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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-06
= Necklaces EDeryWiiere

(Paris Letter From Vogue),
Conspicuous among the various
new details which one notices, now
that all the activities of our normal
life are being taken up once more
and women have more time and
thought-and more interest-to de-
vote to the novelties of dress, are
the beautiful necklaces and chains
which one sees everywhere. They
aret varied according to the type of
costume with which they are worn,
and the occasion, formal or other
wise, for which their owners have
selected them; but they are always
decorative and beautiful. / have
always liked long chains of beads
they offer so many charming oppor-
tunities for coquetry What could
be more attractive than the way in
which "a woman with beautiful hands
can turn and twist the jewels in
her long white fingers, with a grace
full motion of her delicate wrist.
Perhaps this recent vogue for
necklaces was started by the bead
chains which have been made by
wounded soldiers. Many of these
have been sent to America, and you
are all, doubtless, familiar with
them. They are, in many instances,
very charming and unusual affairs,
and are one among many of the
interesting and lucrative employ
ments within the range of our
wounded and crippled men. Some
times they are made of three or four
amusing and unusual beads dang
ling at the end of a silk cord. or
they may be made of beads all
of the same kind, but in varying
shapes
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-06
JUSTICE ALL AROUND

Government officials who have
been conducting the railroads and
studying their problems during the
previous months should be just to
the owners in the future. They have
discovered that the pleas of the
roads in the past were based upon
actual distressful conditions. They
should give the owners the same
free hand the government exercised,
subject only to implicit obedience
to the laws and to fair treatment of
shippers and travellers. They should
protest against the continuance of
the several state railroad commits
slons and ask Congress to deal fairly
and justly. with all concerned. Hav-
ing been compelled to set aside or
ignore legislation in restraint of the
freedom of traffic. they should be
honest enough and fair enough to
ask congress to do the same thing
for private ownership, taking pains
to provide some regulation which
would prevent abuse of the pooling
privilege. In short, justice should
be done all around.-Altoona Trib-
une.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-06
LOVES EYES

Each night when l walk down the
lighted street,
Feeling against my dumb and
aching heart
The restless heart of gold-mad traf-
tic beat;
And seeing high above this dingy
mart
The gloomy buildings reaching for
the stars,
And false beauty peering through
each brilliant sign,
A turmoil prods anew my world-o old
scars,
Crying for some dream-balm that
is not mine.
But once l met You coming up this
way
With d love-splendor shining
through your eyes;
You did not speak and l had naught
to say,
But gloriously the stars famed in
the skies,
And all these ugly towers whose
stones men trust,
a mighty ruin, crumbled into
dust.
BY Oscar c. Williams, in Every
body's Magazine.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-06
OUR SIMPLICITY"

[From the Kansas City Start
The United States always has
prided itself on certain democratic
simplicity that 1t has maintained in
its representation in Europe. Amer
lean ambassadors never have worn
court costumes Their manner of
living has been studiedly unosten-
tatious.
Benjamin Franklin, probably
Americas greatest diplomat, set the
fashion when he appeared at the
gorgeous court of France in his
sober Quaker raiment of colonial
russet, without a wig, and wearing
his famous cap of marten fur.
No American wishes to be penur-
ious in the Nations provision for
the comfort of those who shall at
tend the peace conference. But it
is something of a shock to read
that the most magnificent hotel in
Paris the hotel always reserved for
royalty, has been leased for year
by the United States for 100000;
that the bureau of public informa-
ton is to have IAN enormous furn-
ished mansion at Versailles" and
that a former Atlantic liner is being
refitted to take the members of the
mission and their wives, under the
escort of a Attle fleet.
Evidently an expenditure of sew
eral million dollars is planned in
connection with Americas repre-
sentation at the conference. This
is being done at time when people
are being urged TO save every penny
possible to invest in thrift stamps
to pay the expenses of the govern
ment.
The combination doesn't sit we'll.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-06
UNRECOGNLZED SOLDIERS

