterday morning.

They gave the names of Helen Brown, 23; Pearl Smith. 28, and Bertha Claire. 32. They were arrested by Police Sergeants Whitman, Maloney, Bowman and Britton together with two mbn who were later released with a warning by Alderman Mayer. Four men picked up Saturday night for disorderly conduct charges and three arrested for drunkenness were given fines ranging from $5 to $10 and costs by Alderman Mayer.

One man held for begging was fined $10 and costs. Three others who appeared on the docket were POLICERAID RESORTS IN TENDERLOIN in Three Raids Are Held For Hearing ONE ALLEGED CARDINAL IXJGT'K OX THIO IRISH COXVKNTIOX fBT ASSOCIATED PRESS CABLE ARMAGH, Ireland, Feb. 10. Cardinal Logue, the primate of Ireland, THE READING HEWS TIMES 12 Pages 96 Columns Today Reading, Feb. 11, 1918 HOWKERENSKY WAS CAPTURED BY THE BOLSHEVIKI Bitter Fighting at Winter Palace Before Guards Surrendered 1 ESCAPED ON WAY TO JAIL NEW YORK, Feb.

10. A copy of the Mo yui uumii newspaper LUitro Itoesll (Morn In or. Russia) of Nov. 21. received here.

nuts rirrumKtRmiai picture, or lnelden hi mo winter laiacs at Fctrosrrad. seat tne Kerensky government, during the Bo! uneviK revolution' of November 7, showln the unprpparednere of the Kerenskv lender to meet th condition which Id to their down iaii. nen the Bolshevik uprising broke upon it, tne provisional government found mm, instead ol a large number of loVa troops In the capital. It had only a handful vi raneis ann millers on which it conic rely for the defense of Hie Win ler Pnlaru that there Was no food In the ImllHInir in i piuvision ror a meire and that effectlv support could be expected from various or. canlzatlons on which the government had cuuniea ror BFsisiance.

I The account takes tin the utorv at 2am on the morning of November 8, at the close of the all night session of the provisional Tmsnru Thi nn Dm T.I... raini wnowing tne outbreak of th I vvvillj llllCC rilOUIICia IdKCII Kolslievlk uprising Premier Kerensky and ice renuer Konovaloff left for general wnere tne question of th strength at the disposition of the eovern ment and the activities and latest plans of tne opponents was being discussed. Here It was disclosed that the government was In a state of utter unpreparedness. It was discovered that the entire Petrograd garrl son was, Deywnci a doubt, on the side CpCAIfCACY rebels and that the encouraging news wmcn nan heen oriven onrine the nRt few i days hy Colonel Folkovnlkoff, commander 1 or the troops In the Petrograd district, as to the support which the government could (Continued from First Page expect was entirely baseless. About 0 piop jn ne morning the premier and ji i VICe premier vonovaioff came to the con woman at this resort was found elusion that the position of the governmen hiding under a bed by County Do KJhSlt.1,,B lnsurreclion wa8 tnetive Krick, while Detectives Mil'er Kerensky now.

finally concluded that it was impossible to work further with Colonel md Kemp caught a man who leaped 01 move n. a. otpn which TCnnnvnlnff nnrt ihi froiti a Second jo win.lnw in a voir, other ministers had long been Insisting uron D'1' which Kerensky had hesitated to take. et.ort to escape, It was decided to summon General Ma.nl kovshy, acting minister of war. who left nitre iiesro women, wno gave immediately for general headouarters but ar their names as Plaro Jnnn 9.

Mom, rived there only at five In the afternoon Qto.oit, 01. A en after being re.peatdly stopped bv soldiers of ...10, nun uiotc xarier, Jo, the war revolutionary committee (the Rol were charged with aidiner in tliti shevik organization). A two hour conference between Kerensky. Konovaloff and Genera ovuins ui nquor wimoilt a license. Manlkovaky brought out the fact that the Two negroes, Charles Johnson, 7.