In walking through the streets
of London and Paris and Rome and
Berlin and New York, l have been
impressed with the fact that monu-
ments have been erected by a CRATE
full people to soldiers and sailors,
to statesmen and orators, to scien-
lists and inventors, but | have not
yet seen a monument to a mission
airy of the Cross.
Yet when the record is finally
written, may it not appear that he
has done more than all others COM
bined to bring about the final day
of democracy and universal brother
hood?
The London Times has said:
I'VE owe it to our missionaries that
the whole region of South Africa
has been opened up"
Japan's great elder statesman,
Count Okuma, said, THE origin of
modern civilization is to be found
in the teachings of the Sage of
Judea, by whom alone a necessary
modern dynamic is supplied; and
he has also said that The spirit
of Jesus has made Japan what
she is"
The Maharajah of Travancore,
though not a Christian, has borne
the following testimony: "Of one
thing | am convinced: that, do with
it what we will, oppose it as we
may, it is the Christians Bible that
will sooner or later work, out the
regeneration of our land; and the
King of Siam has stated that Amer
lean missionaries have done more to
advance the welfare of my people
than any other foreign influences"
EXCHANGE.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-06
WHEN 4 KNOWLEDGE OF
GERMAN SAVED THE DAY
OVERHEARD IN A LISTENING POST

Phipps- Herrick thrusts the receiver
into his hands. AS he listens beati-
tic expression spreads over his face.
1t lasts long time, and then he lays
down the cylinder with a sigh.
The three heads are close together.
and Mitchell whispers under his
breath:
Got 'em-got the whole thing
line of mine changed-raiders COM
ing out now-twelve men-rough on
us, but if we can get back to our
alley we've got EN-! Crawl home
quick"
Meantime the American trench had
opened fire and the German trench
answered. The still night broke into
a tempest of noise. A bullet or a bit
of shell caught Mitchell in the knee
and crumpled him up. Phipps- Her
rick lifted him on his back and
stood up.
Come on" he said, you little
cuss. You're the only one that has
the stuff we went out after. I'm go
ing to carry you in, spite of hell"
And he did.-From The Hearing
Ear" by Henry van Dyke, in the
December (Christmas) Scribner.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-06
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1913
HEAVEN PRESERVE US

O Mr.. Burleson thinks the gov
ernment should own the tele-
~ graph and the telephone lines
and boasts that the Post Office De-
nartment has earned a surplus TINS
year.
DO YOU know that if the govern
ment owned the telegraph lines
every dispatch you read in the Tele-
graph this evening would have been
delivered over government-owned
wires and that nothing but those
which the party in power happened
10 approve would have come across
the wires, if those in charge saw
fit to stop the other kind? DO you
know that it is costing more to run
the telegraph and telephone INES
under the very limited government
control than under private owner
ship? And, eventually, who Will
pay the freight on these increases
You. the patron of the wires WILL
of course.
Mr.. Burleson backs up his plea
for government ownership by point
ing to the earnings of the Post Office
Department, and it is only fair to
ask how it happens that this lone
branch of the government has been
made profitable. The answer is two
fold-by putting up postal rates 80
per cent. and more, and by keeping
salaries down to the starvation
point. The public is being over
charged for very poor mail serv-
ice and the pay of the postal en-
ployes and letter carriers has been
held down to a figure that has
driven thousands of trained en-
ployes from their jobs to others that
enable them to live recently. No
private employer would have been
able to hold down wages during this
government period the way Burle-
son has done. The whole Post Office
Department is going to pot by rea-
son of the Postmaster Generals in
efficiency and his determination to
make a good showing for himself at
the expense of the pocketbooks of
the people and the pay envelopes of
the employees.
The Post Office Department used
to be the pride of the American peo-
pie. Burleson has made it the stock
joke of the country. If the tele-
graph and telephone lines are to go
the same road as the postal system,
heaven preserve US from public
ownership.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-06
CONGRESSIONAL HIATUS

~HE anomaly of electing senator's
and representatives thirteen
months before they take their
seats has been emphasized again by
the result of the recent elections.
Unless the President chooses to call
an extra session of the Sixty-sixth
Congress next summer, the men
chosen last month by the people to
represent them at Washington will
not have an opportunity to do so
until the first Monday in Decem-
ber, 1919. The force of the popular
repudiation of the Democratic con-
troll of legislation and expenditures
may not be felt until more than a
year has passed.
Perhaps the most disastrous COM
sequences of permitting such an alb
surdly long interval of time to
elapse between the election and
qualification of members OF Con-
grsss occurred in 1860. Had the
Congress elected in November OF
that year been able to take office
one month later the Civil War might
have been averted. But Lincoln and
the new Congress did not assume the
reins of government for four months
after the election, During that time
the Southern States completed their
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-06
LABOR NOTES

Wages of building trade workers
in Germany have doubled since the
period preceding the war.
Tacoma (Wash.) unions are gaining
1000 members a month.
Retail clerks at Worcester, Mass.
have secured a o'clock closing hour.
Unions at Cleburne, Texas, have
opened a labor temple.
Firemen on Irish railroads have
secured a bonus of $40 a week.
Manitoba, Can, 20 are in Winnipeg.
Membership in Sweden's trade un-
ions last year totaled 1S6,146.
Unemployment in Scotland has dis
appeared, due to the demand for
labor.
Norway's unions have $4,000 mem
bers, an increase of $4,000 in year.
Brewery workers in Wilkes-Barre,
Pa, received an increase of $3.50 a
week.
Hundreds of women have answered
the call for recruits in the English
Flying Corps
The City Council of Montreal, Can
ada. has passed an order to prevent
strikes of all kinds.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-06
THE MUNICIPAL TREE

HARRISBURG people will rejoice
in Mayor Keister's purpose to
revive the Municipal Christmas
Tree celebration this year as mark
of our rejoicing in the successful
termination of the war and the triL
umph of Christianity over the forces
of evil. 1t is especially fitting this
year that full public recognition be
given to the religious significance of
the great feast day. Too often in our
merrymaking we have lost sight Of
the origin and purpose of the an
niversary. Nothing could be more
appropriate nor more delightful than
coming together of the people of
the community on Christmas Eve be-
meath the boughs OF the MunicinaI
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-06
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES

A Chance to Live, by Zoe Beckley.
Illustrated by Charles A. Voight.
The Macmillan Company, publish
ers, New York.
1t is not the story of the eXcep-
tional girl that Miss Beckley tells in
this book. Rather, the average
young woman of to-day, with nor
NAL instincts and ambitions, is her
central figure. Annie Hargan,
daughter of the tenements, has a
great deal of trouble in making
enough money to live on. The prob
! lem is one which she alone can
solve as there is no one who can
help her with the possible exception
of Aun, 'Moggie," who can only
contribut~ ! little now and then.
The story of Annie's experiences,
| first in the factory, later as SWITCH
! board operator and typist, is relat-
ed with real power and insight.
Equally appealing are those later
days when love comes into Annie's
| life and she decides to cast her lot
| in with Bernie's. The marriage
starts off happily, but something
happens and they almost drink the
bitter dregs of despair. They are
saved from that by a common in
terest-a vision which they both
have and which wonderfully mater
| ialiZes.
In the Heart of Fool, by William
Allen White, author of "A Certain
| Rich Man." etc. The Macmillan
| Company, publishers, New York.
Kansas, the scene of Mr.. Whites
great novel. "A Certain Rich Man, y
7 n tho hn ok
ground for his new book. The theme,
too, in it's large outlines, suggests the
| former work, in that it has to do
with a mans growth in character
and his ultimate surrender to the
! inevitable. Thomas Van Dorm has
said in his heart There is no God"
He sets himself up to take what he
wants from society with the COM
placent belief that he can take as
much as he likes without impairing
| his powers or his personality. 1t is
with his story that Mr.. White is con-
cerned; q story full of dramatic mo-
ments and introducing many inter-
esting people, all sketched with the
authors accustomed skill.
The Seven Purposes, by Margaret
Cameron. Harper & Brothers, pub
| fishers.
In this book an author well known
! for many books in other fields, rec
I ords a series of extraordinary ex-
periences with automatic writing
into which she protests her hand
has been drawn much against her
will and contrary to all her former
habit and prejudice. Her narra-
tive, involving remarkable express
sions and messages purporting to
come from very definite and recog-
nizable personalities of former ac-
quaintances of herself and her
! friends, is not only thrillingly inter-
esting, but tremendously inspiring
in its moral and spiritual slgniti-
canoe.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-06