Cossacks and the military cadets. upon nnrl Tnlin 07 whom the government counted particularly iwj ror support could not be entirely relied upon uve ac me aaaress, were nelct as Kerensky Iraves material witnesses, as were SIX wnito Kerensky decided to go to the front men. The women spent the night Instructions with Vice Trcmier Ko n'aloff to summon all the members of th( in a cuy nan ceil, oeing unaoie to cabinet and to hold a continuous session at furnish bond. Thev will he criven a the Vv intr Palace until his return This session, the last one of the Kerensky healing this moining before Alder administration, opened at 11 the following man Uooney. morning, an tne ministers except rerestchen i ao being persent.

Konovaloff, deeply moved, County Detective Krick and Con ristea the tne conference with Stable Sparely confiscated four bot rensky and Manikovsky and related the sltua of onA ln lts colors. The hopelessness w.v, or an attempt tn coinhat the Insurrection. a quart Of whiskev, and also fotird he said, made it imperative for the govern olovon on.nlv nf hr Ir, tl.o remain at its post and defend Its vUv.u position as long as possible. cellar Of the house. I "The country and the revolution are ln Thf rnirt nnllori niWt danger.

ne said, and we nave no right ine raia puuea batmaav hni1 rMitnn. was made On another Cherry str ek to the rebels, who will ruin the country and resort. Three women and two men hR fruits of the revolution 1 propose that the provisional government should not in wero arrested bv the four police terrupt its session but remain here until the nta 1 last, CCI I aTnff miniate nf tha hopes cherished by Kerensky, who believed that the uprising of the Petrograd garrison was iar from Iiemg an indication that the entire country was in rebellion ana was con vlnced that in the army a considerable healthy element was ready to defend the interests of the revolution against the small group or men who, he said, were misled by the Bolsheviki. Tl. nmtilelnnnl iinnnlmnnalv in nis Xjenten leucr rcau in uiBi decided to remain in the Winter Palace ln churches of the Armagh Archdiocese remanent session, and started to prepare plan of action, first ot all Investing H.

tonay, reterrea 10 tne xnsn con en Kishkin. then minister of public works, with tion. the power of governor generahwith full au thority to act to suppress the revolution. Its failure, he said, would. llf, waii pUa commanci 0f all military throw Ireland back into the old and civil officials, colonel Poikovnikoft: was iuui.q ui micumio uuiuiran Ba appointed in his place.

presslon, blasting every hope of, In the course of the silting reports were Th. I constantly being received concerning th s. happenings in the city. It was known at the form must, However, De inorougn beginning of the session that tlie official going. half measures which news agency, the State Bank and the tele graph and telephone stations had been oc have been the ba.ne or Ireland in tnc! epied the Roishcviki.

Soon the news past, SO far from proving a remedy 'came that the Marie alace had been seized, that the Council of the Republic, in ses VVUU1U H. ill ilt! UlSerttl. 11 would be lamentable if were produced which the pople would reject with contempt, as they so often before have rejected worthless projects." The cardinal exhorted the people to pday perseveringly that this effort might end in a complete and satisfactory settlement. JORD READING IV WASHINGTON fBT SPECIAL LEASED WIRE sion there, had been forced to terminate Its measures' activity and that the Insurrection was gradu ally spreading. The immediate surroundings of the Winter Palace were held by the military cadets and troops supporting provisional government but main headquarters of the Bil shevik Var Ttevolutlonary Committee were being established In the Mllllonnaiu Street, immediately adjoining the palace; ministers were being arrested almost at the gates of the palace, and from the windows of the building could be seen the movements of the revolutionary troops advancing into contact with the guards of the palace.

Inside llio Palace The anxiety inside the palace was In the meantime steadily growing, rumors of preparations for the arrest of the members of the government were becoming more definite and at 3 p. m. nws was received through the WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. Lord newspaper men ln the palace that the Uthu Reading, the new British ambassador anian regiment had been instructed to ef feet the arrests.

and head Of all British missions in communications in and out of the palace the United States, came to Wash meanwhile been entirely interrupted by IT the Insurgent patrols. It was now suddenly ington tonight from New York. He discovered that there were no provisions in will present his credentials to Presi tie palace, not even a piece of bread and no candles or other emergency lights In case dent Wilson this week. tne electricity were cut off. While vain at tempts were being made by telephone to ffet supplies the commandant of the palace en tered the session to report that the Volunteer uuard of 2S0 men had Been without any thing except tea for 86 hours and would leave unless food were Immediately supplied At 6 o'clock that evening; hostilities were opened, the guards outside the Saltykoff Oats being seized and disarmed, but the members of the garrison finally were able to close the gates.