plans for secession. They could have
been forestalled and the conflict
avoided IL the delay in the change
of the national administration could
have been prevented,
The need of a change in our sys-
tenn has been recognized for years,
and various bills and resolutions
have been introduced to effect a
remedy. Each time, however, conn.,
plications have arisen that have pre-
vented the enactment of legislation.
If the date of the end of one Con-
gress and the beginning of another
is to be changed it will involve a
corresponding correction of the
length of the terms of two Presi-
dents, two Vice-Presidents, about
1SO Senators and $40 congressman.
Such change would require very
carefully framed amendment to the
Constitution, which would then
have to be ratified by three-fourths
of the States. The evident Difficult
ties in the way have discouraged
all former efforts to correct the evil.
But although it may not be prac-
ticable to attempt the elimination of
the entire interval of thirteen
months that now exists between
election and qualification, it is quite
within the power of Congress to pass
bill fixing the date for the regular
meeting of the first session of Con-
gress on the second Monday in
March, instead of the first Monday
in December. Such an arrange
ment would not interfere with the
terms of any elected official; it would
shorten by nine months the time that
now elapses before a Senator or
Representative can assume his seat;
it would remove from the individual
who happened to be occupying the
White House the power to dictate
whether the people should or should
not be properly represented at Wash
ington; and it would send to the
National Capital men elected under
certain issues while those issues
were still alive and capable of af-
fecting the welfare of the country.
The Constitution of the United
States says: The Congress shall
assemble at least once in every year,
and such meeting shall be on the
first Monday in December, unless
they shall by law appoint a different
day" Hence it is entirely within
the jurisdiction of Congress as to
when they shall assemble. The peo-
pie have demanded the overthrow of
the present control of the Senate and
House. That demand should be COM
piled with by the Republicans now
in Congress by the introduction of a
resolution, under the privileges
granted by the Constitution, putting
the date of the meeting of the next
Congress as early as possible.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-06
CARTER GLASS

A PROMINENT of Representa-
~ tive Glass to be Secretary of the
Treasury came as no surprise,
MIR. Wilson's predilection I, for
Southern Democrats made it fairly
certain that he would not look be-
yond the Mason and Dixon line.
Glass is no match for McAdoo. who
is Il really big man and who con-
Quoted his work in a manner that
brought few criticisms for his de-
partment of the government But
Mr.. Wilson never was famed for his
choice of really gifted men and
when he is fortunate in procuring
their services they do rot stay long
as witness McAdoo and Garrison,
for example. 1t is we'll that Glass
comes at the end of +he war instead
of the beginning.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-06
A Matter of Comparison
[ From the New York Tribunel

It's all u matter of comparison, ac-
cording to II. T. Webster, the car
toonist, who told the following as
proof at a meeting of the Salma-
gundi Club:
"Shrapnel shrieked all about.
Bombs dropped from the sky, and
every so often u big German shell
burst overh cad. Suddenly one Yank
began laughing.
'S'matter Buddy?" his mate asks,
fearing that he had suddenly gone in
sane.
~ was thinkin', Bill" replied the
other between chuckles, of the runt
that held me up one night in Mem
phis, with a .22-caliber revolver"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-06
= UsT as he had Made up his mind
to call up the other fellows for