Reinforcements for the Bolsheviki were constantly arriving, all streets In the vicinity were closed to traffic and by .7 o'clock even the square In front of the aplace had been occupied. Soon afterward an ultimatum, demanding immediate surrender on penalty of the bombardment of the palace, was received from the Bolshevik authorities, who already had occupied general military headquarters. Though no assistance was ln sight the ministers decided to return an absolutely negative reply. Firs was opened by the Bolsheviki at 8 o'clock, at first from rifles and machine guns. The government gave orders not to reply but not to let anyone into the palace.

About 0 o'clock an attempt was made to blow in the main gate with artillery, but without success, the cadets and the Women's Battalion repelling the attack. From 10 i clock on heavy artillery was ln play against the palace, the cruiser Aurora participating In the bombardment from the river a short dltance below the palace, and shells also coming from the fortress across the river. The ministers were forced to transfer the session to an Interior room ln the palace. At I SO a. m.

a email force of the enemy succeeded in entering the so called Gallery of 1812 and disarming the forty men who at that time composed the Interior guard of the palace. The cadets were able to disarm these entrants, but otl.er assailants continued to pour Into the bulldfrg, the guards being without order to fire: the garrison melted aw ay until only fifteen men were left and soon the Bolshevik froes and the mob were In full possession of the palace. Mob ia Possession The ministers were found ln the interior hall where they were still endeavoring to continue their meeting ln spite of the tiniult Inlrtatlnv ha kn nnlau Y.aA luM AantUMll 1 THE WEEKLY MEETING OF THE THE TUESDAY LADIES' CLUB 1 UJIL START Tr6" LeQM wixn OUcrmcrtONl FROM TH fAOCH CLASSIC, oust icve Ln eA rofte rr SOOMbS so MUCH tfcH A Tne LAbies 'camh CrW? IO FIFTY cexits Atofc TAKe a Lessosj ik) FfeeWCa ForA Miie.stjze re revcHeeiMO. let's see (30T A OUST UOPsfct I THOUGHT I KfvJGVJ UJAS (ceETttO5 COMPArOT wMTH TO 5o XO movies, TuesMY Arr; IS THE WORLD FINDING GOD, ASKS EDWARDS Twelfth of a Series of Lec tures in Y. M.

C. A. Hall TRIBUTE TO THE CHAPLAINS The T. M. C.

A. service on Sunday afternoon in Association Hall, was largely The address was given by Secretary Edwards, the 12th of the war series. His subject was "Is the World Finding God Through the War? Is God Indiff erent As to Who Wins This War? In his opening remarks, Secretary Edwards referred to hia contact with the soldiers of Egypt, Palestine an France; of his appreciation of religi ous services hvthe great Mohamme don city of Cairo; of his visit3 to hospitals In and about Cairo, and his attendance at religious services and were ordered to put their coats indiiOr men wounded, and flow they follow the rebels. Vice Premier Konevs lof f's bat and coat had been stolen, rut someone Ihrew over him a soldier's con.t sang and appreciated such services and all the ministers, surounded by a crowd morning service in the desert with left the palace on their long and dangerous promenade to the Fortress of Peter and Paul across the river. The Winter Palace square was filled with then of his attendance at the early out huilding, hut or teht, and finally, in northern France, near where the Americans are now in the trenches an excited mob, who surrendered the little all, said he, were wonderfully filled inspiration.

Mr. Edwards paid were roaring over the semi darkness or the mgu triuute 0 me untiring consecra. square and it looked aa tnougn, at any ton of the chaplains and gave Incl the ministers and tear them to pieces. dents of their willingness to risk As the ministers were marcnea along tne ljmb and life in their ministry of Bridge the crowd and the tumult constantly mr, raiwaras saia: i aon I increased, the chant of the mob changed know that I could wish any greater from "Kill them!" to "Throw them in the hlotlii nnnn river!" and In spite of the reinforcements Messing upon tne churches of Amer to the guards the danger of a general lynch ica than to Wish that Our ministers als milit have the privilege of minister At the Trinity Bridge there was almost a ing iq me men at tne front ana to catastrophe. Over the bridge, which ira the wounded in the hospitals.