= UST as he had Made up his mind
Il to call up the other fellows for
the final spread out in fan
formation, his cropping right hand
touched something round and
smooth and hard. 1t seemed to be
made fast to a string or wire, but
he pulled it toward him and gave the
stop" signal to his followers.
The thing he had picked up was a
telephone receiver. How it came to
be there the Lord only knew. Per-
haps a German listening post had
carried it out last night, in order to
receive directions from the trench;
perhaps the mining party-man kill
ed, receiver dropped, wire connec-
tion not cut, or tangled up with
other wires-who can tell? One
thing is sure-here is the receiver,
family buzzing. Phipps-Herrick joy
fully puts it to his ear. He hears a
voice and words, but it is all gibber-
ish to him. With u look of despera-
ton on his face, he gives the get
together signal.
Then comes Mitchell, slowly, lit
tie lame, and almost "all in"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-06
KEEP UP THE WORK

"HE recent report of Shirley B.
Watts, superintendent of the
public gardens in Harrisburg
the past season, is of such char
acter as to convince even the doubt
ing that these plots went a long
way last summer toward providing
vegetables for the people of the
city at small expense to themselves
at a time when the food situation
was acute. Not only that, but the
gardens encouraged a healthful
form of exercise that ought to be
continued, especially with the long
evenings made possible by the day
light saving law. Mr.. Watts is a
practical gardener and should be
able to do as much better the COM
ing year as he did last year over
the season before, if given the oppor-
tunity.
Few people know that the garden
project was financed largely by the
Chamber of Commerce committee
appointed for the purpose, of which
Donald Mccormick is the efficient
chairman, and by funds appropriat-
ed by the school board for the
school plots. Mr.. Mccormick has
given generously of his own time
and money. Doubtless his recon-
mendation that the work be con-
tinued next year will be followed.
If Socialism expects to have an in
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-06
Have You Met Her?

A modern novelist describes q
lady with whose like some of us
are not wholly unfamiliar. zone
moment" he says, you think you
are great chums, and the next you
wonder il you've ever been pre-
scented. Boston Transcript
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-06
A Case For Arbitration

Not long after they had become
engaged the young man said to his
fiancee, 'I think it only fair to tell
you that I'm a somnambulist."
"Oh," replied the lady, that
won't matter in the least; you see
you can go to my church one Sum
day and I'll go to yours the next"
Companion. 4,3f..
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-06
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg is furnish
ing a considerable amount of
provisions for the army in
France as well as caring for its
own people and their neigh
bors?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-06

Member of the Associated Press-The
Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled to the use for republication of
all news dispatches credited to II 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, 1918-12-06

General Pershing's report of Ameri-
can activities in France gives all the
credit to the soldiers and none to
himself. AS great general in peace
as he was in war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-06

Tree. there in service and song to
acclaim Him who came to bring
peace on earth; good will toward
men"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-06
Lord Maketh Poor ana Rich

The Lord maketh poor. and maxi
eth rich; he bringeth low, and lift
eth up.-1I Samuel ii. c a
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-06
HISTORIC HARRISBURG

The first buildings erected on
Market Square were used for hotels
and warehouses.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-06

With the George Washington wob-
bling about in the storm, perhaps Mr..
Wilson is beginning to wonder why
he didn't listen to his friends advice
and remain at home.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-06

The Reds" of Berlin. ought to be
called the "Yellows."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-06

The ex-Crown Prince seems to have
much the same notions about the eX-
Kaiser as the world has about the eX-
Crown Prince.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-06

One, two or three lumps2
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-06

If Socialism expects to have an in
fiuence in this country, it ought to
reform it's disciples abroad. Most of
us would prefer a Kaiser.