It is nnmnietelv cwered hv n. crowd, an armored automobile endeavored to make its way, and said he, a Work that angels might then a call to halt was disregarded ana covet. One vear at thn front, in bridge. The crowd threw themselves flat 6 forefront of honest endeavor, is upon the bridge untM the firing ceased, worth five years in the home field t. i 1 1..

nt (1 n' nlnnli tit a ml tiiofAra na Ahorl the fortress and we're lodged in safety in How tlie Soldier Conducts Himself Its cells. klc I am to speak of Christ and His Church. People are wanting to REINHOLDS, Feb. 9. Rev.

Dr. Know now tne soldier at the front A 1 i 1 M. W. Schweitzer had services at rensiousiy. i may Tf til aii.

REINH0LDS Swamp Church on Sunday, February say I am going to speak of the at 9 30 a m. iiiuicn toaay in a way i nave never ,1 ou' .1,. cn spoken before, and what I say must Meade, Lt A.t I boM'T looks ir srrs. wrt TO fcG UPFROlCH, TOO i'm wtrr so jRAxr AfcOOTl 1 PGELN i at vorte wneiOf we wvoe. rAvicNcesj as Oi.0111 Vauiy ofrnnKr 1 spent sunnay w.tn air.

ai.u aPnreciate the Church of Christ nnrl Showalter, at this place. helievo in Tt wnmnii.i,.j The following young men or tnis great things. section were ordered report at We, in the church, perhaps, have Ephrata on Thursday, February 7th, thought that sacrifice and service at 7 a. m. From there they were were alone synonymous with the sent to Camp Meade, Lloyd church but we have discovered that Winter, Samuel Seltzer, Ievi Binklejy seemingly irreligious men, by the and Wm.

Schannauer. thousands are exhibiting a courage T.fic )nrnthv Leshpr of Leesport. that makes us meditate a little upon spent Wednesday at this place with the' ton'fl of conclusion, and we at Wintei familv. i nit; v. vin yKTi lull I.IJ aof i.

.1.. i ii ourselves nil vviiciiiri tut: ununucB iiiuhe mtfii arc; Local stauon aKent su. ccmiuu, mkin ia ciio of this place. Is spending several days fhan wg irriaine(i. These men ''siting relatives and frlenas in th are goinc through high county.

Extra operator Benj fne yery jawg of he and performing Swartz nas neen piacea umise hw nnd linmnn Pn. the depot during Mr. Benflcld'a ab jdrance SeilCe. Th. TIr Iioi r.

Iii rimiitv rf Mrs. Kate Gerhart, of this place, i Tliinm spent Thursday visiting relatives and) 'mpn nt frnnt ara friends at Ephrata. 1 1 fi h(. Wnlls thP hiievB in Mr. and Mrs.

T. F. Winter, Mrs. eternity of things. Thev mav not be Clara Bowman and M' Annie Flei abie t0 reason it all out, Firstly, sher spent Sunday visiting friends at! secondly, but they are willing Vera Cruz.

I to take the awful chances, unafraid John Gerhart, of Cincinnati, is of death, because of a belief in the nendine some time visiting reia i nereaner ann a realization or amy tives and friends at this place. A large number of our town folks ttended the spelling bee at Cocalico op Saturday evening, February i. Sunday school will be held on Sun day, February 10, at 9.39 a. m. The Reinholds schools reopened on Monday, February 4, after a vaca ion of two weeks.

Those people suffering from diph theria in this town are rapidly improving. Nearly all the quarantines were lifted. Hershey Bros, received a carload of coal and a carload of feed during the week. Solomon Garner is making daily deliveries of wood for fuel in town. Rev.

D. L. Fogelman held services Swamp Church on Sunday, Feb. 0, at 3 p. m.

they believe in the future life. I have seen heaven, said the speaker, but. it has been in the eyes of a young man, ready to make the sacrifice. The bloody trench has proven to many "a Calvary Cross" for humanity. Oh, friends, my eyes have filled with tears, many a time, as I have come to know of men on the desert and elsewhere who willingly gave their last drop, of water to satisfy the thirst of a wounded fellow man.

Then Mr. Edwards told the story of a young man who during a discharge of gas against the enemies' trenches saw that an enemy shell had disturbed the arrangement of the nozzle and that the gas, In stead of going over to the enemies' trenches, was beginning to pdur in their own trenches, arid, in less than ond, not waiting even to put on his gaa mask, but quickly turned the nozzle, over in the direction of the enemy. But the moment that it took him to do It was Just enough to de stroy his own life, Men' on the battlefield may not be able to phrase their prayers logically. Sometimes they don't know that their words constitute a prayer, for it's an Involuntary prayer of the heart It may be aocompanled with rude expressions that would shock some of our staid church people. But, out of the storm God answers and gives to the distressed a great calm.

The World Finding Her God For all this sacrifice the world, surely, said the speaker, Is going to be better and is going to find her God. Even the soldier ln the trenches, In France, said: If he didn'i believe that the world was going to be something better after this war, he would walk over to the nearest German trench and get shot. What Is this change? said the speak er. Perhaps we will have a new con ception of Christianity I don't mean a new Christianity but a new eon ception. Christianity we know Is not a matter of dress, of music, or fireworks.

In many instances people think of Christianity as they think of civilization. Are you a Christian? says one to the other and he replies of course, I am, do you think I am a heathen? The Measnre of Onr Christianity But Christianity, in its true mean' Ing, has not to do so much with civ. ilization or country, though it makes both: It Is adherence to Christ and that is what the soldier has In mind. The measure of our Christianity, said the speaker, lg not necessarily the measure of our ability to repeat the Apostles' Creed. The soldier at the front doesn't care fpr creeds or tra ditional doctrines.

They are of no more Interest to him than to the man in the moon and any emphasis upon them at the front thwarts the King dom of God. The man who goes "over the top" lives by the words which mean oftentimes to us at home too little, even though we have heard them often: "Fear not them which kill the body but are not able to kill the soul." I can, methinks, hear one saying. perhaps It's a prayer: Christ, I don't know much about dogma and creed. I. am not sure whether I understand the meaning of the Sacrament.

I don't understand much about God and the holy spirit. But Christ the world was being over shadowed by a holocust and I went out and gave my body to save the world for others. I've given myself! Theologically, such an one may be considered ignorant but methinks, such an one is not far from the King. dom of God and will go in before those who make a loud profession. I hesitate not to make the assertion that any man who wars for human ity wars for God.

The blood of hu manity is the blood of humanity for which Christ died. Jew and Gentile At the front in desolate regions of mud (and monotony, blood and blasphemy, men are getting down to basic principles. Roman Catholics and Presbyterians working shoulder to shoulder, Episcopalians and Meth odists working together. And the Jewish Rabbi does not hesitate to hold up a crucifix to a dying soldier that he may give comfort to the dy ing. Perhaps you obj.ect to this but want every objector to go to the front and he will see how soon, if he has any sense, at all how soon Is objections will evaporate.

A Message From Trench to Church I have a message this afternoon for the Church of Jesus Christ the first message I have presumed to give in 27 years but a message from the trenches, through me, to the church. What is the church? You and and millions of others, and the message is this that; if we do ot work differently we will hinder the work of God. The Church of God not wise In her day and genera tion as other agencies. Mr. Edwards then cited the com mandeering of the railways, the steel nd the copper, the coal and food supplies.

He cited the ability of France and England notwithstanding the drain upon two countries to fur ish equipment to the American army if needed all because men far ghted had combined for eo opera on and mutual In the a. minute many would be as dead. light of the accomplishments of the The ye ns man hesitated not a sec I world, in material things, we need to Copyright 1017, By E. A. Rnmcly I woMtevi If sfreb cape ifL TOOK THIS ffcOM thc mgwJ CTPA I'LL ttsKf me SAME asK tne question whether we I mean the combined church are awake to the opportunity that is before us.

Said the speaker, how are the men at the front going to find us on their return? Are they going to nna us with th same anxiety for denominational differences? He told of two spiritual forces in England that had a controversy and which filled the papers and which reached the men as they were about going Into battle when thousands were laying down their lives. It was pathetic said the speaker the religious con troversy about "nothing." A Challenge to the Christian World This war is a challenge to the Christian world to adapt itself so that it can rebuild the world moral ly. Thousands of miles of trenches are a challenge to the church to build up the old waste places. We are going to have a new world and somebody is going to create it. Who is it? What is it? I pray It may De (joa through the church, said the speaker.

I hestiate not to make this assertion that if we who represent the church of Jesus Christ had been welded together as Is the German iiauun, out. witn jesus enrtst as head instead of the kaiser, this war could not have been possible. We as members of the church body politic failed to avert the catastrophe not because of the failure of Christianity but because of the failure to apply Christianity. In the measure that we seek to emphasize our religious differences to that extent we are tratitors to the principles of Chris. Christian TJnlfy the Trenches If you want to learn of Christian unity, go to the trenches.

I'd sooner go to the trenches and there, amidst the awful carnage and needs of a perishing humanity, learn my lesson of Christian unity, than to any sem inary where is emphasized and some times glorified the tenets of some "difference." We who represent the church of Christ must, ln the days to come, stand with a united front for the task that is before us. If we who represent the church do not learn the lesson of co ordination through this war and mobilization then we shall find, after the war, we have missed our opportunity. is fa God Indifferent? Speaking of whether God is In different as to who wins this wa.r, Mr. Kdwards said yes and no. God is indifferent as to who wins this war in the sense of favoritism.

God not the God of any one people whom he favors. God Is no more America's than Germany's. God is God. On the other hand, God is not indifferent as to who wins thi war in the sense that ho has no moral preference. David said, have sinned and come "short" he was short of some things because he had sinned.

We all recognize the heinousness of Germany's sin and crime hut is America free from sin, France, is England, Is Belgium God loves Germany as he loved the Prodgal. He loves us all. But in this calamatous period we are all going to get what belongs to us and that nation that is going to be used by God to chasten other nations is Germany not because she Is going to win but because she is the whip that can be more easily usel. What saith the Scriptures? Woe unto the world because of offenses. Yet it must be that offenses come but woe unto that man (nation by whom the offense cometh.

We have all offended and come short, but Germany double. This was is the tragedy of sacrifice, for the church, for the world, the outcome of fifty years of elaborate foolery. First Baseman Walter Holke, of the New York Giants, was one player who got a big boost In salary from his club for this year. It was based on the good work he did in his first full season, for John McGraw is not the manager who fails to recognize the worth of a player to his team. Holke's increase is said to have been an even $1,000 over his 1917 contract.

Leslie Mann, outfielder of the Chi cago Cubs, who has been doing Y. M. C. A. athletio work with the sol diers at Camp Logan, in Texas, has formally applied for release from this work, go that he can rejoin the Cubs in time to go to California with them on the training trip.

As Mann is not an enlisted man, he expects no trouble ln getting his "furlough." GOLDBERG I NEVER THOUGHT Of THAT STAMblvJG HeRE evJERYBobY iaJ I uwe A FOOL tH Boose LL WAT "'ii'fch Wl i'i; SPANISH WAR VET COOKS AT ARMYHOSPITAL Henry Reidnaur, a Pensioner, Back Into Service After Eleven Years FROM FAMILY OF SOLDIERS BOTERTOWN, Feb. 10 A letter was received here this week from Henry Reldnauer, who is now a cook in the General Hospital at Fort Mc. Henry, near Baltimore. Mr. Kcid nauer is a son of "the htA Pt Reldnauer, Boyertown, and served in the army for 18 years, boinj? pensioned for the last 11 years lie served through the Spanish Ameri can War and also later served in all our foreign possessions.

When his country again went to war he threw up his pension and re enlisted. Mr. Reidnauer comes from fitt ing stock. His father, Peter Reldnauer, was all through the Civil Wur and carried a bullet in his body until his death In 1911. His grandfather, Jerry Boyer and his two uncles, Henry and James Rnv also were in the Civil War Reldnauer conducted a restaurant in Baltimore for a number of veai after being honorably discharged fronj the army, and last summer paid a visit to his old home hero.

Boyertown is proud of all its soldiers, and especially of the men who have served nearly a life time in thn service. fc(v. E. Singleton, fhrmerlv Boyertown, and late pastor of the First Baptist church, at Wattevliet, N. is spending several days with his young daughter and his parents in law in town, Mr.

and Mrs. John Shappel, before leaving for Franco, where he will shortly go to do X. M. C. A.

work. Singleton has been in" the military camps for the past few. months engaged in this work. 'Squire Harrison Schweinhart and Henry K. Grim are on the Jury list for the March term of court.

The weekly meeting of the G. S. R. C. Club was held at the home of Dorothy Stauffer, corner fourth and Franklin streets.

Those ent were: Helen Swavely, Helen Dorothy Thomas, Charlotte Gilbert, Anna Nuss, Enas DottereiV Evelyn Stubanus, Florence Gott shall, Helen Magners, Dorothy otauner. jyiusio was rendered ana refreshments served. Gas Tank Froze Up, The Boyertown Gas Company wa put out of commission for nearly a week by the big tank freeing faet during the recent low temperature. wayland Schwenk, Clyde Houck, Clinton Nyce, Jonas Earl Gottshall and Wayne Kuser, of this place, arrived safely acros.i the sea. These young men were members of the depot brigade of the 79th Regiment, at Camp Meade.

A son of Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Wren, West Philadelphia avenue, fell from a chair and cut a deep lacera tion in the cheek. M. B.

Ober holter dressed the Injury. Wilson Gehris, a veteran of thai Civil War, residing on Water street. suffered a vertigo attack and fell down a flight of stairs and badly bruised his shoulder, neck and arm, Robert Urffer, a member of the First Telephone Battalion, in France, received another promotion from a corporal to that of First Class Chauffeur with the rank of a sergeant. Up to Friday afternoon only one alien enemy registered with master Schoenly, and yesterday wa3 the last day for such registration. The one registered was Julius Wad lnski, a German subject.

There are at least six more such aliens in this community, as far as known. The income tax collectors, Messrs, linger and Wood, were in Boyertown on Thursday and Friday and had "many callers who became acquainted with the Intricacies of the new tax. Arthur Ritter, of town, has been suffering with a severe attack of rheumatism for the last three weeks and is in great pain all the time. He is unable to use his arms. HARLEM HARLEM, Feb.

9. Mr. and Mrs, John S. Rauch and Mr. and Mrs.

Howard Gregory visited Thomas Schott and family, ot near Boyer Miss Elsie Gregory spent a few days in Sunnytown the guest of Eu gene H. Gregory and family. John S. Rauch made a trip to East Greenville. Mrs.

Jerome Relchard left for Macungie to spend a few weeks. Robert E. Gery, of Alburtis, spent day with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Milton M.

Gery. Mrs. Howard Sehultz and daugh ter Frieda, of East Greenville, spent few days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A.

M. Troll inger. Klee. DAUBERVILLE DAl'BERVILIR. Feb.

10. rd Blatt sold his horse to Haw IT. K. Phillips called on his broth er David, at Shoemakersville. Samuel Hooh rented Claude Re ber's farm near Cent report, tenanted by Moses Seaman.

The Dauberville Ice Co. resumed housing after a few days' lay off on account of the drifted roads. i CARS OF tX.VIi RECEIYTTD NIGHT Thp coal shipment to Rpadintr received last nicht was 2. cars, as follows: ocum sons. 1: H.

1. Miydwr. 1: G. W. Millnr.

1: J. M. Orlnc. W. D.

Moo1 hart. J. W. Holmrr. 1: lv Uphold, C.

F. Filbert, Mrs. B. K. Heck, J.

K. Hressler, T. Sin, K. K. Moors S'in, 1: 11.

S. Leinlncer, 1: P. I. Mover, W. T.

Snyder 1: H. Hltmer shh, 1: N'cin 1: H. Sassaman. C. P.

HlKh, O. B. selbcrt, 1. and J. SiaaJib ah..